I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 68, Wool Textile Industry
"You have to take care of the money and food. Now we spend more than 2 million yuan every month, so extravagant, our remaining money is not enough for half a year's expenses. Let's find a way to reduce some expenses!"

Although Xu Wei can make money, he spends money like water, and Old Man Wang is terrified when he sees it.

Emperor Ling would be envious if he heard Xu Wei's way of spending. Now the finances of the big man are only two or three billion yuan a year. There are hundreds of millions of people in the huge court, how can this little money be enough to spend!
He had to buy and sell officials to take over and maintain the operation of the court, otherwise the more than 10 troops in Xiliang would not be able to maintain it.

Xu Wei now has a group of 20 yuan, and the money spent is almost the same as that of the Han court.Emperor Ling knows how not to be envious or jealous!

Xu Wei smiled confidently when he heard this: "The most powerful thing I have is making money. Since you always feel that you don't have enough money, I will find a way to earn 2 million yuan a month! Old man, go prepare for the autumn harvest and autumn planting. Leave it to me to make money!"

As a time traveler, it is too easy to make money in such a feudal era.

Make glass?
Mirror?

Or soap?

These are the industries that the early traversers must use to make a fortune, but when Xu Wei thought about the barren mountains and wild mountains in Mayi, it was not in a metropolis like Luoyang City. Without a complicated city, it is impossible to support these industries.

Finally Xu Wei thought of wool spinning!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 is the textile industry, and cloth is used directly as money. Xu Wei remembers that it seemed that it was not until the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, when the textile industry developed greatly, that cloth withdrew from the financial industry.Thinking of this, Xu Wei even slapped his forehead, so the money-printing industry himself actually forgot!

Just do it!

He sent for several sacks of wool.Then use lime water to degrease. After degreasing, the wool obtained is not as white as imagined, but it can also be used. I will think about the problem of decolorization in the future!
Then find a few women and ask them to comb the wool, spin it, and thread it, which is similar to making silk thread and hemp thread.

Soon Xu Wei got more than ten catties of wool. Now Xu Wei has two choices. One is to use the wool to make sweaters, and the other is to use the textile machine to make woolen cloth. The latter one is bigger and needs to be improved. textile machine.

Xu Wei thought for a while and decided to start with the easy and then the difficult!
Let’s make a sweater first, and Xu Wei learned from his mother when he was a child. Xu Wei was a little surprised that he even remembered a wooden stick. Of course, he can only make the simplest kind of towel. There is no need to think about the style of play and suit.

So I taught these women how to knit sweaters, and they quickly learned how to knit sweaters, wool pants, wool socks, and even gloves without a teacher. After a few days, their technical 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 wool trousers: "There are so many holes, can they really prevent wind?"

Xu Wei smiled and said, "Old man, you'll know if you try it on!"

Old man Wang quickly put it on and said, "It's very tight, and it's quite warm to wear!"

But now it is October after all, and the temperature is still over 10 degrees. Soon the old man was sweating from the heat, but he didn't care at all. Instead, he stroked the sweater on his body and said with a smile: "With this sweater, This winter is going to be much better! Especially in the past two years, the weather has become more and more cold, and many people can't bear it anymore, this sweater is really timely!"

Xu Wei smiled and said, "What do you think is the right price for this sweater!"

Old man Wang said with a smile: "The fur furs cost tens of thousands of dollars. Our sweaters are not inferior to fur furs in terms of warmth, but we have to be conscientious. They are cheaper than fur furs, but at least thousands of dollars are suitable. If the Huns don’t trade more than three sheep, the old man won’t do it either!”

Xu Wei was ashamed of the price. Although the price of sheep in Mayi was low, it cost about 300 yuan, worth 3 shi of grain. A sweater like this cost 9 shi of grain for the Huns.

The cost of the sweater is equivalent to the wool of these three sheep, which is equivalent to Mayi directly earning the meat of the three sheep from the Huns. Even though he has not experienced the industrialization era, Old Man Wang still skillfully uses the industrial and agricultural scissors to make money for himself. Seek profit!

Old man Wang continued to laugh and said, "With this sweater, wool is a good thing."

Then he looked at the vast grassland in the distance. Could it be that there is still a shortage of wool in the grassland? It's all money!

Thinking of this, old man Wang smiled brightly!

Seeing that Xu Wei is much more satisfied, although this leader spends money like water, he makes money like water!

Mayi's caravan quickly followed the old man Wang's request and began to buy a large amount of wool on the grassland, and the herdsmen on the grassland finally had a special product, and they used wool that was like waste on the grassland, so they didn't need to take it anymore. My rations were exchanged for industrial products with Mayi.

With the paid special products, herdsmen’s demand for Mayi’s industrial products skyrocketed. Iron knives, iron pans, three-eyed stoves, abrasive tools for making briquettes, and even Lele vehicles produced by Mayi began to It appeared in the hands of herdsmen around Mayi.

And in Mayi, a textile factory quickly appeared beside the Sanggan River!Most of the women in Mayi are housed here. Every day, a large amount of wool is greased in the huge limestone pool, and then the wool is combed and spun into wool yarn with a manual hand spinning machine.

But the efficiency of this step is too low. Tens of thousands of people are required to spin the degreased wool into wool yarn with manual spinning machines every day. Obviously, there are not so many people in Mayi City, and there are not so many spinning machines. So the efficiency of spinning is stuck in the output of woolen yarn.

However, old man Wang did not expect this situation, and piled up a large amount of wool. Now the wool in Mayi warehouse is piled up like a hill. The anxious old man went to Xu Wei directly to find a solution!

Xu Wei took a look and found a solution. Although he had never spun yarn before, he had heard the story of the Jenny loom. It seemed that it changed from horizontal spinning to vertical spinning, and Xu Wei saw it in the news. The picture is also dozens of spindles spinning at the same time.

After seeing the manual spinning machines of this era, Xu Wei found a few skilled carpenters to beat them, and soon a new type of spinning machine appeared.

According to Xu Wei's instructions, the new spinning machine turned the horizontal spinning into a vertical one, and then arranged 10 spindles side by side, a total of three rows, and Xu Wei also used hydraulic drive, and the spinning industry suddenly entered the era of industrialization.

(End of this chapter)