Chapter 9 The first factory in Daming
Zhang Feng's "feat" in the Kelai Xiang Restaurant spread throughout Songjiang Mansion for a while, and many businessmen admired Zhang Feng very much in their hearts, and these people thought in their hearts, Zhang Feng is really a genius, and only a genius can come up with such an ingenious idea. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Even, there are some businessmen who want to copy Zhang Feng's model, but everyone finds it very difficult.
First of all, you have to have a new technology, such as a new loom, and in addition, you have to have a scientific plan and convince people to be willing to invest in it.
Zhang Feng pocketed more than 100,000 taels of silver in one fell swoop, and while admiring Zhang Feng, a small number of people were red-eyed, including the Xu family.
Xu Shunben's face was not good-looking, and several subordinates next to him looked a little frightened, and Liu Dafu, the butler of the Xu family, was giving Xu Shunben ideas.
Liu Dafu said: "Master, if it doesn't happen at night, we will send someone to quietly burn down the Zhangjia Weaving Workshop." ”
Xu Shunben was a little moved by this suggestion, but after thinking about it, he still shook his head, and Xu Shunben said slowly: "This is the next policy, in addition, arson is a serious crime, and it is not feasible to kill the head." ”
Seeing that Xu Shunben denied his plan, Liu Dada's eyes rolled, and he made another plan, "Master, you see that it is spring, and it is still early before the autumn cotton harvest, we can purchase all the cotton on the market back, so that the Zhang family's weaving workshop has no rice to cook, what do you think?" ”
Xu Shunben thought for a while and asked, "Steward Liu, do you think it will cost you to collect all the cotton on the market in Songjiang Mansion?" ”
"This ......"
Liu Dafu wanted to suck his mouth a little, the Xu family didn't have such financial resources!
However, Xu Shunben did not blame Liu Dafu, the Xu family alone can't do it, what if they unite with others?
Xu Shunben said: "Steward Liu, maybe your method is feasible." ”
Is it possible?
Liu Dafu looked at Xu Shunben suspiciously, waiting for Xu Shunben to continue.
Xu Shunben analyzed: "Steward Liu, look! The Zhang family wants to build a large-scale weaving mill, and how low is the price of cotton cloth, the price of nine dollars and eight cents of silver, which offends all the large and small weaving mills in Songjiang Mansion, and pushes everyone to a dead end, no, the weaving mills in the entire Suzhou and Hangzhou regions are pushed to a dead end. ”
Xu Dafu's eyes rolled, and he quickly understood, "Master, you are really amazing, you can think of such an idea, since the Zhang family can unite the large and small cloth villages of Songjiang Mansion, we can also unite the entire Songjiang Mansion, no, even the weaving mills in Suzhou and Hangzhou, unite everyone's strength, monopolize the entire Songjiang Mansion, and even the cotton in the entire Suzhou and Hangzhou regions, and then ......."
Xu Shunben laughed, swept away the gloom just now, and said happily: "When the time comes, even if the Zhang family's weaving mill is completed, there will be no rice to cook, and then you will have to beg us to buy cotton from us at a high price, haha......"
Liu Dafu also laughed.
After the two laughed, Xu Shunben told Liu Dafu again, and instructed Liu Dafu to secretly operate this matter and do it secretly, and in addition, he also instructed Liu Dafu to deal with part of the Xu family's assets and raise silver taels.
Strange goods can live, hoarding goods, this is not Xu Shunben's new creation, many businessmen have always done this, especially some large grain merchants, but also often unite, hoard grain, and then sell at a high price.
Zhang Feng's new business model gave Xu Shunben some "inspiration", and after being inspired by it, Xu Shunben thought of uniting a group of large and small weaving mill owners to monopolize the cotton market in Songjiang Prefecture.
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Zhang's family.
Until now, Zhang Yuanxiang has been like a dream, I can't believe it, looking at the large pile of silver tickets in front of him, Zhang Yuanxiang has secretly pinched himself more than once.
When he was the richest, Zhang Yuanxiang was far from seeing so much silver, two days ago, thousands of taels of silver almost forced Zhang Yuanxiang into a desperate situation, and now, not only the problem is solved, but there is also such a large number of silver tickets in front of him.
Zhang Feng is also happy in his heart, this is the first pot of gold he earned, with this money, he can show his ambitions, and from then on, he will definitely create a new world.
Taking out one of these silver tickets, Zhang Feng said: "Father, go and pay off the Xu family's arrears tomorrow, so as not to make noise from them." ”
After receiving the silver ticket, Zhang Yuanxiang said again and again: "Definitely, I must go to repay the money, and a big stone in my heart should also be relieved." ”
At the same time, Zhang Yuanxiang thought in his heart that his son has really grown up and can stand alone, and in the future, all the big and small affairs can be handed over to his son, and he should be relaxed.
