I want to be emperor

Chapter 863 The Strange Empire

Just when Sun Xu was saving money to raise money to buy his first house, Anhua Textile Company was still full of bustle and bustle.

New cotton yarn is still very popular in the market. As the second independent cotton yarn manufacturer in Songjiang area to introduce new equipment and mass produce new cotton yarn, Anhua Textile Co., Ltd. has also ushered in a new round of development peak since its establishment 20 years ago.

On the one hand, Wang Liqing actively explored the market and took advantage of the advantages of new cotton yarn to develop more strategic customers, which increased the strategic cooperation customers of Anhua Textile Co., Ltd. from a few in the past to more than 30.

On the other hand, it is to continuously introduce new equipment and increase the production of new cotton yarn. The representative action is to become the first batch of customers of Songjiang No.[-] Machinery Company. Songjiang No.[-] Machinery Company is the first batch of new cotton yarn equipment obtained from Hantian Machinery Company. It is a patent licensing company, and it is also the only first patent licensing manufacturer in the Songjiang area.

This means that the manufacturer will become an important supplier in the source of new cotton yarn equipment in the Songjiang area.

In order to get the equipment first, Wang Liqing eagerly placed the order when the other party had just signed an agreement with Hantian Machinery Company, and before they even had time to adjust the production line, and did not entangle too much about the price.

All of this is to successfully obtain more new equipment in the second half of this year.

The new cotton yarn market is promising, and Wang Liqing judged that in the future cotton yarn market, the new cotton yarn will definitely replace the old cotton yarn gradually.

It is only a high-end market now, and it will definitely enter the mid-end market and even the low-end market from the high-end market in the future.

Because the cotton yarn produced by the new cotton yarn equipment not only has a higher upper limit of quality...in fact, there is another more important advantage that has not been brought into play so far, that is, its new cotton yarn is actually more cost-effective and the production efficiency is also higher. higher.

In the time production process, because the production efficiency is higher, in the case of producing low-end cotton yarn, the production cost of low-end new cotton yarn will be lower than the cost of old equipment, and it is much lower...

The reason why this feature has not yet played a role in the market is because the equipment capable of producing new cotton yarn is in short supply and the quantity is too small. The manufacturers who have obtained the new equipment, whether they are large comprehensive textile companies or Wang Liqing's independent cotton yarn manufacturers , all use new cotton yarn equipment to produce high-end cotton yarn with better quality in order to earn more profits.

However, Wang Liqing judged that this situation would not last forever. After all, the capacity of the high-end market is limited, and the largest proportion in the cotton spinning market is low-end cotton yarn.

Only by being able to gain a firm foothold in the middle and low-end cotton yarn market can we truly become bigger and stronger.

Wang Liqing claimed to have seen this clearly, so he continued to invest huge sums of money in purchasing equipment to further expand the proportion of new cotton yarn production in his cotton yarn factory.

At present, the production of new cotton yarn in their factory accounts for about [-]% of the total production of cotton yarn in their factory... and Wang Liqing's plan is to eliminate all old cotton yarn production and fully switch to new cotton yarn production.

And this requires the supply of new cotton yarn equipment, as well as the technical support within the factory.

To ensure the normal operation of a large number of new cotton yarn equipment, and to adjust the equipment according to the needs of the production process, these require specialized technical personnel.

In addition, in the process of cotton yarn production, new cotton yarn equipment is only one of the links, although this is the most important link... There are many other processes besides new cotton yarn equipment. If these processes are combined with new cotton yarn equipment, Improving quality and reducing costs are all problems that the technicians of Anhua Textile Company need to solve.

In particular, Wang Liqing also wants to use new cotton yarn equipment to try to enter the low-end cotton yarn market on a large scale, so as to truly make the company bigger and stronger.

There are not one or two technical problems that need to be solved here!
How to put it, Hantian Machinery Company is only responsible for selling spinning equipment. How to use this new type of spinning equipment to produce better and cheaper new cotton yarn requires additional efforts from the textile factory.

