"My lord, this is the first batch of coarse wool in the factory." The textile factory organizer handed Qin Yu a piece of tweed flannel.

Qin Yu took it and weighed it in his hand a few times, although it was said to be a thick wool, it was smooth, soft, and oily to the touch, but the color was really average. Although there are herds of cattle and sheep in the Horqin grassland, it is impossible to catch up with the wool spinning industry that the foreigners have developed for hundreds of years. From livestock feeding to wool selection, foreigners have mature processes and screening specifications.

"I also have a piece of woolen here, which I bought from Shanghai when I bought machinery, and it is produced in the United Kingdom, you see." Qin Yu beckoned to Ding Cheng, who immediately took a piece of woolen fabric and handed it to Wang Su, the host of the woolen factory.

"I've heard of the price you set, the quality of this foreigner's woolen is better, and the price is relatively cheaper than your price, which is still the price after it was shipped from England, which is thousands of miles away." Qin Yu said.

"My lord, Westerners' things are good, everyone knows this, but if the price drops too much, we may not be able to recover the cost in the near future." Wang Li is also under a lot of pressure, since the woolen mill was converted from Qin Yu's official office to a commercial one, he has also been under a lot of pressure, once he can't bring enough profits to the factory, he is in danger of being removed at any time.

"I will say hello to a few directors at this point, this is the wool produced by the nation, you can't smash the signboard, since the thing is not as good as the foreigner, then you have to compare the foreigner from the price, my thing is not as good as the foreigner, but my cheap, the Chinese will buy it. I know better than you how much the wool used to make tweed wool is collected from Horqin, and you don't want to be sloppy with me. "A lot of wool on the grassland has no provenance, most of it has been thrown away directly by the Mongolian people, or a large amount of mildew, and it usually doesn't take much money to buy wool on the grassland, one or two boxes of foreign fire, a pound of sugar, or an iron pot, you can exchange it for almost a small cart. There is almost no cost, but some waste time and effort.

Qin Yu glanced at Wang Li, the quality is not as good as that of foreigners, and now he wants to compare the price with foreigners, how can the woolen mill be bigger. If the Qing government can give a little force, use tariffs to adjust the price of woolen wool, let the woolen wool enter the country, and pay a large amount of tariffs first, it will undoubtedly give the domestic woolen a certain time to grow. However, the Qing government is reliable, and the sow can go up the tree, and Qin Yu doesn't think about it now.

"Yes, my lord!" Wang Li nodded again and again.

"I think you can do this, what is good for foreigners, you can find a way to send people to the foreigner's country to study, or through business contacts, invite the foreigner's technician over. At the same time, I also have to think of a way to run more on the grassland to see which sheep grow better wool and how to raise wool suitable for wool. Westerners are not three-headed and six-armed, they can do good things, we can do well, and even better. Qin Yu said.

Wang Li's face became serious, if you want to talk about shares, Qin Yu is still the largest shareholder of this factory, but he usually doesn't care about the specific business affairs of the factory, at this time, I heard Qin Yu say a few points casually, although they are all things that are not small, but once it is done, this factory of woolen wool will probably be great in the future.

Whether it is leather goods or woolen wool, when the economy gets better in the future, it will be something with big profits, and Qin Yu can't figure out leather goods. However, I am still a little impressed by some data from the wool textile industry. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, although the woolen textiles of foreigners had begun to be exported to China, they were resisted by the self-sufficiency of China's small peasant economy, and the results were not great. Later, with the establishment of the Republic of China, the economy recovered, and the demand for wool textiles began to surge, especially during the First World War, Europe was short of anything, and the wool textiles exported 20 or 30 million taels a year were definitely not much.

After the end of the European War, a large number of German and British woolen textile exports poured into the Republic of China, and in addition to their own production, the annual import volume of the Republic of China broke through from 10 million taels to 40 million taels in a few years. What's the lucrative side of this? At this time, Fengtian Province, the richest province in Northeast China, had a total annual fiscal income of only 123 million taels, while Heilongjiang was less than 10 million taels, and Jilin hovered around 10 million taels. This is still the time when the harvest is good, and if there is a disaster, the situation will be even worse.

At this time, although there are so many woolen mills in China, but the raw materials have not been used by anyone who is domestic, they are all imported from Britain or Germany, and the cost in the middle is virtually a lot higher, and it is not that no one has thought about the wool produced on this side of the Mongolian steppe, but at the end of the Qing Dynasty, bandits everywhere, even small groups of troops did not dare to go out at will, let alone those merchants.

In addition, the road to Mongolia is not easy to walk, and it is easy to transport it directly from England by sea ship. The most important point is that although wool is produced in Mongolia, the condition is not as good as that of the United Kingdom. So many reasons have accumulated together, the raw materials have been stuck in the hands of foreign devils, and the customs of the Qing Dynasty are still being held by others, so how can domestic woolen mills compete with foreigners?

Relatively speaking, at present, Qin Yu has pacified the Mongolian bandits in the Taoliao area, and the public security environment has been greatly improved, as long as the wool selection is done a good job and the advanced technology of the West is introduced, although the process is a little longer, the potential is very large, and there is a raw material base in the Mongolian grassland, and there is the capital to catch up. Of course, if you want to catch up, it is impossible to catch up in three or five years, not only do you have to study yourself, but you also have to steal teachers.

Woolen is wear-resistant, smooth, and warm, these advantages are still very popular, although the color is a little worse, as long as the price is lowered, the military uniforms produced are supplied to 3000 troops under Qin Yu's hands, plus a local security battalion of 500 people, and then exported, in the Northeast coarse woolen finished product market, there is still an advantage.

As for leather shoes, the Qing Dynasty had a population of 40,000, even if only 40 million people wore leather shoes, the market was amazingly huge, not to mention that once the economy developed and the number of people with money in their hands increased, this market was even more unimaginable.

Not far from the woolen mill, the scene of the temporary recruitment point is hot, and the noisy voices spread far and wide, although Qin Yu strictly ordered the soldiers not to publicize the treatment, but those buildings, the military uniforms on the body, and the military shoes These things cannot be concealed, and everyone can see it next year, so that the people who apply are endless, and the various recruitment points are blocked by dense crowds.

Qin Yu shrugged and smiled, and walked on the way back to the barracks, along the way, you can see that there are obviously a few more shops on both sides of the road that are not too wide than before, there are restaurants, and the small traders on the road who are carrying the mobile shouting and selling goods on the road, last year Taonan Fucheng directly increased by 12,000 people, and this year it is likely to exceed 20,000 people, a large influx of people, for those small businessmen, there is no doubt that there are unlimited business opportunities, open a bun shop, sell wine, and get rid of their own expenses a year, You can also deposit some spare money to the newly established Huaxing Qianzhuang branch in Taonan Fucheng.

A lot of money has been spilled out, and it hasn't come back yet, but Taonan's efforts for more than a year have indeed changed a lot.

Qin Yu was returning to the barracks on horseback, and when he passed by a small restaurant, he inadvertently saw a stunning and somewhat familiar face. It just so happened that those bright eyes also looked over here, and the undisguised surprise in her eyes turned out to be Chen Xinyi, why did she come to Taonan? Qin Yu thought about whether to say hello, but thinking of the other party's bad impression of him, he was afraid that he would not have a good face, so he couldn't help but smile bitterly and rode away.

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