Looking at the woman sitting in front of him with an elegant temperament, Cecil felt a little regretful in his heart.

"If only this woman could be shorter..."

Even though they had met many times, Cecil was still thrilled when he saw Elanon. At the same time, I also feel that the title of 'Flower of Marseille' is absolutely worthy of the name, and if there is any shortcoming in her, it is too high...

At this time, the average height in Europe and the United States was about 170cm, and Cecil's height was relatively tall, reaching 173cm, which was already a little higher than the average. However, both Elano and Caterina are both 178cm tall, even in the future they are standard supermodel figures, and they can reach 180cm when they wear ordinary shoes, and if they wear high heels, they will not be much inferior to Yan Shaobi who is 185cm.

In this way, both Elaline and Caterina are more than half a head taller than Cecil, which is by no means something that every man can bear, and every time he thinks of this, Cecil feels very regretful.

"If I can be a few centimeters shorter, even if it is the same height as me, I'm afraid I will be desperate to pursue the woman in front of me, but it's a pity...... But then again, even if I try my best to pursue it, I'm afraid the other party may not be tempted..."Since he can become the manager of Jardine Matheson, Cecil is at least somewhat self-aware.

First of all, since the two of them can follow Yan Shao all the way from France to China, it means that race is nothing to them. And putting aside the race, considering Yan Shao's current identity, status and wealth, he doesn't feel that he has anything more attractive to the two than Yan Shao. On the contrary, there are many more disadvantages, such as appearance, age, wealth, etc.

So after a long sigh in his heart, Cecil also shifted the topic to business.

"This time, your group plans to set up two cotton textile factories in Anqing. Is that right? ”

"That's right," nodded elegantly, and Elaline cut her hair and put her hands on her knees. At present, the opinion within the group is to make Anqing the next major development area of the group, so now everything in Wuhu is just slowly developing while maintaining the status quo, and everything else is transferred to Anqing..."

In fact, what Elino did not tell Cecil was that in the future, with the exception of the cotton textile industry, the group would no longer be involved in light industry, but intended to transfer everything to heavy industry. For example, steel manufacturing, automobiles and shipbuilding. In addition, there are more fashionable airplanes and so on...

As for the reason, Yan Shao has already told Elaline. The first is profit-making, and the profitability of industries such as cotton textile mills is certainly very high. But the number of factories that have reached almost 100,000 is only one-tenth of the annual profit of the automobile factory, and the number of people in the automobile factory is not even one-tenth of that of the cotton textile factory...

Therefore, the future development direction of the group should focus on these high-profit industries.

Moreover, a country's economy cannot be controlled by a single bloc. That could easily deform the economy of the whole country. So in light industry. For example, cotton textiles, flour mills, and ash and other industry groups that can be raised by the private sector should gradually withdraw and invest in places that are out of the reach of ordinary businessmen, such as steel manufacturing, automobile industry, and shipbuilding.

Elaline understands this, after all, their purpose is to make the country strong, not just to mess up the country's economy for their own sake. What's more, with their current net worth, the profits of millions and tens of millions are completely unnoticed by them.

Therefore, the direction of the development of the group has been determined a long time ago, that is, similar to the steel manufacturing industry, the automobile industry, the shipbuilding industry, the aircraft industry and some other high-end projects, such as the pharmaceutical industry—————— of course, the group has not yet been involved.

As for other industries. In addition to the necessary shipping, the rest was a gradual increase in cotton mills. All other industries will maintain the status quo and slowly withdraw. Then we should give these more profitable industries to private businessmen and strive to create a middle class that belongs to China, so that the development can be regarded as a healthy economy.

It's just to avoid causing turmoil within the group after the news comes out, so for the time being, only a few high-level executives in the group know about this news, and Cecil naturally can't know about it.

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Unclear that the Rainstone Group had given up light industry, Cecil nodded and looked at Elaline. "Then I don't know how much equipment your group plans to buy this time? What else is needed? ”

"It's not a lot," Elaline looked down for a moment, and then looked up after half a sound, and the action also made Cecil's eyes light up. According to the group's internal decision, we decided to order 160,000 spindles this time, and then build two more cotton textile factories in Anqing, bringing the number of cotton textile factories under the group's jurisdiction to 10..."

160,000 pieces, although it can't be compared with the business signed before, but it is also a good business in this off-season, at least some other foreign companies except Jardine Matheson will definitely rush to do it, so Cecil just laughed softly. "In this case, the number of cotton textile mills owned by your group will reach 960,000, and the largest name in the Far East may be difficult to change..."

Not only that, but after counting the number of spindles owned by other Chinese businessmen, the number of spindles owned by China's cotton textile industry can also surpass that of neighboring Japan for the first time.

