Kai Fu Han

Chapter 409 Spinning and Weaving
"I almost forgot about the serious business." Luo Gao patted his head and began to explain his purpose: "The opening issues of the "Business Daily" and "Science Daily" have been produced. I will bring them over for you to review."

From the time we decided to start preparing these two newspapers at the end of August of the second year of Jingyan, it is not until now, on March [-]th of the third year of Jingyan, that the opening issue has been published.

After half a year of planning, Liu Xinqi wanted to take a closer look.

After receiving two newspapers, the papers were as big as "Minmin Xunbao" after opening, but they were not as thick as "Minmin Xunbao". The Industrial and Commercial Daily had three large sheets and twelve pages, while "Science Daily" had only two large sheets and eight pages.

The front page headline of the "Industrial and Commercial Daily" reported that the Xinghan League's steel production exceeded 2000 million jins, reaching half of the country's total steel production before Zhao moved south.

The Xinghan League managed to produce half of the total steel production in the 250 four states of the Jin Kingdom with the land of two states. This is an achievement worth showing off.

The choice of this news is more in line with the positioning of the Industrial and Commercial Daily.

Liu Xinqi also knew this news for the first time.

"Steel production has reached 2000 million kilograms?"

Luo Gao touched his nose, his face a little embarrassed:

"Not yet, but it will be soon. I have contacted Uncle Zhimu, and he said that it can be reached in mid-April at the earliest and by the end of April at the latest."

Liu Xinqi lowered his head and read the entire news. Except for the exaggeration of the output, the news was very well written and very inspiring to read.

"2000 million is indeed more pleasing to the eye than 900 million." Liu Xinqi said.

It was regarded as acquiescence to Luo Gao's behavior of exaggerating production.

Continue to look at the content on the next eleven pages. It has been carefully prepared for half a year. Many of the data in it are really eye-catching.

For example, in the textile industry, the total output of several large-scale textile factories in Xinghan League is very close to the total output of Zhao State (this output is the output after moving south).

After Liu Xinqi saw this data, he had to admire the greatness of women in this era. These women had the opportunity to be self-reliant, and almost all worked hard. In addition, Xinghan League's factories all paid basic wages plus piece wages, so they worked a lot. Take a lot.

The wages of many female textile workers exceed those of their men.

Nowadays, unmarried female textile workers from Xinghan League are very popular in the marriage market of Xinghan League, even more popular than hot cakes. Taking them home is equivalent to marrying into a cornucopia.

It is very rare to be able to achieve this output on textile machinery without steam power.

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Cotton - (by spinning) - cotton yarn - (by weaving) - cotton cloth

Based on the essays he had read, Liu Xinqi proposed changing the spindle from horizontal to upright during the spinning stage, and proposed the flying shuttle (a shuttle with small wheels installed in the chute, with springs installed at both ends of the chute) during the weaving stage. The shuttle can travel back and forth extremely quickly.)
Following Liu Xinqi's inspiration, the Ministry of Industry developed a new spinning machine that used a spinning wheel to drive ten vertical spindles, which increased the original spinning efficiency tenfold.A new type of loom was also developed, with a pedal-controlled shuttle, and the weaving efficiency was increased five to six times.

At present, there is only one factor limiting Xinghanmeng's textile industry, which is raw materials.

There was not enough cotton or linen.

This led Liu Xinqi to suppress the Ministry of Industry's application to develop steam-powered spinning machines and looms.

Without enough raw materials, the mechanical efficiency will be greatly improved again, which will lead to widespread unemployment of female textile workers, and the social impact will be too bad.

...

After reading the Industrial and Commercial News, Liu Xinqi picked up the Science News again.

The headline on the front page is a globe with two sides and a map of the world.

The entire page illustrates one fact.

We live on a giant ball.

It completely subverts the thousands-year-old Chinese folk concept of "a round sky and a square earth".

"Is this appropriate?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"I plan to use these two newspapers to open up the newspaper industry of Zhao and Jin, so I carefully selected a large number of articles with explosive social impact." Luo Gao explained.

That's fitting.

The second page continues the content of the first page, telling that the land of Kyushu is only a small piece of land on the earth, the outside world is very big, there are many ethnic groups outside, and there are some very powerful empires.

Liu Xinqi believes that everyone who reads this newspaper will have their horizons greatly broadened. "The one signed by the living immortal can't be me, right?" Liu Xinqi saw that the author's signature on both pages of the article was "living immortal".

"Who else would you be?"

Luo Gao snickered.

It doesn't matter, there are already a lot of legends about myself, not least of which is this.

"How were these pictures made?"

This is a newspaper. It is issued in not just one or two copies, but in tens of thousands. It is impossible to draw all of them manually.

"This is also the reason why the two newspapers took a long time to prepare. I asked Uncle Zhimu to help with the engraving. Uncle Zhimu was too busy and has not finished it until now." Luo Cheng replied.

The pattern cannot be printed with movable type, only engraving.

"Very good, I can see that you put your heart into it." Liu Xinqi praised.

"Then can I ask you something?" Luo Cheng asked, rubbing his hands.

Liu Xinqi had a bad premonition.

"The publication scope of the three newspapers has been greatly expanded, and our Propaganda Department is severely understaffed."

The hunch was right.

It is very simple to recruit ordinary people. When Luo Gao said there was a shortage of manpower, he could only mean that there was a lack of soldiers.

"Want an immortal talisman?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"hey-hey."

Rogo nodded with a smile.

"How much?"

"Two hundred? I heard that you allocated [-] to the Military Academy this year." Luo Gao replied.

Come prepared, but now the number has increased to [-].

"Dreaming." Liu Xinqi flatly refused.

"The 150?"

…no respond.

"One hundred?"

...

"You can tell me how many. You can't have none at all. I'm really short of manpower." Luo Cheng stopped guessing.

Liu Xinqi opened the system to check and found that he still had 730 six general cards in his hand, among which there were only 220 four one-star general cards. This was reserved for the seriously injured who may occur in the westward strategy later.

"Twenty."

After occupying both Jingdong and Jingdong Roads, he will definitely have to recruit officials again. Then all departments of the Ministry of Government will come back to look for him.

"It's too little, so my original plan to cover most of Kyushu will not be implemented."

"If you are not greedy enough, the snake will swallow the elephant. If you take too big a step, it is easy to lose your eggs." Liu Xinqi did not agree with his high-profile expansion strategy.

"What you said, no matter what, I have to give you fifty. I have to have at least one soldier in each state who can tell the truth." Luo Gao requested.

Considering that publicity work is also very important, Liu Xinqi decided to support Luo Gao a little.

"Okay, fifty of them are all second-level immortal talismans. They can increase the wisdom of the recipient. You should make good use of them." Liu Xin said.

"Thank you, leader, thank you, leader!" Luo Gao was extremely surprised. After speaking, he put his hands together, stretched them forward, and stretched them in front of Liu Xinqi.

(End of this chapter)