Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

For a time, cloth merchants from all over the country flocked to Jiangnan Mingji Textile Factory.

Because the cloth here is so cheap!

In this era when competition for cotton fabrics was not too fierce, Yang Xian directly used quasi-modern production models, standards, and techniques to carry out large-scale production. Even though he paid those female workers more than twice as much as outside.

But the total cost of producing cotton cloth has been reduced to more than double that of other textile manufacturers.

As costs become cheaper, prices will naturally come down as well.

Although the cotton cloth produced by Mingji Textile Factory is sold cheaply, its profit is still the highest.

And not only is the price cheaper, the quality of Mingji's cotton is much better than those on the market today.

Good quality and cheap!

It's surprising that the other textile factories can beat us.

Totally crushing.

The emergence of Mingji Textile Factory was like a road roller, directly and ruthlessly flattening the entire Ming Dynasty textile market.

A large amount of money is coming in every day. Soon, the income brought by this textile factory to Mingji Trading Company will be second only to Liuli and real estate business.

Textile cloth was one of the ten most profitable industries in ancient times.

The textile industry of the Ming Dynasty was originally concentrated in the Jiangnan area. The merchants in the textile industry were doing business and enjoying the high profits brought by the cloth. However, they were stunned by the sudden entry of Mingji cotton into the market.

At first, those time-honored textile factories didn't take it seriously, thinking that Mingji Textile Factory could not pose a threat to them.

Although Mingji Trading Company has been prestigious over the years, after all, it did not have any relevant experience in the textile industry before this. Wool processing has now been nationalized, so many of them don't know that wool processing originally came from Ming Kee.

After seeing the recruitment notice published by Mingji Trading Company in Jiangnan Daily, these large textile merchants in Jiangnan even sneered at it, becoming even more convinced that Mingji had no experience.

Giving such high wages to female workers would increase the cost burden. When the finished cotton products come out, the price will be high, so how can they be their rivals?

In their minds, their business model, including the cost of materials, labor costs, and transportation costs, has been developed over decades or hundreds of years. It is a model that has been proven to be effective over time.

Almost all the textile merchants in Jiangnan are waiting to see the joke of Mingji Textile Factory.

Until the first batch of cotton cloth shipped from Mingji Textile Factory came out, the price and quality surprised them.

A business firm that had no textile foundation before entered this industry for the first time and was able to weave such high-quality cotton cloth.

If the cotton cloth is of high quality, it can also be explained by the fact that Ming Kee Trading Company hired masters with superb textile technology.

These Jiangnan textile merchants would never believe such a "low" price.

They believe that Mingji Textile Factory is engaging in opening incentives, giving up profits in order to build a reputation, or even selling at a loss.

After a while, Mingji Textile Factory will be unable to support itself and prices will return to normal.

They just waited with their eyes open.

Three days, five days, seven days, half a month

Now a whole month has passed, and these Jiangnan textile merchants have waited until their eyes are red and bloodshot, but they still have not been able to get the price increase for cotton cloth from Mingji Textile Factory.

Not only that, they also lost their own cotton market.

These Jiangnan plutocrats are not fools, on the contrary, they are like individuals. Ten days and a half is already the limit for buying and selling at a loss.

What's more, Mingji Textile Factory's current shipment volume, if it is selling at a loss, they will not be able to sustain it for three to five days.

Therefore, in their opinion, Mingji Textile Factory must have used some new textile technology that they were unaware of.

Just like Huang Daopo back then.

Huang Daopo was a child bride when she was young. Because she could not bear the abuse, she was exiled to Yazhou (the administrative seat is now Yacheng Town, Sanya City, Hainan Province). She stayed in Yazhou for 40 years.

During these forty years, Huang Daopo learned cotton textile techniques from Li women and improved them, summarizing the weaving technology of "staggered yarns, color matching, heald threads, and flower picking". During the Yuanzhen period of the Yuan Dynasty, he returned to his hometown and taught the villagers to improve textile tools, manufacture special machines for rolling, elasticizing, spinning, and weaving, and weave cotton fabrics with various patterns.

It can be said that Huang Daopo alone played an important role in promoting the rapid development of the cotton textile industry and cotton planting industry in the Yangtze River Basin. Later generations praised her as the "female textile technician" who "clothes and quilts the world".

In the eyes of these Jiangnan plutocrats, only in this case can things make sense.

Some people quietly set their sights on Mingji Textile Factory.

It's a pity that Mingji has always focused on protecting core technologies.

Although the female workers in Mingji Textile Factory are now loyal to Mingji and regard this place as their home.

But after all, there are so many people, tens of thousands of them, it is inevitable that some of them cannot withstand the temptation of money.

But even if they bribed them, the female workers in the textile factory would be useless, because in Yang Xian's assembly line production system, everyone in the factory is just a cog in this big machine.

They couldn't see the whole thing.

To give an example, it's like making swords. In the past, swordsmiths selected materials, mined, smelted, and hammered all by themselves. Some swordsmiths might only cast one sword in their lifetime.

In Mingji's various factories, the job you are assigned is probably to pick up the hammer in your hand and hammer down.

clang!

Just say it, and you might not even know what you're doing.

God knows what you are forging, kitchen knives, sickles, hoes, and shovels.

The senior staff who have truly mastered some core technologies are the oldest team members in Yangzhou. Yang Xian is their savior, so naturally he will not betray his old club just for this little money.

After trying various methods to no avail, and seeing their cotton market being eroded step by step at a speed visible to the naked eye, the Jiangnan consortium teamed up to invite someone.

The great scholar of the time was Song Lian.

As the fourth prince in eastern Zhejiang, Song Lian was already connected with the Jiangnan Consortium.

It can be said that throughout the history of the Ming Dynasty.

There was an inexplicable ambiguous relationship between the civil servants of the Qing Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty and the Jiangnan financial group. In terms of interests, both prospered and suffered losses.

This can be seen from the question of whether each dynasty relaxed the maritime ban after Hongwu.

Song Lian was quite old and originally didn't want to get involved in this kind of thing, but when he heard that the target was Mingji Trading Company, his muddy old eyes immediately shone.

Accepted this matter. (End of chapter)