Lin Zhiyun did not bid according to the price quoted by the traveling merchant, the price she quoted for each horse was half of the cost, but the traveling merchant felt that the price she set was not very good.

"According to Mrs. Shen, the cost of this cloth is not high, so the price is nearly half cheaper than the cloth of similar quality. But if it really sells at the price set by the lady, it is not very good, and if you keep the price low, other cloth will not be able to see it. When I sell it, I will increase the price appropriately, for example, I sell this solid color for 200 Wen, dark pattern for 400 Wen, and for the color for 700 Wen, what does Mrs. Shen think? If it is less than the market price of 100 yuan, it is already very low for other merchants. ”

Lin Zhiyun hesitated a little and subconsciously looked at Shen Junchuan.

Shen Junchuan said with a smile: "I think the price agreed by You is okay, if it is several hundred Wen lower than the price of other cloth houses, we are afraid that our business will be collapsed by other cloth merchants before it is done." ”

Lin Zhiyun nodded: "Since that's the case, let's go according to the price of the traveling merchant." ”

"Great! I'll do the math on how much it's like to remove 20% of the profits. After calculating the price, the merchant directly settled the money at one time, and Lin Zhiyun suddenly had a few taels of silver in his hand.

Although it is not as profitable as embroidery, it is not as tiring as embroidery, and as long as the loom is sufficient, there are more people who can weave than embroider.

Lin Zhiyun gave the money to He and Shen Junyao, and the mother and daughter were suddenly happy again, especially He, she was not good at making silk flowers and tie the ropes, and now she finally found a job that could make her money, and she just wanted to sit in front of the loom every day.

However, to weave this kind of cloth, the method of spinning is the most important. This recipe taught her trustworthy people, and Lin Zhiyun only taught He and Shen Junyao, saying that when she found more people to weave, the three of them could only spin in their own houses every day.

Ho regretted it because she felt that weaving would be more profitable. But she also knew the priorities, so she obediently followed Lin Zhiyun to learn how to spin. When the three of them were spinning, Shen Junchuan also sat on the toilet and watched, and finally helped improve the spinning machine. Lin Zhiyun's eyes lit up, and he asked Shen Junchuan to carry the spinning machine to Carpenter Zhang's end.

Carpenter Zhang worked very hard to make looms, and in more than a month, he did all the quantities set by Lin Zhiyun. Just after finishing the loom, I saw Shen Junchuan come in with a spinning machine, and my heart became more and more happy.

The spinning machine that Lin Zhiyun bought before was already the best, and it could spin seven or eight threads at a time. As a result, Shen Junchuan changed it, and he could spin more than 20 threads at a time.

Carpenter Zhang was amazed when he saw it, and said with a smile: "I heard that there is a place in the imperial court called the Ministry of Industry, which is specifically responsible for making things. If Chuanzi becomes an official in the future, I think that place is the most suitable for you. ”

Shen Junchuan said with a smile: "If there is really a department that is only responsible for making things, I will naturally be willing to go, but the Ministry of Engineering is not so simple." ”

The Ministry of Industry has jurisdiction over various projects, craftsmen, tuntian, water conservancy, transportation, and other government decrees, and there are many of these things, and he does not dare to provoke them easily.

Carpenter Zhang smiled: "That's okay, anyway, as long as you become an official, are you afraid that these things that benefit the people can't be pushed out?" ”

As for launching Zhang Carpenter now, he didn't think about it, after all, the Shen family has been poor for so many years, and now he has started to make money with his own ability, so he has to make a little more money. When Shen Junchuan and his wife become rich, they will naturally drive Huaihua Village and Liushu Village to become rich, and when these two villages become rich, Shen Junchuan will have time to tell others about these improved things.

Lin Zhiyun was very grateful to Carpenter Zhang after knowing Carpenter Zhang's thoughts, and thought that after her Yunchuan Cloth Village was really running, she could let Carpenter Zhang make money on the improved loom and spinning machine. As long as the name of Yunchuan cloth spreads, these machines will definitely sell well, and they will also be able to improve the environment of the Zhang family at that time.

By mid-September, the places that should have been built were completed, and Lin Zhiyun chose an auspicious day for the zodiac to officially start school. She built three courtyards on that site, one for men and one for women, and one where the four masters lived. The male school is called Mengxue Hall, and the female school is called Anlitang, as for what the courtyard where the four masters live together should be called, Lin Zhiyun let them think about it for themselves. I think they're more happy to choose their own names.

