I opened a mall in ancient times

Even the monsters have heard about the affairs of the Lu family.

When Luo Chaochao was in the capital, thousands of kilometers away from the south, he didn't know much about the affairs in the south. Only those monsters in the south knew how bloody the situation was.

It was shocking.

Even though their monsters sometimes look down on humans, it is undeniable that the emperor, as the master of the country, can do many things that ordinary people can't even imagine in order to consolidate his power and status.

Humans are scary too.

Almost all the heads of the head of the Lu family and those who were separated from the family fell to the ground. Hundreds of people fell to the main house of the Lu family, and all kinds of in-laws also died tragically. It smelled so bloody that even the common people were afraid to go out.

In addition to those who died, there were more people who were exiled. Some of those people would die on the road, and they would continue to work as coolies in the remote north until the next amnesty for the world.

"The Lu family is quite capable. But the textile machine is actually not difficult to copy. When they were in Kangzhou City, they wanted to ask me for the blueprint of the textile machine." Luo Chaochao said.

"Are you going to promote the textile machine this time?" Yu Wei asked, "You can't come here to sell it. This one will cost at least a hundred taels of silver."

Luo Chaoxi smiled inscrutablely: "You guessed it right."

Hu Shisan was a little strange: "Didn't the emperor ask you to promote it? If you sold it, wouldn't it be against the emperor's order? Wouldn't he bother you?"

Although if the emperor came to cause trouble, it might not necessarily be Luo Chaochao who was unlucky.

"The emperor didn't say that the promotion must be free, and even if the common people get the blueprints for free, it is difficult to make such a large textile machine by themselves. This kind of large textile machine requires team work, only those who Only the boss who does business can get the money." Luo Chaoxi had already guessed the possible situation and made preparations.

Only those who are rich can buy textile machines at this time, and those scattered retail investors will be hired by Luo Chaochao, or work in other derived industries.

This may squeeze the living space of retail investors, but this is an inevitable trend.

Of course, if they are willing, Luo Chaochao can even provide loan services for them to buy by themselves, or the whole village can pool together to buy it.

The looms sold to ordinary people will certainly not be more expensive than those sold to these cloth merchants.

What's more, the embroiderers here are more powerful than Kangzhou City and other places. They are distributed according to villages. Almost every woman in each village can weave, but each family's financial resources cannot support the purchase of a whole machine.

It is feasible according to the village, and there is no need to worry about not being able to sell it, because Luo Chaochao's factory can be purchased.Because the output is more, the money that can be sold is also more, and it will not lose money than before, but will make money.

"But those ordinary people..."

"There are other jobs for them," Luo Chao said.

These things are commercial secrets, Yu Wei and the others are too embarrassed to ask, but Luo Chaochao has clearly planned it.

The address of the textile factory was assigned to a piece of wasteland outside the city, near a river.It stands to reason that the land near the river will not be left idle, but the quality of the land here is really bad, and the rewards for working hard to tend the fields are not enough for a year's effort, and gradually no one will plant them, of course. barren land.

Luo Chaochao requisitioned the nearby land, leveled it, and then led the craftsmen to start building a new factory.

There are many embroiderers and workers who can operate machines, Luo Chaochao plans to build a larger factory.

Factories do not only need employees to operate machines, but also employees who process other raw materials, and employees who are responsible for building thread ends.A factory can generate a lot of jobs, enough to provide them with production jobs.

And with money, these common people will develop other industries, forming a virtuous circle, and the economy will be brought up slowly.

It turns out that Jiangnan is rich because there are many rich people, not because the people are rich.The lives of the people at the bottom are actually similar, but overall they are better than those in the north.

At this time, it was the end of May, just after the busy season of farming, and a lot of labor could be mobilized to build the house.

And this time, unlike before, people were recruited at random, and the wages paid were quite generous, with food included, [-] Wen a day, and [-] Wen a day during the slack season was also an extra income.

So they quickly recruited thousands of workers.

In the past, the construction of such a large building required a lot of manpower and material resources, and the time would be delayed for a long time.Therefore, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Why did the previous emperors want to build palaces but were rejected by the ministers?

Because you need glutinous rice to build a house at this time, and there is not enough food to eat now, where can you get the money to build a house?

If a new palace is built, many people are destined to starve to death.

But it's different now. Luo Chaochao took out the formula of earth and cement, which can build a strong and fast house without food, and it is also fireproof.

These things have not been officially promoted, so when Luo Chaochao and the others were making soil and cement, the carpenters who were called in to help thought that Luo Chaochao was an outsider and commanded carelessly here.

Many people came to persuade Luo Chaochao to stop messing around and leave the professional work to professional people. However, Luo Chaochao, who has always been easy to talk, didn't listen to others, and took the workers to get the earth and cement on his own.

It doesn't matter if outsiders know about it.

Because the Western Regions and Beidi didn't need this thing at all, and the Western Regions were too far away from Sheng Kingdom, what they faced when attacking Sheng Kingdom was a new city wall made of earth and cement, and spurs buried in the ground that would not be cut off.And Beidi doesn't even have a fixed residence, and it's useless to use earth and cement, so this thing is only suitable for Sheng Kingdom.

The most important thing is that it is very suitable for fortress warfare, and it is very suitable for the current situation of Sheng Kingdom.

