Anhua Spinning Mill, strictly speaking, is not a first-rate textile company in China, not even a second-rate textile enterprise.
It's only at the third-rate level if it's stretched to death... maybe not?
This is not to say that Anhua Spinning Factory is too bad. After all, Anhua Spinning Factory is a company with more than 800 employees and specializes in cotton yarn production.
But in the contemporary Chu Empire, the textile industry is too powerful!
In today's Great Chu Empire, the textile industry is not only the largest domestic light industry, but even if heavy industries such as steel, chemicals, and shipbuilding are included, the overall volume of the textile industry is undisputedly ranked first!
Steel and coal, which have great names and are known as the industrial foundation, and shipbuilding, military achievements, machinery manufacturing, etc., which seem to be more intuitive and reflect the power of industry.
In terms of overall size, it is still inferior to the seemingly low-end textile industry.
This is also a very important feature of modern industry, that is, the textile industry accounts for a very large proportion of the economy.
The most famous one is the United Kingdom during the First Industrial Revolution. During the First Industrial Revolution, the textile industry accounted for more than half of the industrial economy. There is also a Japanese Meiji Restoration period that Chinese people are very familiar with. They all It relies on the textile industry for its rise, and then drives the development of other industries.
At the same time, the textile industry also has a very obvious feature, that is, this industry is a labor-intensive industry. Through the development of the textile industry, it can greatly stimulate employment, provide the general public with employment opportunities and income beyond the first industry, and further promote The economic model changes from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy.
The large-scale textile industry not only directly employs a large number of people and provides a large number of jobs, but the textile industry itself is also a consumer industry of a large number of mechanical products.
This textile industry requires a large number of various mechanical equipment, such as spinning machines, looms, printing machines and, more recently, steam engines.
The huge market for machinery and equipment required by the textile industry alone is enough to spawn and support an entire machinery manufacturing industry!
Machinery manufacturing requires steel, and steel requires iron ore and coal, which in turn drives the most basic mining industry.
In the printing and dyeing process, the textile industry also requires a large amount of chemical products for dyeing. The military explosive picric acid in the original time and space was originally a dye... Some early drugs were actually discovered from dyes.
The huge demand for dyes in the textile industry has prompted people to develop a variety of chemical products on a large scale, from plant extraction to artificial synthesis... The purpose is very simple, just to dye cloth!
Labor-intensive, low threshold, and huge market demand, at the same time, it drives the development of machinery, steel, mining, chemical and other industries because of its own needs.
This is the textile industry in modern industry!
In the original time and space, even at the beginning of the 20th century, the proportion of the textile industry in the entire industrial system could still reach more than 30%!
This is talking about the early 20th century, an era when ships and trains traveled all over the world, cars were used on a large scale, airplanes were on the market, the navy used dreadnought battleships in all battles, and the army used heavy artillery in all battles... Even so, it was still impossible Shake the important position of the textile industry.
Even in the second half of the 20th century, the textile industry was still an important industry for underdeveloped countries. How will China earn foreign exchange and upgrade its industry after opening up?
Textile industry!
Even in the 21st century, when some other backward countries are industrializing, they cannot do without the textile industry...
Although the textile industry has undergone countless innovations and changes in its development history of more than two hundred years, its importance has never changed.
In the Chu Empire, which was still in the period of the first industrial revolution, the textile industry was also at an extremely important stage.
The textile industry in the Dachu Empire developed extremely rapidly and on a large scale, and two leading textile enterprises were cultivated.
Su Qin Textile Company, this is the first purely private enterprise in the Great Chu Empire... Well, nominally private enterprises include Li's Iron, but everyone knows that Li's Iron is now just a private enterprise, in fact Most of the shares are controlled by official capital institutions.
Therefore, no one actually regards Lee Steel as a purely private enterprise.
But Su Qin Textile Industry is different. From beginning to end, it is a very typical private enterprise, and it is also a very rare family enterprise among large listed companies.
The Suzhou Qin family has firmly controlled the controlling stake in Suqin Textile Industry from beginning to end, and the family's shareholding ratio has still reached 63% until now!
You know, the contemporary Su Qin Textile Company is a super enterprise with a market value of more than 20 million yuan. It has branches in all provinces across the country and eight major industrial bases across the country. Its business covers cotton spinning, silk spinning, wool spinning, leather and special textiles. , and also has the business of finished textile products, such as ready-made clothes, quilts, tarpaulins, shoes, bags, etc.!
The total number of employees has reached as many as 80,000!
The Qin family, which holds a controlling stake in such a huge enterprise, is truly the richest family in the contemporary Chu Empire!
Of course, it is impossible to be as rich as the country... Chu Yuan's net worth of only ten million Yuan is nothing compared to the official capital of the empire.
