Chapter 364: Ever-Changing Technology
For three days in a row, Sun Xiangfu met with many people, and after basically coordinating all aspects, he had time to go to Happy Village to have a look.
The people in the village are very busy, and since the garment workshop distributes the raw materials to the skilled craftsmen to take home to make them, there are constantly all kinds of cattle and horses coming and going in the village to pull goods.
The garment workshop at the foot of Mt. Chai has now become the delivery point in Xinfeng County, where workers will fold cotton cloth in many layers, use sharp saws to see small pieces of cloth according to the size of the model paper shell, bundle them in yards, and hand them over to the people who come to receive the goods.
Due to the relatively single style of military uniforms, after the initial two-day exploration period, those processing teams led by skilled craftsmen, the demand for goods is getting bigger and bigger, hundreds of thousands of clothes, if placed in the later generations, a garment factory with more than 1,000 people, it will be made in a few days, but in this period, it is necessary to mobilize more than 10,000 people, with a month or two to do, others may see the prosperity of the Datang garment industry, Sun Xiangfu sees, but only backward.
Dozens of times the labor force plus several times the time, as soon as it is multiplied, a gap of hundreds of times is obtained, which is the gap between the sewing machines of later generations and the ancient handmade needlework to make clothes.
Sun Xiangfu and Sun Dali, who were not noticed by busy people, came to the garment workshop and looked at it for a while, and asked, "Brother Dali, how many finished clothes can the garment workshop recycle a day now?" ”
Sun Dali replied, "If you want summer clothes, about 50,000 pieces a day!" Autumn and winter clothes are more difficult, according to what you said earlier, start with the easy ones first, and wait a few days for the autumn and summer clothes to start, and finally let them make the hardest cotton nails. ”
Sun Xiangfu nodded and asked, "Are there any production problems?" ”
"Yes! There are too many, needlework is easy to hurt hands, and many clothes are stained with the blood of workers.
Also, the output of cotton cloth can't keep up, and the craftsmen who take seeds and play cotton can't catch up with it now working overtime day and night, and it is estimated that the speed of making more cotton-consuming winter clothes and cotton armor will be much slower. ”
Cotton cloth is actually good as a close-fitting clothing, as an outerwear, like wrinkles and shrinkage, you need to add a certain amount of hemp to solve this problem, but Sun Xiangfu looks down on the existing hemp material in Datang, the two materials are mixed with weaving, and the technology of weavers also needs to be strengthened, and it is not suitable for horseback now.
Hu Shang of the Western Regions helped him get a lot of flax seeds this year, and after the spring of next year, at least hundreds of thousands of acres of linen will be planted in the north, and linen with good elasticity and air permeability is the best material for making military uniforms.
"Needlework hurts hands, it should be that the top hoop needs to be improved, talk to the people in the ironsmith workshop, and let them design an iron hoop that protects the entire knuckle."
The top hoop is a thing that is put on the finger and the needle is pushed over the fabric, before the garment workshop in Xingfu Village did not come out, Datang really did not have this thing, and Datang's needle is also a very thick needle, so the clothes made, as long as the place where the seam needs to be closed, there will be relatively large needleholes, and it looks like there is a rough feeling.
The needlework and thread launched by Happy Village are relatively fine, so the clothes here are made and look relatively fine, and there are requirements for the density of needlework on the model clothes, and the honest people are afraid that the quality of the work is not good, it will be returned, and the reputation will be ruined, so Sun Xiangfu is satisfied with the quality after looking at the clothes that have been folded and bundled.
However, a large number of hand-sewn, the fingers are easy to wear out, and the familiar hands have a thick layer of cocoons on their hands, but they are not afraid, novices, the fingers can suffer, so a more comfortable and strong headband is very important to wear.
"I will explain this matter, by the way, the guards in the village have changed into this new military uniform, it is an autumn uniform, many people think it looks good, and it is convenient to work and do things, ask me if I can buy my own fabric, copy it according to our mold, you see ······"
Sun Xiangfu has long wanted to make a big change to the inconvenient robe of Datang, and now he happens to have the power to manage this, so he naturally will not let go of the opportunity.
Therefore, in addition to the materials used in garment-making, the military uniforms produced by the garment workshops are all buttoned, short-sleeved shirts and trousers, and there are pockets on the left and right chests and trouser pockets, which are seventy or eighty percent similar to the military uniform styles in the seventies and eighties of the twentieth century in China.
And the autumn jacket, in addition to the chest with two pockets with pocket covers, there are also two pockets on the left and right waists, armed with a dozen, not only people look energetic, but also very comfortable and energetic, the people are envious of it.
"The style can be imitated, but it can't be exactly the same, remove the brochure and the chest pocket, and the color of the fabric can't be green."
"Okay, I'll talk to the big guy about ······ when I get back."
Sun Dali is happy to help the people complete this wish, and Sun Xiangfu also hopes that the people of this era will be accustomed to the convenient and practical road from all aspects, and when they begin to pay attention to the problem of convenience and practicality, there will be a lot of useful things born from the folk.
