"The national teacher has arrived in person?!"

After Tang Yin heard this somewhat unprepared news, he immediately got up from his seat and hurriedly ran towards the outside of the pavilion.

Hu Hancang and the others followed closely behind, which effectively alleviated the embarrassment just now.

"Hurry up, hurry up and meet it!"

When everyone came to the gate of the north gate of the field, a team of carriages had slowly stopped.

Tang Yin led a group of converging factory managers to greet them at the door.

The curtain was lifted, revealing Jiang Xinghuo's face.

I didn't ride a horse today, because I galloped for several days in Suzhou Mansion to raid Qingtian's work, and the skin of my thighs was worn out, and I had to walk eight steps outside the point, so I couldn't ride anymore, so I came by car.

"I've seen the national teacher!"

The car of the national teacher stopped at the north gate of the factory area, which immediately caused a sensation.

This is the presence of the national teacher in person, and even Xue Wuying and others have seen this rumored Ming national teacher up close for the first time.

Li Jie and they were even ready to bow down and salute, but they were stopped, the Ming Dynasty from the folk to the temple, this kind of overly solemn etiquette is still not very popular, ordinary people even if they meet officials, they don't need to bow, only when facing nobles and the royal family, there is this kind of etiquette requirement.

Tang Yin looked at this familiar face, and for a moment he couldn't care why the notice he received before was to come from Shanghai County to inspect tomorrow.

However, she didn't dare to slack off, and stepped forward and said: "The national teacher has been tired all the way from afar, and it has been really hard. ”

Jiang Xinghuo walked out of the carriage with a smile and said, "Come to the factory to inspect the work, and by the way, take a look at the situation of these workers, what's so hard about this?" What, I'm not welcome? ”

Tang Yin hurriedly said, "How could it be? It just felt too sudden. ”

In fact, there are safety considerations for this suddenness.

This time Qingtian, although the head of the killing is rolling, it looks cool, but it also offended a lot of people in the four provinces of Jiangnan, which means that it is very likely that there will be many people who have the will and ability to do something to Jiang Xinghuo's personal safety In fact, Jiang Xinghuo understands this very clearly, and the change is a change that touches the interests of the gentry class, and this change is enough to rise to the nature of life and death.

And for those who are eager to let the change be stopped immediately and return to the era of Jianwen's "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty", the fastest and low-cost way to block the change is actually to assassinate Jiang Xinghuo himself.

Jiang Xinghuo never felt that he was a child of destiny, although he was not afraid of death, but a bullet and a crossbow arrow could also send him to reincarnation.

In order to avoid the end of the death of the people, Jiang Xinghuo's defense measures have always been very good, there are many armor guards around, in this case, even if it is outdoors, it is not safe to be assassinated, and layer after layer of tall iron pimples are guarding.

Jiang Xinghuo had not yet stayed, so he only had a meal and rested for a while, and then suddenly slipped out of the back door and came directly, in order to prevent the county government from really having internal ghosts, this kind of thing can not be guaranteed by anyone.

"It used to be a wasteland, but now it has changed a lot, but you don't know how much effort you have put into it."

Jiang Xinghuo said, and helped Tang Yin and the others who were worshipping to pick up.

At the north gate of the factory area, Jiang Xinghuo talked patiently with the female workers who heard the news for half an hour.

"Your performance in the factory is very good, and the workers are also actively working hard, I hope you will continue to work hard to make the construction of the factory prosperous, if there is any need, whether it is the county or the government, will do their best to help you."

Hearing Jiang Xinghuo's words, Tang Yin's eyes suddenly turned a little red, she didn't expect that Jiang Xinghuo would value them so much, which made her feel a little rare.

After all, in the White Lotus Sect before, Tang Yin had been brainwashed, and was finally abandoned as a chess piece, and even if she became a saint at the beginning, Tang Yin could still know that there were a lot of people who had all kinds of strange eyes and unearmarked comments behind her.

After becoming an ordinary textile worker again, and standing out with her own wisdom, literacy and organizational skills, Tang Yin has a different experience of the new life, and there are a lot of calculations and gossip in the workshop, but unlike the past when the tip of the knife licked blood, the current life is much more stable, and the most important thing is that Tang Yin and the female workers do feel that their work is meaningful and is actually creating value.

