(Today's update)

Outside Bahe City, under the big windmill, a 'famous' landmark, Yuwen Eying is holding her younger brother and looking at the windmill, the south wind blows to drive the cross-shaped wind wings, seeing the wind wings slowly turning, Yuwen Eying and her younger brother Quege are dancing happily.

Brother Xiaoque is less than two years old, of course, he doesn't understand anything, but he is happy when he sees the person who hugs him, and the little guy who is still babbling says "hug" vigorously, of course, he is looking at his mother not far away.

Yang Lihua saw Yuwen Eying dancing with her hands, afraid that she would not be able to hold her brother at once, so she stepped forward to pick up Brother Que, Yuwenwen saw the big windmill spinning on the side, and couldn't help singing the opening song in her heart:

The big windmill squeaks and turns, and the scenery here is so beautiful

The modern style of this song is not suitable for today's era, so Yu Wenwen can only go through the 'famous song' in his heart, looking at the big windmill and the surrounding scene, he has a feeling of time and space confusion in his heart.

In the past two days, he has rarely been free, so after taking his wife Yu Chi Chifan and his son Jianlang on a trip yesterday, he took Yang Lihua, Yuwen Eying and Brother Que out today to 'let off steam'.

Before the construction of the lakeside manor was completed, he took his family to Bahe City for a walk, and by the way, he took a look at the landmark, this windmill with an investment of more than 1,000 yuan is now running normally, and in the autumn you can charge for rice.

This kind of windmill imitated in the style of Dutch windmills is rare, so Yuwen Eying is very curious, and keeps asking all kinds of questions, seeing that the little girl "Since she asked sincerely", Yuwen Wen "told her compassionately".

First of all, the top of the windmill tower can be rotated, so that when the dominant wind direction changes, it can be adjusted, so that the wind wing is always facing the direction of the wind, of course, it cannot be used when it is raining and windy, and the wind wing should be put away to avoid damage.

As long as there is wind, it can turn, of course, it is a turn day and night, the wind wing turns then the rice will not stop, a day and night down can save a lot of manpower, of course, the windmill is afraid of fire, and it will burn a fine light directly on the street.

What is Street Fighting? Uh, it's about the same as death

After seeing the windmill, Yuwen Eying's interest was still very high, and she took her younger brother to play outside the windmill workshop, and soon discovered a new 'toy': the spinning wheel. And then the questions kept popping up.

First of all: how are the clothes made?

Of course, Yuwen Eying knew that clothes were made of cloth, brocade, or silk, so Yuwen Eying's question was actually how cloth was made, Yuwen Wen was thinking about how to say the thinking of the twenty-first century in the language of the sixth century, but Yang Lihua 'stepped forward' to answer questions.

The source of yarn is divided into silk and kudzu and hemp, and the process of turning silk and kudzu and hemp into yarn is the so-called spinning, spinning is spinning, weaving is weaving, and the two are collectively called 'textile'.

The spinning wheel seen today is a tool for spinning silk, kudzu, and hemp into yarn, and after having yarn, it is woven into cloth with a loom, and with the cloth it can be cut and sewn to make clothes.

"And how do spinning wheels and looms move?" Yuwen Eying asked again, Yang Lihua explained that it was all driven by manpower, and silk had to rely on raising silkworms to make cocoons and reel silk, and kudzu and hemp had to be planted, and after being spun into yarn, the weaver mother could weave the cloth day and night.

Seeing Yuwen Eying's "oh" that seemed to understand or not, Yuwenwen admired Yang Lihua quite a lot, if it was him to explain, I was afraid that I would have to start with plant fibers, then I don't know if the little girl could understand.

Yang Lihua was born in an aristocratic family, and other aristocratic women generally don't need to understand this knowledge, as a girl with fine clothes and food, she only needs someone to serve, unless her family is in the middle of the road or she is punished and confiscated as a slave, she doesn't have to touch it for a lifetime.

Yu Wenwen's wife, Yu Chi Chifan, was also born in a noble family like Yang Lihua, but Yang Lihua was a little special: she was once a queen, so she must know some knowledge of silkworm raising and weaving, so that she can be a mother in the world.

In an agrarian society, men and women weave is a classic life scene, for the state officials to persuade farmers and mulberries is the duty of the state, and for the emperor to persuade farmers and mulberries is related to the country, so every spring the emperor and the queen have to hold a ceremony to plough and silkworms.

The ceremony of the emperor's personal ploughing began as early as the time of Zhou Tianzi, and under the witness of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, he had to carry a hoe to the field and plough the field.

Those who are members of the family borrow also, it is said to borrow manpower to reason, and persuade the world to make agriculture also. In the Spring and Autumn Period, it is said that "the suburbs are then cultivated", and then the manpower is used to achieve success, so it is called the emperor's home.

