Chapter 160: Changing Thinking

The training of female workers in textile factories has been in full swing, 12 female workers, with the help of skilled weavers, for each step of the need to pay attention to the place, carried out systematic training, in addition to the thinking put forward by the red tassel, other number of workers, more or less have put forward a little improvement suggestions, some have been accepted, some have been identified as meaningless, textile machines, looms, every day is changing for the better.

From the first edition, to now, more than 50 revisions have been made, and finally, a mature Baotou No. 3 textile machine and loom, appeared in the warehouse, the general components, has been confirmed, in two days, Yang Yuanzhao and many workers day and night rush to work, and 200 machines have been assembled, and there is no place to put the installed machine, the real room, 5 large rooms are already a limit, and the rest has been arranged to different categories of real rooms.

In the telegram sent back by Harpy from the United States, more than 200 scholars and more than 200 technicians were recorded in detail, and Yang Yuanzhao also divided 12 majors according to this, which will serve as the basis for the technological take-off of Baotou in the future.

In fact, it should be 13 majors, but the agricultural room is self-contained, itself relies on the greenhouse, some time ago, when cement and bricks built a house, Yang Yue also by the way set up a small three-story building, close to 400 square meters of one-story area, most of which is used to build a house, three floors down, close to 700 square meters, used to place his agricultural real room, as well as classmates from the United States, is enough, all kinds of equipment, has basically been in place, Only some of the equipment brought from the United States came, and with personnel and equipment, this institute has the least contact with this side.

The remaining 12 majors are heavy chemical industry, light chemical industry, materials science, physics, chemistry, electric power, electromagnetism, steel manufacturing, machine processing, cranes, steam engines, internal combustion engines and other real rooms, 4 of which were personally led by Yang Yuanzhao, including materials science, cranes, steam engines and internal combustion engines, which are all close to or only Yang Yuanzhao can guide the majors.

Needless to say, in the past few months, especially in the past two months after the upgrade of the all-in-one machine, every day, there will be 10,000 different materials, produced by the all-in-one machine, the sample, analysis results, and application prospects of this material, have been temporarily saved by him, as the future research direction of materials science, he does not know much about materials science, but will select two talents in analysis and summary from the personnel who arrived in the United States, and conduct different comparisons.

The ocean of materials, is simply endless, any material, even if the difference in minutes and seconds, will cause a huge change in the material alloy, with the help of exhaustive methods, it may be possible to find that the world's attention to the huge results, but more, will harvest failure, this is also almost 2 months, 600,000 different types of alloys, barely a few can be called good, but more, is garbage, no research value at all.

Yang Yuanzhao thought about it and decided to build such a real room of material science, with the help of scientific statistical methods, and strive to find some secrets in the addition of materials, so that 600,000 kinds of materials can have its meaning.

In addition to material science, cranes, is this era no one cares, even if it is a giant crane with a port and a crane in the factory, it is also a period of time, under the impetus of electricity, will be developed, now Baotou, crane and tower crane, has a certain foundation, along this direction to study, nothing more than some applications of mechanics and energy.

As for the steam engine and internal combustion engine, he was born in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tsinghua University, specializing in engines, and in China's first team, sitting in the position of engine engineer, Yang Yuanzhao is confident that in this era, in terms of engine technology, he can compare with the United States, very few, in terms of vision, can compare with him, there is no one, although from the United States, there are similar professional engineers recruited, Yang Yuanzhao is only ready to use them as assistants, and he is the one who coordinates the overall situation.

Other real rooms, temporarily unable to move, those scientists, finally recruited, the equipment is also ready, as long as they come to Baotou, they can be put into work, so as to be worthy of the high salary he gave, Yang Yuanzhao thought about it for a long time, for the efficiency of the cotton mill, can only give up the 5 real rooms that belong to him, so, reasonable I don't know, and on 100 different machines, in this way, every day, everyone's time on the machine, increased to about 3 hours, As they gradually became familiar with each other, at this time, the female workers recruited from Baotou could start working under the guidance of skilled workers.

Speaking of these newly recruited female workers, Baotou this time female workers recruitment, is a burst of twists and turns, after the flour mill, brick factory, cement factory, and even soap factory recruitment, Baotou is very familiar with recruitment, once the reclamation company, or related enterprises recruitment, will arouse everyone's interest, everyone flocks to compete for those positions, everyone knows, as long as you enter the reclamation company, hard work, settle down and get rich is no problem.

More than half a year, starting from the very beginning of the farm workers, the earliest workers to enter the Baoken company, it has been 6 months, 6 months in a row, the salary remains at about 30 yuan, which is in Baotou, not to mention feeding a family, a large family, three aunts and six mothers-in-law are all brought, and there is no problem at all, one yuan is equivalent to 100 in later generations, or even more, just to eat, it is not necessary to use so much. However, the recruitment of textile factories is slightly different from the usual recruitment, this time, all women are wanted, and it is precisely this that at the beginning of the recruitment, there was no one to sign up.

Women come out to work, in thousands of years, is a taboo, along with cotton weaving, female workers work has become a relatively normal phenomenon, Yang family, Liu family and Wei family and other three, in various places to recruit textile female workers, there are more than 2,000 people, it is conceivable that at the national level, the number of female workers, will reach a kind of Cheng dù. The field is the field, the textile industry is developed in the place, not the coastal port, or the inland developed city, the worst, is also the capital city of a province, these places, a certain distance above, the folk customs are more civilized, Baotou, this is the inland of the inland, if it is not bordering Mongolia, I am afraid it is only one of many small cities, there is no conspicuous place.

