Chapter 43 The Industrial Revolution
In fact, it is better to say it is a notice than a notice. Because Zandalalid and Rastaha have signed the contract. Allies have been found, so it is certain to send troops.
On Zandala Island, Li De had sought Nibule's opinion on this matter, and Nibule's attitude towards the matter was in favor of it. But the problem is that in addition to humans and trolls, Hanhai Protector also has goblins. Knicks is the technical director, and he cannot represent Nogferge's attitude.
However, what surprised Li De was that Nogferge was just pondering and thinking, but instead the first person to express his opinion was Hagad.
"Protector, I have no choice but to return to my hometown to fight against the orcs. But from a rational perspective, our development has just been on the right track. If we want to join the war again, it will be difficult to recruit young and strong men to join the army except for our regular army of the Hundred-Man team. Our population is too small."
The 100-man regular army mentioned by Hagad refers to the soldiers of the human race, and he also made a speech from the perspective of the human race. Because in his opinion, the war on another continent is a war of the human race, and he is not qualified to express his opinion on the trolls and goblins.
But what Hagad didn't expect was that his words angered someone.
"Minister Hagad, I don't like to hear what you said! Are you treating us trolls as outsiders?! If we hadn't been taken in by the Protector, we would have died at the hands of Antusul! How could we regain the tradition of Loa like today and live a good life?!
Now the Protector is in need of help. Will the Sand Troll forget their past kindness? No matter what enemy it is, I, Angegagu, will never be vague! No one of the Sand Trolls 1,000 regular troops are cowards!"
Angegagu's call was powerful. Although it was not really an objection to Hagad, it also conveyed a message: the Hanhai Protector is a whole, and everyone performs their duties. As the chief of civil affairs, Hagad surpassed them as military supervisors on military issues to express the human position, which is somewhat inappropriate.
Nibule and Brad looked at each other, and both signaled Angegagu not to worry. Then they also conveyed the attitude of the Ministry of Military Affairs to Li De through their eyes.
But no one spoke any more, because everyone present knew that the most important thing at the moment was Nogferg's attitude.
Thinking of this, Nibule couldn't help but complain about Angegagu's impatientness. His words just now made it look like the human race and the trolls were forced to express their opinions.
Of course, even if you complain in your heart, Niebull would not reveal it in the venue. Some words were the same in your heart, but if you say them, they would have the same meaning.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Nogferg, who had not spoken for a long time, sighed and spoke.
“I know that Dugu’s plan to participate in the war is tied to the immigration plan.
Now that the war on the Eastern Kingdoms continent has entered its final stage, it is the best time for us to join the war now: the war will end soon and will not consume too much energy.
And once we win the war, it will be of great benefit to us; even if we lose the war, we, who are in another continent, have unlimited room for maneuver.
What's more, we have won the ally of Zandala. It can be said that we have huge strategic advantages, and everyone who makes this decision must agree to participate in the war.
I agree with your proposal to join the war, but in the end I still want to remind you to protect you.
As the leader of the Hanhai Protector, you naturally have the highest decision-making power. But please don’t forget that the Hanhai Protector is the result of the joint efforts of the three tribes. The arbitrary habit of acting is not a good thing for our development.”
Li De stood up solemnly and made a sincere and positive statement towards Nogfog's words.
"Thank you for your trust in me. What we are going to participate in is a just war that is in line with our interests. At the same time, I promise you that before making major decisions, we must first pass discussions at the highest meeting, which will form a clear system."
After getting the answer that satisfies himself, Nogferge no longer struggles with this moment and instead proposes to Li De again that since he has decided to join the war, he should plan a part of the workshop and do his best to do his best to participate in the war.
Li De deeply agrees with this. Now with the guidance of Loa, the 2,000 young and idle young people in Zulfarak who are doing nothing can finally be put into production.
In the next period of time, Hanhai Dupu’s production capacity will usher in a wave of explosion:
With sufficient human resources, technology, raw materials and currency, an internal circulation can be formed. The internal circulation is based on the purchase of large quantities of grain and other daily necessities from Kezan. Next, as long as the market of Kezan can be opened with commodities, an external circulation can be formed in foreign trade.
This is the so-called dual circulation, and the Hanhai Protector can achieve real economic takeoff.
