Because Xue Ji also has to help Queen Huayang take care of her children and manage the harem, which is equivalent to the female official supervisor of Qin Wangzhu's harem, Qin Wangzhu specially gave Xue Ji a palace as a studio in order to facilitate Xue Ji's research on spinning wheels and looms.

Ying Xiaozheng took a carriage from Xianyang Palace to find Zhu Xiang to report the good news, and Zhu Xiang wanted to see Xue Ji, so naturally he also had to take a carriage.

Ying Xiaozheng wanted Zhu Xiang to ride a horse directly, but Zhu Xiang thought it was too ostentatious. Ying Xiaozheng scoffed at his uncle's privileged behavior.

After arriving at Xianyang Palace, Zhu Xiang sprinted again, and without looking at what the loom looked like, he picked up Xue Ji who came to greet him, and realized his wish to turn in circles: "Madame is amazing!" ”

Yukihime blushed and screamed, "Let go!" ”

was slapped on top of his head by Xue Ji, and Zhu Xiang obediently put Xue Ji down.

The onlookers let out a good-natured laugh. Xue Ji pushed Zhu Xiang, straightened her loose sideburns, and tilted her head not to look at Zhu Xiang.

Zhu Xiang touched his nose and said, "What are you laughing at, don't you have a lady!" ”

"If you keep talking, Yukihime will run away." Lin Zhen changed the topic for the shy Yukihime, "Let's take a look at the good things made by Yukihime." ”

Qin Wangzhu said with a smile: "Your wife can be a model for women. ”

Only then did Zhu Xiang walk into the crowd and observe the new spinning wheel made by Xue Ji.

Zhu Xiang did not study textile tools, although he had seen traditional textile tools when visiting museums and reading materials, but he did not study them. Therefore, after coming to this era, he did not reform the textile tools with his own hands.

However, the principles used by machines that have not entered the era of the first industrial revolution are those principles, and the people of this era have not used them, but they did not expect it. When Zhu Xiang was still in Handan, he discussed with Xianghe the reform of textile tools, such as using the principles of tracks, gears, and levers to save manpower.

People's energy is limited, Zhu Xiang's energy is used in farming, there is not much time to think about other things, and he really doesn't know about textiles, so he put this matter down.

Xue Ji was not in good health, Zhu Xiang didn't let her work in the field, so she practiced a good job of spinning, weaving and embroidery.

After the appearance of cotton, when Xue Ji was ordered to ponder the cotton weaving, she explored with the Mo family and craftsmen, combined with the theory that Zhu Xiang said before, and came up with this good thing.

Zhu Xiang didn't know much about textile tools in his previous life, but in this life, he watched Xue Ji spinning and weaving, and he was quite familiar with the tools of this era.

At present, the folk spinning tools are mainly hand-cranked spinning wheels. The weaving tool is called a loom, which consists of two crossbars, a "silk" and a weft beating knife.

When weaving, the woman ties one end of the yarn to the horizontal bar of the loom, and the other end is tied around the waist, and sits on the ground and stretches her legs to weave, so it is called "the loom".

Zhu Xiang knew that in aristocratic homes, the domestic weaver girl would also use a "bias loom" that could sit and weave. There are two pedals under the bias loom, and the hands and feet are used to weave together, which is much more efficient than the looms used in ordinary farmers' homes.

Yukihime's new spinning wheel was inspired by the bias loom and changed the hand-cranked spinning wheel to a pedal spinning wheel, freeing the hands of the weaver and doubling the efficiency.

After the pedal spinning wheel was invented, King Qin Zhaoxiang rewarded Xue Ji and appointed Xue Ji as the person in charge of promoting and improving cotton weaving, leading aristocratic women to spin cotton yarn and cotton cloth, and promoting cotton to the people from top to bottom.

Later, Yukihime made improvements on the pedal spinning wheel, reducing the diameter of the runner and increasing the number of spindles to three. This results in a threefold increase in textile efficiency.

But Yukihime was still not satisfied.

If the spinning wheel can drive more spindles, can the spinning efficiency continue to improve?

Yukihime tried many permutations without success, and her research stalled for several years.

After Zhu Xiang and Ying Xiaozheng left Xianyang, when Xue Ji sorted out Zhu Xiang's manuscript, she saw the conceptual diagram of using levers, gears, and tracks to drive textile machines with levers, gears, and tracks that Zhu Xiang and Xianghe talked about when they were in Handan. She found that the tracks and gears that Zhu Xiang wanted had not been used in textile machines, so could she start from here?

At this time, Xianghe happened to be in Xianyang, Xue Ji took the concept map to discuss with Xianghe, and then took out the simple "mechanics" book written by Zhu Xiang for Ying Xiaozheng to study with the Mo family, trying to add new components to the textile machine.

