In midsummer, there is a mild summer heat, the sun reaches 105 degrees longitude, and the rain and heat are at the same time, which is good for farming.
On the hills, there was already more than one windmill. The craftsmen of the Xue Tribe and the Giant Spirit Tribe, as well as those who came with Yu Zai, quickly imitated excellent replicas. Under the guidance of Yu Zai, each craftsman Producing a kind of parts according to the standards already given by Yu Zai greatly improves the speed and efficiency of work.
Of course, the craftsmen were not very happy about this. The craftsmen of the Xue tribe told Yuzai that this kind of production method that only knows how to do it but does not know why it is done is contrary to the so-called craftsman's craftsmanship. If it is just manufacturing A kind of part requires so many craftsmen, so the standards for qualified carpenters will be lowered.
The standards for a qualified mason are very low, but a qualified mason is not easy to find. The criteria for judging carpenters are of course far higher than that of masons. After all, everyone in the Stone Age was a mason, but there were only a few carpenters.
Yu Zai did not reprimand them directly for this, so Yu Zai held another meeting with them. He first listened to their demands, and then explained to them that any craftsman's skills are based on usability. The windmill is the first machine to appear in the world. As Yuzai himself said before, how can something that has never appeared before be left to those apprentices who are skilled in craftsmanship?
With just these words, the expressions of those master craftsmen suddenly changed.
Listen, the leader's flattery is really cool.
Comfortable...
With the first wave of goodwill, the subsequent explanations and education work can be carried out smoothly. Generally speaking, before scolding someone, you must first praise them. The positive and negative poles will offset each other, so that the other party can listen to what you are saying.
Otherwise, it would probably be "I'm wrong and I won't change it".
"As I said last time, there will be better things in the future. The standard of qualified carpenters will indeed be lowered, but the status of craftsmen will not be lowered, because there will be standards for judging, just like masonry and masonry. Just like a mason, is there no higher standard of judgment than a mason? If there is, who will judge it and by what standard?"
A beautiful pie has been painted by Yu Zai. These craftsmen, who came just for the sake of fame, almost voluntarily walked into Yu Zai's trap.
"However, before everything is formed, craftsmen should not feel humiliated because what they make is simple. If you are such a person, you are not a qualified craftsman. I have a friend who is a legend in the mountains and seas. A craftsman makes something, no matter how small it is, no matter how simple a tool it is, he does it with the greatest awe.”
"Only things made in this way can be stably combined into excellent equipment. Do you think that the standardization of each part cannot reflect your own production skills? But sometimes, these personal personalities must be restrained. .”
"Whether a part is perfect or not does not depend on your character. No matter how beautifully you make it, as long as the part cannot be combined with other parts, it will be a failure, even if it is placed in the leader's house or There is no value in being sold on the market!”
By the time I got here, the sweet dates and the big stick had already been beaten down.
"You go to the market to buy plow points to repair your broken plow. However, you brag about how exquisite your workmanship is, but the person who bought it finds that this thing can't be installed on his plow at all. You still want to If you build another plow for him to show off your skills, then your business will not be done? And even if you are willing, others will definitely be willing? "
"If you want to hire a large number of apprentices to reproduce and recreate the handicraft industry, according to your standards, then what you do is not the same as what I do?"
The craftsmen were stunned and remained silent for a long time, and were scolded by Concubine Zai!
Things made indiscriminately have no soul!
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It is one's job to remind these craftsmen, but how to set up a system that satisfies them is the job of Dihe Diting.
I am just a guide, maybe an admonisher, but I don't have the final say on how to implement it, because they are craftsmen from the Central Plains, not Hongzhou, and this is the Central Plains, not the south.
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What Yu Zai didn't know at this time was that Chonghua had encountered great opposition because of Bai Kui's incident. Although the proposal was proposed by the emperor, it was naturally implemented by Chonghua in name. Some veterans worked tirelessly Heading to Zhuzhu Mountain, I hope the emperor can take this idea back.
Even though Chonghua said that special things can be done in special times, those ministers did not believe the so-called "floods will come soon". At first, Ju Zai said that there would be floods in four years. Now it has been more than two years. The water level has only risen slightly. In the opinion of these veterans, it has only been so long since the last flood, how can it be possible to accumulate another batch of floods.
Chonghua told them that it was caused by drastic changes in the celestial phenomena. It was not yet time for a full-scale outbreak, but hidden dangers were already accumulating. However, he did not see it, nor did he go deep into the extreme mountains, where the sun and the moon could penetrate. The ministers did not believe it, and some even said that they should respectfully offer sacrifices to the stars in the sky and let the ancestors descend to guide them.
