Wang Shouren, a noble Hanlin, just needs to stay in the Hanlin Academy with peace of mind and quietly walk the path his father Wang Hua walked, so that the Wang family can really reach its peak in the future.
Wang Hua has achieved the position of Six Ministers and Nine Ministers, and Wang Shouren can also achieve it. Because the Wang family will gain huge benefits, it will be many times better than other people who worked hard to build this Caiyun Textile Factory.
Once that time comes, Wang Shouren will have whatever he wants, and no matter how many pieces of cloth he wants, someone will deliver it to his home.
Of course, this is what Wang Gui and Wang Xian thought, and it was also what most people in this era thought. It was difficult for them to understand Wang Shouren's exploratory spirit.
He did not open a textile factory, he was exploring, researching, and studying a knowledge that no one had ever studied and explored.
The textile factories started by Liu Jin and Wang Shouren were quickly put into operation. A lot of money was spent. It was also possible to feel the speed of this era. To be precise, it should be the diligence of the descendants of the Yan and Huang Dynasties.
In just one month, the Caiyun Textile Factory founded by Wang Shouren began to officially put into production.
There are brand-new spinning machines and looms here, and more than a hundred recruited workers are spinning and weaving seriously, making the whole factory feel the sound of wood rubbing against each other.
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"Uncle Xian, my plan was to recruit 500 people, but why have I only hired more than 100 people now?"
Wang Shouren inspected the factory. His plan was to open a large-scale textile factory with a scale of thousands or even tens of thousands of people.
However, Wang Shouren also has a plan in his work. He is not trying to reach this scale all at once, but is preparing to recruit 500 people to test the water first, see the situation, and get familiar with the situation of the textile industry, and then slowly expand step by step.
own scale.
"Sir, it's really difficult to recruit workers here in the capital. I offered one, two and a half cents of silver per month, plus three meals a day, but I could only recruit more than a hundred people. No matter how many more people there are, I really can't recruit them.
arrive."
Wang Xian said helplessly. After coming to the capital, he really discovered that the labor supply here in the capital was extremely tight and it was difficult to recruit people. If such conditions were available in Zhejiang, he would want to recruit people.
You can recruit as many people as you want.
You must know that textile industry does not require strong labor force. Women can do it, and even children can do it. In this era, there is no such thing as child labor, and there is no saying that children are not allowed to be employed.
With such treatment, if it were here in Zhejiang, we could really recruit as many people as we needed.
But this is the capital city. There are too many factories and workshops, and they need a lot of workers. Many factories have been forced to offer higher wages, or they have to go to Shanxi.
Recruiting workers in Shandong, Henan and other places.
Wang Xian offered such conditions because it was really difficult for him to recruit people.
Wang Shouren looked at the employees in his textile factory. Many of them were children, only in their teens, and they were all girls. They were all very immature, but they worked very seriously.
Girls have not been taken seriously since ancient times, especially girls from ordinary families. This is especially true for girls who have certainly not read books, but they have plenty of work to do. Nowadays, textile factories are recruiting workers. For ordinary families, they can just use the money at home.
Girls are sent out to work to earn money, and they can earn a lot of money for their families before getting married.
"How many people have been hired by Liu Jin's factory?"
After thinking for a while, Wang Shouren asked again.
"The Beijing Textile Factory has recruited a total of two thousand people in the first batch. The monthly salary they offer is high, the treatment is good, and it is easy to recruit people. Many people are relying on connections to send their own female dolls.
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Wang Xian replied that Wang Shouren now has to compare everything with the Jingcheng Textile Factory, so Wang Gui and Wang Xian should always pay attention to the movements of the Jingcheng Textile Factory.
"Well, it seems that if we want to expand next, the monthly payment will definitely have to be increased, otherwise it will be difficult to recruit enough people."
Wang Shouren nodded and thought about it for a while before remembering this.
"Sir, let's not be in a hurry to expand. Let's take it step by step. One hundred people is a very big factory."
Wang Gui and Wang Xian on the side looked at each other, thought for a while and said.
The two of them always felt that Wang Shouren was just for fun. When he got tired of playing, he would naturally stop playing. The money they spent now was just for his fun and entertainment.
The Wang family has a huge business, so this amount of money can be easily obtained, but if it continues to expand its scale, the amount of money invested will become larger and larger, and the price of this game will be too high.
"Hmm~"
Wang Shouren nodded unequivocally.
Time passed day by day, and soon, a week passed. Caiyun Textile Factory also woven the first batch of cloth, and the number was only one hundred and fifty pieces of white cloth.
