Chapter 716 The highly competitive textile industry!
Jidu, Guo Mansion!
Guo Jia has now become an official of Cao Cao's permanent residence in Daqian. Because he lives for a long time, it is not easy for Guo Jia to stay in a hotel all the time. Especially when these foreign students also come to Jidu, there is a place to live. Their stronghold is very important!
And Guo Jia also has his own career in Daqian. He is a famous writer in Daqian. The articles he currently writes are among the best in the Daqian newspaper industry, especially the current affairs newspapers. I like Guo Jia’s articles about Daqian’s economy the most. Articles about institutions also command the highest prices. Now Guo Jia can earn tens of thousands in royalties for an article.
So now Guo Jiaguang can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by writing articles, and he used this money to buy a relatively large mansion in a peripheral area of Jidu!
Cao Cao's letter was brought to Guo Jia's mansion along with the caravan ship!
When Guo Jia read Wan Caocao's letter, his eyes lit up. He was a far-sighted person and understood the power of the wave of industrialization. That's why he asked Cao Cao to send overseas students to study manufacturing machinery, because he could feel that the steam engine was future!
Originally, Guo Jia's idea was that Cao Ang and his group of overseas students would return to Crab Island after completing their studies and start the wave of industrialization on Crab Island. But now that Cao Cao and the others have thought of borrowing chickens to lay eggs, they can start the wave of industrialization on Crab Island in advance!
He didn't realize that Crab Island has a labor cost advantage. Nowadays, it doesn't cost a few thousand to recruit a highly skilled female worker. Even a clumsy female worker can easily find a job worth thousands of dollars!
On Crab Island, the economy is still extremely primitive. After Cao Cao merged the original Yamatai Kingdom, the internal economic system has not undergone any new changes.
After the barbarians on Wo Island recognized Cao Cao as their king, they recognized Cao Cao as their master. All the harvest they got from farming was handed over to Cao Cao, who then redistributed it to them. So even if they earned all the money they earned from working in Dagan Even after being taken away by Cao Cao, there was no complaint.
Cao Cao also liked this system and had no intention of changing it. Instead, he tried his best to maintain the idea of these barbarians, so Cao Cao would return half of their profits (this was better than Cao Cao's treatment of his own army soldiers. Not only did the army soldiers If you have to work for Cao Cao, you will have to have more than half of the proceeds taken away by Cao Cao!)
Of course, the money will not be distributed, it is mainly for the materials needed for their own lives, and the savages who have not yet adapted to feudal life are very satisfied with this distribution method! I think Cao Cao is a great king!
Only then did Guo Jia suddenly realize that under the distribution system like Crab Island, labor costs were extremely low. It could be said that as long as the factory owner met the requirement of having enough to eat, the female workers in Crab Island did not need a salary at all.
But soon Guo Jia slapped himself and said: "How can you not get a salary? The minimum is 500 yuan!"
Because he suddenly thought that the salary of these female workers belonged to Cao Cao. This was much better than the cheap and generous merchants. Moreover, Guo Jia also understood the virtues of the generous merchants. They would laugh if it was as low as 500 yuan. died!
Because Guo Jia wanted to maintain the trade route between Daqian and Crab Island, he had good relations with many merchants in Daqian. They often complained to him during their daily gatherings.
Nowadays, the labor cost of Daqian is high. In the past, you could recruit a worker for 200-300 yuan for food and accommodation in Dahanbao. But at the end of the Ling Emperor, there was no need to talk about salary. As long as you had a bite to eat, you could recruit any worker. to a large group of people.
But now, if you don’t have 700-800 yuan, you can’t even think about it. And even so, you still need various benefits during holidays. You need to prepare ice water in the summer and hot water in the winter, otherwise you won’t be able to retain people.
These businessmen complained to them all the time. The government took good care of these workers! They ate and took more, but they were not very capable and had a bad temper! They did not dare to say more because if their workers were even slightly dissatisfied, they would directly Take the bucket and leave!
And Guo Jia also knows that the complaints of his businessman friends are true. It is too easy to live in Daqian now. There are construction sites everywhere in Daqian and there is a shortage of manpower everywhere. You can just find a job. Get a salary of 800-900 yuan.
If you really can't find a job in the city, you will still be welcomed back to your hometown, because there is also a lack of labor in the farm. 100 acres of land is enough for a family to live a prosperous life! And it is easier than a factory. If it weren't for the fact that the countryside is not as lively as the city, each of them would Advanced infrastructure makes life in the city convenient, but now factories will be even more lacking in workers!
So now the businessmen of Daqian really don’t dare to scold the workers under them. Instead, they have to imitate the generals of Daqian, undress them, push them to eat, and try every means to keep the workers under them. These days, if you want to become a successful businessman in Daqian, you have to learn the art of war. When Guo Jia learned about this scene, he had a strange feeling.
After Cao Cao's reminder, Guo Jia discovered that the labor cost of Crab Island can really attract a large number of businessmen to build factories on the island, especially textile factories that require a large population. Every month, the female workers earn a huge sum. expenditure.
So Guo Jia thought for a while and started writing letters to his businessmen friends in Daqian. Many of these people also opened textile factories.
But at this time, their lives were not easy. There were powerful government-run factories such as Mayi Textile Factory. They kept the profits of cloth to an extremely low level, making it difficult for small businessmen like them to make money in the textile industry (relatively Compared with the Mayi textile factory with an annual turnover of tens of billions, any private textile factory is a small businessman), there is also an emerging silk textile industry outside, and the cotton textile industry is rising rapidly, swallowing up the woolen cloth market.
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Especially the cotton textile industry is like a cheat, constantly devouring the woolen cloth market. They can't even stop it, because the cotton textile industry can weave extremely light and sweat-absorbent cotton cloth, which is suitable for the people of Daqian to wear in summer. Thick cotton cloth, cotton coats, and cotton gloves can be produced. With these cotton suits, the winter will not be too cold. It can be said that these are all aimed at the weakness of woolen cloth.
Many wool cloth merchants can only watch the rapid rise of cotton cloth and devour their market. Now smart businessmen have begun to think of ways to switch careers and start producing cotton cloth, and almost can only watch their textile factories gradually decline.
Guo Jia's letter was also a long-lasting rain for them. If workers' salaries could be reduced, they might not be able to compete with the government-run factories in Daqian! So after receiving Guo Jia's letter, these people Everyone started preparing to go to Guo Jia's mansion!