I am the king of the dead

"We need to invest in more official factories to produce enough materials."

"This is a long-term strategy, don't rush."

Miracles are not created on flat ground, they are also created by hammering one hammer at a time.

Zhu Qiyu wanted to build hundreds of thousands of miles of hardened roads. This was a long-term investment project. Jin Lian's objection was because he was worried about financial collapse, but infrastructure is always like this. The more you build, the more money you get.

"Is there any objection?" Zhu Qiyu looked at the officials and asked.

At this point, only a few people realized that where did His Majesty find this money, it must not be a fairy art.

Immediately, the 27 ministers were still a little confused. How did His Majesty persuade Jin Shangshu?

Why did Jin Shangshu have such different attitudes before and after?

Where does the money come from?

Seeing no one answered, Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Making money is a way, but spending money is even more a way. Is it like the old rich man, hoarding silver coins?"

"How to use money to make money is the trick to spending money."

"Okay, let's talk about the second item."

Shang Ren sat up straight and said, "Huanyu Tongzhi is still under construction, but the Yangtze River waterway has almost been repaired, and the [-]-mile main road has been dredged. Can the Ministry of Industry start planning?"

Another money-making business.

"How much do you need this time?" Jin Lian's expression became much worse.

The eunuch Lin Xiu shook his head and said, "I just got the hydrology documents, and I still need to do a detailed calculation to roughly calculate the cost, but it shouldn't be too bad. A 20-mile waterway is not much lower than a 30-mile land route."

Jin Lian's teeth were shaking.

Chapter 497 Flying Shuttle

The dredging of 20 miles of waterways and the hardening of 30 miles of official roads are not purely economic issues, but an issue of people's livelihood.

The court discussion went on for nearly an hour, and the resolution on the dredging of the [-]-mile Yangtze River main road was passed.

However, the hardening of the road only passes through the two roads from Shijingchang to Meishikou, and from Deshengmen to Daming Imperial Mausoleum.

The specific cost will not be determined until the construction of the two roads is completed.

Expensive is one aspect, not being able to produce so much water lime is the second aspect.

Zhu Qiyu rubbed his slightly swollen brain, left the Wenhua Hall, and headed towards the Lecture Hall.

The cost of road hardening is too high, but Daming does have a very common demand for road hardening.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the book at hand, which was the "Nong Shu" written by Yuan Ren Wang Zhen. In the agricultural book, it recorded a kind of spinning wheel, called the Water Turning Big Spinning Wheel.

This water-turned large spinning wheel has 32 spindles, and the daily output of each wheel is 100 catties.

If you use a hand-operated single-spindle spinning wheel, you can spin three to five taels of cotton yarn a day, but you can only spin three to five taels of cotton yarn with a pedal spinning wheel, and you can spin hemp with five spindles and only two catties.

The emergence of this kind of spinning wheel called water turning made Songjiang Prefecture the textile center of Ming Dynasty.

After the cotton is picked from the field, it is rolled to remove the seeds, which is what Queen Wang did in Tai'an Palace. Zhu Qiyu also watched the whole process of cotton from seeding to flocking. This step is called rolling.

After the cotton is seeded, use a four-foot-long bow to flick the cotton to make the cotton fluffy. In the early Ming Dynasty, a one-foot-long short bow was used, but now a four-foot-long longbow is used. This step is called flicking. .

Then this kind of water-turned spinning wheel was used.

There are several types of spinning wheels in Daming. The first is a hand-operated single-spindle spinning wheel, and the second is a three-spindle pedal spinning wheel or a four-spindle pedal spinning wheel. This step is called spinning.

The last step, of course, is to weave the cotton thread into cloth.

Rolling, playing, spinning and weaving are the four major steps of weaving.

The reason why Zhu Qiyu read Wang Zhennong's book was that he wanted to make a case for Li Xian and Li Binyan.

These two people quarreled in Nanya, and neither could persuade the other, and finally they sent a memorial together and sent it to the capital.

The quarrel between the two was about the resettlement of the abnormal female household.

The six Boai Townships have been counted, with about [-] people.

Li Xian, Yang Han and others arrested the elders of Boai Township, so how should the vitality of these women be maintained?

Naturally, the textile industry.

Li Binyan asked for the establishment of a cotton textile manufacturing bureau in Songjiang Prefecture, specializing in cotton cloth manufacturing, and came up with a complete set of plans for the Songjiang Prefecture Weaving Bureau.

