Listening to Master Qiao's preaching, Qiao Shengping remembered another thing, and he asked Master Qiao: "Since there are so many goods in the warehouse, and you don't rush to work, why does your father get on the motor at this time?" ”

Master Qiao said: "This is where you are not as good as Mengyun. ”

So far, Xinyuan has a total of two 54-inch all-iron looms, 20 40-inch iron and wood looms, 30 36-inch iron and wood looms, four jacquard machines, six silk turning cars, three silk cars, 10 threading cars, four warp drawing cars, one pulp car, and 80 power motors. There are a total of 200 hand-drawn machines in the whole factory.

Before this, the total number of electric looms of Xinyuan was less than ten, and when it came to the purchase of looms, we had to talk about the current situation in recent years.

Master Qiao counted the hundred years of ups and downs that Xinyuan has gone through, and counted the ups and downs since the establishment of the Republic of China.

Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, individual machine owners are wooden hand-thrown shuttle machines, and natural silk fabrics have occupied the market for a long time. After the Xinhai Revolution, international exchanges became more and more frequent, and in the first year of the Republic of China (1912), China was the first to introduce imitation French hand pulling machines, which were twice as efficient as wooden hand throwing shuttle machines, which greatly increased the production capacity of silk weaving factories. In the fourth year of the Republic of China (1915), Shanghai was the first to introduce electric looms, but due to the impact of the cost of electric looms and power supply problems, electric looms have not been widely used in other places except Shanghai, and Xinyuan is no exception.

The production efficiency of the electric loom is four or five times higher than the shuttle wood machine, the successive emergence of the hand loom and the electric loom, has accelerated the process of the silk weaving industry from the individual mode of production to industrial production, the previous pure manual period, Xinyuan silk and satin village can not be self-sufficient, every year every year to cooperate with the self-employed in Zhejiang, after the use of the hand loom silk weaving factory production scale expanded, it was changed to part of the cooperation for recruitment.

Speaking of raw materials for the silk weaving industry, in 1909, a small amount of human silk entered the domestic market, and in the 12th year of the Republic of China (1923), a large number of Italian rayon poured in, and the competition between Japan, the United States and the Netherlands was fierce. Human silk dumping in China, one of the fundamental reasons is that the price of human silk is low, its price is less than half of silk, the second is that human silk and silk can be interwoven into more than two colors, so that the variety of human silk weaving is not only changing with each passing day and is inexpensive.

As for Mr. Qiao's saying that he should not worship foreign flattery, it is also due to the large influx of human silk that has led to a sharp decline in demand for silk, which has a huge impact on the domestic silk reeling industry, and Mr. Qiao looks down on these "variants" of silk in his bones.

Master Qiao's voice was low and powerful: "The year is not good, the war has started, it is not easy for the people to live in peace, naturally chasing the wind and cheap silk, small businesses and small households look at the wind, and abandoning silk to change silk is also in line with the market trend, not to mention the national university or the family, but silkworm silk is the ancestral industry, can not be lost." ”

Master Qiao rarely said such a long word, and Qiao Shengping rarely heard it as muffled as today, his eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, his fists clenched and loosened, released and clenched, Master Qiao patted him twice: "Think slowly, Dad can last for two years, don't worry..."

Master Qiao put away the ink-colored "bitter is not bitter" on the table. Le Feile", raised his hand to send Qiao Shengping back to his yard, Qiao Shengping came out with his eyebrows locked, I had the heart to decompose for him and asked him if he wanted to pay attention, Qiao Shengping fell into the chair in his study, for a long time, and suddenly his eyes were sharp: "The hairy devil uses cheap people to break my domestic livelihood, I want to make a sharp blade to stab his foreigner's life!" ”