The Tang Dynasty started from saving Empress Changsun

Coming out of Li Shimin, Chen Jingke went to the Lizheng Hall as usual.

Chinese New Year is approaching, and the palace is also very lively, with lanterns and festoons everywhere, which is very festive.

Xiao Sizi changed into a red jacket and skirt, which made her face look fairer and more charming.

It's just that as soon as he saw his eldest grandson Wugou, he started to complain: "What the hell are you doing in the Gewu class? You can't pass the year?"

Chen Jingke said with a guilty conscience: "Come on, we're already on vacation."

The eldest grandson Wugou said angrily: "Where is Qingque, why didn't he go home for the New Year? He doesn't want me as a mother anymore, doesn't he even want his wife and children?"

"Just now his two children came over and asked me if I wanted to, what do you think I should do? Ah? Say it."

Chen Jingke rolled his eyes and said angrily, "Well, Li Tai, you won't go home during the Chinese New Year. Auntie, don't worry, I'll teach him a lesson when I get back, and let him go home for the New Year."

The eldest grandson Wugou stretched out his hand to grab his ear, and said angrily, "Okay, play carefully with me, aren't you? Believe it or not, I'll grab your ear off."

Chen Jingke screamed: "Ah... help me, little sis, your mother is going to pull my ear off, and I will become an ear by then."

Two years ago, the little girl would have come to rescue him, but now that the little girl has grown up, she knows she was joking.

Not only did he not go to rescue, but he laughed happily from the sidelines.

The eldest grandson Wugou naturally didn't know the truth and twisted his ears, he just pretended to be fierce and said: "Say it or not, what the hell are you doing?"

Chen Jingke hurriedly said: "Tell me, can you let go of your hands first?"

Only then did Changsun Wugou let go of his hand, and said, "Be honest."

Chen Jingke hurriedly rubbed his ears, pretending to be in pain, and said: "Recently, the Gewu class is researching a new kind of machine. Once successful, it can increase the efficiency of weaving by ten times, or even dozens of times."

The eldest grandson Wugou immediately became interested, and said: "How is the research going now? How sure are you of it?"

Chen Jingke said: "Frankly speaking, this thing is not complicated. The difficulty is how to make the whole machine work in harmony. It only needs to be slowly adjusted and modified, and it will always work out."

The eldest grandson Wugou said happily: "That's good. When the research is successful, I will also build a weaving workshop."

Chen Jingke did not refuse, who has the strongest business strength in the world today?
There is only one answer, the eldest grandson of Empress Tang Wugou.

If the glass was removed from Lilan, the court revenue would not be as much as she earns in a year.

The best way to promote new technologies is to let "big capital" like her participate in industrialization.

There is no need to be afraid of her monopoly, she has a share in the world, what kind of monopoly does she have.

And her heart is no less than that of Li Shimin, and what she pursues is not immediate interests, but fame.

She wants to be the number one queen in the ages.

So he said happily: "Even if you don't want to join, you don't have to. Whenever there is a new technology in the future, you have to participate. Help promote the new technology and make it accepted by the world as soon as possible."

The eldest grandson Wugou said with a smile: "Okay, I've become your pawn."

Chen Jingke called Qu and said, "Don't you have a conscience when you say this?"

Changsun Wugou laughed heartily and said, "It doesn't hurt, I'm very happy."

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Chen Jingke rolled his eyes, and then said seriously: "When the new machine is developed, your textile factory can mainly deal in the business of cotton cloth and cashmere cloth."

The eldest grandson Wugou naturally knew what he meant, that he hoped that she could promote cotton and cashmere cloth.

Before Chen Jingke told her more uses of cotton and wool, she has been working on research and development in this area for the past two years.

Cotton is relatively simple. Go to the southwest to buy cotton seeds, and try to plant them in a small area in Guanzhong.

This year, the cotton planting area has reached more than [-] mu, but the land of the Royal Manor is used, and there is no external promotion.

The reason is very simple. As a commercial crop, before a complete industrial chain is built, it will be disastrous to the country and the people if it is promoted on a large scale.

It is also easy to handle in terms of application. Cotton wool can be made into cotton clothes and can be spun and weaved.Cottonseeds can be kept as seeds, oil can be pressed, and cotton cakes can be used as fodder.

Some of the cotton produced in Huangzhuang was used for weaving, and some were made into winter clothes for the frontier army, which was well received by the soldiers.

However, it will take a long time for the public to accept it.

Changsun Wugou said: "If that's the case, we need to plant more cotton this year."

Chen Jingke said: "Now the task of grain production is gradually handed over to the south, and cotton planting can be properly promoted in the north."

The eldest grandson Wugou shook his head and said, "Don't be in a hurry, just take it one step at a time. The promotion of new crops, if one goes wrong, it will cause local turmoil."

