The big man has a living father

Chapter 157 (Big Chapter) Textile Industrialization!
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Since there is an exhibition, someone has figured out in advance what the exhibition will be about.

This exhibition focuses on industry, more precisely, textile technology.

This has aroused great interest among many small businessmen.

In March, when Huo Hai and Dong Yan made the bet, everyone started paying attention to the battle between the two jewelry stores.

As a result, from the first day of Huo’s Jewelry’s opening, there was no suspense about the outcome.

Everyone knows how well Huo’s mirrors sell. Everyone is well aware that the profit of Huo’s mirrors in one day is more than Dong’s Jewelry Store can make in a month or even three months!
Since then, many businessmen have realized one thing.

Technology, in business, is more important than anything else!

As for why sometimes new technology fails to bring about a business, it is entirely because the technology is not mature enough and has not yet reached the level of commercialization!
From that day on, the entire research institute became a hot commodity.

Many newly developed technologies, whether used in daily life or in steel, coal mines, bridges and various other things, and even in agriculture and animal husbandry, are attracting attention from people with interest.

They really want to get the new technology and reap the commercial dividends!

Even some of the former aristocrats who had transformed into big businessmen began to directly recruit researchers!

As long as you have a research project, I dare to invest!

Because the Royal Academy has a size limit, but now there are tens of thousands of workers and craftsmen who have learned simplified Chinese and scientific thinking, and many of the best among them are unable to pass the rigorous selection to enter the Academy and eat royal food.

Therefore, eating the princes' meal is also a good choice.

There are already many research institutes of various kinds in Chang'an City.

Every day, there are rumors of new technologies.

On the one hand, some people do it to show off, after all, showing off is an eternal need of human beings.

On the other hand, some people come up with new technologies but don’t know how to make money with them, so they release rumors about the new technologies to see what others are discussing and whether there are any good brainstorming ideas.

Over the past few months, the number of listed companies in the stock exchange has reached 170.

Some of them took the unconventional route, such as Luwang, which packaged tax revenues to list its company, and some took the resource route, applying for and obtaining coal mining qualifications and building transportation companies.

But there are still nearly a hundred ordinary listed companies.

Among them, there are about twenty companies that are wealthy and win by scale.

The rest all took off based on technology!

Therefore, businessmen in Chang'an now attach great importance to new technologies.

How awesome is that new technology that is worthy of Mr. Huo Hai holding a meeting to introduce it?

For a moment, everyone was paying attention to this press conference.

Even Liu Che "heard" about the press conference while discussing state affairs with his ministers and expressed his desire to attend.

Soon, someone discovered that a very long platform had been built in the huge parking lot outside the stock trading center. It was covered and many things were being arranged on it.

This news undoubtedly aroused the curiosity of the people of Chang'an.

What kind of medicine is this?
Isn't the biggest thing in Chang'an right now discussing the establishment of the Xiongnu Company and the Western Regions Company? Why hold a press conference at this time to steal the spotlight?
Many families were discussing this matter and watching the fun.

Only Li Guang didn't think so.

In Li Guang's opinion, Huo Hai must have made great progress in spinning or weaving technology.

"Could it be that he could find a way to make people spin two threads at a time? Or to weave cloth that is more than three meters long?"

Li Guang had already been planting cotton on a large amount of land in Longxi, and the Egyptian long-staple cotton in Huo Hai's hands came from him.

Although the internal situation in Chang'an changed at that time, Li Guang decided to destroy the long-staple cotton and send out a signal, but was stopped and more than a dozen members of the Hao family died.

But after that, Li Guang never had any conflicts with Huo Hai again. Even when Liu Che decided to attack the Huns, Huo Hai helped him.

This made Li Guang start to re-examine Huo Hai.

Li Guang discovered that Huo Hai's words and actions were always difficult to understand and did not follow the rules.

But there is one thing!
He never suffers any loss.

No matter how disadvantageous something may seem to others, it will definitely be a huge profit for Huo Hai.

If you don’t make a huge profit, it means you’ve suffered a big loss.

Therefore, Li Guang believed that the textile technology must have advanced because the cotton had just been harvested not long ago.

This is a good time to announce new technology.

