Zhao Bing is actually the same as Chen Dun's words for textiles. He also doesn't know how these equipments spin silk and linen into threads and weave cloth. However, there are also weaving and embroidery workshops in the palace who specialize in serving the royal family and provide some special items. So he asked Wang De to invite several weaving girls to demonstrate on the spot how to spin and weave cloth, so as to combine the sense with his own imagination.

Several weaver girls stood up spinning wheels and looms in the warm cabinet to perform. They were all a little nervous. They didn't know why the little emperor watched his performance, and even thought he had some quirks. But Zhao Bing didn't care about their feelings. He carefully observed their movements in the sound of the spinning wheels and the sound of the looms that were "buzzing...".

Zhao Bing graduated from engineering in his previous life and had rich practical experience. Looms and spinning wheels are much simpler than complex modern machinery, and they quickly understood their working principles and operating methods. However, he did not immediately stop the Weaver Girls, but asked them from time to time why they operated like this, and what was inconvenient, and even started to operate them in person under their guidance.

The emperor's "care" made the Weaver Girls slowly relax their nerves from their initial horror and their emotions eased. Seeing him clumsyly operating the spinning wheel and the loom, he would have laughed out loud if it weren't for Wang De, but he would still answer the emperor's questions one by one. Finally, Zhao Bing asked someone to take cotton to spin thread and weave cloth, experience the differences, and express his feelings.

Zhao Bing exchanged textile experience with several Weaver Girls for a day. Not only did they give food, but each of them gave them ten coins before sending them back. However, rumors of the officials and Weaver Girls 'hang out' in the warm pavilion were rumored in the palace, which made the queen very angry. She even cried in front of the empress dowager, saying that she wanted to punish several Weaver Girls who were promiscuous in the harem to rule the palace.

The Empress Dowager could issue an imperial edict to the emperor to come to see him. When Zhao Bing, who was confused, arrived, he was really amused and crying after hearing their accusations. After a good explanation, the Empress Dowager realized that he was not a fool, but just wanted to figure out how the thread was spinned and how it weave it into cloth, and there was no other intention. The Empress Dowager naturally knew the emperor's childhood problems, and of course he also smiled and taught him a few words of lessons, asking him to focus on national affairs and stop doing these ridiculous things.

Zhao Bing was scolded for nothing, feeling very frustrated. He was obviously doing something that was a great thing that was at that time and profitable for a long time, but how could it be absurd? In addition to his anger, he ordered a strict investigation of who was spreading rumors to him. Wang De quickly found out two palace maids, both of whom were from the Queen's harem. He heard that His Majesty ordered several weaver girls to enter the palace and stayed in the warm pavilion for a day. Then he added his imagination to inform the queen, causing trouble.

This matter seems to have been a gossip of two palace maids at the beginning, but Zhao Bing saw that the matter was not simple. It is very likely that the queen was sending someone to monitor him. He knew that several male men were added in the palace, which made the queen feel a sense of crisis. He also had a tense relationship with the queen recently, and he was worried that his son's position as the prince would be affected.

Zhao Bing secretly asked someone to investigate again. If the matter was as he thought, the people in the queen's harem were very concerned about their own movements and behaviors. Of course, this can be understood as the queen's concern for him, or it can be said that he was too sensitive to monitor himself secretly. He was a little angry, but he still suppressed his anger and ordered two palace maids to be driven out of the palace to make adjustments to the personnel of each palace while taking advantage of the year's end and the palace maids were released outside the palace.

However, Zhao Bing did not affect his plan because of this little episode. First, he asked the craftsmen of the craftsman to make a "fly shuttle" according to their own design, transformed the loom, and sent it to the weaving workshop for trial. In a few days, news came back, and the efficiency of weaving was greatly improved, and one loom could be operated by one person, which also saved manpower.

Then, Zhao Bing asked the craftsmen to create the "Jenny Spinning Machine" based on the sketches he drew. Considering that this is more complicated than the shuttle, he only asked them to first build the most basic eight-axis spinning machine, then gradually increase the number of axes, and finally make a water conservancy spinning machine. He thought the imitation process would take some time, or would there be some technical problems in the middle that would need to be solved.

But what surprised Zhao Bing was that just five days later, the new-style spinning machine was built. After looking at it, he found that not only had fully met his design requirements, but also made improvements to some unreasonable areas, which should have been considered to have exceeded the task. However, when he asked several craftsmen about the working principle of the loom, they looked confused and couldn't figure out why they did this. The improvements to the design were only based on past experience and thought that this was more reasonable.

