Song Yingsheng looked at Zhu Shun's gaze, with a hint of admiration, and replied, "This is exactly what Mr. Zhu is clever. ”

"I have long taken this into account, first with grace, to appease the people."

"Then Eli, to calm the people's hearts, with potato flour, can basically ensure that the people can eat enough, as long as there is food, there will be no trouble."

"In the past, Zai Xia has never understood why Mr. Zhu did not expand rapidly with the amazing productivity of new machinery and the emperor's attention."

"Now it seems that Mr. Zhu has the essence of a sentence."

Song Yingsheng quickly persuaded the others, and after thinking about it carefully, it was really like that.

The factory owners stopped arguing, and their eyes were all on Song Yingsheng, listening carefully to him peeling off the deep meaning and temple calculations contained in it layer by layer.

Song Yingsheng paused for a moment, and under the expectant gaze of the factory owners, he said that sentence.

"The governance of a big country should be quiet."

Song Yingsheng won't talk about it here.

The factory owners here are either squires who read poetry and books like Zhou Yuanwai, or they are the seed brothers who have been studying the subset of scriptures and history since childhood.

All have a certain amount of knowledge, and after listening to Song Yingsheng's last sentence, they all fell into contemplation and savored the meaning inside.

My heart was gradually filled with admiration for Zhu Shun, this time it was not to admire Zhu Shun's invention ability, but to say that the last sentence was not to overdo the ability to govern the country.

If it is really a reckless rapid expansion, I don't know how many people will die.

The factory owners want to die, and the people who can't survive will also die, but in the end, it is the Donglin Party and the Jin merchants who benefit.

Song Yingsheng admired Zhu Shun, and Zhu Shun also felt a little more sympathetic to him.

If a new invention, no matter how advanced, is to be truly promoted, it must take into account complex political factors and social circumstances.

Those who come up are stupid to dominate here, dominate there, and they don't know how to die in the end.

Zhu Shun understands very well that as a traverser, what he lacks most is not silver, not military power, or territory.

It's about the connections that gather around you.

Without deep personal connections, without the binding of interests, can you be called king and emperor after being a soldier in the frontier for a few years? Can you save Da Ming?

Amusing.

I fell asleep, and I didn't know who would stab me in the middle of the night.

Song Yingsheng seemed to see Zhu Shun's sympathy, changed his words, and said again: "But this problem has not been fundamentally solved. ”

"However, since Mr. Zhu called us here, he should have found a countermeasure."

Song Yingsheng said this, and didn't say it again.

Like the factory owners who itch through their boots, where can they endure their temperament and urge together.

"Lao Song, what are you selling, if you have anything to say, say it quickly, my old Huang is dying."

"Should be promoted to a virtuous nephew, although he can speak freely."

"Mr. Song, hurry up."

Zhu Shun didn't expect that Song Yingsheng, who had been teaching and educating people in the ancestral hall, would have such a strategic view of the overall situation, and he was also interested, and motioned him to continue.

Song Yingsheng smiled gently: "Carding machine." ”

"The most fundamental reason for the high price of handmade and economical cotton is the high price of cotton, as long as we provide cheap cotton to the people."

"Well, the carding machine produces cotton slivers, which saves people's time even more."

"I have already calculated below, and the cost of cotton seeds, manure, and rental farm tools required for a load of raw cotton is about five or six cents of silver."

"And the purchase price of the bureaucratic squires is generally about seven or eight cents of silver, and no more than nine cents of silver."

Hearing this, the factory owners couldn't help but curse and scolded the bureaucratic squire for being so black.

The cotton purchased by seven or eight cents of silver was sold for two taels of silver, and it even rose to four or five taels of silver in the early years of Chongzhen.

Zhou Yuanwai was still proud of the fact that he had a lot of cotton land in his house just now, and when he heard the scolding of the factory owners, he blushed and argued: "In order to sort the raw cotton into clean cotton, it takes a lot of manpower." ”

"Hiring someone will cost silver, and in order to pick cotton, the silver spent is almost more than the purchase price."

Song Yingsheng agreed: "Yes, it does cost a lot of silver to pick cotton, and picking raw cotton into cotton will roughly increase the cost to about one or two or four cents of silver." ”

Hearing this, the factory owners all understood and understood how Song Yingsheng said that it was completely solved.

With the existence of the carding machine, which can be called a fairy machine.

The factory owners could buy cotton for one tael of silver and sell it to the common people for one tael or two cents of silver.

The price of cotton plummeted from two taels of silver to one tael of silver per load, and the cost of cotton cloth spun in the hands of ordinary people dropped.

The higher prices for the factory owners allowed the common people who grew cotton to earn more silver.

After coming and going, the handicraft economy was not only not destroyed in an instant because of the impact of industrialization.

There will also be a thriving scene.

If the Donglin Party dares to destroy the steam factory on the bank of the Yongding River, it is estimated that it will be torn to pieces by the people of Shuntianfu in anger.

With the mass production and cheapness of the carding machine, the factory owners could earn a lot of money for just two cents of silver.

No wonder Song Yingsheng said a word of calmness.

In this way, the first industrial revolution was promoted, and the local handicraft economy was protected, even better developed, and the bloodshed of the revolution was avoided.

A win-win-win situation.

Zhou Yuanwai suddenly remembered something, and suddenly realized: "No wonder Old Man Song wanted to price the price of Shuntian's large cloth at one or two and a half cents of silver, but Mr. Zhu disagreed. ”

"It turns out that because of this, it's really going to be reduced to one or two and a half cents of silver, and we can really make money."

"But for the common people, even if the carding machine is invented, the common people still can't make money."

Under Song Yingsheng's narration, the factory owners had already figured out the joints inside, so Zhu Shun didn't have to waste his tongue to continue.

It's just about the steam plant of the card, there are some details to be finalized.

Zhu Shun took a sip of the tea in the emerald teacup of the Jun kiln and began to explain some details, mainly the location of the steam factory.

Because there is no perfect traffic road system, the steam factory on the bank of the Yongding River radiates to the villages within a radius of 30 miles at most.

If you go outward, just rely on two legs to walk, and the people spend walking time, and they need five or six sticks of incense to go back and forth, and they don't have time to go to work.

Walking a lot, it also involves eating more food and buying more straw sandals, which is even less cost-effective.

The only solution is to build temporary shelters for workers, but once the number of people living together increases, sanitation is a big problem.

Before the invention of cement, this planning function ran aground.

Therefore, the location of the carding machine steam factory can only be scattered in various counties like a flour steam factory.

Zhu Shun and others did not discuss until dusk, which involved many practical issues such as distribution, rivers, and cotton fields.

In less than three or five days, I couldn't come up with a result.

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