Chapter 1667: Booming Sales
"That's fine, I'll accept the money, and when the cloth is woven, I'll give you the best price!" Miao Handong accepted their offer.
"We still have to have the profit we should have. If we lose money, we will feel sorry for it, and this is not the reason for doing business." So this matter was settled, Shen Long, Lu Jiaju and Sun Mingzu's joint venture Hongju Dyeing Factory The Sanyuan Dyeing Factory of the Zhao brothers took out the money to buy gray cloth and handed it over to Miao Handong in advance to buy cotton.
Miao Handong acted immediately after receiving the money. He did not conduct futures transactions in the cotton trading market, but directly sent a large number of people to the countryside to collect cotton. Learn about the cotton harvest in Shandong this year, and it can also save costs.
Miao Handong's reputation is very famous in the whole Shandong. When everyone heard that Miao Dong's family received cotton, they all believed it and were willing to sell cotton to Miao Handong; There was no arrears, and a large amount of cotton was received at once, and it was a bit late for Little Japan to react.
Little Japan also wants to use the same method, but they just occupied the Northeast, and many relatives of the Shandong people went to the Northeast to enter the Guandong. For Miao Handong, Little Japan raised the price, and Miao Handong followed suit.
Moreover, Little Japan does not have so many people scattered to the countryside, they can only ask the local traitor businessmen to help with the acquisition, but these traitor businessmen can't do things for nothing! They worked so hard to collect cotton, so they couldn't just sell it to Little Japan without making a dime, right? How can we add some? In this way, the cost of buying cotton in Little Japan is much higher than that of Miao Handong.
Moreover, they have to transport the cotton to Qingdao first, then transport it from Qingdao to Japan, weave it into gray cloth in Japan, and then ship it back to China. In this way, even if Miao Handong has to pay taxes to Han Fuqu, the Japanese gray cloth does not have to pay tax. The cost of buyers is also on the same level, coupled with the boycott of Japanese goods, the Japanese gray cloth will face the danger of being unable to sell.
Of course, they can also weave these cottons into gray cloth in Qingdao. Anyway, many cotton mills in Qingdao have been taken over by Little Japan, but the technology of these textile mills is far inferior to that of Miao Handong’s factory, and the cost of the gray cloth spun is not lower than that of Miao Handong’s. Handong's products are low, but the quality is much worse. Such products are not competitive in the market.
The Japanese are now also considering introducing more advanced textile machines from the mainland. They can produce machines, transport the machines from Japan to Qingdao, and carry out installation and debugging. This will take time, and workers must be trained. After the new machines arrive at the factory, It can't be used after installation, but it must be operated by skilled workers.
But when Shen Long left Qingdao, he not only took away the workers from Yuanheng Dyeing Factory and Dahua Dyeing Factory, but also asked Wang Zhiwu to come forward and work with He Dageng to find someone to persuade the skilled workers of those textile factories to leave Qingdao and join them Going to Jinan, now half of Qingdao's technical backbones are filled in Miao Handong's factory, and the Japanese are facing a situation where no one is available.
Of course, there is no shortage of workers in Qingdao. Now that the current situation is chaotic, there are many people who cannot survive. It is unrealistic to expect them to resist the Japanese when they can't even save their lives. Workers can still be found in textile factories that have been owned by the Japanese, but workers are still different from workers. It is easy to find ordinary coolie workers, but it is not so easy to find replacements for skilled workers.
It's not that the Japanese haven't thought about some crooked tricks. Most of the people they hired to help harvest cotton are rogues like Bai Zhisheng and Qian Shiheng. Then they came up with crooked means, such as forced buying and selling, and tricks of deceit and abduction.
However, these methods are limited after all. The common people will not be deceived again after suffering once and being cheated once. Moreover, Miao Handong and Shen Long are not easy to eat; don't you use the connections in the underworld? With Zhao Dongjun's words, the Canal Gang came forward and directly killed a few guys who had gone too far, and the rest immediately restrained a lot.
The Liuzi gang also came out to support Shen Long and the others, Jiaozhou and the surrounding areas of Jiaozhou, but whoever he can influence, if anyone dares to use crooked means, those brothers under him will talk to them After some education such as tiger stools and pepper water, these people will immediately become sensible after receiving this education that touches the soul.
"Your Excellency, if things go on like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to complete the tasks given to us in China this year!" Miki reported all the news to Fujii.
"Baga!" Fujii slapped Miki's face. His temper is getting hotter and hotter now, but he also knows that Miao Handong, Shen Long and others came prepared, and when he was in a hurry, he also There is no good solution, the only way is to put pressure on Han Fuqu through the government, and go to other places to buy cotton.
"It seems that we have to consider opening a factory in Jinan, and we can't let Chen Shouting and the others develop in peace!" Fujii made a decision, but if he wanted to develop in Jinan, he needed the help of local people. Who should he choose to cooperate with him? "Go and buy a train ticket to Jinan right away, and tell Takashimaya by the way that I will go to Jinan in person to meet the businessmen in Jinan."
Miao Handong is busy collecting cotton in various places in Shandong. The Hongju Dyeing Factory at Shen Long's side has completed all the work before it started. Due to his interference, Dahua Dyeing Factory started printing business many years ago, and accumulated A lot of valuable experience has cultivated a group of workers with solid skills, so there are no technical problems like in TV dramas.
After the trial run, the quality of the dyed cloth was better than that of the poppy brand in the Shanghai Liuhe Factory. Zhao Dongjun and the shopkeepers of the Jinan cloth shop invited by Shen Long were full of praise for this kind of cloth, "Shopkeeper Chen, You are worthy of being the number one person in Shandong's printing and dyeing industry, this cloth is absolutely nothing to say."
After listening to Shen Long's report of the ex-factory price of this kind of printed cloth, the bosses of the major cloth shops rushed to buy it. Before the factory officially opened, they received a thick pile of orders.
Not only these distributors, Shen Yuanyi also brought him good news. Her lover Huo Changhe has been found, and Huo Changhe is now in an important position, which can bring Shen Long a lot of business.