Chapter 41 Expansion
Qin Zhao returned to Qinjia Village and looked at the seven or eight workers who were busy in his yard, and felt that the factory was not enough.
In the morning, I discussed expanding production capacity with Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Chenggong placed an order for Qin Zhao for 1,000 sofas per month at one time.
Zheng Chenggong was already very considerate of Qin Zhao and placed such a small order. You should know that the Zheng family's trade channels cover Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang provinces, and even in Suzhou. On average, one government can get twenty sofas per month.
One prefecture is equivalent to a prefecture-level city in later generations.
Sofa is such an epoch-making product that qualitatively improves the user's comfort. In the later years, the furniture configuration styles of the East and West were different in any country, but they were different. Most families in the world would place a set of sofas in the living room for themselves and guests to sit on.
Because the sofa can indeed give people a completely different feeling of comfort.
Of course, in order to occupy the market as much as possible, Zheng Chenggong will definitely not sell in such a vast place at once. The best strategy is to sell saturatedly in a region, so saturated that it is difficult for counterfeiters to get sales orders. When the seller sells almost the same in a place, everyone has a sofa, then spread the Internet and sell in the next office.
In order to help Qin Zhao expand its production capacity, Zheng Chenggong specially hired six carpenters with skilled craftsmanship in Guangzhou City to help Qin Zhao improve its production capacity.
With six more carpenters, the production speed of sofa wood bases can be doubled. Originally, Qin Zhao's small workshop could only produce twelve sofas a day, but now it can increase the production capacity to more than twenty.
Originally, Qin Zhao could make more than 70 taels of silver a day and more than 2,000 taels of silver a month. Now with Zheng Chenggong's orders, the profits are probably going to hit a new high. Of course, the orders sent by Zheng Chenggong were profitable. Only by making three sofas for Zheng Chenggong can you make money from a sofa in Guangzhou.
But no matter what, the scale and profit have expanded.
The problem of the factory is easy to solve. Qin Silang's house next to Qin Zhao has four empty houses, which can be rented directly for a temporary factory. Now the tribesmen and villagers in the village regard Qin Zhao as a hero, and they are also a god of killing that blows up Yunfeng. No one dares to blackmail Qin Zhao. Qin Zhao wants to rent a house with Qin Silang, and Qin Silang keeps saying: "What money does the spare house cost?"
After much persuasion, Qin Zhao asked Qin Silang to accept the rent he should have collected.
With five houses in Qin Zhao's family and three blacksmiths' houses on Yunfeng, the number of factories in Qin Zhao's sofa workshop has reached twelve houses, which can be said to be a factory. Of course, this does not include the blacksmiths who produce steel wires in Guangzhou City.
The layout of this factory is somewhat inefficient. The blacksmiths in Guangzhou City produce steel wires. The steel wires are transported to Chiyunfeng by ox carts. The three blacksmiths in Chiyunfeng make the steel wires into sofa springs as quickly as possible. Then these finished springs are sent to Qinjia Village. The craftsmen in Qin Zhao's family assemble the spring and wood at the lowest price, then wrap them with cloth covers and thick sponges to make a finished sofa.
The made sofa is then pulled into Guangzhou City with a ox cart and sold in the city.
There is no way to make the production process like this. The main reason is that Qin Zhao has a servant in Chiyunfeng who needs training and is responsible for the training of more than 200 village teachers in Renhoufang. These things need to be taken seriously. If Qin Zhao drives the factory to Guangzhou City, Qin Zhao will not be able to manage it at all.
After all, this is an era without cars. Even if you ride a horse, it will take a whole day to get from Renhoufang, Xiangshan County to Guangzhou City.
Fortunately, the factory is not big, and Qin Zhao can still take care of it with the help of Qin Youli, Qin Ning and others.
As soon as the six carpenters arrived in Qinjia Village, the news that Qin Zhao wanted to expand the factory spread throughout Qinjia Village.
Qin Zhao had just left the house that day and suddenly found that there were more than a dozen neighbors standing on both sides of his yard wall, and a few middle-aged women whispering there.
Among these people is a tall and thin middle-aged man named Qin Yuanhao. Qin Yuanhao is the son of Qin Zhao's cousin. Speaking of which, Qin Zhao even called Qin Yuanhao "Uncle".
Qin Yuanhao rubbed his hands, with a flattering smile on his face, and said, "Brother Zhao!"
Qin Zhao asked, "What's the matter? Say it if you have something to do!"
Qin Yuanhao quickly replied, "Brother Zhao, I won't waste your time. I just heard that there are six more carpenters coming to your house. It seems that the business of this spring soft chair is doing well?"
Qin Zhao said: "It's OK."
Qin Yuanhao said, "Brother Zhao, you are afraid you are going to hire someone to work? Brother Zhao, these dozen men, six and seven wives are waiting for me to do things in Zhao Ge'er's workshop. Let me be honest, if you are recruiting workers, it is better to recruit people from me. We are all from the same village, we are from the same village, we are all famous honest people. Brother Zhao, you have recruited me, and we promise not to cause you any trouble."
Qin Zhao smiled and looked at these self-recommendators, and found that they were indeed more honest people in the village.
The rogues and scoundrels in the village are now a little afraid of Qin Zhao. Qin Zhao now has some horses, thirty subordinates and more than 200 village heads. Those rogues are not enough for Qin Zhao's subordinates to punch each of them. They all saw Qin Zhao's house around, and none of them dared to cause trouble.
Those who dare to come and recommend themselves are honest people from the village.
In fact, it is beneficial to recruit workers in the village because everyone knows each other's details very well. There are only more than 600 people in Qinjia Village. Everyone chats in the village every day, and they are all well-known people. If they recruit workers in other villages, they may recruit difficult-to-manage rascals.
Qin Zhao calculated the labor required and smiled and said, "Qin Yuanhao, you are smart and know that I am going to expand production. You are the one who wants to work as a handyman in my factory."
Qin Yuanhao was delighted when he heard this, and his whole body shone with an extremely brilliant light.
Qin Zhao pointed at the women again and said, "How about you guys doing life?"
Unlike later generations when clothes were torn and thrown away, people in the Ming Dynasty often used to sew torn clothes and quilts to mend them. In addition, they made clothes. Most people bought cloth and handed them over to women at home to make clothes, and some bought ready-made clothes, but not many. The Ming people called women's sewing skills to do life.
The women said fiercely: "Brother Zhao, you might as well go out and ask about my skills! If it weren't for some cleverness, I would dare to come to your Brother Zhao to take on work?"
"There was a hole in my trousers, and I sewed him a flower."
Qin Zhao smiled and said, "Okay! You five are also going to the factory to do sewing!"
Chapter completed!