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Zhang Qingfeng decided to sell all the machines except the shuttle loom.

In this way, not only can we make money from machines, but we can also directly purchase spun yarns from the market, and then use these yarns to weave cloth.

It means that he wants to support a group of downstream supporting enterprises of weaving factories.

On this day, Zhang Qingfeng called more than a dozen textile merchants together, and then told them his decision.

"Admiral, why do you want us to open a factory? Isn't the current textile factory very good?" Someone asked Zhang Qingfeng in confusion.

Now the textile factory can produce [-] pieces of cotton cloth every month, which is enough for the cloth supply of Shuntian Prefecture and some surrounding areas.

Therefore, they all believe that there is no need to continue to expand the scale.

"Everyone, are you satisfied with [-] bolts of cotton cloth per month?"

Zhang Qingfeng said to everyone: "My idea is to develop Shuntianfu into a textile center like Jiangnan. If we want to develop like this, we must expand the scale of the textile industry, so it is necessary to promote the spinning mill."

Zhang Qingfeng said: "In the north, we don't grow less cotton than in Suzhou and Hangzhou, but we can't develop it. In addition to the geographical location and the less convenient transportation than the Jiangnan waterway, there are not as many textile workers as in the Jiangnan area."

"But now, we have new textile machines, which can completely keep the northern cotton in the north, and can also compete with the southern cotton and win the entire northern market."

Zhang Qingfeng said to everyone: "If you don't want to do it, I will find other people. I am going to support at least [-] textile workshops. Then, I will sell all the spinning machines in the current textile factory, and then increase The number of flying shuttle looms is dedicated to weaving, and it will be renamed the weaving factory later.”

Zhang Qingfeng's thinking is very simple, that is, if he wants to win the entire northern market and the textile business, it is impossible for him to monopolize it all by himself, otherwise he will only be besieged by everyone.

When he supports the spinning workshop, other people can benefit. Only when the benefits are shared, the entire industry can become bigger and stronger.

Hearing that Zhang Qingfeng had such a big ambition, more than a dozen textile merchants were immediately moved.

"Admiral, if I want to set up a spinning factory, what should I do?" A businessman asked Zhang Qingfeng.

"It is very simple for you to set up a spinning mill, that is, you need to have a factory building, and then place an order with the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau to purchase spinning machines, purchase raw materials such as cotton, recruit textile workers, and finally start work."

Zhang Qingfeng said to everyone: "I will collect as much yarn as you spun, so that everyone can earn enough money. After a few years, I may let go of the shuttle loom." If you want to set up your own weaving factory, you can set up a weaving factory."

"Okay, since the admiral said so, this spinning mill counts as me." A textile merchant said to Zhang Qingfeng.

"Count me in," said another businessman.

"Count me in too."

With Zhang Qingfeng's words, more than a dozen textile businessmen expressed their support for Zhang Qingfeng.

In fact, no matter if it is a multi-spindle spinning machine or a flying shuttle loom, as long as there is a prototype, it can be easily imitated.

If these people want to make their own textile machines and start a textile factory, Zhang Qingfeng has no way, because it is easy to be copied.

But Zhang Qingfeng can say that the steam engine is impossible for ordinary people to imitate in a short time. This is Zhang Qingfeng's confidence.

You imitate the spinning machine and shuttle loom, but without the steam engine, your weaving cost will still be high, and a price war with you will kill you.

Why is it said that the first industrial revolution was marked by the widespread use of steam engines as power?That's why.

In the following time, besides the dozen or so businessmen, Zhang Qingfeng also contacted some big landlords and big businessmen in the capital, and talked about the development of the textile industry in the north.

In the end, among more than 100 businessmen, more than [-] were willing to invest in spinning factories.

After these people agreed to invest in the spinning mill, Zhang Qingfeng promised that the cloth produced by the spinning mill would also be traded with these merchants in cooperation.

As a result, in just half a month, the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau received orders for thousands of textile machines, large and small.

Among them, there are more than 500 steam engines. The total value of these machines and steam engines is as high as 58 taels of silver, which is equivalent to a business of 8000 million copper coins.

Although the money is not much, Zhang Qingfeng believes that with the expansion of the textile industry in the north in the future, the machine orders will only increase.

Afterwards, Zhang Qingfeng told you the good news, Emperor Wanli.

Emperor Wanli was very happy to hear Zhang Qingfeng's report, and he inevitably praised and rewarded Zhang Qingfeng again.

After that, Zhang Qingfeng asked Emperor Wanli to take out the Huangzhuang outside the city to invest in building a textile industrial zone, and Emperor Wanli readily agreed.

After Emperor Wanli agreed, Zhang Qingfeng immediately summoned craftsmen to build factories and roads near the textile factory.

He will rent or sell these factories to other businessmen in the form of real estate.

In the south of the capital, a large area close to the canal will become a textile industrial zone in the future, and the land price here will naturally rise at that time, so Zhang Qingfeng can make a lot of money by planning ahead.

Of course, these lands belonged to the emperor, and the money earned would go to Emperor Wanli, but Zhang Qingfeng was able to make huge political achievements from it.

In order to invest in these lands, Zhang Qingfeng not only intercepted the profits handed over to the emperor by the textile factory, but also took 50 taels of silver from the emperor's internal treasury, and then invested all of it in the development of the industrial zone.

After Emperor Wanli saw Zhang Qingfeng's money-making ability, he took out 50 taels of silver without hesitation, because he trusted Zhang Qingfeng, and even if he lost the money, the textile factory would still be able to make it back.

In addition to building industrial zones, Zhang Qingfeng also invented cement. This thing is so important to industry that he cannot forget such a good thing.

As a time traveler, there is a steam engine, but the cement has not been produced for a long time, which is unreasonable.
However, the development and growth of the cement industry does not happen overnight. After all, this is a new thing. We can only wait for everyone to see the role of cement, and then absorb a lot of money to expand the cement industry just like the textile industry.

A few months later, on this day, more than a dozen spinning mills opened at the same time in the Beijing Textile Industrial Zone.

For a time, the entire industrial area was extremely lively.

More than a dozen spinning mills opened, bringing at least thousands of job opportunities to the capital.

In the coming time, more than [-] spinning mills will open one after another.

The yarn they spun, in addition to being sold to Zhang Qingfeng's weaving factory, can also be sold to ordinary people in family workshops.

Compared with buying cotton spinning and weaving from the beginning to the end, the cost of people buying finished yarn and weaving directly from the spinning mill is much lower, and thus, selling cloth will make more money.

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