Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 225 Changping Spinning Machine

Later generations of scholars believe that the invention of the spinning jenny kicked off the first industrial revolution.

How can Li Cunming not be excited and ecstatic when he signed in and got the spinning jenny?Does this mean that the Ming Dynasty is about to usher in the dawn of the Industrial Revolution?

He rushed to the tent that was used as a warehouse, and when he saw the spinning jenny, he rushed over to look at it and caress it, loving it.

The spinning jenny in history was invented by James Hargreaves, a Lancashire weaver in England.One day Hargreaves accidentally kicked over the spinning machine his wife was using, and his first reaction was to straighten the spinning machine.But when he bent down, he was suddenly stunned. It turned out that he saw that the spinning machine that had been kicked down was still turning, but the spindles that had been horizontal had become upright.

He suddenly thought: If several spindles were arranged vertically and driven by a spinning wheel, wouldn't it be possible to spin more yarn at once?Hargreaves was very excited and tried to do it immediately. The next day he built a new spinning machine that used a spinning wheel to drive eight vertical spindles, and the efficiency suddenly increased eight times.

Note that it is 8 times the effect!

Ordinary spinning machines have only one spindle. In the past, one weaver often needed three female spinning workers to supply yarn, and the yarn was always not enough and often had to wait for yarn.This is good, the production efficiency of the yarn has suddenly become higher.Thus the price of yarn gradually became lower, and that of cloth accordingly.

At that time, cloth was already a popular commodity, and cloth was used as currency in ancient times in our country.It wasn't enough in the first place, but now that the production volume is increasing and the price is cheap, why don't you buy more?
As a result, weaving factories bloomed everywhere, and many great inventions appeared around the weaving process, which opened the chapter of the first industrial revolution!

And Li Cunming suddenly realized that Hargreave invented the jenny loom in 1764, and it was 1646 at this time.

what does that mean?It means that the industrial revolution in Britain has not yet come, and the Ming Dynasty is at the forefront of historical opportunities again!

"Okay, okay, Daddy System, I love you so much..." Li Cunming didn't know how to express his joy at all, and his words were a little incoherent.

After finally restraining his excitement, Li Cunming immediately called Chen Yuanyuan, pointed to the spinning jenny and asked, "Have you ever seen this kind of spinning machine? What do you think?"

"I don't know how to spin or weave cloth, so I can't tell you I'm ugly." Chen Yuanyuan said frankly.

Li Cunming curled his lips: "You, you really don't know how to weave! As a woman, you don't even know how to weave. What can I say about you? My queen is the mother of the world, but she can be a female celebrity." , who can spin and weave.”

Chen Yuanyuan felt aggrieved, and said, "Can you blame me? I can only sing and play the piano, and no one taught me to spin and weave since I was a child..."

"Forget it, let me just say it casually, don't be wronged." Li Cunming smiled and paced back and forth, "With this kind of spinning machine, the problems caused by the transfer of borders and forbidden seas can be properly solved. The most urgent thing is to find a craftsman To imitate this machine in large numbers, but the craftsmen of the military academy did not follow me south..."

After thinking about it, he asked Xia Wanchun to issue a notice in the military camp. If there are soldiers who are familiar with spinning machines, please come to see him.

One day after the notice was released, someone volunteered to come, but it was Zheng Youcai who didn't want to.

Li Cunming met Zheng Youcai in the tent of the Chinese army and asked, "Do you know how to spin and weave cloth?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, there used to be a workshop in Xiao's family, which produced cloth, and three generations lived on it. Xiao has been familiar with spinning machines and looms since he was a child, and he didn't just make up lies." Zheng Youcai replied.

After thinking for a while, he added: "To tell you the truth, there are small workshops producing cloth in many places in Fujian. They mainly sell... to pirates, and they pay a lot of money. I heard that pirates bought our cloth and sold it for Go to Japan, you can make a lot of money!"

Li Cunming laughed loudly: "Don't be afraid, you do business with pirates to survive, and I won't blame you. Get up, and I will show you a good thing."

He called Zheng Youcai to the warehouse tent and motioned him to see Jenny's textile machine.I thought that Zheng Youcai would be extremely shocked and excited because of his wealth and knowledge, but I didn't expect that his eyes would sparkle and his expression would be very calm.

