Ye Xing asked 11 boys from Yunhai Village who were going to join the city guard to report to the military camp with him, while the others rested in the villa.
As Ye Xing walked, he introduced various military regulations in the military camp and military training matters. The 11 boys were extremely excited. For them, practicing martial arts is the best and most enjoyable thing in the world.
Ye Xing brought 11 people to the military camp, made Lin Yifan the captain, and led 9 people to form a team of their own, which was the 29th team.
Let the youngest one, Ye Qingyan, be Ye Xing's full-time guard, mainly responsible for Ye Xing's ordering work, including the original 4 and 5 orderlies, all of whom were trained by Li Qifeng alone. They are all literate and smart. generation.
Back at the villa, the remaining 14 people plus Ye Xing continued to have a round table meeting while eating, and the atmosphere was very lively.
Ye Xing took the prepared plan and asked everyone to take a look at it.
Ye Xing's plan is to build a production line that uses mechanical power to spin yarn and weave cloth.
Originally, Ye Xing didn't know about this textile machine, but after this idea flashed through his mind, he continued to reason and simulate, and the design drawing took shape in his mind.
The quantum intelligence of the previous life definitely has memory, but there is no way to read it out. However, the brain is still very useful. Once you know the principle, you can deduce it in a while.
After all, Ye Xing's knowledge is far beyond this era. As long as you know the general outline, think slowly, and gradually experiment and improve, you will always succeed.
Many plant fibers in Donghae County can be used to weave cloth, and there are also cotton, silk, and linen used to weave cloth. Many people can do it, but they are all made by hand, and the clothes are sewn by hand, stitch by stitch.
In fact, most people wore linen made at home. Linen was rough and uncomfortable, and far less soft than cotton.
Of course, rich people wear silk, but silk and linen have a common problem: they are not warm.
Cotton cloth has the characteristics of softness and comfort, warmth, moisture absorption, strong breathability, and easy dyeing and finishing. There are also cotton fabrics now, but the processing is entirely manual, and cotton fabrics are relatively expensive.
So Ye Xing's idea is to create a fully automatic spinning machine, so that the loom can completely replace human hands.
Ye Xing opened the design drawings. One was a waterwheel, a spinning machine, and the other was a loom. He also brought the existing spinning machines, looms, and waterwheels for everyone to see, because almost every household We all have such equipment, so we just turn a blind eye, and no one has ever thought about changing or improving it.
But Ye Xing's design is completely new, completely different from the textile equipment in this world, a truly creative new thing.
The existing spinning machine can only pull out one thread at a time, and the movements of pressing, pumping, twisting, and pulling are all done manually, and it is all women's work, which is very tiring. Ye Xing feels that this is something he can definitely change.
The spinning machine he designed can produce 64 yarns at a time, and it is all driven by a water-powered machine. One person only has to look after it. If the thread is broken, he has to manually reconnect it, which is equivalent to one person sitting down and completing the task easily. 64 people work.
Moreover, this newly designed spinning machine is entirely made of iron, with various gears added. The sprocket is driven by water power and does not require manual operation.
The existing loom has 32 warp threads and one weft thread, which shuttle back and forth repeatedly to achieve weaving, while the Leaf Star design has 64 warp threads and 16 shuttles weaving at the same time.
The principle is the same, but it is driven by hydraulic machinery instead of human hands. The threads are denser and the cloth spun naturally is better.
The newly designed loom can produce dozens of times faster than the original one, completely changing an industry in one fell swoop.
The same goes for the waterwheel, which looks very simple, but is not made of wood, but made entirely of iron, and the impeller design of the waterwheel is also different from the existing ones.
After Ye Xing explained, all 14 people became excited. What they had always ignored and taken for granted turned out to be the biggest and best business! Every eye is shining.
Ye Xing asked everyone to divide into three groups and build three machines based on the design drawings. All skills and maintenance methods must be learned during the manufacturing process, and improvements must be made while manufacturing.
Ye Xing participated in all three groups and worked on it at the same time, putting forward his own opinions and listening to everyone's opinions.
