"At present, the loom has been successfully developed, and then you need to further improve, you can develop a more complex and refined jacquard scheme, but there is one of the biggest problems, that is, yarn, if it is all by hand spinning, it must not be able to keep up with the speed of the loom, you must develop a spinning machine as soon as possible, and also apply the spinning machine and loom to the silk and even wool weaving......"

Chen Xu and a group of excited craftsmen and craftsmen all calmed down and spoke.

"Don't worry, Master Hou, we already have a spinning machine, I'll take you to see it......" a craftsman said excitedly.

"Really? Let's go, go and see, by the way, this is a reward for you......"

Chen Xu was so happy that he took out a few purple Tai Chi Tongbao from his pocket and stuffed them into Weaver Niang's hand, and then went to another shed next door surrounded by a group of people

Inside the shed, there were a few strange machines, a mixture of wood and iron, and a few women arranging the sheaf bunches.

"Hou Ye, you see, this is a spinning machine that we are inspired by the lathe, and the spindle and the yarn car are fused together, and the spindle and the yarn car are rotated with gears, and the twine can be spun, you two come here, hurry up and show Hou Ye!"

A craftsman called the two women over, the two women were very nervous and began to arrange the hemp silk, the coiled hemp silk slowly rubbed out by hand and the two thread ends were threaded into the two fine holes with gears, and then the other woman pulled the thread head and began to turn the handle of the loom, as the huge wheel began to rotate, driven by the two sets of gears, the two strands of hemp silk slowly twisted into a twine, and finally the twine was wound on a rotating spindle, so that under the linkage, the twine was quickly spun out in a steady stream.

"Hey, yes, yes, this is much faster than just using your hands!" Chen Xu couldn't close his mouth in surprise.

Spinning Chen Xu has seen, the women of Xiaohe Village are using the most primitive spindle, hanging on a hook to rotate by hand, and when rotating, it is a test of technology, the twine is too fast, it will be knotted, the twine is too slow to turn, and it is easy to break, and because the twine is not evenly tight, the cloth actually woven is also dense and inconsistent, but the process is so, the imperial court is not too picky when it is collected, mainly because the cloth does belong to the hard currency second only to grain, as long as it can be used, it is good to make clothes, and it is almost used to make sacks.

Chen Xu has also seen the spinning wheel spinning, there is it in Qinghe Town, and it is almost exactly the same as what was seen in the countryside in later generations, that is to say, the yarn car was developed from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it has been passed down for thousands of years.

The spinning wheel is relatively complicated to make, and in the era of Daqin, it belongs to the large utensils at home, which requires professional carpentry to make, so the ones that can be used are all large families in Qinghe Town, and Chen Xu has also seen a two-wheel spinning machine in Wancheng, which can spin two threads at the same time, but the principle has not changed much, and it still needs to be constantly kneaded by hand to form a line.

But now this spinning machine is already a real semi-automatic machine, shake the handle runner to drive the two sets of gears synchronous linkage, spinning and winding synchronously complete, and because it is through the rotation of the gear into a line, so that the tightness of the twine has nothing to do with the speed of the handle rotation, it is always in accordance with the distance of the gear rotation to complete the twisting, you can change the tightness of the line by adjusting the size of the gear and the density of the teeth, and the handle turns fast is just a faster spinning, which is exactly the same as the lathe threading.

In other words, with the successful development of gears and lathes, after several years of accumulation by the Academy of Sciences, many structures have begun to be flexibly used by craftsmen.

"Master Hou, the speed of this spinning machine is indeed much faster than that of the yarn car, and the most important thing is that the twine spun is very uniform and fine, unlike the previous manual elasticity and thickness...... "A craftsman explained next to him.

"Very good, this spinning machine still has a lot of room for improvement, add a few more sets of gears and spindles, you can spin out several branches at the same time, if the gear is not easy to control, in fact, you can use belt transmission, a shaft can drive many spindles and spindles......"

Chen Xu remembers that when he studied the history of the Western Industrial Revolution in junior high school, he seemed to mention a spinning machine, which is this hand-cranked, which can spin dozens of yarns at a time, although the specific principle and name Chen Xu has almost completely forgotten, but it should be very similar to the spinning machine in front of him.

Chen Xu was very happy that all of a sudden the loom and spinning machine were successful, so that the work of preparing the textile factory in Daqin could be completely started, and with a large number of cloths, the shortage of civil materials could also be greatly improved.

The emergence of a large number of factories will inevitably slowly break the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economic model of Daqin, and many farmers may lose some means of earning money to support their families, but this is the inevitable price of industrialization, and the bankruptcy of the small-scale peasant economy is inevitable in the industrial age, but industrial development will also provide more employment and more sufficient materials.

With the advent of the industrial age, Daqin will enter a period of drastic transformation.

Just like the reform and opening up in later generations, many people do not adapt, but those who adapt will gain huge space for development and more wealth.

The reason why China has not embarked on the road of capitalism like Europe in later generations is because the state suppresses commerce and ignores science and technology, only emphasizes humanities and ignores industry, and because Confucianism, which is respected as the state religion, also has great discrimination against industry and commerce, the class concept of agriculture and industry seriously limits the status of businessmen in political life, and studying and becoming an official is the greatest ideal and ambition of the people of all dynasties in later generations, and commerce is a cheap industry, and those who are good at strange skills and skillful are also untouchables.

