"Wow, that's spectacular!"

"Auntie, look, they're weaving so fast!" Yu Ji excitedly lowered her voice and whispered in Shui Qing's ear.

"Yes, it turns out that my husband said that the loom can become a piece of silk in a day, and I still don't believe it, but now it seems that it is only fast and not slow!" The water nodded softly in admiration.

"The silk threads are like snow and mist, and they look magnificent, and the silk they weave is fine and smooth, much smoother than the silk I've seen before......

Entering the door, a group of women covered their mouths in unison, exclaimed, and chattered, watched, and discussed.

Chen Xu left his wife and children to check the work records in the duty room at the entrance of the factory, and found that the work was recorded every day, and the person in charge of recording was a man about thirty years old, with a thin face and wearing official clothes, and he answered respectfully in the face of Chen Xu's inquiries, looking very conscientious.

There is a huge wooden board on the back wall of the duty room, on which are written a few words of the fifth workshop attendance sheet, and a hundred bamboo nails are nailed vertically and horizontally below, and a small wooden card is hung on each bamboo nail, and the wooden card is written with the workshop, work number, name, etc., which is the unified work card of the factory workers. Moreover, all workers entering and leaving the silk factory must hang their badges on their clothes for doormen to check, and they can also use this badge to take the commuting buses provided by the factory for free.

This kind of management and attendance was not the first to be pioneered in the silk factory, but first implemented in the experimental factory, and then promoted to the five colleges, as for the first initiative of the factory-run bus was from the women's college, and now in the past few years, the whole Daqin has begun to learn and promote.

The silk factory is located in the east of Guangling County, seven or eight miles away, in order to get water to facilitate the river, and most of the weavers recruited from the people of the factory are young women in their teens and twenties who are healthy and ingenious, and most of the women of this age are now married as wives and mothers, so most of them have to go home to take care of the family in addition to working in the silk factory, so the silk factory has also purchased twenty carriages and put them into operation, in addition to driving free pick-up and drop-off workers. During the day, it also operates externally to subsidize the cost of manual maintenance of cars and horses, and the fare is a penny, which is quite popular with the local people.

The opening of the silk factory not only made Guangling County, which has only more than 20,000 households, get a large number of employment opportunities, but also made the silkworm breeding and silk reeling industry have been greatly developed, and at the same time, the huge consumption capacity of the factory has also driven the prosperity of local farmers to grow vegetables and grow grains, fish and lotus roots.

At present, in addition to the Guangling Silk Factory, in just a few months, there have been three silk factories in Gaoyou, Tangyi and other counties near Guangling, including Guangling County, there have been seven or eight silk reeling factories of different sizes, and the emergence of these large and small factories has greatly promoted the improvement and development of the production and life of local people.

Gaoyou and Guangling are close at hand, the coastal road that has been renovated and expanded soon passes through Gaoyou, the land transportation is extremely convenient, and Guangling is just close to the Yangtze River, so the water transportation is also very convenient, in the smooth road plan built by Chen Xu, Guangling also has a river port wharf, on the Jiangling, under the seaport, but it is arranged in the second phase of the project, and there is only one planning plan at present.

Because silk is of high value but light weight and small size, it is not difficult to transport, and most of them are to be transported to Xianyang to Shaofu, so the private demand is not strong, or the private demand is strong but the supply and demand are seriously insufficient, and it has not yet been released to the opportunity for a large number of private transactions, but according to the current development, at most three years, with the vigorous development of the silk industry, the people are gradually rich, and silk will eventually be released as a high-end clothing industry. That's when silkworm farming and the silk industry really flourish.

And Yangzhou, the famous capital of Huaizuo developed thanks to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, will bloom more than 1,000 years in advance, and she is not the south of the Yangtze River, but it is better than the water town style of the south of the Yangtze River.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Wangfu went north to conquer Qi, and used hundreds of thousands of servants and slaves to dig the largest artificial canal and ditch in Chinese history, connecting the river with Huaishui, which was more than 300 miles long for transporting grain by boat.

Although the strength of Wu is only a flash in the pan, but the excavation of Hangou has greatly promoted the commercial exchanges and the flow of people in the Yangtze River and Huaihe River Basin, so Guangling has also become the object of contention among the countries, Wu, Yue, Qi and Chu have surrounded the Hangou deer soldiers for a hundred years, but at present, the six kings and grandsons are all slaves and prisoners, and the former overlords are all wiped out, but the ditch is still clear and long-flowing boats are weaving, driving the rapid development of the Jianghuai Plain becoming more and more peaceful.

Although Chen Xu came to Guangling in a hurry to investigate, but Yangzhou has such convenient transportation and location has long been in his huge planning, in the future, Guangling will inevitably rise like later generations to become a prosperous metropolis like Jiangnan Suzhou and Hangzhou, and become a huge boost to lead the development of silk and shipping industry in the southeast counties.

After looking at the duty room, Chen Xu, accompanied by the county lieutenant of Guangling County and others, carefully watched the work of the weavers on both sides along the passage between the looms.

At present, there are 1,000 weavers in the textile factory, of which 500 are regular employees, and the remaining 500 are trained in advance for the third phase of the project.

