Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 12 Wool Spinning Industry
"It's gone, it's gone, this is what those teeth soldiers made. They say this thing is called a magazine, and it will be published every month in the future."

One issue per month?This sounds good, Xue Cheng looked at the hot crowd, most of them bought the album "Journey to the West".

But there are still some people rushing to buy another small booklet, Xue Cheng asked curiously: "What is this?"

"This? This is "Jianning Dictionary."

"What is "Jianning Dictionary"?"

This is another new word that Xue Cheng has never heard of.

Uncle Wei, the bookstore owner, said, "Do you know the book Shuowen Jiezi?"

Xue Cheng shook his head. He was literate, but only to be able to read the military books handed down by his family. He didn't have much interest in literature, so naturally he didn't know these books.

Uncle Wei said: "Shuowenjiezi is a book compiled by Xu Shen, a Confucian scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty. A reference book, now many people are willing to buy one, and go back to learn some common characters.”

Oh?
Now Xue Cheng was also interested. He opened a dictionary, but found that the characters in the dictionary were different from those he knew.

"Uncle Wei, is this a typo?"

Uncle Wei stroked his beard and said, "I heard from Zhang Dalang, who is my partner, that this character is a simplified character created by King Jianning. It is for the common people to read and write. The strokes should be as simple as possible, as long as they can be recognized."

"This?"

Uncle Wei said: "Actually, it's okay for Lord Jianning to do this. These simplified characters can still read the original Chinese characters. If you are really familiar with these five hundred simplified characters, you can understand everything in the notice. Daily It's enough to use it."

Today's scholars in the Tang Dynasty generally still look at literature with an inclusive attitude, without the pedantic stubbornness of later generations.

Regarding Lord Jianning's promotion of simplified characters among ordinary people, Uncle Wei didn't think there was any problem.

Anyway, these people in Qianshou didn't want to say that they took simplified characters to take the imperial examination.

As long as you can master the written language and understand the notices and letters, that's enough.

Here, Xue Cheng took his younger sister and bought a bunch of things, big and small, at the market, and finally it was time for the market to close.

After all the customers have left, each store starts to take stock.

Sun Jianguo was calculating with one hand and looking at the ledger with the other, and quickly took stock of today's earnings.

Ten pennies!Sun Jianguo walked out of the shop excitedly and shouted, "I made ten guan today!"

The players in each store made a loud voice.

This guy Sun Jianguo is really cheap!

Don't look at this guy's big and three rough, he is actually the president of the university's sweater club!

Sun Jianguo was born in the north. He liked knitting sweaters since he was a child, and he still did not give up this hobby when he was in college.

After Li Yan launched the two major activities, Sun Jianguo quickly thought of his hobby - knitting sweaters!

Longyou Road, where Guazhou is located, was originally an area with a developed breeding industry.

There are a lot of sheep in Guazhou, and several states adjacent to Guazhou have a tradition of raising sheep.

Sun Jianguo resolutely discovered this business opportunity!Wool industry!
This is the core industry of England's industrial revolution. Back then, England relied on this industry to make a fortune, and then started the industrial revolution.

Where there are sheep, there is wool, and the wool textile industry has the soil for development.

But how to weave wool into wool?
This has touched Sun Jianguo's knowledge blind spot, and he is afraid that other players will learn his ideas, so he can only secretly find partners on the forum.

But Sun Jianguo was lucky, he quickly found a classmate from the same school, Zhou Boran.

Zhou Boran is a master of mechanical engineering in the four tiankengs, and he also entered the game from an advertisement on the campus network.

This guy is a second-test player, and his natural attribute points are not as good as the first-test player.

Therefore, players in the second test of the martial arts competition basically don't think about winning prizes, and they all aim at this business activity.

This event can also be participated in a partnership team. When Sun Jianguo came to the door, the two of them hit it off and immediately formed a team in the game.

Zhou Boran had a master's degree in mechanical engineering, and his hands-on ability was relatively strong. He quickly found a complete set of machinery in the textile industry in England in the materials.

The reduced wool needs to be washed and degreased, combed by a carding machine, and then spun into wool by a weaving machine.

The wool textile industry actually developed very early in the West, but it has always been produced in handicraft workshops.

The real large-scale production began after the invention of the steam engine.

But now the players have already demonstrated on the forum that without qualified steel and seals, the current technology of the players cannot build a steam engine.

So forget about the steam engine.

Fortunately, the water network near Guazhou is dense, and the Shule River is a fast-flowing river.

