After five years of development, Luanzhou has become the most vibrant industrial town in the entire empire.
In Luanzhou, there are both steel mills and satin steel mills, as well as gunpowder bureaus, gun manufacturers, cement factories, and weaving factories nearby.
It is worth mentioning that Davis, a weaver invited from England, invented the "Jenny" hand-spinning machine.
Inspiration comes from accident.
That night, when Davis came home, he accidentally kicked over the spinning machine that his wife was using. His first reaction at that time was to quickly straighten the spinning machine. But when he bent down, he suddenly
He was stunned. It turned out that he saw that the kicked down spinning machine was still spinning, but the original horizontal spindle became upright.
He suddenly thought: If several spindles were arranged vertically and driven by a spinning wheel, wouldn't it be possible to spin more yarn at once?
Davis was very excited and immediately tried it. The next day he built a new spinning machine that used a spinning wheel to drive eight vertical spindles. The efficiency was suddenly increased by eight times. This was the earliest multi-spindle handcraft.
The spinning machine is equipped with 8 spindles and uses rollers to feed fiber strips. It is suitable for spinning cotton, wool and linen fibers.
Because Davis' daughter was named Jenny, it was named Jenny Spinning Machine.
After Yuzhu learned the news, he jumped on the spot and not only immediately rewarded Davis with five thousand pounds, but also spent another thirty thousand pounds to buy his technology patent rights.
What does thirty-five thousand pounds mean?
In this era, the top ten richest people in the UK.
The machine has been invented, and Yuzhu can take possession of the Jenny Spinning Machine as his own without spending a penny.
However, it is definitely impossible for Yuzhu to do the stupid thing of killing the goose and taking the eggs.
Human nature is to pursue fame and fortune.
Davis's overnight fortune told all British engineers and scientists that there is indeed a technological gold mine to be mined in the great Eastern countries.
More importantly, Yuzhu knew very well that unlike military and heavy industry, spinning machines belonged to the light textile industry.
In previous textbooks, when teaching world history, the "enclosure movement" of sheep cannibalizing humans was described at great length.
In this era, thanks to the mechanical worker Kay's invention of flying shuttle technology, the productivity of weaving machinery was greatly improved.
However, the cotton yarn needed for weaving is still slowly spun on the spinning wheels of many cottage industries. Therefore, the supply of cotton yarn exceeds the demand, and the purchase price is high.
The invention of the "Jenny machine" has greatly improved the productivity of cotton yarn.
Brothers who have watched the old TV series "Dyeing House" must know that the reason why foreign cloth overwhelms homespun cloth is due to the great improvement of production efficiency, resulting in the cost of foreign cloth being much lower than that of homespun cotton cloth.
In today's Chinese Empire, there are at least hundreds of millions of sheep in the Mongolian region, and there are both mulberry and hemp in the Jiangnan region.
More importantly, the Western Region, due to long sunshine hours and drought, is a naturally high-yield area for cotton.
Due to the digging of artificial canals, cotton only needs to be processed into cotton cloth in the Aksu region of the Western Region, and then the cotton cloth can be transported by land to Dunhuang, and then it can be transported by water to the eastern region.
In the vast Western Region, cotton is grown in Aksu, grain is grown in places with abundant water sources, and sheep are raised in places with insufficient water sources. This can form a continuous virtuous cycle of endogenous economic development.
The grain was eaten by oneself, and the cotton was woven into cotton cloth. The output that the merchants could not eat was all purchased by the imperial court and then resold to the central and western regions.
Exchanging salt, silver and various advanced iron tools from the central and western regions solved the livelihood problems of immigrants from the Western Regions over time.
As for the eastern region, mulberry, weaving, hemp and sericulture are common, which provides the basis for large-scale production of linen and silk.
Hehe, what does this mean?
In Sino-European trade, in addition to traditional tea, porcelain and silk, cotton and linen can also be dumped.
Cotton and linen are necessities of life. As long as the price is low enough, the tens of millions of people in Southeast Asia will be a God-given market!
After all, the thirty-five thousand pounds that Yuzhu paid was an unprecedented sum of money, but it was definitely worth it.
Moreover, with money, Davis could continue to invent and create dozens or even hundreds of spinning machines.
Technology that cannot generate money is a bottomless pit that consumes resources.
With a stroke of Yuzhu's pen, he mobilized skilled craftsmen to build six modern hand-woven textile factories in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Dagukou, Quanzhou and Guangzhou.
The old memory of history is that after the reform and opening up, the first enterprises with the ability to earn foreign exchange through export were state-owned textile enterprises.
Make money with light industry, protect the country with heavy industry, grasp it with both hands, both hands must be strong.
Three years later, just when Yuzhu was making a lot of money, Davis invented a 64-spindle spinning machine.
This time, Davis, who had money in his pocket, refused to sell the patented technology to Yuzhu. He used his own money to build a spinning mill with more advanced technology.
Yuzhu did not use his power to unscrupulously destroy credit and rob Davis of his technical achievements.
Instead, he issued a fatal order to research technical problems and must develop a spinning machine with more than 100 spindles.
Under the market economy, other people's technology is much more advanced than yours, and your factory should go bankrupt if it doesn't make any breakthroughs.
Companies that refuse to close down even though they are suffering serious losses are not spending their own money.
What Ling Yuzhu didn't expect was that despite spending a lot of money, the speed of technological progress was extremely slow.
Instead, a spinner in Suzhou took the lead in inventing a 100-spindle spinning machine.
Almost overnight, Suzhou's private textile industry has made great progress.
Soon, Yuzhu's Suzhou and Hangzhou spinning mills were overwhelmed.
After learning the news, instead of being angry, Yuzhu was very happy.
When he invests in industries, he just plays the role of leading the way to make money when others don't understand and dare not do it.
These days, as long as the market is relatively fair, businessmen will invest wherever there are huge profits.
With the success of business technology, the number of offices around Yuzhu has also increased to eleven.
The nine adult princes and the emperor's two younger brothers each have an office.
Everyone learns to handle government affairs step by step. For young people, they start by reading county-level memorials, and gradually learn to understand state-level, prefectural-level, and even provincial-level memorials.
There must be competition and a sense of pressure. Otherwise, how can the survival of the fittest be possible?
When he went out, Yuzhu looked at the two small offices that were still brightly lit. He couldn't help but smile, there was someone coming after him!
Little Iron Hammer, Little Xuanyu, don’t blame your father for being cruel and forcing you to compete.
A huge empire, if its successors are not good enough, will still be unable to escape the dynasty cycle rate mentioned by Huang Yanpei.
The most typical example is that after the German throne was passed from William I to William II, major mistakes occurred in foreign policy.
William II's diplomatic mistakes led to serious consequences. The traditional naval overlord and France, the two strongest powers on the European continent, became allies.
If you make a mistake in foreign affairs, you will lose everything!