Ruins of the past

Xie Yan was hunched over at this moment and introduced to Chu Qiguang with a reserved look: "Young Master, you see, this water-powered spinning machine uses a water wheel to drive the belt, a belt to drive the spindle, and the spindle to rotate to draft and twist. …”

"Sir, you see here is a method of combining the wing spindle and the bobbin... In this way, twisting and winding can be performed at the same time, which is more efficient..."

"...We change the parts here, and then the strings can rotate with the wheels, all the machines move, the upper and lower parts correspond to each other, and the priorities are appropriate..."

When Chu Qiguang saw this, he couldn't help but nod his head. Although he didn't know much about it, he did see that the machine at the end was driven by horsepower to spin cotton into cotton yarn. Although the finished product was not uniform enough and was a little thick in many places, it was It is tough and strong and can be used to weave cloth.

"Very good. Each of you will be rewarded 100 taels of silver. You must keep up your efforts and build a water-powered loom. In the future, everything from cotton to cotton will rely on water power. Then I will reward each of you with 300 taels of silver."

Hearing what Chu Qiguang said, the faces of the craftsmen present were filled with joy. Although none of them could really understand the meaning of this water-powered spinning machine, they were also happy for the silver in front of them.

Chu Qiguang asked again: "How about the water-powered loom?"

Xie Yan said: "It's almost done, but there are still some key parts that have not been completed, and some parts have not been debugged. It will definitely be done in 2 months at most."

"Two months?" Chu Qiguang frowned. It is already December of Yong'an 2015, and he will go to Chaoyao Mountain to report in January next year.

According to his original plan, he wanted to invent this machine before he left, hold a press conference, and directly harvest a large wave of leeks to assist him in breaking through the fifth realm.

So Chu Qiguang asked directly: "What's wrong? Tell me."

After watching Xie Yan pointing at the water conservancy loom and talking for a long time, Chu Qiguang suddenly pointed to an empty seat and said, "Can't we get a sealed box in this place?"

Xie Yan thought he had some advice, so he nodded and wrote it down.

Chu Qiguang continued: "...I think this is the perfect place to put a child in, and let him hide inside to perform the step that you can't complete."

Xie Yan quickly wiped his sweat and said, "But...but...this..."

Chu Qiguang said coldly: "I only want this machine to be used for demonstration, and you can continue to study the real machine. Do you understand?"

Xie Yan said uneasily: "But what if someone finds out?"

Chu Qiguang said: "If you don't tell, who will find out? As long as you build a real hydraulic loom in the next two months, there will be no problem."

After saying that, Chu Qiguang glanced at the more than ten craftsmen present, his eyes exuding a faint murderous aura, which stimulated their hearts to twitch.

"Remember, except for the few of us here, you can only tell anyone outside, even your wives and children, that the spinning machines and looms have been made."

"Whoever reveals this matter will die...that would be the easiest thing."

Seeing that no one of the craftsmen present objected, Chu Qiguang nodded: "Don't worry, it's just two months away. After the work is completed, I will give each of you three hundred taels of silver, but if anyone doesn't do it well, , and don’t blame me for being ruthless.”

After some more instructions, Chu Qiguang left. He came here every day, and the next day he brought his sister and stuffed it into the machine.

Zhou Yujiao shouted curiously: "Brother! How are you doing this?"

Chu Qiguang said: "Just step on this... pull on that..."

Seeing his sister step on the pedal and pull the wooden pole from time to time, the whole loom started running smoothly. Chu Qiguang nodded and asked the craftsman beside him: "The spinning machine and the loom work together. If so, how much higher is the output compared to traditional textile machines?”

Xie Yan said from the side: "It depends on the physical strength and skills of the spinning and weaving workers, but the minimum output of our machines is 20 times theirs."

Chu Qiguang nodded with satisfaction. He remembered that during the first industrial revolution on earth, the production capacity of the textile industry increased dozens of times.

Zhou Yujiao shouted from inside: "Brother! This isn't fun either! Is this what you said you wanted to bring me to play with?"

Chu Qiguang said: "It will be interesting if you try more."

Zhou Yujiao frowned: "Then I'll try again."

After stepping on the incense for almost a moment, Zhou Yujiao realized that she had been teased. She was so angry that she jumped out and punched Chu Qiguang hard.

Then Chu Qiguang coaxed her and promised to buy her beef cakes if she would do it a few more times.

Zhou Yujiao licked the corner of her mouth and said, "I still want your hair."

Chu Qiguang rolled his eyes and said helplessly: "Okay, okay, I'll pull it out for you when the time comes."

Only then did Zhou Yujiao smile.

Chu Qiguang warned again: "You must not make a sound, you must not shout, you must not shout, and you must not be discovered by others. Do you understand?"

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Next, Chu Qiguang made an appointment with Wu Wei from the Wu family and Abbot Chenzhu from the Taoist temple to demonstrate the working process of the textile machine. They were both surprised and delighted.

Wu Wei nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, with such an artifact, we will surely dominate the entire northern textile industry."

Wu Wei thought for a while and said: "The mutual market will probably officially open in July or August next year. In the next few months, we will start preparing new machines, purchase cotton, prepare a batch of inventory, and then sell it to the demon clan."

"With this machine, our cotton prices can be much lower than others. Who can sell them to us?"

Thinking of this, Wu Wei became a little angry again: "Recently, the Chen family in the next county has been fighting against us. They charge higher prices for the cotton we harvest. They are clearly trying to fight against us."

Abbot Chenzhu nodded: "Although we used Deku some time ago to attract wealthy wealthy families in the county to invest money, but now we have to harvest cotton and build machines, so money is still a bit tight."

"We'd better save some money this time and make a small profit from the mutual trade next year. Anyway, as long as we have such artifacts, even if it takes a few more years, we will be able to occupy the entire northern market sooner or later."

After hearing the conversation between the two, Chu Qiguang said: "Slowly build machines, produce cotton cloth, sell cotton cloth, and use the funds to build more machines and sell more cotton cloth. This is good. But if it were me..."

Chen Gang, who was following him, thought to himself, "Brother Dog is going to start cheating again. I have to learn from it."

Chu Qiguang said: "This month we will bring in all the people in Qingyang County to invest money..."

Wu Wei asked in confusion: "You said you want to leave such a profitable business to others?"

Chu Qiguang boasted: "Because I have their money, I can directly use it to harvest cotton and summon craftsmen from all over the county to build hundreds of textile machines. Then I will earn more money and have greater influence." "

"Then, within half a year, we will be able to impact the entire Lingzhou cotton market with low-priced cotton. We are not seeking to make money, but just to squeeze out all other cotton merchants."

"At that time, we will command the entire textile association in Lingzhou, and then bring in the largest wealthy families, officials, and princes in Lingzhou to invest money and work together to make money."

"In this way, not only will our business be able to cover the whole Lingzhou in the first year, but with so much background, we won't have to pay taxes to various tax cards, clans, and localities."

Chen Zhu nodded. Although the business tax of the Han Dynasty was very low, there were too many exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes in various places.

Even with Mr. Wu Ge's face, at most Qingyang County doesn't pay taxes. When going to other counties and encountering various local yamen and clans collecting taxes, most of them have to pay obediently.

"At that time, we can make any county in Lingzhou homeless with just one sentence."

"In a year or two at most, we can make money that we would not be able to make even if we sold cotton slowly for ten years."

"Moreover, we have money, background, and no need to pay taxes. With this advantage, we can even swallow up other companies that make salt and iron, tea bricks, and horse markets."

Listening to Chu Qiguang's lofty and ambitious plans, Wu Wei and Chen Zhu gradually showed yearning on their faces.