The enthusiasm brought by wealth is indeed huge, especially the Chinese farmers who are inspired to get rich. The desire of Chinese farmers to get rich is unstoppable, which was repeatedly confirmed in the implementation of the joint contract responsibility system in rural China in the early days of reform and opening up in the past life.

When Li Qinglin got up and washed up, he saw that Li Wanxiang's eyes were red, but his face was smiling. Li Wanxiang stayed up late last night, and the reason why he stayed up late was to work overtime overnight to make spinning wheels.

Li Wanxiang used to be a carpenter. His carpenter skills were pretty good, and he was quite famous in all villages and villages. Although he had basically not gone out to do carpenter work in recent years, he could not lose the carpenter work he had done for a long time. Li Wanxiang's family had a complete set of carpenters and had done well, and he grinded them all with saws, axes, planers, and drills. He put oil several times in order to prevent rust.

The plan made by Li Qinglin yesterday afternoon has begun to be implemented. Li Wanquan took out fifteen oceans, of which ten oceans were Li Wanquan's shares, and Li Wanquan accounted for two-thirds of all shares; the five oceans were Li Wanxiang's shares, and Li Wanxiang accounted for one-third of all shares; Li Wanquan helped Li Wanxiang to help the five oceans padded by Li Wanxiang in advance to wait for the tung oil to be sold before it was returned. The hand-crank spinning wheel needed for spinning was made by Li Wanxiang, and after the spinning wheel was successfully made, it was bought by the money of the investment, as public property.

The hand-crank single-spin spinning wheel is commonly used locally. The structure of this hand-crank spinning wheel is very simple, consisting of four parts: wooden frame, spindle, rope wheel and handle. Except for the wooden frame that requires larger wood because it needs to be kept stable, the other parts require very little wood. The wood in Li Wanxiang’s home is ready-made and the tools are also ready-made. Li Wanxiang rushed to make the spinning wheel overnight after returning home yesterday.

It is easy to make a single component of a hand-crank spinning wheel, but the difficulty is that it needs to be well debugged. There are two main aspects for debugging the hand-crank spinning wheel: one is to make each moving part rotate smoothly, and the other is to allow each component to move smoothly when it is combined together. The cotton yarn spinning from a good spinning wheel is even and thin, so such cotton yarn is easy to sell at a price, and the spinners are not easily affected.

The folk spinning wheels do not require dragon carving, they only need to be able to spin. Last night, Li Wanquan sawed and scattered, and his wife and Wei Sanya were helpers. Two spinning wheels were made in more than three hours, but the subsequent debugging took more than three hours to complete, so his eyes were red this morning.

Li Wanxiang made an appointment with Li Wanquan yesterday and needed to do some major things today, such as buying cotton, iron chisels on spindles and bamboo shoot shells wrapped around cotton yarn, and setting a sales route for selling cotton yarn, etc. So he came early in the morning.

Li Qinglin didn't care about these specific trivial matters, but just asked them to buy more iron rods on the spindles before they left.

Li Wanxiang said strangely: "Just your mother, your aunt and Sanya, spinning three women, and three cars are enough. The old car in your house has skewers. I made two new cars, and buying two is enough. Besides, the skewers are not broken, so is it too waste to buy so many?"

Li Qinglin concluded that the demand for cotton yarn is high this time and the supply speed is fast. Then his three spinning wheels must be too busy. In the future, he must hire personnel. If he increases the manpower, he must add spinning wheels.

Li Qinglin didn't want to tell Li Wanxiang and the others about these judgments because they wanted to cultivate their sense of mystery and trust in themselves. If every prediction is correct, they will absolutely trust themselves.

Their absolute trust in themselves now and in the future is very important, and it can even be said to be a major event in life.

The Japanese devils will be invaded more than two years later. Farmers generally are reluctant to leave their houses and land, and they will stay. Those who stay are in danger at any time and must be prepared in advance. From historical data, there was a major famine in Henan from 1942 to 1943, and they must be prepared before the famine comes so that these people will not starve to death.

These things have actually happened in history, and Li Qinglin knew that, but they were unimaginable for people of this era. If Li Qinglin predicts that these disasters may occur now, it would be like a nonsense and no one would believe them. Therefore, Li Qinglin must cultivate their absolute trust in himself, and then he will teach them how to survive the difficult sun and moon before they will do what they will do.

After Li Wanquan and the others left, Li Qinglin took Li Qingqi and Wei Sanya quietly to Houshanwa to pick up tung seeds, while Li Qinglin still brought a copper wire condom to condom rabbits.

It was still sunny today, and the snow in the forest had melted a lot. Most of the tung seeds buried in the snow were exposed. Li Qinglin and the others picked it up twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon, and the harvest was quite good in the day. However, the rabbit only got one, and Li Qinglin didn't think anything, but Li Qingqi was a little regretful.

The place where Li Wanquan and Li Wanxiang went to do business was actually not far away, and the most important things were basically concentrated in Changsheng Town. Changsheng Town is nine miles away from Xiaolizhuang, and seven miles were the main roads that could cross the cattle and carriage. The snow on the road had not completely melted, the road was easy to walk on, and the journey was not far away. According to the principle, it should have been possible to come back soon, but it was almost dark and Li Wanxiang and the others did not go home.

Although Li Wanxiang and the others were done, they were not going well.

There is a custom in the local New Year. Years are divided into the Big New Year and the Little New Year. The Big New Year refers to the first to the fifth day of the New Year, and the Little New Year refers to the fourteenth to sixteenth. All businesses start to close their doors on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve to celebrate the New Year.

