Li Feng, like all the other people who followed the Huaxia Alliance, immediately purchased a large number of steam engines and textile machines after learning the news of the lifting of the ban. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

If Li Feng wants to compete with Li Yang in ready-to-wear, he must have a cost advantage.

His connections in the Tang Dynasty for many years were brought into play at this time, Li Yang bought cloth from the Qin Dynasty Royal Chamber of Commerce, then he built his own factory to produce, anyway, the big landlords who planted cotton were too late to stammer him, the price was too low.

As for the purchase of sewing machines, Li Feng brought up this matter at the family meeting, and also called it a helping brother.

When King Yue heard this, he was overjoyed and immediately wrote a letter, asking Li Feng's person in charge of this procurement to replace Li Yang.

When Li Yang saw this letter, it was conceivable that his face was already blue with anger.

"His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince, I don't know when the villain will pick up the goods?" Li Feng's people asked cautiously when they saw that Li Yang's face was not good-looking.

"I know the matter, but there are still some formalities to be done, you can go down first. ”

"Then there is the fifth son of Lao, but the weaving factory has already begun to be built, and the fifth prince is asked to hurry up. ”

"I said I know, don't you understand?" At this time, Li Yang put down the letter and glared at Li Feng's subordinates with angry eyes.

The subordinate also knew that Li Yang was really angry at this time, and he didn't dare to fight back, so he could only leave with his body.

As soon as the people left, Li Yang smashed a brand new set of ceramic tea sets on his table.

"How can it be reasonable, competing with me for business and buying my sewing machine at cost price is really deceitful!"

Just when Li Yang was panting and calming down, Li Yi pushed the door and came in.

"Childe's Li Feng's people went to the sewing machine factory, saying that they wanted to buy a sewing machine. ”

As soon as he entered the door, Li Yi directly reported his affairs in the factory, and now he is the director of the sewing machine factory.

"I already know that this time Li Feng bewitched his father, saying that he wanted to learn from me to start a garment factory and buy my sewing machine.

My father was overjoyed and asked me to give him a batch of goods at the factory price. Li Feng's people just left, and the people who went to you were probably afraid that I would deceive them and run out of goods. ”

Listening to Li Yang's words, Li Yi was surprised, he didn't expect Li Feng to be so shameless.

But after a while, he thought of something again and hurriedly asked: "But Childe, the sewing machine factory still has half of Wu Gongzi's shares, even if we really ship the goods at the factory price, can Wu Gongzi agree?"

"This is also something I'm worried about, it's obviously not in the interests of the factory, you go and call Tian Hachi over, let's discuss it with others. ”

After a while, Tian Ba came over, Li Yang simply explained the matter, and Tian Ba understood.

"My son-in-law said that our two factories have a certain number of relatives and friends, and it doesn't matter if Mr. Li wants to use the quota, the excess part can also be deducted from the quota for the next year, but he has to pay 20% interest to the factory's finance. ”

After Tian Ba finished explaining, Li Yang breathed a sigh of relief, after all, Li Fengkeng himself could not pit his partner.

"Hehe, that's good, that's good, I don't know when Brother Wu will come back from the grassland area?

I haven't seen him in a long time, and when he comes back I'll invite him for a drink. ”

"My son-in-law recently cooperated with Tiemamen in the grassland area, and a new elixir cultivation base was launched, this has been a long time, I'm afraid he should come back soon, and I will inform him when the time comes. ”

As an intelligence officer, Tian Ba coped with the past according to the formulated statement, and when he returned to the bicycle factory, he passed the information to Shang Weiyang.

After Shang Weiyang received the information, he happened to be free recently, and Li Yang was a key person in the latest stage of the strategic plan, so he went to Li Yang's villa courtyard after putting on makeup.

Li Yang didn't expect that Wu Yanzu, who had said that he wanted to invite him to drink two days ago, came to the door within two days.

"I heard that you want to invite me to drink, why are you not welcome?" Shang Weiyang, who was standing at the door, teased in the tone of an old friend.

"Where, where, hurry in, forget it or go out to drink, I'll drive to Huaxia Restaurant!"

"Okay, I'll listen to you, but the wine in Huaxia Restaurant is very strong, don't drive when you drink, don't drink when you drive, let's call the driver!"

"Haha, no problem. ”

An hour later, Li Yang and Shang Weiyang had already drunk it, and as soon as Li Yang called Li away, he began to vomit bitter water.

"Brother Wu, I can't hide it that my family has power in the Tang Dynasty, but it's a pity that my brothers and sisters are fighting for power and profit, suppressing me everywhere.

Now that I finally have my own industry, my eldest brother is shameless to open a garment factory to compete with me for profits, and he also wants to buy our sewing machines at the factory price..."

