Xie Yan hunched his waist at the moment, and introduced to Chu Qiguang with a restrained face: "Childe, you see, this water-powered spinning machine uses a water wheel to drive the belt, a belt to drive the spindle, and a spindle to rotate to draft and twist ......."

"Childe, you see here's a combination of wing ingots and bobbins...... In this way, twisting and winding can be carried out at the same time, which is much more efficient......"

“...... We change the parts here, and the strings can rotate with the wheel, and all the machines move, up and down, and the urgency is appropriate......"

Chu Qiguang saw this, and couldn't help nodding again and again, although he also didn't know anything about it, but he did see that in the end, the machine spun cotton into cotton yarn under the impetus of horsepower, although the finished product was not uniform enough, and it was a little thicker in many places, but it was tough and strong, and it could already be used to weave cloth.

"Very good, each person will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver, you have to make persistent efforts to get the hydraulic loom out, from cotton to cotton cloth in the future, all rely on hydraulic operation, and then I will award you each 300 taels of silver." ”

Hearing what Chu Qiguang said, the faces of the craftsmen present were all happy, although none of them could really recognize the meaning of this water-powered spinning machine, but they were also happy with the silver in front of them.

Chu Qiguang asked again: "What happened to the water-powered loom?"

Xie Yan said: "It's almost done, but there are still some key parts that have not been completed, and some parts have not been debugged." At most 2 months, it will definitely be able to be made. ”

"2 months?" Chu Qiguang frowned, it was now December of the 15th year of Yong'an, and he would go to Chaoyao Mountain to report in January next year.

According to his original plan, he wanted this machine to be invented before he left, and then he held a press conference to directly harvest a large wave of leeks to assist him in breaking through the fifth realm.

So Chu Qiguang asked directly: "What's missing?" ”

Watching Xie Yan point to the water conservancy loom and talk for a long time, Chu Qiguang suddenly pointed to one of the empty seats and said, "Can't you get a sealed box in this place?"

Xie Yan thought he had some advice, so he nodded and wrote it down.

Chu Qiguang continued: "...... I think it's just the right place to put a kid in and let him hide in it to do what you can't do. ”

Xie Yan quickly wiped his sweat and said, "But ...... But...... This ......"

Chu Qiguang said coldly: "I just want this machine to be demonstrated, and you can continue to study the real machine, do you understand?"

Xie Yan said uneasily: "But what if someone finds out?"

Chu Qiguang said: "If you don't say it, who will find out? As long as you build a real water-powered loom in the next two months, there will be no problem." ”

After that, Chu Qiguang glanced at the more than ten craftsmen present, and there was a faint murderous aura in his eyes, which stimulated their hearts to twitch for a while.

"Remember, except for a few of us here, you have only one thing to say to anyone outside, even your wives and children, and that is that the spinning machine and the loom have been made. ”

"Whoever reveals this matter will die...... That's the easiest thing to do. ”

Seeing that no one of the craftsmen present was objecting, Chu Qiguang nodded: "Be at ease, it's just two months away, after the matter is completed, I will give each of you three hundred taels of silver, but if anyone doesn't do it well, don't blame me for being ruthless." ”

After another admonition, Chu Qiguang left, and then he came over every day, and the next day he brought his sister and stuffed it into the machine.

Zhou Yujiao shouted curiously: "Brother, how can you play this?"

Chu Qiguang said: "Just step on this...... Pull that ......"

Seeing that his sister stepped on the pedal from time to time in it, and with a pull of the wooden pole, the entire loom ran smoothly, Chu Qiguang nodded and asked the craftsman on the side: "If the spinning machine and the loom are used together, how much is the output higher than that of the traditional loom?"

Xie Yan said on the side: "It depends on the physical strength and skills of the spinning and weaving workers, but the minimum output of our machines is also 20 times that of them. ”

Chu Qiguang nodded with satisfaction, he remembered that during the first industrial revolution on the earth, the production capacity of the textile industry was increased dozens of times and dozens of times.

