That night, a carpenter secretly went out of the city to a post station outside the city.

A footman met him at the base of the wall and sneered, "What's wrong?"

The carpenter hesitated, gritted his teeth, and said, "I have a message to sell to you, guaranteeing that you will be useful." ”

The merchant was curious, "What's the news?"

The carpenter said, "You have to give a thousand taels, and you have to send our family out of Qingyang County." ”

The merchant frowned and said, "One thousand taels is too expensive." ”

The carpenter laughed and said: "This news will definitely make Chu Qiguang die without a place to be buried, and it is not certain that the Wu family will go bankrupt." If you sell it to you for a thousand taels, you are considered lucky. ”

Meow~~

Just as the two were talking, a cat meow sounded, startling them and looking up...... But it was a white cat watching them faintly.

This is Chu Qiguang who arranged for the cat demon to monitor the craftsmen in the workshop.

......

That night, the body of the footman was transported to the dock and sunk to the bottom of the river.

Bai Mi looked at his head that was slowly submerged by the river, opened his mouth and yawned: "After sinking, let's disperse." ”

A group of cat demons followed behind him scattered in all directions.

Soon after, with a cooing sound, a fluffy head with two ears came to the surface......

On the same night, there was a monster in the workshop.

The craftsmen were woken up by the screams of the night, and they followed the sound to find that the carpenter had become a half-man, half-demon.

That misshapen, strange face came to their minds every late night, making them tremble.

Afterwards, there was a legend that the carpenter was thinking of selling the workshop, and he was punished by Xuanyuan Daozun.

Originally, after the craftsmen passed the exorcism ritual of the Taoist temple and the Heavenly Demon Foundation Building Method, they thought it was the manifestation of Xuanyuan Daozun.

This time, the carpenter's demonization greatly stimulated them, and no one dared to think about betraying the workshop, and even for the next period of time...... The work efficiency has been greatly improved.

At the same time, under the tandem of the Wu family and the Taoist temple, all the squires and eunuchs and wealthy families in the county received invitations to participate in a general meeting of the Wu family ten days later.

......

Liyang County, in the Chen family's textile workshop.

A master pointed to the fabric in front of him and said proudly: "This double-sided embroidery is the ancestral kung fu of our Su family, even in Jiangnan, there are not even five fingers that can embroider this unicorn treasure map." Even it took me half a year to complete. ”

Chen Yuebai looked at the embroidery work in front of him and nodded with satisfaction.

During this period of time, the Chen family, with their wealth, almost pressed the Wu family's face all the way in the cotton market, and almost received most of the cotton accumulated in the hands of the cotton merchants, leaving only a small half to the Wu family.

Chen Yuebai secretly said in his heart: "It cost almost 50,000 taels of silver just to harvest cotton, but the Wu family spent not much less than us. Hmph, just this moment, almost squeezed their capital out, how can they fight with us next?"

In addition to harvesting cotton, the Chen family also recruited a large number of people from the Jiangnan area.

For example, the double-sided embroidery master in front of him is one of the masters specially invited by the Chen family from Jiangnan.

In addition to them, the Chen family also specially imported the latest pedal spinning wheels and hand-cranked looms from Jiangnan, and also invited local craftsmen to innovate in combination with the northern environment.

Chen Yuebai followed a master craftsman to a cellar ꓹ Looking at the master craftsman who was debugging the loom inside Listening to the master craftsman say: "The climate in the north is dry, and the cotton wool is intermittent, so it can't be made into strands, although it can be made into cloth, but the quality is not good. ”

"In the past few months, we have studied repeatedly, and finally made a cellar, several feet deep, and made a window to let in the daylight, and people lived in it. As far as the wetland is concerned, it has to be tight, no different from the southern soil. ”

While speaking, the craftsman picked up a piece of cloth and said: "Childe, please see, this cloth is dense and fine white, the cloth is wide, the clothing is durable, and the dyeing is also good, and it is not under the Jiangnan Zhongpin cloth." ”

Chen Yuebai nodded with satisfaction, with the new pedal spinning wheel, handloom and skilled workers recruited by Jiangnan, the quality and quantity of weaving cloth have been improved, but the labor cost has been cheaper, and the total cost has been reduced.

