In early summer, as soon as the sky clears, the dog begins to spit out its tongue and burrow into the shade of the tree.

People can only stay in the house, read books, and listen to music, so that the day may be long.

Only on this day in Yingtianfu, when the sky was also clear and the sun was shining, a group of young boys were sweating and queuing up to enter the newly established Yingtian Industrial School.

That's right.

When Zhu Yijun agreed to set up a school for Sun Wei, the governor of Yingtian, to train skilled craftsmen, he specially named the school as Yingtian Industrial School.

Xu Minshi did not procrastinate, in order to increase his official profits as soon as possible, as soon as he got the approved will, he immediately recruited and assessed a large number of young people to enter the industrial school.

Most of these young people are the children of ordinary people in Jiangnan, who have read some books and know a few words, but because of the limited conditions of their families, they basically only read some books and did not show much potential in the imperial examination, so they did not study again, and became idle laborers at home.

The reason why it is idle labor force is because Jiangnan in this era originally had more people and less land, coupled with serious land annexation, the per capita arable land area was very small, so if there were several brothers in the family, if they did not go to the town to work or work as long-term and short-term workers for large households, it would only cause the labor force to be idle.

Then, because of the idea of relocating to the land, unless they are poor people at the bottom who have a lot of pressure to survive, most of them would rather be unemployed vagrants in their hometowns than go out to make a living.

Nowadays, the emergence of industrial schools has naturally solved the employment problem of some idle laborers, especially those who have read some books.

Zhu Yijun did not interrupt the reform of Zhang Juzheng's era, and even as the emperor, he was deriving the reform from the economic field to the military and ideological fields.

Industrialization began to emerge in government-run industries, and privately-run factories began to move in this direction.

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"Sincerity and sincerity, all in one place!"

"Therefore, if you want to understand the efficiency of weaving, you can't help but learn, even if you manage money at home."

Shangyuan County.

The women's school next to the ancestral hall of the Liu family.

Gu Qinglian, a woman dressed in a celestial-colored cardigan, was holding a wooden stick to teach a room of girls in front of her, and said some of her own opinions on arithmetic.

It turned out that Zhu Yijun opened mines in Mongolia, carried out infrastructure construction in the Guannei such as the construction of lookout platforms and official roads, and increased subsidies for military households in the nine sides, so that the cotton market in Daming has been growing rapidly, which has made Liu Quxian's water-powered spinning wheel have been increasing rapidly.

Therefore, the Liu family did not go bankrupt because the water-powered spinning wheel was the same as the Jenny spinning machine in history, because it was multiple spindles spinning at the same time, which led to the bankruptcy of a large number of women who relied on spinning for a living, nor did they give up the large spinning wheel technology because the market was not enough, and returned to the single-spindle spinning mode with lower technical requirements for people but more suitable for natural economy.

And so it goes.

Liu Quxian's wife, Lai Di, also had to train more women with higher cultural and technical levels to manage the yarn yard and operate the large spinning machine for herself, so as to solve the problem of the shortage of high-level skilled female workers and management talents.

As a result, because Liu Quxian was already an official of the imperial court and he had been ordained, he also had a high status in the Liu clan, so he opened a Mingde Women's School in the clan, which specialized in teaching women from the clan and relatives to read, and would also recruit foreign women to study, but they had to pay.

However, because the essence of teaching these women is to achieve greater development for herself and Liu Quxian's textile industry, the content of the teaching is not mainly based on female virtue, but mainly on arithmetic and literature.

Because the operation of the factory requires a lot of calculation and co-ordination, it is also necessary to have accurate expression, and whether it is oral or written expression, it needs to have a stronger ability in literature.

Now, Laidi invited Gu Qinglian, the sixth girl taken in by Wang Changgeng, to be the teacher in the school to teach these young girls to read.

This Gu Qinglian herself was the daughter of the Gu family of the Nandu Shieun family, and was later taken in as a concubine by Wang Changgeng because her home was copied.

Lai Di saw this scene in the afternoon because of the long days and short nights, and took down an official newspaper from the newsstand in the school to read it, and prepared to see if there was any news of Liu Quxian.

As a result, she saw that an official newspaper reported that the imperial court had set up a steam power research and development hall in the temple, and she became interested for a while, secretly wondering what steam power is, and if you use steam power to drive a large spinning wheel, will it be more effective than her own water-powered spinning wheel?

The reason why Lai Di pays attention to this problem is because the Jiangnan weaving mill with a large spinning wheel is no longer the only one in the Liu family.

Although many wealthy gentry did not dare to seize the Liu family's industry because Liu Quxian was already an official of the imperial court, they still got the reason why the Liu family's cotton cloth was cheap through various means, and began to build a water-powered spinning wheel, and the Liu family wanted to continue to grow bigger and stronger in the textile industry, which needed further technological innovation.

But.

For the Liu family, the driving force for technological innovation is not so great, mainly because the cotton market is still expanding rapidly, and the main energy of the major weaving mills is to expand the scale of production, and there is no energy to improve production technology, after all, the latter needs more time and cost.

The cotton market has indeed been expanding, and every year Ming merchants have to order a large amount of cotton cloth from the mainland to go out of customs or go to sea.

Especially after Haojing was taken over by the Ming government and through Wang Xijue's reform, the trade routes to Goa and Luzon were operated by the local merchants under the name of the Daming City, which directly further expanded the export volume of Daming's cotton cloth.

Because the cotton industry in these places can not compete with the Ming Dynasty at all, the cotton cloth they produce is neither cheaper than the cotton cloth of the Ming Dynasty, nor is the cotton cloth of the Ming Dynasty of exquisite quality, so when the Ming merchants can trade with overseas natives more daring to lower the price than the two dealers such as Xiyi Fanshang, the cotton market in these places can basically be directly occupied by the cotton cloth of the Ming Dynasty.

The conversation turned back.

Because of this, after just glancing at the latest official news, Di put this idea behind her, and only told her eldest maid:

"Tell the weaver to recruit more poor girls to train as new weavers, so that they can only be hired for five years without buying out the deed of sale, and they can take four days off a month, and they will be paid during the training period, according to half of the weaver's wages! lest the time come again to make orders, and as a result, there are not enough weavers. ”

This big girl said yes.

"All weavers from other provinces who come to my Wangjia weaving workshop are willing to work for more than ten years, they will be given a settlement fee of ten taels of silver, and a settlement fee of five taels for less than five years!"

"If there is a family member who needs to find an errand, our Wang family will help him solve it."

Zhejiang here, the weaving of the Zhang family is even more exaggerated, in order to grab people to expand the scale of production, at the expense of high prices to go to other provinces to pull people, to the official Zhang Han personally made the decision, because he knows very well that if his Zhang family is slow, the cotton industry brought by the new deal will only be taken away by other rich businessmen.

(End of chapter)