North and South groceries

These primary schools in Chang'an City have been bustlingly opened, open to all families in the city, with low tuition fees for male schools, and free tuition and miscellaneous fees for female schools. This is definitely a big deal for the people of Chang'an City. event.

However, recently, many family members seem not to be very concerned about this matter. In the past few days, even the number of officials impeaching Luo Yong at the court meeting has decreased a lot.

The reason lies in the new loom.

Earlier, there was news that a new type of loom had been made by the engineering school. This news quickly attracted the attention of many people. A demonstration of the new loom.

Most of the people who were lucky enough to visit this exhibition were imperial court officials. After finishing the court meeting and having a meal in the hallway, these people went to engineering together.

On the engineering side, Hengzhi and the others also started preparations early, and after everyone arrived, they started the machines and started weaving.

This steam loom is very big and looks quite heavy, and weaving is a job that can only be done by a clever woman. At first, everyone doubted whether the big man in front of them was really as magical as the rumors, and could weave.

When it was running rumblingly, everyone showed astonishment on their faces. This cumbersome looking guy can not only weave, but also weave very fast, especially the woven weaving, which goes back and forth at a very fast speed. It's really like flying.

After all, this machine is still not perfect. It is easy to jam and break the thread during the weaving process, and the surface of the woven fabric is relatively rough. Obviously, further adjustments and improvements are needed.

But everyone was very shocked, because the speed of this new loom weaving is too fast, and it only needs to burn some coal to operate, which really saves labor and effort.

I heard from people inside the engineering school that in addition to making adjustments and improvements to this new loom, they also plan to build a spinning machine, which is a multi-spindle spinning machine that can also be run by burning coal. .

They are going to develop and manufacture this spinning machine together with Luo's Machine Workshop. Earlier, Luo's Machine Workshop had produced a batch of equipment for Mrs. Luo's face towel workshop, and they were quite experienced in this regard.

"Those women can make equipment?" Someone asked disdainfully.

"The loom in front of me is thanks to the women." Hou Lin said at this time: "We must ask them for help in the future adjustments and improvements. After all, women must be proficient in weaving."

Hou Lin manages logistics and finances in this engineering, which is not so easy to do. After all, everyone who can enter engineering at this time has a background.

Fortunately, with Luo Yong's support, Hengzhi and the others cooperated very well. After defeating the tallest thorns in a few jumps, Hou Lin gradually straightened his back in this engineering. After a long time, I don't like to look at people's faces less and less.

Today they were doing this demonstration, and these officials just watched it, and some people had to show him a high-ranking and critical attitude.

Such a good machine is built, what's the matter with saying a few words of praise, can these people lose a piece of meat?

Not everyone is like this, there are also people who say good things, and they mainly go to Luo Yong and Hengzhi, because everyone knows that they are the core figures who really hold the technology.

After everyone dispersed, Luo Yong couldn't help complaining to Hou Lin:

"Then Cao Sizhi and Cheng Sheren scolded me at the court two days ago, but today they talk to me like nothing happened. Do you really think that I have been scolded so much that I can't remember them?"

Luo Yong has received a lot of scolding recently, mainly because of the two girls' schools, and there are many people who oppose him.

In the beginning, he was criticized randomly at the court meeting, one after another, and after several rounds of criticism, his whole forehead was buzzing, and his head was very big. Later, he gradually got used to it, just like this Changan. The summer in the city is like mosquitoes and flies, and I feel nothing if I get used to it.

Hou Lin was also aware of this situation. Among the officials in Chang'an City, there were some upright ones, and some shameless ones, who turned their faces yesterday and can post them again today.

"If you can't see it for yourself, you will be pissed off by these people sooner or later." Hou Lin laughed.

But the reason why these people's attitudes have changed so much is naturally because of the new loom.

After getting the news that Roche Machine Workshop will also participate in the research and development of spinning machines, in the days that followed, the number of girls who wanted to enter the machine workshop suddenly increased, because it was too difficult for men to get in, so those people specially Arrange for some young ladies to sign up.

As a result, the machine workshop has recently become saturated with staff, and the requirements for new entrants have been raised very high. It will not be deliberately embarrassing because of which family these little ladies are arranged, the main thing is that once every ten days. The entrance exam is too difficult for ordinary people to pass it well.

Si Niang once asked Luo Yong, knowing that those families arranged for people to go to the machine workshop, there must be ulterior motives, why did they accept it?

Luo Yong replied: "It's better to let them do everything possible to stuff people into the machine workshop than to let them do nothing and think about how to kill me all day long."

"Then what if the technology of our machine workshop is stolen?" Qiniang asked from the side.

"It's okay, brother, there are still many here." The old god of Luo county magistrate is there.If he really wants to play like this, with the books in his space, he can play for a lifetime.

This is the reason why blocking is worse than sparse.

Since Luo Yong's machine workshop is willing to accept people, and their families also have the opportunity to obtain some key technologies, few people will want to take them all over. After all, who can share the whole pot after all? It's hard to say how much benefit you can get if you get the benefits.

So these big and small family forces in Chang'an City have been thinking of ways to send people to Luo's Machine Workshop recently. If they have one or two good seedlings in their hands, they can easily enter. It is also very simple. The problem is Those good seedlings are hard to find.

The same is true for the Shi family. The Shi family man who had some contacts with the second uncle Bai was not very important in this family. It is because he himself is more competitive, diligent and studious, and he has earned a bit of fame in Chang'an city. , and taught a pair of very good sons and daughters, so in recent years, they can be considered in the family.

Recently, members of their family also wanted to join Luo's Machine Workshop, but there were no suitable candidates. Originally, they found two people, and they were sent to the Machine Workshop to take the exam last ten days, but they were all unsuccessful.

