As Ke Fu said, buying land is not a difficult thing, the key is which cotton should be chosen as the main variety to grow in the future. Finding the most suitable cotton seed requires a lot of experimentation, and this is obviously a long-term problem, and it is not something that can be solved in a short time.

"It seems that this matter can only be postponed for the time being..."Thinking so, Yan Shao looked at the other people in the meeting again. So let's talk about two other things..."

The other two things in Yan Shao's mouth are the matter of the flour mill and the other is the matter of the shipping company.

Yan Shao had revealed the matter of running a flour mill to the people at the meeting, so the people present were not surprised. In fact, they have no objection to this matter, because as Yan Shao said, the flour mill itself is very profitable, the investment is very small, and the excess power of the textile mill can be used.

In fact, in the eyes of many people, running a flour mill is much more profitable than running an ash mill, and Yan Shao only planned to run a flour mill with a scale of no more than 100,000 silver dollars, so the matter of running a flour mill was quickly approved. But agreeing to a flour mill is one thing, when, and what to do.

"Of the 80,000 spindles and 2,000 looms purchased from Jardine Matheson, 60,000 and 1,700 have not yet been put into use, which means that the number of workers in the factory will at least be expanded several times over the existing scale, and the factory is seriously lacking in management.

Compared with those people recommended by Lu Yuanding, Yan Shao still trusts Li Liang and others. Therefore, after the establishment of the textile factory and the ash factory, he inserted all these people who came from the United States with him into the ash factory and the cement factory as managers, and let them learn from Kefu and others, and when they were almost done learning, let them come out and take charge of themselves.

Li Liang and the others also understood Yan Shao's thoughts, and they had been working hard, but now they are not as black as they were at the beginning...

After listening to Li Liang's words, Ke Fu and the others also nodded.

In fact, with the existing manpower alone, this textile factory, which only has more than 1,000 people, is already very tight. In some positions, even one person is used as two or three people.

In order to solve this problem, Yan Shao also sent people to hire some people from Wuhu, Anqing, Shanghai and other places. It's just that considering that the number of people in the factory in the future will be several times more than now, the human aspect is still very tight...

If the problem of people cannot be solved, even if the flour mill is opened, it is easy to have management chaos.

The most popular opinion was that it would be better to get all the people in this area first, and then set up a flour mill.

Although the entire company is Yan Shao's, even if he comes to Yiyantang, there is no problem, but Yan Shao has no experience in this after all. So after thinking about it, he nodded.

Unlike the first two questions, on the last matter, the opinions of the people are more unanimous.

This time we will talk about the shipping company, mainly because the raw materials of the current textile mills are purchased by Nantong, and through some ships on the Wuhu wharf, the cotton yarn is brought to Nantong to be sold, and then the cotton is purchased from Nantong and returned to Wuhu.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with this, but the ships that carry the cotton are all chartered.

If you have been renting a ship to transport goods, it will inevitably be a little cost-effective, so according to Yan Shao's meaning, it is simply to buy a shipping company directly and come by yourself...

Although the current attention of textile mills is mainly focused on Anhui and Nantong, but when all 80,000 spindles are put into use, the plan to open up the markets in Jiangxi, Hubei and Sichuan will be put on the schedule.

In addition, unlike the case of flour mills, if you buy a shipping company directly, you will buy it directly with the people and the ship, so you don't have to worry about the shortage of people.

So the order of the three things was quickly determined, first the shipping company, then the flour mill, and then the most time-consuming cotton planting...

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After deciding to set up a shipping company first, Yan Shao quickly set his sights on a shipping company that often cooperated with them. This company has more than a dozen steamships, and the displacement is not very large, but it is still no problem to run the Yangtze River.

After some contact, Yan Shao handed over the matter to Li Liang to do, and he tried to find a way to be lazy.

On this day, when Yan Shao was about to go to the factory to inspect it, Elaline and Katarina, who had finally finished arguing about which curtains should be used, also followed Yan Shao to the factory to have a look.

