Next, Li Changfeng devoted his energy to the scientific research institute.

He sent someone to buy a traditional loom and personally engaged in design research in the scientific research institute.

While Liang Dafu is engaged in nuclear weapons, he will also find time to study with him.

Time passed day by day, and three months passed in the blink of an eye.

During this time, envoys from other countries often came to say goodbye, hoping that the princess of their country could tie the knot with Li Changfeng and Qin Jin, intending to develop their country through the wind blowing in their ears and exporting relevant technologies through the pillow people.

At the beginning, Emperor Qianwu would also order Gao Dali to take the portrait of the princess to Li Changfeng, but after several refusals, Emperor Qianwu gave up completely and simply let it go.

He sent away all the messengers who came to ask for their relatives.

With the rejection of princesses from one country after another, Li Changfeng's marriage has become the most talked about thing after dinner.

There are even young and beautiful women in the capital who have never been married, who often stop and frolic at the gate of the community where Li Changfeng haunts and near the scientific research institute, hoping to be seen by Li Changfeng who happened to pass by and soar to the sky.

However, Li Changfeng went out early and returned late, and he didn't look at them at all.

After a long period of research, the first loom powered by electricity was finally built.

Li Changfeng personally sent people to bring cloth raw materials for on-site testing, and after confirming the stable operation of the machine, he let people start mass production, and at the same time sent people to buy cotton across the country.

With the financial resources he has, the purchase of cotton is naturally very amazing, which has attracted the attention of the people in the capital and the cloth businessmen, who have speculated about what Li Changfeng wants to do.

It didn't take long for Li Changfeng to post a recruitment notice to recruit weavers, and the wages were very high.

This makes people very curious, His Royal Highness the Nine Emperors is going to open a weaving factory?

That's a couple of silver!

Soon the workers were recruited, and Li Changfeng sent people to take them to the factory that had already been built for training.

At the end of the day, as these workers went home, the news of Li Changfeng's invention of the loom spread all over the capital.

The workers' faces were full of shock, and they spoke to everyone who asked them.

"That's right, Your Highness is going to do the textile business!"

"The textile business is not profitable? Then you'd be wrong! If you had seen His Highness's loom, you wouldn't say that! ”

Speaking of which, most of these people who have participated in the training will swallow a mouthful of saliva and then continue with a shocked face.

"There is a machine that rotates very fast, and drives the loom to move there, and the speed is very fast!"

"How fast is it? For example, the handmade loom used in the past is like a person walking on two legs, and the speed is very slow! And His Highness's loom is as fast as a car! ”

"That's the difference! I'm not exaggerating at all! I can't even imagine how much cloth His Highness can weave in a day after the textile mill is put into production! ”

"Think about it, how can such a textile speed not make money?"

"And His Highness also said that the price of the cloth he produces will be greatly reduced, so that everyone can wear new clothes at will!"

“……”

Soon, the news spread throughout the capital, and everyone was very surprised.

They could never have imagined that the loom could be so fast.

And those merchants who were already in the cloth business fell into a panic.

If Li Changfeng's machine spinning speed is really so fast, then the investment in a single labor has dropped by more than a hundred times, the cost will be greatly reduced, and it is inevitable to reduce the price of sales.

The high cost of their manual weaving has led to very little room for them to reduce prices, and if there is a price war in the future, they will definitely die.

In addition to the panic, many businessmen began to complain in secret, saying that Li Changfeng was so rich, and he was still competing for profits from the people, which did not match the status of the prince.

After all, the workers needed by Li Changfeng's weaving factory were limited, and many people engaged in the handmade textile industry also began to complain, accusing Li Changfeng of stealing their jobs.

At first, there were very few such voices.

With the end of half a month of training, the first batch of ten textile machines put into production, and more than a dozen workers produced a month's worth of traditional manual methods a day, this voice became more and more.

When Li Changfeng's cloth shop opened, people rushed in, and after seeing that the quality was significantly better than that of hand-woven cloth, but the price was completely lower, these people were completely panicked.

They secretly reprimanded Li Changfeng for competing with the people for profit and falling into the eyes of money.

Of course, such people are a very small minority after all, and the vast majority of people are clapping their hands and pointing at these people's noses and angrily denouncing.

"Why, if the fabric is sold cheaply, it is a good thing for the country and the people, why should you oppose it?"

"What's wrong with Your Highness's money? If you can reduce the price by 30% and provide the same quality of fabric, we are willing to let you make money! ”

"I don't have the ability to improve the loom, and I complain about His Royal Highness, it's unreasonable!"

"If His Highness hadn't made us prosperous all these years, you would have been able to earn so much silver before?"

"Put down the bowl and scold your mother, you are really not a thing!"

“……”

It's still good to be angry, and even worse, he directly sent the person who said bad things about Li Changfeng to the Yamen, causing a lot of turmoil in the capital.

Soon, Emperor Qianwu learned about it.

He called Li Changfeng to the imperial study and asked, "If the machine replaces the labor, it will indeed make a large number of people engaged in handicrafts unemployed, will this not be good?"

Li Changfeng had long known about what had happened in the capital recently, and said disapprovingly: "The replacement of labor by machines is the inevitable result of the development of the times, and the benefits brought by it are far less than the negative impacts.

Emperor Qianwu nodded, thinking about Li Changfeng's words that "the replacement of labor by machines is the inevitable result of the development of the times".

He was shocked by this sentence, and a magnificent scroll of the times seemed to have been displayed in front of his eyes.

Li Changfeng continued: "In fact, there is no livelihood problem at all, it is that their vision is too short-sighted, with the gradual expansion of the scale of Erchen's textile factory, more and more workers are needed, dyeing and printing, auxiliary material processing, logistics and transportation and other industries will also be driven, and more and more people will be needed." ”

Emperor Qianwu was surprised: "You want to hand over these businesses to others?" ”

Li Changfeng said with a smile: "How can Erchen do all the business alone? What Erchen cares about is mastering the core technology, and when the construction of the new hydropower station is completed to provide more electricity, Erchen may have to sell looms, let other businessmen also open textile factories, and gradually expand to the whole country, so that the entire Daqian can develop, not only the capital is prosperous, and the Daqian railway network and highway network under construction will play a huge role in the future. ”

(End of chapter)