Chapter 260: Countless Black Heart Cotton for the Living
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, all the items provided by Wei Minsheng are no longer provided for free, but are included in Wei Minsheng's separate account.
Since all the materials for the construction of Huaxia Villa in the past were owned by Wei Minsheng, the vast majority of the assets in the hands of the Ministry of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration are liabilities.
The monthly salary of the fixed position must be paid, the tasks issued must be paid, and the minimum guarantee of all regular members must be in place, all of which are working hard to increase the debt of Huaxia State.
Although there is still a poll tax and a tax on the issuance of tasks in Huaxia, these taxes have actually been planned for a long time to be used, and where they will be used, at least in the absence of a significant increase in the population of Huaxia Kingdom, there is not much surplus in the short term.
As for the income from the power plants under the Ministry of Industry, it is a drizzle for the total debt of Huaxia now.
Although a lot of food was produced by the vegetables, chicken farms and pig farms produced by those vegetable greenhouses, it was eventually transferred to Wei Minsheng in the form of dishes, and then exchanged for the materials urgently needed by Huaxia.
After this part of the income is offset by various expenses, the biggest advantage is that it provides a large part of the salary income for the regular members of the Huaxia State, and solves more than half of the daily food consumption.
No matter how you calculate it, Wei Minsheng is now the largest creditor of Huaxia State, and at the same time the nominal top decision-maker, and most importantly, Huaxia State is still completely under his protection.
Therefore, as long as it is the work he arranges, as long as there are no obvious problems, it is impossible for the following departments to have any slackness, and they will make arrangements as soon as possible.
After a period of study and simple trial operation, the formal members have basically mastered the method of using corner fabrics to produce recycled cotton, and under the guidance of some video materials, they have learned the processing technology of quilts.
During this time, the recycling of waste clothes in the Minsheng Canteen went very smoothly, and even had to arrange a small truck to go to the recycling points of each canteen to transport the clothes back to the warehouse.
Under everyone's word of mouth, more and more families have become loyal customers of Minsheng Canteen, and several businesses promote each other, making Minsheng Canteen almost a household name in the local area.
And with the help of Long Hao, the clothes transported to the warehouse were quietly transferred to the warehouse of Huaxia Kingdom, and then sent to where they should go by the people of Huaxia Villa.
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Although it rarely snows and freezes in winter in the south, because the air is relatively humid, especially on both sides of the Yangtze River, the water attached to the linen cloth will take away a lot of heat from the surface of the human body when it evaporates, so it will make people feel very cold, which is a feeling of being cold to the bones.
Even if you burn a fire in front of you, the place where the fire shines is a little warm, but the back of the fire that can't be lit is as if you are not wearing clothes.
Winter in the north may seem icy and snowy, but the air is drier, and as long as you find a place where you can shelter from the wind, your body will feel very different.
This difference between the north and the south is, in some people's words: the north is cold skin but not cold-hearted, and the south is cold-skinned and more cold-hearted.
It is often said that snow does not turn cold when it snows, and that is because when the snow melts, it takes away a lot of heat from the surroundings, so the environment appears colder.
But in some places in the south, the temperature is almost always above and below freezing throughout the winter, so some people who are used to staying in the north laugh at themselves: a wolf in the north is frozen into a dog in the south.
The harsh environment naturally weeds out those who are weak and sick and lack food and clothing, so those who can survive in this era have very good physical fitness.
Even the mentally ill people who are everywhere in the real world are very rare in another time and space.
It's not that there isn't, but that people who are so mentally fragile simply don't have the conditions to live.
For these people living on both sides of the Yangtze River, the biting cold is the biggest test for them to survive the winter, and many people who are not in good health will not survive the spring of the next year because of this irresistible natural conditions.
But this winter, people outside Huaxia Villa found that in addition to the large number of thick warm clothes that suddenly appeared in the auction room, there was also a thick quilt.
This quilt is not only thicker than the "jacket" that everyone uses, but also feels unusually soft and fluffy to the touch, and there is a warm feeling to the touch.
The surface of the quilt is covered with dense cotton threads, and what is even more surprising is that each cotton thread seems to be carefully kneaded with the flocculent stuffed inside, no matter how it is stacked, it will not be as easy to clump together as reeds and hay.
These colorful quilts are also priced according to their weight, and a pound of quilts costs two hundred Huaxia coins.
The length of the quilt is two meters, and the width is one meter two, one meter five, one meter eight and two meters four specifications, you can choose different specifications according to your needs.
According to the instructions of the auction house, this kind of quilt is used to make beds, but where are these poor people who have never used quilts willing to give up, such a warm quilt is simply a tyrannical thing to use to make beds.
Some people bought two old sheets and sewed them tightly together with a needle and thread to make them a quilt that could be covered, which was much more comfortable to use than the original quilt.
With such a precedent, everyone followed suit, and the number of old sheets was not much, which led to the shortage of old sheets.
Under everyone's strong request, Wei Minsheng had no choice but to comply with the people's wishes and went to the wholesale market to buy a large number of new quilt covers of various colors and specifications.
The quilt cover of one or twenty yuan a bed was sold for five or six times the price of Wei Minsheng, and it was in short supply, almost as soon as it was put on the shelves, it was swept away.
Although a thick and wide quilt and quilt cover cost hundreds of Chinese coins, many people see the superior warmth and beautiful appearance of the quilt bought by others, and they grit their teeth or start a bed, after all, this quilt can be used by several people together, and it is easier to solve the problem of resisting the cold at night than buying clothes.
Some people who have just migrated to the family with less income also find that the quilt cover is really convenient, less than a month's salary can buy a bed, even if there is no money to buy a quilt, but find some hay to put in it, you can also achieve a warmer effect than a quilt.
And in the summer, the hay can be used as a casing, and the softness of cotton cloth is not comparable to that of linen.
The cold wind by the river still howls endlessly, but these people who are attached to the Huaxia country to make a living are surprised to find that the cold wind can no longer take away any human life in such a simple way.