Looking at Wen Chen's appearance, Li Youcai suddenly became angry.

"Hmph, my Lao Li is also sick and rushed to the doctor, he is whimsical, believe your nonsense!"

"Waste of time!"

Li Youcai snorted angrily, hugged the fine hemp in his hand and turned around to leave, the worker is not a person, can he still be a ghost?

I didn't want Wen Chen to be quick, so he dragged the two bundles of fine linen in his hand, touched a few handfuls gently, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Although the quality of the material is not good, the good quality is not bad......

So saying, he went out and called a carriage, and together with several coachmen, he lifted the water-powered loom up.

"Let's go, shopkeeper Li, this will show you the world!"

"It's just that you fool my Lao Li, don't spoil things!"

Li Youcai was about to step forward to retrieve the fine linen that had been taken away, but Wen Chen grabbed his neck and pulled him into the carriage.

I don't know where this skinny-looking stinky boy got so much strength that he couldn't move himself.

"Shopkeeper Li, if you do business, you have to be patient, since you have come, it is better to investigate for a while and see how I deceived you."

Wen Chen smiled faintly.

"Good!" Li Youcai said angrily, "You really don't cry when you don't see the coffin, my old Li will expose you as a liar in person today and send you to the government, and then see how you quibble!" ”

In his opinion, Wen Chen's brain must be a little abnormal, and he regrets that he would listen to a madman!

The carriage jolted all the way and finally stopped in the middle of the city, by the Yongji River, which had flowed for hundreds of years.

The river flow is steady, not hurried or slow, which is exactly what Wen Chen wants.

In the Jiangnan area, there was a major flood last year, but the center of the disaster area is far away from Qingcheng, so the local area has not been affected much, and the river embankment is also very stable.

I saw Wen Chen find the right position, beckoned several coachmen who came with him, fixed the machine to the shallower riverbed, and after sending the coachmen away, he immediately put the twine he had just snatched from Li Youcai into the groove designed by the textile machine in advance.

"Shopkeeper Li, look at it!"

Wen Chen's face did not change, he stood in place with his hands behind his back, his eyes flashing with excitement!

Bang......

Bang......

Boom - Boom Boom – Boom –

As the blades turn, the robotic arm that links the water wheel and the loom begins to swing faster and faster under the impetus of the water!

The vertical spindle pulls the fine linen that was put in by Wen Chen before and staggers up and down, and starts working!

Li Youcai, who was still impatient before, instantly widened his eyes, and watched in disbelief as the fine linen was woven into cloth at a rapid speed.

Li Youcai's mouth opened wide, and this machine that could move by himself simply subverted his cognition!

What the hell is this?

Why do you do it yourself!?

Impossible...... absolutely impossible!

"Where are you hiding? Where did you hide the workers? ”

"Why can't I see them? Why?! ”

Li Youcai grabbed Wen Chen's shoulders like crazy and shook back and forth, his brain was in chaos!

Wen Chen smiled and pulled away his arm, "This is called converting kinetic energy into mechanical energy, so that the machine can be propelled, supplemented by precision instruments, you can achieve the effect of replacing labor!" ”

Li Youcai's expression was dazed, and he only understood the last sentence of Wen Chen's explanation.

"Replace manual ......"

"You're saying there are no workers operating in this monster?!"

Wen Chen shook his head slightly, "Of course not, all the power of the hydrotextile machine comes from the flowing water, as long as the water does not stop, it will not stop!" ”

"How efficient is this? How long does it take to weave a piece of cloth? ”

Li Youcai hurriedly asked.

Wen Chen touched his chin, "Ideally, the hydraulic loom I invented can weave eighty threads at a time, which is eighty times the labor efficiency, but this thing doesn't need to rest, as long as someone takes care of the cloth, if you don't count the wear, it can be rotated!" ”

In this way, this textile machine can top more than 100 workers!

Don't pay for it?!

Li Youcai's eyes lit up, and the expression on his face kept changing, if he had it, why worry about not being able to weave 300,000 horses of summer cloth in two months?!

"It's saved, my Li family is saved!!"

Li Youcai knelt in front of Wen Chen with a plop, hugged his thighs, and said sincerely.

"Young Master Wen, please save my Li family and sell this machine to my Lao Li!"

"Lao Li is really desperate, only you can save me!"

Wen Chen snorted and looked at Li Youcai with his arms crossed, "Am I a liar?" ”

"No, how can you be a liar?"

Li Youcai hurriedly raised his hand and jerked at his fat face, "Let you look down on people, let you collide with Wen Gongzi!" ”

"Alright, alright!"

"Talk about business, don't talk too much." The corners of Wen Chen's mouth hooked, and Li Youcai was dragged up from the ground.

"Say, how much cloth does the imperial court want your Li family to weave?"

Li Youcai sneered, "Before the end of July, they asked the Li family to hand over three ...... 300,000 horses of Shabu ......"

Even Wen Chen, who had been mentally prepared, couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard this number.

Xia cloth is considered a low-to-middle grade product among many categories of fabrics, and it is also one of the most consumed fabric categories by ordinary people.

Although it has the advantages of breathability and sweat absorption, light and warm, it is also woven of twine after all, and there is no high-end sense of silk, so it is basically only popular among the people.

"The people from the imperial court, did they say that they need so many Xia Bu for what they do?"

Li Youcai sighed and shook his head, "Old Li, I don't dare to ask!" ”

Wen Chen took a deep breath, feeling that this matter was quite strange, but he couldn't guess what the suspicion was for the time being.

"Shopkeeper Li, I can't sell this machine to you......"

As soon as Li Youcai heard this, he immediately became anxious, and he was about to kneel on the ground with a sad face, but was helped up by Wen Chen.

"Don't worry, although I won't sell it to you, I didn't say I wouldn't give it to you!"

Wen Chen chuckled, "300,000 horses of Xia Bu, this machine alone is not enough, at least a hundred must be able to catch up with the progress." ”

"So I'm going to talk to Shopkeeper Li about cooperation next!"

"How to cooperate?" Li Youcai asked cautiously, with his current situation, as long as Wen Chen is willing to let himself use this textile machine, let alone cooperate, it is not a problem for him to engrave Wen Chen's name on the first line of his family tree!

"You pay, I pay!" Wen Chen smiled and said, "You invested in Yinliang to fund me to set up a factory, and you are responsible for the equipment, materials and management personnel that need to be added to the factory in the future." ”

"And I am responsible for the installation, commissioning and maintenance of the equipment, this time according to the price negotiated yesterday, I will help your Li family tide over the difficulties, and the income generated by the cooperation in the future will be divided between you and me!"

Li Youcai originally thought that Wen Chen would also think about his group of wine and meat friends and take advantage of the fire to rob, but he didn't expect that his request didn't mean to embarrass himself at all!

Recalling his contempt and embarrassment for Wen Chen yesterday, he couldn't help but blush, and bowed to Wen Chen.

"Young Master Wen, you are a friend, I will recognize Lao Li for a lifetime!"

Heaven will not die, my Li family!

Wen Chen smiled and waved his hand.

"But Master Wen, your textile machine is so exquisite, if you want to build it, it will cost you a lot of silver taels, right?"

"No more, no more!" Wen Chen held out two fingers.

"Two thousand taels?" Li Youcai's body was shocked, and he was already frightened by the action of stretching out his fingers.

Those 100 machines are 200,000 taels of silver!

Although it is more expensive, if you sell some family property and go to the money bank to borrow a few sums, you can barely make it up, but there is also the reason to pay the cost of raw materials for the imperial court in advance, I am afraid that the pressure during this period is a little great......

"What two thousand taels? Twenty taels! ”