I want to be emperor

Chapter 920 A group of European princesses

After Song Erniu continued to inspect four candidate factories in Songjiang City, he went to Tongzhou across the river to inspect.

The textile industry in Tongzhou has developed extremely rapidly in recent years. The main reason is that the geographical location of this place is very advantageous. It is right next to Songjiang and is also located at the estuary of the Yangtze River. Sea transportation is convenient. It can also cover the entire Yangtze River Basin and the Huaihe River through the Yangtze River and even canals. watershed.

In addition, railway transportation is also very convenient, with railway lines.

More importantly, it is right next door to Songjiang. With the rapid development of Songjiang City in recent years, and the cost of factory buildings and labor costs continuing to rise, many companies, especially the textile industry with relatively low gross profit margins, will choose to leave Songjiang. Set up factories in nearby areas.

This is the transfer of low-end industries. It is an inevitable situation after industrial development reaches a certain level. Many low-end industries, especially those with low gross profit margins that are more concerned about labor costs and land costs, will gradually leave first-tier cities and go to lower-cost cities. The place.

Tongzhou's main development path in the past ten years has actually been to take over the textile industry transferred from Songjiang City.

Many large textile companies, including Wang Liqing's Anhua Textile Company, have successively set up production bases in Tongzhou, giving rise to Tongzhou, a super-large textile industry base with extremely complete supporting industries.

After Song Erniu inspected three planned targets in Tongzhou, he finally chose to acquire one of the factories. The actual cost of acquiring the factory was not much, only more than 3 yuan in total... After all, the factory on the verge of bankruptcy, equipment It's old, has no technology patents, and doesn't even have many technical backbones left.

Moreover, the price of purchasing the factory may seem cheap, but in fact, you will have to bear a large amount of debt later... When the original boss built these factories and purchased equipment, he did not foolishly pay for the construction of the factory himself, but used some financial operations. , for example, first raise funds to build a factory and purchase equipment, and then go to a bank to seek loans using the factory and equipment as collateral.

This large factory seems to have a lot of assets, but in fact it owes a lot of debt to the bank, and the management is not good enough to pay the workers' salaries... So the factory was sold for only tens of thousands of yuan.

This is also the norm for many companies. They seem to have a lot of assets, but in fact they owe a lot of debt to the bank... and the final net assets attributed to shareholders are actually not much.

Song Erniu seemed to have bought this factory at a very cheap price, because this seemingly large-scale factory, after deducting the bank arrears, material supplier arrears, and arrears of workers' wages, was really worth nothing. So tens of thousands of dollars...

The main reason for acquiring this factory is that the geographical location of this factory is relatively good, very close to the dock, and it is convenient for transportation. At the same time, this factory is located in the Tongzhou Second Textile Industrial Zone, and there are very complete industrial supporting facilities around it.

At the same time, when this factory was first established, the scale of reservations was quite large. It was a comprehensive textile company with its own complete set of processes for cotton yarn, weaving, printing and dyeing, and garments. For this reason, it also rented a large piece of land and built a large number of factories. , but it was not developed later... Only a small area of ​​​​the area was used to build garment factories and printing and dyeing factories.

As for the scheduled cotton yarn business and weaving business, they have not actually been started yet... Then the factory was on the verge of bankruptcy... Mainly because it happened to be the outbreak of new cotton yarn, and the original boss had just ordered a batch of cotton yarn and weaving. cloth equipment, and then new spinning machines and looms appeared... The equipment ordered instantly became equipment of a backward era, and the price was not cheap... In the end, the boss was ruthless and did not ask for a deposit for ordering the equipment. , directly broke the contract and refused to accept the equipment... You can't continue to pay high prices to order backward spinning equipment and weaving equipment... If you really want these old equipment, a large number of replaced old equipment appeared on the market overnight. , all fracture prices.

Later, the boss always wanted to get new cotton yarn and weaving equipment, but unfortunately he had limited funds and poor connections. The main reason was that he tried to enter a few months too late... and couldn't get new cotton yarn at all. and weaving equipment, so the planned medium-sized textile factory integrating spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, and garments eventually became a factory with only printing, dyeing, and garments, and neither the cotton yarn nor the weaving business was developed!

After two years of struggling, I couldn't stand it anymore, and was finally forced to sell it at a low price... At least I recovered some of the original cost. If I didn't sell it, I would be insolvent. The bank was also pressing for repayment, and if I didn't repay the money, I would lose it. The factory will be auctioned off directly... In this case, not even a dime of the investment will be recovered. It is better to sell it yourself and at least get back more than 3 yuan.

For Song Erniu, it wasn't a big problem. In addition to spending more than 3 yuan to take over the factory, he also had other conditions. In addition to workers' wages having to be repaid in time, other creditors had to give them buffer time. , cannot collect debts.

