"Tell me, what are you going to do with these things?" Cao Gang looked at Cao Xiangnan and asked.

"That's exactly what I'm going to tell you next." Cao Xiangnan nodded, took a sip of water, and continued, "I didn't bring back too much cotton this time. These cotton fabrics are naturally used to make clothes and shoes. I plan to find a few guys who are trustworthy and have good craftsmanship to make a batch of winter clothes."

"In addition, see where we can get wool. It can also be used to make clothes. See where we can get wool. After the batch of chickens and ducks in the village are ready, there will be a batch of chicken feathers and duck feathers. When the time comes, we can pick out the down and use it as filling for clothes. It will be perfect for making clothes. When the time comes, we can make a batch of clothes and transport them to the town and Nanyang to sell." Cao Xiangnan planned to open a garment factory, but with limited materials now, he could start with a small workshop.

When he was in college in his previous life, a down jacket could be sold for several hundred yuan. It was just a little duck down filling inside, but it was so expensive. However, it must be said that down jackets are the lightest and warmest clothes. In this world, duck and chicken feathers are thrown away and no one knows how to use them.

In fact, there are many resources in this world, but there are few people who know how to use them. It just so happens that he knows how to use these things, so now he uses them.

What he wants to do now is the early small workshop. Small workshops gather a lot of people and work fast, which will shorten the time required for production and increase production. If it can be a production model like an assembly line, it can greatly shorten the production time, improve labor, thereby reducing costs and making greater profits. When these clothes are put on the market, as long as they are cheap and can keep people warm in winter, most people will be willing to spend money to buy winter clothes.

Cao Xiangnan initially wanted his wife and children to wear warm clothes in the winter so that they would not freeze. If possible, he could also make a little money to make their lives better and help his friends. Why not?

But he didn't know what kind of shock his words had in Cao Gang's heart. If there were a batch of clothes that could keep people warm in winter, so many brothers would not have died in the heavy snow that year. The man's eyes were slightly moistened at this moment.

"Leave this to me." Cao Gang suddenly said.

"Ah..." Cao Xiangnan reacted, said with an "oh", "Okay, Brother Cao Gang, you are responsible, right? OK." He remembered something, looked at Cao Gang and asked, "Brother Cao Gang, weren't you a soldier before? You have been in the army for so many years, you should have a lot of brothers, are you still in touch?"

"What's the matter?" Cao Gang did not answer, but asked back.

"If there are good brothers among your brothers, if they are willing to come here, you can find a few who can help you, otherwise you can go back to the village to find someone to help." Cao Xiangnan knew that Cao Gang didn't interact much with the people in the village, so he wanted him to find his brothers to help him.

His goal is not just a small workshop. The latest is next year. If this garment factory can be built, it will be a new line for them.

Before coming back, he briefly mentioned his idea to Fang Ziye. Fang Ziye just told him to do it and he could find him if he had any problems. Having a solid backing is better than anything else. Cao Xiangnan dared to do it.

"Okay, I'll write to them later." Cao Gang had not contacted those brothers who had been through life and death with him for many years. Since returning to Caojia Village, he wanted to live a simple life.

But Cao Xiangnan's plan and idea today aroused the deepest wish in his heart. If one day he could still help the brothers who were still guarding the border, he would be willing to do so. So even though he has lived a stable life for so many years, he doesn't mind letting those brothers know where he came from.

Thinking of the people in this cold weapon era, once the soldiers were injured and retired from the battlefield, the government did not provide any subsidies, and they were afraid that their lives would be difficult. Cao Xiangnan added, "It doesn't matter if you have been injured before, as long as you can work."

"Okay!" Cao Gang's eyes were a little hot when he saw the smile on Cao Xiangnan's face.

"Let's talk about the rest after everyone comes back tonight. I won't go to the town. You can go to the town and tell everyone to come to my house for dinner tonight. We'll sit down and have a meeting. I have something to tell everyone." It was their custom to hold several meetings every month. It just so happened that he had something to tell everyone after coming back from Nanyang. Cao Xiangnan said.

"Yes." Cao Gang nodded. Seeing that it was almost time, he also had to hurry to deliver the prepared rice noodles to the town.

After cleaning the carriage and loading the rice noodles on the carriage, Cao Gang drove the carriage to the town.

After saying goodbye to Wanfeng, Cao Xiangnan went to Lizheng.

The two of them sat in the house, talking about his mother being locked up in the ancestral hall. Cao Xiangnan stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyebrows. He asked the seventh grandfather to go back and release his mother and second brother. In the end, they were still his mother and relatives in name, right?

"Well, okay." Li Zheng agreed, but he couldn't hide his anger towards Chen Zhu. There was still anger in his words, "Your mother is also confused. Can Wanfeng and you be blamed for what happened to Cao Laoer?"

He couldn't say anything bad about Chen Zhu in front of Cao Xiaozi. He sighed and said, "Fortunately, you are a hardworking person." Li Zheng asked about his trip to Nanyang, and Cao Xiangnan also talked about some of it. As for the cotton planting, he planned to talk about it later. Li Zheng heard that it was all good news, and repeatedly said that Cao Xiangnan was a promising person.

