Mutton can be eaten, needless to say, but the value of mutton is relatively low in sheep. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The most important thing is wool, in the context of the great industrial age, wool textiles are the best warm clothing, wool sweaters, wool blankets, all wool fabrics are effective cold and frost resistant.

In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, wool was an important industrial raw material, and it can be said that without wool, the British Industrial Revolution may not have been able to develop so quickly.

At that time, because of the opening of new shipping routes, a large number of British textiles were sold abroad, which promoted the crazy rise of the wool textile industry.

This was followed by the expansion of their ranches by many British aristocrats who drove out tenant farmers who rented land from their domains, demolished their houses, and sowed pasture in their fields.

It was legal for the aristocracy to drive out the tenant farmers because they were the owners of the land, the tenant farmers only rented their land for cultivation, and the owners of the land had the right to dispose of their own land.

But the problem is that many of the tenant farmers have no source of income after they are driven out, and with it, a large number of tenant farmers flock to the city of London and become vagabonds and vagabonds.

You can imagine what it is like to have a large number of homeless people lying in front of Buckingham Palace, the royal palace of the United Kingdom.

People want faces, trees want bark!

So many homeless people ran to the gate of Buckingham Palace and let foreign friends see it, where did the Queen of England put her face?

So the British government did something very immoral, and that was to introduce laws that stipulate that homeless people could not find work, and that anyone could use these homeless people as slaves.

This forced many of Britain's poor to turn from sharecroppers to vagabonds, and from homeless vagrants to sweatshop workers.

This incident is mentioned in the textbook, which is the famous sheep cannibalism enclosure movement.

And the root of all this is just to occupy more land, raise more sheep, and shave a little more wool on the sheep.

Ziggy didn't know how much wool could come out of a sheep, but Ziggy knew that wool could be shaved once a year, and as long as there were no pests and diseases, raising sheep was a lucrative business.

In addition to wool, sheepskin is also a very valuable leather.

Unlike now there are so many processing technologies, in the early days of the industrial age, no one wanted goat's sheepskin, because the sheepskin of goats is harder, but the sheepskin of sheep is very soft and delicate, and the ductility is very good, and because the texture of sheepskin is more delicate, many nobles only use sheepskin to make leather clothes, and sheepskin leather products can be very beautiful without much repeated processing.

In contrast, goatskin and cowhide leather products can only be used to make leather shoes because they are relatively hard, but sheepskin can be used to make leather clothing.

Leather clothes and leather gloves made of sheepskin have a soft texture and are very comfortable to wear, and are popular with women.

It is important to know that cowhide is an important raw material used to make leather armor.

Who has ever seen a girl on the street wearing a leather coat as hard as leather armor?

Can a girl not wear a leather coat?

However, cotton and linen clothes are not as warm as leather clothes, and most importantly, after processing, sheepskin leather clothes are very textured and aristocratic.

And the Holy Odin Empire only has cattle and goats, and sheep only have in the north, the Blue Star Grassland controlled by the steppe orcs.

Throw away the mutton, sheepskin, and wool, and leave the bones and horns.

Sheep bones are sprinkled in the ground after calcination, it is a very good phosphate fertilizer, pure natural and pollution-free, chemical fertilizer can not be compared at all, crops grow in this kind of ground, increase yield or something, don't say it.

Horns are an important industrial product, and they can be made into horn combs, stamps and seals, and horns.

In particular, the horn is an extremely important military material, and the sound transmission tools such as drums and gongs are large and inconvenient to carry, but the horn made by the horn of cattle and sheep is much smaller in size, but the sound effect is good.

The command system of the army relies on flags during the day and basically relies on sound at night, and the time when the army is formed is fine, but if it is not formed, when there is chaos, such as being defeated by the enemy, everyone is fleeing for their lives, who wants to carry such a heavy and useless drum and gong? Whoever brings a stupid hat, is it okay to run for their lives with such a heavy impact!

The horn made of ox and sheep horn is different, just hang it on the waist, and you can take it out and blow it when you use it.

To use modern terms, it is an important strategic material!

Later, when Ziggy has an army, Qige will definitely use the raw materials of cattle and sheep horn as a prohibited commodity, and if you sell it, you will be an enemy!

Nothing of the sheep, from the outermost fur to the bones, will be wasted, and the whole body can be used.

Therefore, the sheep industry is very profitable, but it is definitely to slaughter and process it yourself to make money, and a whole sheep is sold to others to sell to those nobles, which is simply an uninformed herdsman's talent, and what you can earn by slaughtering and processing sheep by yourself is definitely doubling the price at which the whole sheep is sold.

As mentioned above, a sheep can be sold for thirty to forty silver coins in the Holy Odin Empire, this price is not affordable for the commoners of the Empire, but for the nobles of the arrogant and lascivious Holy Odin Empire, it is just a drop in the bucket, in Cantonese, "drizzle~"

But how much can a fine sheepskin glove fetch for? Twenty or thirty silver coins! It's almost the price of selling a whole sheep, but how much sheepskin can be used for a woman's leather glove?

How much can a sheepskin garment sell for? One or two gold coins! Of course, a sheepskin garment needs a whole sheepskin.

In the early days of the industrial age in the real world, which of the European ladies wore leather clothes instead of sheepskins in winter?

