When Li Yi saw the clothes handed over by Huo Gang and did not take them, he realized that this was not any kind of fabric he had contacted before. Moreover, the surface of the clothes had a layer of white fluff, so you can't say it, it looked pretty good.

He reached out and took it. It was softer to buy it, but it felt like it was a wool product as soon as he bought it. Li Yi immediately thought of what it was. He picked it up and put it on his nose and smelled it. There was no smell of sheep. He carefully stroked it with his hands, and the texture of the purchase was also very good.

Moreover, it has a thick texture. The needle and thread in the hand are very dense. You can feel it. Its insulation effect should be very good.

"Is this wool knitted?" Li Yi immediately asked in amazement.

"Yes, this is wool wool. The fabric made from wool is different from ordinary fabrics. It is relatively thick, but the warmth effect is very good." Huo Gang nodded and smiled and said, "The point is that it is cheap."

Compared with silk, everyone knows that the cost of raising silk is very high. Not to mention the top silk, even if the silk is woven from inferior silk, the price of a piece of silk is equivalent to one stone of rice, which is 60 kilograms of rice.

With the ideas provided by Huo Gang, Lu Ji and their improved Lu Ji spinning machine can weave 10 yarns at the same time. Similarly, the emergence of shuttles also makes weaving more efficient, the cloth wider, and the stitches are tighter, so Huo Gang can reduce the cost of linen to 100. This year, Huo Gang chose more places to plant cotton downstream of the Huo Ci River.

When cotton gradually became popular and began to be produced in large quantities, cotton cloth was destined to replace linen cloth, but cotton cloth could not replace wool and cashmere products. For example, wool quilts are actually an excellent choice for keeping cold in winter.

When cotton completely replaces wool, it is estimated that it will be impossible within more than ten years, and there will be no such large cotton yield. However, the entire Western Region is indeed the best place for cotton cultivation. In the future, after a large amount of grain-growing areas are found in Huo Gang's territory, it can be converted into a cotton-growing area.

Even before cotton was planted in large quantities, Huo Gang would not popularize cotton, because the Tang Dynasty did not have good cold-proof clothing, so wool was the biggest seller.

For ordinary people, Huo Gang can sell wool products, while for high-end nobles, Huo Gang can sell cashmere. Even in later generations, cashmere is not a luxury, but real cashmere products are very expensive, and cashmere products of this era are even more expensive.

Because cashmere in this era can only be screened by hand.

"How cheap." Although he was prepared, Li Yi took a deep breath. This business was even larger than the previous one, because there was no silk and Ma Huo Gang's territory, but the wool, the hundreds of thousands of Turkic people recovered by Huo Gang alone, were probably at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of sheep.

One million sheeps at least twice a year. The weather warms up once in spring, and you can also cut them once when autumn begins.

"20 ounces per piece!" Huo Gang put the price lower than linen! Because he wanted to give Li Yi enough profit, it was not that Huo Gang did not want higher profits, but that higher profits were not necessary, because Huo Gang had no place to sell.

It can't be sold to countries like the Western Turks, right? Because they all have wool. As long as they have wool, the cost is not as low as Huo Gang, but their wool is almost free.

Huo Gang wanted to sell a large amount of goods, and there was only one place, that is, the Tang Dynasty! Population is the market! The market is the kingdom! Moreover, except for the Tang Dynasty, other countries could trade with Huo Gang, but they could not provide the sufficient supplies Huo Gang needed.

For example, food.

For example, the Arabian Peninsula is still very short of food, and the place is now very chaotic, and the population is not large to avoid being hungry.

When Li Yi heard this cost, he gasped. The price was lower than the price of burlap! But after making the wool clothes in his hand, it was obviously much more comfortable than the burlap clothes! Even if it was compared with the burlap, it would be easy to get along!

However, for the vast majority of Baixin, its warmth effect is better and its price is cheaper. Ordinary people in this era do not have much money to choose. In this state, the cheaper they can choose, the more advantage they have.

Once the wool clothes enter, although they will not completely replace the linen clothes, it is conceivable that a large piece of the linen clothes will be stolen.

"How much can you provide?" Li Yi looked at Huo Gang and asked seriously.

"In about half a month, I can provide you with 6,000 horses per day." Huo Gang gave an accurate number.

