Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 185 Garment Factory

Due to the arrival of the equation, Li Jing temporarily decided to issue a new decree, and the original plan to send troops could only be postponed.

After several days of busy work, it was easy to complete the drafting of the decree, when the weather suddenly turned cold.

Due to the sudden drop in temperature, many things popped up all of a sudden, the first being the problem of keeping out the cold.

The soldiers who came out of Hongshanling had already prepared winter clothes. Li Jing was not worried, but many of the newly recruited soldiers did not have winter clothes to keep out the cold, especially those recruited by Yicheng County.Because Yicheng County was the most plundered by bandits and the most severely damaged, many families can be described as barren.

Although Li Jing mobilized a large amount of coarse cloth and cotton, but so many cotton clothes cannot be made in a day or two.

Soldiers with family members are okay, they can hand over the raw materials to their families, but soldiers without family members can only hire someone to do it. For a while, Li Jing really couldn't find so many women to sew cotton-padded clothes.

In addition, after the cotton and coarse cloth were distributed to the soldiers' families, another problem arose, that is, the soldiers' families hid the cotton privately.

A set of cotton padded clothes weighed five catties of cotton, but when it was weighed, it weighed only three catties, and the two catties of cotton were hidden by the soldier's family.

Hearing the news, Li Jing could only smile wryly. It is really not easy to punish the families of these soldiers, because most of the cotton they hid was used to make cotton coats for children or the elderly.

Although Li Jing didn't pursue this matter, it reminded Li Jing of this matter.

There are more and more soldiers under Li Jing, and more and more clothes, shoes, and hats will be needed. We can no longer rely on the family to prepare clothes for the soldiers as before. In the future, we will set up garment factories, shoe factories and A series of garment factories such as hat factories.

Although this will increase the cost of a lot of personnel, the use of factory production will also save a lot of raw materials.

In the past, Li Jing mostly bought cloth from ordinary people's homes, or bought dyed cloth from cloth shops.Now we need to process a lot of military uniforms, so we can no longer buy cloth from ordinary people or small workshops. We can set up a textile factory and a printing and dyeing factory, so that we only need to buy cotton.

In this way, the raw materials can also save a sum of money, and the saved money is basically enough to pay the workers.

The implementation of industrialized production can not only allow idle people to have jobs and supplement their families, but also stimulate everyone's enthusiasm, give full play to everyone's wisdom, and increase productivity.

Li Jing thought about it for a while, and felt that this method was feasible. Even if he didn't make money, or even lost money, it would be cost-effective to set up a few factories.

As soon as he thought of it, Li Jing immediately recruited several right-hand assistants and explained his thoughts.

Yang Liufeng, Fang Fang and others were all dumbfounded when Li Jing said that he wanted to build a garment factory.

Because it is too difficult to build such a factory.

The first thing to solve is the factory building. With so many people gathered to work together, there must be a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

But it's freezing outside now, it's not the time to build a house at all, and now the soldiers are waiting to get dressed, won't they freeze to death when the factory is built?If you want to build a factory, you can only use ready-made houses.

Although there are not no ready-made houses, they are just in the county office.

The county government occupies a large area. All the official affairs of a county must be handled in the county government, including the prison cells. The officials, servants and their families all live in the county government. In fact, The most densely populated place in the county is the county government. So many people live and work in it, there will naturally be a lot of houses.

Because the rogues captured the county seat, almost all the people in the county government were killed, and many houses were smashed to pieces by the rogues. After Li Jing entered the county government, although he recruited a lot of people who were in charge of affairs, there were still a large number of people. The house is vacant.

It seems inappropriate to just put the factory in the county government office. After all, the government office is a place for offices, and it is really outrageous to set up a factory in the government office.

But Li Jing obviously didn't care about these, because Li Jing never thought that being an official was anything special, let alone in the Ming Dynasty, even in modern times, those local officials were meaningless to Li Jing.

If the secret agents want to play local officials' minds, they can easily find a lot of crimes to bring down those so-called officials, and the officials will never dare to neglect these elites who defend the country in any way.

As for the Ming Dynasty, what Li Jing did was to fight against the government, and naturally he didn't care about the majesty of the government.

Li Jing doesn't care about these face things, and the problem of the factory building will be solved.

Clean up the junk in the idle house, and then open up the house, which is a ready-made factory building.

But even more difficult than the factory building is recruiting employees.

You must know that women do a lot of work such as sewing clothes in modern times, but in ancient times it was completely the monopoly of women, and men would never do such work.

