After the start of construction, Yan Shao was most worried about only one problem, that is, what if the textile factory could not make a profit in a short period of time? It doesn't take long, a few months is enough for Yan Shao, after all, now the textile factory needs more than 10,000 pieces of cotton a day to buy cotton from Nantong alone, and it is 300,000 or 400,000 a month. And as the size of the textile mill expands, this amount will increase exponentially.

Fortunately, what Yan Shao feared did not happen, and the factory made a small profit in the first month of operation. Not much, but it's a good sign.

This is also related to the strategy formulated by Yan Shao, which is to focus on the local market in Anhui while not empty, taking into account the Nantong market. After spinning the cotton purchased from Nantong into cotton yarn, while chartering a boat to buy cotton in Nantong, the spun cotton yarn is brought on, so that the transportation cost can also be reduced a lot...

The climate and soil in Nantong are suitable for the growth of cotton, and there has always been a saying that "it is better to grow cotton and sell it for money than to plant rice and sell salt". Because of its proximity to the raw material production area, Dasheng can receive the best quality cotton locally at a discounted price.

In addition, Nantong is also famous for Guanzhuang cloth (also called Tongzhou cloth), this kind of hand-woven cloth is strong, durable, cold-proof, and popular with Northeast people, but weaving this cloth requires a large number of machine yarn that is more suitable than hand-spinning.

Zhang Jian's Dasheng Yarn Factory buys cotton from the local area, spins it into machine yarn and sells it to local weavers, and then weaves Guanzhuang cloth from the weavers and sells it to the Northeast. In other words, Dasheng's products can be digested on the spot, without exporting, so Dasheng products almost do not need to consider the external development of the market, to meet the local market is enough for it to be busy, which is Zhang Jian insisted on more than 20 years of 'local sales' strategy—————— of course, this has advantages and disadvantages at the same time, the disadvantage is that it has not been able to establish an external market, into a competitive state, once there is a problem in the local market, it will cause a crisis, which is also the reason for the problem of Dasheng later.

At that time, the cotton yarn produced by Dasheng Yarn Factory could only meet half of the needs of local weavers, which was also the reason why the yarn factory had been expanding since then, so the cotton yarn of Wuhu Textile Factory did not need to worry about sales at all. Even if the distance is higher than that of Dasheng in terms of transportation costs, these cotton yarns can still bring high profits. Moreover, wages in Nantong are lower than in Shanghai, and wages in Wuhu are lower than in Nantong, which can just make up for the problems caused by transportation costs.

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"I said..."Seeing that Elano and Caterina had to discuss for a long time for the style of a curtain, Yan Shao felt a little helpless. Can't you do anything else..."

Recently, the two of them and some hired maids have been discussing the decoration of the house. Originally, to discuss this kind of issue, in Yan Shao's opinion, no matter how big the house is, more than a month is enough.

Who knows that sometimes two people can argue for days even over the style of curtains, but as a result, months have passed, and they have only finished a few important places such as the bedroom and living room.

Hearing Yan Shao's words, Caterina waved her hand without looking back. "Alright, alright, you can go about your business...", he continued to discuss the style of the curtains with Elaline, who simply acted as if he didn't exist.

This also made Yan Shao depressed, in his opinion, it was okay for Elaline to be keen on these things, but Caterina was actually the same...

"This obviously doesn't match your setting!"

Yan Shao wanted to remind Caterina so loudly, but thinking about it, the result of doing so was likely to be a violent beating, and he could only choose to leave the manor in despair.

Looking back at the house that obviously belonged to him, Yan Shao sighed again.

He didn't understand how women were interested in this kind of thing.

Not to mention that Yan Shao was strange there, how could a woman even study a curtain for so long.

When they learned that the cotton yarn of the Wuhu Textile Factory had begun to be sold in Nantong, several shareholders of the Dasheng Yarn Factory were also a little flustered, but later they found out that it was just a false alarm.

