Transmigrating into a Turbulent Era as a Soldier, Starting with Marrying a Wife

Li Yuan first divided these orphaned girls into three groups.

Five people were responsible for processing the hemp, which involved cutting the ramie into pieces and soaking it in water.

This was to soften the ramie fibers and extract the hemp fiber.

Then, these hemp fibers were cooked in a large pot to make them even softer.

Afterward, the processed hemp fibers were sent to the spinning wheel group.

The spinning wheel group had seven female workers who used spinning wheels to spin the hemp fiber into hemp thread.

The spinning wheel designed by Li Yuan was a more efficient multi-wheel spinning wheel.

Common spinning wheels in the Great Liang Dynasty usually had only one spinning wheel, while the spinning wheel designed by Li Yuan could use three spinning wheels simultaneously.

The efficiency of spinning thread was also three times that of ordinary spinning wheels in the Great Liang Dynasty.

In a few more days, when these female workers become more skilled in operating them, the weaving efficiency will be four times that of ordinary weaving machines.

A bolt of hemp cloth in the Great Liang Dynasty was 1.4 meters wide and four zhang long, which is about 13 meters.

Now, ordinary rural women in the Great Liang Dynasty would take about seven or eight days to spin a bolt of hemp cloth alone with all their strength.

In Li Yuan's hemp spinning workshop, using a twelve-hour, three-shift work system.

The efficiency of the improved spinning machine was extremely high, and the time required to spin a bolt of hemp cloth was shortened to an astonishing one and a half days.

And for each female worker, Li Yuan paid her only 10 wen of work money per day and two meals with full bellies.

Li Yuan made a simple estimate that the current market price of hemp cloth was 600 coins.

And the purchase price of cloth shops was around 500 coins.

In Li Yuan's workshop, including ramie and labor, the cost of each bolt of hemp cloth was only a mere 80 ~ 120 coins.

Even including the daily food supply for the orphaned girls, it was less than 150 coins.

That is to say, Li Yuan could earn at least 350 coins of profit for each bolt of hemp cloth.

Looking at the women working hard in the workshop.

Li Yuan even felt a little unbearable and guilty.

He had also thought about raising the wages for everyone, but the female workers refused.

They all said.

"The workshop has just opened, and everything needs money. Li Lang must not be extravagant."

"We are already very grateful to be able to eat our fill in this workshop."

In fact, Li Yuan also understood the thoughts of these orphaned girls.

They were more afraid than anyone else that this workshop would close down.

Once the workshop was gone, they would have to go back to the days of having no food or clothing.

So they would rather take less wages themselves, so that Li Lang's workshop would not collapse.

This made Li Yuan very moved.

Since wages cannot be raised, then increase the food a little bit.

At noon today, the female workers on rest came to the dining hall in the courtyard.

The so-called dining hall was actually a large temporary shed with some crude wooden tables and benches inside.

As soon as the female workers sat down neatly, the woman in charge of cooking placed wooden buckets filled with millet rice on the wooden tables.

Then, two large basins of dishes were brought up, one basin was pickled vegetables.

The pickled vegetables had enough salt added, which could supplement the salt for these female workers who were doing heavy physical labor.

The other basin was boiled soybeans mixed with wild vegetables.

They usually couldn't eat this dish at home, and the female workers were all overjoyed.

At this moment, another pot of dishes was brought up. Everyone had never seen the appearance of this dish before. The white cubes were filled in a large pot.

The female workers looked at each other, all feeling a little strange.

What is this food? Everyone has never seen it before.

Xiao Zhu, who was delivering the food, said with a smile.

"This is a new food made by my Lang Jun, called tofu."

"Sisters can try it."

The female workers were all surprised, and a few bold ones had already moved their chopsticks.

This time, it was salted tofu, sprinkled with chopped green onions.

The white, soft, and glutinous tofu melted in the mouth.

At first, it didn't seem to have any taste, but it had a清香.

And when you eat it, it melts in your mouth and is very delicious.

"Delicious, really delicious!"

The daily diet of these orphaned girls is severely lacking in protein.

Tofu is a rare food to supplement protein for them.

Pick up a bowl of hot millet rice, add a spoonful of pickled vegetables and a few pieces of delicious tofu.

The female workers were so happy that tears were about to flow down.

They also knew that time was tight. In order to weave more cloth for Li Langjun, they ate very quickly.

After eating, the female workers went to the large tank at the drinking water place and picked up the coconut ladle to drink cold boiled water with salt.

After eating and drinking enough, the female workers immediately rushed to their respective posts and continued to work without delay.

In the workshop, the sound of female workers pulling the weaving machine was endless.

Because the female workers were very diligent and hardworking.

The processed hemp cloth in the warehouse was also increasing rapidly.

In less than ten days, hundreds of bolts of hemp cloth had been stockpiled in the warehouse.

Li Yuan felt that it was time to send a batch of hemp cloth.

It happened that at this time, the new wine brewed from sorghum was also bottled.

The quality and taste of this wine far surpassed the previous Hundred Flower Brew and Qingyuan Pulp.

Taking a sip makes people feel intoxicated and extremely refreshing.

Li Yuan estimated that the quality of this sorghum wine was already very close to the Baijiu of later generations.

Li Yuan named this extremely high-quality sorghum wine [Forget-Worry Pulp]

It's just that the first batch of production was not very large, only 94 bottles.

Li Yuan decided to take a batch to Zui Xiang Lou in the county to test the waters.

As for tofu, to be honest, his purpose in inventing tofu in the Great Liang Dynasty was actually more to improve the food.

Even if tofu is delicious, it has the disadvantages of a short shelf life and low profit.

It is even more uneconomical to transport tofu from Dongxiang Village to the county seat.

The best way is to directly open a tofu workshop in the county seat.

However, Li Yuan has not yet considered opening a workshop in Qingyuan County.

Take one step at a time and consolidate the foundation is important.

Li Yuan asked Cui Ping to prepare the carriage.

After loading the newly spun hundred bolts of hemp cloth and [Forget-Worry Pulp], he set off for Qingyuan County with four of his men.

Along the way, Li Yuan told everyone to be vigilant.

Recently, the banditry in Qingyuan County has become more and more serious.

You have to be careful when walking on the road.

Fortunately, Li Yuan and his men were all fully armed.

The leading Li Yuan and Cui Yong were even wearing short armor.

Although there were several groups of people on the road who looked very suspicious, they were very sensible and did not come to disturb them.

Li Yuan and his five men arrived in the county seat without any danger.

After entering the city, Li Yuan first went to Qiao's Cloth Shop to trade hemp cloth.

When he arrived in the west city, when he was still some distance away from Qiao's Cloth Shop.

I saw a group of people holding wooden sticks, aggressively surrounding the cloth shop, seeming to be shouting and cursing loudly.

Li Yuan's eyes narrowed.

Qiao's Cloth Shop is an important partner in his hemp spinning business.

He doesn't want anything to happen to Boss Qiao now.

Li Yuan asked several of his men to pull the carriage into the nearby alley first.

He himself went to Qiao's side door first to ask about the situation.

Arriving at Qiao's side door, Li Yuan knocked on the door a few times.

Before long, the door opened a crack. When the clerk inside saw it, it was the friend that the master had brought home last time.

He hurriedly opened the door and let Li Yuan in.