Daming: I asked you to supervise the country, Daming is all crazy?

Chapter 70 Zhou Chen: His Royal Highness has given too much! ! !

In late November, another heavy snow fell into Yingtian.

Early in the morning, Zhu Zhanji received a report from Zhou Chen that the wool spinning factory had been built.

In fact, the textile industry in the Ming Dynasty has made great progress, and ironware has even begun to appear in many textile utensils.

These changes have greatly promoted the development of the textile industry.

Especially in cotton weaving, the Ming Dynasty had no restrictions on cotton cloth. From top to bottom, no matter how high or low, everyone could wear cotton cloth to keep out the cold.
Therefore, it has greatly promoted the cultivation of cotton, and the corresponding one is textile technology.

After all, cotton weaving technology is much more difficult than hemp and silk.

There are even certain requirements for the weather, otherwise the cotton thread produced will be easily broken, in this case the textile technology.

For something like weaving wool, it is simply too simple to do.

After the wool textile factory was built, all the textile equipment used were traditional textile tools, but Zhu Zhanji didn't make any steam textile machines.

The main reason is that the time is too late, and it is already winter.

He must immediately start producing the wool and then sell it in the cold weather.

Otherwise, it will not be easy to sell when the weather is warmer.

Moreover, the current textile technology is not too bad, especially in some places, the spinning wheel can even reach five spindles when weaving hemp.

Even the production of cotton cloth can reach four spindles. It must be known that before the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century in Europe, the strongest textile technology still stayed at two spindles.

It was not until the steam loom appeared that it reached nineteen spindles.

So Zhu Zhanji is not in a hurry to get the steam loom out now.

After all, if the technology is not enough, manpower can make it together, and the atomic bomb can be made by planning. Without steam looms, at most, some workers will be wasted, and the most worthless thing now is undoubtedly manpower.

In the case of a large amount of manpower, it is actually not cost-effective compared to the time-consuming and labor-intensive development of steam engines.

Of course, the steam engine must be built, but it is definitely not now.

After the textile factory was built, Zhu Zhanji directly arranged for all the women who had been rescued from the ground of Ji Gang's mansion to enter.

In the wool textile factory, Zhu Zhanji arranged a place for the workers to live early in the morning.

Good people are arranged here, and the news from the Ministry of Households also came quickly, because the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Military Affairs cooperated with each other this time.

The acquisition of wool went well.

The household department asked people to bring some salt, pottery, cloth and other things directly, and they easily exchanged a large amount of wool from the grassland.

The wool was shipped directly into the warehouse that Zhu Zhanji set up in the textile factory two days later.

With all these things in place, the first trial production of the wool textile factory also started under Zhou Chen's supervision.

"His Royal Highness!"

In the south of Yingtian City, in front of the textile factory in Huangzhuang, Zhu Zhanji was wearing a thick cotton robe.

A thick layer of snow had already fallen on the padded robe, looking at the newly built courtyard in front of him, with a satisfied smile on his face.

Half a month was obviously a bit of a rush, although there are still many places in this courtyard that are relatively simple.

However, some important places also meet the requirements of use.

Entering the front yard, Zhu Zhanji saw Zhou Chen walking over with a group of women.

These women were originally from Ji Gang's mansion, except for some who chose to go home and were sent back to their original places by the Ministry of Punishment, most of the rest chose to stay.

After everyone finished their salutes, Zhu Zhanji looked at Zhou Chen and said, "If you start production immediately, how much can you produce in a day?"

Zhou Chen cupped his hands and said, "Back to Your Highness, the textile factory now has more than [-] pieces of textile machinery. If it is fully produced, it can produce more than [-] pieces of silk cloth of various colors a year. If it is a day, it will be about [-] to [-] pieces." match."

Zhu Zhanji calculated in his mind that the approximate length of a piece of cloth is about 570 centimeters short, 770 centimeters long and [-] centimeters wide.

