The current situation is equivalent to Wang Yue disbanding 10,000 weavers in Suzhou. According to his vision, women should be the main force in the textile industry, and men should do men's things.

There is no shortage of women in the silk weaving industry in Daming, but most of them are engaged in silk-related work, such as embroidery, etc., and there is less in the cotton weaving industry, which is also related to the current low productivity, and many processes of cotton weaving are still heavy manual labor.

However, with the implementation of various machines in the starting point city, this situation will definitely change, so Wang Yue disbanded those weavers.

Several master weavers began to operate the machine, and one person turned the handle of the spinning machine, and the wheel of the spinning machine turned rapidly.

Then the cotton slivers made by one person according to a certain specification are put into the feed port, and the continuous cotton yarn on the other side is automatically rolled into a heavy spindle, the cotton yarn thickness is uniform, the broken end is very rare, and the number of these spindles has reached an astonishing forty spindles.

Moreover, the spinner only needs to pay attention to the connection of the thread, which means that one person can take care of several spinning machines.

The role of the shuttle loom is also obvious, the speed of weaving is increased exponentially, the woven cloth is wide and strong, and the cloth bought on the market is not a grade at all, a loom only needs one person to operate, and the labor intensity is greatly reduced.

The two truckloads of cotton prepared in advance were turned into cloth in less than half a day after a few processes in front of everyone, and everyone was stunned by this scene.

The live demonstration of both machines is powered by manual hand cranking, and the hand crank device is similar to the design of the pulley block, so it is very labor-saving.

The woven cloth was delivered to the merchants, and it is not difficult to see from the feel and texture of the cloth that the craftsmanship of this cloth is even more delicate and flexible than their own cloth.

Zhang Zhong said with a smile: "Ladies and gentlemen, most of your weaving mills have waterwheels, and if these machines are driven by water power, the efficiency will be higher. ”

The use of water-powered weaving has already been invented in the Southern Song Dynasty, so most weaving mills in the Suzhou area have waterwheels.

The spinning technology of the Ming Dynasty is mainly inherited from Huang Daopo, the original spinning machine of Huang Daopo is three spindles, and some spinning wheels can reach up to five spindles after improvement, but because it is a transverse spinning machine, it is basically based on four spindles.

The reason why Jenny spinning machine can arrange more spindles is because of the vertical arrangement of spindles, the first version of Jenny spinning machine has reached as many as eight spindles, and the improved version of the yarn machine taken out by the starting point city is forty spindles, which is ten times that of the Ming Dynasty spinning machine.

Not only that, the thickness of the cotton yarn spun by the improved reel spinning machine is consistent, and the cotton cloth woven with this cotton yarn plus the shuttle loom is uniform and fine, and the quality is much better than that of ordinary cotton cloth in the late Ming Dynasty.

The businessmen here all run weaving mills, and the so-called connoisseurs will know if there is one or there as soon as they stretch out their hands, and the efficiency of these two machines is obvious to all.

A group of businessmen looked at the two machines as if they had seen a big beauty, their eyes and hearts were hot, and the abacus in everyone's hearts crackled.

This machine tops their original ten looms, which is equivalent to saving ninety percent of labor at once, how much is the wage saved? However, there is more than that, they originally need two people to work on a loom, which is equivalent to reducing the manpower by double, not only that, the quality of the cloth woven by this machine is better, how to choose is self-evident.

"Manager Zhang, how much do these two machines cost?" The spinning machine and loom are all steel, and it is estimated that the price is not low, so Pan Jingwen asked cautiously.

Zhang Zhong said: "A spinning machine is eighty taels, a loom is one hundred and twenty taels, the manual wheel of the spinning machine is not in the list of sales, this spinning machine is hydraulic." ”

Of course, the cost and efficiency ratio of water power is higher than that of manpower, and Pan Jingwen said without hesitation after listening to the quotation: "Our Pan family wants one hundred and fifty spinning machines and one hundred looms." ”

"Our Li family wants a hundred spinning machines and eighty looms!"

"Our Zhang family wants one hundred and twenty spinning machines ......!"

The merchants scrambled to shout, for fear that others would take the lead and have no share of their own.

Is this machine expensive? In fact, it is not expensive at all, and these businessmen know it in their hearts. You must know that this is an all-steel machine, and many parts are applied to steel, and the cost price is already expensive. And its efficiency is more than 10 times that of their original loom, so it actually saves money compared to the loom they use now.

The pricing of the two machines was set by Wang Yue himself, and the profit had been pressed to only half, and the purpose was to promote. His long-term idea is to focus on machinery manufacturing in the future, mainly selling all kinds of machinery, and choose to break through the textile field because the textile industry was called the engine of the industrial revolution in the previous life.

Both of these machines are products of the early stage of the industrial revolution, and the structure is not complicated, which is suitable for starting from the starting point city machinery processing factory. In particular, the improved spinning machine is different from the spinning machine of the Ming Dynasty in that it only uses vertical rows to arrange the spindles, so it is easy to imitate.

That is to say, after these spinning machines are bought back by these merchants, it is possible to be imitated, and the way to reduce the cost is that the body structure can be made of wood, of course, the improved Jenny spinning machine is not easy to imitate, if it is handmade, it requires very superb craftsmanship.

Wang Yue did not consider the issue of patents, if someone can imitate successfully, he welcomes it, the industrial revolution needs a hundred flowers to bloom, and the whole society can participate in order to emerge more talents.

After that, the starting point city will successively launch upgraded products, such as 80 spindle spinning machines, spindle worsted spinning machines, etc., according to Wang Yue's vision, and strive to achieve electricity as the power within ten years.

The number of machines ordered by the businessmen here was not large, but Wang Yue was very happy, because this was the first step in the long march.

In the Ming Dynasty, because of productivity, it was still a small peasant society where men ploughed and women weaved, and most of the people who bought finished cloth were wealthy families, so the scale of the weaving workshops in the Ming Dynasty was not large, which was related to production capacity and the income of the people. Wang Yue believes that as long as these two problems are solved, the textile industry will enter a period of rapid development.

Zhang Zhong asked people to count the number of machines ordered by each family, and then he took out a bag of seeds and introduced: "This is a high-yield long-staple cotton seed, not only has a high yield, but also the cotton cloth woven by the grown cotton is more fine, flexible, and elastic, everyone here can buy it back and try it." ”

The long-staple cotton seeds were originally planted by Wang Yue in cooperation with the Xu family in Shanghai, but the Xu family refused.

The performance of the two machines is very intuitive, but unfortunately how about the cotton seeds, no one dares to take this risk, once there is a mistake, it will affect the cotton harvest of a year, so all the businessmen are looking around, and there is no one to take the stubble.

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