"Tsk tsk tsk tsk, this sewing machine is really magical. With just one push, two pieces of cloth will be sewn together?"

Cheng Yaojin was whispering around the sewing machine, and his mouth was amazed, scaring the female tailor's face turned blue.

Ma Zhou nodded in a funny way and said, "If General Cheng likes it, just turn around and ask someone to send a few to the mansion."

The female official was stunned when she heard this and asked enviously: "Well, may I ask, Master Ma, can you, too..."

When the female words were spoken, she suddenly remembered that Li Shimin was still present. She hurriedly held her mouth and looked at Li Shimin with anticipation.

Li Shimin's eyes twitched, and he couldn't tell what the female official meant.

Ma Zhou still had some eyesight and said with a smile: "Of course, if there is a need in the palace, I will ask Gewufang to customize one specifically. Is ten enough?"

When the female official heard this, she was so happy that she hurriedly bowed to Ma Zhou and expressed her gratitude.

Seeing Ma Zhou so generous, Li Shimin also had a smile on his face and nodded, which was considered to be acknowledging Ma Zhou's love.

"It's so strange. This cloth seems to be different from other cloths!"

The three of them looked back and saw Li Ji holding a piece of silk cloth, carefully looking at the patterns on it.

The owner of the tailor shop did not dare to come up at first, but when he saw someone interested in his products, he didn't care about so much.

"I have met Master Ma, General Li, and all the nobles."

The merchants in the inner city are basically members of the Chamber of Commerce, so it is normal to know Ma Zhou and Li Jing.

Ma Zhou smiled and bowed to him, saying, "Shopkeeper Su, I'm nagging."

"Haha, that's right." Manager Su hurriedly replied with a gift.

Li Ji held up the silk cloth and asked curiously: "This shopkeeper, where did you weave the cloth in your house?"

The female official picked up a piece of cloth and touched it, then showed a look of surprise and praised: "What a dense pattern, this silk cloth is better than the Jiangsu cloth in the south of the Yangtze River. Even the tributes in the palace are probably..."

"Ahem!"

This female official is afraid that she is also a person with a temperament and dares to say anything.

Seeing that she compared Kampots, Cheng Yaojin hurriedly interrupted.

The female official was stunned for a moment, and after a while, she realized that she embarrassingly put the cloth back on the stall and returned to the team honestly.

However, everyone present could hear what she meant.

Moreover, as a female official in Shangyifang, her words are very authoritative. It can be seen that the quality of the silk cloth on this stall is indeed good.

When Manager Su saw someone praising his family's fabric, he was naturally overjoyed.

He quickly boasted: "Although my silk cloth is silk and linen fabric, it is not much inferior to the silk in Jiangnan. It is not Su who boasted, but my textile workshop is also considered this in Shuofang."

When everyone saw him giving him a thumbs up, they all understood what he meant.

Seeing this, Ma Zhou just smiled. Everyone looked moved. It was not like this shopkeeper Su was bragging about himself.

At this time, Li Jing said something, which scared everyone.

He only heard him laugh and said, "The Su family's textile workshop is indeed superior in skills. It is known as a super coin shop in Shuofang."

When Li Shimin heard this, he was stunned at first, and then looked at the dazzling array of cloth in the tailor's shop, revealing a look of silence.

In this era, private transactions are mostly bartered.

The price of a foot of burlap is about twenty cents, and a piece of silk cloth like this is not an exaggeration.

A piece of cloth is more than four feet long. Even if it is forty feet, a piece of silk cloth like this is equivalent to two thousand coins of copper coins, which is two slabs.

Of course, the weaving industry in this era is still very backward. Compared with the cost of building two thousand copper coins, it is really hard to say which one is higher or lower.

Therefore, it is not wrong to say that textile shops are coin shops, otherwise those aristocratic families would not be so rich. After all, 70% of the cloth in the Tang Dynasty came from aristocratic families, and the remaining 30% came from the people.

"Super Mint House, haha, I wonder how many pieces of silk cloth produced annually?" Cheng Yaojin's eyes flashed.

