Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 424 Zhu Wenkui VS Dayuan Technology!

The sunshine in the winter afternoon lazily shines on the streets of Dadu.Zhu Wenkui was riding a horse, chatting with Captain Jieshika next to him without saying a word.

Behind the two of them was a carriage. Little Rangna poked her head out of boredom, but was pulled back by Princess Ma.Behind the carriage, Jeanna was still looking around with interest, not knowing what attracted her to this road that everyone else was tired of walking.

At this time, the noise from the front caught everyone's attention.

Zhu Wenkui wanted to take a look out of curiosity, but Captain Jessica stopped him immediately.He signaled to the back, and Jeanne, who was lying on the horse, immediately straightened up and called the coachman to prepare to turn around.

He asked Zhu Wenkui to stay where he was, put down the sword belt on his shoulders, hung it around his waist, held the hilt in one hand, and the rein in the other, and galloped forward.

Zhu Wenkui had no choice but to drive back to the carriage.

"What's going on?" He asked Jeanna.

"Look." The heroine Jeanna pointed directly at Jessica.

Zhu Wenkui turned his head and saw that when he came to the entrance of the street in front, he did not stop, but accelerated his horse and ran over quickly.

"No problem." Zhu Wenkui agreed directly.

Guo Kang believes that this kind of large-scale textile machine actually turns the pattern into a "program" and records it on these silk threads.Because these thread healds with stored patterns are woven by hand, he uses "weaving" to call this process.

"That's good, I'll give it to Mr. Zhu." Sun Shiwan didn't care, and bowed his hands to him: "Sun will wait for the good news!"

In this way, no matter who wins in the end, Sun Shiwan will take a piece of brocade and publicize his loom.In the metropolis, there are many merchants from all over the world. Seeing that he has such advanced equipment in his hands, people will definitely believe in the quality and supply ability of his goods, and even hope to directly buy his looms at a high price.In this way, it is equivalent to making a huge publicity in the entire Mediterranean market.

"This is not a carpenter's problem." Sun Shiwan also explained thoughtfully: "The structure of the loom itself is not complicated. I think anyone who knows the basics knows the basic principles. But the special feature of this loom is It's here."

After everyone approached, they realized that this place was not as lively as usual.The dense crowd was several times inside and outside.No wonder some people shouted in unison just now, which made Captain Jessica think that something happened.

Instead of going there to join in the fun and squeeze for half a day, it is better to go home quickly.While I don't have any official business today, I can still go to see the design of the workshop and see if I can make any changes.

Therefore, he does have confidence in the promised gift: the real core technology of this machine does not lie in these wooden parts, but the "programming" skills and design ideas.

The so-called Guanpu is a lottery draw, which is an activity that people in Song Dynasty have been playing.According to the rules formulated by Sun Shiwan, the more number plates in hand, the greater the chance of being drawn.So around here, many middle- and upper-class citizens who have nothing to do will come to cheer.And this news will spread quickly along with their word of mouth, and even the trading of number plates.

Zhu Wenkui had met him before, and quickly recognized him as the Javanese businessman "Sun Shiwan" that Guo Kang had introduced before.

"Ring arena?" Zhu Wenkui was surprised again: "Isn't this a loom, how can it still be in the ring?"

"Everyone is interested, so you can take a look. I put it here for everyone to see." Sun 10 spread his hands together: "If you are a professional shopkeeper or craftsman, you really want to exchange experience, and tell Sun, You can do it yourself. What's wrong?"

"By the way, who were there before?" Zhu Wenkui took the pen, thought for a while, and asked.

"Sun put this flower building machine here for a month. If someone can imitate it, or invent other machines to make brocades of the same quality, the challenge will be considered a victory." Sun Shiwan explained.

"Okay! Count me in!" Zhu Wenkui became more energetic for a moment.

In this way, it seems to stimulate local technological progress and form competition, but in the end it is only to dig out a capable partner for itself.

"Okay, okay." Probably because he didn't want to make a fuss, Sun Shiwan quickly stopped the crowd: "Does Mr. Zhu also want to challenge?"

Therefore, no matter what the result is, Sun Shiwan seems to be giving generously, but in fact he is making a steady profit.

