Fortunately, Lin Mo quickly realized this problem and hurriedly explained it.
"Brother Liu, let me excuse you first, but according to traditional thinking, this topic involves women's privacy issues, and we shouldn't talk about it.
But let’s go! The core of this topic is women’s hygiene and safety issues. Women’s health is a very serious matter and should not be restricted by conservative ideas.”
"You're not talking nonsense?" Liu Deming is not a conservative old stubborn. Hearing Lin Mo's explanation, he became serious. After all, his mother, wife, and sisters are all women.
"I will definitely not talk about this kind of thing. In fact, this aspect of hygiene is closely related to many gynecological diseases in women, and once some diseases are contracted, they are likely to trouble or even torture the patient for a lifetime.
These are all well-documented. The things I just asked about have begun to become popular abroad. They are also based on facts and generally recognized for preventing some gynecological diseases."
Hearing what Lin Mo said, Liu Deming's unhappiness disappeared, and he even felt a little more sure in his heart. After all, he was concerned about his little sister. He was somewhat relieved that his little sister could find a husband who cared about her.
"I will pay attention to those things and see if I can find them..." Liu Deming directly took over the job of finding those things and ended the topic. After all, talking about these...
The two chatted for a while, and someone had already prepared lunch, which was home-cooked food from the kitchen of Liu's Trading Company. Lin Mo was not polite to Liu Deming, and a gust of wind and clouds made Liu Deming speed up.
After eating and drinking, the two of them drank tea on the stone table in the courtyard. Lin Mo also mentioned the business of coming over.
"Brother Ming, the Liu family is in the textile business. Is there any way to make hemp spinning? I want to find a hemp spinning factory with good craftsmanship."
"Hemp spinning factory? What is this thing used for?"
Lin Mo heard this and explained: "I need to order a batch of hemp textile products. The requirements are relatively high and they are not common hemp textile products on the market. It requires weavers with excellent skills and research capabilities.
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"That's it..." Liu Deming nodded and said with a smile: "Then you asked the right person, I will take over this job."
"How do you say this?" Lin Mo didn't understand. Why did you accept this job?
"You don't know? The ancestors of the Liu family started out as linen spinning, but now the focus is on cotton spinning and silk weaving. However, the Liu family's linen spinning industry has been retained, and now it has been handed over to me..."
Liu Deming briefly introduced the history of the Liu family to Lin Mo. The Liu family's ancestral home was surrounded by many mountainous areas and had a long history of hemp cultivation. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many hemp spinning mills emerged in the area.
The Liu family was originally a small landowner who grew hemp in mountainous areas. In the early Qing Dynasty, the local mountainous area was severely affected by bandits. The Liu family moved out of the mountainous area and set up a hemp spinning workshop in the local area. By the Qianlong period in the middle Qing Dynasty, they were among the top hemp spinning households in the area.
"... When the Liu family's linen spinning was at its peak, from boiling and rinsing silk, spinning and carding to weaving and printing and dyeing, the Liu family had dozens of workshops and thousands of looms. The quality of the top-grade linen produced was no longer the same.
Lose the tribute paid at that time.
What a pity! Jiangnan linen spinning was already marginalized in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and ours only lasted for a period of glory near the mountainous area. The Liu family's linen spinning business also flourished not long after, and began to decline with the decline of the Qing Dynasty.
By the end of the Qing Dynasty, with the introduction of new foreign cotton spinning techniques and machines, our linen spinning had almost come to an end. Fortunately, the Liu family seized the opportunity and relied on the family business left by their ancestors to introduce machines, set up factories, and switch to cotton and silk processing.
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It's just that because linen spinning is the ancestral industry, most of the weavers in the cotton and silk factory also changed careers from linen spinning. Many of these people have inherited the textile skills of their ancestors and are the backbone of the cotton and silk factory. Although they switched to linen and silk weaving, many of them are not.
May the inheritance of linen spinning end with me.
In addition, the Liu family switched to silk and cotton production at that time, and indeed made a fortune. They wanted to expand their business, so they focused on other local linen textile households, and decided to retain the Liu family's linen spinning industry.
However, the decline of the linen spinning industry has left hemp farmers in mountainous areas without a livelihood. Planting hemp is not an inherited craft, so they have switched to mulberry planting. Until now, except for the Liu family, the local hemp spinning industry has only retained a few small businesses.
Orimatou..."