Li Guang has been planting cotton for two years. Although most of the cotton has been bought by Huo Hai, there are still many seeds left locally. The cotton planted in the new year is already being made into quilts and cotton-padded clothes.

"If the cotton weaving technology improves, it will be a good time for the Li family!"

Because Longxi is more suitable for growing cotton than Chang'an. Li Guang personally went to the cotton fields in Chang'an this year to check it out and confirmed it!
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Stock Exchange Center, parking is not allowed here today.

However, since it was the weekend, the stock market was closed, so it was normal that parking was not possible.

But today there are no fewer people than usual, in fact there are more people than usual.

What is Huo Hai's position in Chang'an's business community? He can be said to be the leader of all businessmen.

How could there be a shortage of people at a press conference held by Huo Hai?
However, when the scene was already crowded, Huo Hai still did not show up.

At this time, the sounds of drums and musical instruments were heard at the scene.

Soon, a huge roll of colorful and very thin gauze unfolded on the main stage, covering the stock trading center behind from top to bottom, while also isolating a stage field of vision area, highlighting the main stage.

Then, men and women in gorgeous clothes came out from behind the veil, walked to the front of the stage, and then returned.

And the models walked out one after another.

In fact, Huo Hai’s press conference means exactly what it says.

The autumn and winter fashion show of the fourth year of Yuanshou, and the spring fashion show of the fifth year of Yuanshou.

Although they didn't understand the situation, they were very excited to see the performances of handsome men and beautiful women, most of whom were pretty girls, and they started watching.

Especially Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan, clapped his hands vigorously: "Beautiful!"

"What a nice view!"

"Would the girl like to come to the Zhongshan National Song and Dance Troupe?"

After waiting for a while, the clothes worn by the people coming up gradually became different, and then someone came to his senses and said, "Hey, these clothes seem to be different."

The clothes worn by the models at the beginning were the popular styles in Chang'an. The materials were nothing more than linen and silk, and the style, color, embroidery and other aspects were what everyone wears now.

What appeared next looked completely different from the previous ones in terms of texture!
More importantly, clothes are starting to appear in more colors!
It is understandable that silk would appear colored, although it is difficult to dye, it can be dyed.

But how can an opaque piece of clothing be colorful? Linen dyed in color? Is this the new technology to be released?

It’s really amazing!

After all, who doesn’t want to wear colorful clothes? Do you really think that everyone likes to wear black and blue? Then you can only dye them black and blue!

But people who knew the business soon realized that what these people were wearing was definitely not linen!

Then even the styles of clothing changed.

The large sleeves of Hanfu affect the way you do things, so neatly tapered sleeves and pants also appeared on the stage.

Even jeans appeared.

Of course, the people in the audience only know that the styles and colors of the clothes are dazzling, but they don’t know how much of an improvement it is in terms of functionality!

Huo Hai actually didn't know much about how work cloth was woven.

However, over the past year, people at the research institute have studied different weaving and dyeing methods and have developed some fabrics that are more wear-resistant and more suitable for work wear. When Huo Hai saw one of them, he thought it was very similar to jeans, so he simply named it work cloth.

In order to match the work cloth, Huo Hai simply told them about modern clothing design methods and button design.

However, the jeans they made were not exactly the same as those made in later generations, and they also had a very Han style.

Because zippers are now too expensive to make and produced in small quantities, jeans also use buttons.

They opened the opening down to the crotch.

This is a big guy.

Huo Hai didn't say anything. Once zippers became cheaper, this design would naturally be eliminated.

There was even a pair of male and female models who, when they walked to the front of the stage, unbuttoned their denim jackets to demonstrate to everyone how to use the buttons.

Then he opened his coat, revealing the turtleneck sweater underneath.

Combined with the two people's looks, it directly caused screams.

Huo Hai in the crowd was surprised by the atmosphere at the scene.

It’s just a press conference, not a rock concert, is it necessary?
After looking for a long time, someone in the crowd shouted, "Hey, the shoes they are wearing!"

Everyone looked over and realized that the shoes the model was wearing were also different.

Then some people appeared wearing novel clothing such as leather jackets, which also attracted a lot of attention.

