Chapter 759 Imitating the Industrial Revolution One
Lu Bu thought of the industrial revolution in later generations. It was precisely because of the overseas trade at that time that it gave birth to other countries' demand for wool and leather, which promoted the rapid development of the British wool and leather industry, which allowed the British not only to engage in land enclosure movements in their local area, but also firmly grasp the grassland overseas, which led to the later Australian cotton wool armor world.
Although Lu Bu was not prepared to completely copy the path of the industrial revolution, he discovered some of the laws of technological revolution from the industrial revolution, which is that market demand and interest demand greatly promoted the technological revolution.
Through years of overseas trade and colonial expansion, Britain accumulated original capital for Britain, provided a vast raw material and overseas market, and generated and gathered a large amount of labor through land enclosure movements, and also expanded the domestic market of the UK. With the increase of market demand, factory manual production can no longer meet the demand. Therefore, a revolution of machine production will inevitably break out...
Humans are all profit-seeking animals, and except under the stimulation of strong needs, the inventors rarely made inventions. Many principles based on various new inventions were known centuries before the Industrial Revolution, but they were not used in industry due to lack of stimulation. For example, this was the case with steam power. Steam power was known and even applied in ancient Egypt in the Hellenistic era, but it was only used to open and close temple gates. However, in Britain, in order to pump water from mines and turn the wheels of new machinery, a new source of power was urgently needed. The result was a series of inventions and improvements until the steam engine suitable for mass production was developed.
If Lu Bu wants to control the huge grassland and then curb foreign races, and to promote the technological revolution, he must learn from the experience of the British Industrial Revolution...
Lu Bu used to persuade the aristocratic families to conduct overseas trade through the land and maritime Silk Road, and the step of doing so was right. A large number of aristocratic merchants obtained a lot of money through trade with the Roman Empire, the Western Regions and Southeast Asian countries, which induced most large and medium-sized families to invest their financial resources in overseas trade. The overseas market was booming, and countless commodities from the Han Dynasty were continuously transported overseas.
At the same time, thanks to the support of Lu Bu's powerful army, the entire north and the Central Plains were peaceful and peaceful, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. After the settlement, they began to pay attention to wear, and the market in the Han Dynasty began to heat up. Overseas and domestic markets heated up, making silk production of ordinary small households unable to keep up with the situation.
At this time, Lu Bu proposed that wool textiles, leather products, and cotton fabrics, these three products complement each other and silk products, which can greatly meet market demand. Therefore, the wool textile, leather and cotton fabrics bloomed everywhere in Dahan.
Because cotton has just been introduced into Middle Earth and has not been planted on a large scale, the wool textile industry and leather industry are just beginning to develop. The price of wool continues to rise, and the price of sheep skin continues to rise, making the sheep farming industry a profitable business. Often the income from ten acres of pastures exceeds the income of twenty acres of arable land. Therefore, many landlords and nobles of aristocratic families began to enclose land, and from the beginning of occupying tenant farmers' rents, they began to embezzle the fields of surrounding self-cultivated farmers.
Originally, this "sheep eat people" land enclosure movement was inevitable, but Lu Bu clearly saw that there were not enough workshops everywhere, which was not enough to digest a large number of farmers who had lost their land. If they were to sit and watch a large number of self-cultivated farmers lose their land, it would soon repeat the tragedy that Lu Bu didn't want to see. Therefore, he tried his best to guide the great families and the Han mu landlords to enclose land in the grassland outside the border to build pastures, and had generous policies for these aristocratic families who were willing to enclose land in the grassland outside the border. The Han mu landlords had generous policies. Their pastures could not pay taxes for three years, but their tenants who turned into herders and slaves must participate in the military training formed by the construction corps of the Mozhou outside the border to jointly deal with the invasion of foreign races such as the Xianbei.
Those aristocratic families and the landlords of the Han sect were not very willing to turn fertile land into pastures, but they did not dare to risk being attacked by Lu Bu's army to occupy the fertile land of other self-cultivated farmers. Now they see that occupying the pasture outside the border can be exempted from tax for three years and can be protected by the Han army. Why don't they do it? They sent nearly half of the tenants and slaves in the family to the border to occupy the pasture, raising cattle and sheep, and preparing to sell wool, sheepskin, and cowhide.
Every time these aristocratic families and landlords built a 10,000-acre pasture, they would set up a solid basin-shaped fortress, with wolf smoke on them, hundreds or even thousands of basins, like bamboo shoots after rain, and in a short time they stood on the grassland outside the frontier. There were nearly one million herders in these basins, all of whom were great men, and 200,000 string-controlling men were able to be organized. They were leaders of the Mozhou guerrilla corps and the construction corps outside the frontier. They rode and prepared for war while grazing. Since then, the Han forces began to break through the shackles of the Great Wall and extended unlimitedly to the depths of the grassland.
Under the protection of these forts, Lu Bu began to order Tian Yu, general of the Mozhou Guerrilla Corps, and Tian Choo, general of the Mozhou Construction Corps, to select dangerous locations to build a city, so as to gather the combat power of the surrounding forts and fight against foreign races such as the Xianbei in the West that have repeatedly invaded.
