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It has been more than half a month since Feng Yunshan returned to Guangzhou. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

During this time, he was very busy with Wu Chongyao and others, all because all the orders tendered by Nanyang Company had arrived.

In addition to the arrival of a batch of steam engines for local use in Guangzhou, the rest of the steam engines were sent by Feng Yunshan to Shaozhou, Guiyang and Chenzhou, Guilin and Nanning to build spinning mills, weaving mills and machinery factories at the same time, while several mining watt double-action steam engines were sent to Dabaoshan Iron Mine and Quren Coal Mine for mining and strengthening mining efficiency.

In the northern suburbs of Guangzhou and next to the capital city of Shaozhou, Nanyang Company each set up a textile factory, and Nanyang Company and George and several other foreigners from Britain, France, the United States and other countries jointly invested, and George and other foreigners purchased textile equipment, accounting for 35 percent of the shares. The first textile factory hired several foreign technicians to come to install and debug, train and recruit hired workers to learn, and organize textile production.

On this day, it is the day when the first textile factory of Nanyang Company located in the northern suburbs of Guangzhou was opened and put into operation!

Feng Yunshan got up early in the morning and came to the No. 1 Textile Factory with the subordinates of the Holy King's Mansion to inspect the production of the textile factory.

The first textile factory building is a ready-made Manchu official warehouse rebuilt, responsible for the formation and production of the first textile factory is a foreign Englishman, named Charliede, is a textile technician specially hired by George from Manchester. One of Wu Chongyao's cousins, Wu Yuanji, served as the deputy director of the factory, which was equivalent to the representative of Nanyang Company.

The director of the factory is Charlie De, and the deputy director is Wu Yuanji.

Feng Yunshan and others came to the gate of the factory, and Charlie and Wu Yuanji had already led a group of textile factory employees to wait in line.

Wu Yuanji is not tall, a typical Cantonese with a face, a collapsed nose, and dark skin. When he saw Feng Yunshan, he hurriedly greeted him:

"When I saw the Holy King, my subordinates accompanied the Holy King to inspect the production of the textile factory." After speaking, he introduced the foreigner Charlide to Feng Yunshan.

Feng Yunshan comforted the two of them: "Mr. Charlide, Yuan Ji, this king is looking forward to the smooth operation of the first textile factory!" ”

Then, Wu Yuanji accompanied Feng Yunshan into the factory area and introduced the layout of the factory.

The first textile factory is divided into several parts according to the production process. In addition to the most important spinning workshop and weaving workshop, there are also raw material workshops, warehouses, machine repair workshops, power workshops, etc.

There were 35400 workers in total, and they were in charge of 4 new cotton gins, 8 steam-driven ring spinning machines, and 6 steam-powered looms.

"Shengwang, the production process of the first textile factory is not too complicated, that is, it starts from the raw cotton ball, first separates the cottonseed from the cotton through the cotton gin, and then gets clean cotton fiber, and then goes through many processes such as carding, strip rolling, combing, drawing, roving and spinning, winding, shaking, weaving, etc., and finally gets the cloth." Wu Yuanji skillfully introduced the production process of the First Textile Factory to Feng Yunshan.

Feng Yunshan saw that Wu Yuanji was right, and nodded his head secretly.

Since he had no experience in opening a textile factory with foreign machinery, Wu Chongyao sent his cousin Wu Yuanji to serve as the deputy factory director and stay by Charried's side. On the one hand, it is necessary to learn the daily management business of the textile factory, and on the other hand, it is also to supervise the work of the other party.

Seeing that Wu Yuanji was able to skillfully describe the production process of the textile factory, he said that Wu Yuanji still learned a lot, and today was the day when the first textile factory opened, Feng Yunshan was naturally in a good mood.

Feng Yunshan was naturally a little unhappy when the No. 1 Textile Factory appointed a foreigner as the factory director, but because no one knew the operation of the textile factory, no one knew how to spin and weave cloth without Charlid, and even how the steam-driven ring spinning machine was put into use. Although, after buying the machine, George, who provided the machine, sent someone to explain the use of these foreign machines, but within a few days, several stewards and hired workers sent by Nanyang Company forgot about it.