After the start of the textile mill, most of the cotton yarn was sold in the Wuhu area, and only a small part of the cotton yarn arrived in Nantong on the cargo ship that purchased cotton. At that time, the demand for cotton yarn in Nantong was very large, even if the Dasheng Yarn Factory was running at full capacity, it could only meet half of the full horsepower, and the Wuhu Textile Factory at this time only opened 20,000 spindles, and the remaining 60,000 were still being installed, and the output of 20,000 spindles, and it was only a small part, which could not threaten the Dasheng Yarn Factory at all.

After learning about Dasheng Yarn Factory's concerns in this regard, Yan Shao also wrote a handwritten letter to Zhang Jian——————Well, it should be said that he dictated it, and then asked someone else to write it on his behalf.

No way, as a guy who has turned off the computer, his pen is almost like a dog crawling in the original era. In such an era of traditional characters, there is no problem for him to recognize words, and if he writes...

He was afraid that the letter would make Zhang Jian, an old man from a top background, couldn't help but tear up the letter...

The content of the letter is actually very simple, that is, it said nonsense such as revitalizing national industry. The rest is simpler, just to simply say that I have no interest in the Nantong market, and I just don't want to waste the ship money if I will bring some goods over, and I hope that the people in Dasheng don't mind Yunyun...

This is indeed the truth in Yan Shao's heart, although Dasheng Yarn Factory can be brilliant, it is entirely because of the relationship in Nantong, but he is really not interested in this kind of market that has saturated half of the market. After the letter is written, will the people of Dasheng believe that he doesn't know the way, anyway, he doesn't mind, even if they don't believe it, it's nothing, he doesn't believe that the people of Dasheng will give up the Nantong market and run to Anhui to compete with him...

"However, it is never a good thing to buy cotton from Nantong all the time..."

Ke Fu, who was in charge of production and worker management at the company's meeting, said softly, this guy is one of the five people introduced by Lu Yuanding.

"There's no way around it," the other member of management shook his head. Although Anhui also produces cotton, most of it is local cotton (Asian cotton), the quality is poor, it is not usable at all, if it were not for this, we would not have gone to Nantong to buy cotton..."

Just like the man just said, seriously speaking, Nantong's chicken foot cotton is the best variety of cotton in Chinese mainland. After the Japanese went to China to open a spinning mill, they would go to Nantong to buy cotton because 'Japan's domestic cotton fiber is short and not suitable for mechanical weaving, and the price of printed cotton and American cotton is too high', and 'the best flowers are the most suitable for use'...

This is also for what Yan Shao will go to Nantong to buy cotton, if Nantong's chicken foot cotton can still be used, then Anhui's native cotton can not be used like Japanese cotton, but in the final analysis, the quality of upland cotton is better, so later Asian cotton is almost extinct, and the output only accounts for about 4% of the total cotton output in the world, and the planting area is not even 2%, and most of them are in countries like India.

"Then, can we buy a piece of land in Anhui and grow upland cotton by ourselves..."Holding his chin with his right hand, Yan Shao said after thinking about it. In Yan Shao's memory, the Jianghuai Plain itself is one of China's important cotton-producing areas, and if cotton can be planted on a large scale on the Jianghuai Plain, there will be no need to worry about raw materials in the future.

This was indeed a good idea, but after hearing Yan Shao say this, the others looked at each other, and after half a while, Ke Fu spoke.

"There is no problem in buying land, the key is which upland cotton should be chosen, after all, upland cotton comes from the Americas, if it is not suitable for water and soil..."

Rubbing his fingers lightly, Yan Shao nodded approvingly.

It is precisely because he came from more than 100 years later that he understands how serious the problem of adaptation is, whether it is now or later in China, it is because of the rigidity of everything, and he has not thought about whether it is suitable for the local complex situation to cause such a big problem...

"If you really have to try cotton seeds one by one, then things will be a bit troublesome..."

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