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When we arrived at our destination, the sun had just risen.

Su Wan followed Gu Mingyue off the carriage and stepped into the wasteland.

The wormwood was wet with morning dew, and the cuffs of my trousers were immediately stained with a dark color.

It makes a rustling sound when you step on it, and occasionally a grasshopper will bounce up from your feet.

To be honest, Su Wan was a little apprehensive.

How should I put this place?

As far as the eye can see, there is only grass, with a half-collapsed brick kiln standing in the middle, like a steamed bun that has been bitten in half.

In the distance, three mud-brick houses leaned together crookedly, with half-dried cobwebs still hanging on the doorframes.

But the owner wants to build a workshop here that can accommodate two thousand people?

Su Wan remained silent and followed Gu Mingyue inside.

Gu Mingyue had already stepped onto a slightly higher earthen slope and stood still, the morning light shining on her and making her glow slightly.

She raised her hand and gestured around.

"The factory buildings are located here. They face south, so they get good natural light. The main building consists of three rows, with ten rooms in each row."

She then pointed to the flat land to the east.

"That area will be used as a drying yard and warehouse. After the fabric is dyed, it needs a large area of ​​ventilation and sunlight to dry, and the east side is unobstructed, which is perfect. The west side, next to the ditch, will be used as a starching area, where water is readily available."

Su Wan followed behind without saying a word.

But her eyes were always on the terrain, the orientation, and the direction and slope of the drainage ditch.

When she reached a flat area, she suddenly squatted down.

Gu Mingyue turned her head and saw Su Wan grabbing a handful of soil from the ground and kneading it in her palm.

I rubbed it for a while, then rubbed it between my thumb and forefinger to feel the particles and the moisture.

"The soil is dry, and it's not damp underneath."

Su Wan stood up and patted the dirt off her hands onto her trouser legs.

"Spinning wheels and looms are most susceptible to moisture. Especially the rollers and heald frames of jacquard looms; once they get damp and swell, the tension of the warp threads becomes uneven, and the woven fabric will wrinkle. The foundation of this land is fine."

Gu Mingyue glanced at her sideways, quite satisfied.

"I've arranged for someone to level the ground today."

Gu Mingyue flipped over a loose brick and kicked it aside.

"To meet the deadline for the factory construction, we first built three large temporary sheds to house the equipment, and then started the proper brick and wood structure."

Su Wan did not respond immediately.

She glanced around again, a faint line appearing between her brows. After hesitating for a moment, she finally spoke.

"Boss, the floor of the work shed needs to be paved with bricks."

"How so?"

"The loom base should not be placed directly on the muddy ground."

When Su Wan talks about her profession, her whole demeanor changes; her gaze becomes focused, and she speaks faster.

"Muddy ground absorbs moisture, and the wooden base will swell and deform when it gets damp. The mortise and tenon joints of the transmission parts require millimeter-level precision. If the base is tilted, the angle of the pedal and lever will change completely, the heald frame will not be lifted properly, the warp threads will not be properly opened, and the weft threads will not be able to pass through. This machine will be scrapped."

She paused, as if she had thought of something, and then added a sentence.

"And ventilation."

"There's a lot of cotton lint in the spinning workshop, especially in the cotton carding and ginning processes, where fine fibers fly everywhere. Once the doors and windows are closed, the cotton lint piles up in the corners, and in dry weather, it can easily catch fire if there's an open flame. That's how that dye shop in Xiushui County burned down last year."

She raised her hand and gestured.

"At least two rows of windows should be provided, opening from the north and south to create a cross breeze. The bottom edge of the windows should be seven feet off the ground, higher than a person's head, so as not to affect work and to draw the flying catkins upwards."

Peach Blossom stood there, stunned.

She didn't understand a single word, but seeing how eloquently Su Wan spoke, she knew that Su Wan was a formidable person.

After listening, Gu Mingyue nodded in agreement.

The improved equipment designed by her brother, such as the spinning wheel, has already been produced by craftsmen, and the first batch of machines has been shipped to Jiangzhou.

The immediate need is to determine how much equipment is required to operate at full capacity.

Gu Mingyue looked at Su Wan.

"If the maximum output is required to be 20,000 bolts of cotton fabric per month, how many machines do you estimate you will need?"

"Twenty thousand horses?"

Su Wan had never dared to dream of such a number before. If they could truly produce that much, then apart from Pujitang, there would be no other like them in the entire Jiangzhou.

Su Wan observed her employer's expression and, seeing that she was serious and not joking at all, she also began to calculate carefully.

"Each person can produce eight to ten feet of horsepower per day. If the requirement is 20,000 horses per month..."

Su Wan didn't bring an abacus, so she counted on her fingers for a while.

"Boss, according to what you said before, if we calculate the female workers as a maximum of two thousand people..."

"The workshop needs to be equipped with fifty cotton gins, 1,200 improved spinning wheels, and 500 looms. If it operates at full capacity, it can produce 20,000 bolts of cloth per month."

Gu Mingyue hummed in agreement. "Go back and make a list, then give it to Gong Huo."

This is a large project, so she has to pay extra to have the craftsmen rush to produce 20% of the machines first, and the rest will be pre-ordered.

Once the venue and equipment were finalized, Gu Mingyue immediately spent 36,000 yuan on the auction.

The production of the equipment alone would cost 26,000 taels of silver.

Then, two thousand taels were used to buy the best bricks and timber, two thousand taels were used to hire people to clean the site urgently, five thousand taels were used to have craftsmen build the workshop urgently, and five hundred taels were used to have Su Wan purchase all kinds of official supplies for the workshop.

The remaining five hundred taels will be used as start-up capital.

The money was spent quickly, and Taozhi was heartbroken for her.

But Gu Mingyue didn't even blink.

She glanced at the system settlement interface.

[Remaining mission time: 19 days]

[Task Balance: 84000 taels of silver]

She needs to hurry.

We must expand our investment projects and spend the money first.

Moreover, infrastructure projects cannot be delayed.

If the textile team can't start work within a month, then the epidemic three months later will kill her and her family!

With the factory setup sorted out, the next step is to recruit female textile workers.

……

After noon.

Su Wan took a stack of prepared job postings and went out with two newly hired employees to put them up.

Ten posters were posted in each of the four cardinal directions of the city.

The wording on the notice was also straightforward:

Pujitang Cotton Mill is recruiting female workers, 200 in the first phase. Meals provided, monthly salary 3 taels of silver. No experience required, training provided upon arrival. Interested parties should register at Suji Cloth Shop in the south of the city.

Three or two months' salary plus meals.

What price range is this in Jiangzhou City?

Even the most skilled embroiderers in the workshop only earn a mere tael of silver a month.

The laborers who move goods in the city work themselves to the bone all day, and after a month of hard work, they only earn about an ounce and a half a tael a day.

Three taels of silver is enough for a family of five to eat and drink for three months with some left over.

When Su Wan returned to the shop after posting the last notice, she was confident. With these conditions in place, wouldn't the shop be packed with people registering tomorrow morning?

So, she got up very early the next day.

He led his men to sweep the shop inside and out, wiped the tables, chairs, and benches clean, and arranged the writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones neatly.

They also put a long bench at the entrance, thinking that if there were many people in line, at least they could sit down.

Chen Shi (7-9 AM).

The shop entrance was deserted.

The sun slowly rose, and people began to move about the street. The tofu vendor pushed his cart past, and the blacksmith next door started working with a clanging sound.

No one came in.