Of course, this kind of rhetoric just made others laugh. Many years ago, everyone performed sacrifices. Needless to say, what was the result? This kind of behavior did not happen in the era of Emperor Ku. The ancestors must be respected. But if you say you want to pray to your ancestors for guidance, that would be ridiculous.
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The minor summer heat was spent busy making windmills, and the great summer heat followed closely.
There are many windmills on the hills, and they can even be seen in the fields. Carpenters carry various tools on their backs and go back and forth in the fields to check the condition of the windmills. They are actually afraid that the summer thunderstorms will destroy these rigorous windmills. of machinery destroyed.
In the work shed and in the leader's room, there were bursts of kicking sounds. Ruzai withdrew his hands from the equipment in front of him. After several months of manufacturing and improvement, he finally managed to turn this machine into a machine with a relatively good memory. Recovered.
As we all know, Yu Zai has a magical hometown with magical grandparents and countless old objects. However, in later generations, those things will really be old objects.
They are remnants of the times, but they still have their own glory and have been glorious in the past thousands of years.
"So when will we be able to drive a tractor here...Should we use cocoons as energy..."
"In the future, with Danzhu's oblique spinning wheel and this thing, the original waist machine can gradually withdraw from the stage of history."
Ruan Zai looked at this machine. The light outside the window shone through the straw curtains. The dim light in the gap was accompanied by floating dust. Ruan Zai was in a trance for a moment. This was obviously a brand new machine, but it was full of energy that had spanned a long time. The sense of vicissitudes of time.
Yu Zai picked up the thing in his hand and began to perform the first formal "work" on this device.
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From morning to afternoon, the sun also began to tilt westward, but it was still early.
Marquis Xuan was still putting the finishing touches on the farm, but E Huang had already returned because Yu Zai said he wanted to show her something.
She walked into the work shed. It would still take a while for everyone to return from the fields, small markets and other places. In the work shed, apart from the looming and annoying chirping of cicadas, there was only a strange tapping sound, accompanied by a strange crisp sound.
Following the sound, Ehuang came to Ruanzai's residence. She knocked on the door, and a voice came from inside the door asking her to come in. Ehuang then pushed the door panel open, and she saw Ruanzai's back. The earthen house faced south. , the light of the setting sun fell, and it was not very late now. In the bright light, Yu Zai's hand held a strange thing with two pointed ends, and shuttled back and forth on the large instrument.
On the equipment, a pattern plate is put on a strange flower tube. Every time a weft is knitted, a pattern plate is turned over, and the pattern plate is pressed against the transverse needle once. When there are holes on the pattern plate, the head end of the transverse needle is inserted into the pattern. The holes in the plate and flower tube allow the hook end of the straight needle to still hang on the strange knife.
When the lifting knife rises, the straight needle also rises, driving the heddles to rise through the first thread hook and the through wire. At this time, the warp threads penetrating into the heddle eye also rise.
The thing in Yuzai's hand looked like a small boat. Ehuang finally remembered what that thing looked like.
Those threads that were tightened, or relaxed, or lifted up on the equipment, Yu Zai lifted them up again and again, one after another, without getting tired of it, without smiling or speaking, and as the light gradually fell throughout the room, Just a repetitive, crisp sound, over and over...
Cicadas chirp, kick, shuttle, and make crisp sounds.
E Huang was so entranced that she even forgot what she wanted to ask, and just watched Yu Zai working, and the sounds repeated, weaving something she had never seen before.
A beautiful flower appeared on the cloth. It was different from the crude patterns woven using primitive waist looms in the past. This flower... is very beautiful, really very beautiful.
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Yuzai stopped moving, and beads of sweat fell from his forehead.
Yuzai didn't turn around, panting slightly: "This is a jacquard machine...Does the fabric weave look good? Although many processes are omitted, I just want to try to see if it can be used."
Jacquard machine, the earliest Jacquard machine in ancient China, was unearthed in the Yin Ruins of the Shang Dynasty.
Ehuang picked up the piece of cloth, and her eyes were all attracted to the colorless cloth.
"If you want it, I'll give it to you..."
E Huang looked at Yu Zai in surprise, with an indescribable feeling in her heart. She looked at the device and asked: "How...how does it operate?"
"Take this, this is called a shuttle."
Ruanzai left the equipment and handed the shuttle to her. Outside the window, the setting sun had already dyed red:
"Time flies like an arrow, and time flies like a shuttle."
