After a while, the chief housekeeper came to invite him, and Xiao Qi went to a nearby palace with the eldest princess Shangde.

Xiao Qi went in and circled around the machine, but he didn't see anything, so he simply ordered the eunuch: "Move and take a look." ”

The mule machine made by Zhao Ruxi is not powered by a mule, but by water power.

It is called a mule machine because its inventor, Crompton, was inspired by a mule to invent a spinning machine.

Mules are the product of the mating of horses and donkeys, but they are strong and powerful and do not get sick, and are superior to both horses and donkeys. Clopton combined the advantages of the Jenny spinning machine with the water-powered spinning machine to invent such a machine, so it was called a mule machine.

But now there is no water flow difference as a driving force, and it is not convenient to pull mules or horses in, for fear that the animal mouth will go crazy and hurt the emperor, so it is changed to manpower.

Listening to the emperor's command, two sturdy sedan chairmen immediately stepped forward to pull the pole to give power to the machine, and the eunuch assisted beside them, and when the machine was fully moving, they left and stood aside, leaving only two sedan chair drivers there to keep moving.

The appearance of hundreds of shuttles shuttling by themselves is still very good-looking, Xiao Qi looked at the rotating yarn blooming little by little, and more and more cotton threads were entangled, and the efficiency was extremely high, and he was also very amazed.

When Xiao Qi was the prince, he was required to be familiar with the crops, and he had seen the spinning machines used by ordinary people.

It was a wooden shelf like a wheel, and there was a shaking hand in the corresponding part, one hand pinched the thread, and the other hand cranked to spin cotton into thread. Whether the thread is fine and uniform is related to the craftsmanship of the weaver, and if the craftsmanship is not good, it will be thick and thin for a while, and the thread will often break.

Even if you are familiar with such a spinning wheel, you can't spin many threads in a day.

But now, just two strong men, plus one person who takes care of the operation of the spinning wheel, can spin so many threads at once, and those threads are still very thin and even.

This spinning machine is indeed a good thing.

However, remembering his sister's excited and exaggerated statement when she first entered the palace, he couldn't help but point to the two strong men and jokingly said, "You said you don't need people." Isn't this what a person is? ”

The eldest princess of Shangde rolled her eyes: "You can't run mules in this hall, so I have to call the sedan chair man to act as a mule as a power." If you have mules and these animals, you naturally don't need people. In fact, Zhiwei said, this textile machine does not even need animal power, as long as you find a place with high and low water flow, the impulse is larger, and the impulse of the water flow drives the mechanism, this machine can turn day and night, spinning continuously, labor-saving, fast and efficient. ”

"Zhiwei?" Xiao Qi wondered, "What does this thing have to do with that girl?" By the way, you haven't said it yet, where did this mechanism come from? Why hadn't I heard of it before? ”

"This mechanism was created by Zhiwei after half a year of research." The eldest princess said.

Xiao Qi was surprised, his eyes widened slightly, he looked at the eldest princess of Shangde, and immediately frowned: "Shangde, even if you like that girl very much, that girl has also won a lot of glory for your academy, but whoever does it is whoever does it, and you don't want to rob other people's things and press them on her head." If you mislead me, do you know the consequences? ”

As soon as she heard this, the eldest princess of Shangde was not happy.

Brother Huang not only doubts Zhao Ruxi's character, but also her character.

"I said, Brother Huang, can you not be suspicious at every turn? Which eye do you see us stealing someone else's stuff? How could I have misled you? In your eyes, my character is so unbearable? ”

"No, no, no."

Seeing her sister's fried hair, Xiao Qi hurriedly comforted her: "It's not that I don't believe you, it's really too unbelievable." The Ministry of Industry has raised a large group of skilled craftsmen. What the Ministry of Industry can't make, Zhao Zhiwei, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, no matter how smart she is, can't she create such a clever thing, right? It's not something you can make with just a smart brain. ”

The eldest princess of Shangde glanced at him: "How is it impossible?" Don't forget that the safe was also made up by her. You still get the dividends she gives you every month. Can your craftsman make a safe? ”

Xiao Qi: "......"

That's when he remembered it.

The safe is really made up by a knowing girl. I thought that I still put the safe at the door of Dali Temple, and called all the thieves and locksmiths in the city to open the cabinet, but no one could open the cabinet.

Because of this, the powerful families in the entire capital at that time were crazy about robbing the safe. Although the capital is now saturated, business has faded. He only received two or three thousand taels of silver in dividends in the past two months. But the people they have invested in have already made a lot of money.

And the ingenuity of the safe is praised even by the Ministry of Industry.

He still remembered that at that time, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry also joked that if Zhao Ruxi was a man, with her ingenuity, she could enter the Ministry of Industry.

This time, Xiao Qi also believed that Zhao Ruxi made this spinning machine for seven or eight points.

As for why there are still two or three points of disbelief, it is because he found that the girl is making a lot of trouble.

See, she created a novel school of drawing, and trained a large number of officials who painted portraits for the imperial court; She also fused Mr. Deadwood's painting method and sketching method to create her own unique painting style, and painted magnificent paintings that could be compared with national players, and became famous in painting competitions.

In terms of making money, this girl also has a hand. Not only did she mess with the safe, but she also opened a jewelry shop. The jewelry in the shop was designed by her hand, and the style was particularly novel, and people rushed to buy it at a sky-high price.

That's enough for people to work on that alone. Some people will never be able to achieve one of her achievements in their lifetime.

As a result, she still has the time and energy to study. I heard that she studied very well, and she was repeatedly praised by the great Confucian masters, and she also took the first place in the annual examination of the women's college.

He also specially asked someone to take it to look at the test paper, and the amount and type of questions in the test paper were similar to those in the county test. The girl made it all hard, there was no mistake, and the handwriting was very neat and beautiful. With this foundation, the county exam should not be a problem.

Now, when his sister came to tell him, he thought it was completely incredible that this girl was busy with all these things, and that she had the energy to tinker with the loom.

What a large group of skilled craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry couldn't develop was developed by a little girl in the after-dinner time, and it was not only improved a little bit, it was a completely subversive cognitive change. Is this girl still a person? Isn't it a monster?

Seeing that the imperial brother was stunned by his own question and didn't speak for a long time, the eldest princess of Shangde suddenly became proud.