Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 105 The Textile Machine Begins to Spread (4000 in [-] [-] words)
"In short, you are not allowed to climb rockery, let alone climb roofs, and you are not allowed to climb trees!"

Zhu Di said to Zhu Gaochi with a solemn face.

"Yes, Dad."

Zhu Gaochi quickly nodded obediently.

Only then did Zhu Di heave a sigh of relief, but turned to look at Guo An with an even more hostile expression.

"Can you send the craftsmen you promised to Duke Ying?"

"Returning to Your Highness, there are 42 old craftsmen who made nets and rebuilt large ships before. We have already handed them over to Zhu Liang and Xu Xiang, and took them to Dagukou."

Guo An replied with a sneer.

"Ok!"

Zhu Di nodded slightly, and asked again: "How about the cement and steel forging in Shangzhuang Village?"

"Returning to Your Highness, two cement houses have been built these days, and as for the giant iron furnace, ten have been built!" Guo An replied quickly.

Zhu Di asked again: "How's the situation on the farm?"

Guo An gave Zhu Di a weird look, "Forgive me, Your Highness, the matter of the farm was not under the jurisdiction of my servant, so I didn't know about it."

"You don't know?"

Zhu Di glared at Guo An, "You suggested to us to open the farm. As the official history of Prince Yan's mansion, how can you be so careless!"

"His Highness taught you a lesson!"

Guo An directly admitted his mistake.

Zhu Di nodded in satisfaction, and finally regained his majesty in front of his eldest son.

Then, after changing the subject, I finally returned to the textile machine in front of me.

"How much do you plan to sell these looms to the people of Beiping Mansion?"

"Your Highness, the artisans in the house only need two pennies to make a cotton gin, and five pennies for a cotton plucking machine. As for the three-spindle spinning wheel, it is more complicated, and the cost is ten pennies; and the spinning machine costs ten pennies. It's more complicated and requires fifty liters."

After thinking carefully for a long while, Guo An said, "Therefore, we are going to sell the cotton gin at ten yuan, the cotton spinning machine at fifteen yuan, and the three-spindle spinning wheel at thirty yuan. As for the spinning machine, we will sell it directly. Two hundred texts."

Zhu Di's eyes widened immediately, "It tripled in one click, you thief officer's heart is even darker than those profiteers!"

Guo An looked aggrieved, "Your Highness has wronged my minister too much! Those profiteers outside are much more ruthless than my minister.

How much was the set of looms used in the palace of His Royal Highness Wang Hao bought back, His Highness should know better than Wei Chen.

The price is at least twice as expensive as the set of textile machines in front of Weichen. The most annoying thing is that it is not as exquisite as the craftsmen in our house! "

"Those damn profiteers!"

Zhu Di's face darkened immediately, Guo An was right, the set of looms bought in the palace was at least three times more expensive!
Guo An continued: "In addition, the price of Weichen has tripled because the capital has to be counted, plus the time and money spent by the craftsmen, and tax money. In this way, your highness, our textile utensils are not profitable. How much money did you get?"

Zhu Di nodded slightly, and subconsciously said: "Then it can be raised a little bit!"

"Your Highness, we can't go any higher!"

Guo An explained, "The people in our Beiping Prefecture are already poor, and if the price goes up, no one can afford it.

Moreover, the lower officials planned to use these utensils to drive all the merchants who sold textile machinery in the south out of Beiping Mansion.

Even, when necessary, these utensils can be sold to Songjiang Mansion! "

"Conversely sell it to Songjiang Mansion?"

Zhu Di's eyelids twitched, "It's only now that we realize that you are better than Zhu Liang and Li Wang!"

Guo An didn't argue, the boss can say whatever he likes!

Anyway, Boss Zhu just likes to talk, and the last thing to do and make decisions is still his right long history.

Seeing that Guo An didn't argue, Zhu Di lifted his spirits and continued, "But the people in Beiping Mansion can't afford such a high price."

"Your Highness, I have already made up my mind!" Guo An said.

"Oh?"

Zhu Di asked curiously: "Could it be that you want a commoner from A to buy a set together?"

"It's not!"

Guo An shook his head slightly, "If they didn't go fishing in the sea, the common people might still have some savings at home, and they could afford to buy textile machines.

However, now that the common people have bought sea fish, they naturally cannot afford textile machines! "

Zhu Di asked, "Then how are you going to sell the textile machines?"

