In human history, the emergence of new technologies often leads to rapid increases in productivity, leading to industry changes and even social changes.
For example, bronze ware appeared in ancient times and gradually replaced stone tools. It can be said that the emergence of bronze ware laid the foundation of the feudal state and allowed mankind to gradually transition from the tribal situation in ancient times to the feudal state model.
The later emergence and large-scale use of iron tools spurred the development of human history from the slave era to the feudal agricultural era.
Then mankind lived in the feudal agricultural era for several thousand more years, until the Chu Empire launched the first industrial revolution. The emergence of new types of spinning and looms directly stimulated the explosive development of industry, and This explosive development of industry has spurred the development of a series of industries such as mining, metallurgy, machinery manufacturing, chemical industry, and shipbuilding.
In the end, the needs of many industries gave birth to the steam engine, a tool for increasing productivity, which brought the development of the first industrial revolution to its peak.
Well, it must be made clear again: whether it is the modern Britain in the original time and space or the contemporary Chu Empire, their industrial revolution did not start with the emergence of steam engines, but with the emergence of more efficient spinning machines and looms. And start.
The steam engine is a product of the industrial revolution. It does not mean that the industrial revolution started after the steam engine!
The difference between the two is huge.
In the case of the Dachu Empire, the time node for the start of the first industrial revolution can be traced back to the series of mechanized production started in the Baoxiang Army era before the official establishment of the Dachu Empire.
The official symbol should be the Xiangyang Textile Factory established during the Baoxiang Army era. In the early days, the Baoxiang Army began to use new spinning machines specially developed and produced by the Xiangyang Machinery Factory in order to supply large quantities of military uniforms, tents and other military textiles more cheaply. sewing machine.
In the first year of Chengshun, Hantian Textile Factory, the predecessor of Hantian Textile Company, was officially established. It used new textile equipment to produce a large amount of cloth and put a large amount of these cloths into the civilian market, which led to explosive growth.
Although the Chu Empire had various factories in the early years, it was actually the textile industry that caused the explosive growth of industrialization and allowed the production and application of various mechanical equipment from military industry to social and people's livelihood.
And in the following 20 to 30 years, the importance of the textile industry has never declined... The economic output value contributed directly and indirectly by the textile industry in the entire industrial system has stably exceeded 30% in the long term.
This is quite an exaggerated figure.
At the same time, every change in the textile industry will bring about great progress in the entire industrial system. For example, in the early years, the textile industry of the Chu Empire began to use water power to produce textiles on a large scale, which directly led to the explosive growth of the water power machinery industry. , and mechanical equipment led to the development of steel, chemical industry, mining, shipping and even early horse-drawn carriages and track carriages.
Twenty-one years after Chengshun, as high-pressure steam engines began to be used on a large scale, the textile industry gradually used high-pressure steam engines to replace water power as the power source for factories.
This alone made the three major steam engine manufacturers very happy and greatly promoted the rapid development of the steam engine industry... There were many textile factories in the Dachu Empire, and their demand for high-pressure steam engines was extremely huge. of.
Now, Hantian Machinery Company has taken the lead in developing a more technologically advanced spinning machine, bringing new technological impetus to the textile industry.
Although the technological changes brought about by the new spinning machine are not too big, the new cotton yarn produced by it relies on lower production costs and better quality, which still brings a new round of technological innovation to the textile industry.
This will inevitably lead to huge changes in the entire cotton spinning industry, and in this huge change, Wang Liqing is lucky... he has followed the pace of those large comprehensive textile companies early and placed orders for new cotton yarn equipment in advance. The success has made Anhua Textile Company one of the few independent cotton yarn manufacturers in China that can produce new cotton yarns, and it has become the third independent cotton yarn manufacturer in Songjiang City that can produce new cotton yarns.
This gives Anhua Textile Company an extremely important historical development opportunity!
Almost every day, people come to the door to buy their new cotton yarn. At first, there were only local textile companies in Songjiang Prefecture, but soon textile companies from the Nantong area in Jiangbei also came to the door.
