The North Customs, located in the north of the Great Zhou Dynasty, is both adjacent to the sea and close to the northern grassland.

This place is usually fine, but it is very cold in winter, which will cause those nomads who lack food and clothing to live, so they can only come to the Great Zhou to plunder.

In recent months, the firearms sold by Lin Ze have continued to play a role, exterminating those nomadic herders who have come out sporadically to cause trouble, and Lin Ze's luck has maintained a rapid growth, and there is also a reason for this.

Opening the Gate of Heavens, Lin Ze appeared outside the North Customs Customs, and then entered the city normally as if he had come over in a hurry.

Regarding the scenery of the Northern Customs, Lin Ze was not curious.

When he was trading arms before, Lin Ze had already seen the scenery here many times through drones.

As Lin Ze appeared on the side of the North Customs, the news suddenly reached Ji Kan's ears.

When Lin Ze came all the way to the palace, he saw the middle gate of the Beihai Palace's mansion open, and Ji Kan, who had changed from the king of the East China Sea to the king of the North Sea, stood at the door with his subordinates to welcome Lin Ze's arrival.

"Ziyi, I can be regarded as looking forward to you, and I haven't congratulated you on being made an earl."

Ji Kan affectionately took Lin Ze's hand and greeted him warmly.

In the face of the arrival of the God of Wealth, there is no way to be unhappy.

"I've seen Uncle."

The guards behind Ji Kan, the officials of the palace and others also saluted at this time.

Among them, there is also a senior brother Gao Han of Xu Sheng's generation from Mingyue Tower, whom Lin Ze has heard of for a long time, but has never seen it, and he also saluted.

Listening to Gao Han's story at that time, Lin Ze was still a little-known small place, but at this moment, he was already a noble earl.

"It's true that I haven't seen you for more than a month, so you're exempt."

Lin Ze responded and followed Ji Kan into the palace.

"This palace is the previous residence of one of my royal brothers, I heard that I was going to exchange fiefs with him, and I hurriedly agreed, my royal brother has not much money left, this palace is not as luxurious as my palace in Wangjiang City, but it takes a lot of time to redecorate."

On the way, Ji Kan pointed to this generous palace and introduced.

The implication is that he will make a lot of money by cooperating with Lin Ze in the future, and he will have the financial resources to decorate this already luxurious palace even more magnificently.

The luxury and comfort of this palace were indeed not as good as Lin Ze's residence in the main world, Xianyun Villa, and he also recognized Ji Kan's self-confidence.

Soon, everyone walked through the courtyard, Ji Kan beckoned Lin Ze to sit down in the main hall, and began to hold a banquet for Lin Ze to catch the wind and wash the dust, and the singers and musicians raised by the palace performed songs and dances during the banquet.

For a while, everyone pushed the cup and changed the lamp, and the atmosphere was harmonious.

After the feast, rest directly.

rejected a few maids arranged by Ji Kan and finished washing by herself.

It's better to be careful when you go out, Lin Zexin can't help these outsiders who are too close to him.

Even at the banquet just now, Lin Ze confirmed that there was no problem with the wine and food a priori, so he ate and drank with confidence.

The next day, I had breakfast with Ji Kan before we started to talk about business.

"Ziyi, in the recent past, I have done everything you commanded."

"The venue, as well as the manpower, and the loom, have all been prepared, what to do next, you just say."

Ji Kan opened his mouth and said to Lin Ze.

"Let's take a look at the venue you've chosen."

Lin Ze spoke.

Ji Kan had no opinion, and then the two set off to the Beihai Wharf outside the North Customs.

About five miles from the wharf, next to a flat beach, a huge manor had been built, and a number of garrisons patrolled the vicinity of it.

Ji Kan took Lin Ze into the manor and saw many female workers weaving here.

He smiled and said:

"As you can see, Ziyi, I have repaired the weaving factory to a place close to the water, and now I have recruited enough female workers to weave cloth, and now I am just trying to weave cloth, and once you help solve the problem of grease on the wool, you can start to use wool to weave on a large scale."

"It is also close to the wharf, once the cloth is produced, it can be quickly transported to the wharf, in addition to local sales in the North Customs, it can also be transported to all parts of the world for sale."

Lin Ze quietly looked at the scenery of the manor and did not speak for the time being.

