After arranging the formation of a security force, Mr. Zhao felt physically and mentally comfortable. Of course, the reliability of the combat team is not as good as that of the army trained by the Senate, but he is now the boss and the bread and butter of these people, and he has no choice but to have them work hard. What's more, he also gave Zhao Tong instructions: "Let Mr. Zhao's authority be established in a big way."
While 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 I studied unexpectedly when I was in Hainan. So it is very hard to teach students. The gene that she had been complaining about for many years, "I am prone to getting fat easily, and I will gain weight even if I drink water" seemed to have suddenly disappeared. Her face became smaller, and she was worried that wearing a skirt would expose her shortcomings - the fat on her thighs also changed. It disappeared without a trace, and when I took a shower at night, I was surprised to find that it had become erect and strong.
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 power 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 pumps that supply water to the reeling mill. This way. It is necessary to equip new equipment 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 sleeves. The outer cover is better than armor. It's just that the two maids are a little crooked and look 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 very difficult to do the trial reeling. 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 long. According to the general work flow, the silkworm cocoons must be dried first to kill the silkworm pupae. can be saved for a longer period of time. A centralized drying room has been built in the reeling factory, but this requires a boiler to provide heat. And the silk reeling factory itself also requires a lot of hot water.
"As soon as the people arrive, ask them to start work," Zhao Yingong said. "How is the training of the silk reeling women?"
"They are ready to start work." Li Yao'er said, "Most of them know how to reel silk with traditional methods. The methods are actually similar, except that the original method was hand-cranking. Now it is changed to pedaling." She was a little worried. "To be honest, I'm a little worried about this set of equipment. It's another resurrection product. Will it be useful? This is the first time I've made it..."
"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 was not as confident as Zhao Yingong. The boiler and equipment had been technically debugged by the veteran responsible for installation. If nothing else, it can be officially ignited and used as soon as the workers arrive tomorrow. But whether this brand-new silk factory can produce normally under its half-hearted "technical guidance". She was really scared.
Originally, she just wanted to grow herbs, engage in gardening, and then artificially cultivate ginseng. It slowly 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 sericulture technician. The manager of the silk factory! The conversion speed is 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 was located at the foot of Fenghuang Villa, near the Fuchun River. The Cihuitang Refugee Camp Dormitory is right next to it, which saves the cost of building dedicated worker dormitories and canteens. The ten-meter-high red brick 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 and let them in.
Although the factory's buildings and equipment have been built and installed and are 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 hurriedly came out to say hello when they arrived, all workshops were empty. one person.
It was the first time that Li Yao'er and Zhao Yingong stood in the workshop of a real silk reeling factory. The equipment manufactured by Lingao was neatly arranged on the bases and various brackets. Pipes and valves are 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.
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. production methods were burned to ashes. Let countless people die together.
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 factories 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 up the work stations were all under her management, Li Yaoer 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, and they needed each other's support, especially encouragement. It’s better to say less when you’re frustrated.
"Our silk factory looks quite high-end and high-end..." Zhao Yingong said a little funny, as if to relieve her uneasiness.
The equipment used in the Cihuitang Silk Reeling Factory is a mechanical imitation based on 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.
The Senate wanted to establish a silk reeling factory in the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century, and the most ready-made example was naturally Jichanglong in the 19th century. Therefore, not only the equipment is copied, but the factory layout and management model are also referenced.
The biggest improvement after Changlong's Jiqi Dagao is the use of steam-cooked 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 made of silk spun by silkworms held together by sericin. To reel out the silk is equivalent to taking off a stamp, and water must be used to dissolve the sericin. In traditional charcoal cooking, the temperature cannot be constant, which affects the amount and texture of silk produced. 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 equipment, mechanical force is not used in reeling, but foot-operated turning equipment is used. Therefore, it is not yet a mechanized silk reeling factory. From the perspective of reeling alone, although the equipment speed of the foot-operated equipment is more stable and uniform than the hand-cranked method of the 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 one notch lower. Li Yaoer knew that this kind of silk could only be called "improved silk". It was still of excellent quality in the 19th century, but after the early 20th century it became backward and could not even be exported. Suzhou Sericulture College also uses a similar human-powered "improving machine" to improve silk in Kaixian Village, but the raw silk produced cannot meet export standards. But compared to handmade silk, it is thinner, smoother, evener and whiter.
But in this time and space, this flaw is not a flaw at all. You must know that among the raw silk exported by Zheng Zhilong to Japan, there is also the so-called "yellow raw silk" - actually the yellowed Chen silk from the next year. Generally speaking, it is worthless, but it can be used for export. It can be seen that the international market was in urgent need of raw silk at that time. Cihuitang Silk Reeling Factory uses machine-qi large-gauge silk reeling to produce silk that 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 the 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 cauldron can always maintain the required heat for cooking and flushing cocoons. There are also hot and cold water pipes, and boiling water can be used to rinse the 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 draw the thread onto the thread.
The improvement of labor productivity by machines is very significant. According to Chen Qiyuan’s experience in running Ji Changlong: each female worker can do the work of more than ten people. Each worker in manual reeling can handle ten thread nozzles, while machine reeling can handle sixty nozzles. With good technology, he can also manage hundreds of nozzles, and labor productivity is increased by six to ten times. Although Zhao Yingong had no experience in running a factory, he knew that the equipment manufactured by the machine port had greatly improved Jichanglong's prototype, and the efficiency improvement should not be as high as this. People from the foreign processing industry are designing the labor management system of the silk factory based on the "Taylor system", so that the work efficiency of workers will be greatly improved. To be continued. .
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