Robb stood at the door of the spider room and looked inside. He saw four large spiders still chained to iron pillars. Around one of the big spiders, nurous eggs were scattered, and the eggs were covered with spider silk. All well protected.
The big spider that laid eggs had a shriveled belly and seed to have lost a lot of energy.
Robb said with tears and laughter, Did this happen today?"
Lillian and the four middle-aged won who had been invited to help weave and sew socks hid in the distance, poking their heads inside in fear, and nodded when they heard Robb's question. "Yes, it wasn't like that yesterday."
One woman said, "No wonder this big spider was not willing to spin silk yesterday. It was about to lay eggs."
"This is really scary." Lillian said, "we can still raise them a few dozen eggs, but we can't care for all of them, master. It seems that we can only get rid of more than half of the eggs and leave only a small part of them. Otherwise, if these hundreds of eggs hatch simultaneously, little spiders will run all over the ground. Disgusting."
Robb was actually thinking about this, but he glanced at the middle-aged woman next to him and suddenly thought of hundreds of such won in Westwind town. They were idle, so he laughed and said, "it's too wasteful to dispose of it. This kind of spider silk can be used to make silk stockings and can be sold at a good price, so it can form a very good industry. I'll build a big factory. Well hatch these hundreds of spider eggs, use them for silk spinning, and then hire all the won in the town. Let's create the fifth largest industry for Westwind Town-- Silk Stockings Manufacturing Industry.
At present, there are only four industries in Westwind Town, naly, mining, hunting, agriculture, and herbalism. Apart from agriculture, the 3 industries are all high-risk and heavy physical work, and only n can do it. Westwind won do not have any real value except for helping their families do so farm work.
Undoubtedly, Robb hiring all the won in the town will be a great act of charity.
The four middle-aged won nearby gave Robb their most courteous bow, "praise the God of Light, praise Father Robb!"
"I dont indulge in praise." Robb said with a smile, "go to soone and call the cloth rchant in the town for . I'm going to build this factory, but I can't do it without the help of the cloth rchant."
Soon after, the cloth rchant was invited.
The cloth rchant in Westwind Town is actually a very small rchant. When Robb first bought Lillian a month ago, he went to the cloth rchant to buy black dye. As soon as he saw Robb, the rchant quickly saluted his father. Then he stood with his hand down and said, "You called for ? What can I do for you?"
Robb smiled and said, "you must know I use spider silk to make silk stockings?"
The town was too small to keep secrets, and the white stockings on Lillian's legs were too conspicuous. The whole town actually knew that Robb was making silk stockings since there was no privacy law here.
The cloth rchant nodded quickly, "Yes, I know."
Robb said, "my spiders suddenly laid hundreds of eggs. I wanted to burn them all, but when I thought about it, I thought it was too wasteful. I might as well care for all these spiders and build a large silk stocking factory. But, you know, I'm very busy. "
As soon as he said this, a strange expression flashed across the cloth rchant's face, and although he did not speak, Robb seed to hear him say, "cut!"
Robb, Whats that look on your face?"
The cloth rchant hurriedly said, "No! I didnt show any expression.
"Well, then Ill continue." Robb put on a pondering face, "where were we? Oh, right, I just ntioned that I am very busy.
Cloth rchant, "cut!"
Robb, "Damn it, you didn't just look express it this ti. You actually said cut."
Cloth rchant: "..."
Robb said, "forget it. Lets get down to business. I don't have ti to do things like factory and operations managent, so I think you are very suitable to beco a professional manager or factory director. "
"Huh?" The cloth rchant looked a little excited, "really?"
Robb said, Most of the townspeople in this town are small producers, small craftsn, who can't even do the simplest math. Only you, a rchant, can make the overall arrangents and calculations. I think you can do it. "
The cloth rchant was inexplicably moved!
Robb said, "if you only sell linen and cotton cloth, you wont make much money. Following to make silk stockings and high-end goods is a better way to get to the top. I won't talk any more nonsense. I'll just ask you if you want to work for ."
"Yes, of course, I want to!" The cloth rchant hurriedly agreed.
In fact, the cloth rchant knew very well how valuable the stockings were because he and the traveling rchant were good friends.
The cloth rchants supplier is the traveling rchant, and every ti the traveling rchant cos to Westwind Town, he will bring him so cloth and let him sell it in his store.
Because of this, every ti the traveling businessman cos to Westwind Town, he will have a chat with him.
A few days ago, the traveling rchant ca to Westwind Town and bought a small number of silk stockings from Robb. At that ti, he sighed to the cloth rchant, saying that these silk stockings were the only good items in the Fengmo Continent, and the dignitaries absolutely liked them. It sells for a high price, but the quantity is too small.
The cloth rchant listened to it and kept it in mind, but he could not get involved, and now Robb suddenly wanted to leave the business to him to manage, which was a great joy for him.
"Father, just tell what you want to do. Ill do my best!"
He thought about it and said, "the first thing is to build a factory. You need to ask so townspeople to help and pay them. Just build it on a piece of land on the hillside behind my chapel. Pay attention to the problem of raising the spiders first. Ask so experienced hunters to guide us on how to build a house most suitable for raising spiders in large numbers. "
The cloth rchant wrote it all down quickly.
Robb smiled, "While the factory is under construction, you have to hire people. The division of labor must be made with precision. It should be divided into at least four groups of people. One group needs n wholl be mainly responsible for raising spiders and nothing else. The second group should be all won. They only need to weave cloth and don't care about anything else. The third group also needs won. Theyll be responsible for sewing the woven cloth into silk stockings and nothing else. The fourth group is responsible for counting the number of silk stockings, putting them in the warehouse, managing them well, and shipping them to the traveling rchant when he buys them. If the traveling rchants can't catch up with our production speed, we can set up a caravan for the fourth group and ship the stockings to the Bright Road.
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