Yang Shiqiang endured the pain in his muscles and went to the middle courtyard of the prison hall to see Lin Lian.

There were two strings of wind lanterns hanging on the four corners of the courtyard, the dim fire illuminated the dark shadows floating in the courtyard, Zhou Pu and Zhao Hu practiced boxing in the courtyard, Wu Qi squatted on the railing under the eaves in front of the hall and watched, they saw Yang Shi coming over and withdrew his hand and returned to the corridor.

Yang Shi saw that Zhao Hu had the strength to fight with Zhou Pu after completing six hundred sets of full squatting movements without stopping, he was a little embarrassed, he used to look down on Zhao Hu, when Zhao Hu was just a rude man who had been in the township camp for two years and was rough with fists and feet, but today he knew that he was not qualified to look down on others, touched his nose, and asked Zhao Hu: "Lord Lin is inside?" ”

"My lord said, Yang Dianwei will go in directly when he comes over." Zhao Hu helped Yang Shi push open the door of the front hall.

Yang Shi looked inside, Lin Jian was sitting in front of the desk with Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong to discuss things, and Sun Geng, the head of the secretary's office, was also sitting aside.

"You're here, don't stand still if there's anything going on, come in and sit down." Lin Lian beckoned Yang Shi to sit down, not busy talking to him, and continued to discuss with Lin Mengde, Lin Jingzhong, and Changsun Geng.

Yang Shi sat next to him and listened for a while, only to know that Lin Jian came to Lin Mengde, Lin Jingzhong, and Sun Geng, the head of the bookstore, to discuss the purchase of a cotton spinning wheel.

Yang Shi is no stranger to the spinning wheel, his family and the Gu family were in the Saibei Liujun, life was poor, his mother and Mrs. Gu were inconvenient for the two women to show up, so they asked the craftsman to make two hand-spinning wheels to spin cotton and spin linen to subsidize the family, in addition to eating and sleeping, the two of them can spin two catties of cotton a day without stopping, and they can exchange two or three catties of brown rice for a day of hard work.

Yang Shi thought that there were nearly fifty female prisoners in the prison, and they had purchased fifty spinning wheels and made servants to work, and they could get a total of two or three hundred yuan a day, which could be offset by their food in prison, and thought to himself that although this kind of money-seeking practice was safe, it was too clumsy; It is no wonder that Ge Zuxin, the former prisoner, and Zhou Shide, the secretary of the prison, and others secretly colluded with the outside world to force the prisoner to become a prostitute, and the female prisoner with a slight appearance was forced to sell herself in a brothel and could get two or three hundred yuan a night. For those who seek wealth, this practice is more effective, although despicable, and if others knew that Lin Jian made money from the female prisoners, they would probably laugh at him for being pedantic and pedantic.

Lin Jian didn't know what Yang Shi was thinking about sitting next to him, in fact, Yang Shi had only heard part of their discussion.

On Lin Bin's desk is a "Notes on Agricultural Books" written by Zhang Shizhen, a waiter of the Ministry of Industry during the Yongzhan Emperor period. Lin Jian asked Lin Mengde to understand the situation, and knew that the farmers around Jiangning mostly used hand-cranked single spindle spinning wheels, and a peasant woman could spin a pound of cotton yarn after working hard day and night, but in Zhang Shizhen's "Notes on Agricultural Books" introduced that more than 40 years ago, someone in Pingjiang Mansion improved the techniques of stripping cotton, stretching cotton, and spinning wheels, so that women could spin more than three catties of cotton day and night.

This made Lin Jian despair of the speed of technology promotion in the world, Pingjiang Mansion is next to Jiangning Mansion, Pingjiang Mansion has greatly improved cotton spinning technology more than 40 years ago, and the cotton spinning efficiency has been increased by more than three times, but it has not been promoted to Jiangning Mansion for such a long time?