It's just that China, with a population of 40,000, is comparable to Japan, which has a population of only 50 million, which is a humiliation in itself, so even if it has surpassed Japan, Yan Shao has no intention of being happy. Although Elano and Caterina are foreigners, after all, they have lived in China for six or seven years, and they have long regarded this place as their second motherland, so their attitude is actually the same as Yan Shao's.

And even if the 160,000 spindles arrived, China would have more spindles than Japan, but Yushi Group alone would already be twice as many spindles as other Chinese businessmen. This is just like the Samsung of Korea in the later generations, after removing Samsung. What else is there in South Korea.

The same is true in China now, after removing the rain stones, what else does China have?

Don't say anything about the cotton textile industry. Even the all-important steel manufacturing industry can only reach one and a half times that of Japan with rain stones, and if this were not the case, I am afraid that China's crude steel production would still be only one-seventh of Japan's...

Not knowing the complicated emotions in Elaline's heart, Cecil smiled and signed an agreement with her.

According to the agreement, Jardine Matheson will provide 160,000 spindles to Jardine Matheson within a month, and Rainstone will need to pay 2 million silver dollars to Jardine Matheson. The number will be so small, on the one hand, because Jardine Matheson has signed a lot of agreements with Yushi Group. So I gave some discounts on this matter, and on the other hand, because this time Yushi Group only ordered spindles and did not order looms, so the price will be much less.

"Good cooperation...", he stretched out his right hand and shook Cecil. Packing the agreement into a briefcase, Elaline left the office, accompanied by Ran Jinyu and several other female guards.

Cecil and Urgarte have been living in the office for a while, so sometimes people from the group usually come here to look for them.

Today, Elino is already the deputy general manager of Yushi Group, and she is the future boss. Therefore, in the office, some people within the group bowed their heads and greeted her when they saw her. This was true even for many of the local gentry.

After all, for them, Yan Shao standing behind Elano was not something they could offend. Putting aside the power that the man had, the mere fact that he had their purse bags was enough to kill.

And smart people in these years know very well that no matter what era the pillow wind is quite powerful. Many times it is better to offend a gentleman than to offend a woman, because women are usually very vindictive...

"This rain, has the boat been arranged?"

As he spoke, Elano handed the briefcase containing the agreement to Ran Jinyu.

After taking the briefcase, Ran Jinyu nodded. "It's been arranged, and now it's waiting for us at the dock, ready to go at any time..."

"That's—" nodded. Shall we go now? I will try to be back by tonight..."After saying that, Eleno and Ran Jinyu boarded the car together, after closing the door. The car started up quickly.

At this time, Anqing has returned to its usual appearance, although it is already November, but the pedestrians on the street are still dense. And because of the relationship between the military government, Anqing is two points more lively than before the liberation. In addition, there was no traffic police or anything in this era, so it took a long time for Elanor's car to drive to the dock.

Just like Ran Jinyu said, the boat to Wuhu has been prepared for a long time.

"Deputy General Manager..."

Standing in front of a steamship marked with the logo of the Rain Stone Group, the captain and several other captains bowed their heads.

"I'm sorry for you..."

"Where, please get on the boat..."

Nodding, escorted by the guards, Elano and Ran Jinyu boarded the ship.

At the same time, several guards who had already boarded the ship led several people to the cabins inside the ship, and several guards stood on the deck and outside the cabins to guard the ship.

Although this ship is its own ship, even so, these guards still do not let their guard down.

Walking into the cabin, Eleno and Ran Jinyu sat on a bed together, and then looked through the window at the undulating river outside, as well as the various ships that passed by on the river from time to time.

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Just like in the past, it only took a few hours for Elinor and Ran Jinyu to arrive in Wuhu, and there were no accidents in the whole process. After arriving in Wuhu, the Wuhu municipal government, which had long known that Elinor would come, had quickly sent a large number of people to the dock to greet them.

Since the establishment of the military government, as Yan Shao's birthplace in Anhui and an important industrial base, Wuhu has quickly been promoted from a county to a city level, and like Huizhou, Suzhou and other places, Hefei County has also been promoted.

After getting off the steamer, in order to be able to rush back to Anqing within today's time, Ileno didn't take a break first, and didn't even take a car back to the manor to have a look, he had already rushed to another place with Ran Jinyu.

Institute...

This is also the purpose of Elaino's meeting this time, and she was accompanied by Li Yin, the director of the research institute, who rushed to greet her.

“…… Is it all done? ”

After arriving at the research institute and seeing Li Yin running out of it to greet him. Elano's first question was this. And hearing her words, Li Yin didn't care about greetings and hurriedly replied.

