Volume 2, Huang Feihong, Chapter 29, Trains
The textile mill is so profitable, just like digging into a mountain of gold, expansion is necessary! Moreover, the market is so big that it must be expanded several times!
Therefore, Lei Weidong asked Ya Cha Su to send a message to those foreign companies, saying that he wanted 50,000 spindles and 1,000 looms here!
In order to win this business, and at the same time, because of the popularity of the Huang Textile Factory, the squires saw that this business was profitable, and they all wanted to enter it, so each foreign company shipped a lot of spindles and looms, and it was best to win Lei Weidong's list, and if he couldn't take it and put it in the warehouse, someone would want it soon.
But who would have thought that the provincial city would suddenly make a disturbance in Bailian, attacking the church and the residence of foreigners, causing several warehouses to be burned.
At this time, the heads of the major foreign banks were panicked.
It is impossible to send back so much equipment, and the shipping cost alone is unbearable.
As for the sale, the Chinese businessmen who were eager to try it retreated when they saw that Bai Lian was so fierce!
In the end, everyone found that there was only one seller, Lei Weidong!
It's just that Lei Weidong only needs tens of thousands of spindles, and now everyone has hundreds of thousands of spindles in their hands, not to mention that Lei Weidong can't eat it at all!
If he doesn't die to lower the price, he won't be Lei Weidong.
There is no way, the heads of the major foreign banks who have no way back can only go to Foshan to negotiate!
It was a price reduction and installment payment, and a low-interest loan to Lei Weidong through the bank!
In the end, Lei Weidong ate the machines at a four-fold discount, because Lei Weidong did not have much money in his hand, and the foreign banks also agreed to pay in installments! Not only did the payment for the goods be settled within a year! The British bank also borrowed 1 million silver dollars at the lowest interest rate to let Lei Weidong buy raw materials to expand production!
Now Huang's Textile Factory has been fully put into operation, with 168,000 spindles, 3,200 looms, and a set of dyeing equipment that can dye 12 colors!
As for the workers, there are more than 9,000 female textile workers alone, with a daily output of more than 60 tons of yarn and 12 pounds of cloth of 160,000 meters, which can be said to be the largest textile factory in the country!
Now is the most profitable period in the textile industry, because the Japanese textile industry has not yet risen, and the domestic textile mills have not yet started except for the Textile Bureau in Hankou, and the textile factories of Zhang Jian and others!
As a result, the textile mill made a profit of more than 400,000 silver dollars every month! In just a few months, not only the bank loan was paid off, but even the arrears for the purchase of machinery were paid off.
Because of the expansion of the textile mill and the unstable situation, in order to protect the safety of the textile mill, with the consent of the county magistrate!
Lei Weidong expanded the factory protection team!
Now it has 900 members, 780 long guns, 50 short guns, 8 heavy machine guns, and 2 artillery pieces!
It can be described as the strongest army in the Foshan area!
Of course, because the strength is too strong!
Externally, it is called in the name of the patrol battalion.
"Master, I'll go with you to the provincial capital this time!" Lei Weidong proposed: "Most of the people who participate in the academic meetings of the International Medical Association are foreigners, and I will be your interpreter when the time comes!"
"Adong, what should you do if you go to the factory!" Huang Feihong knew how important Lei Weidong was to the textile factory.
Although the factory is now managed by Ya Cha Su, Lei Weidong still needs to take the idea when it comes to big things!
If it was Ya Cha Su, he would never have such great courage, and he would not hesitate to take out a loan to expand the factory tenfold!
You must know that not long after the machine arrived, the White Lotus Sect in the provincial capital was suppressed, which made the comprador intestines repent, of course, why the White Lotus Sect is rising again now, Huang Feihong doesn't know the reason.
"Master! Senior brother has grown up very quickly during this time, even without me, he can do it! Now that the textile factory has been regularized, it will not be expanded in a few years, I will focus on practicing in the future, and simply take this opportunity to hand over all the power!" Lei Weidong knew that the time for his departure was getting closer and closer, and he must be ready for the handover.
"Okay! Since you say so, you can go to the provincial capital this time!" Huang Feihong nodded.
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Woo---! besides, besides, besides.
A train is speeding by!
"Senior Brother Lei! It's been half an hour since you've wiped your gun! You're not annoyed!"
As soon as Lei Weidong got in the car, he took out a box from his luggage!
After opening it were two Mauser pistols!
Lei Weidong picked it up and looked at it, and wiped it carefully with a handkerchief!
That careful attitude seems to be rubbing not a pistol, but a beautiful work of art!
After wiping one handful, change to another!
I've wiped both of them, and I haven't given up yet!
Pick up the first handful and rub it again!
Let Liang Kuan finally can't bear it anymore!
"Senior Brother Liang, you don't understand!" Lei Weidong put away the gun in his hand, picked up another pistol and continued to wipe.
"The gun is alive, if you treat her well, she will recognize you, and when you use it, you will shoot wherever you want!
"You just brag!" Liang Kuan shook his head and said: "The gun is just an iron lump, how can there be life! Master, what I said is right!"
"It's hard to say!" Huang Feihong watched Lei Weidong's serious action of wiping the gun and nodded:
"But what Ah Dong said also makes sense, the gun itself is a machine, you often wipe it, maintain it well, and you will never drop the chain when you use it!
"It was given to me by a German foreign company when I entered the machine this time! The latest German pistol!
The barrel caliber is 7.63mm, the barrel length is 140mm, the muzzle velocity of the bullet is 400 m/s, the effective range is 50 meters, and the 10 rounds are fed by a fixed magazine, and it was officially shipped in 1897!"
"Ten rounds! This little thing can hold 10 bullets!" Watching Lei Weidong take out the magazine and easily press the ten rounds into it, Huang Feihong was a little uneasy, some time ago, he used a short gun that was a single bullet, ......and he could easily dodge it!
Although his martial arts are strong, if the other party uses such a weapon against him, Huang Feihong has no confidence to dodge 10 bullets!
"That's why I said that Ji Xun is a little deflated, and the pistols he uses are all eliminated by Western countries!" Lei Weidong took out the bullet again and put it away!
"It's still the German foreign company that is generous, this time they gave me a total of six Mauser pistols with 8,000 bullets!"
"You won't bring all of these, right!" Liang Kuan looked at Lei Weidong and found that he couldn't carry so many things on his body!
"I only brought 3 pistols and 3,500 rounds of ammunition, and the rest was left for Ya Cha Su! He is now obsessed with shooting!"
"Master, it's almost 12 o'clock, should we go eat! I'm a little hungry!"
"Let's go to the dining car to eat!Liang Kuan, you go ahead!" Aunt Thirteen put away the book she was reading.
"Okay, I'll lead the way!" Liang Kuan smiled and stood up.