When winter comes, pedestrians have to wear thick clothes when they go out, but in the newly built Wuhu textile factory, everything presents a fiery atmosphere.

In the factory, thousands of men with strong physiques are busy building factories little by little. And in a temporary shed outside the factory gate, there was also a long queue of many people who signed up...

After returning from Shanghai, in order to complete the construction of the factory as soon as possible, Yan Shao recruited several hundred people on the basis of the original few hundred people, making the total number of workers reach more than 1,000 people.

However, men were not suitable for working in textile factories, so Yan Shao had people set up a temporary shed outside the gate to recruit some female workers from Wuhu.

In the past, it was not easy to hire female workers, just like when Zhang Jian founded the Dasheng Yarn Factory. At that time, there were rumors circulating in the countryside that "the factory would use a chimney for boys and girls, and female workers would have their breasts cut off by foreign devils", so there were not many female and child laborers entering the factory, and the factory had to recruit some skilled female workers from Shanghai and other southern Jiangsu areas.

But now this kind of rumor has almost been eliminated, not to mention that Wuhu itself is not a remote place, coupled with the chaos of the current situation, it is not easy to find a regular job, so not long after the recruitment notice was posted, there was a long queue outside the factory.

"Next..."After signing a female worker, Li Long shook his somewhat sore neck.

Now Yan Shao has not many people who can use it, so after finishing the affairs of the warehouse, he had to take a few brothers to do the job of recruiting workers.

"I'm so tired...", yawning, Li Long prepared to receive the next person.

At this time, Yan Shao suddenly walked in from outside. "How's it going..."Greeting Huang Hao on the side, Yan Shao said to Li Longdao, and looked at the roster from the table.

"More than 300 people have already been recruited, and there are still more than 700 people left before you set a thousand people..."Seeing Yan Shao come in, Li Long quickly got up from his seat and replied.

There are more than 20,000 spindles in the first batch, plus more than 300 looms, and if you count them according to the two shifts of day and night, it will also take more than 1,000 people. This time, Yan Shao bought a total of 80,000 spindles and 2,000 looms from Shanghai, as well as 20,000 silver dollars worth of ash factory equipment, which required at least five or six thousand workers.

Among them, female workers naturally account for the majority, but some manual work, such as the transportation of raw materials and products, cannot always be done by female workers, and there are also some security work, ash factory work, it is impossible for female workers to do it, so naturally there are only more male workers...

Of course, it is unlikely that 80,000 spindles and 2,000 looms will be opened in a short period of time, so for the time being, it is enough to recruit only more than 1,000 workers.

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In the factory, Riegel and several foreign technicians were looking at the diagram while directing the workers to work. At this time, he saw Yan Shao coming over, and hurriedly put down his work and greeted him.

Riegel, one of the technicians Harrison sent to help this time, is proficient in Chinese because he has lived in China for many years. It is a technician who is responsible for the construction of the plant and the installation of machinery, and the training of workers is the work of another group of technicians.

"Boss..."

"Hmm..."Nodding, Yan Shao looked at the ginning workshop under construction.

Seeing Yan Shao looking at the ginning workshop, after instructing a few workers to move the building materials away, Riegel pointed to the factory where the shelves had been erected. "Although these workers are inexperienced, they are very diligent and smart, so the factory should be completed much sooner than expected..."

"Will it be faster than expected..."Hearing Riggle say this, Yan Shao also breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, Yan Shao only came back from Anqing not long ago, and when he was in Shanghai, for various reasons, Yamamoto did not come to the door to ask for the gift he once gave Yan Shao, he didn't want it, and Yan Shao was naturally happy to pretend to be stupid. So not long after returning to Wuhu, he sent all these gifts to the pawnshop and exchanged them for silver dollars.

There was no way, because he suddenly found out that running a textile factory really requires a lot of money, a lot of money...

If he can't find more ways to make money as soon as possible, in case the textile factory can't make a profit in a short time, I'm afraid he will fall into a situation of lack of money.

That's right, lack of money ...

After purchasing 1.5 million yuan of equipment from Jardine Matheson, Yan Shao probably had more than 2 million silver dollars left on hand. Counting the newly arrived manuscript fees, as well as some income from the United States and Mexico, even after deducting the cost of building the factory, there are still more than three million silver dollars in hand.

More than three million silver dollars, it is certainly not enough to buy a battleship, but it is still no problem to buy a cruiser.

However, after actually setting up the factory, he found that even if he had more than three million in his hand, he was still short of money...

Because it really takes a lot of money to run a textile factory, there is no big problem with the wages of workers, compared with Shanghai or Nantong, where the Dasheng yarn factory is located, the wages of local workers in Wuhu are undoubtedly relatively low, the average female worker only needs 5 cents a day, and the skilled worker only needs 8 cents...

If you have a thousand female workers, you only need 50 silver dollars a day, and when the work is fully started, it will only cost two or three hundred yuan for all the more than 5,000 workers, and of course you need to pay some salaries to those foreign technicians—————— after all, they are not here to serve the people...

Therefore, Yan Shao only needs to pay workers a salary of about 10,000 yuan a month, and it is only more than 100,000 yuan in a year. Moreover, the factory is owned by Yan Shao personally, and there is no need to consider the issue of distributing dividends to the government and shareholders like Zhang Jian.

What really gave Yan Shao a headache was the purchase of raw materials, after sending people to Nantong and other places to purchase the cotton needed after the start of construction, he found that the cotton purchase alone needed to spend more than 10,000 yuan every day, yes, it was every day, not every week or every month, it was more than 300,000 a month...

This is only the current need for 20,000 spindles after the start of construction, and after the 80,000 spindles are started at the same time, 40,000 or 50,000 yuan per day will be needed for the purchase of raw materials alone, and more than 1 million yuan a month...

More than three million sounds like a lot, but if he can't make a profit as soon as possible, I'm afraid he will soon have to taste Zhang Jian's experience of "spinning all the flowers, selling yarn and collecting flowers, and continuing to rotate"...

It was only at this time that Yan Shao more or less understood how difficult it was for Zhang Jian to start his business, and the reason why he said it was more or less because his current situation was much stronger than Zhang Jian's original, after all, Zhang Jian was not like him, who came back with millions to set up a factory.

"Fortunately, the publishing house can earn tens of thousands of pounds a year, and not long ago there was a message from the United States, Gillette and Coca-Cola are very profitable, plus some patent dividends and Mexican oil revenue, there are also nearly one million silver dollars of income every year on these items, otherwise my situation would be much more difficult..."

Thinking about the situation when Zhang Jian didn't receive a salary for several years in order to run a Dasheng yarn factory, and had to live at a friend's house when he went out to run errands, and even had to make a living by selling words because of insufficient travel expenses, Yan Shao's forehead was a little sweaty.

Like most people, many times Yan Shao would rather suffer by himself than the people around him to suffer with him, especially after spending a few months on a desert island, he is even more reluctant to suffer with Eleno and them, so he will take the box of gifts to the pawnshop to pawn—————— although it is worth forty or fifty thousand after pawning, but mosquito legs are also meat in a small way, right? At least half a year's wages for the workers are earned...