I want to be emperor

Chapter 1052 Song Erniu Face Saint

In Berta City, a garment factory owned by the Song Clothing Company, Song Erniu kept wandering at the gate. He wanted to take out a cigarette several times but finally put it down and just took out the cigarette to smell it. Several times.

The holy driver will be coming soon, and as the person in charge of the factory, he is also fortunate to be one of the escorts to accompany the driver on the tour and be responsible for answering some questions about the factory.

Under such circumstances, he naturally cannot let the smell of smoke stain his body.

Not only that, in fact, during this period, he has been working hard to review and understand the textile industry, especially the situation in the garment industry and even some specific technical issues.

You know, although he is the boss of the Song Clothing Company, the company's denim brand canvas clothes sell well all over the world, and have even achieved a certain reputation in the country... But in fact, Song Erniu does not know any technology.

He is a very pure entrepreneur, boss... He was able to build such a huge business not because of his knowledge of technology, but because of his vision, courage and shamelessness!

Many years ago, gold appeared in Jinshan City, and countless gold diggers poured into Jinshan City. These gold diggers had a huge demand for wear-resistant work clothes. He saw this demand and took advantage of the situation to purchase a large amount of canvas. Some workers used the sewing machines that had just appeared at that time to produce canvas work clothes, and then captured the huge ready-to-wear market of gold diggers in one fell swoop.

Then he got out of hand, and his canvas clothing business spread throughout the Americas. He founded what was considered the first clothing brand in modern times. In the process, he successively recruited technical talents and established textile material research and development and processing technology. Many technical projects have been carried out and some technical achievements have been achieved, which have consolidated the advantages of denim brand clothes.

Finally, he saw the potential of the huge local ready-to-wear market and began to enter the local ready-to-wear market in East Asia. First, he launched denim brand clothes in the local market, focusing on men's work clothes and daily casual wear markets.

Later, under his leadership, they entered the women's ready-to-wear market and used their company's latest technology to launch a discreet and elastic women's jeans to the market.

This kind of trousers, which can greatly reflect the beauty of women's legs without appearing exposed and incompatible with traditional social trends, was quickly recognized by the market through a series of promotions and became the first in the ready-to-wear market. A mass-produced women's ready-to-wear product that leads fashion trends.

Taking advantage of this shareholder style, he launched other types of women's ready-to-wear in the East Asian local market. Although the market for these ordinary women's ready-to-wear is not very good, it can be regarded as opening up the market gap.

The above-mentioned series of market development actions led by Song Erniu have made Song's clothing company undoubtedly the number one clothing brand in the Chu Empire today. Its flagship product, denim clothing, is sold all over the world and has driven the entire canvas garment industry. market!

Denim clothing, or canvas clothing, has become the third major global trend after traditional Hanfu and professional clothing. It is widely used for work clothes and daily wear... Of course, this third type is very important, because denim clothing The total market size is actually quite small.

However, this was enough to give birth to a large-scale clothing company, and this company was Song's Clothing Company.

The reason why Luo Zhixue came to inspect the production base of Song's Clothing Company was that in addition to inspecting the local textile industry in Berta City, he also wanted to take a look at the situation of Song's Clothing Company.

The Song Clothing Company is the most successful contemporary clothing company in the Chu Empire. It is also the first company to create and operate a clothing brand, and it is also very successful.

Although the ready-made garment market is still a niche market now, it will become the core and pillar industry of the textile industry in the future.

After all, with the continuous improvement of productivity, the cost of garment processing continues to decline, and people's living standards continue to improve.

Sooner or later, people will switch from buying cloth to sew their own clothes to directly buying ready-made clothes. This is a universal law that has been proven in the original time and space.

There will be no exception in the Dachu Empire...

After all, when buying a piece of ready-made clothing is cheap enough, even the lower income groups will choose to buy ready-made clothing instead of buying cloth and sewing it by themselves...

