I want to be emperor

Chapter 567 The Dust of the Times

In Suzhou, in the manor of the headquarters of Suqin Textile Company, many senior managers of Suqin Company gathered together, not only the Qin family members, but also several senior managers invited by them with high salaries.

One of them, a middle-aged man in his forties who was wearing a scribe robe, was pointing to the design drawing on the drawing board erected on the left side and introducing: "We commissioned Dangtu Machinery Co., Ltd. with a lot of money to design it." The water-powered loom uses water power, and the production efficiency of this water-powered loom can be forty times that of a manual loom."

"With the production efficiency of the hydrodynamic spinning machine, we can obtain dozens of times more cloth production capacity than before with the same personnel."

"However, according to our previous experiments, the cloth woven by the hydrodynamic loom is stronger, because the cotton yarn spun by the matching hydrodynamic spinning machine is stronger and thicker, so the texture cannot be compared with today's Compared with the cotton yarn woven by manual spinning machines, the woven cloth can only be made into coarse cloth.”

"How much acceptance will the market have for selling these coarse cloths in this way in the later stage? Further research is needed!"

"However, mechanical production is the big trend in the future."

"In the past year, the salary level of skilled weavers and spinners has risen. Now too much money is invested in the textile industry, and the competition is getting stronger and stronger. We must not follow the market to take price reduction measures. At the same time, in order to stabilize sales channels A lot of profit was also given, so our ex-factory price has dropped by a full [-]% compared to three years ago."

"However, the cost in all aspects has not decreased, but has increased. Due to the boom in the textile industry, the supply of cotton on the market is getting tighter and tighter. In order to stabilize the supply of cotton, we have to increase the purchase price. .”

"In the market, there are textile factories in various places. When our products entered the markets in various places, they were greatly attacked. Although our products are cheaper in production costs, the shipping costs are still unavoidable. When it comes to terminal sales, it is difficult to compete with the products of local textile manufacturers.”

"The selling price has decreased, the profit has increased, the price of raw materials has increased, and the market expansion has been attacked. All of these have led to a further decline in our profit. According to our prediction, by next year, [-]% of the gross profit rate may not be able to maintain. As for the net profit It's even lower!"

"We need to continue to lay out sales channels, spend more manpower and material resources to open up raw material procurement channels, and continue to invest in research and development of new machines, etc. In addition, our scale is getting bigger and bigger, and financial and administrative costs are also constantly increasing!"

"If this continues, I'm afraid we will face the possibility of losses in five years' time!"

"In order to curb rising costs and further reduce production costs, the use of hydrodynamic spinning machines and even looms is a major trend in the future and is imperative."

"This is not only the case in the spinning industry, but also in weaving and even printing and dyeing!"

However, some people have doubts: "I have also learned about hydrodynamic spinning machines and looms. The cost of these things is not low, and it can even be said to be extremely expensive."

"It's so expensive to build a water-powered textile mill, but the output is the lowest-end coarse cloth. When will we recoup the investment?"

"Also, can the coarse cloth produced by hydrodynamic machinery be so poor, can it really be sold?"

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Suqin Textile Company, due to the outbreak and competition in the textile industry in recent years, in order to reverse the situation, continue to expand the market, secure the top spot of the largest textile company in China, and set its sights on water power.

And the second largest textile company in the country, the most powerful textile company in the empire in the past, that is, Hantian Textile Company is no exception. It is also preparing for the project of launching a water-powered textile factory.
Just as Suqin Textile Company concluded, the market competition is becoming more and more intense, and the pressure is also increasing. In order to survive, they are forced to constantly find ways to reduce costs and expand production.

Only in this way can we compete with almost all kinds of messy textile factories.

That's right, whether it is Suqin Textile Company or Hantian Textile Company, their biggest competitors are no longer each other, but a large number of various textile companies from all over the country.

In the early years, there were few textile factories in China that adopted new spinning machines, looms, and mass-produced textile factories. Therefore, at that time, the biggest competitor of Hantian Textile Company was Su Qin Textile Company.

Of course, this is only relative. In fact, what they were fighting for at that time was the number one position in the country and the competition in the towns and cities in the Jiangnan area.

The two major textile companies are developing and growing while competing, and in this process, a large number of textile workshops that failed to embrace new textile machinery in time and are still in the early workshop production are extremely difficult.

The typical boss fights with the second child, and the third child in the back fights until the hundredth child is fucked to death...

Of course, these textile workshops did not wait to die. After a year or two of decline in the early days, they began to transform rapidly one after another, purchased a large number of new looms and spinning machines, and joined the new textile industry without hesitation. in the army.

At the beginning, it was only a small area such as Huguang and Jiangnan, and then it quickly spread to the whole country.

