Holding Chao Mu in his arms, Zhou Jun entered the vestibule and asked Jin Fengniang beside him: "How is the Jin family's business lately?"
Jin Fengniang said: "In the first month, Baiting Mutual Trade was reopened in the north of Liangzhou City. The Jin family and various tribes in Mobei began to do mule and horse business, and helped the teahouse transport tea. Also, the Anxi Protectorate came to Liangzhou again.
The state issued the deed to Changhang, and the governor's office finally entrusted the contract to the Jin family."
When Zhou Jun heard this, he also understood in his heart that the reason why the official's long-term deed could be entrusted to the Jin family again was probably because of his own face.
So Zhou Jun asked Jin Fengniang: "I remember you said that the Jin family had previously taken on a long-term shipment to Anxi, but later it was shipped to Guazhou, and there was no news about it."
Jin Fengniang: "Yes, the Jin family later sent people to search along the original route, but no trace was found."
Zhou Jun: "Are you sure about the long-term deed this time?"
Jin Fengniang: "The Jin family naturally wants to restore their reputation... Uncle Shen plans to go on this long trip himself and bring half of the Jin family's people with him."
The two of them walked along the corridor into the backyard while talking.
Zhou Jun saw from a distance that a group of people gathered there at the Jin family's martial arts training ground and kept shouting "Hello".
Curious, Zhou Jun walked over.
I saw two arrow stacks placed in the martial arts training ground. Hedari, a Uighur native, and Xiu Niang, Jinfeng Niang's younger sister, were competing in archery.
Zhou Jun handed Chao Mu in his arms into Jin Fengniang's hands and walked into the martial arts training ground.
The people watching around saw Zhou Jun and quickly bowed to say hello.
When Hedari and Xiu Niang heard the noise, they also put down their bows and arrows and saluted together.
Walking in front of the two of them, Zhou Jun looked at the arrow stack a hundred steps away and asked with a smile: "Who won?"
Hedari scratched his head and smiled bitterly, while Xiu Niang was in high spirits.
Seeing the appearance of these two people, Zhou Jun could naturally guess the outcome.
He was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Xiu Niang, who looked young and weak, could actually surpass Hedari in archery.
From this point of view, Jin Fengniang's original statement that it would be easy for Liangzhou's daughter to ride a horse and shoot arrows was not an untruth.
Hedari handed the bow and arrow to his men, took out a golden condyle from his waist, handed it to the embroiderer, and said: "My skills are not as good as others, and I am willing to admit defeat."
The embroiderer took the golden condyle and said with a smile: "Last time it was horse bow, this time it is foot bow. Next time you think about the events of the competition, let me know."
After saying that, Xiu Niang went to Golden Feng Niang and teased Chao Mu.
Hedari stared at the embroiderer's back, his eyes never moving away for a long time.
Zhou Jun walked up to him and said, "Could it be that you intend to be humble?"
Hedari touched his head and smiled naively at Zhou Jun: "To be honest with you, I did have some humility in the first few arrows, but later on I tried my best."
After saying that, Hedari glanced in the direction of Xiu Niang again and said: "Zhou Lang, you still remember that I once said that the women of the Tang Dynasty were well-educated and gentle, and they were much better than the women of Huihe. However, I always felt that
Something is missing somewhere.”
"During the six months of living in the Jin family and spending time with Xiu Niang, Hedari understood that the best women should have the wisdom of the Tang Dynasty and the spirit of the grassland."
Zhou Jun heard this and asked Hedari, "Do you want to marry Xiu Niang?"
Hedari: "Yes, but I want to report this matter to my father and ask him to make a decision."
Zhou Jun nodded and said, "That makes sense."
Saying goodbye to Hedari, Zhou Jun changed his clothes, washed up again, and then, guided by Kong You, set out from the back door of Jin's house to the tea-frying workshop on the next street.
The Tea Tea Workshop is said to be a workshop, but it is actually a block of more than 200 meters square. There are more than 30 small courtyards, as well as a watchtower and workshop walls.
The location of the workshop was originally an abandoned residential house in Liangzhou City. The Jin family bought it and renovated and expanded it, giving it what it is today.
After passing a square gate guarded by members of the Jin family, Zhou Jun and Kong You arrived at an inner gate.
Qiu Yong, who was responsible for guarding the inner door, saw that the person outside was Zhou Jun. He quickly opened the door and asked with a smile: "Erlang finally came back from Chang'an. Is everything okay in Bachuan?"
Zhou Jun: "Everything is fine with Duke Pang, but Duke Yin left on the Lantern Festival."
Qiu Yong was stunned when he heard this. He was silent for a long time and said, "Everything in the world is impermanent."
