Chapter 256: Departure Preparations

Su Xiaomei's small improvement has greatly improved the efficiency of the design work.

Each page of the flower book corresponds to each heald plate on the loom, and this heald plate is actually a jacquard device. A pair of brocade requires 9,600 weaving times, so theoretically, 9,600 heald plates are needed to record all the warp heald information.

In order to reduce the workload, only the cycle pattern can be used, and there are still so many heald plates, but the heald plate setting is repeated according to the cycle, which is both beautiful and continuous, which greatly reduces the difficulty of brocade.

The complicated and meticulous process of transferring the flower book to the heald board is called picking the flower and knotting the book.

After that, there is the most cumbersome process - jacquard assembly.

The number of warp and weft threads is 9,600, and the fiber threads that connect and control them are 11,520, all of which must correspond to each other on the flower floor machine.

This requires that the Jiazi line, that is, the traction fiber line, be connected with the "claw puller" of the Hualou loom, and the split and cluster are divided into the flower chop.

The last is weaving, the operation needs to be cooperated by two people, in the upper and lower two layers, the upper one is the "flower worker", according to the prescribed order of selection, wiring, and mentioning; The lower one is the "shuttle worker", leading the thread below, beating the weft, and the two craftsmen work closely together to carry out the weaving little by little.

The previous work of selecting healds was done by pedals, and the more complicated the patterns, the more healds, the more pedals.

Inspired by the Su oil music box, Su Banniang invented a turntable with the number of teeth of a pattern cycle and marked with numbers.

The turntable will drive a sawtooth beam, and each time the turntable turns to the corresponding number, it will drive to change a corresponding heald plate to complete the work of selecting and lifting the warp.

In this way, the comprehensive procedure of each flower book is solidified on the instrument.

In this way, every time you spin, you only need to turn the turntable according to the record book, which solves the defect of relying only on human brain memory and must be skilled weavers to be competent for the work of pulling flowers.

Su You has been concentrating on learning for several years, and it was not until Mrs. Cheng sent a piece of colorful brocade to the backyard that Su You was surprised: "Didn't you say that a pair of brocade takes a long time?" ”

Mrs. Cheng said with a smile: "Xiaomei and Banniang have come up with a way to improve the production and weaving methods of flower books, and now the speed can be greatly improved." ”

When the process was said, Su You was overjoyed and said: "Then what else to say, hurry up and get the money!" ”

Mrs. Cheng said: "Our Caijin is no worse than the official Jin, but the sales channel is too narrow. ”

Su You slapped his head: "What are we doing with those bewitching things outside?" Our Su family weaving, or take the elegant road! Don't forget, the scholars are the richest group of people except for the royal nobles of the Great Song Dynasty, and we will earn their money! ”

So under Su You's concept, Su Jiajin made a 180-degree turn.

All the warp and weft threads are used in one color, and the jacquard is still raised, so that the difficulty of weaving is reduced again, mainly focusing on the flower design.

However, with the sampling tool invented by Xiaomei, the flower design is no longer a problem.

In addition to the Sujia silk thread, because of the further purification of the water glass, the process has been further improved, and after a few years of development, the color effect is now better than that of the Jinjiang water, and it will change different colors with different light angles - the woven fabric is called "rain silk" and "moonlight three flashes" by silk merchants.

Such a silk fabric coupled with jacquard dark patterns, from a distance it looks like a plain single clothes, but up close to know how extraordinary, this is low-key luxury.

The Great Song Dynasty scholars eat this set the most, and once the product was launched, it immediately set off a fashion whirlwind in South China.

What made Su You depressed was that the blue stone pattern he designed did not have many orders, and the most popular one among the Great Song scholars turned out to be chrysanthemums.

The chrysanthemum on the back of the body, this is going to be put in the future generations, how unlucky? !

There's nowhere to reason!

Mrs. Cheng is worried about this problem.

Xiaoyou is going to Bianjing to solve the exam, if it passes next year, there will be a Jinshi exam the year after tomorrow, and at the same time, Zizhan Zi will have a scientific exam, and the husband may have a secretary provincial exam.

If it is over, in the future, they will travel in the capital and various states and counties, and the days of returning to their hometowns are very few.

But with such a money-making industry, you can't just give it up, right?

