Chapter 252 Mission 2: Reversing the fate of cannon fodder 8
Chapter 252 Mission 2: Reversing the fate of cannon fodder (8)
When they met Fubao Chen Xun, they didn't intend to say hello. The family of five quickly left the county and went home.
After Chen Xun returned home, she and Yan Lizhou got busy. It was the slack time for farming and they didn't need to work in the fields, so they had a lot of time to do other things.
If you want to start a cloth business, you definitely need to prepare other things, such as textile machines and raw materials for cloth.
Traditional fabrics include hemp, kudzu, silk, etc. Now, of course, they are not a good choice for raising silkworms. There are no mulberry trees or silkworm seeds in Shanghe Village, so it is better to choose to use hemp or kudzu.
Chen Xun also plans to upgrade the process of extracting fiber from kudzu and hemp, which will at least increase the success rate of fiber extraction.
Yan Lizhou, on the other hand, practiced carpentry at the request of Chen Xun. Of course, his own carpentry skills were not very good. Although he was a strong martial artist with stable hands, he had never seriously studied carpentry, so of course he needed help from others to make a textile machine.
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Yan Lizhou found a reliable person in the village and a reliable person he knew from his brother-in-law to make textile looms together.
The drawings of the textile machine that Chen Yun took out were really good ones. The spinning speed was very fast, and it could produce several bolts of cloth a day.
With this textile machine, weaving will be much faster in the future.
As production ramps up, prices will gradually come down.
Of course, Chen Xun also knew very well that as the speed of textiles increased, it would be impossible to take the high-quality route. She had no intention of taking the high-quality route.
Of course, the high-quality products are made by those trained by the powerful themselves. Now she just hopes that more people can afford to wear clothes.
It takes time to extract fiber from hemp and kudzu, and it also takes time to make a textile machine, so Chen Yu and his wife were very quiet during this period.
Of course, the three little ones, Yan Lizhou sent Yan Dawa to school, they are all eight years old. If they don’t know how to work, then they can go to school.
Originally, Yan Erwa should also be sent to school, but after thinking about it, their family is not rich enough to send several children to school at once, so it is better to send Yan Dawa to study first.
Yan Dawa's task is to go to school every day to study, and when she returns home, she will teach her two younger brothers how to read.
Paying one cub a tutor can help all three cubs to read and practice calligraphy. Isn't this a very economical way to do it?
Yan Lizhou also specially prepared a sandbox for the three cubs so that they can practice calligraphy on it every day. It is also a good exercise for them to write and draw.
Shanghe Village has its own school, which was run by an old boy.
Although Lao Tong Sheng only provides enlightenment to the little ones, the village is still very supportive of having this school where the children in the village can read and become literate.
Yan Dawa is a very smart child, so after coming back from school, he basically remembers what his master taught him, and he will tell his two younger brothers exactly what he taught.
During this time, the three cubs not only studied and literate, but also did whatever they could at the request of their parents, such as washing dishes, cleaning, doing laundry, and hoeing.
The weeds in their yard need to be cleared, the weeds in their vegetable plots need to be cleared, and the weeds in their fields need to be cleared, and they all need the help of three cubs.
As for the three bastards who have already studied, why do they still have to work? What's wrong with studying? If you study, you are superior to others, and you can open your mouth and stretch out your hands when food comes.
Chen Xun just wanted to cultivate the self-reliance and hands-on skills of the three cubs. Otherwise, would she and Yan Lizhou be expected to support them for the rest of their lives?
After a while, Yan Dawa adapted to school life and things at home, and the two younger brothers also adapted to their current lives.
Chen Xun's hemp and kudzu fibers were also extracted and spun into thread by her, and Yan Lizhou's textile loom was also ready.
So Chen Xun started weaving, but after trying it once, she didn't want to do it - she was lazy, and she didn't want to weave every day.
So Chen Xun and Yan Lizhou opened a weaving workshop. Yan Lizhou and the others made several textile machines, so it was very convenient to build a weaving workshop.
Yan Lizhou and his family are not the only Yan family in Shanghe Village. There are also other relatives, and the relationship between them is quite good.
The workers chosen by Chen Xun and Yan Lizhou to build the weaving workshop were people with good character and hard work. The five of them established this small workshop.
Of course, the colors of kudzu and linen are not diverse, and the quality of the fabrics woven in the weaving mills varies. There are still softer fine linen and soft kudzu.
Chen Xun found a lot of natural dyes. She only made dyes of a lot of colors and started dyeing the fabrics in the weaving workshop.
The dyes Chen Xun prepared are three basic colors: red, yellow and blue. These three basic colors can evolve into light red, pink, dark red, burgundy, plum red, true red, light blue, pink blue, sky blue,
Various colors such as lake blue, sapphire blue, etc.
Moreover, the basic colors can be mixed to produce other colors, so the fabrics in their weaving workshop have a lot more colors.
Chen Xun's dyeing skills are very good. Once these fabrics are dyed, you don't have to worry about the color fading quickly. These fabrics will take at least several years of repeated washing before they fade.
"Isn't this cloth from the Kuro family so beautiful?"
A female worker in the weaving workshop couldn't help but said when she looked at the color of the cloth hanging in the yard, it was so beautiful.
She had never seen such beautiful fabric, and she also wanted to buy a few feet to take home and make clothes.
Chen Yun glanced at the female workers. Their eyes were fixed on the fabric on the drying pole. Their eyes were exactly the same as those of later generations of women when they saw beautiful clothes.
Chen Xun thought for a while and said, "Today I will give you a benefit. Everyone chooses a color they like, cut two feet of cloth and take it back."
After hearing this, the female workers looked at Chen Xun in surprise and said, "Jiulang's family, are you telling the truth? Can we take the cloth home?"
"Yes, it's employee benefits. You are all employees of our weaving workshop. If we have beautiful cloth, of course we should give it to you to use."
"I won't give you much, just two feet of cloth for each person."
“Two feet of cloth is a lot,” the female workers said excitedly.
Two feet of cloth, this is two feet of cloth that is free of charge. When they take it home, they can make new clothes for their children.
Chen Xun didn't care about their excitement. After helping them choose the color of the fabric they liked, he measured two feet of fabric for each of them and let them take it home.
Chen Xun looked at the fabrics in her yard and wondered how to sell them.
"Brother Ninth——"
Chen Yun called out Yan Lizhou. Since there was so much cloth, he sold it and gave it to Yan Lizhou.
Whether he goes out to sell it himself or leaves it to others to sell, that is his own business, and she is not responsible for the content.
Of course, Yan Lizhou performed the task she assigned perfectly. He approached several of his sisters and asked them to help sell the fabrics.
Of course, he was paid when he asked his sisters to help him sell things. His sisters couldn't work for free, and of course they had to get paid when others were paid.
Under the publicity of Yan Lizhou's eight sisters, the fabrics of Yan Jiulang's family in Shanghe Village gradually became popular.