Seeing this, Zhao Xian frowned. He didn't want to see his sister like this, and he wanted to send her to school.
However, at that time, schools did not accept girls. Girls could only study at home, and those with better conditions could hire a tutor to teach them at home.
Once this busy period is over, he will ask Qin Shiyu and Qin Yingying to teach his younger sister to read. They are both good girls and will definitely be able to take good care of her.
The family's mule cart wasn't used every day, so he wanted his uncle Zhao Youzhu to take care of the mules. Besides pulling carts, mules could also do farm work, and his uncle's family would definitely be of good use.
He planned to find something for his uncle's family to do, because relying solely on farming was definitely not an option. If the harvest was bad, no matter how much land they cultivated, they would still go hungry.
My uncle has two sons, Zhao Tieniu and Zhao Tiedan, who are both older than me and neither of them are married. They are both very honest and spend their days doing farm work.
It's time to help their family. After I finish building and putting my workshop into production, I'm going to do this.
The blacksmith finished making the equipment the next day at noon and brought it over in an oxcart.
By this time, the workshop's outer walls were almost finished, and the carpenters had made most of the doors and windows. The next step was to install them. Once the doors and windows were installed, it would be difficult to move the equipment inside.
Quickly move these devices into the workshop and install them immediately.
These iron devices were very heavy, and everyone worked together to lift them inside and place them in different locations in the workshop.
Next, Zhao Xian began to instruct several blacksmiths on how to install the equipment.
During the installation of these devices, debugging was also required. This work was very meticulous, and it wasn't until dark that all the devices were installed.
Zhao Xian instructed Qin Yingying to pay the blacksmith seven taels of silver, and the blacksmith was overjoyed to receive the money.
For him, this business was very profitable. After deducting costs and wages, he could still earn more than one tael of silver, which he usually couldn't earn in a month.
The next day, the carpenter began installing the doors and windows.
Although there were many doors and windows, the carpenter completed the installation in just half a day, and the roof beam was raised in the afternoon.
For rural houses, raising the roof beam is a major event. In the morning, when Zhao Xiaosheng and Zhao Xiaosan went to town to deliver pickled vegetables, they bought a lot of snacks to distribute during the roof beam raising ceremony.
It's not easy for villagers to get a snack, so when they heard that there would be snacks to eat when the roof beam was being raised, they worked even harder.
Wang Lizheng was very satisfied with the speed and quality of the construction, and he walked over to Zhao Xian.
"After the roof beam is raised, the next step is to nail the rafters, which should be done in an afternoon. Tomorrow, we will cover the roof with straw, and all the work will be completed in one day. The workshop will then be basically finished."
It's definitely too late to wait for this year's new straw. Some families in the village still have straw stored for building houses, which we can buy. Such a large workshop needs a lot of straw.
"Okay, thank you, Uncle Village Head. I'll arrange for someone to buy the straw this afternoon."
The raising of the roof beams began, and Zhao Xiaosheng and Zhao Xiaoshan distributed snacks to everyone, and some people began to taste them.
Some people couldn't bear to eat them and put the snacks away, planning to bring them home to their wives and children after work.
The work that followed went very smoothly. Under Wang Lizheng's command, everyone worked together in an orderly manner and with great coordination. After the main beam of the house was in place, they began to nail the rafters. The clanging and banging sounds rose and fell in a very rhythmic manner.
Almost everyone was nailing the rafters, and finally, before dark, all the rafters on the roof were nailed on.
At this time, Qin Yingying had already purchased a large amount of straw. The village head went over to take a look and saw that there was enough straw, more than enough for their needs.
The next day was spent laying straw on the roof. After the straw was laid, a lot of straw ropes were needed to weave a net to secure it.
Making straw rope nets is quite interesting. Usually, an experienced person pulls out strands of straw from the haystack, while another person uses a rotating iron hook to spin the strand of straw while backing away, and soon a long straw rope is made.
By placing enough straw ropes side by side and tying them together with strong straw, a huge straw net is formed.
Then take these straw nets to the roof, unfold them and cover the straw to fix all the straw in place, and a mud-brick thatched house is basically built.
On the last day, the indoor floors need to be leveled, the walls painted, and a large amount of construction waste needs to be cleaned up.
As expected, the workshop was built in exactly five days. While it was being built, it didn't seem very big, but after it was finished, I walked around inside and found it to be quite spacious.
After dinner, Zhao Xian began to calculate the investment costs for building the workshop, and the calculation startled him.
The total cost exceeded forty taels of silver, and apart from that silver note, almost all the family's silver was spent.
The workshop was expected to be built with an investment of about twenty taels of silver, but unexpectedly, the cost exceeded the budget by so much, including the cost of manufacturing equipment and purchasing a large amount of firewood.
Even after deducting this amount, the investment in the workshop still exceeded thirty taels of silver.
Fortunately, once the workshop was built, it was able to produce white sugar in large quantities. Based on a daily production of 100 catties of white sugar, that would be 700 taels of silver, which was nothing compared to the silver spent on building the workshop.
"We'll clean the equipment tomorrow morning and start making sugar in the afternoon. Everyone's tired today, so get some rest," Zhao Xian instructed.
The next day, Zhao Xiaosheng and Zhao Xiaoshan went to town to deliver pickled vegetables. He asked Qin Shiyu and her sister to help their mother pickle the vegetables, while he took Zhao Cheng to clean the equipment. These jobs were dirty and tiring, and he didn't want the two girls to do them.
The iron equipment was covered in rust and had to be cleaned thoroughly, otherwise it would affect the quality of the sugar. To remove the rust from the equipment, it was necessary to polish it bit by bit, very carefully.
More than an hour later, Zhao Xiaosheng and Zhao Xiaoshan returned from town and also helped clean the equipment.
Zhao Xian then asked Zhao Cheng to help make kimchi. Zhao Cheng was very strong and skilled, so having him help make kimchi would greatly increase the speed.
Finally, in the afternoon, the family gathered in the workshop and began making white sugar.
Looking at the several novel and large machines in the workshop, I was very curious. These were the machines used to make white sugar. I wondered how they produced white sugar.
The process of making white sugar mainly involves three steps: filtering, boiling, and crushing sugar blocks. Using this equipment can improve these three steps and increase work efficiency.
Zhao Xian took 100 jin of sugar and dissolved it in water. Since it was the first time using the equipment, it was essentially an experiment.
Although I am very confident in the device I designed, I cannot guarantee 100% success.
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