This is just like the lithography machines of later generations... The ARF DUV immersion lithography machine sold to you by other lithography machine manufacturers can theoretically produce 7nm or even [-]nm chips.

But the problem is... If your chip manufacturer moves the lithography machine back to mass production, you still need your own technical support.

If the chip manufacturer's own technology is not enough, let alone 28 or even [-] nanometers, [-] nanometers will not be able to produce...

With the same equipment, manufacturer A can produce [-]nm chips, while manufacturer B can only produce [-]nm chips... This is the gap in chip manufacturers' own technology.

The same is true in the field of cotton yarn. The performance of the equipment produced by Hantian Machinery Co., Ltd. is here... But how to use and tap the performance of these new equipment and fully release it requires the efforts of the major cotton yarn manufacturers themselves.

Anhua Textile Company pays great attention to investment in the technical field... not to mention a lot of technical backbones with high salaries, and there are technical backbones everywhere.

Time arrived in June, and the last batch of new cotton yarn equipment that Wang Liqing ordered from Hantian Machinery Factory last year arrived.

Section Chief Wang of the Mechanical Repair Department led Sun Xu and other technicians to carry out installation and debugging together with the engineers sent by the manufacturer.

The installation was very smooth. In the debugging process after installation, the engineers of the manufacturer did not even need to do much work. They just acted as technical guides. The technicians of Anhua Factory, such as Section Chief Wang and Sun Xu, completed the debugging by themselves.

After all, since the end of last year, Section Chief Wang has led these dozens of people around the equipment every day, going through three batches of equipment installation and commissioning, and at the same time being responsible for maintenance and repairs all day long.

After more than half a year of contact and learning and actual hands-on operation, they are already very familiar with this new type of cotton yarn equipment. Even when a simple fault occurs, they don't even need the manufacturer to send someone to repair it, and they can solve it by themselves. ...

Nowadays, the new type of cotton yarn is so popular that one day of equipment downtime is a huge loss. It is impossible for Anhua Factory to wait for the manufacturer's engineers to procrastinate and come to repair... But any problems that can be solved by ourselves are solved by ourselves, and we will not hesitate to pay for it. More maintenance costs.

They even went to Hantian Machinery Company to purchase a batch of various parts in advance, and if there was a problem, they would replace the parts by themselves on the spot...

These are all to ensure higher production efficiency of new equipment.

It's still the same sentence... But every day of downtime is a huge loss.

Compared with the downtime losses caused by equipment failures, the wages spent on supporting the technical backbone, and the cost of purchasing a large number of spare parts, they are actually small money...

In this regard, Wang Liqing has always been very clear about the distinction.

Wang Liqing has always been very willing to spend money that should be spent, such as maintaining and developing technical strength, raising technical backbones, and purchasing equipment.

But the money that shouldn't be spent... such as the salary of nearly a thousand ordinary workers in the factory... Wang Liqing will not pay a dime more.

Anhua Textile Company has been booming in the past six months. Wang Liqing has made a lot of money, and the people in the technical department have also made a lot of money. For example, the monthly salary of people like Sun Xu has risen from ten yuan to fifty yuan.

However, the basic wages of ordinary workers in their factory did not increase much... Even because the factory was too busy in the past six months, Wang Liqing would rather recruit hundreds of workers for shift production than let the old workers work overtime.

You think Wang Liqing is caring for workers... Then you are wrong...

The reason is very simple, overtime pay is too expensive, Wang Liqing is reluctant to give overtime pay to the old workers, so he would rather hire more people to work than let the old workers work too much overtime.

And he also found that workers who work too much overtime, such as fourteen hours, will make workers less productive during working hours...

Overtime pay is expensive and overtime production efficiency is low, which eventually prompted Wang Liqing to prefer to recruit more workers than to let old workers work overtime.

Even going outside, Wang Liqing can still brag to himself, I am a conscientious entrepreneur, and I attach great importance to the health of employees...

