Chapter 176 European Cooperage Technology PK Daming Cooperage Technology
In the wood (bamboo) ware processing factory at the base of the estuary, after Li Si and Wang San got up in the morning, they had not eaten breakfast before they received another big order--they were too busy with work for a while, so they went directly to live in the factory. Li Si did not return to the home he had moved to...... He had already moved his family here...... Wang San did not go back to his dormitory.
This big order made them happy and uncomfortable. What are you working so hard for here to move your home to? Of course, it is to earn some more silver taels. But it's too much to live, it's too tiring, is it true that people only live for a little silver taels? Just for the food in your mouth?
The two may not have the concept of human freedom, but they have a budding accountability for the pursuit of human freedom...... Maybe that's the mentality.
When the two first took over the contract for this wood (bamboo) processing factory, they were very ambitious and determined to do something bigger. Especially Li Si, he thought that he would take advantage of his body and strength to hunt more beasts and earn silver taels for retirement...... But there has been some panic in my heart...... The world is not peaceful, and a qiē is not a fixed number.
But now, he Li Si has a chance, and how real and simple this opportunity is...... Give them the people of Hantang Group to work hard, and they will pay you the price you have agreed in advance, and there will be no excuse to change it...... That's good, Li Si kept sighing and said, Wang San, what do I want for the ordinary people? That's all I need ......
The two of them turned their hearts into actions. They went separately to the natives to pull people, and used the strength to turn a straw into a gold bar, and attracted more than 20 natives who knew each other, of course, they were all familiar.
Everyone used to know each other, and it was very convenient to communicate.
The natives really appeared, whether it was bamboo or wooden boxes, but they gave them as many things as they could, and they really earned more than hunting, burning, and farming, and it was very safe - except that the first thing in hand was the horse ticket, and they could go to the market and buy what they wanted, but only if the seller also wanted to sell.
For example, some natives want to buy bamboo knives that they use for work.
After Li Si and Wang San heard this, they barked like dogs with their tails and shouted, "Don't even think about it!" There are eleven bamboo knives, four large and seven small. There are a total of eight claw hammers, more than 3,400 one-inch nails, and more than 1,800 two-inch nails. I'm afraid that some people will be greedy!
Hugh thought I didn't know, the bamboo knife could be used as a treasure knife when it was taken outside--it was made of carbon steel, do you know what carbon steel is? ”
The native honestly shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”
Li Si felt that this opportunity was rare, so he said loudly: "Of course you won't know that there is charcoal in this iron, and the very low one is called wrought iron, and the iron will be very soft and unusable; The very high is called pig iron, which is very brittle and unusable, and only the little one is called carbon steel, which is extremely hard, but full of toughness, just like the bamboo knife in your hand - you don't have to look at it, mortals can't see it...... So how can you make the charcoal just right? ”
The natives' eyes lit up, and they nodded together and shook their heads.
At that time, Li Si sold a guanzi, and he was very satisfied with the aborigines' expression.
"Among the people of the Han and Tang Group, there is a kind of mage called the laboratory technician, who is born with a magic eye, and when he uses a mirror to shine like this, he knows how much charcoal is in the iron material one by one, and then uses it in the furnace - with yang energy! Blow like this, fill in some more, fill in some - anyway, you can't remember what you said, and after three or three or nine hours, the laboratory technician will shout again, 'Bah, the charcoal steel comes out!' 'What came out of the furnace was all carbon steel--Antarctica's big city, just wait and listen, that's the hometown of the Hantang Group, there is a steel mill called Baosteel, with an annual output of as much carbon steel as a mountain, it's really Baosteel-"
See the nail, right? In the Hongxing Industrial Zone, where there is a place like my estuary base, the people of the Han Tang Group are said to have gathered some blacksmiths early on, cast their iron materials in this way, and then taught them all kinds of stunts one by one, so that they could make this nail - very good -
How do I know these secrets? I'm friends with the people of their Hantang Group—"
Wang San added: "It's really a friend, I and the five directors have eaten roast venison together—"
"That's nothing," Li Si said again, "that morning, Director Song begged me, saying that he couldn't be busy right now, and wanted to ask me to help—people in the rivers and lakes can live a righteous word, and friends are in trouble, how can we wait and watch?" What's more, they also pay by the piece - a very high salary, I think of you friends again, this good thing can't be touched by others, you wait, isn't this reasonable? ”
The natives nodded in unison again.
Li Si said meaningfully: "What kind of person is Director Song? That's the big boss here -- you know about that exercise, right? Naaka fired a volley of four or seven firearms, it was really a thousand miles, and there were no living creatures anymore - they were just a civilian army, and Gu said that if their security team went out in person, it would be even more people blocking and killing, and Buddha blocking and killing Buddha! Otherwise, the arrogant red-haired man would have obediently surrendered the great city of Gerancha - Gu said that there were corpses all over the field at that time, and there were countless dead and wounded - besides, they had innumerable sharp weapons, and the cedar tree, which was high in the clouds, fell to the ground in a few strokes, and the beech wood, which was more than one person thick, was lifted up at once.
