Chapter 1582 Cotton Spinning Industry
The implementation of the new calendar was not only for newspapers to vigorously promote it, in order to enhance the people's interest and awareness of the new calendar, Chen Xu Rang Shui Qingrou and a group of teachers and students who were proficient in art and painting at the Women's College organized a calendar design group, which specially painted hundreds of pictures of different types and styles, and then designed ten different types of calendars and small desk calendars according to different styles.
There is no big difference between these calendar calendars and calendars in later generations. The pictures are accompanied by separate calendars for each month, and twelve pictures form a book.
There are magnificent mountains and rivers with the themes of the Great Wall, Taiyi Mountain, Weihe Two Bridges, Xianyang City, Dongfang Road, etc.
There is an industrial prosperity chapter with the themes of sailing boats, water wheels, factories, wharves, buses, harbors, etc.
There are animal chapters with the themes of animals such as horses, pandas, tigers, elephants, and rhinos.
There are also picture albums with different themes such as flowers, birds, insects and fish.
However, the most popular thing is the set of twelve ceremonies pictures drawn by Shui Qingrou personally. Based on Lin Xianer and twelve red ceremonies as prototypes, there are different styles such as singing, dancing, playing the piano and taking a spring or even taking a bath. These pictures are drawn under the guidance of Chen Xu. They are carved with strokes and strokes, and are charming with every frown and smile. They are shy and timid, with long thighs, snow-white skin, plump breasts, and faint jade buttocks. As soon as these pictures came out, they immediately caused a sensation in the Women's College. Even Shui Qingrou did not dare to show up for several days after painting, and felt ashamed. She was a Taoist disciple who was pure and desireless and indifferent, but was actually seduced by her husband to become an ordinary woman who likes to draw such gorgeous and explicit erotic pictures.
But when the husband likes this kind of painting, he asked Lin Xianer and several other models to pose in various attractive positions. Seeing that the husband likes it, he even drools. So the water softly can only draw more attentively. Moreover, he has never understood and understood the husband's requirement that some special parts be bigger or bigger.
It was not very big, so why did he ask for such an exaggerated painting? After these paintings were drawn, Shui Qingrou couldn't believe that they were drawn by himself. The area that was about to emerge was so straight and full that made people blush and pound.
Such an exaggerated technique does not seem so resistant, but rather has a visual impact that is stunning and unforgettable.
As for the other accessories and dresses on these courtesan pictures, the fewer the better, so that more people can compete to watch and buy. This is what Chen Xu said. Shui Qingrou naturally could only do it accordingly, so the Qin Dynasty was the most erotic and praised by later generations as the irrelevant king of the calendar.
This special calendar finally became the ultimate in the times and was collected by countless single dogs as a treasure. Since this time, Shui Qingrou no longer cuts his pen and no longer paints, and this calendar has been reprinted again and again, and it can still be seen among the people hundreds of years later.
Although the calendar is small, it is an ever-lasting industry.
Because you can't use last year's calendar to see the time of this year.
After the drawings of the calendar were finalized, Chen Xu asked someone to send the bound patterns to the printing factory, and asked a special painter to draw a stereotype. In order to protect the twelve courtesans he personally guided to draw the pictures, Chen Xu even arranged three musket team members to guard day and night. After the painter finished drawing the shadows on the carving board, he quickly took them back to the house to avoid being stolen.
However, although the picture was indeed sent back to the Taishi Mansion in full, this picture became less pure. Many key parts were touched a little blurred, and there were even indescribable traces such as saliva on the picture...
Just as these exquisitely designed calendars with great decorative value caused lively inquiries from the entire printing factory and the literary community, Chen Xu's energy also shifted to other things.
Since the trial of Zhao Hai's counter-revolutionary group ended and was escorted from Beijing, Chen Xu, who had experienced a life-and-death disaster, has been living a peaceful life and death.
Although the wound has recovered, the First Emperor did not allow him to work hard on national affairs. He took over all matters of all sizes and matters by himself, and he got up early and went to bed late to handle government affairs. Therefore, Chen Xu returned to court to the rhythm of fishing for three days and seven or eight days of drying the net.
A group of wives and concubines were at home all day long, with people taking care of him when they were clothes and food, brushing their teeth and washing their faces. Therefore, Chen Xu has been a pet baby at home and is in a state of continuous recovery of blood.
However, Chen Xu was not completely empty in his head. He spent most of his time sitting on the kang, thinking about his life value while a group of wives, concubines, masturbating shoulders, backs, and feeding. He would occasionally go to the Secretariat to see the progress of the national industrial and agricultural development and the construction of the Takrata Plan. In the rest of his time, he would go to Qinghe Park, Academy of Sciences, libraries, Peking University, newspapers, health centers and other departments to chat and fuck with officials of all sizes or workers and apprentices to get more information on further reforms.
And this winter, what Chen Xu is most interested in while he is busy and leisure is cotton.
The more than ten acres of cotton planted in the fief are already harvested in spring, and the yield does not seem to be high. The yield per mu of seed cotton is only more than one stone, and the total cotton is less than twenty stones, but the volume is not small. Half of the warehouse was installed in sacks.
