"The loom has been successfully developed. Next, you need further improvements to develop more complex and more refined jacquard solutions. However, there is another biggest problem, that is, yarn. If it is all hand-spinned, it will inevitably not keep up with the speed of the loom. You must develop a spinning machine as soon as possible, and also apply the spinning machine and loom to silk and even wool textiles..."

Chen Xu and other groups of excited craftsmen and craftsmen calmed down and spoke.

"Don't worry, Mr. Marquis, we already have a spinning machine. I'll take you to see..." a craftsman said excitedly.

"Really? Let's go and have a look. By the way, this is a reward for you..."

Chen Xu was so happy that he took out a few purple Tai Chi Tongbao from his pocket and stuffed it into his hand, and then surrounded by a group of people to another work shed next door.

There were indeed several strange machines, mixed wood and iron structures in the shed, and several women were sorting out the hemp buns.

"Mr. Marquis, you see, this is a spinning machine that we are inspired by the lathe and fuse the spindle and yarn cart together. Use gears to drive the spindle and yarn cart to rotate, and the twine can be weaved. Come here and quickly demonstrate it to Marquis!"

A craftsman called two women over. The two women were very nervous and began to sort out the hemp silk. They slowly rubbed the coiled hemp silk with their hands and penetrated them into two fine holes with gears. Then the other woman pulled the thread head and started to rotate the handle of the textile machine. As the huge wheels began to rotate, under the driving of the two sets of gears, the two hemp silks slowly twisted into a twine thread, and finally wrapped the twine thread on a rotating spindle. In this way, the twine was quickly woven out in a steady stream under the linkage.

"Hey, it's not bad, this one is much faster than using your hands!" Chen Xu was so surprised that he couldn't stop talking.

Chen Xu saw that women in Xiaohe Village used the most primitive spindles, hanging on a hook and turning them with their hands. It was very challenging to turn when turning. If the twine turns too fast, they will be knotted. If the twine turns too slowly, they will easily break easily. Moreover, because the twine is uneven and tight, the cloth woven is actually sparse and inconsistent. However, the craftsmanship is so crafted that the court was not too picky when collecting it. The main reason is that the cloth is indeed a hard currency second only to grain. As long as it can be used, it is enough to use it for clothes and almost used for sacks.

Chen Xu also saw spinning wheels and spinning threads in Qinghe Town, which are almost exactly the same as those seen in later rural areas. In other words, the yarn cart was developed since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and has been passed down for thousands of years and has almost not changed. It is the main method of spinning and weaving cloth for households, no doubt.

Because the production of spinning trucks is relatively complicated, in the Daqin era, the large utensils at home require professional carpenters to make them. Therefore, the ones that can be used are all wealthy families in Qinghe Town. Chen Xu also saw a double-wheel spinning machine in Wancheng, which can spin two threads at the same time, but the principle has not changed much. He still needs to constantly roll and twist the hemp silk with his hands to make threads.

But now this spinning machine is already a real semi-automatic machine. The shaking of the handle wheel drives the two sets of gears to synchronously link, and the spinning and spindle are completed synchronously. Moreover, because the gear is rotated and twisted into a wire, the elasticity of the twine has nothing to do with the speed of the handle rotation. The twisting is always completed according to the distance of the gear rotation. The elasticity of the wire can be changed by adjusting the size of the gear and the density of the teeth. The fast rotation of the handle is only the spinning faster, which is exactly the same as the thread of the lathe.

In other words, with the successful development of gears and lathes and the accumulation of the Academy of Sciences for several years, many structures have begun to be flexibly applied by craftsmen and craftsmen.

"Mr. Marquis, the speed of this spinning machine is indeed much faster than that of a yarn truck. The most important thing is that the spinning wire is very uniform and delicate, not as tight as before, as the handicrafts used to be... "A craftsman explained next to it.

"Very good. This spinning machine has a lot of room for improvement. Adding a few more sets of gears and spindles can spin out several wires at the same time. If the gears are not easy to control, you can actually use belt transmission. A rotating shaft can drive many spindles and spindles..."

Chen Xu remembered that when he was studying the history of the Western Industrial Revolution in junior high school, he seemed to mention a spinning machine, which is a hand-cranked type, which can spin dozens of yarns at a time. Although Chen Xu has almost completely forgotten the specific principle and name, it should be very similar to the spinning machine in front of him.

Chen Xu was very happy. Suddenly, both the loom and the spinning machine were successful. In this way, the work of comprehensively preparing for the textile factory in Daqin could be completely started. With a large amount of cloth, the shortage of private materials could be greatly improved.

The emergence of a large number of factories will inevitably slowly break the self-sufficiency small peasant economic model of Daqin. Many farmers may lose some means to make money to support their families, but this is the inevitable price of industrialization. The bankruptcy of the small peasant economy is an inevitable thing in the industrial era, but industrial development will also provide more employment and more sufficient materials.

With the arrival of the industrial age, the Qin Dynasty will enter a period of drastic transformation.

