"Hand me the log." Xie Pi was engrossed.

Li Zhaofan hurriedly grabbed the wood and handed it over.

The jacquard loom is large, making the room slightly cramped, and on the floor are structural drawings.

"Down here is Li Zhaofan of the Li Mansion." Li Zhaofan secretly glanced at the bottom of the loom.

Speaking of the Li Mansion, Xie Pi knew that it was Li Dongyang's mansion.

In the capital, except for Li Shibo, no one will visit Xiefu.

Xie Pi's voice came: "Brother Li is really sorry, I don't have time to entertain today, and I invite Brother Li to take care of himself." ”

"It's okay."

Li Zhaofan squatted down and looked carefully, helping him pass the instrument from time to time.

Xie Pi installed the two chutes, but found that it seemed to be uneven, and the shuttle was easy to get stuck in the slots.

In the blink of an eye, he dismantled the chute again.

"Brother Xie, do you want to help?"

Seeing that Xie Pi was silent, Li Zhaofan took the initiative to get started and dismantled another chute.

In the main hall,

Xie Qian and Li Dongyang sat cross-legged on the edge of the fire, undecided, the two frowned, and if they made a mistake, they would lose within ten steps.

"What is Zhaofan doing?"

The subordinate ran out, and after a while, he came back and said, "Go back to Master Li, I am helping my young master make a loom." ”

Li Dongyang almost fell from the wooden collapse, and held it for a long time before he said: "Xie Pi did a good thing!" ”

Xie Qian smiled: "Brother Fang just said, my son is making a loom, Brother Bin don't leave first, Brother Fool is about to win." ”

Li Dongyang didn't care about him, put on his shoes and rushed to the backyard for a hundred meters.

When I arrived in the backyard, I saw Li Zhaofan working on the side.

"Zhaofan, you get up for the old man!"

Li Zhaofan was a thief, so he quickly stood up and walked to Li Dongyang's side.

"Xie Pi, if you don't do your job, why do you still harm others." Xie Qian asked with a straight face, pretending to be responsible.

Xie Pi ignored it when he heard it, but frowned tightly, only the loom in his eyes, and seemed to be stumped.

Li Dongyang's face was displeased, and he was left with a son by his side.

For Li Zhaofan, he has great hopes.

Zhaofan is in good health and can bear it even if he studies hard, so he is counting on him to shine on the lintel of the Li family.

Xie Pi raised his hand, pressed the spring into the chute, and found that he could bounce the shuttle, and was overjoyed: "It's done!" Quick, get some raw silk. ”

Xie Qian's face was a little unbearable, and he was a little angry: "Take the thread, I'll see what he makes." ”

The jacquard machine worked, it took three or four people, and after installing the shuttle, only two people were needed.

Xie Pi installed a bipod in the place where people were sitting, because the silk used to weave silk was very thin, so he wanted to prevent the silk from being torn off by too much force.

After putting on the silk, everything is ready, the female worker steps on the balance board, and the shuttle begins to move back and forth, the more the spring is pressed, the faster the shuttle is, and the eyes can hardly see.

In a few moments, silk and satin were woven to take shape.

Li Dongyang and Xie Qian were dumbfounded.

Usually a loom requires three or four people to operate.

It takes five days to weave a piece of silk.

The loom in front of me, I'm afraid it will be able to produce one in two days!

Li Dongyang was surprised: "What kind of shuttle is this... How can you still move on your own? ”

"The new shuttle painted by Lord Yan can shuttle back and forth quickly when weaving, hence the name, flying shuttle."

"Fly...... Shuttle? ”

Xie Qian's eyes widened.

My hometown is in the silk business in Jiangnan, and I don't know anything about looms.

The first thought is that the Xie family is going to make a fortune!

Li Dongyang looked at Xie Pi: "With this loom, how much silk can be woven every year!" Yu Qiao, this is Xiangrui?! ”

"Yes, why did it happen to the old man's mansion? Future generations are not allowed to write our Xie family into the history, hahaha......" Xie Qian's eyes showed tears.

Xie Pi was also very excited, ten taels of silver were in hand, and he was one step closer to the chief engineer.

"The child is going to report to Lord Yan."

"What are you doing to report to Yan Chengjin, report to Your Majesty!"

"I'm really ashamed, this is a sketch drawn by Lord Yan, and Chief Engineer Song can also make it, but the child is lucky to go and shit, so he does it for the child, and he doesn't dare to take credit." Xie Pi said ashamedly.

