Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "Wool cannot be wasted like this. These Hu merchants have finally transported the wool. If we don't collect it, it will dampen their enthusiasm. Even if we want to drown them in the future, we may not have the motivation. Think about it.
We can free up a few warehouses and continue to purchase the wool from Hu merchants. Even if we mobilize the women in Mayi to make sweaters, we can't give up the wool. At worst, we will spin it into yarn and store it in advance. And it's not that we don't have enough looms. We will continue
When I call on everyone to wear sweaters, think of it as a way to store sweaters for this winter in advance.”
Old Man Wang was right. If he prepares woolen clothes now, he can earn hundreds of dollars in winter. The wool in the hands of the Hu people is only worth a few hundred million at most, but if they just transfer it to their hands, the money will still be returned.
Of Mayi.
Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "I will go to the textile factory to find a way to see if I can improve their spinning speed!"
Xu Wei came to the textile factory and was soon discovered by Xu Juan, the manager of the textile factory. She was surprised and said: "Qu Shuai, why did you think of coming to our textile factory!"
Xu Weidao: "Uncle Wang said that the textile factory can no longer process the wool coming to Mayi, so I came over to see if there is anything that can be improved here. After all, will Mayi eat chaff and drink dilute in the next year, or will it be better?"
Whether you drink wine or eat meat depends on the ability of your textile factory."
Xu Juan complained: "Qu Shuai, you should have come a long time ago. I have been urging the wood factory to make more looms, but they are always slow and not smooth at all! If they make more looms,
If some looms come over, we won't have to pile up wool in the warehouse!"
In the past, the slow spinning speed slowed down the weaving speed, but since the advent of the hydraulic textile machine, the spinning speed has increased hundreds of times. Spinning is no longer a drag, but the weaving speed is even less than that of spinning.
Speed, and it is very simple to increase the speed of weaving, just make more looms.
Xu Wei smiled and said: "Take me to see the weaving place. Maybe I can improve the loom, so you don't have to worry about the shortage of looms."
A factory building like a giant palace soon appeared in front of Xu Wei. It covered an area of several hundred square meters. It was built by Xu Wei in a modern style, using cement columns as load-bearing beams. Although it looked vast, it was difficult to build.
But it is not difficult. On the contrary, it saves bricks and reduces costs. Xu Wei made the factory so huge just for large-scale industrial production.
Xu Juan first took Xu Wei to the wool washing workshop. A huge smell of sheep rushed straight into Xu Wei, leaving him breathless for a long time.
Xu Juan smiled and said: "After hearing it for a long time, I no longer feel it."
It took Xu Wei a long time to adapt and said: "I should get you some masks. A mask is a piece of cloth covering your mouth and nose and hanging on your ears with a rope! This protects the body. If wool is sucked into the body, it will make people sick. Even if you can't see it for a short time,
Come out, but your body will collapse in a few years!"
Xu Wei didn't know whether inhaling wool into the lungs would cause lung disease, but it was always good to be prepared.
Xu Juan was surprised and said: "Wool can still cause diseases?"
Xu Weidao: "Wearing a mask is to prevent this disease!"
Xu Juan immediately said: "I will make sure all workers wear masks!"
The most indispensable thing in their textile factory is cloth, and the production of this mask is also very simple.
The workers here are all men. When they saw Xu Wei, they also said with surprise: "Qu Shuai!"
Xu Wei smiled and said: "Hello everyone! Woolen cloth will be our flagship product from now on. Everyone must work hard. Whether we can make money depends on you!"
The workers laughed and said: "Don't worry, Commander Qu, we will not embarrass the Tengjia Army!"
Then everyone worked separately. They threw the bags of wool into the washing pool, and then washed the wool to remove the grease in the wool. Then they took the wool out, dried it, and brushed the wool into hair with an iron brush. Just as smooth! Everyone works very hard.
Xu Juan said: "Although strip-washed wool can increase production, because we can't spin it, we can only control the quantity of strip-washed wool."
Xu Wei just looked at it and saw that there was nothing that could be improved on the strip washing steps.
Then Xu Juan took Xu Wei to the water conservancy spinning machine. The spinning factory is the longest factory in Mayi, more than a mile long. Six giant-like waterwheels are driven by the water of the Sanggan River. The rotation of the waterwheels drives the entire factory. The spinning wheel and the whole factory are filled with the sound of running water and the sound of spinning spindles.
Xu Juan looked at this scene with excitement. Even though he had watched it countless times, every time she watched it again, she was already excited. The speed of spinning was so fast that it was like dreaming.
"There are 1,200 spindles here, which can not only satisfy thousands of looms, but also have a lot of surplus. I calculated that three thousand looms would be needed to keep up with the spinning speed. It is too wasteful now. Two-thirds of the spindles are making simple woolen yarn, but now that the weather is hot, it will take half a year for sweaters to be sold."
For Xu Juan, this would require a large backlog of funds. It would be difficult to see profits, which would be very detrimental to the new textile factories. In Mayi, where all industries are prosperous, there are basically no factories that lose money. She doesn't want to be the first!
Xu Wei understood his thoughts and smiled: "In this way, I will ask Mr. Wang to give you the wool you spun at the market price, so you don't have to worry about losing money. If you stock up on some wool now, you won't have to worry about not having enough wool for winter. "
In the north, the difference is just this. The rivers freeze for 3-4 months a year and the water-powered spinning machines cannot be used. Winter is the best time for sweaters, so it is better to prepare in advance now.
In fact, in northern Xinjiang, basically no one goes out in winter. There is something like knitting that you can do, which not only provides you with an income, but is not too boring, which is a good thing for ordinary people.
Xu Juan said with great joy: "Thank you so much for being so handsome!"
The price of woolen yarn is naturally not as good as that of sweaters and woolen cloth, but it is not impossible to deal with it now. Even if the profit is low, it is still better than the backlog of goods.
Soon the two came to the textile factory, the largest factory building and the core department of the textile factory. There were thousands of spinning wheels and weaving machines buzzing at the same time.
Thousands of Han and Hu women sat in front of the looms and kept weaving. They could weave a large amount of cloth in a short time. These women were so focused that they didn't care about what Xu Wei and the others were saying.
This surprised Xu Wei. It was not that Xu Wei was being pretentious, but that his reputation in Mayi was very high. It was indeed very rare to ignore Xu Wei like this!