The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 142 Challenge yourself to be a real industrial machine!

"Guo shopkeeper, isn't the quality of this fabric a bit poor? Can the military uniforms be used?" After buying the cloth at a high price, Song Yingkui went to the newly built garment room to discuss the military uniform styles with Guo Kaifeng.As a result, after touching the fabric, he couldn't help but frown.

Could it be that Guo Kaifeng took a kickback?The quality of the cloth bought for hundreds of taels of silver was terrible.The quality of cotton cloth in this era is poor, but it is not so bad, right?The weave is very rough and the texture is very uneven.Using this kind of cloth to make military uniforms can be worn for several days!
"Zhenshou, almost all the cotton cloth shipped by foreign businessmen is like this. When we were still under the rule of Dazheng, all the cloth bought in the world was official prison cloth. But now, most of the cotton cloth that can flow to our place is It's a poor-quality earthen cloth. It's really hard to find good cloth."

After leaving Dazheng, can't even buy good cloth?That's not the case, it's just that good cloth is basically monopolized by rich and powerful owners, and it is almost impossible to flow to the low-end market like Sanchakou.What is a good cotton cloth?It's hard currency, it can be used directly as money.

Silk is equivalent to gold and silver, and cotton cloth with good texture can at least be regarded as copper coins, right?This thing is now priceless in the low-end market.

"That's all! Let's make it with this kind of cloth first, and then use the cloth when I think of other ways to make winter clothes."

There is no good cloth to buy in the market, so what else can I do besides make use of it!Song Yingkui, who was in a bad mood, discussed with Guo Kaifeng the general style of the military uniform, and then returned to the guard house.

When he arrived at the gate of the town guard's mansion, he found Han Yuhong waiting for him.He opened his mouth and asked, he came here for the benefit of political officials.It is said that since uniforms are to be made for soldiers, can the political staff of the Fifth Battalion also enjoy this benefit?
The fifth battalion was short of fabrics, and it was indeed a blessing to be able to obtain a set of uniforms. However, Han Yuhong's enthusiasm for uniforms was not only for gaining advantages, but also for identity recognition.Clothes and crowns are a symbol of status. Having a uniform uniform is equivalent to having a formal official status.People like Han Yuhong didn't get a uniform to wear when they were in Dazheng.

"Go talk to shopkeeper Guo and ask them to change the military uniforms a little bit to make them official attire for officials at all levels in the Fifth Battalion. Officials at the village level and above will each have a set." Since they paid a high price for the military uniform Uniforms, let's make a set for the officials with some more blood. There are not many officials in the Fifth Battalion.

Seeing Song Yingkui's willingness to agree, Han Yuhong made higher demands, and said, "Guardian, what are the grades of our official uniforms?"

I'm afraid the old boy is an official fan, right?For an official with such a large territory, the clothes have to be divided into different categories!Song Yingkui said angrily: "For the time being, there will be no grading. After all, our fifth battalion has only one town, and there are not many officials in total. There is no need to grading in official uniforms."

After dismissing the official fan Yu Hong, Song Yingkui's mood became even worse. After all, we are a time traveler, and we are stumped by the lack of fabric.

If it doesn’t work, let’s weave woolen cloth. The higher the cost, the higher the cost. Anyway, the texture is better than the rough cotton cloth you bought?It is a question of whether soldiers can wear military uniforms made of cheesecloth for a year.

Why?Wool cloth is wear-resistant but there are few raw materials, cotton cloth is not wear-resistant but except for Wuying, the raw materials in other places are not too short, right?Who said weaving can only use one material?Wool and cotton can be blended, and wool and linen can also be blended.

Blending is good, blending can not only improve the shortcomings of single raw material fabrics, but also neutralize the cost of raw materials to a certain extent.From this, the industrial value of Wuying can be truly formed.

Before thinking of the idea of ​​blending, Song Yingkui didn't think that Wuying had a future in developing the textile industry.Whether it is cotton, wool, or even hemp, Wuying and the surrounding areas do not have the advantage of origin.While there is no advantage in the origin of raw materials, there is also no technology accumulation.Under such circumstances, it is wishful thinking to start the textile industry.

But with the idea of ​​blending, at least Wuying has the advantage of producing raw materials.We do not produce wool or cotton here, but we can make cotton and wool intersect here, and we also have the advantage of optimizing the performance of wool.It doesn't matter if there is no tradition of weaving, we must find ways to improve textile machinery, take advantage of the first-mover advantage that others have no experience in blending, and accumulate technology from scratch.

To solve the problem of wool degreasing, develop a set of textile machinery suitable for blending on the basis of existing textile tools.The developed textile machinery also has advantages in performance, and the woven cloth is better than the common cloth on the market.By the way, the printing and dyeing process must also be improved.We must let the cloth produced by Wuying become synonymous with high-quality cloth.In this way, Wuying really has the foundation to gain a foothold in the world.

High-quality fabrics are hard currency in the world trade system. This product is not as restricted as the previous products.The position we are in now can be regarded as a small node of the Silk Road in the real historical time and space.Silk can be marketed all over the world, so it is always possible for the blended fabric produced by our fifth company to be sold halfway around the world, right?
This matter must be done, as long as this matter is done, it will not be in vain to be a time traveler.

It is not difficult to get a simple wool degreasing process. At present, the biggest difficulty should be to develop a set of textile machinery with excellent performance.Textile sounds like one word, but it is actually two things.The combination of spinning machinery and weaving machinery constitutes a complete set of textile machinery.

How can spinning tools be improved?It is best to improve the spinning machine into a water-powered spinning machine with higher efficiency.It may be a bit difficult to directly get a mature hydrodynamic spinning machine, but simple improvements are relatively easy to do.

Is the loom also powered by water?Song Yingkui was not prepared to take this path.When he was in school, he visited a machinery museum, which contained a manual loom made in Japan in the 30s and [-]s.According to the young lady who is the guide of the museum, when this machine entered China, it was very popular among the people in North China. The cloth they wove with this machine even hit the market of Japanese industrialized textile factories, so that Japan later banned it. Sell ​​this machine to the Chinese.

In terms of efficiency, this purely manual loom is at least no worse than a water-powered loom.Purely manual looms are not restricted by water sources, and farmers can produce at home without building large factories. Song Yingkui thinks this is more suitable for the current Wuying.

The Wuying, which has a small territory, has too many large factories, which will inevitably make many people out of agricultural production.Wuying cannot develop into a purely industrialized town, as it is too fragile, and must find a way to retain the agricultural population.

But making a hand-powered loom similar to the one I saw when I visited was a big challenge. My own mechanical manufacturing level may not be able to twist it out.Challenge yourself!We can't just keep making progress, and we have to raise our own requirements a little bit, and always think about solving problems with simple solutions, not a mentality that wants to change the world.

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