Fujian Governor Zhang opened the market again, Longyou Merchant Gang, Ningbo Merchant Gang, Huizhou Merchant Gang, Jiangxi Merchant Gang, the merchants of the four major merchant gangs flocked to the city, and the success of Yuegang told Tan that he could definitely make a lot of money by running with the governor.

Of course, now Lord Zhang is no longer the Governor, but the Governor, the Governor of Fuguang, but they subconsciously think of the Governor, because it feels cordial.

This time, the governor did not organize everyone to raise donations, but only informed the major business gangs that there was no need to donate money, but the rent had risen, because it was rented with the house, so if you are interested, you can come and take a look.

Just kidding, who is not interested in making a lot of money.

Those who rented land in Yuegang have made a lot of money in the past two years, and as soon as they received the news, they immediately came over.

Those who didn't rent land in Yuegang were almost red in their eyes, and as soon as they received the news, they ran faster than rabbits.

The new mutual market is at the mouth of the Pearl River in the south of Guangzhou, and I heard that the governor has specially given it a name, which is called Zhuhai, and a county government has been set up, that is to say, this will be a new county seat in the future.

When the merchants of the four major merchant gangs came to Zhuhai, they were immediately stunned.

Oh my God, it's a super city in front of them!

They originally thought that when they came over this time, they could see the city wall road or something, just like the last time Yuegang, you went to pick a piece of land by yourself, and then built a shop, but this time someone built it for you.

These merchants didn't expect that not only the city walls and roads had been built, but even the shops and other things had been built, waiting for you to pick them up.

This time it was even more convenient than the last time, not only the shops were built, but there were also a lot of people accompanying them, and each street had a leading officer, and each officer had ten miscellaneous servants under him.

If you like which shop, just call a handyman to come over, tell him, and he will immediately help you get the lease, sign and pledge, and hand over the money to the handyman, and the shop will belong to you, or the shop has been rented, and you can buy goods and open a business.

The shops here are all in a uniform style, with a two-story building in front of it, which is used as a storefront, and a small yard in the back, with a simple warehouse, as well as halls, bedrooms, kitchens and other living places, each shop is exactly one acre.

The rent of this kind of shop is a little expensive, it costs thirty taels a year, but it is much cheaper than building a shop by yourself, so many houses, let alone fifty or sixty taels of silver, and it also takes time.

If you come to build it yourself, buy materials everywhere, invite people, at least a month, and you have to invite people, like when Yuegang just started to build a new building, everywhere is asking people to build houses, go late, you can't invite people at all, at least have to wait for a month or two, wait for someone else's shop to be built, and then it's your turn.

In that case, they will lose a lot of money, not to mention a Chinese New Year's Eve, the loss in a month is more than thirty taels, they are doing big business, delay one or two months, the loss of three hundred taels, three thousand taels, or even thirty thousand taels is possible!

Of course, there is not only one kind of one-acre shop in this Zhuhai market, there are many other types of buildings.

Like two acres of large warehouses built tens of thousands, these people are doing big business, the small place in the store, can also store samples of all kinds of goods, real wholesale things, must have a large warehouse, otherwise, there is no stock, people are likely not to buy it here, so a large warehouse is a must.

There is also a large courtyard covering an area of hundreds of acres, with a large two-story frontage façade in front and a large courtyard in the back.

Of course, a city can not only have shops, all kinds of restaurants, tea shops, green buildings and other consumption places must also have, these consumption places have several in each street, of course, to make money to spend, consumption is a good way to stimulate economic development.

The so-called buildings near the water get the first month, and the four major merchants thought that they came early, but they never thought that when they came, many shops had already begun to do business, especially those restaurants, tea shops, and green buildings, which had basically opened.

At this moment, they suddenly realized that there was still a Guangdong merchant gang in Guangdong, and it was also one of the top ten merchant gangs.

