The height of the entire big spinning wheel is close to three meters, which is about the height of a floor in later generations. Even some buildings are short, and the floor of a floor is not as high as this.

The length has reached about nine meters, so it can be said that it is a real giant.

There is also a hand spinning wheel for reference next to the water spinning wheel. At this moment, the hand spinning wheel is set off by the water turning wheel as if it is a child's toy.

After turning the spinning wheel around the water, Liu Tan asked, "How is it? Have you tried it?"

Gong Shucan said very proudly: "Return to Your Highness, I have tried it, and I can bring up to thirty spindles at the same time!"

Liu Tan did some calculations, and the current hand spinning wheel only has three or four spindles at most, and the efficiency of turning the large spinning wheel with water at the same time is almost ten times that of the hand spinning wheel!

At the same time, there is another thing to pay attention to. When manpower is limited, people will always be tired, and ordinary women are not spinning all day long. They need to take care of their families, eat and sleep.

But the water-turned spinning wheel can work twelve hours a day without stopping, which is more than ten times more efficient!

While Liu Tan was calculating these, Gong Shucan asked someone to turn on the switch of the hydraulic drive, and the water turned the spinning wheel into motion in an instant.

Liu Tan watched the huge thing turn little by little, and the 32 spindles began to spin back and forth for weaving, his whole face flushed with excitement.

With this, he can hardly be restrained by manpower, as long as he has enough wool, he can weave non-stop!

Liu Tan turned his head and said to Gong Shucan: "Well done! But after this is done, the task is not fully completed, so you can change that hand spinning wheel into a pedal."

Compared with changing the hand-operated spinning wheel into a large water-turning spinning wheel, it is relatively easy to convert it into a pedal spinning wheel, and it may be easy for Gongshuchan.

After hearing this, Gong Shucan was stunned for a moment: "Your Highness thinks that the water-turning spinning wheel is too expensive, so you don't plan to promote it to the people?"

Liu Tan shook his head: "No, don't worry, even if I let the folks use the water-turning spinning wheel, they still can't afford it, and I really don't plan to let the folks use this thing."

There are a lot of things that need to be used to turn the spinning wheel with water. The first thing to consider is the hydraulic problem. Without hydraulic drive, it is impossible for this spinning wheel to start.

Of course, there must be a suitable place, but if that is the case, the human weaving will not have any advantage.

Liu Tan turned the water into a large spinning wheel because the manpower in the northern border country is not enough, but it is different in other places. If there is a huge impact on the manpower textile market, the most direct manifestation is that people's families will lose a source of income, or The women worked so hard to weave for a long time, but they couldn't compete with the things made by the water-turning spinning wheel.

That would have a great impact on people's livelihood, unless other places like the northern border country are really short of manpower, or women also have other things to do and don't need to rely on textiles to bring income to the family.

Therefore, Liu Tan does not plan to promote the water-turned spinning wheel in the short term. He only needs to establish a workshop in the northern border country, which can supply the wool products workshop of the entire Dahan.

This is a bit difficult, so Liu Tan decided not to make a fortune alone.

He turned his head and said to Miao Rui: "Go, invite Huo Xiang and the others, oh, has Sang Qian also come to deliver the case these two days? Let him come too."

Just at the end of the second quarter, Sang Qian needed to come over to submit various summaries, not only him, but basically all the county guards of the northern border country gathered in Shuofang City at this time.

It's just that the other county guards are obedient now, and their abilities are nothing, and Liu Tan doesn't like them very much, so he only called Sang Qian.

Not long after, Huo Guang and others arrived at Gongshucan's test site. When they came, they were wondering what their highness had done this time.

It was Huo Guang who guessed a little: "It must have something to do with wool."

Recently, Liu Tan has made people buy wool frantically, and it seems that there will be a big move.

Huo Guang and others thought of Liu Tan's research on the spinning wheel before, and they all had points in their hearts.

But when they got there, they realized that their previous mental preparations were still too conservative—they originally thought that Liu Tan had improved on the basis of the spinning wheel at most. Didn’t they just say that the efficiency of the spinning wheel was too low.

In the end, they never expected that His Royal Highness would actually make a giant monster!

The gigantic object was spinning little by little with the sound of running water, and this spinning wheel was continuously weaving linen with almost no need for any manpower.

Rao Huo Guang couldn't help being speechless for a while.

And Sang Qian's looking at the water spinning wheel is no different from watching fairy art.

Liu Tan looked at them all stunned, and his vanity was satisfied for a moment. He walked over with his hands behind his back and asked, "How is it? Is this spinning wheel powerful?"

Huo Guang came back to his senses and took a deep look at Liu Tan, and said sincerely, "It's very powerful."

Although he has never actually spun cloth, Huo Guang knows a lot about it. He has records of how much linen a person can weave in a day.

Even if he doesn't remember the numbers, he still knows the manpower, which is far inferior to the spinning speed of the behemoth in front of him.

