From Chief to Ball

"Charity Business Society Foundation!"

"Charity Business Society Foundation Donation Office!"

"Small Low Interest Relief Loan Application Office!"

"The Miner's Friend Safety Light!"

"Mincheng Youth Home, Night Club!"

"Evening school for hiring workers to stop drinking and gambling!"

Strange names are hung high, and I don’t forget to hang a big paper red lantern in front of the door according to the tradition.

In front of the plaque of "Mexico Party Central Party Headquarters", there are two people with red armbands wrapped around their arms. Besides, there are only people standing in front of the "Small Low Interest Relief Loan Application Office". Come in and out at will.

It's a bit like standing in front of a rich man's house, but it's not the same.On the side of the small low-interest loan, people often come to make troubles, because fighting is common because people are cut off, so they need someone to watch.

A group of people looked a little dizzy, said it was strange, but any one point alone felt common; it was not surprising, these things combined, it was a bit confusing, it looked like an old city that suddenly appeared. new scenery.

Even though the scenery is not beautiful, it takes up a strange word.

Passing by a carriage, Wang Zhe raised his head and stared at the wheels. Chen Jian's brother also stabbed Li Yun quietly, but Li Yun also shook his head.

The wheels of that carriage can actually turn, and it is very comfortable on this concrete floor, which has never been seen before.Look at the other carriages parked in front of the square, but they are still the same, there is no difference.

"Don't look, it's just this one. It's made by the craftsmen of my smelting workshop. I'm trying it out. By the way, I run around the city every day to make an advertisement. But the bumps are still bumps, and it's a little more comfortable. gone."

The simple four-wheel steering mechanism is not very practical for horse-drawn carriages, but it can be built for fun. Chen Jian's smelting workshop not only made a few sample guns, but also made some weird things, and the materials used were all expensive. Used to practice hands.

Li Yun said with emotion: "Junior brother, you have to change your appearance every year. I'm really afraid that I won't recognize you when I come here again."

"That's hard to say. You are all tired, this is not a place to rest, and there is no place to rest. Go to the inn and rest."

A few hired workers came to help put the things on the carriage. Chen Jian looked back at some acquaintances, asked a few words, and asked someone to send these people to rest first.

Before he came back, someone had already returned half a month ago and delivered a message for Chen Jian.

Although I don't know the exact day when Chen Jian will come back, but counting the date is only a few days, it is said that several people invited by Chen Jian are already inside.

Following the man into this brick building, the first floor is a semi-subterranean arched structure, which bears the pressure from the upper part. The truly spacious first floor is actually the second floor.

When it was completed, Chen Jian was still in the capital, and it was the first time he came here. To be honest, the place is still a bit small, and it is too flattering to say that it is a high-rise building.

Go through the hall being decorated and go up to a small room on the third floor.

The house is not high, a bit low, and the windows are not too big, so it doesn't have the bright and heavy feeling outside.There are a lot of books and a pile of unopened letters inside.

After sitting down, someone knocked on the door and came in soon.

Several are blacksmiths, and one is Huang De, the owner of Nan'an Woodware Factory, who is also a joiner who helped Chen Jian complete the wood plank material for the small ball inclined plane experiment.

After exchanging pleasantries, they all sat down.

"Master Huang, how many other masters are there, can you make what I asked you to do?"

"It's done, it's outside, and it can be carried in. Anyway, it's not big."

After a while, a wooden box containing not too heavy things was carried in.

After closing the door and opening it, there is an iron-wood machine inside, very rough and simple, completely at the level of the handicraft era.

There is a dense row of saw-toothed wheels inside, and on the other side is a fine wire-like grate, and a wooden handle is placed outside.

There are still some scraps of cotton in it, and some cottonseed husks at the bottom.

In addition to this machine, there is another, smaller machine in the wooden box.It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a machine, but there are too few parts. Two pieces of cast iron and one crank handle add up to less than one foot in length and width.

Huang De excitedly pointed to the first small machine and said: "This thing is very simple to make, we have also tried it, and it is really easy to use for ginning. Although there are still broken cotton seed husks mixed in, it does not affect spinning. Thread. It is not troublesome to make, and blacksmiths can do it, but the iron grate needs a hydraulic wire drawing machine, and the serrations need a hydraulic workshop."