Of course, there is also Dongshengtang, the entire Zhuhai New Town is almost funded by Dongshengtang, they are naturally the first to open to do business, and there are quite a lot of shops, almost every street has a branch of Dongshengtang, because the streets here are divided into types, and each street only sells one type of goods.

Looking at the Guangzhou merchant gang and the shops in Dongshengtang, whose business was already booming, the merchants of the four major merchant gangs immediately took action and grabbed it like crazy.

Zhang Bin's idea of engaging in real estate can be described as just right, at least in Zhuhai mutual market, quite popular, 20,000 individual shops are being rented at a rate of hundreds a day, this is still because there are regulations, a merchant is only allowed to rent ten shops at most, otherwise so stipulated, many large merchants will rent street by street, 20,000 shops, and the helmsman of several big business gangs can easily wrap up!

10,000 large warehouses with an area of two acres are also quite popular, and hundreds of them are rented out every day.

What Zhang Bin didn't expect was that the kind of super-large courtyard covering an area of hundreds of acres was quite popular, originally he wanted to rent this kind of large courtyard to a big merchant gang as a guild hall, but he didn't expect that there was no need for the major merchant gangs to join forces to rent, some big merchants rented this kind of compound alone, because their business is big, they need such a large place, dozens of such courtyards, it seems that it is not enough, and it is about to be robbed in a few days.

The rental of shops is booming, but the Governor has never shown up, not to mention the new county town of Zhuhai here, and he can't be seen in the provincial capital of Guangzhou, and the Governor seems to be missing!

Why did Zhang Bin go?

In fact, he was in Zhuhai County, he was organizing people to develop steam looms, as early as the governor of Fujian, he put forward the idea of using steam power to weave cloth, but at that time, Wang Zheng's main task was to develop new machine tools, improve muskets and artillery, and then frantically increase the output of muskets and artillery, they simply did not have time to consider the problem of steam looms.

At this time, there was an opportunity to establish Zhuhai New City, and Zhang Bin asked people to build a super-large weaving factory, just to make this steam loom to increase the output of cloth and silk and seize overseas markets.

In order to develop the steam loom as soon as possible, he organized a special research and development team, including Wang Zheng, a mechanical expert, and more than ten craftsmen of all kinds, some of whom specialize in making looms, some of whom specialize in processing copperware, some of whom are ordinary carpenters and blacksmiths, and some of whom are weavers who specialize in weaving, and he acts as the chief engineer to guide and coordinate.

At this time, the loom was still purely manual, and after the yarn was worn, there were a total of three actions in the weaving process.

In the first step, the left and right feet step on the pedal so that the longitudinally adjacent yarns are crossed;

In the second step, a shuttle is used to cross the longitudinal crossed line with a transverse line;

The third step is to hit the shuttle through the horizontal line tightly with a special grate a few times.

In this cycle, a piece of cloth, four zhang long, it takes a skilled weaver almost a month to weave.

How exactly does this steam loom work?

These actions seem very simple, pedaling, this is the simplest, directly installing two small steam pistons, exactly the same effect as pedaling.

The action of hitting the grate is similar, a small steam piston is added to the push rod on each side of the grate, and the impact action is also completed.

The shuttle is a little more troublesome, you have to make two steam pistons to drive the wire wheel, use the line to pull the shuttle up, this side of the wheel turns, the shuttle runs this way, that side of the wheel turns, the shuttle runs that side.

These seemed to be very simple, with the assistance of craftsmen and weavers, Wang Zheng soon added steam pistons to each action, and the wire wheel was also very easy to do, doing two wooden things for a quarter of an hour.

In the empty workshop of the weaving factory, the first steam loom was born, in the corner of the workshop, more than 20 people surrounded a loom with a small boiler, Zhang Bin, the governor of Fuguang, guided, and Wang Zheng, the prefect of Guangzhou, commanded people to operate, the water boiled, the valve moved, and the loom really moved by itself.

After trying for about half an hour, everyone came to the conclusion that if you control the valve by hand, you can also weave cloth, but this efficiency has not improved, but people will not get tired, after all, the place where you want to use force is replaced by a steam piston, and the valve does not need much strength under light control.

