After avenging Wei Sanjin, Li Yi was busy with the work of the workshop. Soap is a luxury product. It only needs to be produced in Anxin and then transported to various cities for sale. It does not require a large output. So he planned to build a factory in the west of the city.

Build a textile factory on wasteland.

You need to know about food, clothing, housing and transportation. I have already built a water conservancy in Anxin. Even if it is a disaster year, Anxin will definitely have a bumper harvest this year, so there is no need to worry about food. The next step is clothing.

Nowadays, due to the chaos in the world, people are displaced and unable to engage in production at all. Therefore, the output of some handicraft products is declining. Even Li Yi still does not have a few sets of decent clothes. Therefore, in addition to food, the production of clothes is also extremely necessary at this time.

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And he is still eager to learn some knowledge about textile machinery. The new shuttle textile machine has been successfully developed in Anxin. As long as a textile workshop is established in Jiancheng, it can not only solve the living problems of the refugees, but also expand his own strength.

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As for having a textile workshop, the first step is to make a flying shuttle loom. The flying shuttle loom has a simple structure, but it can increase the weaving efficiency several times, increase production volume, and reduce production costs.

It was not possible to make such a practical textile machine before, but it required some parts such as springs, which could not be made from low-quality iron.

Fortunately, now that we have a blast furnace that can produce steel, we can make these necessary parts, and then start studying issues such as the layout of the guide rails.

Looking at the drawings in his hands, Li Yi couldn't help but marvel at the craftsmen of this era. The sketch he originally drew was already very close to the finished product, but after the craftsmen's research and modifications, it is now simpler, more convenient, and has certain improvements.

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Looking at the design drawings of various parts of the shuttle in his hand, Li Yi was very satisfied. He felt that he had underestimated the wonderful skills of the craftsmen of this era.

Seeing Li Yi holding the drawing, Xiaoyu came over puzzled and asked: "Stone, do you really want to build this thing?"

"Of course, this new type of loom was developed by the scientific research institute with a lot of effort. It is several times faster than the loom you are using."

Xiaoyu said in surprise: "There is such a loom? Impossible! I have been weaving cloth for so many years, but I don't believe there is such a useful loom."

Xiaoyu said she was doubtful, but in fact she already believed Li Yi in her heart. Because the soaps made by Li Yi were very successful before, not to mention cement, blast furnaces, etc. These made Xiaoyu trust Li Yi's new ideas and couldn't help but ask

: "Stone, where did you learn these?"

"Don't say it, don't say it!" Li Yi said with a smile.

"What can't be said? I think you are hiding it from us on purpose?" Xiaoyu said angrily.

Li Yi smiled and did not answer her question. He didn't even know his origins, so how could he tell others about it.

Samples of flying shuttle looms have begun to arrive one after another. While building the workshop, Li Yi also needs to train women among the refugees so that they can learn this new type of loom as soon as possible without delaying subsequent production.

The two looked at a loom. Xiaoyu looked curiously at the large elastic springs, the guide rails, and the sunken rails. These weird things made Xiaoyu very curious. She looked at such a loom that was wider than the old loom.

A new loom with twice the width. Carefully pick up the shuttle, probably thinking about how to use it.

Looking at such a simple loom, Li Yi felt that there was really no technical problem that was difficult to overcome. If some interested people saw it, they would be able to imitate it. Fortunately, they didn't know that the springs in it needed to remain elastic.

It won't take long to make a good copy, but in order to avoid losses, it's better to make plans in advance.

Thinking of this, in order to keep it secret, Li Yi planned to wrap the shuttle on the loom with several wooden boards to prevent the loom operator from seeing the structure of the shuttle, let alone outsiders.

Seeing that Xiaoyu was very curious, Li Yi took some cotton yarn from the warehouse and asked Xiaoyu to operate it once. Every time the shuttle passed through the warp and weft, the loom would return to the thread once according to Xiaoyu's operation, and the weaving process

The speed is very impressive. Xiaoyu worked for half an hour and weaved a two-foot wide cloth. The efficiency was twice that of the old loom. In addition, the width of the loom was twice that of the old loom.

The cloth that comes out is twice as wide, and the final overall efficiency is four times as high as the original.

Xiaoyu looked disbelieving when she saw her weaving speed. As a woman, she started weaving from a very young age and considered herself to be an experienced weaver. After painstaking study, she was proud that she could compare to

Most people can weave faster. But she has never thought that relying not on experience but on the power of machines can weave cloth so fast and produce such wide cotton cloth. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, Xiaoyu would never have known it.

I believe there are such wonderful machines in the world.

Xiaoyu looked at the loom, her eyes full of surprise and even more admiration.

