Daqin Engineers

In fact, the price of 45 yuan is still too high for Fusu.

Fusu's compassionate heart is that he can't wait to send these cloths to the people's homes and even spread the water-powered weaving method quickly across the country to relieve the people's worries about dressing.

But objectively speaking, forty-five yuan is indeed more expensive.

Because if the fifty dollars for summer clothes were allocated, it would be ten dollars for ramie raw materials, twenty dollars for spinning yarn, and twenty dollars for weaving.

Shen Bing uses water power to weave almost at no cost. If the cost is to be calculated at most one dollar...A worker can maintain many water power looms at the same time. After amortization, it does not require much cost, plus waterwheel, land and other costs. The average cost of a suit is enough.

With such a calculation, every piece of fabric produced in Yunzhong County will make a profit when sold for 31 dollars. At this time, selling for 45 dollars is a proper huge profit.

Of course Fusu would count this account, so he was still somewhat dissatisfied.

But Shen Bing explained to Fusu:

"The prince doesn't know something, the subordinates' price is exactly what the people think."

Fu Su Qi Road:

"How can the price of forty-five dollars be what the people want?"

Shen Bing replied:

"My son should know that there are many people in Daqin who specialize in weaving."

"It is not a special textile, but many people also do it. Ordinary people often need to weave a few more cloths and sell them to supplement their families."

"So the poor people are often the sellers, and the wealthy, high-ranking officials are the buyers.

"If I wait to sell cloth at a very low price and good quality..."

Fusu immediately understood:

"The general said it was true."

"If I wait to do so, ordinary people will no longer be able to support their families!"

Shen Bing replied:

"There is no way to support a family."

"Originally, each piece of cloth could be sold for fifty dollars. Now I wait for forty-five dollars. Who would buy fifty dollars for coarse cloth?"

"They can only keep the price down to forty dollars."

"As a result, every piece of cloth loses ten dollars, I am afraid that even the capital cannot be recovered."

"So..."

Fusu nodded and said:

"If they cannot make ends meet, they can only make a living."

"The cloth that ordinary people worked so hard to weave originally hoped to supplement their households, but they didn't want to but they could only recover the raw material money."

Shen Bing replied:

"This statement makes sense."

"If I wait for a price of forty-five dollars, it will actually give the people time and opportunity to make a living."

"If the price is 31 yuan at this time, not only will it not benefit the people, it will also disrupt the turbulence of Daqinbu City and even the community."

"So the subordinates think that the cloth price should be lowered year by year, and they must not be quick to speed."

"In this way, the people can really get benefits."

Fusu couldn't help being greatly impressed when he heard this, and nodded repeatedly:

"The general said that Fusu has been taught."

So many things are not purely about benevolence and righteousness and good intentions. In many cases, good intentions do bad things.

In the past, Shen Bing could set prices at will, mainly because paper has little to do with ordinary people. Most people who need paper are scholars or high-ranking officials.

The cloth stuff is different. Most of the weavers are ordinary people. Once the price drops, it will have a great impact on them. It can be said that it will affect the whole body.

For example, when the hydraulic loom was invented in modern times, it directly caused a large number of handicraftsmen to lose their jobs, so violent conflicts and social unrest broke out, and some people even rushed to the factory to smash those machines.

Now that Shen Bing lowers the price step by step, he can give the people some preparations to minimize this conflict and turbulence.

But this is only the first step.

The hydraulic loom came out, and of course the hydro-spinning machine cannot be less.

So you can save a lot of cost. If you put all these things out at once, then you can make a lot of money for twenty dollars a piece of cloth...

Of course, Shen Bing must take it step by step at this time. He divided the textile workshop into three parts:

The first piece is the raw material workshop.

The most primitive raw materials are planted, but there is almost no need to worry about planting. The agricultural land to the north and west of Yunzhong County is sufficient for planting.

If it doesn't work, I will encircle another piece of land around Yunzhong City. Anyway, the Xiongnu basically dare not provoke the Qin army from the north.

But the raw materials are not directly usable after they are planted.

It also needs soaking, stripping, rinsing (sun and night dew) and other treatments.

These need to be done manually.

The second piece is the textile workshop.

There are mainly three operations, namely ramming, threading, and twisting.

These steps can be replaced by hydro spinning machines.

But there are still operations such as combing and sizing that require manual labor.

The third piece is the weaving workshop.

Needless to say, it is a hydraulic loom.

In addition, Shen Bing also plans to build a port in the upstream agricultural area and the downstream industrial area, and the ports will plan several roads extending in all directions to connect industry and agriculture.

Needless to say what this is for...

After the ramie is harvested in the upstream agricultural area, it can be transported to the downstream industrial area through the port, which is convenient and quick and saves transportation costs.

So this Yunzhong County was actually built by Shen Bing into a large textile factory... from planting to producing finished fabrics.

In the future, garment factories can also be considered.

Each of these links requires a lot of manpower.

For example, farming requires farmers, transportation requires boatmen, and workshops require workers.

In addition, Shen Bing needs manpower to repair roads...

Yunzhong County can be expected to become the textile center of Daqin in the near future. Large quantities of cloth will be shipped out and large quantities of ore and grain will be shipped in. So of course, a better and more spacious road is needed.

The reason why a large amount of ore and grain are needed is because Yunzhong County urgently needs things.

And transportation is two-way.

The so-called two-way transportation means that Yunzhong County has a fleet. The main task of this fleet is to transport the cloth produced in Yunzhong County to all parts of the Central Plains for sale.

What about the return journey after the cloths are sold out to the Central Plains?

Could it be that the empty car returned to Yunzhong County?

Of course it is impossible. This is a huge waste of capacity, so you must bring something that Yunzhong County urgently needs but that is relatively cheap in Central Plains.

Ore and food are, at least for now, urgently needed.

Especially food...

Yunzhong County is located in the northern part of the country. The winter is relatively cold. The crop is characterized by only growing spring wheat once a year, like Yandi.

At this time, I just missed the season of Tuntian, so I can only wait until next year.

The five dishes are okay, but they are still in a hurry to plant.Grain can only be purchased, plus the time from farming next year until the crops mature, and at least two years need to buy grain from the Central Plains.

To feed more and more returnees, this food gap is an extremely large number.

Needless to say, how to feed these people is just the industrialization:

The returnees are converted into workers. The workers produce cloth to create profits, and then use these profits to buy grain from the Central Plains and transport them back to feed the workers...

With such a cycle and snowballing, Yunzhong County will soon become a big city that combines industry and agriculture.