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"Let youth blow your long hair, let it pull your dreams, unconsciously the history of this city has remembered your smile, the blue sky in the red heart is the beginning of life, the spring rain sleepless overnight you have been empty and sleepy days............" Yang Yi hummed a song and walked into his own big character courtyard;

I didn't see Thirteen Niang and the others in the front yard, so I continued to walk around the backyard, and I was halfway there, but I still didn't see one.

He counted in his heart, Thirteen Niang, Qing Niang, Han Bier, Li Xiangxian, Qin Cao, Mu Wanling, Adella, Zhenzi, plus Li Fang and Li Zi, the twin sisters, there are ten wives and concubines in the family, why haven't you seen any of them today? It seems that it is still too little!

To be honest, as a man, very few people think that they have many wives and concubines, in this Tokyo city, where there are some powerful people, who is not a group of wives and concubines?

Some people don't need a table to eat, a beautiful woman carries a dish, dances in front of her, you just need to look at what you want to eat, and the delicacies will naturally be delivered to your mouth;

Of course, if you don't want to eat food, if you want to eat something else, the same look is enough.

There are dozens, or even hundreds of women in the family, and in terms of Yang Yiquan's world-class family, ten women are still few.

At least the Yang family feels that it is less, and she hopes that the Yang family can also flourish like the Su family and form a family for a lifetime.

Su Song had fifteen or six wives and concubines, seventeen sons and thirteen daughters, and there were now thirty or forty grandchildren.

It just so happens that Thirty Niang is the housewife of the Yang family, and the Yang family will inevitably compare the Yang family with the Su family, which is not better. As soon as he compares to the Yang family, he can't help but sigh, and he thinks that Yang Yi's concubine has less room.

This year. Whether or not to have children is a woman's problem, so Yang feels that there are more concubines. This one does not give birth to that one, and only in this way can the Yang family become flourishing.

Yang Yi often feels funny about this, if you look at Yang's idea from the perspective of later generations, it will feel a little ridiculous, but it is normal in this era, when it comes to the emperor, if you favor a woman, resulting in a scarcity of heirs, the courtiers will spit on the emperor's face: how can you do this. How can you not be lucky enough for a few women, you are ignoring the safety of the country's society!

This kind of thinking naturally influenced the people, and it is normal for Yang to hope that Yang Yi will marry more women and have more children.

Yang Yi turned half of the backyard and didn't see a woman of his own, so he thought of these ridiculous questions in his heart.

The backyard was too big, and he became a little impatient halfway through, and saw two pretty maids wiping the railings on both sides of the corridor. He asked from afar, "You two, do you know where Madame and the others have gone?" ”

There were no less than 100 girls in the backyard, and Yang Yi couldn't even remember all their names, so the two pretty girls replied, "Go back to the master." Madame, they are all in the small courtyard in the right wing. ”

When they answered, they quietly glanced at Yang Yi, and there was a little shame in their eyes, which made Yang Yi embarrassed. He naturally knew what it meant with this kind of look, and there was a woman pregnant. I've seen a lot in this backyard, who let him be the only man in this backyard. And so handsome, so good...... Vomit......

Hearing that the accents of the two were a little stiff, Yang Yi asked curiously, "Where are you from?" ”

"Back to the master, both of them are Koreans."

In the Tang Dynasty, Silla maids were very popular, and there was a common saying of "Kunlun slaves, Silla maids".

Now the wealthy families of the Great Song Dynasty still like to buy Korean women to make Yahuan the most, followed by Japanese women, and the women on the Annam side are also quite popular;

The women in these three places are more obedient and docile, but after changing into Hanfu, they are basically the same as the Han people, so some people who like exotic customs will also choose women from the Western Regions as concubines and maids.

The current Great Song Dynasty is the most prosperous place in the world, and it is also the most desirable place for people from all over the world, so not all the women from all countries were forcibly sold, and a large part of them came to the Great Song Dynasty voluntarily.

Just as many Chinese in later generations went to foreign countries to wash dishes and wash toilets, it also felt very honorable, and now people from all over the world regard Dasong as a paradise, and for these women, it is also an honor to come to Dasong to be a maid, at least in material life a hundred times better than their original one.

Think about it, Zhenzi is a princess of a country, and when she first arrived in Tokyo City, she was like entering the Grand View Garden with Grandma Liu, like these foreign women living in the lower classes, let alone when they come to Tokyo, it is not too much to describe their feelings from hell to heaven.

Since the first year of Shaosheng, the Great Song Dynasty has reformed its internal government and expanded its territory, and the people's lives have become better and better, which will inevitably lead to the fact that there are fewer sources of slaves and maids.

Just like the Xu Er family in Xujia Village, it turned out that one of them had a natural disaster, and the brother and sister were likely to have to sell themselves into slavery, but now the Xu family will not only not become slaves, but on the contrary, they also want to buy two slaves and maids to serve their parents and live a living.

The source of this slave and maid is less, and the demand has increased, to make up for this gap, it can only focus on the surrounding countries, there is a market where there is demand, and now the population that pours into the Great Song Dynasty through various channels every year is incalculable, even so, it is still in short supply.

