After dealing with the official reception, Li Zhi began to inspect his property. It took more than four months to go to Ruzhou to aid the suppression, and Li Zhi was very worried about problems with his property.
Li Zhi first went to the textile factory with the most workers.
The textile factory is still the same as before, employing 1,770 people, and the sound of friction of various machines is everywhere. The textile factory directly purchases coarse cotton and finally produces Lijia fine cloth, which can complete the production of the entire industrial chain.
The monthly output is about 31,000 pieces of cloth. These fine cloths are sold all over the country through the Dong family's sales network, bringing Li Zhi a profit of 8,400 taels every month.
The general manager of the textile factory is Li Zhi's uncle Zheng Yuan. Now he has become the general manager and is very successful. He is fast-talking and no longer shy like before. Zheng Yuan's management is not bad. Li Zhi checked the factory and found that there was nothing
No matter what problems are found, there are no loopholes in mechanical confidentiality.
Li Zhi went to the soap workshop to check again.
The soap workshop now has two hundred workers. There are large jars and large iron pots everywhere in the workshop. Workers are constantly adding raw materials to the jars and iron pots, heating and stirring. Today, the soap workshop produces 700,000 pieces of soap every month, of which 50
Sold 10,000 yuan to Xu Mince for sale to Jiangnan, 100,000 yuan to Cui Wending for sale to the capital, and the remaining 100,000 yuan for sale in Tianjin at a price of 20 yuan.
The soap industry can bring Li Zhi a profit of 8,200 taels per month.
The second grandfather Li Yousheng was managing the soap workshop. Li Yousheng was in good health and was more than capable of being the general manager of the soap workshop. Li Zhi chatted with him and found that the second grandfather was very tight in management.
Li Zhi went to look elsewhere.
Cement workshops have begun selling cement to masons in Gyeonggi Province. However, the unit price of cement is cheap, only three cents per pound. The main cost of selling it to various places is freight. If it is far away, the freight is too high and it is not cost-effective. The industry will not be big. One
The cement workshop produces 72,000 kilograms of cement every month, but the profit is only 160 kilograms.
In terms of rifle craftsmen, Li Zhi now has 195 craftsmen, who can produce nearly 200 mini rifles every month. Each gun costs ten taels, and Li Zhi spends two thousand taels of silver every month to produce rifles.
.By the end of November in the eighth year of Chongzhen's reign, Li Zhi already had more than 2,000 rifles.
With these rifles, the more than 600 recruits who stayed behind in Fanjiazhuang also practiced target shooting for several months and were considered qualified recruits. The two thousand servants were all armed with rifles. With these two thousand soldiers, Li Zhi felt that his waist was straight again.
Some.
Li Zhi's current strength has surpassed Tianjin's largest army, the 3,000-man Zhenhai Battalion. Although Li Zhi did not reveal his strength, the garrison and Bingbei Road were all polite when they met Li Zhi.
After all, this is the chaotic time of the late Ming Dynasty, and if you have soldiers and horses, you will have strength.
As for the artillery workshop, eighty six-pound cannons have been produced in the past six months, which is enough for Li Zhi to use. The proportion of artillery cannot be too high, so Li Zhi asked the workshop to stop producing six-pound cannons and instead explore the production of 18-pound heavy cannons for Fanjiazhuang city defense.
defensive artillery.
The design drawing of the eighteen-pound gun that Li Zhi drew for the gunsmiths was based on a heavy artillery called the "standard long gun" by the English in this era: this kind of cannon weighed 3,700 kilograms, had a caliber of 3.92 inches, and a gun length of ten
feet, with a direct range of 1,500 meters and a projectile range of 6,000 meters. Li Zhi's gunsmiths used the iron core and copper body method to cast the cannon, which probably made the cannon much lighter.
Li Zhi asked the gunsmiths to explore and trial-produce it. They were not afraid of failure if they tried several times, as long as they could make it in a few months.
Li Zhi checked the glass workshop one last time.
The glass workshop is Li Zhi's third more profitable industry. Li Zhi asked Li Xing to inquire and found that the supply of glass wine sets was now in short supply. The glass workshop can produce 250 sets of glass wine sets and 50 sets of glass tea sets every month.
The glass tea sets are not bad, with more than 30 sets sold every month. The colorless glass wine sets are extremely popular, and they were sold out within a few days of being put on the market.
