Aunt Tao met Yang Fan and his wife at General Zhengxi's Mansion.
Yang Fan was in the lobby of the second hall, receiving a visit from Aunt Tao. Aunt Tao's status was extraordinary. She was a first-class female official. She was responsible for the daily affairs of the Yang family and the Queen.
The courtyard of the General's Mansion is the hall where military affairs are handled and is a place of confidentiality. All confidential military affairs are handled there. It is heavily guarded and soldiers stand guard with guns.
The courtyard of Ertang is Yang Fan's office and dormitory. The reception here is more in line with Aunt Tao's identity.
After listening to Aunt Tao's words, Yang Fan nodded and said: "This is normal. Industrial development is like this. When a breakthrough is made in one link, other links need to follow. Otherwise, it will be affected by the lag in the upstream and downstream.
The breakthrough point.”
Xiao Niangpi asked: "Sir, do you think we can solve the cotton yarn problem? If the wool spinning factory never has enough cotton yarn, it will affect the expansion of reproduction."
After all, the Yang family is second only to the royal family and owns 30% of the shares. She is the second largest shareholder.
"The thing is, only by providing technology to spinning farmers, allowing them to improve spinning efficiency, quality and output, can we purchase more cotton yarn in the market. We are in Shandong and Northern
Zhili provides new spinning machines to support farmers. We also provide support to private gentry who have funds and are willing to invest in the construction of spinning mills. Only in this way can the current problem be solved," said Yang Fan.
Aunt Tao asked: "Uncle Dingyuan, do you have such a machine here?"
"Yes, there are several types, but there is only one of the smallest ones that is suitable. It can be operated by one person," Yang Fan said.
Yang Fan now has several spinning machines from the early industrial revolution. However, the most suitable one for each farmer is the Jenny spinning machine, which has the lowest technical difficulty.
The current shortage of cotton yarn is caused by Yang Fan's use of technology and equipment to invest in the wool spinning factory. Yang Fan's wool spinning equipment is equipped with flying shuttles, which greatly improves the weaving efficiency. This indirectly leads to a shortage of cotton yarn supply.
After all, there was no such large-scale textile factory in the entire world at this time.
There are more than 7,000 workers. They are engaged in the purchase, transportation, cleaning, classification, spinning and other work of wool. There are also six specialized weaving workshops, one woolen workshop, one printing and dyeing workshop, two garment workshops, and one
A mid- to low-end garment workshop responsible for blending cotton and wool. A woolen garment workshop.
The flying shuttle is actually a shuttle with small wheels installed in the chute. Spring is installed on both ends of the chute, so that the shuttle can travel back and forth extremely quickly. Therefore, the invention of the flying shuttle made weaving faster. The use of the flying shuttle is extremely
Greatly improved efficiency.
Historically, in 1733, mechanical craftsman John Kay invented the "flying shuttle".
The loom equipped with this flying shuttle not only could weave wider pieces of cloth, but also doubled the weaving efficiency. Then, his son Robert Kaye improved it and made it more convenient to use.
Due to the improvement in weaving efficiency, eight to 12 spinners must spin yarn to supply the needs of one weaver using a flying shuttle loom. The supply of cotton yarn exceeded demand, and there was an extremely serious yarn shortage at that time.
Condition.
There are historical records that in 1760, Manchester weavers had to walk five or six kilometers every day to collect cotton yarn from five or six spinners to supply themselves with weaving for one day.
If a weaver wanted to get more cotton yarn, he had to bribe the spinner with a coat or a new ribbon.
The supply of cotton yarn has been in short supply for a long time, causing the price of cotton yarn to continue to rise. The owners of cotton cloth factories find it intolerable. Some cotton cloth factories have stopped production due to lack of yarn.
The weaving equipment that Yang Fan provided to the woolen mill was this kind of loom with flying shuttle.
What the royal family provided was land and factory buildings, hundreds of thousands of acres of imperial land, used to grow long-staple cotton whose seeds were provided by Yang Fan. And the nobles provided the funds.
