Jinyi champion

Chapter 615
Sun Lan followed Lou Suzhen to visit nearby schools and workshops.

The first one to go is the girls' school.

As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the alley, I heard the sound of reading books coming from the courtyard in front of me. It was not a man's voice, but a woman's voice. There were several guards guarding the entrance of the alley.

These people looked like military households, each of them was tall and tall, with a look of vigilance on their faces, carefully observing every passerby.

"It's always a lot of inconvenience for a woman to study outside. This son of a bitch specially sent guards to help take care of her!"

Lou Suzhen admired Zhu Hao's actions very much, and even considered the safety of women going out to study in advance.

Sun Lan nodded.

As a woman, she is very aware of how dangerous the world is. Fortunately, it is not the Zhengde period. If someone opened this kind of girls' school in the capital during the Zhengde Dynasty, it is estimated that the courtiers around the emperor would have discovered it and put it all together. All female students will be filled. Enter the leopard room.

Entering the first courtyard, an old woman is cleaning fallen leaves, and in several bright and clean classrooms, there are female teachers holding a pointer, pointing to the chalk words on the blackboard, teaching pronunciation and interpretation one by one.

These female gentlemen are all opera troupe female performers. Because they need to recite operas, they have been able to learn Chinese and characters since they were young. Now they are teaching part-time, and they only teach literacy. It does not involve advanced knowledge, but they can easily do it.

Lou Suzhen brought Sun Lan to visit, and did not intend to let Sun Lan become a teacher.

Besides, as the proprietress, Sun Lan is equivalent to the female shopkeeper, so how can there be any reason to teach in person?Of course, it is responsible for administrative work, management personnel and accounts, these alone are enough for Sun Lan.

"Now it's the winter slack season. After the spring planting, fewer girls come to study. However, because all the students can work in the workshop under the name of the son, and earn money to supplement their families, many people want to send their heads here. Girl, it’s a pity that the women’s school is not big enough to accommodate so many students.”

Lou Suzhen was somewhat regretful in her words.

Sun Lan asked in bewilderment: "Are there so many girls coming to study?"

Lou Suzhen smiled and said: "Sister, I don't know. Not only young girls who have not left the court, but also married women, there are not a few who come to study. They often work harder than girls. Of course, the most important thing is, Here you can learn the skills of spinning and weaving."

"Spinning and weaving?"

Sun Lan felt that her brain was not enough.

Women's studies are women's studies. You can dabble in any content such as "Women's Precepts", "Internal Training", and "The Analects of Confucius", and you can even teach poetry and songs for the joy of the boudoir.

But Lou Suzhen has been talking about spinning and weaving. Since ancient times, which girl didn't learn to knit women's red since childhood?Why don't you come here specially to learn technology?
"Let's go, I'll take you to the back alley."

Lou Suzhen didn't explain right away.

Since I brought the female shopkeeper to visit, it is natural that I have to visit all the industries in the vicinity to deepen my understanding.

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The whole alley here is full of women's schools.

And the alley in the back alley is a technical school, which specializes in teaching female students to learn spinning and weaving techniques.

Go into one of the yards.

This is just an ordinary weaving school. A woman in her twenties with a cloud bun is explaining the use of the loom in front of her to more than twenty thirteen and fourteen-year-old girls. The teaching equipment is That old wooden loom.

"...Don't worry about me, you continue to teach."

Seeing that the woman was about to come over to salute and greet, Lou Suzhen waved her hand with a smile and said something.

The woman continued to guide the students in the technical essentials of weaving.

"Here, you see... you have to pull it, and then step on it... just now, I stepped on it too hard, and the thread was broken..."

With that said, the woman made a demonstration in person.

Then, under the witness of Sun Lan, a "weaving thread" somehow directly passed through the "warp thread" used for weaving, and then somehow, the weft thread made a jump.

"Okay, let's try one by one!"

The woman got up and let a female apprentice practice.

Lou Suzhen was very satisfied with the woman's teaching, nodded approvingly, and prepared to take Sun Lan to the next teaching site to have a look.

Sun Lan tugged at Lou Suzhen's clothes, and asked puzzledly: "Sister, why didn't I understand the technical essentials of the loom earlier? How did it weave such a wide cloth? Also, what about the loom?" Shuttle, how do you hand it over?"

Weaving has a shuttle, which is traditionally hand-thrown from one end to the other to form weaving threads.

Not to mention such a cumbersome procedure, it is also easy to pinch the arm, and because the transfer is completed by both hands, the length of the arm limits the length of the weft of the weaving, so that the width of the fabric will not be too large.

Lou Suzhen laughed and said, "That's called Fei Shuo. Have you seen that girl? She lifted the cable on it once, and the Fei Shuo jumped over automatically, and pulled it again, and it came back."

"This...how is this possible?"

Sun Lan was born in a scholarly family, good at female celebrities, and has a relatively deep understanding of weaving.

The most difficult part of weaving, apart from the initial thread tying and reconnection after a thread break, is actually the most difficult part is the use of the shuttle, and for the loom not far away, everything seems to be no problem. Everything has a solution.

