latelenovela Chapter 387 Space is the biggest plug-in
Chapter 387 Space is the biggest plug-in
Gu Wan'er, who was in a good mood, picked up a piece of light pink cloth with dark patterns and gently stroked the delicate patterns on it.
"Ningchuan City is a city of exile. I used to think that all the people here were heinous. Now I know that there are many people here who were living a good life but were implicated by others and exiled to Ningchuan City."
“They are all miserable people.”
"Well, it's not just the master's family that will be confiscated. All the slaves who have signed death indentures and all the relatives who were not related to him in the first place will also be exiled."
The laws of the Tianqin State were extremely harsh. It was very common to confiscate the property of three clans and exterminate them. If it was a large clan, there would likely be hundreds of people exiled after the extermination of three clans. Many of them were innocent, but that was the law and no one could change it.
Thinking of this, Ye Jintang couldn't help but sigh in his heart that if he wanted to help the common people escape from suffering, some unreasonable laws still needed to be changed.
"One more thing. The cotton in our warehouse is almost used up. I sent someone to the city yesterday to inquire about the price of cotton. I want to buy some back."
"Madam, guess how much cotton is being sold in the market right now."
Gu Waner looked unhappy when this matter was mentioned.
"You probably didn't buy much cotton to spin."
"I asked several cloth shops, but they didn't have even a pound of usable cotton. The cotton they sold was all very cheap and low-quality."
Ye Jintang couldn't help laughing when he saw Gu Wan'er's angry look.
The cloth shops in Ningchuan City had already raised the price for buying cotton earlier. They were the largest cotton users in the city, and it wouldn't take much effort for them to unite and monopolize the cotton supply. It was expected that Gu Wan'er didn't receive a pound of cotton.
"It's okay. Don't worry about the cotton. I have a solution for it."
"What's important now is the women workers you have. How many people can weave such good cloth?"
Gu Wan'er just brought over sample fabrics, and the quality is already very good. If there are enough people, Ye Jintang will have to start producing the fabrics like crazy and stockpile them, and then sell them to other cities in the spring of next year.
"There are now more than 30 people who can weave this fine cloth, and hundreds of people have almost learned it. Within half a month, they will definitely become skilled workers."
Ye Jintang looked at Gu Waner in disbelief.
"There are still hundreds of people learning? Are everyone learning so fast?"
"Your Highness, you may not know that many of the women in the refugee camp knew how to weave at home. With just a little instruction, they can weave very beautiful cloth."
"There are also some girls who didn't know how to weave before, but they heard that if they could weave good cloth, they would be paid 50 silver coins a month, so they worked hard to learn. In addition to sitting in front of the loom during the day, they would also sit in front of the loom before going to bed at night to practice weaving techniques."
"If we had several hundred women workers, we could probably weave thousands of pieces of cloth in one winter."
It sounds like a lot, but Ye Jintang feels it is still a little too little.
"Cousin, you are recruiting 100 female workers who know how to weave from the refugees. We will expand the weaving workshop in a short period of time. If the workshop is not big enough, you can talk to the manager Qiao and ask him to help you arrange a bigger workshop."
"If we recruit so many people, we may not even have enough cotton for the female workers to practice with."
"No problem. I'll have someone send you a batch of cotton tomorrow. Let the skilled workers use the top-quality cotton I send to spin yarn and weave cloth. I also have some ordinary cotton in my warehouse that was not confiscated by the two Ke families. This is enough for the female workers to practice with."
Although Gu Wan'er was wondering where Ye Jintang got the cotton, she didn't ask much at this time. As long as she had the cotton, she didn't care where it came from.
Recently, Ye Jintang has been planting medicinal herbs related to the longevity pills in his space. Now that the longevity pills have been prepared, Ye Jintang waved his hand, collected all the medicinal herbs in the farmland in the space, and replanted large areas of cotton.
The cotton matured very quickly in the space, even before a cup of tea was used. The cotton field that was just a field of small seedlings, soon had cotton seeds bursting one after another, revealing the snow-white cotton inside.
Ye Jintang stepped forward and gently pulled out a ball of cotton and placed it in her hand. The cotton produced in her space was so much better than the cotton in Ningchuan City in terms of color alone.
She muttered to herself that the cotton cloth produced in her space would cost at least two taels of silver per piece. This price was very high in the northwest. If she went east, there would be more places to go.
After the cloth is woven, she will ask the shopkeeper Qiao and Bai Ziyao in detail about this matter. They are very familiar with the prices of cloth in different places.
The output of the space was still very considerable. Within a day, the first batch of twenty carriages of high-quality cotton were transported to the weaving workshop.
Naturally, so many horse-drawn carriages could not be hidden from the eyes of the major cloth shops, so the shop owners gathered together again that night.
It’s just that this time they didn’t invite Zong Lingyu from Lingyu Cloth Shop to the meeting.
"Brother Yi, you should make a decision quickly. I don't know where the palace got the cotton from. The weaving workshop has not only started to produce a large amount of fine cloth, but I heard that they are also planning to recruit 100 female workers."
"If things continue at this pace, we may not be able to harvest even a pound of cotton next year."
After Tian Xin received the news, he became extremely anxious. If the Qin Palace really made money by weaving fine cloth, they would no longer have the coarse cloth business.
"I called everyone here to discuss this matter. The palace is powerful and is forcing us to death. Since he won't leave us any chance to survive, there is no need for us to endure it. We should fight back when it's time to fight back."
Yi Wang's eyes were full of coldness when he spoke.
Birds die for food, people die for money. The sudden mass production of fine cloth in the palace has a great impact on the cloth shops in the city. If they don't come up with a solution quickly, they will eventually have to close down.
"Brother Yi, please tell me how we are going to fight back. We have already bought up all the good cotton in the city. Is there any better way?"
Tian Xin really has no other choice but to put all his hopes on Yi Wang.
"It's simple. Weaving requires cotton thread and cotton. As long as we destroy the cotton in their warehouse, I want to see where they can get cotton from."
"What does Brother Yi mean?"
"It's dry and the cotton warehouse is often on fire. As long as there's no cotton, the Qin Palace won't be able to produce any flowers no matter how hard it tries."
Yi Wang's idea made everyone present frown.
They had all heard about what the King of Qin had done. If the matter of setting fire to the palace storehouse were to be leaked, they would probably have their property confiscated.