Almost after the arrival of the Ming fleet. For the people here, every day feels like a dream.

For Zhang De, in the past period, everything was like a dream, because his mother was a local person, and he knew Daming either through his father's dictation or his mother's exaggerated words.

In his father's words, he knew how vast, rich, and beautiful the Ming Dynasty was, and compared to the Ming Dynasty, this was a wild land at all. And in his mother's exaggerated words, he knew how proud the Ming was, as early as hundreds of years ago, the people of the Ming Dynasty came here on a ship bigger than the island. So much so that many legends here are related to the Ming Dynasty. It is precisely because of this that he is proud of his identity.

He's a Akito!

Maybe his mother was a native of Tu, but his father was a Ming person. He is a true member of the Celestial Empire. He has a very different surname than the natives. Of course, their physiognomy is also different.

Despite pride, it is because of the relationship that grew up overseas. The understanding of Da Ming is vague, because his father's understanding of Da Ming is also limited, and for him, Da Ming's things are more imaginative.

And more importantly, he couldn't understand why the Ming Dynasty was so powerful and complex, but it would be occupied by the barbarians. For him, this is an unanswered question.

And all this, until ten days ago, with the arrival of the Ming fleet, all the doubts in Zhang De's heart disappeared, and everything disappeared.

Now for him, there is no longer such and such doubts, and there is only one noun left in his eyes, Da Ming.

"This is the army of the Ming Dynasty!"

Looking at those strong and vigorous sailors, in the fiery eyes of those native girls, everyone can feel the desire of these native girls, they are eager to have some relationship with a certain Ming officer and soldier, so as to become a person who makes neighbors, relatives and friends envious.

As for Zhang De, he secretly thought to himself, and even like many teenagers in the village, he worked hard to learn to speak official like them.

This is the official language of the Ming Dynasty.

This is the Ming Dynasty......

This is also the ...... of the Ming Dynasty In the end, together with Temasek, it also became Daming's lease land. This was followed by the renaming of Temasek.

Nantianmen!

This is what Temasek is known for, and it is a testament to its geographical location, which is the gateway to the South China Sea and the gateway to China.

"Do you want to be a soldier?"

For the sixteen-year-old Zhang De, when faced with such inquiries from those officers in red clothes, he did not hesitate to choose to agree and chose to wear a red military uniform. The reason why this is so is not only because of the attractive military salary, but more importantly, for the locals, the red military uniform symbolizes the Ming Dynasty.

And, of course, those girls with exotic flairs. The fiery look that casts when you see them. Those girls always want to be able to marry the Ming people, and it would be great if they could be soldiers.

Therefore, the red military uniform has an incomparable attraction for them. When Zhang De and dozens of village youths put on the military uniforms of the Ming Dynasty and began training near the stronghold, on the banks of the Tianmen River, which separates the mainland from the South Tianmen, thousands of laborers who came with the ship—prisoners of war captured after the Battle of Keelung—began to get busy here, cutting down trees along the river and building Chinese-style towns along the river.

The docks, the shipyards, and of course the fortress, little by little, are in plain shape, and although they are simple, no one can doubt that in a few years, this may become another Keelung, a prosperous place for merchant ships.

Perhaps this is the biggest difference between the Chinese and the local natives. While the Chinese are working hard there, most of the natives are lazy and mixed there, and they will never learn to change their lives through continuous efforts like the Chinese.

Of course, this inertia of the indigenous people will not affect this place, after all, most of the people who live here in the end are Chinese, and it is only just the beginning.

When a young naval officer was sworn in as governor of Nantianmen in the newly built Yamen of Nantianmen, Zhu Mingzhong, who was far away in Qinghe, did not know that thousands of miles away, someone in his name had announced the occupation of a new territory, no, it was a lease. Yes, and the lease with rent is paid, but the lease is permanent.