One hundred and fifty pieces of white cloth were sold by Caiyun Textile Factory for two hundred and fifty pieces of silver each, for a total of less than thirty taels of silver.
Listening to Wang Gui and Wang Xian's report, Wang Shouren couldn't laugh or cry. After spending so much money, his first income was only less than thirty taels of silver. He really had to lose money to his grandma's family.
Calculating this month's revenue is only more than 100 taels of silver, and just paying wages to these employees costs 150 taels of silver every month, plus buying cotton, machines, etc., this is enough
Blood loss.
"Sir, are we still open?"
Wang Gui looked at Wang Shouren's appearance and asked weakly.
In his opinion, as long as he knows that there is no money to be made by opening this textile factory, he will soon transfer his energy to his own job, and concentrating on his official career is the right way to go.
"Yes, of course it is open~"
Wang Shouren was unmoved, then thought for a while and said, "Do you think there is a machine that can allow one person to weave several pieces of cloth in a day?"
He thought of the new spinning machines and looms Liu Jin mentioned. According to Liu Jin, these new spinning machines and looms can greatly improve the efficiency of spinning and weaving, far beyond what he can do in his own hands.
These traditional spinning machines can be compared.
"This is impossible. How can there be such a machine? How can one person weave several pieces of cloth in a day?"
When Wang Xian and Wang Gui heard this, they immediately shook their heads. They have been in this industry for a long time and know very well how to spin and weave. From south to north, everyone has been using the same spinning machines and looms.
, the efficiency is about the same, it just depends on the level of proficiency.
"Let's go, I'll take you to the Jingcheng Textile Factory."
Wang Shouren smiled, thought for a moment and took the two of them to the capital textile factory.
When Wang Shouren came, Liu Jin happened to be in his factory. When he heard that Wang Shouren, an outstanding person, came to visit, Liu Jin naturally received him with a smile on his face.
"Brother Wang, I heard that you also opened a spinning factory?"
Liu Jin walked with Wang Shouren in the spinning factory and took Wang Shouren to visit his factory, chatting while walking.
"Brother Liu is dissatisfied, I'm here to learn from you this time."
Wang Shouren smiled and nodded, looking carefully at Liu Jin's spinning factory in Beijing.
Compared with his own Caiyun Spinning Factory, Liu Jin's factory is truly grand. The factory is very large and covers a wide area. Only a small part of it is put into use at this time, and there are a large number of machines nearby.
The factory is under constant construction.
All the textile factories that have been built are hardened with cement. They are clean, tidy, and neatly planned. There are also trees planted on both sides of the road.
On the cement road in this spacious and clean factory park, there were people pushing four-wheeled vehicles constantly going to and from each factory, which seemed very busy.
The factory building is also very atmospheric. It is built very high and has large windows. All the windows are made of glass, so the light inside the factory is very good. It is not as dark as my own factory, which is used during the day.
Just like the dark night.
Compared with Liu Jin's factory, his own factory is like an ugly duckling, shady and unable to take action.
Wang Gui and Wang Xian, who were following Wang Shouren, were dumbfounded. This investment must be too big. To build such a huge factory with such a high level of quality, it is simply not enough to invest less than hundreds of thousands of silver.
"Haha, Brother Wang, feel free to look at it, and feel free to ask if you don't understand anything."
When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately laughed happily and said generously.
"Brother Liu, how many pieces of cloth can you weave in a week?"
Wang Shouren thought for a while and asked.
"Let me think about it, maybe fifty thousand pieces of cloth were woven last week."
Liu Jin thought for a while and replied.
"Fifty thousand horses?"
When Wang Gui and Wang Xian heard this, they were immediately dumbfounded and shouted out in disbelief. Even Wang Shouren had already had a premonition in his heart and couldn't help but slightly widen his eyes at this time.
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"This is impossible. Even if your factory has a large number of people, it is simply impossible to weave 50,000 pieces of cloth in this week."
Wang Xian shook his head repeatedly, unable to believe this number at all.
It is very clear how many people there are in Liujin Factory now. The scale of 2,000 people is 20 times that of Caiyun Textile Factory. Logically speaking, the output should be about 20 times that of Caiyun Textile Factory. It is more reasonable. In total, it is three thousand pieces of cloth.
about.
But now Liu Jin actually said that their weekly output has reached 50,000 horses, which is more than ten times that of 3,000 horses. The difference in the figures is so huge that it makes people think that Liu Jin is just bragging without telling the truth.
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"It's impossible. We can spin 50,000 pieces of cloth in one week. This output is really too large."
Wang Gui also nodded and said, they are old people in this industry. The output of Caiyun Textile Factory managed and produced by the two of them is not even one-tenth of that here. How can they believe this.
