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Outside Bahe City, under the "famous" landmark - a strong windmill, Yuwen Eying was holding his younger brother and watching the windmill. The south wind blew to drive the cross-shaped wind wings. Seeing the wind wings slowly rotated, Yuwen Eying and his younger brother Que Ge were so happy that they danced.

Of course, Brother Xiaoque was not two years old and didn't know anything. He was just happy when he saw the person who hugged him. The little guy who was still babbling kept saying "hugging". Of course, he was talking at his mother not far away.

When Yang Lihua saw Yuwen Eying dancing, she was afraid that she would not be able to hold her brother at once, so she stepped forward and picked up Brother Que. Yuwen Wen saw the windmill turning around on the side, and couldn't help but sang the opening song:

The windmill is creaking and creaking, the scenery here is so beautiful...

The modern style of this song is not suitable for today's era, so Yuwen Wen could only pass the "famous song" in his heart. Looking at the windmills and the surrounding scenes, he felt a sense of time and space disorder in his heart.

He rarely has time in the past two days, so after yesterday he took his wife Yuchi Chifan and his son Jilang to travel, he brought Yang Lihua, Yuwen Eying and Brother Que to "leave the news" today.

Before the construction of the lakeside manor was completed, he took his family to Bahe City for a walk and took a look at the landmark. This windmill with an investment of less than 1,000 guan is now operating normally, and it can charge a fee to pound rice in autumn.

This kind of windmill imitated in the Dutch windmill style is rare, so Yuwen Eying was very curious and kept asking various questions. Seeing the little girl "since she asked sincerely", Yuwen Wen "telled her mercifully."

First of all, the top of the windmill tower can be rotated so that it can be adjusted when the dominant wind direction changes, so that the wind wings always face the direction of the wind. Of course, it cannot be used when it is raining and strong winds. The wind wings must be closed to avoid damage.

As long as there is wind, it can turn, of course it will turn day and night. Once the wind wing turns, the rice pounding mortar will not stop, and it will save a lot of manpower after falling off day and night. Of course, the windmill is afraid of fire, and when it is lit, it will burn all the energy and flop it out.

What is a flop? Uh... It's almost the same as death...

After seeing the windmill, Yuwen Eying was still very interested. She took her younger brother to play outside the windmill workshop and soon discovered a new ‘toy’: spinning wheel. Then problems emerged one after another.

First of all, the question is: how do clothes be made.

Of course, Yuwen Eying knew that clothes were made of cloth, brocade, or silk, so Yuwen Eying's question was actually how cloth was made. Yuwen Wen was thinking about how to express the 21st century thinking in the language of the sixth century, but Yang Lihua "stand up" and answered questions.

Cloth is woven, and weaving cloth requires yarn. The sources of yarn are divided into silk and kudzu, hemp, silk and kudzu. The process of hemp turning into yarn is the so-called spinning. Spinning is spinning, and weaving is weaving cloth. The two are collectively called "textile".

The spinning wheel I see now is a tool for spinning silk, kudzu and hemp into yarn. After having yarn, it is weaved into cloth with a loom. With cloth, you can cut and sew and make clothes.

"How do spinning wheels and looms move?" Yuwen Eying asked again. Yang Lihua explained that they are all driven by human power, and silk has to be raised to build cocoons and reel silk, kudzu and hemp have to be planted. After spinning into yarn, weaving can only get cloth by weaving day and night.

Seeing Yuwen Eying making a "Oh" sound that seemed to understand, Yuwen Wen admired Yang Lihua quite much. If it were him to explain, he would probably start with plant fibers, so I don't know if the little girl could understand it.

Yang Lihua came from a noble family and generally did not need to understand this knowledge with other noble women. As a girl with rich clothes and food, she only needed someone to serve her. Unless her family was lost or was confiscated as a slave, she would never have to touch her spinning and weaving cloth for her whole life.

Yuwen Wen's wife Yuchi Chifan was also a nobleman like Yang Lihua, but Yang Lihua was a little special: she was once the queen, so she had to know some knowledge about raising silkworms and weaving cloth so that her mother could treat the world.

In the farming society, men farming and women weaving are classic life scenes. For state officials, persuading agriculture and sericulture is the responsibility of the state, while for the emperor, persuading agriculture and sericulture is related to the foundation of the country. Therefore, every spring, the emperor and the queen have to hold a ceremony to personally farm and silkworms.

The emperor's personal plowing ceremony began as early as the Emperor's Emperor's Emperor. Under the witness of civil and military officials in the court, he had to plow and plow the fields. Of course, this field also has its origin called Jitian.

