indianbanksassociation Chapter 298
Chapter 298
Chapter 298
With the hard work and support of hundreds of merchants, the textile factory officially started operation in less than half a year.
The name of the textile factory is "Yizhou Textile Factory" and it covers an area of thousands of acres, with [-] houses and thousands of workers.
Zhang Qingfeng originally only wanted to build a weaving factory with a monthly output of [-] bolts of cloth, but many businessmen were not satisfied at all, and finally built this large factory with a monthly output of [-] bolts of cloth.
For this textile factory, Zhang Qingfeng spent at least 500 million yuan in money, tens of thousands of craftsmen and hundreds of large ships in half a year.
These are the credits of hundreds of great Song merchants.
These merchants include local merchants in Quanzhou, merchants in Lin'an, as well as merchants in Guangzhou, Mingzhou and other places, as well as inland merchants.
Most of these businessmen have backers. Some of these backers are afraid of big shots in the court, and some are big landlords and gentry.
After the textile factory was built, Zhang Qingfeng did not have to worry about the supply of raw materials. With these businessmen here, all kinds of raw materials could be transported to Yizhou Island at any time as long as they paid money.
Investing in such a large textile factory also reduced Zhang Qingfeng's shares to about 5.00%, and the other shares were divided among more than 100 businessmen.
In addition to Zhang Qingfeng's shares, the businessman with the most shares among these people has less than [-]%.
With the commissioning of the textile mill, more than [-] bolts of wide cotton cloth are spun out every day, and then shipped out of Yizhou Island.
As long as the cloth comes out of the textile factory, it will be divided up by the cloth merchants in an instant.
Even businessmen who were not in the cloth business before, there are many people who have switched to the cloth business, and they also want to get a share of the textile factory business.
Of course, the cloth coming out of the textile factory is only raw material cloth, and it needs to be dyed if it wants to be sold in the market.
Therefore, in less than half a year, there were more than thirty dyeing houses in Quanzhou Port.
Of course, these have nothing to do with Zhang Qingfeng, he just needs to regulate the development of Yizhou Island.
However, within half a month after the Yizhou Textile Factory was officially put into operation, a wide cotton cloth with very exquisite weaving and various colors appeared in the Song Dynasty market.
The price of this kind of cloth is a full [-]% lower than the price of ordinary cotton cloth.
Once this kind of cloth was on the market, it was snapped up by countless people in the Song Dynasty.
"This new cloth is so good. It is the best and most exquisite cloth I have ever seen." Some Quanzhou people commented on this cloth.
It's no wonder if it's not good, this is the cloth woven by the advanced shuttle loom, and the wiring is denser and much more uniform than the hand-woven one.
So after dyeing, this kind of fabric looks much better than other cotton fabrics.
With the great sales of this new cloth, soon, people wearing all kinds of new clothes appeared on the market.
For a time, many places in Song Dynasty looked a lot more fresh.
Of course, the emergence of this new cotton cloth has naturally damaged the interests of some people, such as some original cotton cloth merchants and many family textile workshops.
The original circulation of cloth was that common people’s families were responsible for weaving cloth and then selling it to cloth merchants, who then took the cloth to the market for sale.
And since the new cloth in Yizhou appeared, the price has dropped by [-]% all of a sudden, which makes it impossible for many family workshops to sell the cotton cloth at once, and it is impossible for them to reduce the price so much, because it will make them lose money.
Therefore, many people hate the appearance of new cotton cloth.
However, in the face of the power behind the new cotton cloth, no one dared to confront it.
Just a month after the mills spun cotton, silk began to be spun.
The appearance of Yizhou silk immediately caused a storm in the Song Dynasty market.
With the commissioning of the textile factory, more and more people are developing Yizhou Island.
In just half a year, at least 10,000+ people have been added, making the number of Han people on Yizhou Island reach more than 40 at once.
Most of these people's arrival was not driven by the court's administration, and many of them were motivated by interests.
In just a few years, more than 50 strongholds have been developed on Yizhou Island, covering almost hundreds of thousands of hectares of land.
Most of these lands are planted with commercial crops such as cotton and flax, except for a small part of which are planted with food crops.