Chen Jingke said: "We can focus on a certain county for promotion first, and whoever is willing to plant will give them grain according to the yield per mu, but the cotton that is finally planted will belong to the imperial court."

Changsun Wugou thought for a while and said: "It's not impossible, I believe many people will be very happy."

Of course I'm happy, normal farming has to bear the risk of various natural disasters, and I don't know how much food it can produce.

Now the country directly distributes grain according to the yield per mu, eliminating all risks.

As for taking care of cotton... just take care of it, and treat it as being hired to work.

However, Chen Jingke still reminded: "If you really do this, you have to send someone to keep an eye on it, lest the people below steal food and harm the people."

The eldest grandson Wugou said indifferently: "It's just such a small matter, I will personally watch if something can happen, how can I be the queen."

Chen Jingke couldn't help giving a thumbs up, domineering.

At this time, Changsun Wugou asked again: "Can wool also be spun?"

Chen Jingke said affirmatively: "It's definitely possible. The degreased wool is very suitable for spinning, and the woolen cloth is warmer."

Changsun Wugou nodded and said: "That's good, I'll let someone study it later."

All the wool she got before was twisted into wool yarn to knit sweaters, and she didn't research on weaving.

It's just a pity that she can't wear wool products due to her filial piety.

Not only her, including several of her daughters and even Chen Jingke, cannot wear wool products.

Thankfully, there are cotton coats that are just as warm and comfortable to wear.

After playing with Xiao Sizi in the palace for a while, Chen Jingke said goodbye and left.

He didn't go back directly, but wandered up and down the street.

The new year is coming soon, so it is naturally very lively, the streets are full of pedestrians.

...

But for some unknown reason, the scene of the slums in the south of the city couldn't help appearing in his mind.

I don't know what it looks like there, but there is a high probability that there will be no festive atmosphere.

They are not entitled to it.

Even for them, Chinese New Year is just a pass.

The New Year is coming to an end, and for the poor, the Chinese New Year is like a dangerous pass.

In ancient times, borrowing money and debts would be concentrated in the few days at the end of the year, either to pay back the money, or to sell children and daughters to sell themselves.

Either sign a new debt agreement and fall into the debt trap of rolling donkeys.

The so-called donkey rolling is to calculate the interest as the cost and continue to roll the interest, that is, the rolling interest, which will never end in the end.

At the beginning, you may just borrow ordinary debts, but if you fail to repay the debts when they are due, you can only be forced to accept the donkey roll.

Then he was completely rolled to death by the donkey.

Are those in the slums in debt?This is beyond doubt.

The Chinese New Year is indeed a dangerous time for them, and I am afraid they are the last people who want to celebrate the New Year.

Chen Jingke had no intention of giving them money. He would never be such a good person, and he couldn't help them.

However, he will not stand idly by, and has been trying to figure out a way these days.

Relief from work is the best way he can think of. For example, to build a railway, he plans to hire people from the slums to work.

Allowing Taoism to build workshops outside Chang'an City is also one of the steps.Workshops need workers and can provide them with a job.

Those who are left unable to work are the ones who need relief.

Of course, it does not rule out the kind of people who eat too much and are lazy.

To such a person, Chen Jingke just wanted to say that he deserved to die.

In order to help more people, he also developed a home workshop plan.

Give some relatively simple and highly repetitive tasks to people in the slums to do, and let them earn some wages.

For example, spinning, the workshop produced hand-operated spinning wheels in batches and lent them to people in the slums to spin hemp thread.

Then the people in the workshop go to buy the spindles and take them back for weaving.

Cloth is money in this era, whether it is sold domestically or dumped abroad, it is a basic commodity.

In the previous life, Britain and France harvested the world by dumping cotton cloth, Datang can do better than them.

Of course, the ultimate goal of Datang is not to harvest the world, but to promote Chinese civilization and lead the world to prosperity, which is fundamentally different from European and American bandits.

In order to realize the dumping of cloth, the output must be increased and the cost must be reduced.

It is unrealistic to rely on family workshops to weave cloth. It must be industrialized and replace labor with machines.

This is why he asked Li Tai and others to study steam-powered looms.

He hadn't seen a steam loom, but he had seen an old-fashioned shuttle loom.

When he was a child, it was everywhere in the countryside, and he even used it himself.

The steam loom is improved from the flying shuttle loom.

He has told the people of Gewuban about the flying shuttle loom, and asked them to study the steam loom based on it.

Trust the wisdom of the ancients, and it won't be long before steam looms appear.

As for the legendary spinning jenny, he has no plans to make one for the time being.

He engaged in industrialization not to reap wealth, but to create wealth and improve people's living standards.

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The spinning jenny provided work for more people than the spinning jenny.