Obviously, the first machine was a hand-operated cotton gin, which was simple in structure and superficial in principle, but extremely efficient.

When cotton is picked, there are cottonseeds.The cotton fiber must be stripped from the cottonseed before it can be spun. This is the most important set of procedures for spinning after cotton is harvested. Without this set of procedures, there is no way to spin.

Nowadays, it is generally picked by hand or simple machinery, but the efficiency is not high, and the existing machinery is only suitable for some long-staple cotton in the north, and the effect is not very good.

Manual selection involves laying the seed cotton on the pallet and rubbing it with a roller so that the fibers are pressed between the roller and the pallet and left in front of the jaws of the two by friction.The cottonseed is blocked behind the contact nip line between the press roller and the supporting plate, and moves backward with the rubbing motion of the press roller.

A skilled cotton gin can pick one to two catties of cotton a day.This is truly labor-intensive and highly repetitive work, which means that those who do this work are considered to be at the bottom of the entire textile industry, similar to the carders in the wool producing areas in the north.

Anyone can do it, so the salary is naturally meager, but there is nothing. If you don't do it, you will starve to death.

Furthermore, because of the difference between seed cotton and lint, many farmers do not grow cotton. Those middlemen who purchase cotton and select seed cotton often keep the price of seed cotton extremely low, and farmers cannot spend time on ginning every day.

The big farmers would hire apprentices or the least skilled hirelings to do this, and it was profitable.

The simple cotton gin in front of Chen Jian, which can be knocked out by a blacksmith relying on the raw materials provided by the hydraulic workshop, can process [-] to [-] catties of cotton every day, and the efficiency is [-] times that of manual labor.

Similarly, the efficiency has increased by fifty times, but only one person's salary needs to be paid, and the wages of these 49 people are of course earned.

Once the efficiency is improved and the ginning is simple, the problem is not a simple problem of the ginners, but a series of competition for food and cotton, food production and planting volume, and the desire of the land faction to restrict the personal freedom of employees to plant and pick cotton The business school and the business school hope to maintain the free flow of personnel in order to vigorously develop the textile industry, open up the dumping of Qi's market, and so on.

Cooperate with the new multi-spindle spinning machine, mule spinning machine, spring shuttle loom, hosiery machine, woolen fleece hand-operated machine, etc. These carpenters and blacksmiths can make it but are suppressed by the guild; The handicraft industry is difficult to compete and lose jobs, and the skills learned after many years of apprenticeship become as cheap as new apprentices, etc. Seemingly simple but related to the life of the family.

Coupled with the chaos caused by Chen Jian's plan to burst the bubble of the orchid trend...

Mincheng will soon be able to make big headlines.

Chapter 1 continues to contribute to the big news

The craftsmen who made this thing don't care about making big news, they just care about whether the thing can be sold or not, and whether they can make money.

This cotton gin is used for ginning cotton, which is proven to work.

It's just that the craftsmen don't know what the other small iron lump machine is used for.

Huang De pointed to another smaller and cruder thing that could be knocked out of a village blacksmith shop, and asked, "What does this thing do?"

Chen Jian looked at the small hand-cranked corn thresher, and said flickeringly: "I once heard from a sailor who went to sea that they saw a strange plant on a small island, but it should be able to Eat it. It was not ripe at the time, but it tastes good when cooked. I went to look for it later, but I lost my way and couldn’t find the small island.”

"I'm thinking that now that I have money, I will go to sea to have a look in a few days. Maybe I can find this thing. Make it in advance, and if it can be planted at that time, it can also come in handy."

He told half-truths about the appearance of corn, and Huang De and others were skeptical.

The city of Min is close to the sea, and there was a fever of going out to the sea decades ago to explore some islands between Qi and Qi, leaving behind many legends of sailors.

Some are true and some are false, especially if there is too much seawater in the words of sailors, it is a soaked sea cucumber.After squeezing out, there is only half a little left, which is really good.

Huang De is willing to believe in legends about Chen Jian, but he is hard to say anything. Everyone has their own hobbies.