After leaving Li Shimin's place, Chen Jingke went to the Li Zheng Hall as usual.
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the palace is very lively, with lanterns and colorful lights everywhere, making it very festive.
Xiao Sizi put on a red jacket skirt, which made her face look fairer and she looked more delicate.
But as soon as he saw his eldest grandson Wugu, he started to complain: "What the hell are you doing in the Wuwu class? Can't you make it through the New Year?"
Chen Jingke said with some guilt: "Come on, we've already had a holiday."
The eldest grandson Wugou said angrily: "Where's Qingque? Why didn't you go home to celebrate the New Year? He doesn't want me as a mother. Does he even want his wife and children?"
"His two children came over to me just now and asked me for it. What do you think I should do? Ah? You tell me."
Chen Jingke rolled his eyes and said angrily: "You Li Tai, you won't go home for the New Year. Don't worry, aunt, I will give him a good lesson when I get back and let him go home for the New Year."
Changsun Wugao stretched out his hand to hold his ears and said angrily: "Okay, are you being careful with me? Believe it or not, I will pluck your ears off."
Chen Jingke screamed: "Ah... little Sizi, please help me, your mother is going to pluck my ears off, and then I will become one ear."
Two years ago, little Sizi would have come to rescue him. Now that the little girl has grown up, she also knows that he is joking.
Not only did he not save me, he actually laughed happily on the sidelines.
Changsun Wugou naturally didn't know how to really twist his ears, so he just pretended to be fierce and said: "If you don't tell me, what the hell are you doing?"
Chen Jingke said quickly: "Tell me, can you let go of your hand first?"
Only then did Changsun Wuguo let go of his hand and said, "Be honest."
Chen Jingke hurriedly rubbed his ears, pretending to be in pain, and said: "Recently, the Gurwu class is researching a new machine. Once successful, it can increase the efficiency of weaving by more than ten times, or even dozens of times."
Changsun Wugou immediately became interested and said: "How is the research going now? How certain are you that it will be possible?"
Chen Jingke said: "To put it bluntly, this thing is not complicated. The difficult thing is how to make the entire machine operate in a coordinated manner. You only need to slowly adjust and modify it, and you can always figure it out."
Changsun Wugou said happily: "That's good. When the research is successful, I will also build a weaving workshop."
Chen Jingke did not refuse. Who has the strongest business strength in the world today?
There is only one answer: the eldest grandson of the Empress of the Tang Dynasty, Wugao.
If the profit from glass is excluded, the annual income of the imperial court is not as much as what she earns in a year.
Letting "big capital" like her participate in industrialization is the best way to promote new technologies.
There is no need to be afraid of her monopoly, she has a share in the world, no matter how monopolistic she is.
Moreover, she is no less ambitious than Li Shimin, and what she pursues is not immediate benefits, but fame.
She wants to be the number one queen in eternity.
So he said happily: "Even if you don't want to join, you have to participate whenever there is a new technology in the future. Help promote the new technology and let it be accepted by the world as soon as possible."
Changsun Wugou smiled and said, "Okay, I will become your pawn."
Chen Jingke yelled at Qu, "Don't your conscience hurt when you say this?"
Changsun Wugou laughed heartily and said, "It doesn't hurt, I'm very happy."
Chen Jingke rolled his eyes, and then said seriously: "When the new machine is developed, your textile factory can mainly deal in cotton and cashmere cloth."
Changsun Wugu naturally knew what he meant, which was that he hoped she could promote cotton and cashmere cloth.
Chen Jingke previously told her about the more uses of cotton and wool, and she has been working on research and development in this area for the past two years.
Cotton is relatively simple. Go to the southwest to buy cotton seeds and conduct trial planting in a small area in Guanzhong.
This year, the cotton planting area has reached more than 1,300 acres, but the land used is the royal estate and has not been promoted to the outside world.
The reason is very simple. As a cash crop, before a complete industrial chain is established, large-scale promotion will bring disaster to the country and the people.
It is also easy to apply. Cotton batting can be made into cotton clothes, and can be spun and weaved. Cotton seeds can be saved as seeds, oil can be extracted, and cotton cakes can be used as feed.
Part of the cotton produced in Huangzhuang was used to weave cloth, and part was made into winter clothes for the border troops, which was well received by the soldiers.
However, it will take a long time for the people to accept it.
Changsun Wugao said: "In this case, we need to plant more cotton this year."
Chen Jingke said: "Now that the task of grain production is gradually handed over to the south, cotton cultivation can be appropriately promoted in the north."
Changsun Wugou shook his head and said: "Don't be hasty, just do it step by step. When promoting new crops, if something goes wrong, it will cause local unrest."