So Zhou Boran quickly thought of a good way to use the water turbine to drive the machine!
Zhou Boran drew pictures and built the first hydraulic loom in the world of "The Wind and Cloud of the Tang Dynasty"!

The working efficiency of this machine is not too high, and there is no way to compare with the efficiency of the steam engine factory in the later period.

But this also saves too much manpower and material resources than manual production!

In the rented factory, the carding machines and weaving machines were working at full capacity, and Sun Jianguo and Zhou Boran hired nearby women to work in the factory.

Now that the machines and personnel are available, and there is no shortage of wool in Guazhou, this woolen factory has really opened up.

But the only problem is, how can the spun wool be sold?
At this time, it was Sun Jianguo's turn to act. He rented a few shops in Dongshi and transformed them into what they are now.

Sun Jianguo's ideas are very avant-garde. He does not come to sell wool, but turns wool into a business to get rich.

Longyou Road is bitterly cold in winter, and now it's starting to get cold in autumn.

At that time, most of the common people only wore linen clothes, and only rich people would wear clothes made of silk.

Whether it is linen or silk, the warmth retention effect is limited, and the clothes these days are very uncomfortable to wear.

Compared with these clothes, sweaters have great advantages!
It is light and warm, and comfortable to wear, and the price of sweaters woven with machine-made wool is only a little higher than that of linen.

This is also a price that ordinary people can accept.

Both Sun Jianguo and Zhou Boran firmly believed that this sweater was more comfortable than clothes made of linen or silk, but it was still not easy for the common people to accept a new dressing habit.

When the two were discussing how to promote wool, Zhou Boran proposed: "We should hire more people to weave wool and sell it as a trade. Sweaters are so comfortable, everyone will definitely buy them!"

But Sun Jianguo shook his head and said, "The dressing habits of thousands of years are so easy to change, and we have already invested a lot. If I don't return the funds, then my capital will be lost."

Zhou Boran also sighed, the capital of starting a business today is all paid by Sun Jianguo.

And Zhou Boran is regarded as a technical shareholder, accounting for 30.00% of the shares.

Zhou Boran is a second-test player, and he has no savings at all. He does tasks in the city on weekdays, and he can barely maintain food and clothing.

Not to mention taking money out to invest.

The two gods of love sighed for a long time, and Sun Jianguo suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said, "Yes! I have a solution!"

Zhou Boran immediately asked: "What way?"

"Treatment!"

"Liu, don't you have no money? Don't tell me you want to lower the price? Then we won't be able to participate in this month's event."

"No, no, the lure I'm talking about is not a price cut!"

Sun Jianguo said, "Do you know how I joined the Wool Fabric Association?"

Zhou Boran shook his head hastily. Of course he didn't know why Sun Jianguo, a man of five ranks and three rough men, wanted to join such an association.

Sun Jianguo said: "When the previous president recruited newcomers, he said that if he learned how to knit sweaters, he could sell the knitted sweaters for money. At that time, my family was short of money, so I joined this association."

"Nowadays in Guazhou City, there must be a lot of people who are short of money. Instead of hiring them to knit sweaters, it is better to turn sweater knitting into a sideline business and let the common people come to make money."

Zhou Boran asked, "How did it change?"

Sun Jianguo said: "We sell their wool, they weave clothes, and we buy them back at a price higher than the cost of the wool. In this way, people who buy our wool will not only knit clothes for their families, but also a means of making money! "

Sun Jianguo added: "And they bought it back and wove the sweater. If it's comfortable, can the family not wear it?"

"And in doing so, the enthusiasm for knitting sweaters is higher, and the cost may be lower than directly hiring workers."

"What's more, this is also a big industry that drives the development of the entire Guazhou! If it is done, we will be the father of Datang Wool Textile!"

Zhou Boran was also excited to hear that, he is a mechanical major, but now the mechanical major is called Tiankeng major.

Obviously it is the cornerstone of the industry, but the salary is meager and the treatment is poor.

Zhou Boran's mentor often lamented how glorious it would be to be a mechanical engineer if he could return to the era when machinery dominated the world.

Textile machines, steam engines, trains, automobiles, tanks and airplanes are all masterpieces of mechanical engineers. These inventions have greatly changed the world, and their inventors have been crowned with supreme glory and written in textbooks.

Although Datang Fengyun is a "game", Zhou Boran still feels a sense of accomplishment!

I am the one who invented the wool spinning machine in this world!
It's just that Sun Jianguo and Zhou Boran don't know that this so-called game is really a real world!

And their inventions were also included in the history books of the Tang Dynasty, and their names were immortalized along with these inventions!
(End of this chapter)