Outside the outskirts of Yecheng, by the Zhang River, a large-scale building mass, with thick smoke coming out of chimneys, and steam pumps continuously pumping river water into the high platform reservoir. The pool water flows out from the outlet and falls through the sink, pushing the water wheel to rotate.

A large number of rotating water wheels drive a row of drainage textile machines, woven a large number of silk and linen into cloth and satin.

This is the textile factory of the Hebei Weaving Department in Yecheng. It has nearly 1000 looms. The female textile workers operate the textile machine in three shifts, which is for the purpose of "three shifts". As long as there is enough silk and hemp, the roar of the textile factory will not stop.

Today, although the factory is still noisy, the sound is a bit different. The originally busy rows of textile machines are not operating now.

Most of the textile workers in the factory are concentrated in the yard and lined up in line according to the supervisor's requirements, with no one whispering or whispering.

Line up horizontally and vertically, the lines arranged by the textile female workers are neatly arranged, even more neatly than the teams of many armies, forming a blue "military formation".

These female workers are of different heights, fatness and thinness, but their clothes and dressing are the same.

Wearing a blue "work clothes", tops and underwear, narrow sleeves and narrow pants, a white apron, a sleeve cover in his hands, a work hat, and a hair in his hat, white socks and cloth shoes, no long hair fluttering, and no long skirt to sway.

A passage was separated in the middle of the team, with majestic soldiers standing on both sides of the passage. There were several machines in front of the team, and many women gathered next to it.

These women have different ages, including old women and young women. They dress like textile workers, but their temperaments are completely different. Judging from their appearance, they are obviously pampered and even have a bit of a rich look.

Many women exuded a faint fragrance and should wear sachets. They were a little uncomfortable with the "work clothes" they wore, and they were a little unnatural in every move.

On the periphery, some officials gathered. The eyes of these female workers dressed up as women were obviously different from those of the textile workers, with less arrogance and a hint of awe.

Of course, you have to be respected. These are all foreign women. Although they are not officials, their husbands and descendants are officials, but they are not small officials. There are many titles. If these foreign women are unhappy, they will be unlucky.

The ritual officer shouted "Silent". No one spoke any more except the roar of the machine. Everyone's eyes gathered on the people who were slowly walking.

The queen Yuchi Chifan, dressed as a textile worker, and the concubines dressed in the same dress, walked towards the machines with baskets. From a distance, it looked like several textile workers were about to "go to work".

Seeing the queen approaching, the foreign wife and officials quickly saluted, and a grand "persuasion to weaving" ceremony began.

After completing a set of procedures, Yuchi Chifan operated the knitting machine to weave socks, and Yang Lihua, Xiao Jiuniang and others helped and assisted the queen in operating the machine.

The knitting machine is very complicated to operate, and it is not possible to make it run smoothly by just pretending to move. This is not a problem for Yuchi Chifan, because she is also a qualified textile worker.

In Chang'an, Yuchi Chifan operated the textile machines, looms and knitting machines in public in Yongzhou Textile Factory, thereby encouraging women all over the world to work hard to weave kudzu, hemp, silk into cloth, silk, and knitted products.

This is the so-called "persuading weaving", which is the obligation that the queen must fulfill, just like the "silks and silkworms" ceremony every spring.

If it were in the past, when "persuading weaving", Yuchi Chifan, as the queen, should have operated the hand-rotten spinning wheel in front of a foreign woman (just as meaningful), but because of the hydraulic textile machine, the spinning wheel would appear to be "outsided".

Therefore, the queen went to a hydraulic textile factory to "persuad weaving" to meet the "trend of the times". However, the operation of hydraulic textile machines is more troublesome than hand-crank spinning wheels. Even if they are just pretending, if they don't understand the basic operation, they can't even install them.

Yuchi Chifan has been very serious about how to operate textile machines and knitting machines in the past three years. Because she wants to better fulfill the queen's obligations, although she does not need to rely on textiles to support her family, she is like a formal textile worker when operating the machine.

Now she is operating the knitting machine, and her movements are very skillful. Yang Lihua, Xiao Jiuniang and others who are helping each other are also skillful, which surprised the outsiders dressed in female workers.

They didn't expect that the queen and concubines were not just pretending to be able to operate machines. In addition to being amazed, some people couldn't help but feel despised.

As the queen, he is so familiar with the lowly karma. Could it be that he knows that he will inevitably lose favor in the future, so he has to leave a way out?

