Chapter 54: Threshing Machine
After a few days of rushing work, the threshing mechanism was finally made, and the most tired person was Chen Jun, who was born as a carpenter, and many things were not possible without him. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Wang Haoran asked Chen Jun to rest at home, and asked Zhao Wenshan and Zeng Chengyong to carry the threshing machine to the field to try. As soon as I got out of the door, a few croppers came to inquire curiously, and when they learned the role of the threshing machine, they enthusiastically took the initiative to take the threshing machine.
In the field, there are already croppers harvesting rice there, and they are still using harvesters. They used a lottery to arrange the harvesting order, and the people at the back of the queue basically couldn't wait to harvest with a harvester, so they had to slowly cut with a sickle themselves. This year's drought has caused a significant reduction in rice production, but this has not stopped their enthusiasm for new farming tools, which are occasional, and if new agricultural tools are practical, it will be long-term.
Wang Haoran saw that someone had already harvested the rice, so he asked the cropper man who carried the threshing machine to carry the threshing machine over. The freshness of the harvester has almost passed, and the croppers saw that Zhao Wenshan had brought new gadgets again, and they ran over to see the freshness one after another.
Without waiting for everyone to ask, Zhao Wenshan explained to everyone: "Folks, this thing is called a threshing machine, as for how to use it, everyone just look at it." ”
Zhao Wenshan and Zeng Chengyong had already taken off their shoes and rolled up their trousers, and after speaking, they went down to the field and came to the threshing machine. Zhao Wenshan picked up a bundle of rice and came to the back of the threshing machine, put the grain skewers on the drum, and wanted to flip them a few times as Wang Haoran said, but he felt that the rice on the skewers seemed to be knocked down, so he took it out and took a look, and it was really clean.
"Zhao Gongzi, you can take more rice, and then unfold the rice into the shape of a fan, which is much faster." Seeing that Zhao Wenshan was also holding such a small handful of rice, Wang Haoran was a little happy, how much difference is the speed between using a threshing machine like him and using a threshing bucket?
"Zhao Gongzi go up and rest, let the grass people try."
"Zeng Gongzi also go and rest, let me step on it."
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In the era of food shortage, the common people will hate those who waste food, but they will respect those who do things that are conducive to farming.
Zhao Wenshan and Zeng Chengyong were not polite to them, they didn't rest well in the past few days.
A farmer came over and asked Zhao Wenshan, "Zhao Gongzi, don't you have a harvester?" How can you make such a threshing machine? ”
Zhao Wenshan didn't know how to explain it, he remembered that Wang Haoran said that harvesters are expensive and ordinary people can't afford them...... It seems rude to answer someone like that, right? I couldn't think of how to prevaricate for a while, so I had to look at Wang Haoran for help.
"The fields here are relatively large, so it's no problem to use the harvester, but in some places it's just a small piece of field, and the harvester can't turn around if you want to, so you can only use this threshing machine." Wang Haoran explained.
The people around him suddenly realized, but they were a little puzzled, why did such a little child know more than Zhao Gongzi's? This Zhao Gongzi is an extremely smart person who has made a lot of new farm tools!
After watching for a long time, the threshing machine did not have any faults, Wang Haoran still left the threshing machine for the people to use for free, as long as the threshing machine and harvester were sent back to Xie's house when they were used up.
Of course, Wang Haoran will definitely not let people use these two farm tools for free all the time, and when he came back from the field, he began to prepare to open a store. However, this shop not only rents and sells harvesters and threshing machines, but also makes some other gadgets, such as tables and stools. When Wang Ye first crossed over, he was a little ambitious, and he always wanted to do big things, but he ignored these small things to improve people's livelihood. Now that I'm here, I have a lot of time to fill in the gap.
The wood products store opened in the county not long after, and the shopkeeper was Wang Gui, a carpenter introduced by Xie Changfu, and Wang Gui also brought an apprentice, Xiao Xin. It doesn't matter if Wang Gui is not good at business, as long as he can count money and make things according to Wang Haoran's drawings, Wang Haoran has arranged everything else for him.
The construction of the plant will take a period of time, in addition to the cast iron kiln, cement kiln, glass kiln and other buildings in Chang'an, but also to build a brick kiln, a grain mill, and a shelling room.
