Chapter Eighty-Six: The Sought-After Yarn

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, it will soon be the season of mango planting, and the crops with barley and wheat will basically be ripe, and they can be harvested when the green ears turn yellow-brown.

Immediately after that, it is necessary to rush to plant summer-sown crops such as late grain, millet and millet, and strive to harvest more grain on the limited land, so that the life of the family can be better.

Zhu's Spinning Factory also spent this time in a busy time, and finally built two water-powered Jenny spinning machines on the day of Mangzhong, counting the one used for training, there are a total of ten water-powered Jenny spinning machines.

Zhu Shun went to the capital yesterday and asked Ruvio if he had found a rubber tree, and when he came back, he learned the good news.

Standing at the door of the hydraulic workshop, Zhu Shun looked at the hydraulic workshop that had been expanded by one-third again, and looked at the ten Jenny machines that were spinning yarn with a 'click' and 'click', and he was in a good mood.

Zhu Shou, the owner of the factory, sold two bowls of wine again, stood at the door with a wine bottle, and said with a smile: "Shun'er, in the future, our family will be able to earn two hundred taels of silver every month." ”

Zhu Shun saw the wine bottle in the third uncle's hand, smelled the aroma of rice wine, and was about to say that he would have a drink with the third uncle in the evening.

At the small wharf next to the hydraulic plant, two people came over, one was the manager of the Song family's workshop, and the other was the manager of the Lu family's workshop.

The stewards of the two workshops came to urge the goods again.

According to the method provided by Zhu Shun, the Song family workshop and the Lu family workshop built a blast furnace water tower, which solved the most difficult epidemic problem of the handicraft workshop, and is vigorously expanding.

The two workshops were going to do a big job and have an explosive expansion, but who would have thought that a key problem would arise again.

There is not enough yarn, and without yarn, no amount of looms can spin cotton cloth.

During this time, the two stewards often came to Zhu's spinning mill to have a look, and as long as new yarn was produced, the liukou snatched it like silver and piled it up on their own cars.

In order to facilitate transportation, the Song family and the Lu family moved the loom to the Yongding River during this time and built a new workshop.

It is not far from the Zhu family's spinning mill, about sixty miles downstream, not that the two do not want to get close to the Zhu family's spinning factory, but mainly because they dare not get too close to Wang Gongju.

Although Wang Gongju does not produce gunpowder now, but only produces bird guns that sell well in the capital, the big explosion in winter brought too much shadow to the hearts of the bureaucrats and gentry in the capital, and they dare not approach it if they do not produce it.

Anyway, now the high-quality water next to the Yongding River is like picking up the fields in vain, and the cheap ones are like picking them up for nothing, relying on the convenience of water transportation in the Yongding River, there is not much difference between sixty miles and thirty miles, and it is the same everywhere.

In the evening, Zhu Shun and the third uncle celebrated the increase of the number of hydraulic Jenny machines to ten, and the Song family and the Lu family also celebrated, celebrating the large-scale expansion of the weaving workshop.

However, the news of the large-scale recruitment of spinning women by the Song family and the Lu family in this special period was spread to the Donglin Party by people with a heart.

A mansion near the Liuli Factory, in the study.

Zhang Fengxiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, stood in front of a red sandalwood carved bookcase, holding a lake pen in his hand, calmly writing the Su font of the great writer Su Shi.

Su Shi's achievements in calligraphy are extremely high, known as the four families of the Song Dynasty, the biggest feature of the font is the use of ink plump, giving people the first intuitive feeling is plump, rarely see dry pen.

Zhang Fengxiang's attainments in Su style characters are not shallow, and it is impossible to produce the phenomenon of dry pen, let alone broken pen.

The Su font he wrote today is all intermittent and broken, which shows that his state of mind is not as calm as he shows.

There is no other reason, just because he learned that the Song family workshop did not take the initiative to dismiss the spinning women gathered together in this special period, not to mention, it even recruited a large number of textile women.