Nantong in the north of the Yangtze River is a new textile industry base in the Chu Empire... Anhua Textile Company and its partners had tried to build a new factory in the Nantong area before. However, the process did not go smoothly and the result was even more tragic. It invested more than 20 years. Wan Chuyuan went in because his partners were implicated, and as a result, the investment was deeply entangled in debt disputes.
Who knows if we can get back the investment principal, and when we can get it back... And even if we can get it back in the end, it will still lead to serious losses, and litigation will also cost money. Senior business lawyers these days are not It’s cheap, not to mention that the capital itself comes with a cost.
These two hundred thousand yuan are trapped in debt disputes, and the capital cost alone is tens of thousands a year.
Not to mention Anhua Textile Company's own investment failure, let's talk about Nantong in the south of the Yangtze River. This place had a very prosperous handmade textile industry during the Ming Dynasty. The output of local homespun cloth was very considerable, reaching millions of pieces a year.
However, after the establishment of the Chu Empire, it vigorously supported the industrial and commercial development of Songjiang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture and other Jiangnan Province areas.
The textile industry in these places has also been in this wave, rapidly transforming into mechanical textiles, and its competitiveness is far beyond that of homespun... But in Nantong, Jiangbei, due to a series of problems such as the war and subsequent taxation, the local textile industry's homespun industry has suffered. was severely damaged, and was followed by the transformation to mechanized production. In the seventh year of Chengshun, many local textile factories in the Nantong area merged and established Nanhe Textile Company, which was jointly held by many local gentry families. , and once reversed the development of the textile industry in the Nantong area of Jiangbei.
The rapid development of the local textile industry was also an important factor in the eventual upgrade of the Nantong area from a state to a prefecture. In the 12th year of Chengshun, Nantong Prefecture was officially upgraded to Nantong Prefecture, with jurisdiction over the four counties of Haimen, Chongming, Rugao, Taixing and Nantong No. 1 Industry district.
The state was upgraded to a prefecture, and at the same time certain adjustments were made to the jurisdictions of each prefecture. This was something the Chu Empire often did in the 1900s. After more than ten years of local administrative area adjustments, all state-level administrations have been abolished. model, forming a standard five-level local administrative model of province-prefecture-county/district-town-village.
There are no longer various administrative models such as prefectures, provinces and prefectures in the previous dynasty.
The development of Nantong Prefecture is a very typical development of the textile industry. Their leading economy, or all industrial and commercial economies, are based on the textile industry.
But in terms of overall competitiveness, it is still not as good as Songjiang and Suzhou on the south bank of the Yangtze River... Suzhou has Suqin Textile Company, which is known as the number one private capital enterprise. Although Songjiang does not have a super large textile enterprise, it does have a large comprehensive textile enterprise. There are as many as three... In addition, there are a large number of small and medium-sized textile companies.
In terms of comprehensive strength in the textile industry, Songjiang Prefecture is well-deserved to be number one in the country!
The textile industry in Nantong has been facing competition from these two strong rivals for a long time. Although its own development has been very rapid, it has always been suppressed.
But even so, Nantong Prefecture in Jiangbei is still a famous textile base in the entire Chu Empire. Its textile industry output value can rank among the top six in the country.
The top five before it are Songjiang, Suzhou, Hantian, Guangzhou and Tianjin.
At the same time, Nantong is also the only city with the textile industry as its core among the top ten cities in the textile industry, because the other cities are all large comprehensive industrial cities. Although the textile industry is large in scale, it is only one part of their industrial system. Just one ring.
But Nantong is different. Their textile industry is the lifeblood of their economy. It is the leading industry and all the industrial layout of the entire city is centered around the textile industry. Other industries within it are basically supporting the textile industry. .
For the textile industry, Nantong Prefecture also has many preferential policies, striving to compete with Songjiang and Suzhou for more funds and talents.
Anhua Textile Company's previous investment in Nantong was actually carried out under this general background, but Wang Liqing was unlucky and chose the wrong partner.
