Although Zhang Tianyou did not receive the invitation, he also received the news that the Suzhou prefect invited Suzhou businessmen to visit the new workshop, saying that he wanted to show everyone a new type of spinning machinery.

Zhang Tianyou listened to the "informant" narrate in a frenzy, with 10,000 question marks in his mind.

Is there really a way for the imperial grandson to make a spinning machine that does not require manpower?

How is this possible?

Zhang Tianyou really wanted to see it with his own eyes, but he was afraid that he would never come back if he beat the dog with his meat buns.

Therefore, he could only send his cronie Tian Shunyi to take a look.

Tian Shunyi is also the old man left to him by Zhang Tianyou's father, and he is the most loyal to him. It can be said that the reason why he can control the business in Suzhou is because Tian Shunyi helps him keep an eye on it.

Although Tian Shunyi's position in the Zhang family is very important, it is not very conspicuous among the merchants in Suzhou, and the silk village and loom factory he operates belong to the level of petty fights, and they are not allowed to be on the table at all.

However, there is one thing that is still relatively strong, that is, no matter what industry, there is a place for him, at least he can speak.

Therefore, when Zhang Qinglai, the prefect of Suzhou, gave Tian Shunyi a copy by the way.

When Tian Shunyi followed the presidents of various chambers of commerce to the new factory, he was stunned by the plaque of the new factory for the first time.

Seeing this, Zhang Zonglai lamented in his heart, he had already dissuaded the imperial grandson, saying that the new factory should be given a serious name, but the imperial grandson did not listen, so he had to make such a strange name.

Just as Zhang Zonglai was thinking this, a president in the crowd suddenly asked curiously.

"Lord Prefect, what does this Suzhou Spinning Factory No. 1 mean, and are there any second, third, or fourth factories behind it?"

Zhang Zonglai could only bite the bullet.

"Yes!"

"Not to mention the three factories and the four factories, even the nine factories and the ten factories are possible!"

"Oooh oh ......"

When everyone heard this, it was as if they had obtained a big secret, and everyone's face showed a look of secrecy.

Zhang Zonglai casually said a perfunctory word, and directly led everyone into the factory.

Before everyone followed into the production workshop, they heard the roar of machinery.

This is a voice that is difficult to hear in Daming, which makes their hearts full of curiosity. Especially when they saw the billowing smoke coming out of the tall chimney and the heat coming out of the whole house, they were full of awe of the "No. 1 Spinning Factory" in front of them.

However, just as everyone was about to enter the spinning workshop, a teenager walked out of it.

The boy arched his hands, a smile on his face.

"You're making a fortune!"

When everyone saw the young man, the expressions on their faces suddenly changed, and then they knelt down and kowtowed.

"The grass people and others meet His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness Chitose Chitose......

The Ming merchants are lowly, even if they have a net worth of 10,000 yuan, when they see people who are officials, they must call themselves grass people and untouchables.

Zhu Yunxi smiled and said "flat", and everyone got up from the ground, and then followed closely next to the prefect Zhang Qinglai, and his face no longer had the calmness and calmness when he first entered the factory.

There is no way, the prefect of Suzhou has eaten their filial piety, and they can still save some dignity in front of the prefect of Suzhou. But in the face of the most noble people in the Ming Dynasty, their sense of superiority is gone.

Everyone held their breath and swallowed their voices, not to mention daring to fart, not even daring to breathe.

Seeing that they were so restrained, Zhu Yunxi had no choice but to speak more casually and behave more naturally as much as possible.

If he really wants to bring out the royal pie, how many of these people must be scared?

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the spinning workshop of our Suzhou No. 1 Spinning Factory!"

Everyone followed the voice of the imperial grandson and was directly stunned by the scene in front of them.

I saw a square cauldron with no end in sight, steaming and steaming, and hundreds of female workers scooping up cooked cocoons in the cauldron.

This step is used to remove the fat from the silk so that it can be better spun into silk thread.

However, even this step is enough to shock

Shocked everyone.

Because under normal circumstances, one worker who cooks silkworm cocoons is enough to supply a dozen or so mature spinners.

Here is not only to boil the cocoon to remove the gum on the cocoon, so that the silk can be stretched, so as to prepare for the subsequent silk reeling and spinning.

Zhu Yunxi saw that everyone was shocked, and the stone hanging in his heart was finally put down. After a while, the crowd saw the spectacle of hundreds of spindles, and when they went home, they had to quit the weavers they had hired before.

