Everyone was talking and discussed for a long time, but they didn't come up with a good idea. Seeing that everyone was hesitant, Zhao Peng smiled and said, "Everyone, if you have money, you will naturally make money together. My investment not only brings you financial resources, but also brings convenience to you. In the future, you will sell goods and purchase raw materials. With the banner of My Bo, it will be much more convenient to walk on the road, right?"

After hearing what Zhao Peng said, many gentry suddenly became enlightened, and more than ten people immediately stood up and expressed their willingness to let Zhao Peng invest in his textile factory with a new textile machine.

Then, Zhao Peng asked someone to open the box again. There was a new loom inside. This loom did not have any human-driven devices, but was connected by gears and shafts, and it seemed that there were other external forces to drive it.

"This is a hydroloom, driven by hydraulic power, and one can save twenty people in labor!" Zhao Peng said.

"Save twenty people!" Everyone gasped.

Immediately someone asked again: "Hydraulic drive, but our Suzhou area has neither mountains nor rivers with a large gap. How can Boye drive it?"

Zhao Peng said: "Build a textile factory, build as much as possible at the foot of the mountain, and build a dam reservoir on the mountain, which can be promoted by hydraulic power. If it is plain terrain, the loom can also be driven by animal power, such as donkeys, mules, and ox. Benbo can provide a machine with animal power, which can be driven by animal power and then drive the loom. A loom sells 100 taels of silver for a single sale and a hydraulic power machine with one hundred taels of silver. Without adding a water wheel, instead of a livestock machine, eighty taels of silver for animal power. You have animal power yourself, so you don't need Benbo to provide it."

The gentry showed a look of greed in their eyes. A loom could save twenty weavers, but only one cow was needed to replace it. A loom and animal machinery had a total of 180 silver. If you buy a cow, thirty taels of silver, a total of 210 taels of silver, which could save twenty weavers' wages. Twenty weavers would cost six hundred taels of silver a year. A set of machinery and a cow could save nearly four hundred taels of silver a year. What a cost-effective thing.

But at this time someone asked a question: "Brother Zhongyong, we have weaved so many cloths, but if these cloths have to be made into clothes, how many people will it take? Originally, a weaver would need two tailors to finish the fabric in one day. Now a weaver is equivalent to twenty people. Wouldn't it take forty tailors to finish the work?"

Zhao Peng smiled and asked the Jinyiwei to lift a killer weapon. After the Jinyiwei opened the box, a machine that no one had seen before appeared inside. The machine was a table-like desktop, and a strange machine above the table. There was a tin box under the table, and there was a foot-pedal-shaped thing under the table. Zhao Peng pointed to the machine and said, "This is a sewing machine. With this, the speed of making clothes can be greatly improved."

A Jinyiwei sat in front of the sewing machine, and another Jinyiwei took out a piece of red-bottomed floral cloth, and then cut the pattern of a piece of paper. After cutting, the cut cloth was placed on the sewing machine. The Jinyiwei sat in front of the sewing machine had already threaded the needle of the sewing machine. When the fabric was placed on the sewing machine, the Jinyiwei stepped on the pedal and pushed the fabric with the same hand. Not long after, a brand new flying fish suit was freshly released, at least five times faster than the original hand-sewn.

The gentry were stunned: "Good thing! If you have this thing, how many more clothes can you produce in a day?"

"Dear fellow villagers, we in Jiangnan want to expand production. We not only let everyone in the Ming Dynasty wear the clothes we produce in Jiangnan, but also let all countries in the Western Thais, Japan on the other side, and the New World across the ocean wear the clothes we produce in Jiangnan!" Zhao Peng opened his voice and said loudly.

"good!"

"good!"

The gentry shouted loudly.

However, the large-scale use of these machinery actually brings two serious social problems: the first is the phenomenon of silkworms eating people and cotton eating people. With the rapid development of the textile industry, more gentry will inevitably give up producing grain and use all the land to plant cotton and mulberry trees, which will lead to the phenomenon of silkworms eating people and cotton eating people; the second is that a large number of weavers are fired, lost their income, and become unemployed vagrants.

The second problem is actually not difficult to solve. If the scale of the workshop does not expand, the weaver will definitely be fired in large quantities. However, the greed of capitalists is endless. Once large factory owners with strong capital make huge profits, they will definitely try every means to expand the scale and expand reproduction, which will require more workers. When small factory owners fail in the competition, they can only declare bankruptcy and become exploited employees.

In fact, this principle is the same as the army of various countries not only did not disarmament after the birth of guns, but instead became larger in scale. At the beginning of machine guns, some military strategists believed that with the emergence of machine guns, as long as there were few people, they could maintain stronger firepower, so the war army would not need so many people in the future. However, when the machine guns were put into actual combat, they found that the number of soldiers needed was more. Because of the birth of machine guns, the dense formations could no longer be used. Instead, they were evacuated formations, and the battlefield area became wider, and the area needed to be controlled became larger, and more soldiers were needed. In addition, in order to protect their own machine guns and machine guns to deal with the enemy, more powerful heavy weapons were also invested, which required more people to ensure the use of heavy weapons. Therefore, after the machine gun was put into the battlefield, countries not only did not disarmament, but instead quickly expanded their army.

On the contrary, in the era of cold weapons and single-heat weapons, because the battlefield is narrow, it is not very meaningful to expand more troops, because the contact surface between the two sides is only a little bit, and more troops cannot be deployed. When the machine gun appears, the rate of fire increases, the range increases, the area of ​​the battlefield becomes larger and larger, and of course, the force required is more.

The relationship between industrialization and workers is the same as the relationship between machine guns and soldiers. With the development of machine guns, the number of troops has increased; and with the development of industrialization, there are more and more industrial workers.

As for the problem that grain fields have become cotton fields and mulberry forests, a large number of farmers are driven out of the land, there are actually two ways: the first is that farmers have become industrial workers; the second is to develop colonies.

To develop a colony, more soldiers are needed. Some of the farmers who lost their land become industrial workers, and the other part simply becomes soldiers who expand their territory. The development of a colony not only requires more land and resources, but the population in the colony will also become a market for the Ming Dynasty to dump goods.

With the development of industrialization, the output of various industrial products will increase, and overcapacity will arise. The best way to solve the problem of overcapacity is to open up new markets. Colonies are the best market and the best place to produce raw materials.

Zhao Peng opened a door to industrialization for the Donglin Party gentry, and at the same time had to open up the road to colonialism. In the near future, these Donglin Party gentry will become vicious capitalists, pirates and colonists. They cruelly exploit the working class internally, expand and kill people madly, open up colonies, and oppress and exploit local people in the colonies.
Chapter completed!