On average, the length is about 13 meters, and the width is [-] centimeters.

With [-] bolts of cloth a year, one bolt of cloth can usually only make two pieces of clothing. That is to say, this textile factory can only make [-] pieces of clothing a year, or fifty or sixty pieces a day.

"It's a bit slow!"

Zhu Zhanji frowned and said, "Is there a way to produce more?"

The business of wool is the prairie plan.

If production cannot keep up with the pace, it is easy to cause a large amount of purchased wool to be hoarded and then wasted in vain.

Although even if money is wasted, as long as the purpose can be achieved, this matter is very cost-effective.

After all, the grassland people without horses are still very good at singing and dancing.

But if he can make money, Zhu Zhanji will naturally not want to waste money for nothing.

There was a wry smile on Zhou Chen's face when he heard this: "His Royal Highness, [-] pieces of cloth a year is already the maximum limit. If you are in Canada, you can only buy more textile equipment, but in a short time, you can buy I have already bought all the textile equipment, and if I want to buy it again, I can only wait until the craftsmen produce new textile equipment, and secondly, I will go to Jiangnan to buy it and then ship it to the next day."

Zhu Zhanji fell into deep thought when he heard the words, glanced at the woman next to him who looked at him with some anxiety, thought for a while and said: "Let them start trial production first!"

Zhou Chen nodded when he heard the words, and immediately began to make arrangements.

He obviously had rehearsed here a long time ago.

Following the order, the women walked into the courtyards with signs in an orderly manner.

These courtyards with signs are arranged separately according to different processes.

Near the warehouse is the largest yard, which is used to deal with the smell of wool.

At the entrance of the yard, there is a sign saying drying.

When the wool is transported to the warehouse, it will be taken out for cleaning. At the same time, a round of screening will be carried out to screen out the sundries inside, and then it will be dried in good weather.

After drying once, the smell of wool has actually been reduced a lot.

When Zhu Zhanji came here, he saw that a lot of wool that had been dried before had been sorted out and packed in special baskets.

Then, someone specially assigned to transport the dried wool to the next yard.

There is a "soaking" sign hanging on the gate of this yard.

The yard is full of wooden barrels, large and small, steaming.

Even if you walk in in the winter, you will feel a rush of heat, as if you have followed a sauna, but the smell is not very pleasant.

The wool brought over was poured into these wooden barrels in the yard, and someone next to each wooden barrel stirred it with a wooden stick.

Zhou Chen explained: "According to His Majesty's instructions, the wool will be transported here after being washed and dried, and then put into the boiled salt water and soaked for about a stick of incense."

Zhu Zhanji nodded. He taught Zhou Chen these things. After the wool was soaked in boiling salt water, the smell of mutton was basically removed at this time.

Of course, in order to be more thorough, Zhu Zhanji also asked people to wash the wool again with some high-strength white wine.

In this way, the smell of wool is really eliminated.

"Take me to see the wool that has completely removed the smell!"

Zhu Zhanji just took a rough look at these steps, and when he saw that Zhou Chen had followed his own requirements, he nodded and said.

"Yes!"

The two left the courtyard here, and passed through a few more courtyards. Compared with the previous places, this place is much cleaner and there are fewer people.

But the degree of busyness is not worse than the previous yards.

As soon as you enter the yard, there is a rhythmic sound of wooden tools rubbing against each other.

In the rooms lined up in the yard, there are more than a dozen textile machines that Zhu Zhanji can't name.

A dozen female workers were operating, and then Zhu Zhanji saw piles of wool that were originally messy, and in the hands of these female workers passed through these textile machines and quickly turned into long and thin wool.

He counted, the most machines can weave five woolen yarns at a time, and the least is three.

"His Royal Highness, these are the looms from Le'an, Jiangxi Province. They can be used to weave the wool for a carload of five ounces."

Zhou Chen explained on the side, then walked to the side and took out an object full of wool and handed it to Zhu Zhanji.

