Under the shadow of the lamp, Xu Zixian discussed the matter of the cotton spinning wheel with Kong He, Fu Qian, Chen Daojian and others.

Overseas trade, cotton cloth is also a bulk export, but Fujian Road is mainly to export raw silk, silk is subject to silkworms, there is no mulberry wood and silkworm people to pay for the labor, no matter how much money can not be smashed more raw silk.

Cotton cloth is different, the surface of cotton cloth has been promoted, originally Guangnan East Road and Guangnan West Road and Fujian Road first planted cotton, and then gradually to Jiangling and Jiangnan East Road, and then to Shandong East Road and Hedong Road, now the country is suitable for planting cotton and successful places, about two Guangzhou, Fujian, Jiangnan and Shandong.

In these places, there are many cotton fields, sufficient planting experience, high cotton yield, and rich textile traditions, and the more cotton cloth, the more businessmen come to buy, which promotes the increase of cotton fields and weavers, which is a virtuous circle.

Xu Zi first took into account that the Hou Mansion now has a lot of available manpower, and he takes turns to go to various towns to work as casual workers, and the money he earns is the money for exemption from military service, and he is handed over to the Hou Mansion, this income cannot be said to be small, but it always feels a bit wasteful, and there is also a lot of uncertainty. Now this is not the case, so sometimes, forced labor may not be able to turn into real profits, and people who have not worked to make money are not easy to ask for money from them.

Coupled with the kindness of the Hou Mansion, it is not as harsh and exploitative as when Li Cheng was there, and the income is definitely not as much as when Li Cheng was there.

Feeling this, Xu Zi first planned to think of one more way to make use of manpower as much as possible.

"Men can still work in shifts, and I will have a place to use them in the future." Xu Zixian said: "It's too wasteful for women to be idle in the farm, I know that many women have to do housework, farm work, and laundry and robes for people, but in the end they are still a lot of idle." There are many people who have a square car at home, but I have seen those small square cars, there is too little cloth, too much time, and there is not much money after all, so in addition to giving their own cloth, women who are willing to sit for a day and make money from the cloth are still too few after all. ”

Xu Zi first thought that there were at least three or four thousand women in each village, and some unsuitable ones were removed, or those whose families were wealthy and unwilling to live and endure hardships, and there were always two or three thousand women who were willing to make cloth.

In general textile factories, even if they employ thousands of people, even if they are large factories, they are not necessarily busy when they receive orders.

If you can make use of thousands of women, even if it is not as comfortable as the money for exemption, it can be regarded as a steady income that is constantly extinction, and if it is used well, it may be more profitable than the money for exemption.

"The square car is still mainly hand-cranked single spindle." Speaking of miscellaneous studies, Fu Qian was much more relaxed, and said in a very determined tone at the moment: "All night long, I can produce a pound of cotton yarn." It's quite hard, so it's not a very poor person, the cotton is just a sideline, and if you have time to shake a few times, if you really want to make yarn, you still have to set up a factory, and use the big square car with the cooperation of three people, day and night, so that the speed of cotton is fast. If the prince plans to call the woman in the village to shop yarn, and not to run a textile factory, this is a little difficult. ”

"That's what I'm thinking about." Xu Zixian said: "With the Dafang car cooperated by three or five people, that is the business of the factory, so there is no hurry for the time being." Using a single spindle by hand is too inefficient, and the gains outweigh the losses. I've heard that there is a bicycle on the Theory of Things, is there such a thing, can it be made practical? ”

"Yes." Fu Qian said: "The pedal workshop is the most used in Jiangnan East Road, and the bicycle is the most popular in the counties around Suzhou. In fact, this thing has been popularized in the south of the Yangtze River as early as now, but it has not been implemented here in Fujian, for some reason. ”

Chen Daojian said: "The reason is also simple, when I was young, my grandmother and mother used a hand-cranked workshop car to supplement the family, and then they couldn't make money, so they went to work in the textile factory. If the pedal workshop is promoted, who wants to go to the factory to do work? ”

"There's a reason for that." Xu Zixian said with a smile: "Technology transmission may lag behind, and it is normal to be thousands of miles away and decades behind. He looked at Fu Qian and said, "How much is the pedal cart worth?" ”

"There should be at least eight to ten fights." Fu Qian said: "If you go to Jiangnan to buy a sea ship and transport it back, you have to add freight on top." ”

"The pedal bike is three to five times more efficient than the hand crank." Xu Zixian said unhurriedly: "I can produce three or five catties of cotton yarn a day, and there are always more than 100 catties a month." One hundred pounds of cotton yarn, the current price is worth five dollars, the cotton cost should be consistent, the benefit is four dollars, if according to the practice of exempt money, forty days, a woman for the Hou Mansion to earn five or six dollars is done, if we take the textile machine to send to each household, according to the textile machine ten times the cost to calculate, two months to return to the capital, and then set a contract with the women, I don't want them in vain, to three times recycling, they earn two times a month, Hou Fu also earns two times a month, this is the way to trickle the water and flow for a long time......"

