Chapter 332 I am superior to the Yuan Dynasty

Author: orthodox sweaty Ali does not pigeon

Chapter 332 I am superior to the Yuan Dynasty

However, although it felt strange, Guo Kang was not stunned for too long. He suspected for a moment, and did not know whether this speculation was appropriate, nor did he know how to deal with it.

Guo Kang felt that he could not beat her by playing tricks. So, after hesitating, he decided to lie down and ignore it!

She just acts like whatever she likes. Anyway, Tuohuan and others end up. If it really doesn't work, she will run away to the east. Anyway, there is no place to go...

It is said that before Babur went to India, he was disheartened and wanted to go to the East to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and make a living. It can be seen that this idea is not an accident, it should be really feasible.

Thinking of this, Guo Kang became more determined to lie down. He took out a thin notebook and handed it to Da Lama Wang: "This is the plan I had conceived before. Da Patriarch, please take a look."

In public, he gave Lama Wang a very good face, and the other party was very happy, and praised repeatedly: "It turns out that this time is ready. Let's take a look. Mr. Guo's plan must be very suitable.

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"It's actually nothing this time, it's just a very rough calculation." Guo Kang said: "There are still many parts that need to be replenished in the future. Let's just do it now."

Da Lama Wang nodded, opened the booklet, and told everyone: "This is a plan for growing cotton and textile cotton."

"Is this also part of the church reform?" asked Father Andre.

"It's also considered." Guo Kang told him: "This is what I conceived, part of the plan to recruit the nuns."

Not only Father Andrei, but others were also curious and asked him what he planned to make arrangements. Guo Kang also explained.

"Didn't we say before that the biggest problem is how to feed so many people?" he said. "We can just try to make these people self-sufficient."

"So you chose this industry, right?" Wang Da Lama understood: "It's not bad. This is indeed a job suitable for women."

"But can this support themselves?" Father Mikhail expressed doubts: "Weaving cloth can only be used as a supplement to life. Except for a few good players, most women cannot make a living by relying on this."

"That's because the equipment is not good." Guo Kang told him: "As long as it is improved, it can easily improve efficiency. My calculations are used to prove these."

"Oh, improve all kinds of textile machinery, right?" Wang Da Lama was not surprised that he thought about this again: "This should be feasible."

"We have cotton too." Father Leo, who often patrolled, thought for a while and said: "In Europe, there are indeed not many people who grow cotton, but just so happens that the only large-scale cotton planting area is in Greece. So you two don't

It’s normal to be familiar with it.”

"There are also planted there," said Guo Kang. "In addition, Egypt and Syria are also important places of origin. It is not a problem for us to transport it from there."

"Yes." Lama Wang nodded and took notes: "This can be considered a solution...what is the cost of the machine?"

"It won't be too high. For single-person use, it can be completely controlled at a level that ordinary families can afford." Guo Kang said: "As for large ones, it depends on the address."

"You can design it all, right?" asked Lama Wang.

"I don't need to design this, now there are ones in the Ming Dynasty and Java." Guo Kang told him: "Of course, if I can't get it from there, I can try it myself. There should be nothing too difficult."

Although some people in later generations highly praised spinning machines and regarded them as the beginning of the industrial revolution, no one knows whether this thing is bound to industrialization.

The famous "Jenny Machine" was born in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, but it only had 8 spindles, and this machine did not even require Guo Kang to deliberately redesign. In fact, if the Qing Dynasty people who knew how to do this thing, they would only sigh "

I'm super, Yuan!"——Because this is a machine at the level of the Yuan Dynasty.

In the Yuan Dynasty hundreds of years ago, there was a hydraulic spinning machine with 32 spindles. The restriction on the number of spindles is not actually the level of machine design and manufacturing. It is simply that hydraulic facilities are restricted by factors such as water intake and irrigation all year round, resulting in the inability to do so.

It's just big.

As for the loom, the technical content is higher. Guo Kang planned to ask if he could directly find the Ming Dynasty machines and modify them. This cotton loom is relatively good, not as profitable as the technology such as silk jacquard.

, so it should not be difficult to buy.

"There is another advantage of cotton cloth, which is that the weaving process requirements are not too high, but not too low." Guo Kang continued: "It is not like silk, and has particularly high professional requirements, which makes it difficult for everyone to learn.

; But it does have technical content, so it has a certain profit and can achieve better income. In short, it is a just right industry."

"If developed and improved, the supply and sales of raw materials can be smooth and the personnel are trained to be qualified, and the income level of adult men can theoretically be close to that of adult men. Therefore, if you want to produce and be self-sufficient, textiles are a good choice - planting

The industry is too dependent on physical strength, and women are not very efficient in farming. Textiles are also a bulk project, suitable for organizing a large number of people and conducting centralized production."

Da Lama Wang showed Guo Kang's calculations to the others. Everyone agreed.

In fact, the machines at this time were far from reaching the peak level of the handicraft era.

According to later researchers, in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the average income of a woman engaged in cotton textiles per day of labor reached 80% of the farmers' daily income.

What is this concept?

Researchers also found the labor remuneration records of women in Songjiang County during the commune period as a comparison. Even in this environment where political movements and administrative orders are used to forcibly pursue equality in productivity and equal pay for equal work, women engaged in the same agricultural production every day.

The reward is also 80% of that of men.

Of course, the production efficiency of agriculture in the Purple Horde is not as good as that in the East, so everyone has shrunk a little, and the result may still be the same. According to his estimate, it is promising to approach the income level of adult male labor.

Moreover, the upper limit of this job is much more than that.

By the late Qing Dynasty, farmers engaged in farming worked about 305 days a year. On average, peasant women engaged in cotton textiles worked on looms more than 200 days a year. This time length is already quite "professional".

The 200-day reward is converted into food, and at the price at that time, it can provide 1.5 teenagers with one year. If they work overtime for their livelihood and work 360 days a year, they can provide 2.8 people. What people say at the time themselves

That's also true: According to the records in the memorials of officials at that time, the textile industry "one person has the strength of a day, and the one who is capable can eat three people, and two people can eat two people at the same time."

When the cloth price is relatively high, the income of weaving women is even higher than that of farmers. In the prosperous period of trade, when both sides work all year round, women who are also employed to weave cloth for others can have their wages

It is 30% higher than the long-term workers engaged in farming.

Therefore, whether it is income or professional level, this industry has huge room for development.
Chapter completed!