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After determining the direction of development, Luo Chong sent Feather out again, asking him to lead his team to carefully scout the place again, and then find a suitable place to live in the middle of this section of the road to build a village and post station, which should at least meet the living conditions of thousands of people.
At the same time, new manufacturing tasks were issued to various manufacturing departments of the Han tribe, and a large number of various commodities were produced. After all, these commodities not only had to meet the needs of the Han tribe itself, but also had to meet the monthly market in Hanyang City, as well as the trade with the grassland tribe next year. The remaining materials could be used to invest in the new city.
In this way, the current business focus of the Han tribe should still be on the grassland. After all, the benefits that other places can bring to the Han tribe are too small, and only the grassland tribe can provide the Han tribe with a large amount of resources.
In this way, Luo Chong also prepared more abundant commodities for the big customers of the Han tribe. At the same time, there were new requirements for the recycled materials. Before, Youfu only purchased cattle, horses, sheep and animal skins, but starting next year, the Han tribe will also purchase a large amount of wool.
Given the scale of Hanyang City, the number of sheep that can be raised is bound to be limited, and the Han tribe is in urgent need of wool fiber. Hanyang City cannot meet its own needs, so it has to buy it from outside.
The Han tribe's current bedding is still very primitive. They cover themselves with animal skins and wear animal skins. Most of the hemp fiber produced this year has been made into ropes and sacks. The linen produced is extremely scarce and can only be supplied to high-ranking officials and children.
This situation will improve next year. The Han tribe will be able to produce more linen next year, but linen cannot be made into quilts. This statement is not very accurate. It should be said that there is no filling for quilts.
The Han tribe has not yet discovered cotton, so they can only find a way to replace it with something else, that is, wool. After washing and fluffing, wool can also be spread into fluffy wool fibers and made into wool quilts or cotton-padded jackets.
Wool quilts are also available in modern times, and the price is extremely high, similar to the price of silk quilts and down quilts, but in the absence of cotton at present, wool quilts can only be developed as a substitute.
Faced with a large number of textile tasks in the coming year, Luo Chong also continued to return to the metallurgical area to step up the research and development of springs, which is an important technology that determines the output of cloth.
The previous metal wire drawing equipment has been completed. Luo Chong personally supervised and directed the production. First, the wire was drawn, then it was burned red and wrapped around the copper rod, and then the spring embryo was heated and quenched. It took two days to make the first spring of the Han tribe.
After having the spring, the evolution and transformation of the loom can also begin. The new generation of looms developed this time is the flying shuttle loom. Don't underestimate this small flying shuttle. With it, the production capacity of the loom can be doubled, at least tripled, or even six times.
The first generation of looms in the Han tribe had a weaving width of only one meter, and it was a two-handed shuttle type. This is because of the limitations of the human body structure. The distance between the two hands of a person is limited. The width of one meter is almost the limit of the shuttle. A wider distance cannot be thrown through, which is also one of the important reasons for limiting production.
Using a shuttle loom, the most skilled weaver can weave four meters of cloth a day, which is an average of just over three meters a day. However, if the width of the cloth can be increased to two meters at the same speed, wouldn’t that double the output? The length is the same, but the width doubles, which means the area of the cloth doubles.
The key to solving this width problem is to replace the manual shuttle with a spring shuttle.
The principle of the flying shuttle is to make a long wooden groove under the beating knife, which is the track for placing the flying shuttle, and then install two springs at both ends of the track. By pulling the rope to release the spring, the flying shuttle is bounced to the other end of the track, thus completing the action of throwing the shuttle and pulling the weft line, and transforming the original manual throwing shuttle into a semi-automatic sliding rail throwing shuttle.
After the throwing shuttle is completed, pull the beating knife, then pull the rope, and the flying shuttle is bounced back along the track through the spring. After that, the action is repeated continuously, swinging the beating knife, pulling the flying shuttle control rope, and repeating this process without stopping.
Since the most complicated throwing shuttle steps are directly simplified, the weaving speed will also increase exponentially, from more than three meters per day to ten meters per day, the width is doubled, and the length is tripled, which means that the daily weaving area has increased sixfold.
Moreover, after the transformation into a flying shuttle loom, the requirements for weavers will be lowered. Before, it was too difficult to train a skilled weaver to throw the shuttle manually, but when operating a flying shuttle loom, the action of throwing the shuttle becomes pulling the rope, and there is no need to practice accurate throwing. Even a rookie can easily get started quickly. The
transformation of the flying shuttle loom is not very complicated. The core technology is on the flying shuttle. The rest is just to double the width of the machine. The part of the weft knife was removed, and then a long wooden track was added underneath. Springs were stuck on both ends of the track. The most critical flying shuttle was also cast in bronze.
The copper shuttle is much smaller than the previous wooden shuttle and appears to be more slender, so the weft that can be stored in it at one time is correspondingly reduced. In order to solve this problem, Luo Chong stipulated that each flying shuttle loom should be equipped with two copper shuttles for quick replacement. If one is short of thread, it will be replaced immediately with another.
The entire transformation plan took a week, and the Han tribe finally had the first loom that could weave two meters wide. The shuttle throwing was semi-automatic and could weave ten meters a day.
As soon as the artifact came out, it immediately attracted the tribesmen to quickly watch. Shang from the weaving tribe also ran to Luo Chong's house and tried to operate the new flying shuttle loom personally. The magical flying shuttle technology attracted the women of the weaving tribe to praise it.
But Luo Chong ignored it. As soon as the flying shuttle loom came out, Luo Chong knew what chain reaction would happen next. Just like history repeating itself, because of the increase in weaving production capacity, the yarn used for weaving would be in short supply. Then there was a revolution in spinning machines. The Jenny spinning machine, which could spin many yarns at the same time, came out.
Since Luo Chong knew the consequences, he naturally would not wait until the problem occurred to find a solution, so he took advantage of this time to transform the flying shuttle loom and simply modified the spinning machine.
This did not stump Luo Chong. In the history textbooks of his previous life, there were a lot of records about the Jenny spinning machine, as well as detailed illustrations and functional principle introductions. Luo Chong was deeply impressed by these things. After all, it was the cause of the first industrial revolution, and the textbooks also introduced it in great detail.
Luo Chong and a group of carpenters spent several days to develop the Jenny machine, which was a version that could spin ten yarns at a time. It was driven by a foot-operated flywheel, and the production capacity was increased tenfold.
(End of this chapter)
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