Yang Shi endured the sore muscles all over his body and went to the middle courtyard of the prison hall to see Lin Fu.
Two strings of wind lanterns were hung on the four corners of the courtyard, and the dim firelight made shadows float in the courtyard. Zhou Pu and Zhao Hu were practicing boxing in the courtyard. Wu Qi squatted on the railing under the eaves in front of the hall and watched them.
When he saw Yang Shi approaching, he stopped and returned to the corridor.
Yang Shi was a little embarrassed when he saw that Zhao Hu had completed 600 sets of full squats without stopping and now still had the energy to box with Zhou Pu. He used to look down on Zhao Hu, thinking that Zhao Hu had only been hanging around in the rural camp for two years.
, a rude man who was not good at boxing, but today he knew that he was not qualified to look down on others. He touched his nose and asked Zhao Hu: "Master Lin is in there?"
"Your Majesty said, when Yang Dianwei comes, just go in." Zhao Hu helped Yang Shi open the door of the front hall.
Yang Shi looked inside and saw Lin Fuzheng, Lin Mengde, and Lin Jingzhong sitting in front of the case to discuss matters. Sun Geng, the secretary general, was also sitting beside them.
"You are here. If you have anything to do, don't stand around. Come in and sit down first." Lin Fu asked Yang Shi to go in and sit down. He stopped talking to him about things and continued to discuss with Lin Mengde, Lin Jingzhong and Chang Sun Geng.
Yang Shi sat nearby and listened for a while, then he realized that Lin Fu was looking for Lin Mengde, and Sun Geng, the clerk in Lin Jingzhong, was here to discuss the purchase of a cotton spinning wheel.
Yang Shi was no stranger to spinning wheels. When his family and the Gu family were on the military expedition in Saibei, they lived in poverty. His mother and Mrs. Gu, two women who could not be exposed to the public, asked a craftsman to make two hand-operated spinning wheels to spin cotton.
Hemp subsidizes household expenses. In addition to eating and sleeping, the two of them can spin two kilograms of cotton a day without stopping, and can exchange two or three kilograms of brown rice for a hard day.
Yang Shi thought that there were nearly fifty female prisoners in the prison. He bought fifty spinning wheels and had servants come to work. The total daily income would be about two to three hundred yuan, which could be used to offset their food in the prison. He thought about this request in his heart.
Although the method of making money is safe, it is too clumsy; no wonder the former jailer Ge Zuxin, the clerk Zhou Shide and others secretly colluded with the outside world to force prisoners to become prostitutes. Female prisoners who were slightly attractive were forced to sell themselves in brothels and they could get two yuan in one night.
Three hundred coins. Although this method is despicable for those seeking wealth, it is more effective. If others knew that Lin Fu made money by making female prisoners spin yarn, they would probably ridicule him for being pedantic and pedantic.
Lin Fu didn't know what Yang Shi was thinking about while sitting next to him. In fact, Yang Shi only heard part of their discussion.
On Lin Fu's desk was a copy of "Notes on Agricultural Books" written by Zhang Shizhen, the minister of the Ministry of Industry during the Yongzhan Emperor's period. Lin Fu asked Lin Mengde to find out about the situation. He knew that farmers around Jiangning often used hand-operated single-spindle spinning wheels, and a peasant woman worked day and night.
A pound of cotton yarn can be spun with hard work, but the "Agricultural Book Notes" written by Zhang Shizhen introduces that more than 40 years ago, someone in Pingjiang Prefecture improved the technology of stripping cotton, elasticizing cotton, and spinning wheels, allowing women to spin more than three pounds of cotton day and night.
This made Lin Fu almost despair at the speed of technology promotion in the world. Pingjiang Prefecture is next to Jiangning Prefecture. Someone in Pingjiang Prefecture significantly improved cotton spinning technology more than 40 years ago, increasing cotton spinning efficiency by three times.
How come it has not been promoted to Jiangning Mansion for such a long time?