At the same time, the queen was not idle, and wanted to lead the internal and external women to carry out the ceremony of bowing to silkworms.

The queen took the cui chariot, led the three concubines of the six palaces, the three Yi, the royal yuan, the royal wan, the three duchesses, and the three orphans to the silkworm house, and entered the silkworm with a young prison to pay tribute to the god of the silkworm Xiling clan (ancestor). After the ceremony, the altar was lowered, and the two concubines were made to sacrifice the end of the ceremony, because they bowed to Sang.

This is the so-called ancient saying "the Son of Heaven ploughs to share the prosperity, and the queen pro-silkworm to share the sacrificial clothes", planting mulberry and raising silkworms, spinning and weaving one-stop performance, Yang Lihua is familiar with textiles is normal.

Of course, there is another person around Yu Wenwen who is more familiar with this set, that is, Xiao Jiuniang, the princess of Liangguo, she grew up in her uncle's house, and her family background is not good, and she has to do farm work from time to time.

Yuwen Eying just asked, and her attention quickly shifted after her mother answered, she heard her mother mention silkworm raising, so she wanted to pull her younger brother to see the silkworm baby, Yuwen Wen and Yang Lihua looked at each other and smiled, and followed helplessly, watching the bear child about to go to the silkworm room......

On the banks of the Santai River, in a courtyard in the 'Black Workshop' of the Xiyang County Mansion, a spinning wheel is running, and unlike the spinning wheels that are commonly seen in this era, this spinning wheel is propelled by water power, and the number of spindles is also very different.

The spinning wheel used by farmers at home is driven by manpower, and the spindles are usually two to three, not more than five, taking spinning hemp as an example, the manpower spinning wheel spinning up to three catties per day, and this water-powered spinning wheel has a total of 30 spindles, and can spin nearly 100 catties of hemp every day and night.

The premise is that it is running normally, and when Yuwenwen took Yang Lihua to watch the scene, the hydrospinning wheel broke down in the middle of operation, and several spindles of yarn were disconnected and could not operate normally.

"A water-powered spinning wheel can spin nearly 100 catties of hemp in a day and night" Yang Lihua muttered to herself, she looked at the water-powered spinning wheel in front of her and was a little distracted, such a number is very amazing, according to this, a spinning wheel like this can top the output of thirty households.

"This spinning wheel is just a trial run, the craftsmen are still debugging, if the debugging can be run for several days in a row, after mastering the process can make more spinning wheels, if a hundred hydraulic spinning wheels run at the same time for a day, it is worth the output of 3,000 households a day." Yu Wenwen said on the side.

"The spindles can be increased, right? It shouldn't be possible to increase indefinitely, right? Yang Lihua asked again, Yuwenwen nodded and said yes, the spindles that can be driven by the hydrospinning wheel can naturally increase, but after reaching a certain number, the failure rate will increase significantly, and it is better to add a new one.

Seeing that Yang Lihua wanted to speak and stopped, Yuwen Wen took her to the compartment to continue to observe, this time she saw the same water-powered device, and the difference between this device and the next door is that this device is a loom, that is, a water-powered loom.

The waterwheel pulls the river water into a high reservoir, and the water gushes out of the outlet pipe of the reservoir and falls to the spokes of the water wheel below to push it, and the water wheel is constantly rotating to drive the loom.

Yang Lihua looked at the loom intently, quickly recovered from the initial shock, and first noticed one of the differences: the shuttle that only needs to be controlled by one person, while the shuttle that keeps shuttling looks a little special.

"There is a chute on this shuttle, and there is a small wheel in it, which is very flexible to shuttle, and it is called a shuttle." Yu Wenwen went on to explain, "On weekdays, the weaving shuttle requires the cooperation of two people, but this loom only needs one person to complete the weaving, and the weaving speed is extremely fast. ”

"Can it run day and night?" Yang Lihua asked again, the loom in front of her and the hydro-spinning wheel with dozens of spindles next door, she had already thought of an unsettling future.

"Of course it runs day and night, but the weavers have to take turns to rest." Yu Wenwen said, the side room was shaken by the power of technology, and he was very satisfied with the effect.

Just now they returned home from Bahe City, and after sending the two little guys back, Yuwenwen took Yang Lihua to this black workshop for 're-education', two devices that should not have appeared in this time and space, and really made the well-informed Yang Lihua speechless.

Since ancient times, it has been known that shorter fibers were spun into long yarns and then woven into cloth. The so-called spinning is to take animal or plant fibers and twist them into a continuous and infinitely extended yarn, with yarn can weave cloth, with cloth there is clothing.

