Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 354, I don't know
Liu Jin's delivery was fast, and Wang Shouren paid the money readily. After only a few days of waiting, the 20 spinning machines and 10 looms Wang Shouren needed arrived.

This made Wang Xian and Wang Gui couldn't help yelling again, and almost scolded Liu Jin for being a profiteer. They made [-] taels of silver in just a few days. Silver is average.

The spinning machine and weaving factory bought from Liu Jin were quickly installed and debugged. This kind of machine is still a very simple machine, and there is nothing too difficult.

After a thorough research, Liu Jin adopts the assembly line working method, the manufacturing speed of the machine is very fast, the installation and debugging are also quite simple, and it can be put into use soon.

With the operation of the machine, a large amount of cotton is quickly transformed into cotton thread, and then the cotton thread is quickly woven into a piece of cloth, which is much faster than the previous traditional spinning and weaving speed.

"Tsk tsk, the quality of this cloth is very good, very dense, it is definitely the best cotton cloth."

Holding the newly woven cotton cloth, Wang Gui couldn't help but examine it carefully. The machine weaves the cloth very quickly, but the quality of the cloth is also very important.

In this era, because the cloth is all hand-woven, it often depends on the craftsmanship of the weaver. The cloth woven with good craftsmanship is very dense and can be easily torn and pulled. The quality is just very poor.

The famous Suzhou brocade in the Jiangnan area is one of the best quality cloths. Of course, there are also famous cloths such as Shu brocade, Yunmian, Lu silk, Hangzhou satin, etc. The quality of these cloths is very good. The most important point is That is very dense.

"It is indeed the finest cotton cloth, and the most important thing is that all the woven cloth can reach this level."

Wang Xian is also carefully inspecting the newly woven cotton cloth. Compared with hand-woven cotton cloth, the quality is much better and the output is higher.

"This machine is really expensive, but it's really worth the money~"

Wang Gui couldn't help touching the looms beside him. In his eyes, these looms were mountains of gold and silver.

Wang Shouren also carefully touched the newly woven cotton cloth. During this period of time, he also visited large and small cloth shops in the capital to learn about all kinds of cloth.

Cloth is such a thing, the difference is very huge.

The best is of course the cloth woven from silk. For example, Luzhou, Shanxi produces the famous Lu silk. The price of a piece of Lu silk is about three taels of silver. Lu silk feels thick, durable, exquisite and beautiful, and it is considered The best cloth in this era.

Some of the cheap cloth even cost less than two hundred cash a piece. Generally, such cloth is linen, with poor quality and low price, but the sales volume is very large.

The cotton cloth woven by the loom in front of me has a very thick feel, because everything has been pre-set for spinning and weaving by the machine, and the quality of the woven cloth is very reliable and guaranteed .

"How much do you think our cotton cloth can sell for?"

After thinking about it, Wang Shouren asked.

"Such high-quality cotton cloth will cost at least [-] Wen a piece, and it will definitely be very popular."

Wang Gui thought for a while and said with certainty.

"It's almost the same price, but I heard that all the cloth spun by the Jingcheng Spinning Factory has not yet been sold, and they are all hoarded. I don't know what this Mr. Liu is planning. If it comes to the market, it may not be able to sell for [-] Wen a horse, but if it sells for around [-] to [-] Wen, there will definitely be no problem."

Wang Xian also nodded, then thought about it and told the news he had heard.

"Nine hundred Wen a horse?"

Wang Shouren couldn't help but secretly stunned. The cotton cloth he wove with traditional looms could only sell for [-] Wen per piece, but now it can sell for [-] Wen per piece. The price difference is three times.

Of course, machine-woven cloth is thicker and requires more cotton, but it can’t use twice the amount of cotton, but it can be sold at three times the price.

Coupled with the speed of weaving, Wang Shouren immediately knew that the weaving business was indeed profitable, and it was very profitable.

"Why doesn't Liu Jin sell the cloth he wove?"

Then Wang Shouren began to think again, it doesn't make sense if the weaving cloth is not sold, if the cloth is not sold, what's the use of keeping it?

This confuses Wang Shouren. Now that he runs a textile factory, he understands the importance of circulating funds. If it weren't for the support of the Wang family, he wouldn't be able to stand the trouble with the initial [-] taels of silver.

Once a factory has no circulating funds, it will soon face bankruptcy. The things produced must be sold as soon as possible to return the funds.

