Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 332 I Super, Yuan Dynasty Level

However, although it felt strange, Guo Kang didn't stay in a daze for too long.He doubted for a moment, and he didn't know if this speculation was appropriate, let alone how to deal with it.

Guo Kang felt that he couldn't beat her by playing tricks.So, after hesitating for a while, I decided to lie flat and forget about it!
She can be whatever she likes, anyway, it will end up with someone like Tuo Huan.If it doesn't work, I will run to the east by myself.Anyway, there is nowhere to go...

It is said that before Babur went to India, he was once disheartened and wanted to go to the East to seek refuge in the Ming Dynasty.It can be seen that this kind of idea is not accidental, and it should be really feasible.

Thinking of this, Guo Kang strengthened his determination to lie flat.He took out a thin book and handed it to Lama Wang: "This is the plan I conceived before, Patriarch, please take a look."

In public, he gave Wang Da Lama a lot of face, and the other party was also very happy, and praised repeatedly: "It turns out that this time I have prepared it. Let's take a look. Mr. Guo's plan must be very suitable. .”

"It's actually nothing this time, it's just a very rough calculation." Guo Kang said: "There are still a lot of parts that need to be filled in when new land is opened up in the future. Let's just take these for now."

Lama Wang nodded, opened the brochure, and told everyone, "This is a plan about planting cotton and weaving cotton cloth."

"Is this part of the Reformation of the Church?" Father Andre asked.

"It can be considered." Guo Kang told him: "This is my idea, part of the plan to incorporate the nuns."

Not only Father Andre, but others also became curious and asked him how he planned to arrange it.And Guo Kang also explained.

“Didn’t we say before that the biggest problem is how to feed so many people?” he said. “We just try to make these people self-sufficient.”

"So you chose this industry, right?" Lama Wang understood, "It's not bad. This is indeed a job suitable for women."

"But can this support themselves?" Father Mikhail expressed doubts: "Weaving can only be used as a supplement to life. Except for a few skilled hands, most women cannot rely on this to make a living."

"That's because the equipment is not good." Guo Kang told him: "As long as it is improved, it is easy to improve efficiency. My calculations are used to demonstrate these."

"Oh, improving all kinds of textile machinery, right?" Da Lama Wang was not surprised, he thought about this again: "This should be feasible."

"We also have cotton." Father Leo, who often patrols, thought for a while and said, "It is true that there are not many cotton growers in Europe, but it just so happens that the only large-scale cotton-growing area is in Greece. So you two It's normal to be familiar."

"There are also plants in Xiaoya." Guo Kang said: "In addition, Egypt and Syria are also important production areas. It is not too troublesome for us to transport them from there."

"Yeah." Da Lama Wang nodded, and took notes: "This can be considered as a solution... What about the cost of the machine?"

"It won't be too high. For single use, it can be controlled at a level that ordinary families can afford." Guo Kang said: "As for large ones, it depends on the address."

"Can you design it?" Wang Da Lama asked.

"I don't need to design this, it is available in Ming Dynasty and Java now." Guo Kang told him: "Of course, if you can't get it from there, I can try it myself. It shouldn't be too difficult."

Although some people in later generations highly praised the spinning machine as the beginning of the industrial revolution, no one knows whether this thing is necessarily related to industrialization.

The famous "Jenny Machine" was born in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, but it only has 8 spindles, and this machine does not even require Guo Kang to deliberately redesign it.In fact, if the knowledgeable contemporaries of the Qing Dynasty saw this thing, they would only sigh "I am super, Yuan!" - because this is a machine at the level of the Yuan Dynasty.

In the Yuan Dynasty hundreds of years ago, there was a hydraulic spinning machine with 32 spindles.In fact, it is not the level of machine design and manufacturing that restricts the number of spindles. It is simply that the hydraulic facilities are restricted by factors such as water intake and irrigation all year round, which leads to the small size.

As for the loom, the technical content is higher.Guo Kang intends to ask if he can directly find the machine of the Ming Dynasty and modify it accordingly.This kind of cotton loom is relatively good, and it is not as profitable as silk jacquard technology, so it should not be difficult to buy.

"Cotton has another advantage, that is, the weaving process requirements are not too high, but not too low." Guo Kang continued: "It is not like silk, which has particularly high requirements for professionalism, which makes it difficult for everyone to learn. ; but it does have technical content, so it has certain profits and can achieve better income. In short, it is a just right industry."

"If the development is perfect, the supply of raw materials and sales can be smooth, and the personnel are well-trained. In theory, it can be close to the income level of adult men. Therefore, if you want to produce and be self-sufficient, textile is a good choice-planting The industry relies too much on physical strength, and the efficiency of women in farming is not high. And textile is also a large-scale project, which is suitable for organizing a large number of people and concentrating on production.”

Lama Wang showed Guo Kang's calculation to several others.Everyone agreed.

In fact, the machines at this time were far from the peak level of the handicraft era.

According to the calculations of later generations of researchers, in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the average income of a Jiangnan woman engaged in cotton weaving per working day had reached 80% of the daily income of farmers.

What is this concept?

The researchers also found the labor remuneration records of women in Songjiang County during the commune period for comparison.Even in this environment where political campaigns and administrative orders are used to enforce equality in productivity and equal pay for equal work between men and women, the daily wages of women engaged in the same agricultural production are 80% of those of men.

Of course, on the side of the Purple Horde Khanate, the agricultural production efficiency is not as good as in the East, so everyone has shrunk a little, and the result may still be similar.According to his calculations, income levels close to the adult male labor force are promising.

Also, the ceiling of this job is much more than that.

By the late Qing Dynasty, farmers engaged in farming worked about 305 days a year.On the other hand, peasant women engaged in the cotton textile industry spend an average of more than 200 days a year working on looms.This length of time is already considered "professional".

Converting the 200-day remuneration into food, at the current price, it can feed 1.5 young adults for a year; if forced to work overtime for a living, and work 360 days a year, it can support 2.8 people.And the people of the time themselves said the same thing: According to the records in the official memorials at that time, the textile industry "one person can eat three people for one day, and the able one can eat two people."

When the price of cloth was relatively high, the income of weavers was even higher than that of farmers.During the prosperous period of trade, when both sides worked for a full year, women who were also hired to weave cloth for others could earn 30% higher wages than long-term agricultural workers.

Therefore, no matter in terms of income or level of professionalism, this industry has huge room for development.

(End of this chapter)