"Scared me." He waved his hand and shouted towards the carriage in unfamiliar Greek, "It seems that the businessman is doing propaganda, not that... that..."

"The equipment of this principle existed in the Western Han Dynasty, but it has been more than 1000 years. The Hu merchants who traveled to and from the Central Plains and the merchants and craftsmen who entered and exited the border are countless. Then why, there is no third company that can use this in large quantities. What about the equipment?"

"Brother, can you do it..." Little Rangna came to her senses this time, pulled him and asked softly.

"Should we go and have a look?" Little Jeanna was more interested in the promotional activities of the merchants: "There are so many people gathered, it should be very interesting."

The metropolitan city has a special status, and the commerce in the city is very developed, and there are many business districts with different positioning and functions.Their side is already an upper-class residential area, but there is still a large market.

"I think his Greek is useless." Little Jeanna poked her head out again and commented.

What Sun Shiwan means is that you can't imitate it.Moreover, according to what he meant, since he dared to sell it publicly here, with the habits of businessmen like them, he must already have a more advanced set of things in his hands.

They were probably Sun Shiwan's colleagues in the local area, and they could tell what this meant at a glance: ordinary looms had high technical requirements for weavers.Sun Shiwan's machine, on the other hand, transfers the technical difficulty from controlling the silk thread by the weaver to making the flower.As long as the energy can produce this kind of pattern, then a weaver with ordinary skills can also produce high-quality brocade with similar quality.In this way, the output will of course increase by leaps and bounds, forming a crushing situation for other competitors.

And think about it carefully, Guo Kang also told him about the loom before.

There was no other way, so the crowd had no choice but to turn around and head towards the market.

He pointed to the wire harness in the loom: "As long as you make such a set of flower books, you can weave the patterns on the brocade without having to manually control each thread. Similarly, when you want to change the pattern, you only need to Just replace the flower book."

Little Rangna cheered happily, leaving Zhu Wenkui speechless for a while.

Similarly, although the weaver is beautiful and handy, it is useless to give her to someone else-she is just one of the weavers, not even the main character.She alone can't operate this big guy and make it work normally.

And the other party recognized him.Although there were not many interactions before, "Sun Shiwan" still put on a trademark smile, cupped his hands, and greeted him: "So it's Mr. Zhu. Is this here to take care of Sun's business, or is he here to fight in the ring?"

This is not the first time he has seen this method of shouting slogans.When he went to Guo Kang's monastery to play, he found that the monks under Guo Kang also shouted passwords and operated machines in the same way.

"You put up the banner of the Yuan Dynasty, and without the approval of the Chinese court, you displayed and sold it everywhere. It doesn't make sense, right?"

"Uh……"

According to Guo Kang, the Zhongyuan-style textile machine is actually a "programming" machine.Merchants will draw patterns according to customer needs; then, there are specialized craftsmen called "artisans" who design the arrangement and distribution of those wire bundles according to these patterns; finally, it is the weavers who operate these wire bundles for weaving.

This does not mean that because she knows certain things, she is easier to take care of than other children.On the contrary, because she understands some things that seem to be quite profound to outsiders, she is much more difficult to deal with than the average naughty child.

Zhu Wenkui was dumbfounded for a moment.

"..."

Seeing the boss quarreling with others, the guys also stepped forward to help and refuted in a hurry.

Zhu Wenkui himself is actually not interested in these things.Most of the land and sea hubs are here, and there are many business travelers. Some people sell some rare novelties, and it is normal for everyone to watch.But these things are nothing more than rare birds and animals, rare jewelry, fur brocade and the like.For him, the attraction is really not high.

"Of course." Sun Shiwan nodded: "Young Master Zhu is also a customer from the Central Plains, but you are not in this business, so you may not know it. Apart from the Central Plains, this machine is only available in Persia, and they also clearly learned from the Central Plains." of."

"..."

"That's right, my Great Yuan is not the imperial court of China, could it be Mongolian?"

His younger sister sometimes appears to be very precocious, and she speaks logically on many topics; but in many other aspects, she is no different from a child, very naive.

When passing by the intersection, he looked back and forth twice, then rushed to the opposite side.After running for a while, he turned his horse's head around again, and returned at a brisk walk.This time it was slower, so when he passed the intersection, he looked at it seriously again.