Zhang Shizhen was also a full-fledged literati. The writing in "Nongshu Annotations" was very concise, and the few paragraphs of ostentatious introduction made it impossible to tell how advanced the cotton spinning technology of Pingjiang Prefecture was compared to Jiangning Prefecture.
The female prisoner in the prison was born in Zhihu, Pingjiang Prefecture. Lin Fu just asked Sun Geng, the secretary general, to bring the female prisoner in for questioning. Only then did he know that Pingjiang Prefecture not only has pedal spinning wheels, but also has workshops and workshops that even use a method for two or three people to work at the same time.
The big spinning wheel of collaboration.
Jiyun Society didn't have much manpower. Lin Fu wanted to ask Lin Mengde to send someone to help Pingjiang Mansion to understand the situation. It would be best to hire two masters to come over. But if that didn't work, he would buy two physical spinning wheels and bring them back to Jiangning for imitations.
Lin Jingzhong knew how to settle accounts nearby, thinking that if it was true as the female prisoner from Orihu said, a large spinning wheel with three people working together could spin twenty kilograms of yarn a day. If divided evenly, the output of one person's hard work would be much greater than that of Jiang Ning.
The average farm household in the suburbs is seven times more expensive. The fifty female prisoners in the prison can earn 2,000 yuan a day spinning cotton yarn, which is almost more than 700 silver a year. Guaiguai is a big business owner who has a prosperous business in the city.
Restaurants may not have such good income.
Besides, who said that only women can be used to spin yarn? Those men can show off outside and not do women's work, but in this prison, can they still make their own choices? More than two hundred prisoners must all be used to spin yarn.
It is rare to get two thousand taels of silver out of cotton yarn every year.
Think about it, Jiyunshe monopolizes the marketing of Gu family tea products through Gu Wuchen's relationship, and can earn at most two thousand taels of silver every year. Who would have thought that there is such a huge financial resource hidden in the prison? Only then did Lin Jingzhong understand why Lin Fu was like this before.
Pay attention to miscellaneous craftsmanship. For merchants, money can come from miscellaneous craftsmanship.
Lin Fu sighed in his heart and learned from the female prisoner that even this kind of large spinning wheel used for toileting was not common in Pingjiang Mansion. During this time, Lin Fu also had a deep understanding of the world around him, and he could understand the reason.
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Large spinning wheels were still considered to be quite complex instruments in the current era. The current craftsman household system, the current situation of factory owners being exploited by the government, and the traditional small household business customs have severely restricted the promotion of this complex instrument. Even if there is the ability to promote this kind of equipment,
People or forces who want to create advanced production equipment feel that it is too slow to make money by doing so.
Lin Fu knew that there was a huge gap between the mainstream of the world who despised miscellaneous craftsmanship as an ingenious and obscene skill, and the later generations who praised the productivity theory. In Lin Jingzhong, Lin Meng was better, but Changsun Geng had many doubts in his eyes.
, Yang Shi, who was sitting aside, looked a little disdainful. Lin Fu did not explain anything to them in a long way. He did it with all his strength. Others could see it clearly, and they naturally understood it in their hearts. Otherwise, no matter how much talk, it would be difficult.
To change other people's stubborn ideas.
After talking about the spinning wheel, we talked about the vegetable garden and the livestock shed. The weather is about to get warmer, and these things will be started soon. There is no need to worry about labor on Prison Island, but the bamboo, wood, and masonry for building the vegetable garden and the livestock shed
Construction materials such as rapeseed, vegetable seedlings, chickens, ducks, sheep, piglets, etc. must be provided on shore. Jiyunshe does not have many manpower, so Linji Warehouse needs to send people to help with these chores first. Lin Fu and Lin Mengde said
: "Uncle Meng De, these and other things are settled according to the market price. After all, you are in charge of the Lin family in Jiangning. No matter what, I am still a descendant of the Lin family. Prison Island has some advantages, and I must not lose any of the Lin family...
..." He did not avoid Yang Shi when he said these words. After saying these things, Lin Fu did not let Chang Sun Geng and others avoid him. He turned sideways and said to Yang Shi: "Today in the Wushu Academy, you selected those five who are proficient in boxing.