Fu Qian and Chen Daojian are both good at arithmetic, and after a little calculation, they know that Xu Zixian's method is excellent.

For 3,000 women, they can pay 6,000 yuan a month, and their income of more than 70,000 yuan a year is stable.

The important thing is that the 40-day exemption from service has not been removed, and the men can continue to work in the towns, and at the same time, if there is any place for employment in the future, the men who are 3,000 men can also be used, which is tantamount to making use of the women's manpower that had been wasted before.

Kong He and Fu Qian glanced at each other, and they both felt that Shizi's intentions were really delicate and ingenious.

The people's power attached to the Hou Mansion could have been used in this way. But how can those high-ranking sects be so ingenious? Most of them forcibly delay the service time of the men and women in Dingkou, relying on the wealth of Fujian and the many places for casual workers, forcing the hidden households of the official village to serve, and even regardless of whether they ask, it is to forcibly levy the exempt money into the Fengqian money, and stipulate the amount of money, as long as it is less than handing it over to the government, it is always cost-effective, and they are still not afraid that the hidden households of the official villages will not agree, once they disobey and get out to become a tax collector of the imperial court, it will be much harder than the original situation, so even if they are forced to pay a considerable amount of money for entering the service and exempting money, the Ding women of each family still pinch their noses and agree, It's better than being kicked out.

Xu Zi did this first, which is considered a combination of two benefits, the women can do some work to make money, and the Hou Mansion has opened up another source of wealth, which is really well-intentioned.

After all, it is not the industrial age, there are a large number of steam engines or water-powered textile factories in the era of industrial civilization, in order to sell the emerging countries do not hesitate to launch wars to open the trade door of late-developing countries, and at this time it is still the era of all handmade products, the output of cotton cloth is far from catching up with the needs of the population increase, and the domestic market is far from saturated, not to mention a large number of overseas sales.

Of course, according to this algorithm, in addition to taking care of the work of the family, women can be busy all day and night to finish their work, and according to Xu Zixian's calculation, they must be handed in according to the number, and if they can't pay it, they will be compensated, which is also nothing to say.

It's hard work, but there's money to be made, and it's not like the kind of meanness that squeezes the oil out of the stones on your own estate.

It's just that no matter what, in the end, I still feel that the son of the world in front of me is resolute, and there are still some things that make people feel indescribable and unclear.

After discussing the matter of the cotton yarn mill machine, Xu Zixian talked about the construction of a pig pen, originally planning to raise chickens, but later found that the chickens were still free-range this year.

Anyone who plans to raise chickens on a large scale will most of them lose all their money.

Once you have chicken plague, how much you raise and how much you die.

Raising sheep or herding sheep, low efficiency, less meat, calculating, or pig raising is the most economical.

"If the Chengding man can't get to work for a while, he will come to the side of the courtyard first......" Xu Zi first said to Kong He: "The southwest corner gate of the courtyard went out, and the vegetable garden only used ten acres, which is too small, and it is also a big expense to eat when there are more people in the future, and the vegetable garden can be opened out of two or three hundred acres by dozens of people. ”

Fu Qian said: "According to the record of the agricultural administration, the soil is covered with river beach mud, and the fertility is excellent, and the arrangement of the prince is just right. ”

Xu Zixian smiled slightly, he had never read the agricultural administration book, but when he was a child, he went to the countryside, but he saw with his own eyes that vegetable farmers used the silt by the river to fertilize the fields.

When it comes to the construction of a pigsty, it is also necessary to build two large rows of low houses by the river, which can be fenced with railings.

Xu Zixian is magnificent, as soon as it is built, it is called to build three or four hundred, and in the future, he will always raise hundreds of pigs at once, slaughter them one after another, plus some fishing, buy some chickens and raise less, which can ensure the supply of meat for more than 1,000 people.

This calculation, the cost of opening a vegetable field is not large, and the three meals for the strong men who serve can be done, and this matter can be done well with less than a hundred times.

To buy a textile machine, you have to go to Jiangling to buy it, take a boat for ten days, and return for ten days, prepare to send Kong He and Fu Qian, and bring a few teeth to escort it.

The cost of the road is just a small number, ten yuan for a machine, and three thousand machines are close to it, and this money has to be saved for more than half a year according to the current income of the Hou Mansion.

