I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 35 Final preparations
Faced with the unconsumable cotton yarn, Zhu Houxuan was unwilling to sell these high-quality cotton yarns directly. In the end, he decided to open another weaving factory and use the improved flying shuttle loom.

It was not that Zhu Houxun did not want to jump directly to the water-powered loom, but the technical conditions were not yet met. It took the British 50 years to move from the flying shuttle loom to the water-powered loom, while it had only been more than two months since he invented the flying shuttle loom.

The improved flying shuttle loom simplified some unnecessary structures, and some easily damaged parts were replaced with cast iron parts, which also increased the weaving speed.

The reason why he decided to build a weaving mill at this time was actually because there was no unified measurement unit and measurement accuracy before, and there was no ability to manufacture a large number of flying shuttle looms for factory use.

He temporarily set the scale of this weaving mill at one thousand flying shuttle looms. Once all the machines were in place, the mill's estimated monthly production capacity would reach 3 pieces. Since the width of the cloth woven by the flying shuttle loom was twice that of ordinary Ming Dynasty cloth, one piece was equivalent to two pieces, which meant that the monthly production capacity was pieces of ordinary Ming Dynasty cotton cloth.

This number seems high, but the price of a piece of ordinary cotton cloth in the Ming Dynasty was one coin and five cents of silver, or 0.15 taels per piece of cloth. The production capacity of 4500 pieces is only worth taels of silver.

However, the profit for a month can be 2000 taels, because the price of cotton cloth in the Ming Dynasty has not been affected and the price has not fallen.

The current annual circulation of cotton cloth in the Ming Dynasty market is 4000 million pieces, of which Songjiang Prefecture produces 2000 million pieces annually, not including linen and silk.

However, Zhu Houxun believed that the annual market capacity of cotton cloth in the Ming Dynasty was at least over 90 million pieces, because % of the Ming Dynasty was in a state of natural economy and self-sufficiency, and the demand had not been released. With the promotion of the textile industry technological revolution led by him, the price of cotton cloth would surely fall sharply, and at that time part of this demand would surely be released.

Plus the needs of neighboring countries.

Therefore, the production capacity of 3 horses per month and 36 horses per year is really not enough.

It will take time to get machines in place, recruit and train staff for the new weaving factory. Zhu Houxuan estimates that it will take three or four months to reach the planned production capacity.

Moreover, the people under him have no experience in managing a factory with thousands of employees, so they need to continue to accumulate management experience.

"The way you wield the stick is wrong!" A kind voice sounded in Dian Le.

Everyone in Dianle Institute looked towards the door, and sure enough, they saw that familiar figure appear at the door.

"Greetings, Your Highness—" Everyone who was rehearsing a new play hurried forward to pay their respects.

Zhu Houxuan hadn't come to Dianle Suo for several days because of the factory construction.

"Stand up, you all know I don't like this"

"Thank you, Your Majesty"

Zhu Houxuan waved his hand, stepped onto the stage, took the golden hoop from Zhou Shan, and demonstrated skillfully, "You have to dance like this to look good. The key point is."

Imitating the Monkey King playing with a stick in the TV series is a skill he learned when he was a child, and it is still fun to do it now.

Zhou Shan was the actor who played Sun Wukong in Zheng's troupe before. He was very good at somersaults and his image was suitable, so he was directly assigned to continue playing Sun Wukong.

Zhou Shan listened to Zhu Houxun's words and nodded continuously, "I understand, I will practice hard later!" "Have you mastered the moves?" Zhu Houxun continued to ask.

"I've mastered it. I've been practicing it in my dreams every day recently." Zhou Shan said excitedly, "The moves that the prince taught me are really good to fight. How did you come up with them? They are much better than the fighting scenes I practiced before."

The set of moves Zhou Shan mentioned was a set of moves commonly seen in later movies that Zhu Houxuan took out and taught him to practice because Zhu Houxuan saw that Zhou Shan's fighting scenes were fake and weak. This made Zhou Shan feel like he had found a treasure, and he practiced with his opponents in the two fighting scenes all day long.

"Master Zheng, how have you been feeling these past two days? It doesn't seem like you wanted to leave as you said privately before, right?" Zhu Houxun looked at Zhu Bajie who was standing aside.

"Your Highness, please stop making fun of me!" Zhu Bajie took off the pig mask on his head, revealing the plump white face of troupe leader Zheng. "I have told my people that Your Highness, this play is so good, it is destined to be famous all over the world. It is a blessing for me to play a role in this play. Even if Your Highness chases me away, I will not leave."

"I like what Master Zheng said. So, tell me what is good about this play of mine?"

"There are so many good things about this place. The songs in it are so good. It's the first time I've heard such beautiful songs in all my years of traveling around the country. Moreover, the tunes have so many variations. The lyrics really touch my heart. The play is well written, and the fighting scenes are great." Troupe leader Zheng said with emotion.

"Then these two days I figured out something else. The characters in this play seem to have different identities, but they all have a sense of equality in their words and deeds. But I don't understand why I have this feeling."

Zhu Houxuan raised his eyebrows in surprise. He really didn't realize this. This was just a play for entertainment and training of the team. He didn't intend to use it to convey any ideas.

But he thought about it and understood what was going on. After all, this was a play adapted by modern people, and many things that modern people are accustomed to have been infiltrated into it.
"How's the band practice going?" Zhu Houxuan turned and looked at Qin Yuelan.

"Your Highness, please rest assured about the band's affairs. Although some of the songs are difficult, the musicians love these new songs so much that they have been practicing day and night after receiving the songs. I also followed Your Highness's advice and selected a conductor. With the conductor, the ensemble is even better." Qin Yuelan replied quickly.

"I'm at ease with you doing the job," Zhu Houxuan nodded with satisfaction. Although Qin Yuelan was pushed to the position of an actor by him, she still did a lot of work in music. For example, she recorded all the songs into scores, and then assisted with orchestration and ensemble practice, etc. In the process, she demonstrated extremely high musical literacy.

Zhu Houxuan suddenly thought of something and said, "By the way, Qin Ming is very good. He has been busy managing things outside the palace these days and probably doesn't have time to come and see you."

"Well, thank you for your cultivation, Your Highness." Qin Yuelan nodded gently and finally smiled.

"Your Highness, would you like to take a look at the new costumes that have been made these days?" Sun Gong also came over.

"Let them come over"

"Yes, it's good. It's a costume made according to my idea. This isn't quite right. The texture of Sun Wukong's clothes is a bit poor! I remember there are a few tiger skins in the treasure house. Take one to make a costume for him."

"Tiger skin. Use tiger skin to make costumes?" Sun Gong said stupidly, but soon reacted, "I obey your command."

"Also, the texture of Tang Monk's costume is a bit poor," Zhu Houxun said, touching his chin.

"Your Highness, these are the best monk robes and cassocks we can find," Sun Gong replied quickly.

(End of this chapter)