Yang Yi walked towards the small courtyard in the left wing, and thought in his heart, should he also let the West India Trading Company go to Africa to sell people, it is said that this is a very profitable business, well, he seems to be getting more and more evil, let's talk about this.

Came to the small courtyard on the right side, that is, "Su's Studio", it was lively, in addition to the big-bellied piano exercises, the women in the family are here, the group of female porridge in the courtyard, the sound of the warbler and the swallow language, it is really a beautiful scenery.

Each of these women is a stunning beauty who has captivated the country and the city, which is no exaggeration, because most of Yang Yi's women are picked out by one country, Zhenzi is selected from Japan, Adella is selected from Gaochang country, Mu Wanling is selected from Dali country, and the Li sisters are selected from Jiaozhi country, one in a million, if it is not the best in the world, how can it enter the vision of Yang Daguan?

They were talking curiously about a few things, and Zhenzi said in amazement: "Just these three things." Will the master sell 500,000 yuan? It's unbelievable. ”

As soon as Yang Yi heard Zhenzi's words, he guessed what they were surrounding about.

He stepped forward quickly and squeezed in. He saw three objects on the ground, and he knew the cotton bow. There are two other things, which he can roughly guess from the appearance, that is, the cotton tie machine and the spinning wheel;

Han Bi'er took care of everything, and it was these three things that she rushed back, and when she saw Yang Yi, she couldn't help but smile and said: "Master, the slave lives up to the trust and wants these three things back." Look, yes. ”

"Well, Bi'er has worked hard, but I've only seen these things before, and everything else is hearsay, and I really haven't seen the real thing."

Yang Yi said curiously and leaned over to the cotton machine to watch, in fact, the reason why cotton is difficult to process is mainly because the cotton in the cotton is difficult to remove. If you try to peel the cotton boy out of the middle of the cotton by hand, it is extremely laborious and time-consuming, and one person cannot peel much in a day;

Another difficulty is that before the cotton bow, people didn't know how to make the cotton fluffy. If you don't fluff up the cotton, it's hard to spin the thread, and you can't make a quilt.

Yang Yi only glanced at the cotton tie machine, and couldn't help but slap his forehead. Because this thing is so simple, no wonder Zhenzi said that it is unbelievable that such a thing sells for 500,000 yuan.

Truly. The cost of this cotton tie machine on the ground will never exceed 20 yuan. And you don't need a professional carpenter, you can easily copy it if you are a normal person.

Underneath it is a base frame made of two pieces of wood. In the middle of the base frame are two arm-thick wooden stakes, one man high, on which two round shafts are mounted horizontally, and a "Z" shaped crank is attached to the outside of the round shaft.

Shake these two round shafts to let the cotton pass between the two round shafts, and use the extrusion force of the two axes to squeeze the cotton out of the cotton.

There is a baffle plate under the two round shafts, and the cotton falls to the back after passing through the two round shafts, and the cotton boy that is squeezed out falls on the other side of the baffle, which can avoid repeated doping of cotton cotton boys.

It works like a dough pin, except that the dough pin interacts with the tabletop, and this cotton tie machine is two shafts that interact, and when the cotton passes, it is squeezed flat by the two round shafts like a dough, and the cotton is squeezed out in this way.

Yang Yi also sighed with emotion when he saw it, no one in the entire Great Song Dynasty figured out such a simple thing, I really don't know how to say it.

He said to Zhenzi: "This thing is very simple, but it doesn't mean that it is not worth 500,000 yuan, before it appeared, no one knew that it could be so easy to take out the cotton boy, and measure the value of a thing, not because of its simplicity or complexity, but because of the value it creates." ”

Yang Yi's words were firmly supported by Thirteen Niang, and she immediately said: "Official, you see, the concubine thinks that this cotton tie machine can be improved, and now it needs two people to operate, one stands on the side, and each shakes a round shaft;

The concubine pondered for a while, and felt that the round shaft could be slightly improved, and changed to a way of turning with a foot pedal, so that a person could operate, and it was much less labor-saving to rotate with a foot pedal, and the two hands could be free to stuff cotton, and the speed of tying up cotton must be much faster. ”

Thirteen Niang is worthy of being a female scientist of the Yang family, and this cotton cart is placed here, and it is estimated that only she will figure out how to improve it.

As soon as Yang Yi heard it, she knew that her idea was feasible, don't underestimate this small improvement, this can allow one to do the work of two people, in the future, the West Indian Ocean Trading Company will build a cotton factory, and if it is supposed to hire 10,000 workers, after such an improvement by Thirteen Niang, it will be enough to hire 5,000 workers;

This will save half the cost of the mill, and it is difficult to calculate how much money can be saved over the years.

This is the revolutionary change brought about by technological innovation, Yang Yi immediately thought that in the future, an invention award should be set up to encourage the creativity of the people.

Of course, a trading company should set up a specialized scientific research institute, and give them some ideas to develop and develop, and with the financial resources of the trading company as the backing, sooner or later this institution can become the integration and generation place of the world's most advanced technology.

Having the most advanced technology in your hands is the hard way.

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(To be continued.) )