In desperation, Wu Chongyao had to discuss with George, let Charried be the factory director, and teach the steward sent by Nanyang Company over and over again how to put in the machine and use it.

Soon, when the auspicious time arrived, Feng Yunshan announced: "This king announces that the first textile factory of Nanyang Company has officially opened and put into operation!" ”

As Feng Yunshan's voice fell, Charlie Tak and Wu Yuanji took the lead in incorporating the power of the steam engine that had been turned on a long time ago into the textile machine, and the rest of the Nanyang Company's stewards led a group of hired workers to put their respective processes into production.

The sound of the roaring steam engine sounded, the cotton gin began to knead and tear, and the ring spinning machine and the loom were all driven by the steam engine, and they were running rapidly.

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"Look, the Holy King is out!" Wu Yuanji exclaimed in surprise.

Not long after, Charried also cheered in surprise: "Success!" Out of the cloth! ”

Feng Yunshan and the others followed to take a look, only to see a piece of gauze slowly appearing on the loom in the final process, and as the subsequent weaving again, more and more cloth was spit out by the machine.

Wu Yuanji stepped forward and took a piece of cloth about two meters and presented it to Feng Yunshan for inspection.

This is a coarse denim cloth, Feng Yunshan touched the cloth in his hand, it is more dense and smooth than the hand-woven cloth of the people, the color is also much better, the width is twice as wide as the homespun cloth, and it is more beautiful and applicable.

"Mr. Charried, how much does the First Textile Mill produce per month?" Feng Yunshan asked.

He knew from Wu Yuanji's introduction just now that the denim cloth in his hand was the most ordinary foreign cloth, which could be produced by 4 looms, and 2 looms were used to weave fine tile.

"Shengwang, this is just the beginning of production, and there are still some processes that need to be carried out by hand, and the workers are not very skilled, so the spinning machine and the loom are produced at a slower speed, which is consistent with other processes. At present, at the rate just now, the denim plus the other fine twill can produce nearly 300 pieces of cloth per day. If the workers are more skilled in the future, the daily output can reach 500 horses without a problem. Charried replied respectfully.

"500 horses a day?" Feng Yunshan quickly estimated in his mind. "The output of the first textile factory in a month can reach 15,000 pieces of cotton cloth, and at the current price of 2.1 silver dollars for wholesale foreign cloth from foreigners in Guangzhou, it can reach 31,500 silver dollars per month, a total of 22,000 taels of silver."

"Excluding the cost of raw materials and cottonseeds and hired workers, the depreciation cost of machinery and equipment is not counted, and there is a gross profit of 14,000 taels of silver a month." Feng Yunshan secretly calculated the profitability of the first textile factory, "This is still calculated according to the wholesale price of foreigners, and now the supply of foreign cloth in the Liangguang region is still in short supply, if it is sold directly in the state capitals, especially to the Manchu ruled areas in the north and south of the Yangtze River, it is far more than the price of 2.1 silver dollars per horse." In that case, the profit will be even more lucrative! ”

Feng Yunshan's eyes suddenly lit up.

It is no wonder that the foreigners desperately wanted to open the treaty ports of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with the purpose of dumping two commodities, opium and foreign cloth!

At least there are still a few years to go, and there is still room for profiteering. Feng Yunshan, who is familiar with this period of history, knows clearly that at this time in history, foreign cloth accounted for one-third of the 60 million silver dollar goods imported by China to foreigners, second only to opium, and the proportion of foreign cloth became higher and higher, and in the later period, it even surpassed opium to become the largest import commodity.

Therefore, the profit margin of foreign cloth is still very huge.

Feng Yunshan decided that, in addition to the first textile factory, Nanyang Company should complete the second, third, and nth textile factories as soon as possible and put them into operation as soon as possible, so as to seize its own Chinese market. (To be continued.) )