Compared to the village chief's vague words, Li Zheng has a longer-term vision.

Cao Xiangnan talked about his plan to buy land. He naturally didn't want to use the land where he lived as a factory. The best location would be some distance away from where he lived, but not too far. In addition, he wanted to find someone to build a road leading to Fenshui Town, which would also facilitate the movement of horse-drawn carriages in the future.

"You want to find someone to build a road? This is a good thing for the village." Li Zheng smiled with relief when he heard Cao Xiangnan say he wanted to build a road. The two talked about this, and Cao Xiangnan asked how to do it. Li Zheng just said that he didn't need to pay wages to everyone, and only needed to provide two meals a day.

Meals again? When Cao Xiangnan heard about the meal manager, veins on his forehead twitched. He compromised and said, "How about this, I can't let everyone work for nothing. I will provide lunch here, and as long as the workers are not lazy, I will give each of them ten dollars a day as a subsidy for everyone."

It is not good to let people work for nothing, it is better to give them a meal and some money, and also have a good reputation.

Not to mention that he has made a fortune now, and he has cut off his relationship with his father and mother. His mother is now coming to his house to make trouble. After this matter is over, some people will say behind his back that he is a person who doesn't recognize his parents. Reputation is something that should be avoided as much as possible, and he doesn't mind having a good reputation.

So the road construction matter was settled, and then it was handed over to Li Zheng to go to the village to tell everyone.

The autumn harvest will be in half a month at the latest, and no one will have time to work by then. The road can be built in ten days or so. At most, as long as there are hardworking people from the nearby villages who can work, Cao Xiangnan doesn't mind hiring people to do it. Anyway, people from the nearby villages are intermarrying, so it's also possible to let people in the village

go back to their parents' home to find someone. After sitting with Li Zheng for a while and telling Li Zheng about these things, Cao Xiangnan went back home.

Li Zheng went to the village chief and told him about this, and then the village chief and Li Zheng gathered the people in the village and told the villagers about this. Knowing that Cao Silang was going to build a road to Fenshui Town in the village, and that he would hire people to work and provide them with a meal and ten big coins, they all said that Cao Silang was a kind person.

You should know that now if you grow vegetables in the village and sell them to Cao Silang, you can earn hundreds of big coins. If there are men working for him, you can get thirty big coins a day. Now building the road is to do good things for the village. It is good enough to provide them with a meal. Now Cao Silang wants to pay them ten big coins a day for working. This is simply picking it up for nothing.

There was nothing to do at home, so they all went to the village chief and Li Zheng to tell him that they could earn hundreds of yuan for ten days, which was enough for the family's food expenses for a month, so the men in the village signed up to work. There were also a few quick hands who signed up to help cook. Later they found out that they could earn a lot of money by cooking, and they were overjoyed. Someone

was coming to dinner at home tonight, and after returning from Li Zheng's place, Cao Xiangnan started to cook. Ten people sitting together could fill a large table, and it took some time to cook a table of food.

After her husband came back, Qi Wanfeng felt that he had found someone to rely on. He never knew that he was so dependent on her husband. Now seeing her husband at home, it felt really good and happy. He also helped to cook in the kitchen.

"Wanfeng, go and have a rest. I'll do it here." Cao Xiangnan saw that Wanfeng stretched out his hand to support his waist from time to time, and knew that he was tired. Qi Wanfeng smiled, walked to the chair and sat down, looking at his husband, and did not leave. "

It's fumes here, you go outside and see if Cao Gang and the others are back." Cao Xiangnan said.

"Okay." Qi Wanfeng sat for a while, then got up and went outside.

Sun Bailian was cooking dinner over there. Qi Wanfeng came out and saw that she hadn't come back, so he walked over to Sun Bailian. When Sun Bailian saw that Qi Wanfeng had a chubby belly and wanted to help, she laughed angrily, stretched out her hand to chase people away, and said, "You don't need you, I don't need you, there are so many people here, how can you be needed."

This feeling of being rejected is really bad, Qi Wanfeng looked dumbfounded.

Chen Hong, Wu Yue and others next to her laughed. Now that they have gotten better with Cao Silang's help, they naturally have to take more care of Cao Silang's wife. Besides, it is enough for them to have them here, and there is really no need to pray for Wanfeng's big belly to come to help.

Qi Wanfeng went back to complain to her husband that they didn't allow him to work. Cao Xiangnan took the roasted chicken out of the oven and turned to look at the man with wrinkled brows and pouting lips. He felt that the man's face was no longer sad, and his brows were relaxed. Now that he was pregnant, he had gained a lot of weight and whitened a lot, and he looked very good.

Cao Xiangnan listened to Wanfeng's nagging complaints about people not wanting him to work, but he had to hold back his laughter in his heart and comfort him in a nice voice.

When dinner was almost ready, the people who went to the town to sell things also came back together, and Aning also came with the children in the carriage.