Chapter 209: Unable to get married
Jin Sui went over to instruct them and arranged the work in an assembly line mode. The embroiderers knew the whole process, but if they wanted to do it faster, they could just be taught one of the steps.
Working in an assembly line mode not only saves time and effort, but also greatly increases speed.
Yan Shiyi followed Jinsui throughout the whole process and followed her instructions. He felt that knowledge was entering his brain in a violent manner. He wanted to retain something, but he couldn't say it.
"Is it possible? It turns out that you don't have to learn the whole set, you only need to learn one of them and you can start working on the job!"
Jin Sui sighed, “This is a large-scale workshop operation model, but it is difficult to cultivate innovative talents.
I suggest that the embroiderers take a few qualified female students with them to systematically learn the entire process, while ordinary female workers only need to master one of the links.
That way, you don’t have to worry about someone poaching your talent with a high salary.”
Yan Shiyi clapped his folding fan excitedly, "I want to tell this method to my elder brother! What's wrong with your brain? No, your heart is a lotus pod, right? So many ideas? You can even think of such a method! In the past, it would be impossible for an apprentice to learn without two or three years. Now, as long as you learn one of the processes in three or five years, you can start working.
I was worried that it would take a long time to train the female workers! It seems that it won’t take a long time at all. We can launch Yanjia wool material this year.”
Jin Sui rolled his eyes at him and said, "You are just a little educated person. You even praise people so harshly! What do you mean my heart is a lotus pod? Why don't you say it is a honeycomb? It's so scary!"
"In fact, many industries can adopt the assembly line operation model, and workers can get started with simple training. Of course, the most important thing to increase production is to improve tools, take a look at your textile tools.
You actually have the nerve to say that this is how it was used a hundred years ago! Have you, the Yan family, never thought of hiring a craftsman to improve it over the past hundred years?"
Yan Shiyi touched his nose embarrassedly: "I haven't really thought about this, everyone does it this way!"
"That's right. Everyone closed the city gates and did nothing when the Tartars attacked! If I, the fake Li King, were not different from everyone else, you would not be able to trade with Northern Xinjiang."
Yan Shiyi felt even more ashamed. It was true. Why had no one thought of changing it in the past hundred years? From the big issues of the Northern Frontier and the imperial court to the small issues of improving textile machines and even growing vegetables in a greenhouse, no one had thought of it.
Everyone knows that green vegetables are hard to come by in winter. Some nobles use greenhouses to grow flowers, and some grow vegetables in hot springs. Why haven't they thought of using greenhouses to grow vegetables on a large scale? Look at the border towns. Just by growing winter vegetables, they can earn enough food for the entire army for several years.
The same goes for the looms. During the time that Miss Ji lived in the Yan family, she watched the female workers weaving and listened to their complaints that their hands were sore from shaking the looms, they were so tired that they could not lift their hands, and they could only weave a small amount of cloth in a day.
Miss Ji immediately called the craftsman over. She explained and demonstrated, and the craftsman made some modifications, and finally the hand crank was replaced with a leg pedal.
Standing spinning becomes sitting spinning, with both feet taking turns to press and hands to organize the spools, and the efficiency instantly increases by more than three times! With high efficiency, people are also relaxed.
Miss Ji was still not satisfied, and muttered something like, "This is the only way for now. Once we have a steam engine to drive it, the speed will be much faster."
After seeing it with his own eyes, Yan Shiyi admired Jin Sui's intelligence even more. He had no objection at all when she occasionally called him stupid.
There are not many people in this world who are smarter than Miss Ji. I just accept it when she calls me stupid.
He felt that if he could keep Miss Ji at his home for a few months and take her to see all kinds of industries, and she could give instructions and make improvements, it would be a treasure for the Yan family.
No wonder my elder brother always likes to talk about serious matters with Miss Ji, and they would talk for several hours. He didn't understand what they said before, and he felt sleepy and dizzy.
Now that Miss Ji is by his side and teaching him step by step, Yan Shiyi has started to understand things. His catchphrase has become: "It can be done this way!"
Jin Sui visited the Yan family's textile workshop and confirmed that all the aristocratic families were similar. To be honest, the Yan family had the best technology.
Then she felt relieved and changed her previous strategy. We will no longer open a textile workshop in the border town because it requires a lot of manpower and the money comes in slowly.
Selling the spun fabric, whether it is cloth or ready-made garments, requires a lot of procedures. It takes too long to recover the funds, and there is too much to worry about!
When everyone else is panning for gold, who gets rich first? Shovel sellers!
We will not compete with the nobles who have a mature trade system, workshops, shops, workers and capital for the textile business;
We sell machinery! We sell improved textile machines, from generation to generation.