How to look at this investment, the royal family accounts for 40%, which is an advantage. However, the royal family's status as the largest shareholder will greatly promote this business.
No one comes to trouble their factory, and their products are sold all over the country very smoothly. The royal gold-lettered signboard is also valuable. Even bandits don't dare to rob the Royal Textile Factory's fleet.
Because cotton planting in Daming was carried out on a household basis. The price of cotton has increased this year, and the profit of cotton planting is relatively high. Therefore, more people will plant cotton next year.
Landowners who own a lot of land are also considering whether to reduce the area planted with grain and change it to cotton land. At any time, cash crops are more profitable than growing grain.
Therefore, landowners and farmers are willing to reduce the area planted with grain and switch to cash crops. Even though the government has many restrictions, they try to maintain the area planted with grain.
The woolen mill was so large that it had three thousand looms with flying shuttles. This required 40,000 spinning workers to fully supply cotton yarn.
There are only a few spinners in Beizhili. And many of them are housewives who spin and weave their own yarn. They only sell part of the cotton yarn that they can't use up. The rest are weaved.
There is not even a dedicated spinning mill in Beizhili. This also leads to the need for brokers to organize the purchase of cotton yarn.
The Jenny machine is a spinning wheel that drives eight spindles. This is equivalent to increasing the efficiency of the spinning machine eight times. This thing does not require steam power and hydraulic power, and can be used as long as manpower is used. Therefore, it is very suitable for popularization among the people.
of machinery.
Yang Fan took Aunt Tao, Factory Director Zhou who followed him, and the management of the woolen mill to the courtyard of Ertang.
On the cement-hardened floor here, there is a Jenny machine. Yang Fan asked a female worker to demonstrate it to everyone.
"Aunt Tao, look, I call this machine a Jenny machine. It uses a roller to feed fiber strips. It is suitable for spinning cotton, wool, and linen fibers. This equipment only requires manpower to use. One person can spin eight pieces at the same time.
Yarn." Yang Fan introduced.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Roller, a cylindrical rotating part in textile machinery that plays the roles of feeding, drafting, output, etc., is the transliteration of the English word "roller" and has the meaning of roller and shaft.
Aunt Tao, Director Zhou and others' eyes lit up. This is really a good thing.
After the current loom is equipped with a flying shuttle, one weaver needs twelve spinners to supply cotton yarn. Now this somewhat complicated spinning machine can actually do the work of eight people by one person. This will
Greatly alleviate the current shortage of veil supply in Beizhili.
They observed the equipment carefully and found that it was basically made of wood. Except for some metal parts made of copper and iron, the rest was all wood. The cost was not expected to be too high.
Aunt Tao asked: "Uncle Dingyuan means to let the weavers buy this kind of Jenny machine to increase production, and we will buy it again."
Yang Fan shook his head and said: "Not many people will buy it. This equipment costs two taels of silver. Many spinning households have old spinning wheels available, and they will not spend money to purchase equipment."
Aunt Tao asked: "What do you mean?"
Yang Fan said: "Let the woolen mill invest in setting up an equipment leasing company. Go directly to the spinning mill to sign a contract, and the leasing company will provide the equipment and pay it off in three years. After the repayment, the equipment will be owned by the spinning mill. The spinning mill purchases the cotton by itself and uses it.
Jenny spins yarn, and then sells the cotton yarn to an equipment leasing company in accordance with the contract. The equipment is purchased with a loan, and then repaid in installments. We underwrite the products, and we buy as much as they produce, and the money and goods are settled at that time. It does not affect
Orito's cash flow. Only in this way can Orito be interested."
Aunt Tao is also very familiar with business routines. She made a careful calculation and said: "According to the output and repayment settings of this equipment. After the spinner buys the Jenny machine, in addition to the repayment every month, there will be one or two silver left over."
Profit. This is very objective. There will be many people willing to do it."
This chapter has been completed!