From the gate of heaven

Chapter 138 [The textile factory matter is settled, and the sheep cannibalism begins]

Beiguan is located in the north of the Zhou Dynasty, adjacent to the sea and the northern grasslands.

This place is usually fine, but it gets extremely cold in winter, which makes it difficult for the nomads who lack food and clothing to survive, so they can only come to Dazhou to plunder.

In recent months, the firearms sold by Lin Ze have continued to play a role in exterminating the nomads who come out to cause trouble. Lin Ze's luck has maintained a rapid growth, and this is one of the reasons.

After opening the Zhutian Gate, Lin Ze appeared outside Beihaiguan, and then entered the city normally as if he was rushing over.

Lin Ze was not curious about the scenery in Beihaiguan.

During the previous arms trade, Lin Ze had already seen the scenery here many times through drones.

As Lin Ze appeared at Beiguan, the news immediately reached Ji Kan's ears.

When Lin Ze came all the way to the palace, he saw the middle door of the Beihai Palace opened. Ji Kan, who had changed from the King of East China Sea to the King of Beihai, stood at the door with his subordinates to welcome Lin Ze's arrival.

"Ziyi, I've been waiting for you for a long time, and I haven't even congratulated you on being made an earl."

Ji Kan held Lin Ze's hand affectionately and greeted him warmly.

Facing the arrival of the God of Wealth, there is no way to be unhappy.

"I've seen Uncle."

The guards behind Ji Kan, the palace officials and others also saluted at this time.

Among them was Gao Han, the elder brother of Xu Sheng's generation who came from Mingyue Tower, whom Lin Ze had heard of but had never seen before. He also saluted.

At that time, when I heard Gao Han's story, Lin Ze was just a little-known powerful man from a small place, but now he was already a distinguished earl.

"It's true that I haven't seen you for more than a month. Please excuse me."

Lin Ze responded and followed Ji Kan into the palace.

"This palace was the former residence of one of my elder brothers. When he heard that I wanted to exchange fiefdoms with him, he quickly agreed. My elder brother didn't have much money left. This palace is not as good as the one I had in Wangjiang City. The palace is luxurious, but it takes a lot of time to decorate it again.”

On the way, Ji Kan pointed to this luxurious palace and introduced it.

The implication is that he will make a lot of money from his cooperation with Lin Ze and have the financial resources to decorate this already luxurious palace even more magnificently.

The luxury and comfort of this palace were indeed not as good as Lin Ze's residence in the main world, Xianyun Villa. He also recognized Ji Kan's confidence.

Soon, everyone walked through the courtyard. Ji Kan invited Lin Ze to sit down in the main hall and began to hold a banquet for Lin Ze to receive the wind and wash away the dust. The singers and musicians raised by the prince also performed songs and dances during the banquet to add to the fun.

For a time, everyone exchanged glasses and the atmosphere was harmonious.

After the banquet, rest directly.

She refused the maids arranged by Ji Kan and finished washing herself.

It's better to be careful when going out, Lin Zexin, but these outsiders are too close to him.

Even at the banquet just now, Lin Ze made sure that others had checked that the food and wine were fine before eating and drinking with confidence.

The next day, Ji Kan and I had breakfast together before we started discussing business.

"Ziyi, in recent times, I have done everything you asked me to do."

"The venue, manpower, and looms have all been prepared. You can just tell me what to do next."

Ji Kan opened his mouth and said to Lin Ze.

"Go check out the venue you chose first."

Lin Ze spoke.

Ji Kan had no objection, and then the two of them set off to Beihai Pier outside Beihai Customs.

About five miles away from the dock, next to a flat beach, a huge manor has been built here, and there are many garrison patrols near the manor.

Ji Kan took Lin Ze into the manor and saw many female workers weaving here.

He smiled and said:
"As you can see Ziyi, I have built the weaving factory near the water. Now I have recruited enough female workers to weave. Now I am just trying to weave. Once you help solve the problem on the wool, If we solve the grease problem, we can start using wool to weave cloth on a large scale.”

"It is also close to the dock. Once the cloth is produced, it can be quickly transported to the dock. In addition to being sold locally in Beihai Customs, it can also be shipped to be sold all over the world."

