The more he thought about it, the more Zhao Rui looked forward to the steam engine being completed earlier, so he thought about going to Wanya Prefecture to see the progress.

Zhao Gong knocked on the door and sent reports from various cities, especially saying: "Young master, when the fishermen of Anbang Prefecture were fishing in the open sea, they were repeatedly harassed by warships of other countries. not only snatched the catch, but also beat and scolded our fishermen at will. ”

"And this kind of thing? Do you know which country's warship it is? ”

Zhao Rui was stunned for a moment, thinking in his heart which unlucky guy this was, he was going to equip the ship gun, and there was nowhere to test, so he ran out at this juncture.

"I don't know for a moment, but the fishermen say that their boats are not clearly marked, or they may have been pirates, or people from the island nations to the south." Zhao Gong replied truthfully.

South Side Island......

It's a bit tricky, there are so many islands to the south, how can you know where the robbers are hiding.

Zhao Ruisi said for a moment: "You go to Wanya Prefecture, it is estimated that the boat cannon I asked Wei Lu to build last time should be completed, you will use the board car to carry it to Anbang Prefecture, and the textile affairs on my side will also be arranged, and then we will see you in Anbang Prefecture, I want to see, once our boat cannon is installed, who else dares to bully the fishermen!" ”

"Yes, young master, I'll do it right away!"

Knowing that Zhao Rui couldn't tolerate his own people being bullied, Zhao Gong hurriedly took people to prepare horses and went to Wanya Prefecture.

In the past two days, the textile machine is in the process of being assembled, and the water conservancy plant has been built, just waiting for a large number of textile machines to be installed, and the yarn can be produced.

Previously, because the speed of the loom was too fast, Zhao Rui's yarn reserves were greatly insufficient, and later even employed people to process yarn day and night.

However, as long as the loom is assembled, Zhao Rui can take the people in the territory out of this boring labor and free their hands to do other things that should be done. With Huang Xiu's joining, Zhao Rui is full of confidence, thinking that she is a technical master in the textile industry in this era, after her arrangement and debugging, and with the assistance of drawings, there must be no problem.

When there was still a long way to go from Shuili Textile Factory, Zhao Rui's eyes were sharp, and he immediately noticed the abnormality, and watched from a distance as two people stepped on the shoulders of the other, looking inside through the window.

These two people are not good birds, and after three hundred years, machine weaving will also belong to high-tech and absolute secrecy, how can it be seen by others! Zhao Rui controlled the footsteps and quickly approached the two.

The windows are designed to be higher, on the one hand, to prevent dust, and on the other hand, to prevent others from seeing what it looks like.

"Hey! What the hell! ”

Zhao Rui had already arrived behind the two of them and yelled!

The man above was frightened and distracted, so he was a little unstable, and the man below was also frightened and his legs were weak, and the two of them grunted and fell to the ground at the same time.

Zhao Rui also saw the appearance of the two at this time, they were both dressed in shorts and shorts, and the fabric on their bodies had strange patterns, not like the cloth produced in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Both of them are lean and dark-skinned, and they really look like cotoed people.

The people in the factory heard the sound and came out, the mother and daughter of the Lin family, Huang Xiu, and a group of workers, they were all rolling up their sleeves, presumably assembling the machine inside.

"Brother Zhao!" Lin Mengyao's surprised and sweet voice sounded, and everyone else bowed their heads to Zhao Rui.

"Brother Zhao, what's the matter, who are they?" Lin Mengyao didn't recognize the two people, and asked strangely.

"I guess I'm here to peep, but it's hard to say whether it's to see the machine or you women, you go back first, and I'll take it to interrogation!"

"Ah......h

When all the women heard this, they all felt panicked, thinking that they must be two lewd thieves, but fortunately the prince arrived in time, otherwise they would probably be in danger.

So under Zhao Rui's comfort, Lin Mengyao and the others returned to the factory and continued to be busy. However, Zhao Rui vaguely heard Lin Mu say that she would weave some gauze curtains to block the window.

"Get up and follow me!"

The two glanced at each other, quickly stood up, and said to Zhao Rui with a smile with white teeth: "My lord, we are not looking at those ladies, or we heard that the weaving here is very good, so we want to come here to learn." ”

Hearing one of them speak, Zhao Rui immediately understood that they were not Jiaozhi people, because Jiaozhi people used to be Chinese territory, so they spoke Chinese very slippery, and they were not only very stiff, but also had a strange accent.

"I prefer you to come to see women, come with me! Talk as you go! ”

Just now it was just a joke, these two people took it seriously in their hearts, and explained that they were looking at textiles, you must know that Zhao Rui's most taboo now is the leakage of prevention and control technology, and the two of them just happened to hit the gun.

So Zhao Rui thought about bringing the two of them to the palace, so as not to talk here and distract the people inside from assembling the machine.

"Where are you from, and how do you know that I am good at weaving here?"

