C110 Acquisition

"Young master, are you alright?" Zhuo Wangsun walked over and asked Xiao Wen in concern.

Xiao Wen shook his head. Because of his scientific fitness, his physical strength had increased significantly in the past few months. When he fought the malnourished Guo Xiong, he didn't even have the slightest bit of breath left.

The greatest exhaustion was from following Guo Xiong's sword movements, and the mental energy he expended from constantly dodging danger.

He said to Zhuo Wangsun: "Help me pick up Guo Xiong's sword sheath."

He paused for a moment and looked at the trough on the sword that had already been filled with flowing blood. The treasured sword once again regained its clean and bright appearance, and said: "This sword is a good sword, it is worth my collection."

At the same time, a hundred meters away in a two-story restaurant, a petite figure in a long black robe watched as Zhuo Wangsun picked up the scabbard.

She sat on the restaurant's railing, kicking her little feet. She had a relaxed smile on her face, as if she was an outsider.

"It looks like that piece of trash Guo Xiong has still failed." As expected, this fellow had no cultivation value after all. "Forget it, forget it. It's just a small toy anyway. If it's dead, then it's dead."

She took the cup on the table behind her and looked at the soy milk. Her small face revealed a vexed expression as she said, "This shop owner is quite vexed. He actually said that I'm too young to drink."

However, she looked at the ice inside, and then looked at Xiao Wen who was holding a sword at his waist, and said: "This Young Master is truly interesting!"

As we all know, Jenny Spinning Machine is a kind of machine that can greatly increase spinning speed. Although it was still in the range of manpower operation, its efficiency was much higher than the spinning machines in the past.

Even if Xiao Wen didn't read the books in the super library, with his high school history, he knew that Hargreaves's Jeanne spinning machine was an important part of the first industrial revolution.

The invention of Jenny's spinning machine was actually a legend and a coincidence.

One day in 1764, James Hargreaves, a Lancashire textile worker, came home in the evening and accidentally knocked over the spinning machine his wife was using.

His first thought was to straighten the spinning machine. However, when he bent down, he was suddenly stunned.

He saw that the spinning machine was still spinning, but the originally horizontal spindle had now become upright.

He suddenly thought: if several spindles were arranged vertically and driven by a single spinning wheel, wouldn't they be able to spin even more yarn at once?

Hargreaves was so excited that he immediately tried it, and the next day he made a new spinning machine that used a spinning wheel to drive eight vertical spindles.

So that year, Hargreaves produced a new and epoch-making spinning machine, named for his daughter, the famous Jeanne Spinning Machine.

Since he failed to apply for a patent that year, he had to make his own "Jeanne Machine" to make money.

The Jeanne Machine was not only more efficient, but the quality of the yarn it produced was also better, so that Hargreaves had a good business and the Jeanne Machine was spreading.

However, in the wake of the British Industrial Revolution, large numbers of landless farmers poured into the cities to make a living for the owners of the factories.

At that time, the British occupied India as a colony, India's cotton textile products are cheap, the sales of a period of time, triggered the prosperity of the native British cotton industry.

However, due to the invention of the shuttle technology by Kaye, the mechanical worker, the productivity of the weaving machinery was greatly increased. The cotton yarn needed for weaving still relied on the spinning wheels of many handicrafts.

"Therefore, the supply of cotton yarn is short of demand and the purchase price is relatively high." The invention of the Jeanne Machine caused the production of cotton yarn to rise, and thus, the price of cotton yarn bought by the weaving factory fell.

Those who did not use the "Jenny machine" not only had low production, but also cotton yarn could not be sold for a good price.

So one night, after dinner, while the Hargreaves were talking about the growing affluence brought to them by the Jeanne Machine, a clatter of footsteps came to his doorstep.

Then the door burst open, and a group of angry men and women rushed in.

Without a word, they destroyed all the "Jeanne Machine" they had made in the house: "Go to hell with the harming machines you have made!" Someone even set fire to Hargreaves's house.

The two of them were driven out of the town of Lancashire.

The Hargreaves had to live on the streets of Nottingham, but they worked hard to improve the Jeanne Machine.

Four years later, in 1768, Hargreaves finally got a patent on the Jeanne Machine, and in the same year opened a spinning workshop in Nottingham in partnership with others.

Although Jenny has many difficulties in another time and space, but this situation is based on the fact that many people, including many of the lower class citizens, have their own interests, and their own relative lack of productivity.

In this time and space, the Chinese textile industry is relatively behind other countries.

Weak textile industry, so that Xiao Wen's competitors only exist abroad, not in the Han state, does not exist in the Yunzhong County.

Therefore, Xiao Wen wasn't afraid of getting in the way of others. If someone really was blind and tried to harm Xiao Wen because of his actions, Liu Bang would be able to solve the problem without Xiao Wen even needing to do anything.

After all, as emperor, Liu Peng naturally didn't want the country's textiles to be imported.

Although Xiao Wen was very clear on the value of Jenny's Machine, he was the only person in this world who possessed such foresight.

When Xiao Wen, accompanied by Zhuo Wangsun, arrived at the carpenter workshop the next day, the carpenter frowned.

"Mister Xiao, I feel that it's better if you don't ask us to order this item in the near future." The carpenter's name was Niu Zhuang. He looked at Xiao Wen's drawing and frowned.

"Is the price not enough?" Xiao Wen asked.

Niu Zhuang shook his head and said, "Money is not a problem. In fact, we've been operating at a loss lately. "

"Business loss?" Hearing Niu Zhuang's unfathomable words, Xiao Wen didn't understand what was going on. He asked back, "Since it's a loss operation, aren't you short on money?"

Niu Zhuang said, "You don't understand me, Mr Xiao."

He pointed at the carpenter's workshop behind him, where the carpenters and apprentices were working nonstop.

"Because of the sudden death of Master He Wu, the carpenter's workshop that was run by him was now in a precarious situation. If we want to run this business, we have to give our original customers confidence. To that end, we have been trying to get our customers to continue to support us through the loss-making business. "

Hearing Niu Zhuang's explanation, Xiao Wen finally understood the reason.

Just like Zhuo Wangsun, the death of He Shen also attacked this carpenter's workshop.

The connection that He Heshen had formed was suddenly severed due to He Heshen's death. This caused many of the old customers of the carpenter's workshop to lose their confidence in the carpenter's workshop.

In order to let these customers choose their own workshops, Niu Zhuang chose to accept orders at a loss, to strengthen the relationship with the customers of the past.

He believed that the recent losses were only for the sake of survival. Once this period of time had passed, this workshop would definitely be reborn, turning the losses into profits.

"What you lack right now is only the protection of a backer. Am I right?" Xiao Wen asked.

"That's right." Niu Zhuang looked at Xiao Wen, he also knew that he had Uncle Li's platform behind him.

When Xiao Wen asked this question, Niu Zhuang suddenly had an idea.

If possible, it would be a good choice to rely on Uncle Li.

"Mr. Zhuo." After hearing Niu Zhuang's words, Xiao Wen politely said to Zhuo Wangsun: "Help me make the arrangements. I want to rent this workshop out."

There was no patent office in this era to protect anyone's patents, so it was normal to copy someone else's technology.

If Xiao Wen couldn't monopolize the production of Jenny's spinning machine, then sooner or later, Xiao Wen would be eaten by those plagiarists.

Thus, having a craftsman's workshop of his own was an extremely important matter to Xiao Wen.