Chapter 1536: Chapter 1533: Investigating the Market
The compensation in silver is not sothing ordinary people can afford.
Aside from that, the embroiderers she sought were primarily from clean backgrounds and scant families. Most were found at the Ci’an Institute in the court. These people are orphans, with no kin or relatives, and even when Ye Muyu required them not to leave the workshop before completing the fabric quota, no one opposed.
“Madam, why are you making so much cotton fabric?” Chun Xing followed behind her, carrying various pastries and candied hawthorn sticks.
Ye Muyu enjoys the sweet and sour taste and sotis buys snacks on the street, finding it convenient and enjoyable.
She is visiting all the ready-made clothing shops and fabric stores in the capital.
Since coming to the capital for so long, she has never thoroughly explored it.
Now that she is going into business, she naturally intends to understand the market thoroughly.
“I can’t say yet, but it’s definitely not a bad thing.” Ye Muyu was dressed in a simple cotton garnt, without a trace of the affluent family’s lady. She was holding a candied hawthorn stick, taking bites as she walked.
In Great Chu, the restrictions on won were not severe, and won walking on the streets was a very natural thing, while it was mostly unmarried noble family girls who were accustod to wearing veils.
Having finished a candied hawthorn stick, the sweet and sour taste burst in her mouth, leaving her in a cheerful mood. After visiting a dozen small shops, she found that most of the cotton fabric produced was not superior to their own workshop’s. Not to ntion, the prices of these fabrics weren’t low either. The price of cotton produced from an improved loom would be 30-40% cheaper than now, and those made by hydraulic looms could reduce the price by tenfold.
This ans that the current general price of ordinary cotton fabric in the capital ranges from four hundred to eight hundred wen per bolt.
One bolt of fabric can make one to two sets of clothes, so a winter cotton suit would cost over three hundred wen, while a sumr cotton cardigan would be priced at over a hundred wen per suit.
With Ye Muyu’s weaving machine, the price could be reduced five to tenfold, so the price of one jin of rice could buy a linen garnt, the price of one jin of at could buy a cotton garnt, and the price of a chicken could buy a cotton garnt.
The possibility of commoners freezing to death in winter would be greatly reduced.
This is a great deed benefiting the country and the people. Most importantly, Ye Muyu’s modified loom can reduce waste and use lower-quality raw materials for weaving.
Greatly reducing waste and making full use of all materials.
After looking at the prices, she had a general idea of the direction her shop should take.
Seeing that it was getting late, she jumped onto the carriage and saw a small girl by a roadside stall shivering in the cold, selling radishes, which are the most common vegetable in winter.
Ye Muyu said gently, “Buy all the radishes and bring them ho; we’ll have radish stew with ribs tonight.”
Chun Xing jumped down, handed over a silver coin, and loaded two full baskets of radishes onto the carriage.
Carriages from the Chu family are quite large, but they appear simple and understated externally.
The little girl had never touched silver in her life; her moist eyes lit up, and her hands trembled as she stamred, “Sister, I don’t have copper coins for change…”
Two baskets of radishes would only sell for just over a hundred copper coins.
A single silver coin is worth at least a tael.
Chun Xing rubbed her head and nodded toward the carriage: “That’s my family’s lady. She saw that you’re so young and already supporting a family.”
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