"Raise the fire!"

The weaver hurriedly opened the air inlet of the small boiler, added coal to the boiler, and began to blow the air with a blower.

After a while, the fire in the small boiler became more and more intense, and the water in the boiler was boiled into steam, and then the steam was transferred through an iron pipe to an iron silk kettle, and the cocoons inside were cooked.

The silk reeling must be boiled cocoon first, because the silkworm will spit out sericin and some other impurities when spinning silk, and the function of boiling cocoon is to make sericin swelling and softening to achieve the requirements of cocoon silk dissociation.

In the past, cocoons were boiled directly with fire, but due to uneven heating, the cocoons located at the bottom of the kettle were often easy to boil, and the top ones were easy to be undercooked.

Lin Chong switched to boiling the cocoon with steam to boil the water in the silk kettle, which completely avoided this problem, and it was more efficient and convenient to use the boiler to heat dozens of silk kettles at the same time.

After boiling for a while, under the gaze of dozens of pairs of eyes, a silk reeling worker from Hujiazhuang came to the silk kettle with some nervousness, and he used a bamboo skewer to pluck a silkworm cocoon on the water surface, and quickly found the silk mouth.

The slender hands quickly lift the silk mouth like a butterfly wearing flowers, introduce the bamboo needle eye, and then hook it by the wire rod and finally put it on the silk roller that rotates at a constant speed.

Then there is the second thread, the third, the fourth......

In the blink of an eye, the female worker named Qin Liuniang had already found the silk mouths of ten silkworm cocoons, and the ten silks were stripped off on the silk roller of the reeling car to become raw silk.

Everyone couldn't help but hold their breath, looking at Qin Liuniang's hands and reeling car intently, just when everyone thought she had reached the limit, they saw Qin Liuniang after a short pause and adaptation, and continued to pick out more threads.

Fifteen ...... Twenty ...... Thirty ......

All of them were already flushed and trembling with excitement.

You must know that although the Song Dynasty has developed a pedal reeling car at this time, the rotation of the reeling car is not smooth and uniform due to their own reasons, and no matter how skilled the silk reeler is, it is the limit to be able to see ten or twelve silk threads.

But now Qin Liuniang can take care of thirty silk threads at the same time, which is nearly three times more efficient, and because she doesn't have to pedal all the time with both feet, it is much easier.

Liuniang's face was also full of excitement, her eyes were shining, and she couldn't believe that she could pick out and take care of so many silk threads at once.

And so far, there has been no broken thread, so she wants to try to challenge herself to see how many threads can be increased at a time.

Thirty-five...... Forty...... Fifty...... Sixty...... Sixty-five ...... Seventy...... Seventy-one ...... Seventy-two!

All the people trembled excitedly, I don't know if it was affected by the steam or what, everyone's faces were red, and their eyes were wide and bright, until Liu Niang could no longer increase the silk mouth, many people were still in a daze, and couldn't believe it.

Half an hour later, Hu Taigong suddenly sat on the ground with a scream: "Oh my God, ten times!" ”

It turns out that at this time, the top silk reeling women can take care of ten or twelve silk threads at once, and the average female worker or country woman will only have about seven at a time.

Hu Taigong saw that Qin Liuniang was able to take care of seventy-two silk mouths at the same time with this kind of hydraulic silk reeling machine for the first time, ten times that of ordinary silk reeling women, and in the experience of the old man who has lived for decades, this can almost be regarded as an immortal law.

"Daddy, hurry up, this is nothing, and my husband will develop more good things in the future."

Hu Sanniang hurriedly went over to help Daddy up, and her heart was full of worship for Lin Chong, in her opinion, her husband's is simply a god!

"Master Lin Jun, this silk reeling machine you designed is really very easy to use, the reeling car turns smoothly and steadily, and the cocoon is also very good, and the thread has not been broken until now. If you let the slave family practice more, you will definitely be able to take care of more silk mouths! ”

After operating for a while, watching the seventy-two cocoons all peeled off and reeled into raw silk, only two silk threads were broken in the middle, Liuniang pulled the switch of the reeling car, the reeling car stopped, and the water turbine began to idle.

Liuniang said while carefully removing the silk roll that was wrapped around the raw silk, and her face was flushed.

Another good silk reeling hand of the Hu family Zhuang also said excitedly: "The slave family thinks it's okay, this silk reeling machine is really easy to use!" ”

"Good! Good! ”

Lin Chong nodded, said two good in a row, and couldn't hide the excitement on his face, and secretly said in his heart that his hydraulic silk reeling machine had finally been successfully developed, and the effect was amazing.

He remembered that when he was in college in his previous life, he had read the information, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the national industry began to rise, and at that time, foreign steam reeling machines were introduced (the difference is that a steam-driven reeling car, a water turbine driven reeling car, and everything else is the same), according to records, with the new method of silk reeling, each female worker "can manage 60 wire mouths, and high-class women can manage up to 100 mouths".

Qin Liuniang is the best woman in Hujiazhuang to reel silk, and she can take care of seventy-two silk mouths in the first operation, and it is estimated that it is possible to manage to 100 mouths after becoming proficient.

Doesn't that mean that his hydraulic silk reeling machine has reached the level of modern machinery in the late Qing Dynasty!

If everyone is calculated according to the average, the original number is seven, and now it is sixty, which is also an increase of almost nine times.

One worker can reach the previous nine workers, which is already a qualitative leap.

What's more, silk has always been the most important commodity exported by China, and China's silk industry is simply too big.

The success of the hydraulic silk reeling machine, but also on this basis to continue to develop the hydraulic loom, once successful, the improvement of productivity, the development of the society, is undoubtedly very huge, even earth-shaking.

Not to mention anything else, Liang Shanjun was able to vigorously develop the modern textile industry, and its scale and production efficiency were incomparable to the general handicraft workshops of the Great Song Dynasty, so the wealth created was unimaginable.

You must know that in the original time and space, Britain rose to the British Empire because of the invention of the steam engine and the Jenny textile machine.

At this time, Qin Liuniang had already taken down several rolls of raw silk in turn, one volume was handed over to Lin Chong, and two volumes were handed over to Hu Sanniang and Hu Taigong, and she took the silk outside the door and looked at the sun carefully.

"The color is white and clean, the feel is delicate and silky, the thickness is uniform, the elasticity is very good, and it is the best raw silk!"

Qin Liuniang said excitedly, and Mrs. Hu was full of praise when he stroked the roll of raw silk, saying that he lived so big, and he had never seen such a uniform and elastic raw silk.

Lin Chong didn't know much about raw silk either, but he guessed that it might be because machinery was more stable and uniform than artificial, and steam cocoons were more evenly heated than directly in a furnace.

Since everyone said that it was good, it must be better than the raw silk in other parts of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Good! You've all worked hard. ”

Lin Chong looked around, and only then said loudly when everyone was quiet: "Celebrate the wine for dinner today, thanks to you these days, I will let go of eating and drinking tonight, and the wine and meat are enough!" ”