But except for the unlucky guy Wang Liqing, many investors are doing very well in the textile industry in Nantong Prefecture... And the local textile industry has a characteristic, that is, it is large but small!
Although they have a large comprehensive textile company, Nanhe Textile Company, the scale of Nanhe Textile Company is actually not too large, and it is far from being comparable to a behemoth like Su Qin Textile Company.
Su Qin Textile Company has production bases all over the country, more than 100,000 employees, and business types covering all textile industries, from cotton spinning to wool spinning, silk spinning and special textiles... At the same time, in order to reduce costs and risks, Su Qin Textile The company has also invested in a large number of machinery, transportation, animal husbandry, planting industry, etc. through investment and shareholding, and has fully penetrated the textile industry from raw materials to transportation, equipment and other fields.
There is basically no other textile company in China that can be like Su Qin Textile Company.
Not to mention Nanhe Textile Company.
Although Nanhe Textile Company is the banner of Nantong's textile industry, what really supports Nantong's textile industry is the countless small and medium-sized local textile factories and supporting factories.
And there are countless small and medium-sized textile factories in the local area... which means that there are a large number of small and medium-sized weaving factories or comprehensive textile enterprises that need to obtain new cotton yarn from the market!
However, there are not many independent manufacturers that can provide new cotton yarns these days, and there is none in Nantong... Nanhe Textile Company does produce new cotton yarns, but like almost all large textile companies, their new cotton yarns are not disclosed to the public at all. Delivery!
Under such circumstances, it is natural that Anhua Textile Company, as the second independent manufacturer in Songjiang Prefecture that can provide new cotton yarn, is sought after by Nantong textile companies!
Wang Liqing even tried to receive three waves of purchasing managers from textile companies in Nantong Prefecture in one day. Without exception, they all wanted to purchase new cotton yarns and even wanted to sign long-term supply contracts.
But Wang Liqing had to politely reject them in the end... It was not that he was unwilling, but that there was really no remaining production capacity for new cotton yarns.
Now Anhua Spinning Company's new cotton yarn production capacity has long been divided up by many partners... and in order to establish more cooperative relationships, establish more stable shipping channels in the future, and avoid being taken over by a certain large customer Just hold it.
Wang Liqing has selected more than 20 partners in total, and they are all carefully selected...not only based on the price and the strength of the partner, but also the region where the partner is located and the main sales area of the product.
In addition to supplying to five local textile companies in Songjiang, Wang Liqing also supplies to two factories in Nantong, as well as factories in Zhenjiang, Suzhou, Changzhou, Yangzhou and Hangzhou.
As a result, Anhua Textile Company's new cotton yarn customers have expanded from Songjiang Prefecture to multiple places, all over the north and south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the sales channels of these customers are also different.
After signing long-term and stable cooperation agreements with these customers, the existing new cotton yarn production capacity in Wang Liqing's factory has basically disappeared.
Not only the existing production capacity, but also the estimated production capacity in the next three months has been sold first...
If you want new excess production capacity, you can only wait until the third and final batch of new cotton yarn equipment arrives three months later.
However, the production capacity formed after the last batch of equipment is put in place is not much. Wang Liqing must be more cautious about the new production capacity that will be available three months later...
He still hopes to use these new cotton yarns to promote the development of his own factory, rather than simply making quick money...
This is why he does not blindly sell new cotton yarn in bulk temporarily, although the price of bulk selling is relatively high... but would rather sign long-term supply agreements with selected manufacturers at relatively affordable prices.
A long-term and stable strategic partner is what Wang Liqing pursues.
After all, the new cotton yarn is now in short supply. You may earn more by selling it at a high price in a short period of time, but what about two or three years from now?
New cotton yarn cannot always be in short supply. He has heard industry news that Hantian Machinery Company has officially finalized a strategic cooperation agreement with Songjiang No.3 Machinery Company. It is rumored that according to the agreement, Songjiang No.3 Machinery Company will produce according to the patent authorization. New cotton yarn equipment and application market... It is conceivable that more new equipment may enter the market within a few months.
