Daming Military Empire

Chapter 56
Speaking of such a big event as the opening of Rixinglong Company, why didn't Zhu Cijiong, the big boss behind the scenes, show up?In fact, he came, but he didn't come blatantly. Instead, he mixed with Qin Mingyue in the team of the capital admiral Qin Liangyu and sneaked over.

Right now our little emperor Zhu Cijiong is wandering around the women's quarters by the big beauty Qin Mingyue.

The women's family area is a shopping area designed by Zhu Cijiong based on the style of the large clothing market in his previous life. It is to decorate a side hall of several hundred square meters. There is a wide passage facing the gate. There is a small single room with rouge and gouache, silk and satin, gold and silver jewelry, underwear and bellybands and other special items for women.As long as you walk around inside, you can basically buy everything for women in this era.

Women love to go shopping by nature, not to mention modern women, if you ask her to take a walk together, I’m sorry, she won’t have any strength at all;Women in ancient times also wanted to go shopping, but the problem was that there was no street for them to go shopping. At that time, the three obediences and four virtues were emphasized, and all the ladies were not allowed to go out of the door, but they were not allowed to show their faces.

It’s different now that there is this women’s quarters. The side hall is independent and not connected to other places; the sedan chair can be lifted directly to the door, eliminating the possibility of being exposed; all women are inside, even the shop assistants are women, and men are forbidden to enter. , there is no possibility of degrading public morals.Now everyone has nothing to say, ladies can also go shopping, and wives of officials, wives and concubines have a place to relax.

Therefore, the women's family area was full as soon as it opened. It was full of fragrant winds, clouds of beauties, Yingying and Yanyan, and it was very lively. Our little emperor Zhu Cijiong was proud of his spring breeze and flushed inside.

As for why his face was flushed, of course it wasn't because he was in heat, he hadn't reached the season of heat yet.It's because he's so handsome, and from time to time, wives and young ladies can't help but pinch his face and say in a nonchalant way: "Oh, whose little son is this, so cute !"

Of course, it is impossible to say whose young master he is. If he were to say it, he would at least collapse on the ground in fright if he pinched his face.

At this time, Qin Mingyue would look at him anxiously. It would be terrible if the emperor got mad, but she really couldn't bear to leave. She had never seen such a fun place in her life, no Wouldn't it be a pity to visit all the small shops inside.

Fortunately, our little emperor is a modern person, and he doesn't pay much attention to dignity. If he is pinched by an official wife, he will be bitten by a dog; if it is pinched by a beautiful woman, He jumped up and bit the beautiful woman, biting back and forth, having a great time.

Biting and biting, he suddenly saw a little girl carved in pink and jade, about five or six years old, who looked like a little fairy, holding a small piece of pink fabric, following behind her mother curiously wait and see.

What a cute little goddess, do you want to take the initiative to take a bite?

When Zhu Cijiong was hesitating, Qin Mingyue glanced at him, and seeing him standing there in a daze, she couldn't help but follow his gaze.When she saw the little girl, she finally understood why the emperor was in a daze. She smiled knowingly, then lowered her head and whispered in Zhu Cijiong's ear: "Your Majesty, have you taken a fancy to this little girl? How about putting her away?" Recruited into the palace to play with you?"

Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but rolled his eyes when he heard the words, what are you playing, I can't play anything now, or you would have been eaten by me for such a big beauty!In order to get rid of the embarrassment, our little emperor shamelessly changed the topic: "What is the cloth in her hand, so beautiful?"

Seeing his funny look, Qin Mingyue couldn't help covering her mouth with a coquettish smile and said, "It's silk, so it's naturally beautiful. Don't look at such a small piece, it takes days to weave it out."

How many days will we weave?Just kidding!Look at the cloth in the little girl's hand, it is only more than one meter long, how many days will it take to weave?Is it that exaggerated?Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but asked curiously: "That piece of cloth is only three or four feet long, will it take a few days to weave?"

Qin Mingyue commented like an expert: "If a piece of cotton cloth can be woven in a day, it's impossible to weave a piece of silk. It's so fine and dense that we can weave a foot a day."

Cotton cloth can be woven more than one meter in a day, and silk cannot be woven in a day and a half!Zhu Cijiong suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He was not very clear about the principle of ancient looms, but he had read books about an epoch-making invention of the industrial revolution: the flying shuttle loom. The clarion call of the revolution, since then various new technologies have been applied to production, and the level of human productivity has achieved a qualitative leap.

