Wanli Youming

Chapter 142

Chapter 142

Zhai Rujing said at this time: "It's good if someone knows what kind of spinning wheel this is, so, does anyone of you know how to spin this?"

All the great Confucian scholars looked at each other in blank dismay.

"I can!"

Liu Quexian responded, sat behind the spinning wheel, and began to operate it.

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

Liu Quexian nodded and said, "I've learned this before, 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 Quexian had to say.

He Xinyin even asked directly: "Is it to understand the daily routine of the people?"

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

"You are also a gentleman, don't you have enough cotton cloth, and you want to spin the yarn yourself?"

Wang Shizhen asked.

Liu Quexian said: "No, it's because the demand for cotton cloth is huge now, especially after the expansion of the Nine Sides and Southeast Naval Divisions, the army alone needs to use a lot of cotton cloth. In order to make more money, why don't we weave more cotton cloth?"

Wang Shizhen became contemptuous after hearing this: "It's only for a few taels of money."

He Xinyin was also a little disappointed.

Li Zhi also sat down, and sat next to Tan Yangzi, and said: "The way is as simple as it is, true knowledge can increase profits. I think that what this friend Liu said is so reasonable, it can be called my confidant!"

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

At this time, Wang Shizhen reminded Li Zhi, and said, "I still have a few new poems I got in my dream, and I didn't ask Tan Yangzi for advice."

Li Zhi looked at Zhai Rujing and asked, "Ti Shuai, does the edict stipulate who must sit where?"

"This is not."

"In addition, you don't have to worry that no one will teach you. We have invited old women who are familiar with spinning here, and they can teach you too."

Zhai Rujing replied.

After hearing this, Li Zhi looked at Wang Shizhen: "Wang Fengzhou, did you hear that, the emperor didn't make such a rule, so are you still older than the emperor?"

Wang Shizhen walked over angrily, and muttered: "The old woman is not so beautiful. You Li Zhuowu, I want to write all your scandals in my notes!"

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

"I later read the "Nongshu" written by Yin Wangzhen of Yuanshi County and found that there was a large spinning wheel that could be driven by water."

"This large hydraulic spinning wheel can spin 32 spindles at the same time, and the current spinning wheel is spinning with one spindle. If such a large spinning wheel is really reproduced, it is equivalent to the amount of spinning of a large spinning wheel at the same time. The amount spun by 32 spinning wheels."

Because Tan Yangzi was a young and beautiful woman, Liu Quexian was not as reticent as before, and started talking in front of Tan Yangzi.

And his classmate Wang Changgeng looked at Liu Quexian enviously: "When we slept together in the past, I never saw him talk so much! He smiled so brightly!"

Wang Shizhen, who was sitting beside Wang Changgeng, also stepped on the pedal machine and learned spinning from the old woman, and said, "What can I learn from reading these miscellaneous books? Why does Tan Yangzi still listen to them with great interest? Does she like to listen to them?" Talking about poetry and songs is too vulgar?"

After hearing this, Wang Changgeng kept nodding his head: "Mr. Fengzhou's advice!"

"Why do you read these books?"

Tan Yangzi also asked Liu Quexian this question at this time.

"It must be to make more money! With this big spinning wheel, it is equivalent to using one hired worker to replace another yarn mill with 32 hired workers, and the saved wages can be used to open another yarn mill!"

Li Zhi then answered for Liu Quexian.

Tan Yangzi couldn't help but asked Liu Quexian curiously: "Is it really like this?"

Liu Quexian nodded: "He is right, it is indeed to make more money."

Tan Yangzi nodded, frowning slightly.

At this time, Li Zhi stood up excitedly, walked up to Liu Quexian and bowed his hands: "I said, you are a true scholar if you can study for my confidant and for utilitarianism! Please accept my respect!"

Liu Quexian was dumbfounded.

However, other great Confucian scholars did not take it seriously, and Jiao Hong even looked contemptuously: "What kind of real knowledge is this, but it is all the way of money."