What he didn't know was that in order to further plunder the market profits and seize more profits from the new cotton yarn equipment before a series of competitors, Hantian Machinery Company did not blindly produce it themselves...even if they themselves Expanding production every day and working overtime cannot meet the needs of many textile industries across the country in a short time.
They have adopted a very rare patent licensing cooperation model for themselves, selecting more than a dozen partner manufacturers across the country, and using the partners' production capacity to quickly occupy the market... Every time a partner sells For each piece of equipment, they can obtain high patent licensing fees.
Moreover, using partners to seize the market can also effectively attack competitors... After all, the market is so big. After Hantian Machinery Company and its partners took the fattest bite in the early stage, competitors like Li's Machine Tool Company struggled After all the hard work of building a new spinning machine, it is estimated that it will only be able to chew some bones and dregs.
The fierce competition among these textile equipment manufacturers will also directly affect the downstream textile industry.
After Wang Liqing heard the news, he immediately predicted that the good days of his own factory would only last two to three years, or even just more than a year.
If you only have a little more than a year, you will not be able to make much money just by relying on the production capacity of new cotton yarn...
The two major characteristics of new cotton yarn are lower production cost and better quality!
Of course, there are almost no new cotton yarn factories that use these equipment to produce cheap goods. They are all looking for high-end cotton yarns with better quality so that they can be sold at higher prices.
However, the high-end cotton yarn market is limited, and better quality sometimes does not mean that it can be sold at a higher price... Even if it does, the market demand is just that.
Therefore, Wang Liqing believes that just by selling high prices in the high-end market, he will not be able to make his assets skyrocket in a short period of time... He can earn a little more, but it is not enough!
However, relying on the scarcity of new cotton yarns in the market now, we need to select and develop more strategic partners. When new equipment appears in large numbers in a year or two and the new cotton yarn market tends to be stable, then these strategic partners will be able to become a stable partner. It is an important part of China Textile Company to maintain long-term and stable development.
This is why Wang Liqing prefers to sign long-term supply agreements with good partners...because in the short term, customers need him...but it can take two or three years, and it can only be one year.
Taking advantage of the special market, grab customers first... This is Wang Liqing's main goal in this wave of changes in the textile industry.
So far, we are doing pretty well... We have more than 20 major strategic customers who are doing very well.
But this is still not enough... There are countless independent textile manufacturers in the market, and Wang Liqing only has more than twenty...
Wang Liqing is still continuing to order new cotton yarn equipment. After hearing that Hantian Machinery Company and Songjiang No. 3 Machinery Company signed a patent authorization in February this year, he has officially placed an order with Songjiang No. 3 Machinery Company... His order is still from Songjiang The first batch of orders for the machinery company's new cotton yarn equipment business.
There was no way. When others didn't know the news, or were still hesitating after knowing the news, or were meeting to discuss, report to the headquarters and other operations, Wang Liqing had already come to his door with a check and signed the purchase order that day. Not even the price is nonsense.
Optimistic estimates suggest that after Hantian Machinery Company delivers the last batch of equipment in June, Wang Liqing will be able to obtain the first batch of new equipment from Songjiang No. 3 Machinery Company in two to three months, that is, in August or September. !
The number of these equipments is extremely large, and Wang Liqing is ready to invest almost all the profits from existing and new cotton yarns in the next three years.
More equipment means greater production capacity, and greater production capacity means the need for more customers!
So at this stage, how to find and maintain more customers is Wang Liqing's top priority.
However, Wang Liqing's Anhua Textile Company is not the only one that has seen historical opportunities and developed rapidly. There are also other textile companies. Needless to say those large comprehensive textile companies, they have launched a vigorous new cotton yarn revolution since last year. .
Strictly speaking, Anhua Textile Company is just a later imitator...
Even among independent spinning manufacturers, Anhua Textile Company is not the first. It is not even the first manufacturer in Songjiang Prefecture to use new cotton yarn equipment to produce new cotton yarn. There is another company before them that did not do much before last year. It may not be eye-catching, but it has been extremely popular this year and is even more famous than Anhua Textile Company, 'Lv Tai Textile Company'.
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