Chapter Seventy-Six: The Flour Mill

The roaring tractor, in the whole field, quickly forward, the wheat in front, a little bit to cut, only one cutting function, the speed of the harvester, faster than the later generations, plus the horsepower of this tractor, it is considered large, not to mention bringing seven or eight meters of harvesting rollers, even if it is a little bigger, no problem, an hour can almost complete the harvest task of 15 acres, after the tractor, several strong men, following the tractor, the wheat of an acre of land, to concentrate together, bundle into bundles, and then put it on the side, waiting to get it next to the threshing.

The special threshing machine was also prepared, and it was placed in the field, and a total of hundreds of them were made, and there was a special person responsible for making this thing, even if it was manpower, it was not slow.

In this era, the harvest of wheat depends entirely on being handmade, a strong laborer, Being able to cut 1.5 acres of wheat in a day is already a terrible number, even if it is those specialized wheat customers, it will not exceed 3 acres, but the mechanical harvesting has changed the situation, a machine qì, a person, at most plus a bundle of wheat and beating wheat, count 7 people, a morning 5 hours, a full 75 acres, everyone is not tired, bending down to cut wheat, being tied by wheat mang, etc., as well as the body of mechanical labor, and now following behind the tractor, all the way to sort out the wheat, this difference is too big, the efficiency has increased several times, and the fatigue will be greatly reduced.

Wu Guangren, who looked at the harvest next to him, smiled widely, the landlord attaches the most importance to the land, the harvest of the land, related to the income of the year, the day in May, it will change, maybe a rain will make a large part of the year's harvest soak, fast speed and efficiency, it means that as long as there are a few days of sunny days, the harvest of wheat can be completed, which represents the meaning, an old landlord understands very well that the two landlords, while seeing the extraordinary efficiency of the tractor, they all began to be close to Yang Yuanzhao, When asked about the situation of the tractor, they only cared about it, and that was to get one, or how many tractors.

In the eyes of the two landlords, there may be dozens of people before, or even hundreds of people, and the wheat harvest may not be completed in ten days, with the help of mechanization, the use of people is at most seven or eight, but the efficiency is at least doubled, which is a net income, relatively speaking, the high cost of tractors may no longer be a problem.

The requirements of the two landlords, Yang Yuanzhao did not agree, nor did he not agree, the current tractor, the use of the engine brought by later generations, temporary, inconvenient to flow into the market, must be placed under his close monitoring, and so on in the future conditions, after the study of the engine and tractor suitable for this era, it will definitely be pushed to the market, food, for a country, especially China such a large land, a country with a large population, is the most important, this is a red line, once the red line is turbulent, No matter in the strong industry and commerce, no matter how rich they are, they will fall into the sea of war, and peace will no longer exist.

Wu Guangren and others, who can become a large landlord in Baotou, how can they be simple people, Yang Yuanzhao's intention to shirk, they instantly understood, and they couldn't do anything to Yang Yuanzhao, but they pestered him one after another, asking for this tractor, and even mentioned, how much money, it was not a problem.

Yang Yuanzhao couldn't help it, just at this time, a few grains of wheat jumped out of the machine and jumped to Yang Yuanzhao's feet, his eyes lit up, and he said to Wu Guangren: "Uncle Wu, do you know foreign flour?" ”

"Foreign flour?" Wu Guangren was stunned for a moment, foreign flour is a rare thing, not only fine, but also white, the price is much more expensive than ordinary white noodles, ordinary people, may not be able to afford white noodles, Wu Guangren is a big landlord, of course, he uses this almost every day, his family eats and drinks, and the monthly cost is not small.

"Yes, we might as well open a flour mill together!"

"Flour mill?" The two landlords looked at Yang Yuanzhao in a daze, and they didn't say anything for a long time.

In this era, many landlords have eaten foreign flour, but there is no flour mill, and foreigners will not export the machine to China at all, which makes many people with the vision of the owner have no way to intervene in this industry, watching the foreigners earn the wealth of Jue in China, and it is absolutely impossible for them to give this hen that is going to lay eggs to the Chinese.

"How much does it cost to really get a flour machine?"

"Uncle Wu, Uncle Zhao, I studied machinery, so I will also do flour processing machines?" Yang Yuanzhao said contemplatively.

"What, you're going to do?" Wu Guangren said in surprise that most of the flour in Baotou was bought in Taiyuan, where there are foreigners' food companies, and I heard that all of them are imported.

Wu Guangren and Zhao Shuming's skeptical gaze made Yang Yuanzhao very helpless, it was just a mechanical flour machine, a small motor, or a steam engine or something like that, driving a stone mill, grinding noodles, and at most adding some whitening agents at the end to make it look better, this is the whole production process of foreign flour, and how much scientific and technological content there is, he can even design an automated production line, from flour production to packaging, almost all of them are mechanically controlled!

"Uncle Wu, Uncle Zhao, there is no basis for what I say, at most in a day or two, I will be able to take out the machine, and when the time comes, we will discuss it again!"

Wu Guangren and Zhao Shuming glanced at each other, and both saw the desire from each other's eyes, the sales of foreign flour are so good, it can be said that everyone knows it, if you can master the method, it is simply a cash cow, relatively speaking, the reduction of manpower by tractors, it is not surprising, now there are only 10 tractors, relatively speaking, its task is very heavy, in other places, please hire more odd jobs, you can complete the harvest, as long as it does not rain.

In one day, 10 tractors, completed the harvesting task of 36 acres, so that down, up to 7, this piece of wheat can be harvested, the most important thing is that this harvest, not just put away, but all into wheat grains, directly spread on the drying field, you can dry, which is not much better than the previous efficiency.

Yang Yuanzhao, who returned to the inn, plunged into the all-in-one machine, Shanghai already has a flour mill, although the scale is small, the machine is relatively backward, but the machine is there, he combined the drawings, especially some small marine steam engines, military science and technology are far more powerful than civilian technology, after modifying several metal formulas, the steam engine has a great improvement in both power and stability.

With a marine steam engine, drive the stone mill, this is a bit too wasteful, Yang Yuanzhao with the help of the transmission device, a small steam engine of about 20 horsepower, this is Yang Yuanzhao in the Shanghai Navy, copied, he is not even the main power of the sailor, you know, the heavier the ship, the more horsepower he uses the steam engine is enough, just like the Haiqi, a few engines down, the total horsepower, actually reached 18,000 horsepower.

In addition to the power device, that is, the transmission decoration, Yang Yuanzhao needs to connect the power and transmission, as well as more than a dozen stone mills of different sizes, and operate together under the impetus of power, which can improve the efficiency of production a lot.

The design of the machine was preliminarily completed, and Yang Yuanzhao also produced the first set of flour machine in the all-in-one machine, which covers a large area and requires a workshop of about one acre of land, which cannot be solved for the time being, first in Yang Yuanzhao's yard, with plastic and straw, to build a shed, and then let the blacksmiths help to install the things.