Volume 2, Huang Feihong, Chapter 7, The Textile Factory
"Ah Dong, it's a good thing that I didn't gather the brothers of the water master to get the militia group after listening to your words, otherwise now!" Huang Feihong put down the dishes and chopsticks, wiped his mouth with a hand towel, and then brought himself a cup of tea.
"I didn't think it would cost so much to run a militia group, if it weren't for everyone making money while training!
"This is what a futile should do!" Huang Feihong's words made Lei Weidong just want to laugh in his heart.
When I watched the movie before, I didn't think it was cool, but I just thought it was cool for hundreds of men to train boxing on the beach, so I wanted to join in!
When you really get to the front of you, you know that a set of reality in the movie doesn't work!
Hundreds of brothers, all of whom are young and middle-aged, with the addition of their families, it is not so easy to solve the problem of eating, drinking, and Lazar for more than a thousand people!
Huang Feihong didn't feel that he had difficulties when he was the head of the sect, because although the Black Flag Army was suspicious of the imperial court, the army still had a salary, as long as they could eat enough, everyone could train with peace of mind!
Now that the sailors have been disbanded, the military pay will naturally be gone!
Not to mention that you need to make your own weapons and equipment, even if you have to eat, you have to spend your own money!
Because of the lack of non-staple food and oil and water, everyone generally eats a lot in this era, not to mention those who train, in order to find a way to replenish the body for fear of training problems!
Lei Weidong, who was anxious about the food expenses of his brothers, couldn't help but complain to the admiral of the navy who succeeded Liu Yongfu in the original book!
He deserves to be the famous straw bag admiral!
Just because Liu Yongfu handed over the Black Flag Navy to Huang Feihong to manage it by training the militia,
It aroused the vigilance and attention of the Manchu officials, and it was at this time that the Manchu Governor came to Foshan to supervise Huang Feihong, the leaders of the militia groups, and prevent them from gathering people to make trouble and storm the imperial court.
But he didn't want to think about it, it costs money to train the militia group, and if there is no support from the imperial court, he will only rely on Huang Feihong!
Even if Liu Yongfu leaves more money, it will be rootless water, and it won't last long!
As for relying on the donations of the local squires, the old people support the militia!
If those landlords and businessmen were really so patriotic!
Emperor Chongzhen will not make a joke that those ministers will only donate one hundred and eighty taels when they are raising military funds!
The upper beam is not right, the lower beam is crooked! The top is like this! The bottom is still good!
With the bad behavior of those squires, they will not take out money without a knife to their necks.
Lei Weidong didn't know how Huang Feihong supported the training of the militia in the original book, anyway, now he has thought of all the ways he can think of to raise money!
"Adong! Is the textile factory really going to be run!" Huang Feihong has no confidence in doing business!
"You must be a master! The brothers' expenses are too great! I can't support it in the current way alone!" Lei Weidong counted the benefits of running a factory to Huang Feihong.
The construction of a textile factory can arrange for the families of the brothers, and the employment problems of some brothers can be solved!
After all, many brothers have been blocking soldiers all their lives, and they can't do anything except be soldiers, and now the world is too chaotic, and the business of the dart bureau is not easy to do, so it is best to arrange for them to go to the factory to do the work of the factory protection team!
"Besides, master, now that the factory is almost finished and the machines are about to arrive, if you regret it, you can't afford to pay the deposit alone, and all this money is all from Admiral Liu's family property and where he borrowed it from the squire to sell face!
"That, you can do it! As long as nothing happens!" Because he doesn't understand industry, Huang Feihong can only hand over the construction of the factory to Lei Weidong!
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The freighter slowly sailed into the port, and Lei Weidong and Huang Feihong, who were standing on the dock, quickly saw the deck on the deck, Ya Chasu and a few brothers.
On the dock, behind Huang Feihong and Lei Weidong, there were hundreds of extremely strong men.
These were the brethren of the former Navy, as well as some local hired workers.
Ya Cha Su came back with the purchased machine, and when he greeted him, Lei Weidong called his brothers, after all, there are so many machines on the freighter, and there is no lifting equipment, and a few people close to Lei Weidong can't move it...
"Master, Senior Brother Lei" Ya Cha Su and the others who got down from the freighter saw Huang Feihong and immediately ran over.
"How is it..."Huang Feihong smiled and patted his teeth to wipe Su's shoulder.
"I went to the provincial capital this time, there was nothing wrong..."
"No," Tooth Rub Su shook her head.
"Everything went smoothly, 16,000 spindles and 400 looms and supporting ginning, clearing, engine, machine repair and other equipment were shipped together, and the personnel in charge of training from the foreign bank also arrived, so it can be said that as long as the equipment is installed, the factory will soon be put into use!"
"Very good! Senior brother, thanks to you this time!" Lei Weidong grabbed his teeth and wiped his hands:
"The walls of the warehouse and the factory and the dormitories for living have been built, and as for the factory, because I don't know what it will be built, I just laid the foundation according to the drawings, and I am waiting for those engineers to come and guide the construction!"
"Okay, don't stand, if you have anything to talk about when you go home, let's move the machine quickly!" The grumpy pork Rong protested when he saw that Lei Weidong and Ya Mo Su were chatting endlessly.
"Okay! Everyone move the machine!" Lei Weidong waved his hand, and under the leadership of Pork Rong, hundreds of people stepped forward and moved the equipment down one by one under the command of the crew.
In order to facilitate transportation, the factory site selected by Lei Weidong was not very far from the wharf, so after the machine was loaded into the carriage, it did not take long to arrive at the factory!
The weather in Buddha Mountain has already started to heat up in April, and it is even hotter if you work on the construction site!
In the newly built Huang's Textile Factory, everything presents a fiery atmosphere.
I saw that in the factory, hundreds of men with strong physiques and sweaty were busy building the factory little by little.
In order to finish the construction of the factory as soon as possible, Lei Weidong called all the brothers of the water army, and added the recruited workers, so that there were more workers in the factory.
However, men are not suitable for work in textile factories, except for factory guards and transportation, and female workers must be recruited!
But in this era, female workers are not so easy to recruit! Not everyone wants the mother-in-law of the family to show her face, and in the eyes of many people, the mother-in-law should stay at home and teach her husband and children honestly.
Fortunately, with the support of the brothers of the original water master, because they were entrusted to Huang Feihong by Liu Yongfu, they trusted Huang Feihong, and Lei Weidong was Huang Feihong's apprentice!
In addition, Huang Feihong promised that no men were allowed to enter or leave the factory area of female workers, and the female workers also acted in a unified way to arrange personnel to pick up and drop off their work!
Everyone goes to work together and goes home together! Supervise each other! Plus Lei Weidong gives a high salary!
This made people feel relieved and let their mother-in-law come out to work!
(In reality, the south is suitable for building a silk reeling factory, not a textile factory, because it is far away from the cotton production area, but this is a movie world, so don't think about it in such detail!)