Once those aristocratic families and landlords find a place that can make more profits, their interest in annexing land will not be so strong, and the contradictions between the aristocratic families, landlords and the working people will gradually fade. The entire Han Dynasty was brought into a dream of a great Han Dynasty that was unprecedented and unprecedented. This dream was to make money from the whole world, enrich the people and strengthen the country, rather than letting the whole world make money from China. The Chinese had to have illusory dreams.
Although the aristocratic families and the cold landlords were encouraged to occupy the pastures outside the border, Lu Bu was worried about the destruction of the grasslands and the desertification of the pastures. Because sheep, especially goats, have great destruction on the grasslands, goats are more destructive to the grassland than twenty sheep, so he strictly restricts that each pasture can only grazed sheep and goats can only be raised in captivity. If that pasture dares to grazle goats, the contract rights of that pasture will be cancelled; and the number of sheep on each acre of grasslands is also strictly limited. Of course, in order to increase herdsmen's income, chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry can be raised on the pastures.
After those aristocratic families and Hanshu landlords knew that goats could be raised, they began to raise goats on a large scale in the mainland, which did not destroy vegetation, and greatly increased income without having to go to the grassland to take risks.
Just like 1800 years later, the country's largest animal husbandry province is not those with grasslands, but Qingzhou. Qingzhou's livestock stock exceeds 80 million heads, with an annual output value exceeding 60 billion yuan, while Mozhou's livestock stock is less than 80 million heads, with an annual output value of only more than 10 billion yuan; Qingzhou's cattle stock is 9 million heads and Mozhou's 4 million heads; Qingzhou's annual cattle slaughter is 9 million heads, and Mozhou's less than 1 million heads, but I haven't heard that Qingzhou has become the source of sandstorms, so captive raising will gradually replace free-range and become the mainstream of livestock industry. However, captive raising costs are much higher than stocking, which is only suitable for those who are unwilling to take risks outside the border. In order to control the grassland, Lu Bu did not actively support captive raising but encouraged the grasslands outside the border to stock.
Although various aristocratic families and Hanshu landlords are actively developing the wool textile industry and leather industry, they still cannot catch up with the overseas market in Shanghai. The domestic market is booming, so Lu Bu naturally launched the cotton textile industry.
All places suitable for growing cotton in Dahan have begun to actively grow cotton because the official cotton textile farms are purchasing cotton at large scale and at high prices, without Lu Bu's other policies. Just a news in Dahanri newspaper has made people who are eager to get rich and become rich in cotton.
Compared with the wool textile industry, the cotton textile industry itself has the characteristics of less investment, quick results, and high profits. Therefore, many small and medium-sized families who are unwilling to venture overseas or go to the grasslands outside the sea, while the Hanshu landlords actively set up cotton textile factories.
However, because these workshops are hand-woven fabrics, the efficiency is particularly low and cannot meet the needs of overseas and domestic trade.
Under Lu Bu's suggestion, Ma Jun applied some of the process principles and techniques in the clocks he invented before to a hand-woven fabric machine and invented a loom that was automatically shuttled, which was more than twice as efficient than the original loom. After the invention and widespread application of the shuttle, there was a shortage of cotton yarn. Five or six yarns for spinning a day can only provide one weaving for a day. Cotton yarn shortage and yarn shortage restricted the faster development of the textile industry.
Ma Jun and others were trying hard to think about how to improve the spinning machine. One day, while they were thinking hard, Lu Bu came to visit them and kicked the spinning machine in front of them overturned the spinning wheel to the ground, but the upright spindle and wheel were still rotating.
When Ma Jun saw the spinning machine in front of him, he suddenly thought that several spindles stood together. Can't they still be driven by one wheel? After repeated development, he finally designed and built a new spinning machine that can spin eight spinning spinning at the same time, which immediately increased the efficiency of spinning eight times compared to the original one. Ma Jun wanted to name this spinning machine by Lu Bu, but was rejected by Lu Bu because Lu Bu knew that the reason for this spinning machine was Jenny Spinning Machine. If it was strange to marry his name, he named the spinning machine Pegasus after Ma Jun's surname, which means it was as fast as a Pegasus.
Under the research of dozens of experts from the Ministry of Industry such as Ma Jun, the number of spindles of Pegasus spinning machines increased from eight to more than a dozen, and the spinning efficiency also increased to more than ten times. In this way, the yarn waste across the country has basically eased.
Ma Jun felt complacent at that time and stopped improving Pegasus spinning machinery.
Lu Bu reminded Ma Jun: "From the principle of the process, the spindle of the spindle of the spinning machine can continue to increase, but due to the limited manpower as the main power of the spinning machine, the improvement of the spinning machine is limited. Look at whether other power can be used to replace manpower."
Shortly after Ma Jun changed the water wheel, he invented a spinning machine powered by hydraulic power, and used hydraulic power to rotate the spinning wheel, and the efficiency of the spinning machine increased again.
Chapter completed!