There is a saying among the people that "the Emei month is on the first and second day of the lunar month, and the third and fourth day of the lunar month are good for worshiping the festival". Between the first day of the first lunar month and the fourth day of the lunar month, merchants do not open their doors and farmers do not go to work.

On the night of the fourth day of the lunar month or early morning of the fifth day of the lunar month, housewives from all households will take out the stove and deliver the stove to the intersection at home. There is a saying called "sending the poor and poor", which means sending the poor and angry.

The fifth day of the lunar month is called "Baowu". People will worship in front of the tombs of their ancestors; on this day, people set off firecrackers to "get out the poor", "fighting the poor" in the form of food and drink, and "filling the poor pit"; on this day, they are designated as the birthday of the God of Wealth, and on this day, the business meeting opens and brings wealth to the public.

Today, Li Wanxiang and the others went to buy cotton, skewers, and bamboo shoot shells, but the people who opened the store just didn't sell them, because the reason was that they were not exhausted and could not do business. In the end, the two of them used another method to get things, which was to use the term "consultation". During the Chinese New Year, people pay attention to auspicious things. I came to your house as a beggar to ask for things, which means your family is rich; if you give me something, you prove your kindness. In the end, Li Wanxiang "queued" these things from their house and agreed to pay them on the fifth day of the lunar month.

Li Qinglin was both angry and amused after hearing what happened: "I said these people are crazy? Isn't they just want to make a fortune when they are angry? When we buy things, aren't they just giving him money? He doesn't want to give money to him. I think they will never try to send poverty away in their entire lives!"

Li Wanxiang, who was full of anger, agreed with Li Wanquan and nodded to say yes.

The cotton and spinning truck were ready, and the Li family did it as soon as they said they could.

What Li Wanquan bought was lint, but lint could not be spinned directly. Farmers harvested cotton seeds from the field. After ginning, the cotton seeds were removed, and the cotton seeds were lint. The lint also needs to pass the flower-elasting stage to make the cotton fibers soft, remove the impurities inside, and then roll them into cotton strips by hand. Finally, the spinner can spin the cotton strips into cotton yarn using a hand-rotating wheel. In these stages, it is only because the cotton-elasting cotton removes impurities and loses a small amount of damage.

Li Qinglin budgeted the profit of spun cotton based on the price of lint brought back by Li Wanquan and others, the purchase price of cotton yarn, and combined with the loss rate of elastic cotton.

He took out the paper and pen and began to calculate. Li Qinglin first used this batch of lint to subtract the estimated loss, calculate the kilogram of cotton yarn that can be spun, and then multiplied the price of cotton yarn to obtain the sales amount; secondly, using the amount of lint spent this time to buy lint, plus the wages of cotton yarn and the amount of bamboo shoot shells used, the total processing cost (because a hand-crank spinning wheel is cheap, can be used for a long time and is not easy to damage, Li Qinglin did not calculate its loss in the cost). Finally, the sales amount was minus the total processing cost, and the total profit was obtained; then divided by the kilogram of lint to buy lint, and the profit per kilogram of lint was obtained. The final calculation result was that Liu Xiuzhen and the others were very surprised - beat the lint into cotton wool, and then spin it into cotton yarn, and the average kilogram of lint can earn twenty-two copper circles per kilogram of lint!

How much is the value of twenty-two copper circles?

According to economic data from the Republic of China and the articles of literati such as Zhang Henshui, Lu Xun, Ye Shengtao, etc., the financial situation was relatively stable during the "Golden Ten Years" between 1927 and 1937. One ocean is equal to ten cents, and one dime is equal to twenty-three copper circles, which means that one ocean is equal to two hundred and thirty copper circles.

So what were the prices at that time?

In the 1930s, you could buy a fried dough stick for one copper ball, two copper balls, and one sesame paste cake for two copper balls, and one pound of pork belly for thirty copper balls!

This result made my mother Liu Xiuzhen and aunt Liu Erhua excited. The old women couldn't do heavy physical work in the field, but they were all done in the house. First, they didn't need to put in a lot of effort, and second, they didn't need to be exposed to the sun and rain. The third thing is particularly important. Spinning only needs to be done during the slack time of night and rain, and the housework and farm work can be done as expected.

This is a light and profitable job, whoever doesn’t want to do is a fool! The Li family does it as soon as they say, and they start to get busy all night after dinner.

Cotton needs to be spliced ​​first, which is the first step in spinning. Zhou Dezhong in the village knows how to splice cotton. His big wooden bow, hammer, shovel head, and wooden millstone are all ready-made. Li Wanquan and Li Wanxiang moved the spinning wheel to their younger brother's empty house, then built a table with the door panel, and called Zhou Dezhong to splice cotton with tools.

The first batch of cotton wool was quickly bounced. Three women who had been waiting for a long time rolled the cotton wool that had been bounced into cotton slivers, then twisted a thin yarn from the cotton slivers with their hands, and then wrapped the yarn on the spinning wheel spindle. When spinning, the woman gently shook the rope wheel with her right hand, while gently pinching the cotton slivers with her left hand to continue the cotton. As the spinning wheel was "buzzing" sound, white cotton yarn was pulled out from the cotton slivers. The yarn became longer and longer, and the woman's left hand was pulled away. Finally, the right hand turned the rope wheel in reverse, and the spindle turned, and the cotton yarn obediently walked onto the spindle.
Chapter completed!