The contemporary Dachu Empire is not a purely capitalist country. A large amount of wealth is not in the hands of capitalists, but in the hands of official capital.
The so-called capitalists and super-rich people in the Dachu Empire are all little brothers worth mentioning in front of official capital.
But it is still amazing that a private family has such a huge wealth.
Su Qin Textile Industry is also a super enterprise. Together with Hantian Textile Company, it has become the only large-scale comprehensive textile enterprise in the Chu Empire.
In addition to these two unique textile companies, the Dachu Empire also has a large number of textile companies, most of which are privately owned.
Of course, although some of them are private enterprises, official capital will also invest. However, these investments are basically actions made by local governments to support the local textile industry and drive employment and tax revenue.
Throughout the empire, there are more than a dozen very large textile companies with more than 10,000 employees, such as Jiangnan Textile Company in Songjiang Prefecture, Huating Dongfang Textile Company, West Lake Textile Company in Hangzhou Prefecture, and Lifa Textile Co., Ltd. in Tianjin, an important economic town in the north. Da Textile Company, Zhujiang Textile Company in Guangzhou, the southern economic center, Dongjiang Textile Company in Dongguan Prefecture next door, etc.
These more than ten large-scale comprehensive textile enterprises, together with the two major textile companies Su Qin and Han Tian, constitute the first and second echelons of the Chu Empire's textile industry.
Next, there are a group of large-scale textile enterprises with a scale of more than 1,000 people and less than 1,000 people. There are also many large-scale textile industries. Each of them is a well-known and important light industry enterprise in their respective cities and provinces, with large taxpayers and employment. Big house.
Many provinces are racking their brains to support the development of a large-scale local textile enterprise, not to mention various preferential policies, and they often also impose some trade barriers that cannot be put on the table...
For example, when it comes to official procurement, local governments in the Chu Empire have always given priority to the local area when conducting various official procurements.
For example, the core weapons and equipment used by patrol officers: revolvers...
Everyone knows that Hebei Arms Company's Tianwu revolver is the best-performing and cost-effective among all kinds of contemporary revolvers. The Army, Navy, Guards and armed tax police are all purchasing Tianwu. The Type 5 revolver is used as an officer's sidearm.
However, Hebei Arms Company's Tian5 revolver is so powerful that it still cannot win pistol orders from patrol police in Jiangnan Province, Yingtianfu, Hantianfu, Guangdong, Shaanxi and other places!
Why? Because there is a local weapons company that also produces police revolvers... The local government will basically give priority to local products, unless the performance of the product is so poor that the mud cannot hold up the wall!
What is involved behind this is local taxation, employment, and the development of the industrial chain. Few local officials will throw procurement funds to foreign companies, and then watch the companies in their jurisdiction go bankrupt.
In the textile industry, local barriers are actually more serious... because the threshold for the textile industry is low, it can create more jobs, and it has a more obvious role in promoting local industrial development.
Many local prefectures and counties are eagerly counting on the only textile factory in their jurisdiction to drive the development of the entire local industry.
Under such circumstances, local officials did not ban the products of non-local textile companies, which is already very political...
Otherwise, if these local governments take action, not even a single piece of cotton yarn from a textile company from other places will be able to fly in!
And this kind of local protectionism is also causing headaches for officials in big cities with developed industries... They keep shouting about breaking down barriers and not engaging in local protectionism every day.
However, officials from ordinary prefectures and counties snorted at this. If we don’t engage in local protectionism, your big companies will bankrupt my small businesses. You will make a profit, but we will be unlucky. .
Regarding this situation, Gyeonggi Province also turned a blind eye. After all, the development of large enterprises must be taken care of, and the development of small businesses must be taken care of even more.
Moreover, the development of the empire's industrial and commercial economy cannot be limited to just a few large enterprises... As powerful as Su Qin Textile Company, it would only have 100,000 employees if it could survive.
In fact, a large number of local small, medium and even micro-enterprises are the main sources of employment and tax revenue.
Looking at it from the perspective of the empire's top leaders, in fact, the role of large enterprises is just that!
Anyway, the Dachu Empire does not need to use the whole country to cultivate large-scale enterprises with stronger competitiveness, and then compete with foreign enterprises... The enterprises of the Dachu Empire have no competitors abroad.
Therefore, compared with external competition, the Dachu Empire cares more about healthy internal competition, so it turns a blind eye to some local protectionism. As long as it does not violate laws and disciplines, and does not go too far, such as adopting some administrative If we use other means to interfere with the local operations of foreign companies, then we won’t care about that much.
As for official procurement by local governments, you can’t say anything wrong as they like to purchase products from local companies.
