(Chapter 193 has been missed, it has been re-added)

Changes sometimes start with some very subtle points.

"Dad... my feet hurt so much..."

Early in the morning, as soon as he got up, Li Yun shouted in a sweet voice.

"It must also be wrapped in pain,"

As she grows older, the pain of foot binding becomes more and more unbearable. She walks gently but still limps, which is very inconvenient. Sometimes she will cry because of her feet hurt, making her father feel very distressed. It seems that it is natural for women to wrap their feet since they were young, just like a wheel that needs to be wrapped around a well rope.

For the sake of that "three-inch golden lotus", you have to pay for your whole life. It is better to let it go as soon as possible and it will be over.

For the sake of his daughter, those who are fathers will do the most of the world.

"Let it go!"

Li Erhu, who felt sorry for his daughter, stared at her daughter's feet and said.

"How can that be? Who wants such a big-footed woman in the future?"

The wife immediately opposed it, and was a mother who felt sorry for her daughter, but she was more concerned about her daughter's lifelong affairs.

"Why can't it work? If you can't get married, you can't get married!"

Holding his daughter tightly, Li Erhu said with a smile.

"Girl, at worst, I will go to the factory by Lugou River to work in the future and earn more than one or two silver dollars a month. Is it still afraid that the family will not go out? There is no need for a little-footed woman!"

There is no small-footed woman in the factory by the Lugou River, just the sky is enough.

For the people in the ten miles away from the Lugou River, this was no longer strange, just as they no longer felt strange about the big water trucks raised by the river.

Under the impact of the river, the water truck was rotating, and the power of the water was transmitted to the factory not far away through the transmission shaft. In the workshop of the weaving factory with open windows, the work was very tight, and the whole workshop was a fast rotor. Although the windows were wide open, the workshop still seemed a little dark, but the female workers who were weaving cloth did not care about it.

Their eyes were staring at the shuttles flying back and forth in the loom. This new loom was made by the Lugou Iron Factory. It not only had shuttles, but also driven by water wheels. In fact, it was just an old large loom that was equipped with shuttles and water wheels.

For female workers who have never weave cloth, although their skills are average, they still weave high-quality "label cloth" with hydrolooms. Even the weavers invited from Jiangnan were extremely surprised. Hydraulic looms largely narrowed the technical gap between them and Jiangnan weavers.

"Aunt Xu, I heard you want to try weaving twill..."

Even if they operate the weaving cloth, it will not prevent the female workers from talking while working. Their mouths are as busy as their hands, they are busy working while their hands are busy chatting.

"Just try it. Didn't you hear Xu Guanche say that twill is more expensive than label cloth. If twill is woven, the factory will definitely give bonuses, just like an iron factory."

Even in this "Hongfubu Factory", it is a benchmark for iron factories in some management. After all, for Liu Baitao of Hongfubu Factory, he has never had experience in managing factories and has never run factories. Naturally, he adopted the use-based theory and directly borrowed from the management model of Lugou Iron Factory. He even learned from the method of giving technical innovation workers a reward to encourage workers to innovate.

"Hey, you're just waiting to earn those dozens of taels of silver!"

"No, it's dozens of taels, and I can't even spend a whole house next to the factory..."

"Haha, that's fine, so you won't be rushing home all day long..."

"Okay, okay, don't daydream, work hard..."

Most of the workshop's trainers are female workers hired from Jiangnan, and they will only say a few words when the factory is in chaos.

In this way, the female workers continued to work hard, but they quickly started talking loudly.

Until noon, there was a sudden sound of copper ringing, and the factory was disturbed one by one. The sound of the loom was low and the voices had the upper hand. The female workers rushed out of the workshop with their empty bowls and walked to the cafeteria in a mess, crowded in line to get their meals in the cafeteria.

The food here is simple - a bowl of sorghum rice with some vegetables and a bowl of vegetable soup. Of course, I can eat a meal of meat every now and then. Although the portion is minimal, even so, it is still considered to be a good treatment for workers, and women from nearby villages are rushing to sign up.

While the female workers in the factory were having dinner, Liu Baitao in the factory looked frowning.

"This, what's the matter!"

With a long sigh, Liu Baitao looked at Sun Maonian and said.

"Brother Sun, look, is our cloth worse than Jiangnan?"

He took out a piece of cloth and Liu Baitao handed it over.

"This is a great label!"

As a cloth merchant, Sun Maonian could naturally see that the standard cloth of Hongfu cloth factory is no worse than that of Jiangnan.

"The label cloth is the thickest and most wear-resistant, and is most popular among the people. Your cloth is really good, how can you not sell it?"

The cloth cannot be sold!

Liu Baitao, who was preparing to make great achievements with the fabric factory and of course also wanted to make a fortune, was naturally extremely confused.

"Brother Sun doesn't know that although Hongfubu has sold a lot in the capital, he can't sell it in Jizhen and Xuanda at all. Those bidders don't buy our cloth at all!"

Liu Baitao sighed helplessly. The "markers" he mentioned were different from ordinary cloth merchants, but were merchants who specialized in transporting cotton cloth in military towns such as Xuanda Town and Jizhou Town. For many years, they specialized in transporting cotton cloth from Jiangnan, and transported no less than millions of cotton cloth every year. It is precisely because of this that Liu Baitao always wanted to open up the channels for "markers" and sell cloth to these wealthy merchants.

"Tell me, this piece of cloth is only three cents. They bought one from Jiangnan and transported it to the capital for at least three cents. But even so, they would rather buy high-priced cloth from Jiangnan than buy ours. This is really evil!"

It's just an evil door!

"Then some people don't buy cheap ones, but they just buy expensive ones. In fact, we sell three cents and two cents, and they also make a fortune, after all, they can save a lot of time."

Seeing Liu Baitao's puzzled look, Sun Maonian frowned. He was not only a cloth merchant, but also a shareholder of Hongfu Spinning Mill. When the Liu family was going to run a cloth factory, he also saw the profits in it and was naturally happy to participate in the shares.

Now, after hearing what Liu Baitao said, Sun Maonian said.

"Those bidders and Jiangnan have been doing business for decades or even hundreds of years, so it is naturally impossible for us to choose for a little profit. In fact, our cloth factory can survive without relying on them. After all, there are only a million people in the capital alone, and our cloth is not worried about selling in the capital. Are you talking about it?"

"No!"

Liu Baitao said with a sudden glare.
Chapter completed!