From the time the rebels stationed themselves in Julu last winter to May this year, for nearly half a year, the entire army used an unknown amount of manpower and energy and time to successfully complete the expected plan. The rebels successfully completed the planned planting before the next planting.

All land in Julu County was restored to public ownership and the policy of equal land distribution was completed.

After investigation, Julu has a population of 510,000. Such a small population is really not that large. However, with such a small population, it is not easy to manage it well.

On this day, Li Mengxi and Jian Yong discussed something related to his side business.

The so-called sideline industry refers to other industries besides farming.

According to the earliest experience in Zhuozhou’s farming, in order to resettle the refugees, the refugees sent to the farming were loaned to their chickens, ducks, sheep, geese and other livestock for the camp residents to raise on weekdays. According to the experience in Zhuozhou, raising a small amount of livestock would basically

There is no need to consume food. If there are a hundred people in a farm and one chicken is raised, up to a hundred manpower can be enough to feed a chicken even if you catch bugs and dig up earthworms.

In addition to breeding, there is also weaving. Overall arrangements have been made for Julu's 500,000 manpower, and preparations have been made for young and strong men and women to work in the fields, while all the old, weak, women and children among the 500,000 people have stayed in Julu City to prepare for work.

Papermaking, pharmaceuticals, pottery, woodworking, blacksmithing and other handicraft industries.

The papermaking and pharmaceutical industries do not require high physical strength and are suitable for the elderly and weak groups.

Papermaking is simple, and medicine is also simple. To make paper, you only need to get some plant materials, plus quicklime and plant ash. To make medicine, you only need to fold back willow branches and boil them several times. All these handicraft industries have no requirements for equipment.

Only, weaving is difficult.

In the weaving industry, materials are not a problem and there is enough sonoma, but the loom is a big problem.

There are 500,000 people in Julu. Based on half the population, the women each have a loom, which is equivalent to 250,000 looms. Even if there are many left in the countryside, even if there are 50,000 looms in the countryside, there will still be at least 50,000 looms.

There is a shortage of 200,000 machines.

Moreover, according to what I have learned in the past few days, although it is said that men farmed and women weaved in ancient times, this is not absolute. During the off-farm season, when men had no work to do, they would sometimes weave. After all, weaving is the

Among ordinary handmade productions, it is the most cost-effective item.

Daily handicrafts include weaving mats, selling shoes, weaving straw hats, weaving baskets, weaving baskets, etc. However, whether you are knitting shoes or straw hats, you may not be able to sell them once you have knitted them, but if you knit hemp cloth, you will not have to worry about selling it.

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Linen is the most cost-effective item in handicraft production. Together with grain, grain and cloth are the most fundamental hard currency.

Therefore, if you want to choose one industry among hundreds of industries to vigorously develop, one that can reach scale, provide job opportunities for everyone, and have sufficient benefits is weaving.

It can be said that weaving is the most indispensable among handicraft industries.

Weaving is known to be extremely important, and there is no shortage of raw materials for weaving. There is only a shortage of looms. But for the looms, there is currently no solution because of the lack of wood. There is too much wood.

"A few years ago, someone calculated that a curved shaft plow could only plow a maximum of thirty acres of land during the entire farming season.

The giant deer has tens of millions of acres of land and needs at least 300,000 cross-hook plows.

From last winter to today, the craftsman camp has been building day by day, and has repeatedly purchased a large amount of iron materials. The three hundred thousand plow blades can be cast, but the wood that is missing for the plow frame is really difficult to come up with."

Iron is more expensive than wood, and wood can be found everywhere. However, the fact is that while you can buy large quantities of iron, you cannot buy large quantities of wood at all.

For nearly half a year, the army has been preparing plows for autumn plowing. They have been busy for half a year, and after all calculations, they have made less than 60,000 plows. The number of 60,000 plows has averaged as many as 400 plows per day. However, such a large

The output is still not enough.

Who could have imagined that in the end, there would be no shortage of iron, but wood.

Both plows and looms are important, but in the final analysis, the plow is more important. Therefore, since there is no wood to make the plow, the loom can only be delayed.

Although looms are being produced in large quantities for the time being, research and development and production are two different paths. We cannot make hundreds of thousands of looms. We can make thousands of looms first and develop the technology first.

Li Mengxi told Jian Yong, "The production of looms is complicated, and I don't understand or know how to improve the mechanism.

However, when the loom is high, weaving is the most labor-saving. When the cloth is wide, the weaving efficiency is the highest. And when the shuttle is big, long, shaped, and heavy, the weaving is fastest.

These and other things, I think, all need to be tried.

It doesn't matter if the people make their own looms, big or small, long or short. However, since our army wants to build hundreds of thousands of looms, it is best if the shape of the looms can be extremely efficient. Otherwise, if the shape is slightly clumsy, hundreds of thousands of looms will be clumsy.

The efficiency of weaving will be reduced by hundreds of thousands of people.

That is one thousandth of the effect of one machine, calculated as two hundred thousand looms, one thousandth of the effect is the entry and exit of two thousand looms."

"So Xianhe, the entry and exit of these two thousand looms, are they many or not, heavy or not?"

