Just when Sun Xu was saving money and preparing to buy his first house in his life, Anhua Textile Company was still bustling with activity.
New cotton yarns are still very popular in the market. As the second independent cotton yarn manufacturer in the Songjiang area to introduce new equipment and mass-produce new cotton yarns, Anhua Textile Company has also ushered in a new round of development peak in its 20-year history. .
On the one hand, Wang Liqing actively explored the market and took advantage of the new cotton yarn to develop more strategic customers, increasing Anhua Textile Company's strategic cooperation customers from a few in the past to more than 30.
On the other hand, it continues to introduce new equipment and increase the production of new cotton yarn. Its representative move is to become the first batch of customers of Songjiang No. 3 Machinery Company. Songjiang No. 3 Machinery Company is the first batch to obtain the new cotton yarn equipment of Hantian Machinery Company. It is a patent licensing company and the only first patent licensing manufacturer in Songjiang area.
This means that this manufacturer will become an important supplier of new cotton yarn equipment in the Songjiang area.
In order to get the equipment first, Wang Liqing couldn't wait to place the order when the other party had just signed an agreement with Hantian Machinery Company and even before they had time to adjust the production line, and there was not too much entanglement on the price.
All this is to successfully obtain more new equipment in the second half of this year.
The new cotton yarn market is promising, and Wang Liqing judged that in the future cotton yarn market, new cotton yarn will definitely gradually replace the old cotton yarn.
Now it is only the high-end market, and in the future it will definitely move from the high-end market to the mid-range market and even the low-end market.
Because the cotton yarn produced by the new cotton yarn equipment not only has a higher upper limit of quality... there is actually a more important advantage that has not been brought into play at present, that is, its new cotton yarn is actually more cost-effective and has higher production efficiency. higher.
In the production process, because the production efficiency is higher, when producing low-end cotton yarn, the production cost of low-end new cotton yarn will be lower than the cost of old equipment, and it is much lower...
The reason why this feature has not yet come into play in the market is because the equipment that can produce new cotton yarn is in short supply and the quantity is too small. Manufacturers who have obtained new equipment, whether they are large integrated textile companies or Wang Liqing's independent cotton yarn manufacturers , all use new cotton yarn equipment to produce high-end cotton yarn with better quality in order to earn more profits.
But Wang Liqing judged that this situation would not last forever. After all, the capacity of the high-end market is limited, and the largest share of the cotton spinning market is mid- to low-end cotton yarn.
Only by being able to gain a firm foothold in the mid- to low-end cotton yarn market can we truly become bigger and stronger.
Wang Liqing claims to have seen this clearly, so he continues to invest huge sums of money to purchase equipment to further expand the proportion of new cotton yarn production in his own cotton yarn factory.
Currently, the new cotton yarn production in their factory accounts for about 40% of the total cotton yarn production in their factory... and Wang Liqing's plan is to eliminate all old cotton yarn production and switch to new cotton yarn production.
This requires the supply of new cotton yarn equipment and the support of technical support within the factory.
To ensure the normal operation of a large number of new cotton yarn equipment and to adjust the equipment according to the needs of the production process, specialized technical personnel are required.
In addition, in the process of cotton yarn production, new cotton yarn equipment is only one link, although it is the most important link... In addition to the new cotton yarn equipment, there are many other processes. If these processes are combined with the new cotton yarn equipment, Improving quality and reducing costs are all problems that the technical staff of Anhua Textile Company need to solve.
In particular, Wang Liqing also wants to use new cotton yarn equipment to try to enter the mid- to low-end cotton yarn market on a large scale and truly make the company bigger and stronger.
There are more than one technical problem that needs to be solved here!
How to put it this way, Hantian Machinery Company is only responsible for selling spinning equipment. How to use this new type of spinning equipment to produce better and cheaper new cotton yarns requires additional efforts from the textile factory.
This is just like the lithography machines of later generations... The ARF DUV immersion lithography machine sold to you by other lithography machine manufacturers can theoretically produce 14nm or even 7nm chips.
