With her lips pursed, Mrs. Qin said dissatisfied: "People say that in three years the Qing Dynasty will give you one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver. You are a great minister, but you dare not accept a penny of it. The money that others forced in, others gave to my son."
You have to try your best to send the money back, it will be a joke if you tell me."
Wen Tiren frowned and said: "When I was competing to join the cabinet, I exposed Qian Qianyi's cheating in the imperial examination, which offended the Donglin Party. Now the government and the public are competing to be party members. They have many eyes and ears, so I do things impartially.
You have to be beaten as a traitor and eunuch by Ginseng, so how can you dare to accept money from others?"
Mrs. Qin pursed her lips and spat: "Why did you fight to join the cabinet and cause such trouble in the first place?"
Wen Tiren sighed and said slowly: "How can a man be willing to be a mediocre person in this world? Now that I am the chief assistant, I can suppress the petty and promote the loyal and upright. Day after day, I can also restore the vitality of this country that is riddled with holes. Even if I am temporarily angry.
, However, the emperor knows my loyalty, and one day the clouds will finally clear up!"
"You have been saying this since you joined the cabinet, and you have been saying it for four years. Now that you are the chief minister, are you still living with your tail between your legs, always guarding against others' frame-ups, and always acting based on the emperor's face? There is no emperor for a day.
You will be beaten to death by those 'gentlemen'!"
When Wen Tiren heard Qin's words, he was stunned, and then he remembered that he had been a cabinet minister for four years without realizing it. He sighed, and repeated: "One day the clouds will clear and the sun will finally clear!"
After saying this, the couple fell into silence. I am afraid that Wen Tiren himself did not quite believe what he said.
After a while, Wen Tiren said: "Call a few of them and give them these cloths!"
Mrs. Qin turned around and spat: "You scream yourself, I don't have the face to tell them!"
Seeing that his wife did not cooperate with him, Wen Tiren could only cough in embarrassment. After thinking about it, Wen Tiren could only call his servant Wen Da and ask him to bring the Li family fine cloth to talk to the other servants.
In mid-April, the pace of midsummer was getting closer and closer. It was only mid-morning, and the sun was already making people outdoors sweat. Li Zhi, wearing only a blue cocoon silk top, could also feel the effects of the sun.
Heat wave. Standing outside the wall of the textile factory, Li Zhi and the head mason were planning the new factory building.
"Master Li, it will take a lot of labor to dig this drainage ditch."
"It's fine to do it artificially, but if there are no gutters and water accumulates when it rains, it's not good."
"The original wall can be used to save one wall. If we build twice as many houses, we will probably need two hundred and twenty taels of silver."
"Okay! We also need to build a large conference room where I can hold meetings with the management staff."
After discussing with the mason leader, Li Zhi gathered a team to double the size of the factory.
After the yarn mill was put into operation, the weaving workshop used fine yarn to weave Li's fine cloth. This new cloth immediately sold well all over the country, and even sold to the homes of officials in the capital. However, as a time traveler, Li Zhi had a huge plan, and he wanted to be the first to do so.
Tatar had accomplished a lot before entering the customs, so he did not dare to neglect it. He wanted to build a new factory again, purchase new looms and spinning machines, and double the size of the weaving workshop and spinning mill.
Li Zhi wanted to increase the scale of looms and spinning machines to 800.
With 800 spinning machines and looms, the output of Li Zhi's textile factory will reach 30,000 pieces a month. Although too much cotton production will impact the local textile people, the current scale of Li Zhi's textile factory
It is not very big, and the market can bear it. Moreover, Li Zhi's sales rely on the Dong family, a large cotton merchant in Tianjin, and the Dong family's sales channels cover the north and south of the Yangtze River, and sales are scattered throughout the Ming Dynasty. In this way, Li Zhi's 30,000 pieces of cloth
This number does not appear to be very large.
For example, in April, the Dong family sold about 2,000 pieces of Li family fine cloth to the capital, which was less than one-fifteenth of the demand for cotton cloth in the capital. Unless Li Zhi expanded the textile factory several times more, it would be difficult for the spinning and weaving industry in a single place to
It has little impact on the common people of Bu.
In addition to expanding the scale of the loom yarn, Li Zhi also purchased 170 cotton gins to deseed cotton. The cotton gins of the Ming Dynasty were learned by Huang Daopo from the Li people in Yazhou. They were technologically ahead of the West and were very efficient. Li Zhi
Zhi was not prepared to design a more complicated cotton gin for a while, so he directly equipped the textile factory with Daming's cotton gin.
With these gins, Li Zhi can directly use coarse cotton to produce fine cotton cloth. He can no longer buy deseeded cotton but buy cheap coarse cotton directly from the Dong family, and saves the Dong family from earning a layer of business.
Profit from the price difference.
The improved textile efficiency and the saved buying and selling price difference are both making money for Li Zhi. Li Zhi estimated the profit: after calculation, after the textile factory is expanded again and starts operation, it will earn Li Zhi about 8,000 taels of profit every month.
.Such a high profit is enough for Li Zhi to develop other businesses.
After the factory building was completed in early May, Li Zhi began to recruit 970 workers.
Recruitment of this scale is a big deal in Tianjin Wei. Now that the reputation of "Chengdong Li Family" has been established, everyone in Tianjin Wei knows that the benefits for employees of the Li family are very generous. On the day of registration for the interview, not only did not
Unemployed workers on errands came, as did some low-income civilians who had jobs. Three to four thousand people crowded outside the textile factory, filling the more than ten acres of open space outside the textile factory.
Li Zhi arranged the numbers for these people to register and asked them to come for interviews in batches.
It was no longer possible for Li Zhi to interview these people on his own. He called in managers such as Li Xing, Zheng Kaicheng, Li Laosi, Zheng Yuan, and Li Dao, and set up ten interview tables in the conference room of the textile factory.
Li Zhi unified the requirements for these interviewers, which is to determine the quality of the candidates through interviews, and finally hire those who are honest and responsible - only honest and responsible workers can make people feel at ease and protect Li Zhi's industry and secrets.
Three days later, all interviews were completed, and Li Zhi successfully recruited nearly a thousand people. Including the newly recruited people this time, Li Zhi hired nearly two thousand workers and servants.
By mid-May, new looms and yarn frames were manufactured, and the expanded production capacity began.
Tianjin Acropolis has many merchants and few industries, and there are no large factories like those in the south. Speaking of which, Li Zhi is already one of the largest employers in Tianjin.
These people hired by Li Zhi directly boosted Tianjin's economy.
The monthly money given by Li Zhi is sufficient, and there is meat for three meals. The money spent on each employee a month is three to five taels. In total, Li Zhi spends 7,000 taels of silver a month on employee benefits. This amount of money
Once it reaches the hands of employees, they have to consume it and buy various goods and services, which will naturally stimulate various local industries.
Although Tianjin is an important commercial town in the north and south, its population is less than 100,000. Suddenly there are 2,000 more workers with high consumption power, and the economy will naturally prosper a lot. Those grain merchants selling rice and noodles, butchers selling meat, and
Cloth merchants, vendors selling oil and vegetables, blacksmiths who make pots, potters who make pottery, tailors who make clothes, owners of restaurants and liquor stores, celebrities who sing in bars and operas, and even prostitutes who make jokes in brothels,
All walks of life and business are doing a lot better.
Li Zhi's employees have become rich, and many of them have increased their investment in their children's education. Even those scholars who teach in private schools have received many new students.
These people made money from Li Zhi's employees and then spent it, which in turn stimulated more people's business, creating a huge multiplier effect.
