Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 746 The King of Qin became a vassal, steam weaving

After enfeoffing Prince Lu, Aunt Zhu asked the vassal school to conduct a questionnaire survey on the princes waiting to be enfeoffed to understand their thoughts on the enfeoffment land.

It was found that not all feudal kings wanted to be entrusted to the new continent where it was easy to expand the territory, and there were also some "small wealth and peace", hoping to be entrusted to the edge of the overseas territory of the Ming Dynasty or inside the overseas territory like King Lu.

Considering that there are more than [-] princes waiting to be entrusted, some of them are over [-] years old, and they don't have much time to wait, so Aimee Zhu decided to draw another fiefdom in the Visayas.

After discussing with the ministers, Negros Island was finally selected.

The island is located in the west of the Visayas region, between Panay Island and Cebu Island. It is 40-80 kilometers wide from east to west, 216 kilometers long from north to south, and has an area of ​​1.27 square kilometers.

It is about the same size as Xiazhou in some provinces of Ming Dynasty. Of course, Zhu Yuxi will not allocate all of it to the vassal king, but will draw a radius of a hundred miles in the north of it—probably a small half of the island to the north.

After the court decided to assign a vassal king to Negros Island, the vassal school quickly organized a qualification examination.

In the end, Qin Wang Zhu Cunfu (beside the word Jiamu) won the first place in the examination and obtained the qualification for this enfeoffment.

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Drunken House.

On this day, Zhu Cunfu, who had obtained the entrustment qualification, held a banquet here to entertain other princes, or classmates.

"Congratulations, King Qin."

"Nanyang is a good place. There are quite a few people who want to obtain the entrustment qualification this time. I didn't expect you to be the first one, King Qin. It's amazing."

"King Qin, you will go to Nanyang soon and become rich. You can't be stingy with today's banquet."

"···"

He talked to the princes who came to give presents and dinner one by one, and when everyone was almost there, Zhu Cunfu heaved a sigh of relief, rubbed his face stiffened by laughing, and was in a daze for a while.

He is 36 years old this year, and he is neither older nor younger among the feudal lords.

Although he inherited the title of King Qin, his actual status is not high.

He was originally the fourth concubine son of the former King of Qin, and his mother was actually a maid in the palace, and she was pregnant with him only because the former King of Qin favored him after drinking for a while.

According to the normal procedure, King Qin's title would not fall on him no matter what.

However, King Qin's family was massacred by the invading army in the past, and his children were scattered. The two elder brothers who inherited the title of King Qin died suddenly one after another.

He fled to the Qinling Mountains to take refuge, but was captured by Sun Shoufa, so he was allowed to inherit the title of King Qin, and raised the banner of King Qin to resist Shun and Qing.

Later, Sun Shoufa came under the command of today's son, and he, the temporary king of Qin, was recognized by the court and became the real king of Qin.

However, compared with Lu Wang and other vassal kings who fled to the south for refuge, or who were already in the south, he was really poor and white.

After arriving in Nanjing, even the serving maids, eunuchs, and stewards of the palace were arranged by the court.

As for money, there are only tens of thousands of taels of salary accumulated in the past few years.

Although he also thought that Tang Wang, Lu Wang, Gui Wang, etc., would choose to entrust them to the vast new continent, so that they could expand the territory in the future and lay down a larger fiefdom.

But he knew that his talent was mediocre, he had no capital, and he was not too young, so he tried his best to win the first place in this assessment.

Unexpectedly, I got lucky.

'This is just the beginning... the real difficulty is yet to come. '

Even counting the 10 taels of silver he borrowed from the imperial court, he only had 10,000+ taels of silver in his hands. It would be impossible to develop a fief like King Lu by spending a lot of money.

Fortunately, the long history sent by the imperial court gave him a trick - since there is no way to make a fortune like Lu Wangling by spreading money, let's start with small troubles and slowly develop and accumulate family wealth.

Anyway, his King of Qin territory can be regarded as within the overseas territory of Daming, and the surrounding area is not too dangerous.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cunfu felt a lot more relaxed, and immediately put on a smile again, and went in to entertain the princes...

Zhaowu seven years.

The eighteenth day of the first lunar month.

Aunt Zhu led a group of ministers of military aircraft and several cabinet ministers who had not joined the military aircraft department to inspect Nanjing Cotton Mill and Nanjing Silk Mill.

Among them, the inspection of the Nanjing Silk Weaving Factory was incidental, mainly the inspection of the cotton spinning factory.

Because Nanjing Cotton Mill has used a complete set of mature steam textile machines this year!
Such as Jenny spinning frame, flying shuttle and other technologies that can improve textile efficiency before the use of steam engines were developed by Auntie Zhu as early as the second year of Zhaowu, and they have been promoted to all parts of Daming in recent years.

