I don't want to be a saint

Chapter 142: Revolutionizing the Loom!
Guo Yi followed the woman and sauntered into the village.Seeing this, Zhu He asked the handlebars to follow quickly.

Although the Dongbai Village in front of me is dusty in sunny days and muddy in rainy days, most of the houses are much better than the previous Yanglin Village.

I don't know if it's because it's close to the city, or because we have a side job of weaving linen.

There were a few ragged children chasing and running around on the street.Two of them were barely wearing a worn pair of loincloths.

Not only is he dressed in tatters, but he is also very thin.One by one, they are all skinny, and their hair is thinning and yellowing.

It was inexplicably embarrassing.

It wasn't just these children, even the women who passed by had their clothes patched up.

It seems that the situation in the village is not very good.

Moreover, through the low walls on both sides of the street, you can see that many people's yards are also equipped with wooden shelves, on which hemp silk is dried.

And the woman who led the way, seeing his looking around, also mistakenly thought that he was estimating how many hemp threads there were, so she pointed her finger and said with a smile: "Xiao Langjun, take a look, there are so many households. They are all drying with hemp silk!
Mr. Xiao Lang, are you here to inquire?What about the elders in the family? "

"Well, there are quite a lot. If I don't follow the elders, I can make the decision." Guo Yi responded to her very solemnly.Then, he pointed to the hemp silk and asked, "Since there are so many hemp silks, why don't you weave the hemp cloth yourself?"

"Ugh!"

When the woman heard this, she couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and responded with a sad face: "Young Lord, you also know that weaving linen is a very tedious job.

Nowadays, the price of grain has skyrocketed, but the price of linen is still the same.

A few years ago, a piece of cloth could exchange five or six buckets of brown rice.But this year, you can only change four buckets! "

On this topic, Guo Yi is also speechless.With the general environment like this, a small personal staff member like him is useless.

So, he could only comfort him with clumsy words: "But no matter what, you have to live! Even if you can only exchange three buckets of brown rice, you have to weave cloth! If you don't weave, you can't get a bucket of brown rice! "

The woman smiled and shook her head when she heard the words: "Nowadays, the men in the family are not busy with weaving anymore! Well, Jiangling City is recruiting long-term and short-term workers every day.

I heard from my man, what kind of houses are being built in the southeast of the city, Xiuguan Road in the north of the city, and the bobbin workshop in the west of the city is also recruiting carpenter apprentices;
The big guys have calculated it, and they can make more money than weaving.

A few days ago, at the east end of our village, a new cave dwelling was built, and it was said that it was to burn bricks to pay taxes.

No, men in every household have gone to work in the city! "

When Guo Yi heard this, he didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

Happily, the common people have new ways to make a living, so that they will not starve to death, and have a better life.

This is one of the benefits of infrastructure construction, which can not only drive the development of surrounding industries, but also provide a large number of jobs.

Sadly, linen weaving is a livelihood handed down from generation to generation.As a result, until now, it is not enough to make a living...

What an irony!

"Then, with so much hemp silk, are you all planning to sell it?"

Now that we don't weave any more, we still don't sell these hemp silks, so there will be bugs!

When the woman heard his question, the smile on her face became stronger, she stopped, turned her head to look at him, pointed to those hemp silks and said: "Little Lang, you have also seen that these things in our village Masi, but they are all first-class.

Not only the ordinary coarse linen, but also the finest fine linen.Most of them are finished products. After buying them, they can be woven directly. "

She is trying her best to sell, hoping that this handsome young man with luxurious clothes can spend money to buy her.

Guo Yi smiled and nodded: "I can make the decision. However, before that, can you lead me in to have a look? I have to see how you make hemp silk and weave cloth?"

"Okay! Okay!" The woman nodded hurriedly: "I will take you there right now!"

So, she led the way and walked into a large courtyard around the corner.

Guo Yi followed in, but saw that the yard was very spacious, but there was no wooden frame.There are dozens of women scattered inside, each busy.

The woman who led the way told him while walking: "The green hemp in our village is very famous in a radius of tens of miles."

Also as she said, the process is very cumbersome.First cut back the green hemp stalk, then peel off the outer skin, and then it needs to be dried immediately.

Then boil a pot of boiling water, cook in the boiling water, remove the gum on the outer skin, and then according to the thickness of the fibers, the coarse fibers are woven into burlap, and the fine fibers are woven into fine linen.

Of course, the processing methods of green hemp and ramie are different.Green hemp is boiled, while ramie is soaked in water.

After the hemp skin is cooked, scrape it vigorously with an iron grate. After scraping off the outer skin, what is left is hemp silk.

Under the big tree far from the door, there were several women scraping hemp bark.First fix the boiled hemp skin on the wooden table below, hold an iron grate in the right hand, and scrape vigorously in one direction.

It is very difficult to watch.

This can be completely replaced by machinery, for example, a hydraulic scraper or the like.

This seems to be possible. After all, he is the soul of later generations, and his thinking is very open.He also fully believed in Yang Licheng's craftsmanship.

The woman led the way in front and continued to tell him: "After the green skin is scraped off, the thread is divided underneath. Separate the hemp threads one by one. After drying, they can be wound and tied up."

I saw a few wooden sticks inserted on the ground at a distance of more than ten meters.There are several women holding hemp threads in their hands, and wrapping them around wooden sticks one by one.

"After the thread is wrapped in this way, it is put on a wooden frame to dry, and it is the finished hemp silk.

A few years ago, every time this season came, many traveling merchants would come to the village to buy hemp silk.

But in the following two years, fewer and fewer traveling traders came, and the prices were very low. "While talking, the woman kept moaning and sighing.

Guo Yi understood that this cannot be regarded as the king of Chu's inaction.It's not just Jinghu North Road, other places are probably not much better.

However, since he is now charged with the task of developing and enriching Jingbei Road, he can no longer stand idly by.

"What about weaving? Take me to see weaving." Making hemp silk first and then weaving is a complete process.

"Xiao Langjun, come this way." The woman led him to the east house.

The house is very spacious, and there are five looms inside.Five women were pushing back and forth, chirping and chirping.

And these five looms are exactly the same as the one of Zhuzi's mother.Not only the procedure is cumbersome, but also the efficiency is very low.

"Ding! The scientific and technological progress task is triggered! Science and technology are the primary productive forces! In the current society, science and technology are low, hindering the development of people's livelihood, and need to be innovated in time!
Please hosts to innovate various technological equipment and vigorously improve the development of people's livelihood!The first task is to innovate the loom! "

"Reward: "Overview of the World's Looms", this reward will be issued in advance! "

　Thank you Yuzhaohai for the monthly ticket reward!

　　Boss atmosphere!I wish the boss to find the sea soon!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)