Chapter 789 Explanation
"No, prices are rising, so the price should be higher." Gao Yue said.
Qin An smiled and said: "That's because of technology. Xianyang City has advanced technology. The cost of making a piece of clothing is very low. I can make a profit from it."
And one tael of silver might be just ten days' wages for a clerk.
But for the people of Daliang City, one tael of silver may be one month or even three months' living expenses.
They would rather wear old clothes than buy new clothes. People who can spend one tael of silver to buy such expensive clothes, generally speaking, only a group of nobles and businessmen can afford these clothes.
This also resulted in many shops having little business.
Princess Gao Yue, I'm afraid your Yan's is about the same. "
Gao Yue snorted coldly and said, "Since you know, what can you do to solve it?"
Qin An smiled and said, "Of course there is a way. Have you seen the people I brought?"
"You see, can they do it alone?" Gao Yue said disdainfully. In their Yan land, there are many such people, but she did not see that they could change Yan land.
Qin An's more than one hundred people immediately looked at Gao Yue with unkind eyes.
Gao Yue curled her lips at this and said, "You don't have to look at me like that. There are many people like you in the world."
Qin An raised his hand to calm down the more than 100 people and said: "Princess Gao Yue, you are right, we have the most workers, farmers, and businessmen in the world.
But they are also creating the world's wealth and quietly changing the world.
If you couldn't see it before, it was because you never paid attention. Especially after the emergence of intellectuals, everyone focused their attention on the court and never on changing people's livelihood.
Therefore, after two thousand years of development, China was still stuck in its ways, and was eventually humiliated by the Western powers.
Now that I am here, I want scholars to change the destiny of China and classify scholars.
If you put it in words you can understand, it means that the world will enter an era of contention among a hundred schools of thought.
Any useful knowledge should be promoted.
For example, the science and technology of the Mohist family, the breeding technology of the farmers, the medical technology of the doctors, the technology of observing the universe of the Yin and Yang family, etc.
These are knowledge that can change the world. Of course, there are many things I haven’t mentioned, but that doesn’t mean they are useless.
Today, among the more than one hundred people, there are people from the Mohist family, farmers, businessmen, chefs, textile workers, garment workers, etc.
The purpose of their trip to Yandi with me this time is to develop commerce and build workshops in your Yandi, so that the people of Yandi can have jobs to do and wages to earn.
Develop the breeding industry, raise cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, etc., as long as the poultry is edible and has a particularly fast growth period, we can raise it.
You can even raise sika deer, whose antlers are very nutritious, and raise rabbits, whose fur is a good material for making scarves and other materials. The Yan land is close to the north, and the rabbit fur is soft, making the scarves very comfortable.
As for various workshops, they are meant to increase productivity and reduce costs.
I said that a piece of clothing in Xianyang City only costs one or two silver, because the cost is low and the productivity of the workshop is high.
One person can complete ten or even a hundred pieces of clothing in a day. "
"This is impossible." Gao Yue said, "If a person can complete one piece of clothing in one day, that is already very impressive. It took my mother more than a month to complete one piece of clothing."
Qin An smiled and said, "That's because you used stitches and threads, and I used a sewing machine, because you completed all the steps of a piece of clothing by yourself.
In the workshop, the steps for a piece of clothing are given to the tailor. One person completes each step. There are ten steps for a piece of clothing, so I only have ten people to do it.
For example, someone sews a sleeve, then hands it off to the next, and then the next, until a garment is completed. "
"Can I wear such clothes?" Gao Yue asked.
"Everyone here is wearing clothes made in the workshop. Do you think they can wear them?" Qin An asked.
Gao Yue was at a loss for words, but she was still unconvinced: "Even so, how can you make hundreds of clothes in one day?"
"As long as we hire enough people and have good skills, we can do it." Qin An said, "You will know in the future.
But now is not the time to talk about this. When you get to Yandi or on the road, you can ask what you want.
Now, I'll arrange it.
Businessmen came out. "
Ten businessmen immediately walked out of the crowd.
Qin An looked at the ten merchants and said, "I guess you have already seen it in Daliang. Tell me your opinions."
One of the businessmen stood up and said, "Mr. Hui, along the way, although Daliang City is not as wealthy as Xianyang City, it is already very wealthy, but it does lack advanced technology here.
The villain thinks that some of Xianyang City's advanced technologies, such as steam textile machines, can be built in Daliang City and a large garment factory can be opened.
Crowd out all those hand-woven textile workshops. Those with money asked them to buy steam looms.
We purchased those who had no money and recruited all the unemployed workers into our workshops. "
"Aren't you afraid of them stealing lessons?" Gao Yue asked.
Qin An curled his lips, not even bothering to answer Gao Yue.
The businessman replied: "Don't worry, even if he can learn secretly, will he have money to buy equipment?"
"What if you have money?"
"If you have money, you don't need to learn secretly. After buying the equipment, we will teach you in person, so there is no need to learn secretly." The businessman replied.
Gao Yue was stunned for a moment. It turned out that he was a villain in vain. No, they were lying to me. Then he smiled and said: "You don't need to lie to me with these words. After you sold the equipment to them, how could you be so kind as to hand over the technology to them?" give them.
Aren't you afraid of competitors in business? "
The businessman shook his head and said: "I'm really not afraid. If our family is the only one, then we will lose our desire to compete and will only decline in the future.
Only with competitors, we will always have the motivation to make the workshop better and bigger.
In addition, there are so many people in Daqin. Even if we make the clothes, we don't necessarily have to sell them to the people of Daliang. We can also sell them to Xianyang City or other places.
As long as the price is right and the style is good-looking, everyone will buy it. "
Qin An nodded and said, "You said it very well. You are competitive. Are you willing to stay?"
"The villain is willing," said the merchant.
"Okay. You can stay. You are appointing a Mohist disciple, a peasant disciple, and the other ten people you need to stay with you.
I will give you another hundred thousand taels as start-up capital to develop in Daliang City according to your ideas.
In addition, you not only develop business, agriculture, education, etc., but also start to develop, especially the breeding industry. "
"I understand, little man. Thank you sir for your cultivation."