"This Meng School is mainly a place for people to be enlightened, but the children of the Lin family and the Shen family, each family can choose one person to enroll, no need to be restrained, and paper and pen are all free. If there are many children in the family and want to send them to the school together, the extra people will have to hand over the bundles and buy paper and pencils. It's not just children, no matter how old they are, but anyone who wants to learn can come here. Lin Zhiyun explained to everyone, "As for this Anli Hall, it is a place for women to read and learn calligraphy. Since women don't need to take the imperial examination, as long as they can read and do arithmetic, they can learn one or two things that can make a living, as long as they can stand up, they can live a good life. I don't have many things, they are all related to female red, tying, weaving, embroidery, you can choose one you want to learn and tell me, and I will teach them one by one when the time comes. Female students are also the same as male students, each household chooses one person to bundle paper and pencil for free, and the extra money has to be paid. ”

Everyone was very excited when they heard this, although only one boy and one woman in each household can go to school for free, but according to the level of their families, they can't afford even one!

Who cares if a woman is illiterate when a son can't afford it? Most of the villagers think that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, so she doesn't care about whether her daughter can read and do arithmetic, but they care about Lin Zhiyun's ability in female popularity! Even if you only learn one or two, the rest of your life will be much better, so everyone has gone back to discuss who to send to school.

Lin Zhiyun originally ran this village school out of good intentions, but many families in the countryside have several children at home, and they often quarrel over who to send to school. And like the third uncle, who has several rooms and is not separated, they quarrel endlessly, and the result is that many families in the township have begun to split up during this time.

When Lin Qinghe's family knew about this, they still laughed at Lin Zhiyun behind their backs, saying that she couldn't wait to become fat in one go, but she didn't do anything.

"If there are several children in the family, the parents must have their own eccentricities. If you meet parents and uncles who have not yet separated, then there will be some debate about which house to send the children to school. She has the ability to take care of all the children in the village, otherwise it will definitely end up like this. Wang smiled.

Lin Luoxing also smiled: "Isn't it? I told her before that I was going to be a female teacher, but now that I think about it, I'm glad I didn't go, otherwise it wouldn't be a blessing for people, but a sin! Everyone says that everything is prosperous at home, but when she does this, several families in the village are out of harmony! ”

However, although there are many such families, there are even more harmonious families in the village, and if you don't want to send someone to school, you will draw lots. Lin Zhiyun also felt that it was strange for many people in the village to make trouble because of his relationship, so he asked the village chiefs of the two villages to gather everyone together and explained to them again.

"You don't have to quarrel about this, it's true that only one person in each family can study, but this one person can go back to teach his brothers and sisters after learning. The two schools decided that those who had already completed their studies could give this opportunity to the rest of the village. As long as you pass my assessment, you can go to work in my textile institute, and you will be paid every month. Therefore, on the women's school side, I think each family can send a sister-in-law to come, and if she can enter the textile institute at that time, she can make money to subsidize the family. ”

After Lin Zhiyun finished speaking, the people in the village cheered, they didn't expect that there would be such a good thing in this world. It's just that why have they never heard of this textile institute?

"What kind of place is the Textile Institute? What does it mainly do? ”

"The textile yard is built near my house, and there are twenty looms in it, and I want to open a cloth village, but I can't make it big by myself, so I always need helpers, right? Although there are only 20 looms now, if 20 sisters-in-law have completed their studies in my textile institute, we will soon be able to make money to buy more looms, and it is better that one person in each family can earn this money, so that all the villagers can have a happy life, right? ”

Everyone said yes again and again, and they looked forward to these two schools more and more. Soon, the candidates for each family were decided. Mengxue Hall is all children, the oldest is fifteen or sixteen years old, and the older ones feel that their lives are the life of digging in the field, anyway, so many people who don't know words are living well, and there is no need to know them later. But their son had a hopeful fight. If there is a mother-in-law in the family who can really go to the textile institute to make money, maybe in the future there will be money to send their son to study in the town.

Most of the women in Anritang were the most skillful women in the family, and there were no young girls. Although Lin Zhiyun was a little disappointed, he could understand it. Rather than making the little girl in the family literate, they naturally think that the woman in the family can make better money. Lin Zhiyun felt that this decision was not wrong, just like she didn't need those delicate little girls for the time being, but was anxious to find a group of people to help her work.

However, because these women are basically aiming to make money, when Mrs. Huang and Yang Feixu taught them to read and write, many of them were impetuous, and they couldn't learn at all. Mrs. Huang has never liked to deal with stupid people, and when she saw that many people had no intention of learning, she simply divided into two classes, and she only taught those women who really wanted to study.

Yang Feixu had a better temper, and she was also very helpless about this, so she found Lin Zhiyun and asked her to find a way to persuade those impetuous women, otherwise she was afraid that she would not be able to learn anything if she continued like this.