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Chapter 858 The Lucky One of The Times
In human history, the emergence of new technologies often leads to rapid increases in productivity, which in turn lead to industry changes and even social changes.

For example, the bronze ware appeared in ancient times and gradually replaced the stone tools. It can be said that the appearance of the bronze ware laid the foundation for the feudal state, allowing human beings to gradually transition from the tribal situation in ancient times to the feudal state model.

Later, the appearance and large-scale use of iron tools promoted the development of human history from the era of slavery to the era of feudal agriculture.

Then humans passed through the feudal agricultural era for thousands of years until the Great Chu Empire set off the first industrial revolution. The emergence of new spinning and looms directly stimulated the explosive development of industry, and The explosive development of this industry has also promoted the development of a series of industries such as mining, metallurgy, machinery manufacturing, chemical industry, and shipbuilding.

In the end, the needs of many industries gave birth to the steam engine, a powerful tool for increasing productivity, which brought the development of the first industrial revolution to its peak.

Well, it must be made clear once again: Whether it is the modern Britain in the original time and space, or the contemporary Great Chu Empire, their industrial revolution did not start with the appearance of the steam engine, but because of the appearance of more efficient spinning machines and looms And start.

The steam engine is a product of the industrial revolution, not to say that the industrial revolution started after the steam engine!

The difference between the two is huge.

In the case of the Great Chu Empire, the time point when the first industrial revolution started was a series of mechanized production that could be traced back to the era of the Township Protection Army before the establishment of the Great Chu Empire.

The official symbol should be the Xiangyang Textile Factory established in the era of the Baoxiang Army. In order to supply a large amount of military textiles such as military uniforms and tents in a cheaper way in the early days, the Baoxiang Army began to use the new type of spinning machine specially developed and produced by the Xiangyang Machinery Factory. sewing machine.

And in the first year of Chengshun, Hantian Textile Factory was officially established, which is the predecessor of Hantian Textile Company. Because of the use of new textile equipment to produce a large amount of cloth, and put a large amount of these cloth into the civilian market, it achieved explosive growth.

In the early years of the Great Chu Empire, although there were various factories, it was the textile industry that really caused the explosive growth of industrialization, and the production and application of various machinery and equipment moved from the military industry to the people's livelihood.

And in the following 30 to 30.00 years, the importance of the textile industry has never declined... In the entire industrial system, the economic output value contributed directly and indirectly by the textile industry has been stably exceeding [-]% for a long time.

This is a rather exaggerated figure.

At the same time, every change in the textile industry will bring great progress to the entire industrial system. For example, in the early years, the textile industry of the Great Chu Empire began to use water power to produce textiles on a large scale, which directly led to the explosive growth of the water power machinery industry. , and mechanical equipment led to the development of steel, chemical industry, mining, shipping and even early horse-drawn carriages and rail carriages.

After 21 years of Chengshun, with the large-scale application of high-pressure steam engines, the textile industry has gradually adopted high-pressure steam engines to replace water power as the power source for factories.

This alone has made the three major steam engine manufacturers full of oil, which has greatly promoted the rapid development of the steam engine industry... There are many textile factories in the Great Chu Empire, and their demand for high-pressure steam engines is extremely huge of.

Until now, Hantian Machinery Co., Ltd. has taken the lead in developing a more advanced spinning machine, which has brought new technological impetus to the textile industry.

Although the technological change brought about by the new spinning machine is not too great, the new cotton yarn produced by it relies on lower production cost and better quality, which still brings a new round of technological innovation to the textile industry.

This will inevitably lead to a huge change in the entire cotton spinning industry, and in this huge change, Wang Liqing is lucky... He followed the pace of those large comprehensive textile enterprises early and placed orders for new cotton yarn equipment in advance. It has successfully made Anhua Textile Co., Ltd. one of the very few independent cotton yarn manufacturers capable of producing new cotton yarns in China, and it has become the third independent cotton yarn manufacturer in Songjiang City that can produce new cotton yarns.

This gave Anhua Textile Company an extremely important historical development opportunity!