"Go to the palace and report to Your Majesty, Your Majesty will be happy to hear it."

Li Dongyang looked at Xie Qian.

Li Zhaofan looked at the fast-moving shuttle, he was stunned, these are the Liangxiang engineers?

………

Dongnuan Pavilion,

Emperor Hongzhi held the book and flipped through it for a long time, picked up the jade paperweight on the side, and prepared to write something.

Xiao Jing cautiously reported: "Your Majesty, the day before yesterday, Jianchangbo jumped into the lake. ”

Emperor Hongzhi looked up in surprise: "Dead? ”

"I didn't ...... didn't die, people were fished up, but they had a serious illness and wanted to ask the imperial doctor in the palace. ”

Xiao Jing was a little admired, in order to save money, Jian Changbo carried it for a day, and only reported to the palace when he was seriously ill.

In fact, it's not for a few taels of silver, but to take advantage of the palace.

"Why did Jian Changbo jump into the lake?"

Xiao Jing said: "I heard that the price of silk and tea in Jiangnan suddenly dropped.

Shou Ninghou and Jian Changbo lost a lot of silver, and they couldn't think about it for a while, so they wanted to commit suicide by throwing themselves into the lake. ”

"Silk Drop?"

Emperor Hongzhi didn't care about Jianchangbo, but wondered if the price of silk in Jiangnan had dropped, and this matter involved the people in Jiangnan.

The price of raw silk has been reduced, how can silkworm farmers' raw silk be sold?

It was the cold weather that the weavers counted on silk to sell some silver in exchange for food.

"The slave didn't know either, and suddenly... It's dropped. ”

Xiao Jing also got the news from his subordinates, so why did it reduce the price?

Mu Bin said: "Your Majesty doesn't have to worry about the weavers, Yan Chengjin is buying raw silk on a large scale, as long as there is raw silk, he wants it all." ”

Emperor Hongzhi was surprised: "The price of raw silk has been reduced, what does he want to do with raw silk?" ”

"The minister doesn't know ........."

Mu Bin heard that Yan Chengjin bought more than 10,000 taels of raw silk and colored silk.

"Let Jian Changbo hire the doctor himself, thinking about my grace all day long.

When I need him to help, I play dumb. Hongji put down the book and said unhappily.

How could Xiao Jing not hear it, His Majesty deliberately warned and beat, Jian Changbo was really excessive, and in order to take advantage of the palace, he stayed up for a day.

At this moment, the little eunuch stepped in and whispered, "Your Majesty, Lord Li and Master Xie of the cabinet are here." ”

Li Dongyang and Xie Qian walked into the main hall, saluted together, and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, the minister has something to play." ”

Emperor Hongzhi said: "Today Mu Xiu, the two Qing families have worked hard, what do you have to do?" ”

Li Dongyang glanced at Xie Qian and said, "Let me talk about it."

Xie Pi, the son of Xie Qian, made a loom, which could shorten a piece of cloth woven in five days to two days. ”

Xie Qian nodded and said, "Not only that, if it is used on a small machine, one person can weave cloth." ”

The small machine is the waist loom, and most people in the market use this.

Emperor Hongzhi was a little surprised: "One horse in two days?" ”

"If you're skilled, maybe even faster." Li Dongyang said.

Emperor Hongzhi smiled and said: "Xie Pi really surprised me, I remember, he went to Liangxiang, right?" ”

"Your Majesty, the School of Inheritance and Science is on vacation, and Xie Pi is back, but it's just .........

The sketch of this loom was drawn by Yan Chengjin. Li Dongyang said.

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Mu Bin on the side and asked, "What about Yan Chengjin?" ”

"I've gone to Liangxiang to distribute relief food." Mu Bin said.

Emperor Hongzhi raised his eyebrows: "Soup kitchen? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, it's rice."

Emperor Hongzhi and Li Dongyang and others were slightly stunned, and after a long time, they held back a sentence: "Yan Qing's family sends rice? ”

…………

Liangxiang,

Yan Chengjin ordered people to distribute relief rice in front of the homeless people's grass sheds, with one pound of rice per person.

The displaced people are grateful to Dade, but they don't know who is giving them help.

Zhang Xian's face was embarrassed: "My lord, why don't you say it's your food?" ”

"Say the name, and the pattern will be small."

Yan Chengjin doesn't care, His Majesty just knows.

Officials who are above the top of the three grades should not only look at their political achievements, but also look at the pattern.