Liu Jin's delivery was very fast, and Wang Shouren paid the money readily. After only a few days of waiting, the 20 spinning machines and 10 looms Wang Shouren needed arrived.
This made Wang Xian and Wang Gui couldn't help shouting again, and almost called Liu Jin a profiteer. They made 20,000 taels of silver in just a few days. The speed of making money was almost as fast as robbery.
Silver is average.
The spinning machine and weaving factory bought from Liu Jin were quickly installed and debugged in place. This kind of machine is still a very simple machine, and there is nothing too difficult.
After thorough research, Liu Jin adopted the assembly line working method. The machine can be manufactured very quickly, the installation and debugging are also quite simple, and it can be put into use quickly.
With the operation of the machine, a large amount of cotton is quickly transformed into cotton thread, and then the cotton thread is quickly woven into pieces of cloth. This speed is much faster than the previous traditional spinning and weaving speed.
"Tsk, the quality of this cloth is very good, very dense, it is definitely the best cotton."
Holding the newly woven cotton cloth, Wang Gui couldn't help but check it carefully. This machine weaves cloth very quickly, but the quality of the cloth is also very critical.
In this era, because all the cloth is hand-woven, it often depends on the weaver's craftsmanship. The cloth woven with good craftsmanship is very dense and can withstand tearing and pulls well, while the cloth woven with poor craftsmanship will be very dense.
The quality is very poor.
The famous Suzhou brocade in the Jiangnan area is one of the best quality cloths. Of course, there are also famous cloths such as Shu brocade, Yunmian, Lu silk, Hangzhou satin, etc. The quality of these cloths is very good. The most important thing is
They are all very dense.
"It is indeed the finest cotton, and all the fabrics woven can reach this level. This is the most important thing."
Wang Xian is also carefully inspecting the newly woven cotton cloth. Compared with hand-woven cotton cloth, the quality is much better and the output is higher.
“This machine is really expensive, but it’s really worth every penny~”
Wang Gui couldn't help but touch the looms on the side. In his eyes, these looms were like mountains of gold and silver.
Wang Shouren also touched the newly woven cotton cloth carefully. During this period of time, he also visited various cloth shops in the capital and got to know all kinds of cloth.
Things like cloth are very different.
The best fabric is naturally made from silk. For example, Luzhou in Shanxi Province produces the famous Lu silk. The price of a piece of Lu silk is about three taels of silver. Lu silk feels thick, durable, exquisite and bright, and is considered a good choice.
The best cloth in this era.
Some cheap cloths even cost less than 200 yuan a piece. Generally, such cloths are linen, with poor quality and low price, but the sales volume is very large.
The cotton cloth woven by the loom in front of you feels very thick. Because everything is preset for spinning and weaving by machine, the quality of the woven cloth is very reliable and guaranteed.
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"How much do you think our cotton cloth can sell for per piece?"
Wang Shouren thought for a while and asked.
"Such high-quality cotton will cost at least nine hundred coins a piece, and it will definitely be very popular."
Wang Gui thought for a while and said with certainty.
"It's almost the same price, but I heard that all the cloth spun by the Jingcheng Textile Factory has not been sold yet, and is all being hoarded. I don't know what Mr. Liu has planned. Once the Jingcheng Textile Factory puts out the cloth,
If you go to the market, you may not be able to sell it for 900 cash per horse, but if you sell it for about 800 cash, there will definitely be no problem."
Wang Xian also nodded, and then thought about it and told the news he had learned.
"Nine hundred coins per horse?"
Wang Shouren couldn't help but secretly marveled. The cotton cloth he used to weave on a traditional loom could only be sold for 300 cash per piece, but now it can be sold for 900 cash per piece. The price difference is three times.
Of course, machine-woven cloth is thicker and requires more cotton. However, it does not use twice the amount of cotton, but it can be sold for three times the price.
Coupled with the speed of weaving, Wang Shouren immediately knew that the business of weaving was indeed profitable, and it was very profitable.
"Why doesn't Liu Jin sell the cloth he weaves?"
Then Wang Shouren began to think again, it makes no sense if the cloth is not sold, and if the cloth is not sold, what is the use of keeping it?
This made Wang Shouren very puzzled. He now runs a textile factory, and he knows the importance of circulating funds. If it were not for the support of the Wang family, he would not be able to withstand the hardship with the initial ten thousand taels of silver.
