The idea of setting up a flour mill, in fact, Yan Shao has been thinking about it for a long time.

The reason is also very simple, the investment is small, and the benefit is large.

Zhang Jian's Daxing Machine Noodle Grinding Factory, the total investment is only more than 20,000 taels, such a small amount of money is not a lot for Yan Shao, and it is not even one-third of the purchase price of the gun. And you can also use the excess power of the textile mill to grind flour like Zhang Jian.

As for profit? China's first machine flour mill, Fufeng Flour Mill, was founded in Shanghai in 1898 by Sun Duosen. The factory had lost money due to poor management in the year of its opening, but changed its business policy the following year, turned losses into profits, and made profits year after year. By the time of the First World War, the factory's profitability reached its peak, reaching 56.2% in 1918.

Clothing, food, housing and transportation, if the textile factory is equivalent to 'clothing', then the flour mill is equivalent to 'food'...

China has a population of 400 million, and it is difficult to lose money if we focus on these two aspects.

The reason why Yan Shao has not moved until now is mainly because of lack of manpower.

The more than a dozen people who came back from the United States with him have now been placed in the management of the factory, after all, they have been together for so long, and these people can be regarded as their own people.

However, even so, most of the managers in the textile mills and ash factories are still recruited from outside. Competence aside, at least in terms of loyalty, there is certainly no need to think about it. And the most important thing at the moment is the textile factory, he doesn't want to follow in Zhang Jian's footsteps.

Before his death, Dasheng No. 1 Factory only had more than 700,000 taels of advances for enterprises and public welfare undertakings, and more than 1.12 million taels of loans to other enterprises, and the names occupied by other enterprises in the past (excluding receivables from normal transactions) were also close to this figure, and the total of the three exceeded 45% of the total working capital.

At the same time, official profits, bonuses and surplus profits account for a large proportion of Dasheng's profits, while provident fund and depreciation are very low. For a long time, the accumulation fund of the profitable Dasheng No. 1 and No. 2 factories has only been more than 1.2 million taels, which is only equivalent to 1/3 of the official profit and 1/9 of the bonus profit, of which 600,000 taels are also lent to charity and public welfare undertakings in the name of Zhang Jian.

(Dasheng Yarn Factory has always made a full profit, first of all, the official profit, the agreement is 8%, even during the preparation period, the stock collection is facing aground, still use the share capital to pay the official profit every year, and it is not less paid when it is very difficult.) At the beginning of the start-up, it was still the case to sell raw cotton to maintain production. In the future, the annual profit and loss settlement will be calculated after the official profit is mentioned first. ）

In addition, it is the relationship of the system, especially in his later years, the system is in vain, and the Zhang brothers can make a certain enterprise and a salt reclamation company owe hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Dasheng office in Shanghai, including the Linggong Society and the Embroidery and Weaving Bureau, and the overdraft in Zhang Jian's personal name is more than 1 million taels (according to Zhang Jian, it is 8.9 million taels).

Although many people like to say that the system is used to break, this is too much, and it is precisely because of these reasons that the failure of Dasheng is also something that needs to be kept in mind.

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"Boss? How's it going? Seeing Yan Shao walking out of the governor's yamen, Huang Hao and the others hurriedly stepped up.

"The gun license has been completed, and now we are just waiting for the German side to send the gun over..." Speaking of the issue of guns, Yan Shao also felt a little worried. After he returned from Shanghai, he had just boarded the Wuhu dock when he received a telegram from Ernst.

On the telegram, Ernst told Yan Shao that more than 500 rifles had been loaded onto the ship and shipped to China along with some other goods.

This is a good thing, but the voyage from Germany to China is not too long, and if you add up the time to replenish the supplies on the way, it will take about a month to reach China.

In other words, in this month's time, the newly formed patrol team may be patrolling empty-handed—————— which is not right, and it can also use sticks to scare people or something.

"Waiting for the German ship to arrive? Then it's going to take a month..."Hearing Yan Shao say this, Huang Hao complained in a low voice on the side.

Seeing that Huang Hao had started, several young men on the side also echoed. "Yes, boss, doesn't this mean that we will be empty-handed this month..."

Hearing everyone's complaints, Yan Shao smiled bitterly. "You say that, I can't help it, I can't buy a batch of guns for you for this month, even if I have more money, I can't be so bad..."

More than 500 rifles, even if they are made in Hanyang, it costs more than 20,000 silver dollars, which is enough money to build a flour mill. In order to put a flour mill into it in such a month, even if Yan Shao has money, he will feel distressed, not to mention that there are not many places to use money now.

"This..."Seeing that Yan Shao also looked helpless, Huang Hao leaned over and said secretly. Actually, boss, I've got an idea..."

"Oh?" Yan Shao was a little curious. "If you have a way, just say, don't sell it to me."

"Then I'll say it..."Glaring at a few people pushing him behind, Huang Hao squirmed. Actually, a few of us discussed it, and it is definitely not possible to buy it, but we can borrow it..."

"Borrow?" Yan Shao was stunned, but Huang Hao's words gave him some inspiration.

Yes, you can't buy it, because it's not cost-effective, but it's okay to borrow. Of course, this borrowing is not without a price, but even then it is much better than buying, and it is indeed not the same thing to have more than 300 people waiting.