Jian Yong can make some judgments. If a family has two thousand looms, how much cloth will be woven throughout the year. With two thousand looms, it is enough to become a rich man.

Jian Yong nodded, "That's how it should be, and it should be done with utmost efficiency."

After saying that, Jian Yong looked at Li Mengxi and smiled, "Haha, military advisor, how much do you want to test this time?"

Jian Yong is very familiar with the matter of testing. He has the experience of the last test. When he tested the shape of the hook sword last time, it took several days and hundreds of thousands of data. The test was cumbersome and arduous. Jian Yong

I have a deep understanding. I heard that Li Mengxi was going to test again, so Jian Yong had a question.

Jian Yong asked how many tests were needed, and Li Mengxi counted on his fingers, "A loom needs to be tested, including the height of the loom, the width of the cloth, the length and shape of the shuttle, and so on.

Regarding the height of the loom, from low to high, there are still thirty heights of looms, right? Thirty samples, each type requires at least 300 looms, totaling 9,000 looms.

There are thirty kinds of width and width of cloth, and nine thousand looms are needed.

The length of the shuttle is nine thousand... No, there is no need to build a new machine to measure the shuttle.

In the end, we need at least 18,000 looms."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Just for testing, 18,000 samples had to be made. The amount of testing is terrifying.

The structure of the loom is complex. Mr. Li does not have the ability to improve the loom, but he can optimize the structure of the old loom to the best.

The fundamental essence of testing is the control variable method, that is, all variables of the loom are analyzed one by one.

So, for a loom, in addition to height, width of cloth, and shuttle, what other variables need to be considered? Li Mengxi discussed this matter with Jian Yong in detail.

"Wood is a variable." Li Mengxi thought. Maybe different woods affect the weaving efficiency, but... where is the influence? Weight? Texture? Different texture smoothness? I don't know.

Jian Yong thought for a while and said, "I think twine is a variable."

"Huh?" Li Mengxi's eyes lit up.

Li Mengxi was limited to the loom itself. He didn't realize for a while that the loom was for weaving cloth and had to interact with the twine, so he ignored it for a while.

After Jian Yong reminded him, Li Mengxi opened his mind.

(Yes, there is also twine...) Li Mengxi was thoughtful.

Twine is also a big variable when it comes to weaving.

So, for twine, what are the variables of twine?

The variables of twine include the year of growth, length, thickness... Yes, the thickness of twine will definitely affect the weaving efficiency. Thin thread will be light, and thick thread will be heavy.

If the loom will not be able to make it for a while because there is not enough wood, then there is no material problem with the twine, and the twine can be studied directly.

"Let's go, Xianhe, let's go to the craftsman camp and have a look!"

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In the carpenter's camp, Li Mengxi found a loom and planned to take a look at the principle of weaving again.

The craftsmen brought the loom out, and some people went to look for flax.

Soon, a craftsman came over carrying a bundle of wet and smelly raw hemp.

When Li Mengxi saw hemp growing, certain memories came back to him. He suddenly thought that when paper was being made, and before paper was made, there was also a process of shedding hemp.

Regarding papermaking, Shen Ma's purpose is...

(Yes, use alkali!) Li Mengxi’s eyes lit up.

To make paper from hemp, you need to sink the hemp into the pond. To make cloth from hemp, you also need to sink the hemp into the pond first. The same behavior may be for the same purpose.

To verify whether his idea was correct, Li Mengxi ran back and came back with a can of strong alkali.

Imitating the process of papermaking, throw the raw hemp into the urn, pour a lot of strong alkali, and then raise the fire to simmer it.

After following the papermaking process, Li Mengxi took a spoon to fish it out after an hour, and something happened.

When you scoop it out with a spoon, you will find raw hemp fibers as thin as hair. The hemp has been boiled into pulp. How can you spin and weave cloth? It's a waste.

"Is the alkali too strong?" Li Mengxi thought thoughtfully.

The strong alkali is so awesome that it can boil hemp into pulp balls.

Then, how about lowering the alkalinity?

Li Mengxi started testing again. This time, he only added a small amount of alkali.

Boil it for another hour and take a look at the hemp. This time, the hemp has been boiled in alkaline water. The whole piece of hemp skin is scattered and the fibers are as clear as braids.

After washing twice with water, the lye on the hemp is removed, and then the thread is kneaded to make cloth.

Because it was for testing and not really for weaving, the craftsmen rubbed a bunch of twine as big as their fists and then started to put on the shuttle and sat down to weave the cloth.

The weaving speed was very slow. After half a day, the craftsman weaved a piece of cloth as long as a towel.

After cutting the warp and weft, he took off the cloth and looked at it. When the cloth was put into his hands, Li Mengxi vaguely felt that the linen seemed a little thinner than the usual linen.

Li Mengxi didn't know much about fabrics. When the fabrics were in his hands, he couldn't tell the difference.

Later, the linen cloth was passed around among the people, and the craftsmen praised the linen cloth. Obviously, they were extremely surprised by the quality of the linen cloth.

When the message reached Jian Yong, Jian Yong took the linen cloth. When the linen cloth was in his hand, Jian Yong said, "Huh? Why is the linen cloth so soft? Also, why is it so white?"
To be continued...