Although there was no fanfare, and even Yan Liqiang didn't deliberately want to make a big scene, on the day the first woolen mill of the Han Empire officially opened, the entire Pingxi County was still a sensation, not even a sensation, but a fire, an explosion.

At noon on April 8, nearly 60 four-wheeled carriages carrying goods from the Huanglong County Manufacturing Bureau arrived at Yan'anbao like a long snake, and the first batch of carriages pulled by the first batch of woolen mills were spinning machines, looms and tools for washing wool, from the moment these carriages drove into Yan'anbao, and in the next two days, a steady stream of spinning machines, looms and other things were pulled from the manufacturing bureau to Yan'anbao, and then were put into the factory building built in Yan'anbao.

By this time, everything was ready, and Yan Liqiang had no longer let the Manufacturing Bureau and Yan'anbao deliberately keep any secrets, so whether it was the process of unloading and warehousing after those cars came out of the Manufacturing Bureau, countless people saw it.

Because the Yan family and the Lu family made too much trouble about the purchase of wool, there were already countless people in Pingxi County with a keen sense of smell and a flexible head staring at the movements in the Manufacturing Bureau and Yan'anbao, and the news that a large number of mysterious tools and instruments produced in the Manufacturing Bureau were transported to Yan'anbao, but on the night of April 8, almost everyone in Pingxi County knew about it.

And on the following April 9, the news that the Yan family of Yan'anbao recruited spinning workers in Yan'anbao and Qinghe County once again caused a sensation in all directions- Those big families or workshops, the recruitment of spinning workers is not unusual, it is normal, but there are two shocking points, the first is the number of spinning workers recruited in Yan'an Fort this time, a full 680 female workers, over the age of 16, under 50 years old, as long as it is a woman in Qinghe County, will spin and weave at home, you can come to try, you know, in the entire Pingxi County, the largest weaving workshop, up to now, the number of recruited textile workers is less than 100 people, that workshop is in Huanglong County, the number of weavers recruited by the Yan family, all of a sudden six or seven hundred people, this is how big a workshop to run？

What's even more puzzling is that there are not many cotton and ramie grown in Qinghe County, and the Yan family has not been seen involved in the textile industry before.

In addition, the treatment of the spinning workers given by the Yan family also made people's jaws drop- As long as the spinning workers hired by the Yan family are guaranteed to be four taels of silver a month, and the monthly money of four taels of silver a month, not to mention Qinghe County, even in the entire Pingxi County, it is also a very high monthly money, you must know that in other workshops, a skilled textile worker can get less than two taels of silver per month, and ordinary weavers can get one or two taels of silver a month, and it is something that a woman can do, it is definitely the first in the world, if it weren't for the Yan family of the famous Yan Anbao who released the news, people who heard the news would almost think that who was joking.

But this is really not a joke, because early in the morning of April 10, several stewards and aunts of the Yan family have already set up a battle in the square of Yan'anbao, and began to recruit spinning workers openly. In addition to the recruitment notice in black and white, there are more than ten textile machines in the square, more than ten looms, and piles of cotton, women who want to apply for the job, as long as they show their skills in public, start from the cotton cleaning, and then carding, strip roll, combing, drawing, roving, spinning, winding, twisting, shaking, bale, warping, sizing, drawing, weaving......

As long as the skills are qualified, you can be hired on the spot, and the monthly money will start to be calculated from tomorrow.

These weaving processes are definitely a head-scratching thing for men, but for many women in this era, especially women living in the countryside, most of them live a life of male ploughing and female weaving, men are in charge of eating, women are in charge of wearing, weaving and other crafts, they have been exposed to it since childhood, many people have spinning machines and looms at home, and there are too many people who know it.

At the beginning, because there were too many onlookers in the square, and there were many people around, everyone was talking, and many women were not embarrassed to go up at all, but just watched from the sidelines, and went to show their skills in this noisy occasion, as if they were going to perform on stage, which was a challenge for many women.

In this way, the housekeeper Zhou who presided over this recruitment is in a hurry, this is an errand given to him by Yan Gongzi, you must know that now the Yan family is getting worse and worse, and there are more and more people who rely on the Yan family to eat, and there are already many people who are slowly emerging from his stewards, family members and the like, as a housekeeper, if he can't even do such a little errand, then how can he mix in the Yan family, and what does Yan Gongzi think of him.

"Fellow villagers, the Yan family recruited weavers this time, all the treatment, have been written, in black and white, with the reputation of the old man Yan and the son of Yan, of course I will not lie to everyone, if you are illiterate, I will read it to you again, as long as you can weave, the craftsmanship is good and listen to the arrangement, no matter whose girl and daughter-in-law, once hired, you will pack a lunch every day, at least four taels of silver per month, if you perform well, you are promoted to be the head of the team, the income will be more, this is four taels of silver per month, except in our Yan'an Fort, you can't find a second such a good errand when you walk all over the world with a lanternSteward Zhou, who had a layer of fine beads of sweat on his forehead, also held a big horn rolled up with iron sheets in his hand, and roared at the onlookers around the square, "The number of spinning workers we recruited this time is limited, and we will not recruit if it is full, on a first-come, first-served basis, if you miss this opportunity, you will regret it for life, those men who have mothers-in-law and daughters at home, ask the women in your family to try, maybe you women will earn more money every month than you earn now......

"Steward Zhou, what you said is true, four taels of silver a month, I heard the news yesterday, I have also seen Old Man Yan and Yan Gongzi, last time I also went to Yan's house to help cook, if you are here to be foolish, be careful I go to Yan Gongzi to sue you!" Finally, after Steward Zhou finished speaking, among the dense crowd of onlookers, there was finally a woman wearing a red long dress, a little fat, in her thirties, and a little spicy, squeezed out of the crowd and said loudly.

Steward Zhou took a look, isn't this woman Wang Laoshi's daughter-in-law, although Wang Laoshi is honest, but his daughter-in-law is a pungent girl in the town, capable and housekeeping, I heard that she is still a skillful hand, spinning cloth well, embroidering is also good, that Wang Laoshi's two little daughters are dressed in red and willow green for a day, all of which are the craftsmanship of this mother-in-law.

"When you take the money, you'll know if what I said is true or false!" Steward Zhou said.

"That's okay, I'll try it, isn't it just spinning in public, the old lady can spin it with her eyes closed, what's so embarrassing ......about this," Wang Laoshi's daughter-in-law said and walked over, and began to start from the cotton cleaning neatly, showing her skills under the eyes of a bunch of people.

Needless to say, Wang's honest daughter-in-law, with her excellent skills, suddenly became the first successful person to apply for the job on this day.

With this example, the big girls and little daughters-in-law who were watching on the edge of the square were no longer nervous, and many people were in the mood to try it out, and the second, third, and fourth people came out one after another and began to show their skills.

At this time, of course, those who dare to come up have the ability, so one by two were recruited one after another, and when they got to the back, the square became more and more lively, and there were more and more women who came to try, and in the afternoon, those women who came from ten miles and eight towns to try it had lined up on the square......