But the problem is... if your chip manufacturer moves the photolithography machine back and wants to carry out mass production, it will also need the support of your own technology.
If chip manufacturers don’t have enough technology, they won’t be able to produce 28nm, not to mention 14nm or even 7nm...
With the same equipment, manufacturer A can produce seven-nanometer chips, while manufacturer B can only produce 14-nanometer chips... This is the gap between the chip manufacturers' own technologies.
The same is true in the field of cotton yarn. The performance of the equipment produced by Hantian Machinery Company is here... But how to utilize and tap the performance of these new equipment and fully release it requires the efforts of the major cotton yarn manufacturers themselves.
Anhua Textile Company attaches great importance to investment in the technical field... Not only does the high salary support a lot of technical backbones, but there are also technical backbones everywhere.
Time arrived in June, and the last batch of new cotton yarn equipment Wang Liqing ordered from Hantian Machinery Factory last year arrived.
Section Chief Wang of the Mechanical Maintenance Department, along with Sun Xu and other technicians, carried out installation and debugging together with engineers sent by the manufacturer.
The installation was very smooth. During the post-installation debugging process, the manufacturer's engineers did not even need to do anything. They only served as technical guidance. Anhua factory technicians such as Section Chief Wang and Sun Xu debugged it themselves.
After all, since the end of last year, Section Chief Wang has been leading more than a dozen people around these equipment every day, installing and debugging three batches of equipment, and at the same time being responsible for maintenance and repairs day and night.
After more than half a year of contact, study and actual hands-on operation, they have become very familiar with this new type of cotton yarn equipment. Even if a simple fault occurs, they don't even need to send someone from the manufacturer to repair it, they can solve it themselves. …
Now that new cotton yarns are so popular, one day of equipment downtime is a huge loss. It is impossible for Anhua Factory to wait for the manufacturer's engineers to come to repair...Any problem that can be solved by oneself is solved by oneself, and no expense is spared for this. More maintenance costs.
They even purchased a batch of various parts from Hantian Machinery Company in advance, and if there was a problem, they would replace the parts themselves on the spot...
These are all to ensure higher production efficiency of new equipment.
As the saying goes...if work is stopped for one day, it will be a huge loss.
Compared with the downtime losses caused by equipment failure, the wages spent on maintaining technical backbones, and the cost of purchasing a large number of spare parts, it is actually a small amount of money...
In this regard, Wang Liqing has always made a clear distinction.
Wang Liqing has always been willing to spend money that should be spent, such as maintaining and developing technical strength, maintaining technical backbones, and purchasing equipment.
But money that shouldn't be spent...such as the salaries of nearly a thousand ordinary workers in the factory...Wang Liqing will not pay a cent more.
Anhua Textile Company has been booming in the past six months. Wang Liqing has been able to make money easily, and people in the technical department have also made a lot more. People like Sun Xu, for example, have seen their monthly salaries rise from ten yuan to fifty yuan.
However, the basic salary of ordinary workers in their factory has not increased much... Even because the factory has been too busy in the past six months, Wang Liqing would rather recruit hundreds more workers for shift production rather than let the old workers work overtime.
If you think Wang Liqing cares about workers... then you are wrong...
The reason is simple. Overtime pay is too expensive, and Wang Liqing is reluctant to pay overtime pay to veteran workers, so he would rather hire more people to work than let veteran workers work too much overtime.
And he also found that if workers work overtime for too long, such as fourteen hours, their productivity will decrease during working hours...
Overtime is expensive and production efficiency is low, which ultimately prompted Wang Liqing to recruit more workers rather than let older workers work overtime.
Even when he goes outside, Wang Liqing can boast that he is a conscientious entrepreneur who attaches great importance to the health of his employees...
