Although Zhang Tianyou did not receive the invitation, he also received news that the Suzhou prefect invited Suzhou merchants to visit the new workshop, saying that he wanted to show everyone a new type of spinning machinery.

Zhang Tianyou listened to the "informer" telling the story of the "informer" in a mess, and there were ten thousand question marks in his mind.

Is there really a way for the princely grandson to create a spinning machine that does not require manpower?

How is this possible?

Zhang Tianyou really wanted to see it with his own eyes, but he was afraid that he would never go back to beat the dog.

Therefore, I could only send my confidant Tian Shunyi to take a look.

Tian Shunyi was also the old man left to him by Zhang Tianyou's father, and he was the most loyal to him. It can be said that the reason why he was able to control Suzhou's business remotely was entirely due to Tian Shunyi's attention to him.

Although Tian Shunyi's status in the Zhang family is very important, it is not very prominent among Suzhou merchants. The silk and satin shops and loom factories they run are all small-scale and cannot be used at all.

But one thing is quite strong, that is, no matter what industry, he has a place, and at least he can speak.

Therefore, when the Suzhou magistrate Zhang Qing came to send an invitation, he also gave Tian Shunyi a copy.

When Tian Shunyi followed the presidents of various chambers of commerce to the new factory, he was stunned by the plaque of the new factory.

Seeing this, Zhang Zonglai lamented repeatedly. He had already dissuaded the prince's grandson and said that he should give the new factory a serious name, but the prince's grandson refused to listen and insisted on making such a strange name.

Just as Zhang Zong came to think this way, a president in the crowd suddenly asked curiously.

"Master, what does Suzhou spinning factory first mean? Are there any factories second, third, and fourth behind?"

Zhang Zonglai could only bite the bullet and said.

"yes!"

"Not to mention the third and fourth factories, it is possible even if the ninth and tenth factories are!

“Oh oh oh…”

When everyone heard this, they felt like they had a huge secret, and everyone showed a secret expression on their faces.

Zhang Zonglai casually said something perfunctory and led everyone into the factory directly.

Before everyone could follow into the production workshop, they heard a roar of machinery.

This was a very rare sound in the Ming Dynasty, which made them feel curious. Especially when they saw the rolling smoke from the tall chimneys and the heat from the entire house, they were even more awe of the "Spinning Factory" in front of them.

However, just as everyone was about to enter the spinning workshop, a young man walked out of it.

The boy bowed his hands, his face full of smiles.

"Everyone is making a fortune!"

When everyone saw the boy, their expressions changed suddenly, and then they knelt down and kowtowed in unison.

"Caomin and others pay homage to His Highness the Emperor, His Highness, thousands of years old..."

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty were humble. Even if they had a wealth of wealth, they would call themselves a slut and a poor man when they met officials.

Zhu Yunxi smiled and said "flat" and then everyone got up from the ground, followed closely by the prefect Zhang Qinglai, with no longer the tranquility and calmness of the moment he had just entered the factory.

There was no way, the Suzhou prefect had their filial piety, and they could still preserve some decentness in front of the Suzhou prefect. But facing the most noble people of the Ming Dynasty, their sense of superiority disappeared.

Everyone swallowed their breath, not to mention how to fart, they didn't even dare to breathe.

Seeing that they were so reserved, Zhu Yunxiu had no choice but to speak as easily as possible and behave more naturally.

If he really brings out the royal style, how many of these people should be scared?

"Everyone, this is the spinning workshop of our Suzhou Spinning Factory No. 1!"

Everyone followed the voice of the crown prince and was stunned by the scene in front of them.

I saw a square pot that was endless to see, steaming was steaming, and hundreds of female workers were picking up cooked cocoons in the pot.

This step is used to remove the fat from the silk so that it can be better spun into silk thread.

However, even this step was enough to shock everyone.

Because under normal circumstances, a worker who cooks silkworm cocoons is enough to supply more than a dozen mature spinners.

This is not only the boiling of silkworm cocoons to remove the gum on the silkworm cocoons and allow the silk to spread, thereby preparing for subsequent silk reeling and spinning.

When Zhu Yunyu saw that everyone was shocked, the stone hanging in his heart finally put down. After a while, everyone saw the spectacular scene of hundreds of spindles, and had to quit the weaver he had hired when he got home.

Sure enough, after Zhu Yunyu led everyone to the spinning workshop, everyone saw hundreds of rotating spindles and the raw silks continuously transported by conveyor belts, and their eyes were so surprised that they were all so wide that they were glaring.

"That's amazing!"

"It's really possible to spin raw silk into yarn without manpower!"

Although there are still many workers in the workshop, who often stare at the spindle and adjust the speed from time to time, this amount of workers is obviously too trivial for traditional spinning.

When everyone was shocked by the power of modern machinery, Tian Shunyi asked with his waist bent forward.

