Chapter five hundred and twentieth eight new world
"I don't know what business it is, you can earn tens of millions of taels of silver a year?" Zhong Hongzhang asked curiously. Zhong Ruolan and Shopkeeper He next to him also looked at Yan Liqiang, fearing that every word Yan Liqiang said was missed.
"Of course it's a business that turns waste into treasure!" Yan Liqiang smiled calmly, "If the Zhong family believes in me, Mr. Zhong will let the Zhong family spend all their efforts to stock up on wool and buy the ranch to prepare for raising sheep, because in the next few years, the wool in the northwest will become very popular, and those useless wools now will turn into exquisite and expensive fabrics. If this business really needs to be done, it is not impossible to make tens of millions of taels of silver a year!"
Zhong Hongzhang suddenly reacted, his eyes widened, "Honor, have you found a way to use wool as a fabric?"
"Yes, I already know how to turn wool into fabric!" Yan Liqiang said calmly. In the past two months, Yan Liqiang has already succeeded and has sorted out all the steps. As long as the cheapest wood ash is made into soda ash, the simple cleaning steps can be easily solved. The degreasing problem of wool can be dried and tidyed, and the degreased wool can be used directly like cotton. The spinning efficiency of using an ordinary spinning machine is too low, so
Yan Liqiang made some improvements to the spinning machine. The principle of the hand-cranked Jenny spinning machine is actually not complicated. It is not difficult to manufacture than ordinary workshops and home spinning machines. A few qualified woodworkers are enough to be competent. After using Yan Liqiang's improved spinning machine, the efficiency of spinning can be increased by a person's spinning, compared with the traditional spinning efficiency, and the yarn spinning can be weaved by the improved shuttle loom, and the efficiency is also greatly improved.
The three people from the Zhong family looked at Yan Liqiang in shock. Looking at the incredible gazes of the three people, Yan Liqiang stopped saying anything, but stood up, "Three people come with me, I will take three people to a place to see..."
Zhong Hongzhang, Zhong Ruolan and Manager He naturally stood up, and Yan Liqiang took the three of them out of the living room of the Yan family and walked towards the Yan family's backyard.
After walking a few steps, Zhong Hongzhang found that Yan Liqiang was going to take a few people to the backyard, and he also reminded him, "Young Master Yan, is this convenient..."
"Haha, Mr. Zhong, don't worry, there are no female relatives in the Yan family's backyard, and I and my father live separately in the backyard, and there are only a few servants and maids!" Yan Liqiang said, keeping his pace, and directly leading the three people through the corridor and two yards.
Along the way, the more they walked inside, the more the three people in the Zhong family felt that the guards in the backyard became more and more intense. At the gates, there were guards from the Yan family guards. It was basically impossible for a casual person to come in.
After two minutes of spare in the Yan family's mansion, Yan Liqiang brought the three of them to a large yard. The guards of the yard were even stricter. At the door of the yard, there were six guards guarding them directly. The gate of the yard was locked. It was not until Yan Liqiang came to someone to open the guard guard who was guarding the door.
The yard is very spacious and large. On one side of the yard are several rooms for living. The middle of the yard is empty, with no flower tables or plants, only flat floor tiles and wooden racks placed in the yard. On the wooden racks are like steaming buns, layer by layer of dustpans are placed layer by layer. On the other side of the yard is a huge room, with similar sounds of looms and wooden wheels rotating in the room.
As soon as he arrived, Zhong Hongzhang and the other two were suddenly attracted by the layers of drying things in the yard. What was drying on the wooden rack was a piece of snow-white and soft things. From a distance, it looked like cotton. Yan Liqiang brought the three of them to a wooden rack, and reached out to grab a ball of drying things from the dustpan on the wooden rack, and handed them to the three people of the Zhong family. "Mr. Zhong, can Miss Ruolan and Manager He recognize what this is?"
The things held in the hand are as white and soft as clouds, and are dazzlingly white in the sun. The things held in the hand are furry, with a particularly delicate feel, completely different from cotton and more textured. Looking at what you see, it is definitely difficult for people who don’t know to associate it with the half-yellow but not white, mixed with mud, debris, feces, lanolin, and the wool on the sheep sticking together in the impression.
"Is this...wool?" Zhong Hongzhang asked in shock.
"Well, to be precise, it is sheep's wool. After a special process, the sheep wool that could not be used for textiles has become the things in Mr. Zhong's hand. This thing has been dried and has become similar to cotton. As long as you go through a simple process, you can basically use it to textiles..."
"In the room over there, someone is using this thing to weave things?" Zhong Hongzhang asked, pointing to the big room with a sound coming from a distance.
"Hahaha, since you have all come here, you will know that after you follow me and take a look!" Yan Liqiang led the three of them to the big room. "This yard is a special experimental place I arranged at home. I found six reliable couples in the town and made a lot of money to let them live in this yard for two months. They did not contact the outside world. But according to my instructions and requirements, the three of them were the first time they visited here..."
Yan Liqiang said, and had already arrived at the door of the big house. He stretched out his hand and pushed the door of the room open.
There were more than a dozen people in the room, including men and women, and a manager in the Yan family. When Yan Liqiang pushed the door in, everyone stopped their work and met Yan Liqiang.
Yan Liqiang smiled and greeted everyone, "Don't stop, just keep going, I'll bring someone to see..."
Hearing Yan Liqiang say this, the people who had just stopped immediately started to work on their own.
Looking at the things in the room, Zhong Hongzhang, Zhong Ruolan and He, who had just been suppressed by the white wool, opened their eyes again and refreshed their views. There were many strange tools in this big room. Several people had never seen them. One of them was as big as a bed, which seemed to be a spinning machine, but it was completely different from the spinning machine that several people had seen. In the traditional spinning machine, the spinning spinning was placed horizontally, with only one, and the spinning machine in front of me was much larger than the traditional spinning machine. The spinning machine on the spinning machine was not placed horizontally, but vertically. There were sixteen spinning spinning machines on the spinning machine. As the woman sitting in front of the spinning machine shook the handle, the sixteen white threads hanging on the spinning machine flew up, just like the most magical magic in the world...
Just after looking at the spinning machine, Zhong Hongzhang knew that the value of this spinning machine was incalculable. It was something that could increase the efficiency of a person's spinning yarn by sixteen times. Not to mention anything else, as long as a person has such a thing at home, it would be amazing. A woman who can spin, shake this, will be enough to support a whole family...
On the other hand, the shuttle loom made Zhong Hongzhang unable to move his eyes at once...
"The utensils here are all made by myself, tried and improved here, and have been finalized. It is a coincidence that tomorrow, the first batch of spinning machines and looms made by the manufacturing bureau will be delivered to the town. I will open a large workshop in the town to produce cloth. At least half a month, the first batch of wool fabrics will be released..." Yan Liqiang said while taking three people around the room.
Chapter completed!