Section 1578 Technological Development and Preparedness

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Looking at a piece of cotton cloth placed in front of the desk, Liu Che showed a pleased smile.

"This militaristic weapon is also!" Stroking the fine stripes on the cotton cloth and feeling the delicate feel on it, Liu Che was relaxed and happy, and the dragon face was happy!

"Edict: Feng master Zhang Fen is Jianzhang Jun, Feng master craftsman He Gui is Xian Wenjun, each will be given 500 gold gold, and a ...... of homestead" Liu Che instructed the left and right Shang Shulang.

He had no reason not to be happy or excited!

After more than four years of unremitting exploration and hard work, the textile mechanics of Shaofu East and West Weaving Order finally developed the first spinning machine that could spin cotton yarn in the Han family and invented the shuttle to weave cloth.

What does this mean?

Liu Che couldn't be clearer.

This is the germ of the machine age, the dawn before dawn, and the beginning of a revolution!

The prosperity of the cotton and textile industries was, in fact, the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Britain.

Without the emergence of the textile industry, especially large textile workshops, the Industrial Revolution? Dream on!

And the textile industry is indeed the standard for the budding capitalism of the East and the West.

During the Song and Ming dynasties, the germination of Chinese capitalism took place in the handicraft workshops in the south of the Yangtze River, especially the weaving workshops.

If Liu Che remembers correctly, he once watched a TV series "Daming 1556", which introduced the plot of the struggle for population and land with agriculture when the weaving industry in Jiangnan was prosperous.

"The next step should be to develop and develop a machine similar to the 'Jenny Spinning Machine'!" Liu Che told himself in his heart.

Jenny spinning machine, the first machine in the world.

Without it, there would be no Industrial Revolution!

It is no exaggeration to say that its significance is still above the steam engine!

Why?

Because, it was its appearance that made the machine used for mass production for the first time.

It was its appearance that made the capitalists appear.

It is it that allows sheep to eat people.

It was also the one that dominated the wave of the industrial revolution for hundreds of years.

Without it, there would be no capitalism, no industrial revolution.

It is the creator of everything, the germ of all things, and the prophet of industry.

At present, the weaving technology of the Han family is still in the manual era.

The existing spinning machine can only spin one yarn at a time, and the speed is very slow.

According to the Shaofu's report, it now takes three workers and several days to weave a piece of cotton cloth.

The annual output of cotton cloth in the East and West Weaving Room of Shaofu is now up to 100,000 horses a year.

This is simply not enough to inspire the Industrial Revolution and not enough to affect the entire world.

Thinking like this, Liu Che ordered: "Then tell the upper and lower weaving rooms of the east and west: those who can make new spinning machines will be feuded!" For every extra spinning yarn, its food will increase by 1,000 households! ”

There will be brave men under the reward!

Liu Che didn't believe it, after offering such a reward, he couldn't make a machine similar to or even surpassing Jenny's spinning machine!

After thinking about it, Liu Che added: "Pass this edict to the princes of Moyuan as well......"

Plus the Mo family is for insurance!

Once the invention of a Jenny-like spinning machine that could spin at high speeds, even if the spinning speed was temporarily inferior to the Jenny spinning machine, Liu Che believed that it would be enough to promote the industrial revolution of the Han dynasty and sprout a wave of capitalist expansion.

Once the textile industry begins to flourish, it will certainly promote the prosperity of plantations, especially cotton plantations.

For example, the Andong area, the Raoleshui-Liaohe River basin and the Helishan-Hexi area, and even the Western Regions are all good cotton planting areas.

When the plantations flourished, so did the slave trade.

A large amount of cotton would flood the market, which would then further boost the textile industry.

The textile industry will have a large concentration of people, and there will be a dense labor industry that employs hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of workers.

Thus, the capitalists appeared.

The bourgeoisie followed.

And so the revolution began.

In just a few decades, it will sweep the world and subvert all rules and morals.

It is precisely because he knows this well that over the years, Liu Che has spent a lot of money to tilt resources to the east and west weaving rooms at any cost, vigorously cultivating craftsmen, researching and developing technology, and promoting the development and leap of textile technology bit by bit before this century.

This is also what he thinks is the best way to develop.

Spend money with money, throw money at all costs!

As long as you can smash out a textile machine, even if it is a primitive textile machine, it is a victory!

And what about the original textile machines, those of the pre-Jenny spinning machine era?

In fact, it's not that high.

Even the Jenny spinning machine itself is not much more technical.

And the spinning technology of the Han Dynasty itself is not low.

Primitive spinning wheels already appeared in the Warring States period, but they were used to spin coarse fiber fabrics such as flax, and could not be used to spin cotton.

In the past, Shaofu's cotton yarn was spun with a primitive spindle by hand, one by one, which was inefficient and time-consuming.

This has also led to the fact that the price of cotton cloth has been high in the past.

It wasn't until Fuyang Hou Chen Jia's daughter Jia Yuanjun Chen Yuan invented the first spinning machine that could be used to spin cotton yarn.

This spinning machine uses the structure of an old spinning wheel, but with some modifications to make it possible to tow and extend the slivers.

The spinning efficiency has been greatly improved, but the efficiency is still low.

Just shorten the weaving time of a cotton cloth from one month to ten days!

Until now, Zhang Fen and other weaving masters have finally broken this limitation.

With the invention of a new high-efficiency spinning machine and weaving shuttle, the weaving efficiency of cotton cloth has been greatly improved again!

Especially the weaving speed, after the invention of the shuttle, as long as there is enough cotton yarn, a skilled weaver can weave three pieces of cotton cloth in one day!

With the development of technology, in the future, the weaving speed will only get faster and faster!

"If I remember correctly, the flying shuttle was invented in England in 1733, the Jenny spinning machine in 1769, the steam engine in 1785, the train in 1814, and the modern industrialization ......was basically completed by 1840."

From the emergence of the shuttle to the complete completion of industrialization and the realization of full machine production, it took almost 100 years in Britain.

During this period, the empire on which the sun never sets rises and develops to the extreme.

"But, I am a traverser, the industrialization speed of the Han dynasty will definitely be faster than that of the United Kingdom!" Liu Che calculated in his heart that Britain's industrial revolution was, at least initially, unconscious, unpresided over and led, and even almost stillborn - if Britain had not expanded overseas and found countless dumping grounds for resources and goods, its industrial revolution would not have succeeded at all!

In the Han Dynasty, Liu Che has been deliberately influencing and presiding over relevant technological developments and plans.

Therefore, it is ideally estimated that the industrial revolution of the Han dynasty will probably take less than fifty years.

The first 20 years are the stage of technology accumulation and capital accumulation, and once it is completed, the whole society will gallop forward like a wild horse, and complete the century-old development journey of Britain in a few decades.

Of course, the territory of the Han dynasty was far larger than that of Britain itself, and the social and cultural environments were completely different.

If you want to completely industrialize, it will definitely be more difficult, complicated, and even full of twists and turns than Britain.

Liu Che has to prepare for the difficult times ahead.

And first, you have to find a huge dumping market!

There is no commodity tilt, in case of an economic crisis, it is not a joke, it will kill people!