The sect is borrowing, which means borrowing manpower to reason and encourage the world to farm. The sect saying "in the suburbs, then farming", so the sect is called "the suburbs are cultivated", so the sect is used to achieve success in life, so it is called the Emperor.

At the same time, the queen was not idle, and she was going to lead the ceremony of the silkworm work at home and outside.

The queen took Cuilu and led the three concubines of the six palaces, San Yi, Yu Yuan, Yu Wan, the third prince's wife, and the three orphans went to the silkworm house. She personally went to the silkworm house with a young prison to pay homage to the god of the Xiling clan (Lao Zu). After the ceremony, she surrendered to the altar and ordered the two concubines to offer the final offering to Yaxian, so she bowed to the mulberry tree.

This is what the ancient saying says, "The emperor personally cultivates himself to raise money and grows together, and the queen personally carries silkworms to celebrate and wears together." After planting mulberry trees and raising silkworms, it is normal for Yang Lihua to be familiar with textiles.

Of course, there is another person who is more familiar with this, that is, Princess Liang State Xiao Jiuniang. She grew up in her uncle's family and had to do farm work from time to time. Unlike Yang Lihua's acting behavior, Xiao Jiuniang was unable to spin and weave cloth to make a living.

Yuwen Eying asked this question, and after her mother answered, her attention quickly changed. She heard that her mother mentioned raising silkworms, so she wanted to take her younger brother to see the silkworms. Yuwen Wen and Yang Lihua looked at each other and followed helplessly, watching the naughty child about to harm the silkworm room.

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On the banks of the Santai River, there is a yard in the "black workshop" of the Xiyang County Duke's mansion. A spinning wheel is operating. Unlike the common spinning wheels in this era, this spinning wheel is driven by hydraulic power, and the number of spindles is also very different.

The spinning wheel used by farmers at home is human-driven, with spindles usually of two to three, with no more than five. Taking spinning hemp as an example, the man-made spinning wheel has a maximum of three kilograms of spinning yarn every day, while this hydraulic-driven spinning wheel has 30 spinning spinning yarn, which can spin nearly 100 kilograms of hemp every day and night.

The premise is that it is running normally. Just when Yuwen Wen took Yang Lihua to watch it on the spot, the hydraulic spinning wheel broke down halfway, and several spindles were disconnected and unable to operate normally. The craftsmen on the side quickly cut off the power and began to adjust the broken spindle.

"A hydraulic spinning wheel can spin nearly a hundred kilograms of hemp in one day and night..." Yang Lihua murmured to herself. She was a little confused when she looked at the hydraulic spinning wheel in front of her. Such numbers were amazing. In this way, such a spinning wheel could support the output of thirty households.

"This spinning wheel is only a trial operation, and the craftsmen are still debugging. If it is debugged, it can be operated for several days in a row. After mastering the technology, more spinning wheels can be made. If one hundred hydraulic spinning wheels run at the same time, it will be equivalent to the output of three thousand families in one day." Yuwen Wen said from the side.

"Can the spindles be increased? It should not be increased without limit, right?" Yang Lihua asked again. Yuwen Wen nodded and said yes, the spindles that can be driven by hydraulic spinning wheels can naturally increase, but after reaching a certain number, the failure rate will increase significantly. It is better to add a new one.

Seeing Yang Lihua's desire to speak but stop, Yuwen Wen took her to the compartment to continue to observe. The same hydraulically driven device we saw this time was a hydraulically driven device. The difference from the next door was that this device was a weaving machine, that is, a hydraulically driven machine.

The water truck drove the river water to the high reservoir. Water gushed out of the outlet pipe of the reservoir and fell on the spokes of the water wheel below to push it. The water wheel driven by the water kept rotating and driving the loom to operate.

Yang Lihua looked at the loom without blinking her eyes, and soon came back to her senses from the initial shock. She first noticed one of the differences: the shuttle that only needs to be controlled by one person, and the shuttle that kept shuttle looked a bit special.

"The shuttle has a chute and a small wheel inside. It is very flexible to shuttle, called a flying shuttle." Yuwen Wen continued to explain, "On weekdays, weaving shuttle requires two people to cooperate, and this loom can weave it in just one person, and the weaving speed is extremely fast."

"Can it run day and night?" Yang Lihua asked again. The loom in front of her and the hydraulic spinning wheel with dozens of spindles next door had already thought of an unsettling future.

"Of course, it can run day and night, but the weaving people have to take turns to rest." Yuwen Wen said, the side room was shocked by the power of technology, and he was very satisfied with this effect.

Just now, they returned home from Bahe City and sent the two little guys back, Yuwen Wen brought Yang Lihua to the black workshop for "re-education". Two devices that should not have appeared in this time and space really left the knowledgeable Yang Lihua speechless.

