In other words, the opening of the Rixinglong business is such a big thing, why didn't Zhu Cijiong, as the big boss behind the scenes, appear? In fact, he came, but he didn't come blatantly, but mixed with Qin Mingyue in the team of Qin Liangyu, the commander of the Beijing camp, and secretly ran over, people were terrible, he didn't want to impeach and fly all over the sky.

At this time, our little emperor Zhu Cijiong is being led by the beautiful Qin Mingyue to linger in the women's dependency area.

The women's area is a shopping area designed by Zhu Cijiong according to the style of the large-scale clothing market in the previous life, that is, a side hall of several hundred square meters is decorated, and the door is a wide passage, and on both sides of the passage are two rows of small single rooms without doors separated by wooden boards, which are respectively placed with rouge gouache, silk and satin, gold and silver jewelry, underwear belly pockets and other women's special items. As long as you take a walk around it, you can basically buy all the things used by women in this era.

Women love to go shopping by nature, needless to say modern women, you ask her to take a walk together, I'm sorry, I don't have any strength at all; If you ask her to go shopping with you, then I'm even more sorry, she can go shopping until your feet cramp. Ancient women also wanted to visit, but the problem was that there was no street for them to shop, at that time, we paid attention to three from four virtues, and everyone was not out of the door, but they were not allowed to show up.

Now with this women's area it is different, the side hall is independent and not connected to other places; The sedan chair can be carried directly to the door, eliminating the possibility of showing up; It was full of women, even the clerks were women, and men were forbidden to enter, so there was no possibility of immorality. Now everyone has nothing to say, the ladies can also go shopping, what official wives, what three wives and four concubines also have a place to let off.

Therefore, as soon as the women's area opened, it was full, and there were fragrant breezes inside, beautiful women like clouds, warblers and swallows, and it was very lively, and our little emperor Zhu Cijiong was proud of the spring breeze inside, and his face was flushed.

As for why this face is flushed, of course it's not because he's in heat, he hasn't reached the season of estrus yet. It's because he's so handsome, and from time to time, a wife, a young lady or something can't help but come over and pinch his face, and say in a flowery voice: "Oh, whose little boy is this, so cute!" ”

Naturally, he can't say whose little son he is, and if he wants to say it, it is estimated that pinching his face will at least paralyze him on the ground.

Whenever this time, Qin Mingyue would look at him with a worried face, it would be terrible if the emperor went crazy, but she was really reluctant to go, such a fun place, she had never seen it in her life, wouldn't it be a pity if she didn't visit all the small shops inside.

Fortunately, our little emperor is a modern person, and he doesn't take respect for humility so much, pinch it, pinch it, if he is pinched by the official's wife, he will be bitten by a dog; If it was pinched by a beautiful woman, he would pounce on it and bite the beauty, biting back and forth, and having fun.

Biting and biting, he suddenly saw a little girl carved in pink, about five or six years old, looking like a little fairy, holding a small piece of pink cloth, following her mother and looking around curiously.

What a cute little goddess, do you want to take the initiative to pounce on it and take a bite?

When Zhu Cijiong was hesitating, Qin Mingyue happened to glance at him, and when she saw him standing there in a daze, she couldn't help but follow his gaze. When she saw the little girl, she finally understood why the emperor was in a daze, she smiled knowingly, and then lowered her head and said in Zhu Cijiong's ear: "Your Majesty, have you taken a fancy to this little girl?" Why don't you recruit her into the palace to play with you? ”

Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this, what are you playing, I can't play anything now, or you are such a big beauty as I would have been eaten by me earlier! In order to get out of the predicament, our little emperor shamelessly diverted the topic and said: "What kind of material is that piece of cloth in her hand, so beautiful?" ”

Qin Mingyue looked at his funny appearance, and couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing: "That's silk, it's naturally beautiful, don't look at such a small piece, it will take several days to weave it." ”

How many days do you want to knit? Just kidding! Look at the cloth in the little girl's hand, it is only more than a meter long to die, how many days does it take to weave? Is it so exaggerated? Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but ask curiously: "That piece of cloth is only three or four feet, how many days do you want to weave?" ”

Qin Mingyue commented like a connoisseur: "If a piece of cotton cloth is estimated to be woven in a day, it is impossible to weave silk, so fine, it is good to be able to weave a foot a day." ”

Cotton cloth can only be woven for more than one meter a day, and silk can't be woven for half a meter a day! Zhu Cijiong suddenly had a flash of inspiration, he was not very clear about the principle of the ancient loom, but he had seen the epoch-making invention of the industrial revolution in the book: the flying shuttle loom, it was the invention of the flying shuttle loom that sounded the horn of the industrial revolution, and since then various new technologies have begun to be applied to production, and the level of human productivity has achieved a qualitative leap.