But, just like this is meaningless, the efficiency is not improved is equivalent to working in vain, and even increases the cost of the loom, people will not buy this loom to weave cloth at all, just kidding, labor is not valuable, you still have to burn steam, not to mention anything else, just this firewood money is not cost-effective, labor is also wasted, you have to add firewood money, a piece of cloth can also make a fart money!

This effect, when it was made, Wang Zheng was dumbfounded, and more than ten craftsmen and weavers were also dumbfounded, they all looked at the Governor stupidly, and they didn't know why the Governor was so amusing everyone.

Twenty or so people, it took more than ten days to make a new type of loom, the effect is not as good as the old one, Lord Governor, this is too boring!

Of course, Zhang Bin is not boring, the reason why he asked people to do it slowly according to the original structure, and added a steam piston on the original basis, in fact, just wanted to carefully observe the working principle of the loom, to put it bluntly, he was learning how to weave, because he didn't know how to weave.

If you want to design something, you always have to know what this thing is for, and how to operate it, you don't understand these things, and it's strange that the designed things can be used.

After observing these days, he finally had a full understanding of the principle of the loom and the process of weaving, and at this time, he could really start developing.

In the stupid eyes of everyone, Zhang Bin carefully looked at the position of the steam pipeline and valve, and then instructed: "Move the valve of the foot pedal to the piston of the shuttle, and let the piston of the shuttle on both sides drive the valve of the foot pedal." ”

This is very simple, the reason is also very simple, it is not so simple to do, everyone turned off the steam, cooled the official road and valve with cold water, Wang Zheng instructed several specialized coppersmiths to remove the official road and valve, and took it to the processing workshop not far away to process it according to his requirements, and then took it back and installed it, this time, almost two hours have passed.

However, the effect is amazing, because there are pistons on both sides that pull the shuttle to drive the valve of the foot pedal, and they only need to control two valves to complete four actions!

Wang Zheng seemed to understand something, it turned out that on the machine, he could also use one action to control another action!

Looking at several weavers clumsily controlling the valve, the two movements of the loom were coherent, and a fine light slowly appeared in his eyes, and a magical door was slowly opening to him.

Zhang Bin looked at the effect and instructed: "Move the valve that controls the impact of the grate to the piston of the foot pedal, and let the piston of the foot pedal drive the valve that controls the impact of the grate." ”

At this time, Wang Zheng instantly understood what it meant, he immediately instructed everyone to turn off the steam, cool the official road and valve with cold water, and instructed several special coppersmiths to remove the official road and valve, and take it to the processing workshop not far away to process it quickly, this time it took less than an hour before and after, and the transformation was completed.

Sure enough, the loom moved continuously, and as long as the two valves were controlled, six actions could be completed!

After looking at the effect for a while, Wang Zheng asked excitedly: "Do you move the valve that controls the shuttle on the right to the piston of the shuttle on the left, so that the action on the left controls the action on the right?" ”

Zhang Bin nodded with satisfaction: "Yes!" ”

Wang Zheng immediately shouted excitedly, and soon, everyone cooled the pipes and valves and took them to be processed.

This time, in less than half an hour, the official road and valves were processed, and the transformation was completed quickly.

As soon as the steam was passed, a miracle occurred, as soon as the valve of the piston on the left that controls the shuttle was opened, the whole loom began to weave by itself as if someone was operating it!

That's fast, it's more than three times faster than manual!

What is this concept, a four-zhang long cloth, as long as ten days can be woven, no, this machine will not be tired, there is no need to rest at all, as long as someone is watching, he can also weave cloth at night, in this way, five days can weave a piece of cloth, the efficiency is increased by six times!

Wang Zheng's face flushed with excitement, it was amazing, it was amazing, it turned out that the machine could still move like this!

