Chapter 52
Robb didn’t know whether to cry or laugh: “I woke up and saw this?”
Lillian and the four middle-aged women who came to help weave and sew socks hide In the distance at the back, the one who looked in fearfully, heard Robb’s question, and quickly nodded: “Yes, it wasn’t like this yesterday.”
A woman said: “” No wonder this big spider didn’t spin silk very much yesterday, it turned out to be about to lay eggs.”
“This is really scary.” Lillian said: “If only a few dozen eggs were laid, we would It can still be raised, but there are so many in a lifetime, we can’t support it, master, it seems that we can only dispose of more than half of the eggs, leaving only a small part, otherwise, these hundreds of eggs will hatch at the same time, Little spiders are running around all over the floor, that’s not disgusting.”
Robb was actually thinking about this, but he glanced at the middle-aged woman next to him, and suddenly thought that there are hundreds of people in Westwind Town. Such women, they are idle when they are idle, said with a smile: “It would be too wasteful to dispose of it. The silk spit by this spider can be used to make stockings, and it can be sold for a good price, which can completely form a very good It’s a good industry, so let’s build a big factory, hatch these hundreds of spider eggs, use them to spin silk, and then hire all the women in the town, let’s create the fifth largest industry for Westwind Town ——Stockings manufacturing.”
Westwind Town currently has only four industries, namely mining, hunting, agriculture, and herb collection. Except for agriculture, these four industries are all high-risk and heavy-duty labor. Only men can play it well, and the women of Westwind Town have no value other than helping the family with some farm work.
And Robb’s opening, which is to hire all the women in the town, will undoubtedly be a great act of kindness.
The four middle-aged women next to him gave Robb the most solemn gift on the spot: “Praise the God of Light, Praise Father Robert!”
“Don’t patronize Compliments.” Robb said with a smile: “Go to someone, help me call the cloth dealer in the town, I want to build this factory, I can’t do it without the help of the cloth dealer.”
Soon after, cloth Merchant was invited.
The cloth dealer in Westwind Town is actually a very, very small businessman. When Robb bought Lillian a month ago, he once went to the cloth dealer to buy cotton cloth and black dye. When the businessman saw Robb , hurriedly salute, call father first, and then stand with hands down: “You sent someone to call me here, do you have any instructions?”
Robb said with a smile: “I use spider silk to make stockings, You should know about it, right?”
The town is too small to have no secrets, and the white stockings on Lillian’s legs are too eye-catching, the whole town actually knows that Robb is doing stockings, but everyone knows it and knows it. But can’t learn.
The cloth dealer hurriedly nodded: “Yes, I know.”
Robb said: “My spider suddenly lays eggs, hundreds of eggs at a time, I thought Burn them all, but I think it’s too wasteful to think about it, it’s better to keep all these spiders alive and make a large stockings factory. But you know, I’m very busy…”
As soon as he said this, a strange expression flashed across the cloth merchant’s face. Although he did not speak, Robb seemed to hear him say: “Cut!”
Robb: “What kind of expression did you have just now?”
The cloth dealer hurriedly said, “No! I don’t have any expression.”
“Okay, then I’ll go on. “Robb said: “Where did you just say? Oh, yes, I just said that I am very busy…”
The cloth dealer: “Cut!”
Robb: “Damn, this time you not only made your expression, but you actually cut out your voice.”
The cloth merchant: “…”
Robb said: “Forget it, I don’t care about villains. Yes, let’s get down to business. I don’t have time to do any factory management or operations, so I want to hire a professional manager, or a factory manager. I think you are the right person. .”
“Huh?” The cloth dealer’s expression became a little excited: “Really?”
Robb said: “Then there is still a fake! The town in this town Most of the people are small producers and small handicraftsmen, and they can’t even do the simplest arithmetic problems. Only you, a business person, can make overall arrangements and calculations, and I think you can do it.”
The cloth dealers are inexplicably moved!
Robb said: “You can’t actually make a lot of money by selling some linen and cotton. Follow me to make stockings and make high-end products. If I’m talking nonsense, I’ll ask you, are you coming?”
“Yes, of course!” The cloth merchant quickly agreed.
Actually, the cloth dealer knew how valuable the stockings were, because he and the itinerant merchant were good friends.
The cloth purchase channel in his shop is the itinerant merchant. Every time the itinerant merchant comes to Westwind Town, he will bring him some cloth and let him sell it in the shop.
Because of this, every time the itinerant merchant came to Westwind Town, he would chat with him.
A few days ago, the itinerant merchant came to Westwind Town and bought a small amount of stockings from Robb. At that time, he sighed a few words to the cloth merchant, saying that this kind of stockings is unique and unique on the Continent. Unmatched good products, dignitaries absolutely like them, they can sell for big prices, but unfortunately the quantity is too small.
