Mao Yuanyi answered, and hurriedly ordered people to continue adding coal to the large boiler that looked a little bulky. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Not long after, Zhu Youxiao heard the crunching sound of turning, and then saw dozens of spindles arranged vertically on the Daming version of Jenny's spinning machine running rapidly under the drive of the spinning wheel.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but give Mao Yuanyi a thumbs up, although the research of the Royal Academy of Sciences does not pursue economic benefits, as long as there is an epoch-making achievement, especially this kind of invention that can liberate human hands, it is enough for the Royal Academy of Sciences to bring him countless wealth to Zhu Youxiao.

For Jenny's spinning machine, because it is not difficult to manufacture, only the spinning wheel and the device of improving the spindle are added, so that the shuttle is driven by manpower into indirect mechanical force, so it has been manufactured by You Laosan before this.

However, before it could be popularized, Mao Yuanyi added more convenient mechanical power to it, so that the efficiency and spinning quality of the Daming version of Jenny spinning machine will far exceed that of Britain more than a century later.

Zhu Youxiao didn't dare to imagine what kind of concept transcendence, he could even imagine that once this spinning machine was applied, the textile industry revolution brought by it was absolutely unprecedented.

Zhu Youxiao still remembers his words in the New Year's message published in major newspapers and periodicals on the New Year's Day of the eighth year of the Apocalypse, which included an article that wanted to ensure that every Ming citizen could have clothes and food within five years.

"Now it seems that the goal of letting everyone in the world have clothes to wear can at least be achieved", Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sigh with emotion, Mao Yuanyi also echoed: "Yes, in the past, a weaver asked more than a dozen spinners to help, but even so, he couldn't weave much after a whole day, and now, as long as there is this machinery, more manpower can be saved, but more cloth can be woven, more manpower is honestly home to farm, more cloth is used to make clothes, and it can be achieved with food and clothing." ”

Hearing Mao Yuanyi say this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile, thinking that this could not be the purpose of Mao Yuanyi's painstaking development of this steam-powered spinning machine, in order to let more people go home to farm and become farmers.

Although the idea is a little naïve, it can be regarded as the same goal, after all, everyone is to let the people have clothes and food, Zhu Youxiao didn't say much, just instructed Xu Guangqi, the left waiter of the Ministry of Works, to immediately register a patent for Mao Yuanyi and other teams, since people have made such a great contribution, Zhu Youxiao naturally can't be treated badly, in addition to rewarding money and rewarding officials, it is natural to let him enjoy the benefits of invention, and this benefit is naturally a patent.

Prior to this, Zhu Youxiao told Xu Guangqi what a patent was and why there was a patent, and as early as eight years before the Apocalypse, Bi Maokang and Old Man Li of the Ordnance Department became the recipients of the first patent, just because they made flintlock pistols and now they can receive an extra thousand taels of patent benefits from the Ordnance Department every month.

Seeing that His Majesty had asked Xu Guangqi to apply for a patent for himself, Mao Yuanyi couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he naturally understood that once the patent was successfully registered, he would be able to collect a lot of silver even if he sat at home in the future.

And he has no doubt that his patent can bring so much silver, because he has a textile workshop in his own family, and he knows very well the benefits that this machinery brings to the textile industry.

Xu Guangqi also laughed and said: "In this way, there will be no hunger within three years." Then, Xu Guangqi said to Zhu Youxiao: "Why doesn't Your Majesty personally give the name of this new loom?" ”

"Zhisheng is a Gui'an person, and this new loom was invented by you, so let's name it Gui'an loom, which means that the world is safe", Zhu Youxiao said and said to Mao Yuanyi:

"Since this is made by Anji, you have to use it quickly, I ordered someone to seal the secret decree, you will go to Gong Yonggu with all the technical information at that time, he is now the general director of the Royal Industrial Company, he is now going to Nan0 Beijing to discuss a glass order business, you go with him, when the time comes, give the secret decree to Wei Zhongxian, the two of you will immediately open the textile factory in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, I want to make a lot of money from Zheng Zhilong and these pirates, these days in order to help the people in the north from them to buy a lot of high-priced grain, They made a lot of money, and now it's time for us to earn it back. ”

After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, Xu Guangqi couldn't help reminding: "Your Majesty is just afraid that I will forget that Brother Mao's family originally opened a silk weaving workshop." ”

"In this case, Mao Yuanyi, like Gong Yonggu, set up a royal weaving factory based on your own industry, your Mao family occupies one out of ten, you own one out of twenty, and the rest belongs to the imperial court, and at the same time you directly serve as Jiangning Weaving in charge of this matter, what do you think?"

Hearing Zhu Youxiao say this, Mao Yuanyi couldn't help but be overjoyed, he naturally knew that on the surface, it seemed that he was unconditionally dedicating his family's property to His Majesty, but in fact, His Majesty gave him the wealth of the Mao family, in other words, his Mao family will become an imperial merchant from today on.

"Weichen thank Your Majesty Longen!" After Mao Yuanyi bowed deeply, Zhu Youxiao asked him to go down immediately to prepare.

Looking at Mao Yuanyi's face full of spring, Zhu Youxiao was not surprised, people are inherently selfish, and the pursuit of fame and fortune is normal, as long as a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way, it is worth encouraging.

However, it is worth mentioning that as a result of various reforms, the legitimate income of the officials has also increased substantially.

Technical officials can make a lot of money from patents, and those who are scholars or those who are not interested in the natural sciences can also earn money by publishing articles in major newspapers and media.

The emergence of the newspaper was almost completely in line with the already contentious social atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty, and it suddenly became an indispensable pastime and the main channel for obtaining information in people's daily life.

Even most of the people like to use their spare money to buy a newspaper and send it back to the literate people in the neighborhood to read it, after all, what His Majesty the Emperor has done above is a very new thing for them.

Advertisements have even begun to appear, and some people will ask some officials to leave messages in the newspaper recommending whose study is good, whose girls are all beautiful, and so on.

The reason why officials are invited is because almost all well-known figures in this era are talents, and the measure of talent is naturally fame, and most of the people with merit are officials, so in this way, officials have an extra income, that is, endorsement fees.

Of course, not only officials, but also some talented talents or lifters, as well as some talented Qingqi or Ji women, have also become more prosperous because of the appearance of newspapers.

Of course, the most profitable newspaper is still the newspaper, and now both the Beijing Express of the Ministry of Rites and the Daming Daily of the Eunuch's Mansion in Nan0 Beijing have added a lot of input to Zhu Youxiao's treasury, and some local officials have also begun to gradually set up local newspapers, and even some businessmen who have been selling books and printing have also opened private newspapers.

As a result, local finances have improved, and new media operations have begun to emerge.

Zhu Youxiao did not stop this, it is not a bad thing to make the Daming cultural industry also active, and when it begins to explicitly stipulate the collection of business taxes, it will be able to collect more taxes.

(To be continued.) )