Lou Suzhen sighed: "At first I couldn't figure it out, but later I found out that there is something called a spring on it, which is made of iron, and it bounces back after being pulled, while the shuttle below is fixed on the cross bar. , very slippery, in short, you will understand after seeing more. This is just a loom for teaching, and when you see the steam-driven one, you will know that it is nothing at all."

"Ah? Is there a more powerful loom?"

Sun Lan opened his eyes.

She really wanted to observe what the shuttle and the spring are, and study the operation principle of the shuttle in detail, but Lou Suzhen just took her to visit and didn't plan to teach in detail, so she could only put away her curiosity temporarily.

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Next, Lou Suzhen took Sun Lan to see the new spinning machine.

It is Zhu Hao's improved "Spinning Jenny", which can spin ten yarns at a time, and it is not a ball of yarn, but a spindle. Each spindle looks very solid. After spinning, someone next to it will take it away.

Lou Suzhen pointed to the spinning machine and said: "This is a hand spinning machine. Ten spindles are spun at a time. Cotton is used. The spun yarn is not used as a raw material for the workshop, it is only used for training, and the output will be sent to The next door is for female students to practice weaving. If necessary, this spinning machine can be connected to a yarn wheel and driven by a steam engine, and people just need to look after it.”

Sun Lan could not hear what Lou Suzhen was talking about.

Sun Lan asked, "Where is the workshop?"

Lou Suzhen said: "All the folk courtyards in the back two rows of alleys are spinning workshops, and all the spun yarn is sent to the weaving workshops...Young master put all the weaving workshops and some spinning workshops outside the city, In the city...the land is too expensive, labor is also expensive, it is better outside the city, you can open a workshop anywhere you want."

"Then... how much cloth can be produced in a year?"

Sun Lan is very concerned about this.

Lou Suzhen shook her head with a smile: "I am afraid that only the young master knows this. My task is to teach girls and pass on the skills to my disciples. After they are proficient, they can learn to read and know how to spin and weave at the same time... I don't care about the rest. I won’t ask, after all, the weaving workshop is not around.”

When Sun Lan heard this, she felt that her husband was very mysterious.

How could it be possible to improve spinning and weaving techniques and profit from it?
Don't you feel ashamed when an official runs off to do business?

Lou Suzhen said: "However, according to my son, more people are used for spinning now... In fact, the weaving is driven by steam engines, and the number of people used is very small. Moreover, from Anlu to Jingshi, and then to Nanjing, weaving Cloth workshops are gradually expanding their production scale, so the supply of yarn must be guaranteed."

What Lou Suzhen said involves an important issue.

With the steam loom, the efficiency of weaving has been greatly improved, but the spinning technology has not kept up, resulting in insufficient yarn supply.

Although the spinning machine can also be driven by a steam engine, the efficiency improvement is obviously not as immediate as that of the steam loom. In fact, the spinning jenny machine is already very efficient when the female worker is hand-cranking it, which makes Zhu Hao have to make more A lot of labor is put on the spinning.

Rather than saying that Lou Suzhen is helping Zhu Hao train female textile workers, it is better to say that she is training female spinning workers to meet the needs of the growing spinning workshops.

"If there is anything you don't understand, sister, just ask. There are too many people here. Usually, there are female gentlemen plus students, as well as housekeepers, cleaning and cooking, and people who come to work. There are at least a thousand people. All kinds of people are not human. People are good stubble... Fortunately, women don't have as many bad intentions as men, as long as they do their part well."

Lou Suzhen has not been in the women's school for a long time, but she is already equivalent to the head of the mountain here, with a little pride in her tone.

"In the evening there is a rehearsal in the theater, my sisters will go over to have a look together and introduce Miss Gongye to you. Her name is Gongyeling, she is a celebrity in the theater troupe, and Mrs. Gongsun, who is the master's wife, also comes here to teach from time to time. ...Oh, by the way, Mr. Gongsun's name is Gongsun Fengyuan, and it is said that he is a Juren cultivated by the young master."

Sun Lan was confused for a while.

Since Mrs. Gongsun is Zhu Hao's mistress, isn't Gongsun Fengyuan the husband?
Why did Zhu Hao cultivate it all by himself?
Lou Suzhen pursed her lips and smiled: "Mr. Tang inadvertently revealed it when he was gossiping about family affairs. This Mr. Gongsun was supported by the son. After being elected, he was introduced by the son to work in the Imperial College... The younger sister of the Gongsun family knows more than me. In the future, you Just ask her if you have anything to do. Let's go, let's go to the next yard to have a look."

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Zhu Hao's women's school finally formed a three-big model headed by Lou Suzhen, Mrs. Gongsun and Sun Lan.

Although Gong Yeling joined the team early, she doesn't focus on it now, and only comes to give lectures occasionally on weekdays.

After Sun Lan joined, Lou Suzhen is now in charge of daily management, Mrs. Gongsun is in charge of training female students and teaching, and Sun Lan is in charge of overall planning.

For a woman who was basically out of the door for more than ten years, it was a new life, and Sun Lan finally understood why a woman like Lou Suzhen, who had passed her youth long ago, To be so passionate about the thing in front of you and make it your life's work.

For the average person, it's simply fun, fulfilling, and entertaining...

Sun Lan just joined this big family, so she doesn't want to leave.

What kind of husband and son, step aside.

What could be more fulfilling than this?
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