Chapter 157: Female Textile Workers

This is an unprecedented investment, an investment of 40 million, several family owners have unified their ideas, the total scale of such a large investment, even if Yang Yuanzhao occupies more than 50%, you can also share the amount of almost 20 million, 8 Everyone is profound, it is no problem to take out a few million taels casually, and try your best to press on a project, it is definitely not a mature choice, so it is better, each family is millions, as long as it is maintained a degree, there will be a lot less problems.

Without the previous saber-rattling, aggressive, but in the details of the problem of no concession, after the fierce confrontation, each of the 8 major families to get a quota of 2 million, is to occupy 5% of the shares, become the largest investors under Yang Yuanzhao, they 8 occupy a total of 40% of the shares, the remaining 9%, the Hou family accounted for 1 million shares, is the most among all landlords, Jiang Wenhou relying on the background of Shanxi political division accounted for 1 million, the rest of the almost 2 million, was divided by more than a dozen small and medium-sized familiesIn this way, in this small reception room of the Jin Chamber of Commerce, it is related to the future, the general trend of the entire Chinese textile industry, and the far-reaching equity is determined, so it is determined, Yang Yuanzhao not only has his own 51% of the shares, but also from the Yang family, the Wei family, the support of the 15% shares of the Liu family, these three in the next few decades, are standing behind Yang Yuanzhao, almost firmly holding the control of the textile industry.

At this time, the Liu family, the Wei family and the Yang family took out all the personnel and agreed that they would arrive in Baotou within a week, and several female workers were employed. It is near Taiyuan, and I found a place to settle down first. For a few families with big businesses, feed hundreds of people to eat. It's no problem at all, and it is precisely because they saw the problem of the cotton mill being put into production, so that they also gained a lot of say in the cotton mill with the help of this skilled worker.

After all, in a cotton mill, equity is only the foundation, and the right to control and speak is the most important. After the equity distribution is completed, it only represents the premise, and then, the goal is to put the actual construction of the factory, a huge textile factory, with an investment of 40 million, with employees may reach 10,000 people, such a huge enterprise, can not be built in a day or two. In addition to infrastructure such as factories, the purchase of raw materials, the control of management, and the sales aspect. These are all very important aspects, and they are not problems that can be solved by one machine, nor can they be solved by one person.

The eight families of Jin merchants. There will be no involvement in the core management, and there will still be necessary interventions. Those so-called young talents, outstanding young talents. They were all stuffed here and formed a project headquarters of a cotton textile factory, headed by Liu Shu, to temporarily serve the construction of the cotton mill.

The young people of several families, perhaps before, were a little dissatisfied with Yang Yuanzhao, but seeing that Yang Yuanzhao turned his hands into clouds and rained in a few days, he easily solved the equity distribution, even if they were shocked by many family owners, they couldn't help but use it for him, and more than one family head praised Yang Yuanzhao for being young and old, not a thing in the pool.

In this case, the smart talents will not compete with Yang Yuanzhao at all, facing unrivaled opponents, those who have no ambition, honestly, do what the elders say, and those who are ambitious are also temporarily impressed, carefully observing this young man of the same age, in order to surpass.

Liu Shu was a little anxious, these people who were his peers had heard of their names before, that is, he was a famous person, who could sit in front of them, but now he was stuffed here, managed by him, everyone could not be said to be unruly, but they also had their own edges, and arranging the work of these people wasted Liu Shu's great energy, and it was easy to assign the personnel.

Liu Shu was so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground, Yang Yuanzhao was like a shopkeeper, the investment of 40 million was only, or silver dollars, and it was only 20 million in dollars, and more than half of the investment was still a machine, and there was an all-in-one machine.

These days, Yang Yuanzhao is basically, all in the warehouse, the modification of 120,000 spindles of the textile machine, the all-in-one machine has a perfect plan, only to do some key parts of the metal copy, the rest, relying on the original machine qì, or to find a batch of carpenters to come, but the number is too large, and the loom, the change is a little more than the spinning machine, this is the more difficult place, the wide surface, not only represents the change of the base of the loom itself, but also has many hidden dangers, It has to be dealt with one by one.

The huge investment of 40 million, if exposed, is definitely an investment that shocks the whole of China, even back then, Zhang Zhongtang's Hubei Westernization Movement, the total investment is only tens of millions of taels, these money, under the mobilization ability of Jin merchants, quietly entered Baotou.

Jin merchants, in a certain Cheng dù, may not be as rich as other merchants, but to the merchant and sitting business, but also take into account the money Zhuang silver, by the way also sit a large number of pawnshop business, Jin merchants in liquidity and cash, is absolutely the best in the whole of China, the most important thing is that the history of Jin merchants, has been traced back to the Ming Dynasty, in the early years of the Qing Dynasty has been a huge development, and later under the blow of the ruling class, this is slowly declined, but as little as dozens of hundreds, more than hundreds of years of development, so that they have accumulated huge wealth.

Among the wealth of Jin merchants, the most amazing thing is that the ghost sees sorrow, this kind of 1000 pounds of sterling silver is based on, cast iron lumps, known as ghosts and sorrows, basically all of them are ballast things, one according to the metric system, at least 650 kilograms, slippery hands of the round lumps, hundreds of people, may not be able to get him away, in this era when there are no lifting facilities, it is really a ghost to see sorrow.

In order to express their power, and in order to establish their equity as much as possible, they did not get any scattered funds, and the main thing that was shipped over was that the Jin merchants may not have any Guangyang, or dollars. Hard currencies such as the pound may be relatively small. But in terms of silver, millions of good. It's just like playing, each of the eight took out 2 million taels, which felt a bit piled up, and soon filled a warehouse.

