delicious little cook

Chapter 1050

Five hundred bolts of gray cloth is a small business for a textile factory. In summer, the river is abundant, and only a few looms are needed to complete the order in a few days.

When He Xing received the letter from Bai Kou at the inn, he stayed there for a while, and then ran to the street and hired a car to go to the wharf warehouse outside the city. In the warehouse, the delivery person is waiting for him to inspect the goods, sign for receipt and pay the final payment.

With excitement, He Xing finished inspecting the goods, settled the final payment happily, and was busy renting a cargo ship back to Lugan County at the wharf. The circle of Gan County merchants spread out.

Through the mouths of the merchants, this news spread rapidly in the large circle of the textile industry. When He Xing set off to return to Lugan County with a shipment of goods, colleagues from the same gray cloth merchant as He Xing came one after another. When I went to Xilefang, I wanted to sign a contract with Bai Kou for the processing of raw materials. Because the warehouse of my previous family was unexpectedly flooded, and now my family was on the verge of bankruptcy. They, the middlemen who were affected by the trouble, had to find another source of goods, otherwise they would have to give the following The next family to pay compensation.

Bai Kou does not refuse anyone, she only earns a processing fee for processing incoming materials, the lint and dyes are all produced by the merchants themselves, and her workshop can also do dyed cloth, and she also guarantees delivery within a few days.

In just a few days, more than ten contracts were signed for the processing of supplied materials. A total of more than 3000 pieces of gray cloth will be produced, and thousands of pieces of dyed cloth of various colors will be delivered according to the signing time. Merchants The lint and dyes obtained through their respective channels were transported to the joint farm one by one, and then turned into a ship of gray cloth and dyed cloth and shipped back to the capital.

The textile industry in Beijing is collectively fried.

Merchants who had channels to obtain lint and dyes rushed to Xilefang to sign contracts with Bai Kou. Although no one summed up the famous saying, the merchants all took actions to show that time is money, and Bai Kou did not fight price wars. She will not reduce the profit she deserves. She calculates the quotation for the processing of supplied materials very shrewdly. The money that the merchants buy their own raw materials and pay for the processing fee is evenly distributed to the finished products, and the unit price is kept within the normal fluctuation range of the market price.

Under the premise that the price is not much different, the most attractive advantage of the textile factory is time, which is also the main reason why merchants flock to them with money and raw materials, and Bai Kou also sells yarn-dyed fabric, the main product of his factory, to them , the news of increasing the purchase price of lint this year has also spread through the mouths of so many merchants. Although the purchase price has only increased a little, for the factory, as long as the purchase volume is larger, the extra payment is not a small amount. Lint merchants are not tempted.

The process of yarn-dyed fabrics is more complicated than that of dyed fabrics, so the price of finished fabrics is relatively higher. It doesn’t matter if the price is raised to buy lint, and the intermediate profits are not affected.

As long as there is no bloody price war, it will not trigger a strong rebound from the old weaving industry. The textile factory on the farm is just a small business that has just opened and cannot withstand the storm. It will take some time to operate. .

A lot of new faces appeared near the United Farm to inquire about the textile factory. They were especially interested in looms. They were even willing to pay people from the farm to take them to the factory for a visit. There were even more people pretending to be merchants and wanting to visit the production environment of the factory. .

For these strangers who don’t know whether they are spies or merchants, the farm will have special personnel to receive them, and they will only be shown the scene of unloading raw materials and loading of finished products. The factory is absolutely not allowed to enter, everyone on and off the farm Acting in unison to protect their production secrets.

The instruction given by Bai Kou is that these experts must not be allowed to see the structure of the loom, otherwise they will imitate it, then their unique business is not considered unique, and the old weaving experts in Beijing are also very capable of producing looms .

However, the tree wants to be quiet but the wind keeps blowing. Bai Kou wants to maintain the current good situation and fight steadily, but the veteran players in the textile industry have already felt the threat. It is so big, if a newcomer comes in and grabs a big bite, the share of others will be reduced, and there may be some who are directly out of the game. They are all old-fashioned businesses that have been operating in this industry for dozens of hundreds of years. The imperial merchant of weaving, who is willing to step down and give way.

Of course, Bai Kou also has countermeasures. The shareholders like Gu Yun who are princes and grandchildren don’t just eat for nothing. Yun even publicly declared that he wanted to accept large textile orders from the imperial court as an imperial merchant, making those established merchants skip every day.

This year's imperial court order has already been divided among various companies, but once Baikou's textile factory is built, it is unknown who will receive next year's imperial court order. The quotation remains the same, and the delivery time is greatly shortened. It's possible to give all the business to Bai Kou.

Anyone with a quick mind wrote a note, crying in the name of weaving households that the textile factory operated by Baikou had seriously eroded the livelihood of traditional weaving households. Merchants flowed to Baikou's factory, and the business of old-fashioned merchants decreased. The traditional weavers are also struggling to make a living, and Bai Kou has also increased the purchase price of lint this year.

Gu Yun and the others, who had been prepared for a long time, waited for someone to write a report to complain. Hua Qingyu, a news dealer, provided intelligence support behind him. What kind of connections do the merchants have, their interpersonal relationships are clearly checked, and the dark history of the imperial merchants crying about their difficult business is also piles of piles. How many weavers became cannon fodder in their initial stage in order to grab business sites? It has also been found out that the imperial court bids are so high and the bottom weavers are still poor. I implore these big businessmen to explain.

The difference between the price quoted by the imperial court and the real income of the bottom weavers is the unspoken rules of the officialdom. Everyone knows it but can’t say it under the sun. Once it is revealed publicly, it must be investigated. A newcomer in the textile industry, with no black history, sat upright on a high moral high ground and watched his competitors suddenly fall into a life-and-death situation, and ministers with relevant interests were also named and trained in the imperial study, which was a big shame .

Just at this time, the city defense battalion spread the news that the crown prince was going to visit the textile factory in person. In the past, as usual, the winter quilts of the battalions within the Zhili area of ​​the capital were ordered in summer. This year, it was the turn of the city defense battalion to replace the winter quilts. The bed sheets and quilts have to be replaced with new ones, which is a big order with a lot of profits.

Bai Kou received an official letter from the city defense battalion, confirmed the authenticity of the news, and informed the farm to prepare for the reception. Gu Yun and Gong Changji also asked for leave from the Imperial Academy, and the three major shareholders set off with the prince on the same boat.

(End of this chapter)