Zhai Rujing said at this time: "It's good that someone knows what kind of spinning wheel this is, so who of you knows how to spin it?" ”

All the great Confucian celebrities looked at each other.

"I will!"

Liu Quxian answered, sat behind the spinning wheel, and began to operate.

Seeing this, Tan Yangzi also sat next to him, smiled and asked, "Then please teach me?" ”

Liu Quxian nodded and said, "I've learned this, and it's not difficult." ”

"Why are you learning this?"

Tan Yangzi asked.

Wang Shizhen and He Xinyin also looked over, ready to hear what Liu Quxian had to say.

He Xinyin asked directly: "Is it to solve the people's daily use?" ”

Liu Quxian laughed and said, "It's just to spin more yarn and weave more cotton cloth." ”

"You are also a husband, is there not enough cotton cloth, do you want to spin the yarn yourself?"

Wang Shizhen asked.

Liu Quxian said: "No, is there a large demand for cotton cloth now, especially after the expansion of the Jiubian and Southeast Water Divisions, the army alone will use a lot of cotton cloth, in order to make more money, why not weave more cotton cloth?" ”

After hearing this, Wang Shizhen looked disdainful: "It's just a few taels of silver." ”

He Xinyin was also a little disappointed.

Li Zhen also sat over, and sat next to Tan Yangzi, and said: "The road is simple, true learning is to increase profits, but I think that what this friend Liu said and even reasoned about can be said to be my confidant!" ”

"Li Zhuowu, you are sitting in my place."

Wang Shizhen reminded Li Zhen at this time, and said: "I still have a few new poems in my dreams, and I haven't asked Tan Yangzi for advice." ”

Li Zhen looked at Zhai Rujing and asked, "Ti Shuai, does the holy oracle stipulate who must sit where?" ”

"Not really."

"Besides, you don't have to worry about no one to teach, we have invited old women who are familiar with spinning here, and they can teach you too."

Zhai Rujing replied.

After hearing this, Li Zhen looked at Wang Shizhen: "Wang Fengzhou, do you hear, the Son of Heaven does not stipulate this, are you still older than the Son of Heaven?" ”

Wang Shizhen walked over angrily and muttered, "How can an old woman have a good face." Okay, you Li Zhuowu, I'm going to write all your ugly things in my notes! ”

"In addition to pedal spinning wheels, there are also hand spinning wheels."

"Later, I read the "Book of Agriculture" written by Yin Wangzhen of Yuanshi County and found that there was still a large spinning wheel that could be driven by water power."

"This kind of hydraulic spinning wheel can make thirty-two spindles spinning at the same time, and the current spinning wheel is one spindle spinning, if you really reproduce such a large spinning wheel, it is equivalent to the amount of spinning in a large spinning wheel is equivalent to the amount of spinning with thirty-two spinning wheels at the same time."

Because Tan Yangzi is a young and beautiful woman, Liu Quxian is not as quiet as before, and talks eloquently in front of Tan Yangzi.

And Wang Changgeng, a classmate who was here with him, looked at Liu Quxian with envy: "In the past, when I slept together, I didn't see him talk so much!" Still smiling so brightly! ”

Wang Shizhen, who was also sitting next to Wang Changgeng, also followed the old woman to learn spinning while stepping on the machine, and said: "Reading these miscellaneous books, what can you learn, how can Tan Yangzi still listen to it with relish, does she like to listen to it?" Think it's too vulgar to talk about poetry and songs? ”

After hearing this, Wang Changgeng kept nodding his head: "Mr. Fengzhou is high! ”

"Why are you reading these books?"

Tan Yangzi also asked Liu Quxian at this time.

"Presumably to make more money! With this large spinning wheel, it is equivalent to using one hired worker to replace other yarn mills with 32 hired workers, and the saved wages can open another yarn mill! ”

Li Zhen answered for Liu Quxian at this time.

Tan Yangzi couldn't help but ask Liu Quxian curiously: "Is this really the case?" ”

Liu Quxian nodded: "He is not wrong, it is indeed to make more money." ”

Tan Yangzi nodded, frowning slightly.

At this time, Li Zhen stood up excitedly and walked in front of Liu Quxian and bowed his hand: "I'll just say, you can be my confidant and study for utilitarianism, you are a true pedant!" Please be contemptible to you! ”

Liu Quxian looked confused.

However, other great Confucian celebrities disagreed, and Jiao Hong was even more disdainful: "What kind of true knowledge is this, but it is all a way of copper smell." ”

Tan Yangzi was a little surprised, and asked Liu Quxian: "So, you now use a water-powered spinning wheel at home?" ”

Li Zhen was also very curious and asked, "Presumably Liu Zhiji is already rich?" “

"He didn't!"

