My uncle is Zhu Di

Chapter 14 Spinning faster than others

Li came over, slammed five thousand taels of silver notes on Xu Qin's desk, and stared at Xu Qin angrily!

Xu Qin was quick to put away the banknotes in an instant, then stood up with a flattering smile on his face, and went over to hug my mother's shoulders: "Mom, how did you figure it out?"

"You little bastard!" Li immediately went over to hit Xu Qin, but Xu Qin just smiled and dodged!

Li cried as she beat him, complaining, "My son is so capable, but he is forced to become a businessman!"

"Mom, what's the big deal!" Seeing his mother crying, Xu Qin immediately went over to support Li!
"Your father too!" Li said gritting her teeth. She couldn't understand why Xu Huizu suddenly agreed to let Xu Qin do business?
"Mother, think about it, it's not a big deal for me to pretend to be a dandy and fight every day! Besides, will fighting every day make His Majesty feel at ease? Since he is not at ease, then I can go into business, right?

Hey, I just feel disgusted with him! His brother-in-law was forced into a corner by him and had to let his son become a businessman! Hehe, when the time comes, I will piss him off to death, and he won't be able to do anything to me! "Xu Qin said to Li proudly, pretending to be proud on purpose, just to make his mother happier.

"You little bastard, do you still want to maintain your reputation in the future?" Li scolded Xu Qin.

"Mom, now is not the time to protect my reputation, it's the time to protect my life. Besides, as a businessman, how can I have no reputation? Right? I don't steal or rob, right? Besides, if I have money, why worry about not having a reputation? Reputation is for those who don't know the reason. When the time comes, if I do more good deeds, won't that also be a reputation?

My father is imprisoned, and I can't be an official. I don't know how to farm. So what can I do? What can I do to support the expenses of this family? I can't rely on my aunt all at once, right? If I rely on my aunt all the time, it will be difficult for her too!" Xu Qin continued while supporting Li!

"Well, mother knows the truth, she just doesn't want to accept it!" Li sighed and looked at Xu Qin!

"Why should you be unwilling about this? Just wait and see, mother, the time will come when Zhu Di will come to beg me for help!" Xu Qin said proudly to comfort Li!

"Hmph, you're really brave to call him His Majesty!" Li pointed at Xu Qin and said!

"Yes, yes!" Xu Qin immediately nodded with a smile.

Li also saw the drawings on Xu Qin's desk at this moment, so she went over to pick them up and looked at them. She looked at Xu Qin in surprise and asked, "Did you draw these?"

"Of course, your son is very capable!" Xu Qin walked over with a proud look on his face.

"Well, my son is capable, blame your father!" Li nodded in agreement. In terms of martial arts, Xu Qin might be able to beat Xu Huizu. In terms of papers, although Xu Qin's handwriting was average and he never read books outside, Li knew that Xu Qin would read books at home and was proficient in military books!
"Hehe, Mom, don't worry. In a few months, the money will be returned in full!" Xu Qin said with a smile.

"Go, do you still need me to pay you back? As long as my son is safe, money is just something outside of our body!" Li patted Xu Qin and said!

Xu Qin chatted with Li for a while, and then Li left!

In the next few days, Xu Qinmen didn't go out at all. He just drew blueprints of spinning machines and looms!

That day, Xu Qin finished the painting, took the money and went out. He found many craftsmen and asked them to make some parts. At the same time, Xu Qin also asked the craftsmen in his family to make those key parts!

In a blink of an eye, more than ten days had passed, and the spare parts from outside had been delivered back one after another!

Xu Qin began to assemble the machines in his own small yard, and also sent people to purchase cotton, silk and linen.

Truckloads of raw materials were delivered to Xu Huizu’s residence!
Xu Qin used a small courtyard to store the raw materials, but there was no place to put the machines!

It is said that those concubines doted on Xu Qin. They cleared out all the empty rooms in their courtyards and let Xu Qin place those machines!

That day, a lot of machines were assembled, and Xu Qin began to demonstrate spinning to his mother and aunts in his eldest aunt's room.

"Just watch, that's it!" Xu Qin sat in front of the spinning machine and began to crank the handle. Sixteen threads of yarn were spun out and automatically wound into spindles!
"This!" Li and those women looked at Xu Qin in shock!

"Baoer, isn't this too fast?" Aunt Wang was also very shocked!

"Hehe, you guys try it too! Let's do this. Others can make money by spinning one yarn, but we spin sixteen yarns at a time. How can we not make money?" Xu Qin stood up and said happily!

"Mom is here!" Li sat down immediately and imitated Xu Qin, very quickly!
"Let me try over here!" Aunt Wang sat in front of the spinning machine next to her, and Xu Qin went over to give her instructions!

After about half an hour, all the women in the mansion sat in front of their spinning machines and started spinning!
Xu Huizu was originally in the front yard, and found that he hadn't seen Li for most of the day. Not only did he not see Li, he didn't even see a woman. So he put his hands behind his back and went to other yards to check!
As a result, I saw that all the women in the mansion were spinning, and they could spin sixteen spindles at a time.

