62. Project
For Wende personally, most of the world's wealth is meaningless.
As long as he has the source power, he can easily create it with the [Creation] ability. Precious metals such as gold and silver do not cost more than steel, let alone artificially valuable objects such as gems and pearls.
His abilities ensure that he is fed and clothed in most worlds, even if he expands to a group.
But that is the next choice.
Labor itself is a way of embodying the value of life.
As for Wind, although he has ignited the fireworks and become a plane traveler, he has risen above many groups as an individual. But there are some views that are difficult to change, and there is little sense of recognition with the ruling class, especially those who are far from being good enough.
Naturally, there is no interest in creating a batch of parasites that have little meaning to society.
Therefore, for Chu Yunxiu personally, Wende is willing to help as much as possible; But after expanding to a sect, Wende still hopes that it can have its own hematopoietic function, can develop and expand on its own, and in the process affect more people and move forward to a better side.
This is also a way of expanding his purpose.
So in terms of helping the sect find a stable income, Wende is still more concerned.
After coming to Chang'an, the property owned by Wende and them was about more than 10,000 taels of silver, part of which was the property of Chu Yunhe's brothers and sisters, including some of the income from the resale of Saibei's fixed property; The other part is the Cheng Yi donated by Baiyi Villa and some other Saibei martial arts, accounting for about half of the total.
This amount is a huge amount of money for an individual, but it is a drop in the bucket to support a sect.
In addition to these floating wealth, Wende and they also have some fixed production on the Chang'an side.
Most of them were gradually purchased by Chu Yunhe after he had the idea of returning to his hometown.
These include the east and west courtyards where they now live, and the four houses in which they live. It covers a large area, and the geographical location is also very good, on the street where Chang'an Gaomen gathers.
According to Chu Yunxiu, this is part of her ancestral home. After the Chu family was raided, the mansion was divided up, and Chu Yunhe later spent a lot of effort to recover so much with the help of the Xijing Sword Sect.
In general, it was not very smooth, because it was difficult to impress most of the residents on this street with money alone.
In addition, there are several storefronts on several commercial streets in Chang'an City. Three of them were purchased by Chu Yunhe, and they did not open shops, but subleased them to others; In addition, there is a cloth shop and a restaurant, which are transferred by Baiyi Villa.
A few days ago, Ma Qianliang brought Wen De and Chu Yunxiu to the door, in general, the door is not very big, and the business is not particularly prosperous, but it is profitable, and it can bring a stable income every year, as long as the business is legal.
Compared with Cheng Yi, these two stores made Chu Yunxiu more uneasy, because stable income has different meanings from floating wealth. Winder was very relieved, because as long as one or two of his ideas could be realized, these upfront investments in Baiyi Villa would soon pay off.
Finally, arable land, which is important to every Chinese, is not much on hand.
This is also a matter of no choice, as one of the birthplaces of Han culture, Chang'an, Shaanxi Province, as early as the Eastern and Western Han Dynasty, the fertile land was almost reclaimed. Even after more than a thousand years, not much has changed.
With the degree of dedication of the ancients to cultivated land, and the famous faction is almost a variant and alias of the local heroes, there are a few lands around Chang'an, and it is naturally not the turn of the Chuyun River in the north of the Saibei to worry about it......
Therefore, Wende only has two small Zhuangzi on hand, and in terms of geographical location, it is almost the rest of the modern Nagada, and the annual harvest is not much, which is not enough for Wende and these people to eat......
After counting his fortune, Wende began to write a list of plans.
It's not difficult, if you want to make a fortune in ancient times, there are enough ways for any traverser. And there are quite a few that can stand the "test of history."
In response to this, Wende naturally doesn't need to think about it, just pick out the one that suits him most and may also help the purpose to use.
After coming to Chang'an for more than 20 days, some "projects" are already in progress.
The first is to vomit fat and raise earthworms to carry out large-scale chicken raising.
This is not very technical, but the benefits are many.
