Li Yi saw the clothes that Huo Gang handed over, but he didn't take them, and he could see that this was not any kind of fabric he had touched before. And the surface of this dress has a layer of white fluff, you don't know, it looks pretty good.

Stretched out his hand to take it, it was softer to start, but as soon as he started it, he felt it, this seemed to be a woolen product, Li Yi immediately thought of what this thing was, picked it up, put it on the end of his nose and smelled it, there was no smell of mutton, he carefully stroked it with his hand, and the texture of the hand was also very good.

And its texture is thicker, the needle and thread woven in the hand are very dense, and you can feel that its thermal insulation effect should be very good.

"It's made of wool?" Li Yi immediately asked with some amazement.

"Yes, it's made of wool, and the fabric made of wool is not the same as ordinary fabric, it's relatively thick, but the warmth is very good." Huo Gang nodded and said with a smile, "The point is, it's cheap." ”

Relative to silk, silk breeding everyone knows, the cost is very high, the top silk aside, even if the price of a horse of silk spun out of inferior silk is equivalent to a stone of rice, that is, the price of 60 kilograms of rice.

With the ideas provided by Huo Gang, Lu Ji's improved Lu Ji spinning machine can complete the weaving of 10 yarns at the same time, and similarly, the emergence of the shuttle also makes the weaving efficiency higher, the cloth is wider, and the stitches are tighter, so Huo Gang can reduce the cost of linen to 100 Wen, and this year Huo Gang also chose more places to plant cotton in the lower reaches of the Huo Ci River.

When cotton gradually began to be popularized and produced in large quantities, cotton cloth was destined to replace linen, but cotton cloth could not replace wool and cashmere products, such as wool quilts, in fact, it was also an excellent choice for keeping out the cold in winter.

When cotton completely replaces wool, it is estimated that it will be impossible in more than ten years, and there will not be such a large cotton production, but the entire Western Regions is indeed the best production area for planting cotton.

Even before cotton was planted in large quantities, Huo Gang would not popularize cotton, because Datang did not have good warm clothes, so wool was the biggest seller.

Ordinary people, Huo Gang can sell wool products, and high-end aristocrats, Huo Gang can sell cashmere, even in later generations, cashmere dare not say that it is a luxury, but real cashmere products and clothes are very expensive, and cashmere products in this era are even more expensive.

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

"How cheap." Although he was prepared in his heart, Li Yi still took a deep breath, this business was even bigger than the previous business, because there was no silk and Ma Huogang's territory, but wool, the hundreds of thousands of Turks recovered by Huo Gang alone were estimated to have at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of sheep.

A million sheep are sheared at least twice a year, once in the spring when the weather warms up, and once in the autumn.

"20 Wen a horse!" Huo Gang put the price lower than the sack! Because he wants to give Li Yi enough profits, it's not that Huo Gang doesn't want higher profits, but that higher profits are not necessary, because Huo Gang has nowhere to sell.

You can't sell it to the Western Turks, right? Because they all have wool, as long as they have wool, although the cost is not as low as Huo Gang, but people's wool is almost free.

And Huo Gang wants to sell a lot of goods, there is only one place, and that is Datang! Population is the market! The market is king! And except for Datang, even if other countries can trade with Huo Gang, there is no way to provide enough materials for Huo Gang.

For example, grain.

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

Hearing this cost, Li Yi gasped, this price is lower than the price of burlap! But after the woolen clothes in the hand are made, it is obviously much more comfortable than the burlap clothes! Even if it's compared to fine linen, it's not far behind!

But for the majority of Baixin, its warmth effect is better, the price is cheaper, ordinary people in this era, there is not much money to choose from, in such a state, they can choose the cheaper the more advantageous.

And once woolen clothes enter, although it will not completely replace linen clothes, it is conceivable that the market for linen clothes will be robbed of a large piece.

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

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

Li Yi took a deep look at Huo Gang, what is the concept of 6,000 horses per day? Although Li Yi is the head of the Li family in Longxi, he is in charge of business, and as a family head, he must have an understanding of these.

Datang's weaving industry is leading the world, Li Yi is very sure of this, otherwise, their silk would not be able to sell at the same price as gold in Dashi, not to mention the high-end silk with flowers, that thing is not comparable. Plain silk, a piece of cloth does not talk about silk, just say that the simple weaving time, about two days for a loom to be able to complete a horse.

The speed of linen cloth is faster, and you can weave a piece of cloth almost a day, because linen is not so fine, it is coarse, and the single twine is thicker.

But silk is different.

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

12,000 people Li Yi believed that Huo Gang had found it, after all, those Turks had nothing else to do except graze, but 6,000 looms, could Huo Gang take them out? Although he gave Huo Gang many craftsmen, 6,000 looms could never be built in a month.

Considering these, then there is only one answer, although I don't know how Huo Gang did it, but the loom in his hand may be more advanced, or he doesn't know where to get so many looms.

The woolen garment in the hand is slightly finer than fine linen, and less than silk, that is, it takes at least a day and a half to complete a piece of cloth.

6,000 horses a day, that is, 120 pieces of goods, seems to be a small number, but Li Yi knows very well that being able to sell the cloth that was originally waste is a kind of strength in itself! And after a month, it can reach 6,000 horses per day, so what if Huo Gang wants to expand?

In the future, 10,000 or 20,000 a day will not be a problem, as long as there are enough people and markets, he will be able to produce it, because he has enough wool in his hands, even if he does not have so much wool, and there are also Western Turks and Eastern Turks.

He spends money to buy wool, even if it is a penny or two and a stone of wool, it is estimated that the khans of the Eastern Turks can die of laughter, because for the Eastern Turks, wool is garbage, and now it is suddenly useful, do you say they are happy?

Huo Gang could probably guess what Li Yi was thinking, but Li Yi would never guess, because of the appearance of the shuttle, which meant that Huo Gang's weaving efficiency was much higher than that of Datang, and a loom only needed one person, and the time was only one-third of them.

A skilled textile worker, two days can complete 3 horses, in the future this efficiency may be higher, because now the loom can also be improved, and so Lu Ji they finished the work in hand, Huo Gang let them start to think about how to combine the loom with the windmill or the waterwheel, directly by the machine instead of labor, only by the manual wiring work, then a person can be optimistic about a few looms, not to mention, the efficiency of weaving is estimated to be able to weave seven or eight horses every day.

In a month's time, there was no problem in manufacturing 3,000 looms and spinning wheels, and even Huo Gang would make more, before Lu Ji and the carpenters of the assembly line trained according to Huo Gang's method had already achieved initial results.

No matter how stupid a person is, he only needs to make the same part every day, and he can't be too far apart, not to mention that with various rulers, the size of the entire process has been set to death, and they just need to keep making this finished product.

In this month's time, they have been extremely proficient, these people form an assembly line, and they can produce individual parts even faster than some great craftsmen.

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

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

"The exit that the leader said? And import and deep processing mean? Li Yi did not rashly agree, but continued to ask.

"Oh, this, that's the term I invented, between us are two countries, the raw materials that come out of your country are exports to you, and our country buys your things, and for us it is imports, if I sell you woolen clothes, I am exports, you are imports. Deep processing, that is, I buy raw materials and process them into finished products here, which is deep processing. Huo Gang roughly explained.

He doesn't need to shy away from any modern terms now, in his territory, what he says is what he says, as for others who can't understand it, then Huo Gang will explain it to them, after Huo Gang explains, there will naturally be people around him who will directly remember what Huo Gang said, and then pass on these words.

Now is not the time for Huo Gang to adapt to others, but for others to adapt to Huo Gang.