There are also preferential policies. It’s their business to give preferential policies to local companies!
If you can't stand it, you can go and set up a local factory. The local government will definitely give you various preferential subsidies.
Well, this is also the reason why many large companies, especially large textile companies, often like to set up production bases in different provinces... If you don't set up production bases locally, how much market share do you expect to occupy there?
And this is something that many local governments are happy to see happen, and even very much expect!
If you come here to invest and build a factory, which will bring tax revenue and employment to the local area, the local government will definitely welcome you.
After all, the so-called local protectionism of local governments does not mean protecting local capitalists, but protecting local employment and tax revenue.
Whoever gives it jobs and taxes will be given preferential policies!
Those who can invest and build factories in other places are all large companies, but third- and fourth-rate textile companies like Anhua Textile Company do not have such ability.
In order to open up the market in Jiangbei Province, we tried to open a branch factory in Nantong with our long-term partners in the new textile industry. As a result, our partners went bankrupt and directly affected the joint venture company.
Anhua Textile Co., Ltd. was disgraced during this wave of disgrace. Not only was it not built yet, but the land purchased to build the factory was also involved in debt disputes.
Not only was a lot of time wasted before and after this, but it also resulted in certain losses and potentially larger losses... It cost them more than 100,000 yuan to purchase the land. Whether they can get it back in the end is another matter.
After all, they are still fighting a lawsuit with the creditors of the joint venture branch, and it is hard to say who will win and who will lose.
This investment failure also made it very difficult for Anhua Textile Company to purchase new spinning equipment and upgrade its technology.
In the end, Wang Liqing, the founder and general manager of Anhua Textile Company, lost face and found his wife to take a sum of money to fund the purchase of new spinning equipment.
Even though we are husband and wife, we should say that there is no need to separate money so clearly. Even Wang Liqing's wife said in a harmonious voice, my money is your money, why should we divide it between you and me? You can use the money boldly. If it's not enough, I'll still have it...
Wang Liqing's wife is really rich. The Suzhou River Hotel she owns is a well-known high-end hotel in Songjiang City. Its business has always been very good. Although the operating costs are high, the profits are very stable.
And there are two buildings that can get a lot of rent every year.
Wang Liqing's wife doesn't have any other investment directions. The rent and hotel profits she gets are often invested in stable investment channels.
For example, purchasing various real estate properties... His wife became particularly interested in purchasing real estate properties after making a lot of money from them in the early years.
These real estate properties can bring her stable rental income every year.
As this goes on, Wang Liqing's wife spends more and more money...
Sometimes Wang Liqing himself laments that he has worked tirelessly for twenty years spinning... but the result is not as good as his wife just lying around collecting rent.
But anyway, relying on the loan from his wife... Well, Wang Liqing said that the money was borrowed from the factory. When the factory equipment is upgraded and the business is good, the money will be returned to his wife.
Wang Liqing's wife just smiled at this...
After placing the order for new equipment, Wang Liqing was busy preparing to upgrade the equipment. If he wanted to carry out technical production, new equipment alone would not be enough.
Workers also need to be trained to make them familiar with the production of new equipment. The cotton yarn production process also needs to be adjusted according to the performance of the new equipment to produce new cotton yarns with better quality.
And training technicians... After all, you have to make the new equipment run smoothly without problems.
And it was under this background that Sun Xu joined Anhua Spinning Factory!
The reason why he was recruited and placed more emphasis on his theoretical level and learning ability was to enable him to become familiar with new spinning equipment as quickly as possible and ensure that these new equipment could be put into production on time.
It's just that Sun Xu is not a factory manager. He is just an ordinary technician. Naturally, he does not know many situations behind it.
Now wearing a woolen business suit, Sun Xu got off the public carriage and arrived at Anhua Spinning Mill, where he successfully finalized the labor cooperation.
After signing the formal labor contract, Sun Xu was introduced by Section Chief Song to several other technicians in the Mechanical Maintenance Department.
Then he left Anhua Spinning Factory, and he will not officially go to work until tomorrow.
Before leaving Anhua Spinning Factory, Section Chief Wang asked him if he wanted to live in the factory. If he lived in a dormitory in the factory, it would be free and convenient. There would also be single rooms specially provided for technicians, so they would not have to live with ordinary workers. They also live in dormitories with multiple people living in them.
If you do not live in the factory, the factory will provide you with an accommodation subsidy of 50 cents per month.
When Sun Xu first started, he actually planned to live in the factory, which would save money and eliminate the need to run back and forth to and from get off work every day.
But after thinking about it, he finally decided to live outside.
When he was thinking about this issue, he didn't know why, but the young figure he saw on the public carriage platform suddenly appeared in his mind!
(End of chapter)
