Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 1263 Knowledge Changes Destiny

  Emperor Hongzhi didn't know what to say for a while.

  He smiled immediately: "The weather is fine today. I am very relieved to see this workshop today. Xishan has contributed a lot. The prince and the successor have a good life, you know?"

  Zhu Houzhao and Fang Jifan nodded hurriedly.

Emperor Hongzhi smiled again: "Hey, look, it's chilly in winter, and now that the price of cloth has dropped so much, my heart is relieved. After a few days, let these meritorious students and craftsmen enter the palace." Come, I want to see them in person."

  Fang Jifan said with emotion: "Your Majesty treats people so leniently, it is really a blessing for the courtiers."

  Emperor Hongzhi pursed his lips and said to Empress Zhang, "It's getting late, we should go back to the palace."

   As he spoke, he got into the car and waved to Queen Zhang.

  Empress Zhang bowed to Emperor Hongzhi, and said: "Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, how can you sit with a woman like Chenqie? Chenqie, Houzhao, and Jifan are in the same car."

"this…"

   In front of Liu Jian and others, Emperor Hongzhi wanted to say something, but he was speechless, so he said with a smile: "Yes, yes."

  He got into the car, feeling inexplicably irritable.

  How come lately, Empress Zhang is always indifferent to herself, too unfamiliar.

Hey…

  Emperor Hongzhi sighed, and leaned on the sofa. At this moment, he found himself alone. In this spacious carriage, he felt a little lonely.

  He suddenly thought, why hasn't Xiao Jing come back yet? If he comes back, it's fine for me to vent my anger.

  ...

  Queen Zhang boards the car.

  Zhu Houzhao and Fang Jifan filed in obediently and sat in a row.

  Zhu Houzhao grinned happily at Queen Zhang.

  Queen Zhang was full of thoughts, she raised her eyes, and said to Fang Jifan: "Jifan, last time, His Majesty complained to you, saying that this palace is just a woman, useless... Do you remember?"

  Zhu Houzhao's eyes widened, as if lying on the ground.

  Fang Jifan immediately said: "My son didn't say that, my lady, my son..."

  Empress Zhang said meaningfully: "Don't justify yourself, although you didn't tell me these words, but my heart is like a mirror."

"Your Majesty, you have misunderstood. Everyone knows His Majesty's deep love for Your Majesty. How could Your Majesty say such a thing? There must be some villain who is soliciting truth in front of Your Majesty. My son... My son, go and kill him now. Your Majesty... don't even think about it, how much Your Majesty loves your Majesty. If he has such thoughts, this... this is really unreasonable. It's not true that my son dared to use his own head as a guarantee, or the Empress must be If you make a mistake, I implore your mother to learn from you."

  Fang Jifan spoke sincerely.

  Nima, who am I, Fang Jifan?

  Queen Zhang smiled: "Don't be afraid."

  Fang Jifan said: "My son is definitely not afraid, but just speaking out."

"Okay, even if you speak uprightly, I don't want to delve into these matters. These days, I have always been accompanied by female doctor Liang. I see her concentrating on her studies. Sometimes, I really feel envious. Really... She is a woman who doesn't give way to a man. Originally, I was thinking, since this is the case, I should just weave cloth, which can be regarded as... Do something for His Majesty, and find something for myself, but Now."

She looked at Zhu Houzhao eagerly: "Now that Houzhao and you have made such a loom, I... have nothing to do again. Bengong saw that the opera sang 'Who says women are inferior to men', what is sung in this opera?" , It really touched the heart of Bengong. Jifan, you won’t make fun of Bengong saying these things, will you?”

  Fang Jifan shook his head like a rattle: "I don't dare to make fun of you, I don't even have time to admire you."

  Empress Zhang sighed and said: "But, what should I do? I am not too young, but I am not too young to be ambitious. You have the best idea. Let me tell you."

  Fang Jifan said in embarrassment: "Madam, can you remove that ghost character in front?"

  Queen Zhang smiled slightly: "Speak seriously."

  Fang Jifan said: "Your Majesty, you can learn what you like. There are thousands of knowledge in this world, and all of them need interest. Otherwise, no matter how brilliant knowledge you have, what's the use of learning it if it's boring?"

Empress Zhang thought deeply: "Sure enough, it's right to ask you, but... I don't know what interests I have, so it might as well be like this. In a few days, you will send all your knowledge of Xishan to the palace. Take a look and make a decision."

  Fang Jifan should go down.

  But I couldn't help thinking in my heart.

  My mother-in-law, could it be that this is going to apply for the 'University for the Elderly'.

  Look, even the mother-in-law is working so hard, and her son is still an **** all day long. If he fails, go home and beat him.

  ...

