Liu Quan followed Xia Nan into the factory and was immediately attracted by the scene of hundreds of people in full swing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

I saw hundreds of women, most of whom were Li people dressed in Li costumes, operating spinning wheels and looms that had never been seen before, hundreds of spinning wheels were carrying thousands of yarns, the shuttles of the looms were shuttling rapidly, and snow-white cloth was piled up like a mountain.

Liu Quan was shocked, he knew what such a large-scale production meant: how can the efficiency of a small family buying cotton spinning and weaving cloth be compared with this, a family can't weave two pieces of cloth in a day, and this kind of large-scale production is enough to exceed the work of ten or hundreds of families. What's more, ordinary people only weave cloth in their leisure time on weekdays, and they have to farm when they are busy farming, so a thousand households are not comparable to the hundreds of people who work day and night.

The quantity is far exceeded, but what about the quality? Liu Quan looked at the stacked fabric, it was snow-white and delicate, the yarn was even, and he knew that it was a high-quality cotton cloth without touching it.

Liu Quan is becoming more and more incomprehensible to the new owner, daring to kill people, having a strategy, and making such a strange spinning wheel and loom, and being able to open such a large-scale workshop, is it the reincarnation of a wise man? The young master of the Hu family, who is already braided, is older than this old man, and he can't do anything except fight and kill all day long. Thinking of this, my admiration and fear for the new master deepened a little.

At this moment, the chief steward of Tan Shan Tan came, and he reported to Xia Nan the output of the past few days.

Liu Quan looked at the side and blushed, this Tan Shan salt leg one, used to be just a broken village chief in Ma Yuan Village, mediocre and incompetent, and now he actually became the manager of this big workshop, if he didn't surrender, with his own ability, maybe this manager would be himself. No, you have to behave in front of the master.

Liu Quandong looked west, hoping to do something to make the old man look at him. I inadvertently walked to the pile of cloth and touched the feel of the fabric, which didn't feel right, how could it be as smooth as silk? He hurriedly picked up a piece of cloth and stroked it carefully, and sure enough, it was different from ordinary cotton cloth, if he closed his eyes, he must have thought it was silk.

Xia Nan noticed Liu Quan's actions and asked, "Liu Quan, what are you doing?" ”

Liu Quan hurriedly put down the fabric and trotted over: "Master, the villain has made a discovery." The cloth woven in this workshop feels like silk and is better than the finest cotton. ”

"Really?" Xia Nan also went to touch the fabric, and it was really smooth, and I really didn't notice this before.

Liu Quan felt that his opportunity had come, and took the opportunity to ask: "Dare to ask the master, where is this cloth going to be sold and how much is the selling price?" ”

"Sold to Guangzhou, temporarily priced at 80% of the market price."

"Don't, sir, this cloth has both the breathability of cotton cloth and the smoothness of silk, and the price can only be high and not low, the villain suggests that it must be higher than the best cotton cloth and lower than the average silk."

This Liu Quan is also quite business-minded, isn't this opening up a market segment between high-quality cotton and silk? Xia Nan felt that this proposal was worth considering. But then again, it's all cotton cloth, so why is this happening?

Liu Quan found a handful of spun cotton and looked left and right, then ripped off a piece of cotton and pulled it into silk, and told Xia Nan with certainty: "Master, please look, the key is this cotton." The villain has been to Guangzhou, and he has seen the cotton used for spinning by ordinary people, and the silk drawn out is not so long or so tough."

Xia Nan didn't know that the raw material he used, the island cotton, was of better quality than upland cotton, and if Liu Quan hadn't discovered it, it would definitely have been sold as an ordinary upland cotton textile cloth. Hearing Liu Quan say this, he realized that it must be the difference between the cotton varieties produced in Qiongzhou and the mainland, which led to the difference in the quality of the cloth. In this case, the original price must be modified, and this matter must be renegotiated with Zhang Mingli.

Said that Cao Cao Cao arrived, Zhang Mingli came with a few entourages, he happened to return to Qiongzhou from Guangzhou, and as soon as he heard the report of the entourage, he rushed to come non-stop.

As soon as he entered the textile factory, like Liu Quan, he was shocked by the hot production scene. Originally, I suspected that the monthly output of 5,000 pieces of cloth was a brag in the south of the summer, but looking at this scene, it was completely possible.

Zhang Mingli first expressed his congratulations on the opening of the South Textile Factory in the summer, and then directly asked when the goods could be delivered, the payment was ready, and the ship was also moored at the wharf, just waiting for departure.

Xia Nan smiled and waved his hand, "Not busy, Brother Zhang, the price agreed upon before will be renegotiated." ”

Zhang Mingli was in a hurry, the arrow was on the bow, and suddenly came out like this, wouldn't it be that the other party regretted it and wanted to leave himself alone?

"Brother Xia, we have talked about the price before......"

Xia Nan handed over a piece of fabric: "Brother Zhang, look at the quality of this fabric?" ”

Zhang Mingli took the fabric, the first feeling was snow-white and delicate, and after touching it, he found that the feel was comparable to silk, and he couldn't help but say "Huh".

