The 21st century viewers may be confused about how “improving women’s output efficiency and benefits in the textile industry” can actually help revitalize the commodity economy, increase the proportion of “people are willing to pay rice bran to the official mill to grind rice, and increase the utilization rate of the official mill.”

It seems that "weaving cloth, weaving brocade" and "grinding rice" are simply two unrelated industries.

When Li Sugang was the prefect of Shu County, he actually thought so, but after several months of farming and exploring the people's sentiments, he changed his initial idea based on modern people.

Because in today's farms, the heavy physical labor of milling rice and grinding noodles is actually done by women! Men are responsible for plowing the fields, while women are responsible for weaving and grinding the rice.

This can also be seen from the setting of labor punishment in the Qin and Han dynasties: the "labor transformation" in the Qin and Han dynasties is divided into five levels from light to heavy.

The second level is called "Ghost Fire Bai Can", which means that it is necessary to serve as woodcutters for the government and army, and provide firewood.

The heaviest one is called "chengdan pounding". Men's city pounding does not necessarily mean building a city, but rather taking on all types of migrant workers in construction sites. Women's pounding means removing the rice and flour. This is considered to be the heaviest heavy physical labor for men and women.

During the Qin Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty, there were very few mills, just a pair of pestle and mortar, which was like pounding Chinese medicinal materials in later generations. The rice and flour were pounded as much as the rice and flour were cooked at each meal. It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that there were more stone mills, and it was also necessary to pull the mills of people or livestock. Hydraulic milling was the first to be created by Li Su.

The hydraulic mill was the first batch of hydraulic machinery promoted by Li Su when he was managing Shu County. It was originally intended to facilitate the people and liberate the labor force. As a result, Zhuge Jin promoted it for five months. The poor were reluctant to use it and did not buy it. Instead, they asked the rich to chase dozens of miles to grind rice. This made Li Su very embarrassed, so he got involved in this matter.

Finally, the research results of the in-depth understanding of the people's sentiments were found that the poor people of this era do not regard their labor as wealth.

In fact, let alone the late Han Dynasty, even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were many poor people who thought so. They thought rice bran and wheat bran were wealth, and their own time and labor were worthless. They could spend time to solve problems that would never be exchanged for material wealth. This is what it means to be "a good at living and thrifty in the family."

As for the small peasant economy, this is the case. The poor farmers in 95 have no "commodity economy" and "will earn more when doing what they are good at at the same time."

After thinking about it, Li Su thought about it and thought about it, "build some large-scale official textile factory to attract a large number of peasant women to work, so that they can realize the value of their time." This is the fastest way to break the self-sufficiency of small peasants' economy and be reluctant to trade. Moreover, if it is implemented in Yizhou, you will not be afraid of excessive and unsalable textiles, no way out, and you cannot exchange them for enough food and other materials.

Anyway, the production efficiency of the textile industry in other states in the Han Dynasty was still very low. Nowadays, there were more people wearing warm clothes, and silk cloth would not be oversupply.

In addition, the tax reform proposed by Li Su to Liu Bei the previous year has not been able to open up the "injury" link of "renting and tutoring". It only established a simple replacement of grain tax, corvee and military service, but it still did not establish a link like the Tang Dynasty, which "allowed the people to pay textiles instead of grain tax and tuition". Therefore, it was not very helpful in solving tax and transportation capacity and improving fiscal hard currency reserves.

Only by building the "Shu Brocade" link can we completely get rid of the transportation difficulties in Shu. From then on, we will collect taxes and try to collect materials of high value density, which greatly improves the efficiency of fiscal collection and mobilization. Even if Shu Brocade cannot be worn for a while, it can even be spent directly as money and trade with other states.

The reason why the trade route in the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty was named "Silk Road" by later German historian Richterhoven, was actually very natural. Because many ancient silk relics were found along the trade route, the Germans took it for granted that this trade route was a long journey to Rome to sell silk.

However, according to the latest archaeological achievements in the 21st century, the silk transportation in each journey does not exceed 500 kilometers. Silk is just light and has a high relative value density, and is regarded as a money by Central Asia's business travelers and travelers.

For example, the Han people used silk to ask the Loulan people to buy wool, the Loulan people would spend it as money to the Persians, and the Persians would spend it to the Seleucids... They did not go to sell silk thousands of miles away.

