One thousand five hundred and seventy-eighth technical development and planning ahead
In early autumn, Chang'an is still unbearably hot, and the midday sun is even more blazing and scary.
Looking at the piece of cotton cloth placed in front of the case, Liu Che showed a happy smile.
"This is an important weapon for the military and the state!" Stroking the thin stripes on the cotton cloth and feeling the delicate feel, Liu Che felt relaxed and happy, and his face was filled with joy!
"The edict was made: the great craftsman Zhang Fen was made Lord Jianzhang, and the great craftsman He Gui was made Lord Xianwen. Each was given five hundred gold and a house..." Liu Che gave instructions to the ministers on his left and right.
He has no reason to be unhappy or excited!
After more than four years of unremitting exploration and hard work, the textile technicians of Shaofu Dongxi Weaving Order finally developed the first Han spinning machine that could spin cotton yarn and invented the flying shuttle to weave cloth.
what does that mean?
Liu Che couldn't be more clear.
This is the bud of the machine age, the light before dawn, and the beginning of revolution!
The prosperity of the cotton and textile industries, in fact, promoted the beginning of the British Industrial Revolution.
Without the textile industry, especially the emergence of large-scale textile workshops, the Industrial Revolution? Just dream!
And the textile industry is indeed the standard for the emergence of capitalism in the East and the West.
During the Song and Ming dynasties, the germination of Chinese capitalism took place in the handicraft workshops in Jiangnan, especially the weaving workshops.
If Liu Che remembers correctly, he once watched a TV series "Ming 1556", which introduced the plot of the weaving industry in Jiangnan that competed with agriculture for population and land when it was booming.
"The next step should be to research and develop a machine similar to the 'Jenny Spinning Machine'!" Liu Che told himself in his heart.
The Spinning Jenny was the first machine in the world.
Without it, there would be no industrial revolution!
It is no exaggeration to say that its significance is higher than that of steam engines!
Why?
Because it was its appearance that enabled machines to be used in mass production for the first time.
It is its emergence that makes capitalists appear.
It's what makes sheep eat people.
It was also it that dominated the industrial revolution for hundreds of years.
Without it, there would be no capitalism and no industrial revolution.
It is the creator of everything, the sprout of all things, and the prophet of industry.
However, the current weaving technology of the Han Dynasty is still stuck in the manual era.
Existing spinning machines can only spin one yarn at a time, and the speed is very slow.
According to the Shaofu's report, weaving a piece of cotton now requires three workers and takes several days.
The annual output of cotton cloth in the East and West Weaving Rooms of Shaofu is now up to 100,000 pieces per year.
This was simply not enough to spark an industrial revolution or impact the entire world.
With this in mind, Liu Che issued an order: "I'll tell everyone in the east and west weaving houses: Anyone who can make a new type of spinning machine will be granted the title of Marquis! Every time one more yarn is spun, the city will be increased by a thousand households!"
There must be a brave man under the heavy reward!
Liu Che didn't believe it. After offering such a reward, he still couldn't build a machine similar to or even better than the spinning Jenny!
After thinking about it, Liu Che added: "This edict is also passed on to the Dukes of Moyuan..."
The Mo family is added for insurance!
Once a Jenny-like spinning machine was invented that could spin at high speeds—even if the spinning speed was temporarily not as fast as the Jenny spinning machine—Liu Che believed that it would be enough to promote the industrial revolution of the Han Dynasty and give rise to a wave of capitalist expansion.
Once the textile industry began to flourish, it would certainly promote the prosperity of plantations, especially cotton plantations.
The Andong area, the Raoleshui-Liaohe River Basin, the Heli Mountain-Hexi area, and even the Western Regions are all good cotton planting areas.
When plantations flourished, so did the slave trade.
A large amount of cotton will flood the market, further boosting the textile industry.
The textile industry will concentrate a large number of people and create an intensive labor industry employing hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of workers.
So, capitalists appeared.
The bourgeoisie then emerged.
Then the revolution began.
In just a few decades, it will sweep the entire world, subverting all rules and morals.
It is precisely because he is well aware of this that Liu Che has spent huge sums of money over the years, allocating resources to the east and west weaving rooms at all costs, vigorously cultivating craftsmen, researching and developing technology, and promoting the development and development of textile technology in this pre-Yuan period bit by bit.
leap.
This is also what he thinks is the best way to develop.
Throw money at it, throw money at all costs!
As long as you can smash out a textile machine, even a primitive one, that's victory!
As for the original textile machines, what is the technical content of those machines from the pre-Spinning Jenny era?
In fact, it's actually not that high.
Even the technical content of the spinning Jenny machine itself is not much higher.
The spinning technology of the Han Dynasty was actually not inferior.
Primitive spinning wheels appeared during the Warring States Period, but this kind of spinning wheel was used to spin flax and other coarse fiber fabrics, and could not be used to spin cotton.
In the past, Shaofu's cotton yarn was spun one by one by hand using primitive spindles, which was inefficient and time-consuming.
This has also led to the high price of cotton fabrics in the past.
It was not until Chen Yuanjun, the daughter of Chen Jia, the Marquis of Fuyang, that she invented the first spinning machine that could be used to spin cotton yarn.
This kind of spinning machine uses the structure of the old spinning wheel, but some changes have been made so that it can pull and extend the thin yarn sliver.
The spinning efficiency has been greatly improved, but the efficiency is still low.
Just shorten the weaving time of a piece of cotton cloth from one month to ten days!
Until now, Zhang Fen and other master weavers have finally broken this restriction.
A new high-efficiency spinning machine and weaving shuttle were invented, and the weaving efficiency of cotton cloth was greatly improved again!
Especially the weaving speed. After the invention of the flying shuttle, as long as there is sufficient cotton yarn, a skilled female weaver can weave three pieces of cotton cloth in one day!
With the development of technology, the weaving speed will only get faster and faster in the future!
"If I remember correctly, later Britain invented the flying shuttle in 1733, the spinning jenny in 1769, the steam engine in 1785, the train in 1814, and modern industrialization was basically completed in 1840..."
It took the UK almost a hundred years from the emergence of the shuttle to the complete completion of industrialization and the realization of all-machine production.
During this period, the Empire that the Sun Never Sets gradually rose and developed to its extreme.
"But, as I am a time traveler, the industrialization speed of the Han Dynasty will definitely be faster than that of the British!" Liu Che thought in his mind that the British industrial revolution was unconscious, at least in the early stages, and there was no one to preside over and lead it, and it even almost died.
Middle - If Britain had not expanded overseas and found countless dumping grounds for resources and goods, its industrial revolution would have never been successful!
While in the Han Dynasty, Liu Che had been deliberately influencing and presiding over relevant technological developments and plans.
Therefore, according to ideal estimates, the Industrial Revolution of the Han Dynasty probably only took less than fifty years.
The first twenty years are the stage of technology accumulation and capital accumulation. Once completed, the entire society will gallop forward like a wild horse, completing Britain's century-old development journey in a few decades.
Of course, the territory of the Han Dynasty was countless times larger than that of the British mainland, and the social environment and humanistic environment were also completely different.
If we want to achieve complete industrialization, it will definitely be more difficult, more complicated, and even full of twists and turns than in the UK.
Liu Che had to prepare now for the difficult times in the future.
And first, you have to find a huge commodity dumping market!
If there is no commodity tilt, if an economic crisis occurs, it is no joke and will kill people!