That silly boy Wei Deng looked up for a while, and then sighed deeply: "I am stupid, how could His Highness weave it himself? Of course His Highness can use other powers to weave the wind and the rain."

Liu Tan: You are not smart now!

Wei Buyi saw that Liu Tan's expression was not very good, so he quickly kicked Wei Deng, kicked him aside and said, "Your Highness, calm down, this kid has been trained to be stupid recently, don't be as knowledgeable as him."

Liu Tan looked at Wei Deng and said deeply: "This incident...is also my fault. After all, I have been emphasizing the individual combat ability and physical strength of the elite regiment before, and I have forgotten that they need to cultivate their thinking mode. Stupid, my subordinates don't accept fools, it seems...it's time to give you a little more cultural lessons."

Caught off guard, Li Ling, who was caught off guard, couldn't help kicking Wei Deng: It's all your fault, what a fool to do in front of His Highness!

Wei Deng was also full of regrets. He clearly wanted to flatter Liu Tan just now, but the flattery turned out to be crooked for some reason.

In fact, Liu Tan didn't do it on a whim. He still hasn't forgotten what he told Huo Guang at the beginning. The elite regiments are trained according to the standards of officers. After they are trained and enter the army, they can directly bring 50, hundreds or even thousands of people. team.

In this way, even if it is to expand the army, it will be more confident. Before Liu Che asked Liu Tan why he didn't make a report on the increase of troops.

Liu Tan is now trying to avoid the limelight, but sooner or later he will increase his troops.

Wei Buyi glanced at his silly brother, but said nothing, reading more books is not a bad thing.

Huo Guang didn't pay attention to their farce, but asked: "Your Highness called us all over, must there be some business to discuss?"

Although Liu Tan likes to show off after finishing something, it depends on the situation. Usually, he will show off after it is completely finished.

According to the situation of the water-turned spinning wheel, he should just build the workshop directly, put ten or eight water-turned spinning wheels in it, and invite them to come and see it when the work starts, so as to shock them. Will show them as soon as it's done.

Liu Tan nodded, reached out and patted the spinning wheel and asked, "How is it? Are you interested in becoming a shareholder of the wool workshop?"

Everyone was a little surprised and looked at each other, Jiang Chong asked: "What does your Highness mean?"

Liu Tan said: "It's nothing interesting, I just want to supply wool products for the whole big man. I definitely can't do it alone. Even if I have money, I can't put all the money here, so after thinking about it, I had no choice but to drag you into the water."

Sang Qian had a good life recently, felt that the center's attitude towards him had somewhat changed, and dared to speak, and couldn't help asking at this time: "Even if we all open, it may not be able to supply, why doesn't your highness promote it?" To the people?"

After he finished speaking, he felt Huo Guang's gaze, and immediately began to think about whether he had made a mistake.

Liu Tan said with a smile: "Now is not the time, and other places may not have the right time and place like our northern border country. The most important thing is that although it is said to supply the entire big man, people who can actually afford wool products Not so much, most people still prefer other means of keeping warm."

The people present didn't understand why Liu Tan wanted to pull them into the shares and not promote it, but seeing that Huo Guang didn't object, they knew there must be a reason for it.

As a person who struggled all the way from the grassroots, Jiang Chong knew a little bit, so he simply responded: "Well, it just so happens that I don't have any other property in the northern border country except fields, so it's just right."

Wei Buyi saw that Huo Guang didn't object, and simply said: "The minister is also here."

The Wei and Huo families have reached a consensus that the wisdom of all of them may not be as good as that of Huo Guang, so except for the things ordered by the king of the northern border, Huo Guang will follow the lead in other less important matters.

Huo Guang took a deep look at Liu Tan and asked, "Having a water-turning spinning wheel is almost like adding wings to a tiger in wool spinning, but has your Highness ever thought that if there are not many people buying it?"

Liu Tan said: "No, my plan is to target different regions, and the production of woolen clothes is also different. For a place like Yan, which is bitterly cold, it must be thicker, and for places south of Chang'an, where it is warmer. , then it should be thinner, it’s really not good...we can still sell it to the Western Regions and the Huns.”

After hearing this, Huo Guang couldn't help admiring Liu Tan's brain. Buying wool from others and then selling wool products to them is not very harmful, but it is extremely insulting.

Liu Tan obviously also thought of this, smiled and said: "Science and technology are the primary productive forces, so what about their wool production? They don't have the corresponding technology."

Huo Guang glanced at the water turning spinning wheel and said: "Since this is the case, the next step is to start construction. Your Highness can think about other things."

Liu Tan was slightly taken aback: "Ah? What else?"

Huo Guang looked at Liu Tan and said, "Since your Highness knows that there is a shortage of manpower, you should also guess that as the autumn harvest approaches, there will not be enough manpower to harvest the crops. By then, many crops may miss the best harvest time."

Liu Tan was surprised when he heard this: "What's the situation? Why is there not enough manpower for the autumn harvest? Where did everyone go?"

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