Moreover, the demand for glass wine sets seems to be getting stronger and stronger. Not only people in the capital know the benefits of glass wine sets, but also various prefectures and counties in Gyeonggi Province come to buy them. Even wealthy businessmen and gentry from the south send people to buy goods.
The set of wine glasses sold by Li Zhi contains twenty colorless wine glasses, which can be used by two tables of people. For a set of thirty two, a wine glass only sells for an average of one to two five yuan. Colorless glass is sold across the ocean with Western cargo ships.
Compared with other glasses, Li's colorless glass wine glasses are much cheaper. No wonder wealthy businessmen are rushing to buy them.
Although the glass workshop can now earn Li Zhi six to seven thousand taels of profit every month, it is obvious that the profit potential of this product needs to be tapped urgently.
Li Zhi immediately came to Cai Huaishui and asked him to start building a new kiln next to the original glass kiln to expand the production capacity of glass. Of course, Cai Huaishui could not do it alone, so Li Zhi hired six more workers as a second glass kiln.
employees, and worked with Cai Huaishui to build the glass kiln.
Cai Huaishui built the second kiln with ease, and it only took more than 20 days to direct the workers to build the kiln. As soon as the second kiln was completed, Li Zhi asked the new kiln to fully produce glass wine vessels. There were more new kilns than the old kiln.
A crucible has expanded the total production capacity of glass wine vessels to 600 sets per month.
The sign of glass wine vessels has been put out, and now the demand exceeds supply in the market. Li Zhi has new ideas for the sales of wine vessels.
Li Zhi is going to hold an auction!
Selling glass wineware in the form of auction can maximize the price of each batch of glass wineware and achieve the greatest profit.
The targets of the auction are, of course, Tianjin's wealthy businessmen. Tianjin is a water transport transfer station between the north and the south. It is a place where merchants converge and wealthy merchants gather. These wealthy merchants bought Li Zhi's colorless glass and can resell it to the north and south of the Yangtze River to make a profit.
It is better than Li Zhi selling it in his own store. Li Zhi will definitely be able to get a better price if he faces these wealthy merchants in auctioning glass wine sets.
Moreover, selling goods to these merchants actually gives them an opportunity to make money and expand their network of contacts.
After making up his mind, Li Zhi found Xu Mince and discussed holding an auction with him.
Xu Mince was stunned when he heard the word auction and asked: "What does auction mean?"
"It just lets buyers bid, and the one with the highest price wins!"
"I see!"
Xu Mince had long heard about Li Zhi's newly developed colorless glass industry to make money. When he heard that Li Zhi was going to hold an auction to sell glass wine vessels, he said angrily: "Brother Xian's business is getting bigger and bigger, and all kinds of ideas are emerging one after another. Brother Fool is confused."
I can’t keep up.”
Li Zhi knew that Xu Mince wanted a benefit and said with a smile: "This time I divided the 600 sets of drinking utensils per month into twelve shares, of which ten shares were auctioned. I gave the remaining two shares, that is,
How about supplying one hundred sets of wine vessels to Brother Xu at the price of thirty taels per set each month, and letting Brother Xu sell it to the south to make money?"
Xu Mince was overjoyed when he heard this. These one hundred sets of drinking utensils were estimated to be sold for 40 to 50 taels of silver a set by sellers in Jiangnan. After taking into account freight, banknotes and labor costs, these 100 sets would cost more than 1,000 taels per month.
profit.
Xu Mince secretly thought that Li Zhi was a sensible person and it was not wrong for him to introduce him to the governor.
However, Xu Mince thought again: This colorless glass wine vessel was sold in large quantities, and the price of fifty taels was the limit. At that time, he would definitely use his network of contacts in Jiangnan to promote it. The more than one thousand taels of silver would not be worth the soap business.
So easy.
But making so much money is always a good thing.
Li Zhi also had his own ideas when offering benefits to Xu Mince. Xu Mince and Governor He Shishou were actually a family, and Xu Mince had a strong voice in He Shishou's governor's office. Giving benefits to Xu Mince was actually a way to deepen the relationship with the governor.
Xu Mince got the benefit and said with a smile: "Don't worry, dear brother, I will send a message to all the big businessmen in Tianjin and ask them to go to Zuixian Tower to participate in the auction!" After a pause, Xu Mince asked again: "The time is set.
When is the best time?”
"Just the day after tomorrow in the afternoon!"
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Thanks, I want to get a promotion in the book, return to the cage to become a little expert, and reward me for doing the work and reading the book.
