That's right.

The kind of cloth that Zhang Yu said is called silk cloth, and the material is cooked silk thread.

This is the high-end cloth of the entire Han Dynasty, and it is also the cloth of hard currency.

Ordinary people generally wear clothes made of linen, while the top elites mostly wear silk cloth and clothes made of Shu brocade.

Guan Ping fell in love with this business.

Guan Ping pondered for a moment and decided to grasp this matter from two directions. One is to set up a factory, but to improve the loom.

The first one is well understood.

Guan Ping knew that the silk cloth of this era could be produced entirely by relying on women like Zhang Yu and his mother Liu to weave it at home.

Women weave cloth to subsidize the household.

There may be small workshops, but they should be small.

Only by setting up a factory can the technology and production efficiency of the workers be improved, and the silk cloth can be produced on a large scale and save costs.

Large-scale acquisition of cooked silk thread, large-scale production of silk cloth, so as to become the industry leader, can control the entire industry.

Guan Ping has always been vigorous and ambitious. As the saying goes, strategize first, and then find a way to win tactically.

Even if you can't form absolute control, setting up a factory to produce silk cloth can also improve the living standards of people in the Fangling area, after all, you need to recruit workers after setting up a factory, and you have to pay workers after recruiting them.

The second is, of course, to improve the loom.

It's also easy to understand. According to Zhang Yu, Guan Ping's data is that a fairly skilled woman (Zhang Yu) can weave a meter of silk cloth in half an hour (an hour).

If the loom can be improved, even if it is only a little more efficient, it is also a great advantage.

It's a pity that Guan Ping is not an engineering dog, otherwise he would have invented the Jenny loom and done it all at once. The so-called Jenny loom is one of the symbols of the Industrial Revolution.

It's a pity that Guan Ping won't.

It is even said that Guan Ping does not even have the ability to improve the wooden looms he currently has.

Engineering dogs are such creatures that are so good.

Only after crossing over, did he beat his chest and feel that he was not an engineering dog.

After Guan Ping decided on this two-pronged approach, the first thing to do was to find someone to improve the loom.

Although Guan Ping himself can't improve, try it with a professional.

This professional is Ma Sheng.

It was the craftsman who helped Guan Ping create a horseshoe and stirrup, and helped Guan Ping improve the plow and waterwheel.

At present, Ma Sheng is helping the county to build plows and waterwheels to cope with the upcoming spring ploughing.

Spring ploughing is of course important, but Guan Ping feels that improving the loom is also important.

After chatting with Zhang Yu, Guan Ping summoned Ma Sheng. And let the county's Zhu Cao (small officials) recommend it, a well-known businessman in Fangling County.

I also summoned him, and lined up to meet again behind Ma Sheng.

Our technical director has a higher status than businessmen.

Soon after, Ma Sheng came. This guy is still the same, five big and three thick, with a black face. When Guan Ping summoned him, he was still striking iron.

I was halfway through the work, and I had no choice but to throw it away. Who called Lord Taishou to summon him?

Ma Sheng and Guan Ping are very familiar with each other, and they have known Guan Ping since Guan Ping was a little general, and then Master Sima, the little prince, the captain of the school, and now the Lord Taishou.

Why is this promotion so fast?

Ma Sheng was thinking crankily as he entered the study. After entering, he saw Guan Ping sitting on the throne, and Ma Sheng hurriedly bowed and saluted, calling him Lord Taishou.

The status of craftsmen in the Han Dynasty was not too high, but it was not low either. But at least there is no seat in front of Lord Taishou. But Guan Ping didn't have the problem of the official master, so he let Ma Sheng sit down.

Ma Sheng hesitated for a moment, and then sat down with a sincere look of trepidation. Ma Sheng had never knelt down before this, and at this moment in the study, in front of Lord Taishou, he couldn't sit cross-legged, right?

Ma Sheng also learned to kneel and sit, and his posture was very awkward.

Guan Ping didn't care about such trivial matters, and said with a pleasant face: "Ma Sheng." Do you know looms? ”

"The villain knows." Ma Sheng replied immediately. I have a score in my heart, it turns out to be a loom?

But I'm a blacksmith, what does it have to do with looms?

Although Ma Sheng had improved the waterwheel, it was basically worked on by the craftsmen, and he was more often a dry stare.

And the loom is obviously also a carpenter's job.

"I think the loom is too slow to weave. Can you change it? Guan Ping asked in a consultative tone.

"Dare to ask Lord Taishou, how to improve?" Ma Sheng asked very refreshingly. But he mistakenly thought that it was the same as the last time, Guan Ping provided ideas, and he took his subordinates to ponder together.

Guan Ping shook his head when he heard this and said, "I don't know how to improve it. ”

Ma Sheng looked at Guan Ping dumbfounded, you don't know how to improve, so how can I improve?

Guan Ping glanced at Ma Sheng sympathetically, because I am a Taishou and you are a craftsman, so what do I want you to do, you will do something.

