The women who were inspired by enthusiasm were almost at a loss.

Li Qinglin weighed the cotton yarn that was spinned all day on the fourth day of the lunar month. On average, each person could spin up to eight hours a day, one person could spin up to nine taels of lint every day, and three people could spin up to two jin and seven taels of lint a day.

During the Republic of China, cotton yield was low, so the price was relatively expensive. Now the price of lint is about three kilograms per ocean. This time, Li Wanquan and his friends "demand" thirteen oceans of lint, which is forty kilograms. At this rate, forty kilograms of lint will take half a month to spin for 40 kilograms of lint.

The military's summer clothing will be distributed to soldiers at the latest at the end of May. Cotton yarn needs to be weaved, dyed, and sewn before being delivered to the army. That is to say, the demand for cotton yarn is the most intense by early May. From now until early May, the demand for veils is the largest. Only when Li Qinglin's hand-made spinning workshop can make maximum money by increasing the amount of yarn output. So Li Qinglin made a decision: increase spinning trucks and hire female spinning workers.

This time, Li Qinglin did not seek the opinions of Li Wanquan and others, and directly decided on the following: First, three women from the Zhou family and Qian family joined, and the existing spinning wheels were replaced without stopping, spinning day and night; Second, Li Wanxiang stepped up the production of spinning wheels, and finally reached one for each woman; Third, spinning wages were paid for pieces, including the family, and each pound of cotton was 10 copper coins per spinning, and the remaining net profit was dividends according to the two shares; Fourth, spinning was not a woman's patent, and the old men could also learn to spin. As an example, men should start with Li Qinglin when learning spinning.

Men in northern Henan generally did not do such work as women during this period. Li Qinglin knew that men spinning was not inferior to women. In his previous life, Li Qinglin went to Yan'an for a trip, and there was a spinning wheel used by Premier Zhou in the revolutionary cultural relics exhibition hall. During the Yan'an period, many men also spinned yarn, and the quality of the cotton yarn was very good.

In addition to the fourth article, several opinions arranged by Li Qinglin were implemented smoothly. There was no need to pay for raw materials or prepare spinning trucks. It only took some effort to make money. Such a good thing made all the women in the village join the spinning ranks. The lint was reduced day by day, and the snow-white cotton yarn was constantly spinning out.

Li Qinglin was indeed ready to set an example to learn spinning. As soon as he sat in front of the spinning truck, he was about to learn spinning with Wei Sanya, but his aunt Liu Erhua grabbed it.

My aunt’s reason is very simple: “This is what a woman does, not what you do! You are a person who does big things, just think of some good ways to make more money!”

China has experienced thousands of years of feudal society. Since ancient times, the male leads the outside and the female leads the inside. Li Qinglin wants to change traditional ideas in the short term, at least it will not work now. Li Qinglin had to smile bitterly and give up his grand plan to spin cotton yarn.

Li Qinglin read a document in his previous life and knew that there was a spinning truck that could spin three spindles at a time, which could improve spinning efficiency. He originally wanted to visit three spindles at a time by improving the hand-rock spinning truck, because he was not a major in machinery. After Li Qinglin studied the hand-rock yarn car, he felt that he was not the material, so he gave up automatically.

However, Li Qinglin's other reform was successful, that is, the fuel-efficient lamp.

Lighting is required for overtime at night, and lighting requires lighting. All gauze cars are placed in a room. It is absolutely not bright enough to light a tung oil lamp at night. A room requires at least two lighting points.

Tung oil is very expensive, and Wang Xiuzhen couldn't bear to let it go, so she found Song Mingzi, which didn't cost money. Although Song Mingzi didn't need to spend money, the cigarette was too big when it was lit. After a long time, the people in the house were all dark. Li Qinglin prohibited the use of Song Mingzi lighting, thinking that this would be worth the cost. Because even the people were blackened, the gauze would be black. When it was sold, it would be bad, and people would lower the price.

Li Qinglin decided to make fuel-efficient lamps.

There are indeed fuel-efficient lamps in history. The Southern Song poet Lu You once recorded the fuel-efficient lamps: "Don't use copper lamps for book lamps, but magnetic lamps are the most fuel-efficient. There are interlayer lamps in Shu, and water can be poured into the lips of the cup, which can save half of the fuel-efficient."

The oil-saving lamp recorded by Lu You is scientifically justified. The oil in ordinary oil lamps is not completely burned when ignited, and some of them are evaporated. Because the wick burns, the vegetable oil in the lamp is also heated, and the oil in the lamp will evaporate in vain when the oil temperature rises.

The lamp used by Li Qinglin's family now is very simple. It is a copper lamp on a bamboo rack, pour the lamp oil into the lamp, and install the wick to light it up.

Li Qinglin took down the lamp, put it on a citrus tray of appropriate size and depth, and then filled the plate under the lamp with water. When the lamp is lit, the oil temperature is transferred to the water. The water evaporates quickly, the oil temperature in the lamp will be lower, and the tung oil will be reduced, and the oil will be saved. Using this simple oil-saving lamp, you need to pay attention to the height of the water surface under the lamp. Once the water surface is too low, water must be added.