With a stable source of chicken, Wende can develop many chicken dishes that have not yet come out or have been handed down, and improve the reputation, grade and income of its own restaurant.
And when the chicken is raised on a large scale, the eggs and chicken themselves can also ensure the nutritional needs of the disciples. This is also quite important, because in Zhang Yu's calculation for Wende, the cost of food and drink during the cultivation of an outer disciple is really not a small amount.
The overall progress of this project is very smooth, according to the manual design of the "earthworm house", the production of earthworms has been stable, but the purchase of chickens still need time to grow, so for the time being, it has not begun to make a profit.
In addition, the production of honeycomb coal and supporting furnaces is being carried out.
It's not technical, in other words, it's easy to copy, and it's unrealistic to expect it to be a stable source of income.
However, it is already autumn now, and at the same time, Shaanxi and nearby Shanxi are well-known coal-producing areas, with sufficient raw materials and proper preparation, Wende can make a good amount of money this winter.
Wende directly defines this as a one-shot deal.
Since then, the technology has spread, and the cost of honeycomb coal and furnaces is not high, and it is more convenient and easy to use, if it can be promoted and spread in the future, it can be regarded as his contribution to the world.
In addition to planning to make a fortune, the main reason for choosing this is that it has the meaning of "military training."
The status of craftsmen in this world is not low, and good craftsmen are even rarer, so Wende must first discover some that can be trusted, worthy of training, and can be cooperated for a long time.
At the same time as the large-scale production of honeycomb coal stoves for accumulation, some slightly disciplined "workers" were trained.
When several aspects are almost mature, Wende can move on to the next step of the plan, build the loom and open the factory.
This is a choice he made after careful consideration, not that he can't think of a better way to make money.
For example, the glass mirror, in the Renaissance period of Wende's hometown history, the Venice of the West relied on this thing to accumulate a lot of wealth.
On the whole, there is no difficulty in technology, and it can be overcome at the moment, and the raw materials required are only sand-based quartz, and the finished products manufactured are expensive, especially if they are slightly larger, they can be sold at sky-high prices.
But it was precisely because the money came so quickly that Winder chose to give up after hesitating.
The reason is simple, it is easy to make a mirror, but it is a little difficult to keep it completely and eat the bonus alone.
Wen De wasn't sure if the other sects in Chang'an would want to take it after learning about the Mirror's profits.
Although as a traveler, he is not particularly afraid of that kind of thing, but he is always fighting and killing, and it does not help Wende what he wants to achieve in this world.
So Wende could only regret to put this idea on hold first, and instead look for projects that are not so conspicuous and have a lot of income.
Cotton weaving was the answer he finally found.
Compared with the history of Wende's hometown in the same period, the emergence and development of cotton are almost synchronous.
The cultivation of cotton has been on a large scale, and there are large areas of cotton fields in Shaanxi and Henan. Among the commodities backfilled along the Silk Road, cotton produced in the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate was also a big deal.
Therefore, here in Chang'an, the source of the Silk Road, the trading volume of cotton is not low, but the price is not high.
The Winde program is the first piece of good news.
The second advantage is the price of cotton products.
The price of cotton cloth produced around Chang'an fluctuates up and down for four coins of silver, which is not very high; However, after the better-quality Jiangsu and Zhejiang cloth was transported thousands of miles away, the price of each horse exceeded one or two or five yuan, and the price was expensive and there was no worry about sales.
The main reason for this phenomenon is that the cotton spinning has certain requirements for the temperature and humidity of the air, otherwise the thread will be easily broken.
This problem has not been noticed for the time being, and it can be improved, so that the quality of local cotton cloth is far from that of Jiangsu and Zhejiang cloth.
And these are not a problem for Wende, with future experience and technology, with the difference in the cost of local fabrics or even lower, to pursue a price similar to that of Jiangsu and Zhejiang fabrics!
What's even better is that there is no worry about sales, Chang'an occupies the starting point of the Silk Road and has always been a gathering place for businesses. If there is really a "good quality and low price" cotton cloth, how many markets can be easily digested!