Ms. Sun, who was standing at the back, saw her grand-in-law being laughed at and ridiculed. She took a few steps back, turned around and walked back with the basket on her back.
When others saw this, they asked her: "Why did Sister-in-law Chen go back? My golden ears are no longer for sale?"
"Yeah." Sun hesitated and walked faster.
Her golden ears were also moldy, so they had to be baked again. The color turned gray and stained with mold, and even the fragrance was gone.
I wanted to use it to get away with it, but it turned out that the Han family had made such a fuss, and I guess I couldn't sell my own one. In this case, I had to not be embarrassed and conspicuous here.
There were so many golden ears, and it cost a lot of money to buy the bacteria. So I lost more than ten taels of silver every time I went back and forth.
A dozen taels is not a small amount.
Mrs. Sun was heartbroken.
I beg you not, please let your husband take some time to take it to the county drugstore to sell it. If someone doesn’t know the product and takes it away, I can also recover some losses.
Outside the Jiang family compound.
After a while of persuasion from everyone, and old man Jiang interceding, Zhou Mao was finally allowed to relent and start collecting the goods again.
The villagers who were waiting to sell their goods quickly carefully selected their own golden fungus and snow fungus to prevent any of them from being of poor quality and annoying Manager Zhou.
Yingbao ignored the situation outside and used a ruler to measure the loom together with her mother-in-law. They quickly drew the components of each part and marked the dimensions.
She wanted to ask different carpenters to build those components according to the size, and then assemble them one by one, and then sell the looms. Even if one machine sells for fifty taels, she only needs to sell five to make back the money.
You might be able to sell more and make more money in the future.
That kind of loom can shuttle automatically. The Weaver Girl needs one leg to pull the rope and one leg to pull the board. In addition, she can use two pedals to weave cloth quickly, which is several times faster than the original shuttle with legs.
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As long as you are skilled in the operation, you can weave a three-foot-wide piece of cotton in one day.
The weaving speed is simply as fast as the locals.
Based on that alone, I have more than 200 taels of silver but no red flowers.
The next day, Yingbao and Aniang took the drawings to carpenters' shops in several other villages and towns, and gave them the drawings and dimensions of one or two parts respectively, asking them to make twenty sets as soon as possible.
After that, he gave the drawings of several other simple parts to Wang Ke, a carpenter in the village, and asked him to make twenty sets.
As for the iron construction of the loom and the springs of the shuttle, they were left to the county blacksmith shop.
Ten days later, Chun Niang and her two sisters-in-law were able to operate the new loom skillfully, and the cotton cloth weaved was wide and soft.
The carpenters and blacksmiths had finished making the parts. Old Man Jiang borrowed a mule cart and went to pull the things back in person.
Then assemble the loom.
Chun Niang installed one for her eldest sister-in-law's house, and another one for her second sister-in-law's house.
The remaining eighteen sets are placed in my house. If someone comes to buy them, I will say fifty taels of silver each.
That price is quite high, ten times higher than the price of local looms.
But so what, things are rare and expensive, so don’t buy them if you don’t want them.
Bu Nao, Yingbao asked Aniang not to sell it for the time being, and he would sell it all at once when his father came back.
Because you can ask someone to make it yourself, and so can they, so it can't be a one-time deal.
If you sell one and it turns out that someone else is copying it like crazy, then you will be taken advantage of and spend money to make wedding clothes for them, and you may be scolded as a bad person in the future.
So, please sell eighteen units at a time, and don’t sell one unit at a time.
Chun Niang listens to her daughters and asks them to wait until Zhai Lufu comes back.
If everyone is unwilling to buy it because it is too expensive, the worst they can do is hire a few weavers to come back and weave cotton specifically.
We have a lot of cotton saved at home. If we spin it all into cotton thread and weave it into cotton cloth, we can make a lot of money.
Not long after, the news that the Jiang family bought a new loom quickly spread in the village.
Many people came to watch, and they were shocked to see Chun Niang weaving quickly.
Especially the thread shuttle that can run around automatically is surprising and puzzling.
When I asked about the price, the price for that loom was over one hundred taels, which was simply astonishing.
Well, when everyone knows whether that thing was purchased from Wuyue, which is thousands of miles away, it seems to be reasonable.
Many people were so itchy that they secretly went out to inquire where they could buy the same loom, but to no avail.
Soon after the twelfth lunar month, Jiang Sanlang and others came back from their work and found that their house was filled with hundreds of pieces of clean red cotton cloth.
There are two looms in the side room and the main room in the house. There are six looms in Yeyi, and there is a weaver weaving in each machine.
There were several other people spinning yarn on the east side of the eaves, including wives from the same village as well as from other villages.
"What's going on?" Jiang Sanlang asked his wife.
Chun Niang smiled and said: "He invited a few weavers to help our family spin yarn and weave cloth. We have almost finished weaving the cotton at home. Let me see how good the cotton cloth is and make some clothes for me later."
"He asked about that." Jiang Sanlang pointed to the loom at home and asked, "Where did those come from?"
"Just ask someone to hit you."
Chun Niang glared at her husband angrily and went to the kitchen to boil water for him to wash up. "Zhou Mao brought two looms to our family. My daughter wanted to get her money back, so she went to ask someone to make 20 parts for them and took them back for herself.
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Jiang Sanlang followed his wife into the kitchen: "Twenty sets? Where are the rest?"
He saw that there were six units in Bu Nao at home. Could it be that all the others were sold?
Chun Niang poured water into the pot: "The rest are just sitting there. Bao'er said he would sell them when I come back."
Jiang Sanlang walked behind the stove and helped light the stove. From time to time, he poked his head in and asked, "How much did Zhou Mao give us?"
"Two sets of two hundred and thirty taels." Chun Niang put the lid on the pot and said, "So my daughter wants to earn back the money."
Jiang Sanlang nodded and added grass to the stove, "Bao'er is wrong. I'll go back and ask who wants to ask for it. Just fifty taels and one."
Chun Niang chuckled, "My father and daughter really want to go together. I don't need to ask, he has already registered."
"There are ten households in our village who want to buy it, three households in the West Village, and people from other villages have come to make reservations. He has already calculated it. Twenty-eight households in Yeyi have asked to buy that kind of loom, and they have already given deposits.
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"Twenty-eight households?" Jiang Sanlang was simply shocked: "Then, how much can we earn?"
Chun Niang smiled mysteriously and said nothing.
We customize machine components in several places. If assembled, the cost of a loom is only about ten taels of silver.
Assuming that the price set by my daughter is 50 taels per unit, then I can earn more than 1,100 taels at a time.
It was more than a thousand taels, an amount she had never dared to imagine in her life.
With so much money, even if I can no longer earn any money in the future, I will still be a wealthy family.
But that matter must be decided by the husband. Men have their own considerations, and you and your daughter don’t dare to make that decision carelessly.
"Since twenty-eight households have ordered looms, those at home must be poor. What are we going to do..."
Before Jiang Sanlang could finish speaking, Chun Niang said, "He and Bao'er have ordered thirty more parts and will pick them up in a few months."
The parts for the loom that were ordered that time were all provided with the deposit they gave her, so Chun Niang didn't worry at all that no one would ask for the items when they came back.
After earning enough money, the family would build a textile hall in the village and hire several weavers to specialize in weaving cotton.
Anyway, the whole township has begun to plant cotton, and there will be more and more cotton in the future.
When the cotton could not be sold at a high price, she would spin it into cloth and sell it.