Sure enough, after Zhu Yunxi led everyone to the spinning workshop, everyone saw hundreds of spinning spindles, as well as a steady stream of raw silk transported by the conveyor belt, and their eyes widened in surprise.

"It's amazing!"

"It's really possible to spin raw silk into yarn without manpower!"

Although there are still many workers in the workshop, who often keep an eye on the spindle and adjust the speed from time to time, this is obviously too insignificant for traditional spinning.

When everyone was shocked by the power of modern machinery, Tian Shunyi hunched over and asked.

"Dare to ask the imperial grandson, how much yarn can this machine spin in a day?"

Zhu Yunxi started talking nonsense without thinking about it.

"It's the testing stage, and the workers are not yet skilled, so they can spin thousands of spindles a day."

"When the workers are skilled and the machinery is fine-tuned, it shouldn't be a problem to produce 10,000 or 20,000 spindles a day."

When Tian Shunyi heard this, he chuckled in his heart.

Normally, a skilled weaver can finish a spindle in three days, which is considered fast.

10,000 spindles a day, doesn't it take 30,000 weavers to weave day and night?

"Dare to ask the imperial grandson, how many weavers do you plan to hire in the future?"

"Weavers?"

"Why did Lone hire a weaver?"

Zhu Yunxi led Tian Shunyi to the steam boiler room and pointed to the workers who were shoveling coal into the furnace.

"You see, the machine here doesn't need to eat or drink, and he can work by hiring two people to add coal to him, so why should he hire a weaver?"

"A weaver needs three taels of silver a month, 10,000 workers need 30,000 taels a month, and 30,000 weavers need 90,000 taels a month......

"Ninety thousand taels of silver, enough for Gu's boiler to burn coal for ten years, is Gu stupid to hire a weaver, right?"

In fact, Zhu Yunxi's words are bragging.

Because the city company receives orders for sample customization, not to mention that he can't make a steam loom now, even if he can get it, he can only make a plain textile machine, and after weaving, he has to carry out printing and dyeing and other processes.

In this way, the high-level orders of the West will not be able to be completed, and they will smash the signboard of the city's company.

Therefore, whether it is for the orders of the city or to ensure the employment of the people of Suzhou, he will recruit a large number of weavers.

However, Tian Shunyi and those businessmen who watched the excitement didn't know, after they saw the magic of the spinning machine, they thought that the loom could also be concocted in the same way and easily tinkered out.

Therefore, before they returned home, they began to think about how to dismiss the redundant weavers in the family.

In fact, they didn't need so many weavers at all, just because they listened to Zhang Tianyou's words, in order to block the emperor's grandson, they temporarily hired twice as much.

Now that they see that the imperial grandson doesn't need weavers at all, there is no need for them to raise them in vain.

"Oooh......"

"Emperor Sun Shengming, this method is indeed more economical, but we are shallow......

"You will visit slowly, and Gu plans to build the second, third, and fourth factories until the construction of 30 spinning mills will unify the entire silk textile industry in the Ming Dynasty......

Zhu Yunxi's bull is endless, in fact, the spinning machine in front of him is still made by him with a lot of waste, which has delayed the research and development of the train, and temporarily called a lot of parts.

Moreover, the production capacity is far less exaggerated than he said, and the raw silk on the conveyor belt is now a high-end goods that he has prepared many days in advance.

That's why there are so many hundreds

spinning spindles at the same time in an orderly manner.

Otherwise, just breaking the thread will make him lose his old face.

Zhu Yunxi said that he was looking at it casually, but after he left, someone came over to pick up people, signaling the idlers to wait out, and no onlookers were allowed here.

Tian Shunyi hadn't seen enough of it, and when he saw that someone was coming to catch him, he hurriedly moved the imperial grandson out.

"The imperial grandson said let's watch it casually, how can you be a good person!"

This man is rightly and authentically.

"The imperial grandson also said that he would leave you to eat, and you are embarrassed to eat?"

"This is still a well-known businessman in Suzhou City, and I can't even hear a polite word!"

Seeing that the people of the spinning mill were so difficult, they threw off their sleeves in annoyance.

In their opinion, the imperial grandson is good, hospitable, and the little ghosts at the bottom are difficult, destroying the wisdom of the imperial grandson.

As everyone knows, after this person drove them away, he hurriedly went to report to the emperor's grandson.

