Ensuring the supply of raw materials for textile mills is an extremely important thing for the current Yushi Group.

Originally, when there were only 40,000 spindles, the textile mill needed to spend 30,000 or 40,000 yuan a day to buy cotton alone, but after the Japanese wantonly raised the price in Nantong, the purchase price rose to 40,000 or 50,000 yuan, and the purchase of cotton alone cost 1.45 million yuan in a month and more than 17 million yuan in a year.

Only 40,000 spindles are already so exaggerated, so more than 330,000 spindles are fully opened, and the cotton required every day will reach a terrifying number, I am afraid that it is not enough to transport the cotton of the entire Nantong, and then looking for cotton everywhere will become the company's main work, and Yan Shao will also become the largest customer of American fine lint cotton in China...

In order to avoid this situation, Yan Shao invested more than 2 million yuan in the Jianghuai Plain and bought more than 500,000 acres of land, intending to turn it into the largest cotton planting base in China, so as to not only meet the company's demand for cotton, but also seek external sales, such as Zhang Jian's Dasheng Yarn Factory...

"But it's not easy to plant cotton on more than 500,000 acres of land..."Speaking of which, Yan Shao is also glad that the factory's machinery has not been installed, otherwise he really doesn't know where to find cotton, and he can't grab all the cotton in Nantong, so I'm afraid Zhang Jian will come to the door and fight with him.

"That's right." Nodding, Li Liang also agreed. "According to the instructions of the two young ladies, I have arranged for people to go outside to recruit hired farmers, and the situation has been very chaotic in recent years. Many people have lost their land, and we are getting good treatment on our side, so I believe there should be no problems. ”

"That's good..."Li Liang followed him for so long. What he did, Yan Shao was more relieved. "By the way, what happened to the textiles that we bought from the Japanese?"

During this period, the profit of textiles can usually reach around 30%, and even 50% in some cases, and the net profit is also around 15% to 30%.

The textiles they bought this time were all finished products sold at prices below cost. That is to say, there is no need to consider depreciation and other issues at all, as long as it can be sold, it is almost a net profit. This time, Yan Shaohua went out of more than 50 million, if you convert it. But a lot of money...

"Don't worry, boss." Li Liang smiled. "We spent a total of 53.71 million yuan on the purchase of textiles, and now all these textiles are locked in warehouses at various docks. Someone is in charge of it..."

"That's good..."Yan Shao breathed a sigh of relief. If something goes wrong with these things. Then we've been working for nothing for more than five months..."

Li Liang nodded approvingly.

If the more than 50 million textiles can really be sold, the profits earned are not impossible even if they can be exchanged for the latest dreadnought-class battleship. Such a large amount of money, with the current Wuhu Textile Factory, there is no one who can't make it in five or six or seven years...

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After confirming that the prices of textiles in several nearby provinces had risen to normal levels, Huang Hao and others, who had received permission from Yan Shao, began to gradually sell cotton yarn, cotton cloth and other textiles hoarded at wharves in various cities at prices lower than the market prices in Jiangxi, Lianghu, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other provinces.

As for Anhui, forget it ...

"After all, I can't steal business with myself, right..."

In the studio of Elano and Caterina. Yan Shao said with a smile.

Now that the Wuhu textile factory has just resumed production, it is not good to cut off its own financial route. As a result, almost all of the tens of millions of textiles purchased from the Japanese were sold to several provinces such as Jiangxi and Sichuan. Only it is not sold in Anhui, after all, rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest...

"Then what are you doing here today, say it in advance, the two of us are very busy now, if it's boring, you don't have to speak." Gently lifting the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose, Elaline said impatiently.

Some time ago, the news came that Jardine Matheson had loaded the equipment needed by the garment factory with the 80,000 spindles and other equipment, and was preparing to transport it to Wuhu.

In other words, the garment factory, which has been in preparation for nearly a year, can finally officially start construction.

Although when they were managing the textile factory for Yan Shao, the amount of money that the two of them handled every day was at least more than one million, compared to these, the garment factory was simply insignificant. But this is the first career of the two of them after all, so the two are very enthusiastic about this matter, especially after learning that the machine has been loaded, they plan to design a few sets of clothing first, so that when the machine is installed, they can directly produce according to the drawings.

Hearing Elano's words, Yan Shao smiled bitterly, and after seeing Caterina nodding there in agreement, with an expression that Yan Shao would start to drive people away if he didn't say something useful, the bitterness on Yan Shao's face became even stronger.

To be honest, he didn't know what to say about this matter, so he would talk about the incident just now, and planned to come through a step-by-step process, so that he could speak after a while.

But it's obviously impossible to do that now, because if he did, the two of them would definitely kick him out of the studio at the first moment...