Walking into the inner door, Zhou Jun smelled a strong aroma of tea filling the air inside the shop.
Kong You said to Zhou Jun: "The raw tea has just been launched, and the fleet responsible for purchasing it just rushed back to the tea house a few days ago."
Zhou Jun walked into the craftsman's hall of the tea-frying workshop and saw large pots as tall as one person, lined up with sixteen pots, and iron spoons driven by gears and slide ropes, rotating under the power of animal power.
Not only that, but also stir-frying the tea leaves in the pot.
The master craftsman Mao Shun was touching the edge of the pot with his hands, assessing the temperature of the pot, and was constantly asking people to add or remove firewood.
Seeing Zhou Jun enter the door, Mao Shun dropped what he was doing, came to the front of the former, raised his hands and said, "Erlang is back."
Zhou Jun nodded towards Mao Shun and said: "This time I went to Chang'an and I brought back a man who is quite accomplished in craftsmanship."
Mao Shun heard this and immediately became interested.
Zhou Jun nodded to Kong You, who went to his dormitory and brought Peng Po over.
Mao Shun was a little confused when he saw that Po Peng was a woman, dressed in palace clothes, and quite old.
Zhou Jun said to Po Peng, "This is the great craftsman Mao Shun."
When Granny Peng heard the word Mao Shun, she was startled for a moment and then said, "I've heard the name of the great craftsman for a long time."
After saying that, Granny Peng took out the drawings of the heavy loom from her arms and handed them into Mao Shun's hands.
Mao Shun took the drawing, looked at it twice, frowned and asked Granny Peng, "Did you draw this?"
Granny Peng nodded.
Mao Shun: "Which master did you study under?"
Granny Peng: "I am originally from Dongdao, Jiangnan, and my weaving and dyeing skills came from my elders in the family."
Mao Shun nodded and stopped asking. He found a stone pier, spread out the drawings, and read them carefully.
After a while, Zhou Jun asked Mao Shun: "Master craftsman, is the design of this heavy loom feasible?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Mao Shun: "Actually, the real name of this thing is not a heavy loom, but a flower loom. However, I always thought that the flower loom was a flower loom.
It has been lost, but I didn’t expect to see it here.”
After hearing this, Zhou Jun, who knew nothing about textiles, asked Mao Shun: "Master craftsman, what is Hualou Ji? Can you explain it to Jun?"
Mao Shun put away the drawings of the Hualou loom and said to Zhou Jun: "Before explaining the Hualou loom, let's first talk about the looms currently used in the Tang Dynasty. Most of the looms currently used in weaving workshops and palaces are
Heddle jacquard machine. This kind of ingenious machine uses a treadle to drive the movement of heddles, and the heddles are the thread guides used to weave patterns."
"The greater the number of heddles, the more complex the patterns that can be woven. But correspondingly, once the number of heddles increases, the number of treadles that provide power will also increase. However, if the number of heddles and treadles increases,
If it is too much, the cloth pattern will be interrupted or even misaligned when the loom is running."
“Therefore, most of the silk and satin cloths skillfully woven by machines in the Tang Dynasty were symmetrical fabrics with a small number of pattern cycles, while complex patterns such as large animals and realistic flowers were all added in the form of hand weaving.
Instead of using a loom, that's exactly the reason."
Zhou Jun nodded slightly when he heard this.
Mao Shun: "But in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the "Ode to a Machine Woman" once mentioned a brand-new loom - "...high buildings stand side by side, facing a clear pond below; swimming fish hold bait, and dig their bees, and deer and deer are combined.
It rises, its fibers and trunks hang down, just like a star map, bending, stretching and moving, going back and forth, it’s a lot of work and exhaustion.”
"The jacquard warp of this loom does not need to be controlled by heddles, but is controlled by wire heddles, so it gets rid of the limit of the number of heddles and treadles. In addition, its most critical technology is the tack pattern, which is to use the pattern to store the jacquard
Step by step, and then memorize the changing rules of the pattern. On the upper part of the loom, there is a loom component that controls the rise and fall of the warp of the jacquard machine, called the "Hualou". Therefore, this loom is named Hualou loom."
"Using the Hualou knitting machine, you can use multi-twist knitting threads and layer fabric surfaces to weave extremely complex large-scale patterns without interruption or misalignment. Compared with hand weaving, the speed is dozens of times faster.
."
"It is a pity that the manufacturing techniques of Hualou Ji were destroyed in the war in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, although some craftsmen tried to reproduce this thing based on a few words in ancient books, the ingenuity of the machine could only be
If you use it reluctantly, it is far from the level in the book."
After hearing this, Zhou Jun looked at Granny Peng aside and couldn't help but sigh that the skills that had been lost for a long time had a chance to see the light of day again.