The next day, a huge convoy of cars drove into the Great Northern Ditch Town.
There were all kinds of construction machinery and many other things in the convoy. They looked like equipment from the paper mill. It cost 30000 silver dollars to buy the equipment and 5000 silver dollars to hire workers to build the factory.
35000 silver coins flew away just like that.
The construction machinery directly crushed into the sand and stones and began to set up a factory.
These construction machinery were very advanced, and the construction speed was extremely effective. In just three days, one-third of the paper mill was built. Li Yunhao also began to arrange the operation of the paper mill after it was completed.
After the paper mill was built, there must be raw materials. Li Yunhao planned to use wood, straw, and weeds as raw materials. There were even more weeds. The vitality of these weeds could be said to be extremely strong. Other than cattle and the largest sheep, other livestock basically did not eat such coarse food. Moreover, they grew everywhere. If they wanted to eliminate them, they had to spend a lot of effort to dig out the reeds. This kind of plant was very annoying to farmers.
10,000 tons of paper sounded like a lot, but it was actually pitifully little. Such a paper mill could only process about 30,000 mu of straw. The Li family alone had more than 100,000 mu of paddy fields, and weeds were everywhere.
Just the straw and weeds were enough to satisfy the paper mill. There was no need to use wood to make paper.
However, the raw materials needed to be collected, which required a lot of manpower and transportation.
The paper mill was completed in just ten days. The steel structure of the factory was filled with new equipment. Li Yunhao immediately sent the prepared workers into the paper mill for production.
Li Yunhao didn't have any talents suitable for running a factory, so he could only force his way through. Li Yunhao randomly appointed important positions such as factory manager and finance manager from among the candidates for the housekeeper in the residence.
His requirements for the two important positions of the factory manager and the finance department were not to be corrupt or accept bribes. Li Yunhao was also ruthless. Li Yunhao established an inspection department.
The head of the inspection department was a high-ranking government official, Zhao Gang. As long as corruption and bribery were discovered, they would be dragged out and executed.
As long as there was no corruption in the factory, everything would be easy to handle. Li Yunhao took out a production process manual and threw it to the factory manager to learn.
The paper mill began to try production. Due to the lack of skill, the quality of the paper produced in the previous few times was very poor. However, the factory manager quickly found the reason from the Production Technology Link Manual and solved the problems one by one. The quality of the paper produced became higher and higher.
Soon, the paper mill produced paper cut into various sizes. The paper was extremely white and smooth to the touch. With the current environment of the paper mill, it was impossible to export tons of paper rolls. Naturally, they had to make them into finished products to sell. It was obviously more suitable to sell them cut into different sizes.
Li Yunhao calculated the cost price and found that the cost of the paper mill was not only 30% lower than the cost of the best paper mill in the Western countries, but also because the labor force in China had a population bonus. In terms of raw materials, because the reeds were collected and there were lawnmowers and tractors, the efficiency was also very high.
The purpose of setting up the paper mill was mainly to lay the foundation for the packaging factory. If Li Yunhao wanted to develop the industry, the first thing he had to do was to develop the basic industry.
Basic industries such as energy, building materials, steel, etc. were all poor. Li Yunhao planned to set up a cigarette factory this year. Naturally, he needed paper. There was no shortage of raw materials for paper making in northern Fujian, so the paper factory was set up first.
The production capacity of the paper mill was actually calculated based on eight hours of production per day. If it was produced in three shifts, the production capacity could be expanded to three times the original-30,000 tons.
The paper mill did not have to worry about sales because the quality of the paper produced was good, and the cost was advantageous. Compared to foreign paper, it also saved on shipping costs. Naturally, there would be a market for it. However, he still had to go to those merchants to promote it in the beginning.
The paper mill soon set up a sales department and went to the county to promote the paper mill's products.
There was no need for any technical skills in the quarry and the sand mining field. Li Yunhao directly exchanged the equipment for the quarry and quickly chose the location of the quarry.
Li Yunhao didn't buy the most advanced equipment. He only bought ordinary equipment. Even if it was advanced equipment, people wouldn't be able to use it at this time.
At present, China did not lack labor. The advantage of advanced equipment was that it saved labor. It required a certain amount of cultural knowledge. If a group of illiterate people played with high technology, wouldn't that be the alarm moon? The current China had a population bonus. Not all factories needed to use state-of-the-art equipment. It could also solve employment and improve their personal lives.
In addition, the factory was limited to Duolun County.
Immediately after, Li Yunhao built a steel plant, a cement plant, and a fertilizer plant. Other than some equipment for the steel plant and the cement plant, they used ordinary equipment.
However, these ordinary equipment were also the best in China in this era.
These small factories didn't cost much. They only cost Li Yunhao 200,000 silver dollars.
The cement factory could produce 100,000 tons of cement a year, and the quality of the cement was even higher. The steelworks used an open top furnace to make steel, not a revolving furnace.
The production capacity of the furnace was higher than that of the open furnace. More importantly, the furnace used electricity, not coal. There was a large amount of coal in the northeast region, which was just enough for open-pit steel-making.
This small open-pit steel-making plant cost Li Yunhao 100,000 silver dollars and could produce 10,000 tons of steel annually.
However, the equipment had been purchased, but other than the quarry, sand mining ship, cement plant, and phosphorus fertilizer plant, the nitrogen fertilizer plant and steel plant had not been put into operation.
There was no other reason than the lack of people.
The nitrogen fertilizer plant had a chemical problem. After Li Yunhao exchanged the equipment for the steel plant, he found that this kind of advanced equipment required a high level of education.
The Munitions Factory did not have the conditions because they did not have the raw materials.
Due to the opening of those factories, Li Yunhao felt the financial pressure. The cement factory, fertilizer plant, quarrying, and sand mining were not for export. These things were for his own construction.
When things were produced, they would naturally be used for construction, but construction required money! Without construction, the factory would be left there for fun. Naturally, it was not worth it.
The workers in these factories and mines needed more than 3,000 people, and their monthly salary was three silver dollars, which meant that they had to spend nearly 10000 silver dollars a month.
In addition to the military factory, the total amount of money needed was 500,000 silver dollars. Almost half of the Li family's savings had been used up. Li Yunhao was now having a headache over the problem of money.
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