In fact, this idea was also Huang Hao and the others thought about it for a long time before they came up with it, Yan Shao wanted to form a patrol team, of course they agreed with this. But the patrol team didn't have a guy to eat, I'm afraid this is a little too unusual, so after thinking about it for a long time, Huang Hao and the others came up with such a way.

Borrow.

As an extremely important place in Anhui, Wuhu has a total of three armed forces.

The first is the Wucai battalion, in the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1645), a member of the staff general, and in the eleventh year of Shunzhi (1654), a guerrilla member, a garrison member, a thousand general members, and a general general member, this army was not ordered to be abolished until the Qing Xuantong three years (1911).

The second is the Yangtze River Sailor Battalion, in 1864 the Qing Yangtze River patrol made Peng Yulin play the Qing Dynasty Imperial Court to add the Yangtze River Sailor in Wuhu, when Tu up and down to set up the standard (under the jurisdiction of the Admiral), the ancient camp was called Wuhu Battalion. Stationed in Wuhu and controlling the rivers of Fanchang and Wuwei counties, there are a total of 362 officers and soldiers. In the twenty-first year of Guangxu (1895), the number was reduced to 304. The Wuhu battalion is divided into three outposts and twenty teams. It is divided into 45 kilometers of river flooding. In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), the whole battalion was abolished and reorganized into a marine police.

The other is the security battalion, which was in the 19th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1893), and the merchants raised funds to ask the Daoxian of southern Anhui to set up a security battalion, recruiting 200 soldiers, and the Daoxian appointed the commander (the commander of the regiment under the command of a standard). However, in the 28th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1902), the guard battalion was abolished, and most of the members were reorganized into police.

If you want to borrow guns, you can borrow them directly from these three teams.

Anyway, these troops may not be able to shoot a few times a year, and it is perfectly fine to borrow for a month or two.

Thinking of this, Yan Shao patted Huang Hao's shoulder. "You kid, you haven't eaten so much in vain...", he turned around and walked towards the governor's yamen, he is not familiar with these three troops, it is better to let Chengxun come forward for this kind of thing to borrow a gun, anyway, he has already sent a lot of things to Chengxun, it is not good for him not to even do anything, right?

After all, it was the governor's yamen, although Yan Shao had just come out, but the porter was not good enough to put Yan Shao in directly, so while asking Yan Shao to wait a little, the porter also hurriedly went in to inform him.

In the study, Chengxun, who was about to put the check away, felt a little strange when he heard that Yan Shao was back, but he still asked Yan Shao to bring him over.

"Sir is back, but is there anything wrong?" Chengxun, who had already put the check away, sat behind the bookcase and looked at Yan Shao with some strange eyes.

"That's the case, about the gun, I have something I want to trouble the adult..."Saying that, Yan Shao told Chengxun about borrowing a gun, in his opinion, this matter is not a big deal, anyway, the officialdom in the late Qing Dynasty was very corrupt, as long as the silver is enough, let alone borrowing a gun, even if you borrow someone's head, maybe someone is willing...

However, when he heard Yan Shao say that he wanted to borrow a gun, Chengxun laughed. "Borrow guns, the Navy Battalion adds up to more than 300 people, I lend you all the guns, what do they use..."

"This..."Although I think it doesn't matter if the people in the Sailor Camp have guns or not, it's not good to say this in front of Chengxun, but just when Yan Shao was about to persuade Chengxun, or simply use the money, Chengxun took out a book from the side.

"Speaking of which, your luck is really good, the imperial court has just issued an order, let us select Anhui people from the Jingjian and Wuwei armies of the Anhui army to be organized into the new army, and the Hakka people are reorganized into patrol battalions. Among them, the patrol battalion is planned to be stationed in Wuhu, four battalions, each battalion has three hundred and one people, and the matter is planned to be done after a while, but the equipment has already been delivered..."Chengxun looked at Yan Shao and smiled. "If you want to use it, I can approve a slip and ask the people over there in Wuhu to hand over the gun to you directly, and when the people from the patrol battalion come, you can hand over the gun to them..."

Chengxun himself is quite satisfied with this method, to be honest, he received so many benefits from Yan Shao but didn't do anything for Yan Shao, Chengxun also felt a little embarrassed. Now that he has such an opportunity, he naturally wants to repay Yan Shao.

As for the patrol battalion? The order of the imperial court began in 1905, but it was not a day or two that Seungxun's gang was inefficient, so until now, things have not been done, and I am afraid it will take a while for the patrol battalion to be formed...

"In this way, I can be regarded as doing something..."Thinking a little beautifully in his heart, Chengxun didn't notice that Yan Shao's face suddenly changed after hearing the name of the patrol battalion.

The patrol battalion, although the patrol battalion has always been civilized with combat effectiveness in later generations, but after all, it is more than a thousand people. Originally, there was only one Wucai battalion and one Yangtze River Sailor battalion on the ground in Wuhu, and in Yan Shao's opinion, it was extremely easy to deal with it, but now there is an additional patrol battalion...

"It seems that things have to be planned a little more..."Thinking that from now on, more than a thousand people will be stationed next to his home, Yan Shao frowned slightly.

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