Therefore, don’t doubt that Shu Jin in the late Han Dynasty was directly used as a hard currency attribute of spending money. Even if it is not needed for the time being, it will be used as a money storage and hiding it.

So at first, Li Su, who had made some tricks in the textile industry, was forced to this point by the strong backlash of the natural economy after a deep understanding of the people's conditions.

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Although he also needs to carry out "power hydraulic production" in the textile industry, Li Suyi cannot build Jenny spinning machines and cloth looms, so he took many detours at the beginning.

As a liberal arts student, he is only very familiar with history, so he knows what famous machines there are in history, but he has no idea how to build them.

He remembered that before the appearance of Jenny machine, there was a "hydraulic spinning machine" in the West in the 18th century, and the East was actually more advanced than the West in this regard. As early as the Yuan Dynasty, the Jiangnan region built a hydraulic large yarn machine, which was Huang Daopo. The rapid rise of "Songjiang cotton cloth" at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty was also related to the hydraulic large yarn machine in Jiangnan.

Note: The Shuyan Records written by the Yuan Dynasty also record that there were already hydraulic spinning wheels in Dujiangyan area of ​​Chengdu during the Yuan Dynasty, but they were not cotton yarn, but linen yarn, because cotton was not produced in Sichuan. Moreover, the Dujiangyan production area is the most stable and popular place for hydraulic spinning wheels, because only here is the only place where the weather and seasons are very stable.

If a hydraulic spinning machine wants to be more efficient than human spinning, the basic principle is to increase the number of spindles so that a power machine can drag many spinning at the same time and spin in parallel. Acrete's early water conservancy machine was towing 4 sets of spinning, Jenny machine dragged 8 sets from the beginning, and Wang Zhen of the Yuan Dynasty had 32 sets of hydraulic spinning wheels.

The Han Dynasty did not widely plant cotton, nor did they use cotton cloth, so the idea should be "a power machine drags multiple parallel wire reel wheels."

The power machine and transmission mechanism are easy to deal with. Anyway, it is the same as the waterwheels in the mill and forging workshops. It is a lot of trouble when the wire reels are to be dragged in the end.

Li Su asked the craftsmen to continue to test the production, and only did parallel wire drawing. However, after only a few sets of cocoons were tested, they became busy and frustrated. The most troublesome thing about spinning was that after a cocoon was drawn, a new silk cocoon had to be reconnected, and then rolled the silk and peeled the cocoons. This process still requires women to complete it by hand, unlike when cotton spinning cotton yarn, you can directly roll a large bunch of cotton fibers on it.

"No wonder the steam wire reeling machine appeared nearly a century later than the steam spinning machine. It was only in the late Qing Dynasty that Japanese people made it. It was indeed a bit troublesome. The female worker I found was too late to connect the silk heads of the silk cocoons. The water truck reeled the wire quickly, either breaking the wire or missing the connection. If you want to stop and connect the wire, it would take time to decouple the transmission of the entire water truck before you could stop."

When Guan Yu and Zhuge Jin came, Li Su was troubled by this problem for a long time and didn't know how to solve it.

Of course, in addition to silk reeling, Li Su has not done anything about brocade weaving. Even if silk reeling accelerates, he will definitely face an oversupply of raw silk supply in the future and a serious shortage of weavers. However, Li Su has no time to think about these problems yet.

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"Hey, that's the case. As long as the threaded head is broken and there is no time to connect, the water truck will have to be unhooked and parked to continue to reel the thread. This loss is too great, and I'm too lazy to fix it."

Li Su wiped the sweat and demonstrated a trial run of the water wheel reeling to Zhuge Jin and the others. Sure enough, the silk head was broken before long. The female worker was in a hurry and soon couldn't find the silk head that was strangled to the silk plate.

In order to keep the research and development stage confidential, Li Su had not allowed to casually find female workers to pick up silk from the people. These women were also maids of the wealthy businessman Zhen’s family, and were known for their skillful needlework and textile work in the Zhen family. The Zhen family now has daughters as concubines by Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei’s wife, who are considered "relative relatives" of the Yizhou camp. Therefore, Li Su’s official business innovation did not avoid them, but instead borrowed people from the Zhen family.