The Empress Yuchi family is a woman from the Yuchi family, and the Yuchi family is full of traitors. The position of the Yuchi family is not too stable. Now the Empress is as beautiful as a fairy, and the emperor still has favor. When she gets old and loses her lust, she will naturally lose her favor.

The queen is so charming that many women are dwarfed by each other. Some people point to the queen’s future loss of favor and falling into dust, and they can make jokes.

But no matter how much they think about it, they dare not show any signs of appearance. The queen is now favored and no one wants to cause unnecessary trouble.

They quietly watched the queen and concubines busy, and watched each other practiced to persuade the folk women to weave textiles.

Since ancient times, local officials in all dynasties have to encourage farmers and sericultures to be educated in their jurisdiction so that the people can have enough food and clothing and increase the government's tax revenue.

The same is true for the emperor and the queen. Every spring, the emperor would "encourage the plowing" and symbolically plow the fields in the yin fields; the queen would like to propriety silkworms and persuade them to weave them. This is how men farm and women weave them.

A couple, a man ploughs the fields and farms to obtain grain, a woman plants mulberry trees and silkworms, or plants kudzu, then spins yarns and weaves cloth, and tailors to make clothes. This is a good meal and clothing.

Now the emperor and the empress are stationed in Yecheng. Because it was late in the summer, the emperor took a sickle to cut some crops to show "persuading harvest", and the empress went to the textile factory to operate the machine to show "persuading weaving".

After a while, Yuchi Chifan successfully knitted a pair of socks, and cheers rang out, and rushed into the sky with the roar of the machine.

......

"That pair of socks is good. I will wear them tomorrow. Thank you Sanniang for your feelings."

"Erlang... don't, don't do this, it's not good, it's all in front of everyone..."

"What are you afraid of? Old husband and wife, who dares to make noise!"

"Only, let me go down..."

"No! You are my woman, I will carry it if I love it!"

On the banks of the Zhang River, in a paddy field, Yuwen Wen, dressed as a farmer, and Yuchi Chifan, dressed as a textile worker, rolled up his trouser legs and walked barefoot in the mud.

It was like a husband who had returned from farming, carrying his wife who had just "get off work" walking through the farmland and returning home.

The entourage watched from the side, wanting to go forward but not daring to go forward. Everyone felt a little embarrassed when they saw His Majesty walking in the field with the queen on his back.

Yuwen Wen doesn't care about that much, it's rare to get some breath. He wants to give his beloved wife a different feeling.

Yuchi Chifan lay on Yuwen Wen's back, and from the beginning she struggled, she became docile. She climbed on Yuwen Wen's shoulder tightly, feeling very happy.

"Tell me, men farm and women weaving are actually good, they just work harder, they go out early and come back late, and they are busy all year round, they just need to have enough food and clothing..."

"Um...."

"Hey, when we are old, we have to find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to live in. We need pastoral scenery. As for those troubles, let Jilang and the others worry about them."

"Um...."

Yuwen Wen said while walking, carrying his beloved wife on his back, looking ahead, and watching the pastoral scenery.

The pastoral scenery is very charming, but what he needs is another scenery.

Smoking chimneys, roaring factories, and above the fields are steam trains galloping on the railway, and in the sea are steam boats riding the wind and waves.

He may not be able to see these scenes in his life, but there is one thing that Yuwen Wen is confident to see.

The pastoral and pastoral manor economy will inevitably collapse in its offensive, and the aristocratic politics based on this economy will slowly fade.

Looking back, Yu Wenwen chuckled gently at the large-scale hydraulic textile factory on Zhangshuiban.

Henan Road Weaving Department has established a firm foothold in Henan and has gathered enough strength after several years of development.

Under the large-scale dumping of cloth, the handicraft textile industries in Henan went bankrupt one after another. For thousands of years, men and women have woven, and cracks have appeared. Women no longer weave textiles themselves, but sell silk and hemp, and then buy cloth.

More and more women are working in textile factories and becoming employed workers in the new textile industry.

Countless farmers who had no land to plant went to emerging industrial and commercial cities to "work", and the owners of the manors began to become weak in their personal constraints on the people.

Under the impact of cheap hydraulic textile fabrics, the pastoral and pastoral estate economy of the powerful households in various places has begun to shake.

But the harmony is not enough.

The strength is not enough.
Chapter completed!