Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 494 Birth of the Loom
In recent years, Xu Yungong's personality has become more and more stable, and he is quite like Xu Da.

He doesn't speak loudly easily.

Such Xu Yungong valued the items on the car so much that he even considered it more valuable than all the treasures and antiques in the world.This made Zhu Su couldn't help but stop being playful and his whole face became serious.

"Okay, let some careful people carry the things in the car to the king's bedroom."

"Remember, handle with care!"

Several big men worked together to lift the large box covered with cloth in the car and carefully delivered it to the outside of the bedroom in Prince Zhu Su's palace.This is the courtyard at the center of the palace. It occupies a large area. Zhu Su enjoys peace and quiet on weekdays, but no one dares to disturb him easily.

Zhu Su looked at the extremely heavy big box wrapped in it and thought that Xu Yungong wouldn't have secretly put his sister in the box and brought her out.Just as he was about to ask, Xu Yungong had already taken out the key and opened the copper lock on the box. "Please take a look, Your Highness."

Zhu Su nodded and stepped forward, only to see that lying in the box was a machine that seemed familiar but was different from what he remembered.

"This is... Jenny Machine!"

Zhu Su is overjoyed!

When the previous fan left Beijing, Zhu Su entrusted the prototype of the Jenny machine to the Xu family siblings.Zhu Su attaches great importance to this machine that has revolutionized traditional industries to a certain extent and triggered the first industrial revolution.

He is the help of Da Ming's encroachment on the grassland in the future, and is the most indispensable part of the "sheep cannibalism" plan.It is also the top priority of liberating non-governmental productive forces in the Huaxia region and promoting the expansion of the market.

As long as there is a Jenny machine that can greatly improve production efficiency, Daming will be able to produce more woolen and silk, forcing merchants to take the lead in opening up overseas dumping markets, and at the same time freeing up more people to participate in the future of Daming in the expansion plan.

Otherwise, with the current population of the north and south of Ming Dynasty, it is absolutely impossible to expand abroad.

However, the production of the Jenny machine was not that easy.Historically, the technical difficulty of the Jenny machine that appeared for spinning cotton was not very high. It was just an ordinary textile worker who made it.

However, in Daming, there were many inconsistencies in this machine.

One of the reasons is that the demand for cotton fabrics in the Ming Dynasty was not high. Throughout the Ming Dynasty, the cotton planting area was far from being comparable to that of mulberry fields and rice fields.Moreover, the profit of cotton textile is far less than that of silk textile.A piece of silk shipped to the Western world can often earn ten or even a hundred times the profit.And what about cotton?Haha, it would be nice to not lose money on this trip.

And in order to achieve the effect of "sheep eating people", Daming not only needs this machine to be able to spin silk, but also needs it to be able to spin wool.Weaving woolen yarn is much more difficult than cotton. The first-generation Jenny machine made by Zhu Su himself can spin eight threads at the same time, but the spun threads are of different thicknesses and have no toughness. Sweaters will only damage the reputation of the Chinese people for their ingenuity, and they cannot be regarded as commodities at all.

"Yungong, this machine...is ready?" Zhu Su asked in disbelief.

Xu Yungong nodded. "My sister intensively studied this loom day after day, and finally succeeded in overcoming the defects of this loom in the past few days."

"Now this loom can spin cotton and wool, and can spin 28 silk threads at a time!"

"If we increase the number of spindles, this number can continue to increase. Moreover, the silk threads produced by this machine are uniform in thickness, even far better than the silk threads spun one by one by those craftsmen."

"Moreover, my sister has also optimized the cost of this machine. The raw material consumption of a machine is only five taels of silver. As long as there are enough craftsmen, a large-scale loom can be produced within half a month!"

"Good! Good!"

"Sure enough, there are far more treasures than the world!" Zhu Su looked left and right around the Jenny machine, which was a delight. "A few days ago, an official sent a Lao Shizi Xiangrui to curry favor with my father, and my father scolded me angrily."

"In my opinion, those non-existent things can't be called auspicious. Such a machine that can bring about great changes is the auspiciousness of our Ming Dynasty!"

"No, this happy event cannot be enjoyed by me alone. Yun Gong, you are ready to prepare, let's put this thing on the chariot and horses, and enter the palace to announce the good news!"

Before Xu Yungong could refuse, he was dragged into the palace by the excited Zhu Su.When he arrived at the palace, Lao Zhu was in front of him as the liver emperor, but Empress Ma was still idle.Seeing Zhu Su pulling Xu Yungong over, he couldn't help laughing and said, "It's Yungong, he's already so tall."

"After your father left Beijing, he didn't get to see you and your sister for some days. This is not good."

"Our two families are family friends. We should move around more often, otherwise we will all fall apart. Xiao Wu'er, you brought Yungong into the palace today. Do you have something important to do with Chongba?"

"Mother sent someone to call him?"

"The old man is busy, so don't bother him." Zhu Su said. "Besides, your ability is much higher than my father's. In this matter, I have to ask you, a hidden expert, to help a group of children!"

Empress Ma tapped Zhu Su's forehead, and in a blink of an eye saw a few tall and strong palace men coming in carrying a box, she couldn't help but wonder: "What is this?"

So Zhu Su and Xu Yungong explained the usefulness of this "Jenny Machine" and the impact it would bring in the future to Empress Ma in detail.

"You can spin 28 threads in one go?" Queen Ma is a veteran of spinning. Even after becoming the queen, she often spun Buna shoes in the palace in order to save some expenses.

The most conspicuous thing in her Kunning Palace is a loom that she has used for many years.

When she saw the loom this time, she just looked at it and understood how to use it.People in the Ming Palace brought raw materials and started spinning threads on the spot.

After a while, the spinning spindle spun more than twenty yarns.After Queen Ma inspected it carefully, she couldn't help but be surprised and said: "Sure enough, the thread has been spun!"

"Moreover, this woolen yarn is of the same thickness, soft yet tough, even better than those spun by craftsmen in the palace!"

"Furthermore, this loom is several times faster to spin, and the spindle is less labor-intensive to spin. With this thing, the tens of thousands of catties of hard-earned wool backlogged in the warehouse don't need to be wasted!"

After Zhu Su taught Queen Ma how to knit sweaters, Queen Ma's interest changed from wearing shoe soles to knitting sweaters.Even if I take Zhu Xiongying with me on weekdays, I still have to pick it up and knit a couple of stitches occasionally.He even recruited a few old ladies in the palace who were unwilling to leave the palace, and opened a sweater factory in the palace, specializing in spinning wool and weaving sweaters to form an industry.

However, this sweater industry chain, which was personally supported by the queen, did not cause any waves.The most important reason is the low efficiency of wool weaving. Before the Jenny machine was successfully developed, female workers in sweater factories could only twist wool by hand.The output of wool cannot increase, and naturally there is not much output of sweaters.Although Queen Ma tinkered with sweaters, she could only knit a few pieces for a few people such as Lao Zhu and Zhu Biao, just for her own entertainment.

But on the northern side, in order to secretly support those tribes who had second thoughts about Yuan Ting, they were allowed to secretly trade with Daming with wool.Although the production of woolen yarn has not increased, the wool has been transported to Yingtianlai in a steady stream. Although the price of these wools is extremely low, often only a copper coin can be exchanged for more than half a car.

But it can't stand the trouble of transporting it all the way, it's still a bit wasteful.

Looking at the wool piled in the treasury, Queen Ma often felt distressed: so much wool could not be digested, so the sweater business would always be a loss-making business.

All this money was spent on the Ming Dynasty’s wealth!

How could she, who was always thrifty, not worry?

(End of this chapter)