In Liangzhou City in December, even if there is no heavy snowfall, the temperature is scaryly low.

Wang Fugui pushed open the small door in front of him, but he was greeted by a heat wave.

After arriving in Liangzhou, Wang Fugui's first spontaneous action was to find a coal mine, and then build a small honeycomb coal workshop, and with the commissioning of the wool workshop, the output of honeycomb coal also rose rapidly.

Whether it is wool cleaning or tanning, a large amount of hot water is required for various processes, and honeycomb coal is the best choice for this fuel.

In addition, it is windy in winter, and everyone is reluctant to open the door.

Naturally, the temperature inside is not low.

"The prince is not here, let's go to the textile workshop to have a look."

The wool workshop is a big name, and there are various workshops according to the various divisions of labor.

Based on Wang Fugui's understanding of Li Kuan, he is either in a wool cleaning workshop or a textile workshop.

"Shopkeeper Wang, there are actually some Hu people in this wool cleaning workshop, isn't it in the way?"

Chu Suiliang followed Wang Fugui quickly, but it did not affect his observation of this somewhat special workshop.

On the one hand, there are a lot of people in this workshop, and some of them are actually Hu people.

You must know that although the Tang Dynasty is not xenophobic, and even the Eastern Turkic nobles such as Zhi Zhi Sili have become important generals in the army, but in places like various workshops, there are still very few shadows of Hu people.

On the one hand, Hu people often don't touch these contents since they were young, which is more difficult to get started, and the other reason is that they are kept secret.

That's right, for all kinds of secret recipes, each family's sense of secrecy is definitely stronger than that of later generations, for fear that the apprentice of the church will starve to death of the master.

But Chu Suiliang didn't find out at all that this wool cleaning workshop had the meaning of keeping it secret from anyone.

"Hehe, the most important thing in this wool cleaning is the formula of additives, without these things, no matter how you clean it, it is useless. And these additives are all specially made by the prince, no one knows what they are at all, what is there to worry about these Hu people stealing teachers? Even if they were asked to copy the original text, they wouldn't be able to do it. ”

Chu Suiliang's worries were things that Wang Fugui had worried about, so he naturally knew how to answer them.

"A special secret ingredient?" Ma Zhou muttered, feeling that there seemed to be some eyebrows in his mind.

"Walk through this wool washing workshop, and in front of you is the textile workshop. This textile workshop is different from the cleaning workshop, ordinary men are not allowed to enter, but one of you is the chief of the palace, and the other is the lord of the palace, so I will make an exception and take you in to have a look. ”

Wang Fugui's words immediately raised Ma Zhou's curiosity, "Shopkeeper Wang, why doesn't the textile workshop let men in?" There are also some linen and silk workshops in Chang'an City, and I haven't heard of any rules in this regard. ”

"Hey, you'll find out in a moment." After Wang Fugui finished speaking, he pushed open another door, and what greeted him was a neat row of looms.

"This ...... Are these women? As soon as Chu Suiliang entered the gate, he found that the workshop was full of female workers, and immediately reflexively exited the door.

On the contrary, Ma Zhou has seen a wider range of the world, although he is a little surprised, but he will not directly withdraw from the door.

"Now you know why men are generally not allowed in this workshop, right?" Wang Fugui did not feel any surprise at Chu Suiliang's reflection, "Men plough and women weave, this is a tradition left over from ancient times. Things like operating a textile machine don't require a lot of effort, but it requires a lot of care and patience, and women are obviously more suitable than men. ”

"Shopkeeper Wang, these looms seem to be a bit special, I think their weaving speed seems to be particularly fast?" Ma Zhou soon discovered the special features of these looms in front of him.

The textile machine itself is not a rare thing in Datang, in the Jiangnan region, where there are many silkworms, almost every household has it; Even in the Guanzhong area, in the countryside, there are many families.

But that kind of textile machine Ma Zhou has seen, and it is definitely not like this.

Even in terms of complexity, those textile machines are not machines at all in front of these machines.

"Ma Changshi has a good eye, these textile machines are specially made, designed and made by His Royal Highness the King of Chu himself, and the speed is more than ten times that of the common folk textile machines now." Wang Fugui showed a proud expression.

Li Kuan wanted to engage in a wool workshop, at the beginning, Wang Fugui was a hundred and a thousand unwilling, but his arms couldn't twist his thighs, and in the end, whether it was wool purchase or wool workshop, they were all advancing step by step according to Li Kuan's arrangement.

When the cleaned wool appeared in front of Wang Fugui's eyes, he had some confidence in the wool workshop, and felt that even if it was a loss, it would not be lost.

But when he saw the new loom, his attitude immediately changed.

Regardless of whether the textiles made of wool are good or not, whether they are warm or not, the efficiency can be increased tenfold by using these textile machines alone, and the cost will inevitably drop significantly.

The wool workshop is promising.

Northwest trade has a promising future.

"This is a textile machine invented by His Royal Highness the King of Chu?" Ma Zhou showed a shocked expression.

He didn't suspect that Wang Fugui was telling a lie, nor did he doubt that Li Kuan would rob any craftsman of the credit, he was simply surprised by the emergence of such a machine that might change the fate of the textile industry.

I never thought it would appear in front of people in such a way.

The principles of weaving are the same, whether it is to spin wool thread or silk, or linen, the machines are almost the same, of course, the machines of this era are strictly speaking only an auxiliary tool for hand-making.

But the textile machine in front of Ma Zhou has been detached from the category of auxiliary tools and has become a textile machine that really performs most of the tasks.

"Of course, well, the group of people over there are gathered together, and the prince is over there nine times out of ten, let's go over and have a look."

Following in the footsteps of Wang Fugui, Ma Zhou and Chu Suiliang came to a corner of the textile workshop, where a bunch of people were already around, and when Wang Fugui approached, people greeted him one after another.

"You can see clearly, you need 15 stitches for the front chest, 15 stitches for the back, 8 stitches for both shoulders, repeat this operation, knit one to the armpit, and then use 3 needles to distribute the wool thread of the body part equally, and then continue to knit without adding or subtracting, according to each person's body shape and height until the required length, and finally collect the needle and thread."

Chu Suiliang knew Li Kuan, but looking at the young man manipulating the needle and thread in front of him, he felt as if the world had been turned upside down.

His Royal Highness the King of Chu is actually doing a female celebrity?

Could it be that I have been on the road for more than half a month, and my body is too tired and hallucinating?