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Zhao Yong looked at the crowd, and finally saw Zhao Youju.

First, because Zhao and Ju are small and short, and secondly, because Zhao and Ju are still accompanied by twenty or thirty children, it is not easy to find Zhao and Ju in such a large group of people for a while. At this moment, Zhao Heju's little face was flushed, he was laughing, and his eyes became extremely lively, without the twilight of the little adults in the past.

Zhao Yong hesitated for a while, not knowing whether he should immediately come forward to report, Zhao Heju's smile like this is really too rare.

Before he stepped forward, Zhao Heju beckoned to him: "Zhao Yong, you're back!" ”

Zhao Xi also saw Zhao Yong, squeezed out of the crowd, and pulled him in front of Zhao Youju: "How to spend so much effort, make Da Lang wait, report to Da Lang quickly, whether the matter is done!" ”

Zhao Youju waved his hand, and his laughter turned into a smile: "It's good that people come back safely, as for the errand, it's not in a hurry, let's go back and talk about it." It's been a hard time for you to travel all the way, so it's not too late to rest first, and then come back at noon. ”

His seemingly casual sentence made Zhao Xi and Zhao Yong's father and son feel comfortable, Zhao Yong didn't think about it, but Zhao Xi was old and refined, and he was even more in awe of Zhao and Ju: How can such a means of winning people's hearts be performed by a seven-year-old child!

"Da Lang, this silk is a high-grade raw silk!" Seeing Zhao Yong retreat, the weaver held the strand of silk to Zhao Heju to offer treasure. Zhao Heju saw that his face was flushed with excitement, and his heart calmed down.

"You've done a great job." Zhao Heju took the silk and looked around, and after everyone was quiet for a while, he said: "The banquet has been held in the kitchen, and thanks to you these days, the old butler will toast you two glasses on my behalf!" ”

Everyone cheered in low voices, Zhao Heju stretched out his palms to signal silence, and the children immediately pursed their lips and chests, which had been trained for several months. Seeing that the children were quiet, the adults couldn't help but shut up and quietly waited for Zhao and Ju to talk.

"After the feast, each man goes to the tent to receive the reward." Zhao and Ju really said what everyone wanted to hear the most, and this time, they couldn't suppress it and cheered again.

Zhao Xi smiled and led everyone away, leaving only Zhao and Ju and Zhao Ziyue still there.

This dam is located on a high place, and you can see those weavers and Ou Laogen, Fang Youcai and others entering Yuzhang Villa. Not long after they entered, the two women hurried out of the cottage and walked in their direction.

One of the two women is Xiao Cui, and the other is a rough maid bought by the family. After all, Zhao Youju didn't believe in those weavers, and asked the maid at home who was also good at weaving, so he asked Xiaocui to bring her over.

The two girls didn't say much when they came, Zhao and Ju instructed them on how to use the water to move the silk reeling car, and Zhao Ziyue was responsible for adding charcoal to the iron furnace, and after a while, the reeling car turned again, and the rhythmic sound of the mechanical creaking and squeaking was heard in Zhao and Ju's ears, as if it was the best music.

The first test machine was to see if the raw silk made by the water-powered silk reeling car was usable, and now it is to test the production speed of the reeling car. Zhao and Ju have already calculated that this water wheel can drive four new reeling cars, each of which is managed by one person, requires four female workers, and another person needs to burn the fire and steam the cocoon.

The maid is really good at weaving, and this water-driven reeling car has similarities with the hand-cranked reeling car, but with a little guidance, she can get started. Zhao and Juren were small and short, climbed on top of a bench, and couldn't help but get nervous when they saw her ten fingers twisting around like a butterfly wrapping around a flower.

Xiaocui also looked at the maid's movements with a flushed face, after the death of Zhao and Ju's father, because the family was becoming embarrassed, Quan and Xiaocui had woven to subsidize the family, so she was no stranger to reeling cars. The maid picked out more and more silk heads from the cooked silkworm cocoon, and when there were more than ten silk mouths, Xiao Cui was already like this, and when there were more than twenty silk mouths, her eyes were even bigger.

The hand-cranked reeling car used by the Great Song Dynasty at this time, because one hand must be shaken, no matter how skilled the handle is, it is the limit to be able to see ten.

The servant girl was also full of excitement, and the movements of her hands became faster and faster, until she picked out thirty-two threads, and she seemed to be in a hurry, unable to take care of more, and had to give up two.

Maintaining the state of taking care of thirty silk mouths is enough to have a pillar of incense, and just when Xiaocui thought that this was her limit, the maid began to try to increase the silk mouths again. This time she was unhappy, and it took another pillar of incense to increase to forty silk mouths.

"Quadruple ...... Fourfold! ”

Xiao Cui, who had learned arithmetic with Yixue, muttered a little inarticulate after confirming that the maid could not increase the number of silk mouths in a short period of time.

Ordinary weaver girl, the first time she uses this kind of water reeling car, she can be four times as good as an excellent reeling hand, and the texture of the spun raw silk is even better, which in Xiao Cui's opinion, can almost be regarded as a fairy magic.

"If the slave family can be more familiar with this reeling car, they will definitely be able to take care of sixty silk mouths or even more!" After operating another pillar of incense, after receiving Zhao Youju's signal, the maidservant stopped, her original appearance was mediocre, but at the moment her face was flushed, but there was a bit of charm.

Zhao Youju nodded, and there was a smile on his face that couldn't be hidden. His silk reeling machine is very similar to the silk reeling machine invented by Chen Qiyuan (Note 1) in later generations, and he remembers that Chen Qiyuan once said: "The silk reeled by the old vessel is unraveled by labor, and each worker can manage ten wire mouths; The silk reeled by the new law can be managed by each worker for 60 threads, and the high-class women can manage up to 100 threads. "Sixty threads are just the standard of ordinary workers.

Even at 60 threads, this one reeling is six times as good as the best silk reelers today, and ten times better than the average average. The water wheel under this wooden shed can carry four new reeling carts, which means that four or five people can be used here to reach forty silk reelers. (Note 2)

"Let's go, let's go back to the villa."

Unable to hide the joy on their faces, Zhao and Ju removed a part from the reeling car - without this, the water turbine would not be able to drive the reeling car to run. He gently brushed the wooden parts twice, and began to estimate how much income he could bring if he opened a silk reeling workshop here.

Unlike a hydraulic mill, which requires almost no labor, there must be five or six people, and even more due to secrecy, so the labor cost is higher. However, raw silk is much more profitable than flour, and there is no need to worry about sales. Shaoxing and several nearby prefectures are famous for sericulture silk, including Jian'an, there are many people who have no land, specializing in buying silk and weaving silk for a living, and are called "machine households", "machine workshop homes", "weaving Luo households" by the government, and they have a great demand for raw silk.

Note 1: Chen Qiyuan is a patriotic overseas Chinese in modern China, a famous national entrepreneur, he founded China's first national capital operation of the machine silk reeling factory - following the establishment and development of Changlong silk reeling factory, marking the silk reeling industry has entered a new historical period. ——Baidu searched.

Note 2: In fact, it is far more than that, in the Song Dynasty Qin Guan's "Book of Silkworms" painted the reeling car at that time, a person can only pick up two silk at the same time, so that after using the new silk reeling car, one person can be worth 30 people, of course, this person must be a skilled female worker. The author's understanding of silk reeling comes from books, or there are inaccuracies, and I hope that the Fang family will correct it.