Chapter 91: Improving the spinning wheel
Regarding the situation that Uncle Cousin said, Yun Yi was also very clear in his heart.
If you want to take the land by the river, you can't get around the patriarch Yunshan.
If Yunshan does not agree with Yunyi to build a new house there, even if Yunyi has money, he can only give up.
Since he didn't think of any suitable countermeasures for a while, Yun Yi had no choice but to say:
"I'll think about it again!"
"I really can't do it, I'll go find those clan elders."
"After all, there is a solution."
Uncle Tang thought that Yunyi had already figured out a way to deal with it.
Seeing him say this at this time, I couldn't help but sigh.
He didn't have much to say about the discord between Yun Yi and the patriarch Yun Shan.
After thinking for a while, Uncle Cousin spoke:
"It's only rained heavily, and the road isn't very easy to walk."
"Even if you buy the materials for building a house now, you may not be able to ship them in a while."
"In the past two days, I will help you ask the price of materials, and at the same time, I will also find the master who built the house."
"While it's time to prepare, you can also think of a way."
"If you can convince the patriarch that it's best, if not, then rebuild it directly on top of the current homestead!"
"Autumn is coming, and after the mud brick house is built, it will have to dry in the shade for a while before you can move in."
"If it drags on for too long, it is estimated that the house may not be built well before the frost falls."
Mud brick house?
Didn't you tell your cousin that he wanted to build a big brick house?
Hearing Uncle Tang say this, Yun Yi was stunned at first, and after reacting, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
I was so nervous by my cousin's surprise just now that I forgot to tell my cousin about this stubble.
Glancing at his cousin who was still planning with his fingers crossed, Yun Yi couldn't help but say embarrassedly:
"Uncle Cousin, in fact, I plan to build a big brick house directly."
"You want to build a big brick house?"
As soon as Yun Yi's voice fell, Uncle Tang's movements froze directly on the spot.
"Brother Yi, you listen to Uncle Cousin's advice."
"Let's not talk about whether your twenty taels of silver are enough to build a blue brick house."
"Even if it's enough, you can't spend it all!"
"Now that you and Youwei are the only ones left in the family, in the eyes of Uncle Cousin, it is safer for you to get married as soon as possible."
"And you have to prepare for next year's county exam, which looks like a lot of money, but it can't withstand your tossing."
Uncle Cousin's words were sincere, and Yun Yi's heart was also warm after listening to it.
However, considering that the house is a lifelong thing, Yunyi had to explain embarrassedly:
"That...... Uncle Cousin, in fact, I still have twenty taels of silver in my hand. ”
Bang Dang!
The sound of the chair falling to the ground came from the side, startling Yun Yi.
When I turned my head to look, I saw Zhao Chunhua sitting on the ground with an embarrassed face and laughing.
"You...... Do you mean that Zhou Wangcai gave you a total of forty taels of silver? ”
Yun Peng didn't care about Zhao Chunhua on the ground, and his voice was already trembling a little at this time.
For the peasant family, they may not be able to save more than ten taels of silver in their lifetime.
But Yunyi easily earned so much just by relying on a few poems.
Just in an instant, Uncle Cousin, a big family, had already reached an agreement in his heart:
Be sure to let your little grandson go to school!
"That...... In fact, it was fifty taels of silver. ”
"But yesterday I saw a man selling himself to save his daughter, and when he relented, he gave him ten taels of silver."
Seeing that Uncle Tang and the others were all looking at him with blank eyes, Yun Yi had no choice but to explain.
When Uncle Cousin heard Yun Yi say that it was a total of fifty taels of silver, there was actually no turmoil in their hearts.
For them, whether it is forty taels or fifty taels, it is an untouchable astronomical number.
It's just that when they heard that Yun Yi actually gave away ten taels of silver yesterday, they almost didn't drop their jaws directly.
That's ten taels of silver!
was given away by Yunyi lightly.
For a while, Uncle Cousin's heart was dripping blood.
Seeing that his cousin's family were looking at him with a caring look for the mentally retarded, Yun Yi had no choice but to explain:
"Hey...... Hey...... I was only relenting at the time...... A moment of soft-heartedness......"
When Uncle Cousin and the others heard this, the expressions on their faces became even more mixed.
After a long time, Uncle Cousin came back to his senses from his distress.
"Since you have so much money, then Uncle Cousin, I won't persuade you."
"After all, a house is a lifelong thing, and if you can build a big brick house, of course it will be better."
"So when you return home after high school, it won't be too shabby."
"As for the issue of the homestead, after I help you ask for the materials, go to Yunshan to talk about it!"
The two discussed for a while, and it wasn't until the sun rose that Yun Yi said goodbye and left from his cousin's house.
He first went home for breakfast, and then put on two drawings, and Shi Shiran walked towards the old carpenter's house in the village.
In the past, due to her poor family, she couldn't afford to buy a spinning wheel, so Shen Youwei could only help people become female celebrities to make money to subsidize her family.
Now that the family has money, Shen Youwei's little girl began to have the idea of spinning wheels.
For the little girl's request, Yunyi didn't take it too seriously at first.
After all, with his current income, there is no need for Shen Youwei to worry about making money.
It's just that she couldn't resist the little girl later, so Yunyi reluctantly nodded in agreement.
Because of the development ideas of the curved plough and the cylinder car, Yunyi naturally came up with the idea of improving the spinning wheel.
At present, male ploughing and female weaving are still the mainstream of society in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and once they improve the efficiency of the spinning wheel, they should be able to lead the women of Taoyuan Village to make a fortune.
Since the way to get rich through commercial trade was not working in Taoyuan Village, Yunyi also considered looking for high-yield crops.
However, when he inquired, no one had heard of high-yielding crops such as corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes.
Yunyi knows the origin of these crops though.
But with his current status, wanting to travel across the ocean to obtain the seeds of these crops is basically tantamount to a fool's dream.
After drawing the drawings of the spinning wheel, Yunyi felt that it seemed to be quite good to drive Taoyuan Village to get rich through handicrafts.
He's ready.
When the new house is built, a batch of spinning wheels will be built.
When the time came, the old ladies in the village were recruited to work in the factory, and a proper capitalist black-hearted factory was born.
The spinning wheel transformed by Yunyi is actually not too advanced.
As the saying goes, grain cheapness hurts farmers.
After all, male ploughing and female weaving were still the mainstream of society in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and if the efficiency of the spinning wheel suddenly increased significantly, it would inevitably cut off the livelihood of many people.
Yunyi is ready to gradually improve the efficiency of the spinning wheel, on the one hand, to ensure the first-mover advantage of Taoyuan Village.
On the other hand, it can also avoid the leakage of the design, which will be used by people with good intentions, forming a market impact and cutting off the livelihood of those housewives.
Every industrial revolution causes some people to lose their jobs.
The economy of the Great Zhou Dynasty was very fragile, so it was safer to be cautious.
If the textile industry of the Great Zhou Dynasty really developed rapidly.
At that time, in addition to foreign dumping, I am afraid that we can only find ways to optimize the entire textile industry.