After the emperor got the earth cement and tested it in the palace, it was confirmed that it could be used. Someone brought the earth cement recipes and rushed to take these recipes to the location of the garrison, so that they could use earth cement to rebuild the city wall. .

As for the promotion in other places, it is slower, so many craftsmen still don't know the function of soil cement.

But the craftsmen now only look at the gray walls standing up, without a single piece of wood inside. Although they look thick, they look easy to collapse.

Won't such a heavy thing and such a tall house collapse?

If there are steel bars, Luo Chaochao can even build larger double-story factory buildings or three-story factory buildings, but there is no such thing yet.

He always has to keep some hole cards, such as the means of smelting steel.

After a while, when the time is right, Luo Chaochao will consider sending this up.

Under the command of Luo Chaochao, those craftsmen added supporting beams and load-bearing columns wrapped with earth bricks.

The factory building is seven or eight meters high, and the area of ​​a single factory building is about [-] square meters, which is spacious and bright.

But it doesn't look very good-looking, and it doesn't conform to the aesthetics of the current era, but it is shockproof and easy to use.

Moreover, the drying speed of soil cement is very fast, much faster than that of glutinous rice. There is also a simple lever crane, and various tools are assisted, and the speed is directly pulled up. Outsiders find it amazing, and there are some things they have never thought of. whimsy.

Those craftsmen changed their contempt for Luo Chaochao, wishing to make Luo Chaochao their confidant, but Luo Chaochao laughed the whole time, and had no intention of communicating with them.

A total of fifteen such factories have been built, and this is only a small number for the time being.If it weren't for the shorter time, he could even build more houses.But it doesn't matter, it can be expanded in the future. Anyway, there are wastelands around here, so it is very convenient to expand.

The construction of these fifteen workshops started at the same time.With enough money and food, everyone was willing to work, two days earlier than expected.During the construction of the factory building, a group of carpenters were secretly recruited to start building large hydraulic spinning wheels, ordinary pedal spinning wheels and other infrastructure.

There are many more craftsmen in Suzhou City, and there are also many carpenters, but in order to complete the work in a short time, the number of people is still a little stretched, so even the carpenters from the surrounding cities have been transferred.Thousands of carpenters worked together, but the assembly line operation was combined with three shifts, and piles of wood were sent into the workshop, and then racks of looms were sent out.

At the same time, there are also a large amount of cotton harvested last year, wool imported from Beidi, and wool harvested from local sheep farmers in Shengguo as raw materials after opening.

As for the employees, Luo Chaoxi still has about [-] people brought from the Lu family. If it is convenient, they will be stuffed into the factory, and if it is inconvenient, they will work outside.

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner, and the progress is flying all the way as if it has wings.

Even with the help of the government, this speed is indeed so fast that everyone is caught off guard.

By the end of May, everything in this factory was finally fully established.

The gray walls outside were painted with white paint, which made them look less ugly, and the Roman numerals 1234 were marked on the outside in a very simple and rough way to distinguish the respective factories.

As for why ordinary Chinese numbers are not used to describe it, it is purely because there are not many literate people among these people. If they are marked in Chinese, these people may not be able to find the factory.

Under the assistance of Roman numerals, there are simple signs of each factory, so you can see what the factory does.For example, the textile workshop is a simple foot-operated textile pattern. If it is cleaning cotton, it is a villain picking things in front of the table.

The factory presents a light-industrial style that is out of tune with the world around it, and it seems a little unhuman.

That's fun.

On the day when it was officially completed, many people came to see what this vigorously built factory building looked like.

They just listened to other people's paintings, but they hadn't really seen how it was built, so when they saw the layout outside the factory, their first reaction was that it was too ugly!

Like the factory in Connecticut City, in addition to the working area, this factory also has an area for employees' daily life, a canteen and a place for entertainment. Those who want to go home can go home.If you feel too tired after shift work, you can live in the dormitory. There are menus in the cafeteria area every day to ensure that employees can eat and drink well, but takeout is not allowed.

The layout of the factory is built according to the factories in modern society, and it has been slightly improved. It can be regarded as a very efficient arrangement.Luo Chaochao has done the best he can, and hopes to have a good result after the official start

"This is too fast. If you use this technique to build a palace..."

"No no no, this is too ugly."

Indeed, houses built with earth and cement are not good-looking. They are boxy and do not have the aesthetics that people are pursuing today, and they are not as pleasing to the eye as the current buildings. Just the most common peaked roof.

This time, there is still a cement wall outside the factory, but it is not as high as Kangzhou City, only two meters high, with barbed wire on it, also to prevent the original tragedy in Kangzhou City

The house is made of cement that is not afraid of fire, but the various machines inside are made of wood, and there are also various cottons and cloths, all of which are flammable.

And the most important thing is that they dug a ditch for the river near the textile factory, connected it into the factory with ceramic sewer pipes, and made a set of simple tap water supply measures, which can greatly save the manpower consumed in fetching water And material resources, improve efficiency.

Now the workers are all in place, just waiting for the official start of work.

"Master Fu Yin, the factory is open, do you want to give a speech? Motivate everyone and encourage everyone to work hard." Luo Chaoxi took out the speech from his sleeve, "Of course such an important occasion as the opening ceremony requires you to give a speech."

Anyway, it was not me who was sitting under the stage.