Chapter 71 Wool Spinning

November 23, 1590.

There was some light snow floating in the sky. Accompanied by merchants such as Qu Yuanrui, Huang Laifu, Ma Eunuch, and others inspected the Wuzhaibao Wool Mill.

Wuzhaibao Wool Mill is run by merchants such as Qu Yuanrui, and Huang Laifu only manages some stocks and dividends at the end of the year. When the construction started in early October, until now, the raw materials, workers, various weavers, a series of facilities have been prepared. Therefore, at the end of November, Wuzhaibao Wool Mill had officially started production.

This is considered a labor-intensive industry in Wuzhaibao, with nearly 2,000 men, women, child workers, etc. In addition to some men and women, most of them are refugee women who come to Wuzhaibao.

Compared with entering the various workshops and factories of Wuzhaibao, the military households of Wuzhaibao are more willing to work in various farms of Wuzhaibao, or large animal farms or vegetable farms directly managed by Huang Laifu. For the military households of Wuzhaibao, whether they join first or later, entering the various farms of Wuzhaibao is a real iron rice bowl, and working in various workshops always makes them feel unsafe.

In fact, working in various farms in Wuzhaibao is indeed treated well, with high welfare, and stable life. Now the workshops and factories managed by various merchants are more cruel in their management, and their labor time will be harder. Compared with Huang Laifu since later generations, these merchants do not have much kindness, and their all purpose is based on profits.

After entering the wool spinning factory, there are many departments and processes. Many women and children without skills just do some preliminary work in it. For example, after the wool is purchased from various places, there is no hair separation, washing, or elastic hair, which will be done by them.

Eunuch Ma was very curious and looked around. Huang Laifu was more professional. He saw that in a room, all the ragged women and children were sitting on the ground, nervously doing things like picking up wool. Some of the peers were watching, seeing who was moving slower. They shouted loudly. These women didn't even bother to watch Huang Laifu and others came in.

After the wool was initially sorted out, it was sent into several large rooms, which was a spinning wheel shop.

From here on, these weavers were considered technical workers. These people were hired by merchants such as Qu Yuanrui from Taiyuan and other places with high salaries. Their wages were much higher than those of ordinary workers.

For spinning, at this time, there was a spinning wheel in the Ming Dynasty that could place five threads at the same time. The spinning was fast. After spinning, the weaver site was working. They used a loom, and each loom required at least two to three people to work at the same time.

After weaving, it is printing and dyeing.

Similar to the cotton textile industry, the wool textile industry has very complicated processes. Some computer rooms have processes such as network workers, pulling workers, weavers, pulling workers, pulling workers, brushing edges, transporting wares, buckles, joints, etc., which made Huang Laifu dizzy. He thought that he had given all the business matters to merchants, otherwise he would do it himself and would not know how many brain cells would be exhausted.

Regarding looms and spinning machines, the level of the Ming Dynasty was still at the forefront of the world. Although Huang Laifu computers included many advanced textile technologies in later generations. But in textiles, he is not yet ready to improve these technologies. What the Ming Dynasty now needs is more labor-intensive industries to solve the unemployment problem of many Ming refugees, rather than using these technologies to make these women unemployed again. Advanced textile technology, when the market demand reaches a certain point, is very urgent to call for new technologies to emerge.

Wuzhaibao Wool Spinning Factory produces wool textiles. The fabrics woven are all wool fabrics. The first batch of orders are three thousand military uniforms placed by Huang Laifu. Of course, these fabrics are all wool.

As for cashmere, soft and warm, it is used to make various high-end items, various carpet cushions, wool sweaters, fur coats, etc. These things are basically made by hand using small looms that Huang Laifu cannot call. And these workers are all high-paying wages, all of which are experts invited by merchants such as Qu Yuanrui from all over the country. Among them are several Mongolian women, with large faces and squint eyes, and two bright plateau reds on their faces.

Huang Laifu saw that these Mongolian women were all good at craftsmanship. Although their wages were not as good as those of a few Han female technicians in the same house, they all worked very happily. For them, after taking back the money in a year, they were considered a rich man after returning to the outside world.

Huang Laifu ordered, and Qu Yuanrui asked someone to get some finished cashmere products handmade by Wuzhaibao Wool Spinning Factory. These are some seat cushions, which are smooth and smooth as silk, which is very warm. I believe that after selling, they can be sold at a good price.

Huang Laifu couldn't put it down, and Eunuch Ma was also very happy. He stroked a soft cushion and said, "These things are good, very rare. I believe the emperor and the empresses will be happy. Our family may recommend them to the palace."