Zhang Shizhen is also full of literati temper, the pen of "Notes on Agricultural Books" is very concise, and a few paragraphs of introduction of flirtatious sentences make people unable to see how advanced the cotton spinning technology of Pingjiang Mansion is compared with Jiangning Mansion.

The female prisoner in the prison is from a weaver in Pingjiang Mansion, and Lin Jian just asked Sun Geng, the head of the secretary's office, to bring the female prisoner from prison for questioning, only to know that Pingjiang Mansion not only has a pedal spinning wheel, but also a workshop and even uses a large spinning wheel that two or three people work together at the same time.

Jiyun Society doesn't have any manpower, Lin Lian wants to ask Lin Mengde to send someone to help go to Pingjiang Mansion to understand the situation, it is best to hire two masters to come over, it is really not good, buy two spinning wheels and come back to find Jiangning's wood imitation.

Lin Jingzhong was settling accounts next to him, thinking that if it was really like what the female prisoner from a weaver said, a large spinning wheel with three people working together could spin twenty catties of yarn a day, and when it was evenly distributed, the output of one person's hard work was seven times higher than that of ordinary farmers in the suburbs of Jiangning. The 50 female prisoners in the prison can earn 2,000 yuan a day from spinning cotton yarn, and can earn more than 700 silver a year. Obediently, even if you open a big restaurant with a thriving business in the city, you may not have such a good income.

Besides, who said that only women can spin yarn? Those men can play music outside, don't do women's work, and in this prison, can they still make their own choices? It is not surprising that more than 200 prisoners are to be sent to spin cotton yarn, and two thousand taels of silver are brought from it every year.

Thinking about Jiyun Society's monopoly on the marketing of the Gu family's tea goods through Gu Wuchen's relationship, it can net up to two thousand taels of silver a year when it is full, who would have thought that there is such a big source of wealth hidden in prison? Lin Jingzhong only understood at this time why Lin Jian attached so much importance to miscellaneous craftsmanship before, and for businessmen, money could come from miscellaneous craftsmanship.

Lin Jian sighed in his heart, and learned from the female prisoner that this kind of large spinning wheel used for convenience was not popular in Pingjiang Mansion. During this time, Lin Jian also had a deep understanding of the world around him, but he could understand the reason.

The large spinning wheel was still a very complex instrument in the world, and the artisan household system in the world, the current situation of the factory owners being exploited by the government, and the traditional small-scale business customs all severely limited the popularization of this complex equipment. Even if there are people or forces who have the ability to promote this advanced production equipment, they think that it is too slow to make money.

Lin Jian knew where the huge gap between the mainstream of the world who regarded miscellaneous craftsmanship as a strange and obscene skill and the later generations who respected it as a productive force theory. Lin Jingzhong and Lin Mengde were better, there were many doubts in the eyes of the eldest grandson, and Yang Shi, who was sitting on the side, looked a little disdainful, Lin Lian didn't explain anything to them at length, he did his best, others could see it, and they naturally understood it in their hearts, otherwise it would be difficult to change the stubborn thoughts of others no matter how big it was.

After talking about the spinning wheel, he also talked about the vegetable garden and the livestock shed. The weather is about to warm up, these things will be done immediately, there is no worry about labor on the prison island, but the construction of vegetable gardens, livestock sheds and other construction materials such as bamboo, wood, bricks and stones, as well as rapeseed, vegetable seedlings, chickens, ducks, sheep, piglets, etc., must be provided on the shore, Jiyun Club has no manpower, and Lin Ji Warehouse wants to send someone to help do these chores first, Lin Jian said to Lin Mengde: "Uncle Mengde, these or something, are settled according to the market price, after all, you are in charge of the Lin family in Jiangning, no matter how I say it, I am also a child of the Lin family, there are some benefits on the prison island, You can't miss a point of the Lin family...... "Say these words, and don't avoid Yang Shi, after these things are said, Lin Jian didn't let the eldest grandson Geng and them avoid it, turned sideways and said to Yang Shi: "Today in the martial arts courtyard, you selected those five martial arts who are proficient in boxing, and you want them to come to my courtyard early tomorrow morning to find Zhou Pu to report, and I will use them as escorts......"