Almost every day, people would come to their door to buy their new cotton yarn. In the beginning, there were only local textile enterprises in Songjiang Prefecture, and soon there were also textile enterprises in Jiangbei and Nantong areas.

Nantong, Jiangbei, this is a new type of textile industry base in the Great Chu Empire... Anhua Textile Co., Ltd. and its partners tried to build a new factory in Nantong area before, but the process was not smooth, and the result was even more tragic. It invested 10,000+ Chu Yuan went in because his partner was implicated, and as a result, the investment was deeply locked in debt disputes.

Who knows if they can get back the investment principal, and when they can get it back... And even if they can get it back in the end, it will cause serious losses, and it will cost money to go to court. Senior business lawyers these days don't Cheap, not to mention the cost of capital itself.

These two 10,000+ were locked up in debt disputes, and the capital cost alone cost tens of thousands a year.

Not to mention the failure of Anhua Textile Company's own investment, let's talk about Jiangnan Nantong. This place had a very prosperous hand-woven textile industry during the Ming Dynasty. The output of local homemade cloth is very considerable, reaching millions of pieces a year.

It's just that after the establishment of the Great Chu Empire, it vigorously supported the industrial and commercial development of Songjiang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture and other Jiangnan provinces.

The textile industry in these places is also in this wave, rapidly transforming into mechanical textiles, and its competitiveness is far superior to that of homemade cloth... On the other hand, due to a series of problems such as war and subsequent taxation in Jiangbei and Nantong, the local textile industry's homemade cloth industry suffered. In the seventh year of Chengshun, many local textile factories in Nantong merged and established Nanhe Textile Company, which is jointly owned by many local gentry families. , It also once reversed the development of the textile industry in the Jiangbei and Nantong areas.

The rapid development of the local textile industry is also an important factor for Nantong to be upgraded from a prefecture to a prefecture. In the 12th year of Chengshun, Nantong prefecture was officially upgraded to Nantong prefecture, Linghaimen, Chongming, Rugao, Taixing four counties and the first industrial zone of Nantong .

The state was upgraded to a prefecture, and at the same time, certain adjustments were made to the jurisdictions of each prefecture. This was something that the Great Chu Empire often did in the [-]s. After more than ten years of adjustment of local administrative regions, all state-level administrative A standard five-level local administrative model of province-prefecture-county/district-town-village has been formed.

There are no administrative models such as the various prefectures, provinces and prefectures of the previous dynasty.

The development of Nantong Prefecture is a very typical development of the textile industry. Their leading economy, or all industrial and commercial economies are based on the textile industry.

However, in terms of overall competitiveness, it is still not as good as Songjiang and Suzhou on the south bank of the Yangtze River... Suzhou has Suqin Textile Company, which is known as the number one private capital enterprise. There are as many as three... In addition, there are a large number of small and medium-sized textile enterprises.

In terms of the comprehensive strength of the textile industry, Songjiang Prefecture is the well-deserved No. [-] in the country!

The textile industry in Nantong has been facing the competition of these two strong rivals for a long time. Although its own development has been very fast, it has always been overwhelmed.

But even so, Jiangbei Nantong Mansion is still a well-known textile base in the entire Great Chu Empire, and its textile industry output value can enter the top six in the country.

The top five before it are Songjiang, Suzhou, Hantian, Guangzhou and Tianjin.

At the same time, Nantong is also the only city among the top ten cities in the textile industry that focuses on the textile industry, because the other cities are all large-scale comprehensive industrial cities. Although the textile industry is large in scale, it is only a part of their industrial system. Just one ring.

But Nantong is different. Their textile industry is their economic lifeline. The leading industry and all the industrial layout of the whole city are carried out around the textile industry. Other industries in it are basically supporting the textile industry. .

For the textile industry, Nantong Prefecture also has many preferential policies, striving to compete with Songjiang and Suzhou for more funds and talents.

Anhua Textile Company's previous investment in Nantong was actually carried out against this background, but Wang Liqing was unlucky and chose the wrong partner.

But apart from the unlucky Wang Liqing, many investors have done a good job in textiles in Nantong Mansion... and the local textile industry has a characteristic, that is, there are many but small!

