I want to be emperor

Chapter 389 Su Qinbu's Dilemma
In order to manage his family's private money, Luo Zhixue even set up a royal property department in a serious manner, which was attached to the palace affairs department.

This institution is dedicated to managing various royal properties. For example, the Royal Tea Company, a minister mentioned earlier who was invited to serve as the general manager after his retirement, belongs directly to the Royal Property Division.

The institution currently owns a large number of assets of the royal family, mainly a large number of confiscated assets, including the mansions of the vassal princes and the Duke of the State, as well as a large number of rare curios that were not confiscated but not easy to cash in, and some not Fixed property that is too easy to handle.

Luo Zhixue asked the Royal Assets Division to manage these assets.Revitalize, and then invest in some industrial and commercial things. This kind of investment is mainly as a supplement to the investment of the Ministry of Industry. supplementary means.

Now it seems that the effect is not bad.

The recent factories run by the Royal Assets Division are pretty good. For example, a spinning factory in Jinling City is good, a tea brick factory in Songjiang, and a porcelain factory in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi.

Although they are all ordinary industries, these factories are factories that use hydraulic machinery and equipment on a large scale.

Water power equipment is also the main feature of many government-run factories in the Great Chu Empire.

These factories that use water power on a large scale and adopt streamlined production are characterized by large production capacity and better control of quality stability.

The things produced by these factories are not necessarily the best, but they are the most stable, much more stable than the products produced in those handicraft workshops.

The things produced in the handcraft workshop are closely related to the technical level of the craftsmen. The things made by skilled craftsmen are of high quality, but the things made by ordinary craftsmen are very ordinary. If you are a novice, then you can't read them.

Even if it is something produced by the same number of craftsmen, it is difficult to maintain a high level of stability in quality, there will always be bad and good.

After all, it is impossible for people to stay on the same level forever. Taking the simplest forging process of iron materials as an example, when a blacksmith wields a hammer for forging, no matter how high his level is, he cannot always let the hammer The force and position of the fall are maintained at the same level.

But those machines in the factory can!
This is also when the armor was produced in the arsenal of the Great Chu Empire. The main parts of the armor, that is, the overall quality of the iron pieces, although the overall quality is not as good as those hand-made by skilled craftsmen, but they can always be consistent. Maintain a relatively uniform quality level.

If you zoom in on the base and look at it, you will find that the overall level of the iron armor produced by the Great Chu Empire is better than that of the Ming Dynasty and Dongyao, and the cost is also lower. More importantly, the grain production is particularly large.

This is why the Chu army was able to let the soldiers of the main force almost have a piece of armor. Even the musketeers can get a set of light half-body armor.

Stable quality, large grain output, and low cost are the most obvious features and also the most obvious advantages of a factory that uses a large number of mechanical production.

And this advantage has also been reflected in the civilian market, so a large number of civilian products produced by these factories began to enter the private market, and seized the market share of a large number of these handicraft workshops.

Among them, the cotton cloth industry in the textile industry is the most important!

The textile industry in the Jiangnan area has always been a leading industry in the handicraft industry. During the first half of the seventeenth century, the textile industry in the Jiangnan area developed very well, and many medium and even large-scale textile industries have emerged. Factories, including the silk industry and the cotton cloth industry.

The silk industry is doing well for the time being, and has not been impacted on a large scale. The main factories of the major industrial ministries of the Great Chu Empire have not yet entered the silk weaving industry on a large scale, but mainly in the cotton spinning industry.

With the large number of new looms and spinning machines led by Hantian Textile Factory entering the market, these machine-made cloths began to encroach on the market share of many traditional hand-spinning and weaving workshops.

This situation became even more serious after the Great Chu Empire entered the south of the Yangtze River.

The weaving workshop of the Qin family in Suzhou was greatly affected.

Last year, before the Chu thieves came to the south of the Yangtze River, the cloth produced by their Qin family was not very easy to sell... Those cloth dealers who cooperated with their Qin family in the past said that the quality of their Qin family's cloth was not as good Huguang's machine-made cloth is good, and the price is much more expensive than Huguang's machine-made cloth.

The Qin family had no choice but to reduce their profits and cut prices, and finally opened up new channels to barely maintain their business.

However, after this year, as the machine-made cloth from Huguang entered the Jiangnan area without hindrance, and was transported to various places through Jiangnan, the cloth business of the Qin family became even more difficult.

The operating rate of their spinning and weaving workshops is less than [-]% of previous years.

Many yarn workers and weavers who originally worked for their Qin family workshop went to the newly opened Suzhou textile company not far away to work to make money because they had no work in the Qin family weaving workshop.

This made Qin Wanglin extremely anxious!
Their Qin family is different from other gentry families. The foundation of many gentry families is on the land and on the imperial examination.

But their Qin family is not a traditional farming and studying heirloom, but started as a cloth seller, and the family has never produced any Jinshi. His own achievements in the imperial examinations are already the highest imperial examination achievements of their old Qin family for hundreds of years. Yes, and it was only after spending a lot of money to clear up the relationship that year that I got it.

