Hobbies can be earned.

I am afraid that Sima has a deeper understanding of this sentence, in the past period of time, he has received hundreds of thousands of "consulting fees" from Zhu Guoqiang.

"Rich people are really different!"

Again, when he sent the electronic version of the collected information, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

The hobbies of rich people are all piles of money.

In the past year, he has helped the other party collect a lot of information, which is no longer limited to weapons, but now extends to machinery and equipment, such as the invention of the Maudsley lathe in 1800, Roberts's gantry lathe, Whitney's horizontal milling machine, Whitworth length measuring machine and so on. Of course, there are also materials on steam engines and so on.

To this end, he needs to spend a lot of time every day to look up relevant information on some geek websites abroad, some of which are very complete, some of which are very simple, but even so, he still earns a sum of money with this hobby, which can even be used as a down payment for a house.

Hobbies can make money, and before that, Sima really didn't expect it, and sometimes, he was also glad that he replied to that post......

Looking at the printed information, Zhu Guoqiang's face with a smile, although he can bring some machine tools from this era, but those machine tools are too "against the sky", the complex machine tools and equipment in the past not only have higher technical requirements for operators, but also want to produce by themselves is also a problem.

So he chose another seemingly difficult, but in fact simpler path - to copy the machinery and equipment in the early stage of the industrial revolution, many of which were made by hand and semi-manually, which was undoubtedly more in line with the technical level of Chongzhen's thirteen years.

In fact, in terms of the level of craftsmanship alone, the British craftsmen before the Industrial Revolution are certainly not comparable to the craftsmen inherited from the Ming Dynasty, and in history, after the spread of "Heavenly Creations" to Europe, it also brought explosive technological progress to Europe.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Guoqiang believed that with the information he brought to the past, he could completely let the Ming Dynasty usher in explosive development, and the industrial revolution itself is an explosive development, in this big bang, machinery and equipment are also constantly developing and changing.

"Hey, the drawings of the mule machine, this is really good......"

The so-called "mule machine" is the spindle worsted spinning machine, and the spindle worsted machine is the Englishman Cronpton who combined the Jenny spinning machine with the hydraulic spinning machine and made it together, which combines the advantages of the two, so it is called the "mule machine". It frees spinning from manual to mechanized production, while weaving finer and stronger yarns.

"There are even factory drawings!"

Looking at the 4,000-spindle yarn factory, Zhu Guoqiang's eyes couldn't help but light up, and an idea almost immediately appeared in his mind - to set up a factory! Set up a spinning mill in Dalian, then weave cloth, and sell cotton cloth to various places while satisfying its own use.

What are the benefits of running a textile factory?

The biggest advantage is, of course, to provide jobs to absorb employment, and if industry provides more jobs, the society can reduce one displaced person.

Of course, the equipment such as the "spindle worsted spinning machine" required by the yarn mill is not produced in Dalian, but ordered through parts subcontracting here, but only a few mills with thousands of spindles, and the equipment required is extremely simple.

At the same time as the equipment of the yarn mill was made, Zhu Guoqiang built the first yarn mill in Dalian during the Chongzhen period, not only using a spindle worsted spinning machine, but also steam power, which can not be limited by water power, and the factory site can be freely selected in any area of Dalian. Unlike the spinning machine, the steam engine is a product of its time.

At the same time as the construction of the yarn mill plant, the craftsmen in the shipyard also began to study the drawings brought by Zhu Guoqiang, although these craftsmen have never been in contact with Western drawings, but they still quickly understood the key, in addition to being surprised by the fineness of the drawings, they also began to build Western-style sailing ships, considering the relationship between shipbuilding level and other aspects, Zhu Guoqiang took the "Baltimore schooner" as the first Western-style sailing ship built in the shipyard,

And the Baltimore schooner he chose. The displacement was only a meagre 210 tons, armed with 1 24-pounder gun and 6 6-pounder guns. It is an American-style two-masted single-sail schooner. Its profile is characterized by a streamlined V-shaped cross-section hull with a deep tail draft, improved longitudinal stability and speed, and easy sailing. It was one of the finest fast sailing ships of the 19th century, and with its nimble maneuverability and exceptional speed, it became the winner of the 19th century competition for commercial maritime transport.

And this is also the reason why Zhu Guoqiang chose it - flexible and fast!

Like building a factory, shipbuilding also takes time, Zhu Guoqiang is not in a hurry, but when the first keel wood is cut, he still came to the shipyard on purpose, in his opinion, whether it is a textile mill or this ship, it means a new beginning.

"From today onwards, Daming should have entered a new era!"

What kind of era is this?

Industrial Revolution?

This should be the prelude to the Industrial Revolution!

Zhu Guoqiang was talking to himself, and while he was talking to himself, he was thinking about another thing in his heart.

"Do you want to hold a trade fair? Sell the goods produced in Dalian? ”

But after thinking about it, Zhu Guoqiang realized that it seems that Dalian has no products at all, military uniforms and salted fish? As for products such as soap and mirrors, they seem to be obtained from modern times, and there are not many of them, but they are all high value-added products.

"We still need industry!"

In addition to such a sigh, Zhu Guoqiang made up his mind to continue to expand the scale of industry in Dalian, and at the beginning it must be light industry, and light industry drives heavy industry, which is a normal step in industrial development.

Now that we have set up a yarn factory, let's set up a soap factory, and a glass factory should also be set up, after all, with glass, we can not only make glass windows, but also make mirrors, which are all proper profits.

When he closed his eyes and thought like this, Zhu Guoqiang realized that in the past year, he hadn't thought much about making money at all, after all, it seems that since the crossing, there has never been a shortage of money, and any seal stone here can be sold for eighteen million, even a piece of jade can be bought for hundreds of thousands of millions. Why haven't you thought about making money here?

There are constantly "fortune boys" who send money to themselves! Not to mention how much money there is in the palace, even the ones seized under Jinan City have had a fat year by themselves. Later, when the soldiers entered Shenyang, the silver seized in those palaces was when they went south, whether it was a salt merchant in Yangzhou or a minister in Nanjing, the silver was in the tens of millions!

If you count it, you really haven't had any money in your hand?

But even if you don't have a lot of money, you have to set up a factory, and you don't have to set up a factory for money, but for jobs, after all, industry is the best choice to absorb displaced people.

Yes, that's the truth.

When I was thinking about it in my heart, the carriage arrived at the General's Mansion, which was different from the simple courtyard at the beginning, and now the newly built General's Mansion was built in accordance with the regulations of the Yamen, and it was quite spectacular to look at, but to be honest, the gap between the "Yuntian Palace" and the "Water Division" was not a star.

In fact, Zhu Guoqiang really wants to copy a "water division building" here, but there is no elevator or anything, this idea is just to think about.

Actually, not necessarily, after all, now the steam engine here is about to be put into use, even if you don't use the steam engine, you can bring an elevator from the other side, as for electricity, there is a diesel generator.

After the carriage stopped, when he got out of the car, when Wan Shouqi came out, he whispered to report.

"Lord, Dolgon has sent a secret envoy."

"Dolgon's Secret Envoy?"

In surprise, Zhu Guoqiang asked rhetorically.

"Is it Han or Manchu?"

"Han Chinese!"

Wan Shouqi's answer made Zhu Guoqiang smile.

"Hey, you're really fat!"