The management of these female workers refers to Lin Ze's method of managing coal mines, which is managed according to the performance system of more work and more rewards, and in addition, the basic qualities of the stewards are trained and required, and the workers are respected as much as possible and the work attitude is kind.

In addition, it is the working environment of the manor, spacious and bright, and the cleaning is clean and tidy, and overall it is very good.

Seeing this, Lin Ze was much more satisfied.

Then, he and Ji Kan came to a quiet attic in the manor that was used as a textile factory, retreated left and right, and continued to discuss things about making money in the textile factory.

"Ziyi, if you follow the traditional weaving industry, that is, to make hard money, even if there are thousands of female workers in this manor at the moment, and then recruit tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of workers, it will not be able to achieve the benefits of millions of taels of silver every year."

"If there's any way you can make money, tell me now."

After sitting down, Ji Kan went straight to the point.

At present, a female worker can weave one piece of cloth a day, and one piece of cloth is about four zhang, which is equivalent to forty feet.

According to the current market price of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the price of a foot of cloth is about 40 yuan, and the price of a piece of cloth is about 1.6 taels of silver.

And this is the market price, the ex-factory price will be lower, generally about 35 yuan a foot of cloth.

After deducting the profits, food and lodging expenses, and the cost of raw materials for these female workers, it is not bad that the profit of a piece of cloth can be left with two pieces of silver.

Even if the profits created by tens of thousands of female workers are combined, it will be 60,000 taels of silver a month, and 780,000 taels of silver in a year, but in fact, considering the limited raw materials for weaving, it is impossible for these female workers to operate at full capacity throughout the year.

The actual annual income can exceed 300,000 taels, which can be regarded as the capital management method that Ji Kan learned from Lin Ze.

The annual income of 300,000 taels looked good in the eyes of Ji Kan before, but it was far from the benefits of tens of millions of taels a year that Lin Ze said.

Lin Ze didn't sell it, and said with a smile: "At the moment, your textile factory is not profitable, the first reason is that the price of raw materials is very high, but if you have a cheaper source of raw materials, then you can greatly increase the profit margin." ”

While speaking, Lin Ze took out a bottle of detergent from his personal space and put it in front of Ji Kan.

"This is a detergent that degreases wool, and you only need to add this to the water to wash off the smell of wool, and then use it to weave cloth."

"At present, the wool on the grassland is directly discarded waste, but in the future, we can buy all this wool at a price of twenty catties and a penny, and the weight of a piece of cloth is about one or twenty catties, and the price of our raw materials can be compressed to a penny in the future."

"Coupled with the daily salary and accommodation costs of female workers, it is about 80 yuan a day, which means that the cost of one piece of cloth will be compressed to the limit in the future, and a piece of cloth will net about 1.3 taels of silver."

"In this way, if you recruit 10,000 female workers to set up a textile factory, you can produce 300,000 pieces of cloth a month, get a profit of 390,000 taels of silver, a year's profit, and deduct the time for female workers to rest and take leave, and the minimum guarantee is 4.5 million taels of silver."

Speaking of this, Lin Ze found another drawing, which recorded the structure and principle of the hydraulic loom.

Seeing that there was obvious excitement on Ji Kan's face, Lin Ze said with a smile: "You may have wondered before, the reason why I asked you to build the textile mill by the sea, in addition to being close to the dock to facilitate shipping, another reason is this water-powered loom. ”

"Normally, a skilled female worker can weave one horse a day, but with this, the efficiency can be increased by forty times, and in this case, our annual profit can also be increased by forty times a year."

"However, considering the limited wool on the grassland, it is optimistically estimated that three million people raise six or seven sheep per person, about 20 million sheep, and about two sheep's wool can weave one piece of cloth, so our annual limit cloth output is about 10 million horses."

"It can also be concluded that the profit we can theoretically get a year is about 13 million taels of silver, which may be due to the high efficiency of the loom and the labor cost has been reduced a lot, resulting in this profit figure is not very accurate, but the approximate profit is like this."

Hearing this, an expression of surprise appeared on Ji Kan's face.

Although he had long known that Lin Ze had a way, but now that Lin Ze analyzed it, the road ahead suddenly became clear.

