Go to the Republic of China to engage in industry

When Shen Chengrun got up from the bed, Ye Yi had already gone to the Marshal's Mansion and came back. After washing up, he changed into a long coat and went downstairs. When he saw Ye Yi, he smiled brightly.

"Morning."

"Morning." Ye Yi ignored the clock on the wall, it was past ten o'clock, and nodded in response.

"Is there anything else to do later?" Shen Chengrun asked if Ye Yi would go out again.

Ye Yi said: "Yes."

"What are you busy with these few days? I'm busy every day." Shen Chengrun just asked casually, but he didn't take it to heart.

Then Ye Yi answered him after pondering for a moment, "The commander wants to build an arsenal, and now I'm busy with it."

Shen Chengrun was taken aback. It wasn't about the commander-in-chief's plan to build an arsenal, but because Ye Yi told him such an important matter. After all, it was about the commander-in-chief's business.

Seeing the tangled look on his face, Ye Yi's eyes were stained with a smile, and asked softly, "Are you scared?"

"No." Shen Chengrun straightened his expression, "It's just that I don't know how to make a wooden warehouse, otherwise I can give you some advice."

Ye Yi smiled indifferently and said, "It's okay, I just want to talk to you. By the way, you said last time that you want to learn how to shoot a wooden warehouse. In a few days, I will take you to my private shooting room. There is also a shooting range outside. "

"You still have a shooting room, it's so cool." Shen Chengrun's eyes are bright, he likes Mucang.

"Wait a few more days until my arsenal is completed."

"Okay." Shen Chengrun stopped disturbing Ye Yi and let Ye Yi go to work.He had nothing to do by himself, so he picked up a pen and paper after thinking about it, thinking about things in the factory.

The first is the shoe factory. The shoe factory will definitely be completed before the cold weather, and all workers can be integrated in one place.Traditional leather shoes cannot be abandoned and can be produced, but innovation is still needed to stimulate consumption.

When it comes to innovation, Shen Chengrun immediately thinks of canvas shoes. First of all, canvas shoes are practical, wear-resistant and easy to wash, and they can be worn with everything.

Shen Chengrun thought about the appearance of himself wearing a long mandarin jacket with canvas shoes and felt quite unreal, but with the current technology, it can indeed be manufactured, this is no problem, the arrangement is up.

Espadrilles will be produced in a few days when sandals will be out of season.

But since there are canvas shoes, there must be jeans. Jeans and canvas shoes were the standard equipment for young people in a certain era.

Many people think of foreign countries subconsciously when they mention jeans, but jeans, like many other things, are not unique to foreign countries.

Another form of its existence in China is labor insurance clothing. To be precise, domestic labor insurance clothing may be more wear-resistant.

Labor protection clothing can be made into work clothes that workers wear when they go to work. As for denim, it is popularized as a fashion.

It's just that the denim may have to wait a little longer, it's a new factory again.It just so happens that he doesn't have a textile factory under his name, so he really has to open one. Apart from high-end fabrics, he can also use machines to produce some cheap and high-quality materials and sell them to ordinary people.

It is estimated that the textile factory will have to wait until the spring of next year. Rome was not built in a day, so there is no rush.

Shen Chengrun first drew sketches on the manuscript paper, which were probably in the style of canvas shoes. Of course, these canvas shoes are not limited to canvas, but also leather.

As early as 1908, there were canvas shoes. At that time, it was called All-Star. It was also the same year that Converse was founded, and it began to make shoes in the first year.

The second is the domestic brand Huili, which is a time-honored brand.

Now that we have established a shoe factory, we will launch canvas shoes just in time for the next autumn season.

In winter, if you add fleece or make it with leather, you can still wear it until it is very cold.

With that in mind, Shen Chengrun drew all kinds of classic styles under his brush, and quickly drew a dozen of them.

It wasn't until he felt the soreness in his wrist stop that Ye Yi didn't know when and how long he stood behind him and looked at it.

Seeing that he found it, he said: "Sneakers, the style is very beautiful, and your painting skills have improved a lot."

Can it be beneficial?He specially went to the newspaper office and asked an illustrator to tailor a crash course for him. He didn't want to strive for perfection in his paintings, but at least let people know what he painted.Furthermore, Ye Yi's paintings are so good, he always feels that his paintings are too soulful, and he is not worthy of being Ye Yi's friend.

But what surprised Shen Chengrun was that Ye Yi knew about sneakers, and then thought that Ye Yi had been dealing with foreigners all year round, so it was nothing to be surprised to see sneakers.

"It's just a matter of time to ask someone to send the picture to the shoe factory. You don't need to be distracted from production for the time being, just set aside a team to study it first." Shen Chengrun said.

The previous workers' strike had given Shen Chengrun a general understanding of the workers under him.The ones who are most sincere to him are the workers in the first factory, which is the factory that Ye Yi and Shen Chengrun bought personally.

These workers have always been impressed by the fact that Shen Chengrun paid them wages in disguise.

Therefore, under the instigation of foreigners coming to the door, saying that after the completion of the new factory, the introduction of machines will reduce a large number of workers, and if they don’t want to be reduced, they will participate in a general strike. Shen Chengrun was informed.

At that time, Shen Chengrun asked them with a smile if they were not afraid of downsizing, and those honest workers replied that they were afraid.Then they said that it was their blessing to be able to work in Shen's, and it was just that they were not lucky enough to be downsized.It's normal to be kicked home when I said I was kicked out when I was working in another place.Now that Mrs. Shen has promised to compensate three years' wages, what is there to be dissatisfied with?

