The heavy snowfall in the north came earlier than in previous years, and most of the tribesmen in Mayi stopped outdoor activities.
Everyone was sitting in their new houses, sitting on the kang, knitting, and chatting about gossip outside.
This year, because most of the tribe got married and started businesses, many of them owed a lot of debt. In order to pay off the debt, even the men in Mayi had to pick up wool and long needles to make sweaters. Making money is not shabby, and idleness is idle anyway.
.
In order not to be bored, everyone often visited each other and sat on the kang, chatting about the situation outside.
"I heard that General Zhang Yan occupied Jizhou again and sent an envoy to let us go south to attack Bingzhou," Zhang Fuda said.
"Daishuai Zhang has made a comeback this time, but it's a pity that it's too late. It's snowing now. How can we fight? It's freezing to death if we go outside!" Zhou Jin shook his head.
Zhang Fu sighed and said: "Everything is good here in Mayi, but the weather is too bad and Jizhou is much colder. It would be a good thing if we can really fight back to Jizhou!"
Zhou Jin thought of the hardships they had experienced on their way to Mayi and said, "How difficult it is! This time our commander Qu only broke through one Yanmen Pass and came back. It took thousands of miles to fight back to Jizhou, and there were Han people along the way."
How long will it take to fight against the military's obstruction?"
"And even if I can go back, I don't want to go back. In Mayi we have a house, land and a wife, but in Jizhou we are just slaves to those masters!"
Zhang Fu said with a smile: "If we go back, we will bring swords with us. Who dares to make us slaves again!"
Then he thought about his wife going out early and coming back late, and said helplessly: "These women went to the workshop, and they left us old men knitting at home. What a big deal!"
Zhou Jin said with a smile: "You just have to be content with having a wife from a textile factory. She earns more than you, but you still despise her."
Living in a dual-income family in Mayi is enviable.
With the continuous expansion of the number of textile machines, the scale of textile factories has also become larger and larger. Now most of the women in Mayi are workers in textile factories, or help in textile factories.
Because textile factories could not accommodate so many female workers, family-style textile factories began to become popular in Mayi. The textile factories handed over the spinning machines and spun wool yarn to these women, and these women then spun into cloth and handed it over to the textile mills.
factory.
Using the piece rate method, you can get about 40 yuan for each piece of cloth. The treatment is a little worse than that of female workers in textile factories, but it is still considered a high-income group. Even Xianbei women can make one piece of cloth a day after training for a period of time.
, which means you can earn thousands of dollars a month, which can be considered a mid- to high-level income in Mayi.
Due to the rapid development of the textile industry, the income of women in Mayi is generally higher than that of men. Money independently determines status. This was true even in the feudal era. Therefore, the status of women in Mayi is very high, higher than that of most men.
Who can make everyone's income lower than that of female comrades?
This puts tremendous pressure on many male compatriots in Mayi. They have to pick up wool thread to make woolen sweaters. After all, one piece can earn hundreds of dollars, which is four to five hundred dollars in a month, which is barely enough.
The dignity of the great men can be maintained. As for knitting as something women do, no one mentions it now.
As a result, a unique phenomenon formed in Mayi. Women went to work in the textile factory to weave cloth, while the men knitted at home and gossiped.
And with the increase in the number of looms, the textile industry has increasingly become a pillar industry in Mayi.
Although Mayi has various shortcomings, Xu Wei also has to admit that it also has many unique advantages. There is no shortage of war horses needed to conquer the world and leather armor needed by soldiers. Even a big man cannot do what Mayi does.
150% armor coverage rate. (Someone has two pieces of armor!) And these are the key factors in competing for world supremacy.
Moreover, there are large coal and iron mines here in Mayi, which can build a steel base, so that Xu Wei will not lack weapons. This is also one of the most important resources in the struggle for world hegemony. There is even no shortage of wool that needs to be developed in the breeding industry. There is no shortage of wool.
For Xu Wei, there is no shortage of money.
For the princes of this world, Mayi is too congenitally defective and too poor to start a family.
But for time-travelers like Xu Wei, it is simply a chosen place. The first industrial revolution developed resources, and there is no shortage of coal, steel, and textile resources. Especially the vast prairie outside Mayi, and even more textile resources.
A paradise for business development.
For example, if a certain country man wants to develop the textile industry, he needs to recruit foreigners and build his own pasture to raise each animal one by one. Even the pasture is not big. After more than ten years, the scale of the breeding industry has been difficult to expand because of insufficient raw materials.
The problem has been bothering a certain country bumpkin, making it impossible for him to make any money.
Xu Wei in Mayi does not have to worry about raw materials. There are millions of cattle and sheep in the entire desert to help him provide raw materials. Every day, Hu merchants personally deliver the wool from the grassland to the textile factory in Mayi.
There is no need for Xu Wei to worry about anything. The problems encountered here in Mayi have always been a shortage of manpower and machinery, and they have never encountered a problem of insufficient raw materials.
In other words, Xu Wei has as much woolen cloth as he has textile machines, and as much woolen cloth as he has, he has as much money as he does. One year of developing the textile industry in Mayi is worth ten years of development for a certain country man.
Nowadays, Mayi produces 15,000 pieces of woolen cloth per day, which is more than 5 million pieces of woolen cloth a year. Calculated based on the value of one piece of cloth at 1,000 yuan, the annual output value of Mayi's woolen cloth is as high as 5 billion yuan, and more than half of this amount
They are all pure profits. If the output value of woolen clothes is added, Ma Yiguang's textile industry can earn more than 3 billion, which is already comparable to Dahan's annual financial income. If other industries in Mayi are added,
Mayi's fiscal revenue can still be doubled. Emperor Ling would definitely cry with envy if he knew about Mayi's situation.
This is why Xu Wei only occupied the land of one county, but he could pretend to fight with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, while the Han Dynasty armed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and the treasury was empty, because Ma Yi was richer than the Han court.
In terms of military strength, the Tengjia Army can be regarded as a powerful force among the princes. In the future, when all the heroes compete for hegemony, other princes, even if they have several states, can only arm 100,000 soldiers.
For example, Cao Cao occupied the entire four or five states of the Central Plains and could only arm about 100,000 soldiers. It is said that before the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao could only send an army of 20,000 to 30,000 to fight Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao was richer, but he could only arm 200,000 soldiers.
Right and left, and they are already the most powerful princes in the world.
The other princes occupying a state only had 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers. It can be said that at the end of the Han Dynasty, there were 100,000 soldiers, which was considered the top prince.