Guo An said: "Wei Chen wants His Highness to open a shop selling textile machines in Wanping County to receive orders. In addition, Wei Chen will take these textile machines to the village of Wanping County to find Go chatter, those old folks!"

Zhu Di frowned slightly, "Chacha?"

Guo An quickly explained, "It's just to chat with those villagers, and then cooperate with the people in Wanping County."

"Cooperation?"

Zhu Di couldn't help but be a little curious, more new words came out of Guo An's mouth today than in several months.

And this meeting in front of Zhu Gaochi, Guo An had an unknown thought and liked to explain, "Your Highness, it is a conspiracy.

No, it's not a collusion. Anyway, I trusted these people in Wanping County and sold these looms to the people in Wanping County in the early stage.

However, the money is not collected first, because the people in Wanping County do not have much money at present. "

Hearing this, Zhu Di frowned tightly.

"However, the cotton in the fields of the people in Wanping County will gradually mature and can be picked, and they can first let them weave cotton cloth with looms.

When they spun cotton cloth, they could use the cotton cloth to offset the money spent on the loom! "

After Guo An finished speaking, Zhu Di's brows still did not relax.

"These people will agree?"

"Your Highness, the common people just haven't read the book and don't know much, but they are not stupid! This is obviously a good thing for them. How could they disagree?

Besides, if anyone disagrees, then don't buy it, and Weichen will take the loom to the next one.

Anyway, for the tens of thousands of households in Wanping County, as long as [-]% of the people agree, it will make a lot of money... No, it will save the thousands of households in Wanping County from being exploited by those profiteers. "

Guo An didn't care.

Zhu Di took a deep breath, and said excitedly: "If this is done, you will be of great help to the people of Wanping County and even Beiping Prefecture!"

Guo An didn't know whether Zhu Di was excited about earning a lot of money, or because he could benefit the people of Beiping Prefecture.

but!

"Your Highness, there must be a part of the humble minister!"

Zhu Di directly broke the defense and was furious: "Fucking hell, when did we ever greedy your money?"

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Zhu Gaochi's eyes widened, and he looked at his broken father in disbelief!

……

In the end, Zhu Di walked away angrily, and Zhu Gaochi behind him was still a little reluctant to part, turning his head three times a step at a time.

It's a pity that Guo An is just a courtier, and it's already a big deal to overstep once, and he can't overstep it again.

the next few days.

While urging the artisans of the Gongzheng Institute to make textile machines, Guo An ordered the stewards under the Yanwang Mansion to buy a shop with three curtains in Wanping County.

Textile shop!
Except for two sets of textile machines, there is nothing displayed inside.

At the same time, Guo An also found five old women from Yanwang Mansion, all of whom were proficient in weaving, and put them in the weaving shop.

In less than two days, the entire Beiping Mansion knew that His Highness King Yan not only asked the craftsmen in the mansion to improve the looms.

Still out, ready to sell.

Even, the prices of textile machines, cotton gins, and cotton plucking machines in Yanwang Mansion were twice as low as those in other merchants' hands.

However, no matter how low the price is, not many people buy it.

However, the next announcement made the people of Beiping Mansion completely excited.

The textile machines and five old women in the textile shop of His Highness King Yan can be contracted for lease.

If anyone has surplus cotton and wants to weave it into cotton cloth, but does not have a loom, they can go to the weaving shop of His Highness King Yan and ask two old women in the weaving shop to weave it for fifty Wen. Put on a piece of cotton cloth.

If there is no extra money to pay, it can be deducted from cotton.

In addition, it is also possible to pay three hundred cash and invite two old women in the textile shop and a set of looms to weave cloth for them for a month, and count as much as they can weave.

You know, the ordinary cotton cloth here is one tael of silver per piece.And the clean cotton used for weaving is only [-] Wen per catty, and ten catties of clean cotton can be used to weave a piece of cotton cloth.

Although the fields of many people's homes can produce more than 20 catties of cotton a year, even after paying taxes, they can still leave more than ten catties for themselves, enough to weave a bolt of cotton cloth.

However, most people do not have looms in their homes, so they can only sell cotton at low prices to those merchants.

It's just that, with less money to sell, the common people are reluctant to buy expensive cotton cloth, and can only buy ordinary white cloth or linen.

But if it only costs fifty renminbi, ten catties of cotton can be woven into a piece of cotton cloth. In this way, for the common people, they will earn an extra 450 renminbi invisibly.

In less than a day, dozens of ordinary people ran to the textile shop and asked for OEM weaving.

On the second day, hundreds of people surrounded the entire textile shop.

