Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 134 Mrs. Le Zhang first saw the textile machine
At the beginning of March, when the weather was warm and the grass was growing, Mrs. Le Zhang came to the gate of Sunjiazhuang in a carriage.

Thanks to the companion who drove her here, watching the other couple go to the Sun's market to buy goods, Mrs. Le Zhang tidied up her clothes, and then entered the village with her companion's gift.

In the courtyard, Sun Xin was emphasizing the proportion of corn base fertilizer with three apprentices. Seeing Mrs. Le Zhang coming, he finished the class early, got up and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law came so early." Seeing the wine in Mrs. Le Zhang's hand again, Shaking his head quickly, he said, "Why send these?"

"Some of the wine brewed at home is just a meaning."

Sun Xin was a little nervous when she saw Ms. Zhang, knowing that she had always been a housewife and had never been out to work. In order to relieve her nervousness, Sun Xin smiled naturally: "Did sister-in-law ever do spinning and weaving at home?"

Mrs. Le Zhang quickly proved his ability and said: "I have learned to spin and weave since I was a child. Even when I was raising children at home, I often do these things to subsidize my family. You see, my clothes are my clothes. Made of sackcloth that I made myself."

As he spoke, he took out a piece of clothing and showed it to Sun Xin.

Sun Xin nodded and smiled and said, "That's all right. The textile factory we're setting up now doesn't need to spin cloth, it just needs to make straw cotton and hemp fiber into sand. Let's go, let's go to the factory to have a look. machine."

In the end, the textile factory established by Sunjiazhuang positioned its product as yarn.

The main reason is that after market research, Sun Xin found that ordinary people can't afford finished linen these days, and linen yarn is less consumed.

In fact, that spinning machine is not a restored product of the Jenny machine. That thing should have been introduced to Shandong in the late Qing Dynasty. In Sun Xin’s memory, it was regarded as the most high-end machine outside the township textile factory in the 40s.

It is certain that if Sun Xin wants to produce linen to occupy the market of handmade linen, he must reduce the cost to a very high level, but making linen yarn requires a small amount of labor, and there is no hemp pond to soak it. Special farmers can generally afford it, so The market for hemp yarn is very broad.

Le Zhang originally planned to build a series of contiguous large adobe houses to confuse the matter, but Sun Xin asked Le Zhang to use more barriers and walls in the building to facilitate the work outside the factory, and finally built such a building. A row of narrow houses.

The shuttle-shaped gadgets whirled under the machine, and it was completely in the same dimension as Hou Shapeng's own big crunching hand-cranked spinning wheel.

It was only Tao Zongwang, not Sun Xin. Although the eight apprentices didn’t know the existence of that machine, they still felt a kind of heartfelt emotion for that magical machine every time they saw that huge spinning machine. awe.

But Sun Xin also made two-handed preparations. Before the official end of production, the damage rate of the machine was too low. I still couldn't remove the drive shaft. At least seven donkeys were arranged to pull the spinning wheel beside me.
If you want to build such a narrow building like a palace, you need to design very few thick wooden beams to support the joint of two logs. This kind of low wood alone will make the cost of building a house plummet.

Is it a spinning place?To build such a small house?

Sun Xin originally planned to use a human-powered spinning machine. The earliest Jenny machine in history was also dedicated to spinning by a person. It is recommended not to change that thing into a hydraulic drive.

After my explanation, Tao Zongwang gradually became confused. It turns out that the principle of the spinning machine is the same as his own big spinning wheel, but the spindles that are arranged horizontally under his spinning wheel are all vertically arranged outside. Emission, that also makes a drive shaft have to drive dozens of spindles to rotate together at the same time.

After seeing that miracle, who wants to say whether your country has the ability to invent in ancient times, Hou Sha can spray us to death.

The height and height are Sun Xin’s own feelings. The 40-square-meter factory building in front of him is not the size of the poorest rural middle school university in the [-]s, but it was not a very small building for that era. up.

"It all depends on the spinning machine he mentioned?"

The clothes worn by special families are all made by their own weaving. Those who do not grow hemp can spin their own yarn, while those who have hemp generally buy hemp yarn in the market, and the women and men in the family spin the yarn into Cloth to make clothing.

Sun Xin took out a basket of cotton yarn from the side and put it under the spindle, "Come and try it, too."

And when you walk into the room and see this water-powered spinning machine, you will be so surprised that you can put an egg in your mouth.

The span of a wooden structure building is limited by the length of the beams, and the length of the beams is limited by the height of the trees, so the length or narrowness of the room in that era was always limited to a few meters, which is too repairable. narrow.

You even dare to touch it.

Pointing to the whirling spindle, Sun Xin explained the principle of the machine to Tao Zongwang: "What is the same with the spinning wheel? Sister-in-law, let him come and see..."

Seeing the principle that Tao Zongwang roughly understood, Sun Xin went to the front of the spinning machine and moved a rocker, the power shaft of the spinning machine was disengaged, and the whirring machine stopped instantly.

Seeing that our indifference is so low, Sun Xin asked us to experiment, thinking that we had made the gearbox a few days ago.

In those days, peasants thought that spare time during slack farming was valuable, and a woman and a man could not make the clothes that a family would wear day and night, so some families would be willing to buy them at a low price. Ready-made linen is exchanged for more work for the women and men in the family.

But the building that looks like a rural university to Sun Xin is far from Tao Zongwang's eyes, but it makes your eyes round.

The whole machine is very complicated in principle, and there are no difficulties in technology. The most difficult thing is the transmission box.

I turned on the machine again and asked Tao Zongwang to sit on the seat behind the machine, and watch you finish spinning yarn to the seven spindles at the same time in a hurry.

Sun Xin brought eight apprentices and Tao Zongwang to a newly opened open space in the village. One side of the open space is next to the big river. A small water wheel has not yet been erected in the river, and all the weeds have been removed in the open space. , The foundation was laid with Bahe soil, and two large and narrow sheds were built at the edge of the foundation close to the river.

The water wheel, which looks big, only shows its power when it gets close. The water wheel with a diameter of less than two meters drives the power shaft to connect to the room. In the end, seven small machines with a narrowness of more than seven meters were driven.

The construction difficulty is small, the cost control is tolerant, and it needs to be built in a short period of time. The corners of Le Zhang's mouth are blistered in embarrassment.

In order to ensure the service life, the transmission shaft of the spinning machine is now made of wood, but the gears in the transmission box are all made of iron, and the quality is not bad. It needs to be repaired once a day, but Tang Long is very cold. Said that the gear is ready, my apprentice will arrive with the spare parts immediately, and for the time being, I can guarantee that there is something wrong with the machine.

(End of this chapter)