Lin Ze quietly looked at the scenery throughout the manor and said nothing for the time being.

The management of these female workers refers to Lin Ze's method of managing coal mines. They are all managed according to the performance system of more work, more gain. In addition, certain training and requirements are carried out on the basic qualities of management, and workers are respected as much as possible. , work attitude is gentle.

In addition, the working environment of the manor is spacious and bright, and it is clean and tidy. Overall, it is very good.

Seeing this, Lin Ze was very satisfied.

Then, he and Ji Kan came to a quiet attic in the manor that was used as a textile factory. They stood back and continued to discuss things about making money in the textile factory.

"Ziyi, if we follow the traditional weaving industry, which is to make hard money, even if there are thousands of female workers in this manor now, and if tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of workers are recruited in the future, it will not be able to reach hundreds every year. Benefits of tens of millions of taels."

"If you have any way to make money, tell me now."

After sitting down, Ji Kan got straight to the point.

Nowadays, a female worker can weave one piece of cloth a day, and one piece of cloth is about four feet, which is equivalent to forty feet.

According to the current market price in the Zhou Dynasty, a foot of cloth costs about 40 cents, and a piece of cloth costs about 1.6 taels of silver.

This is the market price, and the ex-factory price will be lower, usually about 35 cents per foot of cloth.

After deducting the profits, food and lodging expenses for these female workers and managers, and the cost of raw materials, it is already good to have two coins left in the profit from a piece of cloth.

Even if the profits created by tens of thousands of female workers were added up, it would only be 6 taels of silver a month, and 80 million taels of silver a year. In fact, considering the limited raw materials for weaving, it is impossible for these female workers to operate at full capacity throughout the year. .The actual annual income can exceed 30 taels, which must be regarded as the capital management method Ji Kan learned from Lin Ze.

An annual income of 30 taels seemed good to Ji Kan in the past, but it was far from the benefits of tens of millions taels a year that Lin Ze mentioned.

Lin Ze didn't show off, and said with a smile: "Right now, your textile factory is not making money. The first reason is that the price of raw materials is very high, but if there is a cheaper source of raw materials, the profit margin can be greatly increased. "

While talking, Lin Ze took out a bottle of detergent from his pocket and placed it in front of Ji Kan.

"This is a detergent for degreasing wool. Just add this to water to wash away the odor of wool, and then use it to weave cloth."

"Right now, the wool on the grasslands is just discarded waste, but in the future we can buy all this wool at the price of twenty kilograms and a penny. The weight of a piece of cloth is only ten or twenty kilograms. In the future, our raw materials The price can be reduced to a penny.”

"Including the daily salary and board and lodging cost of female workers, it is about 1.3 taels of silver per day. This means that in the future, our cost of a piece of cloth will be reduced to the limit, and the net profit of a piece of cloth will be about [-] taels of silver."

"If you calculate it this way, if you recruit 30 female workers to set up a textile factory, you can produce 39 pieces of cloth a month, and get a profit of 450 taels of silver. The profit for a year, deducting the time the female workers take to rest and take leave, is guaranteed to be [-] million taels of silver. .”

Having said this, Lin Ze took out another drawing, which recorded the structure and principles of the hydraulic loom.

Seeing the obvious excitement on Ji Kan's face, Lin Ze smiled and said: "You may have been curious before about the reason why I asked you to build the textile factory on the seaside. In addition to being close to the dock and convenient for shipping, Another reason is the water-powered loom."

"Normally, a skilled female worker can weave one piece of cloth a day, but with this, the efficiency can be increased forty times. In this case, our annual profit can also be doubled forty times a year."

"However, considering that the wool on the grassland is limited, it is optimistically estimated that 300 million people each raise six or seven sheep, which means there are about 2000 million sheep. The wool of about two sheep can weave one piece of cloth, so we can say that we have the limit of cloth for a year. The output is about 1000 million horses."

"It can also be concluded from this that the profit we can theoretically get in a year is about 1300 million taels of silver. It may be that the high efficiency of the loom has reduced labor costs a lot, so this profit figure is not accurate, but it is approximate That’s it for profit.”

Hearing this, an expression of enlightenment appeared on Ji Kan's face.

Although he had known for a long time that Lin Ze had a solution, Lin Ze's analysis immediately made the way forward clear.