Now, for Zhu Mingzhong, who is in the factory, he is immersed in the study of looms, and for Zhu Mingzhong, who has successfully copied the hydraulic yarn machine, he knows very well why the emergence of the Jenny spinning machine has become a symbol of the industrial revolution, because due to the emergence of the "Jenny machine", it has promoted a series of industries related to weaving, power, transportation to invent and use machines, thus opening the prelude to the British Industrial Revolution.

As the starting point of the industrial revolution, the automatic spinning machine not only liberated people's physical strength, greatly improved production efficiency, but also promoted the birth of the factory, which directly led to the emergence of the bourgeoisie and the working class.

Just like the current Jiangbei, the first real factories in human history have been born. Although these factories are more like workshops than the aftermarket. But after all, this is the beginning of industry.

But only the spinning machine is not enough, after all, with the proposal of Yangzhou, Jiangyin and Anqing yarn mills, the supply of cotton yarn in the market will tend to be saturated, if it is not able to digest the sudden increase in cotton yarn, then there will inevitably be the most absurd scene of the industrial revolution - the destruction of machines.

In another time and space, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, there were two similar acts, first because the hand spinners were afraid that the machines would take away their jobs, and then because of the unsalable cotton yarn due to the surplus of cotton yarn. The Jenny machine became a symbol because it drove a series of industry inventions. Spinning machines alone will not solve the problem, and it is necessary to invent a series of textile machines and build textile factories to promote the industrial revolution. The Industrial Revolution was a chain reaction.

And the first step to do is to make a shuttle loom. The shuttle loom has a simple structure, but it can improve the weaving efficiency several times, which is of course Zhu Mingzhong's first choice for the development of the textile industry. It is also necessary to promote this industrial chain.

Before the crossing, although Zhu Mingzhong had not been in contact with textile machinery, as an engineering student, he also had a certain understanding of textile machinery, and he always knew a little about the structure of the shuttle. Sometimes, this little understanding is enough to advance the time of invention by decades, after all, he does not need to spend years to get the inspiration like the inventor of the shuttle in history. Standing on the shoulders of giants, the inventors of history have told him about their inspiration.

However, despite knowing the structure of the flying edge, it still took him a few months to design the flying shuttle loom, after all, inspiration is inspiration, design is design. In order to develop the shuttle loom, the rear office of the government office even had a few more old-fashioned looms, and it was through the study of the old-fashioned looms that he successfully invented the shuttle loom.

In fact, the shuttle loom is not complicated, the key to the shuttle loom is to install a shuttle with a small wheel in the chute, he installed the shuttle box on both sides of the loom, connected by a long wooden plank, that is, the track, each shuttle box has a horizontal metal rod or spindle, there is a belt sensor or knot slides with the spindle by itself, each knot is tied with a loose rope, and these ropes are connected by a stick or cotton swab in the center of the loom, The weaver only needs one hand to slide the knot and drive the shuttle, and the shuttle shuttles freely on the track, so that the weft yarn quickly passes through the warp, so that even the widest cloth can be completed by only one weaver.

It's just that Zhu Mingzhong's invention is not just a shuttle, but a more advanced hydraulic loom, compared with the old loom, the hydraulic shuttle loom is not only easy to use, but also very efficient.

One can even say to some extent. He completely subverted the history of the development of textile machinery in this time and space, and now he invents these textile machinery. It is far more advanced than similar textile machinery in history.

Just like the Jenny spinning machine he invented, it was actually more similar to the screw machine that had been continuously improved, and could spin both fine and roving yarns. As for this loom, it is a flying shuttle loom, but it is also a hydraulic loom, and it is powered by water power, unlike the flying shuttle loom in another time and space, which uses human power as the power.

In the newly built weaving workshop of the yarn factory, looking at more than a dozen female workers who are weaving, these looms make a "chirping" sound, which will always remind people of "chirp and chirp, Mulan is a household weaving." Mulan poems. Looking at the wide cloth that was woven, Zhu Mingzhong had a smile on his face, this wide cloth was the driving force for the industrial revolution.