Several cotton pilot projects across the country also have harvested, with slightly different outputs but not much difference. The total sowing area is about 1,200 mu, and the total harvest is 1,200 stones. All of these cottons have been transported to Xianyang to pile up in warehouses of the Ministry of Revenue and the Agricultural College. Because they are light in weight but large in size, they occupy a large amount of space. Moreover, because Chen Xu has not been in Xianyang, no one has dealt with these cottons.
These cottons are similar to those brought back by Li Shun last year. The cotton bolts are not as big as Chen Xu saw in later generations, and the wool is not too long. However, the craftsmen who studied looms in the Academy of Sciences have confirmed that there is no problem with this kind of cotton spinning and weaving. Moreover, the improved spinning and looms can complete the spinning and weaving work and can be put into use. In the first half of the month when Chen Xu and Emperor Shi returned to Beijing, the research on the seed removal machine has actually made great progress. Although the seed removal rate is only 60% to 70%, as long as the improvement continues, it should be successful soon.
Therefore, after recently, Chen Xu arranged to set up a cotton spinning experimental factory to start spinning and weaving cloth. As soon as this snow-white, soft and warm cotton cloth came out, it immediately caused a sensation among the people. Not only the people were happy, but even the emperor and the disciples of the princes, princes, ministers, and the people who liked cotton cloth the most were all women.
The first thing to do is to get the moon when you are close to the water. As an advocate of cotton introduction and a pioneer in Daqin cotton textile industry, the first batch of textile cotton cloths were naturally sent to Chen Xu's mansion for judgment and research.
So when dozens of snow-white and soft cotton cloth were delivered, a group of women such as Shui Qingrou Ying Shiman and Meng Wan were extremely excited. They asked the weaver girl in the house to change all the silk sheets and quilts into cotton cloth, and even began to sew close-fitting underwear with cotton cloth one by one, because my husband said that cotton cloth is the best clothing fabric, not only warm, soft and breathable, but also cheap.
So after obtaining sufficient samples and summary information from the Ministry of Households and other offices of the textile factory, Chen Xu submitted a memorial in early December to propose that the country start to expand cotton planting on a large scale in the spring, and at the same time, he asked to set up cotton mills in several important experimental production areas to cope with the large amount of cotton coming to market next year.
According to this year's output and data statistics, one stone of seed cotton can produce 40 kilograms of lint, and most of the remaining 70 kilograms are cotton seeds, while one acre of land is about five kilograms.
In other words, if all the cotton harvested in spring are planted, the sowing area will increase by about fifteen times, and the cotton sowing area across the country will exceed 15,000 acres. If the weather is good, nearly 20,000 asbestos will be harvested. According to the current ten kilograms of cotton yarn for a piece of cloth, a stone of seed cotton can be weaved about four pieces. If all these cottons are woven into cotton cloth, there will be 80,000 cotton cloth on the market.
After two years, the country can basically start promotion, the planting area will exceed 200,000 mu, the cotton output will exceed 200,000 stones, and the cotton cloth output will reach 800,000 horses.
Therefore, in the face of such a huge cotton industry and scale, Chen Xu needed to remind the court to make layouts and plans early.
Moreover, cotton is not only used to spin and weave cloth, but also directly make cotton coats and quilts. Easy planting and low price will greatly improve people's lives.
In five years, Chen Xu believed that cotton will definitely complete the task of replacing the hemp spinning under the powerful government machinery and legal system, complete an industrial upgrading and transformation, and complete a great leap in improving people's quality of life.
In order to achieve this huge leap, in addition to laying out cotton planting, the cotton processing industry is also a top priority.
Cleaning cotton seeds, spinning and making clothes, the entire textile industry needs to make a big leap forward.
The industrial revolution in later generations originated from cotton spinning.
This is not only a revolution in industrial machinery, but also a revolution in capital.
No matter how the silk industry develops, it is impossible to make too big breakthroughs in the future. It can only take the high-end and high-end route. Especially with the emergence of cotton, mulberry silkworm breeding may suffer a relatively large impact, and the entire industry will shrink and retreat, but cotton spinning will inevitably flourish in the future, and the output of cotton cloth will exceed millions or even tens of millions of horses. With the development of the great voyage, a large amount of cotton cloth will even be exported to Western countries to plunder local mineral resources and gold and silver goods.
To accelerate the rapid development of the cotton spinning industry, various supporting machines and factories are essential. Continuously improving industrial machines such as seed removal machines, spinning machines, looms, jacquard machines, etc. is where the Academy of Sciences needs to invest huge energy.
Chen Xu can not guide mechanical research now, so many times he can only propose research directions and general principles, and then ask craftsmen to study and solve the problems encountered by themselves.
But obviously, the craftsmen of Daqin are still very talented in terms of strange skills and are not corrupted by the Confucianism of later generations, which are inferior to all but high in reading. There are a large number of alchemists and craftsmen who like to study skills. The research in the field of machinery is very broad and the achievements are also very high. In addition, Chen Xu promoted the systematic physics and mechanics theory of gear, bearing, chain pulley, etc., and now the industrial development of Daqin has begun to show a booming trend, and various practical machinery has begun to appear in large numbers.
Chapter completed!