When the water-powered spinning machine was started, "Whoosh!" 30 spindles started running at the same time, and soon balls of wool thread were copied.
The carpenter and the female workers around him were dumbfounded when they saw this scene. Just changing the horizontal one to the vertical one made it so much faster. It must be hundreds of times faster. And this machine only requires a few female workers to take turns operating it.
Already.
Even ordinary people can see the wealth contained in this!
Old Man Wang laughed loudly when he saw this scene: "Great! Our wool can finally be processed! If you build another hundred such machines, I will spin all these damn wools into wool!"
During this time, Old Man Wang had a headache, and the elderly women in Mayi came to him for wool thread! You must know that these women could only help everyone cook in Mayi, and could not do anything else.
They have a strong sense of worry and believe that their value is the lowest. They must be the first to be abandoned when encountering difficulties. In this era, being abandoned by the Tengjia Army, all they face is death.
But now you can make thousands of dollars by making a sweater, which makes them no longer useless, so they are very diligent in making sweaters and start making sweaters when they have time. Those who are fast can make a sweater in 3 days.
If these sweaters are really calculated as 1,000 yuan, the fastest woman can create a value of 10,000 yuan a month, which is higher than the value created by workers in the steel factory, so these women attach great importance to knitting.
Work.
But there was not enough wool thread, so they approached Old Man Wang one after another and asked him to take out the wool thread. However, the speed of manual spinning was just like this, and he had no choice. Now they have made a spinning machine that is dozens of times faster. He finally saw that
With the hope of liberation, I naturally want everyone to get the yarn out quickly.
Then he said seriously to several carpenters: "From now on, you will be the master craftsmen of the Tengjia Army. The houses in Mayi County will be allocated to you first, and you will also get a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan. From now on, you will work exclusively for Tengjia Army."
Army Jia makes spinning wheels, and Army Tengjia will not treat you badly, but if the spinning wheels appear elsewhere in Mayi, don’t blame me for being cruel to you!"
After Old Man Wang realized the importance of these spinning wheels, he immediately thought of keeping it secret!
The craftsmen immediately knelt down and swore: "If we betray the Tengjia Army, we will die badly!"
Even though these craftsmen swore, Old Man Wang still arranged for a team of soldiers to protect them and monitor them at the same time.
Xu Wei also recognized this method. Although technology diffusion is inevitable, it would be better if it could be delayed for a few years. In the future, there will be more and more important factories here in Mayi, and it is necessary to implement this confidentiality system!
Old Man Wang smiled and said: "What we have to do now is to stock up on these sweaters. When winter comes, the price of sweaters will be even higher!"
Xu Wei admired Old Man Wang. He even understood the modern way of selling seasonal clothes. If he lived in modern times, he would definitely become a business tycoon!
The second year of Zhongping (185 AD), mid-October!
Daijun! Tuntian Xiaowei Mansion!
The three brothers Liu, Guan, and Zhang all sat down and listened to the young scribe's report.
And this scribe is Jian Yong!
He can be said to be the most invisible person in the Three Kingdoms. He was obviously helping Liu Bei with Guan and Zhang. He even knew Liu Bei earlier than Guan and Zhang because he and Liu Bei grew up together.
Historically, he followed Liu Bei through life and death. He fought against the Yellow Turban Army and fought with Yuan Shao. He followed Liu Bei to Xuzhou and defeated Cao Cao. It can be said that Liu Bei is the earliest elder statesman in this group, but there are clearly four people. The group eventually became the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang, but whether in history or in novels, he has never had much sense of existence. It can be said that he is a transparent person.
"Xuande, Mr. Liu has no money anymore. He only gave 1,000 pieces of linen, saying that he would make some quilts and carry them first. However, Mr. Liu said that he would find a way to raise money and asked you to wait!
Our farming time was so bad that we almost had to raise these 100,000 people for a year in vain. If we didn't have 1 million shi of grain, we wouldn't be able to farm this field at all!" Jian Yong said helplessly.
When Liu Bei wanted to farm in Youzhou, Liu Yu fully supported him and gave him 1 million shi of grain and 300 million yuan! Most of the money and grain given by Fu Bian was given to Liu Bei, which can be said to be very supportive of him.
He also saw the crisis of the Han Dynasty. If the number of refugees did not decrease, the Han Dynasty would be in danger of subjugating the country. However, as a nobleman, it was impossible for him to use land equalization methods that would harm the nobles. Liu Yu regarded farming and guarding the border as the only way to save the Han Dynasty.
This was also the method he originally used historically, and with Fu Bian's support, he expanded the scale of his farming more than ten times.
Although the money was large, it was consumed very quickly by cultivating wasteland, purchasing supplies, and building houses. Even if Liu Bei was very frugal, he would still use it very quickly.
Moreover, the land in Youzhou is barren, but it is not ownerless. In fact, many Wuwan people graze on these wastelands. Liu Bei's farming behavior has seriously affected the interests of the Daowuan people. There are hundreds of thousands of Wuwan people in Youzhou. There are more than 100,000 Maru people in Guangdai County and Shanggu County. These Karasuma people often harass the soldiers in the field and bring huge trouble to Liu Bei and others.
Liu Bei spent a lot of money to quell the resentment of these people. At the same time, under the charm of his personality and the convincing of Guan and Zhang, these people finally stopped harassing Liu Bei. He even Recruiting a 3,000-strong Karasuma cavalry to guard the four directions and using barbarians to control barbarians is an old tradition of the Han Dynasty.
However, the money spent in this way exceeded Liu Bei's budget. When a cold wind came, he found that his field soldiers were still wearing summer tatters and did not even have a winter coat. He had no choice but to ask Liu Yu for help. Well, if he hadn't had 1 million shi of grain to lower the price, all the captives in the field might have escaped.
Liu Bei also said helplessly: "There's no point in waiting. It's almost winter. We can't let the soldiers wear single clothes. They will freeze to death!"
Zhang Fei said loudly: "Brother, just follow my method and lead the troops to Mayi. If we rob Lei Gong, we will have money!"
Not only the Hu people knew that Mayi was rich, but Liu Bei and the others also knew about it, and they even knew it earlier. After all, they saw hundreds of noble families in Jizhou being wiped out! The money and food for their farming also belonged to these noble families.
And they also knew that Xu Wei had robbed all the noble families in Wei County and was much richer than them. Coincidentally, they chased Xu Wei for thousands of miles, and in the end, the distance between the two sides' farming areas was only a few hundred miles. Zhang Fei couldn't help but be moved.
Zhang Fei continued: "We are also working in the fields, so why should Lei Gong drink wine and eat meat, but we are here eating chaff and drinking water? If this continues, I won't even be able to lift the snake spear!"
Not far apart, every move in Mayi will naturally be spread to Daijun soon, especially after Xu Wei annihilated the horse thieves alliance, he ate meat for more than a month, and the aroma wafted here (it should be
Zhang Fei's hallucination), how could this not make Zhang Fei angry, he thought of several ways to deal with Xu Wei.