Chen Xu rejected Fan's request to enter the weaving industry, not only that, but also asked Fan Caiying to write back and tell Fan Cai to prepare for heavy bleeding and spend money to eliminate the disaster.

Chen Xu can't guarantee that the Fan family will be able to do what he says, after all, the Fan family's assets are now hundreds of millions, and the Fan family is not controlled by Fan Yan alone, and many people in the clan must be reluctant to give up this huge wealth, but as long as he understands Chen Xu's words, he will definitely agree, not to mention that Chen Xu is not letting the Fan family pay for no reason, but will use this money in exchange for a noble identity.

Chen Xu's purpose is very simple, that is, to let some businessmen participate in the decision-making of the court through hard work, and form a political force on behalf of the merchants, so as to ensure the sustainable and healthy development of commerce, use personal strength to promote the germination of the bourgeoisie, let the merchant group transform into a new bourgeoisie, and promote Daqin to a more mature political system through technology and wealth.

But the process is destined to be slow, maybe three or five years, maybe ten or eight years or even longer, but as long as the direction is right.

Now that spring has begun, in view of the fact that the mulberry silkworms in the south will soon begin large-scale breeding, so the improved looms and spinning machines need to be arranged as soon as possible, and the first recommendation is the southeastern counties where the mulberry sericulture is developed.

In mid-January, Chen Xu organized the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Shaofu and other departments after several days of discussion to the emperor, requesting the construction of two large-scale silk weaving factories in Hangzhou County, Huiji County, Guangling County, Donghai County, respectively, named Hangzhou Silk Factory and Suzhou Silk Factory, which are two state-owned factories, respectively funded by the Finance Department and Shaofu, the scale of looms in the near future is 300, and the long-term scale reaches 1,000 looms, which have the support of the mature silkworm breeding foundation in the southeast, and can weave at least 150,000 silk horses per year after completion. This alone will nearly triple Daqin's current silk output.

At present, although the scale of silkworm breeding in Daqin is very large, and the scale of textile is also very large, it is all based on the family unit, and there is no large-scale factory, and because of the limitations of textile technology, a skilled weaver girl is only three or five horses a year, but as long as the loom invented at the moment is simply improved, it can be applied to silk weaving, even if a textile machine is woven into a horse a day, then the annual output is equivalent to the textile scale of a hundred families, and a thousand looms are equivalent to the weaving scale of 100,000 households. This is almost the number of silkworm farmers in the entire Daqin, and most of them only raise silkworms and sell silkworm cocoons and raw silk, and there are small half of the family spinning, and only about one-third of the families have skilled weavers for silk production, which seriously restricts the development of the silk industry from technology to technology.

In fact, at present, the scale of mulberry silkworm breeding is not the Yangtze River Basin, but Qilu and other places, among the seven heroes of the Warring States Period, the silk industry and commerce pay the most attention to the Qi country, so the Qi country mulberry silkworm breeding is also the largest, and there are very strict laws and regulations for silkworm breeding and textile management.

First of all, mulberry leaves must be planted around the farmer's house, and no other trees are allowed to be planted, as is the case for every household.

The second is to reward those who are proficient in silkworm prevention and treatment, reward one pound of gold, and eight stones of grain every month.

Third, there is a lack of damage to silkworm plaques and utensils used for silkworm raising, and government loans support it.

Fourth, in order to ensure the development and inheritance of skills, it was determined that the four people of Shinong Industry and Commerce were divided and settled, the handicraft industry was managed by the government, and silkworm reeling and silk weaving were all fixed types of work, and the son inherited his father's business was recognized by the government.

It was under these strict management and support that the silkworm breeding of Qi was greatly developed, and relying on the two industries of silk and salt, Qi became the richest of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States.

