Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2466 Mule Machine
"It is said that there is no high bridge in the new urban area under the leadership of Liu Dafu. All the bridges are straight paved, and the roads are all renovated according to the high standards. From now on, Australian cars and carriages will be able to run in Guangzhou." It is also a business opportunity!"

"Even so, it was an Australian carriage at the beginning. The cost of a carriage is too high." Wu Yijun shook his head and said, "You don't know, when the Ming Dynasty ruled, there were quite a few rich men with good horses in Guangzhou, and their families also had a lot of savings. A few good horses. Raising horses is much more difficult than raising people. They are extremely delicate. The horse breeders are still familiar with the nature of horses, and a horse can only live for four or five years. Sometimes it dies not long after it is bought."

"Isn't Hainan hotter and humid than Guangzhou? Why can they raise horses here?" Chen Lin was puzzled.

"I don't know about that. There must be some Australian secret method for raising horses."

"If you can't raise horses, it would be good to run an Australian car dealership." Chen Ding said suddenly.

"Car dealership?" Wu Yijun is a businessman after all, with a very active mind, he immediately understood, "Is it the same as the current car dealership?"

"That's right. I asked the driver last night. There are two kinds of people pulling cars here. One is to buy a car by yourself, and then buy a taxi license to pull the car. But there are not many people like this, and cars are expensive, and many people can't afford them." Most of them are cars from car rental companies, and you have to pay for the car every day.”

"This is good business!" Wu Yijun nodded.As long as you buy a batch of cars at one time, the next step is to collect the car shares. This business is worth doing!
"It's just that sedan shops used to have handicap. I didn't ask Australians if they had such rules."

"I think there are probably some." Wu Yijun's eyes were piercing.I think this is another great business opportunity.

The car was heading south all the way, and a few people were talking and laughing, but they didn't feel bored.It's just that there is no Chen Xiaobing in the car, and there is no one to ask when encountering novel things, which is somewhat regrettable.

When the car arrived at the gate of Nanbao Textile Park, Chen Xiaobing, who arrived earlier, was already waiting here.

Under his guidance, a group of people walked into the park.The red brick zigzag factory buildings are dotted here, the chimneys of the boiler room are soaring into the sky, and the courtyards and roads in the car area are shaded by trees.Chen Xiaobing introduced that there are many factories.Engaged in cotton spinning, silk spinning, linen spinning, wool spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing and many textile-related industries.However, the scale of the factory is not large, and it mainly plays a "demonstrative" role.

"...The technology of these factories will be open to private enterprises in the future, but at present, cotton spinning is the easiest and most marketable." Chen Xiaobing introduced and led the way. "Come on, this way please."

The roar of the machines in the workshop can be heard clearly on the road.There is an endless stream of small rail cars transporting raw materials and finished products on the road.When a few people saw the scale, they couldn't help but click their tongues: so many factories and machines!
Chen Xiaobing took them to the first factory building. There was a man in overalls standing at the door. He looked like he was only in his 30s, with a pleasant smile.

"This is the head of Lishan." Chen Xiaobing introduced, "The person in charge here. He will answer your professional questions here."

The three of them couldn't help but feel flattered that a senior elder condescended to receive him. After shaking hands and exchanging greetings, Li Shan said, "Let's start here...Xiao Bing, distribute masks to everyone."

Before entering the workshop, everyone must wear a mask.With him leading the way, the group walked into the factory building.The noise in the factory building is several times louder than that on the road, and it is deafening when you enter.

The temperature and humidity of the air in the workshop has risen sharply. The workshops of textile enterprises often need to maintain a certain air humidity. Coupled with the heat emitted by the machine and masks, people feel chest tightness and shortness of breath.However, it seems that the elders who received him showed no signs of intolerance, and wore masks to lead the way and explain.

They enter the preparation workshop of the first process of the production line.Huge bales of cotton were piled up here, and white cotton wool and dust drifted in the air.Even wearing a mask can make people feel itchy throat.

Zou Biao explained that the clean cotton that has gone through the ginning process is used here. Because ginning requires too much manpower, the ginning process is mainly done by the origin of the raw materials.After the clean cotton is packaged and transported to the workshop, it is opened and carded. The cotton fibers are loosened and carded for twisting into slivers and then rollers. This process is considered to be the most manpower-demanding link in the entire production line.

Watching the workers busy feeding and carrying materials, Zou Biao asked people to distribute samples of clean cotton, opened cotton and carded cotton to each big household, and said: "There are a total of 60 sets of 35-type cotton opening and carding in total here. Each machine can produce about 10 kilograms of carded cotton per hour, and if converted into Ming units, it is about 16 kilograms in half an hour."

