Chapter 418: Distribution of Winter Clothes
Houcheng
The banditry in Xuantu County has been cleared. Lv Songli is going to call on craftsmen and artisans who can make kangs in various villages in the name of the governor's office to go to Xuantu County to help the people make kangs.
Winter is coming, and it has snowed from time to time at night. This matter is very important.
So, the red list was posted on the red wall of the Houcheng County Governor's Office again, recruiting a large number of artisans who are good at making kangs to go to Xuantu County to guide the making of kangs, and the treatment was also written on it. At the end of the red list, it was written that everyone should inform each other.
In addition, this matter still requires the cooperation of the governor of Xuantu County, so before posting the list, Lv Songli invited the governors of Xuantu County and Lelang County in the name of her father.
After the red list was posted, the families with good kang making skills in the villages of Liaodong County have been very lively recently, and even the village chief has come to visit in person.
"Uncle Qiu, you are good at making kangs. Now the government is recruiting craftsmen like you to make kangs for people in other places. You will be given two kilograms of grain as food every day. After the work is over, you will be given two kilograms of meat or eggs. Do you want to go?"
The honest man nodded, "Yes."
His wife smiled and said, "Of course I will go. Winter is coming soon. There is nothing to do in the fields. Just staying at home will only waste food. It is not bad for the old man to go out and earn some food."
The government gives two kilograms of food every day, which is enough for the old man to eat well, not to mention that two kilograms of meat will be given after the work is over. What a good job.
"Okay, I'll sign up for you."
"Okay."
Warehouse of the clothing workshop
Lu Songli's elder sister Lu Songyun took a notebook and counted and checked the winter clothes in the warehouse.
In the warehouse next door, the guys were moving the finished winter clothes into the warehouse.
At this time, a capable-looking daughter-in-law came in, "Ayun, this is the last batch. After the inventory is completed, this matter will be considered finished."
"Yes." Lu Songyun responded while counting, occasionally taking out a finished product and carefully checking it.
Zhao Li Niang also came forward to help. Thinking of the busyness during this period, she sighed. Their entire garment workshop has been busy for three months, right?
When they first made this winter coat called vest, they didn't know anything. They really learned step by step.
When Lu Songyun heard her sigh, she couldn't help but think of the difficult process of making this batch of vests.
The most labor-intensive one is this batch of wool vests.
They must repeatedly wash the wool with soap until it is shiny, and then dry it. After the snow-white wool is dried, it will be sent to the cotton-spinning room, where the wool balls will be manually combed and pulled apart, and then the wool will be fluffed up with a set of tools.
In fact, this is a set of cotton-spinning tools, which are now used to comb out all the wool fibers to make them fluffy.
These fluffy wools were mixed with some kapok as the fillings for the vests.
In addition to wool vests, they also made several vests of different qualities according to the different fillings, such as goose down vests, duck down vests and silk cotton vests.
In addition to vests, their garment workshop also made a batch of vests based on the rabbit skins and sheepskins with wool.
Their entire garment workshop was busy for three months and finally completed the work.
Houcheng, Xinjunshou Mansion
The subordinates came in to report, "Mrs. Qin Liu, the garment workshop sent four or five clothes, saying that all the clothes are ready now. If it is convenient for you, you can take them away at any time."
Lu Songli smiled, "Bring them here for me to see."
The winter in the Northeast has always been a problem she was worried about. As early as a few months ago, she started to solve the problem of winter clothes for the soldiers.
At that time, they had established initial trust with Ji Wuyin.
Most of the wool used in this batch of vests was obtained through Ji Wuyin's relationship.
Ji Wuyin was a big businessman. He used to be based in the south and didn't have much dealings with northern herdsmen.
But he knew a lot of people, and he knew some businessmen who often dealt with northern herdsmen. Through Ji Wuyin's relationship, the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce offered salt and tea, which the herdsmen could not resist, as a trade, and obtained a batch of wool from them through barter.
As for the silk cotton used in this batch of vests, it was still provided by Ji Wuyin, which was his inventory.
This year, the silk harvest in the Jiangnan area was good, and the silk could not be sold at a high price, so he hoarded it and waited until next year to see.
When the Ji family completely withdrew from the south, Lu Songli accidentally learned about this, so he asked Xue Xu to be a lobbyist and took the initiative to help the Ji family consume half of the inventory.
Lu Songli touched the five types of vests and asked, "Has the clothing factory reported the number?"
"Yes, there are about 41,962 wool vests. There are 15,000 silk-cotton vests..." The subordinate then reported the number of other vests.
Lu Songli nodded.
The clothing factory sent a total of five vests of different grades, with slightly different fillings.
The worst vest is filled with wool mixed with kapok. This type of vest has the largest number and is issued to soldiers.
The second is silk-cotton, and the best is the real down jacket, which is a mixture of duck down and duck feathers. There are also goose down, but the number is less.
In addition, there are vests made of sheepskin and fur, and rabbit skin vests.
A rabbit skin vest requires about eight skins. Therefore, the number of these two types of vests is only slightly more than the down vest and goose down vest.
This year, it can only be like this. Lu Songli thought to herself that it was not an easy task after all to equip every soldier under her command with a vest.
Even wool vests with wool and kapok as fillings have standards and specifications. Keeping warm is a must, so there are also requirements for the wool content inside. The wool fiber content must reach 60% or more.
Goose down vests and duck down vests are all carefully made by the best female workers in the garment workshop. There is also a small batch of snow-white rabbit fur vests, which are eye-catching regardless of the cut and style.
She plans to hand over this batch of top products to Ji Wuyin and let him transport them to branches in other states and counties for sale. I believe it will be very popular with the women of those wealthy families.
Lu Songli calculated that her father had rested for a few days, and it was time to work, "Go and invite my father."
She planned to let her father go to the military camp tomorrow to show his presence. The soldiers below had to know who got them the winter clothes, so as not to thank the wrong person.
When Hongluo went to invite Lv Desheng, he was still struggling and refused to move, "Did your second lady say anything?"
"The winter clothes at the clothing workshop are ready. The second lady hopes that you will take these winter clothes to the military camps to entertain the soldiers."
Lv Desheng heard this and looked at the north wind blowing outside and the occasional snow. He was extremely suspicious. He had tried hard to overthrow Shi Tao just to avoid being ordered to go out on rainy days.
Now he has to go out on heavy snow? How come the days are going backwards? What went wrong?
Jiang saw that he was motionless and kicked him out, "Hurry up and work."
"Wife?"
Jiang was merciless, "You said you had rested for a few days?" This old pervert, her waist.
Lv Desheng felt a little guilty. He had not worked much since he repaired those rotten wood.