Chapter 377 Progress
Although Li Yun was not very old when the incident happened in his family, he was the only male in the family. Since he was born, his family has been training him as the successor.
He was smart and studious, and had an interest in textiles, so at a young age his father brought him with him to discuss business and manage the family workshop.
In addition, although he had been on the run for many years and finally had to rely on Jia Weijin, he always remembered his identity as the young master of a textile family and never gave up his research.
His hard work was not in vain. His rich knowledge, superb weaving skills, and familiarity with the loom made him stand out from many weavers.
Although Qianshan is not as good as Liyun, he has a good brain. In addition, he took a different approach. While everyone was competing in textile skills, he turned to study textile machines. Relying on his brain, he came up with several ideas for improving the textile machines.
Jiang Tangtang was looking for such talents, so the two were selected and entered the textile department.
However, Jiang Tangtang has not yet decided who to choose as the head of the Textile Department and needs to observe further.
During this period, she temporarily took over the management of the Textile Department.
Besides Li Yunqianshan, more than thirty other women were selected to join the textile department, half of whom were illiterate.
Although he is illiterate, his skills are really good.
Jiang Tangtang plans to let these people start teaching classes and teach more people how to weave.
Her idea is good, but all departments need money to maintain.
Even the salaries of local officials were a considerable expense, not to mention that in order to help resettle refugees, she took a lot of food from the national treasury and later set up a series of departments.
This operation made the already crisis-ridden finances even more critical.
In order to safely survive the financial crisis, Jiang Tangtang had to slow down.
What is most lacking now is still food.
Although there was no drought this year and farming had gradually resumed in various places, spring planting was delayed to varying degrees in Lingnan, Cangwu, and Bohai Commanderies, except in Lingnan, Cangwu, and Bohai Commanderies.
Especially in places that are far away, it takes a lot of time for people to migrate, not to mention that they have to clean up the land after getting it.
Jiang Tangtang receives official documents from local officials almost every day.
Judging from the documents, these officials did their job diligently after being punished. After measuring the land and distributing it to local farmers, they began planning and building roads, canals and water conservancy projects.
But at the end of the documents, almost all of them came down to one thing, which was asking for money and food.
Jiang Tangtang flipped through the account book again, feeling a bit of a headache. Just as she was thinking about how to solve the problem, she heard a sweet voice outside, "Mom!"
She looked up and saw Lu Tiantian riding Haihai and rushing towards her.
Jiang Tangtang stood up with a smile, "Why are you here?"
As she spoke, she looked behind Lu Tiantian, but this time she didn't see her two brothers.
The three siblings almost always went out together. This was the first time Jiang Tangtang saw her daughter come to see her alone. She couldn't help but ask curiously, "Where are your eldest and second brothers? Did you have a fight?"
Lu Tiantian shook her head a little aggrievedly, "Mom, I also want to go to Nan'an with my uncle. They won't let me go, Mom, they bully me, please help me."
Jiang Tangtang was a little surprised. "What are they doing in Nan'an? When did it happen? Why haven't I heard them mention it before?"
After asking, she suddenly felt that she had failed in her duty as a mother.
Over the years, she has almost been a hands-off boss, leaving her children to the care of the elders in the family and focusing on her career.
Lu Tiantian pursed her lips, holding back tears as she said, "They said we should go help my uncle and help manage Nan'an. Tiantian could help, but they said I was too young. We're the same age, but they just said I was too young. I know they just look down on us girls."
After hearing what her daughter said, Jiang Tangtang finally understood what was going on. The two brothers had been helping the Su family manage Baodao, but now Baodao was on the right track, and with the Su family's help, it was finally back on track.
The two brothers probably felt that Taiwan was no longer challenging, and after listening to Lu Shili talk about the outside world, the two children became curious about the outside world and wanted to go somewhere else.
Jiang Tangtang hugged her daughter and comforted her for a while before asking her, "Why did your uncle come back?"
Lu Shili had been feeling suffocated these days while recuperating at home, so when he learned that Jiang Tangtang planned to send him to Nan'an, he couldn't wait to run to Nan'an.
When he left, it wasn't even the New Year. Lu Shiyan was leading his troops to deal with the remnants of the Western Rong army, and Jiang Tangtang was also busy, so neither of them had time to see him off.
Before Lu Tiantian could answer, Lu Jingheng's voice rang out from outside, "You little snitch! You come to complain to your mother again."
Lu Jingheng came with Lu Jingcheng and Lu Shili and his sister. When they saw Jiang Tangtang, they called out in unison, "Sister-in-law."
Jiang Tangtang patted the children's heads, looked at Lu Shili with a smile and said, "Why didn't you send a message back before? Did you encounter any difficulties?"
"I didn't encounter any difficulties. I heard that my sister-in-law was looking for something. I accidentally found some on an island when I went out to sea this time, so I wanted to bring them back for her to see."
After Lu Shili went to Nan'an, in addition to managing Nan'an well, he also did not give up going out for adventure.
He often goes out on a boat to explore the outside world.
It was when he was communicating with Lu Shiyan that he learned that Jiang Tangtang was looking for a mineral called quartz sand.
In the letter, Lu Shiyan described the characteristics of quartz sand in detail and asked him to pay more attention to it when he encountered it.
This time he discovered an uninhabited island on the sea and unexpectedly saw the ore described in his elder brother's letter on it. He then had some loaded onto a boat and brought it back.
Jiang Tangtang was immediately excited after hearing this and quickly said, "Where is it? I'll go check it out."
Lu Shili took a stone from the servant beside him and handed it to Jiang Tangtang, "Sister-in-law, is this right? I only brought a small piece, but there are still many on the boat."
Jiang Tangtang held the stone in her hand and examined it for a moment. It felt very similar to the quartz sandstone described in the book, but she was not sure whether she had found the right one or whether she could make glass from it.
But it doesn’t matter. Once you get the thing, just verify it according to the method of making glass.
She immediately ordered someone to call Qin Chi over.
After Qin Chi got the glassmaking method from Jiang Tangtang, he divided his subordinates into two groups. One group led people to look for materials such as quartz sand, while the other group built kilns and other equipment.
The people he sent out also found some materials and brought back, but the furnace has not been started yet.
The main reason is that kilns are easy to build, but crucibles that can withstand high temperatures are difficult to manufacture.
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