Zhang Bin looked at the effect, but shook his head and said: "Liangfu, this steam pipeline is too messy, change it well, and try to make it short and neat." ”

This is all a trivial matter, Wang Zheng glanced at the steam official, and immediately nodded and said: "Okay, no problem, this is changed, if it is new, it won't be so messy." ”

Zhang Bin thought for a while, and then instructed: "This steam piston is not necessary to use such a big one, the weaving is not to process muskets, artillery, it does not require much strength, the piston is big, not only a waste of materials, but also a waste of fuel, weaving is to make money by volume, like such a large weaving factory, to start all operations, at least thousands of looms can be installed, one saves a little, thousands of units add up is not a small number." ”

Wang Zheng immediately nodded and said, "Understood, understood." ”

Zhang Bin pointed to the cloth on the loom and said: "The cloth can be widened, anyway, the shuttle is pulled by a reel, if you increase the reel, the cloth will be wider, the reason why the cloth woven in the past is three or four feet wide, is because the human hand is not long enough, now, no matter how wide you are, there is no problem." ”

Wang Zheng thought about it, and immediately nodded excitedly: "I understand, this efficiency can be improved again, even if the width is doubled, in fact, the speed is still the same!" ”

Zhang Bin nodded, and finally concluded: "If you look closely, there are some places that should be replaced with copper, and those that can be replaced with iron will be replaced with iron. ”

Wang Zheng nodded again and again: "Understood, understood, my lord, you go and get busy, just leave these to me." ”

Zhang Bin really wanted to go out to have a look, in order to develop this steam loom, he stayed here to concentrate on studying and thinking for more than ten days, and he didn't care about anything outside.

The development of new technologies is only one aspect of economic development, and other aspects cannot be relaxed.

Early the next morning, he took the guards and slowly made his rounds.

First of all, he went out into the streets, and since he was dressed in civilian clothes, no one recognized him, and the heads of the merchant gangs who knew him could not have wandered the streets like him.

At this time, the entire Zhuhai New Town was already bustling, and he chose a street at random and stepped into it to observe.

He paid attention to the details, first of all, at the entrance of the street, the stone tablet, he looked carefully, there were many words engraved on it, the most conspicuous is naturally the big three red characters, porcelain street.

Later, there were all kinds of words, none of which were Chinese characters, and he didn't know any of them, but he nodded with satisfaction, because these words were not for him to see, but for traders from all over the world.

Immediately afterwards, he observed one by one, and he carefully checked the door frames of each business, and there were house numbers, and he carefully checked the signboards of several shops, which were all the same as the house numbers, and it seemed that there was no problem with this.

Later, he observed the people on the street, there were vendors, interpreters, inspectors, people who specialized in carrying goods, etc., everything was in order.

After taking a closer look, he couldn't help but nod with satisfaction, he carefully explained many details to Zhang Guowei, and it seems that Zhang Guowei has done a very good job.

This is some of the details he sorted out according to the impression of later generations, don't underestimate these details, one or two may seem nothing, all combined together is a new atmosphere, a kind of commercial development of the atmosphere, he has been to many cities in the Ming Dynasty, found that many details are unreasonable, combined is a kind of shackles on commercial development, to vigorously develop business, it is necessary to create a new atmosphere, new atmosphere.

After walking around the street, he did not go to the county office, but to the newly built city office office.

It stands to reason that the opening of the mutual market must be managed by the city and the city, but Zhang Bin did not propose to Chongzhen to add the city of the city, but directly pulled Wang Chengen over and asked him to take charge of it.

Of course, Wang Chengen is not very careful, the main person in charge is Cao Defu and his three brothers, these three students, the officials are very good, Zhang Bin simply let them do the officials, not only the commercial taxes and tariffs in Yuegang, but also the commercial taxes and tariffs in Zhuhai Let them be responsible, which is to prevent corrupt officials from causing trouble to him as much as possible.

The city division turned around, checked the work of Cao Defu and Cao Delu brothers, and chatted with Wang Chengen for a while, he was finally relieved, there is no problem with the development of Zhuhai, and next, you can focus on the Dutch.