Just like the reform and opening up in later generations, many people are not adapted, but those who adapt will gain huge room for development and more wealth.

China has never embarked on the capitalist path like Europe in later generations. The big reason is that the state suppresses commerce and ignores science and technology, only emphasizes humanities and ignores industry. Moreover, because Confucianism, which is respected as the state religion, also discriminates against industry and commerce. The class concept of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce seriously restricts the status of merchants in political life. Studying and becoming an official is the greatest ideal and ambition of people in subsequent dynasties, while commerce is a lowly business, and those who are good at genius are also untouchables.

Everything is inferior, but reading is high!

Under this hierarchy and discrimination policy, only official culture in China is prevalent, and the scale of private industry cannot be expanded to form a new type of political force, and the self-sufficiency small peasant economic model cannot achieve any breakthrough.

Men farm and women weave are the most authentic portrayal of Chinese traditional culture.

Small workshops based on families cannot be compared with large industries in terms of technology and cost. It is known as one of the two walls of Yuefu. It is recorded in "The Peacock Flying Southeast": The rooster crows into the machine and does not rest every night, and it breaks five times in three days, so it is too late for adults.

A woman weaves five pieces of cloth in three days. The weaving speed is more than ten times faster than the weaving speed at Daqin.

(Note: The length and width of a piece of cloth in the Qin and Han dynasties did not find specific data, but the Qin bamboo slips recorded that a piece of cloth was eight feet long and two feet five inches wide. Therefore, a piece of cloth in the Qin Dynasty was about 45 cm wide and 185 cm long. A piece of cloth in the late Han dynasty was said to be four feet, almost ten meters long. It would be terrible if the peacock flew southeast to describe it truthfully. It is almost impossible for a hand-woven weaving 50 meters of cloth in three days, because there were still many places in later generations that still had traditional handicraft weaving cloth. There was no speed-up artifact like a flying shuttle, and the speed of a day was about one or two meters. Therefore, there are two possibilities here. One is that a piece of cloth in the Qin and Han dynasties was eight feet, and the other is that literary works were exaggerated.)

Of course, the meaning of this poem is not to say that women weave cloth quickly, but to complain about the cruelty and ruthlessness of feudal ethics and oppression of women. However, even if the textile speed of this family model is fast, it is at most like this. Moreover, this method has lasted for more than two thousand years until the feudal empire completely collapsed without any change.

In other words, the modern industrial model has not developed much in China for thousands of years. During the most prosperous period of the Song Dynasty, thousands of silk factories and tens of thousands of looms in the Suzhou-Hangzhou area, but it has not yet developed into a large-scale industrial model. The main reason is that the merchant status is too low to form a new type of political force to promote the industrial revolution.

After inspecting the loom and textile machine, Chen Xu was very excited. After encouraging and commending all the craftsmen and craftsmen, he drove straight to the Academy of Sciences. In addition to arranging rewards to all participants in the R&D, the most important thing was the commercial promotion of loom and textile machine.

Now the industry is managed by the Ministry of Industry. In addition to farmland water conservancy and road traffic construction, the Ministry of Industry has also incorporated the functions of the Shaofu, and also managed the world's craftsmanship and handicrafts workshops. However, the private mulberry silkworm weaving is managed by the Shaofu and the Ministry of Revenue. The promotion of this loom still needs to be discussed with the Shaofu, and the Ministry of Revenue. All of them are allowed to compete and raise funds. Although the imperial court will save a lot of investment and trouble, it is also necessary to run some factories in the official position. State-owned factories will be more convenient for operation and management, and provide some industrial samples for the people. After all, although the Daqin business is becoming increasingly prosperous, the large industry must have just begun and there is no experience in preparation.

What's more, the looms and textile machines have just been successfully developed and there is still huge room for improvement. The Academy of Sciences needs some experimental factories to continuously inspect and improve. Moreover, all looms and textile machines are now completed by manual drive. However, with the experience of water wheel mills, spinning and weaving can be driven by hydraulic power. If steam power is developed, such a large-scale industrial development will be just around the corner.

After Chen Xu returned to the Academy of Sciences for arrangements, many people heard that after the successful development of the textile loom and cloth loom, they ran to the woodworking workshop outside the city to watch in groups.

In the afternoon of that day, Chen Xu specially asked the Ministry of Works to call Zai Hong and Feng Jing, the Agricultural and Structure Officer of the Ministry of Revenue who was responsible for the weaving of folk mulberry silkworms, and personally led them to the outside of the city to watch the work process of the loom and textile machine. Seeing such efficient and fast spinning and weaving machines, Zai Hong and Feng Jing were immediately excited and shivered and shook each other.

As two senior officials in charge of industry, they naturally know the application prospects of these machines. The output of two or three pieces of cloth per day is twenty or thirty times that of the current Shaofu Clothing Department. If these machines can be promoted and applied on a large scale, the production of cloth and silk in Daqin will definitely increase several times within a few years.
Chapter completed!