Chapter 66 Spinning and Weaving

After the navy was formed, Pan Xuezhong also said goodbye to several brothers and rushed back. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Now his glass products and mirrors business has expanded to the whole territory of Zhejiang, and even Songjiang and Suyang have many merchants coming to his door. Now every time he runs, he can earn back hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for the family, and the brothers and uncles in the family want to participate.

Quite simply, whoever presides over this business will definitely be the head of the family in the future. Although Pan Xuezhong is not the son of a big house, he is really too capable, and his brilliance overshadows everyone for a while.

Of course, with the help of Pan Xuezhong, Wang Rui began to earn back hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every month. However, all this money was invested in the construction of the army by Wang Rui without hesitation.

In early March of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Wang Rui deliberately sent Li Tianhao out and set up the first office of the Fushan Army outside Dengzhou.

Wang Rui asked him, with the support of the Shi family, to start recruiting a large number of fugitives from Liaodong for Fushan. By July, there were more than 40,000 refugees, street children, and teenagers who had come to Fushan.

These heavy burdens and unstable factors in the eyes of Dengzhou officials have become human resources that Wang Rui cannot ask for before he arrives in Fushan. At the beginning of the year, he successively built more than a dozen new spinning mills and weaving factories, directly swallowing tens of thousands of Liao people.

These cheap laborers were directly enriched into Wang Rui's industrial production process, and their hard work contributed to Wang's military expansion and strength expansion.

After Pan Xuezhong's sales were successful at the beginning of the year, after the funds were recovered, Wang Rui decided to start his own industrial expansion plan.

In his memory, the first industrial revolution began with the spinning and textile industry. Therefore, he first copied the "Jenny Spinning Machine" at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

When Wang Rui was in junior high and high school, some of his classmates were children of Chongqing cotton spinning factory. This person is a second-generation factory who likes to toss mechanically, and in order to show his awesomeness, he called Wang Rui for several summer vacations to imitate Jenny's spinning machine and shuttle loom with him.

Although the two of them felt that there was little point in copying these outdated machines, they were unwilling to dampen the enthusiasm of the two teenagers to study and study.

In addition to providing them with data drawings, the two of them also personally went down to analyze and guide the two of them hand-in-hand whenever they had time.

Don't say it, although there have been a few failures, in the end, these two machines really made two hairy boys. At that time, the chief engineer of the cotton mill came to see it by accident, and said that the level of these two machines definitely exceeded the level of the British at that time.

Now Wang Rui's thinking ability and hands-on ability are much stronger than when he was a teenager in the previous time and space, and with the help of Ma Ju, a person who is proficient in woodworking machinery, in less than half a month, the two of them have built a mature machine.

Because the first person to participate in the spinning test was Li Lao Xiucai's daughter Xiaofang, Wang Rui waved his hand and named it "Xiaofang Spinning Machine"!

Yes, now Wang Rui is the inventor, so he can naturally name it according to his own preferences. Anyway, James Hargreaves, who was born more than 100 years later, and his daughter Jenny could not go to the end of the Ming Dynasty to sue him for infringement.

The lively girl who has been following Xiaofang is surnamed Zhang, and her father is still a lifter, so when she was named, she may have been named "There is a beautiful woman in the north", so she was named "Zhang Beijia".

However, her whole family was also killed by the hateful Jiannu. Fortunately, because of her wild nature, she ran to the mountains to play that day, and she escaped a catastrophe.

She was different from all the people in front of Fushan, and the others were a little scared when they saw Wang Rui. She is the only one, who has always been very arrogant when she sees Wang Rui, and no matter what men and women are defenseless, she rushed over and pulled Wang Rui to call her eldest brother.

After hearing that Wang Rui named the new spinning machine "Xiaofang Spinning Machine", she ran to hold Wang Rui's arm and asked Wang Rui to name another loom "Beijia Loom".

Wang Rui deliberately teased her, saying that he wanted to name it after Ma Ju. It wasn't until she used the two big and soft rabbits on her chest to entangle Wang Rui to the point that she had three legs, and Wang Rui agreed with a grin.