Walking behind Elaine, Yan Shao reached out and gently stroked her back.

Even through the clothes, Yan Shao could imagine the smooth skin under that thin layer of fabric, because in the past two years, Yan Shao had touched it thousands of times...

"That's the case..."After a slight groan, Yan Shao said slowly. I have something I want to ask your father, but I don't know if your father will agree..."

"Do you want to ask my father for something?" Hearing Yan Shao mention his father, and there was something to ask him, Elaline was also slightly stunned.

In the past two years, Yan Shao has mentioned Bertrand only a handful of times, especially after leaving Marseille, and even if he mentions it, he usually adds words like 'old bastard', and now he suddenly brings it up and says that he wants to ask him for something, Elaline will inevitably be a little surprised.

"That's right. It's Beltron's old ...... Ahem, I mean, Mr. Bertrand. That is, your father..."Seeing that Elino's eyebrows were raised, and the steel ruler in his hand was also raised, Yan Shao hurriedly changed his name after coughing dryly.

Putting the ruler down, Elaline was a little strange. "What are you looking for my father to do, and you still need his help?" Although it was an elopement, in fact, Elinor and Bertrand did not break off contact, and basically sent a telegram to Bertrand every month. She naturally knew very well how Bertrand felt Yan Shao, and of course she knew Yan Shao's feelings about Bertrand.

Seeing Caterina drawing over there, she pricked up her ears and eavesdropped. After Yan Shaohe laughed, he took Elino's hand and walked to the side of the sofa and sat down.

"You guys go out first, I have something to talk to Miss..."Gently rubbing the soft hair in his hand, Yan Shao waved his hand to a few maids in the studio. Go out of the river first. I have something to talk to Miss..."

Originally, the maids were still busy with their own affairs. Hearing Yan Shao say this, he almost blushed and walked out of the studio quickly.

Seeing those maids like this, Elaline gave Yan Shao two blows, and even Caterina, who was pretending to draw drawings over there, threw a pencil over.

Every time Yan Shao came to find Eleno and Caterina, or simply two people looking for them together, as long as there were maids around, Yan Shao would say this to them, and then there was a half chance that things would change from 'talking' to 'lying down', and over time, these maids would know what would happen next. This is also the reason why they blush after hearing Yan Shao's words.

was treated violently every day, and Yan Shao's skills were much better. As soon as the pencil flew to his chest, it was already caught by Yan Shao with his hand. "Okay, let's come and listen together...", Yan Shao shook the pencil in his hand a little proudly.

Hearing his words, Caterina obediently walked over, but soon Yan Shao became complacent, because Caterina 'gently' stepped on his feet a few times after coming over.

Rubbing the surface of his feet, he waited until the maids closed the door before Yan Shao continued. "I believe you know the situation of the patrol team, although I have bought them the best weapons, and I have not skimped on ammunition during training, but now they are at most equivalent to militia-level troops, and those 'officers' who are responsible for commanding them also have no formal military education, if I rely on these people alone, at most, I will become a warlord in one place, and there is almost no possibility of going further..."

Hearing Yan Shao's words, Elaline and Caterina nodded at the same time.

Caterina came from a military family, and although Elano was not from a military family, her father was the commander of the Foreign Legion after all, and his knowledge of this area was by no means much shallower than that of others.

Both of them know very well that the current patrol team is equivalent to the militia at most, if there is any difference, at most it is slightly better than the militia's weapons, and it is even inferior to the patrol battalion that is not in the stream in terms of combat effectiveness, not to mention the new army that the Qing court spent a lot of money to build—————— at least the patrol battalion still has some heavy weapons...

At this time, Caterina glanced at Yan Shao with some dissatisfaction. "Didn't I say that I could do it..."

Although the Spanish Army, ahem, does not seem to have any proud achievements in modern times, but anyway, she is from a military family after all, and she will not be worse than anyone after more than ten years of listening and speaking.

Hearing her words, Yan Shao shook his head. "I won't bother you with this..."

Katerina's eyes widened. "Why, can't you trust me?"

"Of course not." Yan Shao hesitated slightly, and only when he saw that she was really angry did he admit it. "I just don't want you to have too much contact with other men..."Of course it's okay if it's just a normal meeting, the problem is that physical contact will inevitably occur during training, although Yan Shao doesn't want to admit that he is a cautious man, he still hopes that only his body can touch it, even if it's just a finger...

"Be careful...", seeing the thoughts in his heart, Caterina said angrily after pursing her lips, but there was a little sweetness in her heart.

Seeing that she had finally been settled, Yan Shao breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to say to Elain.

"So I hope to send some people to your father, so that when they come back, we can directly get an officer corps, and the patrol can be trained by them to become an army that is not inferior to the new army of the Qing court..."

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The old man debuts~ (To be continued......)