Xu is skillful, has made a lot of clothes for his family, and is familiar with the details of all steps of making clothes. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 As soon as the shopkeeper of Info Buzhuang said this, she immediately understood the benefits, but she sighed about Li Zhi's ability. After thinking about it, she asked, "Shopkeeper, how much is this wide cloth?" ”

"This Li family cotton cloth is twice the width of ordinary cloth, and a long piece of cloth will be folded into two pieces and sold. After conversion, the price is the same as that of other cloths, one tael of silver. ”

"Can it be cheaper?"

"It's new, and it can't be cheaper. But if you sincerely want to buy it, I will sell you two cents less silver, and sell it to you for nine dollars and eight cents. ”

"Okay, I'll buy a foot and a foot!"

After buying the Li family's cotton cloth, Xu returned home, picked up scissors, needlework, and thread to make new clothes for his daughter who was going to get married. Sure enough, the wide cloth has more room for planning clothes when cutting, which saves a lot of leftovers for Xu's. And the wide cloth can directly cut out the front placket and back placket of the garment, which saves a stitch.

After making new clothes, Xu went to his daughter-in-law's house to shop for the dowry. The Lin family is middle-class, and the dowry is not rich, but it is by no means shabby, necklaces, basins and buckets, bedding, boxes and clothes. If the dowry is more, the daughter's life in the in-law's house will be better in the future, and the Xu family is not very economical.

Everything else is an ordinary thing, but Xu's clothes made of Li family's cotton cloth attracted the attention of his daughter's mother-in-law's family.

Lifting the pleated skirt and looking at it repeatedly, the daughter's aunt said with a smile: "This pleated skirt is so unusual, why is it not sewn up at the front placket and the back placket, only there is a stitch in the middle of the back, it is so beautiful." ”

Seeing that the future aunt praised her dowry, Xu's daughter was overjoyed and looked at her mother.

Xu walked up to his aunt and said neatly: "This is made of the Li family's wide cloth, and the front placket and back placket are connected together when they are cut, so naturally there is no need to sew a thread!" ”

"And such a cloth? Then from time to time, you don't need to sew two threads to make clothes, just sew only one thread on the back? ”

"Yes!"

"This Li family's wide cloth is really a good thing, where did you buy it?"

"I bought it in Dongjiabuzhuang."

"I'm going to buy a few feet to make clothes in a few days."

Li Zhi's wide cloth has all kinds of benefits, it is very popular in the market, and Dong Zhiyi, who collects cotton cloth, is also willing to buy Li Zhi's cotton cloth, and Li Zhi's wide cloth will not worry about sales. In total, the weaving mill can weave 7,500 pieces of cloth in a month, which is equivalent to 15,000 pieces of ordinary cloth. Li Zhi sold these fabrics to the Dong family at a price of nine yuan a horse, and after removing the cost of cotton yarn and labor expenses, the weaving workshop could bring Li Zhi a profit of more than 1,400 taels a month.

Although the weaving workshop is not as profitable as soap, it has also become an important part of Li Zhi's finances.

Coupled with the profit of 3,000 taels a month in the soap business, Li Zhi can now earn more than 4,400 taels a month. Even in Tianjinwei, where wealthy businessmen gather, Li Zhi is also a big industrialist.

If you have money, you must also have the strength to defend it, otherwise it is really a bad thing to have money. In order to deter the villains who coveted his own industry, Li Zhi recruited another 60 people to be sent to his family team. With the addition of more than 10 people originally recruited, Li Zhi already has more than 70 family members.

Li Zhi took a group of ten people and selected people with good martial arts skills from the first batch of ten families to serve as team leaders. Seven groups of households, two of which were stationed in soap workshops, were led by Zhong Feng. One group was stationed at Li Zhi's house, and Li Zhi directly managed it to protect Li Zhi's family property. The other four groups were stationed in the weaving workshop and were led by Li Laosi.

Li Zhi observed in the past few months and found that although Li Laosi came from a poor background, he was very loyal and reliable. Martial arts can be trained, but loyalty is rare. Moreover, Li Zhi plans to arm his family with firearms in the future, and for soldiers who use muskets and cannons, personal force is not very important. Li Zhi handed over the forty family members to Li Laosi, feeling relieved.

Li Laosi and Zhong Feng served as captains, and the monthly money naturally increased, and Li Zhi gave the two of them five taels and three taels a month respectively.

With such a high monthly money, Li Laosi is even more grateful to Li Zhi and works more diligently, lest he miss the monthly money that he is sorry for Li Zhi. Not long after Zhong Feng joined Li Zhi's team, he did not make meritorious contributions, and it was not appropriate to give too high a monthly fee, so he temporarily took three taels of silver as the captain.

These men took turns patrolling the weaving mill and training in their spare time. Li Zhi provided enough meat for the family, and the family did not lack protein, and the body became stronger and stronger the more they practiced. After a month of practice, the family members can basically hit five out of ten in the stabbing wood ball event.

When he was not stabbing in the column, Li Zhi asked these families to practice the queue and form a Spanish phalanx. The Spanish phalanx is a battle-tested queue battle method in this era, and Li Zhi will certainly use it. He had his men line up in two rows, following the pattern of the Spanish phalanx, with the first row stabbing the enemy to the right and the second row stabbing the enemy on the opposite side.

Li Zhi was very strict, requiring his family members to train dozens of people to be able to complete the attack and defense with a long stick or spear.

Li Laosi and Zhong Feng are very diligent and take the lead in hard training. Coupled with high salaries and benefits, these families practice very hard. It is estimated that after a few more months of training, these family members will be able to become excellent array fighters.

After finishing the expansion of the family team, Li Zhi began to make Jenny spinning machines.

In the history of later generations, with the advent of the shuttle loom, the efficiency of weaving has been greatly improved, and the demand for cotton yarn has exceeded the supply. Under these circumstances, the Englishman James Hargreaves invented a new spinning machine in 1764. Different from the original spinning machine, this spinning machine arranges the spindles vertically and drives them with a spinning wheel, which greatly improves the efficiency of spinning. Hargreaves named the new machine after his daughter, the world-famous Jenny spinning machine.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were also spinning machines with multiple spindles, but these machines still had spindles horizontally, and could only arrange five spindles at most. In fact, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the spinning machines of five spindles were not popularized, and more spinning machines on the market were four spindles.

As an industrial designer, Li Zhi certainly understands the construction principle of the spinning machine, and he can also do it with Jenny spinning machine. He used a wing room in his house as a laboratory, found a few blacksmiths and carpenters to build each part separately, and took Li Xing to assemble each part, and it took two days to make a twenty-spindle Jenny spinning machine.

This Jenny spinning machine is simple to make, but very clever in design. When spinning, as long as the operator turns the large runner of the spinning machine and drives the shaft, the shaft will rotate the spindle rod through the rope sleeve. After this step, a small reversal of the large runner turns it down again to remove the yarn from the spindle hook. Finally, put down the spindle pressure plate to make the spindle rotate coaxially with the spindle, and wind the yarn onto the spindle, which completes the whole process and spins the cotton into cotton yarn.