Even in the end, even those from indigenous countries will tend to buy ready-made clothes... because the ready-made clothes produced in Chu State have lower cost and cheaper price, which is more cost-effective than buying cloth for sewing!

Of course... At that time, the empire's textile industry may gradually reduce the supply of cloth and increase the supply of ready-made clothes in order to promote ready-made clothes in indigenous countries... If there is no cloth, what can you do to sew your own clothes?

What, you said you weave your own cloth?

Sorry, under the global economic model dominated by the Chu Empire, there is a high probability that you can't even buy cotton.

Even if the locals in cotton-producing areas can spin their own cloth, the cloth they spin will still be more expensive than the ready-made clothes sold by Chu people... What Chu people like to do most is to dump cloth in cotton-producing areas and use it in grain production. Cheap potatoes and other grains are dumped in the production areas, thereby driving down local cotton and grain prices... ensuring that no matter how much cotton or grain you grow, you will not make much money in the end, and then you can only sell these economic crops at ultra-low prices. Sold to Chu merchants.

Then Chu merchants would raise the prices of other consumer goods, such as selling cloth at high prices in grain-producing areas, and selling grain at high prices in cotton-producing areas...

This is the global economic unification promoted by the Dachu Empire!

That is not a warm and gentle economic system that brings civilization and prosperity to people all over the world... In fact, it is very cruel to the indigenous countries.

It's just that this cruelty is not reflected in guns and guns, but in the economy.

The Chu people's attitude towards the indigenous people of various countries has actually never changed...

In the past, we wanted land but not people, but now we need land but also people!

Of course, from the perspective of civilization and survival, the latter is definitely better than the former... But this is not because of the conscience of the Chu people, but because the Chu people discovered that letting the indigenous people farm and mine is better than grabbing the land and farming it themselves. Mining is more in your own interests.

To put it bluntly, the Chu people left hundreds of millions of indigenous people to work for themselves... What they did was actually no different from the early European colonists, but it was more indirect and euphemistic. They did not engage in slavery, but adopted Military repression, support for proxies, global economic integration and other economic measures are used to achieve immediate goals.

Probably... it's similar to what Americans did after World War II in the original time and space, but it was more thorough.

After all, Americans can't do whatever they want...but Chu people can!

Under such circumstances, it is estimated that people in various indigenous countries will be able to wear ready-made clothes produced by Chu people in the future, further ensuring the sustainable development of the empire's textile industry.

It is very necessary to ensure the sustainable development of the textile industry. After all, the textile industry is too important... It is one of the four major industries of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

It can even be said that apart from food, the textile industry is the most important.

After all, people, even the indigenous people, have to wear clothes... As long as you wear clothes, you can't avoid giving your copper plates to Chu's textile industry and contributing to the industrialization of the Chu Empire.

Based on the importance of the textile industry and the future important role and potential of the garment industry, Luo Zhixue is quite concerned about the garment industry.

So this time I also chose to visit the production base of Song Clothing Company.

Song's Clothing Company, as an authentic American company rooted in the three provinces of North America, has also entered the local market in East Asia and achieved outstanding results, but their base camp is still in the Americas, and it is convenient to use local cotton resources.

The American region is currently the largest cotton producing area in the Chu Empire. The cotton output is huge. Similarly, the local textile industry is developing quite well... Of course, it is only good, and it is far from being comparable to that in East Asia. .

Song's Clothing Company is one of the better-developed textile companies in the Americas. In order to meet its own needs and reduce material procurement costs, although Song's Clothing Company's main business is selling ready-made garments, in fact they are also actively deploying upstream. Its parent company, Song Investment Company, has successively invested, acquired, and taken shares in some upstream companies, establishing upstream industrial chains such as cotton procurement, spinning, weaving, and printing and dyeing.

Song Investment Company is actually a large-scale comprehensive textile enterprise that even invests in the fields of machinery, chemicals, and transportation... Many of the textile equipment they use, especially sewing machines, are self-developed.