"He is now taking a boat and a car, basically rubbing my family, even studying, and he doesn't invite Xixi himself!"

Wang Changgeng retorted loudly at this time.

Zhai Rujing was awakened because of this, and hurriedly put down the script.

Because he was disturbed when he saw Ximenqing finding Pan Jinlian under the grape trellis and was about to declare his sovereignty during the day, he also walked over with an unhappy face and shouted:

"What are you doing, go back to your spinning wheel, learn spinning honestly, and improve your knowledge in practice, otherwise you won't want to go out for the rest of your life!"

Li Zhen saw that Zhai Rujing, the official of the Jinyi Weitang, spoke sternly, so he had to return to his spinning wheel, clumsily pedal the spinning wheel, and began to learn Liu Quxian's spinning, and said at the same time:

"It's so interesting here, who wants to get out! I'd rather be here for the rest of my life and talk to my confidant friend Liu about the knowledge of deeds! ”

Hu Shiwen nodded: "It's really interesting here." ”

He Xinyin asked Hu Shiwen: "You really don't want to go out?" ”

Hu Shiwen let out a faint "um".

He Xinyin asked again: "So you don't blame me?" ”

Hu Shiwen sank his face, and didn't pay attention to He Xinyin anymore.

Here, Liu Quxian is spinning seriously.

Tan Yangzi saw that he was spinning too fast, so he said, "You better slow down, we can learn from you." ”

Liu Quxian had to slow down.

Tan Yangzi continued to ask: "By the way, you really didn't get rich because you read the "Book of Agriculture"? ”

"Nope! I just looked, and I didn't have any water-powered spinning wheels to use. ”

Liu Quxian said.

Tan Yangzi asked, "Why?" ”

Li Zhen also looked at it and said with a serious face: "There must be a big mystery here, please give me advice!" ”

Liu Quxian replied: "Because I want to support the villagers!" ”

"How?"

Li Zhen asked.

Liu Quxian replied: "With a large spinning wheel, although one person can do the work of thirty-two people, isn't it that I can only use one clansman and villager to work for me?" ”

"Then what about the other clansmen and villagers, won't they be able to increase their income, and they will have grievances because of this?"

"Do I have to have a headache about who to use?"

"What's more, the clansmen and villagers are already short of work, even if each person is only given a hundred yuan, they have people who are willing to do it."

"The Yuan Dynasty was able to use this big spinning wheel because a large number of people were slaughtered at the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, and there was a shortage of people. So, there's no need! ”

"What's more, with ordinary spinning wheels, the villagers still respect me and are willing to let my yarn mill exist, and when the officials come to the yarn mill to extort, they can also work together to help me drive away the officials, and the water-powered spinning wheel seems to save manpower, but the cost of manufacturing and maintenance is also a lot, so compared to building a water-powered spinning wheel, it is still cost-effective to use the clansmen and villagers."

Tan Yangzi and Li Zhen both nodded solemnly.

Liu Quxian's words really opened up a world for them.

Li Zhen couldn't help but say: "This is the so-called way of the people!" ”

Li Zhen continued: "It turns out that doing business is not so simple, and what needs to be considered is not only the improvement of skills, but also a lot of calculations. It is no wonder that such a good spinning wheel is not seen in the market now. It can be seen that strange tricks and tricks are not necessarily beneficial to the people! ”

"In addition, since the examination of the law and the clearing of acres of land, the Haoyou clan has to pay a large amount of arrears, and they also have to pay more land taxes than in previous years, and these can only be passed on to tenant farmers."

"It just so happens that my people and villagers have rented more land from large households, so the rent will be paid more than in previous years, and if I don't make more money by spinning yarn for me, life will only be tighter than before. Therefore, I can't ignore this favor. ”

Liu Quxian also continued here.

Not only Tan Yangzi and Li Zhen listened to Liu Quxian's words, but other Confucian celebrities also listened to them.

Even Chen Yizheng, a hundred households in Jinyi who was about to come to urge Li Zhen to spin yarn seriously, listened to it at this time, and couldn't help asking: "So after the implementation of the new policy, it has increased the burden on the people?" ”

"That's what it is!"

"If you think about it carefully, every time the law and new policies have been changed in the past dynasties, has it increased the burden on the people?"

Jiao Hong, who opposed the New Deal, became excited at this time, said a word, and asked others.

Although he didn't know Huang Zongxi's law, as a later enlightened Huang Zongxi and others, he was obviously aware of this law.

(End of chapter)