Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1373 Semi-Mechanized Silk Reeling Factory

After arranging the formation of a security force, Mr. Zhao felt at ease physically and mentally.Of course, the reliability of the infantry team is not as good as the army trained by the Senate, but he is now the master and the bread and bread of these people, so they can't help but work hard.What's more, he also gave Zhao Tong instructions: "We must build up the authority of Mr. Zhao."

While he was full of ambition, someone came to report: "Miss Li is here."

Li Yaoer runs between the silkworm breeding farm and the silk reeling factory these days, leading a group of students from the "sericulture training class", raising silkworms, and reeling silk—in fact, she herself has limited knowledge of these things, all relying on When I was in Hainan, I was studying suddenly.So it is very hard to lead the students.The gene that she has shouted for many years, "This girl is prone to gain weight, and she will gain weight when she drinks water" seems to have suddenly disappeared, her face has become smaller, and the shortcoming that she has been worrying about wearing skirts will be exposed-the fat on her thighs has also changed. It disappeared without a trace, and when I took a shower at night, I was surprised that it became straight and strong.

The servants looked at Li Yao'er's haggard face and the daily running up and down the mountain without touching the ground, and they secretly commented that Mr. Zhao had a good eye for picking people: he could still work so hard for a little wife.

"When will the boiler worker arrive?" This was the first sentence Li Yaoer came in.

Phoenix Mountain Villa already has a boiler, but this boiler is used for the water pump of the villa. At present, the water supply of the villa has squeezed out all the spare capacity of this equipment, and then it has to bear any responsibility for supplying air and water to the silk reeling mill. It's really overwhelming.

For this reason, two new boilers were supplied to the mechanical port, which were respectively used to supply hot water and drive the water pumps to supply water to the silk reeling mill.In this way, it is necessary to equip new equipment maintenance workers.

"The telegram said that this boat will arrive, either tonight or tomorrow morning." Zhao Yingong looked at the titular "little wife", she was still dressed in the same way: narrow-sleeved bra, and a hood.It's just that the double maidservants are a little skewed and look a little messy.Her face was puffy, her eyes were red, and she looked overworked.

"If the boiler room is not lit, it's impossible to try reeling. Cocoons don't wait for anyone."

The silkworm cocoons obtained by Fenghuang Mountain Villa through micro-loans and acquisitions are now piled up in the warehouse at the foot of the mountain.Fresh cocoons cannot last long.According to the general workflow, the silkworm cocoons must be dried first to kill the silkworm chrysalis, so that they can be preserved for a long time.A centralized drying room has been built in the silk reeling factory, but this requires boilers to provide heat.And the silk reeling factory itself needs a lot of hot water.

"As soon as people arrive, tell them to start work," Zhao Yingong said, "How is the training of the silk reelers going?"

"It's ready to go to work." Li Yaoer said, "Most of them know how to reel silk, and the method is actually similar, except that the original hand crank is now replaced by a foot pedal." She was a little worried, "This equipment, to be honest I'm still a little worried, it's another resurrection item, can it be useful? This is the first time it's been made..."

"No, this is not the first time it has been built." Zhao Yingong said, "The mechanical mouth has made a prototype, and it has been operated experimentally in Lingao. Otherwise, they would not dare to give us the test product directly, would they?"

"I hope so." Li Yaoer is not as confident as Zhao Yingong. The boiler and equipment have been technically debugged by the veteran in charge of installation. If there is no accident, they can be officially ignited and put into use as soon as the workers arrive tomorrow.But she was really afraid of whether this brand new silk factory would be able to produce normally under her half-assed "technical guidance".

Originally, she just wanted to plant herbs, do gardening, and then artificially cultivate ginseng, which gradually turned into a potato cultivation trip in Jeju Island, and then went to Hangzhou to become a sericulture technician. Now, she finds that she has suddenly become a The manager of the silk factory!The speed of this transformation is too fast.

"Let's go to the silk factory." Zhao Yingong encouraged her, "Look at the great power of industry."

For the convenience of water and drainage, Cihuitang silk reeling factory is located at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain Villa, close to Fuchun River.The Cihuitang refugee camp dormitory is right next to it, which saves the cost of building workers’ dormitories and canteens.The ten-meter-high red brick chimney stands alone by the river, which is very eye-catching.

In the boiler room below the chimney, there is a Lancashire boiler for the supply of hot water and steam, and a power fire-tube boiler for driving the water pump.

A fence separates the silk factory from the side, and inside are rows of houses that are somewhat eerie against the backdrop of the local landscape.

There are servants standing guard at the gate of the factory, they are Zhao Tong's subordinates, they know Zhao Yingong and Li Yao'er, so they let them in.

Although the factory building and equipment have been built and installed, and it is ready to start work at any time, it is now empty, except for a few servants on duty in the warehouse of the factory who saw them coming and rushed out to say hello, all the workshops are empty one person.