  Now, the cloth merchants in Manchuria are all staring at Xishan.

  Every move of Xishan cloth industry is enough to strangle them to death.

  For the cloth industry, this is enough to be called a change that has not been seen in thousands of years.

   This month has passed, and most of the merchants barely cleared their accumulated goods at once. Although they didn't make much profit, they barely recovered some losses.

  Next, a message was released.

  Wang Jinyuan personally posted a post, inviting people to visit the No. 1 Cotton Spinning Workshop.

  The cloth merchants flocked to it, as if they knew that it was time to reveal the secret.

   Batch after batch of cloth merchants entered the workshop, but they were not allowed to enter the inside of the workshop, and were only allowed to watch outside the glass windows. Even so, the shock that the No. 1 Cotton Spinning Workshop gave them was extremely shocking.

   And then... the steam loom suddenly became popular.

  The order for this machine has almost been scheduled for three years later.

  …

   But this is bad news for many women workers in cotton spinning workshops.

  Because the cotton spinning workshop may be closed in a month.

  The female workers were discussing this matter.

  Most of them are women who have not left the cabinet, and most of them are from poor families. Otherwise, they would not be allowed to come out to work.

  Compared to staying at home all day long, although working hard in the cotton spinning workshop, they are extremely satisfied.

  After all, the benefits of the cotton spinning workshop are good, the wages are high, and food and drink are included. After a month, you can always save four or five taels of silver. For a woman, this is already an amazing thing.

  With silver, you can subsidize your family, and you will have confidence in your heart.

  Furthermore, a group of female workers live and work together, communicate with each other, and naturally gain a lot of knowledge, and they are no longer as timid as before.

  After the value is set, there will be special evening classes to teach them some simple reading and writing.

  It can be said... They don't want to change these days.

  But now...

  When various gossips came, most of these girls secretly hid in the corner and shed tears.

   Ernv Liu is already in her own position, and has made mistakes several times.

  She seemed absent-minded, there are not a few people like her.

She likes the cotton spinning workshop. If she goes back, she will be at home all day anyway, and she will have to do all kinds of things. Not only doing things, but her drunken father will beat herself if something goes wrong. .

My own mother... Not to mention, I only thought in my heart that I should hurry up and marry someone, or even find a good one, let myself be a child, so that I can get a sum of money so that my brothers can marry wife.

  In the past, she didn't feel that, but when she came here, she felt extremely happy.

  So that from morning to night, she felt energetic.

  If the cotton spinning workshop really closes, not only will I have to go home and lose my income, my father will definitely beat and scold me, and I don’t know which relative my mother will recruit.

  Reading by myself, I only learned half of it, and I can only recognize more than 70 characters.

  In the future... I will never see these usual sisters again.

   There are many people like Liu Ernv.

  Women who can be sent out to work often have a sad past.

  At noon, a female shopkeeper came. This female shopkeeper was an old nun who specialized in managing female workers.

  The female nun called everyone together and said that she had something to announce.

   All of a sudden, Ernv Liu felt that something was wrong.

  Many female workers also had red eye circles.

When everyone has arrived, Ernv Liu said: "I have accepted the order of shopkeeper Wang Da. From tomorrow onwards, you don't have to come to work. In order to dismiss everyone, the Cotton Spinning Workshop will give you an extra month's salary. At night... we Zhang Luo has a table of good food and wine, open to eat, it can be regarded as saying goodbye..."

   This sentence is like a death sentence for everyone.

   When Liu Ernv heard this, she burst into tears with a whimper.

  Many female workers also sobbed.

  In the shed, there was a burst of crying and chaos.

  The female nun hissed: "Don't make noise, don't cry yet, I haven't finished what I said, Liu Ernv, Liu Ernv...why are you crying so loudly, you come..."

   Ernv Liu barely stopped crying, lost her energy all of a sudden, and returned to the timid look she had when she first entered the workshop.

The female nun said: "Now outside, there are many cotton spinning workshops that are about to start work. The weaving machines have been customized and the land has been bought. They are waiting to build workshops and prepare to start work. But in this world, there are How many people can know how to play with this machine, Liu Ernv, you have good skills, and there are many cloth merchants outside, who want to hire a female shopkeeper and foreman with a high salary. Work has started, but recruitment has begun, but these newly recruited female dolls, what do they know, so I recommend you to be the foreman, in charge of a steam workshop, there are more than 20 female workers up and down , waiting for you to teach them how to work, this salary, the boss said, it is three times as much as here, you clean up at night, and a car will be hired for you tomorrow morning, you go to the workshop first, and train those female dolls Tuning, lest something goes wrong when the workshop starts."

   "..."

   Ernv Liu opened her eyes wide, and she... has grown up.

  (end of this chapter)