Chapter 351: The Sewing Machine Is Born
"Daughter-in-law! The mechanical garment factory is turned on, can you think about who you want to invite over? At the dinner table, Xiaohu asked Erya, who was serving vegetables to several children one by one.
Wen Chao and Wen Yue really gave the second girl a headache, when these two children were young, hello and I were good, there were more kisses and less quarrels. I didn't expect this to grow up but love to talk about it, and you poke me at every turn, and then the other one screamed as if he stepped on the neck of a chicken. In addition, Qingzhu also made trouble, and Erya was about to be nervous when they fought and quarreled all day long.
This is not! You give the small one a dish, and the big one immediately stretches out the bowl, and Qingzhu also bites the chopsticks and holds the bowl in front of you. I thought that the child was older and finally freed, but who knew that it would be even more tiring.
The mechanical garment factory that Xiaohu said was a sewing machine and sewing machine brought back by Zhao Fujin. It was taken by Erya to study and improve with the old blacksmith with a strange temper for a long time, and later cooperated with several blacksmith shops to mass-produce more than a dozen machine accessories, and assembled them after they were brought back, so that they could successfully establish a garment factory.
Speaking of Zhao Fujin being able to get this sewing machine and sewing machine, it was actually quite a fluke.
When they arrived in a foreign country, they first took the goods they brought, followed the acquaintances who brought them back, and went around to bargain. On the other hand, I have to look for something to bring back to the owner that will be useful or can be sold at a good price at my own side.
They wandered around the bustling streets, and from time to time they entered the store to look at the goods and negotiate the price with the owner, and saw someone arguing at the door of a shop that specialized in sewing clothes for people. Zhao Fujin couldn't understand what they were saying, so he asked the foreigner who took him around. This foreigner is also half-familiar, half-Chinese, half-English to explain to him. He didn't hear it too clearly, but he knew a general meaning. A man invented a machine that could sew clothes, and wanted to sell it to the shop that sewed clothes. But the boss was not interested in driving him away, but he still worked hard to sell, and finally forced the boss to be anxious and fought.
Others look at the excitement, but this Zhao Fujin is not. When he was leaving, the lady of the proprietor repeatedly explained that he was in a foreign country. As long as you hear about any mechanical machines, find a way to buy them back, regardless of whether it is useful or not, and do not care how much it costs. If you can buy it back, you can do it. Therefore, as soon as he heard that it was a machine for sewing clothes, he immediately asked the foreigner who accompanied him to tell the seller that he wanted it.
Unexpectedly, following the man to his house, he was not just a sewing machine. And what else is the sewing machine. There is also a shoe-making machine. The man tried it out on the spot and showed him what it was used for and how it was used. Although he is not very proficient, he can at least operate on the machine.
He came back with his things in a hurry, but Er Ya was stunned for a long time and didn't come back to his senses. Erya is not excited, she is really stunned. Because that guy is big, stupid and stupid behemoth, where is the kind of light and ingenious sewing machine that a girl can move away in later generations. And the speed is too slow, a stitch in half a day has not been done by man! No wonder people ignored him and drove him away.
But after all, the good thing I dreamed of appeared. With the template, she has the means to improve the new machine that is light and easy to move and fast in the future. Fortunately, there is also the old blacksmith who can understand it at one point. He's much better than himself, and he can probably figure out how he can do it better at a glance.
The key transformation objects are sewing machines and sewing machines, as for the shoe sewing machine, it is as simple as the machine in later generations, and it is really in line with the identity of being gifted.
The old blacksmith had always thought that he was really talented, but after seeing this sewing machine and sewing machine, he completely let go of his stubborn pride. This sewing machine is not visible from the outside, that is, a pedal and a connecting rod rotate with wheels. You think it's that simple? Only when you open it can you know the ingenuity. This is connected to that, and that is connected to this, and there are no two unrelated things between all the accessories. Especially the bobbin, he just can't get that thing right, it's not a stuck line, a big ball of cards, the line is broken, and if you can't walk a few stitches, you will find that the line below is broken again. The old blacksmith finally relented, but he didn't dare to pick and choose, so he still patiently figured it out slowly, and tried again and again to find the reason. Finally, it took nearly a year to get a machine through and make optimization and improvements. After that, it was manufactured, but fortunately, there were several partners who manufactured transmission shafts and directional buds, and the spare parts of the sewing machine were handed over to them to do, but there was no need to waste time and energy to find a partner.
Once the machine is made, the mechanical garment factory can be opened. But the handmade clothing over there has not been discarded, and some high-end fabrics still have to be made by hand, such as satin, wool materials, and tweed fabrics brought back by Zhao Fujin to produce abroad, which are more suitable for hand-made.
Originally, the mechanical garment factory was turned on, and Erya didn't think about asking someone to do any start-up ceremony, but it was a request made by grandpa, saying that it would be smooth and smooth after doing it. Although Erya didn't believe in these things, for the sake of calming the old lady's heart, she had to ask for a few meanings. It's just that this person really hasn't considered choosing the second girl, and Xiaohu is now asking her that she is also stuck.