The cloth dealer listened to his ears and remembered it in his heart, but he was unable to intervene. Now Robb suddenly wants to hand over the management of this business to him, which is not very happy.
“Father, what do you want me to do, just tell me, I will try my best to do it.”
Robb secretly rejoiced: very good, and you don’t have to get tired yourself .
He thought about it and said, “First of all, to build a factory building, you need to ask some townspeople to help, pay them wages, and build a random piece of land on the hillside behind my church. You should pay attention to how to raise spiders in advance when building a factory, and ask an experienced hunter to guide you as to how to build a house that is most suitable for raising spiders in large numbers.”
The cloth merchant quickly wrote it down.
Robb said with a smile: “While the factory building is under construction, you have to hire people, the division of labor must be fine, at least into four groups of people, and one group of people must all be men, who are mainly responsible for raising spiders, and don’t. You don’t need to worry about anything. The second group all want women, they only need to take care of weaving, and don’t care about anything else. The third group also needs women, who are responsible for sewing the woven fabric into stockings, and nothing else. The fourth group is responsible for counting the number of finished stockings, putting them in the warehouse, managing them well, and shipping them to the itinerant merchants when they come to buy them… If the speed of the itinerant merchants’ acquisitions can’t keep up with our production speed, you You can set up a caravan by yourself, put it into the fourth group, and we will transport the stockings to the road of light to sell.”
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The cloth dealer couldn’t help but said a little strangely: “Father, why is the division of labor so fine? If everyone’s work is divided so finely, the usefulness of one person will become smaller, won’t it lead to more people? Pay more and go out.”
“no no no, it won’t. If a person does everything from raising spiders to weaving to sewing socks to selling, it will make his actions more efficient. It’s low, and it takes a lot of people to get it done.” Robb said with a smile: “The division of labor will allow us to hire fewer people and pay less salary, and you will understand it later.”
The cloth dealer couldn’t understand, but that didn’t prevent him from doing so obediently.
After receiving a start-up fund from Robb, the cloth merchant went to the town to find someone to build a factory.
Not long after, a large group of townspeople came back with the cloth dealer. There was also an old acquaintance. The plasterer who built the water tower for Robb heard that he was going to build a factory for Robb. He felt Very excited, as soon as I saw Robb, he kept saying: “It’s my honor to serve Father again.”
Robb said with a smile: “This time, the things to be built will make the whole town If the number of women involved in production and work, everyone will make a lot of money, let’s work hard.”
“That’s really good, my wife has always wanted to do something to subsidize her family. .”
The factory building was built very quickly, and building a house these days does not require laying foundations, nor do you need to use any sewer pipes or other things, just simply level the land, and then pick up a pile of stones and mud , Dozens of townspeople worked together, and within a few days, the house was erected.
Next is the migration of spider eggs. The cloth dealer invited the most experienced old hunter in the town to guide them, and moved the spider eggs one by one into the workshop and placed them in a small grid. In a small spider room.
Robb heard that the old hunter had been warning the townspeople who were moving the spider eggs: “Take your hands and feet! This spider’s eggs have poisonous mucus in them, although there is a priest behind us who can Detoxify you, but no matter how fast you detoxify, you will be soured by the venom, and I guarantee you don’t want to experience that feeling.”
How dare the townspeople hear such a warning. Neglect, cautiously moved the eggs into the new plant.
Finally, the old hunter personally led the chain and brought the four big spiders into the workshop, shut them up, and then relaxed, and finally warned: “I have to remind you to keep this kind of spiders. You must be very careful not to let one of them escape, otherwise, if they escape from poison to death, the townspeople will be condemned by God.”
Robb smiled and said to the old hunter: “Old Mister, don’t worry. , I will use holy water to draw a huge circle outside the factory building, these spiders are evil, they don’t like to go through the circle drawn by holy water.”
The old hunter put down after hearing Robb’s words. Xinlai: “It will be fine if the priest is covered.”
The next step is to prepare a large number of looms, needles and threads, and hire women from the town. All kinds of preparations are carried out in an orderly manner. Of course, it’s all cloth dealers doing this, and Robb just needs to be lazy in the yard.
Then, ten days passed in a blink of an eye…
The first batch of small spiders hatched in the workshop, and the “spider breeding group” hired by the cloth merchant took the lead. Putting in the work, they are responsible for raising these little spiders healthy enough to spin silk.
Robb really doesn’t know how to raise spiders. Fortunately, it’s not a problem for the hunters in the town. The spider raising team takes good care of the little spiders.
In mid-August, the weather became even hotter, and in the woods on the mountain, the cries of “knowing, knowing” were heard all day long, causing a huge headache.
Robb was still idle on the stone chair in the yard, and an uninvited guest suddenly appeared at the door of the church.
Robb just glanced at it and couldn’t help laughing: “Yo, it’s Little Yi, what wind is blowing you again?”
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