“Wow, it’s so spectacular!”

"Auntie, they weave cloth so fast!" Yu Ji lowered her voice excitedly and said in Shui Qingru's ear.

"Yes, it turns out that my husband said that the loom can make a piece of silk a day. I still don't believe it. It seems that it's only fast but not slow at the moment!" Shui Qingrou nodded and exclaimed.

"These silk threads look spectacular like snow and fog. The silk weaving is also fine and smoother than the silk we saw before..."

When a group of women entered the door, they covered their mouths and shouted and chatted.

Chen Xu left his wife and children and checked the work records in the duty room at the entrance of the factory. He found that the work was neat and tidy every day. The person in charge was a man in his thirties with a thin face and wearing a civil servant uniform. He also responded respectfully in the face of Chen Xu's inquiries, looking very conscientious.

There is a huge wooden board on the back wall of the duty room, with the words "Fifth Workshop Attendance Form" written on it. There are a hundred bamboo nails neatly arranged vertically and horizontally. Each bamboo nail has a small wooden sign hanging on it. The wooden sign says the workshop, work number, name, etc., which is a unified work sign for factory employees. As long as the weaver mother who works normally, she must hang the work sign on the attendance form and take it away after get off work. If they don't come, it will be empty. This way, you can see the situation of work at a glance. Moreover, all employees who enter and exit the silk factory must hang the work sign on the clothes for doormen to check. You can also take the work sign for free on the get off work bus provided by the factory with this work sign.

This kind of management and attendance was not first created by the silk factory, but was first executed in the experimental factory and then promoted to the five major colleges. As for the first time in the factory office bus, it started from the Women's College. Now, over the years, the entire Qin Dynasty has begun to learn and promote.

Because the silk factory is located seven or eight miles east of Guangling County, it is built to facilitate water withdrawal. Most of the weaver girls recruited from the factory are healthy and skillful young women in their twenties. Most of the women of this age have married and married wives and mothers. Therefore, most of them have to go home to take care of their husbands and children to take care of their families in addition to working in the silk factory. Therefore, the silk factory also purchased twenty horse-drawn carriages to be put into operation. In addition to picking up and dropping off employees for free from get off work, they also operated to the outside world during the day to subsidize the manual maintenance costs of carriages and horses. The car fee is one yuan, which is very popular among local people.

The establishment of the silk factory not only allowed Guangling County, which had only more than 20,000 households to obtain a large number of employment opportunities, but also greatly developed the mulberry silkworm breeding and silk reeling industries. At the same time, the factory's huge consumption capacity has also driven the prosperity of local farmers in growing vegetables, growing grain, fishing and picking lotus roots.

Chen Xu had already asked carefully when inspecting the factory just now. In addition to opening the Guangling Silk Factory, three silk factories have appeared in Gaoyou, Tangyi and other counties near Guangling in just a few months. Seven or eight silk reeling factories of varying sizes have appeared, including Guangling County. The emergence of these large and small factories has greatly promoted the improvement and development of local civilian production and life.

Gaoyou is close to Guangling. The Binhai Chilu Road, which was renovated and expanded shortly, passes through Gaoyou. The land transportation is extremely convenient, and Guangling is just close to the Yangtze River, so water transportation is extremely convenient. In the smooth road plan built by Chen Xu, Guangling also has a river port terminal, which leads Jiangling and connects to the sea port at the bottom. It is only arranged for the second phase of the project, and there is only one planning plan at present.

Because silk is of high value but light weight and small size, it is not difficult to transport, and most of it is transported to Xianyang and handed over to Shaofu. Therefore, the demand among the people is not strong, or the demand among the people is strong but the supply and demand are severely insufficient, and there is no time to release a large number of private transactions. However, according to the current development, at most three years, with the vigorous development of the silk industry and the people are gradually becoming rich, silk will eventually be liberalized as a high-end clothing industry, and then it will be the time for mulberry silkworm breeding and silk industry to truly flourish.

Yangzhou, a famous capital in Huaizuo, which was developed by the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, will bloom more than a thousand years ahead of schedule. It is not Jiangnan but better than Jiangnan's water town style.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, King Fuchai of Wu went north to attack Qi, and used hundreds of thousands of servants and slaves to dig the Hangou, the largest artificial canal in Chinese history, connecting the river with the Huai River, and for more than 300 miles to transport food on a boat.

Although the prosperity of Wu was just a flash in the pan, the excavation of Hangou greatly promoted commercial exchanges and population exchanges between the Yangtze River and Huaihe River basins. Therefore, Guangling also became the object of competition among the countries. Wu, Yue, Qi and Chu successively fought around Hangou for a hundred years. However, the six kings and grandsons are all slaves and prisoners, and the former overlords are all destroyed. However, Hangou is still clear and surging, and boats are everywhere, driving the rapid development of the Yangtze and Huai Plain.

Although Chen Xu hurried to Guangling for inspection this time, Yangzhou's convenient transportation and location have long been in his huge plan. In the future, Guangling will inevitably rise and become a prosperous metropolis like in the south of the Yangtze River, Jiangsu and Hangzhou, and become a huge helper to lead the development of the silk and shipping industries in the southeast counties.

After watching the duty room, Chen Xu, accompanied by Guangling County Magistrate and Weiwei, and others, carefully watched the weaving mother's work on both sides along the passage between the looms. The continuous and densely lifting plates and the sound of knocking weft knives forming a monotonous and charming sound.

There are currently 1,000 weaving girls in the textile factory, of which 500 are formal employees, and the remaining 500 are training for the third phase of the project in advance. They follow the formal workers to work every week to learn the operation of the loom, and also cooperate with some spindles and silk replacement and the handling and handover of silk. Those who have been recognized by the manager can replace formal weaving silk. Therefore, most looms are replaced without stopping, and they never stop during the day.

