As soon as this appointment came out, the entire Yellow Turban generals were shocked. This was the first person among them to become a high-ranking member of the Tengjia Army.
The colonel is already the highest-ranking general in the Tengjia Army, and he has entered the core system of the Tengjia Army. This makes Zhang Baiqi and the others very excited, thinking that this is the beginning of Xu Wei's acceptance of them.
But in fact, they thought too much. Xu Wei never thought of rejecting them. After all, it is basically impossible for scholars in this world to seek refuge with thieves like Xu Wei. If they don’t even use the Yellow Turbans as allies, then they really don’t want to.
He wanted talented people to join him, so it was inevitable to appoint the Yellow Turbans. Xu Wei just didn't want them to join the army.
Generally, sheep can be sheared twice a year, the first time in April-May, and the second time in September-October. It happens to be the time for shearing after the spring plowing, so the busy spring plowing has just ended, and a large number of Hu merchants brought a large number of sheep with them.
The wool came to Mayi again,
Last year, the wool business made these Hu merchants make a lot of money. Xu Wei conservatively estimated that these Hu merchants made a small profit from him. Because of this, Xu Wei didn't even know that he had a very high reputation among the Hu people. Everyone thought
He was forthright and generous, and made the Hu brothers his friends. He was a rare hero among the Han people.
This is already worth 100 million, what is this if not a friend?
But even if these Hu merchants make a small profit, they are not happy, because wool is everywhere on the grassland, falling out twice a year, and people either use it to weave it into ropes or make wool felt. Of course, because the Hu merchants
Without the degreasing process, the smell can be imagined. Basically no Han people will sell the wool products of the Hu people. They are only used by the herders themselves. Wool is so abundant on the grasslands that everyone is self-sufficient. Wool is the same as the straw of the Han people, although it cannot
It is said to be completely useless, but the value is not too high.
But Xu Wei's high price of 3 yuan per catty made them extremely excited. A sheep has about 3-4 wool, which means that the wool alone can be sold for 10 yuan, which is enough to buy 30 briquettes and half an iron briquette.
A pot and a fifth of a dagger. Hu can make several times or even ten times the profit in one round trip to Mayi.
But last year, due to time constraints, they didn't even purchase one-tenth of the wool on the grassland, which meant that they lost at least 1 billion. Every time they think of such a large amount of money slipping away from their hands, these nonsense
The merchant seemed to see countless iron pots, wheelbarrows, and woolen coats flying away from his eyes. How could these Hu merchants not feel distressed!
And this time they were even more prepared. They contacted all the tribes in the grassland in advance. They dared not say that all the wool on the grassland was sold to Mayi, but they dared to say that all the wool of the tribes with more than a hundred people was in their hands.
So starting from April, there was an endless stream of four-wheeled carriages transporting wool every day, and every carriage was filled with wool!
One day at most, 100,000 kilograms of wool entered the warehouse! The money was not much, only 300,000 yuan, but the wool directly overwhelmed the warehouse in Mayi.
So Old Man Wang went to Xu Weidao and said: "Qu Shuai, we can no longer buy wool. We no longer have warehouses to store wool in Mayi!"
Xu Wei asked curiously: "How much wool did we collect?"
Old Man Wang said helplessly: "5 million kilograms, the price is not expensive at only 15 million yuan! But the textile factory can no longer handle it."
For Mr. Wang, this is not really a big sum of money. The output value of the factories in Mayi basically exceeds 15 million yuan, and the output value of behemoths like steel plants exceeds 1 billion yuan.
He continued: "Wool takes up too much space. Our five largest warehouses have been occupied by these wools, and these barbarians are still sending wool over in an endless stream. It seems that there are more than tens of millions of kilograms of wool.
But we in Mayi can no longer store so much wool! And the textile factory can’t handle it anymore. The manager Xu Juan told me that it would take more than a year to spin all the wool at the processing speed of the textile factory.
Buying wool any more is just a waste of money!”
Xu Wei was dumbfounded when he heard this. Sure enough, it was different if he chose the right place with specialties. Xu Wei remembered that a certain little bumpkin, even though he cheated, killed, looted, and even got the title of Ghost King, he didn't get much wool.
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But I only paid three yuan per catty, and the barbarians took the initiative to deliver it to my door. Now there are millions of catties of wool, and the wool warehouse is about to burst. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of woolen cloths can be spun from this amount of wool.
Bar!
"Hundreds of thousands of pieces of woolen cloth!" After some calculations, Xu Wei found that the textile factory's annual output was disappointing. Not to mention tens of millions of pieces of woolen cloth, but producing 1 million pieces of woolen cloth in a year is not much.
At 500 yuan per piece, the output value is only 500 million, not even one-sixth of that of a steel plant, but the reality is that it cannot even process 100,000 pieces of woolen cloth.
"The efficiency of the textile factory is also too low. There are 60,000-70,000 women in Mayi. They can produce 60,000-70,000 pieces of cloth every day. I would consume 10 kilograms of cloth per day, which is more.
It should also consume 600,000 to 700,000 jins, and 5 million jins of wool will arrive there!
Old Man Wang smiled bitterly and said: "My Qu Shuai, you are thinking too well. We have thousands of textile looms in Mayi, but there are not so many textile looms for everyone to use. Moreover, even the most experienced weaver can't
It is impossible to weave a piece of cloth in one day, it will take at least three days."
Xu Weidao: "There are too few looms. Let the carpentry factory step up their production. Every woman in Mayi must have a loom. Men farm and women weave. Men farm and women weave. Now we have basically men farming."
Even if we can do it, Nuzhi will have to follow suit!"
Old Man Wang smiled bitterly and said: "Making textile machines also takes time, not to mention that the carpenters themselves have things to do. They can't all make textile machines, right?"
Starting from winter, people in Mayi get married every day. Sometimes there are hundreds of people getting married. In less than half a year, more than 5,000 people get married in Mayi. And these newly established families naturally need a lot of furniture. Mayi’s
Men enjoyed the privilege of having 36 legs 1,800 years in advance, and even took on a large loan to allow them to have a cozy nest.
Because of the heavy furniture task, the workers in the carpentry factory are working overtime every day, but their orders have not decreased at all. It can be said that reports that they want to recruit apprentices are received in front of Xu Wei every day.
The only way Xu Wei could think of was to tell them about the assembly line method and let each of them process one part. As long as strict standards are set, the speed of building a piece of furniture can be increased by more than ten times.
As a blessing in disguise, the carpentry factory has become the most standardized factory in Mayi. The furniture made by the carpentry factory can be interchanged with furniture parts of the same specifications without affecting its use.