After leaving the palace gate, going down the steps, and reaching a corner, Liu She quietly took out the white paper handed to him by the emperor, opened it and took a look.~,
Then, Liu She's expression suddenly became very exaggerated.
"Your Majesty is trying to turn me into a person who loves 'strange and obscene skills'!" Liu She rubbed his temples and showed a wry smile.
However, this kind of distress only lasted for less than a tenth of a second, and then he immediately showed a bright smile: "It is my duty as a minister to share your Majesty's worries..."
In this ever-changing political arena, being able to take the blame for the emperor is a great specialty!
The next day, in the bustling markets of Chang'an City and the bazaars of various counties in Guanzhong, a reward notice appeared next to the dew cloth.
Suddenly, the entire Guanzhong was alarmed.
Because this reward notice is stamped with the seals of Tao Hou himself and the master craftsman of the Shaofu General, it is sufficiently convincing.
At this time, the credibility of the Han Dynasty officials and nobles was just new.
Three years ago, Wu Chu rebelled, and the court and the princes repaid the loan with ten times the interest.
In addition, Han law also ensures that everyone must abide by the contract they have made.
If you tear up the contracts and promises you have made at will, not only will public opinion despise you, but Ting Wei will not remain indifferent.
In this context, the reward notice posted by Liu She in the name of Tao Hou and General Dajiang is naturally full of credibility and innocent, and no one will suspect fraud.
What really makes people crazy is that the reward number is written clearly in black and white on the reward notice: one thousand gold or eight million for five baht.
Seeing this reward number, countless people swallowed their saliva crazily.
This bounty amount, even in Guanzhong, is an absolutely unprecedented and super large bounty.
Three years ago, the reward number offered by the imperial court for Wu Ni and Liu Bi's head was only three thousand gold.
At that time, Shusun Tong formulated the court rituals for Emperor Taizu and planned the eighteen chapters of "Banggong Lv". The total gold rewarded by Taizu, Emperor Hui, and Empress Lu was only fifteen hundred gold.
Also during the Wu-Chu rebellion, the late emperor worshiped Dou Ying as his general, and the gold he gave him was only a thousand pieces of gold.
In other words, the reward offered by Liu She, the Taoist candidate, is approximately one-third of Liu Bi's head, 75% of Shusun Tong's lifetime achievements, and a general.
Such a generous act naturally makes people crazy.
And what Liu She offered as a reward was even more impressive, making it difficult for people to restrain themselves.
"I, Tao Hou, will build a great craftsman's house. I would like to give you a thousand pieces of gold or eight million yuan. I hope you can do it twice as much as you do now, so that I can benefit all the people and repay the emperor!"
The simple and straightforward words stimulated everyone's adrenaline and made it difficult to restrain themselves.
What is even more exciting is that Tao Hou Liu She ordered people to build a pavilion in his own house. In the pavilion, there were a thousand heavy, yellow, orange and shining gold cakes.
.as a guarantee of his promise.
He even said publicly: "Any scholar, farmer, industrialist or merchant who can make machines that are twice as powerful as today's machines can take it for himself! If he can do it several times, I am even more willing to offer it to Your Majesty, regardless of whether he is a man or a woman, he will be rewarded with a thousand stones of officialdom!"
As soon as this news came out, countless women or craftsmen who thought they were skilled among the people began to use their ingenuity to delve into this issue.
Some people even formed an alliance, with a dozen or even dozens of people working together to tackle this project.
Liu Che was sitting in the palace, looking at the various folk discussions and situations that came back from the Xiuyi Guard, and he also smiled: "This is probably the National Science and Technology Progress Award before the Christian era..."
Originally, Liu Che planned to let the Moh family handle textile technology.
However, all the technical power and all the manpower and material resources of the Mohist family are currently focused on improving and manufacturing hydraulic forging equipment. Even the skilled craftsmen and top talents of the Shaofu have also invested in this aspect. There is really no
The rest of my energy is devoted to textile technology.
Of course, more importantly, textile technology in China is monopolized by women.
Very few men were involved in textile work.
Even the Mohists are like this.
If the Mohists were allowed to play with this, I am afraid that without seven or eight years of exploration and discussion, they would not be able to come up with a machine that can double or multiply textile technology.
There was no other way, so Liu Che had no choice but to draw attention to the people.
There are many heroes in the grassland, and even among women, there may be many powerful people.
As for the Han Dynasty, it is not that there were no precedents for women to serve as officials or even become marquises. The old Liu family can be said to have the highest attention and respect for women in all Chinese dynasties. (There are even special rules in the Household Law and the Household Law of the Han Dynasty.)
Clauses to ensure and safeguard women’s property inheritance rights and status)
Therefore, Liu She did not lie.
If someone really comes up with a machine that can increase textile efficiency several times, Liu Che will definitely not be stingy with the reward, and even reward him with the title of a prince.
At this time, a new loom that could double or even triple the efficiency was crucial to the Han Dynasty.
At present, the spinning technology of the Han Dynasty can still be used.
Nowadays, hand-operated spinning machines have already appeared.
