"I heard that no, the newly built factory only recruits female workers, and they are given one or two or five dollars a month. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"I heard that, when the head of the family comes back, I'll ask, I also want to go to work in the factory."

This is a conversation between two young women in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, about a textile factory that is about to be opened in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone.

Time came to 1877, the steady development of the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, last year the entire Yuanhe Industrial Zone income of 1.3 million taels of silver, a slight increase over the previous year, but the input and worker expenditure has reached 800,000 taels of silver, so that the net income has dropped greatly, and the number of workers employed in the entire Yuanhe Industrial Zone is close to 11,000, and the total population exceeds 50,000.

The most important steel plant has an annual crude steel production capacity of 10,000 tons, and last year it produced a total of 6,400 tons of crude steel, and the main place to increase investment in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone is the steel plant, and the number of workers working in the steel plant has increased by 50 percent.

In addition, machine tool factories and arsenals continue to increase their investment, and it takes a year for those apprentices to grow into qualified skilled workers who can manufacture qualified parts through machine tools.

The machine tool factory is formally divided into two, respectively (Yuanhe) the first machine tool factory and the second machine tool factory, the first machine tool factory is responsible for manufacturing all kinds of machine tools, the second machine tool factory is responsible for manufacturing other machinery and equipment, the number of workers in the two machine tool factories is close to 2,000 people, all of whom graduated from vocational and technical schools.

The arsenal employs more than 1,000 people and now has two branches: the Grenade Factory, which produces 100 grenades per day, and the Gunpowder Factory, which produces smokeless gunpowder and T.N.T explosives.

Now the machine tool factory can basically manufacture all kinds of machinery and equipment, Yan Xueyi is also preparing to open a new factory, and the textile factory is the main target.

Clothing, food, housing and transportation, the textile factory represents clothing, powered by the steam engine, and the modern mechanized textile factory can quickly produce a large number of cheap cloth, which is the purpose of Yan Xueyi.

There are machine tool factories, and textile wheels powered by steam engines can be manufactured, as well as other ginning, spinning, and weaving machinery and equipment can also be manufactured in large quantities, which is the advantage of establishing machine tool factories, and the machines used in the silk reeling factories and textile factories opened in the modern Manchu Dynasty were not all purchased from Western merchants? Maybe Yan Xueyi will also consider selling all kinds of machinery and equipment to all parts of the country in the future, but at that time, Yan Xueyi must have enough strength to prevent the Manchu Dynasty from counterattacking.

It will not take long for the textile factory in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone to be established, but the problem of workers has not been solved, generally speaking, silk reeling and weaving are done by women from ancient times to the present, men plough and weave, women are more ingenious than men, so textiles are completed by women, mechanized textile factories are no exception, but the Yuanhe Industrial Zone is the first large-scale use of female workers, Yan Xueyi does not know whether there will be adverse reactions.

Fortunately, the Yuanhe Industrial Zone is now controlled by Yan Xueyi, and the rest of the Yan family can't manage the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, and Yan Xueyi has a lot less resistance, mainly because some old and stubborn people can talk nonsense, such as "how can a woman work in a factory" and so on.

Of course, there are also many elderly people in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, but they are all ordinary people, who do not know a few big characters, and work hard every day to solve various problems in life, and it is expected that there will be no opposition.

In the past, the Yuanhe Industrial Zone basically used male workers, and also used a small number of female workers, such as cooking, but the number is far less than the number of male workers.

As for whether there will be no female workers to apply, Yan Xueyi has never thought about it, although the monthly salary of female workers is much less than that of male workers, but the number of young women in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone is at least four or five thousand, and now they all live in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, and they have no land in their hands, so they just clean up the housework every day, and then pick up their children to and from school, there is nothing to do, and now there is a job in front of them, how can they give up? The more money the better, even if the man in the family earns enough money for the family, but who doesn't want to have more money in their hands? Once there is an accident and there is no money in hand, it will be over.

So the recruitment point of the textile factory was crowded with young women who wanted to enter the textile factory, and Chang Botao, who was in charge of recruitment, was almost overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the young women, and was finally pulled out.

Since Chang Botao entered the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, he knew why his brother-in-law did not allow him to leave here, looking at the smoking chimneys everywhere, and smelting iron privately, the Yuanhe Industrial Zone was also completely controlled by Yan Xueyi, this is completely a rebellion, with his little arms and legs, he basically can't escape from here, so stay here, anyway, Yan Xueyi is his brother-in-law, can he abuse himself?

And Chang Botao is almost like it, although the air is not very good, but the people who live here have a kind of rush that outsiders do not have, Chang Botao likes this feeling.

After recruiting female workers in the textile factory, it is impossible to start work immediately, not to mention that the raw materials have not yet arrived, even these newly recruited female workers can not directly operate the machine, must go through three months of strict training, female workers can really operate the machine alone, otherwise even so, once you do not concentrate on operating the machine, there will be injuries and disabilities, some necessary safety matters, you must explain to the female workers many times, which female workers do not study seriously, directly fired, If you don't study hard, when you wait to operate the machine, you're joking with your life.

In the seventies of the 19th century, the Manchu Qing Dynasty spent more than 30 million taels of silver every year to buy foreign cloth from British merchants, and the first floor of Yan's world was far from catching up, so Yan Xueyi had his eyes on it early on, but the machine tool factory could not manufacture qualified machinery and equipment, and Yan Xueyi could not buy machinery and equipment from Western businessmen to attract the attention of domestic forces, so it was not until 1877 that a textile factory was established, and China's first machine cotton textile factory, It was not until 1878 that it was presided over by Li Hongzhang.

With the normal operation of the machine tool factory and the arsenal, as well as the continuous expansion of the steel plant, the number of workers in demand in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone is increasing rapidly, and it is expected that the population of the Yuanhe Industrial Zone will increase by at least 30,000 in 77 years, and the escort team will also be expanded to 2,000 people.

However, the more population in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, the more people transferred from the outside world, the greater the possibility of outsiders discovering the secrets of the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, Yan Xueyi does not know when the Yuanhe Industrial Zone will be discovered, and only hopes to give himself enough time to develop, as long as there is an army of thousands of people equipped with advanced rifles, Yan Xueyi believes that he will be able to hold the Yuanhe Industrial Zone.