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Zhao Yuanli said: "Master, Li Gu from the bone carving workshop in the village, Li Er from the jewelry shop, and Li Wang from the silk shop have all given messages. Where should we go first?"

Zhao Zhen said: "What did you say?"

Zhao Yuanli said: "Li Guyan said that the bone bows have been polished and a few bone carvings have been made; Li Erchu's jewelry shop has opened; Li Wang's silk and satin shop has also opened, but there is no profit, but more withdrawals. A sum of money. It was said that there were few people making clothes, but a lot of silkworm cocoons were collected."

After hearing this, Zhao Zhen said: "Then let's go to the silk shop first."

The two went to a silk and satin shop. Unlike the small courtyards of farmers elsewhere, there was no courtyard wall along the street, but a row of four houses built as storefronts. The row behind them was used as daily residence. Li Xiaoer and his wife moved here. The left and right wings were used as warehouses.

After entering the silk and satin shop, there were more than thirty pieces of silk and satin of various colors placed in the middle of the counter, and some coarse cloths were placed on the left counter for selection. The two rooms on the right are tailoring and sewing places, where Mr. Li Wang is currently sewing new clothes. There were also three or five women there, each with his head down, sewing.

After seeing the two of them enter the shop, Mrs. Li came over to see Li.

Zhao Zhen said: "Wang Qiao is in charge, but is he worried about not making a profit?"

Wang Qiao looked a little nervous and said: "Master, not many villagers come to buy silk and satin in the silk and satin shop now. It has been open for half a month, and only 2 pieces of coarse cloth have been sold, and there is not a single one who can make clothes.

Now the first batch of silkworms has spun cocoons, but no one in the village knows how to reel them, so they all sent the cocoons to the shop and collected them as promised. More than 5,000 kilograms of fresh silkworm cocoons were collected and made into dried cocoons. Now they are all made into dried cocoons, weighing about 2,500 kilograms, and about 500 kilograms of silk can be reeled out.

They were all placed in the side room. I asked the farmer and found out that raising silkworms was not too difficult according to the instructions. I just fed the silkworms and cleaned the silkworm room every day, which did not delay the farming time. The income from one crop of silkworm cocoons is 700 Wen. From April to October every year, four or five crops can be cultivated depending on the number of mulberry leaves.

Seeing the profits, many villagers want to raise silkworms. Nowadays, many people have set aside their side rooms to make silkworm rooms. There are ready-made mulberry forests in Liangcun, Zhangzhuang, and Tianzhuang, and people have come to buy silkworm seeds.

Fortunately now, I can organize people to reel and weave the cocoons I collected. I'm afraid there will be a backlog if there are more cocoons in the future. "

Zhao Zhen said: "Is reeling troublesome?"

Wang Qiao said: "In fact, it is not difficult. You can soak the cocoons in hot soup, draw the silk with your hands, and roll it into the silk frame. It just takes a little longer. There is also a hand-operated silk reeling machine, which is much faster. A copper coin with a square inside and a round outside is placed on the small pot of the cocoon. Thread the thread through the coin so that the cocoon threads merge together and are twisted onto the silk frame.

I asked Butler Zhao to borrow a carpenter, and now I have built ten. I heard that there is already a pedal reeling car, but I have never seen it. I heard that when reeling, you can free up both hands to thread and add yarn, and the speed is much faster than a hand-operated reeling car. At the same time, the cooked cocoons can be moved into a warm water basin for reeling, and a charcoal brazier can be placed under the silk frame to dry the reeled raw silk immediately.

I see that silk reeling is time-consuming and there is no big profit to be made, so I would like to teach the villagers and only collect raw silk from now on. This will not only increase the villagers' income, but also reduce the backlog in the shop. I can even weave silk and satin into them, and harvest them according to their quality. Come up. From now on, the shop will still only make ready-made clothes and embroidery according to the owner's requirements. It can also do some printing and dyeing, and weave some silks and satins with good patterns. "

Zhao Zhen nodded and said: "I will also go to the outside world to find out if there is such a silk reeling car as you mentioned."

Wang Qiao heard this and said: "If there is a pedal reeling machine, we can raise more silkworms in the future. Not only that, it would be better if there are good weavers in the future and set up a weaving workshop to specialize in this."