Up to now, the Liu family's linen spinning industry is still maintained, but a lot of linen materials have to be purchased from other places, and as time goes by, there are not many people who are willing to inherit the linen spinning craftsmanship. Many people who inherit linen spinning are getting old, and the linen spinning industry is getting older.
The Liu family's industry has also been increasingly marginalized.
Now, the Liu family's linen spinning industry mainly relies on the production of hemp threads, hemp ropes, sacks, linen cloth for mourning, mosquito nets and other products, which can barely support the weavers who are also engaged in linen spinning.
Of course, there are also some essences, which are high-grade linen fabrics produced semi-manually by relying on old looms left over from the Qing Dynasty and a group of skilled linen weavers, printers and dyers, etc. However, the output is not high and it is not sold to the outside world.
Instead, let the Liu family use it as gifts and other things to protect customers.
Grass cloth, as the name suggests, is a cloth worn in summer. It is generally woven from ramie fiber. Because it is cool and breathable, it is cool and comfortable to wear and can lower the body temperature by several degrees. It is a high-grade fabric worn in summer.
However, what Lin Mo needs is not the linen on the market, nor is it all cloth. This time he plans to order some special linen products to be processed into special equipment worn and used by the special operations team.
Such as stab-proof and cut-proof materials, wear-resistant breathable and sweat-absorbent materials, high-strength ropes, flame-retardant and heat-insulating materials, anti-bacterial and mildew-proof materials, etc.
Today is not the future, there are not so many synthetic materials with different properties, and cotton materials cannot meet the higher special needs, so Lin Mo can only consider linen materials.
Linen is not like cotton. There are many types of linen, such as hemp, jute, ramie, flax, etc. The characteristics of different linen materials are also very different.
For example, ramie fiber has extremely high strength. Its tensile strength is eight or nine times that of cotton, which is almost the same as glass fiber. It can be used as aircraft wing cloth, parachute materials, aviation ropes, etc. This performance is more than enough for Lin Mo, and it has
It has good wear-resistant and flame-retardant properties. The thick-spun fabric is enough to meet the requirements of being cut-proof, puncture-proof and wear-resistant, and the woven rope is light and strong enough.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Fibers such as flax, hemp (hemp), and ramie have natural antibacterial properties, moisture absorption and breathability, heat resistance, sun resistance, corrosion resistance, antistatic, and UV resistance.
Features such as this can adapt to many special needs.
Lin Mo introduced his needs in detail, including the finished product and the properties of the required materials. He also picked up some of the things he knew about hemp material that he could explain clearly to Liu Deming.
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"Brother Ming, how are you? Can you do this job? Don't worry, the cost of the research process is within a reasonable range and we can bear it. Of course, we bear the cost, and the research results must also be given to this side.
share."
"Well..." Liu Deming thought about it and replied: "It's not difficult for me to make the products you need according to your requirements. To be honest! In the Liu family's linen textile industry, almost everyone has it.
Unique skill.
Because basically every one of the remaining linen weavers has inherited the craftsmanship of their ancestors, and some of their ancestors can date back to the heyday of linen spinning in Jiangnan during the Tang and Song Dynasties. It was the decline of linen spinning in Jiangnan during the Ming and Qing Dynasties that gradually brought them to our area.
Countless generations of experience and craftsmanship have accumulated, and getting what you want is just a trivial matter. I just don’t know if the properties of hemp you mentioned are really what you said."
Liu Deming still has some concerns. He thinks that his knowledge of linen materials is definitely as good as Lin Mo's, but he has never heard of some of the properties of linen materials that Lin Mo mentioned, such as antibacterial properties!
"Lin Mo, do you have any substantial evidence that hemp has antibacterial properties?"
"What about this?... It's not really evidence, but there is some supporting evidence from the side."
Lin Mo paused for a moment, collected his thoughts, organized his words, and then said: "Let's talk about ramie first! I have worn socks made of linen before, which are much more durable than cotton. I wear cotton socks for a day in summer.
They may smell and need to be changed, but linen socks can be worn for a few days without any smell even after they get dirty.
I prefer to read some foreign information. According to foreign scientific research, odors produced by the human body are basically caused by bacteria and fungi. Based on this, I concluded that ramie has antibacterial and antibacterial effects.
The situation with linen is similar. I have owned several sets of linen training clothes. Every time I exercise, the sweat will soak the training clothes, but I have never smelled any odor in the dirty linen training clothes.
