This unintentional sentence from my nephew made Li Long's mind suddenly come alive.

My nephew doesn't know much about the current situation of the National Cotton Mill. After all, this child has been studying in the UK for two years, and after returning, he flew all over the earth. In the past, six of the ten adults in the family worked in the National Cotton Mill, and what he came back every day was talking about in the factory. But now, no one at home works in the National Cotton Mill, so my nephew's current situation is limited to hearsays from others.

But my nephew didn't know, but Li Long knew very well about the current situation of the national cotton mill.

This factory used to be a large state-owned enterprise. It was established in the late 1950s and has a history of 60 years. When it was booming, the employees of the National Cotton Factory were envied by the residents of Tianqu City. They had high wages, good welfare, and housing distribution. But now, the market is obviously much better than more than ten years ago, but the situation of the factory is getting worse and worse.

During the factory's heyday, there were nearly 7,000 employees in the entire factory. All the equipment in the workshops in the entire factory were operated 24 hours a day, and the workers also carried out four shifts and three operations. The cotton yarn and cloth produced were all national inspection-free products and were in short supply.

But now, there are only less than a thousand employees left in the huge factory and they are still barely persevering. No one wants the gauze produced even if it loses money and sells it. Moreover, the factory is now completely managed by Hengfeng Textile.

You should know that Hengfeng Textiles is the Tianqu Second Cotton Spinning Factory before, commonly known as "Er Cotton". At that time, it was a true younger brother of the National Cotton Mill. More than ten years ago, Hengfeng could not even start construction.

But the feng shui is really changing. Ermian, which could not even open equipment back then, could only look up at the top of the National Cotton Factory from the lower place, but now it has become the trustee of the National Cotton Factory. Moreover, many elite personnel from the National Cotton Factory were forced to resign from the National Cotton Factory and then switch to Ermian's arms, which played a crucial role in the rapid development of Ermian.

In fact, the Guomei Cotton Factory is not completely helpless. It is mainly because of the management that Guomei Cotton Factory has heavy debts and the banks no longer let go of loans, so that the equipment cannot be updated and the gauze produced naturally cannot keep up with the market demand. This has formed a vicious cycle, which eventually led to the current dying situation.

Li Long knew very well that the National Cotton Factory was still very well-founded, because although the National Cotton Factory was not good now, the National Cotton Factory had a huge foundation, that is, the technical workers they had trained over the past few decades.

The most critical technical job of a cotton textile factory is not spinning or weaving workers, but in the preservation workers in the workshop. These preservation workers are the most fundamental technical support for a cotton textile factory.

If a cotton spinning mill has a group of preservation workers with strong technology and experience, then these preservation workers can always keep the equipment in an optimal state, which can greatly reduce the probability of defective gauze products, and can also improve the working efficiency of the spinning machine and fabric machine, and reduce losses in all aspects.

In other words, if a cotton mill preservation worker is strong enough, as long as the leader of this cotton mill is not stupid and does not secretly fetch things from his own house, it will be difficult for the cotton mill to go bankrupt even if it wants to go bankrupt.

But unfortunately, Tianqu Guo Cotton Factory has a large number of preservation workers with extremely powerful technology and experience, but for the first time, such a strange and about to go bankrupt, so the situation here is naturally self-evident.

Li Long didn’t know anything else, but what Li Long knew was that the leaders of the National Cotton Mill for the past 20 years had their own cotton textile mills in their hometowns, and the benefits were quite good. Moreover, the children of some former leaders made a fortune by making gauze!

This is something that everyone in Tianqu City knows, but these former leaders are now living a peaceful and free life...

But this made the workers who grew up from the Guo Cotton Mill. As a last resort, many of the superb maintenance workers in the Guo Cotton Mill were forced to resign from the Guo Cotton Mill and then went to the south or other cotton mills to find jobs. Among them, even Li Long's brother-in-law, Yang Jing's uncle, had done this.

Back then, Yang Jing's uncle was a famous air-jet loom technology expert in cotton mills in the country. What about now? Because he is old, he can no longer do such physical work from the south. He can only rely on the salary he paid to the bank's security guard to barely pay pension insurance. If Yang Jing had not made a fortune from the UK and started a car dealer after returning to China, Yang Jing's uncle would probably be working as a security guard for the bank.

There are many people like Yang Jing’s uncle in the national cotton mill. Several of Li Long’s elementary school classmates are now working for private cotton textile mills in the south. With their own skills, they have all become technical masters in those factories. There is even a very good friend of Li Long, who has become a vice president who specializes in technology in a private enterprise in the south and has shares!

Some preservation workers were poached by Ermian, which is now Hengfeng. As a result, Hengfeng's technical strength was immediately improved a lot, and the competitiveness of the products produced in the market was greatly improved.