"When the time comes, we can sell as much as the Wu family sells, and we can sell it cheaper than him. The more cotton they bought, the more they lost. If you don't want to smash the cotton harvested in your hands, you can only come to us. ”

"When the Wu family is killed, who does cotton weaving in Beiyue Mansion does not take our Chen family as the leader, and when the mutual market opens, it will be a daily gold. ”

"Although it cost more than 100,000 taels of silver back and forth, it was all worth it. ”

Thinking of this, Chen Yuebai couldn't help laughing. At this moment, the little guy in the distance ran over and said something.

Chen Yuebai frowned, looked at the craftsman on the side and said, "Then Chu Qiguang said that he invented a new machine that does not use manpower, only uses water and horsepower, and can produce twenty times the output of traditional looms, Master Cai, do you think it is possible?"

Master Cai laughed and said: "It's impossible, Childe has heard of Jiangnan cloth clothes being the world? I have never heard of any machine in Jiangnan that does not require manpower, and can have twenty times the productivity, this is simply unheard of, Childe must not be coaxed." ”

......

Rumors about new water-powered spinning machines and water-powered looms have been raging in Qingyang County.

The time has finally come to the day when Chu Qiguang is going to hold a press conference.

On this day, the big families and wealthy families in Qingyang County were invited to the textile workshop.

A total of four or five hundred people came, including the old man and the son, plus the small servant and the nursing home, and it seemed that the workshop was small and crowded. If it weren't for the face of the Wu family and the Taoist temple, I'm afraid many people present would have been too lazy to stay.

In front of them were two machines shrouded in a curtain, and Chu Qiguang stood in front of the curtain, and with a clapping of his hands, the little guys on both sides turned a huge picture scroll down.

Above is the amount of cotton cloth that the Ding family sells to the northern demon clan every year.

Looking at the four or five hundred spectators below, the green tendons on Chu Qiguang's forehead jumped slightly, and he endured the anger of wanting to rush down and kill a few people, and sighed helplessly in his heart: 'Sure enough, as soon as there are many people, they came......

He helplessly endured the illness in his heart, and began to say: "As we all know, among the northern demon clans, in addition to the wolf demons, bull demons, and sheep demons, other races need a lot of warm clothes, and if the demon clan wants to maintain its human form, it also needs clothes to keep out the cold. ”

Not to mention that the slaves of all races, including the Terrans, who they had taken captive also needed clothing to keep them warm. ”

As he spoke, he clapped his hands again, and behind him was the second huge picture scroll that was put down, on which was the demand for cotton cloth of the demon clan after the opening of the mutual market.

"1 million horses, this is the amount of cotton cloth that the demon clan needs every year. ”

With the fall of the picture scrolls, as well as Chu Qiguang's explanation, everyone present gradually attracted their attention, looking at the estimation of the population of Lingzhou, the estimation of the demand for cotton cloth, and the estimation of the amount of cotton cloth shipped from the south every year...... And as a comparison, Lingzhou produces less cloth every year.

The feeling for everyone present is ...... As a rigid demand, cotton cloth has a huge market in the entire north and among the demon clans, which is mouth-watering.

And Chu Qiguang became more and more comfortable on the stage, and the spirit in his mind seemed to be constantly sublimating, making him speak more and more freely: "Over the years, many places in the north have been ordered by the imperial court to plant cotton, and many state capitals have even used cotton as a tax. ”

"Cotton cultivation has now been popularized in more than half of Lingzhou's prefecture counties, but most prefectures and counties are still less than textiles, because the cloth in the north is always inferior to the south. ”

"So it has always been the northern cotton transported to the south, the southern cloth to the north, and the cotton we grow in the north has to be woven into cloth in the south of the Yangtze River and sold to us. ”

"But today ......"

As Chu Qiguang pulled the curtain, revealing the two machines behind him that were constantly operating, constantly producing cotton yarn and cotton cloth, Chu Qiguang said slowly: "...... We're going to redefine textiles!"

Chen Gang said: "I understand the applause. After saying that, he took the lead and applauded.

With the bursts of applause below, Chu Qiguang felt that his spirit seemed to rush out of his body all of a sudden, as if he had gone straight to the sky, and came to the end of the starry sky, seeing the abyss beyond all life imaginable, and seeing the endless ...... The darkness that cannot be understood, cannot be described.