Chapter 145 The Power of Royal Capital Has Arrived
Chapter 145 The power of royal capital is coming
Li Xiucai, who was trying out a hundred households, saw that everyone understood what he was saying, so he announced that he wanted to sign up for the loom.
Everyone was clamoring to sign up, and for a while they almost had a fight and almost stopped fighting.
Because there are only thirty looms on the grain drying field, it is obviously not enough for everyone to share.
At this time, Baihu's role came into play. He pulled out the knife and shouted loudly, which immediately scared everyone into silence.
"Those with two women in the family will be given priority, and then draw lots to decide. However, if you don't get the lottery, don't worry. New looms will be shipped after a while. His Majesty personally gave the order. As long as they are willing, every household can
Choose weaving!”
Li Xiucai then quickly announced.
The big dog immediately raised his hand and shouted: "Mr. Li, there are two women in my family, besides my wife and my little sister."
"Big Dog, your mother-in-law is five months pregnant, can she still weave?"
"that is."
"Don't make any noise. It doesn't matter whether you're pregnant or not. Wu Dagou, don't you think so?"
Seeing Xiucai Gong speak, everyone stopped talking, but Big Dog's family of three were all very happy.
Then two more families with two women stood up, and then each family began to draw lots.
Because there were two production teams and dozens of households, almost every household had a woman. The single men without women had all gone to the army, so it was impossible to divide the fields.
In other words, the newly arrived Xiaoqi generals are singles, but the girls in the village are obviously prepared for them. Many of them are engaged as soon as they arrive, and they only wait until they turn fourteen to get married.
After drawing lots, the thirty families who were assigned looms happily asked someone to help carry the looms back home, and placed them in the best room.
The next day, Li Xiucai and Baihu took the men of thirty families to the Acropolis where they were located.
At this time, the Acropolis was already overcrowded, and almost all of them came from hundreds of households to receive the yarn spindles.
There was only one imperial shop in the city, and although there were more than a dozen waiters, there was only one maid who could read and write. As a result, he was busy from afternoon to the afternoon of the next day before he finished distributing the hundreds of hundred-house forts.
To receive yarn spindles for the first time, you must obtain guarantee certificates from both the 100 households and the trial 100 households in Baihupu, and then a numbered plate will be issued. From now on, you can pick up the yarn spindles and hand over cotton cloth.
The spindles are all packed in small wooden frames. One basket of spindles can just weave one piece of cotton cloth. After repeated calculations, all the yarn given out at the beginning was coarse cotton yarn.
If the woven cheesecloth fails to pass the standard, not only will there be no wages, but you will also have to pay three hundred cents in spindle money. If you fail to pass the standard three times in a row, you will be disqualified. This is to prevent others from taking advantage of the situation.
The cotton cloth collected by each toilet will be marked with the name of the shopkeeper of the imperial shop, so that the person in charge of the shopkeeper responsible for inspection can be found.
Similarly, the bonus for each shopkeeper and clerk will be calculated based on the number of pieces of cloth collected each month.
From now on, apart from selling grain, salt and cotton cloth, collecting grain, distributing spindles and recycling cotton cloth, the various imperial stores will no longer do any unnecessary things, nor will they sell any unnecessary goods.
Even so, the workload of each imperial shopkeeper is still very huge.
After receiving the spindles and returning to Baihubao, under the guidance of the little girl named Wang, they began to learn to weave.
The weaving couldn't stop. Except during the day, in many houses at night the men held torches and the women sat in front of the looms and weaved hard.
And this scene can be seen almost everywhere in the health centers near the capital.
With the help of his younger sister, the big dog family was the first to finish weaving a piece of cloth, which took almost only half a month. Then they took their younger sister carrying the cloth and basket to the imperial shop in the Acropolis.
"Which Baihubao is from it? Have you brought the sign?"
"I'm taking it with me. Here..."
Dagou quickly took off the waist tag and handed it to the female shopkeeper in the store, with a nervous look on his face.
The female shopkeeper checked the waistband, put it on the counter, and then told the waiter next to her: "Take the cloth to the yard and spread it out for me to see." After saying that, she left the counter.
The two men immediately unfolded the four-foot-long cotton cloth.
Fortunately, the space in the store is very huge, and it was actually renovated from a wealthy family's house.
The female shopkeeper first used a ruler to measure the length and width, and then carefully inspected the fabric. She frowned. It was obvious that the weaving was too rough and she was not satisfied.
The big dog and his sister on the side were both nervous when they saw the shopkeeper's expression.
If it fails to pass the standard, not only will there be no wages, but also three hundred coins will have to be compensated. When I think of my sister and my wife working so hard to knit for half a month, sweat breaks out on the big dog's forehead.
"Knit better next time, forget it this time."
When the female shopkeeper saw the expressions of the two people, she thought that this was the first piece of cotton cloth that had been collected in the store. In addition, it was also explained above that the first time could be more relaxed. After all, she nodded and asked the clerk to roll up the cotton cloth again.
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Both the big dog and the younger sister let out a long breath. Not long after, the brother and sister left the imperial store carrying a basket of yarn spindles. When they left the Acropolis, they had almost spent all the four coins, and they were obviously not worried about the money.
After more than half a year of circulation, other merchants near the capital now basically accept the treasure banknotes. They all exchange the banknotes for ingots after earning enough 5 taels of denomination, and of course they will leave some change.
As more and more military households finished weaving cloth, handed it over to the imperial shop, and then transported it to dyeing workshops outside the capital, those who were interested could no longer sit still.
As the scale of spinning workshops became larger and larger, more and more military households were weaving cloth, and when royal stores in various places began to sell cheap cotton cloth, the whole north was in a sensation.
The cooperating nobles and gentry also became active, especially the nobles who immediately set their sights on Jiangnan and Huguang.
Because there are no royal stores in these two areas, it is a great opportunity to sell them at high prices and make a lot of money.
And more gentry and landowners are hoarding cotton crazily. After all, the price is almost twice as cheap. If we don't hoard now, when will we wait?
Therefore, the first batch of more than 20,000 pieces of cotton cloth was almost all bought by gentry and landowners from various places.
Zhu Cixiang had no restrictions on this, but ordered the manufacturing supervisor to build looms and spinning machines frantically.
Almost every time a spinning machine is built, four looms must be built.
He wants the world to see what it means to be truly generous and what it means to concentrate on doing big things.
Under such crazy expansion, by September, the number of spinning machines had expanded to 70,000, and the number of looms had reached 300,000, covering almost all military households under the jurisdiction of the Sandu Division near the capital. Basically, it was achieved
Every household has a loom.
Hundreds of dyeing workshops, large and small, were also opened outside the capital, producing up to four to five million pieces of fine cotton cloth every month, more than half of which were sold to the south by nobles.
Such a huge impact shocked the entire cotton market in Jiangnan. Fortunately, the cotton merchants in Jiangnan were wealthy and immediately swallowed up all the cotton in the north. This stabilized the price of cotton in Jiangnan.
But everyone knows that if this continues, all cotton-related workshops in Jiangnan will close down.
Because they can no longer purchase cotton from Shandong.
At this moment, in a manor outside Yangzhou City, hundreds of foreign gentry, large and small, dressed in Chinese clothes, were gathered. Almost all of them were related to cotton and came here from all over the south of the Yangtze River.