Huo Hai has waited for this day for a long time.

Including cotton fabrics and leather products.

These leather jackets are not cowhide, which is not so luxurious nowadays. These are pig skin.

Ten months have passed since the pigpen reform last year, and in this era, pigs are generally slaughtered after seven months.

Although pigs need to be fed for a longer time before they start to fatten up, raising them at seven months is the most efficient and cost-effective.

Huo Hai's factory also purchased raw pig skins on a large scale throughout Chang'an.

The purpose is to completely solve the problem of keeping warm.

Huaxia, Huaxia, a nation dressed in Chinese clothes.

It is outrageous to talk about morality when you are already poorly clothed and poorly fed.

Although these two problems were solved after the reign of Emperor Wu in history, they were actually only solved for the class above ordinary civilians. But in Huo Hai's case, these problems had to be solved all at once.

After the performance, Shang Fucai came on stage.

Many people at the scene applauded. Of course Shang Fu and the others knew him. He was the general manager of Huo’s Trading Company. Who wouldn’t know him?
Shang Fu held up a loud speaker and said, "Welcome everyone to the launch event of the fourth year of Yuanshou and the fifth year of Yuanshou spring clothes in Chang'an, the Han Dynasty! Welcome!"

There was applause.

Shang Fu then said, "It's not my turn to speak today. Please welcome the Prince of the Han Dynasty, the lieutenant of Chang'an County, the acting commander of the Yulin Guard, the second son of the Huo family, the eternal literary master, the initiator of the new writing movement, the leader of the business reform, and the number one man in Chang'an who is most popular with women, Lord Huo Hai!"

Someone in the audience shouted before the applause started: "Can so many people fit on the stage?!"

"Hahaha!" Everyone in the audience was laughing.

After Huo Hai came to power, he first saluted in the direction of Liu Che. Liu Che was not in the crowd at all, but on the second floor on the side of the closed stock trading center, which was a much better viewing position than others.

Huo Hai bowed and then sighed, "To be precise, I am no longer the prince's attendant."

The people in the audience were whispering to each other.

Huo Hai sighed: "I was promoted to Zhanshi in the Zhanshi Mansion."

In fact, the Prince's Palace itself was called Beigong.

It is called Prince's Palace because the prince lives here.

But in the system of the prime minister and the chief censor, this place is called the Zhanshi Mansion because the Zhanshi is in charge here.

A group of people burst into laughter before they realized Huo Hai was joking.

Huo Hai continued to sigh: "I'm always promoted. I really don't want to be an official. It would be great if I could invent something, see a beautiful woman... watch a press conference. Don't you think so?!"

Someone in the audience shouted, "Aren't you afraid of being beaten by the princess? Why are you still looking at beauties?!"

Everybody was laughing, and of course everybody knew it was a show.

Huo Hai became serious: "Actually, this press conference is dedicated to Her Royal Highness the Princess."

As he said this, Huo Hai blew a kiss towards the second floor.

Everyone in the audience turned around and saw Her Royal Highness the Princess and His Majesty the Emperor watching the press conference at the second-floor window of the side building of the Stock Exchange Center.

"When I first met the princess, she asked me a question: how can we make sure that ordinary people have clothes to wear?"

"She also told me that it means ordinary people who don't have much money can wear clothes that won't freeze them in the coldest winter."

The audience immediately shouted, "We Han people are so lucky to have Her Royal Highness the Princess who cares so much about people's livelihood!"

Someone took the lead and a large group of people praised the princess.

Huo Hai waved his hand.

Several people came to Huo Hai's side.

Huo Haicai introduced with a loud speaker: "To keep out the cold, of course, the material itself is warm, and the thickness of the clothes will keep out the cold."

“And there are currently four solutions.”

"The first one is this one. It has silk cocoons sandwiched between the two sides. It is used to keep out the cold. This is the clothing that all the nobles and rich people wear now. It is so expensive that a piece of clothing like this can replace an entire ordinary house."

"This is the second type, animal fur, which is made into leather clothing after various processing and tanning. Generally speaking, cowhide is used by our warriors to defend against foreign enemies, so even we nobles can only wear sheepskin. This is pigskin, which is a leather clothing made after the technology has improved a little bit."