If you want to be faster than others, you have to buy the latest generation of textile machines in Border Town! Haha, even if the nobles come to improve themselves and find craftsmen, can you be faster than me copying homework in space? In the early stage, we have to help the nobles make money, and make money until agriculture and commerce conflict, forcing the nobles to choose one of the two. Do you let farmers change to workers and give up the land, or stick to farming? I believe that many old-fashioned nobles will definitely think about doing both, and the fields must not be lost!
But some young people who value profit will definitely choose industry and commerce first when the two options are in balance. In this way, our border town can successfully recover the land.
Promote land reform, take back the fertile land occupied by the gentry, and then distribute it to the farmers.
The Chamber of Commerce fattened the pockets of the nobles, but they no longer had the ability to seize the country's capital. They went from being an aristocratic family to being wealthy businessmen.
Moreover, their road to wealth is through the border towns, and we have new firearms, so the gentry can neither train troops nor unite to rebel.
Their noble family reputation, which had been high and mighty for thousands of years, would fall to the ground and become ordinary people in the chaos stirred up by Jinsui.
Taking this opportunity, an academy will be opened in the border town to train talents from poor families. In just a few years, His Royal Highness the Prince of Li will be able to resolve the scourge of the aristocracy with a war without the smoke of gunpowder.
The premise of all this is that Chang'an gives King Li time to implement this long-term plan in Yan.
There was very little news from the Northern Frontier delegation, and all Li Heng learned was that it was extremely unusual during the New Year period in Chang'an.
There was no singing and dancing, and the rich and powerful celebrated the New Year in a low-key manner. Many people were executed in Caishikou every day, and Prince Yu's party was using tyrannical means to silence them.
But it was impossible to stop the people from gossiping. After killing one group of people, another group would pop up to discuss the relationship between the Queen and Prince Zuo Xian, and how Prince Yu colluded with the enemy country.
Even if Prince Yu had people spread the word that Prince Li was colluding with Prince Bater, it would not have had much effect. Because the Northern Frontier delegation was in Chang'an, and they insisted that Prince Li did not know Prince Bater at all before he was ordered to go to Northern Frontier.
On the contrary, the Queen and Prince Yu repeatedly communicated with Prince Zuo Xian, hoping to use him to kill Prince Li in the northern border...
In short, Chang'an was in chaos, so chaotic that Li Heng didn't dare to ask anyone to transfer him back to Chang'an. Some of his old colleagues were still corresponding not long ago, but in the next letter he heard that he was implicated and would either lose his job or be exiled.
He didn't even dare to communicate with people in Chang'an, for fear of being implicated.
Li Heng laughed at himself. Who could have thought that the Yan area that everyone avoided before has now become the only pure land.
Besides, Jin Sui watched the wool textile workshop move and prepared to return to the border town. Gu Changxiao and Cheng Yu were leading tens of thousands of refugees to the border town!
She had to go back in advance to see if the refugee camp was well prepared. She was going to ride back on horseback, but Yan Shiyi insisted that she take a carriage. After leaving the Yan family, even though she was sitting in the carriage, Jin Sui felt something was wrong.
Looking out from the car window, the people on the road were still normal, but the second floors of the shops on both sides were crowded with people looking at the carriage.
She opened the window, and those people immediately sat back down, pretending not to look at the carriage.
"What's going on? Is there a bomb in my car?"
Yan Shiyi laughed dryly and said, "Hehe, everyone is just curious."
"What are you curious about?" She was suddenly startled: "You won't tell them that I'm the fake Li King?"
Yan Shiyi hurriedly said, "You can't just blame me. Who told you to arrest all the officials and write the Shang Law? They were the ones who spread it."
Jin Sui covered her face and quickly closed the window. What should she do? We had agreed before that the shameful things done by the King of Li, what does it have to do with me, Ji Sui ? The shameful things done by Ji Sui, what does it have to do with me, Ling Jin Sui? Now, the vests have been peeled off layer by layer, and everyone knows that Miss Ji is the fake King of Li!
Jin Sui regretted it deeply. If he had known this, he would not have been so arrogant before! He did whatever he wanted with the Li Wang's identity card. Now, he has become a monkey in the circus, and people are watching him wherever he goes.
She said bitterly, "How did they scold me?"
Yan Shiyi was about to speak, but she said, "Wait a minute! Let me prepare myself mentally...Okay, go ahead! I'm not sensitive, I can handle it no matter how harshly you scold me!"
Yan Shiyi whispered, "They said you will never get married!"
Jin Sui was stunned for a moment: "What else?"
“No more.”
She blinked her eyes. "Are you sure? I've done so many earth-shattering things, and this is all they say?"
Yan Shiyi was shocked and asked, "For a girl, this is not serious?"
Jin Sui said speechlessly: "I curse you to never be able to eat sweet tomatoes in your life, and only be able to eat sour tomatoes."
Yan Shiyi: "...What kind of curse is this? I'm almost tired of eating tomatoes, I don't have to eat them!"
