Another reason is that the emergence of the steam engine is the result of the synthesis of the theoretical knowledge and manufacturing technology of various scientific disciplines.

This includes the improvement of steel smelting technology, as well as the further improvement of theoretical physics and the progress of machining.

Only these basic industrial and scientific advances will make the steam engine appear.

In the original history, even the West invented the steam engine for a long time, because they had to slowly progress to a certain level of theory and technology between various disciplines after the end of the Middle Ages.

The same is true for Da Ming.

If it weren't for Zhu Youzhen, he directly started the iron and steel smelting technology and mechanical processing technology in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in today's Ming Dynasty.

Da Ming couldn't make a steam engine so quickly.

You must know that two years ago, Daming was still worried because there was no good high-carbon steel boring cylinder.

It can be understood this way.

The progress of the steam engine meant the progress of the industry of the entire country.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty was able to manufacture a steam engine with sufficient power was because the iron and steel industry, the machinery manufacturing industry, and theoretical physics had reached the level of the late eighteenth century in the original history, and even advanced in theoretical physics.

After all, although Zhu Youzhen can't build machines, he still has a lot of physics knowledge, and he can directly tell the laws of nature that physicists had to do many experiments in history, and let the elites of the Ming Empire use this as inspiration.

Now that the steam engine has been manufactured, all that remains is standardized production and practical application.

Zhu Youzhen decided to apply the steam engine to the textile industry first.

The reason why Zhu Youzhen first wanted to apply the steam engine to the textile industry is because the textile machine of the Ming Dynasty has reached a very proficient level.

In addition to the power part of the entire Ming textile machine, which is still the semi-mechanical power of manual hand-cranking, other components are already in the most advanced state in the world, and there is no way to increase the working efficiency of the textile machine by increasing the spindle.

Because after all, human power is limited, and no matter how labor-saving semi-machinery is, it is not as good as being fully mechanized.

Now it is only necessary to replace the manual power with a steam engine, and the crank gear rotation system is linked to the hand crank to make a textile machine more efficient.

But sometimes business and industry are not the same thing.

Using a steam engine to power a textile machine can make the steam engine work faster.

However, the manufacturing cost of the steam engine is not low.

This does not reduce the cost of cloth production by textile machines, but rather increases the cost.

The only solution is to reduce the manufacturing cost of the steam engine and improve the kinetic energy efficiency of the steam engine, so that the cost reduction caused by the efficiency of the steam engine textile machine can exceed the cost increase caused by the steam engine manufacturing.

For this reason, Zhu Youzhen decided to set up a special research group.

Led by Fang Yizhi, the research team was formed by the cutting-edge talents of the Daming Academy of Sciences, the Daming Academy of Engineering, the Daming Industrial School, the Iron and Steel Smelting Bureau and the Han's Textile Machinery R&D Institute to achieve the purpose of standardizing the steam engine, reducing manufacturing costs and providing manufacturing efficiency.

The goal of the research group is to achieve until the cost of producing cloth from a steam loom is lower than the cost of producing cloth from a manual semi-mechanical loom.

As long as the steam engine can be applied to the textile industry, it means that it can be used in the military industry and even the transportation industry, and even change the way people travel.

However, the social impact of this is also huge.

As the emperor, Zhu Youzhen sometimes had to consider not only the benefits brought by the improvement of production technology, but also the contradictions and conflicts brought about by production technology.

For example, in the textile industry.

There was already turmoil when Han's textile machine appeared, which almost led to the smashing of Han's textile workshop.

Later, the reason why there was no major accident was because Han Shoujing, the behind-the-scenes boss of Han's Textile, was Zhu Youzhen's favorite minister.

And under the intervention of Emperor Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Han's rival Yang's Textile also mastered this technology.

Zhu Youzhen also used his status as emperor to mobilize the government to transfer the surplus labor force eliminated by the technological improvement of the textile industry to other industries, so that the turmoil did not become too big.

And this time the textile industry will once again face a huge change.

A large number of workers in the textile industry will certainly lose their jobs, and the unemployment figures will certainly be higher than the last time.

Because the change brought about by the application of steam engine power this time is to make the entire textile industry no longer need a large number of weaving workers who provide power, which means that more than half of the people in the entire industry will be unemployed.

Zhu Youzhen didn't dare to imagine this number, I'm afraid it was more than hundreds of thousands.

Daming Jiangnan has always been a place where clothes are covered by the world, and the textile industry is developed.

There were many more people in the textile industry than in other industries in the Ming Dynasty, and once these people had nothing to do, it would certainly be a huge threat to the stability of the empire.

Zhu Youzhen must be prepared in advance for the reuse of these laborers.

How to make use of it, we can only continue to expand production, let them continue to create wealth, continue to expand the production capacity of the Daming military base, continue to increase the scale of infrastructure, and at the same time increase the development of high-end industries and service industries.

Although women are not encouraged to go out in this era, with the rise of the textile industry, many workshops will accept some women from ordinary families as weavers in order to solve the labor problem.

And many men from ordinary families will not object to their wives and daughters engaging in the weaving industry in order to increase their family wealth, after all, this is better than selling themselves.

This has also brought a great practical impact to traditional science, and women staying at home have become less and less of practical significance.

As the cost of cloth decreases, the demand for ordinary people to dress will definitely change from wearing warm clothes to wearing good clothes.

The ready-to-wear industry, that is, the garment industry, will definitely appear in a large scale, and it has appeared in Yingtian and Songjiang, Hangzhou, Suzhou and other metropolises, and even some brand clothing.

In addition, the market demand for high-end fabrics such as satin silk has also begun to increase.

As a royal family, Zhu Youzhen also began to purchase a large number of the most luxurious high-end dragon robes and phoenix robes, and even encouraged the gentry to pursue the beauty of service, and even further strengthened the propaganda of clothing etiquette in order to promote the emergence of high-end clothing industry.

Of course, one of the most effective ways to solve the problem of labor surplus is to lower tax rates, lower the threshold for loans, and increase the scale of business.

Zhu Youjian decided that it was time for the household department to reduce the commercial tax on smaller merchants.

In particular, some emerging industries are in order to allow more industries to emerge, create more jobs, and allow more labor to be utilized.

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