Huang Yongfa didn't believe it, but it couldn't be this price at all, four coins of silver was too cheap, cheap like the high-quality water in Beizhili.

Thinking of the high-quality water irrigating the fields in Beizhili, Huang Yongfa was inexplicably a little sad.

It didn't take long to be sad, Huang Yongfa hurriedly stood up from the chair of Huang Huali Taishi: "Quick, hurry up and go to the Song family's shop, and tell them that Shuntian has eaten all the Huang family, and how much they have eaten." ”

After saying this, the steward still stood there with a motionless hunched waist, and Huang Yongfa was so anxious that he almost kicked him: "Hurry up, if Wang Dengku and them take the lead, look at the master, I won't break your dog's legs." ”

It's not that the steward doesn't want to move, but it's useless to go: "Master, the Song family said that the Shuntian large cloth in the shop is only exchanged and not sold, and if you want to buy their Shuntian large cloth, you need to exchange the grain at the normal market price for an eight-foot wide cloth." ”

Huang Yongfa was originally worried that there was some conspiracy in this, after all, the eight-foot wide cloth was cheap, and people had to be suspicious, but after listening to the steward's words, he understood that this should be the order of the old lady of the Song family.

I also understand why the steward didn't go, don't worry, this batch of Shuntian large cloth is destined to belong to the Huang family.

This year, the other seven Jin merchants were taking advantage of the good opportunity of the disaster victims not having food to make a fortune, but Huang Yongfa, who had the most food in his hand, did not do so.

It's not that Huang Yongfa has a lot of kindness, but he has long been aiming at the status of the imperial merchant after the Jurchens entered the customs, and this year the Jurchens did not snatch a grain of grain from Beizhili, and life was not easy.

Huang Yongfa is ready to donate a large amount of food in his hand to the Jurchens free of charge to help them tide over this difficulty.

The food in Huang Yongfa's hand, to say the least, can allow the Jurchens to survive 200,000 more people, and there are only a few Jurchens in total.

With this batch of grain, Huang Yongfa became a great benefactor of the Jurchens, and when the Jurchens entered the customs, they would definitely reward him with the status of an imperial businessman.

Now there is no need to be so troublesome, Huang Yongfa, who has never been able to find a breakthrough, relies on this large Shuntian cloth that seems to have nothing to do with Zhu Shun, but he can pocket all two things, a hydraulic drilling machine and a hydraulic spinning machine.

The hydraulic drilling machine was handed over to the Jurchens, in exchange for the status of the imperial merchant, and at the same time, it could also allow the Jurchens to enter the customs as soon as possible.

The water-powered spinning machine of Zhu's spinning mill is better than the big spinning wheel in Songjiang Province, and with this water-powered spinning machine, he Huang Yongfa can become the spinning king.

At that time, you can manipulate the cotton market, and the price of cotton cloth is not all Huang Yongfa's final say.

Huang Yongfa sat back in the chair of Huang Huali Taishi, remembered one thing, took a sip of tea and said, "Go and invite all the bookkeepers at home." ”

Every time the bookkeepers come over, something big will happen, because these bookkeepers are actually a group of well-educated people recruited by the Huang family, a group of machine scenes.

After half a pillar of incense, a bookkeeper wearing a splendid right shirt walked into the main hall and sat on the Taishi chair where tea had already been prepared.

The chief butler also came, but did not enter the main hall, and took twenty or thirty strong men with bird guns in their hands to surround the surroundings, and forbade anyone to come within a hundred paces.

Huang Yongfa put down the teacup in his hand and said the first thing: "Everyone, calculate how many eight-foot wide cloths can be produced in a month by the Song family's weaving factory. ”

These bookkeepers had already heard that the Song family shop sold an eight-foot wide cloth, and they had a keen sense of smell that something big would happen, so they had already made a deduction in private.

A middle-aged bookkeeper stood up and answered the question: "Huang Yuanwai has been in business for so many years, and he should know that two people need to weave a large wide cloth. ”

"From sunrise to sunset, two men can weave a maximum of twenty-four feet in a day, one piece of cloth in six days, and a maximum of five pieces of cloth in a month on a loom."

"This is calculated according to the maximum production, not counting the rest of the spinning woman, sickness, damage to the loom, etc."

"The Song family's workshop has a total of 700 looms, and the maximum output is 3,500 large wide cloths a month."

Another middle-aged bookkeeper stood up, closed the Qingzi folding fan in his hand and said: "The large wide cloth mentioned here is a large wide cloth of more than seven feet, not the only eight-foot wide cloth of the Song family's shop. ”

"If it is an eight-foot wide cloth, the time it takes for two spinners to weave together will be greatly increased, and the maximum number of eight-foot wide cloths can be 3,000 horses in a month."

Huang Yongfa blew the heat in the teacup, stroked the smooth texture of the official kiln porcelain with his fingers, and said the plan this time: "The next thing is to use an eight-foot wide cloth." ”

"There is also the grain of the Huang family, take the old man Song as a breakthrough and earn a water-powered drilling machine and a water-powered spinning machine."

"You have a good chance of winning."

When the words fell, there was a sound of 'crackling' abacus in the main hall, and the bookkeepers quickly dialed the abacus and began to deduce Huang Yongfa's plan that only said a few keywords.

A few keywords are enough, these bookkeepers are all well-educated people recruited by Huang Yongfa from all over the Ming Dynasty, if you still can't see through Huang Yongfa's plan, I'm really sorry for the 'Yulu' of three thousand taels of silver every year.

An old bookkeeper was the first to put down the abacus in his hand, but he didn't stand up in a hurry, and waited quietly for the sound of the abacus in the lobby to disappear.

After a cup of tea, when all the bookkeepers put down their abacus, the old bookkeeper didn't stand up, tapped on the table and said: "Huang Yuanwai's plan should be to have a gambling contract." ”

"With the help of the fact that Mrs. Song was desperate for more food, I used the gambling contract to lead Mrs. Song into a trap, and with the help of this trap, I deceived the hydraulic drilling machine and water-powered spinning machine in Zhu Shun's hand."

"So the key to this bet is how many eight-foot wide cloths the Song family or Zhu Shun can produce in a month."

The old bookkeeper took a sip of tea and chuckled: "Just now, the two of you calculated the amount of weaving in the Song family's workshop very clearly, and it was also correct, but the two of them forgot one thing. ”

"The eight-foot wide cloth that Zhu Shun can use in his hands is far more than that."

Huang Yongfa suddenly clenched the teacup, could it be that Zhu Shun invented some kind of hydraulic machinery, a textile machine that can weave cloth with water power.

Huang Yongfa was a little out of breath in his chest, and after spending so much effort, it was useless in the end.

The old bookkeeper knew what Huang Yongfa was thinking, and his face was still as leisurely as everything was under control, and he stroked his beard and chuckled: "Huang Yuanwai thinks too much, Zhu Shun has not invented a machine that can weave cloth with water power. ”

"Huang Yuanwai is really not at ease, you can send someone to the Song family workshop to inspect it, whether you have invented hydraulic machinery can be seen at a glance, if the workshop is built at the water's edge, no matter how you cover it, you can't cover it."

It's just that if he hadn't invented a hydraulic machine, Huang Yongfa would have been completely relieved, and motioned to the old bookkeeper to continue.