It has already exceeded the limit of five hundred, reaching a staggering seven hundred!

There are also a few Huanghuali tables and chairs in the study, and there are more than a dozen Confucian students, some of whom are gray-haired old Confucian students, and some of them are middle-aged Confucian students, all of whom have been recruited by Zhang Fengxiang over the years.

Today's rare gathering together is just to deduce one thing.

All the curtains were ready, Zhang Fengxiang put down the lake pen in his hand and walked to the main seat: "I invited you over today, I think you also know who it is." ”

"That's right, it's because of Zhu Shun."

"With the experience of the previous times, you can also see that Zhu Shun's luck is excellent, like the reincarnation of a natural lucky star, and he can always turn the danger into a disaster at a critical moment every time."

"So this time we have to change our strategy, don't deal with Zhu Shun, and start with the people around him."

Speaking of this, Zhang Fengxiang picked up the teacup and drank the tea slowly, and handed over the rest of the words to his disciple.

The disciple stood up and saluted the teacher first, looked at the curtains sitting on the chair of the Huanghuali Taishi, and said a very simple plan: "The Zhu family now has a spinning workshop, and life is getting better and better. ”

"Our next plan is to make the Zhu family's spinning workshop ruined."

A middle-aged machine curtain stood up and said: "This is simple, Zhu Shun is not only the enemy of the Donglin Party now, but also the enemy of the Jin merchants who can't wait to eat his flesh and sleep on his skin. ”

"The Jin merchants have already spoken, prohibiting anyone from buying the yarn of the Zhu family's workshop, and the merchants of Beizhili dare not offend the Jin merchants, although they are greedy for the low price of the Zhu family's yarn, but no one dares to buy it."

"As long as we start with the Song family weaving workshop and the Lu family weaving workshop, we can indirectly change Zhu Shun from the current tasteful little life to the poor life that he couldn't even afford to buy fine cotton cloth before."

To be able to become a Shangshu curtain, scheming and the city government are not simple, and the middle-aged Confucian asked his own question: "It's just... Even if it is to let Zhu Shun go back to the old days. ”

"At most, it will make him suffer, but it will not be enough for him to never turn over, and it will not be of much use to do it."

The disciple smiled inexplicably, and his smile was very cold: "This is just the first step. ”

"As the saying goes, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, and no one wants to live a hard life of eating bran and vegetables anymore."

"He Zhu Shun can live a hard life by himself, but can he let his father and mother still live a hard life with him?"

"No money? Heh, the General Bureau of Firearms in Peking is a gold cave and a silver cave, and if he doesn't want to be corrupt, someone will take the initiative to send him money. ”

"In order for my father and mother to live a good life, I can't be greedy."

"Not greedy? He couldn't bear to watch his mother in tattered clothes, weaving cloth every day and night for a bite to eat? ”

"Not greedy? He couldn't bear to look at his father, in order to make his son's life better, he took his life to exchange money in a private kiln? ”

"Even if that's the case, he can't make much money, and he has to watch his father and mother die step by step."

"In case my father and mother get sick, I am short of ten taels of silver to be able to take care of a serious illness, not greedy? He was going to watch his father and mother die of illness. ”

When the disciple said this, all the curtains understood what Zhang Fengxiang meant, and Zhang Fengxiang was going to completely destroy Zhu Shun.

Since he couldn't deal with Zhu Shun, he would be better off with him.

Isn't Zhu Shun the most disgusted with the Donglin Party, Zhang Fengxiang is going to use the Spinning Woman who seems to have nothing to do with him to recruit him this time and turn him into the Donglin Party.

An elderly Confucian suddenly stood up and exclaimed, "Wonderful, there is a more ingenious point to start from this place. ”

"In the past, the Donglin Party faced Zhu Shun directly, but this time the Donglin Party can completely take itself out, and someone will automatically help us deal with Zhu Shun."

Speaking of this, everyone shuddered, thinking of a person who made both the government and the opposition feel troubled and afraid.

The first cool official in the capital, Ma Shiying.