I see, this is a good place to rely on, you can bring your family to live with you, if the bamboo buildings in the dormitory are not enough, I will take the time to build a few. Well, I'm going to take a trip home, bring my family, and hire a few more skilled carpenters—my skills alone won't be enough—"
It had been more than a month since he said these words, and then Li Si really went back to pick up his family, and by the way, he recruited a few carpenters.
He had already designed it, there was countless idle land near the estuary base, and none of the natives had ever thought of growing vegetables and selling them to the Han Tang Group, and sometimes, he saw that the canteen at the estuary base actually had to buy vegetables from the city of Geranza! The natives also only dig bamboo shoots and pick wild vegetables. This is another good income, and if you don't earn it, you feel uncomfortable...... His wife and father are all good at growing vegetables, wouldn't it be better if they could make use of the wives and daughters of those natives?
When he came back from Ming University 6, he arranged them one by one, and sure enough, he soon gained more income...... Li Si couldn't take care of them anymore, and he had more and more work.
The list I received that morning was really not small.
They were asked to process another 100 barrels on the list, and the requirements were raised so that the barrels they made had to be opened at any time with lids that could be opened at any time, and they had to be fastened tightly so that no seams were exposed. These are not one-piece barrels or ash barrels like they used to be.
This is a bit troublesome, but the Mingren carpenter who was recruited by Li Si said that this is not impossible, but the deadline is a little tight.
Li Si laughed when he heard it at that time, and said that the urgency of time showed that the people of their Hantang Group were in a hurry, and this would be easy to do, and they would definitely make a move. There is a precedent for this.
In the past, they were in a hurry to ask for bamboo plates, but when they saw that there were too few people to be busy, they didn't also use any woodworking machine tools! Later, the bamboo plate was not in a hurry to use it, so I took it back and asked me to use a bamboo knife to split the bamboo. Don't worry, I'll wait and see.
Wooden barrels, which have been used on the Great 6 of the Ming Dynasty for thousands of years.
During these thousands of years, due to the immaturity of metal smelting technology, there were very few choices of materials for manufacturing containers at that time. As a general container, it is indispensable for people in their lives. Then the barrel made of wood was the most important container item at that time.
At first, it was only used to make some water collection tools such as holding and scooping water, but later it was used to bathe and wash feet in wooden barrels, and the use of it became widespread.
Pay attention to some Ming families, when marrying a daughter, a foot basin for washing feet, a washbasin for washing face, a basin for washing dishes, a waist basin for midwifery, a wooden barrel for bathing, and even a big red toilet.
In the heyday of barrel technology, a very professional profession also appeared in the Ming Da 6, that is, coopers. Because the technical content of making wooden barrels is relatively high, ordinary carpenters cannot meet the requirements.
Only a carpenter with better skills could be a cooper.
In the process of use, wooden barrels often need to be repaired, maintained or treated, especially problems such as water leakage, which need to be dealt with and maintained by a special cooper.
To put it bluntly, at this time, people all over the world bathed in wooden barrels, not only in Minda 6, but also in Europe today.
The barrel-making technology of the Europeans and the barrel-making technology of the Ming people, in the eyes of the people of the Hantang Group, is the brother of the Ming Dynasty and the Xiao Ming, there is no big difference.
But if you have to compare, the cooper of the Ming University 6 can win, this is not patriotism at work.
The main reason is that the cooper of the Ming people also has to work part-time as a painter, and it is said that the barrel processed and manufactured by a good cooper will not rot for two or three hundred years after eleven more paintings...... This is believed by the people of Hantang Group.
The coopers, on the other hand, do not know how to paint, and the naturalization of water. So from this point of view, the Akito cooper wins.
At that time, the Red Star Industrial Base sent two Dutch coopers to the estuary base to help them produce and process crates and barrels for the cement plant.
Director Song Shida directly sent them to the wood (bamboo) products factory, and some low-grade products were directly handed over to them...... Even if the Hekou Paper Mill later produced kraft paper, adding a few more layers could be changed into cement bags, but wooden barrels and boxes were also indispensable, and some bamboo utensils were also indispensable.
Later, the people of the Hantang Group also handed over the work of making wine barrels to them. It can be regarded as a Mingren version of the industrial upgrade.
The low-level products could not see any difference between the coopers in the two regions, but when it came to the high-end barrels, the technology of the two regions was different, which attracted the onlookers of the Hantang Group for a while.
What they have in common is that they are all strict about wood.
For example, the wood they choose must be more than 1oo years old, the skin and core of the wood, the material with boil scars, and the wood grain is not straight, and the wood grain is not straight, so the timber rate used to make the barrel is only about 2o% of the original wood.
It's all a fucking waste......
The difference is a little interesting. The Ming coopers saw with saws, while the two Dutch coopers used axes to split the wood.
Don't know how to use a saw? Someone asked curiously.
The Dutch cooper was originally a carpenter at the Anjiang Ship Repair Yard, and he also knew some cooping skills...... Of course they're going to use saws, and they have a couple of them from the tools they got over there.
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