As for things made of hemp, I don’t remember coming into contact with them. However, I once read an article abroad that studied hemp plants. The author mentioned that when hemp is grown, there are basically no pests and diseases. I guess hemp may
It has substances that resist diseases and insect pests, and crop diseases are basically caused by bacteria and fungi. From this perspective, hemp may have antibacterial ingredients.
Of course, these conclusions are only supported by side evidence. The specific situation still requires experimental verification and research. After all, is it really antibacterial? Which bacteria are it resistant to? What is the antibacterial effect? Moreover, the same hemp crop may have different antibacterial effects due to reasons such as variety.
All the same, you still need to screen out those with good antibacterial effects..."
Lin Mo stopped by and briefly explained how to test the antibacterial ability of hemp fiber, that is, using a petri dish to conduct a control test with and without hemp fiber. He also gave his fourth uncle's address and contacted him to find a biology student who could understand the test.
people helped him.
"Okay, I'll take the job!" Seeing that Lin Mo was serious about what he said, Liu Deming no longer hesitated and took the job decisively.
"Haha... I came out at the right time this time. I got a new job just a few days after arriving in Nanjing. It's a good start..."
Liu Deming made a general observation. The Liu family has also reached a period when a new generation has taken over the industry. However, unlike the Xu family, the Liu family has developed step by step. It has strict family inheritance rules and strictly follows the principle of inheritance by the eldest son.
The eldest son is not a fool. Even if he is disabled, the family property must be inherited by the other son.
The heir of this generation of Liu family has been determined to be Liu Shiya's eldest brother Liu Dehong. Liu Deming followed his eldest brother to take care of the family business for a while, but he also had his own ambitions and wanted to make a career on his own.
The Liu family does not object to this, and even provides necessary funds and support from connections. It is better for those who are capable and ambitious to go out and fight for themselves, than to fight for it at home, right? Some of the branches that the Liu family has branched out in the past have developed well.
Better than the main house.
In addition to the financial support given to Liu Deming by his father and eldest brother, Liu Dehong also gave the Liu family's linen spinning industry to Liu Deming. It's not that he didn't want to give something better, but the Liu family has clan elders and other branches that have not been divided.
Giving his brother his little-profitable property is all Liu Dehong can do. The two of them are real brothers.
"As for the cost of research, I can just bear it myself. I have a lot of funds on hand, so there is no need to spend your money. Of course, I don't want to share the research results with you, although I don't know the results yet.
What’s the use? But I feel it could be a business opportunity.”
"Hehe..." Lin Mo smiled and said, "Brother Liu, you are right about this. This is indeed a business opportunity, and it may even be a big one."
"Really? Can you explain it to me in detail? Although I have a vague feeling, I don't understand it clearly."
"Of course it's no problem..." Lin Mo nodded and said: "At present, the mainstream textile raw material is cotton. Although there are different varieties of cotton, there is basically only a difference in quality.
Hemp is different, with various varieties. Different types have different characteristics, some of which are very outstanding. If these special characteristics can be well utilized, hemp spinning will also be a promising industry.
Fabrics with properties such as breathable, cool, antibacterial and sunscreen will definitely be popular in tropical areas, because they can well alleviate the tropical humidity, heat, sun, and the proliferation of fungi caused by humidity and heat.
And the fabric does not have to be worn on the body. Tablecloths, curtains, carpets, car interior seat fabrics, etc. can all be produced with hemp fiber. These things can accept the shortcomings of some hemp fiber's poor skin feel.
There are also high-strength ramie fibers used to produce ropes, ship cables, fishing nets, etc. These are still relatively traditional applications. Due to some known or unknown outstanding characteristics of hemp fibers, they may also have important uses in new industries.
Just like the unproven antibacterial and antibacterial properties, once confirmed, it will not only make hemp fiber more competitive in traditional fields, but also have broad prospects in some new fields, such as medical gauze, bandages, and even bed sheets in hospitals.
Services, etc., all have broad application prospects.
As for the rest, you have to rely on Brother Ming to organize people to explore and study it yourself. However, one thing worth noting is that you should not just look at the country. It is best to look at the economically developed European and American countries.
In economically developed places, the needs are more diverse, the needs are diverse, the opportunities are diverse, and there are more special needs, among which there may be hidden special needs for hemp fiber.
At the same time, with a developed economy and stronger purchasing power, there may be only a few people in China who can afford high-end linen, but there are a large number of middle-class people who can afford it. Of course, the premise is that you have that quality and can sell it."