In recent months, the two of them have been in the manor, busy arranging the affairs of the manor, and have hardly been to the factory once, even if they go, they just see if Yan Shao has carried them on their backs, and after sitting in the factory for a while, they will run back to busy their affairs.

Now that the manor was almost over, they finally remembered the factory.

"It's changed..."Sitting in the carriage and looking out the window at the factories, Caterina said with some surprise.

Hearing Caterina say this, Yan Shao looked a little proud, "Of course." He gestured into the distance. Seeing that there is no there, another batch of spindles and looms and other equipment are being installed in the factory over there, and when the work over there is completed, the number of spindles in the operation of the entire textile factory will reach 40,000, and the number of workers in the factory will reach more than 2,000..."

Seeing Yan Shao's smug appearance, Caterina and Elano pursed their lips together, not bothering to pay attention to him.

Although they didn't look down on Yan Shao's smug appearance, in the face of the textile factory that had begun to take shape, the two of them were still a little amazed in their hearts.

After stepping out of the carriage, several female workers hurried past the office building.

Seeing Yan Shao and Elano walking in, the female workers hurriedly lowered their heads.

"Boss, Miss..."

There are more than 1,000 people in the audience, Yan Shao can't know everyone, and these female workers are not beautiful. Yan Shao didn't know him, and it was even more impossible for them to know Eleno, who had been busy in the manor, so the three of them just nodded.

As they walked upstairs to their offices, they seemed to notice something, and Elano and Caterina glanced back at the same time, just in time to see the women hurriedly turning around and walking out.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that the two of them suddenly turned around, Yan Shao, who was walking upstairs, felt a little strange.

After a moment of silence, Elaline and Caterina shook their heads. “…… Nothing..."

It's just that when they glanced at each other, the two of them showed puzzled looks at the same time. Just now they suddenly felt that someone was looking at them with hostile eyes, but when they turned back, they only saw a few female workers who left in a hurry, from the analysis of the situation just now, those hostile eyes obviously came from the female workers, but recently they have been staying in the manor and arranging the house, and they have not offended anyone at all.

"What the hell is going on..."Thinking back to the situation just now, the two of them wondered in their hearts.

If it weren't for the two of them feeling it at the same time, I'm afraid they would have thought that the feeling just now was just their own delusion.

But since the two of them were aware of it at the same time, the...

"It's a little weird..."

Although it was strange that the women's union was hostile to them just now, Elaline and the others did not plan to talk to Yan Shao about it here. However, not long after Yan Shao and Elaline walked into the office, they heard a knock on the door.

"Boss..." was Fu Xiuming's voice, and his voice was also very anxious.

"What's the matter?" Yan Shao, who was standing by the window, holding a person in his arms and planning to take advantage of it, was inevitably a little disappointed when he heard this voice.

However, Elinor and Caterina in his arms took the opportunity to slap away Yan Shao's strange hand that was groping on their chests, tidied up their messy clothes, and raised their voices towards the door. "Please come in..."

Although this is in the factory, who knows if Yan Shao and his two lovers will play some shameful games in the office. So although things were a little urgent, Fu Xiuming could only knock on the door outside, and now when he heard Elano and Katarina's words, he hurriedly pushed the door and walked in.

"Boss, something happened!"

"What's the matter..."Scratching his head, Yan Shao, who was dissatisfied, was a little unhappy.

"Boss, there was a female worker in the textile workshop just now..."

"What's wrong with her? Did you encounter some accidents..."Yan Shao's face was a little ugly, Elano and Caterina also frowned slightly, and the three of them thought that something had happened in the workshop, this kind of thing was not uncommon, but when the three of them were thinking about how to deal with the aftermath. Fu Xiuming's next words made them hesitate for a long time and didn't react...

"It's not..."Fu Xiuming's face was full of helplessness. There was a female worker who gave birth to a child in the workshop..."

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