Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 325 Partnership
After viewing the cotton picking tools, Zhang Qingfeng led a group of textile merchants to a machine half as tall as a person.

"Everyone, this is a cotton gin. Its main function is to shell and seed cotton. The speed is dozens of times that of an ordinary flower gin." Zhang Qingfeng introduced the machine in front of him.

The flower tie machine was a relatively mature technology in the Yuan Dynasty, but the flower tie machine transformed by Zhang Qingfeng is the kind of flower tie machine invented in Europe in the [-]th century, and its speed is faster than the original flower tie machine in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. many times higher.

"There are three types of flower tie machines, hand-operated, water-driven, and steam-powered. No matter which one it is, it is more than ten times faster than ordinary flower tie machines."

While introducing, Zhang Qingfeng asked the workers to operate the flower binding machine.

Under the operation of the workers, the hand-operated flower tie machine quickly separates the cotton fibers and cotton seeds, and the efficiency is very high.

The textile merchants who were invited here all knew this business, and when they saw this kind of flower-tying machine, their eyes lit up immediately.

Many people are thinking that they must get a few such machines back in the future.

Next, Zhang Qingfeng brought everyone to other machines.

"Everyone, this is a card, this is a draft frame, this is a roving frame, this is a spinning frame, this is a multi-spindle spinning frame."

Zhang Qingfeng pointed to the row of machines in front of him and introduced them to everyone.

Then he explained to everyone the purpose of these machines.

The carding machine mainly combs the cotton fibers with different horizontal and vertical directions, removes impurities in the cotton, and so on.

Behind the card is the draw frame.

The draw frame mainly processes the carded fiber strips into fiber strips of uniform size and thickness.

After the drawing frame, there is the roving frame, which mainly draws and twists the fiber strips into rovings, and then winds the rovings into certain packages to meet the processing requirements of the spinning frame.

After the roving frame is the fine sand machine.

The spinning frame is mainly to further draft and twist the roving into finer fine sand, and then wind it on the spindle.

The last step, of course, is the spinning machine.

The function of the spinning machine is to entangle two strands of fine sand together to form a yarn that can weave cloth.

While Zhang Qingfeng introduced, he asked all the textile merchants to demonstrate the operation process of these machines.

When everyone finally saw that the multi-spindle spinning machine could spin dozens of sand threads at the same time, they were stunned.

In the spinning process, the step of spinning sand into thread is the most troublesome step. According to the speed of this spinning machine, with a little calculation, this machine can actually support the speed of two hundred spinning workers.

Seeing these spinning machines, all the textile merchants were short of breath.

Because everyone sees a huge business opportunity from here.

Many people have secretly decided that no matter how much it costs, they must buy back these spinning machines.

Just when a group of businessmen were blushing and their hearts were beating, Zhang Qingfeng didn't stop.Instead, he led everyone to another large warehouse next door.

In this warehouse, a huge machine is placed.

Inside, workers have long been waiting here.

After Zhang Qingfeng came in with a group of textile merchants, he introduced to everyone: "Everyone, this is a flying shuttle loom. Its weaving speed is at least dozens of times that of a manual loom."

Zhang Qingfeng introduced it and asked someone to turn on the steam engine.

With the rumbling sound of the steam engine, the loom started running rapidly under the operation of several workers.

Next, everyone saw that with the operation of the loom, a piece of cotton cloth was being woven at a rapid speed.

"S!"

Seeing such a speed, many people gasped.

This kind of weaving speed is really too fast.

If the spinning machine in front is added, the speed of weaving a piece of cotton cloth is at least dozens or even hundreds of times that of ordinary weaving workshops, which is really terrifying.

Rather, with these machines, labor costs can be saved at least a very large sum.

If an ordinary workshop needs 100 textile workers, with these machines, [-] people will not be needed.

"Everyone, what do you think of these machines here?"

After visiting all the textile machines, Zhang Qingfeng invited everyone to a conference room.

"Admiral, these machines of yours are so good. I wonder if you can sell some to me?" Someone asked Zhang Qingfeng.

"I invite everyone to come today, I am going to cooperate with you." Zhang Qingfeng said to everyone.

It is impossible to sell machines, because you can't make much money selling machines, and it's just a one-off sale.

His idea is to set up a joint venture with these textile merchants, and sell the machines after making enough money.

"I don't know how to cooperate?" Someone asked Zhang Qingfeng.

Hearing this person's question, Zhang Qingfeng said: "My idea is that the imperial court will provide the machinery, everyone will contribute money and effort, and we will jointly set up a textile factory. I don't know what you think?"

"This... don't know how to partner?" A businessman asked.

"My specific consideration is this." Zhang Qingfeng said: "The imperial court will provide machinery and technology, occupying [-]% of the shares of the textile factory, and the rest depends on how much money and effort everyone contributes. "

"Afterwards, the money earned by the textile factory will naturally be shared by everyone in proportion," Zhang Qingfeng said.

"Here, Lord Admiral, isn't [-]% your share too much?" Someone asked Zhang Qingfeng.

"Everyone, the main reason why I am planning to partner with you is that the money allocated by the court is not enough. If not, I can completely set up a factory by myself."

Zhang Qingfeng said: "The textile factory I run must produce at least 20 pieces of cloth a year. The cotton cloth I weave here is of high quality and can be sold for two to three taels of silver in the market.

I pay one tael of silver for a piece of cloth, and I can earn 20 taels a year. Your investment will pay back in five years, and you will earn money after that.

Moreover, if all the money is paid by the imperial court to do this business, the money earned will belong to the imperial court and have nothing to do with you. If I didn't want to be short of money, I wouldn't look for you at all. "

"Under such circumstances, do you still think that the imperial court takes [-]% of the shares?" Zhang Qingfeng asked everyone.

Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's words, everyone fell into deep thought. If what Zhang Qingfeng said is true, this business can be invested.

Without waiting for everyone to speak, Zhang Qingfeng continued: "I am going to raise 50 taels of silver to start this business. If you don't participate, I will find other businessmen to participate. At the same time, I promise that in the future, the cotton cloth produced by the textile factory or Silk can be sold to partnership merchants first."

Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's words, everyone was tempted.

Merchants who give priority to selling to partners, if they can really get such high-quality cotton cloth at a price of one tael of silver, they can sell the cotton cloth at double the price. The profit here is really too great.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were also many kinds of cotton cloth. The most common cotton cloth was woven by some family workshops. Merchants collected it at a price of about five or six renminbi, and then sold it on the market for about one or two taels of silver.

There is also high-quality cotton cloth, the price on the market is as high as three taels of silver.

The cotton cloth spun by Zhang Qingfeng's loom has reached the high quality level, and he is not worried about not being able to sell it at all.

PS: There was a typo in the previous one. Emperor Wanli summoned Zhang Qingfeng in the Qianqing Palace. Later, he checked the information and found that the Qianqing Palace had been burned down at this time, so Wanli used this as an excuse to send a tax supervisor.

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