Ye Xing spent 10,000 taels of silver to purchase various tools and materials. According to the design drawings, he first made prototypes out of wood and then debugged them. After working hard day and night, three wooden prototypes were completed in just half a month. .
A waterwheel was installed next to the canal in the villa, and a sprocket was used to drive the spinning machine and loom. After repeated adjustments and running-in, after 10 days, the prototype machine had achieved the design goal and could replace manual labor for spinning and weaving. cloth.
However, the water in the canal was a bit slow, and the water wheel rotated slowly. The people remodeled the canal, dug it deeper to increase the water level difference, and used stones to penetrate the bank. The canal was narrow and the water flow accelerated.
The gear ratio of the gears was adjusted to achieve different speed outputs, and the shafts and bearings that were prone to wear were remade from iron.
When all the work was completed, a month had passed.
On this day, the trial production was officially carried out, and everything went smoothly. In just a short time, 64 spindles of cotton yarn were completed, and then the yarn produced by myself was used to weave the cloth. The cotton cloth was woven smoothly. The prototype was completely successful.
Ye Xing requires that for one month of continuous production, everyone must keep an eye on it at the same time, solve problems immediately, find out unreasonable areas and make rectifications. All problems and rectification processes must be recorded, and the formal machinery must be produced to be a relatively perfect product. .
As for the cotton cloth produced, Ye Xing sent people to find shops in the city to sell it on a consignment basis. As a result, the high-quality cotton cloth was very popular. The price was 10% better than other people's handmade cloth, and it was basically out of stock every day.
Then, Ye Xing gave Lin Tie full responsibility to purchase large quantities of cotton and hemp thread, and build a large factory and warehouse on the water canal.
At the same time, Mu Sheng was asked to go back to Yunhai Village and bring Ye Xing's mother, 6 married wives among the people, plus 4 young women in the village.
Ye Xing's mother, together with four middle-aged women, were mainly responsible for the food and hygiene of the villa. Ye Xing was given 5 taels of silver per month, and each of them had their own room.
The six young women share a room with their husbands. They mainly participate in textile operations and provide suggestions for improvements. Ye Xing also gives them 5 taels a month, which is the annual income of a family in Yunhai Village.
Use the latest finalized design drawings to start manufacturing iron machinery, and strive to complete the manufacturing, installation, and debugging work within one month.
Ye Xing also used a waterwheel to make a lathe and clay to make casting molds, all of which were processed and manufactured according to the prototype.
Everyone is dedicated to work, there are new improvements every day, and every part is made to standard;
Measuring tools developed by Ye Xing are used to check various dimensions, and all parts are numbered. In Ye Xing's words, everything is produced according to standards.
Ye Xing's goal is to produce the machinery itself, not just weaving. Ye Xing's idea is to make everyone change their minds and use machinery to replace manpower, rather than blindly working hard.
Of course, Ye Xing's goal is even more ambitious, but everything should be done slowly. Everything he does now is just preparation.
In Ye Xing's mind, there must be a foundation to achieve goals, and now we are doing the basics.
In addition to participating in the optimization of this mechanical design every day, Ye Xing also had to go to the military camp for military training and report to the city master.
Regarding training, Ye Xing did not relax, and also asked the people in Zhongyunhai Village to start training. Without a good physique, they would not be able to cope with the heavy work.
Through this period of hard work, Ye Xing has deduced all the applied meridians of the wood system.
In fact, because of the reference of the water element, Ye Xing meditated every day, used his spiritual consciousness to look at his body, and then tried it out, and the wood element was deduced.
It was just that the process was a bit slow, but it gave him a better understanding of the direction of the meridians.
Now all his thoughts at night are verified over and over again. Because of the healing effect of water and his extremely cautious attempts, Ye Xing began to practice the wood meridians in an orderly manner without being too hasty or worried.
Ye Xing takes time to visit the military camp every day, observes all aspects of training, and puts forward his own opinions.
However, Ye Xing's greatest energy is in Xingchen Villa. What he wants is that the weaving production line is fully usable and there are no technical problems. His biggest hobby is to think and solve problems with his brothers.
Moreover, Ye Xing wants everyone to use their imagination to solve problems independently.
