The Zhen family is worthy of being a wealthy businessman from a well-connected noble family. I dare not say that in other places. In this northern Xinjiang, it can be said that they cover the sky with one hand, and they call everything black white.
These noble families are like giant moths. There are so many giant moths in the world that no matter how rich a man's family fortune is, they will eat it up.
However, Xu Wei thought that he was a rebel, so he seemed to have no reason to blame these morons for the Han Dynasty. After all, the actions of these people were of great benefit to his career.
Zhen An continued to ask: "Qu Shuai, I have helped you get this food. Is the cloth I want ready?"
Xu Wei smiled and said: "It has been prepared for a long time! Now the textile factory in Mayi can weave 40,000 pieces of wool cloth like this every month, and 100,000 pieces only takes two and a half months! I have reserved 6 pieces in advance.
Ten thousand pieces of cloth, the shopkeeper will wait another month to get the 100,000 pieces of cloth."
Zhen An said anxiously: "This is too little. Jizhou alone's 100,000 horses is not enough. Doesn't Qu Shuai think he can find a way to increase production capacity?"
Just kidding, woolen cloth is fine, thick and warm, and is better than silk. As long as it is sold in Jizhou, it will be doubled or doubled. If Mayi delays for two or three months and someone else sells woolen cloth to Jizhou, then it will be a piece of cake.
It is impossible to start a separate business. Based on his many years of business experience, the first batch of rags going to Jizhou is the most profitable. If it is delayed for a long time, he can only pick up some leftovers and squander them.
Xu Wei said helplessly: "I also want to increase production capacity, but there are only more than 3,000 looms in Mayi. If you want to increase the number, you need looms. I am already thinking of ways. The craftsmen in Mayi are working hard every day."
We are manufacturing new looms, and there will be 2,000 more looms in another month, and there will be more and more in the future. The shopkeeper can wait for a while with peace of mind!"
Zhen An said: "There are too few looms. Why are there only 3,000? It would be great if there were 30,000 looms! There are hundreds of thousands of looms in Jizhou, but it is a pity that there is no wool in Jizhou!"
Then Zhen An thought of something and said excitedly: "Qu Shuai, our Zhen family will help you buy a loom. All we ask is that you give us 100,000 pieces of woolen cloth every month."
Xu Weidao: "It depends on the output, but since the shopkeeper helped me come up with such a good method, I can assure the shopkeeper that 30% of Mayi's woolen cloth can be given to the Zhen family, as long as the Zhen family can afford it.
The method is the same as before, I don’t need money, the shopkeeper wants to transport the goods for Mayi, and if the shopkeeper wants to increase the production of woolen cloth, he can just bring over the loom!"
Zhen An reminded Xu Wei that Mayi could purchase textile machines from outside and did not have to be completely self-sufficient. Textile machines in this era were not high-tech products. After all, men farmed and women weaved, and basically every Han household had one.
Set up a textile machine! You can use some second-hand goods to increase production capacity first.
Zhen An heard this and smiled confidently: "I will order 100,000 pieces of woolen cloth first, and I will still pay the bill with grain! My only request is that Qu Shuai builds a grain warehouse in Wuzhou, and our Zhen family is only responsible for transporting the grain.
When you get to Wuzhou, and when Wuzhou gets to Mayi, you will be in charge of Commander Qu!"
There is a Yellow River waterway and it costs little to transport grain to Pianguan, but from Pianguan to Mayi you have to go all the way over the mountains. Zhen An wants to save time, so he wants to put the handover point in Wuzhou, which is cheaper than going to Mayi.
Half the way.
Xu Weidao: "Okay!"
The worst he can do is build the rail carriages in Daowuzhou in advance. The rail carriages carry more than ten times the load of half the carriages. Zhen An's food supply for thousands of carriages would only require dozens of rail carriages at most!
When Xu Wei said this, Zhen An immediately became motivated. This year, the price of grain in Jizhou dropped to the lowest level in decades. Even if they transport goods through Mayi, they can still make money, not to mention that they can also exchange for cheap woolen cloth. This time The profit will be multiple times if you flip it.
But he felt that if he could open up the Yanmen Pass trade route, enter Taiyuan County from the well, pass through Yanmen Pass and reach Mayi, it would only take more than ten days for Jizhou's grain to arrive in Mayi. This would not only reduce freight, but also save time. The only thing The difficult part is how to get the guards at Yanmen Pass to let their caravan leave.
Zhen An thought about it and felt that the problem was not big. It was not a big problem except to transfer one of his own people to become the guard general of Yanmen Pass! The Zhen family was not so snobbish that it could affect the transfer of Bingzhou generals, but the powerful nobles in Jizhou had this ability, and even more Don't talk about Cui Lie or Situ, I think the wealthy nobles who came to Jizhou will help him.
After Fu Bian's death, Wang Fen became the governor of Jizhou. He was a member of the noble family, so when he took office, he did not follow the order of Emperor Ling to find trouble with Zhang Yan first.
Instead, he first returned all the land owned by the noble families in Jizhou to them. Wang Fen's behavior made the entire scholar-officials praise him, and he was worthy of being one of the eight famous chefs in the world.
It was only the common people who suffered. After these wealthy nobles got their own land, they not only drove away the common people on their land, leaving only a small number to help them farm, but also took away the food in the hands of the common people, saying that it was last year's rent. Money, it was like Hu Hansan came back, he took what I had and returned it, and when he ate what I had, I spat it out.
If the people dared to make trouble, Wang Fen would lead Jizhou's county soldiers to suppress the people. So within a month of Wang Fen taking office, the whole Jizhou was crying loudly, and a large number of people were killed. Everyone once again had to flee to the Taihang Mountains to seek refuge with Zhang Yan. Yan Ze was overjoyed to find that his strength had more than doubled, especially since most of the refugees who took refuge this time were young and strong.
Of course, even if they got their land back, Jizhou's noble families still felt that they had suffered a huge loss.
A large number of wealthy families who had spent their entire lives were completely wiped out. They were no longer what they used to be. The chaos caused them to lose tens of billions of money.
And this is also the reason why they treat the people so cruelly. They are eager to regain their strength, but they have nothing in their hands except the food they just robbed the people.
And Zhen An wanted to take advantage of these powerful nobles who were eager to restore their family business. Now the grain in the entire Jizhou could not be sold at a high price. The only one who could pay a high price and purchase unlimited amounts of grain, and still had money, was the Lei Gong of Mayi.
There is a shortage of food in other parts of the Han Dynasty, but those refugees have no money at all and naturally have no ability to buy food, so they are not in the eyes of the nobles and nobles.
Now selling grain is not a matter for his Zhen family, but for the entire Jizhou family. In this way, it will not be difficult to replace one of his own as the guard general of Yanmen Pass.
The more Zhen An thought about it, the more he felt that this method was feasible.