Li Cunming was a little puzzled, thinking to himself that Zheng Youcai was probably a guy with little knowledge, and it seemed that he had found the wrong person.

"What do you think?" Li Cunming asked.

Zheng Youcai said: "It's a very good machine, it has eight spindles, three more than the machines in my little home, it's quite remarkable!"

"What did you say?" Li Cunming was surprised and confused, and said, "From what you said, it seems that you have already used very advanced spinning machines. What's going on?"

"Ah, Your Majesty, you don't know much about folk spinning and weaving techniques, haven't you heard of Huang Daopo?" Zheng Youcai scratched his scalp and said proudly.

"During the Yuan Dynasty, there was a Huang Daopo in Songjiang Mansion. Her old man was a great benefactor in the weaving industry! Even now, the young one can still sing the songs my grandma taught me. Grandma Huang, Granny Huang, teach me how to yarn and how to weave. , two bobbins and two bolts of cloth. During festivals, those of us who own small weaving workshops have to offer incense and kneel to Huang Daopo to express our gratitude.”

Huang Daopo, a great textile industry woman in my country.She was a child bride-in-law when she was a child, with a tragic fate, and later went to Hainan Island.

When he returned to his hometown in his old age, he devoted himself to reforming the backward cotton textile production tools in his hometown, and unreservedly passed on his superb weaving technology to those around him.

Based on her decades of rich textile experience, Huang Daopo, together with the working people, made a lot of reforms to the local backward cotton spinning tools and created a complete set of "rolling, playing, spinning and weaving" tools. The weaving technology learned by the Li people, combined with their own practical experience, has been summarized into a set of more advanced weaving technologies such as "wrong yarn color matching, heald yarn flowering".

After the death of Huang Daopo, the Songjiang area became the center of the cotton weaving industry in the country, which has lasted for hundreds of years.

Li Cunming said: "I've heard of Huang Daopo, but I don't know the specifics. Don't be foolish, tell me quickly."

Zheng Youcai said: "Huang Daopo's contribution to the cotton textile industry mainly has three aspects: one is to teach textile skills, the other is to innovate cotton textile tools, and the third is to promote cotton planting. The most important thing is to improve the method of ginning cotton seeds. The cotton gin was improved, and the spinning wheel was improved."

"In the past, the hand spinning car had only one spindle, but Huang Daopo made a pedal spinning car with three spindles. After many experiments, it was increased from three spindles to five spindles."

Li Cunming suddenly realized that no wonder Zheng Youcai was not so surprised when he saw the eight-spindle Jenny spinning machine. It turned out that at this time, the Ming Dynasty already had a five-spindle spinning machine.

It's amazing, the wisdom of the ancients is really amazing!

At the same time, I am deeply saddened and regretful that our country had such an advanced spinning machine in the Ming Dynasty, but it never went further. It only stayed in the production and processing stage of small workshops, and missed historical opportunities in vain.

Since I came here through time travel, I can't let the tragedy happen again, I must seize the opportunity at all costs!
Li Cunming restrained himself and said, "Zheng Youcai, you are familiar with the five-spindle spinning machine, and you must be able to quickly master the eight-spindle machine in front of you. Go, have a try."

Zheng Youcai walked up to the spinning jenny machine, observed it carefully for a while, rubbed his hands, and as expected operated it with ease.

As the machine turned, Zheng Youcai exclaimed in admiration, "That's right, it's running smoothly and there's nothing wrong with it! Your Majesty, do you dare to ask if this machine has a name?"

Li Cunming said with a smile: "Changping spinning machine means long-term stability, peace and tranquility. I hope this kind of machine can bring happiness and prosperity to the coastal people. Do you think it is feasible?"

Zheng Youcai said: "I don't know much about other things, but spinning and weaving is an old business. If this kind of machine is put into production and use, it will definitely increase the output of cloth. It is a big deal for families with small workshops." A great deed with infinite merit!"

"No, I am considering not just a small workshop, but a textile factory!"

"Textile factory?" Zheng Youcai couldn't keep up with the emperor's train of thought.

Li Cunming said: "You step back and wait for the arrangements to be made, and I will summon you again."

(End of this chapter)