Since there is no overtime, the basic salary will not be increased for you... This also leads to the fact that Anhua Textile Company seems to be prosperous, Wang Liqing is making a lot of money every day, technical backbones such as Section Chief Wang and Sun Xu, and high-level administrators Managers also received raises and promotions.
However, those ordinary workers are still the same, earning the same amount of money, only three or four yuan a month.
The development of Anhua Textile Company has not brought actual benefits to the workers...
The company has grown, the boss has made a lot of money, and the top management and technical backbones have received high salaries and stock options and dividends, but what does that have to do with you, a stinky worker at the bottom?
Oh, the boss said that with the development of the company, ordinary employees will have more development opportunities, and they can get promotions and salary increases... Just listen to this. Ordinary employees have only a few development opportunities, but they just need a stable salary to support their families. That’s all.
Of course, those capable employees can get promotions and salary increases, but their promotions and salary increases have nothing to do with the development of the company itself.
Even if the company where they originally worked goes bankrupt, truly capable people can still get high salaries if they switch to another company... and they might even get a promotion and a raise.
As a typical commercial organization, Anwar Textile Company is in a similar situation.
The company's senior management and technical backbones, these capable and real talents are highly valued... and reap the dividends of the company's development and growth.
As for ordinary workers, what they were like before and what they are still like now... they can't even earn overtime pay, because the boss Wang Liqing feels that overtime pay is too expensive and not cost-effective, so it is better to hire hundreds more people for shifts.
As for the entire society... Wang Liqing's approach has certain merits, and is even welcomed by many local officials!
Why?
Because such companies can create more jobs!
For the same amount of work, if an employee works overtime and completes the work, the basic salary and overtime pay can make the worker earn ten yuan... The personal income is high, but this is the only job position.
Wang Liqing's approach is to hire two people to do the same workload and only give them a basic salary. In the end, I only need to pay seven or eight yuan in labor costs. This saves not only labor costs, but also the two people. Individuals can work faster than one person, so the production speed has increased and the total output has also increased.
Ultimately, this also created two jobs!
One higher-paying job, two lower-paying jobs... and out of employment rate considerations, many local officials in the Chu Empire preferred the latter.
reason? The former can only support one family. Although the life of this family may be slightly better, the latter can support two families...
To a certain extent, this is actually the reason why the Da Chu Empire officially stipulates that overtime pay must reach one and a half times the basic salary, twice the rest days, and three times the legal holidays... This is not only to protect the interests of workers, but also On the one hand, it is also to guide companies to hire more people and create more jobs.
Without this mandatory overtime pay limit, entrepreneurs would let their existing employees work sixteen hours a day without paying high overtime pay anyway.
With a fixed monthly salary, if you can work for one more hour, the boss will earn one more hour of your output. How cool!
This is the situation that the Dachu Empire's labor laws severely cracked down on.
To some extent, the changes in Anhua Textile Company are also a microcosm of many labor-intensive enterprises in the Great Chu Empire. As for good or bad, even if a series of labor laws, industrial and commercial laws and other relevant laws and regulations have been formulated to guide the industrial development of the empire, It is actually difficult for the senior officials of the empire, who ultimately made the empire's industry and commerce become what it is today, to accurately judge the quality of this situation.
We can only take one step at a time...and solve whatever problems we find.
As for what will happen in the future, and whether there is a better solution, we will talk about it later...
The times always have their own limitations.
Even if the emperor Luo Zhixue possesses the soul of future generations and has many insights into future generations... he cannot guarantee that the many laws, regulations and social models of future generations will be suitable for the development of the empire.
The productivity, social model, and political structure are all completely different... If you just copy everything, all kinds of problems will explode for you in an instant.
Especially productivity issues.
The current productivity of the Dachu Empire is only at the level of the mid-19th century in the original time and space. With such productivity, if you want to copy many organizational structures of the later 21st century, then you are not looking for death!
Many countries in later generations still have many social security and welfare systems, such as medical and educational guarantees, various unemployment subsidies, subsidies for disadvantaged groups, etc.
Is your Chu Empire trying to get one too?
