After the former governor of Anhui hung up, he was succeeded by Feng Xu, the original political envoy of Anhui, a thin old man in his fifties.

Yan Shao had dealt with him when he was still a political envoy, and they had some friendship with each other, so Feng Xu didn't do anything to embarrass Yan Shao after executing Xu Xilin. On the contrary, after writing a couplet for Xu Xilin, he personally went to Dangtu and Xiangshan to see the paved road and the iron factory under construction.

(After the execution of Xu Xilin, Feng Xu publicly inscribed a couplet for him, which was written in the Daguan Pavilion in Anqing.) "The coming day is a great disaster, and there are hundreds of gatherings for this; The heroic spirit is not ignorant, and Jianzi is foolish. Although Xu Xilin is a traitor now, he will be a martyr in the future, standing in front of Xu's tomb, thinking about the death of the court and the victory of the revolution, his heart is at a loss, and he has mixed feelings; Xialian means to openly praise Xu Xilin (Heroic Soul is not ignorant), hoping that Xu's heroic soul will forgive himself for his execution, but he is just acting on orders and doing his best for the Qing court. ）

After the New Year, the company's key executives also gathered in the office building. Since it was still winter, the meeting was not held on the rooftop, but in the conference room of the building.

Sitting in the main seat, Yan Shao took a copy of Elaino's prepared speech and gave a speech, and after recounting the achievements of the past year, Li Liang soon stood up from his position.

"In the past year, the company's profit has been quite good, and the net profit of the cotton textile mill has reached more than one million yuan, although such as the ash factory and the shipping company have not made a profit due to special circumstances. However, after counting the flour mill and so on, the company still made a total profit of more than 2 million yuan in the past year..."Although Li Liang and the others have decided to join the revolution, they are also businessmen after all. In addition, the company has a lot to do with the revolution itself, so it is natural to make a summary after the New Year has passed.

Hearing this, everyone, including Li Liang, glanced at Yan Shao.

As Li Liang said, the company's profitability is indeed good, and the income of more than 2 million yuan is already higher than that of all Chinese businessmen in this period—————— of course, this is also due to the extremely large cotton textile factory, most of the income of more than 2 million yuan is brought by the cotton textile factory that is the best in China.

More than 2 million yuan in income. If other entrepreneurs hear such a large sum of money, I am afraid they will show envy. But compared to revenue, the whole company is probably more expensive than expenses.

Don't mention anything else. The more than 2 million yuan earned today has not even been earned back from the investment in the first factory, let alone the 2345 factory. In particular, the investment in the iron factory is something that does not even have a shadow.

In addition, Yan Shao transferred most of his income to the provident fund for the expansion of the factory. Now the entire company is supported by Yan Shao's own family property. If that day Yan Shao becomes nothing. I'm afraid that the company will also have to make a big mistake with it, which is also the main reason why the company and outside the company have no opinion on Yan Shao's private ownership of the entire company.

After glancing at Yan Shao, he coughed lightly, and Li Liang continued.

"In addition, because the more than 500,000 mu of cotton we have cultivated in the Jianghuai Plain has been harvested, we no longer need to rely on foreign imports for raw materials from now on. Some of the remaining cotton, according to the boss's wishes, was also sold to the Dasheng Yarn Factory in Nantong and some yarn factories in Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places, because of the excellent quality of the cotton, and the price was lower than that of the American cotton that crossed the ocean. So these cottons are very popular and also bring a certain amount of income to the company..."

"But there's one more thing to report now. Although the cotton we grow in the Jianghuai Plain is enough to meet the existing five textile mills, if the scale of the textile mills continues to expand, I am afraid that we will soon encounter a shortage of raw materials again..."

Li Liang had already told Yan Shao about this situation before the meeting, so Yan Shao was not surprised, and after Li Liang finished speaking, he only paused and spoke. "Regarding this, I plan to continue to expand the land area and add 500,000 mu to the original more than 500,000 mu, so that at least in a few years, there is no need to worry about the supply of raw materials..."

Since the fifth textile mill was officially put into production, the number of spindles owned by Yushi Group has reached more than 400,000, which is even more than the number of spindles owned by all Chinese businessmen.