Here, Tang Yin, like the female workers, does not need to be bound by the old social rules, how much people earn depends on their workload, and the life in the factory is also a new and beautiful life experience.

"Thank you, the national teacher."

Jiang Xinghuo nodded, and said to everyone: "You have worked hard, if you should go into the workshop to rest now, hurry up and rest, don't disturb your lunch break, we will meet again when there is time in the future!" ”

Many female workers reluctantly said goodbye, and then entered the gate of the factory area one after another.

Subsequently, under the leadership of Tang Yin, Jiang Xinghuo and several foreign students visited the interior of the workshop.

In the cotton textile workshop, the hydraulic textile machine runs non-stop under the hydraulic drive of the Huangpu River diversion canal on the other side.

Under Lao Zhu's policy, because he disliked this thing and cost water, it affected the farmers to water the fields, so they were all burned.

But fortunately, the time is not very long, only more than thirty years, so in the remote countryside of the political envoy of Huguangbu, Jin Yiwei still found this thing.

Although it is a bit shameful to say "archaeological scientific research", I have to admit that the wisdom of the ancient Chinese people is incomparable, and even if this thing is improved and changed to adapt to cotton textile production, it is more than enough to promote the initial stage of the first industrial revolution in China. Jiang Xinghuo's previous life, the British used this level at the beginning.

Jiang Xinghuo visually inspected it, this huge textile machine is about ten meters long, and if it is as tall as a basketball hoop, it is half a basketball court when placed in the workshop, which is not huge.

"This is the spindle, which is used to rotate the cotton yarn, this is the plus, and then this is the water wheel, and this is the transmission device that guides the water wheel outside." Tang Yin introduced them one by one.

Looking at the two leather ropes that rotated with the flow of water, driving dozens of spindles to fly, and the cotton yarn was formed, the foreign students were stupid for a while.

This is not a single hydroloom, but countless huge hydrolooms arranged in one workshop at the same time.

This unparalleled visual impact and productivity beyond their imagination gave them a great shock.

Tang Yin smiled slightly and said, "This is the most advanced textile machine in our workshop, and it has many advantages. ”

She stretched out her index finger and pointed to a textile machine, and said, "The cotton yarn we make with these machines is lighter, softer, and more breathable than the hand-made cotton yarn, and it can be cut and packed by manual manipulation by the cutting knife below while rolling out." ”

"What is the speed at which you are spinning with this machine now?"

"About twenty catties of cotton yarn in an hour."

This is not a small number, you know, cotton yarn is very light, and in the process, the lighter the requirements, the better, which also leads to the fact that although there are a lot of spinning, the speed is also very fast, but the weight is not much, an hour of small twenty pounds of cotton yarn, if you don't use a cutting knife, I am afraid that you can pile up a hill in front of the machine.

"So you can spin 200 catties a day?"

"Almost, this machine has been improved several times, we have replaced the spinning threads and grooves, and the quality of these steel parts is much higher than the iron parts of the previous Yuan Dynasty, and our craftsmanship is therefore more exquisite."

Jiang Xinghuo nodded, the impact of the breakthrough of basic materials is in all aspects, with large-scale access to steel, not only can the parts of the machine be made harder, but also in many processing accuracy and durability, there have been great changes.

And hearing this number, Yukimai Sakura, who knew a little about spinning, couldn't help but feel a burst of despair.

In Japan, the most commonly used textile machine is a spinning wheel with one or three spindles on the foot.

And one spinning wheel, Japanese women work hard for a day, and they can get two or three catties of yarn at the end of the day, what is the gap?

A hundredfold!

How desperate!

When Japanese women are still immersed in weaving, on the other side of the ocean, Daming has begun to use this kind of efficient and cheap machine on a large scale, and the cotton textiles produced by this monster-like machine are not only strong, beautiful and durable, but also dozens of times more efficient than manual work, not to mention, but also cheap!

How does this compare?

But Xue Wuying Sakura immediately recovered from this huge shock, and secretly made up her mind that this time she came to Daming to increase her knowledge, and if she could return to Japan one day, and was expected to restore the rule of the Southern Dynasty Dajue Temple, then she must introduce this advanced textile technology from Daming.