Chen Ding asked: "Excuse me, chief, what is the use of this carding?" Naturally, everyone can understand the loose cotton.Although the method of loosening cotton in Australia is a bit peculiar, it is not beyond the scope of understanding: traditionally spinning also needs to loosen cotton first, usually with a bowstring to pluck the cotton, in addition to loosening the cotton, it can also remove the remaining impurities, so that Cotton is cleaner.But this carding is not understood. Under the traditional process, the loose cotton is usually directly twisted by the weaver girl into sliver and then spun, and there is no carding process.

In principle, the ancient sliver forming process is also a kind of carding, but there are differences in the process. The carding technology is a cotton processing technology developed in the old time and space in modern Western Europe, which is more suitable for large-scale machinery production.So Zou Biao explained: "This extra process exists for the next production, please follow me and you will know."

The essence of the production line is the combination of individual machines, but Lingao’s textile industry is still unable to achieve continuous operation, especially the speed adjustment of steam machines is not as good as electricity, and manpower is still required to combine individual machines.I saw workers feeding the combed cotton into the next machine, and after being drafted by the machine, the sliver became a roving roll.

This behavior made the uncles and nephews of the Chen family a little confused. For a while, they still didn't understand the function of this extra process. To them, it was obviously an extra redundant process.

"You may still be confused, but you may be able to find one thing, the roving produced here is regular, not as uneven as the one produced by home spinning." Li Shan explained.

After what he said, everyone suddenly realized, and then looked at the factory. At this stage, it was basically male workers who did manual work, and there was no skill at all. It was simply feeding and transporting. It means that through these processes, yarns with regular thickness and uniform thickness can be woven without skilled weaving hands.At this time, Chen Lin also understood how the previous spinning was so consistent. This process seemed redundant but essential.

Next is the process of spinning the roving into fine yarn.All equipment here is mule machines.This mule machine is also one of the detours in the cotton textile industry.The reason is that after finding that the handmade cotton yarn collected was uneven in thickness, it was difficult to hang up the weaving machine, and after discussion as a remedy, the mule loom that was not intended to be used was used.

The so-called mule machine is actually a hybrid of Arkwright's hydro spinning machine and Jenny machine.The yarn spun by the former is thick and rough in texture.The yarn spun by Jenny machine is thin but has poor fastness.The mule machine combines the drawing cylinder of the Arkwright machine with the main slide of the wooden spindle of the modified Jenny machine to produce a yarn that is both fine and strong.

According to the principle, the mule machine belongs to the spindle textile machine. The textile machine of this principle has a complex structure and low efficiency.It is especially suitable for long-fiber weaving and can weave fine and high-count yarns.The problem is that most of the cotton that the Senate can collect is short-staple cotton.Except for a few sea-island cotton produced in Hainan Island, there is basically no long-staple cotton.

Although Zou Biao dislikes this machine very much, but in the state where the textile industry is completely unranked, it is considered good if it is used, and it is not unusable if it is not usable.This makes do with it until now.

It should have been eliminated after the development of ring spinning, but due to resource allocation, the old equipment only eliminated the machines that were too poor to continue to be used.The Planning Institute intends to sell those mule machines that are in good condition to private enterprises.

Even the outdated production capacity that is ready to be eliminated, these machines are dazzling to the visiting group.

I saw that the spindle of the mule machine was installed on the frame, and as the track continued to reciprocate in and out, the roving end was wound and the spun yarn was rolled out from the other side of the winding.All the workers here are female workers, and the skillful hands are dancing, and the rolls of spun yarn are piled aside continuously.

Compared with the previous procedures, the mule machine surprised them even more.Many rumors have already learned that Ausong can drive the power of water and fire, and I have seen the power of water and fire used for fast spinning

As the team moved forward, Chen Lin was indeed exactly the same as the one sold in the department store in Dongmen City. This yarn was definitely better than that produced by any skilled spinner in Daming, and the output was dozens of times the original one.

"Nephew, what do you think of the Australian yarn?" After all, Wu Yifan is a layman, and he can't see any other skills other than fineness. The only thing he knows is that the yield of this yarn is huge. Can't compete, but I don't know why Australian yarn is not flooding Canton.

"Exquisite! Both the finished product and the process are eye-opening! To buy such a set of machinery, it doesn't matter if you have textile skills or not. The only thing you need to be familiar with is the last process. There should be no place for such workers except Lingao Found it." Chen Lin said with half joy and half worry.They can only watch the workers operate from the aisle. Of course, some people are unwilling to squint and lean over to see clearly, but no matter how they look at the high-speed machine, they will not be able to understand it in a short time.And Chen Lin also leaned over to watch. He only saw that the Australian female worker was very skillful, and quickly put together a lot of yarn bobbins, but he couldn't see clearly how to do it.

(End of this chapter)