Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 326

"Admiral, you are right, then I will invest 5 taels." A businessman said to Zhang Qingfeng.

"Let me vote 5 taels too." Another businessman also said.

"My business is not big, I can only invest 2 taels."

"I voted 3 taels."

"I voted 6 taels."

Seeing someone taking the lead, others began to state the price they were willing to invest.

"This investment only accepts 50 taels of silver, and your investment amount exceeds 80 taels, so let's discuss how to allocate it." After everyone quoted, Zhang Qingfeng could only say to everyone.

Now, there are a total of sixteen textile merchants present, which means that the amount of investment per person is only about 300 taels.

Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's words, everyone just did a little calculation and calculated the average investment amount.

"Old Zheng, you are not kind. Your 6 taels is too much." Someone said to a businessman named Zheng who invested 6 taels.

By this time, these businessmen no longer suspected that Zhang Qingfeng had cheated them of their money. No one would dislike a lot of money, but now they are disliked.

Finally, with everyone's wrangling, the sixteen businessmen evenly distributed all investment shares.

Each businessman invested 250 taels of silver and evenly distributed 60.00% of the textile factory's shares, with each person's share being less than [-]%.

The reason why these people were willing to invest was because they saw the weaving efficiency of the textile machine that Zhang Qingfeng demonstrated to them.

When these machines are combined, the efficiency of weaving is too exaggerated. No one believes that such a machine will not make money.

After deciding to invest in textile factories, these businessmen moved quickly.

Within three days, all 50 taels of silver were collected.

"Everyone, the textile factory needs a lot of cotton and other raw materials. I plan to use the 20 taels to buy them. If you have the goods, I can buy them at the market price." Zhang Qingfeng said to everyone.

Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's words, everyone was very happy. They didn't expect that they could earn a fortune from the investment money just now. This is really great.

"Admiral, please leave the 20 taels of silver to me to purchase. I promise to deliver all the goods to the textile factory within three months." A textile merchant said to Zhang Qingfeng.

"Old Zheng, what do you mean? You want to eat it all by yourself? No."

"Admiral, I am also willing to help purchase cotton. Please give me a chance." Other merchants stood up and said.

"Let's divide it equally." Finally Zhang Qingfeng stood up and said.

Upon hearing the score, everyone was speechless.

Afterwards, sixteen textile merchants equally divided the purchase price of 20 yuan.

"My ugly words are up front. The cotton I want must meet a certain standard. You can't give me shoddy." Zhang Qingfeng said to everyone.

"Don't worry, Admiral, we don't dare to trick anyone but the imperial court." A businessman said.

Zhang Qingfeng now represents the power of eunuchs and the emperor.

The power of eunuchs controlled Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and given them great courage, they did not dare to make bad decisions.

"That's good." Zhang Qingfeng nodded, very satisfied with everyone's attitude.

These people are all powerful businessmen in the capital, behind them, they represent the powerful and noble class.

Without the support of the powerful class, it would be difficult for ordinary businessmen to become famous in the capital. This was the reality of the Ming Dynasty.

There were no big businessmen in the Ming Dynasty who did not collude with government and businessmen. In Zhang Qingfeng's view, the system and wealth of the Ming Dynasty should be broken, reconstructed and redistributed, just like what Mao Zedong did.

However, the mission given to him by the system is to continue the Ming Dynasty, so he cannot rebel, otherwise the mission will fail.

After Zhang Qingfeng took out 20 taels of silver to purchase cotton, he invested all the remaining 30 taels of silver in building delivery rooms and manufacturing machines.

For the factory building, Zhang Qingfeng chose to locate it outside the city, because the land outside the city was cheap enough.

Zhang Qingfeng estimates that it will cost 10,000+ taels to buy land and build a house, which is equivalent to more than 1 million copper coins.

With the remaining money, Zhang Qingfeng placed a large order with other manufacturing yamen in the name of the eunuch of the Military Administrative Bureau, mainly asking their craftsmen to help manufacture wooden structural parts for textile machines.

As for the parts of the metal structure, Zhang Qingfeng finished all of them in the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau.

At this time, the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, after more than half a year of hard work, already had hundreds of machine tools of various types. These machine tools were mainly used to process and manufacture steam engines.

Zhang Qingfeng's textile factory is expected to manufacture thousands of various textile machines, the most expensive of which are multi-spindle spinning machines and flying shuttle looms, because both of these machines must be equipped with a steam engine.

Thousands of machines, except for metal parts, other wooden parts and shelves were all made by craftsmen from other yamen, which cost tens of thousands of taels of silver, and also made the eunuchs in charge of other yamen earn a lot of money.

24 Yamen, there are tens of thousands of craftsmen in the Eighth Bureau alone. It is easy for so many craftsmen to help manufacture thousands of machines.

In just two months, all the textile machines Zhang Qingfeng needed were manufactured.

Outside the city, the factory buildings of the textile factory were also built.

However, due to the rush of time, many buildings such as warehouses have not yet been built.

Therefore, the purchased cotton and other raw materials can only be placed with a dozen textile merchants first.

After another half a month, all the machines were installed.

At the same time, Zhang Qingfeng once again used a small advertisement to ask the textile factory to recruit female textile workers from common households throughout the capital.

The guaranteed minimum salary in the textile factory is two taels of silver. If they work diligently, Zhang Qingfeng guarantees that the monthly wages of these female workers will not be less than three taels of silver.

Such a price is regarded as a high salary. It may not be attractive to people from wealthy families, but it is very attractive to people living on the poverty line.

In Beijing, there are many ordinary families living below the poverty line.

Moreover, Zhang Qingfeng promised that the entire textile factory will be dominated by women, and there will not be a single man, and there will be eunuchs.

In the Ming Dynasty, the ethics were very strict, and the status of women was very low. If a woman worked with a man, she would definitely be reviled by many people.

In the Ming Dynasty, when women came out to show their faces, they would be regarded as unclean.

That's why Zhang Qingfeng promised that there would not be a single man in the entire textile factory, so as to reassure the female textile workers and the families behind them.

The textile industry in the Ming Dynasty was extremely developed, but there were very few workshops with more than [-] employees, and there were no women in the workshops.

The role of women in the textile industry is self-evident, but most of them weave cloth at home in their free time and then sell it to cloth merchants.

After a month, excluding busy farming and housework, they can almost weave one or two bolts of cloth and earn less than one tael of silver to subsidize family expenses.

In the Ming Dynasty, nine out of ten households owned looms, which shows the prevalence of family workshops at that time.

After Zhang Qingfeng posted the small advertisement, the effect was not very good, because there were not many female textile workers who applied for the job.

Most of those who came to apply were those whose families could not make a living, and the number was not large, less than a hundred.

Seeing that no one could be recruited from the private sector, in the end, Zhang Qingfeng could only turn his mind to the craftsmen in the Military Bureau.

(End of this chapter)