Therefore, this acquisition was actually a transaction involving all three parties. In addition to reaching an acquisition agreement with the original boss, Song Erniu also reached an agreement with multiple creditors, mainly banks and raw material suppliers. Agreement to defer multiple upcoming debts.

Otherwise Song Erniu wouldn't pay attention.

At the same time, it must be noted that with this kind of acquisition, even if the factory fails due to poor management in the end, the debts incurred do not need to be repaid by the parent company, Song's Clothing Company... because this factory is still If a limited liability company is independently registered and operated, it will directly go bankrupt if it is not managed well. You creditors can just take the remaining assets and divide them among themselves...

There is no need for Song Erniu to repay the debt personally... After all, this is a limited liability company.

Otherwise, Song Erniu would really not dare to take over this factory that owed a lot of debt...even if it seemed cheap.

After acquiring the factory, the factory changed its registration to Tongzhou Song's Garment Factory. The large amount of land and factory buildings it rented were enough to meet Song's clothing company's future main production needs in the local area.

Of course, the equipment is still relatively old, the number of equipment is insufficient, and there are not many technical backbones left.

Therefore, after acquiring this factory, it can only perform ordinary production in the early stage. Later, it will need to purchase a large amount of equipment and hire a large number of technical backbones to efficiently mass-produce denim and denim garments.

After finalizing the factory affairs, subsequent local investment activities will continue to focus on this factory, purchasing equipment, training workers, transferring some technical backbones from the Americas to work locally, and designing for the local market to be more suitable for the local environment. A variety of denim ready-to-wear.

Among them, Song's clothing company's flagship product, jeans, will officially land in China...

Jeans are actually a patented product. Although other garment companies can imitate similar jeans, they cannot make them exactly the same...even the product name "jeans" cannot be used.

Because the three words jeans are actually the brand name.

Song's Clothing Company has long registered clothing brands such as jeans, denim clothes, denim jackets, and denim windbreakers... Although in daily use, denim clothing directly uses the clothing brand "denim", but in order to prevent others from imitating Unfortunately, they have basically registered the brand name for all the words related to cowboys, making it impossible for other companies to use it.

So even the three words 'jeans' are the resort brand name of Song Clothing Company and cannot be used by other companies...

At the same time, some detailed functional designs are also patented. For example, there is a small trouser pocket on the right trouser pocket. This thing is an original design and is used to hold coins. For this reason, a patent has been applied for...

Of course, other garment companies can also circumvent patent rights by changing the details of the small details of the clothes themselves, such as changing the position of the trouser pockets.

But others are difficult to avoid. For example, the slide buckle design on jeans straps can easily adjust the length of the straps. This little thing looks inconspicuous, but it is actually a patented product of Song Clothing Company. You If you dare to use it, I will sue you until you go bankrupt.

This is still at the finished product level, but in fact the core competitiveness of Song's Clothing Company is the denim they exclusively develop and produce... Based on the early common canvas, they conducted a lot of research and development and came up with a canvas that is more suitable for making clothing. And call it denim.

This thing is the exclusive patented product of Song's Clothing Company... other companies can't produce it for the time being, and even if they do, they can't use it directly. They have to bypass a series of patent rights of Song's clothing structure.

This includes a series of textile industries and printing and dyeing processes...

So even though it's just a piece of cloth, it's actually quite complicated. There are so many patented processes involved in the design that it's not easy to make it, let alone bypass the patent rights of Song Clothing Company.

This new type of cloth truly laid the foundation for the development and growth of Song's Clothing Company... Otherwise, they would not be able to achieve this level with so-called canvas clothes alone.

After all, canvas clothes are not a scarce thing. Other garment factories can also make them... But why can't they compete with Song Clothing Company in America?
It’s because they are also canvas clothes, but the denim clothes of Song’s Clothing Company ensure wear-resistance and are more comfortable to wear because they are softer. The colors are brighter and do not fade. Moreover, Song’s Clothing Company’s denim is better than other similar products. , less likely to shrink and deform.

So to a certain extent, Song's Clothing Company is not talking about buying clothes, but it is better to say that it is buying denim...

Of course, Song's Clothing Company is not just a series of denim brand clothing made of denim. In fact, Song's Clothing Company is able to achieve such a large scale and also offers clothing made of many other materials, such as shirts and trousers made of ordinary cloth. Even for ordinary people, low-end professional wear made of cloth or linen fabrics, as well as low-end woolen materials, etc.

It basically covers all the low-end mass-produced ready-made clothing market...even Hanfu is available...after all, Hanfu is not all high-end silk Hanfu. Many cheap Hanfu made of cloth are also worn by many people at home every day.