All kinds of small and medium textile factories using new textile machines have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. Before Hantian Textile Company and Suqin Textile Company had time to occupy most of the urban markets, these small and medium textile companies all over the country used Their local advantages quickly seized the market.

In just a few years, the textile industry in the Great Chu Empire changed from the early family workshops, small-scale workshops, and primitive textile machines overnight to a textile factory model that adopted new textile machines and concentrated production.

According to the statistics of the Department of Commerce of the Ministry of Industry, as of January 3000, Chengshun, the Great Chu Empire had more than [-] factories engaged in the textile industry.

Most of these factories have dozens of people or even a dozen people. They are said to be factories, but they are actually family workshops, and they have only been registered in accordance with the company law.

And there are not many medium-sized factories with hundreds of people, and it is even rarer for large-scale factories with thousands of people.

However, these small workshops with only a dozen or even a dozen people have become the biggest competitors of Hantian Textile Company and Su Qin Textile Company.

When they were still using old looms, the cost of homemade cloth they produced was so high that it couldn't compare with the cost of new looms and spinning machines.

However, when these small workshops also began to adopt new looms and spinning machines, their production efficiency also increased significantly.

Although large factories still have some advantages in production cost, they lack local advantages. If shipping costs are included, the cost of transporting the seemingly cheap cloth from a large factory to a certain place for sale may not be as high as that of the local dozen or so. personal workshop...

This embarrasses large textile companies such as Suqin Textile Company and Hantian Textile Company!
If you want to talk about production costs, ex-factory prices, etc., they are indeed cheaper...

But there is still transportation cost. If the distance is longer, the freight may exceed the production cost.

Therefore, in the past two years, the textile industry of the Great Chu Empire has been booming, and various textile factories have popped up. The officials are naturally very happy. After all, the officials don't care about the life and death of individual enterprises, and what they value is the overall development of the textile industry.

The overall development of the textile industry is what they are happy to see, and it is even the result of their years of support and encouragement.

But for large textile companies represented by Su Qin Textile Company, this market environment is not so friendly.

Freight is a stumbling block and cannot be solved at all.

Unless they invest in the construction of factories in many places, but in this way, the advantages of centralized production costs of large factories will be gone.

For this reason, they want to compete in the market of many small places by continuously reducing costs.

If the cost of cloth is directly lowered to the point where those small factories can't catch up, then it will be cheaper than them after adding the freight.

To achieve this, it is impossible to do it with the current production efficiency, but the hydraulic machinery is different.

The production efficiency of hydraulic machinery far exceeds that of manual production!
In the early years, when the new spinning machine first came out, the manual spinning machine operated by one worker could only produce eight at the same time.

Later, continuous improvement can produce 32, 64 or even [-] cotton threads.

However, when the hydrodynamic spinning machine was first developed, more than 100 cotton threads could be spun at the same time only by the experimental model, let alone the continuous improvement in the future.

The same goes for the loom.

The production efficiency of the so-called new looms in the early years was several times higher than before, but the production efficiency of the hydrodynamic looms was forty times higher than that of the new artificial looms.

This substantial increase in production line efficiency has made it possible for large textile companies to break through the current encirclement and continue to expand their market competitiveness.

As for the high cost of hydrodynamic textile factories...they're not short of money.

In turn, the high cost can further increase the market entry barrier.

This process is very cruel. Perhaps in the future, a large number of small and medium-sized textile factories will go bankrupt because they do not have enough funds for transformation.

And this is also part of industrialization!

Just like a few years ago, most of the family workshops closed down, and a large number of family workshop personnel who spun and weaved by themselves were eventually forced to enter major textile factories.

Industrialization has always been a cruel thing.

A similar situation not only occurs in the textile industry, but also in the proud iron and steel industry of the Great Chu Empire... The officials of the Great Chu Empire directly invested in the establishment of a large number of small and medium-sized machinery factories, and greatly reduced the price of iron products through mechanized production, so Almost overnight, the prices of agricultural tools, cooking utensils, and tools on the market plummeted across the board, and they all fell to the price of iron materials purchased by blacksmiths sporadically...

The selling price of the hoes produced by other people's machinery factories is even cheaper than the price of iron materials purchased by private blacksmiths!
A large number of family workshop-style blacksmith shops that sold their own iron quickly disappeared in the land of China... Countless blacksmiths lost their income from craftsmen who used to worry about food and drink. In the end, they either changed their careers, or accepted the recruitment of various machinery factories to enter the factory, and became a group of blacksmiths. workers...

Industrialization is always so cruel!
While society progresses, it will also bring destruction. The dust of the times falls on individuals, which are mountains.

(End of this chapter)