"We don't understand," Zhu Yuanzhang looked around, shook his head, and continued,
"We know that Huang Daopo is good at weaving. Not long ago, there was a textile craze in Jiangnan.
But we can understand Huang Daopo's thing. At least, the things he produced are indeed different.
But here, we can’t understand it anymore. "
Not only Lao Zhu, but also Ma Shi who was sitting in front of the loom, Zhu Quan who was lying on the loom, and even Yang Rong, an official from the Ministry of Industry who turned the loom upside down with his own hands, basically didn't understand.
The main thing is that the design of this thing is so simple that anyone with some carpentry skills can make it.
However, such a simple thing produced benefits that Zhu Yuanzhang could not even imagine.
Zhu Xiongying snickered to himself. It was basically impossible to see his grandfather looking so confused. Xiao Xiao Zhu did not rush to explain, but stood aside, preparing to continue admiring his grandfather's expression for a while.
The Huang Daopo mentioned by my grandfather was a female weaver in the Yuan Dynasty. It is said that she learned the textile technology passed down from generation to generation by Yashan women in the Yashan area. Huang Daopo promoted this textile technology to the entire Jiangnan region, setting off a cotton revolution.
But it is a pity that even if textile technology has changed, it is still done by small households and has not formed large-scale factory production. The scale has always been that of a small family workshop.
Huang Daopo's textile technology reform was an important node in the Yuan Dynasty and an important node in the Chinese nation.
For example, the primitive accumulation of capitalism discussed in textbooks can actually start as early as the Yuan Dynasty.
"Eldest grandson?"
Zhu Yuanzhang cast a help-seeking look at his eldest grandson.
"Oh, grandpa~"
"Grandson, can you tell us what this thing is about? This thing looks too simple, and we don't dare to use it!"
Ma also nodded in agreement, with a hint of fear on his face.
In the past, this textile machine completely overturned Ma's three views.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma are noble emperors and empresses, their thoughts still remain on the thinking of small peasant families where men farm and women weave.
What are the most distinctive characteristics of small farming families?
How much you pay, how much you gain.
If you want to say that this textile machine can double or triple the output, then Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma will definitely be ecstatic.
But the eight to nine times the output really frightened the two elders. They thought it was some evil magic trick.
Zhu Xiongying walked to the textile machine and looked at it carefully. His textile machine was made by a small-time worker, but every detail in it was basically impeccable.
Don't think that an ordinary day laborer can't do this. Anyone who has seen the fabrics sold overseas in ancient times will be shocked. It's hard to imagine that such exquisite fabrics are made by hand.
Compared with the complicated and exquisite fabrics, under the skillful hands of the Chinese people, this textile machine is really nothing.
"Grandpa, grandma, look."
Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma quickly followed the eldest grandson's hand and looked over. Not only the two elders, Zhu Quan and Yang Rong also followed him with curiosity.
"In a normal loom, the shuttle enters sideways, right? What if this loom is turned upside down?"
Yang Ronggang wanted to follow His Majesty's words and turned his head to look over, only to hear a thud.
His Majesty actually picked up the loom and turned it sideways in order to let everyone see it clearly.
Zhu Xiongying: upside down (physics)
Yang Rong opened his mouth wide! Eyes full of horror! Where has he seen this posture before? !
It took four palace guards to carry this textile machine from the Ministry of Works to the palace, groaning and panting.
But, cocoa, cocoa, His Majesty was hugged by himself? !
And looking at His Majesty's expression, his face is not red and he is not out of breath, he is no different from lifting a small flower pot!
What kind of divine power is this? !
Yang Rong suddenly thought of something and immediately turned to look at the Supreme Emperor and Supreme Queen.
I saw these two people looking at the loom that His Majesty picked up wholeheartedly, but they didn't focus on one question: Why can Your Majesty pick up such a heavy loom?
Yang Rong looked at His Highness Seventeenth again and saw that His Highness Seventeenth was also like this.
It seems that in their eyes, His Majesty's operations are all routine.
Yang Rong was completely stunned. This scene was too weird. Was it just me who discovered something was wrong?
"What are you doing here?" Zhu Yuanzhang noticed something was wrong with Yang Rong and asked with a frown.
"This, Your Majesty, then..." Yang Rong didn't know what to say for a moment.
"What is this and that? Hurry up and read, hurry up and learn. Your Ministry of Industry has not figured it out, so why don't you hurry up?!"
Zhu Yuanzhang scolded Yang Rong, and then quickly looked back at his eldest grandson, for fear of missing some important knowledge.
Yang Rong: "..."
"Grandpa, grandma, Uncle Seventeen, look, what's the difference after this loom is turned sideways?"
Ma said, "Xiongying, when you turn it sideways, it seems to be no different from an ordinary loom. It's like eight or nine looms turned upside down at the same time."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and agreed, "That's what we think."
Zhu Xiongying smiled and said, "Yes, it's actually nothing complicated. It's just an ordinary loom turned upside down."
Zhu Xiongying gently put the dead loom back on the ground and casually patted the dust on his hands.
"My eldest nephew, is it that simple?" Zhu Quan's face was filled with disbelief.
"It's that simple."
Zhu Xiongying smiled.
"Uncle Seventeen, why can't it be so simple?"
Zhu Quan was stunned by the question, hesitated for a while and replied, "My nephew, I always feel that such a good thing is so simple...isn't it a bit unreasonable?"
"What's unreasonable about this? Changes that often affect the times are not that complicated. It's just a spark of thinking.
Let’s just talk about the initial plowing with iron plows and oxen. Now it seems that there is anything complicated about it? But it just so happened that it was a time-breaking discovery at that time.
The curved shaft plow, the Shirota method, the keel rollover... In our opinion, these inventions at the juncture of the times can be made by any craftsman.
But the hardest thing is how to go from zero to one. "
When Zhu Yuanzhang and others heard this, their eyes showed deep thought.
Zhu Xiongying smiled and continued, "Uncle Seventeen, it is really unreasonable for you to think that this thing is so simple and the rewards are so huge.
However, in my opinion, we have paid enough,
This loom is basically the same as the loom used in the Han Dynasty. In other words, our textile tools have been discontinued for hundreds of years.
Do you think it’s a small price we pay to spend hundreds of years of shutdown in exchange for such an efficient textile machine? "
Zhu Quan's eyes flashed with confusion, he shook his head, looked at his eldest nephew and said seriously,
"You're really young."
