Songjiang, Guangsheng Textile Company in Xicheng District Industrial Zone.
As a well-known textile company in Songjiang Xicheng District, they have thousands of employees and specialize in weaving, printing and dyeing, and finally produce finished cloths, which are then directly supplied to the consumer market.
The most commendable thing about Guangsheng Textile Company is not how good their weaving technology is. In fact, their weaving technology is only average. They use weaving equipment produced by Li's Iron Company and can produce various standard specifications. machine-made cloth.
In terms of quality and cost, it is not far ahead of its competitors, but it is not far behind, and it belongs to the middle level of the industry.
The reason why Guangsheng Textile Company can survive in the fiercely competitive textile market and reach a scale of more than a thousand people is because they have a very unique and advanced printing and dyeing process.
They use the same specifications of cloth and the same dye, but the cloth they print and dye is of better quality.
The colors are more vivid, do not fade, and the price can be lowered. It also spends a lot of manpower and material resources to research popular patterns, frequently introduce various new patterns of cloth, and then sell the cloth to the local market in Jiangnan through distributors. consumers in.
Guangsheng cloth is relatively famous in several prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River, and is widely praised by local consumers...especially female consumers.
The patterns are new enough, and there are a variety of them, allowing many female consumers to make new patterns of clothes, and the price is not expensive and the price-performance ratio is very high.
Unique printing and dyeing technology, various new patterns, and high cost performance are the basis for the survival of Guangsheng Textile Company!
However, before printing and dyeing, they had to produce cloth with good enough quality and low enough cost... Weaving was their old specialty, so naturally there was no problem.
However, the quality of the cloth is closely related to the quality of the cotton yarn in addition to the weaving process itself.
This year, with the emergence of new spinning equipment from Hantian Machinery Company, cotton yarns with better quality and lower prices began to appear on the market!
This leads Guangsheng Textile Company to naturally tend to purchase new cotton yarns to improve quality and reduce costs when purchasing cotton yarns.
There is no need to order new spinning equipment before being able to follow up on new technologies in a timely manner like those large integrated textile companies that have mastered the three major processes of spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing.
All they had to do was order new cotton yarn!
It’s just that it has been less than a year since Hantian Machinery Company officially launched new spinning equipment. There are still not enough spinning mills on the market that have purchased this equipment and successfully mass-produced it, and most of them are owned by large comprehensive textile companies. Spinning factory.
The cotton yarn produced by these spinning factories under large textile companies generally meets their own needs, and generally does not flow to the market, let alone be supplied in large quantities to other weaving, printing and dyeing factories... Those are all competitors!
If Guangsheng Textile Company wants to obtain new cotton yarn, it can only find independent cotton yarn factories on the market.
It's just that it's not easy for Guangsheng Textile Company to find qualified independent suppliers... Although there are many messy cotton yarn factories on the market, there are actually not many qualified to become suppliers of Guangsheng Textile Company.
Quality and cost alone are enough to eliminate 99% of the so-called cotton yarn factories on the market.
Because there are a large number of independent cotton yarn factories on the market, most of them are small, micro cotton yarn factories, or even family workshops with little strength.
There are common problems of small scale, small production capacity, lack of funds and backward technology. .
As the first major industry in the cotton spinning industry, the cotton yarn industry seems to have a low threshold...it is practiced almost all over the country, but in fact more than 90% of the cotton yarn factories are family and micro-factory models.
It is either a family workshop with a few people, or a small, micro factory with a dozen or no more than dozens of people.
After all, the threshold for spinning is really low... Spinning in many family workshops does not even use hydraulic power, let alone steam engines. People use manual spinning machines from more than 20 years ago, although the efficiency is not high. High, the output is low, and the per capita output value is extremely low... But they don't really run a big factory, they just run a small workshop to make a living.
These small or even micro cotton yarn workshops and small factories usually do not supply to those big factories...the quality and price are not good, and they cannot meet the requirements of big factories. They are usually directly oriented to the consumer market, or they are the same family workshops. model of small and micro weaving workshops, or simply sell directly to local rural consumers.
Survive by relying on local advantages!
Cotton yarn was sold directly to consumers. This may seem exaggerated to future generations, but in fact it was a normal situation in the contemporary Chu Empire.
In the contemporary Chu Empire, many rural women in remote and backward areas still weave cloth by themselves in their spare time, and finally make clothes for their families.
Although the finished machine-made cloth on the market is already very cheap, it is still expensive for rural families. Therefore, in the local rural areas of the Chu Empire, especially in remote and backward rural areas, women in peasant families still retain They started the tradition of weaving by themselves... Their own time was not valuable anyway, so they could only save as much as they could.
On the other hand, there are very few people spinning their own yarn, because the cotton yarn produced by the factory is so cheap...even poor farmers can afford to buy cotton yarn.