Mrs. Cheng is sad when she thinks about it, she has worked hard, trained her children to persuade her husband, and in the end, she watched them leave her one by one and fly away.

Gritting your teeth in the end, you all go, even Fu'er and Twenty-Seven Niang will go, just leave me and Banniang to guard the house and do a good job of logistics for you!

Pity the hearts of parents all over the world.

Although the tribute will not be carried out until August 15 next year, it will take two months on the road, and there will be many arrangements to arrive, so we have to set off in March and April this year.

In real history, Sansu only left Sichuan in October this year, after Mrs. Cheng's service was removed, and now it is much ahead of schedule.

Don't underestimate this in advance, it is risky, so you have to rush before the river rises.

Su You arranged the most stable big ship - Meishan II schooner.

He also has a lot of things to do, not to mention anything else, funding is a problem.

Shu banknotes are easy to use, but now the radiation range is mainly southwest, plus the second forest department, and then part of Wuzhong, part of Dali.

Bianjing, I'm afraid no one will recognize it.

After thinking about it, I had no choice but to get a shipload of Meishan goods as ballast and sell it in Bianjing.

It's really funny, and I even embarked on the road of being a scholar in Shu and like to take businessmen to evade taxes into Beijing.

It is impossible to evade taxes, but this is exactly the same as those who evade taxes.

What should I bring?

Porcelain is a large quantity, Meishan jade porcelain, now used glazed color, although not as bright as the enamel color of later generations, but the elegant watercolor painting can already be constituted on the plain bottom.

This is celadon, monochrome glaze, after the kiln changed to glaze, Meishan porcelain workshop has made another huge breakthrough, is a new product, first to a bilge.

Then there is Yongchun Dew, which is produced by itself, and it is not afraid to be released, and the more it is released, the more expensive it becomes.

Jacquard monochrome brocade, Su Xun flipped through the book and said that it should be called "Bing Xuan", this is also a new product, bring it!

The rest are just small pieces - scribe folding knives, glasses, Cheng Sheren ink, colored paper, all kinds of books.

Then there is the move, of which the most bits and pieces of Su oil.

All kinds of experimental equipment, models, drawings, all kinds of chemical materials, and most importantly - kimchi, sauerkraut, dried radish, kohlrabi, mustard, all kinds of spices.

The eighth prince took the third brother, the fifth brother and the sixth brother to work for a month before sorting out the luggage.

The commercial tax of the Great Song Dynasty was extensive, and the tax and the tax were paid, and these things were paid for 30,000 yuan just by sitting on the tax!

Then there are tax cards along the way, but as long as you don't stop, no one else can collect them.

Finally, enter Bianjing, and then pay the full tax according to the mileage, and you can sell it.

This is also one of Zhang Fangping's Cao Wu reforms - Cao grain transportation, the deduction along the way is too big, as long as my old Zhang is in the Ji Si, all the Cao boat soldiers are not allowed to get off the boat to eat along the way, eat and drink Lazar all in the ship, less to do with the local area.

After arriving in Bianjing, the rations were calculated according to the time and the grain transported by the Cao ship was discounted and put into the warehouse.

With this initiative alone, Lao Zhang restored the level of material storage in Beijing before he left office in less than a year, which shows how serious the waste of deductions and losses along the way is.

Therefore, Su You is also ready to take such a path, we don't pick a lively place to get off the boat, at most we will replenish supplies in remote states and counties, we will not escape taxes, but we can't take advantage of corrupt officials along the way!

But the disadvantage is that you can't make literary friends, and you can socialize among scholars and doctors to make a reputation.

Su Xun is very much in agreement, the exam is imminent, this big ship is simply a natural prison, and it is a good place to lock people up and study, it is simply a sleepy pillow!

Zizhan Mingrun, it's the two of you!

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In March of the fireworks, the court's request for talent had not yet been issued, and the Su family was ready to set off.

Sansu, Su You, Wang Fu, Twenty-Seven Niang, and most of the seven-person group of the Land Temple have already started a family, and they are in charge of the business name.

There is another one, that is, Qidi Longshan, this baby has not paid off the debts of the great witch, and continues to be a bodyguard to pay the bills.

In addition to these, I also have to bring two people to deal with business - Xue Zhong and Shi Tong.

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