At this time, a group of people walked to a loom to watch, the weaver is a young woman of about twenty, petite and light, at a glance is a typical southern woman, only to see her constantly stepping on the board, with the continuous ups and downs of the lift, the shuttle in the hand shuttles back and forth on the loom, and at the same time keeps lifting the weft knife to tighten the shuttle, accompanied by a neat and very rhythmic sound, silk will appear little by little.

was supposed to be a normal work, but suddenly watched the county magistrate and a group of leaders of the factory come to inspect, and it was obviously headed by the handsome young man in the middle wearing a brocade robe and a jade crown, and the young man was not only holding a handsome little girl in his hand, but also followed by a group of extremely beautiful and elegant women and maids.

I don't know where this young man came from, and he must not be a simple identity to inspect the silk factory with such pomp.

At this time, the weavers and staff of the entire factory had already seen Chen Xu and others who came in, and in the process of nervous weaving, many people couldn't help but slow down and secretly watch this peculiar inspection team.

Since the official opening of the silk factory in March this year, people have come to inspect and watch almost every day, and at most they have to accept dozens of various groups a day, including businessmen, celebrities, officials, and some aristocrats who come purely to watch the excitement, and this situation has not been slowly reduced until May with the completion of the second phase of the silk factory.

Therefore, it is not surprising that someone came to the factory to inspect all the weavers and staff, but it is the first time to receive such a high-standard reception like today, not only accompanied by the county commander in person, but also the senior management of the silk factory at this time, almost all of them are all together, and this is the first time since the opening of the silk factory.

A young man with an extraordinary bearing, a group of extremely beautiful women and maids, and even holding a few girls with pink carvings, the accompanying officials were all careful not to speak loudly, this strange combination made all the weavers guess strangely, but also made the weavers who were watching more and more nervous.

"Brother Xiao Xu, it looks so fun, I want to try it......" Yu Ji gently tugged on Chen Xu's sleeve and begged in a low voice.

"Childe, if Madam wants to test the loom, you can go to the observation room......" The steward of the workshop hurriedly spoke, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Chen Xu turning around, "Talk nonsense, and go to do fifty squats on the side!" ”

"Go and do it~, the eyeballs were eaten by the dog!" The director of the factory glared at him and scolded in a low voice.

"Yes, yes, the lower official said the wrong thing!" The workshop manager walked to the side with a slight tremble, held his head and began to squat.

"Puff~~"

Seeing that the usually majestic workshop manager was like a child who had done something wrong and was punished for squatting in public, many weavers couldn't help it anymore, stopped their movements and covered their mouths to eat and laugh, and at the same time secretly turned their heads to look at Chen Xu, and in an instant, the identity of this young man became more and more mysterious.

When the onlookers saw this situation, the weaver suddenly became even more nervous, stepped on the wrong board several times in a row, and the shuttle in her hand almost flew out.

"Don't be nervous, you stop for a while, let me try~"

Chen Xu and Yan Yue began to roll up their sleeves, the young weaver quickly stopped the action and stood up and retreated to the side, Chen Xu sat down in front of the loom with a brocade robe, adjusted the position and sat down before stepping on a tipper, and after the heald board was raised, the shuttle was very slow to pass through the warp thread separated from the top and bottom, and then lifted the weft knife and then released the tipper, then stepped on the second tipper, and continued to repeat Fang Cai's action, after several times in a row, Chen Xu turned his head and asked Fang Cai's weaver with a smile: "Did I do anything wrong?" ”

"You did nothing wrong!" Weaver Niang hurriedly bowed.

"That's fine, but I'm not as good as you weave, I'm afraid this silk will affect your work......" Chen Xu stopped what he was doing and stood up and said to Yu Ji, "You can try it too!" ”

"Thank you, Brother Xiaoxu!" Yu Ji happily sat down, under the guidance of Chen Xu, stepped on the tipper to shuttle the weft and lean on the weft knife, more than ten minutes later, Yu Ji has been able to skillfully and continuously operate the loom, but because of the first weaving, the weft is not tight, so the silk woven does not look very smooth.

"Wow, I'm so ugly to weave......" Looking at the half-inch long and extremely loose silk she had knitted, Yu Jiqiao blushed and stuck out her tongue and stood up and hid behind Shui Qingrou.

"I'll try!" At this time, Meng Wan also came to be interested, happily sat in front of the loom and began to weave, although the action was also rusty, but it was much better than Yu Ji's performance, and slowly became familiar with the action gradually accelerated, but it was also the first time to weave, so the silk woven was still not very smooth, and it was woven in more than ten minutes, which was obviously different from the previous weaving Niang.

"Sister Shiman is also here to try!" Meng Wan looked at the silk she had knitted, and couldn't help but blush slightly, and stood up and invited Ying Shiyan, who was eager to try, to try it too.

"Ma'am, we want to try it too!" Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter and a group of maids also became interested and began to beg Meng Wan and Ying Shiyan.

"Don't worry, I'll try it first and let you come one by one!" Ying Shiyan sat down nervously, picked up the shuttle and stepped on the tiptoe board to keep asking the weaver girl next to her, and under the guidance of the weaver girl, she also began to move a little clumsily and began to weave one by one.

While Meng Wan and a group of women were discussing and studying around this loom lively, Chen Xu, the county lieutenant of Guangling County, and a group of management of the factory were all standing by and watching, and the weavers of the entire factory stopped completely, curiously rushing over to watch this group of strange guests.

Although the weaving movements of these women were very rusty, and the silk woven was very loose, none of the onlookers dared to laugh, but they were all a little excited in their hearts, because through some words and signs, this mysterious young man was very likely to be a legend that had been circulating in the silk factory for a long time, and if I was not mistaken, then the identity of these women was about to be revealed.