This also involves cotton prices, cotton imports and other factors. Today, North America and India are important cotton import producing areas for the Chu Empire, especially India... The Chu Empire has spent a huge amount of effort in the local area. Promote cotton cultivation.
Nowadays, the Dachu Empire imports a huge amount of cotton every year, and the import price is very cheap.
The CIF price of cotton imported from India in Songjiang is cheaper than the local cotton produced in Songjiang...
Therefore, no one in Jiangnan now grows cotton on a large scale. Basically, in addition to growing staple crops, they grow mulberry trees or other economic crops...
By the way, the Chu Empire has never promoted the technology of mulberry planting and sericulture in other places abroad. It's not that the capitalists didn't want to, but it was strongly resisted by the domestic sericulture industry... This also caused a lot of turmoil.
Finally, the government officially issued an export ban on silk-related technologies, including protection decrees for a series of related technologies such as mulberry planting, silkworm seed outflow, silkworm breeding technology, and silk textile technology.
Domestic companies are also prohibited from importing cocoons, raw silk, silk, etc. from abroad.
Basically... Regarding the silk industry, only finished silk products are allowed to be exported, and other silk-related trade transactions are not allowed. Domestic companies are also not allowed to promote mulberry planting and sericulture in overseas indigenous countries.
This is the "Silk Protection Law" officially launched in the 26th year of Chengshun.
This is the protection provided by domestic officials to protect domestic sericulture farmers... It is an issue related to the pockets of tens of millions of sericulture farmers. Even seemingly unreasonable practices will become legal and reasonable!
The empire encourages and allows large-scale imports of cotton, but does not allow large-scale imports of cocoons, raw silk, and silk!
After all, these are two different things...cotton is a mass consumer product, and machine-made cloth is also a bulk export commodity. In addition to meeting its own needs, imported cotton will also be processed into cotton cloth for export.
But silk is different. This thing is a luxury jewelry.
Furthermore, with the economic development of the empire, most of the silk produced domestically was digested internally, and not much was exported... Of course, this is also related to the poor consumption capacity of luxury goods such as silk abroad.
The silk consumption capacity of the entire Europe is not as good as that of Xicheng District in Songjiang Prefecture!
Exports are small, and most of them are digested internally, but silk is not a daily necessity. It is a luxury product. There is no need to import cocoons and raw silk on a large scale to lower the price of silk and meet the needs of the people!
The officials of the Da Chu Empire have no consciousness to let the people wear cheap and affordable silk...
The officials of the Dachu Empire would rather keep the price of silk at a high level to protect the interests of tens of millions of domestic silkworm farmers!
This is why the Great Chu Empire introduced such a weird law as the 'Silk Protection Law'... for no other reason than to protect the interests of domestic silkworm farmers.
There is not only the silk protection law, but also a similar tea protection law... The process is similar. A few years ago, some people found that there were some places in India that were particularly suitable for growing tea, and they wanted to go there and set up tea plantations. Then the news spread back to China. It caused strong protests from the tea industry... In the end, the empire enacted a tea protection law, which prohibited domestic companies from promoting the cultivation of tea abroad, and also banned the import of tea...
Many places in the country are counting on economic crops such as tea to develop local economies, and at the same time rely on tea processing to develop local industries. For example, in Heyuan Prefecture, where Wang Tu worked in the past, the tea economy is a major economic pillar of the local area.
Although Wang Tu has been transferred from Heyuan Prefecture and serves as the Guangdong Councilor in Guangzhou City, he still strongly opposes the overseas promotion and import of tea.
What international joke is this? It was through the tea economy in Heyuan that he achieved enough political achievements and became a third-rank official.
You are importing tea and destroying the local tea economy. This is a slap in the face of Wang Tu!
There are countless local officials like Wang Tu who support the tea protection bill, especially in the important tea producing areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Yunnan, which are the core provinces against overseas tea.
Eventually, the Tea Protection Law was officially promulgated and became law.
————
When it comes to economic crops, the Chu Empire does not tend to import everything, but out of the game between interests and interests... The same goes for cotton. There are those who support the import of cotton, and naturally there are those who are opposed to the import of cotton. However, domestic voices supporting cotton imports currently dominate.
The cotton spinning industry supports the import of cotton because this way they can have cheap and high-quality cotton available.
At the same time, a large number of domestic officials and agricultural experts who are concerned about food security also generally support cotton imports... because in their view, if cotton is not imported, the huge domestic demand for cotton will quickly increase the price of cotton, and then everyone will Grow cotton instead of growing food.
Just like in the Jiangnan area in the early years, with the rise of the textile industry, the phenomenon of cotton cannibalism appeared for a time. Finally, cotton was imported on a large scale, and cotton prices fell. At the same time, the government increased supervision and support for food planting. turned the situation around.
