Not long after the meeting, Chen Lin put up a sign in the cemetery in the name of "Preparatory Office of the Senate Demonstration Private Nansha Cotton Textile Factory" and began to recruit migrant workers to start civil construction projects.
This "Senate Demonstration" was obtained by specifically applying to the two leaders Li and Zou at the reminder of Chen Xiaobing. The purpose is self-evident: to ask for an amulet.
As soon as the preparatory office was established, the recruitment of civil construction workers began. Although a professional construction team was sent from Guangzhou, the project still required a large number of laborers, and all these job opportunities were reserved for the Chen clan in Nansha.
The internship team explored around Nansha for a long time and finally selected an unnamed river bend as the factory site. For convenience, the internship team called this place "Factory Bay".
After Li Guo's field observation, they found that there is a terrain drop of nearly 3 meters from the upper reaches of the river to here. This water head is not ideal, but it is enough to drive the water wheel.
After the factory site was determined, Zou Feng, a member of the "Group of Four Spinners", began to design a waterwheel that could effectively utilize river water. He found a well-lit room in the cemetery as a design studio, put in a drawing board and equipment, and started the design work.
Although the four-member team are all "spinners", they actually have different professional directions. The textile school run by the Senate can't divide labor as carefully as in the old time and space, and according to the current situation of this time and space, it has to make some changes "according to local conditions" . Therefore, Zou Feng's professional direction is textile machinery and textile construction. He also knows a little bit about printing and dyeing, so he can be called an all-rounder.
Zou Feng is a boy and is older than the three girls, so he is relatively more cautious. He goes to explore and collect data every morning, and in the afternoon he draws drawings in the "design room".
Three girls helped copy the drawings and do related calculations and paperwork. For the time being, they have no role to play. In addition to helping, they are writing various process procedures and specifications. Once the factory construction phase begins, they are responsible for recruiting and training workers.
Zou Feng’s design plan is actually a “localized” implementation of the veteran design plan. This kind of hydraulic machine has been installed many times throughout Hainan, and it is a very mature solution.
The specific plan is to build a dam in the river to create a water head of about 2 meters. As for water wheels, there are various water wheel plans in the Senate's industrial information, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. After comparing the objective conditions, Zou Feng chose to shoot the water wheel.
The principle of the water wheel is to rely on the weight of the water in the water wheel's bucket to rotate. The river water pours into the water bucket from the upstream side, driving the water wheel to rotate. Rather than pouring in from the top like the common upward shot number theory. So the direction of its rotation is opposite to the direction of the flow of the river.
The advantage of this is that the return water can be taken away, and a large water head is not required to drive it.
Its foundation pit needs to be carefully constructed to form a straight arc with the edge of the water wheel. This curved complement is called the curve part. The gap between the bottom of the foundation pit and the water wheel is very narrow, forcing the water to stay in the water bucket until it reaches the bottom of the revolution before it is discharged.
After the water wheel plan was selected, Zou Feng began to design the power transmission system. This can also be said to be one of the cores of the entire factory. Without the design plan of the transmission system, even the specific dimensions of the factory building cannot be determined.
The rotation of the water wheel drives a vertical axis to rotate through a bevel gear, and then drives a horizontal axis called the "celestial axis" to rotate through another set of bevel gears. This is the "celestial axis" currently found in the workshops of all factories of the Senate. All equipment is connected to this main shaft through a vertical transmission shaft or belt, and the rotation above is used to drive the machine. It's just that in most factories, steam engines rather than water turbines provide power.
How long the vertical axis needs to be depends on the number of equipment and the layout of the production process. After determining the length of the main axis, Zou Feng can determine the length of the factory building. As for the width of the factory building, it first depends on the range of machines arranged along the main axis. Secondly, the machine must be as close as possible to the wall, so that workers can Get the best lighting.
The factory building is of brick and wood structure. Even with the considerable development of the Senate's steel industry, wood remained one of the most common building materials in the Senate. The same is true for the factory this time.
Although it is a wooden structure, the main structure is made of modern structural materials. Whether it is trusses, beams, floors, wall panels... they are all produced by sawmills according to certain standards, and can also be customized according to size.
Of course, Zou Feng can't be said to have "design" ability. He is more of a "splicing" based on the on-site conditions and specific data based on countless plans he has learned. So he designs very quickly.
The first phase of the Nansha Cotton Textile Factory is 20 meters long and 10 meters wide. It is a brick and wood structure house with a sloping roof and an attic. Although the house looks like it has two layers of windows from the outside, it actually has only one floor, with an attic at the bottom. In order to obtain good lighting effects, the windows on the wall are all opened widely, some are fixed and cannot be opened, and some are set to be opened for ventilation.