This pondering lasted for a few more years, until Zhu Xiang came back and King Qin Zhaoxiang died.

Yukihime finally increased the number of spindles to six, doubling the spinning efficiency again.

But what everyone was amazed at was not that the efficiency of the spinning wheel had doubled, but that the road that Yukihime had researched to improve the efficiency of the spinning wheel was still a long way ahead.

In other words, the spinning wheel that Yukihime is working on now does not need to change much, only needs to fine-tune its components to make it more perfect, and the efficiency can continue to increase.

Ten spindles? Twenty spindles? Thirty spindles? After the calculations of Showa and Yukihime, all this is possible!

"If it is driven by a water wheel or animal power, maybe one runner can drive nearly 100 spindles!" Xianghe said excitedly, "Although the people can't use it, the weaving workshops of the government and the barracks can completely use waterwheels and animal power!" ”

Zhu Xiang's brows jumped.

No wonder the fat nephew, who has become more stable, came to hit his waist again. It's truly shocking.

"If the spinning efficiency is increased tenfold, will the weaving efficiency not keep up?" Zhu Xiang asked, "Is there an improvement in the loom?" ”

The advantage of increased spinning efficiency is that raw materials can be quickly turned into semi-finished products, so that raw materials are not wasted. As long as cotton and linen become cotton and linen yarn, even if the loom is more backward, more cloth can be made by improving manpower.

However, Zhu Xiang believes that since Xue Ji can improve the spinning wheel, she should also improve the loom.

Xue Ji nodded and showed Zhu Xiang the new loom she had improved from the agiolome.

The improvement of the bias loom only changed the shape a little, and the individual weaving efficiency was only increased by two or three times. However, the efficiency of looms using water conservancy and multi-person collaboration is very high.

Zhu Xiang stroked the shuttle on the loom and was amazed.

Yukihime loaded the shuttle into the chute, one person using the shuttle and the other weaving, which was two or three times more efficient than two people using a loom each.

Integrate and draw inferences, Xue Ji's wisdom is really amazing.

Zhu Xiang said: "If you put springs on both ends of the chute and let the shuttle rebound by itself, maybe it will be more efficient." ”

"What is a spring?" Qin Wangzhu asked.

Zhu Xiang said: "Pour the iron into a spiral. It's easy to pour, but with the quality of the iron now, the spring may not work. Now write it down, after the iron smelting process of later generations is improved, let future generations do it. ”

In this way, future generations also have a direction to reform the loom.

"Isn't it amazing, isn't it amazing!" Ying Xiaozheng's nose is about to be cocked.

"Yes." Zhu Xiang said with a smile.

The beginning of the first industrial revolution was the development of textile technology. Zhu Xiang didn't remember what Jenny looked like, but there was no textile machine driven by a steam engine, and the power was like that.

Of course, although historians regard the development of textile technology as the beginning of the first industrial revolution, it cannot be reversed that the development of textile technology caused the first industrial revolution.

Landmark events are like boundary monuments, the territory needs to be governed by wars before its own territory, and the boundary monuments are just symbols.

The Jenny machine is this symbol.

The first industrial revolution is the ideological enlightenment, the development of natural basic science, and the development of industrial technology complement each other, and the ideological enlightenment and the development of natural basic science are the cornerstone, and the development of industrial technology is only a flower.

If we talk about technology alone, many traditional industrial technologies in China at that time were at the forefront of the world.

Therefore, Xue Ji let the rapid development of textile technology not have a great impact on the process of this era.

The productive forces and the relations of production complement each other and are indispensable. Under the premise that ideology and culture have not developed and the productive forces in other fields are also extremely backward, it will take at least 1,000 years of accumulation to move from the feudal system to a better system.

Because there is still no way forward, we need to explore and open up.

Even if Zhu Xiang knows the road, a person who knows the road can only be a sage. It takes a lot of people to walk together to make a path in the wilderness.

Of course, it would be wrong to say that Yukihime's current invention is insignificant.

The progress of society requires a lot of accumulation, Zhu Xiang's research on farming technology is an accumulation, and Xue Ji's improvement of textile technology is also an accumulation.

These accumulations may not be able to make any qualitative changes in society at the moment, but after the gradual accumulation of other fields, what Zhu Xiang and Xue Ji accumulated for Chinese society in advance will always play a role in the qualitative change of quantitative change.

And for this era, Yukihime's invention is also crucial.

For civilians, better textile tools would allow them to weave more cloth and save them from freezing to death.

For the Qin State, the current currency is mainly metal coins and cloth coins, and cloth coins are linen, silk, etc. The comprehensive improvement of Qin's textile efficiency to nearly ten times that of other countries is equivalent to opening a money printing machine running at full speed.

