The carriage took Liu Mu and the others to the river, and then changed into a boat.

The location of the second square is the location of the Huangpu River estuary, where the transportation conditions are more convenient and the marine terminal is not too far.

Before he could reach the workshop area, Romeo was speechless with his mouth wide open.

In front of Romeo's eyes, there were tens of thousands of ships on the river and sea, and there were constantly ships full of goods queuing up to enter and leave the port. He came by boat and walked to Huating Military Port, and he did not see the appearance of Mingang.

There were so many boats that even the waterways were crowded, and even Cui Yiye's official ships waited in line for half an hour before entering the port.

After exiting the docks, Romeo couldn't read everything in front of him.

Why are there incomparably tall towers, the top of the tower spews white smoke, and it is still very neatly arranged, there will be one at every other distance.

Yanagi doesn't explain, and he won't tell Romeo what a steam engine is.

The steam engine is something that Datang will not easily pass on, and the town's national-level high-end machinery is related to national fortune.

To put it more bluntly, a Fuso boiler worker who is responsible for adding water and charcoal to the boiler is half a level higher than ordinary Tang people by virtue of the steel badge he wears.

Everyone who comes into contact with a steam engine looks up generations.

Even the workers from Fusang basically lost the freedom to travel far away, and they needed the approval of at least three yamen to go far away, and of course they would receive a large amount of confidentiality fees every month.

The second textile mill in Datang Huating Prefecture.

All the doors have a guard team responsible for checking everyone who enters and exits the workshop, which represents the top technology of the Datang textile industry, and each loom is like a mythical product for the country outside the Datang.

Only three of Romeo's fellow Mediterranean merchants were allowed to change their clothes and enter the workshop, while the others could only get a few glances out of the window.

I don't know how many huge sheds are one mile long and five zhang wide, all of which are brick and stone foundation pillars, hollow bricks are walls, and the roofs are divided into two types: wooden roofs and stainless steel roofs.

Even the willow wood needs to be put on a linen robe worn backwards, and then the cuffs are tightened.

At the entrance of one of the sheds, Cui Yiye said to Romeo, "Don't make loud noises after entering. ”

Loud, why is there a loud noise?

Romeo entered the shed suspicious and screamed immediately.

Cui Yiye's expression had a hint of contempt in his expression, but Romeo was dumbfounded.

In his eyes, rows and rows of strange things made strange noises, and then quickly swallowed the cloth. For every four monster machines, there is a master and five assistants, a total of six people to supervise them.

There was hardly any stopping, only a constant stream of cloth being swallowed up.

The first thing driven by the steam engine was the textile industry, which was made of fine white linen for flat spinning, and such a workshop was already the pinnacle of Datang's industry.

Yanagi listened to the continuous clicking sound and thought of the old TV series he had watched.

"A loom, in addition to the necessary maintenance every day, can weave a standard width of 70 zhang and 60 woven linen cloth in a day and night. Here's ...... Three thousand looms. ”

Cui Yiye said nothing more when he said this.

Romeo's so-called request for 150,000 horses of fine linen of various colors only needs to be done in Cui Yiye's opinion.

Romeo was indeed dumbfounded.

The looms in the Mediterranean are all operated by hand, and all looms are derived from the yarn weaving techniques of ancient Egypt.

The width was only as wide as an adult man's arm, and at this time, in front of his eyes, the standard width of the Tang Dynasty cloth was more than twice that of the Mediterranean.

The standard width of Tang is three feet three, and the widened surface is six feet six, and the widened ones are mostly used on fabrics such as bed sheets.

Cui Yiye waved his hand, and the stewards of several workshops took Romeo to visit the limited area.

Cui Yiye said to Liu Mu: "The technology of the loom has reached the limit, the wooden loom has been completely useless, and the combination of wood and steel has been slowly eliminated. During your absence, I went to the loom workshop in Cixi no less than twenty times. ”

"Yes!" Yanagi just nodded.

Cui Yiye continued: "I heard Liu Zheng say that in terms of the material and structure of the loom, the ghost worker of the loom has no way to increase the speed, and can only work stability and width. The higher-level steam forging looms were designed with no wood in mind and were made entirely of steel. ”

"Very good." Yanagi still has no comment.

Cui Yiye asked, "Why don't you say something?" ”

Yanagi replied, "Actually, I don't know much about looms. Hydro and animal looms were already a step forward, as was the use of steam engines to make them pure steel. Personally, I think the loom has reached a bottleneck, and as far as I know, there are still steam engines driving wooden looms. ”

"Yes, wooden looms are limited by speed, and compared with looms made of pure steel, they are only one-tenth of the efficiency, but they are more than ten times faster than people."

Liu Mu smiled and asked: "That is, the best loom is equivalent to the work efficiency of 100 people?" ”

"I can't reach it, but twenty times is still okay, mainly because the machine weaves wider. The seventy zhang I just mentioned is just ordinary fine white linen, or the weaving yarn can be faster, and the thick linen cloth used in winter is at most forty zhang a day and a night. ”

Forty zhang is a lot, and the average weaving volume of a machine of forty meters per shift is high-density and thickened, and Yanagi knows that this is faster than the weaving speed of the industrial revolution.

"What's the price of sackcloth?"

"Low, low pathetic. But because of the high efficiency of the loom, the profit is amazing. When we first met, the fine linen cloth was 400 to 440 wen a horse. It was forty feet long and one foot eight inches wide. Now a horse forty feet long and three feet three inches wide has a market price of eighty yuan. ”

Eighty wen a piece of cloth, who can imagine this price in the six years of Wude.

But in fact, eighty wen is the market price, the retail price in the market, which is the price of medium and high-grade fine linen, and it is also colored.

Cui Yiye said again: "The price of flower cloth is a little higher, but it is not as high as there, about 110 yuan." ”

"Very good. Your cost is not much. "Yanagi has a rough idea of the cost in his heart.

"Yes. After accounting for the raw materials and labor of a piece of cloth, plus the latest accounting calculation, the depreciation of the cost of machinery and other costs are all added, that is, more than 20 yuan, plus taxes and so on, will not exceed 30 yuan. The cost of printing and dyeing, and the color are also somewhat different, and ten wen is enough. ”