At this point, the meeting finally ended successfully. Just as the show was about to end, Li De called everyone.
"Everyone, don't forget that we have an agreement with Jenny."
Nogfog was a little helpless. He thought Li De had forgotten about this. He could only get up and say that he would bring his daughter from the next door. In such a short distance, he still told his daughter not to talk nonsense.
When Jenny made the "spinning wheel" and placed it in front of everyone, many people subconsciously shook their heads. Rather than a spinning wheel, it was a toy for children. It was just a simple roller that drove three rotating shafts and used a plywood instead of hands to arrange the fibers.
Jenny shaking the roller with one hand, driving the three spindles to rotate, while the other hand twitches the plyboard back and forth, controlling the arranged fibers to twist into yarn at high speed rotation.
"This kind of thing has little practical significance. It seems that multiple threads can be controlled through plywood and can free up both hands, but in fact, plywood cannot control the arrangement of fibers like hands. The threads spun are uneven in thickness and the quality does not meet the standards at all."
The little girl was very dissatisfied with what Nogfog said, but Li De said with a smile.
"Why do we those who don't know how to do things behind closed doors? Please come and have a look at the professionals."
Soon Primillo invited Giorgio Polilo, who was working, to come over.
"Mr. Polilo, a child here said that she has invented a more efficient spinning machine. Are you interested in giving us some comments?"
Giorgio was happy when he saw Jenny. Recently, this little girl often went to his workshop to watch him spinning, and they had long been old acquaintances.
"I know that Little Jenny's invention is very good, but there are many problems in actual operation. The plywood cannot be used like a hand, and the arrangement of fibers can be adjusted at any time. The thread spun cannot be made into cloth."
Nogferge, who has been supported by Giorgio, is very happy.
"We shouldn't waste time on this matter," said professionals.
After saying that, Nogferge also persuaded his daughter.
"Give up, your invention won't work. Goblins are never a race that is good at textiles. You should spend your time in meaningful places, such as inheriting my mantle and learning real engineering."
The little girl refuted without any backfire.
"As long as I comb the fibers as smooth as possible in the early stage, I don't need to adjust them at any time with my hands."
Everyone looked at Giorgio again, and the senior tailor said after thinking about it.
"It's still not realistic. If the fibers are to be able to operate as a plywood, it takes a lot of time to sort out. With the time spent on sorting out, I've spun a lot of threads."
"But I can spin three threads at the same time. As long as I start spinning the thread, I can quickly recover the preparation time I spent before!"
This time, Jenny said immediately before anyone else asked.
Seeing that no one was convinced by the current situation, Li De finally spoke.
"It's better to have a game and practice it to achieve true knowledge. Since neither side has regressed, let Mr. Georgio compete with Little Jenny and speak with facts."
Hearing this, everyone's reactions were different. Little Jenny cheered happily, Nogferge and several other relatively older ones shook their heads and sighed, and Georgio Poliro couldn't help but smile bitterly:
‘What’s the matter with this… I’ll pull me at work to coax the child…’
The competition was chosen as the workshop. Little Jenny sat on a small bench and tinkered with her spinning machine with confidence. Georgio sat in front of two spinning wheels without expression.
Li Deze serves as the referee of this game:
"Sitting to my left is Mr. Georgio's artificial team, and to my right is Little Jenny's machine team. In order to ensure the fairness of the game, both of them are now using half a pound of cotton that has been initially desealed. Now both sides have one minute to prepare, and the game officially begins when I put my hands down."
The others stood behind him and looked at Li De in confusion, thinking that there were so many jobs in the Protectorate, so why did he still have such a great fun?
As Li De put down his hand, both of them began to operate. Little Jenny grabbed a ball of cotton from the bucket and put it on the needle board to work hard to combed the cotton fibers.
In contrast, Giorgio took out two balls of cotton from the bucket, rubbed it after some rubbing, pulled out two thread tips from the sliver, and hit the spindle on the spindle, and stepped on the pedal rhythmically, and the flywheel began to rotate quickly and slowly.
Giorgio's hands changed directions back and forth as the spindle rotated, and soon stretched out two long lines. Sitting in front of the spinning wheel was like directing a performance, which seemed particularly pleasing to the eye.