Although he did not start out in the cloth business, the texture of silk and cotton clothes is easy to distinguish, the silk is smooth and high-grade, and the cotton cloth is soft and breathable. The cloth in his hand is obviously cotton, but it has the smooth characteristics of silk, which is better than ordinary high-quality cotton.

After many years of business acumen, he sensed the business opportunities, and he said excitedly: "This kind of fabric can be 20% higher than the market price, and the sales volume will not be bad."

"No, no, Brother Zhang, I decided to sell it at the market price, and the purchase price for you is 2 taels."

Sold at the market price, that is, 4 horses and 3 taels of silver, the purchase price was 2 taels, and his gross profit increased, but this pricing made Zhang Mingli puzzled, obviously the quality is better than the cotton cloth at the same price, why not increase the price?

Looking up at the roof at 45 degrees south in the summer, he sighed in his heart, occupying the market with goods of the same price and better quality, and the huge benefits generated after monopolizing the market are not comparable to the price increase. Who of you understands that I want to defeat all the handmade fabrics on the market and start a cotton revolution in the 17th century? The bird's ambition is to know the ambition of the bird, and life is really lonely like snow!

I don't understand it, Zhang Mingli still made an agreement with Xia Nan verbally, and the sales in Guangzhou cannot exceed the market price, and if the market price fluctuates, he will go with the market.

Over there, the textile factory production was in full swing, and here Zhang Mingli returned to Guangzhou with a shipload of goods.

Since I was not very sure about the cloth business before, I did not open a shop. Zhang Mingli selected a site to prepare to open a cloth shop, and at the same time sent 50 pieces of cloth to an acquaintance's cloth shop for consignment to test the market reaction.

As a result, this silk-smooth cotton cloth was so popular that fifty pieces of cloth were sold out within a few days. Guangzhou City has always had developed maritime trade, there are many rich families, and there are more wealthy families, and rich people buy this kind of cloth to sew clothes for daily life, which is very dry and comfortable, and ordinary people directly wear silk clothes -- although the imperial court's ban on wearing silk has long been a dead letter, but the price of silk is still unbearable for ordinary people, and the feeling of spending cotton money to wear silk clothes is not like?

The market's response strengthened Zhang Mingli's confidence, and Zhang's cloth store was soon open for business.

As promised, he did not follow the advice of the shopkeeper, but only sold at the market price, and the business was very prosperous, and the customers soon inquired about this shop specializing in a kind of cloth, and one after another, a dozen or even thirty or forty horses were sold every day. Soon this kind of cloth became famous in Guangzhou City, because Zhang's cloth company revealed that this cloth came from Qiongzhou, and even had an alias - "Qiongzhou cloth".

Although he was very confident in this fabric, Zhang Mingli still did not expect it to be so popular. The first batch of purchases was only 2,000 horses for trial sale in a hurry, and it was basically sold out in less than a month. At that moment, I decided to continue to buy goods, and took the money to Lingao by boat again.

In order to show his sincerity, although the 2,000 pieces of cloth were not sold, Zhang Mingli still paid the full amount of the goods, totaling 1,500 taels. After confirming that the fabric was selling well, Xia Nan and Lin Weiye were also very happy, which was different from the profit of the salt factory, relying on the technology that was ahead of the times, and it was a sunrise industry, which made them feel a sense of achievement.

But then Zhang Mingli's request plunged them into a blissful agony—increasing the speed and quantity of supplies.

To increase supply is to increase output, to increase output is to expand the scale of production, and to increase the scale of production is to increase the number of workers.

At present, the two hundred people are still cobbled together in the summer, and the female workers in Mayuan Village have affected the output of the salt works, although the wages of the female workers in Tinantong are cheap and even negligible, but there is a limit to the number of women that can be provided by a village. For example, in addition to men, the elderly, and children, there are only two or three hundred women of appropriate age, and the women of the Li nationality not only wash and cook, but also be responsible for the sowing of rice in the mountain bar, if they all come to the high level, the life of the entire village will be paralyzed.

After receiving Zhang Mingli and letting him rest in Hujiazhuang, the two went back to the room to start discussing.

"Workers! Worker! Where to find more workers? Xia Nan turned around in distress, and finally set up a frame for the textile factory and started work smoothly, but immediately faced the problem of employment.

Lin Weiye didn't have much to do, "Otherwise, call other people to have a small meeting and brainstorm ideas, after all, the local natives are more familiar with the situation than us, maybe they have ideas." ”

That's right, how did I forget this stubble. In the old time and space, as the CEO, Xia Nan often held meetings above the head of the department to discuss and solve the problems in the company's operation, and worked together to ensure the progress of a team. At the moment, there are not many people available to me, and we must tap into their potential.

Liu Quan, Tan Shan, female workers' representatives Fu Nanying and Tan's second sister-in-law, and even "military combatants" such as Yang Youji and Huang Hansheng were notified of the meeting.

Everyone sat in the front hall full of questions, asking each other, trying to find out the news from others, what did the two masters want to do - the word meeting is a bit unfamiliar, but it is also easy to understand from a literal point of view, that is, to discuss things together, but since ancient times, I have never heard of the master discussing things with his buddies and subordinates, and the dignity of the master is still needed.

After a while, the two masters appeared.