"Whew! I'm so fucking shameless! After the two girls left with red faces, Wang Rui scolded himself proudly.

In fact, the shuttle loom and the Jenny spinning machine did not appear all at once in England, but there were many twists and turns. However, Wang Rui, as a traverser, directly took it for his own use, and suddenly led this era by more than 100 years.

In the mid-eighteenth century, English goods were increasingly being sold abroad, and the production technology of the artisanal workshops was insufficient. In order to increase production, people are looking for ways to improve production technology.

In the cotton textile sector, people first invented a weaving tool called the shuttle, which greatly accelerated the speed of weaving and stimulated the demand for cotton yarn.

In the sixties of the eighteenth century, the weaver James Hargreaves invented the hand-spinning machine called the "Jenny Machine". The "Jenny Machine" can spin many cotton threads at once, which greatly increases the productivity of spinning.

In fact, the invention of Jenny's spinning machine was also discovered by accident. It all started one day in 1764. James Hargreaves, a weaver in Lancashire, England, came home that night and opened the door and accidentally kicked over the spinning machine that his wife was using. But when he bent down, he was suddenly stunned, for he saw that the spinning machine that had been kicked down was still spinning, but the spindle that had been horizontal had become upright.

He suddenly thought: If several spindles were arranged vertically and driven by a spinning wheel, wouldn't it be possible to spin more yarn at once? Hargreaves was so excited that he immediately tried to do it, and the next day he built a new spinning machine that used one spinning wheel to drive eight vertical spindles, and was eight times more efficient at once.

In 1764 a spinning machine named after his daughter Jeanne was made. This is the earliest multi-spindle hand spinning machine, equipped with eight spindles, fed with fiber strips in rollers, suitable for spinning fibers such as cotton, wool, and linen.

With Xiaofang spinning machine and Beijia loom, Wang Rui felt that he had finally started industrial production in this world more than 100 years in advance. In the face of the power of large-scale industrial production, the scattered organizational and economic forces of agricultural society will be directly crushed in front of it.

However, after the establishment of these factories, Wang Rui began to have new troubles. He has no shortage of manpower, and there are many fleeing Liao people, displaced people in Shandong and other places, and they are invited to eat bowls of rice. However, to spin and weave cloth, raw materials are needed. Therefore, since the beginning of the year, Wang Rui began to buy cotton on a large scale without refusal.

Because of the efficient use of "Xiaofang Spinning Machine" and "Beijia Loom", Wang Rui needs to purchase a huge amount of cotton to maintain the normal production of the factory.

However, there is a long time for a large amount of cotton to be purchased and put into the warehouse, and then spun into yarn and woven into cloth for sale. In between, a huge amount of money is needed to maintain the operation of more than a dozen workshops.

Fortunately, the two products of glass and mirror brought back hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every month. However, Wang Rui was fully involved in the spinning mills and weaving factories established later.

Moreover, in order to break the composition of his subordinates, Wang Rui recruited 5,000 soldiers from the newly arrived Liao people in various specious names. In particular, the number of the Junior Guards Battalion has now exceeded two thousand.

These items have to be spent like a stream, and the strong man who is involved in financial management has come to report several times, saying that the fund reserves are less than a month.

"I don't know when the second brother will come back! I'm going to go to the Japanese to fight the autumn breeze! Otherwise, Lao Tzu is really going bankrupt. One day in early July, Wang Rui muttered to himself while drinking tea.

Fortunately, he didn't have to wait long, and at noon on July 4, Chen Song, the newly promoted chief of the guard, ran in excitedly and reported: "My lord! Young Master Pan is back! Ten large ships came back with them. ”

Now almost everyone in Wang Rui's Juvenile Guards Battalion is literate and countable, so now the delivery of materials and the settlement of money and food basically do not need Wang Rui to worry about it. After the matter is done, the working groups on duty will naturally come back to report.

Now every time the materials are delivered, it has become a good errand for the teenagers to compete for. After joining the working group, there will be a more direct opportunity to show his face in front of Lord Wang, so as to get the opportunity to be promoted and valued by Lord Wang.