I'll make you bankrupt in minutes!
What is the Chu Empire?
Judging from the appearance, this is a powerful empire with strong military strength, extremely powerful industry and commerce, and in terms of comprehensive strength, it can defeat all other countries on the earth a hundred times! !
From the inside, this is a centralized monarchy empire with very traditional Chinese characteristics. In terms of the core political model, it is actually no different from the Ming Dynasty. The emperor and his ministers rule the world together. It is just the monarchy in the Chu Empire. It's just more concentrated and powerful than during the Ming Dynasty.
Culturally, we still adhere to the traditional Confucian culture. The concepts of benevolence, filial piety, and king and father are still the mainstream of society, and they are vigorously promoted by the empire. The empire has always advertised itself as governing the country with benevolence and filial piety... It’s just that when the imperial tax agency collects taxes, it will not follow you. What about benevolence...
Economically, land and other means of production are under private ownership. Land is okay. After thirty years of land dispersion, land decentralization has basically been achieved. Almost all farmers have their own land. There are no big landowners anymore, and the government has long since Official land was distributed to farmers through large-scale rent-to-purchase models.
The current farmers in the Chu Empire are all homesteaders.
However, in the field of industry and commerce, new means of production such as factories and machines are concentrated in the hands of state capital and private capitalists.
This was also the core model of the industrial and commercial economic system of the Da Chu Empire: state capital controlled core industries and guided private capital to develop general industries.
On the whole, the free market economic model is defined with state capital as the backbone and private capital as the branches and leaves...
Some of the characteristics of this economic model are somewhat similar to the classical state capitalism of the Prussian period, but it is not entirely... To be honest, even Luo Zhixue himself is not sure what the current economic model of the empire is...
As for zooming in on the entire empire, from politics to economics, and even to some cultural levels, Luo Zhixue is even more unclear... Because there has never been such an empire in human history in the original time and space, and there is no corresponding term for him to refer to. .
So to put it more playfully: This thing is a weird thing!
The productivity model of such an empire is still only at the level of the mid-19th century, which is destined to make such a country unable to be like later generations in many aspects.
Even such an empire is different from many modern countries in the original time and space.
This also makes it difficult for Luo Zhixue to find the corresponding reference object in his memory... There is not even a reference object. When formulating various policies, Luo Zhixue cannot directly use it. He has to carefully consider and try again.
Sometimes Luo Zhixue thinks a policy is okay, but a lot of problems arise after it is tried out.
Sometimes policies that Luo Zhixue thinks are unreliable turn out to be quite effective after trial implementation...
In fact, there have been many similar situations, some with good results, and some with bad results. This is why the Chu Empire likes to conduct small-scale trials first when it implements many policies.
It’s just because there is no one to learn from, and everything needs to be explored and developed by oneself, but one has to be careful, otherwise one step on the wrong foot may lead to one falling into an abyss.
In such an empire, textile companies like Anhua Textile Company will appear. It has both good and bad sides.
But none of these can stop it from developing and growing at an extremely fast speed in the wave of new technological changes.
Boss Wang's net worth is gradually getting richer, and he is gradually gaining some confidence in front of Mrs. Wang... Some people who have benefited from the factory, such as Sun Xu, have a lot of income, and are ready to buy a small single-family building to settle down, and are even more ready to find a job. It’s time to take Ms. Meng back to her hometown and officially finalize the marriage.
Wang Liqing, the management and technical backbones in the factory are all very optimistic about the development of the factory. As long as they continue step by step, their factory revenue this year is expected to reach three times the revenue of last year. Times!
Wang Liqing was thinking that by next year, he might be able to repay part of the money he had owed Mrs. Wang for many years. Whenever he thought of this possibility, Wang Liqing couldn't help but feel happy!
It's just that when Anhua Textile Company is developing rapidly, the ordinary workers in Anhua Textile Company are still the same as before, without any change... Their income is as calm as stagnant water!
(End of chapter)
