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Changning Huangfu family, this is a family with a history of 500 years.
As early as the beginning of the establishment of Changning Wei, the Changning Huangfu family migrated from Monan County. And in the early days of land reclamation, he made many meritorious deeds and made many contributions.
Of course, those who migrated back then were the branches of the famous Monan Huangfu clan, not their own clan.
The Huangfu family of Monan County takes animal taming and breeding on the prairie as a pillar industry.
That's why.
The branch of the Changning Huangfu family also has good breeding techniques.
This is also a normal thing.
There are many family relationships in this world, all of which are intricate and complicated.
Families with self-made casual cultivators are not only rare in number, they are usually not even high in rank.
Sometimes a seemingly inconspicuous small family may even find its roots in a certain Zifu family if it is traced back.
The Dagan state has been established for too long, and it has a history of more than 7,000 years.
The family branch migration is an extremely complex and epic story.
today.
The Changning Huangfu family arranged a night banquet, and now it is almost dusk, and the sky is getting darker. But the lights on both sides of the street were already burning, reflecting like daytime.
This is also the Huangfu family's display of their own financial resources. The burning of these lights alone is a huge expense.
Huangfu's main residence is a high-ranking family, ordinary people can't even go to the door without permission.
The walls of the main house are comparable to city walls, like a city within a city.
The towering courtyard walls are built of bluestone, and after five hundred years of vicissitudes, there are already mottled traces on the bluestone bricks. Through those stone bricks, it seems to be able to vaguely glimpse the ups and downs of the Changning Huangfu family in the past five hundred years.
Towering sentry towers stand at the four corners of the courtyard wall, and delicate copper bells hang from the cornices.
These copper bells have octagons on the outside, the wind does not make a sound, and the surface is also carved with exquisite patterns, which looks very special.
At the beginning, the Huangfu family of Monan established themselves on the prairie by virtue of their superb animal control skills, and their family-suppressing magic weapon, the Octagonal Dragon Soul Bell, was well-known throughout Dagan.
These copper bells are imitation octagonal dragon soul bells, implying that Changning Huangfu never forgets the protection of his ancestors.
The main house was already brightly lit at this moment. Numerous servants came and went, busy making final preparations, confirming various preparation details over and over again.
Against their background, even the buildings with a long history seem to be a little more alive and full of new vitality.
There was no constant traffic at the entrance of the main house, but it was very quiet.
After all, the Huangfu family only invited the eighth-rank aristocratic family this time, as well as some main figures of Changningwei.
For example, the city lord of the city capital. The treasurer Qian of Qian's Commercial Firm, or the brains of some large commercial organizations, etc.
There are only a few dozen people who are eligible to be invited.
"Mrs. Ji, Brother Anbang, Brother Shouzhe." Huangfu Jinhuan personally greeted all the guests in formal attire. Seeing Wang Shouzhe, Xu Anbang, and Mrs. Ji get off the carriage together, there was no sign of displeasure.
Instead, his face was full of smiles, and his etiquette was very thoughtful.
Wang Shouzhe and Xu Anbang naturally greeted and socialized with Huangfu Jinhuan in a polite manner. They seemed to be old friends for many years, kind and warm.
As the invited party, he also presented a gift list that was in line with the family's rank.
It seems that there has never been a grudge before this, and the two sides have not wrestled with each other in the mall to fight to the death.
This is the set of superficial harmony among the aristocratic families of the Dagan Kingdom.
Don't worry about competing with each other or even fighting each other because of something in private.
But as long as they don't tear their face openly, what should be maintained on the surface must be maintained.
This is different from the situation between the Wang family and the Liu family and the Zhao family back then. The Wang family had almost torn skins with them back then, and there was no room for change.
The place where Huangfu's family held the night banquet was in the main hall of the vestibule.
Following the warm exchange of greetings, they were in the process of inquiring about news and so on without leaving a trace.
The guests have arrived one after another.
Among them, Xiahou Hongde, the lord of the city, and Fang Youan, a direct disciple of Zifu. They were all greeted and entertained by the patriarch of the Huangfu family—the patriarch Hua Ye.
These are the rules and rules that are common everywhere, and the status and status are different for different cultivation bases and ranks. Ancestor Hua Ye greeted them personally and entertained them. This is due etiquette and rules.
As for the core disciples of Zifu Academy, they all followed Fang Youan to sit on the head.
After all, they are all core disciples, and it is very likely that they will become monks in the heaven and man realm in the future, and they will go to the Zifu Academy to sit in town.
