The north wind whistled overnight, and the land of Jingzhou was covered with silver-white velvet blankets.

Unlike the dead silence in other states in winter, Jingzhou is noisy even at the end of the year.

With the birth of steam engines and various machinery.

An industrialized picture that swept across Jingzhou is slowly unfolding on this land.

"Your Highness, this is a cotton ginning house."

In the southern area of ​​Xinghua Garden, Liu Xuan led Liu Jun into a workshop.

At this time, the sound of machinery in the workshop was rumbling, and the workers in the cotton ginning workshop kept transporting the cotton that had not yet been removed was poured into the cotton ginning mill.

Under the kinetic energy of the steam engine, the connecting rod on the steam engine is one in front and one behind, driving the flywheel in front to perform rotational movement.

The bearing of the cotton ginner is connected to the flywheel and is driven by the flywheel.

This kinetic energy in turn drives the barrels in the cotton gin, and the drums covered with spikes rotate, eventually peeling the lint from the cotton.

"The hand-shaking cotton gin is dozens of times that of lint with bare hands. Now with this steam cotton gin, the output has increased by more than a hundred times." Liu Xuan introduced.

The price of any product is directly linked to the product's raw materials.

In ancient times, the reason why cloths were expensive was that they took too long and the raw materials were expensive.

Now that this cotton ginning machine is available, the cost of cotton lint after cotton has been completely reduced in Jingzhou.

With the cotton gin, the work of the workers also becomes monotonous and mechanical.

The workers in the cotton ginning workshop are only responsible for stuffing the cotton into the cotton ginning machine every day, then taking out the cotton lint and packing it away.

After walking around, the two of them came to the renovated steam spinning workshop again.

Like the cotton ginning workshop, a steam engine is also installed here.

The female worker who used to be a hand-rotating spinning machine has now changed from sitting to standing.

Now, they are only responsible for walking back and forth to supervise the spinning machine.

Whenever the yarn on it breaks, they are responsible for picking it up, and the work is also much easier than before.

After inspecting the cotton yarn workshop, Liu Jun came to the terminal of the cloth industry and the weaving workshop.

Like the first two workshops, the power here is replaced by a steam engine.

Under the continuous mechanical kinetic energy, the cloth tilts out like flowing water.

After watching the entire industrial chain, Liu Jun was in a great mood.

This is the achievements of the Craftsmanship Department during this period.

Neither the Northern Expedition to Fuyu Kingdom, nor the peace talks or compensation, it had any effect on his industrial plan.

"How much is the price of our Jingzhou cloth now compared to that of Fuyu Kingdom?" Liu Jun asked.

Dumping and occupying the market means good quality and low price.

These two points have been realized after the steam engine operation.

"Only 20% of that in Fuyu Country, after all, the cost of cotton cannot be reduced, and the steam engine also needs to burn coal, and the workers' monthly money is also the worker's." Liu Xuan said.

"It's already good." Liu Jun nodded.

Currently, the best cotton cloth in Dongzhou is only five cents and silver per piece.

In other words, even if they sell one, the profit is the same as the profit of buying five taels in Fuyu Kingdom.

"Let's just use cloth to destroy the cloth industry in Fuyu Kingdom." Liu Jun said lightly.

Liu Xuan narrowed his eyes with a smile, "Yu Jin has long displayed the samples of our cloth to merchants. Now, we sell three coins to merchants, which is a big profit. Let's give them the remaining two coins."

Liu Jun did not comment and then walked towards other workshops.

In addition to the cloth industry, steam engines have also entered other civil industries.

For example, the paper industry.

In ancient times, an important reason why the poor could not afford to read books was that paper was expensive.

Unlike the contemporary luxury of using paper to wipe your butt, in this era, many scholars in this era wrote on the ground with branches in order to save paper.

For Jingzhou, with the progress of industrialization, followed by universal education and the improvement of the overall national quality.

Therefore, it is imperative to reduce the cost of education.

Based on this, he brought out the technology of long net papermaking machine that was born in the late 18th century.

This paper machine has a set of rollers in front, middle and back.

In the rolling middle flat boiler, this boiler is both responsible for powering the steam engine and drying the pulp with the heat on its surface.

When a long net like a fishing net passes through the pulp pool, the surface will be covered with a layer of pulp.

The pulp slowly moves on the boiler, and when it reaches the end, it will be dried by the heat of the boiler.

In this way, a continuous paper production system was born.

In addition, the pulp in the papermaking workshop is also made from a mixer driven by a steam engine.

Completely mechanized.

The workers in the paper mill are only responsible for supervising the entire production process.

Cut the dried paper out at the same time.

"The paper you see is mainly for writing, and the workers in the papermaking workshop are still developing the cardboard technology given by the papermaking workshop." Liu Xuan looked at everything in the papermaking workshop with great pride.

After all, although he was not good at reading books, he was a scholar after all.

Now Jingzhou can reduce the price of paper to the bargain price, which is simply to seek welfare for the scholars of the world.

After the first batch of paper appeared in the shops in Jingyang City.

This high-quality and cheap paper immediately captured the hearts of scholars.

They all took the money and bought it back in a lot, fearing that it would be gone.

The businessmen have a more sensitive nose and have already gone to the Business Department to explore the news.

Prepare to ship the paper out of Jingzhou to earn the difference.

Liu Jun is from modern times and has seen more advanced things.

Of course, he is not as excited as Liu Xuan.

However, compared to Rongchao's handmade papermaking, this efficiency is indeed amazing.

After staying in the papermaking workshop for a while, the two went to the grain processing workshop again.

This workshop is also newly established.

Next to a huge stone mill, the steam engine made a huge roar, and the stone mill turned rapidly under the steam engine.

At this time, the stone mill was grinding the wheat.

The yellow and orange wheat goes in and turns into fine white flour.

"Your Highness, my lord dares to say that this is the most delicate flour of Rongchao." Liu Xuan grabbed a handful of noodles and held it in his hand to show it to Liu Jun.

"In the past, it would be nice for the people to eat some fine noodles all year round. With this, you can eat whenever you want in the future. This requires the people to support us, and start by improving the lives of the people."

For Liu Jun, the strategic importance of this grain processing workshop is no less than that of papermaking and cloth.

In the Rong Dynasty, most people ate coarse grains.

Those who can eat fine grains are all top-notch people.

Just imagine, if everyone in Jingzhou will be able to eat fine grains in the future.

But the people have to accept this and are reluctant to leave Jingzhou.

Because just living in Jingzhou is equivalent to living a life of landlords and gentry from other states.

"This steam engine is connected to six stone mills, and it keeps going day and night. These three are flour mills, and these three are soy milk mills. Now the soy milk in the workshop is supplied to the North and South Daying." Liu Xuan pointed to the three stone mills inside.

At this time, the worker was adding soybeans mixed with water into the round hole of the stone mill.

Then white soy milk was left from the gap between the two stone mills.

Below, the soy milk in a wooden barrel is about to be full.

"Soy milk, tofu, well, it's not bad. This is also the cornerstone of ensuring the combat effectiveness of the Jingzhou Army." Liu Jun smiled happily.
Chapter completed!