Many people looked at the leather jacket on the model and were surprised to hear that it was made of pig skin.

Isn’t that right!

One more reason to raise pigs!
You know, leather is very good at keeping out the cold! The same is true for pigskin.

Even with technological advances, pigskin jackets are still used to keep people warm.

Huo Hai: "The third type, duck down and goose down, can also keep out the cold, and their efficiency is higher than that of silkworm cocoons, but the price is seven or eight times more expensive than that of silkworm cocoons!"

"Because duck and goose down are relatively hard, they can easily penetrate silk fabrics and slip out, so very thick and fine fabrics are needed. This is the thick fabric we have newly made. With this down jacket with zippers and double buckles, you can survive in not only Chang'an, but also in the colder Mobei, or even in Liaodong, or even in the northern forests, which are colder than Liaodong. Of course, you need to be careful to survive in such places."

The limitations brought about by this process are too great, and there is no way around the high price. However, there is actually a solution to this problem, but this technology is not the focus today.

"And the fourth type is cotton clothes."

"It's made of cotton, a new plant that you haven't heard of, but you may have seen it."

Huo Hai took out a whole cotton plant that had been cut. "This is planted on the bank of the Wei River. You must have seen it. From a distance, it looks like white clouds falling on the ground."

There was an immediate riot.

Everyone knows exactly how much cotton there was at that time!
Now you say these things can be made into clothes? ! ! !

You have to know that even if the silkworms raised from ten mulberry trees can not necessarily make one thick silk garment.

But the white clouds we saw that day were everywhere!

To make a cotton-padded jacket, the most you’ll need is about ten meters long and one meter wide of cotton, right?

With this planting efficiency, producing one piece consumes at most 1% of the cost of raising silkworms!
Isn't this something that everyone can wear?!

Huo Hai: "There are two kinds of cotton, one is long-staple cotton and the other is short-staple cotton."

"This short-staple cotton originated from India. After it was introduced to Nanyue, it was controlled by the local rich people. Because the climate there is hot all year round, they don't need this stuff. The princess found a way to buy almost all the cotton in Nanyue, and then planted a large amount of cotton in the three auxiliary areas." "And it is more suitable for planting in the hot climates of Nanyue and India."

At this moment, the eyes of those people in the audience who had once suffered from the cold and now became rich with the help of the development were green with envy.

Tianzhu, the Kingdom of Nanyue!

"Hit it down!"

"Take over the Kingdom of Nanyue and plant cotton!"

Huo Hai pressed his hand and continued, "This is long-staple cotton, from Egypt. Some time ago, one of the actors who performed in Chang'an was from Lixuan, and Lixuan is the second largest city in Egypt. To be more precise, it should be translated as Alexandria."

"This is the cotton he brought with him on his way here so he could pass through the cold regions. He eventually cultivated it in Longxi, and then I bought it and planted a lot of it in Chang'an."

"This kind is best suited for cultivation in the Western Regions!"

As soon as these words came out, the whole audience was shocked.

Compared to the tough nut to crack like the Kingdom of Nanyue, the Western Regions are much easier to fight!
The Nanyue Kingdom first inherited the legacy of the ancient Shu Kingdom, and was also independent under the Qin generals. The combat effectiveness of the Qin generals' border troops was very high, so the Han Dynasty had no way to deal with the Zhao family.

Although Zhao Tuo had lost all his men, he still couldn't win.

When the Qin State attacked Baiyue, it built the Lingqu Canal specifically for transportation, and then won the war.

This investment of material resources is enough to take over the Western Regions.

The reason is simple. The population south of the Yangtze River is too small. If a war is to take place, everything must be transported from the north.

But even if we take a step back and say that if the Nanyue Kingdom can grow it, then can't the entire area south of the Yangtze River also grow it?

Many people's minds have become active.

Those in the south who have no network of connections are already thinking about how to take over the Western Regions.

Aren’t we going to establish the Western Region Company, and then get a piece of land to grow cotton?
Huo Hai’s press conference was far from over so soon.

At this time, Huo Hai had already walked to the starting point of the long stage.