"I can be ordered to go north at any time." Kong He has always been serious about business, never shirking, nor complaining about hardship, just looked at Xu Zixian and said with a wry smile: "How many family backgrounds, how many things to do." Moreover, the prince has already received the commission, and the letter can be sent the next day, and after he is appointed as the regimental training envoy, he must always show an appearance. Otherwise, not only will it not be able to deal with the people of the towns, and it will not be able to make the place feel at ease, but it will also make people have a gap to take advantage of, impeachment of the prince and his appointment as a group exercise, without any rules, no movement, slack off on official affairs, and unbearable to build. ”

Fu Qian sneered and said: "These people, it's not okay to help do things, pulling back legs and restricting them is a top ten, and the prince must not take it lightly." ”

Chen Daojian didn't speak, he was young, Xu Zixian had already found a great Confucian Wu Shizhong, and he didn't need another pure Confucian in the house, so no matter how big or small the things in the mansion were, now I will bring Chen Daojian with me, and ask Chen Daojian to listen when discussing things, so that a good "secretary in charge" can be created, not a nerd.

"To do great things, you must first make a charter." Xu Zi glanced at Chen Daojian first, and said unhurriedly: "The workshop is an important matter, but it is not the most urgent thing. Team training is also an important matter, and it is an urgent matter. Opening vegetable fields and raising pigs are not so important compared to these things, but they are things that can be started immediately. Prioritizing things into priorities, important and not, can be done immediately and must be done, but can be done slowly, which makes it easier to start doing things instead of sitting and chatting without a goal. ”

As for Chen Daojian, like Fu Qian, he has always been known as a prodigy, and he was a talent at the age of fourteen.

For now, if the Hou Mansion recommends someone to Beijing to take the exam within three years, Chen Daojian will definitely be the first person to be the first choice, and it is also a good time to write in the Hou Mansion, and the first-class Qing important position among the officials, Xu Zixian also plans to promote him to a Confucian Lin Lang first, and the position of the official of the Nine Grades of Literature and Prose is called Chen Daojian to do it first, even so, there are still many people muttering behind their backs, saying that Chen Daojian's arrival in the Hou Mansion is a pearl secret investment, and it was not until Xu Zixian took office as the regimental training envoy and the general of the three products that these floating discussions gradually subsided.

And now Chen Daojian feels that the most fortunate thing for him is to come to the Hou Mansion to serve, even if there are not so many favorable conditions, just listening to the teachings by Xu Zixian's side is really worth it.

Kong He muttered: "It seems that there are really people in the world who are born to know. ”

Fu Qian bowed and said: "I am respectful, the prince has been sent, and I will do my best to do my best, and there will never be the slightest slack." ”

Xu Zi smiled first and waved his hand, of course he wouldn't tell these people, this remark actually came from the opinion of someone in later generations, and he was also a genius who was not born in the world, and it was strange to say his words and not shock the few in front of him!

"As for the regimental training fee, I already have an idea, you wait and see."

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At noon the next day, another priest came from Fucheng, and sure enough, he sent the seal letter.

At the same time, the Dadu Governor's Mansion also has an official document, that is, Xu Xu Zixian can "act cheaply" at the junction of Houguan and Sanshan County, Minqing, and Nanping counties, and can also "raise money on the spot", as for this means that the king of Qi or the king of Zhao, the former should mean the king of Qi, and the latter is of course the king of Zhao.

With the commission, the letter, and the official document, the whole set of procedures is complete, and at the same time as receiving the letter, Xiaomei and Xiuniang and others made an exception and went out of the inner house and rushed to the outer courtyard.

Li Yikong, Qin Dongyang and others were all in the outer courtyard, and they watched the smiling little sister present the official robe of General Sanpin Zhaowu.

The color of the civil and military official uniforms of the Great Wei Dynasty is only detailed, and there is no very low-end thing like a complement, and the color of the civil and military official uniforms is cyan from the seventh to the ninth grade, blue from the seventh to the fifth grade, the red robe from the fifth to the third grade, and the purple robe from the third rank to the first grade.

Regardless of martial arts, they are all the same official robes, and the colors are the same, and they are also divided into official clothes and regular clothes, as well as sacrificial clothes.

The sacrificial garments do not wear a foot and a head, but a beam crown. The official robe is a formal official robe, which is used for official court meetings, political discussions, and is worn during festivals. Regular clothes are worn in daily office, wearing soft feet, and the form of the robe is the same as that of the official uniform, but there are no embroidered accessories, but a solid color robe.

The robes and crowns of the warriors, like those of the civil officials, except that the cuffs were narrowed and the hem was on the knees, making it easy to ride horses and shoot arrows.

At the same time, it has boots, belts, gold and silver fish ornaments and other subtle distinctions.

The people in this court, what kind of official position, whether it is civil or military, and a few products, can basically be determined at a glance, it is not complicated, and there is no need for those messy patches to distinguish.