Yang Shi's face was a little red, he had just selected five martial artists who were proficient in boxing to test Lin Bin, but he beat Zhao Hu alone, and he was not the opponent of Zhou Pu beside Lin Bin. According to the usual practice, Lin Jian is from the Jiupin Prison, at most two guards are with him, but whether it is a convention or a rule, it has always been for the powerful to destroy and trample, Lin Jian opened his mouth and asked five soldiers to give him as a guard, Yang Shi just felt embarrassed, did not feel that there was anything else wrong, nodded and said: "Okay, these five people will only listen to the orders of one adult from now on." ”

Lin Jian took out a stack of manuscripts from the desk, pushed them in front of Yang Shi, and said, "Regarding the method of military training, I have written some words, I want you to take a look at ......"

Yang Shi took the manuscript, looked at a few pages, and said in a precarious manner: "I will definitely understand it seriously." ”

"Maybe it's very different from what you learned in the barracks, you may not be able to accept it," Lin Jian listened to Yang Shi's words insincerely, and he didn't mind, and directly said his intentions, "That's good, except for the soldiers who are my guards, the others are divided into two teams, one team you are responsible for training, and the other team will be handed over to Zhao Hu for training, for a period of three months, when the time comes, see who is more effective, what do you think?" ”

"......" Yang Shi was full of grievances, Lin Lian did this to divide half of his military power, although there were only fifty or sixty soldiers under his command, and there was nothing to fight for in this military power, but he was panicked in his heart, but there were still more than ten soldiers in the martial arts courtyard who couldn't stand up with a sore back, and he couldn't complain even if he was full of grievances. In addition, Lin Jian did not hide his personal interests from him, and he did not avoid him in discussions with Changsun Geng, Lin Mengde, and Lin Jingzhong, and a copy of the manuscript of the law of military training was also copied to him, Yang Shi only had one thought in his heart: it was to use three months to train a team of martial artists to be stronger and more elite than Zhao Hu in order to raise his eyebrows.

Yang Shi and the eldest grandson Geng left, Zhao Hu entered the military position, and he was going to be on duty in the prison room at night, Zhou Pu and Wu Qi were in the name of domestic servants, Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong were guests, and they all lived in the middle courtyard with Lin Binding.

After Lin Mengde also went to the island, he really felt that Lin was on the prison island and covered the sky with one hand, not to mention Sun Geng, the head of the secretary's office, Yang Shi, who was regarded as a nephew by Gu Wuchen, couldn't show his sharpness at all in front of Lin Lian.

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In the early morning of the next day, listening to the sound of talking outside, Lin Tie dressed and pushed the door out, the five soldiers who beat Zhao Hu yesterday with a blue nose and swollen eyes all stood in the courtyard waiting for instructions, their physical fitness was strong in this batch of soldiers, and their skills were quite flexible, otherwise Yang Shi would not have picked them out last night, but the real combat skills are not trained in ordinary military camps.

Lin Jian didn't want Yang Shi to control the warriors on Prison Island, on the one hand, Lin Jian didn't know when he would part ways with the Gu family, on the other hand, Yang Shi was not the right person to lead the warriors on Prison Island, but at this time, Yang Shi, who was regarded as Gu Wuchen's nephew, could not be excluded, so he had to divide the warriors into several parts as quietly as possible. In addition to guarding the guards, the prison guards were also divided into two teams and trained by Yang Shi and Zhao Hu.

"I use you as a guard, it's not that you are very strong, but you may become stronger, I don't care if you can endure this hardship or not, do things by my side, you will endure it for me first, no matter how bitter you are in your heart," Lin Jian said sharply, and then turned his head sideways and instructed Zhou Pu, "You help me go and get a few wooden knives, these people have no other use for the time being, but it is useful to practice the splitting technique." Before they give me the sword, you explain the main points of the slashing technique......"