At this time, someone came out and sent a booklet to everyone present, which gave a brief introduction to the working principle of the steam engine. It was actually a talk book, which also listed the price of the steam engine, the cost of installation, debugging and consumption, as well as the efficiency comparison between the steam engine and the traditional hand-made loom, so as to obtain the actual increase in the working rate after using the steam engine.////

Everyone was not interested in the working principle of the steam engine, but they were very concerned about the data listed later, because these data were also obtained after testing by Song Yingxing and others. They were very comprehensive and detailed. They were not easy to take a few glances, but simply calculated.

After receiving the slogan book, everyone was reading it carefully and asked the on-site staff from time to time. At the same time, some people were asking each other whether they were interested in buying a few steam engines. Seeing that everyone in the factory had a keen interest in steam engines, Shang Yi was also very happy. This first event held with the steam engine also achieved its original goal, which left a deep impression on everyone.

Although China had begun to tend to be conservative in politics in the Ming Dynasty, it still maintained a considerable openness as it reached an unprecedented level of external flow, which was far less conservative and closed than two hundred years later. Therefore, at this stage, China's thoughts, science and technology, culture and other aspects have made great progress. Although it was not able to break through the shackles of tradition in the end, it reached the highest peak in ancient China. It can be said that it had accumulated enough quantitative change and reached the edge of breaking through the qualitative change. Shang Yi just hoped to use the historical development direction he had mastered to promote it. Let's see if it could promote a qualitative change in China.

The use of steam engines is of course an important step. Because applying steam engines to production is the first time in the process of production development to obtain a stable source of power, which transforms manual production to machine production, and the development of workshop-style production to real factory-style production not only improves production efficiency and creates greater profits, but more importantly, it has fundamentally changed the social quality and developed a truly independent working class.

From the current perspective, in order to expand foreign trade, in addition to achieving direct trade with Japan and Manila, another important condition is that it also needs to provide enough goods. Shangyi’s overseas brand is silk. Although silk has always had good sales overseas, overall, it is still a medium- and high-end product. If the price of silk is not reduced, the potential to expand market share is limited. However, if the price of silk is not reduced, the production efficiency must be improved. However, if the price of silk is reduced, the increase must be improved. Using traditional manual methods is also limited, and machinery must be cited.

In addition, Shang Yi also hopes to use the silk industry to further promote the use of steam engines to the whole society. At this time, the Chinese are not conservative and do not disperse new things. As long as they see that they can bring real benefits to themselves, they can be accepted and used.

However, although everyone present had a strong interest in the steam engine, it was just an interest. Some people asked about the price and ordering cycle of the steam engine, but they were all just intentions. Not many people really wanted to buy it. In fact, everyone has this kind of mentality, let’s look at it for a few months first. If the New Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory really uses the steam engine well, it would not be too late for us to use it again.

Of course, Shang Yi also hopes that just by looking at the demonstration, everyone will rush to buy steam engines and realize China's industrial revolution. You must know that after almost one hundred years, Britain alone, it took more than a hundred years to be completely completed. Moreover, in today's Chinese society, business competition is not so fierce. It is not yet time to pursue profits, most merchants have a steady attitude, and they don't show off their eagles without seeing a rabbit, so it is inevitable to wait and see.

After more than half an hour, the freshness became overwhelming, and some people began to get a little tired and said goodbye. Lin Chen also told them that all steam textiles are open to the outside world, and if you want to visit, you can do it anytime.

After everyone dispersed, Shang Yi also recruited Song Yingxing and others to praise their hard work during this period, which made the steam engine application launch conference a successful success. At the same time, Shang Yi also made demands for Song Yingxing to continue to improve production efficiency.

In fact, after addition and reduction, the use of steam engines can roughly double the efficiency of silk making and increase the efficiency of spinning three to four times. But overall, the increase is not large. Although this improvement is very rare in this era, it does not have the jumping development speed after the use of mechanical production in later generations. Shang Yi knew that after the first industrial revolution began, production efficiency was developing at a speed of several times.

