After getting the emperor's approval, Chen Dun felt at ease and relaxed, and he couldn't control his temperament anymore. He looked at the looms in the room and smiled and said, "Your Majesty, why did you think about the guys used by the little ladies? Do you want the ladies to learn spinning and weaving brocades too!"

"Be presumptuous, President Chen should speak with a proper attitude. Your Majesty's thoughts are also your guess. You can criticize the ladies?" Wang De, who was beside him, said with a heavy face.

"What everyone knows is that I have received the teachings!" Chen Dun immediately realized that he was no longer the same as before. He was already in a high position, and he was no longer the fool who could have disturbed the General's Mansion back then. He hurriedly bowed and apologized.

"Forget it, he has such a personality, and I'm afraid he will never change it in his life!" Zhao Bing waved his hand and smiled helplessly.

"Your Majesty is magnanimous, I am so grateful!" Chen Dun said with a gesture.

"Okay, stop pretending!" Zhao Bing said with a smile.

"Thank you!" Chen Dun stood up and said, "But I think Your Majesty should worry about state affairs, just leave these things to the people!"

"When you lie down with your clothes, you can stop the lights and get up before the rooster crows!" Zhao Bing sighed softly and patted a loom and said, "Do you really think these things are simple? Look at what you wear, the things you cover at night are all from these guys, and they are woven by the Weaver Girls in one dimension. But can you understand the hard work?"

"I don't know, but the poems are not all written with hard work!" Chen Dun shook his head and said.

"Only those who have free time have the time to write poetry." Zhao Bing hummed and pointed to the looms placed, introducing them one by one, "These looms and spinning wheels are all found by me, or used by weaving workshops at present. Their efficiency is different. Although they are constantly improving, they are far from being able to free the people from it..."

With the slow progress of textile technology, the single fiber of this plant is very short. It requires fine twisting the fibers and connecting several strands into one strand before they can be put on the machine. This is called "know". Initially, spinning wheels were used, and hand-cranked spinning wheels were used in the Han Dynasty. The first method of making the wovens was used to arrange the warp yarns first, and use fingers to lift the warp yarns one by one, and penetrate the weft yarns.

This method is very low efficiency, and the fabric has a large aperture and is very limited in length and width. The most widely used early weaving machinery was a waist machine, also known as a "horizontal loom". The basic structure is a warp frame, which consists of two warp shafts, and multiple warp yarns are fixed between the two shafts. One warp shaft is tied to a fixture or directly kicked with both feet, and a waist belt is tied to the other end of the warp shaft to fix it to the operator's waist.

With a waist machine, you can use multiple layers of warp thread for textile. Use a fine wooden stick to divide the warp yarn into two layers according to odd and even numbers. The gap between the two layers of warp yarn is called the "weaving mouth", and this wooden stick is called the warp splitting rod. From the weft mouth, a bone needle or wooden shuttle is penetrated horizontally into the weft yarn, forming a warp and weft interwoven structure. The first innovation in textile technology also appeared on the waist machine, which is the heel lifting rod.

A wooden rod has downward hooks on it. Put the hook vertically downward, pass through the upper warp yarn and hook the lower warp yarn. Lifting the wooden rod up, the lower warp yarn can be pulled onto the upper warp yarn, thus forming a new "weaving mouth". This invention has simplified the weaving process, otherwise, every time weaving thread is inserted, the warp split rod must be pulled out and evenly inserted back. This lifting tool is called "电影".

The emergence of synthesis not only simplifies the weaving process, but also makes various textures possible. With synthesis, the concept of "organization" has been created, because alternately pulling and twisting the two layers of warp threads can make the fabric produce different textures. With the technology of synthesis improvement, another invention, namely, pedals.

The healing device is made into a special healing frame, which is perpendicular to the fabric plane. The healing frame is connected with the pedal by thread and pulley. The weaver can complete the healing operation by simply stepping on the pedal, freeing his hands and improving efficiency. Taking the production of plain weaving fabrics as an example, it is ten times or even dozens of times higher than the original loom, and each person can weave one to three feet of cloth per hour.

A healing frame can only control one group of warp yarns, and multiple groups of warp yarns require multiple healing frames, and correspondingly multiple healing frames are required. Two healing frames can only weave plain weave tissue, three or four healing frames can weave twill weave tissue, while weaving satin weave tissues requires at least five healing frames. Therefore, the number of looms and tweaks gradually increased, and even a hundred and twenty looms appeared in the Han Dynasty. This type of loom is called a multi-healing and multi-healing loom.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was once reduced to fifty 50 tile, or sixty tile, and it was still thought that the operation was too complicated. Fortunately, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Lu Majun reduced the number of tiles significantly and made a loom of tile, fifty tile and twelve tile, and sixty tile. The textile speed at this time was very impressive. One piece could be weaved a day, which was considered a normal speed. According to the Han regulations, one piece was four zhang long and two feet and two inches wide, and the five zhang was one piece and one quarter, which was quite fast. The progress of textile technology was basically over here...