Tan Yangzi was a little surprised, so he asked Liu Quexian: "So, you are using a large hydraulic spinning wheel at home now?"

Li Zhi was also very curious, and asked, "Surely Liu Zhiji is already rich?"

"He didn't!"

"He takes boats and cars now, and basically stays at my house, even studying, and he doesn't hire a teacher himself!"

Wang Changgeng retorted loudly at this time.

Zhai Rujing was awakened by this, and quickly put down the script.

Because he was disturbed when he saw Ximen Qing discovering Pan Jinlian under the grape trellis and was about to declare his sovereignty in the daytime, he walked over with an unhappy face and shouted:

"What are you doing, go back to your own spinning wheel, learn spinning honestly, and improve your knowledge in practice, otherwise you will never want to go out for the rest of your life!"

Seeing the harsh tone of Jinyiwei Hall official Zhai Rujing, Li Zhi had no choice but to go back to his spinning wheel, and began to learn Liu Quexian's spinning with his clumsy pedals. At the same time, he said:

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

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

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

Hu Shiwen gave a faint "hmm".

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

Hu Shiwen's face darkened, and he didn't talk to He Xinyin again.

Here, Liu Quexian started spinning seriously.

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

Liu Quexian had no choice but to slow down.

Tan Yangzi continued to ask: "By the way, you really didn't become rich because of reading "Nong Shu"?"

"No! I just took a look, and I didn't ask anyone to use a large hydraulic spinning wheel."

Liu Quexian said.

Tan Yangzi asked, "Why?"

Li Zhi also looked over, and said seriously: "There must be a big mystery in it, please enlighten me!"

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

"How?"

Li Zhi asked.

Liu Quexian replied: "Although one person can do the work of 32 people with a large water-powered spinning wheel, isn't it true that I can only use one villager to work for me?"

"Then what about the other tribesmen and villagers? Wouldn't they be unable to increase their income and complain about it?"

"Do I still have to worry about who to use?"

"What's more, the tribe and the villagers are short of work, even if each person is only given a hundred coins, some of them are willing to do it."

"The Yuan Dynasty was able to use this big spinning wheel because a large number of people were slaughtered in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, and there was a shortage of people. Now there is no shortage of people in the Ming Dynasty. There are people who want to work and earn money everywhere. Therefore, there is no need!"

"What's more important is that with the ordinary spinning wheel, the villagers respect me and are willing to let my yarn workshop exist. When officials come to the yarn workshop to blackmail them, they can also work together to help me drive the officials away, and the hydraulic spinning wheel looks economical. It requires manpower, but the cost of manufacturing and maintenance is also quite a lot, so compared to building a large water-powered spinning wheel, it is more cost-effective to use the villagers.”

Both Tan Yangzi and Li Zhi nodded solemnly.

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

Li Zhi couldn't help saying: "This is the so-called way of the common people!"

Li Zhi went on to say: "It turns out that doing business is not that simple. What you have to consider is not only the improvement of skills, but also a lot of calculations. It's no wonder that such a good spinning wheel is no longer available in the market. It can be seen that strange skills Being obscene and clever is not necessarily beneficial to the people!"

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

"Coincidentally, my tribe and villagers have rented more land from Dahu, so the rent has to be paid more than in previous years. If I don't make more money by spinning yarn for me, my life will only be worse than before. Tighter. Therefore, I can't ignore this favor."

Liu Quexian also continued here.

Not only Tan Yangzi and Li Zhi listened to Liu Quexian's words, but also other great Confucian scholars.

Even Chen Yizheng, who was going to urge Li Zhi to spin the yarn seriously, listened to it at this moment, and couldn't help asking: "So after the implementation of the new policy, it will increase the burden on the people instead?"

"That's how it is!"

"Think about it carefully, every reform and new policy in the past has increased the burden on the people?"

Jiao Hong, who was opposed to the New Deal, became excited at this moment, said something, and asked other people.

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

(End of this chapter)