"Feng'er, you've grown up too, I think it's time to tell you a family affair."
Seeing his father talking about family affairs, Zhang Feng was stunned for a moment, but quickly said: "Father, put this matter aside for the time being, I will be very busy in the future, and I don't have this mind." ”
How do you know that Zhang Yuanxiang said: "Feng'er, you are busy with you, and the family affairs are wrapped up in the father, and you must find a lady for you." ”
Hearing this, Zhang Feng smiled bitterly and shook his head slightly, at this time, where did Zhang Feng have this mind, in Zhang Feng's mind, there was a huge plan, and all of Zhang Feng's energy was to realize this plan.
It is now the eleventh year of Chongzhen, and there are still a few years before the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
But what about the demise of the Ming Dynasty, when the Qing Dynasty iron hooves will be all over the north and south of the river, if they do not have enough strength, all their efforts are in vain, maybe their lives will not be guaranteed.
Big fists, that's the last word.
In Zhang Feng's heart, the idea is very clear, and he also knows that the first step is to strengthen himself, and the way to grow himself is to strive to develop industry, and the establishment of a large textile factory is his first step plan.
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Zhangjia Weaving Workshop.
Everyone was busy for a while, and in just two or three days, dozens of looms in the weaving workshop were all transformed, all of them were loaded with "flying shuttles", and a group of weavers were weaving.
Yang Shenghai was happy and painful, as the steward of the weaving workshop, Yang Shenghai saw the output of dozens of horses from a dozen batches of cloth to dozens of horses every day, Yang Shenghai saw it in his eyes and was happy in his heart.
But problems also arose, and with so many improved looms for weaving, there were problems with the supply of cotton yarn, which gradually could not keep up with the demand.
We know that cotton is spun into cotton yarn, and then woven into cotton cloth one by one, and if the cotton yarn can't keep up, many looms will stop.
Yang Shenghai was about to look for Zhang Feng, but seeing that Zhang Feng was very busy, he held back for the time being, and was ready to wait a little longer and think of a way for himself.
Zhang Feng is indeed very busy, and many things must be done by himself, because there are too few people under Zhang Feng's hands, so that Zhang Feng has captured a young man from his cloth village and temporarily acts as his assistant.
Fortunately, Deng Wanbao is coarse and fluent, young, and smart, but also qualified, some of the things Zhang Feng explained can basically be handled in place, if a little training, and then exercise, maybe he can be his assistant.
Outside the weaving mill.
This is an empty and flat wasteland, with an area of hundreds of acres, because the terrain is slightly higher, irrigation is inconvenient, and the soil quality is relatively poor, it has been barren, and now, Zhang Feng is ready to build a factory here.
The factory planning map was completed by Zhang Feng himself, and no one else was able to do it, so Zhang Feng could only do it himself.
Some craftsmen and folk husbands are already busy, leveling the land, digging foundations, and preparing to build factories here according to Zhang Feng's requirements.
Sun Dali is a mason, and there are many masons like Sun Dali here, and they are all invited, not only masons, but also carpenters.
Sun Dali is building a wall, according to Zhang Feng, this is a factory, as for what the factory is and what it is used for, Zhang Dali has not figured it out for the time being.
In Sun Dali's opinion, this should be something like a large warehouse, five zhang wide and thirty zhang long, with two doors as wide as one zhang, and in addition, there are many windows.
The factory building is designed by Zhang Feng, belonging to the brick and tile workshop, one floor high, the width of the plant is five zhang, that is, about 16.5 meters, the length of 30 zhang, that is, 100 meters, such a plant, if in modern times, only in the relatively backward township enterprises can be seen.
But this is the Ming Dynasty, and such a factory building, in the eyes of Sun Dali and others, is already very huge and very spacious.
Zhang Feng even wanted to design the factory to be wider, but the beams of the factory were all wooden, and the span could not be too large, and the span of more than ten meters was more suitable.
As for the opening of a lot of windows, the main reason is the need for lighting, because there is no electric light, only daylight can be used, and the windows of the factory are a little large, and the number is very large, almost in a row.
The one-story brick factory building is also built relatively quickly, the fastest one has been built one person high, and in a few days it should erect log beams, erect the roof of the wooden skeleton, cover the tiles, and the factory building will basically be completed.
Zhang Feng was on the construction site, guiding everyone how to build from time to time, and also checking the quality of the project, everything was carried out according to Zhang Feng's expectations.
After staying on the construction site for two or three days, Zhang Feng also knew that because there was only one floor of such a factory, it would not take ten days from the beginning of construction to the completion of construction.
"If we hire more people and masons, maybe in a month, the construction will be completed and then it will be put into production." Zhang Feng thought so in his heart.
Thinking like this, Zhang Feng saw Yang Shenghai coming over, and looking at Yang Shenghai's appearance, he seemed to have encountered some trouble.