A small shed was designed at one end of the factory building, covering the channel, to house and protect the water wheel.
After all the designs were completed, the girls calculated the size and quantity of building materials to be ordered based on the design drawings, and added a 5% margin to form several order orders. Chen Qing personally sent it to Guangzhou and handed it over to Wu Yijun. It's up to him to order.
Chen Lin and Chen Ding are busy negotiating with the owners of "Factory Bay" and surrounding land these days to obtain the right to use the land.
The negotiations did not go smoothly. Firstly, Chen Lin was not the clan leader and could not use his clan power to coerce the clansmen into submission; secondly, he really could not offer anything to compensate the landlords. After all, the land by the river is good land, and most of the holders are unwilling to let go; and the area they demarcated actually involves eleven landowners. Nine tribesmen, two foreign surnames. One can imagine how difficult it is.
The uncles and nephews of the Chen family have always been popular in the clan village, so at last they were not too desperate when talking about it, but in more than a month, they still managed to reach three families.
"This land is too difficult to buy. I have increased it to three times the market price..." Chen Lin muttered, "I don't want to sell this land. Is it possible to increase it to ten times?"
Chen Ding was silent for a long time, and then Fang said: "Just increasing the price won't do it... You can't increase it ten times, either. After all, this is the 'root' for a person's livelihood. If you buy it, doesn't it mean that you have cut off his 'root'?"
"But he can still buy new land. Isn't it good to buy more land?"
"I just thought about it, and I wouldn't want to sell it. Most of these lands are along the river, and embankments and channels have been formed over the years. As long as there is no major disaster, they are good fields that can guarantee harvests despite droughts and floods. You can add three to five times the land Once the money has been spent, it’s hard to say whether we can buy such good land again, not to mention that repairing water conservancy is a matter of generations. If you buy the land again, you have to build it from scratch. No one will be happy with how much money you give.”
"What should we do? Find another place?" Chen Lin spread his hands.
"It took them many days to find such a place. If you say it can't be done, what do the two chiefs think of us?" Chen Ding touched his mustache, "We have to give them a long-term solution, a long-term solution... "
"Let them work in the factory..."
"This is not a big benefit. In the future, when the factory gets bigger and everyone can work in the factory, what's the benefit?" Chen Ding was disappointed, but this gave him some inspiration, "By the way! You can give shares!"
"Third uncle! Our whole Chen family only holds one share, how can you give them shares? You can't take out Mr. Wu's shares and divide them..."
"Speaking of which, I went to Lingao a few days ago. Comrade Chen and I were chatting when we had nothing to do. I heard him talk about a lot of Australian business laws. It was quite inspiring. I have an idea..."
"What?"
"As you probably know, the Australians have now issued an order to clarify land and standardize property rights."
"It does happen. But we have nothing to say. There are not many people in the Chen family who are famous, and they have never contributed anything."
"Oh, it's not that simple!" Chen Ding said that he had roughly studied the relevant laws and regulations. Several of them are specifically targeted at clans.
"You also know that part of the clan's land belongs to individuals and part belongs to the clan. The rights of these clan lands must be confirmed this time."
"If the rights are confirmed, the rights will be confirmed. Could it be that the land deed is fake?" Chen Lin felt strange.
"My dear nephew, you are just a teenager. You must carefully study all government documents."
According to the new policy, the ownership of clan land is determined by each individual, and the property owned by the clan belongs to the individual, and the property under the clan name must be transformed into a "corporate responsible company" or a "corporate legal person".
"So in the future, the Chen family's land will definitely be transferred to Chen's company - by the way, including the silk workshop."
"Then what?" Chen Lin didn't understand yet.
"The shares that Mr. Wu gave us should be included in the company. We will give the people whose land was expropriated a certain number of shares in the name of the company. Let them earn profits every year, and they will naturally be willing."
"But this doesn't make any sense. Now, isn't everyone enjoying the clan's land income? Every year, the men get a little bit, and those who have trouble at home can get some subsidies..."
"Haha, why don't you understand? Now, how to use the income from the clan's sacrificial land, and who should be given it or not is a matter of one word from the clan leader and the person in charge. At most, a few clan elders can express some opinions, and everyone else can They have no right to speak. Whether to give or not, whether to give more or less is the decision of the clan leader and the person in charge of the affairs. The accounts are even more confusing. If it is changed to a company, it means that it is done as a business and how much is the annual income. , how much is retained, how much is public expenditure, and how much everyone should share according to the shares, it is all clear. Isn’t this clear share much better than a random year? Which one do you think the tribesmen will like? "
(End of chapter)