People around are talking about it, saying that although this thing is theoretically just a loom, it is about the size of a small church.As expected of something made by the people of Seris, it is really worthy of the name, and it looks high-end at first glance.

"Do you really think that the people here can't make this loom in a month?" Zhu Wenkui asked back.

"This loom can produce nearly one piece of high-quality brocade after a month. Since I have entrusted the help of the Roman government and colleagues from the chamber of commerce in the market, I will borrow expensive land to use it." He bowed his hands to the crowd: "Then this The brocade, Sun will not take it away."

But now it seems that for what Guo Kang said, even if Sun Shiwan doesn't know the term "programming", he is obviously very clear about its principle.

The onlookers hardly knew why, but they still applauded when they saw someone challenging.In any case, everyone is very happy to watch the show.

"Are you really willing to take the bet?" he asked.

For example, ordinary urchins are usually stubborn only for the things they like; but she would argue with Zhu Wenkui every day because of the things she likes, which made him feel dizzy...

"Gaoping Mausoleum!" Captain Jieshika said in Chinese.

He waved and pointed to the loom and the girl next to him: "If someone succeeds, Sun will give him the loom and the weaver together as a prize. If no one succeeds after a month...it doesn't matter. Let’s just pretend that Mr. Sun paid for it himself, and invite everyone to watch something new.”

"Of course, my Persian assistant firmly believes that Europeans can't do it." He said with a smile: "Perhaps, after a few hundred years, they will be able to learn."

"It's a loom..." he muttered.

"So what about Dayuan? What happened to us Dayuan!"

Captain Jessica and the heroine Jeanne both looked at Zhu Wenkui, wanting him to give his opinion.

A block away, they saw that on the square in the center of the market, there was a large flag with "Yuan" written on it; there was a smaller flag next to it, which painted the logo of the Java Chamber of Commerce.Under the flag is a huge two-story wooden frame, which is densely filled with various parts.

The other spectators gasped in admiration.But Zhu Wenkui suddenly remembered something else.

Seeing the performance of Zhu Wenkui and his party, they immediately realized that this was a big shot and thought that the business was coming.A clerk hurriedly ran to the opposite shop to call for someone, and a moment later, a fat businessman with a round face in a gorgeous robe trotted out in a hurry and followed him to the stage.

"Let's demonstrate." Sun Shiwan clapped his hands: "Go on, go on!"

Only then did Zhu Wenkui notice it, and when he turned his head to look, he saw that there was really a challenge notice written on the sign.

These people were sharp-tongued, and Zhu Wenkui was not good at debating, so he didn't know what to say.He hurriedly looked at the people with him, but little Rangna and others patronized Xiao and ignored him.

"Please look here." Sun Shiwan looked confident and pointed to a notice board next to him.

Following his order, a man climbed up the tall flower building, and while lifting and lowering different harnesses, he shouted the command, while the weaver girl sitting below sang with him, as if they were reciting spells , constantly pointing to unintelligible passwords, and then performing different operations.

"What is this? Is it a mechanism?" The astonishment of the heroine Jeanna was no better than that of the surrounding citizens.

In other words, even if someone succeeds in the challenge, makes a similar device, and gets this Hualou machine, he will definitely choose to cooperate with Sun Shiwan in order to expand production faster and obtain more stable technical support. Get complete resources to maximize benefits.

Zhu Wenkui had no choice but to nod, scratched the hair under the hat, and said to the two people outside: "Then let's go over there and have a look."

He believes that this idea can not only be used for spinning, but also for calculation.It's just that he has been working on more basic things and has no time to do these, so he gave Zhu Wenkui a general idea and stopped talking.

"So, this thing is really not something that everyone can learn." He shook his head: "The Persian textile skills are actually high enough to export some technology to China in reverse. If there are people here who can learn it, then It shows that he is also worth communicating with each other. Can't we learn a lot?"

"Let me see." Hearing that it was a machine, Zhu Wenkui suddenly became interested again, and he didn't care about criticizing and educating little Rangna. He straightened up quickly, stood on the stirrup, and looked inside.

