The new factory was built for more than a month, and the five water-powered Jenny spinning machines earned one hundred taels of silver again, and this time not all of them were used to build the water-powered Jenny spinning machines.

Only the scale of Zhu's spinning mill was expanded to seven, and all the remaining silver was used to buy fir wood and build a hydroelectric workshop.

Seven water-powered Jenny spinning machines are also a lot, and they can earn one hundred and forty taels of silver a month, but they are far from enough for Zhu Shun.

Zhu Shun's father is a potter in the official kiln, and the next step is to build a cement kiln and strive to study the cement as soon as possible.

According to a rough estimate, it costs at least 180 taels of silver to build a small cement kiln, and this is only the price of building a small cement kiln, and about 100 taels of silver will be invested every month in order to study the firing of cement.

One hundred and forty taels, and there are only forty taels left.

In addition, the textbooks of the Beijing Normal University have been compiled, and Zhu Shun will next focus most of his energy on the study of the source motivation of industry, which is also an indispensable condition for the first industrial revolution.

Steam engine.

To build a steam engine, a lot of steel and rubber were needed, and with the poor steel filling method of the Ming Dynasty, the price of steel was extremely high, and it was strictly controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and more silver was swallowed.

Rubber was one of the most important strategic materials of the First Industrial Revolution, and it was something that had no place to buy it if there was money.

Zhu Shun had a headache when he thought about the rubber: "Ying has a royal society, and France also has a French Academy of Sciences." ”

"It wasn't until 1736 that C. Condamina made his first discovery of rubber on a trip to South America with the French Academy of Sciences."

"The key is that the rubber trees in those countries in the South Seas were transplanted from South America after 1736, and now it is only 1630, and there is a difference of more than 100 years in the middle, where to find rubber trees."

Now that the maritime trade is extremely prosperous, if you want to find this rubber tree, you can only rely on the Francophone man Ruvio that Zhu Shun knows.

For the popularization of an item, what is most needed is a broad market, or that sentence, everything is in vain without money.

Zhu Shun had already told Ruvio about this a few years ago, and the problem of rubber could only wait a little longer, and now the most important thing is to completely formalize Zhu's spinning factory.

Zhu Shun waited for a stick of incense at the door of the hydraulic plant, and waited for Zhu Shou, the owner of the factory.

There are three brothers in the Zhu family, respectively called Zhu Fu, Zi Zhongren, Zhu Lu, Zi Zhongyi, Zhu Shou, and Zi Zhongli.

Ordinary people only have names, and few take words.

In order to save face on his face, Zhu Shun's grandfather spent half a bag of winter corn and found a down-and-out show to take a word for each of the three sons in the family.

The words taken after the crown are the interpretation of the name and the extension of the name.

That down-and-out Xiucai is also half a bucket of water, so he casually took three good-sounding words, but they don't have much to do with the name.

Even so, it is the most glorious thing that Zhu Shun's grandfather has ever done in his life.

Zhu Shou, the owner of the factory, jumped off the Pingsha boat, still holding a bag of lime in his hand, about ten catties: "Shun'er, what's the use of you buying this lime?" ”

Zhu Shun took the bag of lime and walked into the hydraulic workshop, which was filled with the 'click' sound of the spinning machine and the 'bang' of the water.

Zhu Shun took out a handful of lime, starting from the north side of the hydraulic plant, and sprinkled lime in every corner: "Third uncle, you know, this kind of brick and wood structure house is easy to breed insect pests. ”

"Especially if there are fleas, once there are more fleas, it is easy to develop infectious diseases, well, that is, plague."

"Before the advent of pesticides, the most effective way to kill insects was to sprinkle lime in the factory building, every once in a while."

In this paragraph, the factory owner Zhu Shou didn't understand what he was talking about, but there was one thing he understood, that is, the plague.

With his character of being eager to break a penny into three pennies to spend, he actually took the initiative to say a very extravagant sentence: "Shun'er, is 100 catties a month enough, if not, let's buy 200 catties." ”

"The price of lime is about the same as coal, it is a penny and a catty, if we buy more, the third uncle can lower the price by a few cents."

The most important problem in Zhu's spinning mill now is the problem of infectious diseases, after all, there are as many as 23 female workers in the spinning mill.

The people of the Ming Dynasty had not been vaccinated, and in case of an infectious disease, they could only wait for death, not one or two, but hundreds of deaths.

It was only after the mass production of DDT and 666 in the twentieth century that the world's densely populated cities were freed from the problem of parasites and diseases.

Therefore, the prevention of this epidemic is more important in Zhu Shun's eyes than the study of the steam engine, and only after saving the Zhu spinning mill can there be capital for the next step of research.

Everything Zhu Shun does is one ring after another, with a strict and meticulous plan, and any mistake in any link will affect the next plan.

Sprinkle lime in a hydraulic plant, although this method is relatively primitive, it is the best way to use.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, after all, with the expansion of Zhu's spinning mill, the number of female workers continues to increase, and the problem of infectious diseases will become more and more serious.

Zhu Shun had three preparations next, and there was still a lot of lime left in the entire hydraulic plant, and handed it to the factory owner Zhu Shou: "Third uncle, including the warehouse, don't let go of any corner." ”

The face of the factory owner Zhu Shou, who was giggling all day long, was replaced by a serious face, and the uncle and nephew walked into the warehouse next to the hydraulic plant together.

In order to prevent the yarn from getting wet, the warehouse was also built in the shape of a boat-shaped house in Qiongzhou Mansion, and the uncle and nephew stepped on the half-meter-high hollow wooden steps and walked into the warehouse.

Two female workers who specialize in moving goods were stacking yarn on the wooden shelves, and when they saw Zhu Shun coming in, they hurriedly saluted Zhu Shun.

Zhu Shun originally wanted to use two strong men to carry the yarn, but as soon as he said it, he was stopped by the factory owner Zhu Shou, not that he couldn't, but he couldn't.

Zhu Shun, who still maintained some habits of later generations, forgot that the Ming Dynasty was a religious society, and there was no work without men and women, and women in the Ming Dynasty could not contact other men, so the factory owner said otherwise.

The uncle and nephew sprinkled all the corners of the warehouse with lime, and together they walked to a sheltered corner, which happened to be the edge of the earthen wall on the periphery of Zhu's spinning mill.

Zhu Shun pointed to this corner and said, "Third uncle, in the future, the female workers of our spinning factory are strictly forbidden to defecate in the open, and we will build a women's toilet here." ”

The factory owner Zhu Shou's face suddenly appeared with a smile again, remembering that he was now the factory owner, and he wanted to maintain a certain majesty, so he quickly put away the cheap smile: "Wonderful, Shun'er." ”

"First, the epidemic has been prevented, and second, the third uncle can contact the nearby dung men and sell them the manure produced every month, which just happens to subsidize the cost of lime."