Han Xi thought for a moment. Twenty looms spinning continuously all year round would produce 288,800 pieces of cloth.
The consumption of the entire county is at most 60,000 horses, and with the transportation from outside merchants, the amount may be even less.
Han Xi scratched his head a little. If he had known it, he would have had a small Jenny spinning machine with eight spindles. The productivity of eighty spindles is too abnormal and it cannot provide too many jobs.
Two hundred and eighty-eight thousand, eight hundred pieces of cloth, placed in the south, could at least provide jobs for thousands of people for a year.
But Han Xi's twenty spinning machines only require sixty people, plus forty tailors, that's one hundred people.
If Han Xi used steam as power, six or seven people would probably be enough.
The price of cloth has also dropped?
But it doesn't seem to be reduced, there is only so much internal consumption capacity.
Han Xi felt that his head was a little empty, but when he saw the expectant looks in the eyes of a group of women, he still said, "Then stay!"
The women around them all beamed with joy after hearing this.
In September of the second year of Chongzhen.
Han Xi readjusted grain prices, cloth prices, meat, and vegetable prices.
The price of wheat has dropped to 2 taels per dan, about 14 cents per catty.
The number of pieces of cloth dropped from three or two to one or two.
Meat costs thirty cents per catty, and vegetables cost ten cents per catty.
Food prices are two to three cents lower than those in nearby states and counties. Cloth is twice as expensive.
Because this year is considered a minor drought year in Shaanxi, most dry lands have poor or no harvests.
As a result, food prices have increased and are twice as expensive as those in the south.
Han Xi was sitting in the government hall, drinking tea. He had been the county magistrate for more than half a year. He almost forgot that he was actually a rebel. But it was also strange that he had not seen a group of officers and soldiers coming to surround him for more than half a year.
After a while, the people in this county will almost forget that the county magistrate is actually a bunch of thugs.
The officers and soldiers never came, but several groups of hundreds of people ran into the county to cause trouble, but they were all captured and worked as coolies.
Looked at the panel.
Population: 43,002
Maximum troop strength: 2050/2150
Money: 136,000 taels/silver
Popular support: 38
Food: 4 stones
Public sentiment has risen, and it seems that lowering prices has some effect.
The population also increased by 10,000, all of which were brought in by Xu San from nearby prefectures and counties due to drought.
Now these people are building the county wall. Han Xi plans to make the wall one foot taller and dig the road wider.
So these 10,000 people are now supported by Han Xi, and they consume about one hundred dan of grain, ten dan of meat, and twenty dan of vegetables every day.
It costs more than 36,000 shi of food a year, and it is not a problem to feed them for three or four years.
Just then the leisurely Xu San walked in.
Han Xi put down his tea cup and asked, "Is the old man still strong?"
That's right, Han Xi asked Xu San to send a batch of supplies back to Ansai's home village.
The distance between the two places is about three hundred miles. If you walk faster, you can go back and forth in ten days.
Han Xi asked Xu San to send back fifty stones of wheat, thirty bolts of cloth, fifty taels of silver, some jewelry, and ten cattle, sheep, and horses.
Han Xi's family has a relatively large population, with two brothers and a sister-in-law, an older sister who is married outside, and two younger sisters. two nephews and two nieces.
There are twelve people in the family, and they have a hundred acres of land. They live a relatively prosperous life.
However, there have been droughts for several months every year in recent years, and the food harvest has become poor. It is estimated that the family is also having a hard time.
So Han Xi asked someone to send some food, cloth and money back, but he didn't send too much. He was afraid of giving too much to cause pink eye.
"Hmph! That old Xutou from the village next door has been looking for trouble for the village owner all day long, but don't worry, the magistrate, I have already gone over to warn him. If he doesn't understand, I will take someone back to kill him."
Xu San touched the waist knife and said.
"Yeah!" Han Xi nodded. He was from the countryside. As long as it didn't go too far, he would turn a blind eye. If it went too far, he would just get rid of it.
"By the way, magistrate, I have brought a dozen people from the village with me this time. How do you arrange it?" Xu San scratched his head and said.
Han Xi took a sip of tea and asked, "Do they know that we are doing the job of removing heads?"
Xu San replied: "I told you everything."
Hearing this, Han Xi thought for a moment and then said, "Well! You and A Niu can take half of it each and see how it goes before making arrangements."
"Hey!" Xu San nodded with a smile.
At this time, a middle-aged man dressed as a civil servant walked into the government hall and reported: "Master, the county magistrate, the warehouse is full of cloth."
Full?
The warehouse was already full after just over a month of work, which made Han Xi feel a bit overwhelmed.
However, it is reasonable for the warehouse to be full. In order to allow more than 500 women to work, 20 weaving machines were operated in three shifts.
One machine produces twelve pieces of cloth per hour, which is one hundred and forty-four pieces of cloth per day, and ten machines produce one thousand, four hundred and forty pieces of cloth.
Including the 800 pieces of cloth shipped from Chenjiagou, there were 2,240 pieces of cloth in one day.
It has been almost forty days since the start of work, and there are approximately more than 89,000 pieces of cloth in stock.
The defective products were all distributed to female workers, about two to three pieces of cloth.
"Aren't any pieces of cloth sold in the Black Wind Market?" Han Xi asked.
The clerk took out a brochure and handed it to Han Xi: "I only came to Heifeng Village once. I had to leave a hundred pieces of cloth. The situation of selling cloth is not very optimistic. It may be that the female workers collect the cloth. Finally, the reason for selling it at a low price.”
Hearing this, Han Xi flipped through the book and looked at it. About 850 pieces of cloth were sent out a month, and about 1200 pieces of cloth were sent out a year. In addition to the low-priced cloth shipped in by merchants recently, and the fact that the people were not wealthy, Come and see.
It seems normal that the cloth cannot be sold.
Han Xi thought, why not give him a system warehouse or something, so that he would not be afraid of how many pieces of cloth would be produced.
Now that there is a lot of cloth in stock, people have to be sent to manage it, which also restricts production, which is really troublesome.
Moreover, the market in the surrounding states and counties is not large, because the entire population of northern Shaanxi is about 600,000, with 50,000 or 60,000 households.
According to the current productivity, Han Xi can produce more than 800,000 pieces of cloth a year.
It is enough for the entire population of Yan'an Prefecture to use cloth for more than a year.
"Stop making cotton cloth for now. Go and get some white linen. Hey, let's forget it and let those women weave cloth shoes!" Han Xi ordered. Originally, he wanted to make a batch of hemp by hand. They are used more than cloth, such as sacks, sails, hemp ropes, and linen cloth.
However, thinking of the terrifying productivity of Jenny's machine, Han Xi gave up the plan of rubbing his hands and used imperial coins to buy white cotton incense.
One hundred pounds of white cotton can be made into ten pieces of cloth, which are now sold as one or two pieces.
Han Xi actually lost money. After all, one hundred kilograms of white cotton cost thirty imperial coins.
In the past forty days, more than 260,000 imperial coins were used to purchase cotton.
As a result, Han Xi has to increase the amount of exercise every day.
