Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2544 Guangzhou Textile Market ([-])
Now, only Chinese and foreign businessmen have hoped to see the potential here, and have trafficked Indian cotton here.

"Stop, stop, let's not consider this matter for now." Li Shan smiled, "But the smooth operation of the Nansha factory shows that our technical direction is still right!"

Zou Biao raised his eyes and said helplessly, "To be honest, it's really not a good thing to revive a technological zombie like hydraulic spinning. Hydraulic power is too limited..."

It can be said that it is rare to come across a place like Nansha Village with such favorable conditions, location and people, and there are not many places in Guangdong.It is too difficult to promote.

"Moreover, the hydraulic opportunity involves the construction of rolling dams to raise the water head. If the river has navigational needs, it must be equipped with repairing canals and ship locks. Regardless of the fact that water does not cost money, infrastructure investment does not save much. It is nothing more than low long-term use costs. .”

"It's running now, isn't it? In the future, when the supply of coal is popularized, it will be better to upgrade it to a steam engine. The whole set of equipment and technology does not need to be greatly changed. At least we can fight for another 20 years." Li Shan knew that his old partner was full of complaints, but My family said that their child Jun was useless.Especially now that there are many good-looking children outside, there is really no advantage.

In order to cheer him up, Li Shan said, "Although the technical zombie is old, it is good that it meets our current conditions! How is Type 07 selling?"

Type 07 is a simple human-driven spinning machine and weaving machine specially developed by them for home users. 07 Spinning is reproduced from Qiqi Spinning during the Anti-Japanese War. The earliest blueprint comes from the Yamato Spinning invented by Japan. Zou Biao has improved some structures.It can be connected to various power sources, including water turbines with small water heads, animal power and so on.

"The spinning machines are relatively ordinary, and only a few dozen sets have been sold, but the looms are very popular. By last week, more than 100 sets had been sold."

This is an improved household loom.The principle is an improved shuttle machine with pedals, and a large number of standardized wood and metal parts are used. Like 07 Spinning, it can also be connected to other small power sources. .

The advantage of the 07 style is that it can be placed at home. Women in urban and rural areas can buy it back, buy cotton or cotton yarn from the market every day for spinning and weaving, and then sell the finished products.

"If I ask you, 07 spinning should not be sold. Although the quality of the yarn it produces is not bad, it can be used on looms, but it encourages small production in disguise and competes for the raw materials of the factory." Although Zou Biao is the main designer of 07 , but I am not satisfied with this "small producer tool".

"There is very little local cotton planting, and farmers are not very motivated to sell cotton, and the cost is not high..." Li Shan said, "After large-scale enterprises grow bigger, they will inevitably rely on purchased cotton. These sporadic productions are for self-employed individuals to absorb. Just right."

In the long run, small producers will sooner or later be beaten by factories in terms of cost.But this process may take ten to 20 years.After all, it is a long process to develop a large-scale cotton textile industry.But once it takes shape, it will be a tsunami-like impetus to the entire market and industrial production.The Industrial Revolution started with cotton spinning for a reason.

In fact, Lishan did not agree with the use of silk to develop light industry. In addition to the inconvenience of cocoon transportation mentioned before, the output was actually limited.

Silkworms can also "eat people", but in terms of output, silkworm cocoons or wool will never be comparable to cotton.Due to the energy conversion efficiency of input animal fibers, sheep or silkworms need much more land than cotton to produce the same amount of fibers.If they are luxury goods, their selling price is of course higher.However, as mass consumer goods, plant fibers such as cotton and linen are obviously more suitable for the development of large-scale industries.Silkworm cocoons are not durable for storage. Unlike cotton and ramie, farmers can store them in the sun for a long time after picking them off. They can withstand long-distance transportation and their quality will not be greatly affected.

Just before Lishan, he set foot on the land of Guangzhou, and soon after, Chen Lin also arrived in Guangzhou.Chen Lin did not come empty-handed either. There were more than ten bolts of blue cloth and more than 20 bolts of white cloth that accompanied the boat to Guangzhou.

The cloth is hand-woven by machinists using machine yarn from cotton mills.There are about two hundred horses in all.Half of them were dyed blue with the dyes provided by the Australians, and the other half were ready to sell the gray cloth directly.

This blue cloth is a cyan blue dyed by a lame man with a dye given by the Australians.The color is brighter than the blue dye used in the past. Zhang Lizi was full of praise after seeing it, saying that he had never dyed such a bright cloth.And it doesn't fade at all after rinsing.

Seventy bolts of cotton cloth were sold by several old partners handed over to Fengshenghe.However, most of these business partners of their own are biased towards silk, and they may not be able to sell cotton cloth.Just when Chen Lin was thinking about finding a more suitable underwriter, An Jiu recommended her father's Rui Hexiang to Chen Lin—fortunately, they were friends who met once.Another fifty bolts of blue cloth were distributed to sell.

