After arranging the formation of a security force, Mr. Zhao felt physically and mentally comfortable. Of course, the reliability of the infantry fighting team was not as good as that of the army trained by the Senate, but he was now the boss and the bread and butter of these people, so he had no choice but to let them not work hard. What's more, he
He also gave Zhao Tong instructions: "Let the authority of Mr. Zhao be established in a big way."
When I was feeling very proud, someone came to report: "Miss Li is here."
Li Yaoer has been running between the silkworm breeding farm and the silk reeling factory these days, taking a group of students from the "sericulture training class" to raise silkworms and reeling silk - in fact, she herself has limited knowledge of these things, and she relies on
When I was in Hainan, I had to study unexpectedly, so it was very hard to take care of the students. The gene that she had been saying for many years, "I have a body that makes me fat easily, and I will gain weight even if I drink water" seemed to have suddenly disappeared, and her face became smaller. She had always been worried about wearing clothes.
The shortcomings of the skirt will be fully exposed - the fat on the thighs will disappear without a trace, and when I take a shower at night, I will be surprised to find that I have become taller and stronger.
The servants looked at Li Yao'er's haggard face and running up and down the mountain every day, and secretly commented that Mr. Zhao was really discerning in choosing people: he could still work so hard for a little wife.
"When will the boilermaker arrive?" This was the first thing Li Yaoer said when he came in.
Phoenix Villa already has a boiler, but this boiler is used to support the villa's water pump. At present, the villa's water supply has squeezed out all the remaining capacity of this equipment, and it has to bear any responsibility for supplying gas and water to the silk reeling factory.
It's really overwhelming.
For this purpose, the mechanical port has supplied two new boilers, which are used to supply hot water and drive the water pump that supplies water to the reeling factory. As a result, new equipment must be equipped with maintenance workers.
"The telegram said that this ship is arriving, either tonight or tomorrow morning." Zhao Yingong looked at the nominal "little wife". She was still dressed in the same dress: narrow-sleeved ruffles and a thicker coat. But the two maids were a little crooked.
She looked a bit messy. Her face was swollen, her eyes were full of red threads, and she looked like she had been overworked.
"If there is no fire in the boiler room, it will be impossible to do the test. The cocoon waits for no one."
The cocoons obtained by Phoenix Villa through small loans and acquisitions are now piled in the warehouse at the foot of the mountain. Fresh cocoons cannot be stored for a long time. According to the general work process, the cocoons must be dried first to kill the pupae before they can be stored for a longer period of time.
A centralized drying room has been built in the silk reeling factory, but this requires a boiler to provide heat. Moreover, the silk reeling factory itself also requires a large amount of hot water.
"As soon as the people arrive, ask them to start working," Zhao Yingong said. "How is the training of the female silk reeling workers?"
"They are ready to start work." Li Yao'er said. "Most of them know how to reel silk, and the methods are actually similar, except that the original hand-cranking method is now replaced by a pedal." She was a little worried, "To be honest, this equipment
I'm still a little worried. It's another resurrection product, can it be used? This is the first time..."
"No, this is not the first time it has been made." Zhao Yingong said, "The machine shop has built a prototype and ran it experimentally in Lingao. Otherwise, they would not dare to give us the test product directly, right?"
"I hope so." Li Yao'er is not as confident as Zhao Yingong. The boiler and equipment have been technically debugged by the veteran responsible for installation. If nothing unexpected happens, it can be officially ignited when the workers arrive tomorrow. But this brand new
She was really scared as to whether the silk factory could produce normally under her half-hearted "technical guidance".
Originally, she just wanted to grow herbs, engage in gardening, and then artificially cultivate ginseng. It gradually turned into a potato cultivation trip in Jeju Island, and then to Hangzhou, where she became a sericulture technician. Now, she found that she suddenly became a
The manager of the silk factory! The transformation speed must be too fast.
"Let's go to the silk factory and have a look." Zhao Yingong encouraged her, "Let's see the great power of industry."
In order to facilitate water drainage, Cihuitang Silk Reeling Factory is located at the foot of Fenghuang Villa, close to the Fuchun River. The Cihuitang refugee camp dormitory is right next to it, saving the cost of building a dedicated worker dormitory and canteen. The ten-meter-high red brick
The chimney stands alone on the riverside, which is very eye-catching.
In the boiler room below the chimney, there is a Lancashire boiler installed to supply hot water and steam, and a power fire tube boiler to drive the water pump.
A wall separates the silk factory from the side. Inside are some weird rows of houses against the local scenery.
There were servants standing guard at the gate of the factory. They were all Zhao Tong's subordinates. They knew Zhao Yingong and Li Yao'er, so they let them in.
Although the factory's buildings and equipment have been built and installed and are ready for work at any time, it is now empty. Except for a few servants on duty in the factory warehouse who saw them coming and hurriedly came out to say hello, all workshops were empty.
one person.
