"It is said that there are no high bridges in the newly built new city presided over by Liu Dafu. They are all flat bridges and paved directly, and all roads are renovated according to Lingao standards. In the future, Australian cars and horse-drawn carriages will be able to run in Guangzhou." Chen Xuandao, "This is true. It’s also a business opportunity!”
"Even so, they were all Australian cars at the beginning. The cost of carriages was too much." Wu Yijun shook his head and said, "You don't know something. During the Ming Dynasty, there were a lot of dandies in Guangzhou who were good at horses and their families were quite wealthy. A few good horses. Raising horses is much more difficult than raising people. They are extremely delicate. Horse breeders are still familiar with the nature of horses and grooms, 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. I guess there must be some Australian secret to raising horses."
"If you can't raise horses, it would be a good idea to open an Australian car dealership." Chen Ding suddenly said.
"Car dealer?" Wu Yijun is a businessman after all, and he has a very sharp mind. He immediately understood, "Is it just like the current sedan dealer?"
"Yes, I asked the rickshaw driver last night. There are two types of rickshaw pullers here. One is to buy a car yourself and then buy a taxi license to pull the truck. However, there are not many such people. The cars are expensive and many people cannot afford them. Starting. Most of them are cars from car rental agencies, and you pay for them every day.”
"This is a good business!" Wu Yijun nodded. As long as you invest one time to buy a batch of cars, and then take back the car shares, this transaction is worth doing!
"It's just that sedan companies used to have handicaps. I didn't ask the Australians if they had such regulations."
"I think so." Wu Yijun's eyes were bright. I think this is another great business opportunity.
As the car went south, a few people chatted and laughed, but they didn't feel bored at all. It's just that Chen Xiaobing is not with me in the car, and there is no one to ask about novel things, which is a bit regretful.
When the car arrived at the gate of Nanbao Textile Park, Chen Xiaobing, who had arrived earlier, was already waiting here.
Under his guidance, the group walked into the park. Red brick zigzag-shaped factory buildings are dotted here, the chimneys of the boiler rooms tower into the sky, and the courtyards of the car areas and roads are lined with trees. Chen Xiaobing introduced that it has multiple factories. It is engaged in multiple textile-related industries including cotton spinning, silk spinning, linen spinning, wool spinning, weaving, and printing and dyeing. However, the scale of the factory is not large, and it mainly serves a "demonstration" role.
"...the technologies of these factories will be opened to private enterprises in the future, but currently cotton spinning is the easiest and has the most market." Chen Xiaobing introduced and led the way. "Come on, please go this way."
The roar of machinery in the workshop can be clearly heard from the road. There is a constant flow of small rail cars transporting raw materials and finished products on the road. Several people were stunned when they saw the scale: so many factories and machines!
Chen Xiaobing took them to the first factory building. There was already a man in work clothes standing at the door. He looked to be in his thirties and had a nice smile.
"This is the chief of Lishan." Chen Xiaobing introduced, "The person in charge here. He will answer everyone's professional questions here."
An elder actually condescended to receive him. The three of them couldn't help but feel flattered. After shaking hands and greetings, Li Shan said: "Let's start from here... Soldier, give everyone masks."
Everyone must wear a mask before entering the workshop. Now he led the way and the group walked into the factory. The noise in the factory is several times louder than on the road, and it feels deafening as soon as you enter.
The temperature and humidity of the air in the workshop have risen sharply. Workshops of textile companies often need to maintain a certain air humidity. Coupled with the heat emitted by the machines and wearing masks, it makes people feel more and more chest tight and short of breath. However, it seems that the veteran receptionist did not seem intolerant at all, wearing a mask and leading the way to explain.
They enter the preparation workshop for the first step of the production line. There are huge cotton bales piled here, and white cotton wool and dust are floating in the air. Even wearing a mask makes one's throat feel scratchy.
Zou Biao explained that what is used here is clean cotton that has gone through the ginning process. Because ginning requires too much manpower, the ginning process is mainly done by the origin of the raw materials. After the clean cotton is packed and transported to the workshop, it is opened and carded. The cotton fibers are loosened and carded so that they can be twisted into strips and then rolled. This process is considered to be the most manpower-demanding link in the entire production line.
Watching the workers busy feeding and transporting materials, Zou Biao asked people to distribute samples of clean cotton, opened cotton and carded cotton to each large household, and said: "There are a total of 60 35-type opening and carding units here. Each machine can produce about 10 kilograms of carded cotton in one hour. If converted into Ming units, that is about 16 kilograms in half an hour."