If Li Jing wants to start a garment factory, he must find women to work, but women are not allowed to show their faces at this time. If women go out casually, they will be gossiped, especially young women. Women can only do it when they reach a certain age. Just go out.

Garment factories can't have all the old ladies do the work, and some jobs must be done by young women after all.

But getting young women to come out to work, the difficulty can be imagined.

But Li Jing couldn't be bothered by this problem, Li Jing geniusly solved this problem that everyone thought was unsolvable.

Li Jing asked Yang Liufeng and others to find some soldiers who lived in the county, and then told these soldiers that a garment factory was to be built, and asked them to send their family members to work. Each person was paid six renminbi a month, and they also had a meal at noon. Yes, if you want to come to work as soon as possible, there will be no such shop after passing this village.

The soldiers cheered happily when they heard the news, six renminbi a month, they may not have been able to earn so much for two or three months of work before.

The soldiers didn't even wait for Li Jing to finish speaking, they went home and brought over their mother, wife, elder sister, and younger sisters.

Fortunately, there were not many soldiers living in the city. Otherwise, according to the posture of these people, Li Jing would have to build several garment factories to accommodate so many people.

Once the factory is established and the employees are established, the next step is the tools for making clothes.

These women do needlework all day long, and the tools are readily available.

Let's do it!

A few days later, in the five counties under Li Jing's rule, a factory opened in the county government of each county.

In order to speed up work efficiency, Li Jing planned the production process of the factory. For example, in a garment factory, Li Jing divided all employees into several groups. The first group made drawings according to the clothes' styles, the second group cut them according to the drawings, and the third group The first group sews the cut fabric into a single piece, the fourth group wadding, the fifth group piece, and the sixth group finishing.

In this way, the efficiency is greatly improved, and as everyone becomes more proficient at hand, the production speed is also faster and faster. It used to take at least two days for one person to make a set of cotton clothes, but now one person can make several pieces a day.

Moreover, the clothes, shoes, and hats produced in this way are almost exactly the same.

It can be said that these factories not only solved the problem of employment for some people, but also solved the problem of uniform clothing for soldiers.

Seeing that the ready-made clothes were being distributed to the soldiers continuously, Yang Liufeng, Fang Fang and others admired Li Jing's arrangement, and Li Jing just smiled at this.

This production mode is actually an assembly line operation, which is known to almost no one as a modern person.

In addition, Li Jing obviously considered more than that. Li Jing clearly stipulated that these factories are not owned by the government office, but his personal property.

The government yamen is only in charge of one thing, which is to collect taxes. Since the benefits of the factory are not yet known, the monthly tax amount is tentatively set at 50 taels of silver. When the factory operates normally in the future, a new tax amount will be formulated.

Li Jing rented the house of the county government temporarily, and Li Jing paid the house rent to the county government every month.

Regarding Li Jing's actions, Yang Liufeng, Fang Fang and others were a little confused. Li Jing has the final say in these five counties, so why pay the rent to the county government?Who doesn't know who owns these factories?Isn't it just a name, why is it so clear?
Li Jing patiently explained this to them.

First of all, these counties are not owned by Li Jing personally, but by the common people. Li Jing only has management power, and the officials below are all temporary managers. If they don't do well, they will pack up and leave.

Secondly, Ji Shijun is not owned by Li Jing alone, but by everyone. Li Jing is only the leader, of course the supreme leader.

Third, all the funds of these factories are paid by Li Jing himself, and have nothing to do with Ji Shijun.

The things produced by the factory need to be bought by Ji Shijun. The factory has a clear ownership, and the accounts can be clearly separated. The people below will not confuse Li Jing's personal things with Ji Shijun's.

Fourth, and most importantly, to prevent government officials from meddling in the management of these factories and making money from them.

Everyone only vaguely understood Li Jing's explanation, but they understood one thing. The government cannot intervene in the management of the factory, and Li Jing himself paid taxes and even paid the house rent.

With this example here, no one dares to take advantage of the government. As for whether to pay taxes for doing business, it’s a no-brainer. Li Jing himself pays taxes, and anyone who doesn’t pay taxes doesn’t want to live .

Both Yang Liufeng's comprehension ability and the equation's comprehension ability are superb, and through Li Jing's practice, he immediately understood many benefits.

What Yang Liufeng comprehended was fiscal revenue. He roughly calculated that if all the shops below paid taxes according to the tax rate set by Li Jing, then the salaries of all officials and servants in the county government should not differ much. Taxes collected are basically surplus.

If there are more factories like Li Jing, the local government will become richer and richer.

(End of this chapter)