"Men and women do their own duties to farm and weave. This has been the case for thousands of years. The current loom can weave a piece of cloth in a day, which is not as hard as Your Majesty said!" Chen Dun could only say that he knew these weaving equipment. Although what Your Majesty introduced was detailed, he couldn't figure it out for a while, and thought about it.

"It seems that you have been in the capital for a long time. It's time to go to the people to take a look." Zhao Bing frowned and said, "What you said is good for men to farm and women to weave, but weaving a piece of cloth a day only refers to this. You should know that weaving is just one of the processes. Including the processes of picking, raising silkworms, releasing silk, and dyeing, it will take more than half a year for a family to need fabric, but the court still needs cloth as taxes."

Zhao Bing was speechless. Chen Dun had suffered a few days, but he still didn't know much about the lives of the people. According to Chinese tradition, men farmed and women were responsible for grain production, and women were responsible for clothing. Picking, raising silkworms, fermenting hemp, spinning, weaving, and weaving cloth. Before the commodity economy began to sprout, people could support themselves by selling technology, they were always the job of women in the family.

But this work is not easy because it takes time. The family has old people and young people. The whole family has to buy the spring, autumn and winter clothes, so the pressure is naturally quite high. In addition, since the Han Dynasty, cloth has been taxed, and the specifications of cloth have been specially stipulated in order to collect taxes. Because of this tax, the circulation of cloth has become a mountain to squeeze women.

Why do you say this? In addition to the cloth tax that should be paid every year, you have to pay cloth for free, and you also have to use cloth for replacement under natural economic conditions. This is not the labor of the weaver who is registered as a brocade weaver. One piece of cloth is to stay up late a day. In addition to the fact that it is not popular to weave the fabric, the working duration of weaving is far beyond imagination.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates are indeed not very clear about this. The tax collection is the affairs of the Ministry of Revenue. You don't have to worry so much!" Chen Dun said guiltily.

"I'm going to settle the calculation with you. Take this dynasty as an example. The current imperial court collects more than 20 million pieces of cloth every year, some of which should be used for military purposes. Each soldier usually has to distribute military uniforms for spring and autumn. Each person has four sets of coats, four sets of underwear, two sets of shoes and hats, and one set of winter clothes. The average cloth alone costs five pieces. At present, the imperial guards and state troops in our dynasty have a total of nearly 600,000 troops, which requires more than 3 million pieces of horses." Zhao Bing said.

"In addition, as usual, officials at all levels will give cloth to make official uniforms in spring and autumn, and will also reward the ministers, officers and soldiers and foreign envoys on the festival. In this way, tens of millions of horses will be needed a year, and there are few left. What is the labor force of tens of millions of horses? Based on the per capita per day, the reward will be rewarded with tens of millions of young women across the country for a day. If we count the labor force for raising silkworms, planting mulberry, reeling, and spinning, one reward will be rewarded with the labor force of women across the country for more than half a year."

"I don't know, I'm shocked when I count it." Chen Dun sighed after hearing this, "Your Majesty's words are only household income and taxes. Our dynasty is now prosperous, and we sell silk to the West and South China with tens of millions of pieces. If Your Majesty improves the loom and improves efficiency, women in the world will be grateful to Your Majesty."

"Barring, I want to improve the loom. Is it just to please the women in the world?" Zhao Bing cursed after hearing this.

"Does Your Majesty have deep meaning?" Chen Dun asked in confusion.

"Of course, do you know that I want to promote the cultivation of cotton in the Lianghuai area?" Zhao Bing asked.

"I know that many big merchants and merchants heard that His Majesty bought cotton at high prices, and they went to Lianghuai to buy or rent public fields to grow cotton. But I am a little puzzled. What is the use of His Majesty's high prices? The current price is much higher than silk." Chen Dun said.

"If I say I want to solve the problem of people in the world dressing, would you trust?" Zhao Bing said with a smile.

"I don't believe it?" Chen Dun thought for a moment and shook his head. He felt that at the current price of cotton, it would definitely be several times higher after processing it into clothes. Even if he bought it, it would be difficult for ordinary people.

"Wang De, do you believe it?" Zhao Bing turned his face and asked Wang Dedao again.

"I believe that whenever His Majesty made new objects, many people suspected it, and even didn't believe it at all, but in the end they often made them lose their teeth!" Wang De said with a smile.

"Everyone knows that this matter is different from the past. Just by improving these looms, I don't believe it anyway." Chen Dun shook his head and said.

"You are right. These looms alone cannot make people in the world warm, but with these machinery, unexpected motivation can be generated, promoting the development of related industries, and bringing huge wealth to the court. Of course, this process may be longer, maybe ten years, or twenty years, but I have the confidence to allow the people of the world to cover their bodies in summer and cotton coats to keep the cold in winter!" Zhao Bing said confidently...
Chapter completed!