Nearly [-] rolling carts, [-] four-foot longbows, [-] four-spindle spinning wheels, [-] large water spinning wheels, and [-] small looms are needed.

Li Binyan's intention is very obvious. After the Songjiang Prefecture Weaving Bureau is put into operation, at least more than [-]% of the market share in Songjiang Prefecture must be controlled.

The cotton textile industry in Songjiang Prefecture is very developed. After several generations of expansion, the scale of cotton planting has been expanded. The officials, civilians, army, and stoves have cultivated nearly 200 million mu of land, and most of them are planted with cotton. This is since the early Ming Dynasty. After that, it was obtained from farming.

Such a well-developed cotton spinning industry in Songjiang Prefecture has not brought any benefits to the people of Songjiang Prefecture. In the final analysis, cotton farmers are all retail investors.

The farmers who plant kapok are scattered;

It's rainy in Songjiang Mansion, if God changes his face a little bit, the cotton will rot into the ground;

Rolling cars are scarce, and the most primitive manual seeding is used;

With a short bow one foot long, you can't play much cotton in a day;

A spinning wheel with a single spindle only has a few thread ends a day;

A slightly better family has a loom at home, and then weaving it into cloth is not easy to sell.

This is the disadvantage of the small family production method.

The disadvantages of this approach are enormous.

For example, merchants who go to the countryside to buy cotton will try their best to lower the price. Cotton farmers have been working hard for a year, removing seeds and lint, and finally selling them.

Even if it is reprocessing, spinning thread on a spinning wheel, and weaving cloth on a loom, it will not earn a penny more.

The family-style manual production mode breeds speculators' speculative behavior.

When the weather is good, the cotton harvest is high and the cotton price is low, hurting farmers; when the weather is not good, cotton prices go up, but the cotton yield is extremely low, which hurts farmers.

Li Binyan's footsteps almost covered the entire Songjiang Mansion. In the largest workshop, there were less than thirty looms scattered here and there.

The rest are brokers, that is, merchants who walk the streets and alleys to buy seedless cotton, yarn, and cloth.

Therefore, based on the practice of King Xiang in Guizhou, Li Binyan determined that at least [-]% of the cotton spinning industry must be controlled in order to ensure that merchants do not speculate, ensure the income of cotton farmers, and expand the cotton planting area.

But Li Xian thinks that [-]% is too low!

His expectation for the Weaving Bureau of Songjiang Prefecture is at least [-]% or more, so that the imperial court will have the confidence to form an absolute advantage and ensure the smooth production of the odd and zero female households.

In Li Xian's memorial, the size of the Songjiang Weaving Bureau should be doubled.

Li Binyan thinks [-]% is enough, Li Xian thinks [-]% is not enough.

For this reason, Li Xian and Li Binyan started a round of quarrel, and it is said that they even patted the table.

In the end, they all wrote a memorial to each other, asking the emperor to judge.

Zhu Qiyu was more inclined to Li Binyan, and finally Zhu approved Li Binyan's memorial.

Because Li Binyan made his decision, he went deep into every corner of Songjiang Mansion, from cotton farmers to cotton spinning workshops, to weaving workshops, and major commercial firms, walking the streets and alleys.

Li Binyan's memorials are all sympathetic to the cotton farmers. His memorials are not so much a request for the establishment of the Songjiang Cotton Textile Manufacturing Bureau, but a "Songjiang Prefecture Cotton Farmers Production Investigation Report".

In Li Binyan’s memorabilia, the emotions of cotton farmers seem to be vividly written on paper. Regarding the scale of cotton planting, production methods, and differences between regions, cotton farmers are extremely weak, there are no standards for production in small workshops, and they are weak in bargaining with brokers. The speculation of commercial banks and other behaviors are all written in great detail.

Li Binyan's hobby of looking up at the starry sky is that he always keeps his feet on the ground when doing things.

Li Binyan thought that [-]% was enough, so Zhu Qiyu first approved Li Binyan's memorial.

If in practice, it is found that even [-]% is still unable to effectively curb speculation, then it is necessary to increase production investment.

Zhu Qiyu fell into a busy state. In addition to reviewing the memorials, he also had to participate in the affairs of the martial arts hall. He read the Beijing camp every day, and today was the day to go to Shijingchang. He was busy until the curfew, and Zhu Qiyu did not return. Arrived at Tai'an Palace.

Zhu Qiyu took a short rest, spread out a piece of paper, and started to paint.