Such a large enterprise is considered a large enterprise in East Asia. Even though it is not as big as Suqin Textile Company, it is still a large enterprise with a market value of more than 15 million, and it is also a large enterprise in the textile industry. Not bad.

Song Erniu, who controls this large enterprise, is worth more than ten million yuan... and is one of the top dozen richest people in the entire Americas. Such multi-millionaires are very rare even in China...

But today, this multi-millionaire who has seen many storms and experienced numerous challenges was uneasy and kept wandering around the entrance of the factory.

No wonder Song Erniu was nervous!

The one who is coming is Your Majesty!

Ever since he was a child, Song Erniu had never thought that His Majesty would come to inspect his company, even a month before he got the notice.

And I... a person from a peasant family who had made it out of the lowest class could actually meet a saint one day and have the opportunity to accompany His Majesty to introduce the company and industry to His Majesty.

This was a huge honor that he had never dreamed of!

Although he is already a multi-millionaire, the people he usually interacts with are high-ranking officials, rich businessmen and even people from aristocratic and scholarly families and other upper-class people, but to be honest, he had never even thought that he would have such a day.

I wouldn’t even dream of it!

When he received a notice from the Palace Affairs Department asking him to make all preparations for the arrival, he couldn't sleep for several days... Even in the past month, in order to avoid accidents, his freedom of movement was actually restricted. They all stayed in a manor he owned in Berta City, and were not allowed to leave the sight of Internal Affairs agents.

But...he didn't complain at all about these, and even enjoyed them!

There are not many people in this world who are qualified to enjoy the personal protection of Internal Affairs Division agents... Well, who said surveillance is not protection!

Now, it’s finally time to meet the Saint!

The time came to 10:20 in the morning. With the arrival of many carriages from the front and the arrival of a large number of uniformed Guardsmen, the Holy Driver finally arrived.

Luo Zhixue rode the royal carriage and arrived at the gate of the Song Clothing Company's factory accompanied by a group of accompanying officials.

The holy driver did not stop, passed the crowd, and entered the small square in the factory. Then Luo Zhixue got out of the car. At this time, the local official in charge and more than a dozen key personnel including Song Erniu came to greet him.

Song Erniu, who had received special etiquette training early on, bowed with other greeters and shouted at the same time: "Welcome Your Majesty!"

Luo Zhixue glanced at everyone and said with a smile: "No need to be polite!"

Subsequently, under the guidance of the Ministry of Ethnic Affairs, several local officials as well as Song Erniu and others came forward one after another to give a brief introduction and greetings.

When Song Erniu was introduced, Luo Zhixue said: "Boss Song, I've heard about you...your denim clothes are pretty good!"

As a leading enterprise in the garment market and the largest local private enterprise in the Americas, Luo Zhixue had naturally heard of Song Clothing Company early on and had also seen some briefings on Song Erniu's personal information. ,

Knowing that this is a self-made entrepreneur...such a person is quite rare in the Dachu Empire.

In fact, among the many super-rich people in the Dachu Empire, very few of them came from truly low-income families. Most of them came from the families of officials and gentry...at worst, they were from the families of wealthy merchants in the pre-Ming Dynasty.

For example, the famous Li family of Li Ironmaking, the Li family was already one of more than ten large ironmaking families in the Foshan area during the pre-Ming Dynasty, and they also produced officials in the pre-Ming Dynasty. You must know that the imperial army had just left When they arrived in Guangdong, the Li family began to supply various cold weapons to the Chu army.

Many other wealthy families, most of them were wealthy businessmen and gentry families in the pre-Ming Dynasty. They responded enthusiastically to the call of the empire during the wave of that year, actively participated in industry and commerce, and eventually became bigger and stronger.

And to be honest, there are not many super-rich people like Song Erniu who are truly from the bottom of society...

Of course, this does not mean that there is no way out for those who are from the bottom. The empire's class channels are cut off... In fact, there are quite a few. There are fewer super-rich people from the bottom, but it does not mean that there are fewer high-ranking officials in the empire who are from the bottom.