Just as Ma Zhou was about to speak, the smug shopkeeper Su said first: "The noble man is joking. My textile workshop has only been established for several months, and the annual output is hard to say, but it can produce 300 pieces of silk cloth every day. Of course, this is the premise that the raw materials are sufficient."

Upon hearing this, Ma Zhou shook his head with a wry smile, thinking that this person is too high-profile, and it seems that he is busy again.

really.

When everyone, including Li Shimin, heard three hundred pieces of silk cloth in Nissan exclaiming.

What does three hundred pieces of silk cloth mean? It is about 600 stagnant copper coins.

This is not just a coin minting shop, it is simply a money robbery shop.

Li Shimin was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.

Cheng Yaojin quickly calmed down and pulled Ma Zhou and shouted: "I won't go to Gewufang anymore, take us to the textile shop first."

Ma Zhou glared at the shopkeeper Su in anger, scaring him to the point of being at a loss. He originally thought these people were merchants from afar, and saw Ma Zhou personally receiving them, so he wanted to say something good for the Chamber of Commerce, so he could leave a good impression in front of Ma Zhou.

But now it seems... I've done something wrong.

When Li Shimin heard that the textile shop produced 300 pieces of cloth per day, he was not calm and nodded, as if he agreed to Cheng Yaojin's suggestion.

Ma Zhou had no choice but to change the route temporarily and take them to the textile workshop in the south of the city.

It is called a textile shop, but it is actually a small market in the inner city. After renovation and reconstruction, it is now a weaving center where more than a dozen families gather.

Headed by the Chamber of Commerce, various aristocratic families from the Tang Dynasty contributed their efforts to continuously improve and improve weaving technology.

The arrival of everyone did not cause much commotion. The women who bowed their heads and weaved their cloth seemed to have seen such a scene. They just looked up and saw that the horse manager of the chamber of commerce took the lead in inspecting, so they continued to bow their heads and work.

Ma Zhou often brought people to visit, and these people were used to it. There were 500 embroidery girls in it, and they operated 500 spinning machines at the same time. The sound was deafening and everything was in order.

And these five hundred spinning machines are the legendary Jenny spinning machine.

The principle of this textile machine will not be described for now, but the weaving technology that is more than a thousand years ahead of the market is not something that can be blown out.

What appeared in 1764 suddenly appeared in the Tang Dynasty in 628, and its impact on the weaving industry was tantamount to a bombshell.

These embroiderers were already very skilled in their operation. Seeing the silk threads on dozens of spools slowly turning into a dense silk cloth, the men present began to breathe heavily.

Cheng Yaojin was stunned for a long time, and suddenly asked Li Jing: "Pharmacist, where is your workshop?"

Li Jing was asked unknown to him, so he said casually: "It's next door..."

When the words came to his mouth, he regretted it. Seeing Cheng Yaojin's big copper bell eyes instantly turned into two golden copper coins.

"Master Ma!" he spoke almost in unison.

Li Shimin and Cheng Yaojin looked at Ma Zhou at the same time, and the enthusiasm in their eyes was self-evident.

Ma Zhou smiled bitterly in his heart and secretly scolded Manager Su.

"Haha, Your Majesty, and General Cheng, our Chamber of Commerce will not sell this textile machine. If you want to invest in the textile workshop, you have to ask my husband what he meant."

"No, I'm like asking, how many textile factories of this size are there in this market?"

Li Shimin suppressed the passion in his heart and looked at Cheng Yaojin. The king and his ministers licked their dry lips at the same time.

The picture is very strange.

Ma Zhou paused, but did not hide it. He said truthfully: "The factories in the textile workshop vary in size, but there are nearly 7,000 textile machines operating at the same time every day, and the daily silk cloth is produced more than 12,000 pieces."

Wow~

When everyone except Li Jing heard Ma Zhou's answer, everyone present opened their mouths wide.

He turned his head and looked at the working embroidered women with great understanding.
Chapter completed!