Li Yang said that these Shang Weiyang actually already knew, after all, there were so many sewing machines when buying steam engines, textile machines, whether it was transportation or leaving the factory, as long as they were in the Huaxia Alliance, they had Shang Weiyang's eyeliner.

"Hehe, that's fine, food, clothing, housing and transportation, you are still afraid of him when the market for clothing is so big?" Shang Weiyang pretended to comfort.

"Brother Wu doesn't know, my eldest brother has a wide network in the Tang Dynasty and can receive cotton cheaply, and now he has opened a textile factory to weave cloth, and the cost of making ready-to-wear clothes is lower than mine, how can I compete at that time?"

"Then why don't you come in from his textile mill and give back to him the way he does?"

"Hehe, this is where my eldest brother is treacherous, he must have put this textile factory in someone else's name. ”

"I see, but Brother Li, you don't have to worry, you can buy goods from the Huaxia Alliance, and now that the Huaxia Alliance has reclaimed dozens of cotton planting farms, the price of cloth will soon be cheaper than that of the Royal Chamber of Commerce, and the cloth made by your eldest brother's textile factory is not necessarily cheap. ”

"How can Brother Wu say this?" Li Yang asked puzzled.

But Shang Weiyang didn't plan to say it, just smiled and said: "You'll know after a while, but I advise you to buy some cement and trucks for your oil refinery and go back, and repair the road from the wharf to the plantation." ”

Li Yang didn't understand why Shang Weiyang, who was so good, was involved in the oil refinery and road construction, but Huang Xiucheng also said so to him before, and this time Shang Weiyang also said the same, which made Li Yang take this matter to heart.

When Li Yang was lost, Li Feng was in high spirits, he put the textile factory under the name of Ren Haijiang, and contacted a large number of large landowners who planted cotton, and after negotiating the price, he only waited for the machine to come and start work.

The ready-to-wear factory has also been demarcated for construction, and the main body of the factory has been completed at this time, just waiting for the machines to be in place to recruit people for production.

In Li Feng's bitter waiting, the steam cargo ship carrying Li Feng's goods finally arrived at the dock of the Tang Dynasty.

What Li Feng didn't know was that with the establishment of this batch of goods and his factory, he would fall deeper and deeper into the trap woven by the war.

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With the arrival of machinery and equipment there is also a group of mechanical engineering personnel, who are responsible for debugging equipment and teaching workers.

Although Li Feng and Ren Haijiang looked down on these civilians from humble backgrounds, they also knew that these people were monks and had to rely on them for the time being, so they ate and drank well.

However, what they didn't know was that although these commissioning workers were provided with good food and drink, they were still dissatisfied.

Although these commissioning personnel are sent to the factory to receive various subsidies, most of them are still reluctant to leave the Huaxia Alliance.

The chicken, duck and fish meat provided by Li Feng are in the Huaxia Alliance with the blessing of large-scale mechanized agriculture, which household cannot afford to consume them?

The main thing is that the city of the Tang Dynasty has a curfew at 11 o'clock in the evening, and there are no entertainment facilities in normal times.

In this way, these people, who are already accustomed to the life of the Huaxia Alliance, can't adapt to it at all.

In addition to debugging equipment and training workers every day, I basically eat and sleep, and at most go to watch old-fashioned operas or drink flower wine, and my life is very boring.

"Hey, it is said that the capital of the Tang Dynasty is the most prosperous city in the Tianjing Continent, why do I feel inferior to our Huaxia City?"

"Isn't it, no wonder none of the old fellows who have been sent abroad before want to come, it's a boring day. ”

"Yes, except for drinking flower wine, it's a little interesting, but it's only fucking open until eleven o'clock, and I've been there a lot lately, and I feel like my body is about to be hollowed out, and my cultivation is much slower, so it seems that I have to buy some medicine to make up for it when I go back." ”

"Okay, don't nag one by one, isn't it just three months, it's been two months, and you can go back to the Huaxia Alliance in another month, and you can read more books if you're bored." ”

The commissioning workers sent by the Huaxia Alliance chatted and complained in the courtyard arranged by Li Feng at night.

Now that their team leader is talking about work, the complaints of his subordinates not only did not stop, but complained more intensely.

"I've never seen such a stupid employee, which factory of our Huaxia Alliance can be hired after a month of training?

The employees here are really stupid, and they have been trained for two months, and the concept of safety production has not yet been formed in their minds. ”

"Hehe, those operators are just down, those monks are in charge of hateful, one by one they don't know how to pretend to understand, and they change the rules and regulations privately at every turn.

Fortunately, this is the Tang Dynasty, mortals are not valuable, and the female worker's hand was pierced by a shuttle a while ago and it should be done for their supervisor.

