Datang: My apprentice is Li Chengqian

Chapter 105 Ma Zhou is Back

Qin Xiedao is not a saint after all.

Under the gentle offensive of the young lady, she quickly rewrote the two poems and sent them to Yang Yan.

Originally, he wanted to continue communicating with Yang Yan, but Yinger appeared again to inquire.

"Lang Jun, Manager Ma is back!"

"Huh? Ma Zhou is back? Where is he?"

Hearing the news, Qin Xiedao immediately shifted his attention from his little sister to Ma Zhou.

Such an obvious change in attitude can be seen by individuals.

Qin Xiedao didn't care about Yang Yan's resentful eyes, and prepared to have a good chat with Ma Zhou on his own.

"I told him, Mr. Lang, that you are receiving guests, so he went to the side room and waited."

Yinger glanced at Yang Yan and Qingxia indiscriminately.

The appearance of these two people gave Yinger a sense of crisis.

"Go, let's go there now!"

After Qin Xiedao said this, he got up and prepared to leave the lobby, but he thought that Yang Yan's master and servant were still there, so he quickly added: "I'm really sorry, there are other important things to deal with today, if there is anything in the future, You can come to me again anytime."

After finishing speaking, Qin Xiedao hurriedly left regardless of Yang Yan's reaction.

Yang Yan and Qingxia were left looking at each other.

"Big lady, isn't this Qin Dalang going too far? Just leave us behind like this, and run to see some steward. Is there anything so important?"

"Maybe there is something really important."

Yang Yan also felt a little embarrassed.

This treatment is a bit bad.

"It's not interesting, and I don't know how to write such a poem."

Qingxia curled her lips, feeling very helpless.

This is the situation, the two of them were fortunately led by the maid next to them, and left Duke Yi's mansion first.

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"Your Majesty, luckily you don't disgrace your life!"

Not long after Ma Zhou sat down, Qin Xiedao came over.

Although he rushed back in a hurry, Ma Zhou was full of energy, not at all as lazy as before.

Sure enough, men still need career support.

"Okay! Although not all the workshops outside the city have been built, the workshops of the first phase are ready to be used at any time.

Some time ago, I met a Taoist priest who has done a lot of research on the reactions between various substances, and now he has improved the medicine for cleaning wool.

The next time we transport wool from Liangzhou, we can further reduce the cost of cleaning wool. "

In this era, wool cannot be used on a large scale, and the most critical problem is the cleaning of wool.

Therefore, except for some herdsmen on the grasslands who use very primitive methods to clean the wool and use it to make some felt, other wool is basically equivalent to waste.

This time Ma Zhou brought so many people to Liangzhou, and the shears for shearing sheep alone transported two carriages. Naturally, he bought a large amount of wool at a low price.

"That would be great! This time I also recruited a group of Xue Yantuo people to help us in Liangzhou. As long as each of them is provided with a pair of scissors, they will drive the horse team to various tribes to buy wool.

Although they made some money from it, it greatly improved our efficiency in purchasing wool.

I'm also afraid that I've bought too much wool, and I won't be able to use it after I get it back, which will dampen the enthusiasm of these people in the future. "

Ma Zhou is obviously very methodical in doing things.

Qin Xiedao just arranged for him to go to Liangzhou to buy wool from the herdsmen on the grassland, and then set up a simple workshop in Liangzhou to clean the wool.

How to do things, Qin Xiedao did not interfere too much.

Ma Zhou only needs to complete the task. As for how to complete the task, Qin Xiedao doesn't care.

Qin Xiedao, the dignified future prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, didn't believe that Ma Zhou couldn't handle such a trivial matter.

Judging from the current situation, Ma Zhou did not disappoint himself.

"The more wool the better, you only need to worry about not having enough wool, and you don't need to worry that we won't be able to deal with it after buying too much wool."

Although Tang Dynasty was not very rich at this time, the cost of wool was very low, and after it was made into woolen thread, the cost was not much higher.

As long as the price is favorable enough and the woolen sweater is warm enough, the demand for woolen thread will definitely be astronomical.

Even if Ma Zhou bought all the wool from the grassland, Qin Xiedao was not worried that he would not be able to digest it.

"Lang Jun, with your words, I feel relieved. How about we go to the workshop to have a look now? Make the first batch of woolen threads as soon as possible?"

No matter how much wool is recovered, if it is not further processed, its usefulness is very limited.

"Good! It just so happens that we can further recruit a group of people from the refugees to alleviate the problem of refugees outside the city."

Ever since he created the Datang honeycomb coal workshop, Li Shimin has blamed Qin Xiedao for the problem of dealing with the refugees.

Although Datang Honeycomb Coal Workshop has solved a large number of refugees' problems, there are still new refugees appearing outside the city every day, and continuous efforts are still needed to completely solve them.

Now that Ma Zhou has returned with a large amount of wool, the workshop of Duke Yi's mansion outside the city can officially start work.

Regardless of the era, the textile industry is a labor-intensive industry.

In later generations, a large cotton spinning factory has tens of thousands of employees at every turn.

The workshop Qin Xiedao created was naturally not that large.

But digesting and absorbing thousands of people is not a problem at all.

After more wool is continuously transported, it is not difficult to finally build the workshop into a large workshop with thousands of people.

In this way, the refugee problem can basically be solved.

After all, thousands of people means thousands of families.

It means that more than 1 people have the hope of surviving.

Once people have hope, they will not do anything desperate.

These refugees will come to Chang'an City to seek a living instead of directly rebelling locally, which shows that they still have expectations for the future.

"Should our helpers be recruited from the refugees?"

When he entered the city, Ma Zhou had already noticed the refugee problem.

In fact, in the entire Chang'an city, there is no one who is unaware of the problem of refugees outside the city.

There is a comparison to find the gap.

The appearance of refugees outside the city made the people in the city cherish their current life even more.

"That's right! Datang Honeycomb Coal Workshop mainly recruits men, and our wool thread workshop can properly recruit a group of women.

In normal times, it is very difficult to get women to work in workshops.

But for the refugees who have problems eating, as long as they have work to do, they can talk about any work. "

Qin Xiedao obviously still thinks that women are most suitable for woolen thread workshops.

After all, this belongs to the textile industry, and I have never heard of any country whose textile industry is dominated by men.

(End of this chapter)