Chapter 15 Recruiting Female Workers, Looms

After five or six busy days, ten improved pedal spinning wheels, under the control of Zhong Lin, finally turned into real objects one by one.

Although the wooden shed that had just been built was ventilated everywhere, it still couldn't stop the curious figure of the villagers.

At the door of the shed, Wei Shi asked Zhong Lin to cut a flat wooden plank, and a few words were written on it: recruit female workers, half a day's money, record the work, settle the account at the end of the month, and the quota is limited to ten people.

From the perspective of later generations, this recruitment notice could not be more black.

If it is pasted at the door of the factory, it will be torn off in minutes.

But it was such a simple job posting, which could not be simpler, but it caused a storm in Elm Bay Village.

The Wei family wants to recruit workers to build a textile workshop, which is a big event.

Wei Shi's spinning wheel was installed by the people in the village little by little, and the speed of Han Qiuyun's spinning was also seen by the women with their own eyes, such as the fifth aunt, Zhang Erni and other close neighbors, who also went up to try it.

Therefore, for the women of Yushuwan Village, who have never seen the world and are accustomed to digging wild vegetables and doing housework, working as a weaver is undoubtedly more attractive.

Ten places.

There are more monks and less porridge.

In order to grab the quota, the women didn't even do housework, so they crowded at the door of Wei Shi's house, and when Zhong Lin assembled one, they immediately grabbed the place to show their belonging.

The third day of March.

A nice day with a sunny day.

Wei Shi's weaving and linen workshop was officially opened.

Han Qiuyun was in charge of managing this small workshop, Zhang Erni was on the side, and the fifth aunt didn't rob Erni because she had a lot of things at home, so she was angry.

Fortunately, Wei Shi thought about her family's situation and left her a place among the female workers.

After the opening, the women of Elm Bay were like crazy, and the wooden shed of Wei Shi's family was lit day and night.

Open your eyes and make money.

Close your eyes and earn money.

In the past, men were relied on to support their families, but now women can not only support their families by spinning threads, but also earn more than men.

Among the female workers recruited by Wei Shi, the sixth sister-in-law's family was able to bring money to the family because of the man's superb hunting skills, and the sixth sister-in-law was always the only one in front of the sixth brother, and she did not dare to resist.

But now, the sixth sister-in-law earns more than Wang Lao Liu, and the economic status of the family has changed, Wang Lao Liu was angry for a while, relying on the man's physical strength advantage, and beat his wife violently.

As a result, the sixth sister-in-law could not go to work, and the position was taken by another woman.

As soon as this incident happened, the sixth sister-in-law, who had always been cowardly, was so angry that she wanted to fight hard with Wang Lao Liu, and threatened to reconcile with Lao Liu.

What made Wang Lao Liu even more embarrassed was that Wang Lao Liu and Wang Lao Niang saw that the money was open, and they no longer helped Lao Liu, but stood on the side of the sixth sister-in-law, and Wang Lao Liu even held a wooden pole and chased Wang Lao Liu for a whole village.

Later, the sixth sister-in-law relied on her spinning skills to work again in the competition, and her family status was also soaring.

Poor Wang Lao Liu prides himself on being a heroic man in the village, and when he has no work to do, he can only take care of housework, and work such as washing diapers for his son Shiro also falls on him.

With the help of Zhong Lin and a group of carpenters, Wei Shi was much easier in assembling the spinning machine.

But at the same time, there was another extremely important thing that weighed on him.

released Mi's pigeons, if there is no new thing to come out, then what is waiting for Wei Shi is the army that came to arrest him, even if he and Fu Wei have some good feelings, they can't change anything.

After thinking about it for a long time, Wei Shi decided to build a loom and build a brick kiln.

In the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, the most outstanding textile technology was not in the Central Plains, but in the far southwest of Shu.

After Liu Bei founded the country, Shu brocade was the most important strategic material in Shu Han, Zhuge Liang several northern expeditions, and many of the baggage and military funds were exchanged for Shu brocade.

Compared with the developed brocade technology in Shudi, the Central Plains has been in war for many years, and Dong Zhuo has a fire, which burns the last remaining remnants of the Luoyang Palace.

This time, Wei Shi racked his brains to make a shuttle loom, and the model was a model invented by Huang Daopo.

The thread posts covered with warp threads, the erected frame, the threads that pull the ropes downward, the pedals that connect the threads, and the shuttles that weave the cloth are squeezed by the machine when the weft and warp threads are intertwined.

Compared with the machine of Shudi brocade, this semi-automatic shuttle loom is undoubtedly more efficient in efficiency.

To get out the shuttle loom that was ahead of this era, Wei Shi's purpose was also to stabilize Mi Zhen and Mi Zhu first, so that they could extinguish the fire first.

In the face of cross-era inventions, I believe that businessmen like the Mi brothers and sisters will not refuse in-depth cooperation.

"Ten acres of land and eight acres wide, there is a daughter official sitting in it, thousands of kites, ten thousand threads, and the shuttle wears it back and forth." Han Qiuyun was very surprised that Wei Shi had come up with a new trick.

After trying to weave the cloth a few times, she immediately empathized and lost interest in spinning technology, which is also normal, after all, spinning thread is only a semi-finished product, and the woven cloth is a finished product.

After solving the matter of throwing the shuttle loom, Wei Shi took advantage of the effort to send the thread into the city, and sent a piece of linen with colorful patterns woven by Han Qiuyun to the Mijia business as a gift.

Wei Shi believed that as long as Mi Zhen saw Mabu, he would regain interest in him.

Because women are born with a habit of clothing.

Especially a woman like Mi Zhen, who has been in business since she was a child and is used to seeing novelties.

But in the Mi family's business, Wei Shi did not see the Mi brothers and sisters, and listened to the steward, Mi Zhu was busy raising military funds for Liu Bei for a while, and he had no time to ask Wei Shi about it.

In Xinye City, Liu Beijun's generals gathered.

Wei Shi only glanced at the city, and found the banners of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the arrival of these two generals also meant that Liu Bei had recovered from the defeat in Runan.

Defeated and defeated, the more frustrated the more courageous.

Liu Bei gradually developed and grew in the confrontation with Cao Cao.

According to the timeline, this unwilling general Zuo has begun to recruit troops and invite talents.

In the next year, that is, in the seventh year of Jian'an, there will be a great battle between Cao and Liu to burn Bowangpo, and the victory of this counterattack won Liu Bei several years of peace, and also laid the foundation for him to win the hearts of the new people.

If Wei Shi wants to gain a foothold in Xinye, the first thing he needs to do is to improve his prestige.

As a Luzuo cloth with no family background to rely on, the support of the people is very important.

To develop the village of Yushuwan well, let the villagers here be grateful, praise, and through the mouths of the people, to beat their own fame is the most important thing for Wei Shi at present.

On the way back to Yushu Bay, Wei Shi deliberately made a detour to the Yellow Beach in the lower reaches of the river, where Huang Xu's residence was located.

Compared with Wei Shi, who has nothing, Huang Xu has Huang Zhong to rely on in the Jingzhou army, so he doesn't have to worry too much about being oppressed.

Wei Shi's trip was mainly to ask Huang Xu to buy a batch of iron, and then see if he could build a blast furnace and pick up the iron-making skills left by Wei Blacksmith.

In addition, after the last time the two chose to marry, although they had come and gone several times, as soon as Wei Shi was busy, he moved less, and Huang Xu seemed to have a physical deficit, and he became more and more empty.

It is not easy to have a background that will be a friend of the door.

Wei Shi was worried that if Huang Xu was not careful, he would go the same way as in history.