Everything is inferior, only reading is high!

Under this hierarchical system and discriminatory policies, China's only officialdom culture prevailed, the scale of private industry could not be expanded to form a new political force, and the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economic model could not be broken in any way.

Male ploughing and female weaving is the truest portrayal of traditional Chinese culture.

The small workshop with the family as the unit can not be compared with the big industry in terms of technology and cost, and it is recorded in the "Peacock Flying Southeast", which is known as one of the double walls of Yuefu: the chicken cries into the weaving, and the night does not rest, and the five boils are broken in three days, and the adults are too late.

A woman weaves five pieces of cloth in three days, and this weaving speed can be said to be more than ten times faster than Daqin's current weaving speed.

(Note: The length and width of a piece of cloth in the Qin and Han dynasties did not find specific data, but it is recorded in the Qin Jian of the Sleeping Tiger Land that a piece of cloth is eight feet long and two feet five inches wide, so a piece of cloth in the Qin Dynasty is about 45 centimeters wide and 185 centimeters long, and a piece of cloth in the late Han Dynasty is said to be four zhang, almost ten meters, if the peacock flies southeast is truthfully described, it would be terrible, the handloom weaves fifty meters of cloth in three days, which is almost impossible, because there are still many places in later generations that still have traditional handicraft weaving families, Without the speed-up artifact of the shuttle, the speed of a day is about one or two meters, so there are two possibilities here, one is that a piece of cloth in the Qin and Han dynasties is eight feet, and the other is that literary works are exaggerated. ）

Of course, the meaning of this poem is not that women weave fast, but only to indict the cruelty and ruthlessness of feudal etiquette and the oppression of women, but even if the weaving speed of this family model is fast, it is at most like this, and this way has lasted for more than 2,000 years until the complete collapse of the feudal empire has not changed in the slightest.

That is to say, the modern industrial model in China has not had much development for thousands of years, the Song Dynasty was the most prosperous in Suzhou and Hangzhou silk factories thousands, tens of thousands of looms, but still did not develop into a large industrial model, the main reason is because of the class problem, the status of merchants is too low, can not form a new type of political force to promote the industrial revolution.

After inspecting the loom and loom, Chen Xu was very excited, encouraged and praised all the craftsmen, and then drove straight to the Academy of Sciences, in addition to arranging rewards for all the personnel involved in the research and development, the most important thing is about the commercial promotion of looms and textile machines.

Now the industry is under the management of the Ministry of Industry, in addition to farmland water conservancy and road traffic construction, the Ministry of Industry has also incorporated the previous functions of the Shaofu, but also to manage the world's craftsmen and handicraft workshops, but the folk silkworm weaving cloth is under the management of the Shaofu and the Ministry of Households, the promotion of the loom also needs to be discussed with the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, and all of them let the merchants compete to raise will certainly make the imperial court save a lot of investment and trouble, but some government-run factories are also necessary, state-owned factories will be more convenient to operate and manage, and provide some industrial samples for the people, After all, although the current Daqin business is becoming more and more prosperous, the big industry must have just sprouted, and there is no experience in preparing for it at all.

What's more, looms and looms have just been successfully developed, there is still a huge room for improvement, the Academy of Sciences needs to have some experimental factories to constantly test and improve, and at present all looms and looms are completed by manual drive, but in fact, with the experience of waterwheel mills, spinning and weaving can be driven by water power, if steam power is developed, such a large-scale industrial development is just around the corner.

After Chen Xu returned to the Academy of Sciences to make arrangements, many people rushed to the woodworking workshop outside the city to watch after hearing about the successful development of looms and looms.

In the afternoon of the same day, Chen Xu specially asked people to find the Ministry of Industry Ling Zaihong and Feng Jing of the Ministry of Agriculture and Mulberry Administration, who was responsible for the weaving of folk silkworms, and personally led them to the outside of the city to see the working process of the loom and the loom.

As two high-ranking officials in charge of industry, they naturally know the application prospects of these machines, the output of two or three pieces of cloth a day for a weaver is twenty or thirty times that of the current Shaofu Weaving Bureau, if these machines can be popularized and applied on a large scale, the output of cloth and silk in Daqin will definitely increase several times in a few years.

After Feng Jing watched the loom and spinning machine, he went home excitedly to report the good news to his father, and Feng Quji, who provoked him, couldn't help but take a car to go outside the city to watch, and after Zai Hong announced the news in the Ministry of Industry, the entire Ministry of Industry was boiling, and officials of all sizes were not on the afternoon errand, and groups of cars and horses ran to watch, and after reading it, they were naturally amazed, and then after returning to the city, they hyped it up, and in the evening, the whole Xianyang was a sensation, Tens of thousands of people, princes, ministers, civil and military officials, merchants, civilians, scribes, and reporters surrounded the woodcraft workshop outside the south of the city, and crowded in and out to watch this magical loom, and the two weavers could not rest, taking turns to demonstrate the weaving process to the visiting big people.