Although they have a large comprehensive textile company, that is, Nanhe Textile Company, the scale of Nanhe Textile Company is actually not too large, and it is far from being able to compare with such a behemoth as Su Qin Textile Company.

Su Qin Textile Co., Ltd. has production bases all over the country, with more than 10 employees, and its business types cover all textile industries, from cotton spinning to wool spinning, silk spinning and special textiles... At the same time, in order to reduce costs and risks, Su Qin Textile The company has also invested in a lot of machinery, transportation, animal husbandry, planting, etc. in the form of investment and holding shares, fully penetrating the raw materials of the textile industry to transportation, equipment and other fields.

In China, there is basically no second textile company that can be like Su Qin Textile Company.

Not to mention Nanhe Textile Company.

Nantong's textile industry, although Nanhe Textile Company is a flag, but it is the countless small and medium-sized textile factories and supporting factories that really support Nantong's textile industry.

And there are countless small and medium-sized textile factories in the local area... which means that there are a large number of small and medium-sized weaving factories or comprehensive textile enterprises that need to obtain new cotton yarn from the market!
However, there are not many independent manufacturers that can provide new cotton yarns these days, and there is not even one in Nantong... Nanhe Textile Company does produce new cotton yarns, but like almost all large textile companies, their new cotton yarns are not sold to the public at all. supply!

Under such circumstances, it is only natural that Anhua Textile Company, as the second independent manufacturer in Songjiang Prefecture that can provide new cotton yarn, is sought after by Nantong Textile Enterprises!
Wang Liqing even tried to receive three waves of procurement directors from textile companies in Nantong Prefecture in one day, all of whom wanted to purchase new cotton yarns or even sign long-term supply contracts without exception.

But Wang Liqing had to decline them in the end... It wasn't because he didn't want to, but because there was really no new cotton yarn production capacity left.

Today, Anhua Spinning Company's new cotton yarn production capacity has long been divided up by many partners... and in order to establish more cooperative relationships, establish more stable shipping channels in the future, and avoid being caught by a certain big customer Take it directly.

There are more than 20 partners selected by Wang Liqing, and they are basically carefully selected...not only based on the price and the strength of the other party, but also on the area where the other party is located and the main sales area of ​​the product.

In addition to supplying to five local textile companies in Songjiang, Wang Liqing also supplies to two factories in Nantong, as well as factories in Zhenjiang, Suzhou, Changzhou, Yangzhou, and Hangzhou.

As a result, the new cotton yarn customers of their Anhua Textile Company have expanded from one place in Songjiang Prefecture to many places, covering the north and south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the sales channels of these customers are also different.

After signing long-term and stable cooperation agreements with these customers, the existing production capacity of new cotton yarn in Wang Liqing's factory was basically completely gone.

Not only the existing production capacity, but also the estimated production capacity in the next three months have been sold first...

If you want new excess production capacity, you can only wait until the third and last batch of new cotton yarn equipment arrives in three months.

It's just that the production capacity formed after the last batch of equipment is in place is not too much. Wang Liqing must be more cautious about the new production capacity that will only be available in three months...

He still hopes to use these new cotton yarns to play a certain role in promoting the development of his own factory, rather than simply making quick money...

This is also because he did not blindly sell the new cotton yarn in bulk temporarily, although the price of the bulk sale is relatively high... Instead, he would rather sign a long-term supply agreement with each selected manufacturer at a relatively par price.

A long-term and stable strategic cooperative partner is what Wang Liqing pursues.

After all, the supply of new-type cotton yarn is in short supply, and it may be sold at a high price in a short period of time to make more money, but what about two or three years later?
It is impossible for the new cotton yarn to be in short supply all the time. He has heard the news in the industry that Hantian Machinery Company has formally finalized a strategic cooperation agreement with Songjiang Third Machinery Company. It is rumored that according to the agreement, Songjiang Third Machinery Company will produce The new type of cotton yarn equipment has been applied to the market... It is conceivable that more new types of equipment will enter the market within a few months.