It was both the first time for Li Yaoer and Zhao Yingong to stand in the workshop of a real silk reeling factory. The equipment manufactured in Lingao was neatly arranged on the base, and various brackets, pipes, and valves were intricately arranged.
Zhao Yingong originally thought that this set of equipment must be very crude. However, when he actually stood in front of this crude equipment, he realized that his knowledge was too shallow.
If he didn't have a book in hand, he wouldn't be able to explain the principles and operating modes of these devices that are considered "backward" and "simple".
An individual person is too insignificant in the face of large industry, 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, transforming this old world.
The production method was burned to ashes, and countless people perished with it.
Zhao Yingong couldn't help but feel excited and said: "This is big industry!"
Li Yao'er didn't feel as deeply as he did, and the factory and equipment in front of her also touched her. However, when she thought that this silk factory and the female workers who were about to fill the work stations were all under her management, Li Yao'er became a little panicked.
―This is too scary! Can she control it?
However, she didn't dare to say these words. At the moment, they were the two veterans at Hangzhou Station. They needed each other's support, especially cheering each other up. It was better to say less depressing words.
"Our silk factory looks quite high-end and high-end..." Zhao Yingong said in a funny way, as if to relieve her uneasiness.
The equipment used by the Ci Huitang Silk Reeling Factory is an improved imitation of the "Ji Qi Da Gao" equipment of the Jichang Long 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 consistent with the social situation at that time.
For the silk reeling factory that the Senate wanted to build in the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century, the most ready-made model was naturally Jichanglong in the 19th century. Therefore, not only the equipment was copied, but the factory layout and management model were also referenced.
The biggest improvement after Changlong's Jiqi Dagao is the use of steam-boiled cocoons to replace the charcoal-cooked cocoons that have been passed down from generation to generation for hand reeling. This is a major advancement in production technology.
The cocoon itself is formed by the silk spun by silkworms stuck together by sericin. To reel out the silk is equivalent to taking off a stamp. Water must be used to dissolve the sericin. In traditional charcoal cooking of cocoons, the temperature cannot be constant, which affects the amount of silk produced.
and texture. The unified circulating water supply adopted by the "Jichanglong" factory ensures the stable temperature of the reeling water and the clean and fresh water quality. Therefore, the silk thickness is uniform and the silk color is clean and shiny. This is determined by the improvement of the reeling process.
Although there is a boiler in this set of equipment, mechanical force is not used in reeling, but foot-operated rotating equipment is used. Therefore, it is not considered a mechanized reeling factory. From the perspective of reeling alone, although the foot-operated
The speed of the equipment is more stable and uniform than the hand-cranked method of the soil silk machine, but after all, it cannot be compared with the effect of the prime mover, and the uniformity of the silk produced is also a notch lower. Li Yaoer knows that this kind of silk can only be called "improved silk"
", which was still of excellent quality in the 19th century, has become backward after the beginning of the 20th century and cannot even be exported. Suzhou Sericulture College also used a similar human-powered "improving machine" to improve silk in Kaixian Village, but the quality
None of the raw silk can meet the export standards. But compared to handmade silk, it is thinner, smoother, evener and whiter.
However, in this time and space, this flaw is not considered a flaw at all. You must know that the raw silk exported by Zheng Zhilong to Japan also contains the so-called "yellow raw silk" - which is actually the yellowed old silk from the next year. Generally speaking, it is worthless.
It can also be used for export. This shows that the international market was in urgent need of raw silk at that time. The silk produced by Cihuitang Silk Reeling Factory using machine-qi large-gauge silk reeling is bound to be better than the best Lake silk.
The silk factory has a total of 300 foot-operated reeling work stations, a cocoon baking room, as well as auxiliary rooms such as a baking room, baking room, cocoon storage room and other auxiliary rooms. Each work station is equipped with a round kettle, with a steam pipe running under the kettle.
, so that the water in the kettle always maintains the required heat for cooking cocoons and washing cocoons. It is also equipped with hot and cold water pipes, and boiling water is used for washing cocoons. Cold water is used to adjust the temperature and perform necessary washing so that silk can be produced quickly.
.It is helpful to quickly guide the thread on the thread.
The improvement of labor productivity by machine reeling is very significant. According to the experience of Chen Qiyuan and Ji Changlong: each female worker can do the work of more than ten people. In manual reeling, each worker can pipe ten threads, while in machine reeling, each worker can pipe ten threads. Sixty, with good technology, hundreds of households can be managed, and labor productivity has increased six to ten times. Although Zhao Yingong has no experience in running a factory, he knows that the equipment manufactured by the mechanical port has greatly improved the efficiency of Ji Changlong's prototype. The improvement should not be as high as this. People in the external processing industry are designing the labor management system of the silk factory based on the "Taylor System", and the work efficiency of workers will be greatly improved.