Chen Jingke said: "We can first focus on promoting it in a certain county. If anyone is willing to plant it, we will give them food according to the yield per mu, but the cotton grown in the end will belong to the imperial court."
Changsun Wugou thought for a while and said: "It's not impossible. I believe many people will be very happy."
Of course I am happy to do so. Normal farming involves risks of various natural disasters, and we don’t know how much food we can produce.
Now the state distributes grain directly based on the yield per mu, eliminating all risks.
As for taking care of cotton...just take care of it, just like being hired to do work.
However, Chen Jingke still reminded: "If you really do this, you need to send someone to keep a close eye on it to prevent the people below from stealing food and harming the people."
Changsun Wugou said calmly: "It's just a matter like this. I'll personally keep an eye on it. If something happens again, how can I be the queen?"
Chen Jingke couldn't help but give a thumbs up, so domineering.
At this time, Changsun Wugu asked again: "Can wool also be spun?"
Chen Jingke affirmed: "It's definitely possible. The wool after degreasing is very suitable for spinning, and woolen cloth is warmer."
Changsun Wuguo nodded and said, "That's good. I'll have someone study it later."
The wool she got before was twisted into wool thread to knit sweaters, and she did not study weaving.
It's a pity that she has asthma and can't wear woolen products.
Not only she, but also her daughters and even Chen Jingke cannot wear woolen products.
Fortunately, with cotton-padded clothes, you can still feel warm and comfortable when wearing them.
After playing with Xiao Sizi in the palace for a while, Chen Jingke said goodbye and left.
He did not go back directly, but wandered on the street.
The New Year is coming soon, so it is naturally very lively, and the streets are full of pedestrians.
He just didn't know why, but he couldn't help but picture the slums in the south of the city in his mind.
I don’t know what it’s like there, but there’s a good chance it won’t be festive.
They are not eligible to enjoy it.
Even for them, celebrating the New Year is just like passing the test.
The New Year is approaching, and for the poor, celebrating the New Year is like passing a dangerous time.
In ancient times, people who borrowed money or owed debts would collect debts at the end of the year, either to pay back the money or to sell their children or daughters.
Or sign a new debt agreement and fall into the debt trap.
The so-called donkey rolling is to count the interest as the principal and continue to compound the interest, that is, the interest compounding, and in the end it will never be completed.
You may just take out a normal loan at the beginning, but if you can't pay it back when it's due, you'll have no choice but to live with it.
Then he was completely rolled to death by the donkey.
Are those in the slums in debt? There is no doubt about it.
The Chinese New Year is indeed a dangerous time for them, and I am afraid they are the ones who least want to celebrate the New Year.
Chen Jingke had no intention of giving them money. He would never be such a good person, and he couldn't help them.
But he won't sit idly by and has been thinking of ways these days.
Work-for-relief was the best way he came up with. For example, to build a railway, he was going to hire people from the slums to do the work.
Letting Taoists build workshops outside Chang'an City is also one of the steps. The workshops need workers and can provide them with a job.
Those who are unable to work are the ones in need of relief.
Of course, we don’t rule out the kind of people who like to eat but are too lazy to cook.
To such a person, Chen Jingke just wants to say that he deserves to die.
In order to help more people, he also developed a family workshop plan.
Let people in the slums do some relatively simple and highly repetitive tasks so that they can earn some wages.
For example, in spinning, the workshop makes hand-operated spinning wheels in batches and lends them to people in slums to let them spin flax.
Then the people in the workshop went to buy the spindles and took them back for weaving.
Cloth is money in this era. Whether it is sold internally or dumped externally, it is a basic commodity.
In the previous life, Britain and France relied on dumping cotton to harvest the world, but Datang could do better than them.
Of course, the ultimate goal of Datang was not to harvest the world, but to promote Chinese civilization and lead the world to prosperity, which was fundamentally different from European and American bandits.
In order to realize the dumping of cloth, the output must be increased and the cost must be reduced.
It is unrealistic to rely on family-style weaving in a family workshop. We must industrialize and use machines to replace labor.
This is why he asked Li Tai and others to study steam engine-powered looms.
He has never seen a steam loom, but he has seen an old-fashioned manual flying shuttle loom.
They were everywhere in the countryside when he was a child, and he even used them himself.
The steam loom was improved from the flying shuttle loom.
He had already told the people in the Gewu class about the shuttle loom and asked them to study the steam loom accordingly.
If you believe in the wisdom of the ancients, it won't be long before steam looms appear.
As for the legendary spinning jenny, he has no plans to build it yet.
He engaged in industrialization not to harvest wealth, but to create wealth and improve people's living standards.
Compared with the spinning jenny, the hand spinning machine can provide jobs for more people.
First, the spinning work is handed over to the people in the slums, and spindles can even be purchased from the private sector in large quantities to help the people generate income.
