Now is not the chaotic era of the Republic of China, and the armed force of sixty people still has a lot of deterrent power, which also allows Yan Shao to quietly negotiate all the business in Shanghai.

The first thing to do was to invite foreign companies, and this time there were a lot of foreign companies involved, and basically almost all foreign companies from all countries except Japanese foreign companies participated. However, the foreign firm that won the bid was still the British Jardine Matheson like last time, and Yan Shao was also a little helpless about it.

There is no way, although the original Jardine Matheson Matheson's move made Yan Shao's favor towards Harrison and them much lower, but there are few people who can eat such a large business even in Shanghai, in other words, Yan Shao actually does not have much choice, and among the few foreign firms, the conditions of Jardine Matheson are the best.

This time the result was similar to the last time, 80,000 spindles and 2,000 looms, but there were some differences in the gifts. The last gift was a free gift of the equipment of the ash factory, which was not worth much, that is, it was worth 20,000 silver dollars. This time, a set of equipment for the production of safety shavers was sent, which was also not worth much, more than 30,000 silver dollars.

However, the end of the tender does not mean that other things are over.

On the contrary, this only means the beginning of trouble, first of all, not to mention anything else, Yan Shao purchased more than 170,000 spindles need to find a way to get to Wuhu—————— Yan Shao does not plan to open a factory in Shanghai, although this is the most concentrated area of China's cotton textile industry, on the one hand, Shanghai is mixed with dragons and snakes, the competition is too fierce, and it is not easy to make a profit.

On the other hand, after the Xinhai Revolution, Shanghai will become the territory of the League, and the overseer will be the famous 'Yangmei Governor' Chen Qimei. This brother has a bad reputation in history, and if you leave the factory in Shanghai, it is difficult to guarantee that this brother will not come to the door to extort something.

However, it is not easy to get these spindles to Wuhu, and the reason is very simple. At this time, except for Chinese cotton mills like Dachun, only a small number of Japanese cotton mills were located in Shanghai, and most of the rest were located in mainland Japan.

At that time, there were less than 30 cotton textile factories in China, and note that this also included foreign cotton textile factories in China. The Japanese invested heavily in the cotton spinning industry in China after the success of Jotaro Yamamoto, and there are only a few textile factories in China. The number of spindles is only more than 100,000, and it is impossible to carry out so-called dumping with such a small number alone.

This time, the Japanese were able to dump goods in several provinces of Anhui, and most of the textile factories used were in Japan. Almost all of the ones that went out of business later were in this part.

"So first of all, let's find a way to transport those machines back from Japan..."Speaking of this, Yan Shao smiled bitterly.

During this period of history, there were less than 400,000 spindles in China, and even if you count the cotton textile factories invested by foreign businessmen in China, there were only about 500,000. In the same period, Japan reached more than 1.3 million. It is more than twice as large as China, and after taking into account the territorial area of the next two countries, this cannot but make people feel a lot of emotion ...

"Is it just to transport the machine back..."Hearing Yan Shao's words, the corners of Elino's mouth curled slightly and drew a graceful arc.

"Yes..."The bitterness on Yan Shao's face became even stronger. There's still a lot to do..."

Regardless of Eleno, he also knows the way, as well as the plant, workers, equipment installation, and so on.

After counting the purchase from the British, you can imagine how large the factory building required for 250,000 spindles. Even if you don't forget that, there is also a long equipment installation, and the most headache is the problem of employees.

In the past, when there were more than 20,000 spindles, the Wuhu textile factory needed more than 2,000 female workers to operate the machines. Now it has soared to more than 330,000 spindles, and at least 34,500 female workers are needed to do it. With so many workers, it is not easy to recruit or manage.

"The factory can be divided into four factories based on 80,000 spindles...", opening the window, and after taking a breath of fresh air, Caterina tied up her long windswept red hair with a leather band, and let it spread on her fair back.

Yan Shao bowed slightly, which is also the usual practice of factories in this era.

For example, the historical Dasheng Yarn Factory was divided into several factories, and the Shanghai Textile Factory in Japan was also divided into the first factory, the second factory, the third factory, and the fourth factory.

Although Yan Shao prefers to gather everyone in one factory area, he also knows how difficult it is to manage 30,000 or 40,000 people piled together. Even for the sake of the people below, the factory must be divided into one, two, three, four, five...

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After the bidding meeting, Yan Shao only stayed in Shanghai for three or four days, and then took Elano and them back to Wuhu by boat.

However, before leaving, he left a few people behind and asked them to arrange for ships to transport the Dachun Yarn Mill and other machines in the cotton mill back to Wuhu first. As for those who are still in Japan, they will talk about it slowly, and there is no hurry to do it anyway.

Yan Shao's trip to Shanghai was very fruitful, not only purchased 170,000 old spindles and 80,000 new spindles from others at one time, but also obtained nearly 5,000 looms.

