Chapter 90 Textile Machines tending to be mechanized
Author: tree on tree
Chapter 90 Textile Machines tending to be mechanized
Now, Zhu Di became a little interested.
"Why, you still want to promote textile machines on a large scale in your Wanping County? Turn Wanping County into another Songjiang Prefecture?"
Guo Andao: "Your Highness is wise!"
Zhu Di's eyes widened, "You are so loud, do you know what a Songjiang Mansion means to me, the Ming Dynasty?"
Guo Andao: "Your Majesty knows."
Zhu Di took a deep breath, stared at Guo An closely for a long time, and asked again: "How sure are you?"
Guo An replied: "I don't know, but I will try my best!"
Zhu Di said: "Very good. On top of this, as long as you have anything you want, we will definitely satisfy you!"
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
Guo An's face lit up.
"Let's go, let's take you to see the textile loom!"
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
After leaving the side hall, Guo An followed Zhu Di around several side halls. As he walked, something became more and more strange. Looking at the figures appearing on the left and right, they were all the servants. Guo An finally remembered something, and his expression couldn't help but change.
"Your Highness, is this the inner court?"
"nature!"
Zhu Di kept walking.
"Your Highness, I am a foreign minister..."
Before Guo An could finish speaking, Zhu Di said coldly: "Then take care of your eyes!"
"Yes Yes……"
Guo An shuddered and immediately lowered his head tightly, not daring to look around.
After following Zhu Di to a side hall next to the main hall, Guo An felt relaxed.
However, he was soon shocked by the scene in front of him.
Several exquisite machines are placed directly in the middle of the side hall, occupying more than half of the side hall.
Only then did he understand why there was only such a textile machine in the Palace of Prince Yan in Beiping Mansion.
Because this is not one machine, but a set.
At this moment, there are several maids busy beside the machine.
Seeing Zhu Di coming in, he quickly stood up to greet him.
"See Your Highness!"
"Let's just come in and take a look, and you can go about your business!"
"Yes, Your Highness!"
All the maids responded in unison, took another curious look at Guo An next to Zhu Di, and then turned around to do their own work.
Zhu Di turned to look at Guo An: "This thing is a textile machine. You can observe whatever you want!"
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
Guo An thanked him and quickly stared around the loom to look at each one.
No wonder Huang Daopo, a woman, is famous all over the world with her textile looms.
In the cotton gin, a maid feeds the cotton, and two maids on the side shake the wooden handle. The seed cotton is crushed by two round wooden sticks. The cotton wadding and cotton seeds are quickly separated to both sides, which is fast and labor-saving.
The cotton elastic machine has a long bow and thick rope strings. It uses the cone of the rod to hit the strings hard, and the cotton suddenly becomes fluffy.
On a three-spindle spinning wheel, a maid can sit there and spin three cotton threads at the same time.
There was also a textile machine. A maid sat on one side, pedaling her feet and moving her hands back and forth. The cotton threads quickly turned into a piece of cotton in the hands of the maid.
Guo An couldn't help but exclaimed: "This is mechanized labor."
On the side, Zhu Di asked curiously: "What is mechanization?"
Guo An explained patiently: "Your Highness, mechanization means that all work uses machines. Just like the work done by these maids, machines can be used. Not only is it fast, but the work done is also good."
"Then what?"
"Then……"
Guo An was stunned, glanced at Zhu Di, and said slowly: "Your Highness, I want to improve these machines."
"Um?"
Zhu Di glanced at Guo An in surprise, "Do you know how to be a carpenter?"
Guo An quickly said: "Your Highness has misunderstood. Although I don't know how to be a carpenter, I can come up with ideas and trouble the carpenters in Your Highness' palace, just like in the iron smelting factory."
Zhu Di asked: "Then, do you want to do the textile machine business?"
Guo Andao: "Yes and no!"
Zhu Di asked: "What do you mean?"
Guo An replied: "Xiaguan wants to separate these machines so that one person can operate them. For example, one person can play cotton and one person can separate cotton seeds.
Then, sell these to the people of Wanping County."
Zhu Di's lips twitched slightly, he pointed at the machines and said to Guo An: "Do you know how much money it costs to buy one of these machines?"
Guo An smiled confidently, "Your Highness, no matter how high the price of these machines is, they are all made of wood, and the real cost price is not too high."
Zhu Di: "..."
He had never thought about this.
Guo An added: "Moreover, these machines are too huge, and I am not prepared to allow one family to afford them, as long as one family can afford one.
A village can assemble enough sets.
As long as they have slack time in farming, those peasant women can spin and weave at home."
Zhu Di's eyes lit up, "In this way, they can all use cotton cloth to pay taxes, and in this way, they can not only pay less taxes, but also save the court some trouble."
Guo An was startled, that's not what he meant. He just wanted those peasant women to weave their own cloth, then spin their own clothes and take the money they earned with them.
However, what Zhu Di said makes sense.
There is a big difference between paying taxes on cotton cloth and paying taxes on cotton.
"Your Highness is wise!"
Zhu Di was overjoyed. He felt that he had finally found some confidence in Guo An, the thief, and asked, "How many carpenters do you need?"
Guo An pondered for a moment and then said: "Ten!"
Zhu Di nodded in agreement without even thinking about it.
"Can!"
"what else do you want?"
Guo An raised his head and looked around, and asked a little embarrassedly: "Your Highness, can I do some research here?"
Zhu Di was stunned, "Research on these textile machines?"
Guo An nodded slightly: "Exactly!"
Then, after thinking for a while, he said: "If, if possible, I would also like your Highness to send a few carpenters to study it together with me!"
Zhu Di immediately looked at Guo An with a wary expression, "This textile machine was specially purchased by the princess. You don't want to dismantle it, do you?"
"Don't worry, Your Highness, how could a subordinate be so bold?"
Guo An shook his head repeatedly, and then after seeing Zhu Di still had a look of disbelief on his face, he slowly explained: "The official just wants to take a few carpenters to draw drawings, and then let the carpenters get familiar with these looms.
Then, when you go back, you can look at the drawings and make a set."
Zhu Di's expression relaxed, "I will send someone to call you a craftsman right now, and I will send you pen, ink, paper and inkstone."
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
Zhu Di nodded slightly and walked out.
Outside the courtyard, I found a familiar chamberlain, and after some explanations, I entered a large hall on the side.
"I have met His Highness!"
As Zhu Di walked into the hall, Princess Yan Xu Miaoyun quickly stood up to greet him.
"No gifts, no gifts."
Zhu Di quickly stepped forward and helped Xu Miaoyun up with a sneer on his face.
"Sister, are you waiting for us?"
"Your Highness brought a strange man into the harem, and even broke into my concubine's textile palace. I have to come and take a look."
"Hey, sister, I misunderstood. It's not that we have any objections to the Textile Palace. It's just that Guo An wants to take a look at the textile machine... It's that Guo An, the magistrate of Wanping County who is extremely good at arithmetic..."