Zhao Zhen listened and nodded. The idea was indeed a good one, but unfortunately the conditions were not met yet. The Weaver Girl also has to search slowly, and now she can only weave some plain brocade.

While talking, Wang Qiao led Zhao Zhen to the backyard. A dozen women were reeling silk, and there were many people surrounding them. Wang Qiao grabbed a handful of silkworm cocoons from the bag, held it in his hand, and said to Zhao Zhen: "Master, look at these, these are the best cocoons."

Then he pointed to the silkworm cocoons in another frame next to him and said: "Those are inferior silkworm cocoons. They cannot be reeled or are not easy to reel. Although they cannot be reeled, they can be used as silk cotton and silk just like silkworm clothes." Spinning raw materials.”

As he spoke, he opened a cocoon and explained to Zhao Zhenxiang the uses of the cocoon coat, cocoon layer and pupa lining in detail.

Only then did Zhao Zhen realize that only the silkworm layer can be reeled, not the entire cocoon. Reeling requires cocoon peeling, cocoon selection, and cocoon cooking before the silk can be extracted from the cocoon through a reeling car.

While demonstrating, the woman reeling the silk taught the people around her how to unravel, organize, collect, sheath, unwind, add threads and add threads when the cocoon is finished reeling or decapitated midway, and even The winding and drying of raw silk are demonstrated one by one.

From time to time, people would go to the silk reeling cart to experience it. Zhao Zhen watched it from the side. The women Wang Qiao found really taught them carefully. After watching it from the side, he felt like they knew it.

After watching the instruction on silk reeling, Zhao Zhen and his wife returned to the shop in front. Zhao Zhen said: "Since we have begun to teach silk reeling, we don't need to worry about the pedal reeling carts for now. We still need to make more hand-operated reeling carts. Yuanli, you ask the carpenters to make a batch of reeling carts. There will be no wood on the mountain." "Young master, give one to everyone who has learned it. If there is a pedal reeling machine in the future, if anyone is willing to use it, just make it and let them buy it."

Zhao Yuanli listened and nodded in agreement. He said: "Don't worry, owner, this hand-operated silk reeling cart is easy to make. It will be used by all the sericulture farmers in the next batch of cocoons."

Wang Qiao beside him also looked happy after hearing this.

Zhao Zhen said, "Yuanli, write a batch of certificates, stamp them with my seal, and send them to Li Wangshi." He then said to Wang Qiao, "Li Wangshi, take these certificates and give one to every family who has learned to reel silk. It means that they can exchange it for a hand-cranked silk reeling machine at my farm."

After thinking for a while, Zhao Zhen said to Zhao Yuanli, "Post notices in the two taverns in the village to explain this matter."

Zhao Yuanli and Wang Qiao agreed.

Zhao Zhen asked Wang Qiao, "Li Wangshi, do you have anything else to do now?"

Wang Qiao led Zhao Zhen to the tailoring place on the east side and said, "Master, come and see. These are the clothes you made for the heroes in the village. They will be ready in five days."

Zhao Zhen picked up a light blue chain-link pattern cross-collared shirt and looked at it. It was made of fine brocade, light and breathable, with dense stitches. There was also a moon-white silk gown, as well as shoes, socks, and pants, each of which was made two sets.

Zhao Zhen nodded with satisfaction and said to Wang Qiao: "Yes, they are all ready. Send them to the farm."

Wang Qiao agreed and led Zhao Zhen forward a few steps. It was Wang Qiao's tailoring place. Pointing at the clothes on the table, she said: "Master, this is the emerald blue ten-color brocade hundred-flower skirt and the green and red satin double-collared shirt made for Bai Xiaoniang. Now it is done, can you send it to the farm now?"

Zhao Zhen said: "We can send them to the farm together in five days."

Wang Qiao agreed.

After talking with Wang Qiao, Zhao Zhen and Zhao Yuanli returned to the farm.

After dealing with the blacksmith shop and the silk shop, Zhao Zhen looked at his attributes. He gained a lot of experience as the main occupation of the manor owner.

I wish you all a happy New Year's Day.

Be healthy and make a lot of money.

I have been busy moving in the past two days. Please forgive me for not updating in time.