Since there is no overtime work, the basic salary will not be increased for you... This has led to the seemingly booming Anhua Textile Company. Managers also get pay rises and promotions.

However, those ordinary workers are still the same, earning the same amount of money, which is only three or four yuan a month.

The development of Anhua Textile Company has not brought actual benefits to the workers...

The company has grown and grown, the boss has made a lot of money, and the top management and technical backbones get high salaries and share options, but what does it have to do with you, a low-level part-time worker?
Oh, the boss said that with the development of the company, ordinary employees have more development opportunities, and can get promoted and raise their salaries... It’s okay to listen to this kind of words. Ordinary employees have woolen development opportunities, but they need to stabilize their wages to support their families That's all.

And those capable employees can of course get promotions and salary increases, but their promotions and salary increases have nothing to do with the development of the company itself.

Even if the company they were working for goes bankrupt, those who are really capable can still get a high salary if they change to another company... Maybe they can get promoted and raise their salary along the way.

Anhua Textile Company, as a typical business organization, is in a similar situation.

The company's top executives and technical backbones, these capable and genuine talents have been highly valued...and have benefited from the company's development and growth.

Ordinary workers, what they were like before, are still what they are now... They can't even earn overtime pay, because the boss Wang Liqing thinks that overtime pay is too expensive and not worthwhile, so it's better to hire hundreds more people to work shifts.

But for the whole society...Wang Liqing's approach has certain advantages, and it is even welcomed by many local officials!

why?
Because such enterprises can create more jobs!

With the same workload, if an employee works overtime, the basic salary and overtime pay can make the worker earn ten yuan... The personal income is high, but there is only one job.

And what Wang Liqing did was, for the same amount of work, I hired two people to do it, and I only paid the basic salary. In the end, Nima only needed to pay seven or eight yuan in labor costs, which saved labor costs. No matter what one person does, it is faster than one person, so the production speed has also increased, and the total output has also increased.

In the end, this also created two jobs!

One higher-paying job, two lower-paying jobs...and out of employment rate considerations, many local governments of the Great Chu Empire prefer the latter.

reason?The former can only support one family. Although the life of this family may be slightly better, the latter can support two families...

To some extent, this is actually the reason why the Great Chu Empire officially stipulates that overtime pay must be [-] times the base salary, rest days are twice as much, and statutory holidays are three times the reason... This is not only to protect the interests of workers, but also On the one hand, it is also to guide enterprises to hire more people and increase jobs.

Without this mandatory limit on overtime pay, those entrepreneurs would let their current employees work sixteen hours a day, and they would not need high overtime pay anyway.

In the case of a fixed monthly salary, if you can work an extra hour, the boss will earn an extra hour of your production value, how cool!
This is exactly what the labor law of the Great Chu Empire severely cracked down on.

The changes in Anhua Textile Company are, to some extent, a microcosm of many labor-intensive enterprises in the Great Chu Empire. As for good or bad, even a series of labor laws, industrial and commercial laws and other related laws and regulations have been formulated to guide the development of the empire's industries. It is actually difficult for the senior officials of the empire who finally turned the industry and commerce of the empire into what it is today, to have an accurate judgment on whether the situation is good or bad.

We can only take one step at a time... Solve whatever problems you find.

As for what will happen in the future, is there a better solution, let's talk about it later...

Times, always have their own limitations.

Even Luo Zhixue, the emperor of the empire, has the soul of future generations, and has many insights of future generations... But he can't guarantee that many laws and regulations and social models of future generations are suitable for the development of the empire.

Productivity, social model, and political structure are all completely different... If you copy everything directly, various problems will burst out for you in an instant.

Especially productivity issues.

The current productivity of the Great Chu Empire is only at the level of the mid-nineteenth century in the original time and space. With such a productivity, if you want to copy many organizational structures of the later generations in the 21st century, you are not looking for death!
Many countries in later generations still have a lot of social security and welfare systems, such as medical and educational guarantees, as well as various unemployment subsidies, subsidies for vulnerable groups, and so on.

