Despite his stubbornness, Zhu Youzhen had to admit in his heart that although the spinning work was not very eye-catching, it also required skills, and he couldn't do it anyway. He had to make room for the woman to continue working, while he and Rui'er stood behind her and watched.

But although the female workers were quick and methodical, after the meal, there was not much yarn wrapped around the spindle. Zhu Youzhen was in a hurry, so he blurted out: "How much yarn can you spin in a day?" ”

The female worker replied honestly: "I used to spin two catties of yarn a day." But there is always something else to do at home, and it must be done and stopped. Now concentrate on spinning, you should be able to spin three catties. ”

Zhu Youzhen was silent for a long time, but he sighed in his heart about the low production efficiency in this era. His parents are both in textile factories, so Zhu Youzhen also knows something about modern textile factories. In the 21st century, an average medium-sized textile mill has at least 100,000 spindles, and consumes at least a few dozen tons of cotton every day. But if according to the current level of production, if Zhu Youzhen wants to achieve the same output, he will have to hire tens of thousands of spinning workers! That is clearly unrealistic.

Rui'er saw Zhu Youzhen's anxiety, so she smiled slightly and said, "The prince is slow to spin, right?" In fact, if you look at the weaving situation, you can see that this speed is not slow. ”

So the two of them came to a pedal loom, and a female worker was working on the loom with her hands and feet, and the machines kept colliding and making a creaking sound.

Zhu Youzhen learned "Mulan Poems" when he was in elementary school, and the first sentence in it was "Chirp and chirp, Mulan is a household weaver". But at that time, there were no manual looms at all, so he didn't have any intuitive impressions. When I saw it today, the special beauty of the Weaver Girl jumped in front of me.

I saw the female worker sitting in front of the loom, stepping on the pedal with her two feet, and through the transmission device, the heald frame was driven to change up and down, and the warp threads worn on the heald were also closed one by one.

The weft yarn is mounted on a fish-shaped hollow shuttle, and the female worker pulls the longitudinal rope of the shuttle with one hand, so that the shuttle skillfully passes through the warp threads that open and close up and down. After the shuttle is threaded to the end, the other hand is used to knock the motive pole and pound the weft tightly, so that a weft yarn is woven.

In this way, the skillful hands of the female workers drove the shuttle to fly on the loom constantly, and the cloth was woven little by little. Zhu Youzhen suddenly realized that this was the origin of the word "shuttle".

Zhu Youzhen was dazzled and dizzy, and couldn't help but be in awe of the ingenious textile workers. But after watching it for a long time, the cloth didn't weave for much longer, which reminded him of the textile machinery in his previous life.

Even the old looms produced in the fifties of the twentieth century can achieve a speed of more than 150 revolutions per minute, in other words, 2.5 beats per second. Moreover, the movement of the heald frame and the shuttle is automatic, and the worker only needs to patrol back and forth.

In the 21st century, a variety of advanced shuttleless looms have appeared, using rapier, water or air flow to insert the weft, and the beating speed has been greatly increased to hundreds of times per minute, or even more than 1,000 times.

And the foot loom in front of me, although the female workers are fully absorbed in a moment, the maximum number of beats per minute is only a dozen times. And it can only weave the simplest warp and weft weave up and down plain weave, like those complex jacquard fabrics in the previous life, you don't even have to think about it.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen doesn't ask for those fancy patterns now, as long as the woven cloth can be sewn into ordinary clothes. However, a little calculation shows that the output of this loom is extremely low, and only about one inch of cloth can be woven per hour. No wonder the price of cloth is expensive, so time-consuming and labor-intensive, it's no wonder it's not expensive!

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help frowning, according to such a production efficiency, it would take a day or two to weave a foot of cloth, and it would take ten days and a half months to weave a foot of cloth. I still "seize the day", which is not much faster than a snail crawling.

But that's the case with the existing equipment, and it can't be improved for a while. Under such conditions, how can yield and production efficiency be improved? Zhu Youzhen began to rack his brains again. Of course, he didn't have these two moments himself, and the so-called thinking was just recalling how the factory organized production in his previous life.

This memory really came up with a few good ideas.

The first is the division of labor. In this era, women generally worked at home on their own, so spinning, weaving, and cutting clothes were done by one person from beginning to end. Of course, this is very inefficient, so Zhu Youzhen will start from here.

He immediately divided the work of the women workers according to their level of work. Spinning is spinning, weaving is weaving, and it is not allowed to string posts. In this way, the workers repeat the same work every day, and gradually become more and more proficient, and the speed and quality can be improved.

The second is the implementation of four shifts and three operation systems. He set a daily working hours of four hours for each female worker, divided into three shifts: morning, noon and night. The morning shift is from the hour to the end of the hour, the middle shift is from the time of Shen to the time of Hai, and the night shift is from the time of the child to the time of the hour. The workers are divided into four shifts, A, B, C, and D, and go to work in four states of morning, noon, night, and rest.

In this way, uninterrupted production is realized, and the efficiency of equipment is greatly improved in the case of limited equipment.

Of course, there were no electric lights in those days, and candles had to be lit at night. The textile mill is full of flammable materials, and working at night requires a lot of risk. Zhu Youzhen also strengthened security and patrol efforts because of this, in his previous life, there were countless fires caused by negligence, and he didn't want to let the tragedy repeat itself in this time and space.

The last trick is skills training. Zhu Youzhen was very disgusted with the practice of craftsmen in this era "the craftsmanship is not passed on to outsiders", and many exquisite crafts in Chinese history were gradually lost in this way. Therefore, he insisted that female workers with good skills and fast production speed must bring apprentices, and the level of apprentices within a month should catch up with the master, and both the master and the apprentice have additional rewards. If the apprentice's level has not risen in two months, then the master and the apprentice will be punished together.

Of course, these regulations are not likely to lift the output all at once, and there will definitely be a gradual increase process. Zhu Youzhen is full of confidence in this point, and is also very optimistic about the prospects of the textile factory.

In the past life, those developed capitalist countries, all of which started by textile, such as Britain, Germany, the United States, and Japan, eventually became manufacturing powers and powers. Although textile later became a "sunset industry", in today's era, if you want to achieve economic "take-off", you still have to rely on the shuttle in the hands of female workers, which is a real gold shuttle and silver shuttle.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen can't always stay in the textile factory, there are still a lot of things waiting for him to deal with!