"I don't know what kind of business it is, you can earn tens of millions of taels of silver a year?" Zhong Hongzhang asked curiously, Zhong Ruolan and Shopkeeper He next to him also looked at Yan Liqiang, lest they miss every word Yan Liqiang said.

"Of course, it's a business to turn waste into treasure!" Yan Liqiang smiled calmly, "If the Zhong family believes me, Mr. Zhong will go back this time, and let the Zhong family do their best to hoard wool, buy pastures and prepare to raise sheep, because in the next few years, the wool in the northwest will become very sought-after, and those wool that is useless now will become exquisite and expensive fabrics, this business is really going to be done, and it is not impossible to earn tens of millions of taels of silver a year!"

Zhong Hongzhang reacted suddenly, his eyes suddenly widened, "Childe has found a way to make wool use for fabrics?"

"Yes, I already know how to turn wool into fabric!" Yan Liqiang said calmly, in the past two months, Yan Liqiang has already succeeded, sorted out all the steps, as long as the cheapest plant ash is made of soda ash, after a simple cleaning step, you can easily solve the problem of wool degreasing, and after the degreasing wool is dried and carded, it can be directly used for spinning like cotton, and the spinning efficiency of ordinary spinning machines is too low, so Yan Liqiang has made some improvements to the spinning machine, the principle of the hand-cranked Jenny spinning machine is not complicated, and there is no manufacturing difficulty compared with ordinary workshops and family spinning machines, and a few qualified carpenters are enough to be competentAfter using Yan Liqiang's improved spinning machine, the efficiency of a person's spinning can be increased by 16 times compared with the traditional spinning efficiency.

The three people of the Zhong family looked at Yan Liqiang in shock, looking at the incredulous gazes of the three people, Yan Liqiang didn't say anything more, but stood up, "Three of you come with me, I'll take the three of you to a place to see......"

Zhong Hongzhang, Zhong Ruolan and the shopkeeper naturally stood up, and Yan Liqiang directly walked out of the Yan family's living room with the three of them and walked towards the Yan family's backyard.

After walking a few steps, Zhong Hongzhang found that Yan Liqiang was going to take a few people to the backyard, and specially reminded him, "Yan Gongzi, is this convenient......?"

"Haha, Mr. Zhong, don't worry, there are no female dependents in the backyard of the Yan family, and my father and I live separately in the backyard, and there are just a few servants and maids!" Yan Liqiang said, his footsteps did not stop, and he directly led the three of them through the corridor and the two courtyards.

Along the way, the more they went inside, the more the three people of the Zhong family felt that the backyard was more and more heavily guarded, and there were guards of the Yan family guarding the heavy doors, and it was basically impossible for those who were waiting to come in.

After sparing for two minutes in the Yan family's mansion, Yan Liqiang took the three of them to a big courtyard, the guards of this courtyard were even stricter, at the gate of the courtyard, there were directly six guards guarding, and the gate of the courtyard was locked, until Yan Liqiang came to let the guards who opened the door open the courtyard door.

The courtyard is very empty and very large, on one side of the courtyard is a few rooms that can live in people, the middle of the courtyard is empty, there are no flower stands and plants, only flat floor tiles and wooden shelves placed in the yard, the wooden shelves are like steamers for steaming buns, and there are layers of dustpans on top of each other, and on the other side of the courtyard, there is a huge room, and there is a faint sound of similar machines and wooden wheels turning in that room.

As soon as the eyes of Zhong Hongzhang and the three of them came here, they were immediately attracted by the layers of things drying in the yard, what was drying on the wooden frame was a snow-white and soft thing, looking from a distance, it looked like cotton, Yan Liqiang took three people to a wooden frame, from a dustpan to dry on the wooden frame, reached out and grabbed a ball of things that were drying inside, and handed it to the three people of the Zhong family, "Mr. Zhong, does Miss Ruolan still have any shopkeepers who can recognize what this is?"

The things in the hand, as white and soft as a cloud, dazzling white in the sun, fluffy in the hand, there is a special delicate feel, and cotton is completely different, more textured, looking at the things in the eye, people who don't know it is absolutely difficult to associate it with the half-yellow and not white, mixed with sediment, sundries, feces, lanolin, and pieces of wool stuck together in the sheep.

"That's what it is...... Wool?" Zhong Hongzhang asked in shock.

"Well, to be precise, sheep's wool, after a special treatment process, the sheep wool that could not be used for weaving before became something in Mr. Zhong's hands, this thing has dried out and become similar to cotton, as long as it goes through a simple process again, basically, it can be used to spin things......"

"In the room over there, but someone is weaving something with this thing?" Zhong Hongzhang asked, pointing to the big room not far away where a voice came from.

"Hahaha, since they have all come here, the three of them will follow me over to take a look!" Yan Liqiang led the three of them towards the big room, "This courtyard is a special experimental place arranged by me at home, I found six reliable couples in the town, promised a lot of money, let them live in this courtyard for two months, do not contact the outside, and according to my instructions and requirements to explore the steps of using wool for weaving, in addition to me, the three are also the first time to visit here......"

Yan Liqiang said, he had come to the door of the big house, and with a slight stretch of his hand, he pushed the door of the room open.

There were more than a dozen people in the room, both men and women, and a steward in the Yan family's mansion, and when they saw Yan Liqiang push the door in, all of them stopped what they were doing at once and saluted Yan Liqiang.

Yan Liqiang smiled and greeted everyone, "Don't stop, just continue, I'll take someone to see ......"

Hearing Yan Liqiang say this, the people who had just stopped immediately got busy with the work in their hands.

Looking at the things in the house, Zhong Hongzhang, who had just been subdued by the white wool, Zhong Ruolan and the three shopkeepers opened their eyes again and refreshed their three views- There are a lot of strange utensils in this big room, those utensils have never been seen by several people, among them there is a kind of utensils, the size of a bed, it seems to be a spinning machine, but it is completely different from the spinning machine that several people have seen, the traditional spinning machine, the spindle is placed horizontally, there is only one, and the spinning machine in front of you is much larger than the traditional spinning machine, the spinning spindle on the spinning machine is not horizontally, but vertically, on a spinning machine, there are sixteen spindles, as the woman sitting in front of the spinning machine shakes the handle, the sixteen white threads hanging on the spinning machine are flying up, like the most magical magic in the world......

Just glanced at the spinning machine, Zhong Hongzhang knew that the value of the spinning machine was immeasurable, this is something that can increase a person's spinning efficiency by sixteen times, not to mention anything else, as long as a person has such a thing at home, it is amazing, a woman who can spin yarn, shaking this, is enough to feed a large family......

On the other hand, the shuttle loom made Zhong Hongzhang unable to take his eyes off it all of a sudden......

"These utensils here are all made by myself, tried and improved here, and have been finalized, it is a coincidence, just tomorrow, the first batch of spinning machines and looms made by the manufacturing bureau will be sent to the town, I will open a large workshop in the town to produce cloth, and the first batch of wool cloth will come out in less than half a month at the earliest......" Yan Liqiang said while walking around the room with three people.

Everything in front of him, for those who are not diligent and do not distinguish between grains and grains, may not be able to understand and do not know the meaning, but for a well-informed person like Zhong Hongzhang, who has been in the world for decades, these things in front of him are like pushing the door to a new world for him......