The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Fang Yun touched Ao Huang's dragon horn to comfort him, and then looked around.

All sixteen textile workshops were isolated. Thousands of soldiers were guarding and patrolling early in the morning, and personnel from the Palace of Punishment were standing on the rivers and on the roofs.

They haven't let up these days.

In front of the cotton ginning workshop, more than two thousand people gathered. These were workers from sixteen workshops, quietly waiting for the results.

A few workers from working families had sullen faces, thinking that Fang Yun was wasting his time, but most people wanted to thank Fang Yun, because his income these days was five times the usual. Although it was a pity that he could not see his family, but if he could always get five times. With twice the salary, it is not a problem to persist for a year.

After Fang Yun appeared, everyone's eyes focused on him.

Like the previous few days, Fang Yun first bowed his hands to everyone, thanking the soldiers guarding the workshop and the scholars of the Hall of Punishment, then looked at Liu Yu with a smile and said: "Good morning, Mr. Liu."

Liu Yu mocked Ao Huang for his plausibility, but when he saw Fang Yun, he immediately treated him with courtesy, cupped his hands and said, "Good morning, Fang Xu."

Fang Yun smiled and said: "Yesterday I went to your hometown. The noodles made by Mrs. Liu were delicious. My brothers were also reasonable, but that boy Liu Shiyuan was too naughty and was punished by me to copy the "Three Character Classic" three times a day. a month.”

Liu Yu was so excited that he didn't know where to put it. He said awkwardly: "You shouldn't go to a shabby house."

Ao Huang snorted softly and said, "It's indeed broken!"

The light in Liu Yu's eyes dimmed.

Fang Yun glared at Ao Huang, and then Ao Huang closed his mouth and whispered: "That kid Liu Shiyuan wants to grab my tail, but I have to suffer from my good temper!"

Fang Yun saw the embarrassment on Liu Yu's face and knew exactly why he was like this.

Liu Yu not only has the integrity and fairness respected by Confucians, but also has the strict and cautious nature of workers. With his ability, if he directs other workshops, he can make a lot of extra money. If he does a better job, he can directly leave the county-owned workshop. There should be at least fifty taels of silver income every month.

However, when serving in the county government, he could only receive a meager salary of three taels of silver per month. This money is enough for a family of three, but he has many children and grandchildren. Even if he builds some tools and sells them after finishing work every day, he can barely live a life. After all, he doesn't have much time.

Every county magistrate would commend Liu Yu when he took office, and occasionally give him some pieces of silk and satin, that's all. Every county magistrate could not give Liu Yu a grade, nor make him the general secretary of the workshop, nor give him a salary increase.

Liu Yu's skills cannot be compensated commensurately.

However, Liu Yu never complained and still worked diligently to maintain the county's workshops. He became a model for the entire Ning'an County and even became famous among Jingguo's craftsmen.

However, he was just a role model. Liu Yu could not afford a big house, his children and grandchildren could not attend a good academy, and he could not provide generous dowries for his daughters and granddaughters.

And the foreman of each workshop earns the same monthly basic income as Liu Yu just because he has taken the path of Master Shen. Either he uses the workshop to take on private work to make money, or he does some tricks on the raw materials, which is far more than what Liu Yu earns. many.

Fang Yun looked at Liu Yu with strange warmth in his eyes and said, "Mr. Liu will be the first to turn on the machine today."

Liu Yu nodded, his expression unchanged.

But several of Liu Yu's apprentices were worried. The opening of a new institution was a great honor and might even be included in the local annals. However, if it failed, they would have to bear responsibility. In their opinion, Fang Yun is afraid of taking responsibility.

Fang Yun stepped into the cotton ginning workshop. An apprentice pulled Liu Yu and whispered: "Teacher, the county magistrate wants you to be a scapegoat."

