A Husband Who Traveled Through the Famine and Developed a Chronicle

Chapter 210 Douer Village Get Rich Plan

But it was only ten cents.

Because the rent of forty coins was deducted.

Speaking of which, the first family was the village chief’s family.

After their family, one after another people handed over the cloth on the eighth and ninth days, and then received the next piece of cotton.

It has been said that if there are many families in a village, there must be more than ten households, and there are many women and girls in them.

They did it alone at first, but the second time, they asked everyone in the family to learn it, and then they knitted alone for a while, with someone specifically checking the quality.

It can be said that a family is a weaving workshop.

At the beginning, it would take at least five days for everyone to produce one piece. Later, when the quantity increased, one piece of cotton cloth could be produced in three days.

Some families with carpenters would squat aside and watch while their wives were weaving, to see if the machine could save more fabric or make it faster.

While researching, I was thinking of ways to imitate the machine.

It's not difficult to make a regular loom.

A month later, on the day before the Chinese New Year, the village chief's wife came to see Bai Xia. She looked a little unhappy.

"Auntie, you mean, someone made a loom?" Bai Xia was a little surprised.

"Yes." The village chief's wife looked a little ugly and a little embarrassed.

"They want me to ask you if the rented machine can be returned. After returning it, can I still get cotton weaving from you?" The rent for a machine costs one hundred cents a month, and now they can do it quickly. , only ten pieces of cloth can be weaved in a month.

It's only five hundred cents, and one hundred cents has to be paid for rent.

Now that I have developed a loom by myself, I don’t want to rent it anymore.

"You can let them use the machine they built to weave a piece of cloth. If there is no problem with the cloth, I want to see their machine."

I don’t know what the difference is between the looms made by the people in the village and those made by the craftsmen in Liu Yunzhai. If they are faster and more efficient, she can also make a batch of them.

This can speed up everyone's weaving efficiency and also speed up the speed at which she makes money.

"Of course you can"

The village chief's wife breathed a sigh of relief. She was worried that Bai Xia would be unhappy if the people in the village built a machine based on the loom, but now that she didn't care, she quickly relaxed.

The villagers' homemade looms were exactly the same as those provided by Bai Xia.

It can be seen that it is completely copied from the machine Bai Xia gave them, without any innovation.

Bai Xia was a little disappointed when he saw it. He thought they could make a faster machine.

But this incident also gave her inspiration.

After taking back that family's loom, Bai Xia still allowed them to get cotton to make cloth, but for the other cloth, he hired a carpenter from the village and built a small house separately, like a workshop, so that they could research faster. , a more efficient loom.

Yun Shu was responsible for weaving for them and letting them see how the machine was working.

Time passed little by little, and the villagers ate a lot of food. In order to have a good New Year, everyone saved food during this period of time.

Bai Xia didn't ask anyone to sell grain again.

Soon, the time came for the Chinese New Year, and the village was full of joy. Bai Xia and the others followed the local customs, cutting window grilles and pasting Spring Festival couplets, and spent the new year happily.

Over the years, the number of weavers increased from five to ten.

By March, every household in the village had a loom, and all the children in the village were wearing cotton clothes.

Even though it was just pure cotton without dyeing, it was enough to be envied by people in the surrounding villages.Thanks to the support of the villagers, the amount of money in Bai Xia's transformation pool reached 500 taels.

At the end of the New Year, the grain merchant came again. This time there were more people buying grain. Every household was no longer satisfied with just two meals of gruel a day and wanted to eat better.

In the past few months, everyone has made a lot of money from weaving.

Several families who had no longer rented machines had the idea to no longer go to Bai Xia to get cotton. Instead, they bought cotton to weave themselves, hoping to sell it to Bai Xia at a high price.

But when they brought the cloth over, they were rejected by Bai Xia.

Just kidding, she provides cotton. For half a denarius of cotton and fifty taels of wages, you can get a piece of cloth worth three taels of silver. If you directly accept the cloth they weave privately, it must be at least one, two, and fifty per piece. How could she be willing to take half of the money she earned?

She refused to accept it, and they were adamant, so they took the cloth to the town. They thought the cotton cloth they woven could be sold for a lot of money, but when they went to the town, they found out that the cloth mill in the town offered half a penny of silver for a piece. It would be better to come down here than Bai Xia.

So they could only keep the cotton cloth they bought and weave for their own use, and took orders from Bai Xia to continue to earn their share of wages.

Although the loom is not cheap, it takes a month or two to add one.

Many people have added two to their homes. If they can't fit in their homes, they must at least add a few more.

In this way, the family can earn hundreds of cash a day.

Everyone has more money, so they have to buy food.

The grain sold this time allowed Bai Xia to directly recover nearly 400 taels of silver.

The silver in his hand directly exceeded the 1000 tael mark.

Looking at the series of zeros, Bai Xia felt happy.

The clothing workshop cannot be built for the time being, but a cloth workshop can be built first.

Li Xiuyuan sent her a book on various weaving and dyeing recipes. It happened that there were many women in the village who were unable to weave, so they were recruited into the factory as workers in the cloth mill.

Just do what you say, and as soon as you earn back the 1000 taels of silver, you spend it again before you can warm yourself up.

I bought a piece of land on the mountain at the east end of the village, covering several hundred square meters, and built a special cloth workshop.

From Bai Xia's house to Bufang, a bluestone road was specially built. Walking on it, you don't have to worry about getting your shoes wet even on rainy days.

The people in Douer Village are extremely busy, busy with spring plowing, building houses, and weaving to make money.

By March, everyone had more food in their homes. Except for the fact that new houses could not be built, every household had three meals. I think it would not be impossible to have three meals a day in a few days.

Construction of the cloth workshop started in full swing, and it was completed in April, and a large number of workers began to be recruited.

Following the model of a modern factory, an assembly line was first built to divide the dyeing process into several lines.

In addition, a special weaving room is also set up.

Here, female workers are invited in from outside to be responsible for weaving.

It's just that this batch of cloth is different from the ones they weave at home. It has patterns.

When all workers are recruited, they must sign a confidentiality agreement, which means that their work content and working methods are kept confidential. Any skills learned in the workshop belong to the cloth workshop, and they are not allowed to leak it, otherwise they will have to compensate the cloth workshop. The loss starts with at least 5000 taels of silver.

Seeing the amount of compensation, many workers backed down.

But the salary of [-] cash a month still forced them to stay.

The main reason is that there is no room for more looms at home. Otherwise, weaving at home will definitely make more money.

(End of this chapter)