Therefore, these old security workers with superb skills and rich experience are the foundation of a factory.

Moreover, Li Long also knew that these old technicians who went out to work had a deep relationship with the National Cotton Factory. Even the buddy who became the vice president of the technology in the south would feel very emotional every time she came back to party and drink. If the National Cotton Factory could recover, I promised to come back to work immediately.

This guy may think it is impossible for many people to say this. It is a bragging comparison. But who knows that a person is floating in the south thousands of kilometers away from his hometown. His parents, wives, children and friends are not around, he is not used to eating and drinking, and he is not adapted to the climate. Although he makes a lot of money, they are like rootless duckweed. Who can understand their inner suffering?

If they were twenty years younger, they would definitely not say such things, but most of them were in their forties. This kind of wandering that could make money outside but could not give their family feeling is actually what they fear the most.

Although the current equipment of Guo Cotton Mill has long been much behind, these are not problems. Guo Cotton Mill's current factory buildings are not backward. As long as they can find some funds to replace the equipment, and then if they can find all these technical workers, even if half of them are retrieved, it is estimated that Guo Cotton Mill will soon be able to recover.

Of course, the prerequisite for all this is to have enough start-up capital first.

Thinking of this, Li Long looked at his nephew and wanted to say it, but hesitated for a moment, and finally sighed without saying a word.

Yang Jing saw all the expressions of his uncle. Finally, he saw that his uncle hesitated for a moment and did not say anything. Yang Jing knew that some things should be said by himself rather than letting him come up with them.

"Uncle, are you moved by my proposal just now?"

Li Long took out the cigarette box and took out a cigarette to light it, "No, can you not be moved? If it is possible to accept the National Cotton Factory, I really want to give it a try. The private cotton textile mills in the south are all very prosperous, so I don't believe that the National Cotton Factory can't recover."

After a pause, Li Long breathed a sigh of relief, "Look at Ermian. Ermian has declared bankruptcy before, but as soon as he took over, he became Hengfeng. How prosperous is Hengfeng now? I said, man, if I take over the Guomian Cotton Factory, can I bring the Guomian Cotton Factory back to life like Mr. Lu of Hengfeng?"

Yang Jing thought for a while and said, "Uncle, you will never be able to do this by yourself. But if you can find something that is capable of helping you, and you have to accept the investment I have given you, then it is not difficult for the National Cotton Factory to revive it."

"real?"

"Well, I don't think this is difficult anyway. Uncle, do you know where the origin of the modern cotton textile industry is?"

"Haha, I really know this, it is in the UK, to be precise, in Manchester, the city where Greater Manchester United is located."

Yang Jing nodded, "Yes, the world's first steam-powered spinning mill opened in Manchester in 1781. Subsequently, under the pulse of the European industrial revolution, Manchester had no less than 108 cotton textile mills as of 1853. At that time, the cotton yarn and cloth produced in Manchester accounted for 80% of the world's production, so Manchester was also named "Cotton Capital"!"

"Marchist's cotton textile industry has been glorious until the 20th century, but later, Manchester's cotton textile industry began to decline. By 1980, the last cotton textile mill in Manchester was completely closed. The cotton textile industry, which had been prosperous for nearly two centuries, completely left Manchester. However, as far as I know, in the past few years, a brand new cotton textile mill was rebuilt on the former Tameside in Greater Manchester, which was the former tower factory. This new cotton textile mill uses the Zhuolang ring spinning machine produced by the Germans, specializing in the production of 60 or more extremely fine and tight cotton yarns, specializing in the high-end cotton yarn market, and has achieved quite good returns."

My uncle nodded, "Yes, I have heard from several buddies about this. At present, high-end products in the global cotton textile industry are becoming more and more popular. Therefore, if I take over the national cotton mill, I will definitely specialize in high-end cotton yarn and fabrics. High-end products represent high profits."

Seeing that my uncle was really moved, Yang Jing smiled and said, "Uncle, if you really want to do it, I will support you! If you don't say anything else, how about giving you an interest-free loan of 100 million US dollars? If you don't have enough, you can get another loan! With this money, whether it is a smart ring spinning machine or a jet eddy current spinning machine, you can change it at will. As for the loom, whether it is a rapier loom, a piece shuttle loom, a jet, a water jet loom, or even a multi-phase loom and a magnetic weft loom, you can change it at will! Whether it is Japanese, German, or Italian or Belgian, as long as you like it, you can buy it as much as you like it! How about it, uncle, nephew's suggestion?"

The uncle rubbed his hands with a smile, looked at Yang Jing and said, "Why don't we try it?"
Chapter completed!