"We can start a textile mill." Zhao Ruxi said, "All female workers are invited." ”

It is customary in the world that weaving is a woman's work, and that women are more ingenious than men and are more suitable for this kind of work. If you want to provide many employment opportunities for women, you have to open a textile factory.

Although they set up textile factories and had a certain influence on the women who knitted coarse cloth at home and sold it to earn some money, the fine cotton cloth produced by the textile factories was fine, soft and cheap, and would improve the lives of the middle and lower classes of the working people of the entire Great Jin Dynasty, who would take off their rough and hard coarse cloth clothes and put on soft muslin clothes.

Any social progress comes at a cost. Just because someone makes a living by washing clothes doesn't mean that the whole society doesn't need a washing machine; Just because of the rickshaw driver, you can't let the motor vehicle be born.

Moreover, the textile factory will recruit a large number of female workers to work in the factory and provide employment opportunities for women, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation.

The industrial revolution in the West began with the cotton textile industry.

The current Dajin may not have all the conditions before the industrial revolution in the West, but it has the two thick golden fingers of Zhao Ruxi and Xiao Lingyan, which can completely open the prelude to the industrial revolution.

"Weaving mills?" The eldest princess and Mrs. Choi couldn't understand and asked, "How?" ”

Zhao Ruxi stood up: "Your Highness and Master Cui go to my place, I happen to have a machine there." ”

These textile machines, she asked Zhu Shi to collect several textile machines for research, and the improvement of textile machines can be regarded as on the bright side.

She bought a yard in Bac Ninh to make a workshop, and everyone knows about it. She has a jewelry shop that makes and sells jewelry that she designs, so it is only natural that there are jade craftsmen in the workshop. In addition to this, blacksmiths produce safes; The carpenter has little to offer on the bright side.

Therefore, she plans to take out the textile machine in a bright and bright way, and partner with the eldest princess and the emperor to open the textile factory throughout the entire Dajin.

Because the printing industry is a way of exporting material culture, almost all of them are in the hands of major families and magnates, and she doesn't want to confront these people, so she secretly sells printing presses.

This is not the case in the textile industry. In addition to the scattered workshop operation mode of textiles, the rest is the production of household retail households. When the time came, she directly produced textile machines in large quantities, transported them to several major cities where cotton was produced, and set up textile factories.

With the emperor's and the eldest princess Shangde escorting, others dare not reach in and rob the emperor's business.

The group arrived at Zhao Ruxi's green banana courtyard.

"Jansson, you go next door and pull a mule." As soon as Zhao Ruxi entered the courtyard, he instructed the little man guarding the door.

Yang Song said yes and ran out quickly.

Zhao Ruxi led the eldest princess and Mrs. Cui to the west wing, where a textile machine was placed.

In the beginning, Zhao Ruxi improved the textile machine in order to confuse the public and hide the other machines he made. Therefore, it was not very important to improve this textile machine, but it was only transformed into a shuttle, and only one or two were built, and they were not assembled in a pile of parts.

Later, she found out that Xiao Lingyan opened a silk village in the south of the Yangtze River, and the silk village also produces fine cloth, so she gave these two machines to Xiao Lingyan.

The last time I talked to Mrs. Cui, after giving Mrs. Cui the idea of starting a newspaper, she came up with the idea of setting up a textile factory. So in addition to being busy reading, he further improved the textile machine.

What was shown to the eldest princess and Mrs. Cui in front of them was a mule machine. It can push 300 to 400 spindles to spin a delicate and strong yarn.

However, the power of the mule machine is not the mule, but the power of water. But for the sake of convenience, Zhao Ruxi temporarily transformed it into an animal-powered textile machine.

Although the eldest princess and Mrs. Cui were aristocratic women, they also came into contact with the textile machine because of their relationship with the academy. But when they saw hundreds of shuttles shuttling along with the pull of the mules, their eyes widened in surprise.

"This, this...... How is this done? Princess Sanderer asked, stammering.

"This lever drives this gear, and then this ......," Zhao Ruxi explained to them the principle.

Eldest Princess Shangde and Madame Choi felt that they understood every word, but together they still did not understand anything. Even if I ask again, I still don't understand.

In the end, the two simply didn't ask.

Anyway, this machine can spin yarn without manpower, spinning quickly and well, and it looks very powerful.

The two looked at the yarns they had just spun, and they were surprised and inexplicable, and they were full of emotion.

"Where did you get this machine?" Eldest Princess Shande asked.

"I researched and improved it myself." Zhao Ruxi said.

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the room raised their heads and looked at Zhao Ruxi with wide eyes, completely incredulous.

"You did it?" The eldest princess asked again.

Zhao Ruxi nodded: "Yes, it took almost half a year to study it." ”

She added: "This kind of machine is not actually pulled by mules, but by water. But you have to find a place where there is a drop in the water so you can see it. ”

Looking at the sluggish crowd, she said: "Although this machine does not use manpower, it is also inseparable from people. If the workshop is large, it will need a lot of people. We all hire female workers, and we can provide a lot of jobs for women. ”

She pointed to the fine fine cloth woven from these yarns next to her: "Because of the low cost and fast output, our cloth can be sold very cheaply, so that the poor people can also afford to buy our cloth and wear fine cloth clothes." Because of the decrease in the cost of printing, the price of books has also decreased, so that more people can afford to buy books and go to school. The same is true for our textile machines. ”

Thinking about the blueprint she had sketched, Princess Shangde and Madame Choi were both thrilled and excited.

"It's wonderful, it's wonderful." Mrs. Choi muttered.

Zhao Ruxi looked at the eldest princess of Shangde: "Your Highness, let's let the emperor take a stake and open the textile factory all over the entire Dajin." When I make money, I want to use my part of the profits to start a technical academy to teach women literacy and some trades for free, so that they can support themselves and no longer have to depend on others. ”

With a steady stream of income from clocks, jadeite, and printing presses, plus Xiao Lingyan making money through other means in Jiangnan, she felt that it was enough to help Xiao Lingpu and Xiao Lingyan survive the two coups.

With the money she earned, she wanted to run a charity to improve the social status of women.

As soon as these words came out, Princess Shangde and Mrs. Cui became more and more excited.

"Okay, okay, I'll also start that technical academy with you." The eldest princess said.

She grabbed Mrs. Cui's arm: "Cui Wen, let's be together." ”

Mrs. Cui was so excited that she almost burst into tears, choked and nodded vigorously: "Okay." ”