Here, a piece of fabric is pulled down.

There is a lot of cotton on site.

An old man was stuffing cotton into the machine in front of him.

This machine consists of two rollers, one above the other. As soon as you rock the rollers with your hands and start them turning, the cotton that is nearby will be squeezed in.

The cotton seeds are hard, so they are left behind, while the cotton fibers are separated.

This is how cotton seeds are collected.

"The cotton balls that are taken down are long-staple cotton fibers, which are used in textile products."

"The little fluff on the cotton seeds is useless, but the imperial court buys them."

It is of no use now, but it is the short staple of long-staple cotton and is the material for making nitrocellulose.

It will be very useful to stock up this thing in the future.

Huo Hai continued to walk back.

It was an old lady. She grabbed a handful of cotton, spread it out on a wooden board, and patched it to about the right thickness.

Then use a small wooden stick to roll the cotton, and the cotton itself will be rolled together to form a cotton roll.

Then she dipped her finger in some saliva, pulled out a head from the cotton roll, and hung it on the spinning machine.

With a slight turn, the cotton was pulled into thread!

This is much easier than unraveling the mystery!
"It looks simple, but it's actually not difficult at all. You may fail the first time, but you will succeed after a few attempts. The threads you pull out may be of different thicknesses, but for those who are experienced, the threads they pull out are basically completely even."

"After planting cotton, you can spin the thread at home and use it to make clothes."

"This is my solution for Her Royal Highness the Princess."

There was applause at the scene.

This indeed solved the problem of people often freezing to death.

Even though it doesn’t make money, so what?
Huo Hai continued: "But everyone knows that I like money. Apart from ordinary poor families who can make their own clothes, many people are working, on duty, and don't have time to make their own clothes. What should I do? If I have a larger and more efficient way to make clothes, everyone can spend a few days' salary to buy a single piece of clothing, spend half a month's salary to buy a set of winter clothes, or make a quilt to sleep on. Is there a problem?"

Just like live broadcasts in later generations.

Whatever Huo Hai said, someone would hold something up and show it to him.

Huo Hai: "So, I asked a lot of people and found out that there was a master who made textile machines in Chengdu, so I brought him to Chang'an."

How can a press conference be without a master?

Although designers would appear on stage at all subsequent fashion shows, the first fashion show had to be hosted by a master of textile machinery design.

In fact, although he is a master, this middle-aged man was still very nervous before going on stage.

He is actually just an ordinary person in Chengdu.

A super complex embroidery machine was made that can produce very complex Shu embroidery.

But just like the workers who invented the well-canal system before, after the invention, if the local officials have shamelessness, the workers can get some benefits but not much; if the local officials have no shame, they will get nothing.

Because the person in power in Shu before was Wen Weng, who was ranked number one in the list of good officials in the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, he had received preferential treatment beyond his time.

But it means that life is just a little better than that of ordinary people.

He had been very content with his research during his time in Chang'an, but today when he heard that he would be giving a lecture in front of all the important figures in the empire, he was still very scared.

Huo Hai saw him trembling as he walked, and smiled: "Master Zheng Ni, our mechanical design master, is oblivious to the world outside and is only focused on scientific research. He rarely communicates with people outside the industry. Let's encourage him!"

There was crazy applause at the scene.

Businessmen especially like this kind of technology master! Because the emergence of a new technology means that a businessman will become a big businessman!

This kind of master who is favored by Lord Huo may produce countless such technologies in the future!
Huo Hai joked: "I was the one who gave Master Zheng Ni his name. He said he was very ordinary and just wanted an ordinary name. I told him that soil was also very ordinary, but without soil, everyone in the world would starve to death."

"Master, please reveal the multi-strand spinning machine for us!"

Although Huo Hai named Zheng Ni Zheng Ni, it was only because his surname happened to be Zheng. This was purely Huo Hai's bad taste.

What Zheng Ni made was the spinning jenny.

The spinning jenny was a spinning machine that could spin eight strands of thread at the same time.

This thing has very low technical content. It just happened to appear in Britain on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. It appeared in the right place at the right time and liberated labor, so it became an iconic invention.