Your Great Chu Empire also learned to build one?
Bankrupt you in minutes!

What is the Great Chu Empire?

Judging from the outside, this is a powerful empire with strong military strength and extremely strong industrial and commercial strength. In terms of comprehensive strength, it can beat all other countries on the earth together a hundred times! !

From the inside, this is a centralized monarchy empire with very traditional Chinese characteristics. In terms of the core political model, it is actually no different from the Ming Dynasty. The emperor and his ministers rule the world together, but the monarchy in the Great Chu Empire It is more concentrated and stronger than that of the Ming Dynasty.

Culturally, the traditional Confucian culture is still pursued. The concepts of benevolence, filial piety, and emperor's father are still the mainstream of society, and they have been vigorously promoted by the empire. What about benevolence...

Economically, land and other means of production are privately owned. The land is okay. After 30 years of land dispersal, the dispersal of the land has been basically realized. Almost all farmers have their own land. There are no big landlords. The land was distributed to farmers through large-scale rent-purchasing and other models.

The farmers of the current Great Chu Empire are all self-cultivating farmers.

But in the field of industry and commerce, the new means of production such as factories and machines are concentrated in the hands of state capital and private capitalists.

This is also the core model in the industrial and commercial economic system of the Great Chu Empire: state capital controls core industries and guides private capital to develop ordinary industries.

On the whole, with state capital as the backbone and private capital as the branches and leaves, the free market economic model is limited...

Some of the characteristics of this economic model are a bit similar to the classical state capitalism in the Prussian period, but it is not completely... To be honest, even Luo Zhixue himself is not sure what the current economic model of the empire is...

As for zooming in on the entire empire, from politics to economy, and even to some cultural aspects, Luo Zhixue is even more unclear... because in the original time and space, there has never been such an empire in human history, and there is no corresponding term for him to refer to. .

So to put it in a bit of a playful way: this thing is a wonderful thing!

The productivity model of such an empire is only at the level of the mid-nineteenth century, which means that such a country is doomed to be unable to achieve the same level as later generations in many respects.

Even such an empire is different from many modern countries in the original time and space.

This also makes it difficult for Luo Zhixue to find the corresponding reference object in memory... There is not even a reference object, so Luo Zhixue cannot directly use it when formulating various policies, and has to carefully consider and try again and again.

Sometimes Luo Zhixue thinks that the policy is acceptable, but after trial implementation, a lot of problems will appear.

Sometimes Luo Zhixue thinks that the policies are very unreliable, but after trial implementation, the effect is quite good...

In fact, there have been many similar situations. Some results are good, and some results are not good. This is why the Great Chu Empire likes to carry out small-scale trials first when it implements many policies.

It is because there is no object to learn from before, and everything needs to be explored and developed by oneself, so you have to be careful, or you will fall into the abyss if you make a wrong step.

In such an empire, textile enterprises such as Anhua Textile Company will appear. It has both good and bad sides.

But none of these can stop it from developing and growing at an extremely fast speed in the wave of technological change.

Boss Wang's net worth has gradually become richer, and he has gradually gained some confidence in front of Mrs. Wang... Some people in the factory who have benefited, such as Sun Xu, have a lot of income, and they are all ready to buy a single-family house and settle down. It's time to take Ms. Meng back to her hometown and officially finalize the marriage.

Whether it is Wang Liqing, the management and technical backbones in the factory, they are all very optimistic about the development of the factory. As long as they follow the steps, their factory revenue this year is expected to reach [-]% of last year's revenue. times!
Wang Liqing was thinking that by next year, he might be able to repay part of the money owed to Mrs. Wang for many years. Whenever he thought of this possibility, Wang Liqing couldn't help being happy!

It's just that when Anhua Textile Company was booming, the ordinary workers in Anhua Textile Company were still the same as before, without any change... Their income was as calm as stagnant water!
(End of this chapter)