The shuttle loom is actually improved on the basis of the old-fashioned pedal loom, and the rest of the place is basically the same as the pedal loom, the only improvement is that the shuttle is used horizontally to replace the manual wooden shuttle. This shuttle is also very simple, just add a pulley at each end of the shuttle, wear a yarn on each pulley, and then use a chute on both sides of the loom to pull the yarn, the shuttle will shuttle back and forth between the longitudinal crossed yarns, fast and flying, so it is called a shuttle, and the efficiency can be increased by five to ten times compared with manual shuttle!

The price of handmade products is about half of the materials, and the efficiency is increased by five to ten times, that is, the manual display is only one-fifth to one-tenth of the original, which is equivalent to reducing the total cost by about one-third.

Commercial activities are nothing more than revolving around human beings' clothing, food, housing and transportation, and this 'clothing' is in the first place, and if this market can be monopolized, the money earned is simply incalculable.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cijiong began to think about the problem of manufacturing a shuttle loom. He didn't know how to arrange the dense lines in the longitudinal direction and how to cross them. It doesn't matter, these are the mechanisms on the old-fashioned pedal loom, he doesn't know that naturally someone knows, he just needs to know how to use a shuttle instead of manual transverse threading.

Zhu Cijiong was in a hurry to go back and talk to someone about the shuttle loom, but Qin Mingyue was not in a hurry, he had to stay with him and continue to 'bite and bite'.

They came over at noon, and it was not until the afternoon that Qin Mingyue reluctantly left Rixinglong, in fact, she didn't buy anything, she bought a few pieces of fabric, and prepared to make a few new clothes for herself and the emperor, which shows that this 'clothes' is indeed the first problem that human beings subconsciously consider.

Seeing Qin Mingyue's performance, Zhu Cijiong's idea of making a shuttle loom became even stronger, and as soon as he returned to the palace, he invited Xu Guangqi, Bi Maokang and other cronies to meet him overnight to see if any of them knew more about pedal looms.

Not to mention, there are really people in his group of cronies who know this thing, Song Yingxing introduced the pedal loom in detail in "Tiangong Kaiwu", and he is naturally very familiar with the principle of this loom. As soon as Zhu Cijiong talked about the structure of the shuttle, Song Yingxing immediately knew what was going on, and couldn't help but worship: "The emperor is really a god descending from the earth, and such a delicate thing can be thought of!" ”

Zhu Cijiong has been pretending to be a god for a long time, and after listening to Song Yingxing's praise, not only did he not blush, but he also thought happily in his heart: "Isn't this crossing similar to the gods descending to earth, buddies have crossed over from the future, and the immortals may not know more than me!" ”

Within a few days, Song Yingxing made the prototype of the shuttle loom, and he couldn't help but invite Zhu Cijiong to go to Wang Gong's factory to see the weaving speed of the shuttle loom. Zhu Cijiong readily agreed, but with the experience of Rixinglong's micro-service visit, he didn't want to move the people in Xingshi, and the people were ruined, so he directly took Qin Mingyue and Cao Huachun, and ordered ten masters in the big house, so he drove and followed simply, and secretly came to Wang Gong's factory.

Song Yingxing went into battle in person again, and he excitedly introduced the difference between the shuttle loom and the original pedal loom while stepping on the pedal loom.

The first difference is that it can weave wide cloth, the old-fashioned loom can generally only weave about three feet of cloth, that is, about one meter wide cloth, because the human hand is only so long, and then the width can not reach the two ends, two people have to cooperate to throw the shuttle back and forth, plus a pedal person, three people weave a piece of cloth The efficiency is too low, so the cloth woven by the old-fashioned loom is generally less than three feet, and then the width of the labor is not cost-effective.

Now it's different, with the shuttle, no matter how wide you are, it's the same, as long as the gears on both sides are enlarged, the horizontal yarn is a pedal thing anyway, no matter how wide the cloth, the shuttle will fly over with a "whoosh".

Then the original beating Song Yingxing has also improved, beating is a special noun, which means that after the horizontal yarn passes through the longitudinal cross yarn, you need to use a comb-like grate to press the yarn that has just been worn a few times, so that the cloth becomes tight, otherwise the woven cloth is loose and loose, like a screen, it can't make clothes.

Song Yingxing's improvement is very simple, that is, a piston is also installed on the grate of beating the weft, as long as the foot switch is stepped on, the "snap" will be tightened, and the foot will be loosened again, and the grate will return to its original position.

In the end, the efficiency of weaving is naturally greatly improved, and the original weaving needs to be skillfully operated, and the backache will be tired after two or three hours of continuous weaving, so the efficiency is particularly low. Now it's different, just teach him to wear yarn, step on the four pedals in turn, and the cloth will be woven, very easy, sitting there and stepping on the back pain that will not be tired for a day, and the efficiency is more than five times faster than the skilled hands who weave cloth with an old-fashioned foot loom!