It was noon after leaving Ruyi Palace.

Strolling to the Baiyu Bridge on the Wangfu pond, Liu Jun stopped and watched the carp swimming leisurely inside.

"Gong Ming's craftsmanship department is forging a mass grenade gun, and Xue Changqing is training troops according to the infantry training rules. However, even if Gao Hongyun can borrow 100,000 taels of silver, it is unsustainable. We still have to find a way to make money..."

Liu Jun murmured to himself that he was idle anyway, so Jenny's spinning machine was about to start immediately.

in addition……

Thinking of something, Liu Jun slapped his head and almost forgot that he had a treasure trove.

Don’t Gao Hongyun say that there are no specialties in Jingzhou?

There are a lot of grain, corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes stored in the base.

In the little prince's memory, he had never seen these things.

This may be because the Darong Dynasty did not exist, or because the ancient news was blocked, it had not yet been introduced from the south to the north.

However, even if Darong Dynasty had it, he still had an advantage. Modern grains can be selected for high-quality products.

Thinking of this, he felt that the land in the royal palace had a place to be used.

It is May, and according to the month of crop cultivation, potatoes will be in October, sweet potatoes and corn in mid-May.

In this way, he can first plant sweet potatoes and corn, but sweet potatoes still need to be cultivated. Now it is too late, and corn is much simpler. Just throw the seeds directly, and you can plant them now.

"corn."

Liu Jun smiled foolishly, Jingzhou also had its own specialties.

"Prince..."

Hu Wei, who was standing beside him, was very scared, afraid that the little prince would have sequelae.

Realizing that he was laughing too wildly, Liu Jun put away his smile, "I am not sick, go and find a few capable carpenters to do something big," he said.

"Yes, Prince." Hu Wei breathed a sigh of relief, smiled a little, and trotted.

...

"Borrow money?"

In the government office, officials looked at each other.

After Gao Hongyun came back, he talked about Liu Jun's loan of money.

"How much money does the prince have to borrow in total?" asked an official.

Gao Hongyun's index fingers crossed his left and right hands, "One hundred thousand taels, the prince said that he would see the silver tomorrow."

"One hundred thousand taels? Not much, we got together and came out."

He was wearing a red official robe and a big belly spread his hands to everyone.

"Idiots, you guys have raised so much money. Didn't this tell him the treasury's money and the military pay of the border army have made you much more greedy?" Gao Hong shook his long sleeves angrily.

The reason why these officials followed him was because of their greed and he kept turning a blind eye to them.

Only after feeding them can they be willing to do things for themselves.

So, he knew very well that they were all fat.

"Why don't you lend me?" Everyone looked dilemma.

"It's not OK to borrow it. I promised Prince Jing. If I can't do it and make him angry, it will be hard for anyone to live."

Gao Hongyun frowned. It would take time for him to transfer people into the army to win over generals and soldiers.

Although he has the right to mobilize troops, he really mobilized troops to do things that were unfavorable to Jingzhou, and it is still unclear whether the soldiers would follow him.

It is precisely because of this that he wants to stabilize Liu Jun so as not to lose favor.

"The officials of the four governments, from the minor officials to me, there are at least two thousand people. You can quickly send someone to inform them, so that they can borrow as much as they can. If they are not enough, you can make up for it. When he sees such a long list, he will be too lazy to check who has borrowed how much money he has borrowed."

Gao Hongyun said.

Everyone nodded after hearing this, showing a look of relief.

Here, Hu Wei went to the craftsmanship department and brought back an old, two young and three carpenters.

Liu Jun lay on a rocking chair, waiting in the open space in front of the bedroom, and flipping through the technical drawings.

"Your Highness, Chief Gong said that the three of them have the best skills."

Hu Wei wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Small people, please see the prince."

When the three craftsmen saw Liu Jun a little embarrassed, they looked at each other, and the old man was about to kneel down and salute.

"Forgive."

Liu Jun instinctively stood up to support the old man, and the thoughts brought by modern times also dominated his behavior.

Subconsciously, he thought he could not bear such a great gift.

But he didn't expect that his action seemed to calm the whole world.

All the three craftsmen looked flattered, and Hu Wei's eyes were filled with relief and admiration.

The servants and maids passing by were stunned.

"Ahem, the King of Japan has something important to you today. Can you create this thing?"

Liu Jun took out the drawings to break the embarrassment.

"This seems to be a hand-rotating spinning wheel, but why is the spindle standing up?"

The old man is experienced and basically one farmer in the hand-crank spinning wheel township. He has made many of them and can generally see some shadows.

"It's indeed a hand-spinning wheel." Liu Jun nodded, and it appeared in the contemporary Warring States Period.

This spinning tool consisting of wooden frames, spindles, rope wheels and handles is simple to construct and is also everywhere in Darong Kingdom.

After pausing, he continued, "But this thing is a little more complicated than a hand-spinning wheel, look at it."

While saying that Liu Jun spread the drawings on the ground, the old man and the two young men squatted down.

Compared to a simple hand-rotating spinning wheel, the Jenny-style spinning machine is more like a bed frame.

The end of the bed is a vertical spindle, and a shaking wheel is installed on the side of the bed.

The reason why this kind of textile machine is more efficient than traditional spinning wheels is that the inventor erected the spindles that were originally horizontally on the spinning wheel.

In this way, shaking the handle can drive multiple spindles to rotate and continuously spin cotton into yarn.

At the beginning, this new spinning wheel had eight spindles. After continuous improvement, it could even be equipped with eighty spindles, which increased the efficiency by more than eighty times.

In ancient times, spinning was more difficult than weaving, and it was often necessary for three people to spin yarn to provide one person with weaving.

Therefore, when this kind of spinning wheel appeared, the weaving efficiency was greatly improved, and the produced cloth had a competitive advantage in price.

Later, the advantages of this spinning wheel were even more obvious when it used hydraulic and steam power.

According to the summary of contemporary anthropologists, the emergence of this new spinning wheel was the wire of the first industrial revolution of mankind.

"Although the structure is a bit complicated, it should be able to be made." The old man pondered.

"If you can do it in four days, I will reward you with ten taels of silver." Liu Jun was in a good mood after hearing this.

The Jenny-style spinning machine is not complex in structure, and it does not have difficult parts, and it can be completely made of wood.

Darongchao's industrial capacity is basically zero, but he believes that the craftsmanship of Darongchao's carpenters is beyond anyone.

We can't get out the steel parts, so we can always use them together.

After all, this is not a musket, so you need to worry about the blow-off. Besides, manual hand-cranking, the movement is already gentle and the wood is enough.

"Ten taels..."

The old man remained silent, but the two young men were a little excited.
Chapter completed!