Chapter 42: The Poor Wen Tiren
Li Zhi smiled, didn't answer Xiao Guangwei, and beckoned to the two family members standing guard in front of his yard more than ten meters away. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info The two family members knew what Li Zhi meant, and they also came over and surrounded Xiao Guangwei. Four strong men surrounded Xiao Guangwei in the middle, and scared Xiao Guangwei so much that his neck shrunk.
On that somewhat handsome face, fear was gradually written.
Li Zhi said lightly: "Xiao Guangwei, don't say that your father knows a prison officer, even if your family knows Tongzhi, I dare to beat you until you can't take care of yourself, do you believe it or not?" ”
Hearing Li Zhi's words, Xiao Guangwei's face turned white. He didn't know if Li Zhi was bragging, but in any case, there were four people surrounding him now, and if Li Zhi let these thugs beat him, he would definitely suffer first.
And Li Zhi's confident words did make him suspect that his relationship could not be covered, which made him half-convinced.
Swallowing his saliva, Xiao Guangwei didn't dare to hold it up any longer, and took three steps back to escape from the encirclement of the four Li family members. Seeing that the four family members did not catch up, Xiao Guangwei glared at Li Zhi and fled.
"Li Zhi, don't be arrogant, you wait!"
Li Zhi shouted at Xiao Guangwei, who was fleeing: "Let me see you pestering Cui He again, I will definitely beat you!" ”
Seeing Xiao Guangwei flee with his legs, Cui He giggled. She clapped her hands, her face flushed with excitement, and she was indescribably happy.
"Li Zhi is amazing! Chase away the flies! Patting Li Zhi on the shoulder, Cui He said affectionately: "You will be my shield in the future!" ”
"Shields?"
Li Zhi smiled faintly and didn't say much.
Seeing that Li Zhi didn't answer himself, Cui He asked again, "Where are you going when you go out?" ”
"I'll go to my textile factory."
Cui He's eyes widened and he said slowly: "I heard from my father that you built a big weaving mill and yarn factory and hired hundreds of people!" Li Zhi, why did you become so powerful all of a sudden? ”
Li Zhi smiled, and said lightly: "It's okay." ”
Cui He said curiously: "I haven't seen a big workshop with hundreds of people, Li Zhi, take me to have a look!" ”
Li Zhi looked at Cui He, nodded and said, "Go!" Take you to see the excitement! ”
Li Zhi took Cui He to the east city gate, walked out of the city gate for a quarter of an hour, and walked to the textile factory.
Seeing Li Zhi coming with Cui He, the four family members standing guard at the gate of the textile factory bowed down and hugged their fists and saluted, and this feeling of respect made Cui He excited again.
After entering the factory and seeing the busy scenes in each factory, Cui He asked, "Li Zhi, how much cotton can your factory produce in a month?" ”
"My factory can produce 15,000 pieces of cotton cloth every month!"
"How can 400 people produce so much cloth? I heard my mother say that it takes three or four days for a weaver to weave a piece of cloth. ”
"My loom is unusual, four times more efficient than a regular loom!"
"So powerful?"
After watching the weaving mill for a while, Li Zhi took Cui He to visit the yarn factory. The scene of the noisy machines in the yarn factory and busy spinning made Cui He full of curiosity, and asked again: "Li Zhi, why is your spinning machine covered with wooden boards and you can't see the structure inside?" ”
"The structure of the machine inside is my secret, of course no one can see it!"
"Then how many times the speed of your spinning machine is that of ordinary people."
"My spinning machine is five times more efficient than an ordinary spinning machine, and I can spin a load of fine cotton yarn in eight days." After a pause, Li Zhi said again: "Do you know the Li family fine cotton cloth in Dongjia Cloth Village, the fine cotton cloth is produced by my yarn factory and weaving mill, and it is very popular. ”
"Li Jiajingbu! I've heard of it! It's amazing, it's amazing! Is this the power of technology you talked about last time? ”
Hearing Li Zhi's words, Cui He clapped his hands excitedly, and there was some admiration in his eyes when he looked at Li Zhi.
"That's right, that's the power of technology!"
The two were talking, and a middle-aged female yarn worker next to Li Zhi looked up at Cui He and muttered, "Where did such a handsome girl come from, but she is worthy of our host!" ”
Hearing her bold words, the other female yarn workers also looked up at Cui He and said in a gossipy voice:
"A handsome girl indeed! It's one of the most beautiful in Tianjin! ”
"It's the best with our host!"
"The owner really has a vision!"
Hearing the explicit comments of the workers, Cui He was a little shy, and stood there with his head down. It took a long time before she had the courage to raise her head and sneak a glance at Li Zhi.
Unexpectedly, she saw Li Zhizheng winking at herself informally.
He was obviously secretly looking at him, but he winked at himself! What does Li Zhi mean, is he playing himself?
Cui He couldn't laugh anymore, she bit her lip, her little face suddenly turned blood-red, and she lowered her head all of a sudden.
Standing there silent for a while, Cui He lowered his head and walked outside the yarn factory.
Li Zhi hurriedly followed and asked, "Cui He, have you finished reading?" ”
Cui Hetou walked outside without looking back, and only replied: "After reading it, I'm going home!" ”
"I'll send you?"
Cui Yiyi stomped his feet and said angrily: "No! I'll go back with the maid by myself! ”
Seeing that Cui He was in a hurry to go home, Li Zhi smiled and no longer chased after him, but asked two family members to follow behind to escort Cui He.
Dong Zhiyi sold Li Zhi's Li Jiajing cloth to Beijing, Shandong, Henan, and even Jiangnan, and received praise in various places.
In the west of the capital, in the main hall of Wen Tiren's house, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, there are a few fine cloths of the Li family on the table. Wen Tiren and his wife Qin stood in front of the table, looking at the pieces of cloth carefully.
"Madam, you see, the warp and weft of this cloth are extremely fine, all of which are of average thickness, and there are no coarse pinch. Wenda told me, this Li Jiajing cloth only costs one or two, which is the same as ordinary cotton cloth, but it is much finer! This cloth is a huge seller! These fine cloths were all snapped up by Wenda! Clothes made of such cloth are very decent compared to coarse cloth. This cloth is also wide, and it saves sewing a thread to make clothes. It is much better to use this cloth to make summer clothes for the people than to use coarse cloth. ”
Qin Shi sighed and said, "You don't want the face of the prime minister, I also want the face of the lady!" Most of these dozen servants in our house have been with us for more than ten years, and some of them have been with you for four or five years, so you have found a few fine cotton cloths to send them, can't you buy a few silk to make clothes for them? ”
Wen Tiren smiled awkwardly, and said kindly: "Madam, I only have more than ten taels a month, but there are eight people in the family, where is the silver to make silk clothes for my subordinates?" ”
The Qin family was very dissatisfied when he heard this, and said: "I heard that the prime minister is a seven-rank official in front of the door, why are my maids and servants so unbearable?" Others are just a waiter, or a small one, the servants in the family are all freshly dressed and angry, you are a dignified prime minister, but let the servants wear cotton clothes, and you have to make other people's families laugh when you go out. When I met with those wives, others looked at me crampedly, and when they saw the shabby of my maid, they all looked down on me. ”
Wen Tiren heard his wife's complaints, so he could only say slowly: "Let Mrs. be wronged!" ”