Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 37 Textiles
Cao Cao's defeat at Chibi had a huge impact.

All over the north, there are some signs of turmoil.

Fortunately, Youzhou is located in the northernmost part of the country. Because of the economic development in the past few years, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the turmoil has not spread here.

Zhang Qingfeng's plan is being implemented step by step. Under his design, a railway that is only about ten miles away has been successfully completed.

This railway connects the mine and the steel factory. With this railway, the efficiency of iron ore transport to the steel factory has increased by more than ten times, and a lot of manpower has been liberated.

Moreover, Zhang Qingfeng also modified a few locomotives with small-horsepower steam engines. Although he could not pull more than a dozen carriages, there was no problem at all in pulling only one carriage to transport ore.

And in the future, the utilization rate of machinery in the entire mine and steel plant will increase, and the efficiency will become higher and higher.

On the other side, Yuyang City.

As more and more people joined Li Bai's business cooperation project, more funds poured in, which made Yuyang's economic development faster and faster.

Zhang Qingfeng is very smart. If he just develops Yuyang and makes Yuyang richer and richer, he will definitely be rejected and coveted by others.

But now that all the powerful people in Youzhou have been brought in, driven by huge interests, they will not only not reject them, but will also escort the development of Yuyang.

For example, Chang Lin, governor of Youzhou, cooperated with Yuyang in a glass factory, which made him a lot of money in a short period of time.

Moreover, Zhang Qingfeng was originally worried about the problem of missing people in Yuyang. After the powerful and wealthy gentry from all over Youzhou joined, there was an upsurge of people from all over Youzhou going to Yuyang City to work.

In just a few months, more than [-] young people came to work in Yuyang. As time goes by, more and more people will come here.

At the same time, with the establishment of cement plants in cooperation with Yuyang in various counties, there are more and more cement buildings in various places.

In order to promote Ron Ping Steel, Zhang Qingfeng even designed a seven-story building in the center of Yuyang City.

The building will use a rigid concrete frame structure, requiring a lot of steel materials.

Zhang Qingfeng hopes that after he takes the lead, others will follow suit. As long as someone builds more reinforced concrete buildings, flat steel sales will never be a problem again.

On the outskirts of Yuyang City, several carriage workshops were also built, all of which were established by wealthy merchants in Youzhou.

With the commissioning of these carriage workshops, more than a dozen carriages are manufactured almost every day.

With these carriages, the concrete road from Luping to Youzhou began to flow in an endless stream.

After several months of getting used to it, the people in Youzhou no longer looked at the four-wheeled carriage with surprise expressions like before.

Not only carriage workshops, as Yuyang's economy is getting better and better, all walks of life are developing rapidly.

Especially the shipbuilding industry is booming.

Although there are concrete roads to provide transportation capacity, the cost of water transportation is lower and the transportation volume is larger, so the importance of cargo ships is self-evident.

As commerce and trade become more and more developed, the transportation capacity required is greater, and more and more tank ships appear to make up for this.

In February, the construction of the Quanzhou Shipyard was completed, and then the workers began to lay the keel in the dock.

As a ship designer, Zhang Qingfeng naturally went to the shipyard to supervise the project.

This was designed by Zhang Qingfeng. It was a huge sailing galleon with a displacement of [-] tons. The keel of the ship was made of high-quality ship wood, which was very strong.

Zhang Qingfeng also considered using steel as the keel of the ship, but considering that the keel was too large, the welding technology was immature, and the steel was prone to rust, in the end he had to follow the Romans and use wooden heads as the keel to build the ship.

The Galen ship is the most technologically mature sea ship in the great voyage period. Before crossing, Zhang Qingfeng also had a detailed understanding of the ship's shape and structure.

Although he didn't know the mature steps of making a Galen ship, it didn't bother him.

In order to build Galen ships, Zhang Qingfeng asked Li Bai to spend a lot of money to contact merchants in the south, and hired many shipbuilders at high prices.

These craftsmen are the top shipbuilders under Sun Quan's influence. As long as Zhang Qingfeng designs the ship shape and the requirements for the ship, the rest can be handed over to these old craftsmen who have been building ships for many years.

Zhang Qingfeng can foresee that there will definitely be many difficulties in the shipbuilding process, but he believes that these difficulties will be solved one by one.

In order to speed up the progress of shipbuilding, Zhang Qingfeng also designed some processing machines.

For example, a sawing machine driven by a steam engine, no matter how big the wood is, can be sawed quickly by a sawing machine, or it can be sawed into a piece of wood or a wooden cube.

In addition to sawmills, there are woodworking planers, woodworking milling machines and other machinery, which can save a lot of labor and thus speed up the progress of shipbuilding.

Zhang Qingfeng attaches great importance to shipbuilding, which is related to whether Cao Cao can unify the country in the future.

The northern army is not good at water warfare. If you want to defeat Sun Quan, you must have an always strong navy.

The Galen Sea Ship is a merchant ship created by Zhang Qingfeng for the development of maritime trade, mainly for the accumulation of technology for the manufacture of battleships.

When the technology is mature enough, Zhang Qingfeng will also design a sailing battleship with three decks and a sailing battleship that can hold hundreds of cannons.

With just one ship, you can defeat any enemy on the sea.

In addition, he will also design inland river gunboats, as long as a dozen or so can sweep any inland river warships of this era.

As long as the water battle can defeat Sun Quan's army, the winning rate of unifying the country will be greatly enhanced.

In order to speed up the development of the shipbuilding industry, Zhang Qingfeng also recruited hundreds of students who were about to graduate from the Taihang Mountains and personally led them at the Quanzhou Shipyard.

He hopes that these people will become masters in shipbuilding in the future.

In addition to shipbuilding, Zhang Qingfeng also made many plans for the development of Yuyang, which will be implemented by his student Li Bai.

With Yuyang's economic development getting faster and faster, tax revenues are also increasing. Most of these taxes have been intercepted by Li Bai and taken from the people for the people.

In Yuyang, both Zhang Qingfeng and Li Bai felt deeply that there were too few talents, so they built several schools to recruit a large number of students.

In order to have enough teachers for these schools, Zhang Qingfeng recruited most of the female graduates from the entire Taihang Academy.

The final result is that in the academies, men are assigned various jobs after graduation, while women become teachers in various academies after graduation, and the salary is high.

In March 209 AD, the first textile factory in Yuyang began production.

Countless amounts of cotton are spun into fine threads by advanced spinning machines, and then woven into fine cloth by looms.

These cloths are sent to the dyeing house to be dyed in various colors, and finally sold in the market.

As the textile factory came into operation, Yuyang's cotton suddenly became a commodity that merchants in Youzhou and even all over the world were competing for.

The cotton cloth produced by the textile factory is as exquisite as silk, and it is warmer and more beautiful than silk, but the price is only less than [-]% of silk.

Textile factories have hundreds of various textile machines and thousands of workers. They can produce thousands of pieces of cloth every day. The speed of making money is comparable to robbing money.

In order to plan this textile factory, Zhang Qingfeng had asked Li Bai to prepare for several years, and it really shocked everyone when it came out today.

After the textile factory was put into production, several garment factories followed suit, and received orders for tens of thousands of pieces of clothing from the very beginning.

These clothes are work clothes customized by Zhang Qingfeng for his employees. He feels that the Hanfu of this era is too cumbersome to wear and is not conducive to work, so he simply designed the clothes of later generations and distributed them to the workers.

(End of this chapter)