Qin Wangzhu laughed so hard that his teeth popped out, that's it.

What kind of textile machine was invented by Yukihime, it was a money printing machine in the Warring States period.

The trade war that Zhu Xiang was troubled about was easily resolved after the emergence of the "money printing machine".

Several measures appeared in his mind that he could use this "money printing machine" to defeat the economy of the Six Kingdoms and let the soldiers of the Qin State reduce the difficulty of destroying the Six Kingdoms without blood.

"Snow Ji should be rewarded!" Qin Wangzhu smiled and said, "Zhu Xiang, what do you say I should reward you?" ”

Zhu Xiang was stunned: "Reward me?" Isn't it a snow watcher? ”

Qin Wangzhu said: "Isn't appreciating Xue Ji just rewarding you?" Do you want to increase your fiefdom or your fiefdom? ”

Zhu Xiang: "......"

He looked at the crowd. Including Yukihime's faces, they were beaming, and they didn't think there was anything wrong with this scene.

Zhu Xiang's high-spirited mood slowly fell.

"You are really calm, such a big credit, you are not even excited." Seeing Zhu Xiang regain his composure, Qin Wangzhu sighed with emotion, "That's it, I'll look at the reward and add a hundred more fiefdoms to you!" ”

Zhu Xiang's lips moved, and then he smiled: "Since it's Xue Ji's credit, why don't you just reward Xue Ji?" Can this also drive women's textiles? ”

Qin Wangzhu said: "Of course, the widow will reward Xue Ji. The widow has decided to tell the world! ”

He stroked his beard: "Now you two are going to be famous all over the world." ”

Zhu Xiang arched his hand and said: "The minister asks the king to reward Xue Ji with a title, or a false position." It's not a king or an official, it's just an honor. In the promotion of textiles, the enthusiasm of noble ladies is very important. For them, there is no shortage of food and clothing, and they are not necessarily willing to share their credit with their husbands. If you give them an honor, a status, even if there is no practical benefit, it can make them more positive. ”

Qin Wangzhu hesitated: "Will the corporal of the world oppose this?" ”

Xunzi frowned, and looked at Zhu Xiang with a hint of gloom.

Zhu Xiang said: "It's just a rank like the wife of the lady of the emperor and the wife of the princes, but it is more standardized." There are also relevant records in the "Zhou Li". The Qin State standardizes the rank of noble women, and it is also a necessary thing to improve etiquette. The monarch can take advantage of Xue Ji's meritorious service to standardize the rank of the noble daughters of the Qin State. ”

Xunzi loosened his brows and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, what Zhu Xiang said is extremely true. ”

Chapter 116: Chrysanthemum Tofu Soup

There is a record of female officials in "Zhou Li".

There is little difference between the female officials of "Zhou Li" and the female officials of the feudal society in later generations, mainly referring to the women who lead the palace maids in the harem and serve the royal family. The status is higher than that of the palace maid and lower than that of the concubine.

There are also two types of female officials according to the status of the woman's husband's family. One is to select talented and skilled unmarried women, who are both female officials and candidates for the monarch's concubines; One is the wife of the doctor, "Zhou Li" said, "The woman has no lord, the lord of the husband", and the virtuous person is selected to enter the palace to assist the queen and concubine, called the "woman of the world", and the head of the female officials is basically "the woman of the world".

The scope of authority of the female officials of the Zhou Dynasty is almost the scope of authority of the Qing Dynasty's internal affairs government, and the power is not small.

However, with the exception of the "witches" who undertook the sacrifices, female officials were not allowed to interfere in the affairs of foreign courts, especially land and military.

The king has an important crime, that is, the harem woman interferes in politics.

"Shangshu Pastoral Oath" records, "The ancients said, 'The chicken has no morning, and the morning of the chicken is the only way to find the family.'" 'Today, the king of Shang, but the woman's words are used, and she faints and worships Fu Answer. ”

The terms and conditions of the "Zhou Li" for female officials clearly bind the power of female officials to the three palaces and six courts. As it is said in the Liturgy, "A woman has no foreign affairs."

Xue Ji assisted Queen Huayang as a woman in the world, and commanded the female officials and palace maids of Xianyang Palace, who was already the head of female officials, and there was no seal. Zhu Xiang asked for a reward for Xue Ji, and asked for an official title for Xue Ji, which could only be an official title in the foreign dynasty.

Xunzi thought that Zhu Xiang loved his wife and was thoughtful. Although Zhu Xiang will definitely not have the absurd idea of making Xue Ji a foreign official, others may take it out of context to criticize Zhu Xiang.

This is a very serious matter. Zhu Xiang will be attacked by the whole world, even if he has made countless merits, his reputation will be ruined.