It was its emergence that increased the demand for cotton yarn, and then led to the invention of the Jenny machine, and then because of the limitation of the use of hydraulic power, it directly led to the invention of machinery such as the steam engine, and finally, everything converged into the four words "Industrial Revolution".

Now, the basic elements of the industrial revolution have basically formed a foundation in Jiangbei, and the rest is just time, and it takes time to brew everything. With the invention, improvement and use of cotton textile machines, the processes related to this have also been continuously innovated and mechanized. For example, cotton purification machines, carding machines, dyeing machines, etc., have been invented and widely used, so that the entire system of the cotton textile industry has realized mechanization.

The process of the Industrial Revolution is one in which invention leads to invention, and there is a chain reaction in various industrial sectors. From light industry to heavy industry, from working machines to engines, they promote and promote each other, and finally form a complete system of machine production. The Industrial Revolution in Britain lasted about 100 years, from the middle of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century.

"Now Qingjiang Textile Factory, a total of 1,240 workers, it can be said that in addition to the arsenal, shipyard, it is already the largest workshop in the whole Jiangbei, and with the completion of the weaving branch, the number of workers in the textile factory will exceed 2,000 people......

As the general office of the textile factory, Li Fengqin graduated from Qinghe Academy, unlike many other students, long before Zhu Zhiyu presided over the academy, he had already concentrated on practical learning, but there was no famous teacher to teach, and after Zhu Zhiyu presided over the academy, he was praised many times, when building the Tucheng of Qinghe, as a grassroots supervisor, he gave full play to his organizational level there, and even served as the general office of the textile factory also benefited from the performance there, the construction of the Qinghe city wall, did allow Zhu Mingzhong to discover a group of local talents, And Li Fengqin is one of them,

"Compared with the old loom, the hydraulic loom invented by Jinglu has improved the work efficiency by 40 times. That is to say, when the 400 looms are fully put into production, the production capacity of this factory alone is equivalent to 16,000 old looms, and they are all cotton cloth with a width of more than three feet, although the quality is slightly inferior to the cotton cloth of Songjiang, but it is better than most of the homespun cloth, its quality is uniform, but its price is quite low, more than three percent cheaper than Songjiang cloth. ”

Cheapness is the biggest advantage of industrial production, but now when listening to Li Fengqin mention "Songjiang cloth", Zhu Mingzhong immediately thought of the reality of male ploughing and female weaving, although he knew very well that these machine-made cotton cloth would not have an impact on Songjiang cloth in the short term, but he was still quite worried and said.

"That's equivalent to 16,000 looms, how many looms are there in the Songjiang area? I don't think there are more than 100,000 sheets, the scale of this cloth factory must be controlled for the time being, and we must find a way to avoid a surplus of cotton cloth, and what things must be mastered. ”

Zhu Mingzhong is not a capitalist, and he can't look at the problem completely from the perspective of capital, especially in China in this era, maybe the male farmer and the female weaver will eventually be eliminated by history, but the process of elimination in history is slow.

"Strategy, at least for the moment there is no need to worry about this problem, this year Jiangbei is also smooth, since the strategy presided over Jiangbei, the reduction and exemption of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the people of Jiangbei have all benefited from it, plus this year's wind and rain, the people have money in their hands, they will naturally buy new clothes, so this year's cotton cloth will be a big seller. Not to mention factory fabric, even Songjiang cloth may need to purchase hundreds of thousands of horses to meet the needs of the people. ”

As the general manager of the textile factory, Li Fengqin naturally understands the needs of the market better, while Zhu Mingzhong just nodded slightly, and then said softly.

"Therefore, if the cotton cloth sells well this year, the people will buy looms one after another, and when the time comes, the cotton cloth will inevitably be in surplus, what should I do when the time comes?"