"I heard that a merchant from Los Angeles has been looking for you?" Standing in front of the huge blast furnace, Li Shimin sighed with something wrong.

"I refused!" Li Yuanjing responded directly.

As for how Li Shimin knew, he didn't care, he knew it when he knew, and he didn't rebel, and there was no secret to speak of.

The more you cover up, the more detrimental it is to yourself.

"You should agree!" Li Shimin said lightly.

Li Yuanjing looked at Li Shimin with some surprise, he didn't believe that Li Shimin would not be able to see through such a simple game.

"How much the weaving mill produces is not up to His Highness? The scale is still expanding, so why not give him some? After three or five months, don't you still want to go back to the old ways? The eldest grandson Wuji said casually.

Li Yuanjing shook his head, the eldest grandson Wuji understood what he meant, temporarily stabilize the Zheng family, and when the output was large enough, he would kill them with one blow.

But it may take a year or two to lay out, will there be a problem with the acquisition of raw materials or something?

"It's a strategic goal, and I'm not going to change my mind!" Once again, Li Yuanjing rejected their proposal.

Of course, that's not enough.

The cloth business can make the Zheng family bleed, but the blood loss is not enough.

"The imperial court might as well sell the hemp to me at a low price, and before the winter, I can guarantee that there will be 100 dollars of cloth on the market!"

"Wouldn't you make less money?" Li Shimin glanced at Li Yuanjing, the average price of hemp for a piece of cloth was about twenty or thirty yuan, even if the imperial court gave him hemp for free, the profit was twenty yuan less than now.

"I'm making more! The royal brother might as well move to the weaving workshop to take a look and understand. Li Yuanjing smiled indifferently.

Stores need to rely on profits to ensure their own income, but the factory is the quantity, one piece earns double, and one hundred pieces earn ten times, each has its own good, each has its own survival reason.

Seeing that the blast furnace is still busy, it is said that it is impossible to release molten iron for a while.

Li Shimin agreed to Li Yuanjing's proposal and went to the weaving workshop to have a look, and Li Shimin was still very curious about this new place that could reduce the cost several times.

If Li Yuanjing can really guarantee that the cloth will be reduced to 100 yuan before winter, then the hemp material from the imperial court will be given to him.

It is true that the imperial court has lost some, but more people have benefited from it.

Li Shimin is very short of money now, but he lacks prestige and the recognition of the people, and one or two things cannot reverse his current negative image at all, and he must grasp everything well.

The weaving workshop is very large, not only Li Shimin, but also the ministers think that it is very big, dozens of rows of houses are neatly located here, and if you enter one casually, you can see the women who are busy inside.

Li Shimin didn't know much about the loom, but he could still see that the efficiency in it was higher than that of the peasant households.

"The focus is on the shuttle, but also the focus of this improvement, with the shuttle can reduce the time of threading, directly improve the efficiency, in addition to some other work, the weaver only needs to sit there to work, need raw materials, someone will directly send over to help install it, everyone only focus on one thing, for a long time, the efficiency will naturally be fast.

However, this is not the point, Yang Li is currently working on a method that can make the shuttle simpler, and even does not require manpower to operate, but due to manpower problems, he can't come up with an exact idea for a while. Li Yuanjing introduced the principle of the new loom.

Li Shimin nodded secretly, the shuttle did improve efficiency, but it was only a limited improvement, not even doubled.

But if something else could be used to replace the shuttle, then it would certainly be more efficient, and there is no doubt about that.

"There's disassembly there?" Li Shimin pointed to the vacant seats in the workshop and asked.

"With the new looms, we improved the manufacturing process of the looms, and now there are almost 20 people working on them, and we can build almost 30 new looms a day."

"Oh?" Li Shimin was shocked.

If the shuttle improves the weaving efficiency, Li Shimin does not have too many feelings in his heart.

Then when he heard that twenty people could make nearly thirty looms a day, he had to be shocked.

It takes a skilled craftsman about five days to build a loom, and twenty people build twenty in five days, but here, they can build about 150 looms in five days, nearly eight times more efficient.

The purpose of streamlining the imperial court is to clear up redundant officials, improve the office efficiency of the imperial court, and exert the maximum strength with the least staffing.

Some redundant officials have been removed, but the court officials are also miserable now.

Du Ruhui has been thinking about how to solve this problem recently.

Li Yuanjing smiled, he knew that Li Shimin's heart was moved, and he was not in the court, but his identity was here, and it was obviously unrealistic to completely eliminate the news from the outside world.

"The method used is the same as here, everyone, only responsible for creating a component, a day or two will not change much, but after ten days and a half months, the efficiency will naturally come up, now they just take a look, they know whether each component is qualified, every process is done in strict accordance with the requirements, and finally there will be no problems when it is assembled, and the complexity is simplified, reducing the entry threshold of craftsmen at the same time, and the quality can be guaranteed!" Li Yuanjing didn't plan to take Li Shimin to visit, there was nothing to see there.

It's really boring for a bunch of boring old and young masters to go back and forth against a pile of wood.

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head.

Du Ruhui couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in his heart, thinking that he could bring some inspiration to himself.

But now it seems that there is inspiration, but the problem is that it is not suitable.

The goal of the imperial court is to lay off personnel, and so far there are only more than 1,000 officials directly under the entire imperial court, and more than two-thirds of them have been laid off.

Li Yuanjing's method is to refine the division of labor and use the number of people to solve the problem, and the principles of the two are completely contrary to each other, and there is no reference value at all.

"I'll give you fifty people, and I'll be the one to be the prisoner!" Li Shimin is really a little tired of it.

Whenever you meet Li Yuanjing, there is a topic that can never be avoided.

Need! Need! Need!

In addition to asking for people or people!

Not counting the direct give, Li Shimin knew very well that Li Yuanjing's appetite was more than that, and he hoped to recruit enough craftsmen through the imperial examination.

But this kind of thing is not only in his opinion, but even in the eyes of everyone.

"I'll have all fifty carpenters to study new looms!" Li Yuanjing smiled and did not refuse.