Being able to convert wool waste into money, those grassland nomads will definitely not miss this opportunity. After tasting the benefits in the future, they may take the initiative to expand the scale of grazing, and produce more wool, allowing them to use it to make more Cloth makes money.

At that time, they will use daily necessities such as grain, cloth, pots and pans to earn back the money distributed to the herdsmen, which can be said to be a direct win.

Since these herdsmen can survive by trading, they naturally don't have to risk their lives to plunder, and they can solve the border troubles in one go.

"Ziyi, you only calculated my costs, but you didn't calculate your costs."

Ji Kan picked up the wool detergent on the table and asked.

Lin Ze smiled and said: "From recruiting people to collecting wool, processing wool, weaving and selling cloth, you are doing all these things. I have developed some skills. This detergent is beyond my skills. Just pay the cost, don’t worry, I will make a lot of profit after splitting it [-]-[-].”

"Don't forget that I calculated a profit of more than 1000 million taels. But if you want to make this money, you have to mobilize a lot of people to run around. You have to worry about all this. I can at best send a few people to supervise the finances. .”

"I can earn this money very easily."

Wool detergent is not expensive, only about ten yuan per kilogram bottle, and the price is even lower when purchased in bulk.

A year, 650 million taels of silver are distributed from the textile factory, and then converted into 65 taels of gold. This is a value of 146.25 billion. The cost of purchasing detergent is not even a fraction of the income. of.

Making money on the grassland is only secondary. The most important thing is that Lin Ze can use this wave to greatly change the fate of the grassland herdsmen and gain a huge amount of luck from them.

"How about this? I just pay a high price to buy detergent from you. How about calculating the price of detergent based on the profit of 650 million taels you can make from the industry here every year? Then you can also pay less. Take the trouble.”

At this time, Ji Kan took the initiative to suggest.

To be honest, he didn't want Lin Ze to interfere with his business. Firstly, it would be inconvenient for him to make many moves, and secondly, he didn't want to have to argue with Lin Ze about possible corruption and bribery among his subordinates and ruin the relationship between the two parties.

Therefore, the current plan was proposed.

This not only ensures that Lin Ze can obtain sufficient benefits from the textile industry, but also ensures his ability to control the industry.

"Also."

Lin Ze glanced at Ji Kan and did not refuse.

Although detergent is not expensive, it is not something that can be produced here in another world.

His base is in Fengping County. The coal mines provide enough jobs, and the subsequent development center will focus on building his own Zhutian Mall.

He did not need the jobs that the textile factory could provide to win over people, and selling detergent would not affect Lin Ze's harvest luck. Ji Kan's proposal also saved Lin Ze the trouble of sending out financial supervision.

However, after all, this was Lin Ze's transfer of rights, which reduced his influence. Lin Ze planned to increase the annual benefits he obtained from the textile factory to 800 million taels.

Coupled with the military subsidies he can get from Emperor Ji Yuan, he can barely make tens of millions of taels of silver every year from the grassland. If the size of the sheep herd on the grassland increases in the future, Lin Ze can still make more money based on actual conditions. The situation will increase the price of detergents.

Seeing that the matter was settled and a lot of industrial power was gathered, Ji Kan was in a good mood.

He curiously asked a question that he had wanted to ask Lin Ze for a long time: "Ziyi, I have always seen you take out items at will, from firearms to drawings and detergents. Where do you hide them? of?"

At first, Ji Kan thought Lin Ze had all these things hidden on his body.

Later, it was discovered that Lin Ze often took out things out of thin air, and could not hide those large items on his body. This made Ji Kan wonder if Lin Ze had some means to keep things in check.

It's just that although I was thinking about this issue in my mind before, I never had time to ask. Now that we have negotiated a cooperation, the atmosphere is good, but it's just time to ask.

"A secret storage technique that can contain mustard seeds."

Lin Ze didn't hide anything and spoke directly.

He had no intention of hiding this thing, and others would definitely discover it if he used it too much.

For example, when Eunuch Hua faced off against Lin Ze for the first time, he should have discovered this suspicion, but he couldn't just ask about it casually.

Of course, it is limited to telling others that he does have this thing. As for the details of this ability, he will not say more than half a word.

(End of this chapter)