The main reason for the small increase in work efficiency is that the steam engine is not powered enough. The silk factory is still using Nuremberg steam engines, not the steam engines of the Watt era. The power is only five to seven horsepower. A steam engine can only drive at most two to three looms and four to five spinning wheels, so it can only reach the current level. In addition, textile tools such as looms and spinning machines have room for further improvement.

Song Yingxing had long thought of this, because when installing the steam engine, he and the technical team had discovered the loom. There were several places to improve the spinning machine, but because there was not enough time, and the focus this time was on displaying the application of the steam engine, not the new loom or spinning machine, so they were not moved.

Now that the steam engine has achieved its effect, the next step is to improve these textile tools. Therefore, Song Yingxing also decided to leave this research team in Suzhou, stay in a silk factory for a long time, and be responsible for improving and improving textile tools. There are seven people in this technical team, Yang Xu, a student of Song Yingxing, who is fully responsible. The rest are technicians involved in the manufacturing of steam engines, and the other four are technicians who transform textile tools.

According to Song Yingxing's estimate, if the textile tools are improved in about two to three years and the power of the steam engine can be further improved and increased, the production efficiency of the textile industry can be more than doubled.

Shang Yi did not doubt this. First, he was on the drawings of the Watt steam engine at hand, and as long as he improved it in this direction, avoiding the bending of many mo ropes. The effect of the Watt steam engine is three to four times that of the Nuremberg steam engine. Shang Yi did not seek to reach the level of the Watt steam engine completely, but only half of the power reached more than ten horsepower, which is quite considerable.

In addition, in terms of textile tools, Shang Yi also invented various textile tools in order to improve textile efficiency in the early days of the Industrial Revolution, such as the famous Feiling, Jenny, mule machines, etc. Although these are tools produced a hundred years later, with the current production technology level, it can completely copy it for more than 90%. It was just that the war was urgent some time ago, and Shang Yi could not increase investment in technical research. Now he can launch a comprehensive technological innovation.

Shang Yi also expressed his full support for Song Yingxing's arrangement for the research team to stay in the silk factory, and asked Lin Chen to arrange accommodation and test studios for the technical team, and provide all conditions and cooperate with them. At the same time, a special reward fund was established for them, so that as long as the work efficiency could be significantly improved, they could get bonuses.

At the same time, Shang Yi also thought that it is not enough to rely on his own efforts to improve production technology, because there are only a few tool drawings of the symbol of the industrial revolution in his own materials, which cannot contain all aspects of social production. Therefore, if you want to improve the overall production level of society, you must mobilize the strength of the whole society. In other words, you must give full play to the intelligence and talents of all working people.

Shang Yi is a modern person, of course, knows that science and technology are the primary productive forces, and they also value production technology very much. However, in traditional Chinese concepts, science and technology are not valued. In the arrangement of the four people, the status of craftsmen is only higher than that of merchants and is not as good as farmers. Many ancient Chinese scientists conducted scientific research out of their own interests and took this as their profession, and there were almost no one.

But it takes enough time to change this concept. After Shang Yi took over Zhejiang, he also made a lot of efforts, not only winning over a group of ancient scientists such as Song Yingxing and Sun Heding, but also established institutions such as the University of Technology, Research Institutes, etc. to cultivate and discover technical talents and improve the status of craftsmen. However, this can only mobilize a small number of people. It is far from enough to mobilize the strength of the whole society.

Therefore, Shang Yi is also considering that he can establish patent applications for inventions, so that those folk scientists who are dedicated to researching technology can get rewards and inspire the positive development of folk inventions.

After Shang Yi told Song Yingxing about his plan, Song Yingxing also agreed with Shang Yi's decision, because Song Yingxing had a deep understanding of this. Although he wrote the work of "Natural Works" after he wrote it, it was not valued, and he had no money to publish it. If he had not met Shang Yi, he would not have known until the Year of the Monkey and Horse Month.
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