This answer satisfied Shen Chengrun, and Shen Chengrun planned to let the workers of the first factory try to study it first.

When the workers of Factory No. [-] received this secret mission, their excited faces glowed red.

Dong Dayong smirked and said: "Steward, does this mean that if the Shen's shoe factory reduces its staff one day, the reduction will not be on top of us?"

The steward slapped Dong Dayong on the back of the head severely, and cursed: "What are you talking about, when did Mr. Shen say about reducing the number of employees, and even if you are reduced, you will still have three years' salary, what do you want?"

There was no anger in the steward's voice, and Dong Dayong was not afraid, so he just smirked innocently, "The treatment in Shen's factory is so good, even if I get three years' salary for nothing, I wouldn't be willing to work elsewhere."

What I said is true, but among those who have worked in Shen's, there is no one who does not want to work for Shen's for a lifetime.

"If you don't want to go home, you should finish the task assigned by Mr. Shen. This is the first task Mr. Shen gave us. It must be completed beautifully so as to live up to Mr. Shen's trust."

The workers all held this breath in their hearts, and began to make the sneakers seriously, but the breath dissipated as soon as they held it.

Dong Dayong threw the newly made canvas shoes on the ground, and said with a mournful face: "Failed, failed again."

The steward stepped forward and found that this pair of failed shoes had the same problem as all the previous shoes, that is, the soles were too soft.

Rubber was an imported product at this time. There were only a few areas in China that were suitable for planting rubber. However, these areas could not use all the land for rubber plantation. buy.

However, since Shen Chengrun wanted to produce dolls, he had to use resin. Using natural resin for this non-essential product was a waste of resources in the era of the Republic of China. Shen Chengrun produced synthetic rubber to replace natural rubber.

Only then did Shen Chengrun toss a lot of rubber, and it also helped Ye Yi solve the problem of rubber imports.Although it is still necessary to import natural rubber, the amount is greatly reduced.

The foreigners were surprised at first. Ye Yi’s factory increased the rubber products, but why did not see the increase in rubber imports. The foreigners who saw the doll factory’s profit originally tried to take this opportunity to raise prices, but Ye Yi didn’t expect it at all. Increase imports.

Thinking of the lessons learned from the past, the soda factory was finally expelled from Wuxu because of the price increase. Now even the provinces in China are panicking, and they dare not raise prices anymore.

At that time, Shen Chengrun and Ye Yi had researched that foreigners could come to China to make money and hire cheap labor from China, and they could also go to foreign lands where labor is expensive, so they can just buy local rubber that is absolutely cheap compared to China. .

Of course, this business would not be easy for a foreigner if the Huaxia people came forward in person. Shen Chengrun hired a foreigner as the general manager with a high salary, and the actual person in charge was still a Huaxia person.As for protection, there was no door before, but now with Mark and the important person behind him, as long as money is used as a stepping stone, there is no door that cannot be opened.

The foreigner's 'deck' company has shipped back several batches of natural rubber that is far lower than the domestic price, but in order to prevent domestic foreigners from discovering the clues, Ye Yi continues to cooperate with foreigners.

In order to confuse foreigners, occasionally in speech and demeanor it is brought out that China has mastered new technology, as long as a little natural rubber can produce a lot of rubber-like substances, such substances may be slightly inferior to natural rubber, but fortunately it is cheap.This made foreigners panic even more. They didn't dare to raise the price of rubber, for fear that if Ye Yi was stimulated, and if he came up with something that could completely replace rubber, wouldn't he become the next lost dog Smith.

Smith's lesson impressed the foreigners too deeply. It was the first time they fell so hard in China, and no foreigner wanted to repeat the same mistakes.

"Such shoes can't be worn at all. We have been exposed to leather shoes and cloth shoes before, but we have never been exposed to this new style of rubber-soled shoes." Dong Dayong said: "Steward, let's stop thinking about it. Mr. Shen has The doll factory knows about the rubber issue, so he might have a solution as soon as we respond."

The steward thought about it, and finally gritted his teeth and agreed, but he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, feeling that this was the first task Mr. Shen entrusted to them, but they didn't do it well.

The steward took Dong Dayong to find Shen Chengrun, but was taken to the living room of Ye's family. Both the steward and Dong Dayong panicked.

Ye Zhai and the others knew that Ye Yi represented not only entrepreneurs, but also the Marshal's Mansion behind him.

The manager and Dong Dayong, who were already nervous, were even more nervous, sweating non-stop. Both of them were rough and didn't have the habit of carrying a handkerchief with them, so they kept wiping their sweat with their hands.

Shen Chengrun asked someone to bring two sweat towels for the two of them, and then asked someone to put Sushan Mountain and a plate of melons and fruits for the two of them, and then asked in a gentle voice: "Did you encounter something when you looked for me? "

How dare the manager dare to eat, he didn't complete the task assigned by Mr. Shen, and felt ashamed. The reason why he sat down was Shen Chengrun's repeated orders.

"Yes, it's about the shoes. We were ashamed of our trust in Mr. Shen and failed to complete the task."

"Don't worry, speak slowly, if you have any problems, speak up and solve them together."

"It's the rubber sole of the shoe."

As soon as the steward opened his mouth, Shen Chengrun understood that some craftsmen had encountered this problem when rubber-soled shoes first appeared.

"It's not your fault, I forgot, it's up to me." Shen Chengrun quickly explained to the two workers what vulcanization is.