He wants to take this opportunity to promote equal pay for men and women for equal work, and he has been sparing no effort to implement it in Changle Village, but the influence of Changle is too small after all, and the influence of female silk reeling workers is very large.

In addition, he also wanted to take this opportunity to liberate women and attract women to go out of the family and participate in work, not only the machine silk reeling factory needs female workers, but also Tianbao watch factory, newspaper hall, western hospital, military doctors, kindergarten teachers, and later silk weaving industry, textile industry need a large number of women.

Silk reeling women are a good breakthrough, he took advantage of this opportunity to offer high salaries to female workers, is to cause a sensation in Guangzhou and the surrounding prefectures and counties, break the inherent concept, for the future in Guangzhou to open a factory to recruit female workers to lay a good foundation.

Of course, he couldn't say these thoughts openly, and he muttered a little before he spoke: "There are three reasons for giving female workers high salaries, one is that the environment of the silk reeling workshop is too poor, humid and stuffy, the smell of silkworm cocoons is pungent, and the hands of female workers have to be immersed in the water of silk reeling for a long time, and they have to stand for a long time, and they are prone to illness after working for a long time, so they must be given high salaries."

Secondly, high salaries are conducive to attracting female workers to work in the silk reeling factory, you all know that the mixing of men and women is immoral, and female workers do not have this concern? Female workers' families, relatives and friends don't have this concern? The salary is low, who wants to come? Only a high salary is enough for them and their families to ignore this and not care about it.

In addition, if we set up a machine silk reeling factory, if the livelihood of most families is cut off by hand, the high salary can compensate for their dissatisfaction and losses, which is conducive to easing the relationship between the factory and the local mulberry farmers and silkworm farmers. ”

His three reasons are a bit far-fetched. But it is not unreasonable, no one dared to speak against it easily for a while, and after being silent for a while, Chen Jiawang said with a big grin: "Women earn more money than men in a year, so the family is not turned upside down?" ”

Yi Zhixiang smiled and said, "For the poor." Earning money, eating well, and living a good life are the big things, and no one cares if the world is turned upside down. ”

Chen Jiawang said boldly: "But in this way, the profit of the silk reeling factory will be low." ”

"It depends on how it is calculated." Yi Zhizu glanced at everyone and said: "Forty-eight yuan a year, it is more than enough to support a family of five, which is enough to attract women from Guangzhou and surrounding prefectures and counties to come to work in the silk reeling factory, what does this mean?" Many female workers compete for a seat. This will stimulate the female workers to continuously improve their productivity, which is six times more efficient at the moment, and ten times or even twelve times more efficient! Does the factory lose or gain? ”

If the work efficiency is increased to ten times or twelve times, it means that hundreds of catties of raw silk are reeled in more than a year, which is a profit of hundreds of taels of silver. However, I was a little unconvinced. Ten times twelve times more efficient, how can it be so easy?

He Shutai and Wang Chaoyi glanced at each other, and said with a smile: "No matter how big or small, the big shopkeeper is farther than we think, Cheng, tomorrow we will post a notice to recruit female workers." The monthly salary is four oceans, and as soon as this notice is posted, I am afraid that it will cause a sensation in all parts of the country. ”

"There is no rush to post job posters." Yi Zhizu waved his hand and said, "Longjiang's annual raw silk output ...... It's 6,000 quintals, right? ”

He Shutai hurriedly nodded and said, "The big shopkeeper has a good memory, it is more than six thousand quintals." ”

"The output of the reeling machine is too different from my expectations. A machine only reels more than one load of silk a year, and it cannot digest the cocoons of Longjiang. Yi Zhizhi groaned: "The original plan of 400 machines is far from enough, how about expanding to 3,000 machines?" ”

Three thousand? Wang Chaoyi said worriedly: "Longjiang alone is 3,000 units, and the entire Shunde needs more than 20,000 silk reeling machines, how many units can Guangzhou make in a year?" ”

Wu Changqing had seen the high efficiency of standardized production, and immediately smiled: "As long as it can be imitated, it is not difficult to produce 10,000 units a year." ”

"What Changqing said is that 10,000 units a year is not a difficult thing." Yi Zhishu continued: "The structure of the silk reeling machine is simple, and it is not difficult to imitate, and the mechanization, standardization, and streamlining operation will be adopted to meet the needs of Shunde County next year." ”

Produce 20,000 silk reeling machines a year! A group of silk merchants are in disbelief expressions, what mechanization, standardization, streamlined operations, they don't understand, one by one is wondering, how big is the machine manufacturing plant in Guangzhou? How many craftsmen are there? I have never heard that there is such a big factory in Guangzhou.

Yi Zhi lazily paid attention to what they were thinking, and then asked, "How long can the cocoons you bought be stored?" ”

Longjiang is the first machine silk reeling factory to be built, and He Shutai has purchased the most silkworm cocoons, listening to this, he hurriedly replied: "The processed dry cocoons are not a problem to put for a year, but they are prone to insect pests and are generally not stored." As he spoke, he tentatively asked, "Do you want to let some of it out?" ”

"How much did you charge?"

"Twenty thousand quintals." He Shutai was afraid that he wouldn't understand, so he explained: "Usually it is eight loads of cocoons and one load of silk, that is, two thousand five hundred loads of silk. ”

"Sell half of it." Yi Zhizhi said: "From next month, there will be a continuous supply of energy for your silk reeling machines, and France will also send 200 silk reeling machines, and you will train skilled female workers first." ”

Coming out of the silk reeling factory, Yi Zhifen and his party rushed back to Xiguan by fast boat, in the cabin, a group of businessmen's children gags, Hu Kanhai blowing, Yi Zhifen was not very interested, sitting alone in the stern smoking cigars, he really did not expect that the output of the silk reeling machine would be so low, a year to reel silk more than a burden, which disrupted his entire plan, this year to popularize machine silk reeling in Shunde County is hopeless, which is equivalent to delaying the plan for a whole year.

The following year, crows broke out. After the war, the foreign trade of the Qing Dynasty will resume after the war, and it is a five-port trade, Shanghai will become the new favorite of European countries, if Yuan Qi can not be in the crow. Before the end of the war, the situation of opening the two rivers, I am afraid that the variables behind this are not beyond his control.

There are too many unknown variables, he doesn't know if his plan can be implemented, what he needs most now is time! Time? There was a flash in his mind that he couldn't stop the crow. With the outbreak of the war, can't we delay the end of the war?

Thinking of this, his mood suddenly brightened, with a flick of his fingers, half of the cigar drew a parabola and fell into the river, Wu Changqing slowly paced over with a folding fan at this time, and said: "Brother Contentment is depressed, but he is worried about the silk reeling machine?" ”

"There's nothing to worry about." Yi Zhishu got up and stretched as he spoke, and said, "Everything is under control, don't worry." (To be continued.) )