The continuous outbreak of microparticle disease in the European sericulture has hit the silkworm industry in France and Italy, the silk centers of Europe, and has to import large quantities of raw silk from Asia for silk production. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Historically, Japan took advantage of this limelight to compare China's raw silk industry with the industrialization of silk reeling, monopolized the huge European and American markets, and completed the accumulation of industrialization.

At present, silk reeling is an industry with natural advantages in China, and it is also the most capable industry to take the lead in the industrial revolution.

Not only because this industry can bring a lot of profit income and accumulate industrialization funds, but more importantly, it will lead the development of other industries, such as the machinery processing industry.

Chen Qiyuan is a scholar, although he systematically visited the French silk reeling factory and made hundreds of pages of notes, but it would be too difficult for him to make a silk reeling machine by himself.

Chen Qiyuan's method was to find a skilled craftsman to help him build, and he heard that Chen Danpu of the small workshop of Luen Tai in Guangzhou knew how to repair Western equipment, and even knew how to repair steam engines, so he personally went to the door, and the two were still fellow countrymen, and after a conversation, Chen Danpu, who was originally very interested in Western machines, agreed to help.

It was obviously not an easy task to hammer out a modern machine with a hammer, and even with Chen Qiyuan's reference to the atlas secretly drawn from France, the two of them still worked hard for a whole year before finally making a set of steam-powered driven silk reeling equipment, which they named Silk Jar.

Using this set of equipment, Chen Qiyuan built a factory in Jiancun, named Jichanglong Silk Reeling Factory, the initial capital is to borrow 8,000 taels of silver from the government, he is not short of money, at least not lacking this money, the reason why he chose to set up a factory in the countryside of Jiancun is mainly worried about the entanglement of the government, and the countryside is the territory of these squires, his Chen family is the local clan, and several nearby villages are controlled by the landlord surnamed Chen, so the land is the county seat, the local people are also familiar, and the villagers and elders have friendships, and the resistance encountered is easy to resolve.

Borrowing money from the government is to get the support of the government.

The government did not trouble them, but the common people were quite frightened by the kind of steam factory that smoked, some said that the reflection of the chimney on their house would bring them bad luck, some said that the roar of the steam engine made his cows no longer lay young, and the chickens did not lay eggs, and so on.

These Chen Qiyuan came to explain one by one, using family affection, relationships, and face, to resolve them one by one, and finally let the factory continue to operate.

The results were very good, with the help of the better and better international market, the price of raw silk per load was as high as 400 silver dollars, in the first year, he earned 30,000 taels of silver, and in the second year he directly quadrupled the scale of the silk side, built four new workshops, and employed as many as 400 female workers.

But his troubles still exist, although they are all local women recruited from the surrounding villages, there are still people who say that it is immoral for men and women to work together, and these need to be solved by Chen Qiyuan.

Three years have passed, Chen Qiyuan's silk reeling factory profit totaled more than 200,000 taels of silver, the profitability of this modern factory is amazing, but also makes people blush, Chen Qiyuan is not confidential, the neighboring village Xuetang village Chen surnamed the same clan Chen Zhiju, Chen Zhishu brothers intend to handle the silk reeling factory, Chen Qiyuan poured his money into teaching, all the skills he mastered, and the neighboring village soon set up a Yuhouchang machine reeling factory.

The expansion of the silk reeling factory was slow in the initial area of Jiancun, but it took root in other places.

Wen Zishao, the wealthy son of the Wen family of the Daliang wealthy family in Shunde, introduced this set of equipment in the second year of Chen Qiyuan's opening of the silk reeling factory, and he did not learn the technology from Chen Qiyuan, but had something to do with Chen Danpu, who made the machine.

This Wen Zishao is a typical aristocratic educated figure, his family is a local wealthy family in Shunde, and Long Yuanxi, Luo Xuanyan and another Liang family, all of them are local wealthy families, and later generations are called the four major families.

To what extent is the Wen family's trench, Wen Zishao's grandfather Wen Yishi, the official to the right attendant of the military department, his father Wen Chengti, the official to the head of the criminal department, two generations of Beijing officials, so that his family is a well-deserved first family in the local area, Wen Zishao's wives are all married to the daughter of the governor of Huguang.

The most fortunate thing is that he is a philanthropist and has a reputation as a good family in the local area.

In addition, Wen Zishao's father is also quite open-minded, and does not reject Western technology, Wen Zishao did not like to read sage books since he was a child, and his father was not reluctant, Wen Zishao liked Western technology, and his father directly invited John, an Englishman, a senior consultant in a factory in Hong Kong, to be his teacher.

At the age of 20, he felt that he had nothing to learn from John, so he went directly to Italy and England at his own expense to learn machine manufacturing and application, study the principles of steamships, and contact core technologies. After studying for more than a year, he returned to China and married Wu Dailian, the daughter of Wu Rongguang, the governor of Huguang, and soon went to the United Kingdom again, taking the materials excerpted before, consulting with professionals, and going deep into the major military factories and libraries in the United Kingdom, and studying hungrily.

Before Zhu Jinglun came to this era, Wen Zishao was already a well-known figure in Guangdong.

When Chen Tanpu helped Chen Qiyuan imitate the silk reeling machine, he encountered technical problems, he went to clean up Wen Zishao, and when Chen Tanpu successfully copied the silk reeling machine, Wen Zishao ordered a set of machines from him in the second year, and brought it back to Daliang, Shunde to establish a silk reeling factory.

Due to the power of the Wen family, as well as a good reputation, Wen Zishao encountered much less resistance in the silk reeling factory in Shunde, and later imitated more people, a year later than Chen Qiyuan, the establishment of the silk reeling factory in 1863, as a result, in 1864, Shunde was born more than 40 silk reeling factories, but more than ten times more than the South China Sea silk reeling factory.

Historically, Shunde was during this period, which soon surpassed the South China Sea and became the core area of machine silk reeling.

After ten years of operation, Chen Qiyuan had to move the machine factory to Macau. That's a later story, this kind of thing is obviously impossible to happen again in this era, and if someone really does this, it is tantamount to being an enemy of Zhu Jinglun.

The situation in Shunde made Zhu Jinglun happy, although he did not publicize, but he was always through the registration information of the government, concerned about the development of modern factories, from here also found Wen Zishao such talents, but unfortunately Wen as a member of the former dynasty, refused to cooperate with the government, in history later Wen Zishao used his knowledge to help the Qing government handle foreign affairs, ran the Guangdong Machinery Bureau, went to the north to help the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, etc., but in this era, because the Wen family believes that Zhu Jinglun's behavior belongs to the government, the result is a family motto, strictly prohibiting the children of the Wen family from going out, Wen Zishao can only run his own business and cannot go to the government to be an official.

Otherwise, Zhu Jinglun had the intention to invite him to the arsenal as a consultant. (To be continued.) )