Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Li Ke followed Tian Meng out of Zhuangzi soon, and went to a yard next door, where Tian Meng vacated, specially used to produce these things Li Ke gave.

When Li Ke came over, the assembled things were neatly placed in one place in the yard.

Even the prepared silk and spun yarn are ready for production.

A spinner and a weaver are waiting in front of the machine.

"I've seen Your Highness." Seeing Li Ke approaching, everyone's faces were full of fanaticism!They have already experimented with this thing, and they called Li Ke to come after it was successful. They don't know how to describe it, they can only say, it's shocking!Your Highness is indeed a dragon and a phoenix among men!

"You're welcome, let's start. First test the spinning machine." Li Ke waved his hand.

"Yes!" Tian Meng waved his hand, and the spinner immediately started to work. He directly turned the big flywheel next to it, and the flywheel directly drove the sixteen small flywheels to start spinning. With the rotation, the silk that had already been made began to entangle with each other. , quickly turns into a yarn.

This speed increase is more than sixteen times faster.

In the later stage, if there is a breakthrough in bearings and balls, the large flywheel will be directly driven by the steam engine, and then there will be not just 160 yarns, but [-] yarns.

"Okay!" Li Ke clapped his hands excitedly, "Good job, Tian Meng rewards you!"

"Yes!" Tian Meng immediately bent down and said.

As for how much to reward, Li Ke need not say clearly, Yuelai Trading Company has a complete reward and punishment system, such as these craftsmen, Li Ke has attached great importance to it from the beginning, so the rewards they get must be far more than those in other people's homes many.

Silk cloth and silk had the function of currency in Tang Dynasty itself.Note that silk is different from silk. Although it is spun from the same thing, the clothes made of silk are less valuable than silk, and most of them are used by ordinary people. Of course, there is also cheaper linen.

Those who can use silk are often regarded as the middle class of the Tang Dynasty. Most of the people at the bottom are clothed in commoner clothes, and there may be one or two silk clothes, which they are reluctant to wear.

And silk can be used as currency in the Tang Dynasty itself. The most important reason for this is that the Tang Dynasty was established at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. At the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty did not issue currency, and the currency of the Sui Dynasty was very inferior. There was not enough trading of bulk goods, so silk was used as part of the currency.

The Tang Dynasty began to mint and issue Kaiyuan Tongbao in the fourth year of Wude, but the coins minted were not enough for market circulation.

In fact, during the entire Tang Dynasty until the end of the Anshi Rebellion, the coins minted by the Tang Dynasty were not enough.

Therefore, the production of silk now is to make money!This is the money printing machine!

However, because silk plays the role of currency, the profit of silk is actually not high. Among them, raw materials account for [-]% of the cost, about [-]% of manpower and material resources, and about [-]% of profit.

From this, we can know why the powerful family is rich, because everyone can make money!And if you make 7 hairs, it can be used as a flower. Can you not be rich?

However, the issue of wear and tear must be taken into account in silk, after all, it is still easy to break.

"Try weaving too." Li Ke pointed to the shuttle loom next to him and said.

"Yes!" The weaver over there also started working directly. With his operation, it can be seen that the shuttle shuttles back and forth in the loom, and the weaving efficiency improves faster.

In the past, these were all artificial.

"Your Highness, we have done a simple calculation, and the weaving efficiency of the loom can be increased by about eight times!" Tian Meng took a deep breath and said. "And our final cost from purchasing silk to spinning and weaving is only about one-twentieth of others, and logistics and transportation costs have already taken up the vast majority."

"That is to say, based on the market price, the labor and material cost of a piece of silk was originally 120 renminbi, but now we only need 6 renminbi?"

"Yes, we cost about 96 cash to produce a piece of silk, while others cost 210 cash. The current market price is 300 cash per piece." Tian Meng gave the final answer.

"Very good, how long does it take to produce a complete set of machines?" Li Ke looked at Lu Daqiang.

"Returning to Your Highness, we have enough manpower. If we use the assembly line production that Your Highness you mentioned, I estimate that when our manpower exceeds 300 people, we can produce one spinning machine and one spinning machine in two days on average. Loom." Lu Daqiang said quickly.

"Tian Meng tunes people! 600 people, use the fastest production speed, and tell Yuelai Commercial Bank to buy silk from the whole Luozhou and the radiation range of the Zheng family in Xingyang, at a price of 100 cash per piece of silk." Li Ke sneered, the Zheng family in Xingyang, right?He's going to dig up their roots!

As for whether Li Ke has that much money?This has to be said to be a product under the special circumstances of the Tang Dynasty, because silk can be used as money!That is to say, the raw materials Li Ke bought back and the finished silk produced through processing did not even need to be sold!It can be directly used as money to buy the silk in the hands of the common people!

This is much more efficient than selling!

The south of the Yangtze River in the Tang Dynasty was not the main producing area of ​​silk and silk, and that will be in later generations. Now the main producing area of ​​silk and silk is in the vast northern area of ​​the Tang Dynasty.

"Your Highness, but most of the mulberry farmers have contracts, and the commercial firms that hold silk in their hands often have contracts. The influence of the Zheng family is still very large." Tian Meng hesitated.

It is not impossible for them to buy directly from the common people, but there are also contracts in this period, and the common people will never dare to tear up the contract with some families. No matter whether the family is big or small, it is not something ordinary people can fight against.

"Wait." Li Ke pondered for a while, then stopped directly.

He suddenly had an idea, but it was rather vague in his mind, "Call someone to my study immediately, and bring over the box I brought back from the city and the books wrapped in silk." Li Ke said road.

"Yes!" Tian Meng didn't know why, so he immediately called people to do it.

"Master Lu, you continue to work. In addition, Master Lu, after the production of spinning machines and looms has been successfully completed, you should hurry up and start building jacquard machines. After the initial stage, you will complete the work with several masters Leave it to the people below to watch, and your main task is to show me whether you can improve these spinning machines and looms!"

"If it can be improved, I will go to my father and confer titles on you!" Li Ke waved his hand.

"Yes! Your Highness!" Lu Daqiang and the others immediately knelt down!Datang doesn't need to kneel in daily life. When meeting Li Shimin, it is enough to bow down and salute in daily life, but this time they kneeled sincerely, canonization? !Not to mention them, many of those aristocratic families have extravagant hopes, and these craftsmen still have a chance to be knighted?

But His Highness said yes, then yes!

Li Ke never underestimated the wisdom of the ancients. Although he has follow-up books, the improvement of these machines in the follow-up books is more directly related to steam engines and the like, which is a thorough improvement in power and technology.

What Li Ke asked them to do was, on the basis of maintaining the existing manpower, to see if they could make it more efficient, save effort, and save worry.

These master carpenters in ancient times are equivalent to the eighth-level fitters after the founding of the People's Republic of China, which is really awesome.