If Yan Shao only intends to maintain this scale, then the existing more than 500,000 mu of land will be enough. However, under the circumstance that the annual profits of the textile mill are used to expand the scale, it will not be long before the more than 500,000 acres of cotton will be unusable, so expanding the planting area has become an inevitable thing...

Hearing Yan Shao's words, Li Liang nodded slightly, and then continued to the next topic.

"In addition to the textile mill, the flour mill has now become the second largest source of profit for our company, although the profit of more than 300,000 yuan per Chinese New Year's Eve is somewhat insignificant compared with the textile mill, but considering the size of the flour mill, this profitability is already quite high, so after some consideration, we hope to continue to expand the scale of the flour mill..."

Machine grinding is a very profitable industry, although it can't be compared with the textile industry, but it is quite good. If Yan Shao's money was a little less, perhaps the flour mill would be more suitable for Yan Shao than the cotton textile industry—————— at least in this era, the competition of machine flour grinding is much lower than that of the cotton textile industry.

Now the company's profits are basically concentrated in the cotton textile industry, so Li Liang's words are actually hoping that Yan Shao can use his own private funds to expand the flour mill, and after a little consideration, Yan Shao did not veto.

Although Yan Shao has enough money now, this amount is only for him as a 'businessman', and when he evolves from the identity of a 'businessman' to a 'warlord' in a province, this money will become a little insufficient.

Of course, if he was willingly degenerate, like other warlords of his time, then naturally there would be no need to think about it, but it is a pity that he will not ...

So the more money-making industries Yan Shao has, the better...

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After the end of the textile mill and the flour mill, the next thing is two industries that are not profitable, the shipping company and the ash mill...

Of course, this lack of profit is only relative, and it cannot be said that it is not profitable, it can only be said that it does not bring exact profits. In fact, these two branches still saved a lot of money for the group.

Not to mention, the Jianghuai Plain is in the north of the Yangtze River, and Wuhu is in the south of the Yangtze River.

And the spun cotton textiles, if there is no ship, how can they be transported to other provinces?

So while it didn't bring in a definite profit, the shipping savings alone weren't a small amount.

The same is true of the ash factory, which has become the largest in China after several expansions. It's just that because the Yushi Group is expanding its scale almost every second, almost all the goods of this ash factory are consumed internally by the group itself, especially after the continuous launch of the two plans of highways and new towns, and it is not necessary to consider external sales or anything.

However, it is precisely because of the plan of the new city that Li Liang also put forward a proposal to continue to expand the scale at the meeting.

Even if there are roads, there are many roads to be built in addition to the one that reaches Xiangshan, but it is not difficult to meet these projects with the current output of the ash plant.

The real difficulty is still Yan Shao's plan for a 'new city', to build a new city that can accommodate more than 100,000 people, such a large plan is obviously not enough for the existing ash plant, so it is imperative to expand the scale of the ash plant.

Yan Shao was also well aware of this, so he did not reject the proposal, but invested more than one million yuan again to expand the scale of the ash factory.

In addition, there are razor factories and garment factories, although the former is running well, but razors are a new thing in China after all, and not every family has spare money to buy a special razor, so the profitability of the razor factory is obviously not as good as that of the headquarters in the United States.

Compared with the situation of the garment factory, the situation is relatively good, because the clothes designed by Eleno are very novel, and are welcomed by many students and young ladies in school, and even the wives and ladies of some consuls in China, especially some time ago, the clothing produced by the garment factory was even sold across the sea to the United States and Europe, which also brought a lot of profit to the company...

When Li Liang talked about the garment factory, although Elano and Caterina didn't react, the smugness on their faces couldn't be hidden...

And after all of the above is discussed, the next step is the highlight of the whole summary meeting.

Roads, ironworks...

"The news just came that although the construction of the road could not be completed before the arrival of the new year, it took those workers a few days to completely connect the road, and now the efficiency of the transport fleet from Dangtu to Xiangshan has increased by at least seven or eight times..."

"Thanks to the construction of roads, the construction speed of the iron plant has also been greatly improved, according to Victor's group of Germans, some of the smelting equipment of the iron plant will probably be put into production by June this year, when the output of the Hanyang Iron Works is counted, maybe China's steel output can reach the same level as Japan, at least not too far behind........."