Fang Qinggui, the shopkeeper of the textile shop, saw that the situation was getting serious, and quickly sent people to Yanwang Palace to ask Guo An.

"Hundreds of people surrounded the textile shop?"

Guo An, who was going to warm up the people in Wanping County with the textile shop first, and then went to the countryside with a set of textile machines, couldn't help being happy when he heard the report from the shop assistant.

"Go, I will follow you to the shop!"

Guo An didn't hesitate, and went directly to the textile shop.

At the beginning, when Guo An asked the steward to choose the location, he specifically chose the location between Yan Palace and Guo Mansion.

Therefore, it didn't take long for Guo An to come to the textile shop.

It's dark, and most of them are women.

Inside the shop, the shopkeeper Fang Qinggui was overjoyed when he saw Guo An's arrival, and hurriedly shouted to the crowd: "Guo Changshi is here, please be safe, everyone!"

"Guo Changshi?"

All the people couldn't help being stunned for a moment, but after seeing Guo An, they all reacted, their faces were overjoyed, and they bowed directly.

"Caomin has seen the county magistrate!"

"Cao Min met Guo Xianzun..."

Guo An hurriedly waved his hands and shouted: "Don't be like this, everyone, I am no longer the county magistrate of Wanping County, but now I am the right chief of the Yan Palace!"

"Isn't Guo Xianzun the magistrate of Wanping County?"

"I seem to have heard from the village elders before that Wanping County has changed its county magistrate, and Guo Xianzun has been promoted to enter Yanwang Mansion!"

"Guo Xianzun has been promoted?"

"Grassmen see Guo Changshi!"

"See Guo Changshi..."

It was still some clever people who quickly changed their words, and the rest of the people were shocked and quickly changed their words.

"Okay, everyone, get up. I am in charge of the textile shop here. You are surrounded by the shop in broad daylight. I don't know what's going on?"

Guo An waved his hand to get all the people to stand up, and then asked loudly and intentionally.

"Report to Guo Changshi, Caomin and others are here, and they want to ask the shop to weave cloth for Caomin and others!"

A commoner with a little prestige came out and said.

"Are you all?"

Guo An looked at all the people.

"Exactly!"

"Guo Changshi, I came to the city with the newly picked cotton at home early in the morning!"

"Yeah, Guo Changshi, I came just after opening the city gate, but I didn't expect so many people to wait for us..."

All the people said eagerly again.

Hearing this, Guo An nodded slightly. He really underestimated the people of this era, and now he already knows to queue up in advance to occupy a seat!

It's a pity that with so many people, no matter how they occupy a seat, they will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey.

"Everyone, I understand what you mean!

However, today is only the second day, and so many people have already come.There are only two sets of textile machines in the textile shop.

How long does it take for a set of looms to weave a piece of cotton cloth?You all know it in your heart, just you, more than 100 people, want to weave all the cotton cloth, and it will not be able to weave it in less than two months.

Not to mention Beiping Mansion, but how many households in Wanping County want to weave?

......"

Hearing this, the people surrounding the textile shop became anxious.

"Guo Changshi, Caomin is Ning Shitou from Ningjia Village in the south of the city, and Ning Daguang is uncle of Caomintang..."

"Guo Changshi, the grassroots are from Shangzhuang Village, twenty miles west of the city, and Wang Shoushi is a grassroots..."

"Guo Changshi..."

Guo An was overjoyed and quickly waved his hand.

"I am familiar with the village chiefs and food chiefs you mentioned, but there are so many of you, and if I want to weave cotton cloth for you in advance, I have to come one by one!"

The faces of the common people darkened again.

"However, I have a good suggestion." Guo An chuckled.

All the people looked at Guo An expectantly.

Guo Andao: "Everyone can buy a set of looms and weave cloth at home. You don't need to bring so much cotton all the way to queue, and you don't need to pay a rental fee of fifty renminbi!"

"Buy a set of textile machines?"

All the people couldn't help but smile wryly.

"Guo Changshi was joking, not to mention the high price of a textile machine, and there is not enough spacious room at home to store it."

"That's right, the looms are still hypocritical objects. If you buy them back and put them in the shabby house of Caomin's house, they will probably break down in less than a year!"

"Guo Changshi..."

All the people spoke again.

Listening, Guo An's brows were also slightly frowned, and he didn't think twice.

"Don't be impatient, everyone, these are easy to solve!"

"Really?"

A group of people looked at Guo An with joy on their faces.

……

(End of this chapter)