The late Emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji was a well-known painter at home and abroad. His nephew Zhu Jianshen also had a deep foundation in painting. "Stone Double Bird" and so on are handed down from generation to generation.

"Husband." Queen Wang walked into the imperial study and lit up the light oil blowtorch.

"Come?" Zhu Qiyu didn't look up, and continued to paint, and Queen Wang informed her.

Empress Wang broadened Zhu Qiyu's shoulders and asked curiously, "What is Your Majesty painting?"

"The loom, thanks to the spring steel produced by the Iron and Steel Department of Shijing Factory, one of my previous ideas can finally be realized." Zhu Qiyu explained.

He always has a lot of whimsical ideas, and the courtiers of Ming Dynasty have long been familiar with him.

Zhu Qiyu's whimsical ideas are never useless.

He put down the pencil ruler in his hand and nodded very satisfied.

An object has six faces: up and down, front and back, and left and right, and drawing three of them can objectively describe the appearance of the object.

Zhu Qiyu's painting method is three views.

He smiled and said: "This thing is called a flying shuttle. It has wheels and is placed on a guide rail. There are springs at both ends of the guide rail, and the sinking rail is on this side."

"As long as these two threads are pulled, the shuttle will run from one end to the other like a little mouse, completing what the shuttle is supposed to do."

There are two types of looms in Daming, one is the broad loom, which requires one person to weave and the other to shuttle.

The other is the narrow loom, which can be used by only one person, but the fabric weaves is a bit narrow.

And Zhu Qiyu's flying shuttle is used on the broad loom, and now only one person is needed.

The main difficulty of the shuttle is not the wheels, but the spring steel.

Ordinary steel can be used, and it can be used by rolling it casually, but how many days can it be used?

Spring steel has to be durable.

Zhu Qiyu had already set his sights on textiles, but without spring steel and a breakthrough in basic materials, it was impossible to create a flying shuttle.

"Oh?" Queen Wang picked up the design drawing of the shuttle loom, looked at it for a long time and said, "Interesting, this way, half of the labor can be saved."

The tip of Zhu Qiyu's nose had a slight fragrance. Obviously, Queen Wang came here after taking a bath. It was the fragrance of bath beans.

Queen Wang's hair was still a little damp. It was already late at night, so there was no bun, and it was casually draped behind her shoulders like a waterfall.

Even without makeup, under the bright light, Empress Wang's cheeks were shining brightly, which could be broken with a single blow.

When Zhu Qiyu stared at Queen Wang, a blush quietly spread from her swan neck to behind her ears.

"Husband, what are you looking at?" Queen Wang naturally noticed Zhu Qiyu's gaze and asked in a whisper.

Zhu Qiyu's hand immediately became dishonest, and said with a smile: "Look at the beauty."

"I'm an old couple, yet I'm still so shy, I blush after just looking at her."

Queen Wang's body softened, she sat in Zhu Qiyu's arms, looked at the flying shuttle in the picture and said: "Don't make trouble, let the concubine take a good look at this shuttle."

"I also have a flying shuttle, show it to my lady." Zhu Qiyu was not very honest with his hands.

"Shuttle?" Queen Wang was stunned for a moment, and then blushing, she spat secretly: "Foul words."

"Ah! Go to the back room, this is the imperial study." Queen Wang's face turned red.

Zhu Qiyu hugged Queen Wang and said with a smile, "Let's go!"

After all the clouds and rain had rested, Empress Wang leaned in Zhu Qiyu's arms, and said with a lonely look in her eyes: "It's been several years, and my stomach has never been bulging again."

"Just try a few more times." Zhu Qiyu said with a smile.

Queen Wang exclaimed, "Are you still here?"

If you meet an opponent, you will meet a talented person.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhu Qiyu got up half an hour late, had breakfast in a hurry, and went to Hongluo Factory.

Hongluo Factory is a woodworker, mainly responsible for manufacturing rolling machines, spinning wheels, cotton bows, flower looms, looms and other things.

Zhu Qiyu discussed the drawings of his design with the craftsmen of Hongluo Factory for a long time, so that they should not be limited to drawings, but focus on practicality.

Three days later, the first shuttle loom was ready, and soon the shuttle loom was dismantled in pieces.

In a few days, the second, third, and seventh looms were completed, and a usable shuttle loom was completed.

It's not a hassle in itself, the main thing is to adjust the width of the shuttle and broadloom.

Zhu Qiyu was very satisfied. The looms of Songjiang Weaving Bureau will all be shuttle looms.