Li Yi looked at Huo Gang deeply. What does 6,000 horses mean every day? Although Li Yi is the head of the Li family in Longxi, he is responsible for business. As a head of the family, he must have some understanding of these. No one of the heads of aristocratic families in this era is a fool, and they are all elites among the elites.

The weaving industry in the Tang Dynasty was the world-leading one. Li Yi was very sure of this. Otherwise, their silk would not be able to sell gold at the same price in Dashi. Not to mention the high-end silk with flowers, the thing is not comparable. For plain woven silk, not only silk is a piece of silk, but also simple weaving time. It takes about two days for a weaving machine to complete one piece of cloth.

The speed of linen is faster, and you can weave a piece of cloth about a day, because the linen is not that fine, rougher, and a single thread is thicker.

But silk is different.

If 6,000 pieces of hemp are needed, it means at least 6,000 looms are needed to produce them, and each loom requires two workers, that is, 12,000 skilled weavers.

Li Yi believed that Huo Gang could find it. After all, those Turks had nothing else to do except grazing. But can Huo Gang take out 6,000 looms? Although he gave it to Huo Gang many craftsmen, 6,000 looms would definitely not be built in a month.

Considering these, there is only one answer. Although I don’t know how Huo Gang did it, the loom in his hand might be more advanced, or he doesn’t know where he got so many looms.

The wool clothes in my hand are slightly finer than fine linen, lower than silk, which means that it takes at least one and a half days to complete a piece of cloth.

6,000 pieces per day, that is, 120 pieces of goods, seem to be a small number, but Li Yi is very clear that being able to sell the cloth that was originally waste is a kind of strength! And it can reach 6,000 pieces per day in one month. So what if Huo Gang wants to expand?

Ten thousand or twenty thousand a day in the future is not a problem. As long as there are enough people and markets, he can produce it because there are enough wool in his hands. Even if he doesn’t have that much wool, there are Western Turks and Eastern Turks.

He spent money to buy wool, even if it was a penny or two, a stone of wool, probably the Khan of the Eastern Turks would be able to die of laughter, because for the Eastern Turks, wool was garbage, and it suddenly became useful now. Do you think they were happy or not?

Huo Gang could probably guess what Li Yi was thinking, but Li Yi would never guess because of the appearance of the shuttle, which means that Huo Gang's weaving efficiency is much higher than that of the Tang Dynasty. Not only does a loom require only one person, but only one-third of their time.

A skilled textile worker can complete 3 horses in two days, and the efficiency may be higher in the future, because the loom can be improved now. After Lu Ji and his team completed the work, Huo Gang asked them to think about how to combine the loom with a windmill or a waterwheel, and directly replace the manual with machinery, and only manually perform the wiring work. Then a person can watch several looms, and not only say that the efficiency of weaving can be woven seven or eight horses every day.

In one month, there was no problem in manufacturing 3,000 looms and spinning wheels, and even Huo Gang would make more. The woodworking process of Lu Ji and his team trained in assembly lines according to Huo Gang's method has begun to show results.

No matter how stupid a person is, he only needs to make the same part every day, and he cannot have a big gap. What's more, with various rulers, the size of the entire process has been determined to be dead. They just need to keep making this finished product.

They have become extremely skilled in this month. The assembly line formed by these people is even faster than that of some great craftsmen. They are all skilled.

"I can eat it." Li Yi took a deep breath and spoke decisively.

"No problem. In addition, although I have not blocked the road to the Western Regions, if Li Lang, you can provide enough silk to export, I import your silk, and then carry out deep processing here, and then sell it directly to merchants from the Western Regions in Yiwu City. Our cost is very low, which means we can monopolize all silk trade on the entire Silk Road." Huo Gang spit out another proposal that made Li Yi's heart beat wildly.

"What the leader said about exports and imports and deep processing?" Li Yi did not agree rashly, but continued to ask.

"Oh, this is the noun I invented. We are two countries. The raw materials from your country are exported to you. For us, our country buys your things, imports to us. If I sell you wool clothes, I export them, and you import them. Deep processing means that I buy raw materials and process them into finished products here. This is deep processing." Huo Gang roughly explained.

He no longer needs to avoid modern nouns. In his territory, whatever he says is what others don’t understand, so Huo Gang will explain it to them. After Huo Gang explains it once, there will naturally be people around him who will remember what Huo Gang said directly and pass on these words.
Chapter completed!