If this is in the Huaxia Alliance, it will have to lose thousands of yuan, and a hundred gold coins will be sent away here. The director didn't have any. ”

"Hey, forget it, what's the matter, let's go back in a month, let's train well this month. ”

From the chats and complaints of these expatriates, we can find a very key thing, that is, the quality of workers and the quality of management are very low.

The workers of the Huaxia Alliance are at least Qi Refining Realm cultivators, and they also have to be literate when they join the company, at least they must know how to read.

Li Feng's side is completely different, the farmers are pulled out of the field and go directly to the training and work.

Not only the textile machine, but also the complex button handle on the steam engine does not know what to do, and even the basic machine parameters cannot be understood, so there is no way not to know the words.

The staff had to start by teaching literacy, but they were not professional literacy workers, and the teaching efficiency was extremely low, and it was up to the workers to memorize the words on the machine.

The picture you often see in the factory is a rumbling machine on one side, and a worker reciting the words on the machine on the other.

This can be said to be very dangerous, but those managers do not ask, and sometimes they are often full of alcohol.

The three-month training of such a plant can be run is already the limit of these people.

However, Li Feng and Ren Haijiang didn't care about this, they didn't know how the Huaxia Alliance's factory operated, and they thought that this was a normal phenomenon, and they were even very satisfied after the inspection.

After three months of preparation, the textile mill finally began to operate, and with the first batch of fine cloth produced being shipped to the garment factory, the workers of the Huaxia Alliance could finally go home.

Li Feng and Ren Haijiang are full of expectations that the ready-to-wear garments produced can rely on the price advantage to defeat Li Yang's garment factory.

However, after the first batch of ready-to-wear garments was produced, it was found that their cost price was actually higher than Li Yang's selling price.

After careful accounting, the two found out what the problem was.

There are two main aspects, one is that the management personnel they invite are all disciples of the local sect, these people do not understand management at all, and there will be a safety accident in a few days, and each accident will stop production for half a day.

These people knew how to eat and drink every day, and sometimes they embezzled the purchase money in the factory and took bribes from cotton merchants.

And the managers hired by Li Yang's factory are all from the Huaxia Alliance, and the minimum is a secondary school diploma. Workers are also required to do literacy in literacy classes before they take up their posts.

For this point, Li Feng asked Ren Haijiang to personally take charge of the management of the textile factory and the garment factory, and only by hiring people from scratch could it be regarded as solving the internal problem.

However, there is another problem that makes it tricky. Even powerless.

That's the cost of shipping!

The Tang Dynasty did not have modern means of transportation such as cement roads, automobiles and trains.

There are only horse-drawn carriages and a large number of mountain roads where dead horses run on the lookout mountain. Even in the plains, when it rains, the roads become muddy.

In the end, after accounting, the transportation cost was actually greater than the cost of buying cotton.

It already accounts for forty percent of the total cost of a piece of fabric.

In fact, what Li Feng encountered can be said to be troubled by most of the people who returned to China to build factories.

They happily returned to China to build factories, hoping to make a fortune with low-cost labor and raw materials, but the low quality of the population and poor traffic conditions shattered their dreams.

The goods produced are even more expensive than those produced in the Huaxia Alliance.

Only then did they remember what they had said, "I don't give it to you, it's for your good!"

These local tyrants have invested so much money now, but they find that there is no expected return, and they are as disgusting as eating flies when they think of this sentence.

There was no choice but to ask their respective emperors and kings to build roads, after all, this was a big project, and even Shang Weiyang could barely play it.

And the emperors and kings didn't want to be the big wrongdoer, so they told these people on the principle that whoever enjoys it pays for it is okay to build roads, but they have to pay for it.

The princes and nobles saw that it was such a brother's situation, and since they had to pay for it, it was better for them to repair it themselves. The princes and nobles gathered together to discuss the construction of the road.

However, the meeting was not so easy to open, and some wanted to transport cotton and proposed to build a road from the planting area to the industrial area.

Some want to transport copper mines, and it is proposed to build a road from the mining area to the industrial area.

In short, all kinds of plans are for the sake of their own industry, and these people must not be able to repair one person, and after arguing for a while, the pressure of the factory finally made all parties agree.

Since everyone wants to take advantage, then don't take advantage of it, just build a main road away from everyone's industry, and everyone is building their own road to get on the main road.

Such a road plan seemed to Shang Weiyang to be a joke, but in these kingdoms and empires, they were constantly agreed by their princes and nobles.

When the plans were approved, these princes and nobles remembered that the reinforced concrete or railway trains that seemed to be built on roads needed to be imported from the Huaxia Alliance.

At this time, someone finally felt that they might have been cheated by Shang Weiyang!