"The people of the four towns, from the outside of the agricultural mulberry, the female workers are still good. Destroying the car and the bow, spinning the loom, and the family has it. The villagers went into the market to buy cotton, and it belonged to the women, and they worked here every day, and the bonlights were made from night. (Nanxun Town Chronicles)

"Female red is not engaged in cutting and embroidery, and is diligent in weaving, even if she is sixty or seventy years old. In the old legend, there was a person who finished the yarn at night and became a cloth, which was called the rooster cloth. (Wenzhou Mansion Chronicles)

"When the farming work is finished, men, women, and children operate together, or weave bonlights, day and night, or the sound of the machine rolls, and they hear each other from each other." (Hanchuan County Chronicles)

Various records present the production scene of the countryside in the 14th century: each peasant family has a loom, and in addition to farming, both women and children, old and young, are engaged in weaving, the whole family does it, the sound of the machine is endless, and the whole night is up, although the number of cloth woven by each household is very small, but because of the large number of households, after aggregation, it has become an astonishing number of hundreds of millions.

The land is limited, the output of cotton is limited, and the cotton cloth spun is also limited, if it is changed from manual cotton weaving to cotton cloth woven by steam-powered machinery, the biggest advantage is that the spinning and weaving efficiency is greatly improved, at least dozens of times, and then the price of cotton cloth is reduced.

Under the condition that the income of the people at the bottom remains unchanged, it is completely possible for the family to buy cloth to make a new set of clothes and a pair of shoes every year.

However, there is also a disadvantage, the peasant households grow their own cotton, spin and weave their own cloth, the price of selling cotton directly is different from selling cotton cloth, cotton cloth also includes the manual cost of peasant households, once the steam power machinery is used instead of manual cotton weaving, the cloth woven by peasant households cannot be sold, they can only sell cotton, and the income of peasant households will be reduced.

However, in Fang Nan's view, compared with the benefits of using steam-powered machinery to weave cotton cloth, the disadvantages will slowly decrease over time.

There have been examples, the largest number of factories in the People's Army-ruled areas are cement factories, businessmen have set up cement factories in many cities in the People's Army-ruled areas, a large number of young people enter the factory to work, and the young Zhuang enter the factory to work basically cannot participate in the cultivation of the fields, but the income of the young Zhuang working in the factory will not be about the same as the income of a family farming.

In this case, as long as one person in the family works in the cement factory, the family no longer needs to farm and has enough money to live.

Cement factories are just the beginning, the industrial age has arrived, large textile factories are everywhere, a large number of adult women can enter the textile mills to work, more factories appear, the rural population begins to decrease, but the land will not be reduced too much, more land can be allocated to the rural population, and the average income of the rural population will also increase.

Of course, we have to ignore population growth, because the common people in the areas ruled by the People's Army are living a good life, and there will inevitably be a large number of newborns, and the increase in population will also increase the income of the rural population, and this is the problem of external expansion.

The matter of foreign expansion will have to wait until the People's Army unifies the land of China, and now it is time to develop steam-powered machinery and develop steam-powered machinery, and time waits for no one.

In December, in Foshan, a new research institute was established, which was called "Textile Machinery Research Institute".

The Textile Machinery Research Institute is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, and the actual management of the Textile Machinery Research Institute is the Fang's Chamber of Commerce.

Fang's Chamber of Commerce is the Chamber of Commerce to which Fang Nan's Fang family belongs, and Fang Nan ordered Han Jia, vice president of the People's Chamber of Commerce, to serve as the president of the Fang Chamber of Commerce, and at the same time, Han Jia is still an official of the People's Military Government.

Fang Nan's first task to Han Jia was to establish the Textile Machinery Research Institute, and at present, two of the researchers of the Textile Machinery Research Institute are from the Steam Engine Research Institute, which is considered a secondment and can return to the Steam Engine Research Institute at any time.

In addition to the two researchers at the Steam Engine Research Institute, there are craftsmen who are skilled in building human spinning machines, looms, and even water-powered spinning wheels, as well as women in the families of craftsmen who are skilled in the use of spinning machines and looms.

For the time being, women are not able to work with other strange men, and most of the people who use spinning machines and looms are women, so it is appropriate to choose women from craftsmen's families to participate in the research.

In addition, several students from Guangzhou University are interested in steam-powered spinning machines and looms, and are also involved in the research of spinning machines and looms.

The Textile Machinery Research Institute was formally established, and began to conduct research on steam-powered spinning machines and looms, as long as the research is successful, those who participate in the research will receive a large monetary reward from the Fang's Chamber of Commerce, and the machine patent belongs to the Fang's Chamber of Commerce, after all, the Fang's Chamber of Commerce invested in hiring personnel to conduct research.

As long as the research on steam-powered spinning machines and looms is successful, Fang's Chamber of Commerce will invest more money in the production of these two machines, and personally build a large textile factory to let everyone see the efficiency of cotton cloth production in textile mills.

Next, the Fang Chamber of Commerce will mainly manufacture machines, sell the machines to the Xungui family's chamber of commerce, and let these chambers of commerce establish large-scale textile factories, simply put, the Fang Chamber of Commerce will take the Xungui family to make money, and wait until the textile industry breaks out, and will sell the machines to other merchants.

However, the manufacturing machine and selling the machine have to wait, the machine has not been studied, the loom loom loom is not a kind of machine, in fact, the loom is not a machine, but two kinds of machines, namely the spinning machine and the loom, cotton needs to be spun into yarn first, and then the yarn is used to weave cloth.

It is relatively simple to research and manufacture a spinning machine, because the ancestors have already developed a kind of water-powered spinning machine - a water-powered spinning wheel.

The spinning wheel is a process production line or yarn equipment that uses fiber materials such as wool, cotton, linen, silk and other raw materials, through manual mechanical transmission, and uses rotary silk drawing to extend, usually with a wheel driven by hands or feet and a spindle.

With the development of spinning wheels, the number of spindles increased to 2 to 3, up to 5, during the Song and Yuan dynasties, with the development of social economy, on the basis of various hand-me-down spinning wheel machinery, gradually produced a large spinning wheel with dozens of spindles.

The hydraulic spinning wheel is different from the original spinning wheel, and its characteristics are: the number of spindles is as high as dozens and the use of hydraulic drive.

These characteristics make the hydraulic spinning wheel have the prototype of modern spinning machinery and adapt to large-scale specialized production.

Taking hemp spinning as an example, the general spinning wheel spins up to 3 catties per day, while the large spinning wheel can spin more than 100 catties a day and night, and enough hemp needs to be used to meet its production capacity.

Since there is already a water-powered spinning machine, the task of the Textile Machinery Research Institute should be simpler, and it can be improved on the basis of the water-powered spinning wheel, and the water power can be replaced with steam power, and the spinning wheel part can also be changed, after all, the spinning wheel no longer needs to be fixed on the riverside.

With the advent of the steam engine, first the water lifter mainly used in the mines, and soon the steam machine tool will also appear, creating more firearms for the People's Army, and waiting for the appearance of the steam spinning machine, so that more people will understand the meaning of the steam engine.