The flying shuttle loom is actually an improvement on the basis of the old-fashioned pedal loom. The other parts are basically the same as the pedal loom. The only improvement is that the manual wooden shuttle is replaced by a flying shuttle in the horizontal direction.This flying shuttle is also very simple, just add a pulley at both ends of the shuttle, wear a yarn on each pulley, and then use a chute on both sides of the loom to pull the yarn, and the shuttle will move the yarn crossed longitudinally. Shuttle back and forth between the lines, as fast as flying, so it is called a shuttle, and the efficiency can be increased by five to ten times compared with manual shuttle!
The price of handmade products is about half of the labor and materials, and the efficiency is increased by five to ten times, that is, the labor cost is only one fifth to one tenth of the original cost, which is equivalent to reducing the total cost by about one third. If If the flying shuttle loom is produced, it will not be able to monopolize the cloth market!

Commercial activities are nothing more than revolving around human beings' basic necessities of life, food, housing and transportation, and this "clothing" ranks first. If we can monopolize this market, the money we can make is simply incalculable.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cijiong began to consider the issue of manufacturing flying shuttle looms.He didn't know how to arrange the dense vertical lines and how to cross them.It doesn't matter, these are the mechanisms on the old-fashioned pedal looms. If he doesn't know, someone will know. He just needs to know how to use the shuttle to replace the manual horizontal yarn threading.

Zhu Cijiong was in a hurry to go back and find someone to discuss the shuttle loom, but Qin Mingyue was not in a hurry, so he had to stay with him and continue to 'bite and bite'.

They came here at noon, and they didn't leave Rixinglong reluctantly until the afternoon of Youshi. In fact, she didn't buy anything, but bought a few pieces of fabric, planning to make some new clothes for herself and the emperor. This shows that This 'clothes' is indeed the first question that human beings subconsciously consider.

Seeing Qin Mingyue's performance, Zhu Cijiong's idea of ​​making a shuttle loom became stronger. As soon as he returned to the palace, he invited Xu Guangqi, Bi Maokang and other cronies to meet overnight to see who among them knew more about pedal looms.

Not to mention, some of his cronies really understand this thing. Song Yingxing introduced the pedal loom in detail in "Tiangong Kaiwu", so he is naturally very familiar with the principle of this loom.After Zhu Cijiong roughly explained the structure of the flying shuttle, Song Yingxing immediately knew what was going on, and couldn't help admiring: "The emperor is really a god, he can think of such an exquisite thing!"

After pretending to be a god for a long time, Zhu Cijiong got used to it. After hearing Song Yingxing's praise, he not only didn't blush, but also thought flatteringly in his heart: "Isn't this time-traveling just like a fairy going down to earth? Dude, he traveled from the future, and the gods don't care about it." Must know more than I do!"

Song Yingxing made the prototype of the shuttle loom within a few days, and he couldn't resist inviting Zhu Cijiong to Wang Gong's factory to see the weaving speed of the shuttle loom.Zhu Cijiong readily agreed, but with the experience of Ri Xinglong's micro-service visit, he didn't want to mobilize people and waste money, so he directly took Qin Mingyue and Cao Huachun, ordered ten big experts, and sneaked to Wang Christine Factory.

Song Yingxing went to battle in person again. While stepping on the pedals, he excitedly introduced the difference between the shuttle loom and the original pedal loom.

The first difference is that we can weave wide cloth. Old-fashioned looms can only weave cloth about three feet wide, which is about one meter wide, because human hands are only so long, and no matter how wide they are, they cannot reach both ends. It takes two people to cooperate to throw the shuttle back and forth, plus one pedaler, the efficiency of three people weaving a piece of cloth is too low, so the cloth woven by old-fashioned looms is generally within three feet, no matter how wide it is, labor is not enough. Good deal.

It’s different now, with the shuttle, no matter how wide you are, it’s the same, just increase the gears on both sides, and horizontal threading is just a matter of pedaling, no matter how wide the cloth is, " "Whoosh" and the shuttle flew past.

Then Song Yingxing also improved the original beating-up. Wefting is a special term, which means that after the horizontal yarn passes through the longitudinally intersecting yarn, it is necessary to use a comb-like grate to press the yarn that has just passed through a few times to make the cloth Make it tighter, otherwise the woven fabric will be loose and loose, just like a window screen, and it cannot be made into clothes.

Song Yingxing's improvement is very simple, that is, a piston is added to the weft beating grate, as long as one steps on the foot switch, it will be tightened with a "snap", and when the foot is loosened, the grate will return to its original position.

In the end, the efficiency of weaving has naturally been greatly improved. In addition, weaving requires skilled hands. If you weave continuously for two or three hours, you will get tired and backache, so the efficiency is particularly low.It’s different now, just come to anyone, just teach him to wear yarn, step on the four pedals in turn, and the cloth will be woven, it’s so easy, sitting there and stepping on it all day won’t make your waist sore Back pain, and the efficiency is more than five times faster than that of a skilled hand who uses an old-fashioned pedal loom to weave!

(End of this chapter)