In Mocheng and the surrounding tribes, the planting area of ramie is likely to exceed 40,000 acres.

It doesn't take much care to grow it, it can be harvested three times a year, and ramie seeds can be obtained.

After ramie seeds are pressed for oil, they are one of the raw materials for making ink, and they can also be eaten directly, but the taste is not very good.

And in the process of soaking hemp, you can wash out the pulp and use it to make paper, in addition to being able to get hemp fiber, ramie can be said to be full of treasures.

Not only do the people like to grow some ramie in rotation, but the surrounding tribes also grow ramie in large quantities.

They grow ramie and trade it to the First Textile Mill to get comfortable and soft linen.

The entire textile industry has been very closely linked with the surrounding tribes, and it can even be said that the linen industry is the real primary industry in Dongfan, and it has truly allowed a large number of people to participate together.

In the eyes of the surrounding tribes, they may not know how awesome the steel mill and carpentry factory are, but in their eyes, the first textile factory is simply a holy place.

This is also the only factory that will be used for external display, and in the eyes of the aborigines, this textile factory is a representative of "advanced".

Some trading caravans like to go to the textile mills to negotiate business in person, and they sometimes watch the weaving by the side, and they can watch it all day.

In the first textile factory, there were only about 50 textile workers, and more than half of them were women of Ming descent, who were originally weaving silk fabrics.

After coming to Dongfan, he was invited by Yan Zheng to act as a weaving master and teach indigenous women to spin and weave.

There are also more than 40 improved looms, which can be carried by hand and allow the shuttle to move back and forth, but the shuttle is not smooth.

After making the spring, Yan Zheng immediately came up with a simple device called a shuttle.

And let the first wood factory build a larger loom, the weaving width of this loom is completely to see how far the shuttle can run smoothly.

After it was made, Yan Zheng felt that it was an exaggeration, the entire loom could weave linen cloth with a width of 4.2 meters, and it took six people to operate!

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"This loom is also bigger!"

"yes, the structure is big, and the structure looks quite complicated."

"It's not complicated, you see, it's just a magnification of the loom we use and a combination of some parts!"

"Oh, that's what it looks like!"

"It's so big, isn't one worth a dozen?"

When this new loom was delivered to the first textile factory, all the female workers were dumbfounded.

The original improved version of the loom has made them feel quite practical, and when they see this new loom, they can't walk in an instant.

Yan Zheng looked at these female workers, and also had very high expectations for the textile industry.

He smiled and said: "This loom is the shuttle 01 loom, and its birth means that the textile industry has entered a new stage!"

"You've always wondered why I don't expand the production of the textile industry, and now I can tell you that it's because there are not enough raw materials, not enough productivity!

But the emergence of this machine solves the problem of productivity. It also makes us transport hemp yarn back from other places and weave it into cloth, which will also have a very considerable profit. With these two points, our textile industry can even be said to have no upper limit! ”

"In the future, how big our raw material market is, how many machines we can have, whether it is Mingguo or other places in the future, will be impacted by our high-quality and inexpensive Xia Bu!"

"In the future, you women will also become an important part of the state's taxes, and the cloth you weave will open up one market after another for us, and will earn us a lot of silver!

Moreover, the textile industry will solve the employment problem of a large number of people, and many people will increase their income because of the textile industry! ”

"In the future, more and more women will also go to the front line of production and will become the pillars of the family!"

After finishing speaking, Yan Zheng was really arrogant.

These female workers are also enthusiastic about listening. As the only female workers in the country, they are not even aware of the changes this is about to bring.

But they also already have a certain concept, that is, women can also rely on labor to earn a good income, at least they have done it.

After Yan Zheng said a few more words, he ordered them to start testing the machine.

With a few skilled women wrapping the tipping bucket and the front and rear axles with silk threads and arranging the shuttle, the whole weaving preparation was quickly completed.

Six people have a clear division of labor, two people are responsible for foot pedal adjustment dump bucket, two people are responsible for maintenance, and two people are responsible for shuttle and winding.

And the tread plate of this machine is also equipped with a spring device, so that when pedaling, unlike the traditional loom, you need to control the strength.

If it is combined with hydraulic power, basically this action can be banned.

"Let's get started!"

With the order of the group leader, the six people began to weave.

Due to the lack of tacit understanding, there were some stumbles at first.

After a few rounds of proficiency, the six quickly learned to follow their own steps.

The whole weaving process has also become very ornamental, almost step by step.

The shuttle came and went quickly, making a pleasant sound, and the whole piece of cloth was woven little by little.

After about a quarter of an hour of weaving, about half a meter of linen had been woven.

This speed made Yan Zheng smile, this is still relying on manpower to weave cloth, if the waterwheel is built, three people can stare at a loom!

The female workers also looked at this machine in amazement, for them, the changes brought by this machine are really shocking.

What is productivity, this is called productivity! What is called the light of humanity, this is called the light of humanity.

Compared with the production of other factories, the production of textile factories has obviously had the color of the industrial age.

"King, if this loom is rolled out, our spinning may not be able to keep up!"

Just when Yan Zheng was happy, Huang Minglan, the person in charge of the textile factory, was worried.

Yan Zheng smiled and said: "Not only can't the spinning keep up, but our raw materials can't keep up either!" Only a large number of imports from Daming can ensure production! The premise is that we must defeat the Xia Bu market in Daming! ”

After that, he looked kindly at the north, and he felt that encountering industrial civilization hundreds of years earlier might not be a good thing for the already rigid agricultural civilization.

In his previous life, when he was studying Das Kapital, he saw views on the economy of the Qing Dynasty, one of which was that the Qing Dynasty adopted its own opium cultivation in order to solve the opium problem, and the book stated that the original intention of the Qing Dynasty government to ban smoking was to prevent the outflow of silver.

The result is that after more than ten years of planting, the tobacco soil of our Daqing Dynasty has successfully changed from import to export because of its high quality. In this process, how many people were destroyed, the feudal rulers would not think about it.

There is also why Britain and other powers were able to successfully open the market of the Qing Dynasty in the end.

Although the homespun cloth of the Qing Dynasty is coarse, the farmers grow their own cotton and weave their own cloth, which can basically be regarded as free.

Therefore, the foreign cloth is soft and cheap, but it still can't attract them.

However, if one or two compradors are supported, factories are built in the Qing Dynasty, and cotton and other raw materials are purchased in large quantities, then the farmers in the cities around the factories will most likely choose to sell cotton and other raw materials.

Yan Zheng wants to hit the Daming market, it is even simpler, as long as the production is placed in Dongfan, relying on step by step penetration.

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