Liu Yu glared at his disciple and said: "A summer insect cannot be said! Fang Xusheng is so ambitious. He has made great achievements in regaining a state. When have you ever seen him show off? When discussing improvement plans these days, when did he use Xusheng The identity of Shenghe County Magistrate is greater than ours? How can he be afraid of this guilt? What's more, although the efficiency of this new mechanism is uncertain, it is definitely not a big problem, otherwise it will be my problem! "

The apprentice lamented in a low voice, this was the famous stubborn old man.

Fang Yun stood in front of the top roller gin and observed carefully.

Top roller gin machines are divided into punch type and hob type. The efficiency of the latter is five times that of the former! However, there were many technologies involved and improvement would take too long, so Fang Yun only designed the punch-type embossing mechanism. After the human race's engineers and scholars completely mastered this mechanism, he would immediately carry out the hob-type improvement.

After the hob-type top roller gin, Fang Yun launched a more efficient sawtooth gin!

The most important thing is that the technology can be popularized and even strengthen the machine beasts.

Fang Yun smiled, as if he saw the Gong family taking off.

When the time came, Fang Yun took a few steps back, made eye contact with the stubborn old man Liu Yu, and nodded gently.

Immediately, a worker nearby put the seed cotton into the flower feeding roller. Liu Yu pressed the switch and heard the rumbling sound of the hydraulic machine starting to operate, driving the cotton ginning machine to start.

Ao Huang stared nervously between the brush roller and the cotton collection box, repeating: "Get the cotton out quickly! Get the cotton out quickly! Get the cotton out quickly..."

Others were just curious and not nervous.

A few people sneered, waiting for the cotton gin to fail.

Amidst the rumbling sound, pieces of cotton wool with deseeded seeds rolled out from the brush roller and fell into the cotton collecting box, like a slow waterfall.

"hiss……"

"So fast..."

"It's like big snowflakes."

"Look, the quality is much better than that of a wooden stick gin! Some people used to say that this kind of gin will damage the cotton and cannot process fine-staple cotton and long-staple cotton. Now look at it, there is no problem at all!"

"Wait a little longer, something might go wrong halfway through the operation!"

"You're such a jinx!"

Fang Yun didn't care, and walked away from the cotton ginning machine to drink tea in the teahouse next to the workshop.

After half an hour, Liu Yu led everyone into the teahouse, with some messy cotton wool still sticking to his body.

Liu Yu was full of joy, and shouted: "Master Fang! Great news! The previous cotton ginning machine could only produce 20 kilograms of cotton in half an hour, but this cotton ginning machine can produce 70 kilograms in half an hour! Two and a half times more! If the technology is skilled, it can definitely reach 80 kilograms, a full three times more cotton! Innovation, this is the innovation of the workers! Three times!"

Liu Yu held the paper with the data recorded in his rough big hands and handed it to Fang Yun.

Fang Yun was very calm, took the paper with a smile, and carefully browsed the data on it.

Liu Yu's apprentice said: "Not only is it fast, but the quality is also very good! We were completely worried before!"

"Compared with the improvement of this cotton ginning mechanism, the improvement of Lei Shushan on the rollover is simply negligible!"

"By the way, Fang Xusheng, you said that all the mechanisms in all links of textile workshops will be greatly improved. Isn't it true?"

Ao Huang sneered and said: "You fish and shrimp who have never seen the world, if Fang Yun says it can be done, it must be done!" After saying that, he shook his tail proudly.

Liu Yu bowed deeply to Fang Yun and said: "I am ashamed of myself! You are worthy of being the all-round Fang Xusheng!"

Fang Yun stepped forward to help Liu Yu up and said with a smile: "Mr. Liu is too polite. I just proposed a plan, and you are the executors of the plan. The credit for this cotton ginning mechanism is naturally also yours!"

"No, no, no... You can find another workshop and make a new cotton gin, but we can't find another Fang Xusheng!"

"I love to hear that!" Ao Huang suddenly said.

Everyone laughed together. This statement hit the nail on the head.

There is only one Fang Yun in the world.

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