It's just that Song's Clothing Company's denim brand clothing is more famous and is a leading product with great market advantages, which makes many people think that Song's Clothing Company only produces denim clothes. In fact, this is not the case.

This is why even though Song's Clothing Company produces its own denim, it still purchases large quantities of various cloth, woolen materials, linen and other finished fabrics.

When Song Clothing Company enters the local market, it will naturally not only sell denim clothing, but also various other categories of ready-made clothing.

As for whether it can open a big hole in the local market, it depends on the subsequent specific operations.

And Song Erniu cannot personally take charge of these things one by one. What he does is to finalize the general direction, finalize the management of the local branch, and determine the main subsequent development direction, but the specific operations will be managed by the local branch. Do it as a team.The management team of the branch has also been put in place. Song Erniu transferred several middle- and senior-level managers and a group of technical backbones from the Americas, and hired some local management and technical personnel to finally form a management and technical team.

After finishing all this, it was already a month after arriving in Songjiang.

Due to work demands, Song Erniu stayed in Songjiang City for longer than expected. Song Erniu had been away from North America for a long time, so he was still worried about the situation there.

After all, America is now the home base of Song Clothing Company. It not only needs to stabilize the North American market, but also further develop the East, South, and West American markets.

Among them, the East American market has become the biggest profit growth point for the Song Clothing Company with the continuous increase of immigrants from Chu State... And the West American market and South American market in the central Americas, as the empire gradually moved from Spain and the Portuguese With these places in hand, immigrants from Chu State are also gradually increasing. These places are incremental markets.

If Song Clothing Company wants to secure its position as the largest clothing manufacturer and seller in the Americas, these incremental markets cannot be missed.

So there are a lot of things going on in the Americas, and Song Erniu has been away from the Americas for several months, so he is naturally worried.

Therefore, after the matter in Songjiang City was settled, Song Erniu bought a ticket and took his wife Song Chen and other entourage on the first-class cabin of the [-]-ton luxury liner Arctic to return to North America.

Just when Song Erniu returned to North America with his newlywed wife, in distant Europe, the huge fleet of the European Expeditionary Force of the Chu Empire also appeared in the offshore waters of the Normandy region of France!

In the past few months, the European Expeditionary Force of the Great Chu Empire has tried several times to negotiate for France to open its market. However, France is still relatively hard-boned under the leadership of Louis XIV, even though it is known that the Great Chu Empire will not He was easy to mess with, so he always kept a low profile and was willing to transfer some benefits, such as leasing certain areas to the Chu Empire to serve as ports, allowing Chu people to live and do business in France, and allowing Chu goods to enter France freely, and even the French The whole matter of external governance was agreed to.

But France has always been unwilling to give up its tariff autonomy... In fact, this is understandable. If France retains its tariff autonomy, it can set different tariff ratios for different Chu products to protect their fragile Some handicraft industries, such as handmade textile industry...

If we directly give up our tariff autonomy, according to the character of Chu people, we will definitely lower the tariff to only a few points or even lower. In the end, countless Chu goods will pour in, and France's domestic handicraft industry will be finished in an instant... This Not an exaggeration, but a fact that has happened countless times.

The Chu Empire often did this on a global scale, directly prying open the market, and then dumping it at low prices. In the end, the indigenous countries were completely destroyed by you, let alone developing industry, and even the handicraft industry was completely destroyed by you.

The French who were too far away could not see it, but the situation of the Spanish and Portuguese people next door to the south was clear. Since Spain was defeated and forced to enter into a comprehensive opening treaty, a large amount of Chu goods have poured into Spain. Spain The various handicraft industries that existed within the territory were instantly destroyed...

Workers in various small workshops were instantly unemployed, and the bosses went bankrupt... Even the blacksmith profession disappeared instantly, because the prices of various daily iron products for Chu people were so cheap that they were cheaper than the local blacksmiths purchased iron materials. Cheap……

This kind of trading method of first using guns to pry open the market, then dumping at low prices, killing the local small workshops, and then raising the prices to earn high profits. The Chu Empire has been doing this for more than [-] years, and is very familiar with it. The results have been excellent.

And France is not all fools. It can be seen at a glance that the market will be fully liberalized and the tragic end of not even being able to retain its tariff autonomy, so even if it has made many concessions in other aspects, it has even offered to cede it. A piece of territory was given to the Chu Empire, as long as the Great Chu Empire gave up its demand for tariff autonomy.

But the Da Chu Empire didn’t agree!

The expeditionary force of the Dachu Empire came all the way to Europe just for the market, not to occupy any land... What the Dachu Empire wanted was a dumping ground for industrial products, and then turned the entire European region into a huge plantations, allowing all Europeans to grow food and cash crops and other agricultural products for the empire.

