Family!

For Edman, home has a very special meaning.

However, he is not very satisfied with the current home, especially the recent performance of the Song family, which makes him feel that he needs to move out of here, after all, this house was sent by the Song family.

Of course, more importantly, Songjiang and his party made Shi Yiwen suddenly feel rich, after all, he earned hundreds of thousands of taels of silver on a trip to Songjiang.

However, "Nanjing is not easy".

Silver is easy to earn, but beautiful houses are hard to find.

Although he promised a generous commission to the tooth bank, it was not so easy to find a suitable house for a while, after all, although there are many good houses of noble and wealthy families, few of them have reached the point of selling houses, even if it is another business in the family, it will not be easy to sell.

So, although I have the idea of moving, I can only wait.

But even at home, Shi Yiwen was not idle, but while reading books on various textile machines in the library, studying their principles, and drawing drawings of spinning machines.

“…… The structure of the Jenny machine is too simple, it doesn't work......"

However, from the very beginning, Shi Yiwen denied the Jenny machine, its structure is too simple, only on the basis of the old spinning wheel to improve, but the original horizontal spindle becomes upright, so that the spindles are arranged vertically, with a spinning wheel to drive multiple vertical spindles, the effect is increased several times at once.

This spinning machine can be easily replicated by any craftsman who is familiar with the spinning wheel. For Shi Yiwen, who wants to rely on technology to achieve a monopoly, he will naturally not choose such a simple technology.

"The structure is a little more complicated......"

What kind of textile structure is more complex?

Was it the water spinning machine that was invented later?

"That's it......"

Finally, after a thorough study of the early spinning machines, Edwin chose the "mule machine", that is, the "blooming loom". Although Jenny is an early high-efficiency spinning machine, it spins fine yarn but has poor fastness. The yarn spun by the water-powered spinning machine that appeared in the later period was coarse and coarse, and then the Englishman Cronpton combined the Jenny spinning machine with the water-powered spinning machine invented, so it was called the "mule machine", and the "mule machine" could spin both roving and spinning yarn, and the quality was very good.

The reason why Edwin chose it is not just for this reason, but because its mechanical structure is complex enough. In contrast to the Jenny machine, which is almost entirely made of wooden components, the mule machine requires the use of a small number of metalworking components.

"If these parts were made by hand, it wouldn't be easy......

Looking at some of the delicate metal parts on the drawings, Shi Yiwen muttered to himself.

"How about machining with a machine tool? I just don't know if there are any machine tools there, so I should take a good look back at it......"

Despite all this time, Edwin has never carefully inspected the space, and until now he has only been confined to the perimeter of the library. He was under the impression that there seemed to be a small factory of small scale near the provincial library.

"You can go there and see when you go back."

However, now Shi Yiwen is not in a hurry, after all, the drawings of the spinning machine have not been fully drawn.

At the same time as Shi Yiwen was "retreating" at home, in the deep house of the Song family, listening to the news brought by the master, Song Renjie couldn't come back to his senses for a long time in shock.

"Master Gu, are you saying that Zhiyuan went to Songjiang and earned no less than 600,000 taels?"

Even if he was born in a wealthy family, when he heard this number, Song Qiyu was still shocked.

600,000!

It's really not much, and the Song family transports no less than 200,000 pieces of cloth from Songjiang every year.

But the problem is that Zhiyuan only went for a few days and earned no less than 600,000 taels of cash with a "flying shuttle", how could this not surprise him.

Of course, what surprised him even more was not just the shadows, but the things that were exchanged for so much silver.

"It's just more, not less, the small one asked through the ticket house, although the ticket house didn't give an accurate word, but it also revealed that there were at least 600,000 taels."

Gu said with a bow at his waist.

The ticket house in his mouth is the ticket number that issues "meeting notes", which are actually bills for remittance in place A and cashing in place B, and are the business of individual firms, which often have money exchanges between various places, so they are also engaged in the exchange of silver. It is also common to exchange large quantities of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

"Gu Chief, do you mean that the "flying shuttle" can top ten machines? ”

After a moment of consternation, Song Renjie, who had calmed down, asked rhetorically. Silver is not rare for the Song family, but it is worth so much money. Very rare and very important indeed!

But he didn't even know the slightest rumor before such an important thing, so how could he not be annoyed in his heart.

"It's a bit exaggerated to have one machine on top and ten machines, but four or five machines are still top, the owner, otherwise those Songjiang cloth village owners would not have invested so much, it was hundreds of thousands of taels of silver."

Song Renjie, who was holding tea, listened to Gu's words, his face changed from time to time, but he was silently holding the teacup and couldn't speak for a long time.

However, after following the owner for so many years, Gu Zhu naturally saw it, and now the owner must be on fire in his heart.

The surname Shi is true, since he was born in the Song family, why don't he think about the Song family, doesn't he know that the Song family has always been interested in getting involved in the weaving industry? If it weren't for the fact that the group in Songjiang was too xenophobic, it is estimated that the Song family would have set up a cloth village a long time ago.

"Daddy......"

Without waiting for Song Qiyu to speak, Song Renjie said to Gu Zhu.

"Alright, you go down first."

There are some things that can't be said in front of people, and after Gu Gui stepped down, Song Qiyu hurriedly said.

"Dad, this time it was my son's mistake, I didn't even know that Zhiyuan made such a good thing, it's really, it's really ......"

Without waiting for his son to finish speaking, Song Renjie shook his head and sighed.

"It's not your relationship, in the final analysis, or Zhiyuan deliberately alienates us!"

After a long sigh, Song Renjie skimmed the tea leaves in the cup with the lid of the cup.

"Who is this man...... Sometimes, an outsider is always an outsider. ”

The human heart is unpredictable!

Father's long sigh made Song Qiyu's heart "chuckle", and he knew his father that his father was probably not only dissatisfied with Zhiyuan.

"Zhiyuan...... After all, it's not my own family! ”

took a sip of tea, and then Song Renjie looked at his son and said.

"Even if you and I regard him as family, but in the end, there are some things that can't be exchanged, don't bother him anymore about the matter over there in the "Nanshi Building", how ...... this person is"

Shaking his head, Song Renjie stood up and slowly took two steps.

"After all, it's not our Song family's people. Such a person...... Hey"

Father's words made Song Qiyu silent, from his father's words, he had already heard the estrangement of Shi Yiwen, this person is indeed so ignorant.

The Song family has done so many things for him, what is it in the end?

With a sigh, he nodded and said.

"The boy knows, I'll take care of it."