Chen Ding asked: "Excuse me, chief, what is the purpose of carding cotton?" Naturally, everyone can understand this loose cotton. Although the Australian cotton loosening method is a bit strange, it is not beyond the scope of understanding: Traditionally, spinning requires loosening the cotton first, usually using a bow string to play the cotton. In addition to loosening the cotton, it can also remove the remaining impurities and make the cotton loose. Cotton is cleaner. But I don't understand this carding process. Under traditional technology, the loose cotton is usually directly twisted into strips by the weaver and then spun. There is no carding process.
In principle, the ancient strip-forming process is also a kind of carding, but the process is different. Carding technology was a cotton processing technology developed in Western Europe in the old times and modern times, and it is more adapted to large-scale mechanical production. Therefore, Zou Biao explained: "This additional process exists for the subsequent production. Please follow me and you will find out."
The essence of the production line is a combination of individual machines, but the textile industry in Lingao is not yet capable of continuous operation. In particular, the speed adjustment of steam machinery is not as good as that of electricity, and manpower is still needed to combine individual machines. I saw workers feeding the carded cotton into the next machine. After mechanical drafting, the strips became roving rolls.
This behavior made the Chen family's uncle and nephew a little confused. For a while, they still didn't understand the purpose of this extra process. To them, it was obvious that it was an extra redundant process.
"You may still be confused, but one thing you may be able to find is that the rovings produced here are all regular and not as variable in thickness as those produced by home spinning." Li Shan explained.
After what he said, everyone suddenly realized and looked inside the factory. At this stage, basically all male workers were doing the work, and what they did was all physical work. There was no skill at all. It was just feeding and carrying materials. This was also This means that through these processes, you can weave yarns of regular and uniform thickness without having to be an experienced weaver. At this time, Chen Lin also understood how the previous spinning was so consistent. This process seemed redundant but was essential.
Next is the process of spinning the roving into fine yarn. The equipment here is all mule machines. This mule machine is also one of the detours in the cotton textile industry. The reason was that after discovering that the handmade cotton yarn collected was uneven in thickness and difficult to weave on a machine, we discussed using a mule machine as a remedial measure, which was not originally intended to be used.
The so-called mule machine is actually a mixture of Arkwright's water-powered spinning machine and the Jenny machine. The yarn spun from the former is thick and rough in texture. The yarn spun by the Jenny machine is fine but has poor fastness. The mule machine combined the drawing drum of the Arkwright machine with the main slide of the wooden spindle of the modified Jenny machine to produce a yarn that was both thin and strong.
According to the principle, the mule machine is a spinning machine. The structure of the textile machine based on this principle is complex and the efficiency is low. It is especially suitable for long fiber textiles and can weave fine high-count yarns. The problem is that most of the cotton 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 disliked this machine very much, but in the state where the textile industry was completely unranked, it would be good if it could be used. If it is not easy to use, it does not mean that it cannot be used. Once it is built, it can be used first. This make-do is enough for now.
It should have been eliminated after the development of ring spinning, but due to resource rationing reasons, old equipment only eliminated machines that were in too poor condition to continue to be used. The Planning Institute plans to sell those mule machines in good condition to private enterprises.
Even if they are backward production capacity that is ready to be eliminated, these machines are still a dazzling presence for the visiting group.
I saw the spindle of the mule machine installed on the frame. As the track continuously reciprocates in and out, the roving end is wound and the spun yarn is rolled out from the winding on the other side. The people working here are all female workers, and I can see their skillful hands dancing, and rolls of fine yarn are constantly stacked aside.
Compared to the previous processes, the mule machine surprised them even more. It has been known from many rumors that Aosong can control the power of water and fire, and I have personally seen that the power of water and fire is used for rapid spinning.
As the team advanced, it was discovered that Chen Lin was indeed exactly the same as the one sold in the Dongmen City Department Store. This yarn was definitely better than any spinning expert in the Ming Dynasty, and the output was dozens of times higher than before.
"My dear nephew, what do you think of this Australian yarn?" Wu Yifan is a layman after all. He only thinks that there is no other way besides fineness. The only thing that is clear is that the output of this yarn is huge. If cotton is guaranteed, local yarn will definitely There is no competition, but I don’t know why Australian yarn is not flooding Guangfu.
"Exquisite! Both the finished product and the process are eye-opening! To buy such a set of machinery, it doesn't matter whether you have a textile expert or not. The only thing you need to be familiar with is the last process. There should be no place for such a worker except Lingao Found it." Chen Lin said with half joy and half worry. They can only watch the workers operating in the passage. Of course, some people are not willing to squint hard and lean over to see clearly. However, no matter how they look at the high-speed machines, they will not be able to understand them in a short time. Chen Lin was also leaning over to watch. He only saw that the Australian female workers were very skilled and quickly packed a lot of yarn tubes out, but he couldn't see exactly how to do it.
