Dasheng Cotton Mill is approaching its trial run, but its accounts are already tight.In order to raise money for Zhang Jian to sell calligraphy and paintings, the public opinion outside was very unpleasant. Dong Yihong complained for him, but he himself did not want to spend his energy on explaining.He kept part of the income from selling letters for daily expenses and paid part to the accounting office. He just wanted to get over the difficulties of the factory first.At this time, Liu Yuan, who understood machines and laws, came to Zhang Jian with a letter, expressing his willingness to join Dasheng and take risks with everyone.

What Jiang Mengsheng fears most is spending money: working overtime at night requires burning coal, and there is a new employee in the factory, so everything is an expense.Zhang Jian did not make a promise immediately and only asked Liu Yuan to participate in the test machine first.In order to dispel outside speculation about Dasheng's suspension of work, he published the news of the scheduled test run in the newspaper.Liu Yuan marked the parts one by one and led the workers to reinstall the machine; Thomas tried to borrow a screw to cause an accident, but Liu Yuan's preparation was revealed on the spot.

The machine started running smoothly, and Zhang Jian decided not to keep Thomas anymore.But the successful test run does not mean that the financial problem has disappeared. Jiang Mengsheng and Shen Jingfu must sell the cotton to get back wages and working capital.When the villagers heard that Zhang Jian collapsed from exhaustion, they chipped in fifty taels to help. He did not regard the donation as charity, but made up the amount and counted it as a shareholding in Dasheng.

Jiang Mengsheng and Shen Jingfu had another dispute over whether the cotton should be sold immediately: one was afraid that it would be more dangerous if it continued, and the other wanted to wait for a better price.Zhang Jian finally set a deadline, and he would take action the next morning regardless of profit or loss. He could not delay the whole factory just to make a little more money.With the return of the funds, Dasheng Cotton Mill finally officially started operation, and the initial financing, installation and instability of people's hearts were temporarily resolved.

After the Dasheng Cotton Mill was put into operation, Zhang Jian and his partners finally overcame the most pressing difficulties of financing, machine installation, and labor costs.The factory began to really operate, but cotton sales and subsequent operations still depended on everyone to continue to hold on.