When their lives improve and they find new livelihoods, it will not be too late to build more advanced spinning machines.
The road must be walked step by step, and try to avoid the situation where the machine forces people to have no food to eat.
He didn't know what was going on at the seminar. Thinking of this, he had no intention of continuing shopping and hurried back to the temple.
All the way to the Gewu class, I found that everyone was discussing in front of a wooden loom.
Li Tai, who was talked about by Changsun Wugu just now, was among them, and Cheng Hualiang was also there.
It's not that Chen Jingke doesn't give everyone a winter vacation, but the way of studying in ancient times is different from that in modern times.
Modern transportation is developed, and everyone will be home in two or three days after the holidays, so winter and summer vacations are divided.
With the traffic situation like this in ancient times, a trip back from home would take a month or two, so frequent vacations made no sense.
If you are lucky enough to find a famous teacher when you go out to study, it is not unusual for you to go home once every year or two, and some may not even go back once for three to five years.
It’s not like the Gewu class doesn’t have annual holidays. Those who are close to home can go home to celebrate the New Year, while those who are far away from home will basically stay in Guanli to celebrate the New Year.
It’s just that science and engineering enthusiasts all know that once you become addicted to research, you will really forget to eat and sleep.
This is the first time they have independently studied a machine, and everyone is very active.
For this reason, several students who live in Guanzhong have given up going home to celebrate the New Year.
I'm afraid that after a new year, someone else will have developed the loom.
Chen Jingke stood here and looked at it for a while, then asked: "Where has the research reached now?"
Cheng Huailiang said proudly: "We have solved the problem of lifting the heald frame."
As he spoke, he directed two students to turn a wheel next to them, and they saw that the wheel drove a gear, and the gear drove a shaft to rotate.
The shaft drives the two poles to swing up and down, and the two heald frames connected below the two poles also swing up and down.
Chen Jingke praised: "Not bad, good, great progress. What are you going to do next?"
Cheng Huailiang said: "We are going to deal with the issue of the rotation frequency of the cloth rolling shaft, and we already have an idea."
At this time, Li Tai shook his head and said: "I suggest you put this problem aside and solve the problem of shuttle sliding first."
Cheng Huailiang said distressedly: "You have to modify the plan again... all the previous work was in vain."
The other students were similar and were dissatisfied with his unauthorized modification of the plan.
Normally, everyone would respect his status as King of Wei, but it was different when doing research. If they had any opinions, they would still attack him, but at most they would do so in a gentle manner.
Of course, everyone was worried at first and didn't dare to say anything. He specifically emphasized it and then helped everyone develop the habit.
At the time of research, there was no king of Wei, only companions.
Li Tai explained: "Because I just figured out that the frequency of the heald frame swing and the frequency of the shuttle flight are the most critical, and all other structures serve them."
"Only when these two problems are solved first can other structures be adjusted accordingly."
He explained it to the loom, and everyone suddenly understood and nodded in agreement with his idea.
Just when everyone was about to renegotiate, Chen Jingke interrupted them.
"Okay, okay, today's research ends here. The New Year is coming soon. Let's take a few days off. It's not too late to start research again after the New Year."
Everyone was in a mood, so naturally they didn't want to.
Cheng Huailiang said: "So many years have passed, and if one is missing, no one will die."
Zhao Youchang echoed: "Yes, yes, research on machines is not important."
Chen Jingke glared at them and said, "What nonsense? You don't care about the New Year, and your family doesn't care either?"
"And Zhao Youchang, you can't go home, and you don't plan to let others go home for the New Year, right? Be careful, I will send you back to your hometown now."
Zhao Youchang quickly laughed and said: "No, no, no, why don't you stop if I don't say it? Everyone, listen to the real person and go home to celebrate the New Year."
Chen Jingke said: "Don't worry, I will lock up this laboratory later. No one can enter before school starts. When school starts, everyone will study together."
Li Tai wanted to say something else, but Chen Jingke responded directly: "I just came out of the palace, and my aunt said, do you want a machine or a mother like her?"
One sentence made him shut his mouth immediately.
Then he said: "I'm leaving first." Then he turned around and left the laboratory.
Seeing that he was gone, the others didn't say anything and followed him.
Chen Jingke kept his word and locked the door to prevent anyone from sneaking in.
The New Year is coming soon, and other temples and temples have held water and land Dharma meetings, but only Zixiao Temple has done nothing.
However, Chen Jingke still made a batch of zodiac amulets as usual and distributed them to believers who came to offer incense for free.
As a result, this small amulet overwhelmed all land and water Dharma gatherings, making Zixiao Temple the first choice place for believers to offer incense.
Other colleagues are both envious and helpless.
There is no other way, who allows Zixiaoguan to have a living god sitting in charge.