Wang Shouzhe and the representatives of the eighth-rank family were arranged on the second seat, accompanied by Huangfu Jinhuan himself.
This was the first time Wang Shouzhe had met Patriarch Hua Ye.
Due to the practice of "Red Dragon True Art" to a relatively advanced level, the hair of the ancestor Hua Ye was as red as fire, and the whole person looked hale and hearty, with a natural domineering arrogance.
No wonder.
Ancestor Huaye is the third generation of the Celestial Emperor Huangfu's clan, and his aptitude has reached the level of middle class B. Moreover, it is said that when he was around one hundred and forty years old, he was promoted to the Heavenly Human Realm.
Compared with those in the academy, a personal talent like Fang You'an is naturally inferior. But if it is placed among the core disciples, it is also one of the top ones.
It was precisely because of his rapid promotion back then that the Celestial Huangfu clan had been around for nearly sixty years, and there was once a peak period of two celestial beings in one school.
During that period, Huangfu's family was so overwhelming that Lei's family couldn't lift their heads.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long.
Seventy years ago, Huangfu's previous generation of ancestors passed away at the age of three hundred and seventy, and the momentum of Huangfu's family gradually declined.
Various reasons have also formed the spirit of Hua Ye's patriarch.
The patriarch Hua Ye, who had never suffered much in his life, showed a strong confidence in his speech and demeanor. Even in the face of a genius like Fang You'an, he can talk and laugh with ease.
"Brother You'an." Patriarch Huaye sighed with emotion, "Master Binglan is one of the masters that my Huangfu Huaye admires the most. Not only is his strength extraordinary, but My Longzuo County is even one of the pillars of the whole country, and my character is also first-class. I also heard that she, an old man, has further hopes."
Fang Youan clasped his hands gently and said, "Senior Huangfu praised you absurdly. My master often said, 'The road is long and long, and I will search up and down', 'Compared to the vastness of heaven, she is nothing more than a A toddler.' and so on."
The city lord Xiahou Hongde who was accompanying him laughed loudly and said, "Brother You'an is joking, and he is too modest. If the famous master Binglan is just a toddler, then don't we wait to learn to speak?" Didn't do it."
Fang Youan smiled gently, but did not refute.
Although Master Binglan's self-modesty was evident in those words, he also knew that he was a direct descendant of the academy. The ideals for the future and the responsibilities on their shoulders are different from those of these local tyrants.
But even so, he will not underestimate any local powerful.
He himself was also from a family, and he clearly understood that the Dagan Kingdom is composed of a family one by one.
Every aristocratic family is the cornerstone of Daqian and the cradle of endless talents.
And no matter whether it is the patriarch Hua Ye or the city lord Xiahou Hongde, it is by no means a simple person who has made it to where he is today.
subsequently.
The banquet begins.
In the Huangfu family with "over a hundred generals" and "over a thousand servants", many maidservants were carefully selected.
They served delicious and high-end spiritual food one after another, as well as various rare spiritual wines, which made the atmosphere warm up all of a sudden.
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At the same time.
There is a remote town in Changningwei called Jinsha Town.
This is a barren land, with a total population of less than 10,000 for decades.
There is only one small ninth-rank family in this town—the Jinsha Xu family uses this as their base camp.
Except for the mulberry field, which is very difficult to open up wasteland and cultivate, and the production of raw silk for the Xu family in Changning.
The biggest industry here is still gold panning, which produces a small amount of gold year after year.
compared to its heyday.
The current gold production in Jinsha Town is very low, and it can only maintain the lives of some local civilians and the Jinsha Xu family. It is extremely difficult to develop on this basis.
It can be inferred from this.
The Jinsha Xu family is not a powerful family.
But it is a family that has a very close relationship with the Ping'an Wang family.
In recent years, there have been quite frequent intermarriages between the two parties on the straight line. Just like Wang Luojing and Wang Shounuo's mother, Xu Zhirou, that gentle and intelligent woman was from the Jinsha Xu family. When Wang Shouzhe and Wang Luoyi were young, they relied on her to take care of them for a long time.
The wife of the second brother Wang Shouyi is also a straight-line woman from the Xu family in Jinsha, who gave birth to Wang Zongsheng, the young Tianjiao who is currently studying in the Zifu Academy, and Wang Zongyao and Wang Lilian, who are still young.
Wang Shouzhe's eldest sister, Wang Luomei, and second sister, Wang Luohe, also married into the Jinsha Xu family. In the Xu family of Jinsha, they also had children of their own, adding many nephews and nieces to Wang Shouzhe.