It was the first time for Li Yaoer and Zhao Yingong to stand in the workshop of a real silk reeling factory, where the equipment made by Lingao was neatly arranged on the pedestals and various brackets.Pipes and valves are intricately arranged together.Zhao Yingong originally thought that this set of equipment must be very crude.However, when he really stood in front of this crude equipment, he realized that his knowledge was too shallow.

If he didn't have a book in his hand, he wouldn't be able to explain the principles and modes of operation of these "backward" and "simple" devices.

A single person is really insignificant in front of the big industry, which is the crystallization of the wisdom of countless people.

The workstations connected by countless pipes and brackets are arranged one after another, like a sleeping dragon. Once awakened, the fire and smoke it emits will converge into terrifying productivity, turning the old world The way of production was burned to ashes.Let countless people die with jade and stone.

Zhao Yingong couldn't help feeling overwhelmed, and said, "This is big industry!"

Li Yaoer didn't have such deep feelings as him, and the factory and equipment in front of her also touched her.However, when she thought that the silk factory and the female workers who were about to fill up the seats were all under her management, Li Yaoer panicked a little—it was too scary!Can she handle it?

However, she didn't dare to say that. Right now, there are only two elders in Hangzhou Station, and they need each other's support, especially to encourage each other.It's better to say less when you are frustrated.

"Our silk factory still looks quite high-end..." Zhao Yingong said a little funny, as if trying to relieve her anxiety.

The equipment used in the Cihuitang silk reeling factory was imitated by the mechanical mouth according to the equipment "Jiqi Dayue" of Jichanglong silk factory run by Chen Qiyuan in the 19th century. The technical level is very low, even according to the standards of the 19th century It can be regarded as semi-mechanized production.But the advantage is that the operation and maintenance are very simple, which is very in line with the social situation at that time.

The most ready-made sample of the silk reeling factory that the Senate wanted to build in Daming in the 17th century was Jichanglong in the 19th century.Therefore, not only the equipment is imitated, but also the factory layout and management model are referenced.

Following Changlong's Jiqi Dagai, the biggest progress is to use steam boiled cocoons to replace the charcoal fire boiled cocoons handed down from generation to generation. This is a great progress in production technology.

The cocoon itself is formed by the silk spun out by silkworms and glued together by sericin. To reel the silk out is equivalent to taking off the stamp, and water must be used to dissolve the sericin.In the traditional charcoal fire cocoon cooking, the temperature cannot be kept constant, which affects the silk yield and texture. The unified circulating water supply adopted by the "Jichanglong" factory ensures that the temperature of the silk reeling water is stable and the water quality is clean and fresh. Therefore, the silk is uniform in thickness, and the silk color is clean and shiny, which is determined by the improvement of the silk reeling process.

Although there is a boiler in this set of equipment, no mechanical force is used in the silk reeling, but a foot pedal rotating equipment is used.Therefore, it is not a mechanized silk reeling factory.From the perspective of silk reeling alone, although the speed of the foot-operated equipment is more stable and uniform than that of the hand-cranked soil silk machine, it cannot be compared with the effect of the prime mover after all, and the uniformity of the silk output is also a grade worse.Li Yaoer knows that this kind of silk can only be called "improved silk", which was considered to be of good quality in the 19th century, but after the beginning of the 20th century, it became backward and could not even be exported.Suzhou Sericulture College also used a similar human "improving machine" to improve silk in Kaixian Village, but the raw silk produced could not meet the export standard.But compared with the handmade earthen silk, it is thinner and smoother, and the quality is even and white.

But in this time and space, this flaw is not a flaw at all.You must know that Zheng Zhilong's raw silk exported to Japan also has the so-called "yellow raw silk"-in fact, it is the yellowed Chen silk from the next year.Generally speaking, it is worthless, but it can also be used for export.It can be seen that there was an urgent demand for raw silk in the international market at that time.The silk reeling factory of Cihuitang uses machine energy to produce better silk than the best lake silk.

The silk factory has a total of 300 foot-operated silk reeling work stations, a cocoon baking room, together with auxiliary rooms such as the cocoon storage room and other auxiliary rooms. Each work station is equipped with a circular kettle with a steam pipe under the kettle , so that the water in the kettle is always kept at the required heat in order to cook the cocoons.It is also equipped with hot and cold water hoses, and boiling water is used to wash cocoons.Cold water is used to adjust the temperature and carry out the necessary washing, so that the silk can be produced quickly.It is beneficial to quickly draw the button on the mouth of the silk.

The increase of labor productivity by machines is very significant.According to Chen Qiyuan's experience in running Jichanglong: each female worker can work for more than ten people.Each worker in manual reeling can handle ten threads, while machine reeling can handle sixty threads. If the technology is good, it can manage hundreds of threads, and the labor productivity has increased by six to ten times.Although Zhao Yingong has no experience in setting up a factory, he knows that the equipment manufactured by Jichanglong has greatly improved Jichanglong's prototype, and the efficiency improvement should not be as high as this.A group of people from the external processing industry are designing the labor management system of the silk factory according to the "Taylor system", and the work efficiency of the workers will be greatly improved.

(End of this chapter)