The surprise suddenly turned into helplessness. After Zhao Bing praised several craftsmen, he couldn't help but fall into contemplation. China is a world-recognized ancient cultural country, and its achievements in ancient science and technology were far ahead of countries around the world. This is the pride of our people. However, by the Ming and Qing dynasties, my country gradually shifted from advanced to backward, and when modern natural science was born and developed rapidly after the Western Renaissance, my country was still in the theoretical stage of ancient traditional science.

After the Western Industrial Revolution, large machines were widely used to produce and use steam as power, and the world began to enter the "steam era", but China was still basically in the stage of using hand tools to produce, followed by a century-long technological backwardness. Zhao Bing knew the reasons for this situation. In the early 18th century, the Qing Dynasty implemented a series of basic national policies such as closing the country and cultural autocracy, which hindered the development of science and technology and made science and technology fall behind in all respects.

In the eyes of the world, the Song Dynasty was not only the most prosperous period of economy, but also a period of rapid technological development. Zhao Bing came to this world and made many "new tricks", which can be said to be the leader of contemporary technology. But he also saw many discordant phenomena. Agricultural technology was mostly from producers such as "old farmers", and medical technology was mostly from the hands of "old Chinese medicine doctors" or secret recipes passed down by ancestral sources.

These phenomena show that the lack of rational thinking in the development of science and technology at this time cannot be from one to the other, from the outside to the inside, and it is difficult to promote science to a deeper and more recent field. It also made Zhao Bing realize that the traditional science of this era is strictly empirical science, describing science, which is mainly manifested in recording the rich experience of human beings' long-term struggle with nature, and gradually systematically after accumulation and sorting.

In general, the development of science and technology is still in the stage of describing various phenomena in nature, that is, the sensual stage of cognition, and has not yet risen to the rational stage. Modern science combines systematic observation and experiments with a rigorous logical system to form a systematic scientific theory based on experimental facts. In other words, traditional Chinese science and technology pays more attention to experience, but lacks the spirit of modern Western science and technology pays more attention to experiments.

The advantage of Western modern science attaching importance to experiments is that it can inspire people to boldly imagine, and verify people's ideas through experiments, explore one unknown field after another, and promote science to continue to advance to a deeper and more recent field. The Western nation has elevated the practice of analysis to the height of scientific methodology and clarified it, thus providing effective methods and clear directions for modern scientific theories, so that the major disciplines of modern science can continue to deepen their branches in analysis.

However, traditional Chinese science and technology are good at comprehensively observing phenomena and directly conducting a comprehensive theoretical synthesis from these phenomena. As for the specific analysis of each part through experiments and revealing the mechanism behind the phenomenon, it is very weak. It only talks about the truth and does not talk about the reason. It lacks the discussion of "breaking the pot and asking the end" and only focuses on comprehensive view.

What touched Zhao Bing was not only those craftsmen who had just made the spinning machinery, but also astronomy. In ancient China, it was valued by rulers since the Xia Dynasty and became the country's top confidential major. The reason was that astronomy was directly related to the country's economic lifeline - agriculture, and it was also because the emperor claimed to be the emperor, responded to the celestial phenomena, predicted personnel affairs with the celestial phenomena, and implemented administrative orders with the will of heaven, and regarded the appearance of solar eclipses, comets, etc. as a sign of disasters.

Therefore, in ancient times, the observation of astronomical phenomena was detailed and systematic, and extremely rich and complete astronomical records were accumulated, but these data were rarely analyzed in depth to explore the laws. my country was the first country to discover Halley's comet. It recorded thirty times from the Spring and Autumn Period to the end of the Qing Dynasty, but no one has ever analyzed and studied it to explore the average occurrence period.

Gunpowder is another clear proof. Zhao Bing's arrival has made "improved" the current gunpowder formula like a Chinese medicine shop, improving the power of gunpowder. However, over the past decade, from asking someone why the power of gunpowder will increase after such changes, what role does saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal play in it, and why ingredients of different purity produce different effects, but never thoroughly studied and analyzed the principles of chemical reactions. They just performed mechanically according to the formula. The final result is likely to be difficult to achieve a qualitative breakthrough in military technology, and in modern times, they learned Western military technology.

In the West, the British Halley discovered the law of the emergence of comets in modern times, and the star was named Halley's Comet. Similarly, metallurgical technology was developed under the guidance of its metallurgical theory, thus laying the foundation of experimental metallurgy; the scientific combustion theory revealed the essence of the oxidation and reduction process of metallurgical technology, especially after the use of phase diagrams, it pointed out the direction for the development of metallurgical technology.
Chapter completed!