The textile industry in the southern part of the Ming Dynasty was very developed, among which Songjiang Prefecture was the most.

As early as ten years ago, that is, during the reign of Chongzhen, Songjiang cloth (also known as Nanjing cloth, etc.) was exported to the UK, and even affected the British textile industry.

At that time, although most workshops in the south of the Yangtze River were still using three-spindle and five-spindle spinning wheels with pedals, there were also large workshops using hydraulic spinning wheels.According to the "Nongshu", as early as the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, a large hydraulic spinning wheel capable of spinning more than 30 cotton yarns at the same time was invented.

Therefore, when the jenny machine and the shuttle were popularized, the masters of Jiangnan's major workshops spontaneously combined hydraulic power with the jenny loom and shuttle, which further improved the level of textile machinery in Jiangnan.

In the end, some workshop owners spontaneously expanded the scale of their workshops, which actually became small textile factories.

This makes it a fact that the living space of family-style cotton textiles is squeezed.

Coupled with the fact that silk weaving is still the main home weaving in the Ming Dynasty, and cotton weaving is less, Zhu Yuxi obtained a complete set of mature steam cotton spinning machine technology from Hao Guangming last year, and handed it over to the Secret Manufacturing Bureau for development.

The Nanjing Confidential Manufacturing Bureau is now full of talented people, and it manufactures with reference to a complete set of mature technologies, so it can be completed within a few months.

After that, it will be handed over to the Nanjing Machinery Manufacturing Bureau for production-this link will take longer, so the Nanjing Cotton Mill will use this whole set of steam cotton spinning machines until the beginning of this year.

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Yuan Jixian and the others followed Zhu Yuluan, glanced at the dozens of towering smogs in the cotton spinning factory, frowned and sniffed the soot-smelling air, and then entered the Nanjing Cotton Spinning Factory.

When they came to the cotton spinning workshop, whether it was Yuan Jixian, Huang Daozhou, Xie Xuelong and other civil servants, or Li Yan, Ye Tinggui, and Zhu Dadian from the Military Affairs Academy, their eyes widened and their faces showed shock.

In the vast weaving workshop, several rows of huge looms with steel as the main material were running non-stop.

The female workers in blue uniforms seem to be fixed in their respective positions, and their hands are constantly busy with the machine.

These ministers, regardless of their origin, age, or age, have basically seen textiles.Because weaving is like farming, it is an indispensable thing in people's life.

Therefore, they have some understanding of textiles.

However, the performance of the cotton spinning machines in front of them subverted their inherent cognition of textiles.

'In the past, people spun by hand, and most of the cloth we wove was two feet two, and at most it was only three feet three, but the cloth woven by the steam loom in front of us can be as wide as Zhang Xu! '

'It's unbelievable! '

Xie Xuelong watched the cloth being stretched from the loom at a considerable speed under the operation of the female workers, and subconsciously compared the efficiency of hand-looming.

'As far as I know, taking Songjiang cotton cloth as an example, ordinary women who are familiar with weaving can only weave about one meter even if they spend the rest of their day eating and sleeping.

A piece of cloth is about thirteen or four meters (three or four feet), so it takes an ordinary woman ten and a half months to weave a piece of cloth.

Even the weaver girls in Jiangnan, who are extremely skilled in weaving, use the best shuttle looms and squeeze their work and rest time. It takes six to seven days to weave a piece of Songjiang cloth, and the width is mostly only more than two feet.

But the steam loom in front of me may be able to weave more than ten meters in one day at such a speed. !

Calculated in this way, the cotton cloth that a female worker uses a steam loom to weave in a day is not as good as a weaver girl who worked hard for more than a month before? ! '

　First more.

　　The update is late, sorry, [I was dizzy after looking at textile-related information for a few hours, the key is that there are still many things I haven't figured out o(╥﹏╥)o]

　　[Inspected information shows that a modern loom has a daily output of more than 400 meters, and the steam loom just came out in the early [-]th century. According to the investigation, a little boy can weave [-] times that of a skilled weaver girl in a day.This article is a mature steam spinning machine, so it’s better to take between [-] and [-] times, and change it later if you find that the data is outrageous]

　　[Then I looked at the information, and it was shown that women in the Han Dynasty weaved one piece of cloth a day, and five pieces of cloth in three days. At first, I was confused.After thinking about it, I found out that, excluding the difference in length units between the Han Dynasty and the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the main reason is that cloth is different from cloth. Songjiang cotton cloth is known for its denseness, and it must be more difficult to weave than the coarse silk of the Han Dynasty.In the Han Dynasty, there were silk, plain, silk, linen, silk, brocade, etc., but there was no cotton cloth. 】

　　
　
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