"Returning to Your Highness, the lowly has driven those merchants away according to your orders!"

"They didn't find anything, did they?"

"Nope!"

"But let them see it for a while, the raw silk we prepared in advance may not be enough......

Everyone left the No. 1 spinning factory and stared at the sign of the No. 1 spinning factory for a long time.

They all eat the bowl of silk rice, and they know too well the power of the steam spinning machine.

Once this thing is popularized, it will be difficult for them to eat this bowl of rice again!

If the imperial grandson really built dozens of such factories, how could their small workshops that relied on labor be able to beat them?

"Ladies and gentlemen, we're in trouble!"

"yes!"

"If it's something new researched by an ordinary businessman, we can coerce and induce it to hand over the drawings of the new machine, even if we spend a lot of money to buy it out."

"However, the other party is the emperor's grandson, the most honorable person in the Ming Dynasty, and behind him is the entire Ming court!"

"What are we going to do with people!"

One by one, the businessmen returned home in mourning, and they didn't wait for the afternoon, but began to drive people before lunch.

Chen Jiu and his wife, who were working in the workshop, were thinking about breaking off in three days and earning more money to buy rice, when they heard the bad news that the two of them were dismissed.

Chen Jiu and his wife were full of disbelief, but the owner of the workshop said all the good things before they poached the "good hands" from the manufacturing bureau, why did they quit after a few days?

What makes the two of them even more devastated is that they are still "evaders" on the manufacturing bureau's side, and if they are caught by the government, they will be beaten to show the public!

However, what made Chen Jiu and his wife most devastated was that when they went to the boss to ask for money, not only did they not get the salary, but they also beat them badly.

It is said that they ate more than anyone else, but they did not work under their hands, and wasted a lot of their silk threads, but did not weave a few good silks.

Chen Jiu was so aggrieved that he was about to cry when he heard this, the loom in the Qian family's workshop was different from that of the government, he had already explained to the boss that he and his mother-in-law Wang Siniang, let alone have to adapt to ten days and a half months, during which they could only weave ordinary silk, and the Qian family now used no good silk as a reason not to pay themselves?

Is there still a conscience in this?

Chen was beaten, but he didn't dare to go to the government to sue the official, so he had to be aggrieved and helped each other to go home to recuperate.

In fact, what happened to Chen Jiu and his wife is not unique.

Zhang Tianyou was also surprised when he learned that Zhu Yunxi could spin and weave without manual labor.

However, after being surprised, Zhang Tianyou came up with another plan.

"Ladies and gentlemen, isn't the imperial grandson not hiring weavers now?"

"I'll give you an idea, and you can immediately make the imperial grandson mess up?"

A group of Suzhou businessmen only felt their heads big when they heard this.

Since they listened to Zhang Tianyou's words, they didn't seem to have taken advantage of it, and they suffered a loss.

"Young owner, we are all small businesses, we really can't afford to toss!"

When Zhang Tianyou heard this complaint, a trace of embarrassment flashed on his face.

"Guys, I won't let you pay this time, just let you hire fewer people and let the news out......

"What's the rumor?"

"Come here with your ears......

On the second day after the opening of Zhu Yunxi's first spinning factory, a rumor circulated in Suzhou City that the imperial grandson had invented a textile machine that could weave cloth without a weaver, and could spin automatically, and all textile workshops could not survive, so the weavers were dismissed one after another.

At first, they didn't believe it, but when all the owners of the workshops said it, they could only believe it.

Subsequently, after a few days of brewing, tens of thousands of weavers in Suzhou City, under the instigation of well-intentioned people, finally gathered in the No. 1 Spinning Factory and made a big fuss to let the No. 1 Spinning Factory get out of Suzhou City.

Zhang Zonglai heard that tens of thousands of people had gathered here in the No. 1 spinning factory, and he was so frightened that he almost found a rope to strangle himself to death.

This is a civil uprising!

Once there is a royal historian to participate in him, his life will not be guaranteed!

"Imperial grandson, you have to help me, you must not cause a civil uprising!"

Zhu Yunxi has been sending people to pay close attention to the movements of the No. 1 spinning factory, in fact, these days, the spinning factory has not been in serious production, but the boiler is burning, and the chimney is smoking every day, pretending to be stepping up production every day.

However, in order to prevent the civil uprising, he still arranged a thousand brocade guards in the first spinning factory, and let them be responsible for the safety of the spinning factory.