The two looked at other people's attitudes towards Zhao Rui, and also guessed that Zhao Rui was a big man, so they replied respectfully: "Lord Hui, the two of us are Mayi people, and we also produce cloth there, of course, it is not comparable to that of the Song Dynasty, but the cloth held by the people of Zhancheng is much better than that of the Song Dynasty, so we came to take a look and see if we can learn something." ”

It turned out to be a Filipino? Came so far?

However, Zhao Rui is still a little puzzled, it stands to reason that now the people of Zhancheng take goods from here and sell them at a high price, and they should not disclose the place of origin, otherwise people from all over the world will come to buy goods from themselves, and they will not be able to make money.

Li Fulin wouldn't do this, could it be that their sailors accidentally said that they showed their mouths?

It's a good thing that other countries know it, Zhao Rui doesn't care, he originally planned to send cloth to other countries in the future, and he has to hype it up.

It's just that the output has not been particularly increased yet, so the people of Zhancheng have been able to take advantage of it for a while.

Zhao Rui wanted to clean them up, but the two of them said so frankly that they wanted to learn textile technology, which was a little inconvenient, but they still had to let them understand that technology could not be taught.

"The technology we use in textile is confidential, and we will rely on it to make money in the future, and we must not be able to teach you, I advise you to also die, don't peek again, otherwise the next time you find out, the consequences will be extremely serious." But if you want to buy fabric, I can give you the first batch cheaper. ”

I see......

The two looked at each other silently.

"Thank you for your forgiveness, we know, as for the procurement, we have to go back and discuss it with the leader before we can decide."

"Chief? What can a leader do? ”

Zhao Rui asked strangely: "Do you have a king, what about the emperor?" ”

The two shook their heads when they heard this, and Zhao Rui was stunned for a moment before he suddenly realized, remembering that Southeast Asia was not established as a country for the first time until the 14th century. The current Mayi may be a place name, but they are just a large tribal form.

"But you are also guests when you come from afar, come with me to eat, by the way, Dabaocheng is so far away, it is not easy to come here, where did you land ashore?"

The two looked at Zhao Rui cautiously without any unusual expression, and then said hesitantly: "It's from Anbang Prefecture." ”

"Oh, that's great, I just so have to go to Ampang in a while, let's go on the road together."

Zhao Rui took the two back to the palace to settle down, and provided them with food, Zhao Rui then returned to the water conservancy spinning factory to check the situation, as soon as Zhao Rui left, the two of them couldn't sit still, but there were many guards in the palace, and they didn't dare to act rashly.

When Zhao Rui arrived at the textile factory, the machine here had been assembled, and the scale was about the same as that of the loom, but the spinning of the textile machine was more, so it looked dense, and the room was more crowded.

After Huang Xiu checked it twice, he said to everyone: "No problem, you can connect the water wheel!" ”

The others, including the mother and daughter of the Lin family, had been waiting impatiently for a long time, and it happened that Zhao Rui came, so they asked Zhao Rui to pull the mechanism connecting the waterwheel.

Zhao Rui smiled and agreed, and when he arrived at the bottom of the waterfall, there were already two craftsmen waiting there, and when he saw Zhao Rui coming, after saluting, he handed over the wooden stick that pulled the mechanism.

Zhao Rui waved his hand, signaling that he didn't need this, and then pulled the buckle with his bare hands, clicked, and firmly locked it on the running waterwheel.

Originally, the waterwheel was running at a fast speed, but after the rotation shaft was put on, the speed of the waterwheel was visibly reduced, followed by the sound of machinery running in the plant.

The women outside the door all ran in to check the situation, and Zhao Rui also ran into the house.

"Squeak Squeak ......"

Countless spindles slowly rotated, and the sound of wooden materials rubbing against each other was heard.

Huang Xiu and the mother and daughter of the Lin family ran back and forth in the factory, looking around, and the smiles on their faces became stronger and stronger.

"It's done, it's finally done! Ha ha! Brother Zhao, we succeeded! ”

Lin Mengyao was like a happy bird, shouting and laughing, and was about to pounce into Zhao Rui's arms, but before she got closer, she thought that there were so many people watching next to her, so she suddenly stopped, smiled at Zhao Rui, and made a cute grimace.

After all the hardships, the textile factory was finally completed, Zhao Rui was very pleased, and the countless efforts were not in vain, so that Zhao Rui finally completed the water conservancy of the textile.

But Zhao Rui knew that there was still a long way to go for automation in the future, so he told Huang Xiu about his views, such as the process of squeezing cotton, loosening it, and wiping it into long strips before spinning, which also requires machinery.

Huang Xiu nodded, agreeing with Zhao Rui's opinion, because those books recorded the principles of various machines in detail, and now the rest is time and a lot of experiments to make it, Zhao Rui also believed in Huang Xiu's ability, so he handed over the burden of design to her, and let the mother and daughter of the Lin family be her deputy.

The mother and daughter of the Lin family obviously have no opinions, this Huang Xiu has a calm and unassuming personality, the three of them have always gotten along well, originally Zhao Rui also wanted to give Huang Xiu a big mansion, but Huang Xiu also refused, saying that it was good to live with the Lin family, and they also took care of each other.