"As the saying goes, it's still good." Xu Zixian glanced at the purple robe on his body and said with a smile: "I wore a red robe before, but I didn't think there was anything, but now I have changed to a purple robe, although it is not a second grade, it feels different from before." ”

Xiuniang's eyes are full of love, and the little sister is almost the same, Xu Zixian is well-proportioned and tall, and he wears a military attache purple robe on his body, which adds a bit of heroic atmosphere.

"Little sister has worked hard." Xu Zixian deliberately thanked the little sister first, and the little sister smiled and said, "Don't thank me, I'm just putting on a show, Sister Xie Xiuniang." ”

"Okay, thank you Xiuniang." Xu Zi first bowed his hand to Xiuniang again, and Xiuniang's face was flushed.

Li Yi and others also came up at this time to congratulate Xu Zixian.

In any case, there is such a great achievement before the attack on the lord, as long as there is nothing wrong at the bottom, it is unlikely that there will be any accidents when he enters Beijing to handle the matter of attacking the lord.

"From yesterday to this morning, I have paid off all of Dr. Wu's debts." Li Yi stepped forward and said, "It cost three hundred and sixteen yuan, most of which is still medical expenses, all of which are the expenses of Dr. Wu's wife from illness to death...... There are also coffin funeral expenses, which add up to so much. ”

"I'm just waiting for his letter." Xu Zixian smiled, and Wu Shizhong had to write a letter to thank him, although he may not feel comfortable, but judging from Wu Shizhong's attitude towards his wife, although this person has a strong character and Geng Jie is withdrawn, he is not the kind of person who does not pay attention to natural reason and human feelings.

"Yes." Li Yi said: "As soon as Thaksin arrives, we can go to the invitation again, and the matter will be done." ”

Xu Zixian nodded slightly, Wu Shizhong is an important candidate, the main key is that Xu Zixian knows that there will be a huge turmoil in the next few months, and he has to have a letter and rely on it, and the well-known Pure Confucianism in China will go to Beijing once, so that a lot of trouble can be eliminated. Otherwise, there is no need to go to such great lengths to recruit a celebrity.

Li Yi frowned again and said: "Acting cheaply and raising money on the spot, these two hats are too big, and they are actually not easy to wear." ”

Xu Zixian smiled: "They have their plans, we do ours." ”

Speaking to the outer courtyard, Li Yi and the others said goodbye to do what they were doing, and Xu Zixian watched the training of the young people in the house with peace of mind.

At present, houses are being built on the vacant land on the west side of the annex, which are all neatly arranged tiled houses, and several wells have been dug to make it easy to use water, so there is no need to go to the river to fetch water. Moreover, the ditch is dug to lead directly to the vegetable field in the north, and the terrain is also high, so there will be no worry about backfilling in rainy days.

Many townspeople came to see it, and they were very envious, and most of the walls of the general village residences were rammed earth walls with grass, like the houses built here in the courtyard, and they really had a lot of money.

The building here is to give nearly 100 teenagers and tooth generals to live, although the courtyard is large, it cannot accommodate so many people, and it is inconvenient to travel back and forth.

There are too many people, and the space is not enough, so it is very convenient to open a door outside the courtyard and go out to a great martial arts arena.

Originally, it was intended to be used by more than 100 people, but now there are more than 1,000 regiments to train soldiers and horses, training, living, and the places are not enough, the houses must be covered, the kitchens must be expanded, and the martial arts arena must be enlarged.

Before the renovation of the yard was completed, the teenagers continued to train in the other yard.

The newcomers are still standing in line, which is quite hard, but after more than ten days, they have begun to adapt.

Zhang Huchen and Lin Cunxin are a few tooth generals, as well as Jin Baoyi, Wu Weisan, Li Fuxiang and others, all of whom are instructors, but they are not used to the method of queue military posture, Xu Zixian is not forced to these adult tooth generals, just restrain them with grace knots and laws, these adults are not better than teenagers after all, this can also see the importance of raising young tooth generals, orders are prohibited, Weifu uses himself, and these teenagers can be cultivated into their own henchmen very smoothly.

Today, Qin Dongyang ordered everyone to practice the battle formation, each side was divided into three posts, facing each other, and the queue stood very neatly after the formation, and the entire army formation was as bright as tofu cut by a knife.

At this time, Zhang Huchen and the others all looked at Xu Zixian, full of respect for Xu Zixian's queue training and the practice of changing formations.

The training of the teenagers in front of them has only been less than twenty days, and the array transformation is already quite sophisticated.

If you change to an ordinary battalion, two or three months of training may not have such results.

Of course, they didn't know that Xu Zixian had to show these teenagers the formation map at night, teach them the formation, forward, backward, left and right, close to each other, spread out, and adjust the formation according to the changes in the terrain.

In the process of teaching, it is also the process of Xu Zixian's own learning, from which he has benefited a lot.

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