I seek economic hegemony in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 43 Zhuge Liang: Water-powered textile machine?
"To be honest, Prime Minister, there are not many cloths and clothes that can be produced in Hanzhong now." Yang Yi said.

Yang Yi was troubled.

Zhuge Liang asked him to transport more grain and grass from Hanzhong a month ago, and also transport some Yu Han's clothes.

Zhuge Liang asked: "How many can be dispatched?"

"The people have no extra cloth. Wang Ping (the prefect of Hanzhong)'s ultimatum just arrived at noon today. It takes only a thousand pieces of cloth to be collected in a month."

This kind of thing cannot be punished too harshly.

Autumn is almost here, who doesn’t need a few pieces of clothing?

Zhuge Liang asked again: "Where is Weinan where our army is now firmly established?"

"At present, our army has not recruited many civilians. There are only a few thousand people in total. There are old, weak, sick and disabled women. There are only a few hundred people. Two people can weave a piece of cloth. It will take at least fifteen days for them to all be able to weave. If we take action, we can have a thousand horses in one month."

After saying that, Yang Yi suddenly remembered Li Heng and emphasized: "Li Heng still has two hundred women who can join the weaving."

Fei Yi suddenly said: "I heard that he is already weaving. Did he also expect that we are short of this now, so he took action in advance?"

"There are only 200 people there, how many can they weave?" Yang Yi shook her head.

Everyone continued to be silent.

"Is there enough food?" Zhuge Liang suddenly asked.

"Reporting to the Prime Minister, since all logistics records were replaced by paper, logistics transportation has indeed become more efficient, and the control of food has become more precise. Compared with the past, at least more than [-]% of food has been saved." Yang Yi replied truthfully, "Among them, I found that several There have been ten cases of food corruption. Our army's food transportation is now smooth and our logistics supplies are sufficient, which can help us survive this winter. Even if we recruit [-] more people, there will still be enough food."

Zhuge Liang said: "Then make an announcement first. Anyone who comes to seek refuge will receive one stone of food."

"Here."

Yang Yi hesitated for a moment and asked, "Should we transfer two hundred female workers from Chencang County to weave?"

"No need, leave it to him for his own use, he needs it too."

"Here."

On July [-], Li Heng woke up outside the Textile Institute.

He has lived here for more than ten days, staying here every day to catch up on progress.

At this time, the outside of the textile house had been surrounded by a wooden fence, and a lot of wood was placed at the door.

"Mr. Lang." Xue Liang handed Li Heng a piece of cake.

Xue Liang stared at the two dark circles and smiled honestly: "My wife just sent it, eat it while it's hot."

Dong Hong, who was under the tree in front, also woke up.

Dong Hong is a person who pays great attention to his personal image, but he has not been back for more than ten days. His clothes are dirty, his face is greasy, and his hair is a little messy.

"Mr. Dong, eat the cake while it's hot."

Dong Hong took the cake and left in a hurry.

"I'm going to the Yamen and have official duties."

Li Heng didn't even say hello, gnawed on the cake, turned around and walked into the textile factory.

In the Textile Institute, ten hydraulic spinning wheels for textiles have been installed.

Five of them are already operational.

"Lang Jun, look here, we didn't think that we needed to make such improvements here before. After the improvements were completed two days ago, they operate more smoothly."

"Is there a problem?"

"Some minor issues have been resolved."

"Can we mass-produce it?"

Xue Liang patted his chest and said, "It can be produced in large quantities, no problem at all."

Li Heng sat down to eat the cake and asked, "When does the female worker arrive every day?"

"Four quarters above Chen hour."

"Then wait."

The bright morning light shines through the leaves.

Outside in the fields, there were frogs croaking and cicadas chirping.

Not long after, the female workers arrived at the textile factory. Li Heng knew some of them, and one of them was Wang Fugui's wife.

They greeted Li Heng one after another, and then began to operate their respective spinning wheels.

Li Heng was watching from the side.

He wanted to make sure the spinning wheels were fully functioning.

Because these need to be reported to Zhuge Liang for mass production. If problems arise and mass production cannot be achieved, a lot of labor will be wasted.

Li Heng sat here for a full day, repeatedly observing their operations.A female worker operated a water-powered spinning wheel and could weave three pieces of cloth a day, and one even weaved five pieces of cloth.

It was quite a leap.

Li Heng hurriedly ran to the Yamen, and the setting sun stretched his figure very long.

When Li Heng arrived at the Yamen, Dong Hong was still there checking the construction status of the Chencang County city wall with a group of officials.

"Ming Gong, what's the matter?"

"No problem at all!"

Dong Hong was stunned for a moment and said, "Can you report it?"

"Go!"

Dong Hong put down the documents in his hands and said to everyone: "Let's talk today."

After saying that, Dong Hong hurriedly left the Yamen and rushed back to the direction of Wuzhangyuan.

When it got dark, Dong Hong saw Fei Yi.

"What did you say!" After listening to Dong Hong's report, Fei Yi stood up suddenly. He stared at Dong Hong carefully to confirm whether Dong Hong was lying again.

"Fisma has seen it all and knows it."

"go!"

"Now?" Dong Hong was stunned for a moment.

"Right now!"

"it's dark."

"Light the torch when it gets dark!"

Fei Yi's heart was churning and he said to Dong Hong: "Now the Prime Minister is preparing cloth. We have enough food. This is the cloth!"

He said as he quickly walked outside.

At this time, the sky was full of stars, and the early autumn wind blew, stirring up Dong Hong's hair.

"Come here!" Fei Yi shouted excitedly, "I want to go to Chencang County!"

Along the way, Dong Hong was also very excited. He couldn't help but said to Fei Yi: "Li Jian has been preparing for a long time. He has expected the current situation. This time he has made great achievements again. He is a talent! "

"I know!"

"Will he be promoted this time?"

"The Prime Minister has his own arrangements."

Not long after, Fei Yi led people to the county government office in Chencang County.

Li Heng was still waiting there.

Seeing Fei Yi, he stood up and said, "Fei Sima."

"Walk."

Li Heng took Fei Yi all the way to the Textile Institute.

At this time, the fire was bright, and under Xue Liang's operation, a textile machine was methodically preventing the interaction between wood and wood, making a clicking sound.

Before, she had only heard Dong Hong's description, but now after seeing it with her own eyes, Fei Yi could no longer bear it.

Fei Yi quickly said to the people on the side: "Go quickly and invite the Prime Minister to come over."

"But it's very late now, Prime Minister, I'm afraid..."

"Go quickly!" Fei Yi's face darkened.

"Here!"

About a stick of incense later, Yang Yi was woken up.

"What! The Prime Minister is going to Chencang County?" Yang Yi asked doubtfully.

"Yes." Liu Cuo said, "I need your arrangement."

"Why are you going to Chencang County now?"

"I don't know, I didn't say."

Li Heng, what happened again this late at night!

Yang Yi had a cold face, started to put on clothes, and started to arrange her itinerary after going out.

After meeting Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang's first words were: "Master Wei, prepare quickly and follow me to Chencang County!"

(End of this chapter)