However, Li Su felt very dissatisfied with the result, but in Guan Yu's opinion, he was already very satisfied. He asked strangely: "What's the big deal? The female worker didn't have time to do it. Wouldn't it be better if you just have more female workers to take care of the silkworm cocoon and silk head?

Now a female worker manages eight silk wheels. When she encounters cocoons on several wheels, she almost finished drawing at the same time. Of course, she doesn’t have time to take it. You can put two female workers in each of them, each of them carries four silk wheels, or three people, see where there is a gap when you finish drawing soon. "

Li Su thought about it and shook her head: "That's still too inefficient. It's hard to spend so much money to build a water truck, which saved five women's labor and took many years to make a profit. Unless it is bigger, one car drags thirty or forty silk wheels, which is worthy of this car."

Zhuge Jin reminded next to him: "When collecting silkworm farmers' cocoons, let them pick the silk head first. When reeling the silk, let the female worker inspect and inspect. When seeing which wheel is about to finish the cocoon, they will immediately connect the silk head of the new cocoon.

When a female worker was picking up the silk, the female worker took her to inspect and asked them to count the wages, such as giving her a five-baht cocoon head. This would save the employment to the lowest level and not be afraid of wasting it."

Li Su: "How do you count?"

Zhuge Jin: "Don't count. Before feeding the materials, the supervisors counted dozens of pots in total, and how many cocoons were, and the total labor cost was only so much, they would share it themselves."

Li Su: "Then I'm afraid I'm going to share the spoils."

Zhuge Jin: "Then I will give a car to a family, a big family, so that they will no matter how many people they have, they are all their own family members anyway, and uneven division is also a matter within the clan."

Contract by family?

It seems that this method is indeed the best solution when the "performance appraisal" cannot be implemented and the workload is fluctuating. In this way, there is no need to consider "When there are too many people, which female workers in charge of the silk reel wheels are in charge of because the cocoons on the silk reel wheels are relatively small, and the workload of wire reeling is large, and they suffer losses."

Anyway, it’s all a family, and whoever loses or makes any profits between sisters and daughters.

Li Su thought about it repeatedly and felt that Zhuge Jin's "extensive management" method was really suitable for the background of the times.

If you don’t know, don’t do it. It’s the most important thing to do things with a silly account.

"It seems that I am not suitable for such cumbersome internal affairs management. I'd better tinker with black technology, inspire them and let them do it themselves."

Li Su thought to himself.

Unfortunately, facts soon proved that it was not enough to describe his powerlessness by reducing his demands to such a low level.

Because he was not able to do even "personally tricked out black technology".

After chatting with Zhuge Jin for a long time about the topic of "management of official silk reeling workshops", the group was about to leave and go back to Xiaoyao. A laboratory next door that was always closed suddenly opened, and a young subordinate rushed out of the laboratory with great enthusiasm.

Of course, Li Su was so familiar with this research institute that he could not be more familiar with. He knew that the research room next door was the new machine for him to ask people to make trouble for how to improve the speed of brocade weaving. That young subordinate was Zhuge Liang who had just recently learned the Six Classics and the Hundred Schools of Science and the Chinese Academy of Sciences with his brother, and was rushed back by Gu Yong on the grounds that he had a bad attitude towards learning.

But at this moment, Zhuge Liang excitedly gave Li Su a good news: "Master, I made what you said that you can eject a long distance from the weft thread. It is very stable to use, and it can bounce over a five-foot-wide brocade surface, and then bounce back with the machine bracket."

Li Su was stunned: Damn it? You can't use the IQ of making Zhuge crossbows to make brocade shuttles with a large amount of material, right? In the era when there is no spring, how did you make a shuttle? Could it be that you use a crossbow to get the animal tendon ejection structure?

You were driven back by Gu Yong and learned physics from me for less than a year because you "read and read the general idea, but don't seek to understand it very much."

"Oh, sure enough, my engineering talent is not as good as Zhuge Liang. Forget it, I will take back my thoughts just now. Let's focus on conspiracy and grand strategy."

s: Farming is boring, but tomorrow will be good. Everyone is a little patient. Although there is still farming tomorrow, it will be more interesting. I also know that today is boring to catch up on the progress to make it more stuff.
Chapter completed!