casket of old days

Chapter 144

Xie Yan bowed his waist at this moment, and introduced to Chu Qiguang with a cautious face: "Look, son, this hydraulic spinning machine uses a water wheel to drive the belt, a belt to drive the spindle, and a spindle to rotate to draw and twist. ..."

"My lord, you can see that this is a method of combining the flyer and the bobbin... In this way, the twisting and winding can be carried out at the same time, which is more efficient..."

"...We can change the parts here, and the strings will rotate with the wheel, and all the machines will move, and the up and down will respond accordingly, and the urgency will be appropriate..."

Seeing this, Chu Qiguang couldn't help nodding his head repeatedly. Although he didn't know much about it, he did see that the machine spun cotton into cotton yarn under the power of horsepower. The advantage is that it is tough and strong, and it can already be used for weaving.

"Very good. Everyone will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver. You must continue to work hard to develop hydraulic looms. In the future, everything from cotton to cotton cloth will be operated by hydraulic power. Then I will reward each of you with 300 taels of silver."

Hearing what Chu Qiguang said, the faces of the craftsmen present were all beaming with joy. Although none of them could really understand the meaning of the hydraulic spinning machine, they were also happy for the silver in front of them.

Chu Qiguang asked again: "How about the hydraulic loom?"

Xie Yan said: "It is almost finished, but there are still some key parts that have not been completed, and some parts have not been debugged. At most 2 months, it will definitely be done."

"Two months?" Chu Qiguang frowned, now it is December of the 2th year of Yong'an, and he will go to Chaoyao Mountain to report in January next year.

According to his original plan, the machine was to be invented before he left, and then a press conference would be held to directly harvest a large wave of leeks to help him break through the fifth realm.

So Chu Qiguang asked directly: "What's the difference? Tell me about it."

Seeing Xie Yan pointing to the water conservancy loom and talking for a long time, Chu Qiguang suddenly pointed to an empty space and said, "Can't this place be an airtight box?"

Xie Yan thought he had some advice, so he nodded and wrote it down.

Chu Qiguang went on to say: "... I think it's just right to put a child in here, and let him hide in it to perform this step that you can't complete."

Xie Yan quickly wiped off his sweat and said, "But... but... this..."

Chu Qiguang said coldly: "I only want this machine to be used for demonstration, and you continue to study the real machine, do you understand?"

Xie Yan said anxiously: "But what if someone finds out?"

Chu Qiguang said: "If you don't tell, who will find out? As long as you build a real hydraulic loom in the next two months, there will be no problem."

After all, Chu Qiguang glanced at the dozen or so craftsmen present, with a faint murderous look in his eyes, which stimulated their hearts to twitch.

"Remember, apart from the few of us present, you can only tell anyone outside, even your wives and children, that the spinning machine and the loom have already been made."

"Whoever discloses this matter will die... that is the easiest thing."

Seeing that none of the craftsmen present were objecting, Chu Qiguang nodded: "Don't worry, it's only two months away. After the matter is completed, I will give each of you 300 taels of silver, but if anyone doesn't do it well, Don't blame me for being ruthless."

After some more instructions, Chu Qiguang left, and then he came every day, and brought his sister into the machine the next day.

Zhou Yujiao shouted curiously: "Brother! How do you play this?"

Chu Qiguang said: "Just step on this...pull that..."

Seeing his sister stepping on the pedal and pulling the wooden lever from time to time, the whole loom started running smoothly. Chu Qiguang nodded and asked the craftsmen beside him: "The spinning machine and the loom are used together. If so, how much has the output increased compared with traditional textile machines?"

Xie Yan said from the side: "It depends on the physical strength and skills of the spinning and weaving workers, but the minimum output of our machines is 20 times theirs."

Chu Qiguang nodded with satisfaction. He remembered that during the first industrial revolution on earth, the production capacity of the textile industry was increased by dozens of times.