At this time, everyone looked at the little girl again. After several minutes, Jenny sorted out three regular tampons, clamped them on the wooden board and finally started spinning. Jenny shook the flywheel a little clumsyly, and pushed and pulled the plywood at the same time.
During the whole process, there were several times during the operation that the wire was broken due to Jenny's improper operation. She had to stop the operation and connect the wire before continuing.
After more than forty minutes, Georgio successfully spun half a pound of cotton into several bundles of threads, and placed neatly on the side. But looking at Little Jenny, there were less than half of the cotton used, and dozens of twists of thread were wrapped around the three spindles, and the rest were still half-finished hanging on the plyboard.
The result is obvious that Little Jenny lost quite completely, but many people had a thoughtful expression on their faces.
Li De took three volumes of half-finished products from Xiao Zhenni's spinning machine and distributed them to everyone to show. The quality of this thread is definitely not as good as that of Georgio, but it is also above the standard thread.
No one pointed to such a rusty little girl, better than Georgio, a senior tailor with a skillful technique. But the competition just now confirmed that Jenny's invention can really spin a qualified thread, and this is just a little girl. If this prototype is improved and replaced by an adult, can it really beat Georgio Poliro?
"Don't be discouraged, you've done a good job. If you improve it, you will definitely do better."
Polilo left his seat and comforted Little Jenny. He didn't plan to compete with a child seriously, but the speed just now was still with him being let go. Now, as a "winner", he certainly wants to coax the child.
But at this moment, Li De suddenly asked a question.
"Mr. Polilo, if you can help you process a large number of pressed regular tampons in advance, will it help you spin the speed?"
Just now, Polilo saw what Little Jenny had done, so of course he could understand what Li De was saying.
"I'm afraid not. For me, no matter how many tampons I prefabricated in advance, I ended up just using my hands. My spinning speed only depends on my hands.
Of course, it would be helpful if it was applied to this machine. If I had processed a large number of tampons in advance, I think even an ordinary worker could have the speed of spinning to my level after practice."
Polilo had no dark idea of losing his job after the improvement and popularization of this machine. His first identity was a tailor. If he could save the cumbersome textile process and have a large amount of cloth for him to dress, he would not have time to be happy.
Everyone was jealous when they heard that this thing could help ordinary workers reach the level of Polilo. Although the premise was to build a machine for processing tampons, as long as there were enough new spinning machines and enough skilled workers to train, the cost paid in the early stage could be offset.
Little Jenny looked at Polilo with even more joy. She almost thought she had heard it wrong, and her "opponent" actually supported her.
Only Li De shook his head. Everyone present, including the inventor Xiao Zhenni, still had little understanding of this machine and did not realize what its appearance meant.
"It's small, the pattern is small. Since you have freed your hands, why do you have to put only three spindles? Why not build a spinning machine that can drive dozens or even hundreds of spindles on this basis?"
This sentence scared everyone, and at the same time, it spun dozens or hundreds of spinning spindles? How much output does this have?!
"This is impossible..."
Polilo shook his head subconsciously.
"How much force does it take to drive so many spindles? Human power can't do it."
Li De smiled.
"Why do we need to use manpower? If we have built such a large machine, we naturally need to change to a stronger power, such as... a steam engine?"
Nogfog seemed to have a layer of obstacle in his mind being penetrated, and his eyes suddenly became clear.
"Minister Nogferg, Dean Bigwiz, a tampon pressing machine and a steam-powered spinning machine are not difficult for goblin technology, right?"
For a race who can knock on mechas by hand, this kind of thing is simply a pediatrician. The two of them patted their chests and said in annoyance.
"It turns out that the truth is that simple, why didn't we think of it long ago?!"
Li De walked over and picked up Little Zhenni.
"I just said that the child has unparalleled creativity, and this is also thanks to Little Jenny for broadening my thinking."
This was why Nogfrog couldn't help but look at his daughter with shame, but then a look of pride appeared on his face. While Nogfrog was proud of his daughter, a grand plan appeared in his mind.
If steam-powered spinning machines can be realized, the cost of the textile industry will be reduced to an unimaginable level. With such a low cost, Nogferg is confident that he will destroy the textile market around the world!
On such an ordinary afternoon, the industrial revolution began!
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Chapter completed!