Jin Sui: "So, what's the point of saying that you can't get married? Damn it, I burned the Tartars, killed Zheng Yun, played tricks on the imperial envoy, entered the northern border, and built a border town. But in the eyes of you sons of the aristocratic families, a woman who did these things is just a sentence like 'you will definitely not get married'?"
Yan Shiyi couldn't figure out what she was angry about. Anyway, she was very angry, and Yan Shiyi didn't dare to say anything else, feeling that he had suffered an unprovoked disaster.
Who made you so arrogant that you detained all the officials to work? Otherwise, if I said that the fake Li Wang was Miss Ji, others would not believe it!
Jinsui secretly vowed in her heart that she must build the academy so that women from the lower classes could learn a skill and become self-reliant.
Let men no longer use "unmarriage" as a curse on women.
Oh, it's better if I can't get married! Yan Shiyi sent her to the outskirts of Yanzhou City and said sincerely: "When you are free, let me know and I will rush to pick you up to my house."
Jin Sui glanced at Yanzhou City, feeling annoyed the more he looked at it. He waved his hand and said, "I won't come anymore! Just come to me if you have any problems."
Her mood improved only when she walked out of Yanzhou and saw the fields reclaimed by the soldiers of our Tuntian Camp and the people.
Asked Hei Hu outside the car: "Is your wedding room ready?"
Hei Hu poked his finger again: "It's ready. The wedding will be held on February 2."
Jinsui turned her head to look at Han Xing again. Before she said anything, Han Xing's cheeks had already turned red.
She sighed and thought, forget it, Twelve Niang is still young anyway, it’s better for young people to date for a few more years before getting married.
On the way, they met Captain Liu who was returning from the seaside, carrying dozens of carts of sea salt and sea fish to Yanzhou City.
Seeing Han Xing and Hei Hu, Captain Liu was so excited! He led a group of refugees to build a base on the seashore and did not come back for the New Year.
His eyes were almost filled with tears, as he thought it was Gu Changxiao sitting in the car, so he hurriedly got out to pay his respects.
Hei Hu smiled and said, "Boss Ji, get in the car."
"Boss Ji?"
Jin Sui stretched his head out, and Captain Liu lowered his head and dared not look. It turned out to be a female relative! Hei Hu was really something, and he didn't even explain clearly. Was she the prince's guest?
Then Jin Sui smiled and said, "Captain Liu, long time no see! Looking at your appearance, it seems that the base is well built! Why are you delivering the goods yourself?"
Captain Liu was stunned for a moment, looked up at Jin Sui in disbelief, and then cried out, "Oh my God! This is, this is..."
"Boss Ji!"
Captain Liu laid on the front of Jinsui's car and started crying.
Some veterans from the Tuntian Camp also came over and cried around the carriage. Those who didn't know thought Jinsui had died in the carriage! She had no choice but to get off the car to comfort and apologize to them one by one, and said that she would visit them at the base when she had time. Only then did she comfort these crying old men.
Jinsui looked back at the Yanzhou City which was no longer visible. Tsk, no matter how you look down on me, as long as these people respect me, that’s enough.
Captain Liu explained to Jinsui very seriously, as if she was still the King of Li.
He was just delivering this batch of goods, and he had an appointment with the Yan family's manager to discuss the shipment of goods. The base had no seagoing vessels, so a batch of goods needed to be taken out on the Yan family's seagoing vessels.
He also took the opportunity to report to Jin Sui that there were already more than 30,000 people at the base, which had developed into a small town.
In addition to salt fields, shallow-sea aquaculture and fishing at sea, farmland was also reclaimed.
There are also fish oil workshops built on several small islands, which are specifically responsible for boiling fish oil, but they have to be transported to the border town for bottling. Lord Cheng attaches great importance to the base.
The two teams chatted on the side of the road for most of an hour. In the end, Jin Sui was afraid of delaying Captain Liu's business.
They agreed to continue the conversation when they returned to the border town. What was funny was that Captain Liu was as obsessed as Grandpa Ling and reminded Jin Sui: "It's the City of Infinite Strength!"
These old men and old subordinates in the border town attach great importance to the name of our new city! Yes, seeing the once desolate border camp become what it is today, they are prouder than anyone else.
Hei Hu also wanted to go to the base and take a look: "After we get married, I will take Bao Zhu with me. She said she has never seen the sea."
It was almost dusk when we saw the border town. The setting sun dyed the city walls red. From a distance, it really looked like a city built of copper and iron.
Compared with the old and dilapidated Yanzhou City, our border town is majestic, with roads leading to all directions. It is an infinitely expanding and vibrant city.
Hearing the sound of dense horse hooves behind him, Jin Sui thought it was Captain Liu who had caught up with him. Turning back, he saw that it was Gu Changxiao's personal guards who had followed him to pick up the refugees.
"Miss Ji, the prince wants you to take a look at this."
It was a somewhat damaged copy of the Thirty-Six Strategies, but on the edge of the book was the private seal of "The King of Li Da Wuxian".
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