The Spring Festival in the 31st year of Chengshun was the sixth Spring Festival that Song Erniu celebrated after leaving his hometown, and it was also the first Spring Festival that he celebrated in his overseas territory of North America.

But to be honest, Song Erniu didn't feel much of the Spring Festival atmosphere in Shuanghe County.

Even with the sound of firecrackers outside, every household has posted Spring Festival couplets, and many people are smiling and saying Happy New Year to others.

But these have nothing to do with Song Erniu!

Because he has no relatives in North America!

The Spring Festival is supposed to be a time for family reunion, but Song Erniu couldn't find any relatives to reunite with, not even friends.

On the evening of New Year's Eve, Song Erniu posted couplets on a small wooden house he temporarily rented, set off firecrackers, and cooked dumplings for himself in the room alone for New Year's Eve dinner.

Eating under the dim oil lamp.

As I ate, tears flowed down involuntarily.

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Song Erniu did not rest for even one day during the Spring Festival. The miners all took a rest, but he did not. Even on the morning of New Year's Eve, he was still busy.

He continued to be busy on the first day of the new year. He walked out of the house with a smile on his face, nodding hello to some neighbors he had seen but not familiar with, and saying "Happy New Year".

Although the days of fighting outside are hard and lonely, in the adult world, tears are of no use.

After the Spring Festival, he still has a lot of things to do.

He set up a small workshop producing canvas workwear before the Spring Festival, and is taking advantage of the Spring Festival to expand production scale to capture more markets.

Last winter, Song Erniu, who had just arrived in Shuanghe County, discovered by chance that miners' trousers and tops could be made from canvas, and this kind of wear-resistant and cheap clothes was very popular among the miners.

At first, he just tried to buy some canvas and asked a few peasant women to help sew clothes, but he didn't expect to sell it soon. Although the money he earned was not too much, it was still cheaper than gold mining.

Many and stable.

In this way, Song Erniu simply focused on canvas clothes. He bought some more canvases in succession, asked the peasant women from nearby neighbors to help sew them, and then took them to the gold mining area in the suburbs.

Touting.

After a month, he also made a lot of money.

With this money, he was thinking about expanding his canvas work clothes business.

I always ask a few peasant women to help with hand sewing in their free time. The efficiency is too slow and the output is too low, which is far from meeting the market demand.

According to what Song Erniu has learned over the past month or so, there are at least 10,000 to 20,000 gold diggers in Shuanghe County.

These gold diggers will have a strong demand for this kind of canvas workwear.

At the same time, these people also have enough purchasing power. After all, these gold diggers hunt for gold every day. Although most of them are just hard-earned money, only a handful of them explode overnight.

But if you really think about it, even those who earn hard-earned money and these gold diggers can earn at least more than ten yuan a month, and even more if they are lucky, it can reach dozens of yuan.

The reason why most of them have become paupers... is because all kinds of expenses in the mining areas are very high. The rent of housing is not cheap, the food is not cheap, and the wine is even more expensive.

At the same time, most of these gold diggers are actually like Song Erniu, young people who came from China to make a fortune, and most of them are single.

Many people have enough to eat for one person and the whole family is not hungry, and the money earned from gold mining is spent lavishly.

Therefore, there are many gold diggers who come here, but there are very few gold diggers who actually make a fortune or even save enough money.

However, such a group of gold diggers has also brought sufficient consumption power to the local area. Shuanghe County has been able to transform from a small town with less than a few hundred people to a county with thousands of people.

Various shops have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain because of these gold diggers.

Song Erniu's canvas workwear business also benefited from this situation.

Seeing that the output of hand-sewing is insufficient and the market demand is very large, Song Erniu naturally wants to expand the scale of his canvas workwear.

He also made some money before, although it was not much, but there was still some money. So he rented a small warehouse, then purchased three pedal sewing machines, and asked a few women to use the sewing machines to sew, and then he pulled the sewing machines himself.

I went to the mines and set up street stalls to sell, and embarked on the path of workshop-style production and sales.

When Song Erniu worked in Songjiang Prefecture, he worked in a garment factory owned by a private owner. The garment factory mainly provided work clothes and uniforms for some local factories. The main machine equipment used in the factory was a pedal sewing machine.

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So when he wanted to expand the production of canvas workwear, he immediately wanted this kind of pedal sewing machine.

This kind of pedal sewing machine was developed and produced by Hantian Textile Company. It has been used in the domestic garment industry and other industries that require sewing, but the real sales volume is still in the household market.

Because the domestic garment industry in the Da Chu Empire has not developed very well, there are actually very few professional garment factories. Some of them provide standard clothes for official institutions or enterprises, and few are for the general garment market.

The tradition of the people of the Chu Empire is that men farm and women weave... Although the textile industry is developing rapidly now, and there are not so many families spinning and weaving by themselves, in fact it is still relatively common in rural areas.

As for tailoring and sewing, even urban families and even middle- and upper-class families mostly make their own clothes. They rarely buy ready-made clothes outside. They basically buy fabrics and then sew them at home.