The spinning work is first handed over to the people in the slums, and even large quantities of spindles can be purchased from the people to help the people generate income.

It will not be too late to build more advanced spinning machines when their lives are improved and they find new livelihoods.

The road has to be taken step by step, and try to avoid the situation where machines force people to have nothing to eat.

I don't know how the research class is going. Thinking of this, he has no intention of continuing to go shopping, so he hurried back to the temple.

All the way to the Gewu class, I found that everyone was discussing a wooden loom.

Li Tai, who had just been talked about by the eldest grandson Wugou, was among them, and Cheng Huailiang was also there.

It's not that Chen Jingke doesn't give everyone a winter vacation, but that the way of studying in ancient times is different from that in modern times.

Modern transportation is well-developed, and everyone will be home in two or three days after the holiday, so the winter and summer vacations are divided.

In the traffic situation in ancient times, one or two months would be delayed on the way back from home, and frequent holidays were meaningless.

Going out to study, if you are lucky enough to learn from a famous teacher, it is not uncommon for you to go home once a year or two, and some even don't go back once every three to five years.

It's not that the Gewu class doesn't have annual vacations. Those who are close to home can go home to celebrate the New Year, and those who are far away from home will basically stay in the temple.

It's just that science and engineering lovers understand everything. Once they indulge in research, it is really a waste of sleep and food.

This is the first time they have independently worked on a mechanism, and everyone is very positive.

For this reason, several students whose families were in Guanzhong gave up going home for the New Year.

I'm afraid that in a year's time, others will research the loom.

Chen Jingke stood here watching for a while, and then asked: "Which step has the research reached now?"

Cheng Huailiang said proudly: "We have solved the problem of raising and lowering the heald frame."

As he spoke, he instructed two students to turn a wheel next to them, and saw that the wheel drives a gear, and the gear drives a shaft to rotate.

The shaft drives the two poles to swing up and down, and the two heald frames connected under the two poles also swing up and down.

Chen Jingke praised: "Not bad, great progress, what step are you going to do next?"

Cheng Huailiang said: "I have already thought about the problem of the rotation frequency of the cloth winding shaft."

At this time Li Tai shook his head and said, "I suggest putting this problem aside and solving the problem of the shuttle sliding first."

Cheng Huailiang said distressedly: "You have to revise the plan again... all the previous work was done for nothing."

The other students were similar, dissatisfied with his unauthorized modification of the plan.

Normally, everyone would respect his status as king of Wei, but it was different when researching, and they would still hate him if they had opinions, at most, they would hate him more lightly.

Of course, at the beginning, everyone had some concerns and dared not speak up.It is a habit that he himself specially emphasized, and then helped everyone develop.

When studying, there was no King Wei, only companions.

Li Tai explained: "Because I just wanted to understand that the swing frequency of the heald frame and the flying frequency of the shuttle are the most critical, and all other structures are serving them."

"Only by solving these two problems first, can other structures be adjusted accordingly."

...

After he explained to the loom, everyone suddenly realized, and nodded in agreement with his idea.

Just when everyone was about to discuss again, Chen Jingke interrupted them.

"Okay, okay, that's the end of today's research. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, everyone rests for a few days, and it's not too late to study after the Chinese New Year is over."

Everyone is excited, so naturally they don't want to.

Cheng Huailiang said: "So many years have passed, if there is less than one, no one will die."

Zhao Youchang echoed: "Yes, yes, no research machine is important."

Chen Jingke glared at them and said, "What are you talking about, you don't care about the New Year, and don't your family members care?"

"And Zhao Youchang, you can't go home, and you're not going to let other people go home for the New Year, right? Be careful and I'll send you back to your hometown right now."

Zhao Youchang hurriedly laughed and said, "Don't, don't, I won't say anything. Everyone listens to the real person, go home for the New Year."

Chen Jingke said: "Don't worry, I will lock this laboratory later, and no one can enter before the school starts. When the school starts, everyone will study together."

Li Tai wanted to say something else, but Chen Jingke said directly: "I just came out of the palace, and my aunt said, do you want the machine or her mother?"

In one sentence, he immediately shut his mouth.

Then he said: "I'll go first." Then he turned and left the laboratory.

Seeing that he had left, the others couldn't say anything, so they all followed suit.

Chen Jingke did what he said and locked the door to prevent anyone from sneaking in.

The new year is coming soon, and other temples held water and land rituals, but only Zixiao Temple did nothing.

However, Chen Jingke still made a batch of zodiac amulets as usual, and distributed them free of charge to believers who came to offer incense.

As a result, this small amulet crushed all water and land pujas, making Zixiao Temple the first choice for believers to offer incense.

Other colleagues are both envious and helpless.

There is no way, who let Zixiao temple have a living god sitting in charge.

Can't compare.

The Tang Dynasty started from saving Empress Changsun