"His Royal Highness, please look!"

Zhu Zhanji took it and took a look at it. This thing is the so-called 繀 (year-old), and one cart and one 繀 is spinning one thread at a time.

And Wuxuan refers to spinning five threads in one cart at the same time.

Zhu Zhanji took the woven wool, put it under his nose and sniffed it, and he was slightly relieved when he found that he could not smell the smell at all.

In fact, before this, he was still a little apprehensive. After all, most of the methods of removing the smell of wool were heard by him.

There are many methods, but he is not sure about the specific effect. Now when he sees the finished product, he is undoubtedly relieved.

The smell of mutton was gone, which meant that his plan was mostly successful.

After all, it is not difficult to sell sweaters without smell,
After all, the softness and comfort of wool is much more comfortable than that of cotton cloth, and the degree of warmth retention is far more than that of cotton cloth.

With wool without smell, the next thing is to improve production efficiency.

"Grandfather, the yard next to it is the weaving yard."

Zhou Chen said.

"Well, wait a minute!"

Zhu Zhanji was not in a hurry to go to the next yard, but glanced at the scorpion with woolen hands, suddenly thought of something, and then his eyes lit up and said:

"Go and ask someone to get some long and thin wooden sticks, remember to have the kind that are long and smooth!"

Zhou Chen was a little puzzled when he heard the words, but he still nodded. Fortunately, a few slender wooden sticks were not troublesome, and someone delivered them not long after.

Zhu Zhanji looked at the wooden stick in front of him, with a smile on his face, he picked up one directly, then found the joint with the woolen thread, and directly and skillfully tied a slipknot on the wooden stick.

And with the appearance of slipknots one after another in Zhu Zhanji's hand, soon a wool cloth about the size of a palm appeared in Zhu Zhanji's hand.

"Grandson...this..."

Watching Zhu Zhanji's movements, Zhou Chen's eyes almost popped out.

This His Royal Highness the grandson also knows how to be a female celebrity?

"How do you look at this thing?"

Seeing Zhou Chen's appearance, Zhu Zhanji stopped the movement of his hands, and without hesitation, he threw the palm-sized woolen cloth to Zhou Chen without hesitation.

Zhou Chen took it subconsciously, looked at Zhu Zhanji, and then at the wool cloth in his hand, still a little unbelievable that it was made by the grandson of the emperor in front of him?

Seeing Zhou Chen's expression change, Zhu Zhanji blushed a little, recalling some memories full of shame, and said calmly with a blank face:
"You know this and I know it. If you let other people know, you can hand in a letter of resignation and return home!"

After finishing speaking, Zhu Zhanji added: "Also remember my method just now, when the time comes, you will say that you invented this thing, and then select a few ingenious female workers with this method and give them to them. The textile factory just needs to knit yarn, not sweaters!"

"This………"

Zhou Chen glanced at Zhu Zhanji, who had no face at all, and opened his mouth to say something.

It's just that before he could say anything, he heard Zhu Zhanji's pointing words: "Recently, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry is unwell and has already returned home. You have to perform well. I am very optimistic about you."

"Yes, His Royal Highness, I know what to do!"

Hearing Zhu Zhanji's words, Zhou Chen was shocked, took a deep breath, then nodded without hesitation, and handed the woolen cloth that Zhu Zhanji threw to him in his hand, and handed it to Zhu Zhanji respectfully again. Later said: "His Royal Highness, I have been studying female celebrities since I was a child, and just now I have a feeling that I have realized the method of weaving with a woolen thread. Please see, Your Highness!"

The left servant of the Ministry of Industry!

This is a member of the third rank.

And now he is just a small member of the Ministry of Criminal Justice Wai Lang, just from the fifth rank.

His Royal Highness has given too much!
Isn't it female red?

Even if Zhou Chen didn't know it before, he must know it now!
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Small author: [Little Broken Bowl]

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