Water Margin farming to become powerful

Sun Xin didn't feel anything strange about Chen Shoucai's reaction. After spending more than a quarter of an hour meeting everyone one by one, Sun Xin walked slowly to the factory workshop with everyone under the leadership of Village Chief Liu.

If the cotton ginning factory in Nursing Village can be successfully built, it will be expanded into the largest cotton ginning factory in Qingzhou City in the future. The burden on the shoulders of such a village cadre is very heavy.Fortunately, Village Chief Liu had experience working in the army, and he was meticulous in executing the tasks of the Supervisory Committee. Everyone has been working in surprise for two months.

At the same time, because of the strong support of the Qingzhou Supervisory Committee and Sun Xin's care, the construction of this factory was registered on top of the construction tasks in Qingzhou. After the foundation was laid, people from several nearby supervisory committees were mobilized to come out. In just two months, the spacious factory building has been erected by the small river outside the village.

There are not many rivers in Qingzhou, but it still chose a geomantic location for the cotton gin, and the water transportation is very convenient.

Cotton ginning does not require too much water. The main purpose of this river in the future is to serve as a supporting facility for the cotton ginning plant. On the one hand, it can undertake the function of transportation; Cottonseed oil processors process cottonseed from the cotton gin.

Cottonseed oil can be used as kerosene, industrial oil, and can be eaten after detoxification. It is even used as a traditional Chinese medicine. It has a wide range of uses, and it is easy to sell in this era.

At the same time, if the trial production of the cotton gin is successful, there may be steam engines here in a few years.

The first batch of samples of the pot camel machine has been manufactured in Dengzhou, but it is still very unstable.

The principle of the steam engine is too simple, even if the airtightness is not good, it is still possible to make it work.

Although Sun Xin has never used a steam engine, he at least remembers several important designs on the steam engine, such as the automatic speed control device. Under his guidance, the current steam engine produced in Dengzhou can reach a maximum of four horsepower.

The main problem why it cannot be used stably is still in the riveting process.

There was no electric welding in this era, and the boilers of all steam engines were riveted one by one with rivets.

The small-scale riveting process is not difficult for craftsmen of this era, but the riveting of pressure-bearing structures like steam engine boilers has too high requirements for craftsmanship. To withstand high pressure is a new topic for craftsmen of this era.

Although the manufacture of the steam engine is still under the name of Tang Long, Tang Long can manage so many scientific and technological groups by himself, and the main researchers are already researchers from the Engineering Department of the Supervisory Council University.

The experience of blacksmiths like Tang Long and the others has reached the limit. Many of the current Dengzhou products have already exceeded the highest technical limit mastered by these blacksmiths in the Song Dynasty. How to achieve finer structures and higher pressure-bearing requirements can only rely on engineering The researchers who were born in the university are grinding forward step by step through experimental and analytical methods.

Everyone entered the brand-new cotton workshop. This place still looks like a workshop of the supervisory committee. It looks unremarkable from the outside. Hui factories still use thatched roofs, and the fire protection requirements of cotton ginning factories are much higher than those of ordinary textile factories. The cotton wool flying around is flammable, and cotton ginning has a drying process, and fire is also required in the production process. , The risk of fire is not small, so the factory spent money to repair the gray tile roof.

There are fire-resistant buckets on the ground, and the small river is at the door. This is the best fire-fighting level that can be achieved in this era.

For people working in Dengzhou, it is not surprising to see a lot of large-scale equipment, but the old rich landlords in Qingzhou opened their eyes one after another. As soon as they entered the drying workshop, the eyes of the lords straightened up.

The first room is the drying workshop, and a large drying room appears in front of it. This cotton ginning factory plans to use the most traditional method to raise the raw materials into the drying room, with air blowing from the back, and a coal fire to dry the cotton below. Raw materials are dried.

The scale of such a drying room is very large. For people of this era, the narrow dragon kiln for firing porcelain is already an amazing huge industrial building, and the cotton drying room in front of us was built because of the need for blowing wind. Very wide.

When the landowners learned that the place that looked like a small house with a door was actually an oven specially used for drying cotton, they all opened their mouths in shock. How many catties of cotton would it take to dry such a large drying room? With?

There was also a dark-skinned young man among the crowd. He was also quite surprised when he saw the drying room. He asked the supervisory technician next to him in Chinese with a strange accent, and he was very excited after he found out that the room was for drying. .

This man is from Li. After arriving in Dengzhou, he changed his Chinese name to Sun Cai, and he went to the nursery village to guide the cotton production here.

The Li nationality technicians, including Sun Cai, are one of more than 20 cotton planters that Sun Xin and the others poached from Qiongzhou. Wealthy, so they actively integrated in one after another, and now they have changed their Chinese names.

They all chose to have their surname Sun. This was not Sun Xin's request, but they deliberately wanted to gain Sun Xin's glory.

Originally, there were not many people with the surname Sun in Dengzhou. Sun Xin and Sun Li were both immigrants, and their household registrations were not considered prominent. As a result, the more than 20 Li people who came with their families and their mouths made a lot of money in Dengzhou. There are more than 100 Sun surnames, and now it is generally known in Dengzhou that the surname Sun is from Li, and it is more prosperous than the brothers Sun Xin and Sun Li. Sun Li still has some opinions on this, and Sun Xin thinks about it. Without saying anything, he could have guessed that a hundred years later, maybe this Sun family would be attached to his pedigree.

Sun Cai and the others also had cotton ginning techniques in Hainan. In fact, ancient China's cotton processing technology was much more advanced than that of Europe and America at the same time.

The natives of the Americas and the later colonists used the method of processing cottonseed until the eighteenth century to manually pick out the cottonseeds in the cotton one by one. This processing method is extremely primitive, and a strong laborer can spend a day Can't detect half a catty of cotton, and will be tired and dizzy. Black slaves who sit down and process cotton seeds for a long time will suffer from lumbar muscle strain at the age of 20, and then they will not survive until [-] without treatment. To die young.

As early as the Song Dynasty, the Li people had already invented the technology of rolling out cottonseed with a wooden roller. The tool was very simple. A roller like a rolling pin and a wooden board were used to put the cotton on the board and crush the cottonseed from the cotton. Press out.

It's just that this kind of tool is too primitive. Even with the tool, the amount of cotton that each worker can squeeze out by hand every day is only two or three catties.The operation process before processing the cotton is even more crude. Some are exposed to the sun casually, and some are not even processed. The quality of the raw cotton that is finally rolled out is naturally uneven.

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