Later, someone in the clan said: "Right now, the requirements of Luo's Machine Workshop are so high, I'm afraid that in their clan, only Ba Niang can pass the exam."

The Ba Niang they are talking about here is the little lady who was made to cry by Luo Liulang that day.

When the little lady's father first heard about this matter, he didn't agree with anything. This person is pedantic, and he values ​​the level of background the most. How could his daughter be allowed to mix with those craftsman women? It's not to tarnish her reputation, damage her brilliance, and make her life flawed from now on!

Later, there was really no other way, and a few people from their clan were selected for the second time to take the entrance exam at the Machine Workshop, but they still failed.

In addition, Ba Niang Shi has been really rebellious recently, so the mistress of the Shi family asked her, Ye Niang, to persuade her, saying that Ba Niang is violent, and now you two can't control her. Let her walk around like this all day, if something happens to her one day, it will be too late to regret it, why not send her to the machine workshop, I heard that the discipline in that workshop is very strict, and it will grind her temper After a few years, when she comes out of the machine shop, if she can learn a good skill, when it comes to marriage, the family in Chang'an City is not free to choose...

Ba Niang's Ye Niang also knew that this time it is not good to disobey the arrangement of the clan, and her daughter has been really disobedient recently, which is a headache. Thinking about the old man's words, it is indeed more reasonable. There were still some who were unwilling, but finally agreed verbally, saying that they would wait for Ba Niang to come back and ask her what she meant.

As a result, Shi Ba Niang agreed immediately when she heard about this matter, she was even surprised, her family Aye always valued status the most, why would she let her go to the machine workshop now?

Thinking about it, I am a little happy. What is the use of her learning those classics and history, and she will not be able to be an official in the future. It is better to be more practical. If she makes some big moves in the future, it will definitely make the men in the family drop their jaws!

Now that she herself agreed, the Shi couple had no reason to shirk, so they had no choice but to let the clansmen see her send her to the Luo's Machine Workshop to take the exam. As a result, she passed the test and was even arranged to enter the first class. class.

The Shi family members were very happy, and Ba Niang's mother was also very happy. When talking about this with her husband, he was reprimanded by him: "I have worked so hard to teach her for many years. If even a workshop Wouldn't it be embarrassing if you don't pass the exam?"

This sentence was spread out for some reason, and it offended many people, because those people also sent their daughters to Luo's Machine Workshop to take the exam, but they didn't pass the exam. According to the man of the family, it was It's embarrassing.

However, I heard that there were also women who were not valued very much in the family who were admitted to Luo's Machine Workshop, some from the side of the family, some from the concubine, and even a concubine who was nearly thirty years old. It is also a novelty.

But for those who have been admitted to Luo's Machine Workshop, no matter what their family members think or think of them, since they are expected to get skills from this machine workshop in the future, they must be treated well now, including their Parents and brothers also benefited.

The study and life in Luo's Machine Workshop is not easy, but it is not bad for Shi Ba Niang who has a good foundation and studied hard since childhood. It is rare to shed a few teardrops without retreating halfway.

Goro and the others don't intend to develop into the technical field, so they never thought about coming to the machine workshop to take classes. They just come to see it from time to time when they are free. Anyway, they have a general idea of ​​the various technologies in the machine workshop. understanding.

That afternoon, Goro and the others came back early from Bai's house and stayed at home, feeling that it was not interesting, so they said they were going to visit the machine workshop. Whether Liu Lang would go or not, Liu Lang thought about it and said he would, so the three of them went out together.

"You can't stay at home in such a cold day?" The aunt and her husband are also here these days.

"Young people have to ask them to go outside more often." Luo Yong held an account book on the kang, looking at it once and for all.

Speaking of these days, not to mention mobile phones and computers, there is not even a TV or radio. Most people will definitely run out when they are bored at home, especially these teenage young people. Few people can stay at home. .

That little girl Fei Er is still relatively young now, and she has not been in this world for a long time, and everything she sees feels fresh, so if you give her a few gadgets, she can play happily for a long time, and when she grows up , must also run outside.

Auntie Luo Yong also has too many things to do on weekdays, and it is rare to be free at this time, so she nestles in this room and doesn't like to move.

A little later, Siniang also came back from Nanbei Groceries.Erniang has been missing. Her face towel workshop has been very busy recently, and she can't come back for a while. If she is too busy, she may stay there tonight and won't come back. This is also common.

It was already winter at this time, and the brothers and sisters were sitting in the house, and it was inevitable that they would discuss the market of this year's white chrysanthemums. Because of the convenience of the wooden track, there will be a lot of white chrysanthemums transported to Longxi this winter. East, that is, the area of ​​Liangzhou City, and then transported from Liangzhou City to the Central Plains.

If there are no accidents, the price of white stacked flowers in Chang'an City this year should be lower than last year, but I don't know if those big families have plans to hoard white stacked flowers, if that is the case, the price will be hard to say...

A few of them were sitting in the room talking, and seeing that it was almost time for dinner, they wondered why Wulang and the others hadn't come back yet, and then they saw Wulang and Qiniang entering the hall, but Liulang didn't. Go straight to the front of the hall and go back to your own room.

"What's wrong with him?" Luo Yong stretched out his head to look at the door, and then leaned back on the kang.

My brothers know that Liu Lang is good at everything, but he has a little temper.

"We went to the Machine Workshop together today, but the lady from the Shi family ignored him." Qiniang said with a smile.

"He went to talk to the young lady of the Shi family?" Brother-in-law Lin Wulang was also gossiping.

"No." Qiniang shook her head.