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Speaking of Shu brocade, it is one of the four famous brocades in my country.

It is also the predecessor of Nishijin woven footbath.

In addition to Nishijinori's words, it is also known as the five famous brocades in Asia.

Shu brocade has been synonymous with high-end products since ancient times.

The royal robes worn by many emperors, princes and members of the royal family are made of Shu brocade.

Definitely a first-class high-end product.

Yan Kai said excitedly: "Then let's weave some Sichuan brocade!"

These things may not be easy to sell in Chang'an, but he will soon have a ship. If he can sell them to places like Silla, Baekje and Fusang across the way, it will be no exaggeration to say that it is like picking up money.

"Magistrate Yan, if you want to weave brocade, you must first dye the raw silk. We call it cooked weaving."

Yan Kai was stunned for a moment, then slapped his forehead.

Isn't that right? People said at the beginning that when weaving this brocade, we use warp and weft threads of different colors so that the weaved brocade itself has various patterns.

Now these silks are still white, and they are weaving a damn brocade.

"No problem, let's dye it first. Tell me what fuel you need for these, and I'll ask someone to buy them."

Yan Kai didn't understand this, but these weavers must have understood it. All kinds of messy dyes were written on a large piece of paper.

Then Yan sent someone to Dengzhou to purchase.

Two days later, the person who went shopping came back in despair.

Because Dengzhou’s dyes are cheap, not to mention expensive!

Only then did Yan Kai realize that in this era, some colors were not allowed to be used, and some colors were extremely expensive.

How much money does Yan Kai have now? Not to mention that the last time the craftsmen were rewarded was fifty guan, this time the weavers were accompanied by many tools such as brocade machines, and Li Shimin actually paid for these things.

The combination of several machines cost him a total of thirty strings!

There are two types of people that Yan Kai hates the most, one is those who argue with him, and the other is those who disagree with him when he is arguing.

Yan Kai gritted his teeth, it's expensive, right? Then I decided to make it more expensive. After asking, I was not allowed to knit gold clothes because they were worn by the emperor.

The second most expensive one is purple.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, many monarchs wore purple clothes. After the Southern and Northern Dynasties, purple clothes were the official uniform of noble officials, and were known as red purple and golden purple in ancient times.

Even in the Tang Dynasty, nobles were the most noble, and purple was the uniform color for officials of third rank and above.

Yan Kai planned to weave purple brocade. Anyway, he would not sell it domestically, but would sell it to those small countries in the east.

Those countries will only admire the Tang Dynasty more and more, but their own craftsmanship level cannot make these things.

If you sell it to the nobles over there, you will definitely get a good price.

As for where the dye comes from? Of course I bought it directly from the mall!

I asked Dazui to find two people, and pretended to go to Dengzhou with money. When I came back, I brought a lot of dye.

There was a lot of purple dye inside, which was very expensive in this era.

The usage of these dyes is of course different from that of the Tang Dynasty, but there is a guide for a certain treasure.

Just do it.

After a few days, the colors of various silk threads were finally dyed, and brocade weaving could begin.

Yan Kai also opened the live broadcast room.

"Anchor, what are you doing today?"

"Have you finished the chainmail? It seems like you can see the finished product!"

Because Yan Kai's people are now making things in the entire county government compound, so he directly turns on all the camera positions.

Everyone can watch whatever they want.

"what is this?"

Soon someone discovered the brocade weaving machine. Since it was the first time they saw it, many netizens were very curious.

"This is a brocade weaving machine, specifically this one, it's called a flower weaving machine."

"Hua Lou Ji? This name sounds so nice!"

"Let me go, is this the Hualou Ji? I have seen the Hualou Ji before, which is the representative of the highest achievement of ancient Chinese weaving technology, but this is the first time I have seen it in person."

"This purely mechanical machine looks so cool!"

At this time, two weavers had already arrived at Hualouji, and Yan Kai asked them to start weaving.

These weavers basically have skills inherited from their families, and these two weavers are twin sisters.

One is called Su Jin'er and the other is Su Xiu'er.

Yan Kai stood aside and introduced: "Look, this kind of flower tower machine requires the cooperation of two people. My sister Su Jin'er sits on the flower tower and lifts the heddles one by one according to the jacquard pattern. We are called flower pullers."

This was all homework he had done in advance.

"Then those who step on the heddles and pick the shuttle and beat the weft below are called weavers."

"The anchor is really good at finding people!"

"Yes, such beautiful twins actually rely on their craftsmanship instead of their looks!"

"It's still Shu Jin! If it's going to be broadcast alone like this, I think it will have millions of fans in a month!"

At this time, Su Jin'er, who was sitting on it, asked: "Sister, what are you knitting?"

"The county magistrate says it's okay, so let's weave a hibiscus koi."

"it is good!"

The two were originally twins, and they had a tacit understanding of each other for many years.

In the eyes of netizens in the live broadcast room, the two of them inserted the weft with one hand and threw the shuttle with the other.

The weft-inserting hand gently introduces the weft thread into the shuttle, while the shuttle-throwing hand forcefully throws the shuttle to the other side of the loom.

The shuttle drew a beautiful arc in the air, passing through the longitude accurately.

"Wow, this is more like weaving than dancing!"

"It's really beautiful!"

"The sister upstairs is still humming a tune, she's so cute."

Yan Kai explained: "He is not humming a tune casually, but he is telling Su Xiu'er below about the color."

Everyone watched and listened carefully, and sure enough they found that it was the same as what Yan Kai said.

At this time, the sun just came out, shining through the gaps between the leaves above the county government office and shining on the brocade that the two had just woven.

"This... is so beautiful. Please pay attention to changing the angle. The colors are different at different angles!"

"I originally thought that the patterns on the ancient costumes were embroidered later, but I didn't expect them to be woven directly when people were weaving them. It's amazing."

Although the speed of weaving the brocade was not too fast, all netizens watched quietly.

Until the hibiscus koi suddenly appeared completely.

This brocade has a purple background.

The hibiscus is made of gold thread, which makes it look elegant and colorful.

The koi uses silver thread, and its shape is elegant and sparkling.

Yan Kai carefully picked it up and placed it under the sun, which showed the gorgeousness of this brocade.

It’s worth it. The weavers and embroidery workers I exchanged for the foot-operated silk reeling machine are so worth it!

"I just checked and found that Shu Brocade is the first batch of items to be included in the intangible cultural heritage in our country."

"It turned out that I didn't know the use of those intangible cultural heritage items, and I didn't know why I kept calling for protection. I felt that anything that couldn't be preserved must be outdated. But today I changed my mind."

"Anchor, please get on the little yellow car!!!!!!!"

"Yes, I will get married to my girlfriend in half a year as the host. Can you take the order and make a set of wedding clothes? Although I am not as rich as the Nanshanke boss, we have no problem with the six-digit price! "