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Chapter 76 Daming Textile Good!
Mu Xiyun has come to Suzhou Mansion.

Moreover, after hearing about the matter between him and Yan Qingbo, he rushed over angrily.

This made Penke very guilty!

Although he and Yan Qingbo are really innocent now, nothing happened.

Moreover, he and Mu Xiyun are not married yet, so this is not considered an affair within marriage.

But this is a rich woman!

How could the rich woman misunderstand her!

Peng Ke pretended to be calm and asked Ah Hu: "Miss Mu has come to Suzhou Mansion? Where is she?"

"I don't know. The Jinyi Guards in Suzhou Mansion are all searching for the suzerain of the Hehuan Sect. No one is watching the people."

"However, they should settle down in Mu's Weaving's Jiangnan factory and other courtyards."

Ahu scratched his head and said with some uncertainty.

Jin Yiwei didn't just keep an eye on the common people, who knows where Mu Xiyun went after he came to Suzhou.

The reason why he knew that Mu Xiyun had come to Suzhou was because Peng Ke had specially instructed Jin Yiwei to keep an eye on Mu's mansion when he was in Yingtian Mansion. If there was any movement or something happened to the Mu family, he would be notified in advance.

After all, this is the home of the future old father-in-law!
Jin Yiwei in Suzhou Mansion doesn't care about these things.

Penke was a little apprehensive.

What's the situation?

Came to rape?

But why didn't Mu Xiyun come to him directly?
Is this to let him take the initiative to find her to confess his mistakes?

What a joke!
I am a handsome seven-foot boy!
Prince Huaininghou!

Jinyiwei Commander!

Daming is a military officer of the third rank!
Emperor Hongwu's most trusted confidant!
How is it possible to act like this? !
joke!

"Ah Hu! Prepare the car and go to the Mu family's other courtyard in Suzhou!" Peng Ke said expressionlessly.

Suzhou city is huge.

And it is also a heavy industrial city in the south of the Yangtze River.

In the industrial area in the south of the city, there are more than a dozen large factories and more than 20 small industrial workshops, all built against a tributary of Taihu Lake that runs across the south of the city.

Before there was a steam engine, Suzhou Prefecture was already a major city in China's textile industry.

Since the Song Dynasty, textile machines driven by water power have appeared and been put into production.

That's why these factories are built by the river.

However, due to the seasonal difference in river water volume, hydraulic drive will still cause production instability.

Since the emergence of the steam engine, the textile machine technology has undergone many changes, and got rid of the hydraulic drive, which allowed these small workshops to truly realize industrial production capacity.

Large factories also began to appear.

The Mu family's textile factory is the largest large-scale textile factory in this industrial area that has truly entered industrialization.

In the entire factory, there are more than 500 mechanical looms alone, and more than 1000 weavers work in two shifts to produce textiles day and night.

The weaving cloth produced by this factory every year can make new clothes for half of the people in the south of the Yangtze River.

And this is just one of the three major textile factories of Mu's Weaving in the south of the Yangtze River.

Bags of cotton or hemp yarn made by downstream factories were transported into Mu's factory, and then made into cloth by weaving machines, and then shipped out of the factory and sent to Mu's fabric yard for clothing processing.

Seeing that the amount of hemp yarn in the factory was obviously more than cotton yarn, Yuan'er asked in a little incomprehension: "Miss, why are there so many hemp yarns? Isn't cotton clothes more comfortable to wear?"

Since she was a child, all the clothes given to her by the mansion were made of cotton, especially in winter, when she wore a thick and soft padded jacket, she was always warm.

In Yuan'er's memory, the linen clothes seemed to have been worn only when she was very young.

She thought that this kind of linen had been eliminated by now!

Mu Xiyun reached out and nodded Yuan'er's head, feeling speechless because of her innocent appearance.

"Cotton clothes are indeed comfortable to wear, but they are expensive. Not everyone can afford them."

"If it weren't for the Mohist giants of the previous generation who improved the spinning and weaving machines to weave cotton cloth and strongly encouraged folks to grow cotton, how could there be so many cotton clothes for you to wear now?"

"Mafu Ge Yuebu."

"In the Song Dynasty, only those with higher status could wear silk, while the common people could only wear hemp, and fine linen was not available for everyone, and most common people could only wear clothes made of coarse hemp."

"Even if it is this dynasty, it has the method of making cotton fabrics, but cotton must be grown from the ground."

"Although the three major weaving companies in the south of the Yangtze River are doing their best to grow cotton, the production capacity is still far from enough to meet the needs of the people."

"One piece of cotton clothes can sell for four or five pieces of linen clothes, and ordinary people are still reluctant to buy them."

"It's also during the holidays that I buy a cotton-padded jacket to keep out the cold."

"Only the landlords and squires have the money to wear cotton clothes all year round."

"However, linen is much cheaper, and you can buy a piece for a few tens of pennies."

"Ordinary people, most of the time, buy linen and go back to make clothes by themselves, even the finished linen clothes are reluctant to buy."

"You, you, you just don't know the blessing when you are in the blessing."

Yuan'er blushed when Mu Xiyun said this.

Every summer, the mansion will give her three sets of summer clothes and two sets of winter clothes in winter.

From time to time, the lady would reward her with some cloth, and Yuan'er herself could ask the embroiderer in the mansion to help her make new clothes.

She usually stays in Mu's residence to serve the young lady.

It is rare to come out to touch ordinary people's firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar tea.

Food, drink, lodging and clothing are all provided by the Mu Mansion, so I really don't have much idea about these.

"What about silk, why don't you see silk being woven in factories?"

Yuan'er thought of the most expensive top-grade goods sold in the weaving industry, and asked curiously.

Nor did she see silk being produced in the factory.

Although silk products were not allowed to be worn by ordinary people and merchants because of Emperor Hongwu's regulations, silk and yarn, the by-products of silk, were allowed to be worn by merchants.

If the common people have money, they can also buy some silk to make their own clothes.

But usually it may be a wedding or something, so I am willing to scrape two feet of silk to make a wedding dress.

Silk is expensive!
现在大明红黄杭细绢每匹卖价在1两到1.2两左右，黄绫每匹0.8-1.28两，红纱每匹1.6两。

And because of the development of the textile industry, each piece of linen cloth only costs 1 to [-] yuan, and the top-level fine ramie cloth costs less than [-] yuan per piece!
The price difference is more than ten times!

At the same time, the most profitable thing in the textile industry must be silk, and the profit from selling one bolt can be as high as selling dozens of bolts of linen.

Why is there no silk production in Mu's factory?
Yuan'er looked at her young lady with a puzzled expression.

But he only got a blank stare.

Mu Xiyun said angrily:
"Silk is something that can only be made by hand. It's all made of silk and threaded by hand. In the end, the best ones are made into silk, and the inferior ones are made into silk."

"How is it possible to do it with a machine?"

"The high-ranking officials and nobles, of course, have to wear the best ones, and they have to be hand-crafted. Top-notch embroiderers make top-quality clothes one by one!"

"Otherwise, how can you afford the selling price!"

"No one buys the silk produced by the factory assembly line."

"Are those dignitaries looking for cheap, would they choose the silk weaved by the factory assembly line for cheap?"

"They would rather pay several times more expensive to buy handmade than machine-made, which is not decent and has no style."

"Yuan'er, you are still too young."

　That is to say, but in every dynasty and every generation, the phenomenon of arrogance in clothing is very common. It is very common for merchants to wear silk and servants to wear silk shoes.

　　Anyway, the sky is high and the emperor is far away.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)