"Uncle Xu Jiu?"

Yuan Mudan frowned.

Han Yi shook his head and said, "It's not Xu Jiu, it's the person next to Xu Jiu."

Yuan Mudan looked at him in a narrow eye and said, "Who is that person? I don't seem to have seen him before."

Han Yi said: "He was Cui Pingzhong's former slave, and now he specializes in helping the Choi family manage business."

"Monda!"

Yuan Mudan suddenly said.

Han Yi said in surprise: "You know!"

Yuan Mudan said: "I heard from Yuan Xiu that the Cui family bought many workshops during this period, including Wang Xuandao, Yuwen Xiumi, and that boy." As she said that, she glanced at He Ruohan, who was chatting with Xiaopang, and was having a happy chat.

Han Yi smiled and said, "They are gambling. Fortunately, they won the bet!"

Yuan Mudan said: "In this way, do you think the person behind the Cao brothers is the Cui family?"

Han Yi nodded and said, "Since he appears here, there will be no mistake."

"Brother Han!" Xu Jiu also saw Han Yi and the others.

They hurried over and bowed to Han Yi, "The villain has seen Shangshu Ling."

"Okay, okay, don't be so naive for a few old acquaintances. Just call me Brother Han."

Brother Xiong waved his hand and said, "Uncle Jiu!"

Xu Jiu said happily: "Xiaopang, Xiaoye, when did you come back?"

Brother Xiong said, "Sometimes ago, we came back with Sister Mudan."

Xu Jiu glanced at Yuan Mudan, was a little stunned, and then bowed and said, "Xu Jiu has seen it!"

Before he could finish speaking, Yuan Mudan said, "Uncle Jiu, don't use too much politeness."

"Yes, yes!" Xu Jiu nodded dullly. He used to deal with Yuan Mudan, but now Yuan Mudan's identity has changed to make him feel a little overwhelmed.

Han Yi smiled and said, "Uncle Jiu, you are here to discuss business."

Xu Jiu nodded with a smile, and then curiously said, "I wonder if Shangshu Ling is here?"

Han Yi said, "I heard that there is a very amazing workshop here, so I came over and take a look."

As he said that, he glanced at him and said, "I wonder who among you is the Cao brothers?"

"The villain Cao Chun (Cao Xia), has met Shangshu Ling."

Yuan Mudan looked at the two of them. She was in her thirties and both of them had a standard shoe-to-shoulder face. She looked average. She was dressed in a worker and could not tell anything special except for her energetic spirit.

Han Yi would not judge people by his appearance because he is a fraud and often changes his identities. He asked with a smile: "I heard that this workshop was built by you two?"

"Yes."

Cao Chun nodded, then secretly glanced at Han Yi and smiled foolishly.

Han Yi said curiously: "What are you laughing at?"

"Nothing, nothing." Cao Chun said: "The villain is just too happy."

Han Yi asked again: "What are you happy with?"

Cao Chun hurriedly said, "I will not hide it from Shangshu Ling. We brothers have always admired Shangshu Ling very much. I didn't expect to see Shangshu Ling today. The villain is really true!"

Speaking of later, he didn't know how to describe it.

Cao Xia also kept nodding.

"I'm just an ordinary person, oh, before I became an official, I was a farmer like you."

"It is because of this that we admire Shangshu Ling very much." Cao Xia said immediately.

Han Yi smiled and shook her head, and asked again: "Don't you invite me in and have a look?"

"Oh, the Secretary of State is invited to come in, the Secretary of State is welcome to come in."

Xu Jiu and the others also quickly moved aside.

Han Yi reached out to Yuan Mudan to signal.

Yuan Mudan gave him a slightly blank look, but she always remembered that she lived in a society where men were superior to women.

"clear!"

Han Yi then walked inside. When he passed by Mengda, he patted Mengda on the shoulder and smiled and said, "You guy has a really good vision!"

Mengda hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "Shangshuling has been awarded too much."

"You are humble!"

Han Yi pointed at him and walked inside.

When they arrived at the workshop, Xiaopang and Ono, who had just returned to the workshop, suddenly felt a little shocked. Everything in front of them completely changed their impression of the workshop. They even thought that this should not be a workshop. They saw large machines arranged neatly, but the number of people was not large. There were even one or two machines without standing people standing next to them, and the machine was operating on its own.

This is already the prototype of a factory in later generations.

Unfortunately, at the bottom of the Cao brothers' machine is a large wooden box. Only strange noises are heard inside, but I can't see what structure it is inside.

Han Yi walked to a machine, picked up a roll of yarn that had just been removed from the machine, looked carefully, and handed it to Yuan Mudan beside him, and then asked Xu Jiu: "Uncle Jiu, you are an expert in this field. I think the quality of yarn is better than that of ordinary yarn!"

Xu Jiudao: "Shangshu Ling didn't know that the quality of this yarn is not related to the hydraulic power, but his spinning machine has also been improved, so it is better than ordinary yarns."

"Not bad! Not bad!"

Han Yi nodded and said to the Cao brothers: "How much yarn can your spinning machine spin every day?"

Cao Chun hurriedly said, "A hundred pounds."

Xu Jiudao: "More than thirty times that of our spinning workshop."