"This? You guys?" Xu Huizu was very surprised. Everyone is familiar with spinning. Nowadays, many women can do it, and men have seen it too! "Master, have you seen how amazing our Bao'er is? Others can only make 1 thread, but we can make 16. I just calculated it. Others can only make 50 coins a day, but we can make 800 coins!" Li was very proud to show off in front of Xu Huizu!

"So fast?" Xu Huizu also walked in quickly.

"There is no cotton left, bring some cotton over!" a maidservant nearby shouted, and immediately a servant went to get the cotton!

The finished spindles were also collected by the servants and sent to the warehouse!
"This kid!" Xu Huizu stood there, looking at the yard where everyone was busy. The women were spinning, and the servants were carrying cotton and spindles!

"Bao'er is so capable! With this, how can our family remain poor? Besides, my son is not a businessman in this matter. The court has a manufacturing bureau. If the court can do it, why can't my Bao'er do it?" Li said happily!

"Where is Sakyabao?" Xu Huizu asked, standing there with his hands behind his back.

"I went to install the machines. Baoer said that we not only need a spinning machine as fast as this, but also a faster loom. When the loom comes out, I want to try it myself!" Li's hands never stopped, she was busy there!

"I'll go and take a look!" Xu Huizu now had a smile on his face and went out with his hands behind his back!
Soon they arrived at Xu Qin's courtyard. At this moment, there were many machines placed on the open space of the courtyard. There happened to be two servants carrying a machine out and placing it in the courtyard!

After seeing Xu Huizu, he put down the machine, bowed to Xu Huizu and said, "Master!"

"You guys go about your business, the young master is in the living room?" Xu Huizu nodded and asked.

"Yes!" the two servants nodded.

Xu Huizu walked in with his hands behind his back, and saw Xu Qin sitting on a low stool, assembling parts with tools he didn't know how to use, with several servants helping him!

Xu Qin didn't notice Xu Huizu coming over, he was concentrating on assembling it!

Xu Huizu walked over and helped to support him!

Xu Qin had just finished installing a component when he looked up and found Xu Huizu was also there. He asked in surprise, "Dad, why are you here?"

"Are you doing this business?" Xu Huizu asked with a smile.

"Yes, father, don't underestimate me. I made 800 spinning machines and 600 looms. However, our house couldn't accommodate them all. His Majesty also gave me a mansion, and many parts were sent to that mansion!"

We can only put 200 spinning machines and 130 looms in our house! The rest of the machines will be placed in that mansion!" Xu Qin stood up and said with a smile.

"With so many machines, how much money can you make in a day?" Xu Huizu continued to ask Xu Qin.

"Well, the profit of a spinning machine a day is about seven hundred coins, and the profit of a loom is about one thousand three hundred coins. Eight hundred spinning machines are about five hundred and sixty taels of silver, and five hundred looms are about six hundred and fifty taels of silver, which is about one thousand two hundred taels. If we work in two shifts, it will be about two thousand four hundred taels!" Xu Qin stood there and calculated, then spoke!
"What does two-shift work mean?" Xu Huizu looked at Xu Qin in confusion and asked.

"There are two shifts of workers. The day is divided into two stages. The people stop working but the machines don't. There are always people working!" Xu Qin said to Xu Huizu.

"We still have to work at night. Is there anyone working?" Xu Huizu frowned and asked Xu Huizu!
"Why not work at night and earn ten cents more and have an extra meal!" Xu Qin immediately asked Xu Huizu.

"No one will do that, it's just ten cents more?" Xu Huizu immediately retorted.

After hearing this, Xu Qin looked at Xu Huizu with contempt. He had been a young master, so how could he understand the hardships of the common people? Xu Huizu probably had no idea what an extra ten cents meant. Ten cents was enough for a day's food for a family of eight!

For ordinary people, an extra ten cents a day is a big deal!

"Well, you install these machines by yourself?" Xu Huizu didn't even ask Xu Qin how he made money. At this rate, it was just a matter of how much he could earn.

"Yes!" Xu Qin nodded!
"Teach dad, I have nothing to do anyway!" Xu Huizu said as he squatted down and rolled up his sleeves!

When Xu Qin heard this, he was very happy. The reason his father fell ill before was because he was bored and annoyed at home and was in a bad mood every day. Now he could find something for him to do, which was not bad!
All day long, Xu Qin was instructing Xu Huizu to assemble the machine!
The next day, Xu Qin went to the mansion that Zhu Di had rewarded him!
However, Xu Qin's family purchased so much cotton, silk and hemp, which also attracted a lot of attention!
Because they did harvest too much, several thousand kilograms of cotton and silkworm food were delivered to the two mansions every day. Xu Qin did not have that much money, so he could only use those spindles to sell them. Anyway, it was all market price!
In this way, Xu Qin was accumulating funds rapidly!

But thousands of spindles of yarn entered the market every day, which aroused suspicion among many people.

(End of this chapter)