Zhou Yujiao shouted inside: "Brother, this is not fun! You said that you want to bring me to play, this is it?"

Chu Qiguang said: "If you try more, it's interesting." ”

Zhou Yujiao frowned: "Then I'll try again." ”

After stepping on the incense stick for almost a while, Zhou Yujiao realized that she was being teased, so she jumped out angrily and punched Chu Qiguang hard.

Then Chu Qiguang coaxed her and promised her to do it a few more times in the future, and then buy her beef patties to eat.

Zhou Yujiao licked the corners of her mouth and said, "I still want your hair." ”

Chu Qiguang rolled his eyes, and said helplessly: "Okay, okay, I'll pull it out for you when the time comes." ”

Zhou Yujiao smiled happily.

Chu Qiguang told again: "You must not make a sound, you must not scream, you must not shout, you must not let people find you, you know?"

......

Next, Chu Qiguang made an appointment with Wu Wei of the Wu family and the abbot of the Taoist temple to demonstrate the process of working on the textile machine, and the two of them were surprised and delighted.

Wu Wei nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, with such an artifact, we will be able to dominate the textile industry in the entire north." ”

Wu Wei thought for a while and said: "Then the mutual market will probably officially open in July and August next year, and we will start to prepare new machines in the next few months, purchase cotton, prepare a batch of inventory, and sell it to the demon clan at that time." ”

"With this machine, the price of our cotton cloth can be much lower than that of others, and who can sell us when the time comes?"

Thinking of this, Wu Wei was a little annoyed: "Recently, the Chen family in the next county has been working against us, and they will pay a higher price for how much cotton we collect, which is obviously to oppose us." ”

Abbot Chenzhu nodded: "Although some time ago, we used merit to Kula, the Haoyou clan in the county to throw silver in, but now we have to harvest cotton and make machines, and the silver is still a little tight." ”

"This time, we still save some flowers, and make a small profit in the mutual market next year, anyway, as long as we have such an artifact, even if it takes a few more years, we will be able to occupy the entire northern market sooner or later. ”

Hearing the conversation between the two, Chu Qiguang said: "Slowly build machines, produce cotton cloth, sell cotton cloth, return funds to build more machines, sell more cotton cloth, it's not bad to do this." But if it's me......"

Chen Gangxin, who was following along, said: "Brother Dog is going to start fooling around again, I have to study hard." ”

Chu Qiguang said: "This month, all the people in Qingyang County will be pulled in to invest in the silver......

Wu Wei was puzzled: "You said you want to let someone else do such a lucrative business?"

Chu Qiguang boasted: "Because of their silver, I can directly use this silver to harvest cotton, and gather craftsmen from all over the county to build hundreds of textile machines together, and then I will earn more silver and have more influence." ”

"Then, within half a year, we will be able to use low-cost cotton cloth to impact the cotton cloth market in Quanlingzhou, not seeking to make money, but only to squeeze all other cotton merchants to death. ”

"At that time, we will lead the entire Lingzhou Textile Association, and then pull the largest wealthy families, officials, and princes in Lingzhou to invest in silver and operate together to make money. ”

"In this way, not only will our business be able to do Quanlingzhou in the first year, but after having so many backgrounds, we don't have to pay taxes to various tax cards, clans, and localities. ”

Chenzhu nodded, although the commercial tax of Dahan is very low, there are too many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes in various places.

Even if he has the face of Wu Gelao, at most, Qingyang County does not pay taxes, and most of them can only pay taxes obediently when they encounter various local yamen and clans in other counties.

"At that time, we will be able to make any county in Quanling Prefecture have no clothes to wear. ”

"In a year or two at most, we will be able to earn money that we can slowly sell cotton cloth ourselves, and we can't make money by selling it for ten years. ”

"And with silver, background, and no need to pay taxes, with this advantage, we can even swallow all the other things that make salt and iron, tea bricks, and horse markets. ”

Listening to Chu Qiguang's lofty ambitions, Wu Wei and Chenzhu's faces gradually showed yearning.