The weather is getting colder, and people on the street have put on slightly thicker clothes.
It has been almost a year since Qingcang came to this era.
In this year, he went from scratch to the lord of a city.
His The experience can be described as magical.
He fought on the battlefield and commanded tens of thousands of troops.
He survived under the sky and above tens of thousands of people, fighting vertically and horizontally.
He not only had to focus on diplomacy, but also on people's livelihood, managing the entire city with one person, and everything developed as he expected.
On this day, in the main city, several people dressed in ordinary clothes came to the meeting hall to ask for an audience.
A hint of helplessness could be seen in their expressions.
One of them said: "Lord City Lord, I'm afraid we can't make the 200,000 sets of costumes you requested."
Winter is about to enter, and two hundred thousand sets of clothes are prepared for the new soldiers to wear for the winter.
What they are wearing now is still a little thin.
I'm just ready now, but I didn't expect to encounter some problems.
Qingcang didn't expect why it couldn't be made.
"Oh why are there not enough of you?"
"I'm telling you, Lord City Lord, it's not because we don't have enough people.
We can complete 200,000 sets of clothing in a month.
It's just about the raw materials.
We need a lot of hemp raw materials.
At present, the amount of hemp is seriously insufficient."
Two hundred thousand sets is not too much, and a thousand tailors can complete it in a month.
But too many raw materials are used and a large amount of ramie is needed.
You must know that cotton did not begin to be used in large quantities until the Song Dynasty.
In this era, there was no concept of cotton-padded clothes.
Otherwise, using cotton clothing as a fabric is definitely better than linen clothing, and it is much better at keeping warm.
After hearing this, Qingcang felt that the problem was not difficult and the solution was simple.
Whatever was missing should be supplemented.
Since the tailor raised this problem, he would solve it directly.
"Well, that's the question."
"Lord City Lord, this problem is already quite big.
It is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
Without raw materials, we cannot complete it."
"That's easy."
When the tailors heard Qing Cang say it's simple, everyone said, "Look at me, look at yours."
Some people said: "Lord City Lord, this is not simple.
Even if you solve the problem of raw materials, the problem of cloth still cannot be solved.
Ramie needs to go through many processes.
To turn it into linen, the spinning process takes a lot of time and energy.”
"Don't be nervous, let's solve it one by one."
When the tailor heard this, he had no choice but to say nothing.
And Qingcang said: "Minister Wu" "exist" "It's up to you to purchase ramie in large quantities."
"It's just that we may not be able to purchase a large amount of ramie in a short period of time."
"Oh why" "Ramie raw materials are being supplied to Luoyang in large quantities at this time.
After all, the trade routes there are more developed, and people are used to doing business with Luoyang, and they can get better prices."
"If that's the case, then we can appropriately double the purchase price before profit.
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I don't believe these people won't sell to us."
"Yes, if that's the case, then it's easy to handle.
I'll do it right now."
"By the way, I also need to purchase some Qianghu leather materials, which I want to use as rewards for the generals."
These fierce men will go through life and death for themselves, and they should be given better things.
Wu You took the order and headed out directly.
Qingcang asked the tailor headed by him.
“After buying ramie raw materials, what process is needed to make it into cloth?”
He really didn't understand this, so he asked these professionals.
"A spinning wheel is needed to spin ramie into yarn, but each spinning wheel can spin up to 3 pounds of yarn per day.
Then it is turned into yarn, and then the yarn is woven into linen through a loom.
The next step is what our tailors have to do."
Qing Cang thought to himself that the efficiency in ancient times was indeed very low.
Two hundred thousand sets of clothes, each set weighing three kilograms, would cost at least six hundred thousand kilograms.
If one thousand spinning wheels take 200 days to spin 600,000 kilograms of ramie into yarn, and 10,000 spinning wheels take 20 days, where can we get 10,000 spinning wheels now?
And 10,000 spinning wheels will cost another 20,000 It takes people turns to spin the yarn to complete it in twenty days, which is a huge waste of manpower and resources.
Thinking about it this way, it's no wonder that the tailor doesn't believe that he has a way to solve it.
The problem in front of him is indeed very big, but it is not a big problem in front of him.
What manpower can't do, machine can do it completely.
He remembered that Wang Zongwei was renovating the moat, which had already been renovated to a great extent.
He also remembered that five water-powered mills were installed at the dam.
So he asked the guards to call Wang Zongwei up.
Soon Wang Zongwei arrived at the meeting hall.
When he saw the tailors also there, a trace of doubt appeared on his face, and he was probably thinking what the commander wanted to do with him.
"Come on, Minister Wang, this is a spinning wheel.
Its function is to spin linen into yarn."
Placed in front of him was an ancient spinning wheel with three spindles and a very unique shape.
It was he who had the guards carry it from the tailor.
"Commander this is" "I want you to transform it and use all the resources of your weapons academy to transform it."
"What does the Commander want to be transformed into?"
"Didn't you transform it into a water-powered mill before?
Now I want you to transform this into a large water-powered spinning wheel."
At this point, all the tailors were shocked and transformed "Lord City Lord, you want to modify this spinning wheel."
"Yes, there is a serious waste of manpower and low efficiency.
It all comes from this spinning wheel.
If I can increase the efficiency of this spinning wheel ten times, twenty times, or even more, the yarn produced in one day will only be a hundred kilograms." , then half of your problem is solved.”
The tailor continued: "Lord City Lord, this is something passed down from our ancestors.
How can it be changed?
And I think the structure of this machine is very perfect.
There is nothing more perfect than it."
He has never seen a modern loom.
Cotton goes in and cloth comes out.
Vision determines everything.
If you want to develop, you must change.
"Then I want to show you how strong our Minister Wang is."
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All the tailors did not believe that Wang Zongwei would succeed, and they immediately made a conclusion.
"This level of difficulty is simply harder than climbing to the sky."
"Lord City Lord, it would be more practical to hire more people to complete the spinning."
Qingcang asked directly: "Do you think there are so many professional people in our city?"
This question left the tailors speechless.
Yes, how can 20,000 people work day and night?
Who can bear it?
"this" "Okay, just take a look."
Wang Zongwei, who had been studying, said something that surprised everyone even more.
"Commander, give me a day and I will build a large water-powered spinning wheel."
The leading tailor said with disbelief on his face: "What kind of day is Minister Wang?
What day are you talking about?
That's impossible."
Wang Zongwei only said: "Then let's wait and see.
At this time tomorrow, you can go to the moat in the west of the city to witness it."
Wang Zongwei has the most powerful craftsmen and inventors around here.
He can build such a huge city rushing vehicle out of thin air, let alone a large hydraulic spinning wheel.
"Sure, I hope Minister Wang can give us a surprise tomorrow.
Lord City Lord, let's leave first."
The group of people waited and left the meeting hall.
Qing Cang and Wang Zongwei were left behind.
“You can really get it done” "Commander, believe me, this kind of structure is simply child's play for us."
Wang Zongwei said emphatically that he had already said so, Qing Cang didn't say anything more, he only hoped to see a miracle tomorrow
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