In fact, four hundred years before that, the Song Dynasty had already invented a thirty-two-strand spinning machine, which was far more advanced than the Jenny spinning machine.

But... unfortunately, the Song Dynasty had everything, especially population, so these 32-strand spinning machines could only be used in big cities and were not promoted to areas with low labor prices, and were eventually eliminated by the market.

The Thirty-Two-Strand Spinning Machine was far more advanced than the Jenny Loom, but it was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The Song Dynasty has no shortage of population.

But... the Han people are really short of people!

The Han Dynasty wants to focus on developing the construction industry and infrastructure. With the two carriages running like crazy, who would go into textile business?
Huo Hai probably told Zheng Ni the thinking behind modern spinning machines.

Zheng Ni made something that was several generations ahead of the Zheng Ni spinning machine and the thirty-two-strand spinning machine.

The main reason is that steel is used as the material, which allows for control of fineness.

The Zhengni loom could spin only four strands of yarn at a time, but in the time it took the Jenny loom to produce one meter of yarn, the Zhengni loom could produce eighteen meters.

To be more precise, the Zhengni textile loom is a four-in-one machine, which has a rotating drum for the preliminary combing of cotton, a rotating drum for the first twisting of cotton strips, a second combing drum for combing the direction of cotton fibers, and a second rotating drum for twisting noodles.

Except for these two links.

There is also a sliver combining device that combines eight strands of cotton slivers together, greatly reducing the difference in cotton thickness per unit cross-section.

The last step is the spinning machine that pulls the cotton strips into thread!
Moreover, what we have achieved so far is to pull out two kilometers of wire at one time!
This machine needs power to operate, and a strong man on the stage is turning it manually.

Some people were thoughtful.

Huo Hai: "Come, let us see your textile machines and works in Chengdu."

To be precise, in this era, this thing is called the Colorful Embroidery Loom Building!

It can complete the embroidery directly while weaving!
To be precise, before it is turned on, the line needs to be programmed first, and then when it starts, the pattern has been designed before the final product comes out.

This thing was independently developed four times in the Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, and was lost every time.

The reason is simple: it's too slow.

Those ladies who are skilled in handicrafts can also embroider.

And this is what Chengdu has the most.

Since ancient times, machine teams and human teams have competed against each other countless times.

The machine team always looks powerful, but it cannot compete with cheap human labor.

On the one hand, it was because steel was invented too early and was controlled by the imperial court. On the other hand, the population was large, and any invention intended to liberate labor had a usage price that was much higher than the labor.

Everyone looked at the machine and then at the work in front of them.

"Sigh~"

This work is an embroidery with eight large characters embroidered on it.

【Five stars rising from the east bring good luck to China】

It is filled with gorgeous symbols and graphic decorations.

This has also appeared in history. It was embroidered by people from Chengdu during the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty when they were fighting against the Western Qiang. Because the Qiang people believed in this thing, they used the fact that five stars appeared in the east to benefit China (China at this stage referred to the Central Kingdom, which was the core area of ​​the Han Dynasty where the emperor was located).

This thing made the Qiang people, who believed in astrology, realize that their fight against the Han Dynasty was actually a fight against the astrology.

Now, in order to reach the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Zhang Qian could certainly think of the same method.

Therefore, Zheng Ni used his textile machine, programmed it first, and then mass-produced gorgeous embroidery day and night, and sent it to the hands of the Qiang leaders in various places.

One of the paintings was kept as a model, which is this one.

This operation happened several decades earlier than the history that Huo Hai knew in his previous life.

But the routine is still the same routine.

At this time, everyone in the front row was stunned.

How should I put it? The embroidery on Liu Che's body could not be described as exquisite, let alone beautiful, compared to him.

Liu Che's dragon robe is not exquisite enough compared to it.

This is the first time that such gorgeous embroidery has appeared in front of the world for non-political reasons.

Of course, Liu Che also had a copy of this thing, because when Zhang Qian asked someone to make it, he sent a copy to Chang'an.

Without giving them much time, Huo Hai continued: "Show them your newly designed fast cloth weaving machine!"

Zheng Ni took down the third piece of cloth.

The true appearance of the steel loom behind is revealed.