Once a factory has no circulating funds, it will soon face bankruptcy. The products it produces must be sold as soon as possible to collect the funds.
"It seems that we still have to find time to visit Liu Jin's textile factory in Beijing."
Wang Shouren thought so in his heart.
Wang Shouren's Caiyun Textile Factory had new textile machines, and the weaving speed began to increase significantly. In the same week, with the same people, Caiyun Textile Factory weaved almost three thousand pieces of new cotton cloth.
Wang Shouren sold these three thousand pieces of cotton cloth for 1,800 taels of silver. Excluding all expenses, he could make a net profit of about 800 taels.
"Earning 800 taels of silver in seven days, almost 3,000 taels of silver in a month, and more than 30,000 taels of silver in a year~"
"Hoo~ this, this~"
After selling out the cloth, Wang Shouren, Wang Gui and Wang Xian couldn't help but make some simple calculations. It was not that they didn't know, but they were shocked.
Such a small textile factory, which only employs more than 100 people, can actually earn more than 30,000 taels of silver a year. This is simply incredible. This money is so profitable.
At first, they thought that Wang Shouren opened this textile factory just for fun, not to make money at all, and there was no way to make any money at all.
But now if you do the math, you can not only make money, but also make a lot of money.
This made Wang Gui and Wang Xian, two old men in the cloth industry, unable to help but breathe heavily.
"Sir, these are just 20 spinning machines and 10 looms. If we expand this scale ten times and produce cloth day and night, we can easily earn almost half a million yuan a year.
Two pieces of silver!"
Wang Xian said very excitedly.
He didn't even realize that at this moment, his face was no different from that of later generations of capitalists. He saw a lot of opportunities to make money, and even thought of working day and night, which would inevitably lead to a day shift.
and night shift, a two-shift system appears.
At the same time, the first thing that comes to mind is to expand production capacity and expand the scale of one's own factory in order to earn more money, but there is no thought about what if more people join the industry, competition will form, sales will remain unsalable, or
What will happen if the selling price cannot be met?
Of course, they don't need to consider this issue now, because Ming Dynasty itself is a very huge market. It is not like the countries in Europe, each one is a little bigger, and its own market is very small, so it needs to rely on outsiders a lot of the time.
market.
The huge market of the Ming Dynasty was enough for the initial development of capital to obtain sufficient markets and raw materials, which was unmatched by other countries.
"Earn five hundred thousand taels of silver a year?"
Hearing Wang Xian's words, Wang Shouren also widened his eyes slightly.
Although he comes from a big family like the Wang family, and his family is very wealthy, he also knows that the Wang family's annual profits from various industries add up to tens of thousands of taels of silver, not even one hundred thousand taels.
So he was surprised to hear that if the current scale was expanded ten times, the annual profit could reach 500,000 taels of silver.
Originally I just wanted to give it a try and explore the knowledge contained in it, but I didn't expect that it would create a new and important source of wealth for the Wang family.
Earning hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year is absolutely an astronomical figure. In the past, only the big salt merchants, grain merchants, tea merchants, and cloth merchants could earn so much silver, and they had to be very large-scale.
Only then.
Who would have thought that just by running a factory, you can earn so much money in a year.
This made Wang Shouren couldn't help but think about it again.
"No wonder Liu Jin said that the industries he runs are all beneficial to the country and the people. If my factory's production capacity is expanded ten times, the number of employees required will need to be expanded by about twenty times, which means that it will need to recruit more than 2,000 people.
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"I can earn money myself, and more than two thousand people can also have a stable job. These two thousand people are two thousand families, and tens of thousands of people can benefit from it."
"And the court can also collect taxes and money from it, which will produce more cloth and allow more people to afford clothes, which will benefit the country and the people."
"That's it~That's it~"
Soon, Wang Shouren seemed to vaguely understand something, and his eyes suddenly began to shine. He didn't believe Liu Jin's words at first, but now that he has experienced it himself, he can clearly understand the benefits of it.
He made money himself, and the employees in the factory also had a stable and good job. The court could receive tax money, and the people also had more cloth to make clothes. There were many benefits.
"Young Master~ Young Master~"
At this time, Wang Gui's voice brought Wang Shouren back to reality.
"Oh~oh, what's wrong?"
Wang Shouren came back to his senses, and a door opened in his heart. He seemed very excited at this time.
"Sir, we need to quickly place more orders with Liu Jin and buy more machines like this. We must not miss this good opportunity to make money."