"Lao Zhang!"

"Don't worry, you're in control!"

Zhang Qinglai sat on the chair angrily, although he didn't dare to say complaining words, but his face was full of resentment.

He got along with Zhu Yunxi during this time, and he could be regarded as figuring out the temperament of this imperial grandson, and his courage became a little bigger.

"Imperial grandson, the safety and misfortune of the whole family of the lower officials are all in your thoughts."

"If there is a civil uprising in Suzhou City, you, the imperial grandson, will definitely be fine, and Weichen, the prefect of Suzhou, will be the end!"

Zhu Yunxi didn't care about the authenticity.

"It's okay!"

"If the court resigns you, you will be transferred to the Wenhua Palace, and you will go to other places with you!"

When Zhang Qinglai heard the imperial grandson say this, his depressed mood eased a little.

Although the grade of Wenhua Hall is a bit low, it is not as high as the Suzhou prefect of the fifth grade, but it can be regarded as a minister of the hidden mansion, right?

Waiting for the emperor's grandson to ascend the throne in the future, he will have the skill of going from the dragon and ascend to the sky directly.

"Then thank you to the imperial grandson......

Just as the two were chatting, a brocade guard came in a hurry outside the door.

"Your Highness, the big thing is not good, the rioters have begun to storm our factory!"

Zhu Yunxi scolded on the spot when he heard this.

"Watch your words!"

"Those are all the people under my Ming rule, how can they be called chaotic people!"

"Yes, yes, yes, it's the negligence of the lowly duty, those weavers are going to attack our factory, the Lord of the Thousand Households asked the lowly to come over and ask for instructions, what should we do next?"

Zhu Yunxi snorted coldly.

"Hold on first, if anyone dares to rush the door, throw a few shots into the sky to scare, and if anyone dares to rush hard, put down a few."

"Be careful, don't kill anyone, try to scare as much as possible!"

"No!"

After Zhu Yunxi sent away the small flag of Jinyi Wei, he picked up the teacup and rinsed his mouth.

"Let's go!"

"It's time for Lone to go over and take a look!"

Zhang Qinglai heard that the imperial grandson was going to risk his life, so he opened his arms and stopped at the door on the spot.

"Your Highness, this must not be done!"

"You give Wei Chen a show, and Wei Chen will negotiate with those weavers for you!"

"You must not risk your life, in case there is a mob to make trouble and hurt a single hair of your hair, it will be difficult for Weichen to explain to His Majesty even if he dies!"

Zhu Yunxi smiled.

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It's okay!"

"Actually, the weavers' appeal is very simple, they just want to have an errand to support their families."

"Wouldn't it be okay to give them an errand?"

Zhang Qinglai saw that the imperial grandson said it so lightly, and a trace of doubt rose in his heart again.

"Your Highness, don't you want a weaver?"

"And there are tens of thousands of people over there, so you can't use so many people even if you hire them, right?"

Zhu Yunxi asked rhetorically when he heard this.

"Who said you can't use so much alone?"

"Not to mention tens of thousands of people, even hundreds of thousands of weavers, even lonely people can afford it!"

"Hundreds of thousands?"

When Zhang Qinglai heard this number, he was stunned.

Because this question is beyond the outline, it is beyond his cognition.

There are 100,000 weavers in Suzhou City, which has already topped the world and has become a well-known silk holy land at home and abroad.

If there are hundreds of thousands, what kind of situation will Suzhou City usher in?

Isn't it more prosperous than the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty?

When Zhu Yunxi was shocked by Zhang Qinglai, he had already walked out confidently.

"Zhang Qinglai, Lonely's great cause has just begun!"

"When the great cause of loneliness is completed, the Ming Dynasty will fight the whole world with the power of one country and beat the whole world!"

Zhang Qinglai, who was stunned, was shocked when he heard this.

This is still the emperor's grandson who giggles all day long and likes to play in the mountains and rivers?

The emperor's grandson suddenly revealed the aura of an emperor, and he actually gave people such a powerful shock!

Although Zhang Qinglai didn't understand the specific meaning of the imperial grandson, he still hurriedly chased after him.

"The Imperial Grandson is careful!"

"For the sake of insurance, let's let Weichen inform the commander of the yamen and ask them to transfer 3,000 guards to escort them......

Zhu Yunxi waved his hand when he heard this.

"No!"

"Lone believes in the people of the Ming Dynasty, they will not hurt Lone!"