That night, Xuanwu Houfu.

Xuanwu Hou scolded loudly: "Idiot! Why do you sell so much silk to the other party? ”

Wu Kanzhan trembled and replied: "Master Hou, such a big deal, and the other party doesn't make a counteroffer, I also want to make more money." ”

Xuanwu Hou continued to scold: "You don't know how to use your brains, who can use so much silk at one time?" There must be something strange about this matter, not to mention that Ji Qiao's kid bought it. ”

Wu Kan replied in a low voice: "The villain was stupid, and he also wanted to blackmail them at that time, thinking that the money of Anbang Houfu had been confiscated, and he would not be able to take out four hundred taels of gold, so we took the fifty taels of deposit." Who knew they still had so much money! ”

Xuanwu said angrily: "You think Ji Qiao is as stupid as you and lets you make money for nothing." ”

But I was also very puzzled, wasn't the gold in Anbang Houfu confiscated, and there were only more than a hundred taels left? Are they making false accounts!

Wu Kan asked in a low voice, "Master Hou, what should I do now?" ”

"Pay according to the other party's requirements, send the money tomorrow, and deduct your salary for another year, get out!"

Xuanwu Hou replied very simply, but he thought in his heart: It is important to stabilize the business first, I want to see what else you can do?

Wu Kan doesn't care about a year's salary, and his gray income is higher than his salary.

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Early the next morning, Ampang Houfu.

Wu Kan sent eight hundred taels of gold and pulled back four thousand zhang of silk.

Everyone is very happy! Unexpectedly, he earned 400 taels of gold at once, and finally made up for the loss of more than 2,800 taels.

Lin Shi and Ji Ling were a little regretful! You can't keep doing things.

Ji Qiao was thinking: This Wu Kan was so coaxing last night, and he came to deliver the money this morning, and it seems that he is not the real boss. The boss behind this scene can control so many silk shops in Linzi City, he should be a very powerful person, it seems that he can only be Xuanwu Hou!

Dongfang Jiao said at this time: "Young Master Qiao, now that there are few people in the house, I can't be busy, I am going to invite some more people." ”

Ji Qiao replied: "It's time to please, the more the better." ”

Lin Shi was happy again: "Okay, let me do this." ”

While everyone was having breakfast, Wu Kan's people came again, and when they entered the door, they said, "Mrs. Dongfang, I have to trouble the two young ladies to go, there is a large group of people gathered in front of my store, and I have to wait for them to pass." ”

Lin Shi suddenly squirted out a mouthful of rice!

Ji Ling was also laughing.

Dongfang Jiao hurriedly said: "You go back first, I'll let her go over after eating." ”

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After Ji Qiao, Lin Shi, and Ji Ling arrived at Xingwu Silk Village, they were really shocked!

On the street in front of the door, there are more than 200 people, which is enough to panic!

Lin Shi immediately stepped forward and said to them: "Each person who came today will receive ten yuan, and there is no need to come again in the future." But we're going to hire some long-term workers now, and if you want to, sign up. ”

The crowd immediately became excited:

"Do beggars accept it?"

"Are you idle?"

"Does the old woman accept it?"

"Do you want to be a traitor?"

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"As long as you are in good health, you can accept anyone, from sixteen to forty years old, and you should not be a traitor." Lin Shi said loudly.

But I thought to myself: Who are they! and the traitors are called this loud voice.

Someone immediately explained: "It's not a traitor, it's a manure pit." Even if the manure pit is full, I will help them pick up the feces so that the big feces in the pit will be reduced. ”

"Yes." Lin Shi replied.

But the psychology is very contemptuous: isn't it just to pick up big dung, and it has to be said to be a fecal reduction pit, so it looks more elegant?

Ji Ling couldn't laugh next to him again!

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Because of this group of people, they are either beggars or old people.

Lin Shi reluctantly picked out more than ten people, but asked everyone to introduce people, and for each eligible person introduced, he was rewarded with 200 yuan.

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After dealing with these things, Ji Qiao, Lin Shi, and Ji Ling went shopping.

Unexpectedly, the princess suddenly chased after her.

Lin Shi excitedly blew to her what had happened in the past few days.

But the princess was very sorry: "I just came out to look for you after hearing about this." Really! If there is such a thing as fun, it will not be called me. ”

Ji Ling replied: "How are you going to play?" How dare these people mess with you! ”

The princess nodded in agreement: "That's right, except for Ji Qiao, a kid who doesn't take me seriously, everyone else will only pat me on the back." The most annoying thing is that my father still doesn't allow me to go to your house. ”

Ji Qiao immediately replied: "Princess, you can't wronged people, when did I not take you seriously?" Every time we meet, you beat and scold me. ”

The princess laughed: "That's you who is cheap!" ”

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The next day, Ji Qiao began to reform the silk production process.

In the early Warring States period, there were two main types of fabrics used to make clothes: one was that nobles wore clothes made of silk; Second, the flat-headed people wore clothes made of linen.

At that time, male farming and female weaving were advocated, and family handmade silk weaving workshops were the mainstay. That is, every person or family must be familiar with the entire silk production process, which is a single soldier, and the production efficiency is very low.

Ji Qiao decided to build a large factory, reform the production process, and produce silk on a large scale, which greatly reduced production costs. It is necessary to let the entire Qi people wear clothes made of silk and sell them to other countries.

Ji Qiao understands that the steps of making silk mainly include the following processes:

Step 1: Reeling the silk. It is to extract the silk from the cocoon, a cocoon can extract a thousand meters of cocoon silk, and several cocoon silks are combined to form raw silk.

Step 2: Weaving. That is, the raw silk is divided into warp and weft after processing, and intertwined with each other according to a certain organizational law to form a silk fabric.

Weaving is divided into raw weaving and cooked weaving: raw weaving, that is, the warp and weft silk is made into fabric without refining and dyeing, which is called grey silk, and then the grey silk is refined and dyed into finished products; Mature weaving, that is, the warp and weft silk is dyed before weaving, and the grey silk after weaving does not need to be dyed.

Step 3: Dyeing and finishing.

Only by using dyeing and finishing technology can we freely reproduce various colors and patterns on the blank perfectly, so as to make the fabric more artistic. The process mainly consists of three processes:

(1) Refining. Silk is composed of two monofilaments, the main body of which is filament, and the outer layer is wrapped with sericin. Most of the pigments, oils, waxes and inorganic salts are present in sericin. These impurities have a great impact on the printing and dyeing effect, and they must be removed before dyeing to obtain soft, smooth, delicate and white silk products.

(2) Staining. After the white color of the grey silk is refined, it enters the dyeing stage, so that the dye and the grey silk undergo a chemical reaction, so that the grey silk is dyed with various colors.

(3) Printing. After all, a color is monotonous, so people use printing technology to make silk colorful, and the printing process plays an important role in the silk production process.

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However, there is an important technical point in the production of silk, which is very difficult to grasp under the conditions at that time, that is, the water temperature.

The water temperature should be controlled in the two processes of silk reeling and refining, and the water temperature will be overheated to form broken wires, and the cold will not achieve the effect.

The ancients did not have a thermometer, so they used their eyes to observe the temperature of the water, that is, the observation method of boiling water shaped like shrimp eyes, crab eyes, and fish eyes.

When boiling water, the size of the water at the bottom of the pot is bubbling and compared with shrimp eyes, crab eyes, and fish eyes.

This method is very difficult to control the water temperature and difficult to master.

Ji Qiao designed an analog thermometer.