Chapter 241 Transportation Efficiency
Spring plowing has been completed, but the summer grain has not yet been harvested. For the people in Guizhou, they have actually begun to count the grains of rice and be ready to eat the chaff at any time, which is what the saying goes.
Feng Yong actually didn’t want to buy grain when the price of grain was the highest in the whole year, but the old demon Zhuge only had one year left for him.
What can he do?
So I can only bite the bullet and spit out some profits.
During this year, the dignitaries were busy cultivating wasteland, and Zhuge Lao Yao was busy harvesting wool.
No one had the time or enough preparation to spin wool into cloth, so Feng Yong took advantage of this opportunity and started his own business.
This thing is so profitable, and the life of the court is so tight, how can Old Demon Zhuge let it go?
Feng Yongyong took this opportunity to expand the textile workshop. Is he waiting for the old demon Zhuge to free up his hands to grab the business?
To make the workshop bigger, it needs more people.
The more people there are, the more food will be consumed.
Zhuge Lao Yao has promised that he can take in a thousand women in Nanzhong and sell him another two thousand strong Hu men.
Including the original people, there will be nearly 3,000 more people in Nanxiang County in the future.
At this time, Feng Yong had to admire his foresight. Zhao Guang and Wang Xun went to various places to survey and cultivate. They met some ignorant barbarians on the road and captured them. You can't let me hand them over to the country, right?
The rich and powerful can secretly arrest barbarians and Liao people as coolies, so why can’t I?
So, isn’t it natural to send the Hu people who were captured conveniently to Nanxiang to work as coolies?
Although Huang Wudie is the richest man in Hanzhong, how rich can Hanzhong be? Even with her wealth, she can't afford to feed thousands of mouths.
It would be about the same if you were from a middle-class family in Jincheng.
Feng Yong thought about it and felt that he really could only go to Jincheng to collect food.
Fortunately, I harvested a batch of wool before winter last year. Although the cloth weaved was 50% of that of Hanzhongfu, I still had half for myself.
In addition, although He Wang is a mad dog and wants to bite his clan clan at any time, he is still very loyal to those who can help him avenge himself.
Besides, Feng Yong also gave him Huang Hao's head to give him an official status, so Ju County sent some wool from time to time throughout the winter.
Although it seems scattered, it is not too small if accumulated throughout the winter.
At that time, the court did not say that private wool harvesting was not allowed. As a new generation of strong orders, it explored ways and accumulated experience for the court to introduce a wool harvesting policy in the coming year. What was wrong with that?
Hello, hello, hello everyone, how cool is it?
How is it like that Ma Su, who scores three or seven points as soon as he opens his mouth, bah!
If you like Sanqi so much, why not go to Nanzhong?
There is a lot of Panax notoginseng in Nanzhong. It can also dissipate blood stasis and stop bleeding, reduce swelling and relieve pain. How good is it?
“Brother, what are you doing?”
Today, besides Guan Ji, the only person beside Feng Yong is Li Qiu.
Guan Ji rarely appears these days, but Li Qiu follows Feng Yong around every day.
As for Li Qiu, the county magistrate, he is really leisurely and has nothing to do all day long.
Just go to the textile workshop, a pillar enterprise in the county.
“Make the wheel rounder so that no one can push it.”
“Trolley?”
Li Qiu walked up to it with interest, took a closer look, and said, "It looks quite unique. It looks somewhat similar to a deer cart."
“It’s an improved deer cart.”
Feng Yong admitted generously.
Deer carts have been around for a long time and can be regarded as the predecessor of handcarts. However, due to design reasons, the carrying capacity is not very large and can generally only carry the weight of one or two people.
The cart Feng Yongsuo is preparing to make is the most mature model after more than a thousand years of use by later generations. It can carry the weight of at least six people.
If it is made larger and a cart-pulling device is added in the front so that people can pull it forward and push it back, the carrying capacity can be increased.
Two-wheeled vehicles pulled by livestock are good, but they can generally only be driven when the road conditions are good.
Handcarts like this can pass on narrow roads, alleys, field ridges, and wooden bridges. Especially in textile workshops, handcarts are used to transport goods to wool carders, spinners, and weavers. It is very convenient!
With this device, the transportation efficiency in the textile workshop will be at least several times improved.
Coupled with the mine transportation, in one word, it’s great!
As a conscientious feudal social capitalist, Feng Tubiao said that if we don’t improve work efficiency, how can we be called a qualified capitalist?
Still, do n’t take advantage of the year that Zhuge's old monsters have left for their foundation for one year, waiting for crying in the coming year?
In this era when there is no electricity and gasoline cannot be used, this is the best solution Feng Yong can think of to solve the problem of transportation in workshops and mines.
Don’t underestimate this vehicle powered by human power. Before modern transportation became popular in later generations, this lightweight vehicle for transporting goods and people, especially in the north, played almost the same role as the donkey.
Marshal Chen of later generations once said that the Battle of Huaihai was pushed out by the people of Shandong with carts, referring to this kind of cart.
“Used generally with deer cart?”
Li Qiu walked around the car and asked.
Feng Yong nodded, "Yes. But it can hold more things than a deer cart, and it's more convenient."
Li Qiu was even more eager to try after hearing this. He lifted his robe and said, "I'll give it a try, little brother."
"This one won't work. It's not finished yet. There's another one. It's just finished. It just has some flaws, but it's barely usable."
Feng Yong saw this thing in the corner of the farm tool room of his home when he was a child. He heard that it was used by his grandfather.
But even my father has never used this thing. How can he restore it in one go? He just has to ask a carpenter to polish it bit by bit.
If you are not satisfied with the work, you can just ask someone to redo it. Anyway, you have a lot of people at your disposal.
“As long as it works.”
Li Qiu held the handle of the cart and tried to take two steps. He was amazed, "It looks similar to the deer cart, but once you get started, it feels really different and much more convenient."
Thought for a while, and then asked Feng Yong, "I want to push it out for a try, brother, can you allow it?"
“It’s up to you. Let’s see if there’s anything wrong with it.”
When Feng Yong heard this, he realized that there were free trial operators, so there was no way he could disagree.
“That little brother would be rude.”
After hearing this, Li Qiu pushed the car out unceremoniously. Feng Yong looked from behind and saw that he pushed the car directly to the roadside, walked a few steps, and then pushed it back to the middle of the road. He repeated this several times, and finally I don’t know if it’s unskilled or intentional.
Seeing that the craftsman couldn't make the next one for a while, Feng Yong walked to the door and watched Li Qiu pushing the cart outside in irregular curves.
Unexpectedly, just after a while, Feng Tubie suddenly opened his eyes wide and watched in disbelief as Li Qiu parked the car on the side of the road, then put a big stone on the car, pushed it two more steps, and then placed it on the car. Hold another piece and put it on it, and then gradually disappear at the other end of the road...
You can do it, young man, the operation is very professional, you actually know to test the load capacity of the car?
(End of this chapter)