Sheepskin and wool are used, and mutton can still be sold for money! I can't sell it for myself, and look at what the children in Grizzly Village have become?

But the most profitable thing in the sheep industry is the wool produced by sheep, and the wool sweaters and blankets woven into them can be sold for 50 silver coins to 70 silver coins, don't think that this price is very low, but the wool on a sheep can be woven into many pieces of wool, and the wool can be sheared twice a year every year, and two or three catties of wool can be sheared at a time, and a sweater is less than half a catty?

The most profitable thing is that the sheep can produce their hair every year.

What? The lamb can't get that much hair?

The little sheep's hair is fine and soft, and the number is small, and the fluff on the little sheep's body is shaved off, which is called lamb's wool!

It is the most high-end wool product, and the sweater woven from the wool of the little sheep is more comfortable to wear than the sweater woven by the adult sheep, and the price is several times higher than the sweater made of wool from the adult sheep!

Now you know why those British aristocrats were so crazy during the enclosure movement, right?

The profit generated by raising a sheep is dozens or hundreds of times the profit!

What did the great sage Lao Ma say? If there is 100 percent profit, the capitalists will dare to trample on all the laws of the world! If there is 300 percent profit, they will dare to risk the gallows!

The profit of the sheep industry is not known to be hundreds of times!

So now the question is, since the sheep industry is so profitable, why doesn't Ziggy process the sheep industry himself?

It's simple, there is no one in Ziggy!

To make woolen clothes, woolen blankets, you need a textile mill, a woolen mill, to make sheepskin coats, sheepskin gloves, you need a tannery, you need a slaughterhouse to produce lamb, to make a croissant comb, you need a handicraft workshop......

These require a lot of manpower, and what Ziggy lacks most right now is manpower.

Biden and the eight of them are martial artists at all, so they can't be asked to weave wool, right?

Those woolen mills, textile mills, tanneries, slaughterhouses, all need people, as well as trafficking and escort manpower, this is a huge industry, without hundreds of thousands of people, it can't be played at all!

And how many people are there in the cooperative now? Ziggy counts one, Biden counts the eight of them, and then barely counts Aunt Mary and Zigger's Minotaur slaves, Dwayne Johnson, a total of eleven! There are not enough people to sell whole sheep, and even the entire grizzly bear village has only two or three hundred people, and this still counts all the old people and children!

These factories and those factories are very distant things at present!

Therefore, even if he knows that the sheep industry is so profitable, Zig can only honestly sell whole sheep to make a small amount of money now!

Of course, a sheep selling for thirty or forty silver coins is already a huge wealth for Ziggy at present, and for the poor and white Grizzly Bear Village villagers.

And all Ziggy has to pay is an iron pot, and an iron pot can be exchanged for two hundred sheep, and the wholesale price is one hundred sheep.

Seeing this, many people will ask, is it really that profitable to trade iron pots with steppe orcs?

There really is!

In the real world, even in the Republic of China period, one pot can still exchange two sheep with the herdsmen on the grassland!

In the Republic of China, due to the increasingly convenient transportation, the materials on the grassland are no longer so scarce, and a pot can be exchanged for two sheep, not to mention the era when the two ethnic groups hated each other and lacked materials on the grassland hundreds of years ago.

This is the true embodiment of scarcity, how low the price of cattle and sheep on the steppe is, people in the inland areas can't imagine it, and how cheap the price of iron pots in the inland areas of the Holy Odin Empire is, and the steppe orcs can't imagine it.

Everyone's valuation of the same commodity is different because of the scarcity, and that's the motivation for trading.

Of course, the premise of the deal is that both parties stop killing each other, will you do business with your father's killer?

It won't kill you!

And Ziggy can now hook up with a steppe orc tribe and start making a deal, which is a monopoly trade!

Of course, Zige also set the goal of the development of the sheep industry in Grizzly Village in the future, and at present, it is mainly to sell whole sheep, accumulate financial and material resources, and so on, and when it grows, Qige and Grizzly Village are qualified to enter the next business model, that is, the sheep processing industry.

Finally, there was a little cold wind in the night, and Ziggy took a sip of the hot soup in the small pot and continued to think about the future development of Grizzly Village.

The mutton soup still tasted so delicious, and Ziggy thought of a lot of questions.

The whole Grizzly Bear Village is really in ruins!

That's right, it's not an exaggeration to describe it as a waste!

First of all, with these sheep, grizzly villages and cooperatives, even if they have property.

What does it mean to have a possessions?

It means that the villagers of Grizzly Bear Village are no longer poor and white, and they can move after a lap of cover.

Why was it that the villagers of Grizzly Bear Village were able to take refuge on Grizzly Ridge when the steppe orcs came?

Because everyone is very poor, they have no property, and when they put quilts, clothes, food, and iron pots in their baggage, they are all their property.

But with these sheep, it is different, there are so many sheep, it is impossible to put them in the baggage and take them away when the steppe orcs come to raid.

To put it bluntly, it used to be too poor, and those who were barefoot were not afraid to wear shoes, but now that they have property, the villagers of Grizzly Bear Village, as well as Ziggy and his group, are no longer barefoot, but wear shoes, and those who wear shoes are naturally afraid that others will snatch their shoes.