"It's all here, let's take a look." Princess Ma pondered for a moment, and finally said.

There are several people dressed as guys on the stage. Some are explaining to the audience, while others are watching by the loom. They are probably craftsmen assisting in operation and maintenance.Another girl in a simple and elegant long gown was sitting beside the brocade, presumably to be in charge of operating the loom.

"Let's go in and have a look." Zhu Wenkui said.

Usually it's fine, but when you're in a hurry and can't find the words, it's even more serious.As for where he learned this allusion... After all, Zhu Wenkui often chats, and he can't really tell.It may be that this story impressed him deeply, so he directly used this Chinese word as a pronoun for a large category of events.

However, little Rangna was very interested and kept protesting, even Zhu Wenkui coaxed her to no avail.He had no choice but to look at his mother in the car.

Zhu Wenkui didn't know how to refute for a while.He had no choice but to criticize: "Then why do you hang a banner with the word 'Yuan' here? You have said it all, this is a Chinese skill."

"He Lin is on fire again, right?"

"Uh..." Heroine Jeanne was also a little embarrassed: "It doesn't matter. I mean, Captain Jessica has worked hard in European cities, so he is very experienced in various situations. Sooner or later, Young Master, you will have to be on your own. Let others learn from it."

"We are a chamber of commerce in Dayuan, why can't we be admitted?" Sun Shiwan was a little surprised and immediately retorted: "Isn't the one in Dayuan from China? What else could it be?"

"There is a betting place here." He pointed to a booth next to him and said, "If you are interested, you can come to gamble every day to see if there is anyone who can challenge successfully. Those who win the bet, With the number plate issued every day, you can still come to participate in this Guanpu business. This brocade will be regarded as the first prize. What do you think?"

"Okay, I will learn and be more vigilant. But..." Although Zhu Wenkui admitted it, his expression was clearly disbelieving.He looked around and muttered, "Can there really be someone rebelling in Dadu?"

Zhu Wenkui probably understood what he meant.

"Is it strange to have this technology? Dayuan Technology is the best in the world!"

Jie Shika had just been sent over by Zhu Yunqi, and had been staying with them all the time.Although it was said at the time that I wanted to learn Greek to facilitate daily communication.

But the few people around me all speak Chinese all day long.And because he himself had been in the court and often interacted with priests, he knew a little Latin, so in the end, it became this hodgepodge of "Greek" mixed with Chinese words, Latin words and even the dialect of his hometown of Bohemia. .

A clerk with a pen and paper came up and handed him the brochure.

The other onlookers were confused, but in the crowd, a few extravagantly dressed people opened their mouths in surprise.

Everyone immediately applauded.

Although there are many people here, most of them should be ordinary citizens who are attracted.Zhu Wenkui put on airs and asked the two to help open the way, and the people next to him tactfully moved out of the way.Even Princess Ma followed curiously, took little Rangna by the hand, and came to the front row.

In this regard, as a child trained in traditional Confucian education, he actually agrees with the view of his good friend Guo Kang: luxury is harmful, and the luxury of the upper class is one of the sources that corrupts the national atmosphere and causes the decline of the dynasty.This thing, other people like it, he will not bluntly take care of it.But he himself has always held a contemptuous attitude.

"I've seen looms, and there are quite a few looms in my hometown. But why are looms so big?" Captain Jessica was also quite surprised.

Zhu Wenkui sighed secretly, feeling that this profiteer was not as simple as it seemed.However, it also inspired his competitive spirit.

"What is that?" Zhu Wenkui asked.

There is a temporary wooden table in front of me, and this huge machine is on it.It is clearly divided into two floors, with two beams on the upper floor and many wooden poles between the beams.On the complex wooden and iron parts, there are many silk threads hanging, which are woven into many bundles through complicated coiling, and are connected with the wooden organs.And at the bottom is a piece of brocade that has just been woven.

He decided to visit other skilled craftsmen when he had time.Although the technical level in Haixi seems to be far inferior to that in the Central Plains, there should still be hope if we concentrate the talents of outstanding craftsmen and study a product.

"Oh, not yet." The man said honestly, "You are the first."

"..."

"Pfft..." Little Rangna still couldn't help laughing.

(End of this chapter)