In such a situation, it seemed like two impoverished low-level families were huddling together to keep warm. But because of this, the relationship between the two parties is relatively deep, and the contacts are also very close.
Fortunately, Jinsha Xu's life has suddenly become much easier in recent years.
Those sands with extremely low gold content were originally useless waste, and the river banks and river channels were full of garbage.
But now, those "waste" suddenly became useful.
With the large amount of Changningwei cement put into use, the price of river sand has been rising repeatedly. In particular, the Ping'an Wang family used a large amount of river sand whether they were building cement roads, cement embankments, or other foundation projects.
Just supplying Ping'an Wang's part made Jinsha Xu's life much more comfortable than before. In addition, they also supply high-quality river sand to regions such as Donghaiwei.
Jinsha Town seems to have suddenly become the real Jinsha Town.
With the gradual improvement of the economy and the influx of hired workers, the total population of Jinsha Town has reached 12,000 to 3,000. I heard that they are still absorbing refugees recently.
now.
Sands Xu has ushered in another great opportunity for development and rise.
Because of the criss-crossing waterways in Jinsha Town, the river beaches are wide and mostly gravel beaches, and some suitable places for building water conservancy workshops can be found everywhere.
The silk technology in Longzuo County already has a complete set of skilled procedures from planting mulberry and silkworms to reeling raw cocoons and finally weaving them into plain silk.
However, this set of procedures requires a lot of labor and time in both silk reeling and weaving.
Over the years, Wang Shouzhe and his eldest brother Wang Shouxin have continuously developed and improved silk reeling technology and textile technology.
If you asked Wang Shouzhe to draw a complete blueprint, of course he would not be able to draw it even if he was killed, and even he had only a half-knowledge of some principles.
But there is a lot of scattered knowledge in the previous life, as well as a very clear direction. Combined with the wisdom of all the people, we finally tinkered with a relatively rudimentary waterwheel-powered silk reeling machine and a waterwheel-powered textile machine.
Basic inventions and creations are not difficult. The main difficulty lies in a direction and thinking. As long as you follow the direction and thinking and continue to improve, you can still take shape after all.
(Invention, Lao Ao has more say than other authors. After all, Lao Ao also has his own invention patent, which has been put into production and made a profit...)
The power structure of the so-called waterwheel looks very simple, it is a reduced version and a variant of the large water dragon array.
Prior to this silk reeling technology, pedal silk reeling cars were used. One person and one cart can reel raw silk with three hammers at the same time.
But the current water-powered silk reeling car can drive hundreds of spindles at the same time, realizing the separation of human hammers. Only about ten silk reelers can satisfy the operation of this water-powered silk reeling car.
Compared with pedal silk reeling carts, not only is the per capita output ten times higher, but the raw silk produced is smoother and more delicate.
At the same time, the driving principle of the hydrodynamic textile machine is consistent. It's just a further improvement in the textile structure, although Wang Shouzhe doesn't know how different this thing is from the vague shape of the Jenny textile machine in his memory
But there is no doubt that its production efficiency is far greater than that of ordinary pedal looms.
As long as water resources are abundant, it can operate day and night with only a small amount of human assistance.
Leaving the cost of construction aside the cost of manufacturing.
Once the water-powered textile machine is put into operation, the production efficiency will be terribly high.
The unit manpower benefit is about forty times that of the pedal loom.
Moreover, the silk reeling car and the textile machine are not purely wooden structures. Wang Shouxin ordered blacksmiths to build many mechanical structures.
Especially some of the most critical core parts, and even used the refiner! !
This also makes the two mechanical structures relatively stable, and they can be used for a long time as long as they are properly maintained.
Based on various advantages.
Xu Anze, the patriarch of the Jinsha Xu Clan, has been so excited that he couldn't sleep at all recently.
He guards the construction site day and night, because he knows that once it starts to operate, it will be the day of the rise of Sands Xu. As long as they are given 20 or 30 years, it is possible to attack the eighth-rank family.
Even if it's just the lowest level of the tripartite cooperation, the original processing unit, he believes that Changning Xu's and Ping'an Wang's will not treat them badly.
After all, one is the main line, and the other is a very close in-law family.
Moreover, Wang Shouzhe, the patriarch of the Wang family, is also a patriarch who is very generous to his allies.
But Xu Anze knew that if he wanted to rise, he still had to overcome a difficulty.
Night falls!
Several gray shadows appeared on Jinsha Xu's territory. They stood on the high ground, looking at the cement-built workshop from a distance, with a hint of coldness and murderous intent in their eyes.
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