Zhou Yujiao shouted from inside: "Brother! This is not fun! This is the one you said you wanted to bring me to play?"

Chu Qiguang said: "It will be interesting if you try again."

Zhou Yujiao frowned: "Then I'll try again."

After stepping on it for almost a stick of incense, Zhou Yujiao realized that she had been teased, so she jumped out angrily, and punched Chu Qiguang hard.

Then Chu Qiguang coaxed her, promised her to do it a few more times, and bought her beef patties to eat.

Zhou Yujiao licked the corner of her mouth and said, "I still want your hair."

Chu Qiguang rolled his eyes, and said helplessly, "All right, all right, I'll pull it out for you when the time comes."

Only then did Zhou Yujiao beam with joy.

Chu Qiguang warned again: "You must not make a sound, you must not shout, you must not shout, and you must not be found by others, do you understand?"

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Next, Chu Qiguang invited Wu Wei from the Wu family and the abbot Chen Zhu from the Taoist temple to demonstrate the working process of the textile machine together, and they were both surprised and happy.

Wu Wei nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, with such a magic weapon, we will be able to dominate the textile industry in the entire north."

Wu Wei thought for a while and said, "Then the mutual market will probably officially open in July and August next year. We will start preparing for new machines in the next few months, and then purchase cotton, prepare a batch of stocks, and sell them to the Yaozu at that time."

"With this machine, the price of our cotton cloth can be lowered much lower than that of others. Who can sell us by then?"

Thinking of this, Wu Wei became a little annoyed again: "Recently, the Chen family in the neighboring county has been fighting against us. No matter how much cotton we collect, they will charge a higher price to collect it. It is clearly against us."

Abbot Chenzhu nodded: "Although we used Dracula some time ago to get all the noble families in the county to invest in money, but now we have to collect cotton and make machines, so the money is still a bit tight."

"We'll save some money this time, and make a small profit in the mutual market next year. Anyway, as long as we have this kind of artifact, even if it takes a few more years, we will be able to occupy the entire northern market sooner or later."

Hearing the conversation between the two, Chu Qiguang said: "Slowly build machines, produce cotton cloth, sell cotton cloth, return funds to build more machines, and sell more cotton cloth. It's good to do this. But if it's me..."

Chen Gang, who was following him, said in his heart: "Brother Gou is going to start fooling around again, I have to learn."

Chu Qiguang said: "This month, all the people in Qingyang County will be drawn in to invest money..."

Wu Wei was puzzled and said, "You said you want to leave such a profitable business to others?"

Chu Qiguang said: "Because of their silver, I can directly use this money to collect cotton, and gather craftsmen from all over the county to build hundreds of textile machines, and then earn more money and have greater influence. "

"And then, within half a year, we will be able to use low-priced cotton cloth to hit the cotton cloth market in Lingzhou. We don't want to make money, but we just want to squeeze all other cotton cloth merchants to death."

"At that time, we will lead the textile association of the entire Lingzhou, and then bring in the largest wealthy families, officials, and princes in Lingzhou to invest in money, and work together to make money."

"In this way, our business will not only be able to reach the whole Lingzhou in the first year, but also with so many backgrounds, we will not have to pay taxes to various tax cards, clans, and localities."

Chen Zhu nodded. Although the business tax of the big man is very low, there are too many exorbitant taxes in various places.

Even with Wu Ge's old face, at most Qingyang County does not pay taxes, and when you go to other counties and encounter various local yamen and clans collecting taxes, most of them have to pay obediently.

"At that time, we will be able to make any county in Lingzhou naked with a single sentence."

"In one or two years at most, we can earn money that we can't earn by selling cotton cloth for ten years."

"Moreover, we have money, background, and no need to pay taxes. With this advantage, we can even swallow other salt and iron, tea bricks, and horse markets one by one."

Listening to Chu Qiguang's grand plans, Wu Wei and Chen Zhu's faces gradually showed yearning.

(End of this chapter)