After bidding farewell to Huang Lao, Yan Guang took a boat and left the United States under the disgusting gaze of Huang Yihua and several other Chinatown juniors.

Huang Yihua didn't mention it for the time being, and several other people would watch Yan Guang leave with disgust, all because during the time he came, the elders of these people have been taking Yan Guang as a positive example in their ears (I believe that our generation will have this tragic childhood with T-T).

So after a few days, these people looked at Yan Guang as if they were enemies.

Yan Guang didn't know that behind his back, there were several people looking at him with disgust, and even if he knew, it didn't matter.

This time, in order to compensate for himself, but also to relieve the boredom of the journey, Yan Guang specially booked a ticket for this luxury cruise ship, which not only has a swimming pool (the cruise ship already has it at this time) but also has all kinds of entertainment facilities, if it is a few years later, there is even a fitness room on the famous Titanic...

It's a pity that for a landlubber like Yan Guang, even if the swimming pool on the boat is big, it is useless, so he stopped going after floating in a swimming ring for a few days (there are too many contemptuous eyes around), but the result of Yan Guang not going to the pool has caused a big disaster for the casino in the cabin.

Although there was no mahjong in the cruise casino, Yan Guang was still killing all sides in other games, and when he arrived in Shanghai at the end of the voyage, Yan Guang suspected that if he sat a few more rounds, he would be able to make money from a textile factory.

Under the farewell of the cruise staff, Yan Guang and Wang Er got off the ship with suitcases.

"Boss, can the ash factory really make money?" After getting into the rickshaw, Wang Er asked with some hesitation.

Before going abroad, he had seen Yan Guang and Song Dinghan arguing over this matter, because it was difficult for the ash factory to make money.

"Money?" Yan Guang shook his head. "Maybe it's hard to make money, but I still have to build it..."

After arriving at Jardine Matheson, Yan Guang purchased equipment such as rotary kilns and ball mills worth 20,000 silver dollars from Jardine Matheson.

It's not that Yan Guang doesn't want to buy more equipment to build a large-scale ash factory, it's just that as Wang Er said just now, Song Dinghan has always been opposed to this matter.

Because the ash factory is different from the textile factory, the capital required to engage in textile is less than that of other industries, the production cycle is also very short, and it can be profitable quickly, and the demand is also very huge, so it is not worrying about sales.

And compared to the ash factory and the textile factory...

At this time, many places in China do not need cement...

20,000 silver dollars of cement equipment seems to be very small, but the cement it produces may be able to saturate the entire Sichuan market...

So Song Dinghan always thought that he should save enough 100,000 silver dollars first, and then buy machinery in Shanghai to further expand production, but in the end, at Yan Guang's insistence, Song Dinghan still agreed to Yan Guang to open an ash factory, after all, Yan Guang is the boss, and he is just a part-time worker...

Of course, there are also those who support Yan Guang to open an ash factory, such as the prefect Yu Zongtong and the governor Zhao Erfeng, but these two people are a little disappointed that Yan Guang only invested 20,000 silver dollars to build the ash factory, and Yu Zongtong even personally came to Huasheng Company to find Yan Guang, proposing that he come forward to recruit some gentry and then invest in the ash factory.

But after Yan Guang explained to him what the market is and what consumption is, Yu Zongtong finally understood that sometimes the bigger the factory, the better...

In fact, Yan Guang also wants to open a glass factory, a paper mill and a garment factory that can be matched with a textile factory, and these three factories have a higher rate of profitability and a faster return of funds than the ash factory.

It's a pity that these three things are really not close to the industry, but the important surname of cement in the industry is beyond doubt.

For the sake of future plans, we can only build cement plants first and slow down the rest.

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After inviting Richard and Charlie to dinner, Yan Guang returned to Sichuan with the newly purchased equipment and hired foreign technicians.

Yan Guang first sent the equipment and several foreign technicians from Yucheng to Chengdu, and then thought that in a few months he would be able to turn the rubber stock into cash, so Yan Guang bought another 30 hectares of the original 10 hectares of land.

In this way, it is enough to make it an industrial area.

Yu Zongtong and Zhao Erfeng gave the green light to buy land, after all, the expansion of the factory is also something they like to see.

At this time, it was already June, and after the groundbreaking ceremony, the construction of the ash plant officially started.

Since this time it was only a small ash factory, it took only one month to build the plant, and then under the guidance of foreign technicians, it took another half a month to install the purchased equipment and train the recruited employees.

By the time the factory officially started, it was already August...

Fortunately, the ash factory needs men, not women, and the literacy rate of men is much higher than that of women, so it is easier to train, otherwise the official start of construction may be delayed for a while.

In August, looking at the first batch of ash produced, Yan Guang and Yu Zongtong, who came to watch from the side, were very excited, but unfortunately it was useless to be excited, just as Song Dinghan expected earlier, the sales of ash in Sichuan were not very good.

The new Huasheng ash plant has an annual output of less than 1,000 tons, but in the end, Song Dinghan ran all over Sichuan, even if he almost broke his leg, he could only ensure that the cement produced every month could be sold...

Yan Guang understands that the big consumer of cement is infrastructure, but unfortunately not Sichuan, it is the infrastructure of the whole of China...

Yan Guang also thought about opening up new sales channels for the ash factory, but at this time, the giant of China's ash industry was the Qixin ash factory in Tangshan, Hebei Province, with an annual output of more than 40,000 tons, and there was no way to compare...

Now the share in the hands of Huasheng Ash Factory is grabbed by relying on the brands of Sichuan people and Yu Zongtong, but in the case of external competition, Yan Guang and Song Dinghan directly gave up this idea.

After giving up the idea of expanding the ash factory, Yan Guang and Song Dinghan focused all their attention on the textile factory. The textile factory is very competitive, and now it can bring Yan Guang at least 10,000 silver dollars in profit every month, compared to the ash factory only 7 or 800 yuan per month after deducting various costs, which is really pitiful...

The difference in the consumer market also determines the difference in the strength of making money...

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For the sake of the fourth watch, ask for collections and tickets ~~~