The sources of fiber in this era are mainly silk, kudzu, hemp, and wool, and the common cotton in later generations has not been widely promoted and planted, and the bast fiber or silk of hemp plants is the most common raw material for spinning.

With yarn, you can weave cloth, but it is not enough to have a spinning wheel that produces a large number of yarns, you have to have an equally high-output loom to consume these massive increased yarns, and with a water-powered spinning wheel, you must also have a water-powered loom to cooperate.

Therefore, the shuttle, which was originally born in England in the 18th century, and the hydraulic spinning wheel that was born in the Central Plains in the 13th century, appeared in the small border of Xiyang County in Bazhou on the edge of the Yangtze River at the same time.

According to the consistent practice of Yuwenwen Workshop, these two machines are 'prototype machines', which are used to debug and improve for craftsmen, and after accumulating experience, they make 'improved models', and then 'mass production types' for practical use, and the ultimate goal is to put them into practical use on a large scale.

"The price of the cloth made by hydro-textile is low, how can the people survive?" Yang Lihua asked with some uneasiness, she was not only shocked by the efficiency of this water conservancy and textile, but also looked at these two new things from the perspective of the national economy and people's livelihood.

"The increase in productivity just needs the people to raise silkworms with a variety of mulberry hemp, how can they not survive?" Yu Wenwen asked rhetorically, "Cheap cloth is popular all over the world, and more people can afford to wear clothes made of good cloth, isn't that good?" ”

"What about the rent? The demand for raw materials for water-powered textiles has increased greatly, and the widespread planting of mulberry hemp is bound to crowd out the cultivated land, and if the price of handmade cloth is cheap, the number of horses handed in will increase, but where do the people have a place to get water-powered spinning, the government can not collect the household survey, and the officials will force the people to ruin their families! Yang Lihua retorted and looked at Yu Wenwen.

Men and women weave, regardless of the north and south of the country, every year to hand over the field tenants to the survey of cloth and silk, and in daily life cloth can be used as hard currency, used to buy all kinds of living necessities, she feels that after the emergence of this hydraulic textile, it has brought a disastrous impact to the farmers.

After hard work in planting mulberry and raising silkworms, or planting kudzu hemp, and painstakingly spinning into yarn and weaving into cloth, a large number of cheap cloth appeared on the market, and all the efforts of the past year were wasted.

In the household survey collected by the government, the handmade cloth with a cheap price will inevitably increase the number of horses, and most of the virtues of the state and county officials will force the people to be cornered, and the handmade cloth collected is already a cheap thing, and it will cause the crowd to be excited when it is sent to officials and soldiers.

But if the handmade cloth handed in by the people is not collected, how many people can find a way to replace it with something else, and how many people will be ruined?

The price of handmade cloth has plummeted, and those who rely on these cloths to buy things have no other hard currency, and it is impossible to sell food easily, and people who can't survive, and people who are exploited by grassroots officials, can be ignited with just one spark, so things are not trivial.

It would be easy to solve the civil unrest in one or several states and counties, but it would not be good if there was trouble in various states and counties.

"What to do? If there is a contradiction, there will be a conflict, and if we want to resolve this contradiction, we will turn to the problem we talked about last time. "Yu Wenwen once again incarnated as a 'beast', and wanted to 're-educate' Yang Lihua, "In this way, I'll give you an example"

Yang Lihua regretted a little, she argued with her husband in a hurry, but she didn't expect this self-feeling good to sell that set again, she had already made up her mind to 'avoid its edge', so now she has to make up for it.

She blinked her eyes and said sincerely: "The concubine knows that of course the husband has a way to solve this contradiction."

Yu Wenwen was speechless, this worthy of being called a 'palace fighting master' in front of him, he was stopped as soon as he came up, and when he was about to be happy, suddenly Lin Youdi came to report that there was an official from the state government outside, saying that there was an urgent matter to report.

"Urgent? Could it be that Chen Jun, who was on the other side of the river, was impatient to cross the river and commit a crime? Yuwen Wen was overjoyed when he heard this, he was planning a battle against Chen, and it would be great if the other party sent it to the door himself.

"The little one doesn't know, and he doesn't dare to inquire, the person who came is indeed a state official, saying that Anlu sent an envoy to meet Lord Lang in person, and now he is waiting in the state office" Lin Youdi replied, he knew the taboo of Lord Lang, so he was only responsible for checking his identity, and he didn't dare to inquire about specific matters.

"Good news, I guess." Yuwen Wen muttered to himself, walking towards the gate with great anticipation, like a lottery player who bought a lottery ticket, waiting to win the jackpot of 10 million when the lottery was drawn that day. (To be continued.) )