The foundation of their Qin family is in the cotton cloth business.

Their old Qin family has been in the cotton weaving business for hundreds of years, and they can be regarded as famous weavers in Suzhou.

The year before last, when the Qin family’s cotton cloth business was at its peak, their Qin family’s workshop in Suzhou City employed more than 1000 weavers. They also had workshops in Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Songjiang and other places, each with hired workers. There are hundreds of people.

The cloth produced by their family is also known as Su Qin cloth by the outside world, and is famous for its high quality and low price.

When outsiders mentioned Su Qinbu, no one knew that it was produced by their family.

However, Su Qinbu, which is famous for its cheap and beautiful products, has been severely impacted by Huguang machine-made cloth last year!

Because the machine-made cloth from Huguang is cheaper and better than their Su Qin cloth.

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Qin Wanglin saw a large number of vacant old looms in his workshop, and a large number of idle old spinning machines in the factory next door. He knew that he had to make a change.

If they don't change it, the century-old cotton cloth industry of their old Qin family may be completely ruined in their own hands.

Thinking of this, Qin Wanglin made up his mind to make changes now without delay!
But this kind of change is not because a few bosses in the same industry said some time ago that they pooled money to clear up the relationship and try to kill those mechanism cloths from the source.

But this kind of thinking is too naive in Qin Wanglin's view. In terms of personal connections, how could the connections of their gentry families be comparable to those of Hantian Textile Factory.

The Hantian Textile Factory is the property of the Chu thief.

You spend money to clear the way, find the head of the Chu thief's official, and then go to sue the Chu thief's own property... Isn't this nonsense!

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And Qin Wanglin believes that since the machine-made cloth has appeared, and it has been proved that the machine-made cloth is a better choice with high quality and low price, and the market has given sufficient feedback, it will not be beneficial to fight against it again.

He sees no hope of winning.

And since the machine-made cloth could no longer be defeated, what the Qin family had to do was to turn around and throw themselves into the machine-made cloth, making Su Qinbu also become a machine-made cloth.

The Suqin cloth produced by the Qin family has always been known for its cheapness and beauty, and is widely sold in all parts of the country.

If a large number of new looms from the Chu thief's side can be used, then the cloth produced by the Qin family in the future will definitely be cheaper and more beautiful.

As for the Hantian factory, how could they compare to their Qin family in terms of high quality and low price.

The Qin family has been playing this trick for hundreds of years.

Qin Wanglin, who had made a decision, soon asked various people to find connections.

doing what?
Buy new spinning machines and new looms!
As far as he knows, this new type of spinning machine and loom first appeared in Hantian Textile Factory in Hantianfu, but Hantian Textile Factory itself is not a manufacturer of these spinning machines and looms, but There is another person, that is Xiangyang Machinery Factory.

Xiangyang Machinery Factory was the first manufacturer to develop and produce new imitation equipment, but their production capacity was too low, so the Ministry of Industry later handed over the main production task of this new textile equipment to Hantian Machinery Factory.

Therefore, Hantian Machinery Factory is now the main manufacturer of this new type of textile equipment, accounting for more than [-]% of its production capacity.

The Suzhou Textile Company, which was established and put into operation in Suzhou not long ago, is a textile company affiliated to the Ministry of Industry. Its new looms and new spinning machines were ordered from Hantian Machinery Factory.

Now what the Qin family has to do is to get in touch with Hantian Machinery Factory before the others, and then try to order these new spinning machines and new looms.

With new spinning machines and new looms, the Qin family will set up the first purely private machine-made cloth factory outside the Ministry of Industry.

The Qin family spent a lot of manpower and material resources, and finally successfully contacted the Hantian Machinery Factory, and directly sent people to the office of the Hantian Machinery Factory to Jinling City to negotiate, and proposed to purchase new spinning machines and new looms .

However, this purchase order made the people in the Jinling City Office of Hantian Machinery Factory hesitate, and did not dare to accept it immediately.

Although many products of their Hantian Machinery Factory are sold to the outside world, they are all agricultural tools and cooking utensils. For example, their iron pots are very good.

However, there is no precedent for selling all kinds of mechanical equipment to the outside world.

Without exception, all kinds of machinery and equipment of their Hantian Machinery Factory are directly produced for various factories affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and the Royal Assets Division, and have never been sold to the outside world at all.

Before, no folks came to them to order these mechanical equipment.

But now the people from the Qin family came to order a large number of new spinning machines and new looms, and they were very sincere.

What are you talking about? Although our Qin family is just a poor seller of cloth, not as good as those rich families, we can still get a few coins. Even if there is a lot of supply, our Qin family can squeeze out 10,000+ taels. of.

Although the words are humble on the surface, the meaning is just that: our Qin family has a lot of money, and you can set the price whatever you want...

(End of this chapter)