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    On the first day of the first lunar month, incense is burned before the gods for divination.  Early cotton, medium cotton, and late cotton are so good, Grandpa Heaven will choose them for me.  On the first day of the new year, Yang Yuhua was as diligent as usual and made breakfast early.  She was currently singing nursery rhymes taught to her by her mother and spinning her spinning wheel with a happy expression.  The pressure of supporting a family that had weighed on her for a long time was now gone. She couldn't express her joy.  Yang Shaowen got up a little late, and he lamented the diligence of people in this generation. He felt that he was already very diligent, but he was still not as good as his sister, who was half a child.  "Yuhua, you don't have to spin and weave at home anymore. It's too tiring and you can't make much money!" After doing the flower gauze business for more than a month, Yang Shaowen has a relatively in-depth understanding of this industry.  He understands that the most skilled local weavers earn only about 1 yuan a month, which still requires help from other family members.  His sister's current textile skills only earn her a monthly income of just over 5 cents. Compared with his current business, the price/performance ratio is vastly different.  The low income of textile households should be related to the backward textile tools in their hands.  The spinning wheel and loom in the hands of my sister is the same as that of other local farmers. The spinning wheels are all single-spindle hand-operated spinning wheels, and the loom is a manual shuttle machine.  Yang Shaowen had some questions in his mind. As far as the little historical knowledge he knew, Britain had invented multiple spinning jenny machines and flying shuttles as early as the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century.  It is already the end of the 19th century. Is it possible that these technologies have not been introduced for such a long time?  According to common sense, this should be impossible.  He knew that the Westernization Movement in the Qing Dynasty had been going on for some time. During the Westernization Movement, the Qing government opened several technologically advanced machine weaving layouts, such as the Hubei Weaving Layout and the Shanghai Machine Weaving Layout.  We already have machine spinning machines, so there¡¯s no reason why we don¡¯t know about the spinning jenny and the flying shuttle?  He saw this as an opportunity, but it was a pity that he had no interest in textiles before.  In the past, in history class, I only knew about the Jenny machine with multiple spindles for hand-spinning yarn and the flying shuttle that could automatically change the shuttle.  As for the principles of these things and how they are made, I have never cared about them.  He felt that if he had time, he could do some research in this area.  Although he was not a college student majoring in mechanics, he felt that he could figure it out based on his logical thinking ability and some information he knew.  But he is not sure that it will be a great success after the research is completed.  Subconsciously, Yang Shaowen felt that things might not be that simple.  He vaguely remembered that during the most difficult stalemate stage of the Anti-Japanese War, when the Eighth Route Army base areas promoted the self-reliance and adequate food and clothing movement, the rural cooperatives organized by the Eighth Route Army still used hand-operated spinning wheels for spinning.  It was already the 1930s, and the Eighth Route Army had no shortage of overseas students. Under such difficult circumstances, we should have thought of the more efficient Jenny machine for hand-woven textiles? With no answer to the question, Yang Shaowen could only put the question aside for the time being.  In the heart.  Yang Yuhua gets up and spins every day, which has almost become her habit.  Now that my eldest brother is saying this, it really feels like it¡¯s not worth it.  After working hard for a month, I can't make as much as my elder brother makes in a day, so why bother.  "Then what will I do in the future? Collect homespun cloth with my eldest brother? But there must be someone at home to take care of the younger siblings, especially Xiangxiang, who is still so young!" At this time, Yang Shaoming, Yang Shaokuan and Xiangxiang had already stood up.  When talking about my future plans, I always want to go sailing with my eldest brother to collect goods, and I don¡¯t want to stay at home.  Yang Shaowen can't use so many men on one ship.  Besides, the boat has limited space and cannot carry too many people.  "Let's rent another boat and open two mobile flower gauze shops!" This is the result of Yang Shaowen's careful consideration when he went to bed at night.  The first point is that the market space is huge, and one of his ships is far from meeting the requirements.  Wujin County is a major county that produces homespun cloth.  According to Yang Shaowen's previous market survey results, there are about ten cloth shops in Wujin County, each with an annual shipment volume of between 300,000 and 800,000 pieces.  The total output of homespun cloth in Wujin County is conservatively estimated at around 5 million pieces.  These homespun cloths are collected by flower gauze shops distributed in various towns and villages, and his mobile flower gauze shop is also a member of this system.  Yang Shaowen made a classification. Those weavers who are more than a day's round trip from the flower gauze shop in the township are his target customers. Those who are more than half a day's round trip are considered potential customers that can be won over.  According to this standard, his target market has a capacity of 200,000 pieces of cloth, and the potential market capacity is even one million pieces.  His gross profit from trading is about three cents per piece of cloth. If he captures all the target markets, he can earn an income of 6,000 yuan per year.  This is a huge gold mine waiting to be dug!  Of course, this is an ideal situation. Some remote villages are not connected by rivers and are markets where there is no food to eat.  Even so, if??Yang Shaowen has enough ships and an annual income of 3,000 yuan can be expected.  Secondly, after deducting the year-end expenses, Yang Shaowen still has more than 20 yuan left in his hand, which is almost enough for the start-up capital of the new store.  Finally, the family has enough people.  After the New Year, several younger brothers and sisters are one year older.  Yang Yuhua has always been mature and stable, and can run a boat by himself.  The second brother, Yang Shaoming, is eleven years old and very strong. He can help his sister with rowing and carrying.  The third brother, Shao Kuan, followed him, just to run errands and gain some social experience.  Yang Shaowen told his younger brothers and sisters about his plans, and they were very satisfied.  It was just that Yang Shaoming had a little scruple: "Brother, isn't it good for my sister to be exposed outside? She is not married yet?"  Shocking.  But then, he put this worry behind him: "We, the children of the Yang family, don't learn these coy rules. There is nothing wrong with Yuhua running around outside more. She will gain more knowledge than being locked up at home. From now on, we will support our family.  Ye, let¡¯s find a son-in-law for Yuhua. Hahaha!¡± Yang Yuhua put aside the worries he had just raised and felt that his brother was really an extremely open-minded person.  Girls, no one likes to stay at home all day long.  "What about me, what about me, what do I do?" Xiao Xiangxiang was so anxious that her elder brother kept talking for a long time, why didn't she give her any work?  "Oh, I forgot about this little oil bottle!" Yang Shaowen was a little embarrassed.  "I'm not just a dragster, I can also work. Xiangxiang also wants to go with you to collect cloth, so she doesn't want to stay at home alone. Wuwuwu!" Yang Yuxiang felt sad when she saw that she was ignored.  cried.  Yang Shaowen was a little embarrassed. He was bold enough to let ten-year-old Shao Kuan join the ship as a waiter. He would never dare to let six-year-old Xiang Xiang become a waiter. As soon as she got on the ship, another waiter  I can only take care of her.  The final compromise was that Yang Shaowen and Yang Yuhua took her on board the ship once every ten days, and left her to their neighbor Liu Sanfu to take care of her the rest of the time.  At least, this little aunt was settled.  ¡°Hoho, this is really a mobilization of the whole family.
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