After the unification of the six countries, Qin inherited many management methods of Qi in mulberry silkworm breeding, Qilu and other places are still the most developed areas of mulberry sericulture in Daqin, but the southeastern counties have also developed rapidly in recent years, because there are many rivers and lakes in the south, both climate and water and soil are more suitable for the cultivation of mulberry silkworms, and Daqin has formulated more stringent laws and regulations for the mulberry silkworm industry.

Qin Jian of Sleeping Tiger Land has a record: Or stealing mulberry leaves, dirty and not profitable, what's the matter? Thirty years.

Explain that it is to steal other people's mulberry leaves for less than a penny, how to deal with it? In the end, he will be sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labor.

This punishment is quite a shammy, and it can be seen that Qin Law is indeed harsh and a little excessive, and Li Si, a group of Legalist disciples who uphold the court, has no mercy or mercy for the ordinary people in their hearts.

In view of the increasingly developed silkworm breeding and silk industry in the Yangtze River and Taihu Lake basins, Chen Xu decided to place the two state-owned factories in Suzhou and Hangzhou respectively, radiating the entire southeast counties with the convenient transportation of the Yangtze River and Zhejiang, and also wanted to promote the development of the entire southeast economy.

Moreover, in order to support the development of the private economy, Chen Xu asked the Academy of Sciences to speed up further research on spinning machines, miniaturize and improve looms, and make a family version of the textile machine as soon as possible, so that those farmers who make a living by raising silkworms and weaving silk will not be affected by large-scale factories and lose their livelihoods.

The reason why Chen Xu wanted to quickly open two large state-owned factories was twofold.

One is that at present, there is no similar textile factory in the whole Daqin except for the weaving bureau of the Shaofu in the imperial palace, and all the cloth and silk are all produced by families, Chen Xu wants to use these two large-scale factories to let the world's businessmen learn how to open a weaving factory, and understand the management and operation methods and benefits of this large-scale factory.

The second is that now with the conquest of the Western Regions, the sales of silk are completely in short supply, the merchants from the Western Regions like silk and glass porcelain, especially silk, light weight and high value, easy to transport, a horse of Daqin's silk transported to the Western Regions and resold to the merchants of Dawan and Daxia, the profit is at least five to ten times, and all are traded in gold, and the others do not admit it, because such exquisite silk fabrics do not say that people in those countries in the West have not seen, and they have heard very little, from the Warring States period to the early Qin and Han dynasties, It was the beginning of understanding and exchanges between the East and the West, and the reputation of Great Qin continued to spread to the West with the Xiongnu and Yueshi tribes, but it was only spread, if it was not for Chen Xu's appearance, then the West really understood the Central Plains, and it would have been delayed until a hundred years later Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions.

Now Daqin has embarked on another road, the Western Regions have been conquered in advance, and there is an endless stream of caravans between the Western Regions and Daqin on weekdays, and silk is the most popular commodity, glass porcelain tea is also popular, much worse than silk, because it is inconvenient to carry and transport, it is easy to be damaged on the road, but silk is different, a person and a horse can bring dozens of horses, and you can earn several times or even ten times the money when you transport them back and sell them, I heard that the best silk in Daqin can be bought for five thousand dollars in the Western Regions, It is worth much more than a pound of gold.

When Chen Xu heard this number, his jaw almost dropped.

However, although silk is valuable, but the silk in private circulation is simply a handful, the silk of Daqin is basically levied by the Shaofu, and the annual output of tens of thousands of horses is only enough for the emperor to feed a huge harem and reward the princes and princesses, and the remaining Qin nobles are not enough for themselves, let alone sell, silk is a hard currency beyond gold, and ordinary people can't buy it even if they have money.

This is the current situation caused by the low textile technology of silk.

The rise of the Silk Road in later generations benefited from the invention of looms and jacquard machines, and now Chen Xu finally developed these two machines more than 100 years in advance, and even more advanced technology, which will bring about the blowout development of the textile industry, and this will inevitably bring about the large-scale development of the silk trade.

