"you...."
Li Shimin said "you" for a long time, and finally sighed.
"I'm talking to you like I'm playing the harp to a cow. I'm asking you to figure out how to get money from me. Do I care about your little money?!"
"I'm just starting out, who knows if you will care in the future."
"What did you say?"
"Nothing, um...it's getting late, I'll go back soon and take my leave."
Uh-huh!
Li Yunxiao ran away instantly like a burst of light.
Li Shimin looked at his figure, took a sip of wine, placed the wine jar in front of the memorial tablet, saluted, and turned to leave.
Two hours later, it was late at night before Li Yunxiao returned to his residence.
The reason why he came back so slowly was because he was thinking about making money.
This kind of barbecue restaurant and instant noodles are still too slow to make money. Even if 9527 leads the workers to make them like an assembly line, if it is cloudy, the money will be very little.
"You're back, I thought you were sleeping with His Majesty tonight."
Suddenly, Li Chunfeng's voice suddenly sounded in the pavilion.
"Brother Li, do you know that people can scare people to death? They are just like ghosts. Besides, what does it mean if I sleep with him? Do you think I am a pervert?"
Li Chunfeng chuckled.
"Okay, what were you thinking about just now, so absorbed in it?"
"Let's talk inside first. It's so uncomfortable to use your internal strength to resist the wind and cold."
"good."
The two entered the house, Li Chunfeng's room, and Li Yunxiao asked:
"Brother Li, do you know what a loom is?"
"I've never heard of it, but is it used to make cloth?"
"Yes, if not, that would be great!"
"Brother Yunxiao, what else can you think of?"
Li Yunxiao chuckled: "That's natural. If you have a good business, you can open it to the world, and you don't have to be confined to Chang'an City."
"what is that?"
Li Yunxiao yawned.
"Go to sleep first and wait until I figure it out. By the way, call 9527 back."
"good."
After the words fell, the two of them were speechless all night.
Li Yunxiao did not rest after returning to his room. He first looked at his bed and shook his head, then took out a pen and paper and began to study the loom.
He has been exposed to this thing before. If the research is successful and an assembly line is built, the profit should be far greater than that of instant noodles and barbecue restaurants.
Time passed in an instant.
More than ten days later, Li Yunxiao looked at the strange machine in front of him, touched his chin and fell into deep thought.
He made a foot-operated bias loom. This loom already had a frame, with the warp surface and the horizontal machine base at an angle of fifty or sixty degrees, and a foot-operated opening device was used.
Weavers can sit and operate, using their hands and feet together, and the productivity is generally more than 10 times higher than that of the original loom. But the problem is that the machine can move, but it cannot weave cloth.
It's like he is writing a program. The screen full of bugs does not delay the running of the program, but the running results are different from expected.
"It's so hard, I'm in so fucking pain!"
Seeing the scene that was about to end but had no way forward, Li Yunxiao felt too uncomfortable.
Unable to help but sigh up to the sky, Li Yunxiao went to the streets and alleys of Chang'an to inquire about things related to weaving.
Finally, four days later, Li Yunxiao completed the first experimental loom.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this should be enough."
"9527, go up and try."
"The younger ones don't know how to weave."
"Oh, Wan Duzi, have I been talking to you these past few days in vain? Go to the other side."
Li Yunxiao stepped forward to operate it himself, and saw the wheel driven by his feet, and the silk that had already been prepared on the side began to wrap together quickly, and it formed yarn in just a moment.
"Oh my God..."
9527 on the side opened his mouth and widened his eyes.
It's not like he's never seen someone weaving with thread, but he's never seen someone weaving with thread so quickly!
Li Chunfeng, who was drinking tea at the side, was also attracted. After seeing it, he also nodded in praise.
"Brother Yunxiao, how did you come up with the idea of weaving in this way? Is it from your hometown?"
"That's right. There are people in my hometown who are a hundred times faster than this."
"A hundred times faster than this?"
"I'm bragging, just bragging."
Click!
In a moment of excitement, Li Yunxiao exerted too much force. He only heard the machine creak and the cylinder was broken by stepping on it.
"It's done! When everything is done, I will go out to look for medicine like Brother Yuan and stroll around. You can save some money this time. I will be of great use in the future."
Li Chunfeng smiled and nodded.
"Brother Yunxiao, don't worry. This silk cloth is not as cheap as instant noodles. For now, this is hard currency. As long as you have it, you don't have to worry about selling it."
Cloth and silk are very important to any country, and they are even more important to the Tang Dynasty today. Most of them are used for currency transactions.
In the Tang Dynasty, less than 2% of the people could afford to wear silk, and most of the rest were linen and silk.
Moreover, cloth and silk are one of the most practical items for foreign trade, and are in short supply in all countries.
"Brother Li, how much is a piece of cloth?"
"About forty feet."
"Then, how much can a piece of cloth cost?"
Li Chunfeng thought for a moment: "It depends on what kind of cloth you are."
"A piece of raw silk costs about 470 yuan."
"A piece of hemp cloth costs about 400 yuan."
"A piece of fine cotton silk costs about 1,880 yuan."
"A piece of cheesecloth costs about 440 cents."
"A piece of purple ripe cotton damask costs about 2,640 yuan."
"A cut of silk costs about 1,440 yuan."
"...."
Li Chunfeng listed more than a dozen kinds of cloth, and their prices varied greatly.
"If Brother Yunxiao wants to rely on the machine you made to make cloth, adding up the manpower and material resources, a piece of the most ordinary cheesecloth will cost about 60 yuan."
"The cheesecloth costs 440 yuan. After deducting manpower and material resources, my net profit is 380 yuan?"
"Yes, this is still high. The real cost may be subtracted by a few cents."
"Okay!" Li Yunxiao looked at 9527 and asked, "How long will it take to make a machine like mine?"
9527 observed the loom carefully again, then handed it over and said, "To tell you what to say, if my apprentices work with me to make it, we can make one in about four days."
"Okay, just make it as quickly as possible."
"Brother Li." Li Yunxiao looked at Li Chunfeng again and said, "Please help me purchase all the raw materials for cloth making."
Li Chunfeng nodded.
"Can."
After the words fell, Li Chunfeng immediately took action and walked towards the distance.
After arranging things, Li Yunxiao stretched his waist. He had been very busy these days. He felt that he had lost a lot of hair, so he lay down in the pavilion to rest for a while.
Li Chunfeng was riding a horse and galloping here. Although he was not in business, he knew many businessmen, and although the supplies in the hands of businessmen were large, they were far less than those in the hands of the common people.
An hour later.
Li Chunfeng came outside Tai Chi Palace to ask for a meeting.
Li Shimin raised his hand to let Li Chunfeng in, and asked casually: "What do you want from me?"
Li Chunfeng replied: "I want to ask for an imperial edict from your majesty!"
