Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 317: Ginger still gets more spicy with age.

Then you can make a lot of money.

Jiangnan Prefecture is so rich, but they don't have this kind of wool sweater. If you make wool sweaters and sell them there, it will definitely be a success. There is also Yongjia Prefecture in Jingxuan and Wuling Prefecture in the west. Anyway, you can sell them when you transport books. The price will definitely not be low.

Although Lord Pei has been fighting enemies on the border all his life, he is surprisingly good at business. Seeing Lord Pei like this, Hua Lei was a little surprised. This was beyond her imagination.

But that's true. There are so many blood-sucking worms in front of the Marquis' Mansion that need blood transfusions. If Old Marquis Pei doesn't have any skills, how can he give blood to them with only his monthly salary?

Moreover, in the past two years, the price of wine produced by the winery has been raised several times by Lord Pei in his shop in Mobei. The caravans that bought the rice wine were grateful to Lord Pei. It must be said that the old man is still the wisest.

Hua Lei was startled. Large-scale purchases? As a commoner, I am unfamiliar with the Mobei area. If I want to purchase raw wool in large quantities, I will definitely need a lot of cash. Even if I know him, it is unlikely that I can buy raw wool on credit, right?

She didn't have that much money to do this. Although she did have a lot of banknotes in her pocket, she didn't dare to do it because a lot of money would be put on Yuanmao's back. She also needed money to run her own shops. She hadn't forgotten the incident at Liang Xiangyi's Lotus Garden.

It was not very expensive to transport the raw wool from Mobei. Sometimes, if the ship returned at an unlucky time, it would return empty. However, if the raw wool was made into woolen sweaters for sale, the timeline would be too long. Lord Pei asked me to keep this craft, which meant that it was unlikely to let outsiders do the work.

If I rely on the people in my village to wash the wool and spin the yarn, then make sweaters by hand and sell them, then the wool cut in April and May this spring will be made into sweaters, and it will probably take until the autumn and winter of next year to sell them. Not to mention the cost of one and a half years, how many people do I need to hire to do this? After all, the speed of hand-knitting sweaters is too slow.

The outer layer of the down vests made on my farm is made by villagers outside in batches and procedures, and the process is not fast. Knitting a wool sweater is more troublesome than making a down vest jacket. If it cannot be outsourced, then the wool sweater will be produced even slower.

Thinking of this, Hua Lei said, "Grandfather Pei, I don't think this is a good idea. Don't even mention whether I have the money to go to Mobei to buy raw wool. Even if I do, the timeline is too long and I may not be able to bear it.

Making a wool sweater, not to mention how troublesome it is to select and wash the wool, even after the wool is spun into yarn, the speed of hand-knitting the sweater is also very slow. It will probably take more than ten days for one person to finish a sweater, and sometimes it may not be finished in time.

With the people I have now, I can't produce enough sweaters. If I buy more slaves, I will have more people, but the labor cost will be too high. This will put more pressure on funds.

Also, although this craft is not available in the Great Sheng Dynasty, it is not difficult, especially in Jiangnan Prefecture, where the textile industry and fabrics are so developed, and they have a strong learning ability. As long as they see my wool sweater, I think they can make it within a month, at least they can spin it into wool yarn.

They have existing people and existing spinning wheels. If the spun wool yarn is put on the market in large quantities, others will look at the wool sweaters I have knitted, learn a little, and then purchase the wool yarn and knit them themselves.

Or if the cooperation between spinning and knitting forms an industrial chain, my situation will be even less advantageous. Not only will my technology be untraceable, but I may also be surpassed by them.”

After a pause, he continued, "If imitations of my sweaters appear soon after they are released, I won't make much money from them. If they lower the price further, the wool and sweaters I have in stock may become unsaleable."

Hualei knows that the reason why no one has imitated her down jackets and goose down quilts for so long is that others don't have that much duck and goose down, so they can't imitate them. The same is true for her own pig bristle toothbrushes, soaps, and ointments. She has a firm grasp of the raw materials.

It is the egg yolk pastry from Shangjing City. It is also because other people’s salted duck eggs and dough making cannot imitate the essence of their own egg yolk pastry. Therefore, although there are many imitations, there are still very few that can really shake the status of their own egg yolk pastry.

On the contrary, the vegetables in Yuanying Village have been sold much worse since the transformation of the swamps in the southern part of the city. If they hadn't pickled the vegetables themselves and made them into dried vegetables and sold them to Mobei and Xijiang, the vegetables would have rotted in the fields. This is the consequence of being imitated.

Next, the chickens, ducks, geese and pigs on the farm in the next pond will soon be slaughtered, which will inevitably have an impact on his business in Shangjing City. The selling prices of chickens, ducks, geese and pigs in Shangjing City will definitely drop.

Over time, it is estimated that it will affect the business of my down vests and goose down quilts. Although I can help process cured meat and sausages later and earn a lot of labor fees, the initiative is no longer in my hands.

Thinking of this, Hua Lei couldn't help but pause for a moment. It seemed that she still had to protect some recipes for making preserved food, roast duck and sausage. Fortunately, when Feng's sister-in-law came to ask for the roast duck recipe, she refused her.

Hua Lei sighed. Even if she could earn the labor fees for these cured meat and sausages, the transformation of the puddle would only bring about a loss in her income. Although she might earn a lot more, it would not be a pleasant feeling to have the meat that she had eaten in the monopoly industry snatched away by others.

People have such a possessive desire, they only see what they have lost, not what they have gained. But at that time, I also knew that I could not refuse the request of the Ministry of Agriculture, but I pretended to be eager to go to the Ministry of Revenue for the sake of face. After all, the arm cannot twist the thigh, and I hope that if there is a flood, the court will consider the tax revenue of Nancheng District and make more efforts to fight the disaster.

The wool sweater business will be much worse than the current vegetable business in Yuanying Village.