The craftsmen of the Shaofu Weaving Order used a single-spindle hand-operated spinning wheel.
This kind of spinning wheel is very common in the murals of various periods of the Han Dynasty. There is not much difference between the spinning wheels recorded in the Tiangong Kaiwu of the Ming Dynasty and even the spinning wheels seen in the murals of the Han Dynasty.
As for the more advanced pedal-operated spinning wheel, it first appeared in murals in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
At present, the hand-operated single-spindle spinning wheel, although in terms of efficiency, cannot keep up with the spinning Jenny before the industrial revolution, or even far behind the spinning machine invented by Huang Daopo.
But it's enough.
After all, this hand-operated single-spindle spinning wheel is simple to manufacture, simple in process, easy to maintain, and easy to use.
Even two thousand years later, similar spinning wheels still exist in many mountain villages in remote areas of China.
But the textile machine is different.
At this time, the textile looms commonly used in China were the 'saw looms' derived from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which were also commonly known as finger looms. This primitive weaving technology was inefficient and the work was heavy.
However, nearly half of the workers in Shaofu’s Dongxi Weaving Order Yamen still use this primitive and backward technology to weave cloth.
This is why, during the Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, cloth could become a hard currency.
Of course, it is not without advanced machinery.
In the East and West Weaving Order Yamen, there are also weaving machines specially designed to serve the royal family.
This kind of machine, called a Zhu machine, originated from the technological explosion during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
There is a record of this kind of machine in "The Book of Songs. Erya. Cart". The so-called cart has a sill, and the clothes are as thin as a seed. Don't you think about it? You don't dare to do it if you are afraid.
He even left behind the everlasting famous saying, "The valleys are in different rooms, and the deaths are in the same hole."
The big cart here refers to the original machine.
Since the development of the saw loom, the related technology has become relatively mature, and its weaving efficiency is more than ten times that of the original saw loom in the past.
But it’s still not enough!
At present, the Shaofu's East-West Weaving Order can only complete the textile tasks assigned by the state every year (note).
Not to mention selling in the market and making profits.
Therefore, Liu Che now urgently needs a new type of high-efficiency loom.
This kind of machine should be simple to manufacture, simple in structure, easy to maintain and use, and at the same time it can improve textile efficiency.
It is best to adapt to the textile needs of cotton, especially the textile needs of coarse staple cotton, which is extremely difficult to maintain.
At present, cotton obtained from Wusun and Xiongnu through smuggling and legal trade channels has been experimentally planted this year in the royal estates and palaces of the previous two counties, as well as the royal fields of the king.
A total of about two thousand acres of cotton have been planted.
At present, the cotton has been harvested and all transported back to Shaofu's warehouse. After the seeds are preserved, the cotton batting is handed over to Dongzhiling Yamen for trial weaving.
Next year, the scale of cotton planting will expand more than ten times.
By the next year, the Han Dynasty's cotton planting area is likely to exceed one million acres.
Under such circumstances, research on related technologies naturally has to keep up.
On the other hand, Liu Che doesn't have to worry about jacquard technology, another technology point in the textile technology tree.
In Liu Che's opinion, the existing jacquard machines and jacquard technology have almost reached the peak that current technology can achieve.
The jacquard technology of the Han Dynasty can be said to be in full bloom and very advanced.
In particular, the Jacquard machine technology mastered by Shaofu can blind people's eyes.
Its most advanced jacquard machine adopts a double warp beam structure and can weave a set of four double-sided fabrics.
The beautiful patterns on countless unearthed textile items from the Han Dynasty are enough proof of the advanced nature of these jacquard machines.
Of course, these jacquard machines can weave those exquisite patterns in this desert era of industrial technology, but they have to pay a price.
The price is extremely low efficiency.
A piece of Sichuan brocade with exquisite patterns that people can't put down takes eighty days, nearly three months, to weave (Note 2).
Of course Liu Che has thought about developing and researching more advanced jacquard machines.
But after investigation, Liu Che gave up.
If the jacquard machine could be simplified and improved in efficiency, the economic benefits it would create would be higher than buying and selling arms!
An ordinary piece of silk cloth costs only tens of dollars, a piece of cloth stuffed with wadding costs more than a hundred dollars per foot, and a piece of silk is worth more than two hundred dollars or more.
However, the market price of a piece of floral cloth with exquisite patterns is as high as ten thousand yuan, and the supply exceeds the demand.
Nobles, nobles, landlords and wealthy businessmen would spend a lot of money to buy all kinds of fabrics that fit their aesthetic tastes.
However, before industrialization and mass production technology, no matter how much the jacquard machine was improved, the working hours for one piece of cloth would only be reduced from eighty days to thirty days at most.
After all, even if you cheat, there is no way for the craftsman’s jacquard speed and brain concentration to keep up with the pace of modern machines.
There is actually not much difference between weaving a piece of cloth between thirty days and eighty days.
This determines that this kind of cloth can only be a luxury product.
Since it is a luxury product, it is not worth investing too much energy. (To be continued.)
