my magic industry

Chapter 14 Visit
When Xia Lin was ambitiously trying to open up the sugar market, Ellen Greg was busy near his estate.

Originally, he thought that if he owned the spinning jenny, he would be able to win the leading position in the textile industry, but he did not expect that his plan encountered a small obstacle.

That's the issue of secrecy.

Although the efficiency of the spinning jenny is more than ten times that of the traditional hand spinning machine, and it can even reach dozens of times after the modification with the addition of spinning spindles, the production of the vertical spindle spinning machine is not technically difficult. , the first problem Ellen encountered was how to ensure that his treasure would not be stolen by other chambers of commerce.

In the past, the chamber of commerce distributed the roving to the contractors who paid the deposit, and asked the contractors to subdivide it to the female spinning workers, and these spinning female workers rented or purchased the spinning machines by themselves, except for the hundreds of people in the territory. Apart from the spinners, the Greg Chamber of Commerce has no direct contact with the spinners in the city.

But now, in order to keep the secret of the vertical spinning machine while making money, Ellen must keep these spinning girls under her control.

After struggling for a period of time, Ellen, who couldn't think of any good way to swallow this huge source of income, simply gave up the female spinning workers in the city conservatively. Anyway, he still doesn't have many vertical spindle spinning machines at hand.

So he gradually recruited 40 women who could spin in his manor at a wage of [-] copper pess, and then built a large wooden and thatched shed outside his manor.

In the shed were all the [-] carpenters in the manor who had worked overtime during this period to make forty vertical spindle spinning machines, and his family guards were stationed outside.

In this way, he can ensure that these female workers will not be able to take a single piece of sawdust belonging to the spinning machine out of the shed except for their wages.

These female workers stood under the barely shaded sheds. After a short period of training, they quickly got started with the operation of the vertical spinning machine. The Grid Chamber of Commerce creates a lot of wealth.

Every day, there will be continuous flatbed wagons sending a large amount of roving from the surrounding manors and the city, and then shipping out the same pound of spun yarn.

Now in the market, a pound of roving costs 26 copper pes, and a pound of spun yarn costs 35 copper pes. In the past, only four copper pes out of the nine copper pes were the spinning profits of the Greg Chamber of Commerce, but now it is different. .

After the implementation of fixed wages, each female worker only needs fifteen copper pes a day, but each of them can produce an average of 23 heavy pounds, that is, 230 pounds of spun yarn.

Greg's Chambers earned nine copper pess per pound of yarn, and each female worker brought in a profit of almost twenty silver mahrs a day.

After three days, when the number of spinning machines and female workers increased to forty at the same time, Ellen had already earned a net profit of four gold lents, and the number of his vertical spindle spinning machines and spinning female workers was less than [-]%. increasing steadily and rapidly.

Ellen, who was almost driven crazy by the terrible profits, couldn't even wait for the vertical spinning machine to be completed, so he first hired forty additional female workers to work alternately with the original skilled hand spinners in the morning and afternoon.

Of course, he is not thinking about the rest time of the female workers, but to train enough skilled hand spinners in the shortest time.

After all, the work efficiency of a novice spinner who only knows how to spin a hand spinning machine and a skilled spinner who has used a vertical spindle spinning machine is very different.

Keenly aware of the gap in efficiency, he would rather people wait for machines than machines wait for people.

Just when Ellen was standing on the wall of his manor full of ambition, looking at the spinners working in full swing in the shed, and imagining the future of the Greg Chamber of Commerce's unification of the spinning industry, he was unexpectedly accepted by the Chamber of Commerce in the city. A greeting post from someone.

The inscription on the greeting card was the friend who brought him all this, Charlene Karl, and the time was tomorrow afternoon.

For Xia Lin, Ellen had a very good impression. Although he came from a poor background, Ellen admired him very much. He was able to think of such a wonderful design, which improved the spinning efficiency so much.

So he gave good instructions and asked the housekeeper to prepare the black tea and expensive pastries that Xia Lin likes to drink, and prepare to receive Xia Lin tomorrow afternoon.

At about three or four o'clock in the afternoon the next day, an ordinary carriage slowly drove up in front of the manor. After receiving the notice from the servant, Ellen enthusiastically came to the gate of the manor, ready to welcome Xia Lin, but saw him holding a Carrying a strange huge wooden box, he carefully stepped out of the carriage.

"My dear friend, you don't have to be so polite, you even bring a gift when you come to my place!"

With a warm smile on Ellen's face, he stepped forward and said to Xia Lin who was still wearing the linen mage robe.

"Ellen, there is a reason for serving customers. If it weren't for your foresight and foresight to see the broad prospects of the vertical spinning machine I designed, I am afraid that I am still waiting tremblingly in the broken house in the slums. To the dark future of the North!"

Xia Lin skillfully complimented Ellen, and her eyes fell on the shed less than 100 meters away from the manor, showing a somewhat surprised expression:

"My friend, is that your idea? What a genius idea to use factories for secrecy!"

"Haha! That's true. After all, those chambers of commerce are like hyenas on the plain. If you don't pay close attention, my baby, your crystallization of wisdom will be stolen by them! Go! My friend, I have prepared a sumptuous meal Afternoon tea, please let me treat you well!"

Ellen patted Xia Lin's shoulder affectionately, and was about to take the big wooden box in his hand, but he stopped him.

"I'm sorry, Ellen, although it's a gift from me inside, it's also a new thing we're going to cooperate with. It's not convenient to open it now. Please wait a moment. When I get to the place, I will naturally open it." Uncover the mystery!"

Xia Lin explained with a somewhat apologetic expression.

"Is that so? Then I look forward to it!"

Naturally, Ellen would not force Xia Lin. He looked at the big wooden box curiously, and walked forward with Xia Lin under the guidance of Greg's old housekeeper.

Seeing Xia Lin's cautious appearance, Ellen's youthful nature made him start to guess what was inside.

When she could see the afternoon tea table set up in the shade of the garden, Xia Lin said again:
"Ellen, thank you for your kindness, but please take down those pastries! The gift I brought you is a delicious pastry suitable for afternoon tea, why don't we taste this pastry first! "

"I see! That's fine! Grandpa Harold, let them take all the things away! Just leave the drinks."

After hearing Xia Lin's words, Ellen was surprised. He waved his hand and gave instructions to his old housekeeper.

"Okay, young master!"

The old butler bowed slightly and asked the waiting maids to remove the cakes that he had prepared. Then Xia Lin placed the wooden box on the table carved from a whole piece of white marble, and opened the wooden box carefully.

(End of this chapter)