Those steppe nomads will not let go of this opportunity to exchange wool waste for money, and maybe they will take the initiative to expand the scale of grazing after tasting the sweetness in the future, so that they can also make more cloth to make money.

When the time comes, they will use daily necessities such as grain, cloth, pots and pans to earn back the money distributed to the herdsmen, which can be said to be a direct win.

Since these herdsmen can live by trading, they naturally do not have to risk their lives to plunder and play with their lives, and they have solved the border troubles at once.

"Ziyi, you only calculated the cost on my side, but you didn't calculate the cost on your side."

Ji Kan picked up the wool detergent on the table and asked.

Lin Ze said with a smile: "From recruiting people, to collecting wool in the back, processing wool, weaving and selling cloth, these things are all you doing, I have a little technology, even if this detergent is the cost of other than my technology, you can rest assured, I will have a lot of profits after fifty-fifty shares." ”

"Don't look at the profit I calculated that I have more than 10 million taels of silver, but if you want to make this money, you have to mobilize a lot of people to be busy, and you have to worry about it, at best, I will send a little people to supervise the finances."

"I'm making a lot of money."

Wool detergent is not expensive, and the amount of a bottle and a pound is only about ten yuan, and the price of bulk purchase is even lower.

A year from the textile factory to divide 6.5 million taels of silver, and then exchanged for 650,000 taels of gold, this is the value of 14.625 billion, the cost of buying detergent can be said to be not even a fraction of the income.

And making money on the grassland side is only secondary, the most important thing is that Lin Ze's wave can greatly change the fate of the grassland herdsmen, and get a huge amount of luck from them.

"Otherwise, I will directly buy detergent from you at a high price, and calculate the price of detergent according to the profit you can make from this industry every year of 6.5 million taels? Then you can also worry less about it. ”

At this time, Ji Kan took the initiative to propose.

To be honest, he didn't want Lin Ze to interfere in the industry under his command, first, it was inconvenient for him to do a lot of things, and secondly, he didn't want to ruin the relationship between the two parties because of the corruption and bribery that his subordinates might have in the future.

So, such a plan was proposed.

It can not only ensure that Lin Ze can get enough benefits from this textile industry, but also ensure his ability to control the industry.

"Yes, too."

Lin Ze glanced at Ji Kan and did not refuse.

Don't look at the detergent is not expensive, but this thing is not something that can be produced here in another world.

His basic base is in Fengping County, and the jobs provided by the coal mine are sufficient, and the follow-up development center is also based on the construction of his own Zhutian Mall.

He didn't need jobs that the textile factory could provide to win people's hearts, and the sale of detergent would not affect Lin Ze's harvest luck, and Ji Kan's proposal also saved Lin Ze the trouble of sending financial overseers.

However, after all, this belongs to Lin Ze to transfer his rights and reduce his influence, and Lin Ze intends to increase the annual benefits he obtains from using the textile factory to eight million taels.

Coupled with the military subsidy that can be obtained from Emperor Ji Yuan, he can barely earn tens of millions of taels of silver from the grassland, and if the size of the sheep on the grassland increases, Lin Ze can also increase the price of detergent according to the actual situation.

Seeing that things were negotiated and a lot of industrial power was collected, Ji Kan was in a good mood.

He curiously asked a question that he had wanted to ask Lin Ze for a long time: "Ziyi, I've always seen you take out items at random, the previous firearms and the current drawings, detergent, these items, where did you hide them?" ”

At the beginning, Ji Kan thought that Lin Ze was hiding these things on his body.

Later, it was discovered that Lin Ze took out many things out of thin air, and he couldn't hide those large items on his body at all, which made Ji Kan wonder if Lin Ze had any means to contain mustard seeds.

It's just that although I was thinking about this question before, I didn't have time to ask, and now I have talked about a kind of cooperation, and the atmosphere is good, but I just opened my mouth.

"A secret technique of storage, which can contain Sumeru and mustard seeds."

Lin Ze didn't hide it either, and spoke directly.

He didn't mean to hide this thing in the first place, and if he used it too much, he would definitely be discovered by others.

For example, when the playboy first faced Lin Ze, he should have discovered this suspicion, but it was not easy to open his mouth to inquire at will.

Of course, it is limited to telling others that he does have this thing, and as for the details of this ability, it will not be said in half a word.

(End of chapter)