Fuyuan Yarn Factory, which is a spinning mill opened by Zhao Dongyun after integrating other industries in his family last year, the original idea was just to let the family enter the industry, so as not to rely on the land and traditional shops in his hometown to live, so at best it is a landlord and old wealth, can no longer keep up with the pace of the times, and the assets are also very large-scale expansion.

Therefore, Zhao Dongyun gritted his teeth and sold many industries in his hometown, and also moved out a lot of silver buried in the old house of his family, and scraped together enough 100,000 taels of silver to buy a yarn factory in Tianjin and purchase equipment for expansion.

The yarn factory was originally opened by British foreigners, but because the foreigners were old and wanted to return to the UK to enjoy Qingfu, they sold it to Zhao Dongyun at a discount, and then renamed it Fuyuan Yarn Factory.

Because it was an acquisition, the original workers, equipment, and even trading channels were still there, and Zhao Dongyun just replaced his own family as the general office and didn't take care of it much.

After the acquisition, the general office of Fuyuan Yarn Factory is named Zhao Chenbin, and he knows that he is a member of the Zhao family by looking at his surname, and his person is a distant uncle of Zhao Dongyun, who used to be the big shopkeeper of the second room of the Zhao family, managing many shops in the second room, and now those shops are gone, and he was also made by Zhao Dongyun to Fuyuan Yarn Factory to be a general office.

Although he is older, and he belongs to the old school of people, he does not know much about those machines and spinning, but it doesn't matter, he used to be in charge of money and people, and the actual affairs of the factory are still managed by the original managers.

Because the yarn factory was opened by foreigners from the beginning, a group of senior management was actually held by foreigners, and the management system was naturally Western-style, and there were not many drawbacks of Chinese factories in this era.

Besides, if there was no original group of middle and senior managers in Fuyuan Yarn Factory, he Zhao Dongyun would not have spent a huge amount of money to acquire it!

Since the acquisition of the factory last year, because Zhao Dongyun invested a lot of money so he added some equipment, to expand the scale, this year's performance is very impressive, the Fuyuan yarn factory several foreign managers and engineers said, now the shape shì is good, should increase the scale of investment, it will not be long before Fuyuan yarn factory can become the first yarn factory in Zhili.

Even if China's modern industry is not good, there are several large factories in the textile industry, hundreds of thousands of assets or even hundreds of watts of assets of silk reeling and yarn factories, and naturally it is not his turn to win the first place in the Fuyuan yarn factory, which only has hundreds of thousands of assets.

But it is feasible to invest more and scale up.

In terms of the market, although most of China is now in the stage of self-cultivation, there are still urban residents who are not, and they all have to wear clothes, so the modern Chinese textile industry market is not small, but most of these huge markets are occupied by foreign capital.

In the past, although the domestic capital has developed slightly, it is still not the mainstream, and most of them are concentrated in the government-run and government-supervised commercial enterprises, and the real private capital is relatively small, and these private capital is mostly a small handicraft workshop, and the assets of more than 10,000 taels are very few.

However, after Gengzi New Year, especially after Yuan Shikai came to power last year, not to mention the whole of China, but at least in North China headed by Zhili, a wave of New Deal reforms has been set off.

Perhaps later generations will see Yuan Shikai as a thief, a traitor and a traitor, but in China after the Gengzi year, Yuan Shikai is the pioneer of reform that many people have high hopes for, this reform is not limited to the army, but also education reform, industrial and commercial reform, official reform, legal reform and so on.

For example, in the development of modern education in China, under the auspices of Yuan Shikai, a number of modern universities such as Shandong University Hall were established, and at the same time, middle schools and primary schools were built in various places, forming a modern education system that was sufficient to replace the imperial examination system, and finally sent the imperial examination into the garbage heap of history.

Although there is no company law and the establishment of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce at this time, it is not far from being promoted by Yuan Shikai and Zhang Zhidong and others, and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce will be established next year in history, and a series of policies to promote the development of industry and commerce will be promulgated next year.

Prior to this, due to Yuan Shikai's vigorous promotion, and at the same time, the imperial court made up its mind to carry out industrial and commercial reform after the Gengzi year, so that many people who saw the direction of the political wind invested in industry on a large scale, trying to take the lead in the new policy trend, so that the private capital invested in industry grew rapidly.

Zhao Dongyun's Fuyuan Yarn Factory wants to expand, which is also a product of this big backdrop!

"Last year, after we took over the yarn mill, we spent about 40,000 taels of cash to buy machine guns to expand production, after the expansion of our yarn mill output, sales increased greatly, only this year's spring sales reached half a year before the increase in production, so calculated that the sales volume of the yarn mill after the increase in production reached twice as much as before, and the new machine qì is a new system, requiring less labor and more, so that the net profit is more than twice as much as before." Zhao Chenbin is an old man in his fifties, although he used to be just a shopkeeper, but he also dealt with foreign companies, so he is old-fashioned, and he also wears a horse coat and drags his braids, but his knowledge is not narrow.

