After hearing the emperor's words, Chen Dun put away his joking look and felt awe-inspiring in his heart. He had realized that His Majesty was playing a big game of chess, and the textile equipment placed on the ground was the driving force behind this game of chess.

During the Northern Expedition, the Song Dynasty recovered a large area of ​​land in Jiangbei and Lianghuai, but after a long war, the population recovered slowly. The court needed a large number of people to reclaim the land and consolidate the border defense. Many preferential policies were introduced to this end. In addition to exempting taxes for several years, it also provided housing and plowing oxen and distributed road capital to attract the population in Jiangnan, but the effect was not very obvious.

Everyone knows that there are many idle fields there and low prices. At first, some people are worried that there will be wars happening there from time to time, and hesitate to move. However, with the signing of peace agreements and the successive victory of the Song army in the conflict, the doubts of the people were dispelled. It is said that in some prefectures and counties with few lands in Jiangnan, many families began to apart households and went to Jiangbei and Lianghuai areas in order to achieve development, but the scale was still small and not enough to fill the vacancy.

For this reason, the court has held court discussions many times to discuss how to move people to Jiangbei, but there is no good idea. Some people even proposed a plan to move people forcibly or move the capital, but it was rejected by His Majesty. After all, it is difficult to leave the hometown, and Jiangnan is much more prosperous than Jiangbei. If the forced migration of people is inevitable, it will inevitably cause panic among the people, generate a large number of fugitives, and even more so, it will cause civil rebellion.

Last year, the incident of His Majesty's purchase of cotton at high prices had spread throughout the south of the Yangtze River, but the imperial court prohibited the planting of cotton in the south of the Yangtze River on the grounds that it was not suitable for cotton in the south of the Yangtze River, and could only choose to plant in the Jiangbei and Lianghuai areas. This year, the imperial decree ordered that more than half of the land in all imperial villages in Jiangbei should be planted, and weaving workshops were selected in Yangzhou and other places to build weaving workshops.

The royal movements showed that growing cotton was profitable, otherwise the young emperor would not have invested a lot of money, so those who still had some concerns also went to Jiangbei and Lianghuai to inspect, preparing to rent public fields or go with their families. Now the emperor's two simple actions have caused a stir among the gentry in Jiangnan. Once the cotton harvest is good next year, and cotton is weaved and sold at a high price, more people will definitely be allowed to go.

Chen Dun knew that His Majesty had an amazing "talent" for clever things. Not only did he create crossbows and dragon ships during the time of the General Administration, he helped the General Administration defeat the more with fewer ones, conquered Qiongzhou and established a foundation. Then the emperor built muskets and artillery, which made every move in the battle, recovered Jiangnan, captured Jiangbei, Lianghuai, and Sichuan.

The debut of the Expeditionary Force escort fleet this year shocked the world again. The tall and majestic warships were covered with artillery, and the fast ships equipped with various sails could sail in the wind. The escorted fleet was also loaded with various cargoes to the West. In recent years, everyone knew that the sea trade was full of real money and silver. The small caravan that first followed the Royal Fleet to the north had become rich in three or two years, and became a big merchant with a net worth of hundreds of thousands and millions of coins.

These people who made money with the royal family must believe in His Majesty's vision. Once he grows cotton, he will make cotton a new product for maritime trade. They will follow along with each other. If they have money, they can get more land and give preferential treatments higher than the court to recruit people from Jiangnan to Jiangbei. This will drive more people to immigrate to Jiangbei, and the court will naturally turn passive into active.

What Chen Dun admired even more was that the emperor had foreseen a large amount of private capital into Jiangbei, and the production of cotton was much simpler than silk, with fewer processes, and was not as risky as silkworm raising, and the output was relatively stable. In a few years, with the improvement of planting area and methods, a large amount of cotton would definitely be produced.

However, cotton is only a primary product and can only benefit through processing. With the current single-door production and processing methods, it is difficult to digest huge output. In this way, your Majesty chooses to build a weaving workshop in Jiangbei to consume the excess cotton and produce finished products, thereby generating economic benefits. Then your Majesty’s prepared improved looms will play a decisive role in it, and the improvement of production efficiency and changes in production mode will also bring about changes.

The intensive production method of factories will not only save manpower, but also facilitate management and reduce costs. It will also attract private capital to switch to the production link, generate the driving force to drive the northward flow of the population, promote the development of commerce, and further increase the output. All this will inevitably lead to a decrease in cotton prices. Perhaps it will really be as Your Majesty said, ten or eight years later, the price of cotton cloth is cheaper than linen cloth, thus solving the problem of people wearing warm clothes.