Even the barren hills are filled with mulberry trees, and after a few years of growth, it will not be long before silkworms can be raised in a small number of areas.
In the Song Dynasty, there were tens of millions of people, and many of them were facing the situation of not having enough to eat.
It's not that Zhang Qingfeng didn't want to grow all the food on Yizhou Island, and then transport it back to Song Dynasty and sell it at a low price to the people who couldn't afford it.
But things backfired, and finally Zhang Qingfeng had to admit that his thinking was too simple.
First of all, grain is a low-value commodity that takes up space for transportation. Even if it is difficult to transport it back, plus the cost and transportation costs, the price may be more expensive than the grain in the place of origin.
In addition, if all Yizhou Island grows food and businessmen are unable to obtain profits, this will result in no businessmen investing in Yizhou Island, which will affect Zhang Qingfeng's development of Yizhou Island.
Therefore, it is not worth the loss to grow all the food on Yizhou Island.
Just when various developments were in full swing on Yizhou Island, Zhang Qingfeng's term of office came.
He came to develop Yizhou Island but did not stop the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty, so Zhang Qingfeng submitted his resignation to the court and wanted to return to Lin'an to be an artist.
Most importantly, news came from the family that after several years of hard work, in Lin'an City, Father Yang had built a large theater with a reinforced concrete structure according to Zhang Qingfeng's drawings and requirements.
Moreover, the construction of this theater was completely constructed according to the drawings drawn by Zhang Qingfeng.
In order to resolve the differences and difficulties that arose during the construction, the Yang family sent people to Yizhou many times to ask Zhang Qingfeng for his opinions.
"Han Aiqing, what do you think of Yang Sanlang's resignation memorial?"
On this day, Zhao Kuo found Han Tuozhou and asked him.
"Officials, I have to admit that this Yang Sanlang is a talented person. If he is only appointed as a Hanlin of the Academy of Painting, it would be a bit inferior."
Han Yuzhou said to Zhao Kuo: "Well, since Yang Sanlang has made great contributions to the development of Yizhou Island, why not transfer him to Beijing as an official! Yang Sanlang expanded the territory of the Song Dynasty, so I think it is not too much for him to win three levels in a row. "
"Okay, since that's the case, then Han Aiqing can figure it out!" Zhao Kuo nodded and said to Han Yuzhou.
Half a month later, Zhang Qingfeng received an order from the imperial court. The imperial court refuted Zhang Qingfeng's idea of resigning as a civil servant, and transferred Zhang Qingfeng back to Beijing to serve as the prefect of Lin'an Prefecture. At the same time, Yizhou Island was promoted to the state capital and established as a state Ya, Tian Ling's second uncle Shi served as the magistrate of Yizhou.
Zhang Qingfeng was stunned when he heard that he was the magistrate of Lin'an Prefecture.
The prefect of Lin'an Prefecture.
He still couldn't figure out why he was able to hold such an important position at such a young age.
It has only been five or six years since Zhang Qingfeng came to the Southern Song Dynasty. He is only 21 years old this year, and he was not born in the imperial examination.
He couldn't figure it out. When the imperial court decided to make him the prefect of Lin'an, was there no objection?
In fact, Zhang Qingfeng didn't know that the one who suggested him to be the magistrate of Lin'an was Han Tuozhou, Prime Minister of the Great Song Dynasty.
At this time, Han Yuzhou was extremely powerful, as long as it was something he decided, he could basically make it happen.
It's not that no one doesn't object, there are actually a lot of people who object, and the reason is that Zhang Qingfeng is too young.
However, Han Yuzhou believes that Zhang Qingfeng developed Yizhou Island and brought Yizhou into the territory of the Song Dynasty.
In this way, Zhang Qingfeng suddenly became the prefect of Lin'an.
The reason why Han Yuzhou promoted Zhang Qingfeng was mainly because Zhang Qingfeng "supported" him from the beginning to the end. The Dasong Daily would help Han Yuzhou build momentum every now and then, which made Han Yuzhou mistakenly think that Zhang Qingfeng supported him.
In addition, Zhang Qingfeng was not born in the imperial examination, and he didn't have any allies in the court. If he could promote the other party, he would definitely make Zhang Qingfeng grateful.
(End of this chapter)