"Before I came, I also discussed with the technician in the factory, Will, he said that if I can invest another 40,000 taels of silver to buy the machine, then the output will have to be doubled, and the manager Douglas also said that if I can invest another 40,000 yuan, plus the profit of the yarn factory itself to expand production, then my Fuyuan yarn factory may not be able to become the first yarn factory in Zhili!"

Listening to Zhao Chenbin say this, Zhao Dongyun did not feel much surprised, because since the beginning of the year, due to the large increase in production and sales of Fuyuan Yarn Factory, the manager of Fuyuan Yarn Factory Douglas wrote to him, hoping that Zhao Dongyun can continue to invest and expand the scale, saying that now the market prospects are very good, just wait for the investment to expand the scale, just say 'people are stupid and have a lot of money, come quickly'.

But it's one thing to have prospects, it's another thing to take out money to increase capital, Zhao Dongyun is not a big chaebol, he has hundreds of thousands of taels of silver on hand at any time, in fact, he spent nearly 100,000 taels before and after in order to acquire Fuyuan Yarn Factory and purchase equipment last year, and this money is that he sold many properties in the second house one by one, and even got out the inventory of the house silver, which was raised.

In other words, he took out all the silver that could be taken out of the second room of the Zhao family, and now although the Zhao family still has a lot of family funds, those are immovable real estate, such as granges, mansions, etc., and they can't fill in all the family funds in order to open a factory.

After thinking about it, he said: "I have also thought about the increase in capital and production, this matter is promising, but it is not good for the family to continue to take cash directly, in that case, I am afraid that the old mother will have to worry!" ”

Like most conversations, after saying the premise, there will generally be a but, so Zhao Dongyun continued: "However, Fuyuan Yarn Factory can't sit back and watch the opportunity to expand, I thought about it for a while, and I think it can be solved from two aspects, the first is to borrow money to expand production, and the second is to see if I can talk to a few other heads and let them also become shareholders." ”

Zhao Chenbin listened to his words, but his face was embarrassed: "We have tried to borrow, it's not that no one borrows but the conditions are too high, I talked to Dougall and several foreign banks in Tianjin, saying that it is okay to borrow money, but most of them require equity participation, and the interest on not participating in shares is also quite high, so it is better to directly find those money banks to dismantle it!" ”

"As for finding other houses to buy shares, don't say whether they have the courage to enter the industry, but this Fuyuan Yarn Factory is our second-room industry in the final analysis, how can it be cheaper than the other rooms!"

Zhao Dongyun smiled when he heard this: "It's all the Zhao family, why bother to divide it so clearly, besides, it's just to let them join the shares, even if they have the courage to come up with tens of thousands of taels, they won't be able to take up many shares, and the right is just to give them a financial source to support their families." ”

The reason why Zhao Dongyun wanted to let the other heads of the Zhao family join in was not that they were really missing tens of thousands of taels of silver, he had a bigger plan. First of all, the role of the clan in this era is still very huge, he is mixed in the Beiyang system, and he may rebel one day, when the time comes, the more people who help him, the better, at that time, who will support him more than the children of the Zhao family?

In addition to wanting more children of the Zhao family to join him, he also wants to gather the financial resources of the entire Zhao family and set up a larger-scale enterprise in the future, such as the arsenal that he has been thinking about some time ago.

It's just that Zhao Dongyun doesn't have enough money himself, so he naturally hit the idea on those relatives, don't look at them are all rich people, but they have a lot of shops and granges, and after hundreds of years of accumulation, they are all owners who have buried a lot of silver ingots in their own houses, if they concentrate their financial resources, it is estimated that it will not be a problem to make up hundreds of thousands of taels.

The Ming and Qing dynasties of China are not without money, but the money is concentrated in the people, to be precise, the gentry and landlords, you think, how much silver flowed into China from foreign countries in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but the government is still poor and bitter, and there is not so much silver circulating on the market, so where did all this silver go? Most of them were buried under their houses by the old wealth of those landlords.

And the silver, buried in the ground, will not give you a 'small silver ingot' to come out, only dig out and invest in the money to make money.

Zhao Dongyun wants to integrate the financial resources of the entire Zhao family, but although the Zhao family's several heads are staring at the name of the Zhao family, they have actually been separated for decades, and it is not easy to integrate.

"Didn't the third uncle say last year that he was going to set up a yarn factory, and he also sent a few people to Fuyuan to study, I don't know how it is now?" Zhao Dongyun continued: "Since the third uncle has done this, he naturally wants to run an industry, if he starts from scratch with tens of thousands of taels of small trouble, it is better to directly invest in Fuyuan Yarn Factory to become bigger and stronger together!" ”

Zhao Dongyun didn't stop talking, but continued: "It's just that the other heads of the house are estimated not to take out too much cash to invest in shares for a while, and I'm afraid that the money needed to expand production will have to find another way!" ”