Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 988 The Prosperous Huating

The carriage took Liu Mu and others to the river, and then changed into a boat.

The location of the second square is the location of the Huangpu River Estuary, where the transportation conditions are more convenient, and it is not too far from the shipping terminal.

Before reaching the workshop area, Romeo opened his mouth wide in shock and was speechless.

In front of Romeo's eyes, there are tens of thousands of ships on the river and sea, and ships full of cargo are constantly lining up to enter and leave the port.He came over by boat to the Huating Military Port, but he didn't see the appearance of the Civil Port.

There were so many boats that even the waterway was overcrowded, even Cui Yiye's official boat waited in line for less than half an hour before entering the port.

After leaving the pier, Romeo couldn't understand everything in front of him.

Why are there towers that are extremely thin and tall, with white smoke coming out from the top of the towers, and they are still neatly arranged, with one at a certain distance.

Willow will not explain, and will not tell Romeo what a steam engine is.

The Tang Dynasty will not easily spread such things as steam engines, and the township of high-end machinery is related to the destiny of the country.

To put it more bluntly, a Fuso boiler worker who is responsible for adding water and coal to the boiler is half a grade higher than ordinary Tang people just because of the stainless steel badge he wears.

Everyone who comes into contact with the steam engine will check the number of generations.

Even the workers from Fusang basically lost the freedom to travel far. To travel far away requires approval from at least three government offices. Of course, they will also receive a considerable amount of confidentiality fees every month.

Datang Huating Prefecture No. [-] Textile Workshop.

All the gates are guarded by the workshop team responsible for checking everyone who enters and exits the workshop. This represents the top technology of Datang's textile industry. To countries other than Datang, every loom is like a fairy tale product.

Romeo and the Mediterranean merchants who accompanied him, only three of them were qualified to change clothes and enter the workshop, and the others could only look at it from the window.

I don't know how many huge work sheds that are one mile long and five feet wide are all made of masonry with foundation pillars, hollow bricks as walls, and two types of roofs: wooden roofs and refined steel roofs.

Even Liu Mu needs to put on a linen robe that is worn backwards, and then fasten the cuffs.

At the entrance of one of the sheds, Cui Yiye said to Romeo: "Don't make any noise after entering."

Noisy, why so loud?

After Romeo entered the shed suspiciously, he immediately yelled.

There was a scornful smile on Cui Yiye's expression, but Romeo was dumbfounded.

In his eyes, row after row of strange things made strange noises, and then quickly swallowed the cloth.Every four strange machines have a master and five assistants, a total of six people are guarding them.

There was almost no stopping, only cloth being swallowed continuously.

The steam engine first drove the textile industry, making flat-spun fine white linen. Such workshops are already the pinnacle product of Datang industry.

Listening to the continuous clicking sound, Liu Mu thought of the old TV series he had watched.

"A loom, in addition to the necessary daily maintenance, can weave [-] feet of standard width and [-] weaves of linen in a day and night. The large piece of linen in the Tang Dynasty is [-] feet, and the small piece is [-] feet. There are... three A thousand looms."

Cui Yiye said nothing more.

Romeo's so-called request for 15 bolts of linen of various colors, in Cui Yiye's view, only needs to start a new shed.

Romeo was indeed dumbfounded.

The looms in the Mediterranean are all operated by hand, and all looms are derived from the yarn weaving technology of ancient Egypt.

The width is only as wide as the arm of an adult man, and at this moment, in front of his eyes, the standard width of Tang cloth is more than twice that of the Mediterranean Sea.

The standard width of Tang is three feet three, and the widest side is six feet six. The widened ones are mostly used on fabrics such as bed sheets.

Cui Yiye waved his hand, and the stewards of several workshops took Romeo to visit in a limited area.

Cui Yiye then said to Liu Mu: "The loom technology has reached its limit, the wooden loom is completely useless, and the combination of wood and steel is gradually being eliminated. Right now, this workshop is the fewest looms in the Tang Dynasty and the top The loom is a pure steel shuttle loom. During your absence, I have been to the loom workshop in Cixi no less than twenty times."

"En!" Liu Mu just nodded.

Cui Yiye continued: "I heard from Liu Xun that in terms of the material and structure of the loom, ghost loom workers can no longer increase the speed, and can only work on stability and width. A higher level of steam The forgeloom was designed with no wood in mind, and made entirely of steel."

"Very good." Liu Mu still didn't comment.

Cui Yiye asked: "Aren't you going to say something?"

Liu Mu replied: "In fact, I don't know much about looms. Water-powered and animal-powered looms are already an improvement, and it is also an improvement to use steam engines to turn into pure steel looms. I personally think that the loom has reached a level. In the bottleneck period, as far as I know, there are still steam engines driving wooden looms."

"Yes, wooden looms are limited by their speed. Compared with pure steel looms, they are only one-tenth as efficient, but they are more than ten times faster than humans."

Liu Mu asked with a smile: "So the most excellent loom is already equivalent to the work efficiency of a hundred people?"

"It can't be reached, but twenty times is still possible, mainly because the machine weaves it wider. The seventy feet I just said is just ordinary fine white linen, or weaving yarn can be faster, weaving thick and dense linen for winter A day and a night is at most forty feet."

Forty feet is a lot. On average, one machine can weave 40 meters per shift, and it is dense and thick. Liu Mu knows that this is already faster than the weaving speed during the Industrial Revolution.

"What's the price of linen recently?"

"Low, pitifully low. But because of the high efficiency of the loom, the profit is astonishing. When we first met, the fine linen was 440 to [-] cash a piece. It was forty feet long and one foot and eight inches wide. Now forty One foot long, three feet three inches wide, the market price is eighty Wen."

Eighty renminbi a piece of cloth, no one can imagine this price in the six years of Wude.

But in fact, Bashiwen is the market price, the retail price in the market, which is the price of middle and high-end fine linen, and it is still colored.

Cui Yiye said again: "The price of the floral cloth is a bit higher, but not too high, about 110 Wen."

"Very good. Your cost is not much." Liu Mu probably knew the cost in his heart.

"Yes. I have calculated the raw materials and labor of a piece of cloth, plus the latest accounting calculation called machinery and other cost depreciation, which is more than 20 yuan, plus taxes, etc., will not exceed [-] yuan. .The cost of printing and dyeing is different depending on the color, ten Wen is enough."

(End of this chapter)