Although the improved fuel-saving lamp is not as good as what Lu You said, it can save at least one-third of the fuel.

As soon as this simple fuel-saving lamp appeared, it was immediately welcomed by the housewives. The clever and skillful Qian family's second boy, Qian Duoqi, referred to Li Qinglin's fuel-saving lamp, made copper-made oil-saving lamps with copper skin and sold them to wealthy households, and made a small amount of money.

The first month is the free time of winter, and there is no farm work in the field. Women work overtime day and night to spin cotton yarn, and the men of the Li family are not idle either. Li Wanquan, Li Wanxiang, and Li Qinglin quietly picked up all the tung seeds from Houshanwa. Because my uncle's house was occupied, they put the tung seeds at Li Qinglin's house. The men seized the time to peel out all the tung seeds.

Because these tung seeds were secretly picked up from Wang Changshan's forest, they did not dare to send them to press oil. After the "five-five" period, the three men sent the tung seeds to different oil mills and sold them many times.

Because the final harvest was more than expected, after all the tung seeds were sent to the oil mill, in addition to changing ten kilograms of tung oil because they had to light the lamp at night, they also sold thirty-one oceans and brought back more than 200 kilograms of tung seed cakes.

Li Wanquan, Li Wanxiang got so much money and so much tung seed cakes, and was very happy. Li Wanxiang was happy and took out a big ocean to reward Li Qinglin. The two families divided the remaining thirty oceans, tung seed cakes and tung seed shells evenly, and Li Wanxiang also returned the five yuan spinning capital to Li Wanquan.

On the tenth night of the first lunar month, all forty kilograms of lint were spun into cotton yarn.

Early in the 11th day of the first lunar month, Li Wanxiang, Li Wanquan and Li Qinglin went to the town to pay for the lint, iron chisels, bamboo shoot shells that they had "demand" last time, sold cotton yarn, and bought forty kilograms of lint.

After getting the yarn money, Li Qinglin calculated that after deducting the raw material cost, he received 966 copper circles, of which 400 copper circles were the wages for women spinning, and 80 copper circles were the wages for cotton-padded by Zhou Dezhong. The two Li families still had 486 copper circles with net profit.

After knowing the profit, Li Wanquan and Li Wanxiang were so excited that their faces flushed. They didn't expect that Li Qinglin asked them to invest in fifteen oceans. In just eight days, they could earn 486 copper rounds, which did not include the wages of women at home.

These are so big! If you usually do short-term work for someone, even if they are the dirtiest and the most tiring, they will never earn so much money in eight days. When Li Qinglin asked them how they deal with the money, he said in unison: "What do you want to do if you say you can do it!"

Li Qinglin decided to divide the three hundred and ninety copper circles into shares, that is, Li Wanquan got two hundred and sixty copper circles and one hundred and thirty copper circles of Li Wanxiang. The remaining ninety-six copper circles were used to buy two pounds of pork belly, one pound of bulk sweet potato wine and six portions of sesame candy. The meat was cooked at night, the wine was rewarded for Li Wanxiang and Li Wanquan at night, and the sesame candy was rewarded for six spinning women. After all, they were the main force in spinning. In addition to salary, women still needed spiritual encouragement.

Carrying cotton and joy, Li Wanxiang and Li Wanquan returned to the village. The women gathered in the spinning room, and Li Qinglin began to pay their wages according to the ten copper gardens that were spinning into a pound of cotton.

Zhou Dezhong got eighty copper and copper circles, more than seventy copper circles for women, and less than fifty copper circles. The one who got the most among women was Wei Sanya, with a total of seventy-seven copper circles.

Rural women do not have many opportunities to make money, and their main input is to raise pigs, feed chickens and grow vegetables.

The four families in Xiaolizhuang have little land and cannot even guarantee their own food. They only eat two meals during the slack farming period. When the green and yellow food is not available, every family picks wild vegetables to eat, so no one raises pigs. Each family only raises a few chickens, and the housewives rely on the hens to lay eggs and exchange them for salt.

This time, all the women cheered and everyone was very excited.

After paying the money, Li Qinglin took out a bag of sesame candy and handed it to Wei Sanya and announced: "Sanya has the most sprinkles, and a pack of sesame candy is rewarded!"

Jiang Xiuzhi immediately protested: "Qinglin is too biased, we sprinkle a lot, why do you send it to Sanya alone?"

Li Qinglin smiled and said, "I said Sanya is rewarded with one bag of sesame candy at most, but didn't he say that the second place would not be rewarded with sesame candy?" After saying that, he smiled and took out the remaining sesame candy and sent a pack to each woman.

In this extremely poor Xiaolizhuang, everyone is struggling to survive, and women are even more so. A small bag of sesame candy is not much, nor is it expensive. Usually, they pass by the candy store in the town just to take a look. They never dared to spend money to buy some food for themselves. Xiang Wei Sanya is already sixteen (Xu Sui), and she never knows what sesame candy tastes!

The sesame candy was sent to their hands, causing a scream, and the atmosphere of joy filled the entire house and the entire village.
Chapter completed!