If it is replaced by someone else, it may still be a headache, how to convert them into silver, and convert them into silver dollars or currency, but for Yang Yuanzhao, it is directly borrowed from the all-in-one machine. 20 million taels of silver, will not exceed 600 tons, with the current processing capacity of the all-in-one machine, it will definitely be processed very quickly, into a newly made zuò Koyo.

Silver is gradually depreciating, and it is not possible to hold silver in your hands, but fortunately, countries around the world now still recognize silver coins. Some of them are directly taken to major banks and exchanged for gold or the world's mainstream currency, and the other part is taken out to buy various daily necessities and cotton textile raw materials. These are the foundations of an industrial base and take-off.

It was not easy to build this cotton mill. It takes a lot of effort, for example: A large number of factories, cotton textile mills are labor-intensive industries. Under the premise of 120,000 spindles, there are a large number of looms to consume so much cotton, almost 10,000 people need to be smaller, such a huge number of people, plus the plant, just a cotton textile factory covers an area of more than a few square kilometers, in winter, the road in Baotou is still under construction, but the work of this plant also needs to continue to implement, or bother Qian Hu, Qian Hu has a big head, fortunately, there are previous skilled workers, as well as previous experience, barely enough people, fortunately, the first phase is not all on the horse, It is about 60,000 spindles, and the loom is only guaranteed for 700 sheets for the time being, and the first batch of workers is only more than 4,000.

Gradual progress is fundamental, and it is impossible to build a large-scale industrial base in one day.

It took only 5 days, the Yang family, the Wei family, and the Liu family recruited female textile workers from all over the country, and they gathered in Baotou, more than 2,200 people, riding almost 300 carriages, almost every carriage was stuffed into the seven or eight people, almost most of the time for 3 days, were in the rapid march, to Baotou, many people's spirits withered, discouraged, and could not see the original appearance.

About the basic information of the personnel, as early as 2 days ago, it was quickly sent to Baotou, and now Liu Shu led the project headquarters and began to study these people, several factory constructions, as well as several project adjustments, Liu Shu has a half-understood understanding of the management of modern factories, he knows that any worker, fighting alone, no matter how strong the strength is, there is nothing, unless, can be strong enough for Li Mingsheng's Cheng dù, such people, the whole of China, there are a few.

The three textile workers recruited by the family, the worst, is to enter the factory for one or two years, or two or three years, because of strength, or other reasons, did not do in the textile factory, these people, was classified into a category, they are afraid that they can only be used as the most basic workers, a little practice, can become a new worker in the textile factory, the proportion of these people is not much, about 200 people, accounting for about 2000 people in the whole.

These junior workers, that is, some of the backbone workers, they are in their respective factories, they are the backbone, very skilled in textiles, each person, there are one or two unique jobs in their hands, such people, in each textile factory are more important, but the three families have their own means, plus the wages given are a little higher, and they dig out smoothly.

In addition to the above two categories, there are about forty or fifty people, the least of a team, they are the real elite, among the textile workers, they also belong to the top kind, based on the identity of women, they can not become the same as the master master, control the production line, but the technology in their hands, absolutely not low, three or four of them, even can reach Li Mingsheng, for a team, a team, has a huge role in the people.

This group of people, in every textile factory, is also a treasure like a treasure, recruited them, the three families actually spent a lot of energy, directly negotiated only a few, most of them are from the periphery, relying on various methods, this is to complete the recruitment of them.

Peng Hongying looked at a piece of loess outside, this is a typical town in the northwest border, it looks grizzled, more than 2,000 of their workers, to Taiyuan for a period of time, stay a little bored, if not for the good food and drink hospitality, as well as the full monthly salary, she is not even willing to stay here longer.

Finally, the stagnant water moved, they also came to the final destination, what was waiting for them, on the road, facing the yellow sand full of sky, countless people still have a longing, but after arriving in Baotou, regret, disappointment, I am afraid that most of them are the only thoughts, they are just textile women, but they can be regarded as a group of contemporary women more knowledgeable, the textile industry, although not necessarily only in the big cities, but less urban markets, less urban transportation, textile industry, can really succeed?

They don't understand this, but in the simple idea, it represents the real meaning, a thriving factory, can bring workers a good income, just like the Hubei weaving layout where Hongying once stayed, in the most prosperous time, thousands of workers rushed to work day and night, and the carriages that came to pull the goods made the door of the factory congested, and even got off work had to get off work from the back door, a bag, a cart of cash, so sent into the factory, at that time, it was also the time when their wages were the highest, the limit time, You can earn more than 35 yuan a month.

But the good times did not last long, with more and more, cheaper and cheaper foreign cloth, as well as a large number of foreign fabrics produced by other factories, a certain amount of dù above, so that Hubei weaving layout is difficult, even with their wages have plummeted, last year, can also guarantee 10 yuan a day, to this year, has not been paid for three months.

Some of the experienced women who were worried, but the younger ones, looked around curiously, pointing at the novelty.

Under the efforts of a group of people, in a few days, the grouping was simply completed, Liu Shu had already ordered those noble sons, with the help of domestic slaves and maids, to separate the personnel according to the list, a leading technology, with seven or eight technical average, and one or two junior workers, of course, this is not the final distribution, in the future, when the recruitment of female workers in Baotou is completed, those female workers who have not been in contact with textiles at all, will be filled into this, and there are these skilled workers to make adjustments.

Soon, the phalanx of 2,200 people was divided into about 50 small teams, and with the help of everyone, they headed towards a corner of Baotou. (To be continued......)