However, Yukimai Sakura didn't think about what Japan would become if the Southern Dynasty Dakakuji Temple could regain its rule in Japan.

Of course, these are all later words, so I won't mention them for the time being.

At this time, Jiang Xinghuo and Tang Yin were standing next to the textile machines to observe the work of these machines, at this moment, the international students finally felt what is called the real textile industry, and also felt the heritage of the Ming Dynasty, which is beyond the reach of their motherland, which uses the fur of wild beasts as clothes and eats on pilaf for food.

And this is only the initial result of the industrial revolution in the textile industry!

After the development of the steam engine is completed, and some special high-precision parts are added, the performance of the entire textile machine will probably have a earth-shaking change.

Moreover, in just a few years, due to the brainstorming and whimsy of the workers, a large number of patented technologies have appeared, although the vast majority of these patented technologies cannot help real industrial production, but there are many of them, there will always be truly useful technologies that can be put into application, which is also the significance of patent law.

And these technologies may be called the history of the development of textile machines in later generations.

All in all, the value brought by these large hydraulic textile machines can be said to be difficult to estimate.

From cotton to cotton textiles, there are many steps, ginning, drawing, spinning and weaving, etc., and the next workshop is the processing of cotton silk.

Jiang Xinghuo pointed to the female workers working on the assembly line and asked Tang Yin: "They work in the factory and have made a lot of contributions to the Ming Dynasty, how much do they get paid every month?" ”

Tang Yin hesitated for a moment and said, "According to different workshops and positions, it is about one or two stones of rice." ”

The current official currency of the Ming Dynasty is treasure money, and copper money is auxiliary currency, but for various reasons, the circulation of copper money is somewhat insufficient, and considering that food is hard currency in the agricultural society, there are many of them in the actual transaction link of the people, and the same is true for the factory area, you can choose to receive grain, or you can choose to exchange copper money according to the floating grain price.

During the Yongle years, the salary of one to two stones of rice could basically feed a family of four or five without starving to death.

From the perspective of rice-based prices, the income of female textile workers can be said to be above the middle among all social classes in Jiangnan.

"Well, that's good."

Jiang Xinghuo nodded and said, "Is there any daily consumption in the field?" ”

Tang Yin didn't dare to talk nonsense, and took Jiang Xinghuo around the canteen, bathhouse, hair repair shop, clothes shop, clothes shop, food shop and other places, and saw that all the service industries in the venue had free standard services, and there were also mark-up services that could be purchased optionally, Jiang Xinghuo felt very satisfied.

This method, for female workers, has not only a basic guarantee, but also a choice of space, quite humane.

After all, everyone has a love for beauty, not to mention that many of these female workers are not very old, and it is when they like to dress up, they are far away from home without too much burden, and they are happy to make their quality of life higher.

"What about the supply of cotton?"

"There are a lot of local rice and cotton crops in Songjiang Prefecture, which is basically enough."

Of course, the concept of "changing rice to grow cotton" here is not the same as Xiaoge's "changing rice to mulberry", the former is a spontaneous economic behavior, and has considerable geographical advantages and a long planting history.

Since the time of Huang Daopo, Songjiang Province has been a high-quality production area of cotton, and the light and hydrological conditions here are not only suitable for growing rice, but also suitable for growing cotton.

Since the handicraft workshop area was established here, and the production volume was so large, then the original cotton supply was definitely not enough, and the cotton purchase price came up, and it is not surprising that there were local landlords and gentry who "changed rice to grow cotton" in order to make money, anyway, what Songjiang Prefecture lacked was not rice, but cotton.

After finishing the inspection of the factory, Jiang Xinghuo had a separate conversation with Tang Yin.

It's still the gazebo.

The breeze stirred the bamboo forest and made a rustling sound.

A tea set was placed on the stone table, Jiang Xinghuo picked up the teapot with one hand, and slowly poured water into the teacup, and the tea leaves tossed up and down with the hot water.

Tang Yin quietly watched Jiang Xinghuo pour tea, and his head, which was usually full of thoughts, was surprisingly empty, but he felt that the other party's hands were really good-looking, slender and distinct.

"If only it could be chopped off"

Strange thoughts flashed through me.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the former White Lotus Sect saintess in front of him, who had both the agility of a girl and the charm of a young woman, and she also had a seductive charm on her, which was difficult to hide.

