After the experiment of the Song Dynasty's "thunder", the ministers seemed to be opened to the door to a new world, even if Qin Zheng and the craftsmen said that it was so much for the time being, they still couldn't help but look east and west, hoping to find a little more "treasure".

Of course, in fact, there are really a lot of new things in this workshop, and even many of them are more mature and practical than musket grenades, such as gunpowder, arrows, poison, smoke balls, etc.

However, Qin Zheng felt that these were destined to be eliminated, and they did not have too high technical content, so he did not plan to show them one by one, but was ready to directly find opportunities to expand production and equip part of the army in a planned manner.

At the same time, Qin Zheng was thinking about another workshop at this time, and then he turned around and left without explaining.

Seeing this, Yingyi and the others could only hurriedly follow, and as for whether they could see these "artifacts" again in the future, it would have to be fate.

The place where Qin Zheng wanted to go was actually nearby, and it could even be said that the two places were one, so the group walked for less than a quarter of an hour in total to reach their destination.

Compared to the weapon workshop, where you can see the thick black smoke without getting close, and hearing the clanging knock, it is much quieter. Even when you get closer, you can only hear the sound of "clicking".

Yingyi and the others are the children of the nobles and still don't understand the source of this sound, but the farmer's Zilian and the broken Zhao Gao have long known in their hearts that this is the sound of the loom!

At this time, Qin Zheng had already taken them into the workshop, and there was also a small stream flowing through it, although it was still frozen, but it had also installed a hydraulic drive device early.

After everyone stood still, the old craftsman hurried to the workshop and pulled out a woman, who was about fifty years old, and her large figure looked like the material for work.

The old woman came in a hurry, and she fell down in front of Qin Zheng in fear: "The women of the people come to see the king, the king is ten thousand years!" ”

Qin Zheng nodded, raised his hand to signal her to get up, and then opened his mouth and ordered: "Tell us about the results of the textile workshop." ”

"Whoa!" The old woman quickly nodded in agreement.

As soon as Qin Zheng heard her accent, he knew that it might be the Central Plains or the northerners of the Chu State, and the textile printing and dyeing technology in these two places was generally stronger than that of Guanzhong.

However, the Qin State controlled the brocade of Shu, which was also a high-end luxury item, and could also be sold in Zhuxia, the Western Regions and even India.

The old woman led everyone to a hall in front of them, and saw dozens of middle-aged women operating various machinery step by step, including silk reeling machines, looms, jacquard machines, and dyeing ponds and drying racks next to them.

In addition to not having to raise silkworms yourself, the whole weaving process machinery is available here, and if a person who has taken a junior high school history class can call this place by name at a glance - handicraft workshop!

The only difference is that these women are not urban poor people who have no means of production, but weavers hired by Qin Zheng at great expense.

As for these machines, they are also from the nearby weapons workshop, including pedal spinning wheels, pedal looms, jacquard machines, etc.

As the source of silk fabrics, China has always been called "Seris" (silk country) abroad, and has been raising silkworms for silk weaving since the Neolithic Age.

By the Zhou Dynasty, the prototypes of these machines were there, and with the collapse of the well-field system, the pattern of male farming and female weaving in the small-scale peasant economy quickly covered Zhuxia.

At the end of the Warring States period and the end of the Qin and early Han dynasties, the machine also began to innovate, but it is a pity that the historical Qin did not enjoy this dividend.

In the early Han Dynasty, the productivity of Huang Lao exploded, and jacquard machines and bias looms appeared, and the silk weaving industry further developed.

However, at this time, it was still the generation of hand-spinning machines, and the productivity was restricted by the technical level.

The pedal used by Qin Zheng is a technology after the Song Dynasty, and the production capacity has been greatly improved, but this technology has not been fully popularized in China even by the end of the Qing Dynasty......

"Your Majesty, this new spinning wheel can triple the yield, and the animal-powered machinery you have installed is not very stable, but at its peak it can produce eight times as much silk as it does by hand!

Wife, I have lived for most of my life and have never seen this kind of baby, if this kind of machine is used by everyone, the silk on the market can be cheaper. The old woman excitedly introduced.

The people behind Qin Zheng didn't know much about textiles, after all, textiles were mainly women's work at this time, but they could understand what it meant to increase the output to eight times, and it was no different from silk in the sky.

The old lady couldn't help but feel a little proud when she saw a group of big people stunned one by one, and wanted to continue pulling, but the old man pulled her clothes a few times before she stopped angrily.

Qin Zheng looked at the scene of the two, and probably guessed that they were a couple, and thought that he responded to the sentence that people are divided into groups, and the old couple are both diligent and casual people.

Then he smiled kindly and said, "Why, didn't you tell her that the hydraulic machine can move dozens of times more than before?" And the water power is much more stable than that of livestock. ”

The old woman was stunned when she heard this, five or six times more was already great in her opinion, dozens of times more, wouldn't everyone be able to wear silk?

The old man sneered: "Haven't you experimented yet, Xiaomin doesn't dare to say big things, and besides, she doesn't understand these things as a woman." ”

The old woman's face changed when she heard this, but she remembered that Qin Zheng and the others were there, but she couldn't be presumptuous, so she could only glance at the old man fiercely, which meant that she would settle accounts with you when His Majesty left!