Huo Hai: "Are you thinking that wood is lighter and more convenient to use?"

"These steel machines need to be driven by a new type of power, called a steam engine. They have already been made, but they are too heavy and too big to be moved here. However... they are for sale."

"For coal-fired ones, I can only say that after the machines are running, the average output per worker can be increased by fifty times."

After this was said, many businessmen took action.

Fifty times!
The current labor costs in Chang'an are actually very high. The labor costs in Chang'an were originally ridiculously high compared to other big cities, and Huo Hai forcibly raised them in order to concentrate manpower to do what he wanted to do and at the same time increase economic vitality.

Many small businessmen cannot afford to hire too many people.

However, if we use machines to increase the output value of labor by fifty times, isn't that equivalent to hiring one person to do the work of fifty people?
The Han Dynasty was already short of population, and after Huo Hai's actions, the shortage became even worse.

Machines that liberate labor have become a popular commodity.

The exhibition is not over yet.

Huo Hai laughed: "The institute has also studied several different fabrics made by different weaving methods. They have different properties and characteristics and are suitable for different things."

"Master Zheng Ni has been researching how to weave these fabrics with machines, and has made great progress in several of them. It is possible that a weaving machine will be available soon."

“But I have some materials made from old machines here that I can exhibit for everyone to see.”

"You have just seen the cotton fabric, and the one in my hand has thinner threads, and the structure of the textile gives it elasticity."

Huo Hai pulled the cloth in his hand so that everyone could see it.

"As for what this elasticity can be used for, that's up to you all to use your brains. Maybe if you develop a use for it, it can become a best-selling full-length safety man product."

Huo Hai picked up the new cloth: "This is also stretchy, and it's even more stretchy, but it's not made of cotton, it's made of sheep wool."

Throwing down the cloth, several people unfolded a particularly large piece of cloth.

Huo Hai: "I named it canvas. This thing is used by Rome... a country in Egypt. It can be used for riding."

"If you spread it out on the boat and use the power of the wind, you can go upstream without oars or boat trackers. If you go downstream, the speed will be much faster."

As soon as these words came out, the whole audience was shocked!

Everyone knows what a sailboat is, because it existed as early as the early Han Dynasty, but the sails were not made of canvas, but something like mats, which were not very useful. The Han Dynasty suffered from a lack of cotton and had no good sail materials.

The presence of canvas means that the volume of water transportation will skyrocket!
On Monday, the stock prices of major transportation companies, represented by Pingyang County Company, are going to skyrocket!

A few more people came and unfolded something similar to the canvas just now: "This is a variation of canvas, I call it tarpaulin."

"It keeps...out the rain."

A carriage was slowly pulled over from the side stage.

The chassis of the carriage was still the old one, but it was no longer a small house-like grid, but a shelf covered with a cloth.

This made the carriage much lighter, meaning it could carry more people.

"This one uses a tarpaulin, so let's call it... a caravan."

This thing is very similar to a western caravan, but only the upper half is similar. The chassis is much more advanced than that.

"It can carry more people and more goods. Of course, tarpaulins are not only used for horse-drawn carriages, but also for water transport to protect goods from getting wet in the rain. Tarpaulins can even be set up in front of stores to expand their business scope on rainy days. They can be used as military tents, as civilian outdoor tents, and can also be used to make..."

Huo Hai gave a brief introduction.

Everyone was stunned. They originally thought cotton could only keep out the cold, but they didn’t expect it to have so many uses? ! ! !

Now I have to grow cotton!
Western Region Company!!!

There is also the spinning of wool yarn on a textile machine. Although it is certainly different from spinning cotton yarn, the principle is the same. The rich know how warm wool is. How much profit is there?!
On the second floor, Liu Che stroked his beard with his orchid fingers, and the corners of his mouth turned up.

These guys were planning to set up the Western Region Company and the Xiongnu Company, but they were unwilling to invest the money.

Now that the great news about cotton and wool textiles has come out, what will be the valuations of Xiyu Company and Xiongnu Company?
How much money should you pay?

Liu Che had not agreed to the Western Region Company and the Xiongnu Company, but had kept the two plans public at the stock exchange center until today.

(End of this chapter)