April 12, 1641

Six kilometers up the Swan River estuary in Manchester City, a large area of land has been leveled out as an industrial area, and this area has been officially named Manchester Industrial Park by the Executive Committee.

The land route between the industrial area and the main city of Manchester City has not yet been fully connected, and it is currently responsible for the transportation of materials and personnel between the two places by the inland steam boat of the Swan River, which is powered by a ten-horsepower steam engine, which is completely made in Australia.

You Nanzhe relied on some scattered fragmentary memories, and with the help of several shipbuilding experienced crew members in the Dutch, to build this small boat that carried 20 tons of cargo each time.

According to the relevant regulations, all enterprises in the existing Manchester base, except for the shipyard and the marina, will be relocated to the industrial area, and the Manchester Industrial Zone Committee has been formally established to better manage the work of the industrial development zone.

The head of the district committee is lower than the head of the department, but he will also belong to the level of deputy mayor in later generations, and the factories and personnel of the entire industrial zone are managed by him.

In the new industrial zone, two modern factories with an area of not too large have been built, one is Australia's key export industry, the new plant of the glass factory, which is said to be able to produce 5,000 boxes of glass per year after it is put into operation, and 2,000 sets of glassware.

The construction standard of this new plant is strictly in accordance with the modern assembly line production and construction. Zhou Zisheng, the contractor, was a small worker in a state-owned glass factory before crossing over, and it is said that the glass factory he worked in was a direct supplier to some government employers, and although the scale of the factory was small, it was quite famous in the industry.

Although he is only a small worker, but after working for a long time, he understands every process, so he contributed the most to the construction of the glass factory, and he is also a person who eats by technology, although he is not like Lin Youde, who graduated from a prestigious school like Nanze, but Zhou Zisheng, who was born as a worker, is still very popular with a considerable number of people who were born in the working class.

In this newly built glass factory, he did not take out a loan like Manchester Bank, but found several supervisors and workers in the factory, said that he wanted to contract the glass factory, and invited everyone to join in the shares to raise money and contract the glass factory to be operated by everyone.

Considering that glass products are the main source of financial income of the Executive Committee, and most of the financial expenditures of various special funds are allocated by the income from the export of glass products, the Executive Committee did not completely contract out the glass factory, but took the original factory as a shareholder, occupying 30% of the shares, and the remaining 70% was contracted to private individuals, and the Executive Committee did not participate in the operation.

To a certain extent, this can be regarded as giving Zhou Zisheng a lot of right to speak, and in the dividends in February this year, Lao Zhou also became the focus of praise, and received a dividend of up to 2,000 yuan, which made a large number of people envious.

Don't look at it, it's only two thousand, and it's only distributed in the form of bookkeeping, but it's really a lot of money. Judging from the dividend income of all people in February, the average person received between 100 and 500.

Considering that the construction of the new plant has no government shares, once the construction is completed, Zhou Zisheng will not transfer all manufacturing to the new factory, and the old factory will be closed due to low income, after all, this method has been used by many entrepreneurs in later generations.

In the end, Lao Zhou understood the righteousness and proposed to set up a company with the original factory building and shares, and the land of the new factory building was shared, accounting for 30 percent.

In the next two years, Zisheng Glass Co., Ltd. will be the largest taxpayer in Manchester City, which is predictable, with the expansion of the market and the increase in production, as well as local internal sales, glass products are needed by the public.

Also located in the industrial park is the glass factory of Yang Wenwen Garment Co., Ltd., a young designer and amateur model who has been strongly encouraged by the wave of private inventions, and has become the best among many competitors with a hand-painted Jenny loom.

Although the drawings of the Jenny loom are ready-made, it does not mean that it will be made through the crowd, even if Lin Youde, who is known as Wan Essential Oil, got the drawings and pondered for a long time, and finally couldn't say why, so he had to spread his hands towards Yang Wenwen, saying that he couldn't help, if you let someone repair a machine or watch, it may be barely repaired, but this Jenny machine is completely made of wood.

Yang Wenwen, who finally copied the drawings, saw that the great engineer Lin Youde couldn't do it, so she had to helplessly look for the next one called You Nanzhe, and before the drawings were spread, the other party said with a smile, I can't get this thing, you have to find a carpenter who can work, and also recommended to her the old Dutch and immigrant carpenters in her shipyard who have changed their careers to become shipbuilders.

The old Dutch and Ming carpenters pondered the drawings for half a minute, and finally under the representative of a big nose named Walker, several people nodded and said that they could give it a try.

In fact, it is not difficult to manufacture this Jenny machine, as long as you know how to carpenter and follow the drawings, you can basically do it, but these Dutch carpenters and Ming Dynasty carpenters used to make ordinary furniture, and they don't understand the things on the drawings very clearly.

After nearly two weeks of pondering, a few old Dutch and carpenters really made a similar object to the Jenny machine on the drawings, Yang Wenwen tried it with cotton imported from Batavia, and the effect was not bad, at least it could be used, although it was a little difficult to use, but this greatly encouraged Yang Wenwen and made her more confident in becoming the boss of the spinning industry in the future.

Because of this, You Nanzhe's Jiangnan Shipyard ushered in the first private order, which was not to order ships, but to build Yang Wenwen's Jenny machine. Almost made You Nanzhe cry and laugh, under Yang Wenwen's soft film hard bubble, he had to promise to let a few Dutch old and carpenters help her make a few more Jenny machines in her spare time, until last week after the construction of the factory Yang Wenwen's factory already has ten Jenny machines, but limited by the restrictions of raw materials, only a group of newly recruited female workers can be trained.

According to the estimation of Zhao Dongchang, director of the district committee, nearly 30 enterprises will settle in the entire industrial park in the next year, which will become a new increase in financial revenue.