The reason why Zhu Youzhen chose the textile and garment industry as the starting point of his "industrial revolution" is also a certain consideration.

First of all, clothing, food, housing and transportation, clothing comes first. From ancient times to the present, cloth and clothing have always been indispensable materials for human beings, and at some times they are strategic materials of great significance. Especially in China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the climate is in the "Xiaoice River" period, the winter climate is extremely cold, people's demand for clothing, especially cotton clothing, is very large, as long as it can be produced, there is absolutely no worry about sales.

Even for Zhu Youzhen himself, the military uniforms of the Qin soldiers in winter and summer are also indispensable equipment. Soldiers are not like ordinary people, and it is okay to wear such a dress all year round. Whether it is peacetime training or marching combat, the amount of wear and tear of military uniforms is relatively large.

It's not very convenient to order this thing elsewhere, and Zhu Youzhen wants to be as low-key as possible. With the textile and garment industry, you can do what you like, and you can do as much as you like, and the troops will no longer have to worry about this aspect.

In addition, the textile and garment industry is a typical light industry and labor-intensive industry, and the requirements for equipment and technology are relatively low. Zhu Youzhen also imagined that as written in some of them, glass will be built today, engines will be built tomorrow, and aircraft carriers will be built the day after tomorrow.

But after all, it was YY, and he was just a first-class college student in his previous life, still studying economics and management, and he was extremely lacking in applied scientific knowledge. Not to mention building engines, in the metalworking internship class, he was asked to use a lathe to turn the simplest parts, and he was all in a strange shape.

And other people in this era are not as good as Zhu Youzhen, Zhu Youzhen has seen the advanced things of modern science and technology, let alone others, they can't dream of it, let alone production. Therefore, Zhu Youjian's industrial revolution must also start from scratch, from the simplest, from what can be achieved by the level of science and technology and production in this era.

In this case, the textile and garment industry has become almost the only choice for Zhu Youjian. In this era, spinning and weaving cloth does not require any complicated machinery and equipment, and can be achieved only by wooden hand-spinning wheels and pedal looms, which is nothing more than a little inefficient.

Ready-to-wear garments are all about manual cutting and sewing, so it's more of a handicraft than an industry. However, in the traditional sense of handicrafts, laborers work alone, and now Zhu Youzhen has brought them together for large-scale production, realizing the leap from handicrafts to industry.

Just do it, on the second day when the kindergarten was full of children, the notice of recruiting female textile workers was plastered all over the streets and alleys of Qinwangzhuang. This time the women were much more active, as the children did not have to be taken care of, the amount of housework was greatly reduced, and the women had time and energy to work; Second, the farmers in this era are "male farmers and female weavers", whose daughter-in-law can't spin and weave? Even the equipment is ready-made, and Zhu Youzhen collected it with the spinning wheel and loom.

The site of the factory is not difficult to solve, and Zhu Youzhen has carved out a large area of new buildings in the inner city as the factory building of the textile factory. The spinning wheels and looms purchased from the people's homes are neatly arranged in the factory, not to mention, it is really a bit of a modern textile workshop.

There are workers, plant and equipment, and the rest is the problem of raw materials. Zhu Youzhen knows that no matter what industry it is, only by achieving continuous large-scale production will the unit cost be reduced. Especially as the raw material at the source of the industrial chain, if there are no two days out of three days, the production efficiency will not go up.

Although Jingyang County has begun to plant a large number of cotton, the cotton harvest season is autumn, and it is obviously not possible to sit on the ground and mature the cotton. So Zhu Youzhen immediately asked Li Zhenyan to mobilize the power of the Yellow Sea Merchants Gang to purchase a large amount of cotton through various channels. In addition, some were originally stored in the strategic reserve, and the problem of raw materials was temporarily resolved. When the cotton in the autumn field is picked, the operation of this industrial chain will be smoother.

Finally, an enterprise must have a person in charge, who will be the director of the textile factory? In this era, the guard between men and women was very strict, and the textile factory was full of female workers, and the director of the factory must also be a woman. But Zhu Youzhen thought about it and made a difficulty, the woman next to him was really not too suitable.

Like Bao Yulian, who has been working in the hospital and is now pregnant; The four sisters of Meilan Zhuju have lived on the streets since childhood, and later fell into the dust, only learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, as well as serving people's crafts, but they don't know anything about spinning and weaving. Not to mention Qiulina, who is already busy teaching in elementary school. As for Zhu Cunqi, Li Zhenyan and others, one has a noble status, and the other is a guest, and it is not suitable to live in Qinwangzhuang for a long time.

After thinking about it, only Princess Rui'er is worthy of this position. She comes from the people, although her father has been in the world since she was a child. As the saying goes, the children of the poor are in charge of the house early, and they can do all kinds of work, including spinning and weaving.

Zhu Youzhen had to beg Rui'er embarrassedly: "My husband knows that you are already very tired of holding the affairs of the palace and managing the accounts, but the others in the textile factory really can't support it, you see..."

"Don't worry, prince!" Rui'er smiled nonchalantly, "You men think it's difficult, but for us women, weaving is as easy as eating and drinking!" Ruier only needs to go around the factory once a day, and it doesn't take much effort. ”

The next day, the Qinwangzhuang textile factory was in full swing. Although Zhu Youzhen was the planner and organizer of all this, he had never seen how the ancient people spun and weaved cloth, so he also followed Rui'er into the factory with great interest.

In fact, in his previous life, Zhu Youzhen's parents were textile factory workers, and he didn't go into the factory to play, so he knew a little about the production process of the textile factory. The textile mill, as the name suggests, is mainly divided into two parts, "spinning" and "weaving", and there are some auxiliary processes, such as warping, sizing, finishing, and so on.

But in this era, the production process was extremely backward, and the tool for spinning yarn was the hand-spinning wheel. The spinning wheel is all wooden and has a simple structure, consisting of three main parts: the spindle, the rope pulley and the handle.

Zhu Youzhen watched a female worker spin carefully, only to see her sitting in front of the spinning wheel, constantly turning the handle, and the transmission device on the handle drove the rope wheel and spindle to rotate, and the yarn pulled out of the cotton was wound around the spindle little by little.

Zhu Youzhen thought it was interesting, so he asked the female worker to rest for a while and go into battle herself. As everyone knows, this work seems simple, but it requires a lot of perseverance and patience, so that the strength is small, the spinning is slow, and the strength is large, and the yarn will be broken, and it can only maintain a uniform rotation.

After a long time, it was not only extremely boring, but also very tiring, Zhu Youzhen was sweating profusely after a while, and accidentally broke the yarn several times, so he had to pick it up clumsily. But his fingers were not much more stupid than the robot cat, and he couldn't catch them for a long time, so he was so anxious that he blushed and his neck was thick, and the female worker on the side couldn't help but cover his mouth and snicker.

"Laugh what a laugh!" Rui'er was afraid that he would not be able to hold it on his face, so she reprimanded the female worker a few words.

Zhu Youzhen stopped Rui'er with a smile and said: "Stupid is stupid, we have to admit this, the ruler is short and the inch is long." ”

"What the prince does is earth-shattering big things, and it's nothing if you can't do this kind of small thing well." Rui'er was still afraid that Zhu Youzhen would be angry.

"Little things have to be done well." Zhu Youzhen said seriously, "I think Premier Zhou spun the thread back then..."

"Who is Premier Zhou?" Rui'er asked inexplicably.

"What, he's a big official! But it's not from this dynasty, and you don't know if you say it, hey, hey, hey! ”