Mao Yuanyi responded and hurriedly ordered people to continue adding coal to the large, bulky-looking boiler.

Not long after, Zhu Youxiao heard the creaking sound, and then he saw dozens of spindles arranged vertically on the Ming Dynasty spinning machine running rapidly under the spinning wheel.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but give Mao Yuanyi a thumbs up. Although the research of the Royal Academy does not pursue economic benefits, as long as there is an epoch-making achievement, especially this invention that can liberate human hands is enough to bring him countless wealth to Zhu Youxiao.

For the Jenny spinning machine, since it is not difficult to manufacture, it only adds spinning wheels and improves spindle devices, so that the shuttle becomes indirect mechanical force driven by human power, so it was already manufactured by You Laosan before this.

However, before I could promote it, Mao Yuanyi added more convenient mechanical power to it. In this way, the Ming version of Jenny spinning machine will be far more than that of the UK more than a century later.

Zhu Youxiao could not imagine what kind of concept this is. He could even imagine that once this spinning machine is applied, the textile industry revolution brought about is absolutely unprecedented.

Zhu Youxiao still remembers the words he said in his New Year greetings published in major newspapers and magazines during the eighth year of the Tianqi period. One of the contents was to ensure that every Ming people could have clothes and food within five years.

"Now it seems that the goal of making everyone in the world with clothes can at least be achieved," Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sigh, and Mao Yuanyi also echoed: "Yes, in the past, a weaver needed more than ten spinners to help, but even so, he couldn't weave much all day. Now, as long as he has this machine, he can save more manpower, and weave more cloth, and more manpower goes home to farm, and more cloth is used to make clothes, and food and clothing can be achieved."

After hearing what Mao Yuanyi said, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile, thinking that this was not the purpose of Mao Yuanyi's painstaking efforts to develop this steam-powered spinning machine, so that more people in the market can go home to farm and become farmers.

Although his ideas are a bit naive, they are considered to be the same destination. After all, everyone is trying to make the people have clothes and food. Zhu Youxiao didn't say much, but just ordered Xu Guangqi, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Works, to register patents for Mao Yuanyi and other teams immediately. Since they have made such a great contribution, Zhu Youxiao naturally cannot treat them unfairly. In addition to rewarding money and official titles, he naturally wants to let them enjoy the benefits of invention. This benefit is naturally a patent.

Before this, Zhu Youxiao told Xu Guangqi what patents are and why there are patents. Eight years ago, Bi Maokang and Old Man Li of the Ordnance Department became the first recipients of patents. Because they made flintlock rifles, they can now receive more than a thousand taels of patent benefits from the Ordnance Department every month.

Seeing that His Majesty had asked Xu Guangqi to apply for a patent for him, Mao Yuanyi was overjoyed. He naturally understood that once the patent was registered successfully, he would be able to collect a lot of money even if he sat at home in the future.

He has no doubts about whether his patent can bring so much money, because he has a textile workshop at home, and he is very clear about the benefits this machinery brings to the textile industry.

Xu Guangqi also laughed and said, "That's how there will be no hunger within three years." Then, Xu Guangqi said to Zhu Youxiao again, "Why don't your Majesty give this new loom name in person?"

"Zhisheng is Gui'an, and you invented this new loom, so you named it Gui'an loom, which means the world's Gui'an loom," Zhu Youxiao said to Mao Yuanyi again:

"Since this Gui'an machine is built, you have to use it quickly. I ordered someone to seal the secret order. Then you will bring all the technical information to Gong Yonggu. He is now the general manager of the Royal Industrial Company. He is going to go to Nanjing to negotiate a glass order business. You go with him and give the secret order to Wei Zhongxian. You two will immediately open a textile factory for me in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. I will make another large amount of silver from pirates like Zheng Zhilong. These days, in order to help the people of the north, I have purchased a lot of high-priced grain from them, and made them make a lot of money. Now it is time for us to make it back."

After Zhu Youxiao said this, Xu Guangqi couldn't help but reminded: "Your Majesty is afraid that Brother Mao's family originally opened a silk weaving workshop."

"Since that's the case, Mao Yuanyi, you will set up a royal weaving factory like Gong Yonggu, based on your own industry. Your Mao family owns ten and you take one, and you take one by twenty and the rest will be returned to the court. At the same time, you are directly responsible for Jiangning Weaving. What do you think?"

After hearing what Zhu Youxiao said, Mao Yuanyi was overjoyed. He naturally knew that on the surface, he seemed to be unconditional in giving his family's property to His Majesty, but in fact, it was the wealth and honor given to his Mao family by His Majesty. In other words, his Mao family will become the Imperial Merchants from today.

"I thank Your Majesty for your kindness!" After Mao Yuanyi bowed deeply, Zhu Youxiao asked him to go down and prepare immediately.

Seeing Mao Yuanyi's face full of spring, Zhu Youxiao was not surprised. People are selfish and their pursuit of fame and fortune is normal. As long as a gentleman loves money and gets it well, it is worth encouraging.

However, it is worth mentioning that due to the progress of various reforms, the legal income of all officials has also increased significantly.

Technical officials can make countless money on patents, and those who are scholars or are not interested in natural sciences can also earn royalties by publishing articles in major newspapers and media.

The emergence of newspapers almost completely fits the social atmosphere that was originally easy to argue in the Ming Dynasty, and it immediately became an indispensable way of entertainment and entertainment in people's daily lives and the main channel for obtaining information.

Even most people like to use their spare money to buy a newspaper and let people who are literate nearby. After all, what His Majesty the emperor did is very new to them.

Advertisements have even begun to appear, and some people will ask some officials to leave messages in newspapers to recommend whose four treasures of the study are good, whose girls are all-round, etc.

The reason for hiring officials is that almost all famous figures in this era are talented people, and measuring talented people is naturally fame, and most of those with fame are officials. Therefore, officials have an additional income, namely the endorsement fee.

Of course, not only officials, but also some talented scholars or juren, as well as some talented young prostitutes or girls who are a little talented, have become more popular because of the emergence of newspapers.

Of course, the most profitable one is the newspaper. Now, both the Beijing Express of the Ministry of Rites and the Daming Daily, the eunuchs's office in Nandong, have added a lot of inputs to the Zhu Youjiao's treasury. Some local officials have also begun to run local newspapers gradually, and even some merchants who already sell books and print have opened private newspapers.

Local finance has also improved, and some new media operators have begun to emerge.

Zhu Youxiao did not stop this. It was not a bad thing to make the Ming Dynasty cultural industry active. When one day, it began to explicitly stipulate that commercial taxes could be collected.
Chapter completed!