Keeping the people full and well-dressed is the basic need of the people and the wish of the sages of all generations, but few people in history have been able to do it. If the young emperor can achieve his ideas, it will definitely be a benevolent policy that benefits the present and the future. On the other hand, the popularization of cotton planting and the development of related industries will also bring a lot of taxes to the court, reduce the burden on ordinary people, enable them to live and work in peace and promote social stability.

Thinking of this, Chen Dun looked at the little emperor again with admiration. He was using seemingly unusual things to change this era. By improving gunpowder, he created powerful muskets and artillery, triggering military changes and changing the form of war. In Qiongzhou, he let Xingchao get rid of financial difficulties, keeping the salt price at a low level, and making it affordable for everyone to eat. There are many such cases...

When Chen Dun got his wish, Zhao Bing did not notice the change in his expression. He was still obsessed with the looms and spinning wheels in front of him. He could be very good at talking about shipbuilding, but he was completely a layman in textile machinery. Modern processing machinery had long eliminated these things in front of him and could only be seen in museums.

However, Zhao Bing knew that in the mid-18th century, a handmade machine called "Jenny" spinning wheel appeared in Britain, which improved the production efficiency of spinning and promoted the industrialization of the cotton textile industry. However, this epoch-making invention has long been submerged in the history of the modern industrial revolution. He also forgot about which textbook he saw its pictures and briefly understood the principles of its work.

In Zhao Bing's memory, the "Jenny Spinning Wheel" was in the mid-18th century. Britain experienced the land enclosure movement. The emerging bourgeoisie and aristocrats drove farmers away from the land through violence, occupied farmers' divisions and shared land, and deprived farmers of their land use rights and ownership. It provided free labor for the industrial revolution, provided a large amount of capital for overseas triangular trade, and provided a broad overseas market for colonial expansion.

The booming factory handicraft industry has cultivated a large number of skilled workers with practical experience. It has accumulated rich production technology knowledge and increased output, but it still cannot meet the needs of expanding the market. British goods are increasingly sold overseas, and this kind of spinning machinery appears in the context of insufficient production technology supply in handicraft workshops.

In order to increase production, people at that time tried every means to improve production technology. In the cotton textile department, people first invented a weaving tool called Flying Shuttle, which greatly accelerated the weaving speed and stimulated the demand for cotton yarn. Weaver James Hargreaves invented the "Jenny Machine" hand-spinning machine, which can spin many cotton threads at a time, greatly improving productivity.

The "Jenny Machine" looks like a "Jenny Machine" is installed at the bottom of a frame with several spools wrapped around the roving, and there are several spindles on the frame. Each spool is connected to a spindle with a belt. The spindle passes between the two horizontal strips, and the rod slides forward and backward on the frame. The spinner moves the rod backward and pulls out the roving, and then squeezes the horizontal strips to clamp the belt. At the same time, the rod moves backward, turns the wheel, and the wheel turns the spindle.

When the twisting reaches a certain level, the rod moves forward again, and the spindle slowly rotates to wrap the yarn. At this time, the spinning worker pulls the control rod, and the control rod presses down an iron wire, and the iron wire pushes the wire to a position that can be wound by the spindle. The Jenny spinning machine actually turns a spindle into N spindles. Pull up the pressure plate on the cart and lets the rovings in a small piece of material. Repeat the above process to spin the rovings into thin yarn.

Later, someone invented a reel spinning machine on this basis. It is powered by hydraulic power and does not require human operation. The spinning yarn is tough and strong, which solves the technical problems of producing pure cotton cloth. However, the hydraulic spinning machine is very large in size and must be built in a tall factory building, and it must be built next to the river. A large number of workers operated in a concentrated manner, which started the process of industrial production.

As for spinning wheels, Zhao Bing could improve very few things. He knew that it was a thing called a shuttle that could improve textile efficiency. This was also invented by a British watchmaker in the early 18th century. The shuttle was actually a shuttle with a small wheel in the chute. Springs were installed at both ends of the chute, so that the shuttle could travel back and forth very quickly.

What is this shuttle used for? The weaving cloth surface can be greatly widened. In the past, two people had to cooperate with ordinary shuttles. Now, using shuttles can complete the weaving work by one person, and can weave a wider cloth than before. Therefore, the invention of shuttles has made the weaving speed faster. It greatly improves the weaving efficiency, which leads to the inability to use cotton yarn.

Therefore, people urgently demanded the invention of a machine to increase the spinning speed and provide more cotton yarn. It can be said that the emergence of shuttles improved the efficiency of weaving, which promoted the invention of the Jenny loom. So although it is not a machine in the strict sense, it still contributed to the British Industrial Revolution.
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