He has been a county magistrate in Rongshui County for three years, and this year is a crucial year, if he can do a few things with political achievements, promotion is definitely not a problem.

And this cotton farmer's problem is one of them!

And this time, he changed his goal and saluted Feng Yuchen, "Shopkeeper Feng, Mr. Feng, please persuade Mrs. Ling, no matter what, please ask her to help with this matter?" ”

Feng Yuchen looked at Tong Xiaowu and took a step forward, he knew that the lady had already decided to help them without throwing up her sleeves and leaving just now.

"Lady? Tell us what you think? ”

He also wondered if his woman had any way to solve such a problem.

"Hmm" she nodded, and said, "As I said before, there is a solution to this matter, but it may not work out, because this method is not only a backlog of costs, but also very troublesome. ”

Seeing Tong Xiaowu open his mouth, Lord Qi straightened up happily: "It's okay, no matter what, let's listen to it, let's all refer to it." ”

Anyway, what was said in the outer court could also be heard inside, Qi Hengyuan simply didn't enter the inner court, and the province saw that those pedantic people were angry.

Tong Xiaowu saluted slightly, turned around and sat on the chair on the other side, and Qi Hengyuan hurriedly asked people to serve tea.

"I heard that the purchase price of this pound of high-quality cotton is nine yuan, a little inferior to eight yuan, seven yuan, from our Rongshui County to Pinghe County at least four hundred miles, a car of cotton pulled there, a car at least one or two silver freight, and the price of cotton in Pingqi County is slightly lower than the price of cotton in our county, so we think about pulling cotton to other places to sell is definitely not possible."

Tong Xiaowu first made an analysis of the market.

Zhang Lichang inside snorted coldly when he heard this: "Nonsense, who doesn't know this?" ”

Tong Xiaowu didn't care, she helped Lord Qi, firstly, because he saw that Lord Qi was a county magistrate with good character, and secondly, for the sake of cotton farmers, anyway, she was just an idea, and she didn't suffer much.

"It's Zhang Lichang inside, right? You always say that I am rude, you don't let others interject after they finish speaking, you are always polite? Tong Xiaowu's eyes rolled, her eyebrows raised, and she looked like she was not afraid of heaven and earth.

Zhang Jiande was stunned when he heard this, and just wanted to refute, but the others also spoke, "You always listen quietly, shut up!" ”

Lord Qi also coughed heavily, and the meaning of the warning was very obvious.

Seeing that there was no movement inside, Tong Xiaowu spoke again: "We can find a way to sell cotton by ourselves." ”

Master Qi shook his head, "I also explained this before, the famous weaving mill in the county signed an agreement with cotton farmers in the spring, and the amount of cotton used this year is enough, and it can't eat the cotton of eleven villages at all." ”

"I'm not talking about this approach, I'm talking about another, we can set up rural cooperatives."

"Rural cooperatives?"

"Mrs. Tong? What does this rural cooperative mean? Master Qi asked strangely.

"It is the eleven villages that unite to spin the cotton of each household into threads, unified planning, unified design, unified brand, and weave into cloth, whether it is the county or other places, we can sell, and then we will not have to worry about the cost of freight."

Lord Qi stood up, and several village chiefs in the inner courtyard also came out, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, this proposal, they really heard it for the first time.

Eleven villages united? It's a little strange to think about.

"It's easy to say......" Although Zhang Jiande still doesn't understand the usefulness of rural cooperatives, he has already heard the problem:

"I thought it was a great idea? It turned out that I wanted cotton farmers to weave and sell their own cloth, what you said is really light, do you know how much cloth a peasant woman weaves and spins how many threads a day?

A woman works hard to weave cloth day and night, and she can't earn half a tael of silver a month, not to mention the salary, and then talk about this cloth, you can walk around casually in the county, what kind of cloth is cost? Do you know how much cotton thread is used?

You want to buy it elsewhere, do you know the market in other places? Don't worry about shipping, when I see it, I can't even earn shipping costs.

In the past, I had an uncle and brother who did a cloth business, just like your method, buying cotton by yourself, weaving cloth by yourself, and then going out to sell it, a pound of cotton is nine yuan, the wage of spinning thread and weaving into cloth is more than ten yuan, and the cost of one meter of cloth is more than 20 yuan.

A meter of cloth is only sold for 30 yuan, and a meter of cloth wastes so much effort to earn a few pennies, how many pennies? And what about shipping?

What do you earn besides wages? Weaving and selling cloth by yourself, these eleven villages, all moving, how much cloth do you weave? How much does it cost to sell? Can it be sold? Where to sell?

Where is the market? Now all the cloth villages have their own purchase channels, let's say that Fengrui cloth village, most of their cloth is produced by themselves or contacted farmers to weave, want to stuff our products into their homes, it is even more difficult! ”

Zhang Jiande's face was scarlet, and his voice was louder than the other.

When the others heard this, they also talked a lot, and they all felt that what he said was very reasonable.

Tong Xiaowu laughed, she stood up and said: "Nine yuan for a pound of cotton, more than ten yuan for a meter of cloth, how much is the sum of the two?" This is more than 20 wen, a pound of cotton deep processing, you earn more than 20 wen, are you still not satisfied? ”

"It's not that I'm not satisfied, it's my ability to sell the woven cloth, and if I can't sell it, I'm not blinded by the harvest in the field, but also by the hours of work.

As long as you don't make mistakes, the money will always be your own, but if you can't sell it, you may have nothing! ”

"yes, if that's the case, we'll lose even more!" Others chimed in.

"What if the woven cloth is not available on the market? Is it a fabric that has not appeared in the entire Xuanyuan country? How much can it be sold for? Do you still need to go out and sell it? Don't worry about shipping?

Coarse cloth thirty wen, how much is muslin, how much is silk? How much does satin cost? You only see the market of 30 Wen, but you can't see the market of 80 Wen, 100 Wen, or even one or two pieces of silver and one meter of cloth? Say I'm short-sighted and a woman, and I don't think you're even as good as a woman......"

Tong Xiaowu's voice was also doubled.

Everyone was quiet, and Zhang Jiande was also stunned by what the other party said, and he didn't react for a long time.

The corners of Qi Hengyuan's mouth raised, her previous worries had disappeared, and her words were very reasonable.

Zhang Jiande was unconvinced, in his eyes, no matter what she said, she was still a woman.