Yan Peiwei felt calm when he heard Yu Ren's words, so he quickly bowed to Yu Ren to apologize. "The villain doesn't mean that. I thought my little husband wanted to kill me, so I wanted to run away."

Yu Ren was even more surprised. "Why should I kill you?"

When Yan Peiwei spoke, his eyes fixedly stared at Yu Ren's expression. Seeing that he was sincere, he said, "I misunderstood, I'm trying to get out of my mind."

Yu Ren did not let it go, "Explain to me why do you think I want to kill you?"

Yan Peiwei's face turned red again. "Yes, it's me who judges a gentleman with the heart of a villain! It's my fault."

Yu Ren waved his hand at him, "It's okay, I'm not angry with you either. But you have to explain to me clearly why you think I want to kill you?"

"Yes, it was told by others." Yan Peiwei said.

"Who? Who told you that I was going to kill you, let's talk about it, do you know who I am?"

Yan Peiwei shook his head, "I don't know!"

"So that's it! Tell me clearly about the whole story. If you make it clear, I'll give you another twenty taels of silver. I can't explain it clearly, I can't let you go."

After hearing this, Yan Peiwei calmed down, picked up a cup of herbal tea on the table and drank it in one sip. Then he said, "Actually, this matter has to start with me in my hometown.

My family is in Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, and I have worked as a weaver for generations. When my father was in this generation, my family had some surplus. I learned to weave and spin with my father since I was a child, but I was not interested in these things. So I was lazy. I thought all day long that it would be great if the loom could turn it by itself. So I worked hard to improve the loom, and later invented a loom that uses water flow to promote it. However, this loom is not very practical due to the limitations of the water flow environment.

So later I continued to study. Once, I saw the lid of the large pot with boiling water at home was pushed open by steam. I thought, since steam can even push the lid of such a thick elm pot, can it push the loom?

Then, I began to study. After more than six years of hard work, I finally made a loom that could be driven by steam.

At this time, my father had passed away for several years. Since I had been studying steam looms for several years, my family's background gradually became worse. I was expecting to make some money with this steam loom, but I didn't expect that I had just given this loom to a weaver friend of mine, and he gave me a jar of cold water on the head.

He said, 'If you make this thing, then we weavers will not need to be in the future. Would we weavers all be starved to death?'

I was speechless at the time. Unexpectedly, the next day, a large group of weavers rushed into my house and asked me to smash the loom. I couldn't bear to smash it at that time, so I lied to them that there was actually no such thing, and that I was joking with my friends, and that there was a loom that could be turned by myself without anyone pushing it! I am not a god, but these people don't believe it.

Finally, they forcibly broke into my backyard and smashed the loom.

The next day, my friend came to tell me quietly, saying that they were discussing and were about to kill me. Because I smashed the loom, I could still rebuild it. If this kind of machine was seen by the boss of the weaving house, they would not be unemployed from now on and they would starve to death.

I was so scared that I had to pack up my things overnight and escape with my wife.

As a result, after escaping, I fled to Suzhou Prefecture. When I arrived here, my wife fell ill and I had to settle here temporarily. However, my wife spent all the few taels of silver we had. There was no way to go. I heard that Mr. Wang was a kind and generous person, so I came to try it out with a calm face.

Just now, my little husband suddenly asked me to draw a picture and asked me to explain again. I thought you were the same as them and wanted to kill me. So I was so scared that I ran away quickly."

When Yu Ren heard this, he couldn't help but want to laugh, but he lamented for Yan Peiwei's fate. What kind of world is this! A person with a shocking invention has received social rewards, leaving his hometown and wandering in a foreign land. How can this not make people sigh?

After hearing this, Yu Ren finally believed Yan Peiwei's words and believed that he really built a steam engine. Now that I think about it, it is still very likely that the Chinese people will create steam during this period. First of all, in the Tiangong Kaiyu compiled by Song Yingxing at this time, there were already many non-human looms and other machines in the Tiangong Kaiyu written by water flow.

So, that is to say, during this period, due to the rapid development of handicraft industry, people have gradually realized that there is a need for a motivation to replace people or mules and horses.

Secondly, a simple steam engine is not that difficult to build and the technical difficulty is not very high.

However, it was not promoted by people, which was probably related to the overall historical situation of that period. Because the Manchus entered the pass in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and decades of war. Although the southeast half of the wall suffered less damage than Liaodong, Shandong and Hebei, it also lost at least two-thirds of its population. The remaining people, because of the threat of war, only saved their lives, and naturally there was no way to talk about what development it was. This caused China's economy and technology to regress for hundreds of years. This is probably the fundamental reason why China has lagged behind the West in modern times.

Yu Ren pulled his thoughts in front of him. After Yan Peiwei said that, he looked at Yu Ren with a little uneasy.

Yu Ren sighed lightly, "Mr. Yan, I really feel wronged. Your invention will be of great use to our world. It is really inappropriate for them to treat you like this."

After saying that, Yu Ren said to Zhao Rui, "I will entrust you with Mr. Ruirui. I will draw up a plan for me, and I will promote the steam loom developed by Mr. Yan to everyone. In addition, you allocate another sum of money and leave it to Mr. Yan's free choice, so that Mr. Yan will continue to study this steam car. I don't have less than five hundred taels of money. And you have to prepare a place for Mr. Yan and prepare an assistant.

I believe that this thing can not only push the loom, it can also push more things. In the near future, it will completely change our lives."

Zhao Rui nodded quickly, took out a small note from her arms, and then took out an exquisite pen to write it on it.

This pen was specially designed by Yu Ren for Zhao Rui, which is similar to a modern fountain pen, which is to make it easy to write Zhao Rui.

Yan Peiwei didn't expect Yu Ren to attach so much importance to him. He was also very excited, and even tears were spinning in his eyes. But he still tried his best to control the emotions.

He bowed to Yu Renshen. "I, Yan Peiwei, will never forget the kindness of my husband's reconstruction for me for the rest of my life. I just don't know what sir wants me to put this steam engine on?"

"The carriage." Yu Ren's answer was very concise. I want to put it on the carriage so that it can replace mules and horses."

"If you do this, the value we create is far more than 500 taels, even 50,000 taels, and 50,000 taels are even more than 50,000 taels."

Yan Peiwei patted his chest and promised, "I will remember what sir said. As long as I, Yan Peiwei, have a breath, I will do my best to fulfill Mr.'s wish."

Yu Ren nodded and said to Zhao Rui, "Ruirui will ask you to arrange the matters about Mr. Yan. You should give Mr. Yan a hundred taels of silver first. This is what I promised Mr. Yan just now. You must arrange the subsequent things for me. I will go in and see what else your cousin has to do."

After saying that, Yu Ren nodded to Yan Peiwei and went into the inner room. He actually wanted to know if there were any new trends in the court earlier. But suddenly he met Yan Peiwei, a talent who built his own steamer, and he was unwilling to let it go easily.

Wang Wenyan was telling his wife something. When he saw Yu Ren coming in, he hurriedly gave him a seat. In Wang Wenyan's eyes, Yu Ren was just like his own family, so he was not taboo.

"You're finally here, hurry up and prepare and follow me to Beijing right away."

Yu Ren was shocked. "What are you doing?"

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