Change sometimes starts in small ways.

"Daddy...... My feet hurt so much......"

Early in the morning, as soon as she got out of bed, Li Yun shouted coquettishly.

"The pain should also be wrapped,"

As she grew older, the pain of foot binding became more and more unbearable, and she walked gently but still limped, which was very inconvenient. Sometimes she would cry because of sore feet, which made her father feel distressed. It seems natural for a woman to bind her feet since she was a child, just like she needs to wrap a well rope after a wheel.

For that "three-inch golden lotus", I have to pay for a lifetime, so it's better to release it as soon as possible, and it's a hundred.

For the sake of his daughter, it is not against him to be a father who has to risk the world.

"Let it go!"

Li Erhu, who felt sorry for his daughter, stared at his daughter's feet fiercely and said.

"Then how can it be done, who wants such a bigfoot woman in the future!"

The daughter-in-law immediately objected to it, and the mother's heart hurt her daughter, but she was more concerned about her daughter's lifelong events.

"Why not? If you can't get married, you can't get married! ”

Holding his daughter tightly, Li Erhu then said with a smile.

"Girl, it's a big deal, in the future, I will work in the factory by the Lugou River, and I can earn more than one or two silver a month, and I am afraid that I will not go out at home at that time? There, don't want a small-footed mother-in-law! ”

In the factory by the Lugou River, there is no small-footed mother-in-law, as long as the sky is sufficient.

For the people of the ten miles and eight towns near the Lugou River, this will no longer feel strange, just as they no longer feel strange about the big waterwheel set up by the river.

Under the impact of the river, the big waterwheel turns, and the power of the water is transmitted to the factory not far away through the transmission shaft. Although the windows were wide open, the workshop was still a little dark, but the women who were weaving cloth did not care much.

Their eyes were fixed on the shuttle flying back and forth in the loom, this new loom was made by the Lugou Iron Factory, not only the shuttle, but also driven by a water wheel, in fact, the old large loom was equipped with a shuttle and a water wheel.

For the female workers who have never woven cloth, although their skills are average, but with the help of water-powered looms, they still weave high-quality "standard cloth", even those weavers invited from Jiangnan are extremely surprised by this, water-powered looms, to a large extent, narrowed the technical gap between them and Jiangnan weavers.

"Aunt Xu, I heard that you want to try weaving twill......"

Even when weaving cloth, it does not prevent the women workers from talking while they work. Their mouths were as busy as their hands, their hands were busy working, their mouths were busy talking.

"Just try, didn't you listen to Xu Guanche, twill is more expensive than standard cloth, if you weave twill, the factory will definitely give a bonus, just like an iron factory."

After all, for Liu Baitao of Hongfu Cloth Factory, he has never had experience in managing a factory, nor has he ever run a factory, so he naturally adopts the doctrine of taking it and directly draws on the management model of Lugou Iron Factory. It has even borrowed the method of rewarding workers for technological innovation to encourage them to innovate.

"Hey, you're just waiting to earn those dozens of taels of silver!"

"But no, it's dozens of taels, and it can't be spent to build a house next to the factory......"

"Haha, that's good, save yourself from rushing home all day......"

"Alright, alright, stop daydreaming, work hard......"

Most of the pipes in the workshop are female workers invited from Jiangnan, and they will only say a word or two softly when they are in a mess in the factory.

In this way, the women continued to work in their work, but soon they began to speak loudly.

Until noon, suddenly accompanied by a burst of copper bells, the factory was disturbed for a while, the sound of the loom was lowered, and the voice prevailed. The female workers rushed out of the workshop with empty rice bowls, walked to the canteen in a messy manner, and lined up in the canteen to eat.

The food here is simple – a bowl of sorghum rice with some greens, a bowl of greens soup, and of course, a meal of meat every once in a while, albeit a small amount, but even so, it is still considered to be better treated for workers, and women from nearby villages are vying to sign up.

When the female workers in the factory were eating, Liu Baitao in the factory room looked worried.

"What's this, what is this?"

With a long sigh, Liu Baitao looked at Sun Maonian and said.

"Brother Sun, take a look, is our family's cloth worse than Jiangnan's?"

took out a piece of cloth and handed it to Liu Baitao.

"This is a good standard cloth!"

As a cloth merchant, Sun Maonian can naturally see that the standard cloth of Hongfu Cloth Factory is no worse than the standard cloth in Jiangnan.

"The standard cloth is the most thick and wear-resistant, the most popular among the people, your cloth is really good, how can it not be sold?"

Cloth can't be sold!

For Liu Baitao, who is ready to make a big splash with the cloth factory, and of course wants to make a windfall, he is naturally extremely confused.

"Brother Sun doesn't know, although Hongfubu has sold a lot in the capital, but it can't be sold at all in Jizhen and Xuanda, and those bidders don't buy our cloth at all!"

Liu Baitao sighed helplessly. For many years, they have trafficked cotton cloth from the south of the Yangtze River, and sold no less than millions of cotton cloth every year, and it is precisely because of this that Liu Baitao has always wanted to open up the door of "standard customers" and sell cloth to these wealthy merchants.

"You say, my piece of cloth is only three dollars, they buy one horse from Jiangnan for two dollars, and it will cost at least three dollars and two cents to transport it to the capital, but even so, they would rather buy the high-priced cloth in Jiangnan than buy our cloth, this, this is really evil!"

Isn't it just evil!

"There are people who don't buy cheap ones, but buy expensive ones. In fact, we sell it for three dollars and two cents, and they also make money, after all, they can save a lot of time. ”

Looking at Liu Baitao's puzzled appearance, Sun Maonian frowned, he is not only a cloth merchant, but also a shareholder of Hongfu Yarn Factory.

Now, listening to Liu Baitao's words, Sun Maonian said.

"Those bidders have been doing business with Jiangnan for decades, or even hundreds of years, and it is naturally impossible to choose us for a little profit, in fact, our cloth factory can live without relying on them, after all, there are millions of people in the capital alone, and our cloth is not worried about selling in the capital, are you talking about?"

"No!"

With a fierce glare, Liu Baitao said.

"We can't just stare at the capital, don't you see, the Ni family has also set up a cloth factory by the river, we have earned money in the past two months, but others are not blind!"