Li Zhi was very satisfied with Zheng Kaicheng's choice of words. He did not call Zheng Kaicheng his cousin, but called him Kaicheng: "Kaicheng, you have quite a lot of management experience!"
“Not as far-sighted as my boss!”
Seeing Zheng Kaicheng praising him, Li Zhi became interested, smiled and asked with squinted eyes: "How can I be so far-sighted?"
When Zheng Kaicheng saw Li Zhi asking, he licked his lips and said, "My boss asked me to tell you. Don't be angry if I can't tell you."
Li Zhi said calmly: "Speak boldly. I won't blame you if I say something wrong!"
Zheng Kaicheng nodded and said: "In my opinion, the textile machine made by the owner is very efficient and has strong profitability. If the owner does not have a far-sighted vision and blindly expands, then the increase in cotton production will impact the market.
We want to make life difficult for the weavers and spinners near Tianjin."
What Zheng Kaicheng said is actually quite right. In the Ming Dynasty, there was still a natural economy where men farmed and women weaved. If Li Zhi went all out to expand the weaving factory, profits would indeed increase linearly, but it would ruin the jobs of women who weaved and spun at home under the natural economy. Not only
It will push these people into poverty and cause political problems.
Zheng Kaicheng said: "The owner is not in a hurry to expand the weaving mill, but to develop upstream and build a spinning factory, which avoids a direct impact on market prices. Spinning and weaving are completed in its own factory, so those cotton yarn dealers
Profits have been earned. After all, these businessmen are a minority, and they are all accustomed to competition and risks, so it will not have any impact if their owners make some profits."
What Zheng Kaicheng said was indeed what Li Zhi thought. Li Zhi did not want to impact the natural economy of the late Ming Dynasty, so he cautiously expanded the scale of the textile factory.
Li Zhi heard Zheng Kaicheng's words, nodded and said: "Stand high and see far, Kaicheng is indeed a well-educated person."
Hearing Li Zhi's compliment, Zheng Kaicheng rubbed the back of his head, feeling a little embarrassed.
After a pause, Li Zhi said: "Kaicheng, asking you to be a manager is a bit unfair. How about I ask you to be the general manager of the soap workshop?"
Zheng Kaicheng was stunned and asked: "Does the boss want me to manage the entire soap workshop?"
"Yes! I will give you eight taels of silver a month to manage the entire soap workshop!"
After all, Zheng Kaicheng was a young man, and he was very excited to be used in such an important manner by Li Zhi. He said with joy, "That's great! I'm willing to do it!"
Li Zhi smiled and said lightly: "You can go to the soap workshop with me tomorrow! After Li Xing came to the textile factory, there has been no manager there for several days!"
The cotton cloth using the cotton yarn of the spinning jenny is very fine and well-proportioned, and it received widespread praise as soon as it was launched on the market.
Feng Zishan, the eldest son of the Feng family in Bimo Alley in the north of Tianjin, was born as a child. Although he had the reputation of being a child, his reputation was not as good as that of a scholar, nor was it valuable. His family was still very poor. On this day, a guest came to his home, and the guest was also a scholar.
, it was Zeng Zuoze who was admitted as a child student in the same period as Feng Zishan.
Feng Zishan waited for Zeng Zuoze in his family's shop, and the first thing he saw was Zeng Zuoze's brand new green round-neck robe. I don't know where the cotton cloth the robe was made of. The fabric was very thin and well-proportioned-common cotton on the market.
It is inevitable that some warps and wefts will be uneven, some cotton yarns will be thick, and some cotton yarns will be thin, and the thick places will gather into knots. But the robe on Zeng Zuoze had no such problem at all, and the whole body was well-proportioned and integrated.
The cotton cloth on the market, no matter where it is produced, does not have such good workmanship. I don’t know how to eliminate and carefully select cotton yarn when weaving to make such a good cloth. Compared with this kind of cotton cloth, the ordinary cotton cloth on the market looks inferior.
It was very rough. Feng Zishan secretly asked Zeng Zuoze where he bought such cotton, and he didn't know how much he spent to make this outfit.
Zeng Zuoze originally had an ordinary appearance, but wearing such a decent cotton round collar, he showed some exquisite temperament and the dignity of a scholar. Zeng Zuoze's family was in the copper business and was a little rich. Feng Zishan secretly said that he was rich.
It's just good. You can make such a decent robe by buying good cotton.
When he saw Feng Zishan, Zeng Zuoze bowed his head in salute and sang: "Brother Feng, farewell and well!"
Taking the bag of tea handed over by Zeng Zuoze, Feng Zishan waved his hand and said, "You're welcome, dear brother. Please come in!"
The two entered the main room and sat down separately. Feng Zishan made the prepared tea and served it, and then began to chat with Zeng Zuoze. What the scholar talked about was nothing more than the romantic affairs of other students who were admitted to the government examination at the same time.
His experience in writing eight-part essays, and his preparations for the next children's examination. While chatting, the round collar with fine warp and weft on Zeng Zuoze's body was very conspicuous when he moved his hands and feet. It just added a bit of exquisite temperament to this little boy, which made Feng Zishan very envious.
Seeing Feng Zishan staring at his cotton crew neck from time to time, Zeng Zuoze smiled. After being silent for a while, he asked, "Brother Feng, what do you think of my cotton crew neck?"
Hearing Zeng Zuoze's inquiry, Feng Zishan realized that he had been staring at the other person's new clothes and was a little lost. After a pause, Feng Zishan said awkwardly: "My dear brother, this new round neck is well-proportioned in warp and weft. It is very decent. He is indeed a worthy brother."
It adds a bit of charm.”
Zeng Zuoze laughed loudly when he heard Feng Zishan's compliment, and then said: "To be honest, brother, you are the sixth person to say this. Others say that wearing this new clothes makes me look like a scholar!"
Feng Zishan nodded and said: "This outfit is indeed very decent. My dear brother, it cost a lot of money, right?"
Hearing Feng Zishan's words, Zeng Zuoze stretched out a finger and shook it mysteriously.
Feng Zishan asked anxiously: "How?"
"This round neck is not expensive at all!"
Feng Zishan was taken aback and said curiously: "Brother Xian, this new clothes is exquisite and well-proportioned. The fabric used must be extraordinary, how can it not be expensive? As far as Brother Yu knows, there is no cotton produced anywhere in the world that is so exquisite."
.To make such cotton cloth, you must carefully select cotton yarn, and only select fine yarn of the same thickness to be woven into cloth to achieve such an effect. Brother Yu guessed that only the large weaving workshops in Songjiang Prefecture can produce such fine cotton cloth.
, must be expensive."
Zeng Zuoze laughed loudly and said, "Brother Feng guessed wrong. This cotton cloth is made in Tianjin!"
“Local?”
"It's the Li family's fine cloth bought at Dongjia Cloth Store. Other cotton cloths are sold for one or two pieces per piece, and this Li family's fine cloth is also sold for one or two pieces per piece."
After hearing what Zeng Zuoze said, Feng Zishan said: "I didn't expect that Tianjin also has such a sophisticated weaving workshop to make such fine cloth. It's just that he has to select cotton yarn to make such cotton cloth, so how can he sell it so cheaply?