At this time, a group of people walked to the loom to watch. Weaver was a young woman in her twenties. She had a petite figure and light movements. She looked like a typical southern woman. She kept stomping on the board, and as the lifting tumbling continued to rise and fall, the shuttle in her hand was shuttled back and forth on the loom, and at the same time, she kept holding the weft knife to tighten the shuttle thread. Accompanied by the neat and extremely rhythmic sound, the silk appeared bit by bit.

At the beginning of normal work, I suddenly watched the county magistrate and the county magistrate and a group of leaders from the factory come to inspect, and it was obviously led by the handsome young man in the middle of the brocade robe and jade crown. The young man not only held a very handsome little girl in his hand, but also followed a group of extremely noble and elegant women and maids.

I don’t know where this young man came from. When I came to inspect the silk factory with such a pomp, I must have a bad identity.

At this time, the weaver girl and staff in the entire factory had already seen Chen Xu and others coming in. During the intense weaving process, many people couldn't help but slow down and secretly watch this strange inspection team.

Since the silk factory officially started construction in March this year, people have come to inspect and observe almost every day. At most, dozens of groups of various types must be accepted a day, including merchants, celebrities, officials, and some nobles who came purely for the fun. This situation has not been reduced until after May with the completion of the second phase of the silk factory.

Therefore, it is not surprising that some people come to the factory to inspect all the weaver girls and staff, but it is the first time that there are such high-standard receptions like today. Not only are the county magistrates and magistrates personally accompanied, but almost all the senior management of the silk factory were there at this time. This is the first time since the silk factory opened.

A young man with extraordinary temperament, a group of extremely beautiful women and maids, and even holding a few girls with carved jade. The accompanying officials were all careful not to speak loudly. While this strange combination made all the Weaver Girls’ speculations, it also made the Weaver Girl who was onlookers even more nervous.

"Brother Xiaoxu, it looks so fun, I want to try..." Yu Ji gently pulled Chen Xu's sleeve and begged quietly.

"Young master, if you want to try the loom, you can go to the observation room..." The manager of the workshop spoke quickly, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Chen Xu. "Talking randomly, go and do fifty squats!"

"Go and do it~, your eyes were eaten by a dog!" The factory manager glared and scolded.

"Yes, the official said the wrong thing!" The workshop manager shivered slightly and walked to the side, hugged his head and began to squat in a squat.

"Puff~~"

Seeing that the workshop manager who was so majestic on weekdays was like a child who did something wrong, many weaving ladies could no longer help it. They stopped and covered their mouths and buried their heads in hilariousness. At the same time, they turned their heads to watch Chen Xu. In an instant, the identity of this young man became more and more mysterious.

When the onlooker saw this situation, the Weaver Girl became even more nervous. She stepped on the wrong steps several times in a row, and the shuttle in her hand almost flew out.

"Don't be nervous, you can stop first and let me try it~"

Chen Xu and his face began to roll up his sleeves with joy. The young Weaver Girl quickly stopped moving and stood up and stepped down to the side. Chen Xu lifted his brocade robe and sat down in front of the loom. After adjusting his position and sat down, he stepped on a tread board. After the lifting board was raised, he slowly moved the shuttle through the warp lines separated by the upper and lower parts. Then he leaned against the weft knife and let go of the tread board, then stepped on the second tread board and continued to repeat the movement just now. After several consecutive times, Chen Xu turned his head and smiled and asked the Weaver Girl just now: "Have I done something wrong just now?"

"You did nothing wrong!" The weaver girl quickly saluted.

"That's good, but I'm not as good as you, this silk will probably affect your work points..." Chen Xu stopped the movement in his hand and stood up and said to Yu Ji, "Come and try it too!"

"Thank you, Brother Xiaoxu!" Yu Ji sat down happily, and under Chen Xu's guidance, stepped on the weft thread and held the weft knife. After more than ten minutes, Yu Ji was able to operate the weft machine skillfully continuously. However, because of the first time weaving, the weft threads were not tight, so the silk woven did not look very smooth.

"Wow, I've knitted so ugly..." Looking at the half-inch long piece of silk she woven, Yu Ji stood up with her pretty face and stuck out her tongue and hid behind Shui Qingrou.

"Let me try it!" At this time, Meng Wan also became interested and happily sat in front of the loom and started weaving. Although the movements were also unfamiliar, they were much better than Yu Ji's performance. And after getting familiar with them, the movements gradually accelerated. However, it was the first time weaving cloth, so the silk woven was not very smooth. It was more than an inch long in just over ten minutes, which was obviously different from the ones weaving in front of the weaving girl.

"Sister Shiman is here to try it too!" Meng Wan looked at the silk she woven, and couldn't help but her pretty face turned slightly red. She stood up and invited Ying Shiman, who was eager to try it, to try it too.

"Madam, we want to try it too!" Chun Xia Qiu Dong and a group of maids also became interested and began to beg Meng Wan and Ying Shiman.

"Don't be anxious, I'll try it first and let you guys come one by one!" Ying Shiman sat down nervously, picked up the shuttle and stepped on the tiptoe and kept asking the Weaver Girl next to her. Under the guidance of Weaver Girl, she also started to move slightly clumsyly and began to weave it one after another.

While Meng Wan and a group of women were discussing and studying around the loom, Chen Xu, Guangling County Magistrate and Weiwei and a group of management teams of the factory were standing beside him and watched. The weaver girl in the entire factory stopped completely and came over to watch the strange guests curiously.
Chapter completed!