In April of the twentieth year of Chongzhen, the whole month of the Spring Silkworm Battle came to an end, and each family began to count the gains. Happily, except for the silkworm farmers near the silkworm village, who were unable to buy enough mulberry leaves and their incomes were damaged, silkworm farmers in other places had bumper harvests to varying degrees.

There were not many affected silkworm farmers, and the losses were not large, because the crown prince Bao Sangyuan's purchase of leaves had been announced before the silkworms were raised, and each family consciously raised a few pieces of cloth. Even so, the crown prince gave these farmers a chance to let the women work in the newly opened silk reeling factory, not to mention food and lodging, and gave them a tael of silver a month. If you are willing to receive banknotes, you can also use these two silver banknotes to buy more valuable daily necessities in the factory.

Every housewife is a born actuary, and they quickly understand the relationship between paper money and goods, and are more willing to use paper money to buy white flour pastries supplied in the factory, which can change hands and make double the profit.

Before leaving, Zhu Cihong visited the silk reeling factory, which had just completed the first phase of the project, with a total of 130 workbenches. The techniques and procedures of silk reeling are no different from those used by peasant women to reel silk at home.

It's just that the two joints were changed by Song Yingxing.

One is to change the hand-crank to the foot-pedal, liberating the hands of the peasant women, and at the same time making the power more uniform and the physical energy distribution more reasonable. This was originally there at the turn of the Tang and Song dynasties, but because of the large size, many silk mouths, small households have few cocoons and do not take up space, but it is the best to put it in the factory at this time.

The second is to change the stove to cook the cocoon, and use the circulating hot water from the boiler to scald the cocoon.

The cocoon itself is formed by sericin gluing the filaments together, just like a postage stamp is attached to an envelope.

The first step in reeling is to dissolve the glue, just like unwrapping a stamp.

The farmhouse soil method is to cook cocoons with charcoal fire, and the temperature cannot be constant, which affects the amount and texture of the filament. And because the water can't be changed often, it will also pollute the silk color. Newly named "Hangzhou Silk Reeling Factory No. 1", it adopts a unified circulating water supply. Try to control the temperature of the reeling water, the water quality is clean and fresh, so the thickness of the silk is uniform, the color of the silk is clean and shiny, and the reeling silk is the best quality of the silk.

Although Zheng Zhilong can even sell yellowed aged silk to Japan, everyone knows that the better the silk. The more expensive it is.

This "factory" named the No. 1 Silk Reeling Factory still adopts the idea of "you mention the process, I will improve", and takes the route of centralized and precise control. It's an exaggeration to say that productivity has increased dramatically, but to say that we've entered the age of steam. Because all the power is still mainly manpower, the function of the boiler is only to boil water, and the steam engine is only to lift water and supply water.

Even so, many large households still set their sights on silkworm farms and silk reeling factories. If it weren't for the royal industry, I'm afraid it would have been rushed to the top regardless of the reserve.

As the royal practice has always been. Zhu Cihong left Tian Cunshan as the chief eunuch of the silkworm village and the silk reeling factory, not only to seize the time to raise summer silkworms, but also to expand the scale of the silk reeling factory and collect as many silkworm cocoons as possible. In this way, we can crack down on farmhouse production and make more farmers look for new ways to increase their income, such as recruiting workers.

Tian Cunshan was "domesticated" by Zhu Cihong with his heart and is very reliable. After he took over the factory and breeding base, in addition to ensuring output, he also had to establish an image of "openness and fairness". The income and expenditure of the factory should be posted on the "Silk Reeling Factory Bulletin". Meticulous to the share of salt and sugar water that each female worker drinks.

This not only stabilizes the hearts and minds of the factory, but also allows workers to work hard in the face of heavy physical strength and poor working conditions. At the same time, it also puts an end to the favoritism of the middle management and ensures the vitality of the factory. What's more, after the factory and silkworm village issued such a notice, the big households in Hangzhou also saw it, and they asked Tian Cunshan to go out to socialize, hoping to keep the money in the cabinet.

Everyone knows the way. If you can raise silkworms in the second season, the cost is lower, but the benefits are greater.

"I advise you not to rush to save money." Tian Cunshan said: "It's better to look at it for a year first and see if our summer silkworms and autumn silkworms can be raised." If you can really raise it, you don't need to mention saving money. I might even be able to sell some shares to you. ”

Many large households come to save money not only to obtain interest, but also to climb high branches. Whether it can make a profit or not is not to mention, just the "ministry photo" that comes with the silk reeling factory is worth a lot of silver.

This also explains the business system of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to facilitate the collection of merchant tax, the sale of goods must go through a dental store, or a special product guild. For example, silkworm farmers cannot directly sell raw silk to the machine room, but can only sell it to the silk shop, and then the silk shop resells it. As a result, the silk company gained huge profits and pricing power, which of course would also cause others to covet it.

Those powerful people with backgrounds will take a "ministry photo" by themselves, so as to participate in the raw silk trade.