"I dare to ask the Crown Prince, how much yarn can this machine spin in a day?"

Zhu Yunxiu started talking nonsense without thinking.

"It's the testing stage now, and the workers are not yet skilled, so they can only spin thousands of spinning spindles a day."

"When the workers are proficient in the future, the machinery is adjusted, and it should be no problem to produce 10,000 or 20,000 ingots a day."

Tian Shunyi felt a little sad when he heard this.

Normally, if a skilled weaver can weave a spindle in three days, it will be considered as a fast speed.

If you have 10,000 ingots a day, wouldn’t it take 30,000 weavers to weave them day and night?

"I dare to ask the Crown Prince, how many weavers do you plan to hire in the future?"

“Weaver?”

"Why do you want to hire a weaver?"

Zhu Yunyu led Tian Shunyi to the steam boiler room and pointed to the worker who was shoveling coal into the furnace with a shovel.

"Look at it, Gu's machines don't need to be eaten or drunk. You can work by hiring two people to add coal to him. Why did Gu hire a weaver?"

"A weaver costs at least three taels of silver per month, 10,000 employees costs 30,000 yuan a month, and 30,000 yuan a month, 90,000 yuan a month..."

"Ninety thousand taels of silver are enough for the lonely boiler to burn coal for ten years. Is he stupid to hire a weaver?"

In fact, Zhu Yunxiu's words are bragging.

Because the Maritime Bureau receives orders made by sample and customized, not to mention that he can’t make a steam textile machine now, even if he can make it, he can only make a plain textile machine. After weaving, he has to carry out printing and dyeing processes.

In this way, the high-end orders in the West will not be completed, and it will smash the sign of the Maritime Corporation.

Therefore, whether it is for the order of the Maritime Manufacturing Corporation or to ensure employment for the people of Suzhou City, he will recruit a large number of weavers.

However, Tian Shunyi and the merchants who watched the fun didn't know that after seeing the magic of the spinning machine, they thought that the textile machine could be made in the same way and easily tinkered with it.

Therefore, before they returned home, they began to think about how to fire the excess weaver at home.

In fact, they didn't use so many weavers at all. They just hired twice the number of workers because they listened to Zhang Tianyou and wanted to make trouble for the crown prince.

Now that I don’t need a weaver when I see the crown prince, they don’t need to support them in vain.

"oh oh……"

"The Emperor's Grandson Shengming, this method is indeed more economical and affordable, but we are so shallow..."

"You guys come and visit slowly. Next, I plan to build the second factory, the third factory, and the fourth factory until thirty spinning mills are built to unify the silk textile industry of the Ming Dynasty..."

Zhu Yunxiu was so bragging that he was completely useless. In fact, the spinning machine in front of him was only made by him because he wasted a lot of effort. This delayed the research and development of the train and temporarily called for a lot of parts.

Moreover, the production capacity is far less exaggerated than he said. The raw silks on the conveyor belt are all high-end goods he prepared several days in advance.

Therefore, there is such an orderly order in which hundreds of spinning spindles are spinning at the same time.

Otherwise, just breaking the wire can make him lose all his face.

Zhu Yunxiu said to watch casually, but after he left, someone came to chase people away and signaled the idle people to wait for it, and there was no onlookers here.

Tian Shunyi hadn't seen enough yet, and when he saw someone coming to drive him, he hurriedly moved the crown prince out.

"The crown prince said we can watch it casually, how can you chase people away?"

This man is justified and authentic.

"The crown prince said that you should keep you for dinner, so do you have the nerve to go and eat?"

"This is still a well-known merchant in Suzhou City, and I can't even hear any polite words!"

Seeing that the people from the spinning mill were so difficult, everyone angrily shook their sleeves and left.

In their opinion, the crown prince is good and hospitality. They are all the little ghosts below who are difficult to deal with, destroying the cleverness of the crown prince.

Little did they know that after driving them away, this man hurried to report to the crown prince.

"Report to your Highness, Bei Yi has driven away the merchants as you told me!"

"They didn't find anything, did they?"

"No!"

"But let them look at it for a while, the raw silk we prepared in advance may not be enough..."

Everyone left the spinning factory and stared at the brand of spinning factory for a long time.

They all eat the bowl of silk rice, and they know that the steam spinning machine is so powerful.

Once this thing becomes popular, it will be difficult for them to eat this bowl of rice again!

If the Royal Grandson really set up dozens of such factories, how could they fight small workshops that rely on manual work?

"Everyone, we are in trouble!"

"yes!"

"If it is a new thing developed by ordinary merchants, we can also threaten and induce it to hand over the drawings of the new machine, even if we spend a lot of money to buy it out."

"However, the other party is the crown prince, the most noble person in the Ming Dynasty, behind it is the entire Ming court!"
To be continued...