He packed up the remaining [-] bolts of cloth and shipped them to Guangzhou. He wanted to try his luck and see if he could find a suitable dealer.At the same time, he also needs to give an explanation to Mr. Wu - after all, he is the big boss of this cotton spinning factory.

When he arrived in Guangzhou, he first visited Wu Yijun and presented him with four bolts of blue cloth and four bolts of gray cloth.Wu Yijun was very happy after seeing it, and then chatted about this new "Wan Guo Textile Market".

The purpose of the Australians opening the market, the uncle and the nephew, have more or less guessed, that is to create a comprehensive shopping platform for raw materials-commodities.

This is a great thing for "laymen" like them.In the case of Wu and Chen, they were not originally businessmen engaged in the cotton business.If you want to change careers, it will involve a very complicated "entry" process.Not only does it need to be recognized by the relevant guilds, but the procurement and sales channels for raw materials and products are also smeared and need to be explored from scratch.Sometimes it's hard to get into a specific network even if you already know it.

Now with this government-run platform, there is a direct trading market, and everything sold and bought is directly placed on the table.It is very convenient for both the merchants who transport and sell, and the producers.

"This is a good idea. Needless to say, we must occupy a place in this market." Wu Yijun laughed, "Otherwise, it will take a lot of effort to sell this cloth!"

"Uncle Biao is right." Chen Lin also felt that this was a matter of public and private convenience, "It's just that the market has not yet opened, but there is a troublesome matter that needs to be resolved now."

"what's up?"

"There is no more cotton." Chen Lin said that the factory has run out of cotton that they spent more than half a year hoarding, and now they have to stop production.

"So fast!" Wu Yijun was taken aback. He knew that the efficiency of the Australian spinning machine was astonishing, but he didn't expect that it was not ten or twenty times faster than human power, but hundreds of times.

"My nephew didn't expect that either." Chen Lin said with a wry smile, "My nephew has already sent people to search in the four townships—but it's already early summer, and there is almost no cotton in the farmers' homes, and new cotton will appear in autumn. I want to come to Guangzhou It is a place where merchants gather from all over the world, and most of them still have cotton to buy, so I plan to run around the city in the next few days."

Wu Yijun pondered for a moment and said, "You can go for a run in Guangzhou. But you don't have a good chance of buying flowers. The price of cotton has risen sharply in recent months. It's almost three times higher than when it was listed last year."

"Three times?!" Chen Lin was shocked by the discussion.It is normal for the price to rise, but the fluctuation of the price of cotton in the past was very small. This increase has tripled. If you buy it back, you will not be able to start production. Have to lose money too?

He immediately lowered his head and calculated the cost silently in his mind, and then he was surprised to find that even if the price of raw materials tripled, as long as the price of cotton cloth in the market did not fall, there was still a profit—but it was relatively meager.

"If the price increases by three times, as long as there are goods, there will be no loss." Chen Lin said, "What my nephew means is that as long as there is no loss, the production of this factory cannot be interrupted."

The temporary interruption of production would have done little damage to the factory.The water turbines shut down and stopped, and the workers went home—no work and no wages.Moreover, it is the busy season of farming, and the workers have work to do whether they are working in their own fields or as short-term laborers when they go home.

However, Chen Lin had just carried out the "thunderbolt method" in Nansha. Keeping the Nansha cotton textile factory in operation was very important for him to stabilize the situation in the village and ethnic groups.

"It's tripled and still not a loss?"

"It's not a loss," Chen Lin said, "there are 720 spindles spinning in the factory now. If the women in the family spin, each person can only spin one, and the yarn produced in a day's spinning is not worth the output of the machine in half an hour. Both Ms. Li and Ms. An said that if there is enough cotton, they can be divided into two shifts of weaving, and the cost will be lower..."

In the production cost of the factory, labor takes up a large proportion. The higher the production efficiency, the lower the cost. This is the main reason why the factory's large-scale machine production can defeat the handicraft industry.

"Indeed, Australians never stop spinning and weave all night." Wu Yijun recalled what he had seen and heard in Lingao.

"Cousin, how did the cotton rise so much?"

"Australians are now selling a lot of new looms, not the ones we use, but small ones that can be kept at home..."

"Waist machine?"

"Of course not, it's pedaled." Wu Yijun gestured, "Although this small weaving and spinning machine is not as good as our big machine, the gauze it makes is nothing compared to the old earthen machine. Once it was launched, machine owners everywhere borrowed money to buy this new machine. When there are more new machines, yarn will become a hot commodity, and cotton will naturally rise.”

"So that's how it is." Chen Lin thought to himself. He remembered that when he visited Lingao, he had indeed seen this kind of "improved machine" in the product exhibition room.

(End of this chapter)