"It seems that we still need to find some time to visit Liu Jin's textile factory in the capital."

Wang Shouren thought so in his heart.

Wang Shouren's Caiyun Textile Factory had new weaving machines, and the speed of weaving began to increase greatly. In the same week, with the same people, Caiyun Textile Factory weaved almost [-] new cotton cloths.

Wang Shouren sold the three thousand bolts of cotton cloth for [-] taels of silver. Excluding various expenses, he could make a net profit of about [-] taels.

"Eight hundred taels of silver in seven days, almost three thousand taels of silver in a month, and more than [-] taels of silver this year~"

"Huh~ this, this~"

After the cloth was sold out, Wang Shouren, Wang Gui, and Wang Xian couldn't help but make some simple calculations. They didn't know, but they were taken aback.

Such a small textile factory, which only employs more than a hundred people, can earn more than [-] taels of silver a year, which is unbelievable, and the money is too good to earn.

At first, they thought that Wang Shouren's opening of this textile factory was just for fun, not for making money at all, and he couldn't make any money at all.

But do the math now, not only can you make money, but you can also make a lot of money.

This made Wang Gui and Wang Xian, two old men in the cloth industry, couldn't help but breathe harder.

"Young master, this is just 20 spinning machines and 10 looms. If we expand the scale by ten times and produce cloth day and night, we can easily earn almost half a million yuan a year." Two silver coins!"

Wang Xian said excitedly.

He didn't even realize that at this moment, his face was no different from that of the capitalists of later generations. He saw a lot of opportunities to make money, and he even thought of starting work day and night. At that time, there will inevitably be a day shift. And night shift, there are two shifts.

At the same time, the first thing I thought of was to expand production capacity and expand the scale of my factory in order to earn more money, but I didn't think about it. If more people join this industry, competition will form, sales will be unsalable, or What will happen if you can't sell the price.

Of course, they don't need to think about this issue now, because Daming itself has a very huge market, unlike the countries in Europe, each of them is a bit bigger, and its own market is very small, so a lot of time needs to be relied on outside. market.

The huge market of Ming Dynasty is enough to obtain enough market and raw materials for the initial development of capital, which is unmatched by other countries.

"Earn five hundred thousand taels of silver a year?"

Hearing Wang Xian's words, Wang Shouren also slightly widened his eyes.

Although he was born in a big family like the Wang family, and his family was very rich, he also knew that the annual profits of the Wang family's various industries added up to tens of thousands of taels of silver, not even a hundred thousand taels of silver.

So he was also surprised to hear that if the current scale is expanded tenfold, the annual profit can reach [-] taels of silver.

Originally, I just wanted to have a try and explore the knowledge contained in it, but I didn't expect that it would create a new important source of income for the Wang family.

Earning hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year is definitely an astronomical figure. In the past, only those big salt merchants, grain merchants, tea merchants, and cloth merchants could earn so much silver, and they had to be very large. only then.

Who would have imagined that they could earn so much money in a year just by running a factory.

This made Wang Shouren couldn't help thinking again.

"No wonder Liu Jin said that these industries he runs are beneficial to the country and the people. If my factory's production capacity is expanded by ten times, the number of workers required will need to be expanded by about twenty times, that is, it will need to recruit almost [-] people. .”

"I can earn money myself, and these two thousand people can also have a stable job. These two thousand people are two thousand families, and tens of thousands of people will follow the income."

"Moreover, the imperial court can also collect tax money from it. This will produce more cloth and allow more people to afford clothes, which will benefit the country and the people."

"So that's how it is~ that's how it is~"

Soon, Wang Shouren seemed to understand something faintly, and his eyes immediately began to shine. He didn't believe Liu Jin's words before, but now he experienced it himself, but he can clearly know the benefits of it.

He made money himself, and these employees in the factory also had a stable and good job. The court could receive tax money, and the common people had more cloth to make clothes. There are many benefits.

"Young Master~ Young Master~"

At this moment, Wang Gui's voice brought Wang Shouren back to reality.

"Oh~ oh, what's the matter?"

Wang Shouren came back to his senses, a door was opening in his heart, and he seemed very excited at this moment.

"Young master, we must quickly place more orders with Liu Jin to buy more machines like this. We must not miss this good opportunity to make money."

Wang Gui said anxiously.

　I personally feel that ancient times did not expand externally like Europe. One of the important reasons should be that everything can be satisfied internally, and the external dependence is too small~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)