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After five years of development, Luanzhou has become the most vibrant industrial center in the entire empire.

In Luanzhou, there are both steel mills and satin steel mills, as well as nearby gunpowder bureaus, gun manufacturing plants, cement plants, and weaving factories.

It is worth mentioning that Davis, a weaving craftsman invited from England, invented the "Jenny Machine" hand spinning machine.

Inspiration comes by chance.

When Davis came home that night, he accidentally kicked over the spinning machine his wife was using.At that time, his first reaction was to straighten the spinning machine quickly.But when he bent down, he suddenly froze. It turned out that he saw that the spinning machine that had been kicked down was still spinning, but the spindles that had been horizontal had become upright.

He suddenly thought: If several spindles are arranged vertically and driven by a spinning wheel, wouldn't it be possible to spin more yarn at once?

Davis was very excited and tried it right away. The next day he created a new spinning machine that used one spinning wheel to drive eight vertical spindles, and the efficiency was increased eight times at once.This is the earliest multi-spindle hand spinning machine, equipped with 8 spindles, feeding fiber slivers with rollers, suitable for cotton, wool and hemp fiber spinning.

It was named Spinning Jenny because Davis's daughter was named Jenny.

After Yuzhu heard the news, he took the case on the spot and not only immediately rewarded Davis with [-] pounds, but also paid another [-] pounds to buy his technology patent rights.

What is the concept of thirty-five thousand pounds?
In this era, the top ten richest people in the UK.

The machine has been invented, and Yuzhu can take the spinning jenny for himself without spending a penny.

However, it is definitely impossible for Yuzhu to do the stupid thing of killing a chicken and taking eggs.

It is human nature to pursue fame and fortune.

Davis's sudden wealth told all the British engineers and scientists that the eastern power really has technological gold mines to dig.

More importantly, Yuzhu knew very well that, unlike military heavy industry, spinning machine belongs to light industry and textile industry.

In the previous textbooks, when talking about world history, they described the "enclosure movement" of sheep eating people in a huge space.

In this era, due to the flying shuttle technology invented by mechanical worker Kay, the productivity of weaving machinery has been greatly improved.

However, the cotton yarn needed for weaving is still slowly spun by the spinning wheels of many cottage industries.Therefore, cotton yarn is in short supply and the purchase price is relatively high.

The invention of "Jenny Machine" has greatly improved the productivity of cotton yarn.

Brothers who have watched the old TV series Da Dyefang must know that the reason why foreign cloth overwhelmed homemade cloth was due to the great increase in production efficiency, which resulted in the cost of foreign cloth being much lower than that of native cotton cloth.

In today's Chinese Empire, there are at least hundreds of millions of sheep in the Mongolian region, and there are both mulberry and hemp in the Jiangnan region.

More importantly, the Western Regions is a natural high-yielding area for cotton due to long sunshine hours and drought.

Due to the excavation of the artificial canal, it is only necessary to process cotton into cotton cloth on the spot in the Aksu area of ​​the Western Regions, and then transport the cotton cloth by land to Dunhuang, and then transport it by water to the eastern region.

In the vast Western Regions, cotton is grown in Aksu, grain is grown in places with sufficient water sources, and sheep are raised in places with insufficient water sources, which can form a continuous economic endogenous virtuous circle.

The grain is eaten by oneself, the cotton is woven into cotton cloth, and the output that the merchants cannot eat is all purchased by the imperial court and resold to the central and western regions.

In exchange for salt, silver and various advanced ironware from the central and western regions, after a long time, the livelihood problems of the immigrants from the Western Regions were solved.

As for the eastern region, it is common to grow mulberry, weave hemp and raise silkworms, which provides the basis for large-scale production of linen and silk.

Hey, what does this mean?
In Sino-European trade, in addition to traditional tea, porcelain and silk, cotton cloth and linen can also be dumped.

Cotton and linen are necessities of life. As long as the price is low enough, the tens of millions of people in Southeast Asia will be a godsend market!
After all, the [-] pounds that Yu Zhu paid out, although it was an unprecedented sum of money, was absolutely worth it.

Moreover, Davis, who has money, can continue to invent and create spinning machines with dozens or even hundreds of spindles.

A technology that cannot make money with money is a bottomless pit that consumes resources.

With a swipe of Yuzhu's pen, he recruited skilled craftsmen and built six modern handloom factories in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Dagukou, Quanzhou and Guangzhou at the same time.

The old memory of history, after the reform and opening up, the first enterprises with the ability to earn foreign exchange through export are state-owned textile enterprises.

Light industry makes money, heavy industry protects the country, grasping with both hands, both hands must be hard.

Three years later, when Yuzhu was making a lot of money, Davis invented a spinning machine with 64 spindles.

This time, Davis, who had money in his pocket, refused to sell the patented technology to Yuzhu. He paid his own money to build a spinning mill with more advanced technology.

Yuzhu did not use his power to destroy his credit and snatch Davis' technological achievements.

Instead, he issued a deadly order for technical research, and must develop a spinning machine with more than 100 spindles.

Under the market economy, other people's technology is much more advanced than yours, and your factory should go bankrupt if it fails to achieve breakthroughs.

Companies that are clearly losing money and are still unwilling to go bankrupt are not spending their own money.

What Yuzhu didn't expect was that he spent a lot of money, but the speed of technological progress was extremely slow.

Instead, a spinner in Suzhou took the lead in inventing the 100-spindle spinning machine.

Almost overnight, Suzhou's private textile industry made great progress.

Soon, Yuzhu's Suzhou and Hangzhou spinning mills were overwhelmed.

After learning the news, instead of being angry, Yuzhu was very happy.

He invests in the industry, but when others don't understand and dare not do it, he plays the role of leading the way to make money first.

These days, as long as the market is relatively fair, where there are huge profits, there will be businessmen investing in it.

Along with the success of commercial technology, the number of offices around Yuzhu also increased to eleven.

The nine grown-up princes and the emperor's two younger brothers each have an office.

Everyone learns to deal with government affairs step by step. The young ones start from reading memorials at the county level, and gradually increase to learn to understand memorials at the state level, government level, and even provincial level.

There must be competition and a sense of pressure, otherwise, how can the survival of the fittest be possible?
When going out, Yuzhu looked at the two small offices that were still brightly lit, he couldn't help but smile, there are people following him!
Little Iron Hammer, Xiao Xuanyu, don't blame your father for being cruel and forcing you to compete.

If the successor is not good enough for such a huge empire, it will still not be able to jump out of the dynastic cycle rate mentioned by Huang Yanpei.

The most typical example is the German throne. After William I passed to Wilhelm II, major mistakes have occurred in foreign policy.

William II's diplomatic mistakes led to serious consequences. The traditional naval overlord and the two powerful French geese on the European land became allies.

If you make a mistake, you will lose everything!