"You're honest."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at her deeply.

In the past two years, although Tang Yin had many opportunities to continue to develop the White Lotus Sect with the remnants of the organizational structure, Tang Yin did not choose this path, and Jin Yiwei's surveillance of her never got any handle.

Hearing Jiang Xinghuo say this, Tang Yin's face seemed to be slightly red, and he said in a low voice: "Tang Yin doesn't dare to make a mistake." ”

"Normal."

Jiang Xinghuo pushed the cup over.

Tang Yin regained his seriousness, lowered his head and said, "The national teacher is a person who serves the people. ”

Jiang Xinghuo smiled and said, "People like me generally don't end well. ”

Tang Yin raised his head, looked at Jiang Xinghuo's eyes, and said seriously: "But didn't the national teacher think about himself?" ”

Jiang Xinghuo's hand holding the teacup hovered in mid-air.

At this time, Jiang Xinghuo was already seriously considering that if Tang Yin persuaded him to secretly develop the White Lotus Sect and prepare to rebel in the coming years, then this woman really couldn't stay.

The fight for the crown is inevitable, but there are Zhu Gaoxu, Li Jinglong and others in the military circles, Xungui is almost a supporter of the Qing Dynasty, and Jiang Xinghuo also has a lot of power on the civilian side, how to say, the future path of the Ming Dynasty does not need the help of the Jianghu forces like the White Lotus Sect, and secretly cultivating this kind of force, will it not be played out for the time being, just cultivation, there is a risk of leakage at any time, and the gains outweigh the losses at that time.

Tang Yin seemed to notice something, pulled her hair behind her ears, pursed her lips and smiled: "The national teacher has also reached the age when it is time to start a family." ”

Jiang Xinghuo was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "A few days ago, Rong Guogong's old sister wanted to introduce her great-granddaughter to me. ”

After laughing, a storm disappeared.

Seeing Jiang Xinghuo closing his eyes and listening to the wind, Tang Yin's words turned around on his lips, and he didn't know how to say it.

After thinking about it, in the end, he brought up business again.

Tang Yin seriously reported the matter of the menstrual cotton towel.

"I see."

Jiang Xinghuo was not disgusted by this from ordinary officials, but thought for a moment and bowed slightly, and asked, "Then what is the reaction this time?" ”

Tang Yin said: "Hui Guoshi, the quality of these productions this time is not bad, especially popular with female workers, and the cost is low, if it can be promoted and sold, and slowly spread out from Jiangnan, then the profit pressure of our factory has also been reduced a lot." ”

Tang Yin is very confident in this matter, if this new product can be promoted, it will definitely increase the turnover of the factory by a large margin.

Seeing that Jiang Xinghuo didn't speak, Tang Yin continued: "Don't worry, this business will definitely not be lost, my daughter's family will start using it from the age of cardamom, and the money is endless." ”

Jiang Xinghuo waved his hand, there are many ways to make money, and there are countless huge profits, these are not very important to him, on the contrary, if the overall health level and population life expectancy of the Ming Dynasty can be slightly improved, then it is very good.

"Okay, you can start with the women of Songjiang Mansion to give it a try, this matter is best to come subtly, the imperial court is not suitable for hype."

With Jiang Xinghuo's affirmation, Tang Yin breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, this kind of thing can be big or small, but to put it bigger, in the Ming society, which is still ruled by Cheng Zhu Lixue, it can even be said to be an extremely unethical thing.

And with Jiang Xinghuo's tone, many things are much easier to do.

"In addition, the private textile industry is now gradually recovering"

"This matter is licensed, others do not compete with the people, in the next few years or even more than ten years, the overseas market is extremely broad, and the folk textile industry is allowed to develop."

Jiang Xinghuo is still very calm.

Allowing the handicraft workshop area where cotton textiles are produced by machines and assembly lines to impact the private market, although it can make a temporary profit, it is undoubtedly very harmful to not know that thousands of households will go bankrupt with their sideline business.

The two talked for a while, but with the arrival of Zhao Haichuan, the conversation came to an abrupt end.

"National teacher, something big has happened."

"Ningbo City Bosi seized a person who lived on the relocated island. Suspected Emperor Jianwen. ”

(End of chapter)