Guan Ping said: "I don't care what the process is, as long as the result." You take twenty good craftsmen with you. Thinking about how to improve the loom. Even a little bit of improvement, I'm rewarded. Each of them was rewarded with a gold medal. ”

Ma Sheng knelt for the first time, it was very awkward, and at this moment he was dumbfounded, and subconsciously twisted his buttocks. Then he said cautiously: "Lord Taishou, this has no clue, no thought, how to improve?" ”

It's too much, isn't it?

Even if it's ten gold for each of us. I also don't have the confidence to improve a loom.

It is important to know that the emergence of the loom is the wisdom of countless craftsmen. Today's looms are already very powerful.

Ma Sheng did not have the confidence to increase the efficiency of the loom.

"I just want results." Guan Ping was a little impatient, showing the boss's face, and said with a little displeasure.

"No." Ma Sheng promised to make a promise, did not dare to resist, and then said goodbye to Guan Ping, and hurriedly went down to find twenty top craftsmen in Fangling to study the loom.

Because of a very capricious appointment by Lord Taishou, Ma Sheng could only go up the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire, and he went to do it head-on, rushing to the duck.

Guan Ping was very satisfied with Ma Sheng's submissive attitude, and then clapped his hands and called a personal soldier in front of the door to summon the next wave of people, the merchants.

A short time later, five people walked in.

The traditional image of a businessman is a pot-bellied poop and is very round. Of the five people who walked in from outside the door, two of them were like this, and the remaining three were tall and thin.

Well, there are all stages.

Although they were merchants, they were dressed as if they were scholars, with large sleeves and crowns.

The status of merchants in the Han Dynasty was not high, but it was not low either.

However, there is a common problem among ancient and modern merchants.

It's easy to be ruined by the powerful.

Therefore, after the merchants worked hard to accumulate their family business, they would let their children study and began to develop in the direction of scholars.

Thus, a new Hanmen was born.

Mi Zhu, Mi Fang brothers, is one of the leaders.

After these five merchants entered the study, they were very careful to salute each other. Guan Ping asked them to sit down, and they sat down obediently.

Guan Ping asked their names, and they obediently reported their names one by one.

Very well-behaved.

There is no way around it, and businessmen are easily destroyed by the powerful. And Guan Ping is a new entrant to Fangling, although he has recently implemented benevolent government, which is beneficial to the people.

But the merchants are a different kind of group.

Even if Lord Taishou kills the rich merchants, he will not shake his rule.

Anyway, businessmen are so embarrassed that they need to survive in the cracks.

After Guan Ping learned the names of the merchants, he asked the five merchants to nominate one of the leaders. The merchants elected a merchant named Li Zhong.

A businessman in his forties, pot-bellied, oily-faced.

At first glance, it is a successful businessman.

However, this successful businessman was very nervous in front of Guan Ping, and while lowering his eyebrows, he didn't dare to take a breath.

"You are all local merchants, and the hottest commodities in Fangling are probably furs and medicinal herbs. But no matter where it is, there is a silk cloth business. You know a little bit about silk cloth, right? ”

Guan Ping asked.

"Returning to your lordship. There was also a business in the homes of the little people who sold cooked silk thread and bought silk cloth from the women. Li Zhong replied with a low brow.

Buy cooked silk thread, sell it to a woman like Zhang Yu, buy silk cloth from the woman, and sell it.

This is the industrial chain of this business.

As for raising silkworms and planting mulberry trees, that's another matter.

Guan Ping nodded, and then said: "I know that a piece of cloth costs nine thousand yuan of cooked silk thread, and you buy it for nine thousand two hundred yuan, and sell it for ten thousand yuan, right?" ”

Talking about the business experience, Li Zhong was much bolder and said, "Return to your lordship." What the adults say is generally true, but the price of selling is not necessarily 10,000 yuan. ”

"Oh?" Guan Ping was a little surprised.

Li Zhong explained: "At present, there are constant wars in the world, especially in the north. Cao Gong persuaded to grow grain in the north, and there were really not many people who planted mulberry trees and raised silkworms. On the contrary, the south is relatively calm, and there are many people who grow mulberry trees and raise silkworms. Raw silk cooked silk thread is cheap, and the price of silk cloth is naturally not high. A piece of cloth is worth no more than 10,000 yuan in Bashu, Jingchu, and Jiangdong. If it is transported to the northern Central Plains, it may be worth fifteen thousand. If it is transported to Liangzhou, Youzhou and Di Yi may be worth 20,000 yuan, or even a piece of cloth, and you can buy a good war horse. ”

Guan Ping nodded again and again when he heard this.

This Youzhou war horse is only worth one gold, but when it comes to Bashu and Jingchu regions, it is worth ten gold and ten times the profit. At first glance, the South is at a loss.

But the silk cloth produced in the south reached the north, and the profits were also very large.

It is no wonder that in history, Shu Han relied on the export of Shu brocade to maintain the military expenditure of the Northern Expedition. Horses in the north, silk cloth in the south, commodity exchanges, and profits are huge.

From this point of view, the Han people and Di Yi do not have to be enemies, they can also communicate with each other and take what they need.

Guan Ping shook his head and shook the distracting thoughts out of his mind. Then he said kindly: "I plan to recruit female workers, open a factory in Fangling Nine Counties, and produce silk cloth on a large scale, what do you think?" ”

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