In addition to the problem of labor surplus brought about by the improvement of production technology.

As the ruler of the empire, Zhu Youzhen also had to be prepared to deal with the economic problems caused by overcapacity.

Once the cloth is produced to the point where the supply exceeds the supply due to technological improvement, it can only expand the trade market and dump the excess capacity of the Ming Dynasty into other countries, so as to achieve the purpose of occupying foreign markets and earning benefits from abroad.

This made Zhu Youzhen and his Ming Empire have to embark on the road of foreign expansion because of economic interests, and even forced some overseas countries to close their trade with the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, not only will the textile industry have overcapacity in the future, but once the steam engine is applied to production, the technological revolution will lead to a technological revolution in all walks of life.

The same is true of the military industry, where the surplus guns need to be dumped and more wars will be needed to consume these capacities.

In addition, there will definitely be a lot of labor transferred to the army, and the number of troops will definitely be further expanded, and these soldiers will naturally have to expand externally if they want to gain more benefits as a violent group.

What Zhu Youzhen can imagine is that the technological revolution brought about by the steam engine will completely reborn the Ming Dynasty as an imperialist country.

The state monopolizes the most advanced production technology of the national economy and the largest wealth of the national economy.

But it's still too early to say this, in the early days of the application of the steam engine, in addition to increasing the pressure on employment, the quality of life of the people in China will definitely improve, at least the cost of clothing will be reduced.

Moreover, the manufacturing industry will definitely rise on a large scale, and the level of equipment of the army will definitely be further improved.

"The Northern Expedition is becoming more and more necessary, and without the Northern Expedition, how can we continue to use these surplus labor forces and allow them to participate in the higher production needs brought about by the war."

Zhu Youzhen thought so.

After a lapse of three months, it is the time of spring.

Zhu Youzhen came to the newly built steam engine manufacturing company of the Daming Ordnance Institute again with an umbrella.

Here, he will watch the handover ceremony of 300 Daming standard steam looms and Jiangning Weaving.

The ribbon cutting by him, the emperor, is an expression of his strong support for the improvement of production technology.

Jiangning Weaving House is the official name of Han's Textile Company, which is now the largest textile enterprise in Daming.

Zhu Youzhen's Royal Capital also holds shares.

There are 50,000 looms, more than 60,000 textile workers, more than 200,000 silk weavers and hundreds of millions of silver dollars in annual business.

Therefore, Jiangning Weaving Mansion can not be said to be not wealthy.

The purchase of 300 of the latest steam looms is not a financial problem.

And therefore, two months later, the production efficiency and quality brought by these 300 steam engines will be suppressed by Suzhou Weaving represented by Yang's, and a batch of orders purchased by Francophone people in Songjiang Mansion in April will be seized.

Suzhou Weaving was not far behind, and immediately pre-ordered 500 steam looms.

"Now this steam loom has been used by several large textile companies, and the price of cloth on the market has been reduced a lot, maybe after three or four years, the whole Ming Dynasty will have no ragged patches and wrapping people, or only professional beggars need ragged clothes;

On the basis of the standardization of steam looms, we have also manufactured steam-powered forging machines, and some high-hardness high-carbon steels can finally be tempered in batches to forge high-carbon steel tools, and now we have manufactured ten steam boring machines, using steam-powered boring guns, and installing high-carbon steel knives on the boring machine can quickly boring rifled guns and rifled guns. ”

At a meeting of the Cabinet and the Ministry of Industry, Song Yingxing gave a detailed introduction to the development of the military industry for which he was responsible.

At this time, Bi Maokang, who was the left waiter of the Ministry of Works, also stood up and took out a rear-loading gun:

"Your Majesty, this is the finished product of the Chongzhen Type 22 rear-loading rifled gun that is being manufactured now!"

"There are several main improvements in this gun:

The first is to use the fire cotton made by Tang Shilang as the firing agent, and eliminate the use of flint impact to trigger the burst of ejection; Because Sun Shilang's nitrified wool was realized as a propellant and successfully granulated, it is now also used as a special caliber bullet propellant for Chongzhen's 22-type rear-loading rifled gun. ”

"This kind of propellant is the nitrified cotton wool after nitrification treatment using the acid-base treatment method of ordinary cotton after further treatment, in order to achieve the purpose of solidification and granulation, and now it can be loaded in the bullet with high density, once detonated, it can be directly turned into gas, unlike black powder that leaves residue to block the barrel, but there is still smoke!

Maybe it's because the nitrification process still needs to be broken through, or maybe it's because gunpowder can't be smokeless at all, and most of the world's combustion will produce smoke, and Wechen has never seen a combustion reaction that doesn't produce smoke. ”

As soon as Sun Heding, who had been added to the official rank of the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry, fell, Zhu Youzhen interrupted him:

"Don't be lazy, gunpowder can indeed achieve smokeless, you have made nitrified gunpowder, and the realization of smokeless nitrification powder is just a kick in the door, think more about how to achieve better nitrification treatment.

If it is really not possible, the selected nitrified wool will be purified and separated to analyze the composition, see what kind of substance causes the smoke, and see what the substance that produces a lot of smoke during combustion is because of sulfur and chlorine. ”

"In addition, see if this material plays an important role in the entire explosion process, if not, find a way to decompose this substance, if there is, find a way to use a better substance to replace, acidification and alkalinization and even metal salting, the household department and I almost give you hundreds of thousands of silver dollars of investment, you can't smash it in vain, but the hard money is to think about it, the money is not enough, directly manage the household department, there will be a brave man under the heavy reward, I don't believe that there is no way to make smokeless gunpowder in three or five years!"

Although Zhu Youzhen does not know how nitrifying explosives are smokeless, he knows that there are substances in this world that do not produce a large amount of smoke and dust when combusted, for example, the combustion of polyvinyl chloride in organic polymer materials will produce smoke and dust, but the combustion of polyethylene will not produce soot.

But Zhu Youzhen couldn't use this example to convince Sun Heding, because Sun Heding and other people in the Ming era didn't know what organic chemistry was.

Even Sun Heding himself often plays nitroglycerin with glycerin, but he doesn't know that glycerin is actually an organic substance.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen could only use his imperial power to forcibly demand that Sun Heding continue to develop smokeless gunpowder.

Zhu Youzhen said and criticized: "Smoke is a phenomenon formed by solid particles, and fog is liquid, you are also academicians of the Daming Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, and you are still smoke and smoke in your mouth, so be rigorous!" ”

"Weichen understands", Sun Heding couldn't help muttering in his heart: "Aren't you yourself a long smoker and a short smoke?" ”

(End of chapter)