After knowing that it was a woman, even if it was the name of the company, he also knew that the company hired many female workers from other places, and very few were willing to send their families, which was also the fundamental reason for the frustration in recruitment.

Yang Yuanzhao went all out to make all kinds of looms and spinning machines, and didn't bother to pay attention to the things here, Liu Shu thought about it after getting a detailed report, and started from two aspects, on the one hand, the eight families of the Jin merchants, as well as many small landlords, guaranteed together, the wages of female workers are not only not less than those of male workers, but also have a monthly subsidy of 1-2 yuan, don't underestimate this, 1-2 yuan, replaced with white noodles, almost enough for a person's ration for a month.

The number of female workers recruited is related to whether the cotton mill can be put into production, and their 20 million cash has been invested, not to mention such a small amount of money, even if all the workers of the cotton mill are recruited, it will not exceed 15,000 people, so that at the limit of 2 yuan, it is only about 30,000 yuan.

30,000 yuan, for a family, for a small businessman, maybe only an astronomical amount, but for a big businessman Jin businessman, it is nothing at all, and it is not a family, no family business is one or two thousand, not to mention where to report to the head of the family, even if it is an ordinary store pù big shopkeeper, gritting his teeth, you can take it out.

Almost on the same day, the money was in place, and you could choose cash or a voucher, which could be used to re-contract a new flour mill, a brick factory, a cement factory, or even a soap factory that had been established not long ago, in exchange for goods of the same value, and even priority compared to cash.

Eight families and many businesses, in Baotou has a huge influence, together with the guarantee, plus the real reward, so that some of the palpitations of the female workers have taken the first step, Baotou has built a lot of industry, poor people are still a lot, some from Shanxi, even far away Shaanxi out of the poor farmers, some came late, did not catch up with the opportunity to recruit workers, men are generally on the dock, or in the chamber of commerce to do odd jobs, hard work, women at most to get back some clothes or needles and threads and the like, Now, I have the opportunity to get more than men, I can support the salary of the family, and I have a good reputation as a guarantee, and the only concerns have been eliminated, and I have signed up one after another, relying on this, the company has recruited 1,200 people.

1,200 people, plus the previous 2,200 people, the personnel is still not enough, adding up to only 3,400 people, which is not a little bit worse than the previous expected number of 4,500 to 5,000 people put into operation in the first phase, and the first phase target is not filled.

Fortunately, there is a second method, the second method is very simple, in the factory that has been built and put into production, to put it bluntly, is to let the existing workers show up to say, now, from the engineering company, to the farm, to the brick and tile factory, flour mill, cement factory, has been put into operation in the factory, more than 10,000 employees, they are all over Baotou, these people get a little one or two months of wages, more than three or four months of wages, they for the company, first of all, trust, they can introduce, Recommended workers, for each successful one, will get 1-2 yuan of the introduction fee, which is also additional, borne by each company, recruited workers, also give 1-2 yuan.

Among the factories built in Baotou, there are many of them, which are Qian Hu's factories, almost tens of thousands of people, with his income, it is not easy to take out this money, after Yang Yuanzhao knew, in order to support Liu Shu, and also to support Qian Hu, he came out with this money, as for other factories, flour mills, brick factories, and cement factories, this money can be easily obtained.

Suddenly, the enthusiasm of many workers has risen sharply, those who have wives at home, most of them recommend their wives to come, those who have daughters let their daughters come, seven sisters-in-law and eight aunts, in just 3 days, there are enough more than 2,000 people, if it is not for Liu Shu's immediate deadline, I am afraid there will be three or four thousand people pouring over.

Enough for the time being, and then came, and did not refuse, first put aside the grade, this factory is not only the first phase of the project, 120,000 spindles of cotton ingots, the first phase is only about one-third, the next personnel needs, at least about 8,000 people, and even when the first phase is put into operation, if the benefits are better, this cotton mill will be expanded on this basis.

In the future, when the machine is in place, these personnel will have to be recruited back, but at present, there is no place for the time being, so he persuaded them to leave, and even gave gifts.

Those who came late were slightly disappointed, but fortunately, after registering the basic information, those who were far away would arrange vehicles to send them back, and those who were close to the road would also be given a little gift, such as a pound of white flour, or other items, all of which were worth within 0.5 silver dollars, and the value was not high but practical, and these people were also satisfied.

After entering October, with the gradual decline in surface temperature, it is not impossible to build housing, it will pay the price of quality, and even the speed will be weakened a lot, but it still has to be built, and it is a big construction.

The dormitory area of female workers was further expanded, centered on two ring walls, and a circle was expanded again, and here, the construction of tense houses began, but in a short time, at least within a month, these houses were not able to live in people, and the safety was not good, fortunately, most of the recruited female workers were near Baotou, and in the absence of real work, they adopted the mode of day training, 6 to 7 hours a day, and the time for practical operation on the machine was only once every two days, and it was more concentrated training. More than 3,000 newly recruited workers, these workers, who are still in the peasant Cheng dù, first received the same queue training and military training as male workers, and in half a year, Baotou has summed up the training method, taking the team as a unit, queue training and collective life.

The room is insufficient, the collective training is temporarily no way, but the simple training, as well as the housekeeping, is still a lot, during the training period, half of the salary can be paid, cut to work time from 9 o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, this period is daytime, the female workers who need to be sent back, can also be sent back through the guò carriage, strict protection, plus the female workers around Baotou, and even part, are the families of the original workers, and did not cause a lot of trouble like the previous 2200 female workers from other places.

After the female workers entered the formal, simple training, they began to get on the machine, stumbling and stumbling, and finally slowly stabilized, Baotou was like plugging in the wings of take-off, and began to move forward quickly. RS