In fact, most of the empire's senior officials are from ordinary or even lower-class families, especially military generals!

This has something to do with the elite education system adopted by the empire. Under the limited education funds, the empire's elite education system ensures that some truly talented students from the lower class can enter the top schools in the empire, especially the two major military academies and the Imperial College. .

As long as you are talented, even if you come from a poor family and your family cannot afford a dime of tuition... Under the empire's education system, you can successfully complete college, and even provide some subsidies to your family while you are still studying.

And the final step to becoming an official is that as long as you are good enough and can be among the best in the national examination, then your official career will start in the Hanlin Academy, which is a place that countless young officials dream of, because officials in the Hanlin Academy not only participate in The ministers of affairs and co-organizing ministers are the group of officials closest to His Majesty. They are also known as the small cabinet. They assist His Majesty in handling almost all military and political affairs, which has a great training effect on people.

If you have enough ability to get ahead in the Hanlin Academy, you will be valued by Luo Zhixue, and eventually all kinds of training and promotion will be arranged in one package!

You don't need any connections or family background...because you are the connections and you are the background!

Of course...some people will say that these are the paths of genius elites and that ordinary people cannot do it...it is unfair to ordinary people...

But, as an ordinary person, do you still expect to become a high-ranking official in the empire?

You think the imperial political arena is just playing house!

The same process also applies to the military... More than 80% of the students who enroll in the two major military academies every year come from ordinary or even poor families. In the past ten years, most of the generals who have been promoted to brigadier general or above They all come from ordinary families, and very few come from powerful families!

As for why? It's very simple. The children of civilians who can be admitted to the two major military academies are truly elites selected from across the country. Their efforts, their will, and even their IQ are all first-rate.

It is not comparable to the children of the rich and powerful who relied on educational resources and were admitted to two major military academies.

Then there is another unspoken rule... that is, the connections of powerful people do not work well in the military... What really works well is the military school graduation results and the connections between teachers and students in the military school.

In terms of connections, you may have a powerful father, a serving general, teacher, or even father-in-law... It’s not necessarily certain who has a greater background than the other.

Excellent military school students have always been excellent candidates for the son-in-law of military and political leaders... If you choose the right one and give him a little support, you will have a future general son-in-law, which is a very good deal.

Especially the military school graduation results... Luo Zhixue, in order to prevent the promotion of the military from becoming a private weapon of the powerful, which cut off the promotion channels for the children at the bottom, to a certain extent imitated the hammock number system in later Japan... The top ten graduates with graduation scores Priority will be given to promotions. Other graduates of the same class will be promoted at a faster and higher military rank than them!

Although this would lead to a serious phenomenon of judging seniority in salary ranking, Luo Zhixue still did it.

Therefore, in the military in the Da Chu Empire, even if you are the son of a duke, or simply a duke... as long as your graduation score does not enter the top ten, then you will have to be pushed behind by the top ten classmates.

Of course, there is no chance of turning around. You can also apply for the subsequent Army University or Naval University... As long as you are admitted to these two high-end universities, the graduation ranking of the previous military academy can be ignored.

But... there will be a new graduation ranking of Army University or Naval University... it will still be the same top ten priority for promotion!

No matter how powerful your father is, you can only be promoted after all the top ten in the same class have been promoted...

The purpose of Luo Zhixue's move is very simple, that is, to leave a narrow and arduous road to heaven for students from powerless families...

To put it simply, no matter what your family background is, what your employment experience is after graduation, or whether you are suppressed, as long as you are good enough in school and get into the top ten of your class, you will become a general sooner or later... even if there are super among your classmates. No one from the powerful family can block your way, let alone run in front of you.

Even the rich and powerful children have to try their best to push you to the top in order to rise to the top... Only when you are promoted can he be promoted!

If you don't get promoted, he won't be able to get promoted for the rest of his life. No matter how awesome his father is, it won't matter... Luo Zhixue said!

(End of this chapter)