The ideal model is that Europeans will farm in the future, and then exchange the crops they produce for the industrial products produced by the Chu people... In order to increase the efficiency of farming, it is best to adopt a single economic model.

For example, if a certain country is suitable for growing cotton, then just grow cotton... A certain place has a lot of high-quality minerals, then just mine... A certain place is suitable for growing wheat, then just grow wheat!
A single economic model can effectively increase the agricultural and mineral output of the colony, and is more conducive to controlling the colony.

Because once you break away from the suzerain country, the economy will be ruined in minutes... After all, if cotton is grown all over the country, there will be no food... The suzerain country needs to transport food from other places. Once you break away from the suzerain country, severe famine will occur in minutes.

On the other hand, if you plant wheat, although you may seem to have food, you will have no clothes to wear, and no iron tools, not even a pot for cooking.

The Da Chu Empire did this in many colonies and indigenous areas, promoting a single economic model in each colony through force and economic guidance.

The effect is pretty good.

But if you want to do this, you need to have complete control over the local economy.

Among them, tariffs are particularly important.

The French have also seen this and are unwilling to live or die... Other conditions such as losing power and humiliating the country, ceding land, extra-legal governance and other conditions are acceptable. Even the French king is willing to swear allegiance to the emperor and accept canonization...

But the European Expeditionary Force of the Great Chu Empire cannot accept it... Their biggest goal is to open a comprehensive market. How can they talk about opening a comprehensive market if they haven't even taken away the tariff power...

For the empire, just opening the market is not enough, it must be fully opened!

So, after months of fighting with the French, the European Expeditionary Force finally got impatient and sent a fleet of dozens of ships into the English Channel and directly arrived at the coast of Normandy without saying a word. Start logging in directly.

Since you French people are not willing to give it, then we will take it ourselves... and then let the French pay a large compensation after taking it!

After receiving the news that the Chu people had landed in Normandy on a large scale and were heading towards Paris, Paris was in an uproar. The next day, Louis XIV rushed out of Paris with a group of nobles and fled to southeastern France... Not that Fear and the like, purely because I don’t want to be a prisoner of the Chu army like the previous King of Spain, and then do whatever the Chu army says...

The little kid king of Spain and José, the noble aristocrat who is actually the regent, in order to save their lives, they betray their country in various ways and seek their lives.

Carlos II's mother Anna also took the initiative to enter the Chu army's military camp to entertain the Chu army soldiers... She was also in her thirties, and she had to open her legs to welcome guests, which made her cry bitterly.

But there is no way, who allows her stupid son to still be a prisoner in the hands of the Chu army!
Faced with her warm hospitality, a group of officers of the expeditionary force experienced what it felt like to be the Queen Mother of the King of Spain. By the way, her daughter was also the Queen of Austria...

This status is very special, so although she is relatively old, but with this status, many soldiers of the Chu army feel that she has a special flavor...

Even though I was happy, I couldn't forget His Majesty... So the top brass of the Chu Army Expeditionary Force, in order to familiarize His Majesty the Emperor with the people and customs of Western Europe, selected twenty or thirty nobles from various places in Spain and neighboring Portugal. The daughters are all carefully selected from countless candidates, young and beautiful ones that fit the Chu people’s aesthetic standards...

Some of them were engaged or even married, but because they were really good-looking, they were also selected to be sent to Jinling City.

As for why there are no princesses from the two countries, it is because the royal families of these two countries are not very good...

The Spanish royal family is the Habsburg family. This family is very perverted and likes to marry incest. Therefore, many members of the family, both male and female, have strange looks. They are either stupid or have crooked mouths and deformed facial features. They are completely inconsistent with the Chu people. The aesthetics...and comes with the fool gene!
The Portuguese royal family next door is not much better. Their genes are too bad. The current king of Portugal, Afonso VI, is a psychopath and has been paralyzed since childhood...

So even if you just choose some wild horses to send to Jinling City as playthings, you don't have the share of the Spanish and Portuguese royal women... The genes are too bad and the risk is too great.

But no one dares to send strange or even crazy women to the Son of Heaven, there is nothing to die for...

Moreover, there are rumors that the big bosses of the European Expeditionary Force of the Chu State are not satisfied with this, and feel that the daughters and granddaughters of these great nobles are not worthy enough to reflect the feelings of the tens of thousands of soldiers of the European Expeditionary Force towards Your Majesty. loyalty...so I want to get a group of real, young and beautiful European princesses to send to Jinling City.

His Majesty, the Great Emperor, still lacks a group of young and beautiful European princesses in his harem!

Look at the ugly faces of these Chu people. This princess is not talking about one, but a group of people...

(End of this chapter)