Military uniforms are not the main problem of the conquest of Goguryeo, weapons and equipment are, with coking coal smelting steel, the entire weapon manufacturing process is much faster, and the quality is even higher.
Since Chang He spent a thousand times to get a treasure knife from Marseille, from time to time there are military generals, and even some Jianghu characters come to Xingfu Village with money to ask for knives, of course, the people of Xingfu Village are not short of money, only when the higher-ranking generals or officials are rolling here, Marseille will occasionally take the time to help them make one or two good weapons, basically did not interrupt his research on smelting and forging technology.
And technology, as long as you specialize in it, you can make some progress, and Happy Village has already found a more reasonable proportion of carbon steel, so the ordinary war knife that comes out of here is already a good knife comparable to the level of 100 steelmaking for Datang in the past.
However, such a technology is not worth mentioning at all, because as early as last year, Marseille began to engage in the research of alloys.
"Boss, the axles made by us using new smelting methods and a variety of rare ores in July, after adding steel balls, are more stable than the axles of those chariots developed for Shanyang, and they have been pulling heavy goods for two consecutive months, and there is basically no major wear."
When I was in Happy Village, as long as I was qualified to wear clothes printed with the word "agriculture", I was called Sun Xiangfu in charge, and these ancients had a deep attachment to the sect, because during this period, the idea of respecting teachers and respecting the Tao was still relatively serious, and being loyal to one's own sect was a manifestation of the Tao, and Sun Xiangfu had no reason to change this good tradition, so it was only up to them.
"Well, since there is no problem with this bearing, then, you have built some of the drawings I left in the village before!" Sun Xiangfu nodded with some satisfaction, looked at Marseille and asked.
"It took more than a dozen of us more than a month to build those few things, but fortunately, we didn't disgrace our lives, and they were all produced, but it didn't seem to be applicable." Marseille pointed to the inside of the workshop, a patch covered with cloth.
After they make something according to the drawings, they naturally want to use it, but a two-wheeled bicycle is not something that can be used immediately if no one teaches it.
And the three-wheeled tricycle, you don't look at him is not afraid of falling, but those who have ridden should know that the steering is not easy to control, and it also needs practice to ride.
In addition to things like skateboarding and roller skates, beginners are the word 'fall'.
However, Sun Xiangfu from later generations is very familiar with these things, and he took the lead in launching a two-wheeled bicycle, looked at the chain and gear, and tried the steering function of the faucet, and there was no problem, so he was ready to test ride.
Although the hand-made things, all aspects are a little rough, but it should be more solid, including Sun Xiangfu's special handbrake and bell, they are also very good, the steel rim, is made of solid tires made of fish glue, although there is no hollow rubber tire light, but when firing, the lines have been up, but it can play a good role in anti-skid grip.
Now there are cement roads leading to all counties in the Guanzhong Plain, and such cars step harder, and the speed on the cement road is actually not lost to the horse-drawn carriage.
"This kind of two-wheeled bicycle, theoretically can walk on the ground, just like a person walks on two legs, as long as you master the center of gravity and balance, I'll try, if it's feasible, you can also learn."
Sun Xiangfu said, and pushed the car out of the workshop, and everyone followed him to the cement road outside the workshop.
Then, the next moment, everyone was stunned to see him ride away the two-wheeled bicycle, what Sun Xiangfu just said theoretically, of course, it is nonsense, when he was a child, every household used bicycles as a means of transportation, and later the streets were full of shared bicycles, and he didn't know how to ride.
"This, this car can really be ridden, and it goes so fast."
"Yes! I don't feel like the boss is pushing too hard, and it's definitely not the car's limit speed right now······"
"It's no wonder that the head of the company designed such a car, it turns out that it can really be ridden ······"
More than a dozen craftsmen who worked hard for more than a month to get the bicycle out were all amazed, but Marseille looked thoughtfully at Sun Xiangfu who was riding a bicycle and passing through the fast road around the village.
"Zhang Damu, we have to sum up how to reduce the cost of making this kind of bicycle, because I feel that it may replace a large number of horses."
Marseille's thinking is very open, because when he sees the speed of the bicycle, the first thing that comes to mind is the horse as the main means of transportation, as the price is more expensive at this time, the livestock is more expensive to raise, it has a lot of disadvantages compared with the bicycle, not only to eat every day, but also to take care of it manually, generally, raising a horse, you have to have a special groom to take care of, which makes most of the common people stop, they don't have so much time to take care of the horse.
The bicycle is different, after he built it, if it is not damaged, it is not consumed at all, and in later generations, a bicycle with better quality can often be ridden for more than ten years, and it is much more cost-effective than a horse in all aspects.
Thinking of this, he quickly pushed out the tricycle in the workshop, if this thing can also be ridden as fast as a two-wheeled bicycle, then its value is great, it can completely replace the carriage, like later generations, the load of a tricycle is enough to reach a thousand catties, which is much greater than the weight of a horse.