For people who only have money and no background, it is not easy to get a ministry license, and they can only buy shares. This is somewhat similar to the affiliation of later generations, under the banner of having a ministry to take care of the family, go to the countryside to collect silk, although you have to pay a certain fee, but this industry is originally profitable, and it doesn't matter if you have a little money.

It stands to reason that whether you get a ministry license or a dental dealership, you should pay commercial tax. In fact, the link of paying taxes has been artificially ignored, so Zhejiang is a big province of silk tea and a big smuggling province, because everyone feels that there is no benefit to paying taxes.

In the northern provinces, where the economy has been directly hit, the intermediate link of the dental industry has almost disappeared. All merchants can pay to advertise in newspapers or sell their goods themselves in the market. The Department of Taxation will collect taxes directly from them according to different industries and commodities, and the dental department, as an intermediary service agency, can only collect commissions if you wish, and you have to file tax returns to the Department of Taxation.

The economic form of the south is still conservative and traditional, and many powerful people are vested interest groups, and the tooth industry is a channel for them to make profits. If you want to directly attack the tooth industry, it will inevitably cause new problems, and it is better to destroy it in a softer way - run more royal industries, sell ministry licenses, and break the monopoly of the industry.

For example, this year's silk line in Zhejiang has a saying of suffering. The crown prince's silk reeling factory is able to produce silk with more than six times the efficiency, and the quality is good. As a result, a large number of silkworm cocoons on the market can also be digested, and the purchase price given is fifty taels per load, which is almost equal to the price of raw silk.

Under such a high-priced purchase, farmers are naturally willing to sell their cocoons directly, reducing their own workload and avoiding the losses caused by silk reeling.

If a local tyrant dares to do such an angry thing, most of them will be punished by the silk industry and the major silk families, and at worst, he will be let out of Zhejiang. However, this thing was done by the crown prince's killing god, and if he didn't come to find trouble with the families, it would already be pitiful, who would dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head?

And the silk reeling factory is like a bottomless pit, no matter how many cocoons can be collected. If it weren't for the problems of geography, transportation and cocoons that could not exist for a long time, I am afraid that this year's silk industry would not even be able to collect this little silk at present.

There are only three percent of previous years, how can we not let the "silk" families be gloomy?

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"Daughter-in-law of the Sun family, there is another batch of reeling cars in the silk reeling factory, how about I recommend you to go?" The first lady found the lady of the Sun family, with a smile on her face and the happiness of inviting merit.

The lady of the Sun family has long heard that the silk reeling factory is only in charge of silk reeling, and there is a basic salary, and the female workers add money for how much silk they make. However, she was not good at silk reeling, so she could only help her mother-in-law when she was at home, so she didn't sign up.

Seeing that the lady of the Sun family was a little hesitant, she nodded and said, "I gave up my face to ask for you." You think, if you can't enter the factory, I'm afraid you will be fired by Zhuangzishang in the future. ”

"Huh?" The lady of the Sun family was anxious: "How do you say this?" ”

"Let's Zhuangzi raise silkworms, so that the silkworms in the nearby farmhouses don't have mulberry leaves to eat." The first lady said: "So next year, the spring silkworm will find a nearby woman's house to do things." Your home was originally from Nanzhi, so you must go back. ”

Sun Niangzi's face was unwilling, but she couldn't say anything to refute. She thought that if she went home, she would not be able to raise a few more silkworms...... With that little capital at home, where to buy mulberry leaves if you raise more? Being able to eat and live here and get paid for it really helped solve the family's big problems. This year, the spring famine family borrowed a lot of green seedling money, and a few children can eat enough, isn't it just here to make up for it?

"It's okay to enter the factory, but I'm afraid that I won't do well and be kicked out and embarrassed." After the Sun family's lady quickly judged, she immediately changed her tone.

"It's all bicycles, and whoever goes in has to learn it. Besides, you may not be assigned to the silk reeling room, maybe it is a cocoon or a silk winding? The first lady said.

It makes sense for the lady of the Sun family to think about it, but she is afraid that she will really lose this job and go home to live that half-hungry life, so she has to nod her head and accept it.

The head lady couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and the secret path was so dangerous. It turned out that she had already recommended a person to enter the factory, but the woman's man found the factory, and would rather not spend money in vain than insist that the woman go back, and threatened that his woman was deceived and did not want to enter the factory. The factory blamed it, and let this head lady eat a good meal.

Fortunately, the lady of the Sun family is easy to talk and is willing to go up, otherwise her sin will be even greater.

The first lady heard that the silkworm room will be expanded next year to raise more silkworms, and there will be more people who want to come and manage it in the future. If you are dismissed now, it will be a huge loss.

This kind of distress is not the first lady alone, many men have already come to him to take his family back. In the inherent concept, silkworms should be raised in the silkworm village, so there will be no men, otherwise the prince of the silkworm god will not want to receive silk. Therefore, they are also happy to have their mother-in-law to eat and live here, and to take the silver.

The silk reeling factory is a new thing, although more than ninety percent of the workers are women, but there are always a few students from the technical college who are responsible for repairing the reeling cars, inspecting new cars, and troubleshooting boilers. These people are all men, how disturbing is it to eat and live with so many women? (To be continued......)

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