Yang Li has been studying the improvement of the loom in recent months, and if it weren't for the fact that Li Yuanjing was dragged to create a beautiful model of the palace, it is estimated that the new loom would have been studied long ago.

People who don't understand it will naturally think that the loom is a very complicated thing, but those who can understand the principle don't think so.

As the saying goes, those who understand naturally understand, and those who don't understand tell him ten thousand times that they don't understand.

Although Li Yuanjing put forward suggestions for improvement, he himself did not know much about looms.

The reason why he was able to make a suggestion was not because he knew the development of looms in later generations, but because he saw why the looms were so inefficient today.

The most time-consuming part of the old loom is the threading, which is to take a large shuttle and carry a thick pile of thread through it over and over again.

After wearing, you need to manually adjust it again, otherwise the woven cloth may have different stitches and cannot be sold at a price.

Seeing that Yang Li's wife was skillfully weaving with the improved loom, Li Yuanjing had no concept of efficiency compared to before, but he felt a lot more relaxed.

"Your Highness, this new loom is at least twice as efficient as the old one!" Yang Li explained excitedly.

This was not something that Yang Li said as soon as his mind was hot, but the conclusion that his wife finally came to after experiencing it herself and spending half a day of hard work to weave cloth.

"Who came up with this?" Li Yuanjing asked, pointing to a small device on the left.

"It was the little wife who came up with it, with a bundle of thread to shuttle back and forth, no matter how the shuttle changed shape, the efficiency improvement was always limited, so I thought of using this method, the disadvantage is that the left stitch is too wide, and every time you need to manually pull the thread from the right side." Yang Lihan said with a smile.

"How long will it take to build one?" Li Yuanjing nodded, everything has a time span, and it is impossible for human beings to evolve from the Stone Age to modern times in one step, Yang Li was able to think of this method, in fact, it was beyond Li Yuanjing's psychological expectations.

At least in Li Yuanjing's view, this has some characteristics of the mechanization era, although it is unlikely to be achieved in the short term, but the direction is not wrong, and this machine has further room for improvement, not to mention, as long as the problem of manual wire pulling is solved, the efficiency can at least be doubled.

"If you build a new one, you can build one in five days, but you can transform it from the old loom, you only need to replace these few parts, and you can transform five small looms in one day." Yang Li pointed to the few small parts that had been changed.

"Teach your apprentices how to build looms, they don't need to know every part, they take it apart into parts, they set the specifications, each person is only responsible for building one part, and finally all the parts are gathered together for assembly." Li Yuanjing sighed, for the sake of Mao, the ancients didn't find the benefits of the assembly line?

It takes five days for a person to build a loom that is not complicated, and ten people can only build ten in five days, but if the assembly line is used, ten people can build ten in one day, and the efficiency has increased by more than five times.

"Okay, it's just that the speed of their division may be slowing down!" Yang Li nodded, a little reluctant.

"Don't worry about those irrelevant issues, your efforts are all in the king's eyes, when the time comes, it will naturally work for you!" Li Yuanjing gave Yang Li a reassurance, the assembly line naturally has the disadvantages of the assembly line, but the assembly line is the general trend.

While increasing production capacity, it does not affect the training of talents.

"How much stock do we have now?" Li Yuanjing turned his head and asked, all these people present were shareholders.

"I can probably weave 100,000 horses, the price of the thread has risen recently, and I don't dare to buy too much!" Fang Yiai thought for a moment and said.

Looking at Yang Li's wife, who was still weaving, Li Yuanjing suddenly thought of a question.

"How long does it take to weave a piece of cloth?"

Although Yang Li said that the efficiency had doubled, the speed of weaving was not fast, and he doubted that he could finish weaving a piece of cloth in a day.

"Your Highness, this depends on the use, if it is just for ordinary farmers' own use, then it will only be woven for a while in their free time, according to the fifty feet of cloth on the market, it may take half a year or a year to weave a piece of cloth, but if it is kept weaving, at this rate, it will take about seven days to weave a piece of cloth." Yang Li's wife stopped what she was doing, and she had the most say on this issue.

When he heard that it would take half a year to weave a piece of cloth, Li Yuanjing instantly chose to retreat, he knew why the cloth was so expensive.

Most of the cloth in the cloth shop is collected from ordinary farmers, because the efficiency is not high, its own cost is actually not much, but the cost of collecting cloth is high, but even so, the profit of the cloth shop is at least half.

Li Yuanjing found that his big boss seemed to be too unqualified, he didn't know how many raw materials he received, he didn't know how much he could produce in a day, and more importantly, he didn't even know what the cost was, so it seemed really embarrassing......

"Just counting the cost of materials, about forty dollars a horse." Fang Yiai seemed to be aware of Li Yuanjing's embarrassment, and said with a needle.

What they buy is only the most ordinary twine, which cannot be sold for money in the people, and the only use is that it can be used to pay taxes, and the government uses it to make rope.

And the most commonly used by the people, in addition to making ropes, another is to make linen, which is commonly known as raw silk, silk cloth and the like.

Li Yuanjing thought about it, there is less than half a month before the end of the year, and no matter how hard he works now, he can't keep up with the New Year.

And it's about scale, and the bigger the scale, the lower the cost.

On top of that, they don't have a factory yet, and that's the biggest problem.

"Teach your apprentices a few years ago, make sure they can independently manufacture their assigned parts, start after the year, make every effort to manufacture, the goal is a thousand units, you guide them for a few days, and when they are proficient, you will quit, take a few people to continue to study, find a way to save the link of pulling the line, and the other is to thread and this, this king thinks that you can refer to the principle of the waterwheel, and use a circular pedal to drive it below, to see how to make them run by themselves." Li Yuanjing roughly arranged a direction with Yang Li.

If nothing else, Yang Li will be tied to the loom for the rest of his life, and if a person devotes himself to an industry for a lifetime, if it can bring earth-shaking changes to this industry, then it is undoubtedly worth it.

Li Yuanjing turned his head to look at Fang Er again, he was in charge of this matter, and now Fang Er and Cheng Er were the most idle.

"After the beginning of spring, a piece of land will be set up there, a courtyard wall will be built first, and a few large houses will be built, which does not need to be too good, just shelter from the wind and rain, and then move the loom in, and you can find a steward to be responsible for this matter!"