This is a matter of traditional habits and cost.

Hantian Textile Company, which couldn't sell the ready-made clothes, thought about it, forget it, if the ready-made clothes can't be sold, then it can't be sold. I should just sell sewing machines... Not to mention, the two generations of household appliances developed and brought to the market by Hantian Textile Company

Sewing machines, including hand-operated sewing machines and pedal sewing machines, have been selling well since the beginning, and are very popular among middle- and upper-class housewives.

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Even now, when some women from middle-to-upper-class families in China get married, they will bring a pedal sewing machine produced by Hantian Textile Company in their dowry.

After all, the social atmosphere of Chu State these days is actually very traditional and conservative. Women, even those in the upper class, are very particular about the craftsmanship of women.

Therefore, after the sewing machine was marketed to middle- and upper-class housewives, sales were surprisingly good because the market demand was too large, its own production was not enough, and its expansion was slow. The most important thing is that Hantian Textile Company itself is not a machinery company.

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Therefore, we cooperated with several domestic machinery companies and expanded production through technology licensing. This kind of thing gradually spread to the North American colonies.

Song Erniu had previously seen a tailor using a pedal sewing machine in a tailor shop in the county. After asking about it, he found this thing in a store of a trading company in Shuanghe County.

However, this thing is also relatively expensive. Although Song Erniu has a little money, he still cannot afford to buy multiple pedal sewing machines.

In desperation, he had no choice but to go to the local financial bank to apply for a loan.

Fortunately, the North American authorities have provided relatively strong encouragement and support to the local area, and have provided relatively strong support for immigrants to start their own businesses.

However, support is support, and other required procedures cannot be omitted.

In order to obtain a loan, Song Erniu first registered a company, rented a small factory building as an office space, and then went to a local machinery trading company to sign a purchase contract for three sewing machines after paying a small deposit.

After contract.

I went back to the financial bank with various procedures and successfully obtained the loan.

But before the loan was approved, it was transferred directly to the trading company, and the three sewing machines were also used as loan collateral.

After following this set of procedures, Song Erniu not only spent all the money he had earned before, but also nearly a hundred Chu Yuan that he had saved at home and brought to North America.

And I still owe a lot of debt!

However, at this time, his heart was burning because he saw hope for the future!

After intense preparations during the Spring Festival, before the Spring Festival was over, Song Erniu recruited more than ten full-time sewing women and began to use pedal sewing machines to produce canvas work clothes in a small warehouse.

The main raw material, canvas, was also obtained on credit.

There was a trading company at the scene that mainly dealt in various types of cloth. When they saw that Song Erniu was in need of a large amount of canvas in a short period of time, they were also happy to see that their canvas had a larger market.

There are more than 20,000 people in Shuanghe County, most of whom are gold diggers, and they are all potential consumers of this kind of canvas workwear.

The market here is huge.

For the sake of the potential big market in the future, they were willing to provide Song Erniu with a batch of canvases on a partial credit basis.

Therefore, while others are still celebrating the Spring Festival, Song Erniu is already busy and has completed the production expansion of his own canvas workwear.

The efficiency of using a pedal sewing machine to produce ready-made garments can be countless times faster than manually sewing stitch by stitch, which means a huge increase in output.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, when the miners in the gold mines or the gold prospectors who just worked alone began to go to the mines to pan for gold, Song Erniu also drove a two-wheeled carriage, pulling hundreds of sails.

The work equipment arrived at the mining area.

After arriving at the place where the stall was previously set up, Song Erniu laid out his goods on the carriage and arranged the horses that pulled the carriage.

This carriage is not his own, but rented from the owner of a wood workshop next door. Whether it is a carriage or a draft horse, it must be properly managed. If something goes wrong, you will have to pay for it.

After settling in, a four-wheeled carriage came next door. The driver was very smartly dressed. Unlike Song Erniu, who was wearing a self-made canvas work suit, this middle-aged man in his thirties wore

Wearing a decent business suit made of wool and a black round hat.

This man, Song Erniu, recognized him as Boss Chen, who was the first to set up a stall in this mining area. He mainly sold some daily necessities. They seemed to be very fragmentary things, but the sales volume was very good, and he earned much more than Song Erniu.

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This four-wheeled carriage and the two Fengzhou horses pulling it all belong to him. I heard from him that there is also a grocery store in the county town.

After meeting this person, Song Erniu took the initiative to say hello: "Hello, Boss Chen!"

Boss Chen nodded slightly, glanced at the two-wheeled carriage next to Song Erniu, and immediately said: "Hey, Xiao Song, you have become rich this New Year, and you have bought all the carriages!"

Song Erniu waved his hand quickly: "No way, this is rented from someone else, how could I buy a carriage?"

In North America, carriages are actually not valuable. After all, they are just ordinary carriages used for pulling goods. Ordinary carpenters can basically make them.

The most valuable thing is the horse that pulls the cart.

In North America, there are no local horses. The native horses in the Americas have become extinct long ago. Nowadays, the horses in the Americas are basically brought over by outsiders.
To be continued...