Huang Laifu, Qu Yuanrui and others were overjoyed. If some of these cashmere products could be used as tributes, it would be a great promoting effect on their Wuzhaibao Wool Spinning Factory.

Qu Yuanrui hurriedly thanked: "Thank you, my father-in-law."

Ma Jiuying's unique laughter sounded: "Hehehehehehehehehehehe, why are you polite? Our family is also considering the prospects of this wool spinning factory."

He said again: "By the way, Master Guardian Qu, is your wool spinning factory just an authoritarian wool item? Why don't you make some cotton, silk and other things?"

Huang Laifu smiled and said, "My father-in-law, our Wuzhai Fort is just a small place. If you want to make products, you can only make new and unique products, make cotton cloth and silk. Our Wuzhai Fort will probably die ugly in the future."

Qu Yuanrui is also in line with him.

Huang Laifu and Qu Yuanrui were very clear about the positioning of Wuzhaibao Wool Spinning Factory, which was to start professionally from the wool spinning aspect, and if they competed with the Ming merchants at this time in terms of the market status of cotton and silk...

You should know that at this time, the Ming Dynasty had a complete range of silk products, with a wide variety of colors and superb levels. At that time, not only were there yarn, silk, silk, silk, silk, satin, brocade, brocade, velvet and other silk fabrics available, but each category had many different varieties of flowers and colors. Suzhou had silk, cotton, silk, woven silk, woven silk, crepe silk, pattern silk, spring silk, stencil, etc. Huzhou also had straight yarn, flower yarn, woven yarn, wrap veil, etc. Quanzhou had simple yarn, flower yarn, money yarn, etc.

In addition, the cotton cloth of the Ming Dynasty is also of various shapes. Among the cotton cloth produced in Songjiang alone, there are labels, buckles, thin cloths, floral cloths, floral cloths, middle-machine, small cloths, three-pass cloths, dragon mound cloths, cloud cloths, flying flower cloths, slurry gauzes, etc. In these places, wealthy businessmen come to the market with heavy capital, tens of thousands of silver, most or hundreds of thousands of taels of taels of silver, and fewer than tens of thousands of taels of silver.

This is the situation in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, and it is not much different from that in Jiangnan. If you want to compete with the Ming merchants at this time, Huang Laifu doesn’t think he has any chance. He should make his own wool spinning products with peace of mind.

After hearing Huang Laifudi's words, Eunuch Ma nodded and thoughtful.

After seeing the Wuzhaibao Wool Spinning Factory, Eunuch Ma went to the fort to rest. Huang Laifu, accompanied by several officers, went to inspect the Wuzhaibao livestock farm, the Horseshoe Pole Sheep Farm and other places.

Now that winter is approaching, the weather is getting colder. Huang Laifu is a little worried about the safety of the animals in his large animal farm. You should know that in places outside the border, there are no signs of how many cattle and sheep will die every winter.

When he arrived at the Wuzhaibao livestock farm, Wang Qinian, the head of the livestock farm, was inspecting the livestock farm. When he saw Huang Laifu and others coming, Wang Qinian hurriedly came up.

"Students have met the garrison.  "

Huang Laifu said: "Don't give me a gift, Brother Donglu, how are you preparing for the winter in the little pig?"

Wang Qinian said: "You don't have to worry. With the underground warm circle, no matter whether it is a new pig or a new sheep, there is no worry about being frozen and hungry."

Under the leadership of Wang Qinian, Huang Laifu inspected the large animal farm. He saw straw curtains hanging on the doors of each pen and house to block the cold wind from entering. The ground of the pig house was covered with many thick grass, and some big sows were eating happily with the pigs.

Entering the underground warming circle, some newly produced piglets were eating milk in the arms of the sow mother, and most of them were healthy and healthy. According to Wang Qinian, when the weather was very cold in December, all the pigs could be sent into the underground warming circle. When the wall of warm fire burns, the pigs can spend the winter safely.

On the side of the underground warming circle, Huang Laifu also saw several livestock people steaming the newly produced piglets in a rope cage with a small fire to increase the survival rate of newborn piglets.

Going aside again, Huang Laifu saw some women hatching eggs in soil jars, and relying on burning coal to heat up, many chicks and ducks hatched like this. According to Wang Qinian, this hatching rate is very high.

When Huang Laifu heard this, he nodded greatly and thought that with Wang Qinian, a breeding expert, he would be relieved. But looking at the situation of the Wuzhaibao livestock farm, he didn't have to go to see the horseshoe slope sheep farm.
Chapter completed!