Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 327 Monthly Output

In the capital, there are almost 3 artisan households, most of whom are required to serve in the imperial workshops, either once every three years or every two years.

There are more than 3000 craftsmen in the military battle bureau, representing more than 3000 families.

Zhang Qingfeng only needs no more than 1000 female textile workers, so it should be relatively easy to open the gap from them.

Later, Zhang Qingfeng informed all the craftsmen of the Military War Bureau about the recruitment status of female textile workers, and he promised that there would never be a man working there.

For Zhang Qingfeng, the admiral, many craftsmen in the military battle bureau admired him very much.

After Zhang Qingfeng made the promise, the craftsmen's family of the Gunpowder Bureau responded positively to Zhang Qingfeng's call immediately, and then other government offices responded one after another.

Next, Zhang Qingfeng discovered that there seemed to be too many workers all of a sudden. Originally, he only planned to recruit more than 1000 workers, but now more than 2000 people have signed up.

Zhang Qingfeng was naturally very happy about this situation. He spent two days selecting some younger textile workers from more than 2000 people.

After almost three months of preparing the textile factory, Zhang Qingfeng's textile factory was finally ready.

Within a month, Zhang Qingfeng began training female textile workers to operate textile machines.

His weaving machine is quite different from traditional weaving machines, so he needs to be trained before he can work.

According to the effect of the training, Zhang Qingfeng can also adjust the positions and wages of female workers.

After one month of training, under the witness of all the participating businessmen, the textile factory finally started.

Next, the entire textile factory is extremely busy every day.

Zhang Qingfeng adopted a piece-rate system for the workers, which meant that for every piece of cloth they spun, they would be paid two taels of silver.

In this way, the cost is removed, and the textile factory can almost get an income of five renminbi.

In the first month, under the hard work of countless workers, the textile factory wove [-] bolts of cloth, and everyone received an average wage of six taels of silver.

To be honest, this number really shocked Zhang Qingfeng.

The textile factory he set up in the Southern Song Dynasty only wove 50 pieces a year, which was the result of investing millions of pieces.

Finally, after summarizing, Zhang Qingfeng believed that it was still because of the steam engine.

All the textile factories he opened in the Southern Song Dynasty used water power, so many factories had to be built and thousands of workers were hired, which cost a lot.

With the steam engine, many machines can be placed together, and one steam engine can drive several machines, which can not only save factories and manpower, but also speed up the speed of weaving.

The female textile workers weaved [-] pieces of cloth in the first month and received a salary of six taels of silver, which made everyone smile.

This number immediately made many female workers who were unwilling to work in the textile factory regret it.

Six taels of silver can be compared with the fourth-level craftsmen of the Bingzhan Bureau.

If I had known earlier, there would only be more than 200 level four craftsmen in the war bureau.

When these female textile workers returned home with six taels of silver, the male owners of the families were shocked.

Many people find that their wives’ income is much higher than theirs.

And for some female workers who were disliked by their parents-in-law, when they handed in their wages, the parents-in-law who had been disrespectful to them before suddenly died down.

It can be said that with the payment of the first month's wages, the status of all women textile workers in the family has improved a lot.

Next, as the female weaving workers became familiar with the machines, the weaving speed became faster and faster.

In the second month, the number of cotton cloth produced by the textile factory exceeded 4 pieces.

According to this shipment volume, almost every female textile worker can get a salary of eight taels of silver, and even the slower female workers will not be less than five taels of silver.

In the second month, Zhang Qingfeng still paid the wages of the female workers as usual.

As the wages of female workers were paid this time, the news spread quickly. Suddenly, the entire capital knew about the wages of female workers in the textile factory, and countless people talked about it.

A lot of people were asking everywhere if the textile factory needed any more workers. At that time, there were countless female workers who wanted to come to the textile factory.

Of course, Zhang Qingfeng doesn't need so many female workers now, so these people can only be disappointed.

In this regard, many people sigh with regret. When the textile factory recruited workers, they did not participate at all.

As a result, fewer than a hundred people responded to the call in the textile factory for several days. Now, many people regret that it is too late.

As the textile factory officially started production, it brought Zhang Qingfeng more than 5000 yuan in income in two months.

Excluding the 4000% allocated to the merchant, he was able to obtain [-] taels of silver.

If a textile mill can produce [-] bolts of cloth per month, it will take just over two years for them to pay back their capital.

Of course, at this time, these textile merchants have already looked down on this little money, because they underwrote all the cloth from the textile factory and made more money.

They only need to use the cotton cloth from the textile factory to print and dye, and they can sell it at double the price.

The profit here is much greater than the dividends from the textile factory.

The higher the output of textile mills, the faster they make money. Many people secretly calculate that in fact, it only takes about a year for everyone to earn back all the capital invested in the textile factory.

The textile factory made money, and the happiest thing was Emperor Wanli.

What Zhang Qingfeng promised at the beginning was to earn 1 taels of silver a year, but now Zhang Qingfeng told him that he could earn more than 10 taels of silver a year. How could this not make him very happy.

10 taels of silver is equivalent to [-] million, not a small amount.

Of course, what Emperor Wanli didn't know was that in the process, Zhang Qingfeng intercepted part of it himself, and then sent all of it to Zhu Changluo.

Zhang Qingfeng didn't dare to intercept too much, about 2000 taels of silver per month.

On the other side, in the soap business that Zhang Qingfeng started, due to more and more competitors, the price of a piece of soap has dropped from several taels of silver to less than two hundred cents a piece.

The windfall profits of hundreds of times disappeared like a bubble that was punctured.

Now Zhang Qingfeng can get less than 100 taels of money from Eunuch Wang's soap workshop every month, which makes Zhang Qingfeng very uncomfortable.

Fortunately, the textile factory has been built. Although it is not as profitable as soap at the beginning, it will not drop in price like soap.

As long as it continues to operate well, the textile factory will be able to bring him a steady stream of money and political achievements.

With the achievements of the textile factory, although Zhang Qingfeng was not promoted, he got more power.

Now, he could directly ask for an audience with Emperor Wanli and write a memorial directly to Emperor Wanli. This was something that many eunuchs longed for but could not achieve.

After Emperor Wanli learned that Zhang Qingfeng's textile factory could earn so much money, he attached great importance to it. He was afraid of being destroyed by others, such as setting fire to it, and sent many people from Dongchang to protect it.

Of course, Zhang Qingfeng is not just satisfied with the profit of the textile factory. With the right to private trade, he also wants to do more business, earn more money, and achieve greater political achievements.

(End of this chapter)