Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1598, Daming's Factory
"What is really powerful is industry?"

When Simon heard it, he was dumbfounded again, and it was a new term.

"Industry is a new term developed by the people of Ming Dynasty. It means non-agricultural industries. For example, factories and workshops can be regarded as industries."

"Come on, I'll take you to visit the textile factory here in Anning City, and you will understand."

Brown got up and took Simon to the textile factory here in Anning City.

Half an hour later, the four-wheeled carriage they were riding in stopped in front of a factory named 'Ningguo Liu's Textile Factory'. In the name of discussing evolution, Brown managed to get the factory to allow them to visit .

"Is this the factory?"

Simon looked at the factory in front of him. It was very large in scale, with many workshops, neatly planned, and the factory looked very clean. There was no sense of chaos. There was no mess in the small European workshops.

"This way, gentlemen, please~"

Liu Zilong, the owner of the factory, led Simon and Brown towards a factory building with a smile on his face. The two looked like businessmen from Europe.

The main customers of this factory of mine are also customers from Europe, and the cloth produced is also exported to Europe.

"Mr. Liu, how big is your factory?"

Brown's big words were very good. Looking at the large-scale factory in front of him, he asked curiously.

"Not big, not big, just a few hundred people~"

Liu Zilong said modestly that his factory in Ningguo and even Tianzhu can be regarded as a big factory, but it can only be regarded as a small factory in Daming.

The reason why the factory was built in Ningguo is mainly because the labor in Ningguo is cheap, and a large number of slaves can be used. In addition, cotton planting in Ningguo is now flourishing, and other cotton growers on the Tianzhu mainland can obtain it locally. raw materials.

Tianzhu is closer to the Middle East, Persia, and Europe, and the cloth produced can be directly exported to these places, and it specializes in export business.

The business is very good, and Liu Zilong plans to continue to expand the scale of this factory and invest in the construction of a larger factory.

It's just that all the machines in this factory need to be transported from Daming, and the textile industry in Daming is also developing extremely rapidly, and you have to queue up to buy machines.

The machines in the factory in front of him were all obtained through his relationship with great difficulty.

"Hundreds of people?"

When Brown heard it, he took a deep breath, and then translated to Simon, who opened his eyes slightly after hearing it.

Then, under the leadership of Liu Zilong, the two came to the factory building. After seeing the scene inside the factory building, Brown and Simon also opened their mouths in shock.

The factory building is full of machines, the machines are rotating rapidly, countless cotton threads are rotating, and with the rotation of the machines, cloth is continuously spun out at an astonishing speed.

At the same time, driven by the traditional belt, the general production method of the assembly line is to add cotton at one end, and at the other end, it is already cloth when it comes out, and then it is packed according to the specifications, and it is immediately loaded into a four-wheeled carriage. Drive to Anning Port, and sell it to Europe.

Looking at the scene in front of them, Simon and Brown's mouths opened wide.

On the one hand, I am shocked by the high efficiency of the machine in front of me, the speed is too fast, the cotton goes in, the machine is pulled, and the cotton thread comes out, and then with the rotation of the cotton thread, it can be turned into cloth slowly.

Another aspect is shocked by such a production method.

At this moment, Europe is still in the production mode of small families and small workshops, and the same is true for weaving cloth. It is all relying on women to slowly use backward looms to weave slowly. Spinning some fight.

Simon has also done this kind of business before. He specially went to the countryside to buy cloth, and then sold it in the city to earn the difference.

But look at the textile factory in front of them and the machines in front of them. The cloth is spun like flowing water. This brand-new production method is far beyond their imagination and cognition.

"It's too fast!"

Simon opened his mouth wide, feeling extremely shocked in his heart.

"It's no wonder that the Ming people's cloth is shipped to us in Europe, and it's cheaper than our own cloth, and the quality is even better."

"I've always wondered how on earth they make money and why it's so cheap."

"Now I finally understand that with such an efficient machine, coupled with slaves, the cost can completely outweigh the cost of our European cloth, so it's no wonder that it can be sold all over the world."

Simon thought of the cloth market in Europe. With a large amount of Ming cloth entering Europe, it also had a huge impact on the European economy.

Cheap cloth is of good quality and cheap, and it can even print and dye you in a variety of beautiful colors and patterns, which is a blast for homemade cloth produced by small European families and small workshops.

Daming cloth is very popular in Europe, which caused a large number of native European handicraftsmen to lose their jobs. The cloth they spun could not be sold at all. This also had a huge impact on Simon's cloth business. I can't go down.

"I've only seen it in newspapers before, and I've heard people say it, but I've never seen it before."

"It turns out that the weaving is really done by machines, and the efficiency is so amazing!"

Brown's heart was also shocked.

He had heard of Daming's textile factory, and had been looking for an opportunity to visit it all along. Now he finally saw it as he wished. The scene in front of him where a large number of machines were working closely and the cloth was produced like flowing water had a great impact on him.

This kind of production method will shock anyone who sees it for the first time.

Liu Zilong on the side was smiling all over his face, and he seemed to be familiar with it.

In the past, customers from Persia and the Middle East also came to visit, and everyone was deeply shocked after seeing the production scene in the factory.

This large-scale production method relying on machines has a very strong visual impact.

"How much cloth can this factory produce in a day?"

Simon thought for a while and asked Brown to ask Liu Zilong.

"The scale of my factory is not too large, and the machines I use are all old models. The efficiency is not high, and a large number of slaves are needed. I can only weave less than 1000 pieces of cloth a day."

Liu Zilong replied with a smile.

"1000 bolts of cloth a day?"

After listening to the translation, Simon's eyes widened again. He spun more than 1000 bolts of cloth in one day, which is an extremely huge number in one year.

This is just a factory with hundreds of people.

If you do the math, there are 2 pieces of cloth spun this year, which is a very scary figure. You must know that if it is in Europe, it takes half a month for one person to weave a piece of cloth. One month is like weaving [-] bolts of cloth, and one year is less than [-] bolts of cloth, which still requires very diligent talents.

Calculated in this way, the output of this factory is equivalent to the output of tens of thousands of people in Europe. The efficiency is really terrible. Where is the cloth produced here? It is simply producing silver continuously.

Simon is a businessman, and he calculated habitually, and he immediately understood why the traditional European homemade cloth was strongly impacted by Ming cloth.

The efficiency of the Ming people weaving cloth is too high. There are only a few hundred people in such a factory, and it is said that there are tens of thousands of such factories on the local side of the Ming Dynasty. What will the cloth output of the Ming Dynasty be like this year? Scary numbers.

Buying a little casually and coming to Europe is enough to have a devastating impact on the European market and wipe out all the handicraftsmen.

According to what Brown said, this is just a textile factory. There are also steel factories, glass factories, cement factories and other factories in Daming, almost all of which are produced by machines, and the efficiency is amazing. amazing!
"No wonder the strongest part of Ming Dynasty is industry!"

(End of this chapter)