However, although it felt strange, Guo Kang was not stunned for too long. He doubted it for a moment, not knowing whether this speculation was appropriate or not, let alone how to deal with it.
Guo Kang felt that he couldn't defeat her because of his selfishness. So, after hesitating for a while, I decided - lie down and forget it!
Let her be whatever she wants to be, it will end with someone having sex anyway. If that doesn't work, I'll just run away to the east. It’s not like there’s nowhere to go anyway…
It is said that before Babur went to India, he was once disheartened and wanted to go east to join the Ming Dynasty and live his life. It can be seen that this idea is not an accident and should be really feasible.
Thinking of this, Guo Kang became more determined to lie down. He took out a thin notebook and handed it to Wang Lama: "This is the plan I had conceived before. Please take a look at it, Patriarch."
In public, he gave Wang Da Lama face, and the other party was also very happy and praised repeatedly: "It turns out that we are ready this time. Let's take a look. Mr. Guo's plans must be very suitable. .”
"It's actually nothing this time. It's just a very rough calculation." Guo Kang said: "There are still many parts that need to be filled in when new land is opened in the future. That's it for now."
Lama Wang nodded, opened the booklet, and told everyone: "This is a plan for growing cotton and spinning cotton cloth."
"Is this also part of the reform of the church?" Father Andre asked.
"That's right." Guo Kang told him: "This is part of my plan to incorporate the Sisters."
Not only Father Andre, but others also became curious and asked him how he planned to arrange it. And Guo Kang also explained.
"Didn't we say before that the biggest problem is how to feed so many people?" He said: "We just try to make these people self-sufficient."
"So you chose this industry, right?" Wang Dalai Lama understood: "It's not bad. This is indeed a job suitable for women."
"But can they support themselves in this way?" Father Mikhail expressed doubts: "Weaving can only be used as a supplement to life. Except for a few good hands, most women cannot make a living by relying on this alone."
"That's because the equipment is not good." Guo Kang told him: "As long as it is improved, the efficiency can be easily improved. My calculations are used to demonstrate this."
"Oh, improving various textile machinery, right?" Lama Wang was not surprised that he thought about this again: "This should also be feasible."
"We also have cotton." Father Leo, who often patrols, thought for a while and said: "There are really not many cotton growing areas in Europe, but it happens that the only large-scale cotton growing area is in Greece. So you two don't It’s normal to be familiar.”
"It is also grown in Asia Minor." Guo Kang said: "In addition, Egypt and Syria are also important producing areas. It is not troublesome for us to transport it from there."
"Yes." Lama Wang nodded and took a note: "This can be considered solved... What about the cost of the machine?"
"It won't be too high. For single use, it can be controlled at a level that ordinary families can afford." Guo Kang said: "As for the large ones, it depends on the address."
"Can you design it?" asked Lama Wang.
"I don't need to design this. It is available in the Ming Dynasty and Java now." Guo Kang told him: "Of course, if you can't get it from there, I can try it myself. It shouldn't be too difficult."
Although some people in later generations highly praised the spinning machine and regarded it as the beginning of the industrial revolution, no one knows whether this thing is necessarily related to industrialization.
The famous "Jenny Machine" was born in the mid-Qing Dynasty, but it only had 8 spindles, and this machine did not even require Guo Kang to deliberately redesign it. In fact, if the knowledgeable contemporaries of the Qing Dynasty saw this thing, they would just sigh, "I am super, Yuan!" - because this is a Yuan Dynasty-level machine.
Hundreds of years ago in the Yuan Dynasty, there was a water-powered spinning machine with 32 spindles. In fact, what restricts the number of spindles is not the machine design and manufacturing level. It is simply that the hydraulic facilities are restricted by water intake, irrigation and other factors all year round, resulting in limited production.
As for the loom, the technical content is higher. Guo Kang planned to ask if he could directly find the Ming Dynasty machine and modify it accordingly. This kind of cotton loom is relatively good, and it is not as profitable as silk jacquard and other technologies, so it shouldn't be difficult to buy.
"Another advantage of cotton is that the weaving process requirements are not too high, but not too low either." Guo Kang continued: "It is not like silk, which has particularly high requirements for professionalism, making it difficult for everyone to learn. ; But it does have technical content, so it has a certain profit and can achieve better income. In short, it is a just right industry."
"If the development is perfect, the supply and sales of raw materials can be smooth, and the personnel are well-trained, in theory, it can be close to the income level of adult men. Therefore, if you want to produce and be self-sufficient, textiles are a good choice - planting The industry relies too much on physical strength, and women are not very efficient in farming. And textiles happen to be a large-scale project, which is suitable for organizing a large number of people and focusing on production."
Lama Wang showed Guo Kang's calculation to several others. Everyone agreed.
In fact, the machines at this time were far from reaching the peak level of the handicraft industry.
According to the calculations of later generations of researchers, in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the average income of a Jiangnan woman engaged in cotton weaving per working day had reached 80% of a farmer's daily income.
What is this concept?
The researchers also found the labor remuneration records of women in Songjiang County during the commune period for comparison. Even in this environment where political campaigns and administrative orders are used to forcibly pursue equality in productivity and equal pay for equal work between men and women, women who engage in the same agricultural production receive 80% of men’s daily wages.
Of course, the agricultural production efficiency of the Purple Horde Khanate is not as good as that of the East, so if everyone scales back a bit, the results may still be about the same. According to his estimates, it is promising to have an income level close to that of an adult male labor force.
Moreover, the upper limit of this job is far beyond that.
By the late Qing Dynasty, farmers engaged in farming worked about 305 days a year. Peasant women engaged in the cotton textile industry spend an average of more than 200 days a year working on looms. This length of time can be considered relatively "professional".
These 200 days of remuneration are converted into grain. According to the current price, it can feed 1.5 people for a year. If you are forced to work overtime for 360 days a year, you can feed 2.8 people. This is also what people at the time said: According to records in official memorials at the time, textile workers "can feed three people in one day, and two people at a time."
When the price of cloth was relatively high, the income of weavers was even higher than that of farmers. During the prosperous period of trade, when both parties worked full year, the wages of women who were also employed to weave cloth could be 30% higher than that of long-term workers engaged in farming.
Therefore, whether it is income or professional level, this industry has huge room for development.
(End of chapter)