Soldiers, you want them to report to Zhou Pu in our courtyard early tomorrow morning, I will use them as bodyguards..."
Yang Shi's face was a little red. He had just selected five martial soldiers who were proficient in boxing for Lin Fu to test, but they were beaten to the point of defeat by Zhao Hu alone. Presumably, they were no match for Zhou Pu next to Lin Fu. According to the usual practice, Lin Fu from Jiu
Ping Si Prison can only use two guards at most, but regardless of the conventions or rules, they are always broken and trampled by the strong. Lin Fu asked for five soldiers to be his guards. Yang Shi just felt that
Embarrassed, he didn't think there was anything wrong. He nodded and said, "Okay, from now on, these five people will only listen to the orders of the adults."
Lin Fu pulled out a stack of manuscripts from his desk, pushed them in front of Yang Shi, and said, "I wrote some words about military training methods. I hope you will take a look..."
Yang Shi took the manuscript, flipped through a few pages, and said with seriousness, "I will definitely understand it seriously in my humble position."
"Maybe it's very different from what you learned in the military camp, and you may not be able to accept it." Lin Fu heard Yang Shi's words being said insincerely, and didn't mind. He stated his intention directly, "That's good. In addition to giving me the chance to
Except for the escort soldiers, the others are divided into two teams. You will be responsible for training one team, and the other team will be trained by Zhao Hu for three months. We will see who is more effective at that time, what do you think?"
"..." Yang Shi was full of grievances. Lin Fu clearly divided his military power in half by doing this. Although he only had fifty or sixty soldiers, there was no competition for this military power. He was just feeling panicked, but
There are still more than a dozen soldiers in the martial arts academy who have sore backs and can't stand up. Even though he is full of grievances, he can't complain. In addition, Lin Fu doesn't hide his secrets from him, and together with Changsun Geng, Lin Mengde, Lin Jingzhong and the others
The discussion did not avoid him, and he also copied a manuscript of the military training method for him to read. Yang Shi had only one idea in his mind: to use three months to train a group of soldiers to be stronger and more powerful than Zhao Hu.
Only by being strong can you feel proud.
Yang Shi and Changsun Geng left, Zhao Hu took up a military post and had to go to the prison on duty at night. Zhou Pu and Wu Qi lived in the middle courtyard with Lin Fu in the name of domestic servants, Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong were guests.
It was only after Lin Mengde went to the island that he truly felt that Lin Fu was covering the sky with one hand on the prison island. Not to mention Sun Geng, the secretary general, Yang Shi, who was regarded as his nephew by Gu Wuchen, also showed no energy at all in front of Lin Fu.
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Early the next morning, listening to the voices outside, Lin Fu got dressed and pushed the door open. The five soldiers who had been beaten by Zhao Hu yesterday with black noses and swollen eyes were standing in the yard waiting for instructions. Their physical fitness was considered to be the best among these soldiers.
They are strong and quite agile, otherwise Yang Shi would not have singled them out last night, but real combat martial arts cannot be trained in ordinary military camps.
Lin Fu didn't want Yang Shi to control the soldiers on Prison Island. On the one hand, Lin Fu didn't know when he and the Gu family would part ways. On the other hand, Yang Shi was not the right person to command the soldiers on Prison Island. But this
At this time, Yang Shi, who Gu Wuchen regarded as his nephew, could not be excluded, so he had to divide the soldiers into several parts as quietly as possible. In addition to the guard soldiers, the prison guards were also divided into two teams, each led by Yang Shi.
, Zhao Hu is responsible for the training, and if there is an opportunity in the future, Lin Fu will add more manpower around him.
"I use you as my guards. It's not that you are very strong, but you may become stronger. I don't care whether you can endure the hardship or not. If you work by my side, no matter how hard you feel, you must endure it first," Lin Fu
He warned sternly, then turned to Zhou Pu, "Help me get a few wooden knives. These people have no other use for the time being, but they are useful for practicing hacking skills. Before they practice knives on me, you will
Explain to them the key points of the chopping technique..."