Tang Ying was also surprised, she had already seen the Lu family's shuttle loom, which had shocked her, because she had never thought that there were shuttles in the world that could automatically thread, and the principle was so simple that it only used the elastic effect of the spring and the sliding of the roller.

Now, the Jenny spinning machine, which relies on the rotation of the runner and then uses the belt to drive the starting lever to drive eight spindles to spin together at the same time, naturally shocked her even more.

Previously, a person could spin only one spindle at the same time with a hand-cranked spinning machine.

And now, one person can spin eight spindles at the same time!

"Lu Lang, does this mean that one person can spin instead of eight people, and the spinning efficiency can be directly increased by eight times?"

Tang Ying excitedly tugged at Lu Yuan's shirt and asked in disbelief.

"That's true, but it can be increased not only by eight times, but by ten times or twenty times in the future, you see, just add an extra spindle to this spinning machine."

Lu Yuan made a gesture, Tang Ying suddenly realized, and said with a smile: "In this way, the price of cotton yarn will drop sharply, and our weaving workshop can make more profits because of the price drop of cotton yarn!" ”

Lu Yuan smiled and nodded.

Tang Ying is right, the spinning speed is increased by eight times, which means that the cotton yarn procurement cost of the weaving mill will be greatly reduced, and the profit margin of the entire weaving mill will be greatly increased even if the sales price of spring breeze cloth is not reduced.

And the weaving workshop no longer has to worry about being stolen from the weaving technology, because even if others steal the weaving technology, now their own Lujia weaving workshop can gain an advantage by fighting a price war.

After all, the Lujia Weaving Workshop now has a more efficient spinning machine, and the cost has dropped significantly, so it can be reduced without fear.

But Lu Yuan has no plans to reduce the price of Chunfeng cloth now, firstly, in order to earn more money in a short time, but to avoid the impact of the price reduction in advance on a large number of civilian families who rely on spinning to increase their income, thereby causing social unrest.

You must know that in the original history, after the Jenny spinning machine came out, it was because of the drop in the price of cotton yarn, so that the workers of other traditional spinning machines smashed the Jenny spinning machine.

When other businesses began to manufacture shuttle looms, it was not too late for the Lujia Weaving Workshop to consider reducing prices.

Soon after Jenny's spinning machine was manufactured, Lu Yuan and Tang Ying established a spinning workshop.

To this end, Lu Yuan also specially asked Tang Ying to recruit more than 300 women to become textile workers.

Originally, because agriculture in Qingquanzhai was not good, and now the steel mill is now due to the introduction of a large number of middle-aged men among the displaced people, and many women are already unemployed and have no income.

Some elderly women even rely on the nursing homes set up by Lu Yuan to provide meager assistance or drag down their children and grandchildren because they do not have enough income.

Now that the spinning workshop was established, and the Jenny spinning machine was not physically demanding, the success allowed the women to have jobs again and increase the income for the family.

"Mother, eat this bowl of porridge."

Zhou Gou'er swallowed his saliva and brought a bowl of gruel to his mother Wei.

Wei didn't get up, still weaving straw sandals: "Give it to your daughter-in-law, she is still pregnant with a child." ”

"Daughter-in-law, she has already eaten, this bowl is for you," Zhou Gou'er said.

Wei was about to take it, but he heard the rumbling sound of Zhou Gou'er's stomach: "Son, have you eaten?" ”

"Mother, I'm not hungry," Zhou Gou'er said with a smile.

Wei's face darkened: "Why aren't you hungry, I heard your stomach growling, you eat, I can bear it, for the sake of my grandson, I have been hungry for more than ten years, what if I am hungry for a few days." ”

Zhou Gou'er's daughter-in-law is pregnant, but her daughter-in-law is not in good health, according to the doctor, she should take fetal pills every day to stabilize, but Dr. An caught a few flavors of medicinal herbs in the fetal pills, which cost a few taels of silver every month.

Therefore, although Zhou Gou'er followed Lu Yuan as a propaganda specialist, the daughter-in-law and the old lady who are now pregnant are equivalent to raising three people, plus themselves, so the moon silver is still not enough to spend.

Zhou Gou'er cried: "Mother, you have been hungry for a few days, you can eat!" Do you want to starve to death and let the people in the village scold me for being unfilial?! ”

Wei Shi sighed, couldn't help but shed tears, and couldn't help but hammer his knees: "You said that if my mother was a few years younger, and she also went to work in Lu Guanye's steel factory and machinery company, she would be able to earn a few dollars for the family." ”

"Mother, it's hard work in the steel mill and machinery company, unless you are young and smart enough to be an apprentice, even if you can go, I won't allow you to go! You drink porridge first, this is the last bowl of porridge in the family, I will go to the department store tomorrow to ask the girl in colorful clothes to intercede and owe some food on credit. ”

Zhou Gou'er hurriedly said.

"Mother doesn't drink, you drink, mother will be hungry again, the department store is opened by Lu Guanye's family, people pity us grass people, they don't set the price of selling grain high, basically don't make money, we can't get old and take credit, eat Lu Guanye!"

Wei shook his head, but he refused to drink this porridge.

At this time, the sixth baby came over: "Zhou Gou'er, the young master has an order, let you immediately announce to the whole village that the spinning workshop needs more than 300 workers, let those who are interested go to the general flag official office to report, women who can spin are preferred, not limited to the elderly, as long as they can work, they will be hired, the monthly probation period is one or two months of silver, and one or two or five dollars after the regularization, and then the monthly silver will be added according to the performance!" ”

"Women first, not limited to the elderly, sixth brother, I can't do it! I can spin! ”

Wei Shi hurriedly asked the six children with great interest.

The sixth baby nodded: "You can, naturally." ”

Cuckoo!

Wei immediately took a bowl of porridge in Zhou Gou'er's hand and drank it all at once, and suddenly felt that his stomach was a little solid, and he couldn't help laughing: "Son, my mother also has a job to do, and my mother has to work!" ”

Wei said and left.

Zhou Gou'er froze in place, not knowing what to say for a while.

A month later, Wei took a bag of rice and some leftover silver back, very happy, and hurriedly called Zhou Gou'er over: "This is the monthly money earned by my mother, I bought a little rice on the way when I came back, and I also paid back the rice money you owe, and there is still some left, you go and buy a chicken for your daughter-in-law to eat, and make up for my grandson." ”

"Mother! Son, I'm sorry for you, my son didn't expect you to work hard when you're so old! ”

Zhou Gou'er cried and knelt down for Wei.

"What are you crying about, my mother doesn't think it's bad, my mother is happy now, now our Zhou family has more income, and we can finally raise our grandson, maybe you can let your daughter-in-law have one more in the future, if you really want to kneel, go to Lu Guanye's yamen to kneel, this is the blessing that Lu Guanye brought to us, if Lu Guanye didn't come, you wouldn't be able to marry a daughter-in-law, and my mother couldn't expect to be able to hold her grandson."

Wei said.

Zhou Gou'er nodded: "Hey, I'll go to the Yamen of Lord Lu and kowtow." ”