Daming One Piece

Chapter 196 Industrial Preliminary (First update, please subscribe)
The implementation of Yiwen is really not to deliberately snub Zhao Nanxing and others. After all, as far as his original intention is concerned, these people can be of great use if they are used well, including the children of these people.

Why?

How many great scientists in the late Ming Dynasty were not scholars?
The Donglin Party...is not useless. The scholars in the late Ming Dynasty were not the scholars in the late Qing Dynasty. They were resistant to science, and they were even more interested in science than in scriptures.

As early as the Zhengde period, social and economic prosperity led to cultural prosperity. At the same time, scholars tried their best to break through the shackles of stereotyped writing, and social and cultural development had reached a critical point.In the next hundred years of Ming Dynasty, what did the circle of scholars look like?According to Qian Qianyi, that is what that Shui Tailiang said: "During the Zhengjia period, scholars regarded learning the classics as a detour; in the Wanli season, scholars regarded reading as a taboo!".

In other words, starting from the Zhengde and Jiajing dynasties, scholars actually regarded knowledge of the Five Classics as pedantic.In the Wanli Dynasty, it even developed to the point where scholars were ashamed to say that they liked reading.why?The fundamental reason is that stereotyped essays are useless, so I seek another way out of thinking, and begin to extensively pursue the practical value of knowledge.

Under such circumstances, countless Confucian scholars went too far, looked down on stereotyped them, and stopped reading scriptures and books.That is to say, memorizing reference materials to cope with imperial examinations, there are still many people, especially those with great careers, who have studied practical knowledge that is practical and practical, and disdain to associate with pedantic scholars.Why would so many scientists be born in the late Ming Dynasty? To put it bluntly, it is because too many Confucian scholars went astray.

How many Confucian scholars who were exiled to Beigang went astray?
Shi Yiwen doesn't know yet, but what is certain is that Beigang has been led astray by him, just like Shi Yiwen has been in the factory for half a month now.

The majestic consolation envoy, who is so ignorant of his work and devotes himself to craftsman work, is... a bit like the current emperor.

Why are you so focused on this?

It is competing with the loom.

"The line is broken..."

"Shut down!"

Once again, with the shouts of craftsmen.The hydraulic transmission belt stopped the transmission through the clutch, and the loom stopped working again.

"The yarn broke again?"

Seeing the broken yarn, Shi Yiwen frowned.

In fact, as early as in the capital, he deliberately learned about the domestic cotton cloth market, and he unexpectedly discovered that most of the cotton cloth consumed in the north——Beizhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong and other places come from Jiangnan, from South Zhili.In the north, including the southwest, there is neither large-scale cotton planting nor cotton textile industry, and even the common people do not know how to spin cotton yarn or weave cotton cloth.

In fact, the process of spreading the cotton textile industry in China itself spread from south to north, because cotton itself is a tropical crop, and the spread to the north required a process of domestication. It was not until the Wanli period that Shandong and other places had a large area of ​​cotton planting. As for cotton yarn weaving, it was not until the reign of Emperor Tianqi that some officials from Nanzhili taught and disseminated cotton yarn weaving technology in Shandong, Shanxi, Henan and other places.It was not until a hundred years later that the local homemade cloth replaced the southern Zhili cotton cloth including the famous Songjiang cloth.

But now, the local textile market in Ming Dynasty is dominated by the Nanzhili cotton cloth company, and of course the profits are extremely lucrative. Every year, just one place in the capital will buy millions of taels of cotton cloth from Nanzhili.Moreover, Daming's cotton cloth is still the most important export commodity. It is not only exported to Southeast Asia, India and other places, but also exported to the Americas through galleon routes. As for Europe, it is also the market for Daming cotton cloth.

The only problem is, demand exceeds supply!
After all, Daming's cotton cloth should be supplied to the local area first, and the rest will be exported!

Facing such a huge market, Shi Yiwen will certainly not turn a blind eye to it.Ever since, the development of the cotton textile industry has become the core of his "industrial development plan" for Beigang. Before returning to Beigang, he has researched a new type of spinning machine, which is actually borrowed from the "Jenny machine". The principle is to arrange several spindles vertically and drive it with a spinning wheel, so that more yarn can be spun at once.

With sufficient research on the spinning machine in the capital, Shi Yiwen, who was an engineering dog, built a new spinning machine that uses a spinning wheel to drive sixteen vertical spindles on the second day after returning to Beigang. It has been increased by sixteen times at once, and after many improvements, not only can hydraulic transmission be used, but also 24 vertical spindles can be driven.

The increase in yarn production has brought about another problem. In addition to the introduction of "flying shuttle" technology to increase cloth production, the most important thing is to introduce hydraulic weaving. A real industrial killer.

Compared with the shuttle with small wheels in the chute, springs are installed at both ends of the chute, so that the shuttle can travel back and forth extremely quickly, the technology of the hydraulic loom is more difficult, and what is the most difficult thing?
The yarn is easy to break.

"Break again..."

Standing in front of the loom, Shi Yiwen frowned.

Seeing this, Li Nanan comforted him from the side,

"My lord, in fact, we have the flying shuttle, and the output of weaving has increased by no less than three times. In addition, the cost of yarn is also lower than that of Nanzhi. Our cotton cloth has at least [-]% more profit than Nanzhi. In a hurry, after all, right now, we are just starting to grow cotton here..."

Li Nanan is a craftsman that Shi Yiwen found from Nanzhili. He is best at manufacturing various yarn machines and looms. Just like those officials in history who introduced the cotton textile technology in Nanzhili, the first thing is to introduce craftsmen and establish a learning center. Teach local craftsmen how to make yarn and looms, and at the same time teach local women how to spin and weave threads.

But for Shi Yiwen, what he wants is not the kind of "factory" where men plow and women weave or accumulate old looms, but modern industrial production, not just because modern industrial production is more profitable, Most importantly, modern factories can absorb a large number of workers.

Of course, the more important point is that only such industrialized production can give birth to the industrial revolution and promote the technological development and transformation of society.

Otherwise, it is nothing more than primitive handicrafts.

"There is no cotton to buy. Right now, the most important thing is to build looms and spinning machines, and then spin out yarn on a large scale and weave cotton cloth, even if it is gray cloth...the market is also huge ! As long as the problem of disconnection is removed, the rest will be simple."

Suddenly, a craftsman beside him said to himself.

"Actually, since the yarn is easy to break, why don't we use thick thread? Anyway, people prefer to wear coarse cloth! Weaving coarse cloth with thick thread will do."

(End of this chapter)