"How's it going, have you found the right workshop?"

returned to the inn and saw that Wu Cai had already returned, so Shi Yiwen asked directly.

"I have found a similar workshop, with 600 looms and nearly 1,000 employees, and although the scale in Songjiang is not the largest, the scale is not small."

"600 looms...... That's pretty much enough. ”

Nodding slightly, Shi Yiwen asked.

"Are they interested in it, then?"

"Interested, how can there be no interest, today is just a talk of our "flying shuttle", the old man of the Liu family spit out, if this is the case, he is willing to pay 30 taels to us for a loom! ”

Even if he is accustomed to seeing the generosity of later generations, Shi Yiwen was taken aback by this person's generosity. This is several times the price he offered.

"30 taels, 600 looms, that's 18,000 taels! This Master Liu is really generous! ”

"However, he has one condition!"

"Conditions?"

"Yes, he wants us to promise that we will not sell the shuttle to anyone else for at least two years!"

Wu Cai's words made Shi Yiwen laugh.

"No wonder he is so generous, for two years, he is fine with this abacus, and it seems that he has spent a high price, but in two years, he can at least buy thousands of looms, earn hundreds of thousands, or even millions of taels of silver, this businessman, after all, is a businessman!"

Listening to Childe's sigh, Wu Cai said tentatively.

"Childe, in fact, I also inquired in Songjiang, like that of a 600-piece loom factory, at most only sixty or seventy thousand taels, can also be bought, if we run our own cloth factory, using the shuttle, within a year, we will definitely be able to make a profit dozens of times, this is not better than we sell such a good thing to others?"

Again, Wu Cai looked at Shi Yiwen with some confusion.

Until now, there are still too many questions in his heart, and he can't understand why Shi Yiwen would push this old mother who can obviously lay golden eggs out.

That shuttle must be something that can make money!

"Endless Songjiang cloth ......"

Smiling, Shi Yiwen did not answer directly, but looked at Songjiang City outside the window.

"Look at this Songjiang, there are more than 100 cloth villages, if we set up a factory here, wouldn't it be to compete with hundreds of time-honored brands? And they are doing business on other people's turf. This kind of competition is too tiring! ”

Shaking his head, Shi Yiwen looked at the puzzled Wu Yi and said.

"Actually, from the very beginning, I made the shuttle so that all these cloth factories could use it!"

"Ugh! This...... Childe, why is that? ”

Looking at Gongzi in puzzlement, Wu Cai found that in many cases, he couldn't keep up with his thinking at all, couldn't guess his thoughts, and originally wanted to give him advice, but how did he get here, but he couldn't figure out the thoughts of the owner?

Isn't that a good thing?

"Maoda, do you think that if the Liu family buys the shuttle, how long will they be able to keep it a secret?"

Putting down the teacup and looking at Wu Cai with a smile and frowning, Shi Yiwen said.

"I said before that some technologies are too simple to keep secret, not because of the means of secrecy, but because it is too simple, just like a shuttle, to put it bluntly, it is just two springs and a few leather ropes, such a simple thing, how to keep it secret? After all, equipment always needs to be maintained......"

In another time and space, after the invention of the shuttle, it was immediately widely adopted, but because of the simplicity of the shuttle's technology, it was easy to be copied, and the inventor could only end up dying in poverty.

"This ......"

Nodding, Wu Cai knew that Gongzi's words were very reasonable, and his own family members may not be reliable, let alone outsiders, even if they are domestic slaves...... Money touches people's hearts, and there are no house slaves who have fled from their masters.

"What does Childe mean?"

"Rather than not being able to keep secrets, it is better to simply let go and sell the technology to them......"

Grinning at Wu Cai, Shi Yiwen said.

"You said that a Liu family is willing to take tens of thousands of taels and want to buy it out, what makes such a businessman willing to pay this money?"

"Because it's more profitable!"

"Yes!"

Picking up the teacup again, Shi Yiwen smiled.

"You say, how many cloth villages are there in Songjiang, and they are willing to pay money to buy the drawings of the shuttle? I dare to say that as long as the Liu family tries it out, within three days, our door will be blocked, tens of thousands of taels, and definitely not everyone will come out, but thousands, tens of thousands of taels, they will not be too much. How many cloth estates are there in Songjiang? A hundred? Two hundred? Or three or five hundred? Even if it is a family that receives a thousand taels, that is, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver! Besides, this silver is all ready-made, snowflakes and silver with white flowers! ”

Hearing this, Wu Cai was stunned and stunned for a while before he exclaimed.

"High! It's really high! Childe is smart, admire, admire! ”

Wu Cai's compliment made Shi Yiwen say with a smile.

"Actually, let me tell you, the purpose of my construction of the shuttle is not to sell the shuttle to make money, do you think what will happen after the shuttle is put into use on a large scale?"

Childe's rhetorical question made Wu Cai frown and think for a moment, what would happen?

Confused, suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly clapped his hands and exclaimed.

"Childe, I know, Childe's goal is not to weave at all, but to spin, the shuttle can increase the weaving speed several times, so that the yarn must be in short supply, Childe must have another magic machine!"

There is another magic machine!

Of course, there is another magic machine, otherwise Shi Yiwen would not have spent so much.

The reason why the "shuttle" was chosen is not because of its low technical content and simple structure. Rather, it was the advent of the shuttle that directly led to the emergence of the Jenny spinning machine, then the hydro-spinning machine, and then the mule machine......

"Yarn!"

Putting down the teacup, Shi Yiwen looked at Wu Cai and smiled.

"If Songjiang's looms are all equipped with shuttles within a year, the production capacity will increase by more than 4 times in a year, and at that time, there will definitely be a "yarn shortage", just relying on thousands of women to spin yarn by hand, it will definitely not be able to meet the demand, and then the yarn will be in short supply......

Shaking the paper fan in his hand, feeling a little cool breeze, Shi Yiwen said proudly.

"At that time, as long as you have yarn in your hand, you will definitely not worry about sales, and as for the competition, ......"

Smiling, Shi Yiwen didn't say any more, unlike Songjiang's weaving industry, which is mostly concentrated in the cloth village, Weitang's yarn is spun by thousands of men and women with hand-spinning wheels, which means that the yarn factory does not need to consider the competition of the industry leader, it only needs to produce, and there is no need to consider the competition in the same industry at all.

Looking at the smiling owner, Wu Cai said tentatively.

"Boss, do you really have a magic machine for spinning?"

Shi Yiwen smiled and pretended to be mysterious.

"Let's sell our shuttle first, and make the money from the yarn factory!"

Put away the folding fan, knocked the folding fan in his hand, and Shi Yiwen, who got up to leave, said as he walked.

"Spend a little money to do big things, this time Childe, I just want to exchange a pile of paper for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver!"