What he doesn't know is that in order to further plunder the profits in the market and grab more profits from the new cotton yarn equipment before a series of competitors, Hantian Machinery Company did not blindly produce by itself...even if they Expanding production every day and working overtime cannot meet the needs of many textile industries across the country in a short period of time.

They have adopted a very rare patent licensing cooperation model for themselves, selected more than ten cooperative manufacturers nationwide, and used the production capacity of their partners to quickly occupy the market... Every time a partner sells a Each device, they can get a high patent licensing fee.

Moreover, the behavior of using partners to seize the market can also effectively attack competitors... After all, the market is so big. After Hantian Machinery Company and its partners ate the fattest meat in the early stage, competitors such as Li's Machine Tool Company are struggling. After working so hard to create a new type of spinning machine, it is estimated that they can only gnaw some bone scum.

The fierce competition among these textile equipment manufacturers will also directly affect the downstream textile industry.

When Wang Liqing heard the news, he immediately predicted that the good days of his factory would only last for two or three years, or even just over a year.

If it only takes a little more than a year, no matter how much you earn, you will not be able to earn much by relying on the production capacity of new cotton yarn...

The two major features of new cotton yarn are lower production cost and better quality!

Of course, there are almost no new cotton yarn factories that use these equipment to produce cheap goods, and they all go for high-end cotton yarn with better quality, so that they can be sold at a higher price.

But the high-end cotton yarn market is limited, and sometimes better quality does not necessarily mean that it can be sold at a higher price... Even if there is, the market demand is just like that.

Therefore, Wang Liqing believes that relying solely on selling high prices in the high-end market, there is no way for his assets to skyrocket in a short period of time... he can earn more, but it is not enough!

However, relying on the scarcity of new cotton yarns in the market now, select and develop more strategic partners, and wait until a year or two later when a large number of new equipments appear and the new cotton yarn market tends to be stable, then these strategic partners will become safe. It is an important part of Hua Textile Company's long-term and stable development.

That's why Wang Liqing is more inclined to sign long-term supply agreements with good partners...Because in a short period of time, customers need him...But in the long term, it takes two or three years, and in less than a year, he needs these customers.

Taking advantage of the special market, grab customers first... This is Wang Liqing's main goal in this round of textile industry reform.

So far, it's doing pretty well...the existing more than 20 major strategic customers are all very good.

But this is still not enough... There are countless independent textile manufacturers in the market, but he, Wang Liqing, only has a dozen or so...

He, Wang Liqing, is still ordering new cotton yarn equipment. After hearing that Hantian Machinery Company and Songjiang No. [-] Machinery Company signed a patent authorization in February this year, he has officially placed an order with Songjiang No. [-] Machinery Company... His order is still Songjiang What about the first batch of orders for the machinery company's new cotton yarn equipment business?

No way, when other people didn't know the news, or were still hesitating after knowing the news, or held a meeting to discuss, report to the headquarters and many other operations, Wang Liqing had already brought a check to the door that day and signed the purchase order directly. Not even the price is too much nonsense.

Optimistically, Wang Liqing will be able to obtain the first batch of new equipment from Songjiang No. [-] Machinery Company in two or three months after Hantian Machinery Company delivers the last batch of equipment in June !
And the number of these equipments is extremely huge, Wang Liqing is almost ready to spend all the profits of the existing and new cotton yarns in the next three years.

More equipment means more capacity, and more capacity means more customers!

So at this stage, how to find and maintain more customers is Wang Liqing's primary problem.

However, Wang Liqing's Anhua Textile Company is not the only one that sees historical opportunities and develops rapidly. There are also other textile companies. Needless to say, those large-scale comprehensive textile companies have launched a vigorous revolution in new cotton yarn since last year. .

Strictly speaking, Anhua Textile Company is just a follower...

Even among independent spinning manufacturers, Anhua Textile Company is not the first, and it is not even the first manufacturer in Songjiang Prefecture to use new cotton yarn equipment to produce new cotton yarn. Before them, there is another company that was not very good before last year. It's not obvious, but it has been extremely popular this year, and the "Lvtai Textile Company" is more beautiful than Anhua Textile Company.

(End of this chapter)