Han Yi nodded with a smile, and asked the Cao brothers again: "How did you develop this machine?"

Cao Chun immediately informed Han Yi of the reason for the incident.

It turned out that Cao Chun's ancestors were in Sanmen Mountain for generations. His great-grandfather was a craftsman and also participated in the construction of the Grand Canal. Later, after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the equal-field system was implemented. Their family divided a lot of fields. His grandfather's generation returned to his hometown to cultivate land, but the craftsmanship was still passed down. To his father's generation, a water truck was built here in order to irrigate the farmland in the village.

After his father passed away, the brothers began to repair the water truck for the village.

Later, the rise of business made their brothers not want to be content with the status quo, because even if the fields were planted, there were only so many flowers. Just happened to meet Han Yi to promote the canal reform, and Sanmen Mountain was filled with the atmosphere of business, which even more infected them. They also wanted to do business. At first, their brothers used the slack farming period to make some small utensils, wooden cars, etc., and sold them to local merchants, making some money, which led to their ambitions getting bigger and bigger.

They racked their brains to make a lot of money. At the beginning, they planned to expand the scale, so they invited some people to make wooden tools and started handicraft workshops. But they were facing the Zhang family's OEM workshop. When they faced the wealthy Zhang family, they were helpless. They were thinking, where they lost, it was just people. They had no money to hire more people and better craftsmen. One day, the water wheel broke down again, and they came to repair it. Suddenly, since this water wheel could replace artificial irrigation of farmland, it could also replace manual labor and make wooden tools. If this could be done, then there would be no need for people and no fear of the Zhang family's OEM workshops.

So they began to study the water wheel. Their initial research direction was to use hydraulic power to make wooden tools. This was very difficult. After working for several months, I had no idea. Until one day, Cao Chun saw his wife using the latest spinning machine, he realized that it might be possible to make wooden tools, but spinning may be possible, because the spinning machine is the rotation, and the water wheel is also the rotation, and there is something to figure out the two.

After a year or two of research, they finally found that this hydraulic spinning machine was so dying. It happened to be in a financial crisis again. The Cao brothers were almost crying. They spent almost all their savings for this hydraulic spinning machine. They even went to the Jinxing Store to borrow money. But at that time, let alone hydraulic spinning machines, even if you invented the electric spinning machine, the gold store would not borrow it, because no one could afford it, and they would lose as much as they produced.

Just when the brothers were desperate, they just met Mengda who bought workshops everywhere. After Mengda learned about this, he immediately agreed to invest in their brother's spinning workshop, but told them not to rush to produce, and to improve the machine first and wait until the crisis passed. So their brothers continued to improve the hydraulic spinning machine. Because they had sufficient financial support and no worries, they could devote themselves to research, and with the help of their wife, they improved the spinning machine. Not to mention hydraulic power, the photo-spinning machine is much more advanced as today's spinning machine.

After Han Yi came back and everything stabilized, they began to start the hydraulic spinning workshop.

And just yesterday, they signed a big order with the Beauty of Freedom, which can be said to have soared into the sky!

Han Yi nodded with a smile and suddenly asked, "Does there be any leaks in your machine drawings?"

The Cao brothers were stunned and looked at Han Yi with caution.

Mengda suddenly said, "Dao to ask the Secretary of State, when will the Patent Act be promulgated?"

Yuan Mudan looked at Mengda in a little surprised, but immediately realized that Cui Jieren was the minister who wanted to be the one who wanted to think of this. It was not uncommon for him to think of this.

Han Yi smiled and said, "It should be soon, and it will be next month at the latest. What? Are you interested?"

Mengda pondered for a moment and said, "If it is appropriate, we hope to apply for a patent."

Han Yi nodded with a smile and said, "We also welcome your arrival very much. This kind of technology requires protection."

He Ruohan immediately said: "What about my hybridization technology?"

Han Yi smiled and said, "If you can turn hybridization into a technology and can breed it on a large scale, that's certainly OK."

These businessmen were so excited.

The meaning is very simple. The court used the law to protect the monopoly of merchants, which was absolutely beneficial to their merchants.

Han Yishou raised his hand forward and said, "Go inside and take a look!"

Mengda and the Cao brothers accompanied each other and walked inside.

Han Yi suddenly said: "Although your machine is advanced, its management model is too backward and not suitable for your workshop."

Cao Chun said excitedly: "If Shangshu Ling can give a few words to the villain, the villain will be grateful."

This is an idol. He has never thought that he is qualified to get Han Yi's guidance in this life, but he feels that it must be the ancestral tomb smoke coming out.

"No, this is my duty. Only when you live a better life can the court be better!"

Han Yi nodded and told them about the management experience of some factories in later generations.

Those merchants were fascinated by the sound of the workplace. It turned out that the workshop could still be played like this. In fact, it was no longer a workshop, but a factory. Although the Cao brothers built the factory, they were also the first time they came into contact with the factory. They didn't know how to manage it. They had to explore it themselves, but the arrival of Han Yi made all this simpler and faster.

Han Yi is naturally familiar with this hydraulic factory. He thought it was natural that he should have been born in the Tang Dynasty.
To be continued...