First there was soap, and then there was this loom. Li Yi was born to know it like a saint. He was able to come up with many wonderful things and bring benefits to many people. This is really amazing.

These things not only surprised her, but also made Li Yi appear mysterious, making it difficult for people to imagine.

And any saint or great man, they are regarded as gods, this is how they started.

Li Yi didn't take Xiaoyu's surprise to heart. In his opinion, he didn't have much time. Instead of fearing that others would doubt him, he might as well take the opportunity to develop his strength as soon as possible and increase his ability to protect himself.

The flying shuttle loom works so well, and Li Yi is in a good mood. Making this kind of loom requires a blacksmith and a carpenter. The cost is about three taels of silver per unit, and Li Yi can afford to make hundreds of them. Waiting here

Once the factory is built, the first batch of fifty looms will be installed. When he succeeds in seizing the market, he plans to build a large-scale weaving factory to greatly increase the production of cloth.

Li Yi has his own plan. After next year, the Gyeonggi area of ​​the capital will become a battlefield. Every few years, Jin will break through and plunder the capital. Baoding is an important defense town for the capital, and it will definitely not be able to escape.

Jurchen attack.

However, the Jurchens have always broken through the Great Wall Peak in the west, and it will take a certain amount of time to reach Baoding.

And Li Yi plans to establish a whole business route from Baoding to Beijing, dump goods in the world's largest market, and use business relationships to establish an intelligence network and create a complete intelligence system. By then, he can do anything.

Overall, I don't think it's as dark as it is now.

These plans had been made long ago, and Li Yi had asked people like Sun Yaowen from the dental shop to handle them. They were in this business, and they could easily buy shops for Li Yi, and they were all in good locations.

In order to keep it secret, Li Yi only used newly arrived carpenters and masons when building the factory, and asked them to buy wood and lime, and start building a workshop on the wasteland in the west of the city. He had his own ideas, so he simply planned the orientation and size of the factory.

, the plan is to build a large house on this large wasteland, which will be divided into ten rooms, and a two-meter-high wall will be built around the outside.

The craftsmen are all villagers from Anxin, and they work very carefully and carefully. In addition, Li Yi mobilized a lot of raw materials from Anxin, especially cement. The construction speed of the workshop was very fast. With the help of refugees, about half of the work was completed.

Production can start within a few months.

The craftsmen selected a house site on the yellow mud ground, tamped the land, and then placed cypress trees in the tamped soil as pile foundations. On the basis of these pile foundations, carpenters built beams, and masons could lay the ground and build

The walls of the house are covered with tile roofs.

Timbers, bricks and tiles were shipped in batches and piled up like a hill on the yellow mud floor.

With cement as a powerful adhesive, many factory buildings can be easily formed without the need to use glutinous rice water.

An Xin Li Yi started building a workshop in Gaoyang. This incident attracted a lot of attention in Gaoyang and even Baoding. On this day, Liu He found Li Yi at night and told him something that alarmed him.

"Little benefactor, there are a few people sneaking around outside the workshop these days. They stand in the alley early in the morning and count the raw materials we bring in. Once they even climbed up the wall of the next door house, as if they wanted to peek into our workshop.

situation."

"Is that so? It seems like another group of clowns are getting restless."

When Li Yi heard this, he became vigilant. Although he is now so powerful that many forces in Baoding dare not provoke him, he is still making secret moves in private. Not to mention the troublemakers, there are also people who are the channels for raw materials.

Deliberate suppression.

Li Yi believed that as long as they knew about the astonishing production efficiency of their workshop, according to their cunning and greedy businessman temperament, they would do everything possible to investigate clearly and send people to the workshop to spy on information.

These sneaky people may have been sent by these greedy people.

Fortunately, Li Yi has always paid attention to confidentiality and put the assembly of textile machines in the room. The refugees can only use it and do not understand other structures. It is expected that these people will not be able to spy on any information.

However, although there is no immediate risk of secrets being stolen, Li Yi thinks further - since some people now want to steal their own information through peeping, will these people use more drastic methods after the peeping fails? In the face of greed

How can you protect yourself against more drastic measures?

Li Yi needs to build a force that can be responsible for security.

Li Yi thought for a while and decided to let Wei Sanjin take the lead and build a gendarmerie specifically responsible for supervising the workers in the workshops and various stores. Even Sun Yaowen and others were under surveillance.

This gendarmerie is a specialized confidentiality and law enforcement force under Li Yi. The number of people does not need to be too large, as long as they are loyal and reliable people.

Wei Sanjin was very clever and knowledgeable. He avenged him himself, so he was very loyal and suitable for this task.
Chapter completed!