The preparation of two state-owned silk manufacturing plants, in addition to solving the problem of plant and machinery, also involves the procurement of raw silk and the training of textile workers and the regularization of management issues, and this is only the first generation of looms, all artificial production mode, Chen Xu asked the Academy of Sciences to carry out the next generation of looms to use hydraulic drive, so the factory should also try to choose a place rich in water resources to build a factory, but also to survey the terrain to build a dam or water mill and so on.

And in order to catch up with the time of the spring silkworm cocoon in March, Chen Xu after getting the authorization of the emperor, issued a death order to the officials of the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs, the first phase of the plant must be completed at the end of February, and the supporting 100 looms must also be completed, and at the same time signed a contract with the silkworm farmers near the factory to purchase silkworm cocoons and raw silk, and strive to start production in mid-March, and when the summer silkworms mature in May, the second phase of the plant must be completed, and the total number of looms reaches 300 ......

A group of craftsmen and craftsmen of the Academy of Sciences, who were responsible for the research and development of looms, went directly to Suzhou and Hangzhou to recruit carpenters and apprentices to set up wood processing factories to manufacture looms, and the officials of the Ministry of Industry also quickly took the money allocated by the Finance Department to go to the two places to survey the location of the factories and convene local businessmen to bid for the construction of the factory. Surabaya and other counties reported that the local government cooperated with the construction of silk factories to recruit skilled weavers and the purchase of raw silk cocoons with silkworm farmers.

As soon as the news of the opening of two state-owned silk factories came out, more businessmen couldn't help but stir up, and they inquired about the procedures for opening factories.

A few days later, the latest issue of Daqin Metropolis Daily published the news of the two silk factories, and it was reported that businessmen from all over the world who were interested in opening a weaving factory went to Guangling and Hangzhou in mid-March to inspect and observe and learn how to prepare and manage such large-scale integrated chemical factories.

After Chen Xu crossed over, Daqin's industry was still dominated by handicraft workshops, including copper and iron smelting and weapon making, and the Shaofu and the craftsmen who would be managed by the Shaofu were all record-based apprentices, and there was neither a professional technical school nor a large-scale factory model.

The copper and iron workshops that I saw in Wancheng were the same, all of them were family-owned, on the side of the White River outside Wancheng, thousands of small workshops were densely packed together, the chimney of the smelting furnace was full of smoke all day and night, and tens of thousands of prisoners and slaves kept transporting ore to smelt copper and iron day and night, but the output and quality were toothache, which was worse than the township enterprises in later generations, and could only be described as backward and chaotic.

After Chen Xu arrived in Xianyang, he prepared for the Academy of Sciences, opened an experimental factory, and began to develop in an intensive way, and then promoted paper mills, bearing factories, glass factories, machinery factories, steel factories, cement factories, food factories, weapons factories, etc., after seeing the benefits of these large factories, the private shipbuilding, car making, pottery, porcelain and other industries also gradually abandoned the new style of small workshops and slowly developed into large-scale intensive chemical factories, which will not only reduce the manufacturing cost of each commodity, but also form a large-scale effect to increase output.

As for the real factory, Chen Xu believes that it should start from the weaving factory this time.

Hundreds of identical industrial machines are placed together and started at the same time, which will form a great visual and psychological impact on the inspectors.

The large-scale factory will definitely form a huge cascading effect, driving the local mulberry silkworm breeding and raw silk processing scale to continue to expand, bringing together more upstream and downstream businessmen to participate in it, absorbing a large number of farmers to become professional workers, and finally forming a new industrial group, that is, workers.

Of course, the largest number of textile factories are women.

Thinking of the appearance of a group of little ladies in uniform who commute to and from work every day, Chen Xu couldn't hold back his excitement, this kind of scene is too desirable.

And in order to protect the labor rights and interests of these female textile workers, Chen Xu decided to promote the eight-hour working system in the state-owned factory, working four hours a day, not forcing workers to stay up late and work overtime, and have a day of rest every ten years.

Well, when the time comes...... Be sure to visit it a few times.