"I haven't thought about this at all, or you can look at it, please! I don't care. Erya thought about it and pushed this matter to Xiaohu to do, and he made a light decision.
Xiaohu nodded, he agreed, he knew that his daughter-in-law was impatient to do such a thing, so he had to come forward.
The western frontier, a place dedicated to the exile of felons. After walking all the way for almost a year, Leader Zhao and his family finally arrived at their destination. At the beginning, Xiaohu gave him the broken silver, but the messenger didn't take it, he relied on these to buy a good dish and a pot of wine for the messenger every day, and the two escorted officers did not deliberately embarrass their group. In fact, Xiaohu also secretly gave this errand a whole silver of twenty taels, and Leader Zhao didn't know, otherwise how could people take care of them obediently because of a dish and a pot of wine! No one would be happy with such a drudgery, and they would not be able to toss the prisoners who caused them to run this trip?!
As soon as they arrived at the prison where the exiled prisoners were received, they heard that a message had been sent from Zhao's hometown.
It was none other than the leader of Zhao who sent the message, it was his wife who wrote the letter to him. He opened it and looked at it, and there were a lot of words he didn't know, and he said with a tired guess.
As the largest salt merchant in the Ming Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, the Zhao family's background is bound to be not thin, but because the children of the previous merchants were not allowed to take the imperial examination, no one in the family had studied seriously. This Zhao leader is even worse, he was a stubborn lord when he was young, and he never read anymore after knowing a few words so-so. He married a daughter-in-law who was also illiterate (don't think that a rich woman should be literate, in fact, there are very few women in large families here who are really literate), so his daughter-in-law wrote a letter to ask someone, and he did not read the letter so smoothly, so he had to hand the letter to his eldest son to read to him.
His eldest son and second son, like Xiaolong, caught up with a good opportunity. After the great drought in the whole land, the imperial court was empty-handed, and did not even dare to provoke a war, which made Feng Batian feel extremely crisis. Subsequently, important ministers were convened to find ways to increase the revenue of the state treasury, and some people proposed to open up the merchants. This is an important step in liberalizing merchants, which is to lift the ban on the children of merchants not to conduct scientific examinations and become officials. The emperor listened to the minister's proposal and revised it to the fact that except for the merchant himself, all his descendants could participate in the scientific examination and become officials. After the ban was lifted, the Zhao family also attached great importance to the learning of the children of the family like other merchants. Therefore, the eldest and second sons of Leader Zhao, although they are very tired of reading like Leader Zhao, they are better than Leader Zhao, and they can at least write and read.
He took the letter, read it carefully, and then said to his father: "Dad! My mother said that the friend you entrusted had already found them, and now my mother and her younger siblings are living in the place he arranged. She is now taking her younger sister to help choose and wash vegetables in the kitchen, and her two younger brothers help sweep the floor and wipe the table. They all have wages, and they eat and drink in the shop. Say they're doing well so you don't have to worry.
Grandmother they are also very good, the mother rented a small yard next to the hot pot restaurant for the grandmother and them to live, the eldest aunt and they embroidered things and sold them for money, and they could eat three meals a day, but it was not as good as before. Let the eldest uncle and second uncle not worry. ”
After hearing this, Leader Zhao nodded happily and said with a smile: "I know that Brother Wang is reliable, and your mother and your younger brothers and sisters are good, so I will rest assured." Cheer up, fifteen years will pass soon, and we are lucky to be at least a chance to go back compared to those who killed the heads. ”
The reason why the Zhao family was not convicted of such a serious crime was mainly because the real main culprit was Lu Jiangling, and the Zhao family was just a puppet put by Lu Jiangling on the surface. Otherwise, not only would the women and children not be able to escape, but even the head of the family and his descendants would be sentenced to death.
The rest of the Zhao family who were waiting outside heard that the children and women in the family were fine, and they all showed smiles that they hadn't had for a long time.
After sending them to the place, and after handing over the formalities, the escort officer turned around, and Zhao led them to arrange a place to stay with the officials here. The dilapidated house doesn't even have a door to block the wind, and the bed and quilt don't even think about it, which is really worse than going to jail. Fortunately, Brother Wang prepared cotton clothes for him, and he can always survive this winter. When he saw the cotton clothes, he thought of Brother Wang's eyes, so he said to the eldest and second son: "You two pretend not to care and go to stand at the door, if someone comes, make the voice of greeting a little louder, so that I know that someone is coming." Do you understand? ”
The two sons, one eighteen and one fifteen, are not stupid, as soon as they heard his father's words, they knew that their father had something to carry behind someone's back, and they immediately stood obediently outside the door.
Leader Zhao took out the cotton clothes that Xiaohu was showing him at that time, pinched it inch by inch, and finally touched a piece of hard things. He carefully picked the thread, pulled out the contents, and opened the waterproof oil skin of the package, which was a silver ticket for ten taels of silver for the entire territory of the Damin Dynasty, a total of twenty.
He snickered, took out one, and then wrapped the other silver tickets in oily skin and carefully hid them. (To be continued......)