Since ancient times, people knew to spin shorter fibers into yarns and then weave them into cloth. The so-called spinning means to use twisting to make them cling to form a continuous and infinitely extended yarn. With yarn, you can weave cloth, and with cloth, you can wear clothes.

In this era, the main sources of fiber were silk, kudzu, hemp, and hair. The common cotton in later generations had not been widely promoted and planted, and it was most common to use phloem fiber or silk from hemp plants as raw materials for spinning.

With yarn, you can weave cloth, but it is not enough to have spinning wheels that produce large amounts of yarn. You must have a loom with the same high output to consume these massive amounts of increased yarn. With a hydraulic spinning wheel, you must also have a hydroloon to cooperate.

Therefore, the shuttle, which was originally born in England in the 18th century and the large hydraulic spinning wheel born in the Central Plains in the 13th century, also traveled through time and space and appeared in the small Xiyang County, Bazhou on the Yangtze River.

According to the usual practice of Yuwen Wen Workshop, these two machines are both ‘prototypes’, used to debug, improve, accumulate experience and make ‘improved’, and then practical ‘mass production’. The ultimate goal is to put large-scale practical investments.

"Hydraulic textile...the cloth made in this way is cheap, how can the people survive?" Yang Lihua asked a little uneasy. She was not only shocked by the efficiency of this water conservancy and textile, but also looked at these two new things from the perspective of national economy and people's livelihood.

"The productivity is rising, and it just takes the people to raise silkworms with a variety of mulberry, hemp, and silkworms. How can they not survive?" Yuwen Wen asked, "The cheap cloth is popular all over the world, and more people can afford to wear clothes made of good cloth. Isn't that good?"

"What about renting and remediation? Hydraulic textile demand for raw materials has increased greatly. Planting mulberry and hemp will inevitably squeeze the cultivated land. Besides, if the price of handmade cloth is cheap, the number of horses paid will increase. However, where can the people have a place to do hydraulic spinning? The government cannot collect household transfers, and the officials will force the people to destroy their families!" Yang Lihua retorted and looked at Yuwen Wen.

Men farm and women weave. Whether in the north or south, the tenants who pay the land every year have cloth in the transfer. In daily life, cloth can be used as hard currency to purchase various life needs. She feels that the emergence of this hydraulic textile will have a catastrophic impact on farmers.

We worked hard to grow mulberry trees, or plant kudzu, and spun them into yarn and weaving them into cloth. As a result, a large number of cheap cloths appeared on the market, and all the efforts over the past year were exhausted.

In the household transfer collected by the government, the handmade cloth that is cheap will inevitably increase the number of times. With the virtues of the officials of prefectures and counties, most of the people will be desperate. However, the handmade cloth collected is already a cheap item. If sent to officials, the soldiers will cause excitement.

But if we do not accept the handmade cloth handed over by the people, how many people can have a way to replace it with other things, which will lead to the destruction of the people?

The price of handmade cloth has plummeted. Those who rely on these cloths to buy things have no other hard currency. Food cannot be sold easily. People who cannot survive and people who are exploited by grassroots officials can ignite it with just one spark, which makes things very good.

It is easy to resolve the civil war in one or several prefectures and counties, but it is not good to have trouble in various prefectures and counties. As soon as the water gets mixed up, people who have to take the opportunity to take advantage of the fish will have to do it. What should I do then?

"What should I do? There are conflicts when there is conflict. If you want to resolve this conflict, you will turn to the problem mentioned last time." Yuwen Wen once again transformed into a 'beast' and wanted to 're-educate' Yang Lihua, "In this way, let me give you an example..."

Yang Lihua regretted it a little. In a hurry, she argued with her husband. She never expected that this person who felt good and wanted to sell that trick. She had already made up for it, so she had to make up for it now.

She blinked and said sincerely: "I know that my husband certainly has a way to resolve this conflict..."

Yuwen Wen was speechless. The person in front of him was worthy of being a "palace fighting master". He was called to stop as soon as he came up. Just when he was in a state of excitement, Lin Youdi suddenly came to report that the officials from the state yamen came outside, saying that there was an urgent matter to report.

"Urgent? Could it be that Chen Jun opposite Jiang was impatient to cross the river and invaded?" Yuwen Wen was overjoyed when he heard this. He was planning a battle against Chen. It would be great if the other party came to him.

"I don't know, and I dare not inquire. The person who came was indeed a magistrate from the state yamen. He said that he was sent by Anlu to meet the postman. He was waiting in the state yamen now..." Lin Youdi replied. He knew the taboo of the man, so he was only responsible for checking his identity and did not dare to inquire about the specific matters.
Chapter completed!