"The optimization of the 'raindrops' and the assembly line has been completed, as have the design and upgrades of the trucks, tractors and engines. In addition, we have also made some optimizations to 'Liulan'. There are not many places for optimization, mainly to simplify some places where the structure is too complex, and at the same time to solve some problems according to the user's response..."

It seemed that Elinor was only concerned about the car this time, so Li Yin walked directly to the research building with her, while Ran Jinyu and a few guards, as well as some other researchers in the research institute, followed closely behind.

Not long after, after walking into a room on the first floor of the research building. Elaline and Ran Jinyu soon saw a brand new car...

At the same time, it is also a car that Elaline and the others are very familiar with, Liulan...

There's no way not to be familiar with it, after all, that's what they usually sit on. Even on the way this time. And after walking to the side of the car, Li Yin began to explain endlessly.

"Ever since the 'Liulan' was put into use, there have been people who have been using it, and we have improved the car based on these conditions. For example, the shock absorption system, which was originally somewhat unsatisfactory. We've optimized it. And because of the weight of the car, the speed had to be reduced, and because we upgraded the engine, the speed of the car was able to reach the same level as raindrops, which is 70 kilometers per hour, and there were many other details, such as..."

Li Yin was talking endlessly, and the others were listening intently, except for Elaino...

If it's usual. Perhaps Elaline will also devote considerable attention to the car. But today she is in a hurry to go home, and the purpose of this time is not for Liulan. Therefore, he could only interrupt Li Yindao. "Director Li, I want to know what the problem of the assembly line is?"

"Assembly line?" Suddenly interrupted, Li Yin couldn't react for a while, but he quickly remembered. "The optimization of the assembly line has been completed, and like I said, we have also optimized the raindrops..."

"So, how much more efficiency has you gained?" This is also Elano's main concern, how profitable the car is, no one in the audience knows better than her. Because of the mastery of the assembly line technology, the automobile factory can not only greatly reduce the time when producing cars, but also greatly reduce the production cost, and then calculate the labor cost that is much lower than the United States, almost every car can bring Yushi Group more than 300 to 400 US dollars of net profit.

At this time, Yushi Group was able to produce more than 13,000 cars every month, or 160,000 vehicles a year. Even at $300, it can reach more than $48 million a year, and if it is calculated at $400, it can reach more than $64 million.

Such a huge figure is obviously not comparable to the cotton textile mill's more than 4 million US dollars per year, and the automobile factory has become the most important revenue item of Yushi Group because of this relationship.

And Eleno is very clear about Yan Shao's plan for the future, that is, for the development of private industry and commerce, gradually abandon light industry. It's just that because there is no shortage of money, Yan Shao spends money lavishly, although Yan Shao doesn't need to worry about money now, but as Yan Shao's housekeeper Elaine, he needs to think a lot, and the source of money is also one of them...

And the most profitable car factory has become what she cares about the most...

"Due to optimization...", he took a deep breath and said after a moment of silence. The cost and time to produce Raindrop cars has been greatly reduced, especially the cost, which can already be reduced to $250, and even to $200 or less if our own supply of parts can be established..."

Hearing this, Elaline nodded, motioning for him to continue, and at the same time began to think about it in his heart.

The Raindrop is currently priced at $750 in North America, Europe and Japan, and $700 in the domestic market. The cost of the car is only $300 due to the large-scale use of assembly lines and low labor costs, in other words, each car has a profit of $400 to $450.

This is also the reason why the price of the car factory is $100 lower than the lowest Ford T-car in the United States, but it is more profitable than Ford.

And if the cost of raindrops can be reduced to $250 after optimization, then the group can make another $50 more profit in this area.

One 50, ten 500, 100 5000, 1000 500, 10000 50,000, 100,000 500,000, 100,000 is 5 million...

Because of this alone, the group can make an additional profit of 5 million US dollars per 100,000 vehicles, which is equivalent to more than 10 million silver dollars, which is more than the annual profit of a cotton textile mill.

"In addition, in terms of production efficiency, the current annual output of the automobile factory in Wuhu is 160,000 vehicles, but under the same conditions, if the optimized assembly line is replaced and the optimized cars are produced, then the production efficiency of the automobile factory will reach more than twice the existing one, that is, more than 340,000 vehicles, and if 10 assembly lines are put into production, this number can reach nearly 700,000..."

"You mean?"

“…… If the car factory only produces on 5 assembly lines, the car factory will produce one car per minute, that is to say, a brand new car will be driven out of the car factory every minute, and if the car factory has 10 assembly lines, then this number will be reduced by half, that is, one every half minute, 700,000 a year, equivalent to two and a half times the national car production........."