"You also need to take care of the money and food matters. Now we spend more than 200 million every month. We are so lavish that the remaining money we have is not enough for half a year's expenses. Let's find ways to reduce some expenses!"
Although Xu Wei can make money, he spends money like water, which makes Old Wang scared.
Emperor Ling would be envious if he heard Xu Wei's flowering method. Now the Han Dynasty's finances are only two to three billion yuan per year. With hundreds of millions of people in the huge court, how can such a small amount of money be enough to spend!
He had to buy and sell officials to maintain the operation of the court, otherwise the more than 100,000 troops in Xiliang would not be able to sustain themselves.
Xu Wei now has a group of 200,000, and the money he spends is almost the same as that of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Ling knows how not to be envious, jealous, and hateful!
Xu Wei smiled confidently when he heard this: "The best of all my skills is making money. Since you always think that there is not enough money, I will find a way to make 200 million every month! Uncle, go prepare for the autumn harvest and autumn planting.
Leave the making of money to me!"
As a time traveler, it is too easy to make money in this feudal era.
Making glass?
Mirror?
Or soap?
These are all industries that early time travelers must have used to make a fortune, but Xu Wei thought about the barren mountains and wilderness of Mayi, and it was not in a big city like Luoyang City. Without a complicated city, it would be impossible to support these industries.
Finally Xu Wei thought of the wool spinning industry! Mayi is surrounded by herdsmen, there is no shortage of raw materials, and there is no worry about the market. After all, winter in the north is coming soon.
The most profitable industry in this era was the textile industry, and cloth was used directly as money. Xu Wei remembered that it seemed that it had to wait until the Yuan and Ming dynasties, when the textile industry developed greatly, before cloth withdrew from the financial industry. Thinking of this, Xu Wei slapped his forehead.
, the industry that prints money has actually forgotten it!
Just do it!
He asked people to find several bags of wool. Then he used lime water to degrease the oil. After the degreasing was completed, the wool obtained was not as white as expected, with white and yellowish wool, but it can be used. I will think about the issue of decolorization later.
!
Then several women were found and asked to card, spindle, and thread the wool. This work was similar to making silk thread and twine.
Soon Xu Wei got more than ten kilograms of wool. Now Xu Wei has two options. One is to use the wool to make sweaters, and the other is to use a textile machine to make woolen cloth. The latter one is a bit larger and needs to be improved.
textile machine.
Xu Wei thought for a while and decided to do the easy thing first and then the hard part!
First make a sweater. Xu Wei also learned from his mother when he was a child. He was a little surprised when he still remembered a wooden stick. Of course, he could only make the simplest kind of towel, all kinds of complicated ones.
There is no need to think about the playing style and suit.
So he taught these women how to make sweaters, and they quickly learned to make sweaters, woolen pants, woolen socks, and even gloves with wool without any instruction. After a few days, their skill level surpassed that of Xu Wei.
Several levels!
Xu Wei took these sweaters and trousers and said, "With these sweaters and trousers, we don't have to worry about winter clothes!"
Old man Wang was shocked when he saw these sweaters and woolen pants: "With so many holes, can they really be windproof?"
Xu Wei smiled and said: "Old man, you will know after you try it on!"
Old Man Wang quickly put it on and said, "It's very tight and it's quite warm when you put it on!"
But it was October after all, and the temperature was still over 20 degrees. Soon Old Man Wang was sweating from the heat, but he didn't care at all. Instead, he stroked the sweater on his body and smiled: "With this sweater,
This winter will be much better! Especially in the past two years, the weather has been getting colder and colder, and many people can’t bear it anymore. This sweater is a timely gift!”
Xu Wei smiled and said: "What do you think is the appropriate price for this sweater?"
Old Man Wang laughed and said: "Furs cost thousands and tens of thousands. Our sweaters are not as warm as furs, but we have to be conscientious. They are cheaper than furs, but at least they cost thousands."
If the Huns don’t offer more than 3 sheep in exchange, the old man won’t do it!”
The price made Xu Wei ashamed. Although the price of sheep in Mayi was low, it still cost about 300 yuan, which was worth 3 shi of grain. A sweater like this cost the Huns 9 shi of grain.
The cost of the sweater is equivalent to the wool of these three sheep, which is equivalent to Ma Yi directly earning the meat of the three sheep from the Huns. Even though he has not experienced the industrialization era, Old Man Wang is still skillfully using the difference between industrial and agricultural scissors for himself.
Seek profit!
Old Man Wang continued to smile and said: "With this sweater, wool is a good thing."
Then he looked at the vast grassland in the distance. Is there still a shortage of wool in the grassland? It's all money!
Thinking of this, Old Man Wang smiled very brightly!
Seeing that Xu Wei is much satisfied, although this leader spends money like water, he also makes money like water!
Mayi's caravan soon followed Old Man Wang's request and began to purchase large amounts of wool on the grassland. The herdsmen on the grassland finally had a specialty product, and they used wool that was like waste on the grassland, so they no longer had to buy it.
I exchanged my rations with Mayi for industrial products.
With the payment of special products, herdsmen's demand for Mayi's industrial products skyrocketed. Iron knives, iron pots, three-burner stoves, grinding tools for making briquettes, and even Lele carts produced by Mayi began to be produced.
Appeared in the hands of herdsmen around Mayi.
In Mayi, a textile factory quickly appeared next to the Sanggan River! Most of the women in Mayi were resettled here. Every day, a large amount of wool was greased in a huge limestone pool, and then the wool was carded and processed manually.
Hand spinning machine spinning wool thread.
But the efficiency of this step is too low. Tens of thousands of people are required to spin the degreased wool into wool thread every day using manual hand spinning machines. Obviously, there are not so many people in Mayi City, and there are not so many spinning machines.
Therefore, the efficiency of spinning hinders the output of wool.
However, Old Man Wang did not expect this situation and accumulated a large amount of wool. Now the wool in the Mayi warehouse was piled up like a hill. The anxious Old Man Wang went directly to Xu Wei to find a solution!
Xu Wei found a way after looking at it. Although he had never spun yarn, he had heard the story of Jenny's spinning machine. It seemed that it changed from horizontal spinning to vertical spinning, and Xu Wei saw it in the news.
The picture also shows dozens of spindles spinning at the same time.
After Xu Wei saw the manual spinning machines of this era, he hired a few skilled carpenters to hammer them, and soon a new type of spinning machine appeared.
The new spinning machine changed horizontal spinning into vertical spinning according to Xu Wei's instructions, and then set up 10 spindles side by side, making a total of three rows. Xu Wei also used water power, and the spinning industry suddenly entered the era of industrialization.