Therefore, many domestic officials and agricultural experts are now very cautious about economic crops that can affect domestic food cultivation and affect domestic food security.
This has also resulted in the income from domestic cotton cultivation being less than year after year.
So now, except for specialized cotton farmers who grow cotton on a large scale to make a living, ordinary farmer families actually don’t grow cotton much anymore... If they grow cotton on a small scale and then spin yarn, they might as well have a variety of fruits, vegetables, peanuts, etc. Sell the things and then buy cotton yarn to weave.
This land also has a cost, and farmers are not stupid!
This series of phenomena eventually led to the large-scale entry of cotton yarn into the rural market... This is also the basis for the survival of countless small and micro cotton yarn workshops and factories in the country.
In comparison, the finished cloth market in rural areas is much smaller.
That is to say, in the past decade or so, after the economy has continued to develop, railways and river transportation have continued to develop, the price of machine-made cloth has further reduced, and people's income has continued to increase, and a series of other factors, the finished cloth has gradually opened up the rural market.
In some rural areas with relatively good economies, such as the eastern part of the country, the Yangtze River Basin and other rural areas, it is almost impossible to see rural women spinning and weaving on their own. Instead, they buy machine-made fabrics and take them back to make clothes.
However, in areas with ordinary or even backward economies, such as rural areas in the southwest, west, and north, finished fabrics still have not fully occupied the market. Local rural women still retain the tradition of spinning and weaving by themselves.
However, according to the current economic and technological development trends of the Chu Empire, it is estimated that in another ten to eight years, even in rural areas in remote and backward places, rural women will no longer be seen spinning and weaving by themselves.
This series of phenomena has also resulted in the current textile industry in the Chu Empire, especially the spinning industry, most of which exist in the form of family workshops and micro-factories, and are directly oriented to the local consumer market.
In fact, there are not many large-scale cotton spinning factories that can achieve truly industrialized production, participate in fierce market competition, and provide cotton yarn for large-scale weaving companies.
It seems that the threshold is very low, but in fact it is very high.
There are great requirements for the supply chain, factory management, and technical management!
This is not to say that cotton yarn is difficult to make, but it is not easy to make cotton yarn with low enough cost and reliable quality...
This industry is a very typical industry with fierce competition and low gross profit. In this kind of industry, if you don't have a strong foundation from the beginning, it will be very difficult for latecomers to enter... It's not that you can't do it, but you will lose money!
If anyone just throws money into the cotton yarn industry, in the end the quality and cost will be difficult to compare with a professional cotton yarn factory like Anhua Textile Company, which has been engaged in cotton yarn for more than 20 years.
If Guangsheng Textile Company wants to purchase new cotton yarn, it can only find professional cotton yarn factories like Anhua Textile Company.
Of course, Anhua Textile Company is not the only supplier. They also have several other suppliers. However, the other cotton yarn suppliers are not doing well now. In order to maintain market competitiveness, Guangsheng Textile Company only You can buy new cotton yarn at a high price from some suppliers with whom you don’t have many cooperative relationships.
Even so, the supply of new cotton yarn is very troublesome. Not only is the price high, but the supply is also very unstable. They cannot even stably produce new cloth.
Therefore, when they heard that Anhua Textile Company was purchasing a large amount of new equipment and carrying out technical upgrades, they quickly sent an inspection team to prepare to inspect Anhua Textile Company, an old partner.
The company made it clear that if the inspection situation satisfies them, Guangsheng Textile Company will give Anhua Textile Company a super large order!
The top management of Anhua Textile Company attached great importance to this, and this attention was eventually passed on to other departments, especially the mechanical maintenance department, which was responsible for the maintenance of new machinery and equipment, and felt the pressure from the top management of the company.
Even Sun Xu, who just joined the company, has started working overtime every day!
Sun Xu had no complaints about this, and was even quite happy... Why?
Because they pay overtime!
Normally, overtime pay is 1.5 times the basic salary, and double the salary during legal holidays. Sun Xu thought that if he continued to work under such overtime conditions, his first month's salary might reach 12. San Chu Yuan.
For a salary of more than ten yuan a month, Sun Xu would be happy even if he worked overtime until midnight every day!
As a worker, who doesn’t want to make more money? As long as you pay them, working overtime is nothing.
Whether it is the seventeenth century or the twenty-first century, although people are different, the principles should be the same!
This is not what is said:
The monthly salary is two to three hundred thousand, and the boss is my father. I can do whatever you want, even if you kneel down and work overtime!
The monthly salary is 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, the boss is my brother, and we work together as good brothers, and working overtime is not a problem!
The monthly salary is two to three thousand, and the boss is my son. It's annoying to look at him. He's working overtime, so get out of here!
The monthly salary is two to three hundred, and the boss... hangs him up on a street lamp to dry!
(End of chapter)
