Chapter 032: Starting a Factory
Ye Xing asked the 11 Yunhai Village boys who were going to join the city guard army to report to the barracks with him, and the others rested in the villa.
Ye Xing introduced the various military regulations of the military camp as he walked, as well as the matters of military training, and the 11 boys were very excited, for them, practicing martial arts was the best and most happy thing in the world.
Ye Xing came to the barracks with 11 people, made Lin Yifan the captain, and led 9 people to form a team of their own, which was the 29th squad.
Let the youngest, Ye Qingyan be Ye Xing's full-time guard, mainly responsible for Ye Xing's herald work, including the original 4, 5 heralds are all trained by Li Qifeng alone, all of them are literate and hyphenated, and they are clever people.
Back at the villa, the 14 people left behind, plus Ye Xing, continued to hold a round table while eating, and the atmosphere was very warm.
Ye Xing took the plan that had been prepared for everyone to read.
Ye Xing's plan is to build a production line, which uses mechanical power to spin and weave cloth.
Originally, Ye Xing didn't know about this textile machine, but after this thought flashed in his mind, he kept reasoning and simulating, and the design diagram took shape in his mind.
The quantum intelligence of the previous life must have a memory, but there is no way to read it, but the brain is still very useful, and after knowing the principle, it can be deduced in a little time.
After all, Ye Xing's insight is far beyond this era, as long as you know the approximately, think slowly, and gradually experiment and improve, you will always succeed.
There are many plants in Tokai-gun that can weave cloth with fibers, and there are also cotton, silk, and hemp to weave cloth, and many people can do it, but it is all handmade, and sewing clothes is also made by hand.
In fact, most of the people wear linen woven at home, which is rough and uncomfortable, far less soft than cotton.
Of course, the rich wear silk, but silk and linen have a common problem, not keeping warm.
Cotton cloth has the characteristics of soft and comfortable wearing, warmth, moisture absorption, strong air permeability, and easy dyeing and finishing. Now there are also cotton cloths, but the processing process is all manual, and cotton cloth is relatively expensive.
So Ye Xing's idea was to make a fully automatic spinning machine, and the loom would completely replace human hands.
Ye Xing opened the design drawing, one was a waterwheel, one was a spinning machine, and the other was a loom, and brought the existing spinning machine, loom, and waterwheel for everyone to see, because almost every household has such equipment, so it is a blind eye, and no one has ever thought of changing and improving.
Ye Xing's design drawing is completely new, completely different from the textile equipment in this world, a truly creative new thing.
The existing spinning machine can only pull out one thread at a time, and it is all manual to achieve the action of pressing, pumping, twisting, and pulling, and it is all women's work, which is very tiring, Ye Xing feels that this is something he can definitely change.
The spinning machine he designed can produce 64 yarns at a time, and it is all driven by hydraulic machines, one person is just a guard, and if the thread is broken, the line is connected by hand, which is equivalent to 1 person sitting and easily completing the work of 64 people.
Moreover, this newly designed spinning machine is made entirely of iron, with various gears, and the sprockets are driven by water power, and do not need to be operated by human labor.
The existing loom is 32 warp threads and one weft thread, which shuttles back and forth repeatedly to achieve weaving, while Ye Xing design is 64 warp threads and 16 shuttles at the same time for weft weaving.
The principle is the same, but it is all driven by hydraulic machinery, no human hands are used, the thread is denser, and the naturally spun cloth is better.
The newly designed loom was dozens of times faster than the original, and it completely changed an industry at once.
The same goes for the waterwheel, it looks simple, but instead of making wood, it is made entirely of iron, and the impeller design of the waterwheel is different from the existing one.
After Ye Xing's explanation, all 14 people became excited, it turned out that what they had been ignoring and taking for granted turned out to be the biggest and best business! The eyes were glowing.
Ye Xing asked everyone to divide into three groups and build three machines according to the design drawings. It is necessary to learn all the skills and maintenance methods in the manufacturing process, and improve while manufacturing.
Ye Xing participated in all three groups and conducted them at the same time, putting forward his own opinions and listening to everyone's opinions.
