I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 97, The Wool Problem

As soon as this appointment came out, the generals of the entire Yellow Turban Department were shocked. This was the first among them to become a senior member of the Tengjia Army.

In the Tengjia Army, the colonel is already the highest-ranking general, 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 bandits like Xu Wei, if they don't even use the Yellow Turbans of allies, then really don't want to He wanted someone to join him, so it was inevitable to appoint the Yellow Turban Department. 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.Just after the end of spring plowing, it is time to shear wool, so the busy spring plowing has just ended, and a large number of Hu merchants came to Mayi again with a large amount of wool.
Last year, the wool business made these Hu merchants 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 know that he had a very high reputation among Hu people. Everyone thought that He is bold and generous, and he regards them as friends among Hu brothers, and he is a rare hero among Han people.

It's all [-] million, what is this not a friend?
But even if these Hu merchants make a small profit, they are not happy, because wool can be said to be everywhere on the grassland, and it falls twice a year. Everyone either uses it to weave rope or make wool felt. Without the degreasing process, the taste can be imagined. Basically, no Han people will sell the wool products of the Hu people, but the herdsmen use them for themselves, and the wool is too overflowing on the grassland. Everyone is self-sufficient. The wool is the same as the straw of the big Han, although it cannot Saying it's completely useless, but it's not worth too much.

But Xu Wei bought them at a high price of 3 yuan a catty, which made them very 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, half an iron A pot, a fifth of a dagger.Hushang to Mayi can earn several times or even ten times the profit in one round trip.

But last year, due to time constraints, they didn't even buy one-tenth of the wool on the grassland, which means they lost at least 10 billion yuan. Shang seemed to see countless iron pots, Lele carts, wheelbarrows and woolen sweaters flying away from his eyes. How could these Hu Shang not feel distressed!
And this time they were even more prepared. They contacted the entire grassland tribe in advance. They dare not say that all the wool on the grassland is sold to Mayi, but they dare say that the wool of the tribe with more than [-] people is in their hands.

So from April, there was an endless stream of four-wheeled carriages transporting wool every day, and each carriage was filled with wool!
In one day at most, 10 catties of wool even entered the warehouse!The money was not much, no more than 30 yuan, but the wool directly crowded Mayi's warehouse.

So the old man Wang came to Xu Wei and said, "Shuai Qu, we can no longer buy wool, we don't have any warehouses for wool in Mayi anymore!"

Xu Wei asked curiously, "How much wool did we collect?"

The old man Wang said helplessly: "500 million catties, the price is so expensive that it's only 1500 million yuan! But the textile factory can't handle it anymore."

To old man Wang, this is really not a lot of money. Basically, the output value of the factories in Mayi exceeds 1500 million yuan, and the output value of such a giant as a steel factory exceeds 10 billion yuan.

He continued: "Wool takes up too much space, our five largest warehouses have already 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 catties of wool.

But our Mayi can't fit so much wool anymore!Moreover, the textile factory can't handle it. The manager Xu Juan told me that it would take more than a year to weave all the wool at the processing speed of the textile factory. Buying wool is just a waste of money! "

Xu Wei was dumbfounded when he heard that, as expected, choosing the right specialty products is different. Xu Wei remembered a certain little soil turtle, even though he was cheated, kidnapped, burned, killed and looted, and even got the title of ghost king, he didn't get much wool. ,
And I only paid three cents a catty, and the barbarian offered to deliver it to my door. Now there are millions of catties of wool, and the wool is going to explode. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of wool cloth can be spun out of this amount of wool. Bar!
"Hundreds of thousands of woolen cloth!" Xu Wei made some calculations, and found that the annual output of the textile factory was only so disappointing. Let alone tens of millions of woolen cloths, it is not much to produce a million woolen cloths a year.

A piece of 500 cash is only 5 million yuan in output value, not even one-sixth of the steel factory, but the reality is that it can't even handle 10 woolen cloth.

"The efficiency of the textile factory is also too low. There are 6 to 7 women in Mayi. They should produce 6 to 7 to 10 pieces of cloth every day. A piece of cloth consumes 60 catties a day. It should also consume 70 to 500 catties, and only [-] million catties of wool will get there!

Old man Wang said with a wry smile: "My handsome Qu, you think too well. We have thousands of looms in Mayi, and we don't have so many looms for everyone to use, and even the most experienced weaver can't do it." It is impossible to weave a piece of cloth in a day, at least it will take more than three days."

Xu Wei said: "There are too few looms. Let the carpenter factory step up manufacturing. We want every woman in Mayi to have a loom. Men plow and women weave, and men plow and women weave. Now we have basically It can be considered that it has been done, and Nu Zhi has to follow!"

Old man Wang said with a wry smile: "It takes time to manufacture textile machines, not to mention that carpenters have their own work to do, so it's impossible for all of them to make textile machines?"

Beginning in winter, people in Mayi get married every day. Sometimes there are hundreds of people getting married. In less than half a year, there are more than 5000 people getting married in Mayi. These newly established families naturally need a lot of furniture. Men enjoy the treatment of 1800 legs 36 years in advance, and even take a large loan to allow them to have a warm nest.

It is because of the heavy furniture tasks that the workers in the carpentry factory are working overtime every day, but their orders have not decreased at all. It can be said that they have to report to Xu Wei every day that they want to recruit apprentices.

The way Xu Wei can think of is to tell them the method of the assembly line and let them each process a 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 carpenter factory has become the most standardized factory in Mayi. The furniture manufactured by the carpenter factory can be replaced with furniture parts of the same specification without affecting the use.

(End of this chapter)