In addition, there are machinery and equipment required for garment mills, flour mills, and safety razor factories.

In fact, Yan Shao also planned to build a steel mill in Ma'anshan, but after thinking about it, he had to put this plan on hold for the time being.

Now Yan Shao is not short of funds, if he wants to build a steel mill, let alone one, even ten will be no problem. But now the stall is too big, and the more than 200,000 spindles alone are no longer enough to find enough management manpower. The garment factory and the flour mill are purely tightly pulled out, and the safety razor is relatively simple, and it can be transferred directly from the United States, which is also the reason why Yan Shao will still build a razor factory in the case of insufficient manpower—————— anyway, he lacks everything now, but he is not short of money...

The original foundation of Yushi Group, coupled with the garment factory and flour mill, is already the limit for Yan Shao, if he is getting a steel mill out, Yan Shao really doesn't know where to change the manpower from the road...

After Yan Shao returned to Wuhu, the price of cotton textiles in the Yangtze River basin also began to gradually increase.

The Wuhu Textile Factory, which had been almost suspended, was finally able to restart, and at this time, in addition to the original more than 40,000 spindles, 20,000 have been installed and officially put into production, and the remaining 20,000 have been almost installed, but there are still steps such as commissioning.

"Next, let's hang a new sign here..."

After returning to Wuhu, Yan Shao, who was inspecting the cotton textile factory, looked at the cotton textile factory that was not far from being completely completed, and a smile appeared on his face.

Behind him, Ding Mao, Ke Fu and the others were not surprised, obviously they had heard about the construction of a branch factory.

"By the way, has anything else happened during my absence?"

"Yes..." walked out of the crowd, and Li Liang, who had been left in Wuhu by Yan Shao, walked up. Boss, the matter of cotton is already in sight..."

"Really?" Hearing him say this, Yan Shao was also overjoyed.

In this regard, Li Liang just nodded seriously, in fact, this is also the news that has just come back.

"Okay, take me to see..."After receiving an affirmative reply, Yan Shao first said hello to the others, and then dragged Li Liang's arm and walked in the direction of the office building.

On the way to the office building, Li Liang was also talking to him about cotton.

"Originally, in order to open up a new raw material production area, we once set aside a piece of land in the Jianghuai Plain to build more than 10 trial bases. And spent a lot of money, from the United States to buy about 100 varieties of fine staple cotton, not long ago, these fine staple cotton seeds finally began to harvest, the people over there in the trial base after some selection, the most found the most suitable for the Jianghuai Plain land, climate of the most suitable variety..."

By the time Li Liang finished speaking, the two had already walked into the office building.

After leading Yan Shao into his office, Li Liang took out a ball of cotton from a glass cabinet. "This is the sample sent by the trial planting base not long ago, it was originally called No. 9 cotton, because it ranked ninth among more than 100 kinds of fine lint cotton, but after it successfully stood out, the trial planting base has changed its name to No. 1 cotton..."

"Formalism..."After pursing his lips and expressing his disdain, Yan Shao touched the cotton in Li Liang's hand with his hand. Then I'll leave it all to you in the future, No. 1 cotton..."

There are four main types of cotton, namely grass cotton, Asian cotton, upland cotton and island cotton.

Among them, grass cotton, also known as African cotton, is native to southern Africa, distributed in Asia and Africa, due to the stubby fiber, commercially also known as coarse wool cotton, in later generations has almost extinct.

After that, there is Asian cotton, which was widely cultivated in China before the full promotion of upland cotton, and was commercially known as coarse cotton due to its stubby fiber. Because it is not suitable for medium-count yarn spinning, and the output is low, it was later replaced by upland cotton in the 50s, and the chicken foot cotton purchased by Yan Shao from Nantong in the past belongs to Asian cotton.

In Asian cotton, chicken foot cotton obviously belongs to the best one, but this kind of cotton is only suitable for medium and coarse yarns below 21 inches, which is also a reason why 10 and 12 products have been mainly used in the early days of Dasheng.

After that, upland cotton, that is, the so-called fine staple cotton, in fact, seriously speaking, island cotton is better than upland cotton in terms of fiber length, fineness and strength. Island cotton is also called long-staple cotton, is an important raw material for spinning high-grade and special cotton textiles, and is also the key material for spinning high-count yarn, high-end yarn-dyed, home textiles and other top products and high value-added textiles and clothing without exception need to use long-staple cotton as the main raw material of yarn, but also for this reason, the value of this cotton is also the highest among all cotton.

But the growing conditions of this kind of cotton are relatively special, only Xinjiang can meet the planting conditions in China, which is why Yan Shaowei chose upland cotton instead of island cotton—————— not that he doesn't want to, but Anhui can't grow this kind of cotton at all... (To be continued......)