The grinding method of the grain mill is different from the traditional stone mill, adding two iron pillars to crush the rice grains, and then the broken rice grains fall into the steel grinding disc, and the steel grinding disc rotates at high speed to grind the broken rice grains into flour and squeeze the rice flour out of the grinding disc. When the rice flour falls, the fine enough grinding will be blown out by the fan into the outer sack, while the larger particles will fall to the conveyor belt under the grinding disc, and will be sent back to the inlet of the grinding disc through the conveyor belt to continue grinding, and the estimated speed will be twenty or thirty times faster than the traditional method.
The equipment of the mill is relatively easy to develop, but the difficult part is the shelling machine in the shelling room. Wang Ye had never seen a shelling machine, so what method to use was still needed to be made. At present, the method used by the common people is called rice, which is a bit like pounding medicine, not to mention the time-consuming and labor-intensive, and many of the rice grains that come out are broken rice grains. It is definitely not possible to make a hydrodynamic rice machine according to this method, but Wang Haoran also thought of several methods, which method is better, and it needs to be experimented one by one.
The cement bricks used in the construction of the plant are transported from the Chang'an plant, which is much more convenient than the construction of the Chang'an plant. Wang Haoran developed the grain mill equipment and the parts needed for the rice shelling machine were also entrusted to the boatman to send the drawings to the Chang'an factory, and after the production was completed, he brought it back to Wang Haoran by the way.
The equipment of the mill was not in a hurry, so Wang Haoran and Chen Jun specialized in rice shelling machines. When they developed the shelling machine, the plant was built, and it took a long time to self-evident.
In fact, the development of these two kinds of equipment is not of great commercial significance to Wang Haoran, one is difficult to promote, and it is necessary to install hydrodynamic power to use, and only large households close to the river can use it, and the other is that all kinds of minerals in Datang are scarce, and the last time they made so many car clothing machines have affected the price of iron ore.
However, it is still necessary to make these things, and they can win him a lot of people's hearts. If Wang Haoran could have done more practical things for the people of Chang'an before, he would not end up like a rat crossing the street now.
In addition to earning the hearts of the people, money still has to be earned. In addition to opening a wood products store in the county, Wang Haoran also has a specialty store for glass products and cement, of course, the business here is not as good as the capital, but the money he makes is still very considerable. In addition, Wang Haoran is also preparing to open a department store, focusing on luxury goods, such as Simmons (for the sake of grounding, Wang Haoran called it a spring bed. ), telescopes, magnifying glasses, compasses, and so on. In addition to the county seat of Puzhou, the key markets still have to be placed in Chang'an and Luozhou (that is, Luoyang), otherwise only relying on the rich households in Puzhou, I am afraid that they will not even be able to earn back the capital.
If you want to open a department store, you still need to make more goods, with the help of Chen Jun and Chen Jie, the problem is not big, but Wang Haoran is still thinking about how to pull Zhao Wenshan in. Zhao Wenshan is different from Chen Jun, he is the son of an official eunuch, how to tell him about this, you have to think about it.
"It's best to let him speak first." After thinking about it for a long time, Wang Haoran pouted and smiled, and he had a plan.
Wang Haoran invited Xie Changfu to be the supervisor of the plant, and the management system was no different from that of the Chang'an plant. After arranging the work of the factory, Wang Haoran and Chen Jun and Chen Jie devoted themselves to the development of department store products, and Zeng Chengyong also joined as a helper.
One day, Zhao Wenshan came to Xie's house again to look for Wang Haoran, but he didn't find Wang Haoran and them, thinking that they should be in the factory, so he came to the factory to look for them, but he was stopped by the guards and didn't let him in, and said angrily: "How can this be reasonable!" I've been here more than once, why didn't I see a rule that outsiders weren't allowed in? ”
"Back to Zhao Gongzi's words, the factory has not started before, so the management is not very strict, but now the production has officially started, and the little young master said that without his permission, no outsiders can enter, saying that he is afraid of leaking business secrets or something." Although the guards respected Zhao Wenshan, he didn't dare not listen to the boss's words, and the boss personally told him that even if Zhao Wenshan came, he couldn't let him in.