Ye Xing took out 10,000 taels of silver to purchase various tools and materials, according to the design drawings, first made a prototype out of wood, and then debugged, after day and night efforts, in just half a month, three wooden prototypes were completed.
A waterwheel was installed on the side of the canal in the villa, and the sprocket was used to drive the spinning machine and loom, and after repeated adjustments and running-in, after 10 days, the prototype machine had reached the design goal and could replace manual spinning and weaving.
But the water in the canal is a little slow, the rotation of the waterwheel is slower, everyone remodeled the canal, digging deep to increase the water level difference, the canal is used to penetrate the bank with stones, narrow, and the water flow accelerates.
The gear ratio was adjusted to achieve different speed outputs, and the shaft and bearing, which are prone to wear, were remade from iron.
By the time the work was all done, a month had passed.
On this day, the trial production was officially carried out, and everything went smoothly, only a short time to complete the 64 spindles of cotton yarn, and then use the yarn produced by themselves to weave the cloth, and it was also very smooth to weave the cotton cloth, and the prototype was completely successful.
Ye Xing requires that for a month of continuous production, everyone must stare at the same time, solve the problem immediately, find out the unreasonable place for rectification, all problems and rectification process must be recorded, and be sure to produce formal machinery is a more perfect product.
As for the cotton cloth produced, Ye Xing asked people to go to the city to find a store to sell it, and the result was that the cotton cloth with super good quality was very popular, and the price was 10% better than that of other people's handmade cloth, and it was basically out of stock every day.
Then, Ye Xing gave Lin Tie full responsibility to purchase a large amount of cotton and hemp threads, and build a large factory and warehouse on the canal.
During this period, Mu Sheng also went back to Yunhai Village, bringing Ye Xing's mother, 6 married wives among the people, plus 4 young women in the village.
Ye Xing's mother, together with 4 middle-aged women, was mainly responsible for food and hygiene in the villa, and Ye Xing gave 5 taels of silver per month, and each person had a separate room.
The 6 young women have a room with their husbands, and they are mainly involved in the operation of textiles and suggestions for improvement, and Ye Xing is also given 5 taels a month, which is the annual income of a family in Yunhai Village.
With the latest finalized design drawings, we began to manufacture iron machinery, and strive to complete the manufacturing, installation, and commissioning work within one month.
Ye Xing also made lathes with waterwheels and casting molds from clay, all of which were processed and manufactured according to prototypes.
Everyone is fully engaged in their work, there are new improvements every day, and every part is made as standard;
The measuring tools developed by Ye Xing are used to detect each size, and all parts are numbered. In Ye Xing's words, everything is produced according to standards.
Ye Xing's goal is to produce machinery itself, not just weaving, Ye Xing's idea is to make everyone change their minds, to use machinery instead of manpower, instead of blindly working hard.
Of course, Ye Xing's goal is even more ambitious, but everything is still slow, and everything he is doing now is just preparation.
In Ye Xing's mind, there must be a foundation for the realization of the goal, and now he is doing the basic thing.
In addition to participating in the optimization of this mechanical design every day, Ye Xing also had to go to the military camp for military training, and he also had to report to the city lord's master.
For cultivation, Ye Xing did not relax, and also let the people of Yunhai Village also start to cultivate, without a good physique, they could not cope with the heavy work at all.
With this period of hard work, Ye Xing has deduced all the applied meridians of the wood system.
In fact, because of the reference of the water system, Ye Xing's daily meditation is meditation, using his divine sense to look at his body, and then going to test run, and the wood system is deduced.
It's just that the process is a little slow, but it allows him to better understand the direction of the meridians.
Now all his thoughts at night are verified over and over again, because of the healing effect of the water system, coupled with his extremely careful attempts, Ye Xing began to cultivate the wood meridians in an orderly manner, and he did not rush too much, nor did he worry too much.
Ye Xing took time to visit the barracks every day, observe all aspects of training, and put forward his own opinions.
However, Ye Xing's greatest energy is in Xingchen Villa, what he wants is that this weaving production line is fully usable, and there are no technical problems, his biggest hobby is to think and solve problems with his brothers.
Moreover, Ye Xing wants everyone to use their imagination to solve problems independently.