As the end of November approached, Baotou became extremely busy, and all work had been put into operation, and countless people were here, sweating hard.

The winter in the north is always extremely cold. From the first snowfall in October, to the later days, with the cold air going south, rain and snow weather almost one after another, turning the earth into a world covered with silver, just like the scenery when Yang Yuanzhao just traveled through time half a year ago.

The northern country in winter should be a forbidden zone of life. Most of the animals and plants are in the winter. Under the thick snow, there is a world full of vitality. I am waiting for a good harvest in the coming year.

The planting of wheat has ended, and the germination rate is expected. Except for a few that need to be replanted, there is basically no problem with the rest. When it grows to a certain extent, snowflakes fall, thick snow covers the wheat seedlings, and the wheat covers three quilts, and a bumper harvest will be achieved next year. This saying is winter wheat. The cold weather will freeze most of the pests to death. The pests and diseases will be reduced in the coming year. Although ice and snow bring low temperatures, it will leave a portion of the temperature on the land. After it turns into water, it will replenish enough water for the land. To a certain extent, it will ensure the growth of wheat seedlings. In the severe cold, the wheat will still grow upward tenaciously.

The wheat matter is fully responsible by the Institute of Agricultural Research. With the help of several classmates, some of the most basic research has become formal. Except for occasionally monitoring the wheat situation, the rest are all in the cultivation of cotton seeds. From the cotton seeds that were collected last year as samples, cross-cultivation and scientific cultivation are carried out to prepare for the cotton seeds in the coming year. The increase in manpower and the increase in some scientific instruments. This year's cotton planting will not be just imported from the United States. You must know that the mainland cotton that can be exported is not the best variety of American cotton, but has been selected.

The first season of last year allowed mainland cotton to adapt to the climate of Baotou. This year, on this basis, select the best from the best, and after one or two generations of cultivation, it may not necessarily be higher than the original mainland cotton. To some extent, it will not be worse than the finest products of American mainland cotton.

The advantage of agricultural research lies in this aspect. With more than ten or twenty kilograms per mu of land, several acres of acres of planted, and dozens of acres of acres, this improvement is not obvious at all. However, when the planting area is divided into tens of thousands of acres, tens of thousands of acres, or even millions of acres, the income is very amazing. Take 6 million acres of land as an example. The additional income per mu of seed cotton is 20 kilograms, which means more than 120 million kilograms. For every 0.1% increase in cotton yield, the income will be at least more than 100,000 tons. This is the cotton of the economic crop. With a certain investment of several thousand yuan per ton, the increase in output will be net profit.

After receiving the combined task of industrial and agricultural production, Yang Yuanzhao focused more on overall adjustments. If he wanted to complete a profit of US$50 million in the shortest time, light industry must develop. Baotou's light industry has so far only daily chemicals and textiles. Others that may be developed based on this foundation are matches, daily necessities, papermaking and printing. The latter is not convenient for the time being. Three acids and two alkalis are the foundation of the papermaking industry, but if there are no suitable personnel at hand, it will be more cost-effective to carry out rashly.

After a inventory, Yang Yuanzhao was well aware of the situation in Baotou. Baotou's development is quite good. The construction materials industry that has been rooted in the future and the steel manufacturing that will be carried out will lay a solid foundation for Baotou. Continuing to expand Baotou's existing industry has become an inevitable choice.

The expansion of Baotou's industrial zone and the renovation of roads have been completed. The 50-kilometer cement roads built at the beginning just connect the industrial zones with each other. The newly built factories, such as alkali, sodium oxide, sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid, have also been built. The chemical factory has some strange bottles and cans, and the smell emitted, which has given the prototype of an industrial city here, occupying Baotou's heart. The most important thing is still a cotton textile factory, which has replaced the cement factory and has become a landmark building.

The cotton textile factory is not tall, and the tallest building is just two floors. Rows of light steel structure factories are very neat, with 12 rows of them. Each building looks the same and occupies the most extensive area.

Cotton textile factory is now the highest recognition rate in Baotou, and it has attracted the most attention from all kinds of shareholders. Since its construction began, it has attracted many attention. The eight major Shanxi merchants, various shareholders, and even ordinary people are paying attention to everything about the textile factory.

After more than a month of construction, the factory building of the cotton textile factory has been built, and it is still a cement exterior and interior wall. There is no time for a layer of lime on the picture. Many shareholders don’t care. What they care about is making money, whether the factory is luxurious, and whether the decoration is beautiful. It doesn’t matter at all. In the south, many yarn mills are mostly in temporary rooms, or even straw sheds.

In the experimental building, female workers recruited from all over the country were constantly skilled in the machines given by Yang Yuanzhao. Nearly 2,000 skilled workers led some ordinary workers. Whether Yang Yuanzhao's spinning machinery or weaving machinery, they all refer to the standards of later generations. The design is simpler and the operation difficulty of many workers is reduced as much as possible.

After more than a month of training, especially later, with more and more weaving and spinning machines, the textile female workers took more and more time to go on the machine for internships. Of course, they were also very skilled in all aspects. With no effort to promote, even training at all costs, the workers were finally qualified.

You should know that modern production, even the emergence of assembly lines, is to make a worker familiar with one aspect of the workpiece, not all and the whole. In this case, the quality of the things produced will be good. The same is true for textile factories. Unlike previous spinners, they also need to look at the quality. After many research and comparison, the spinning equipment produced is fast and efficient. Workers do not need to consider other issues, just connect the used thread. After the initial awkwardness, dare not, or even repeated, the spinning workshop has entered the regular state. Three shifts, and even four shifts have been completed. About 60,000 cotton spindles have been installed in the spinning workshop, and a large number of machined cotton yarns have been woven out.

Under the action of the machine, the processed cotton has become various cotton yarns of different numbers, from the largest number of 14, 15, to more than 30, and even the highest number, reaching 48. This is already the limit of the current spinning machine. High-strength cotton yarn represents the ability to make muslins. In this regard, the new cotton textile mill is not even worse than those imported from abroad.

The smooth progress of the cotton yarn workshop has laid the foundation for the entire cotton mill to a certain extent. The Westernization Movement, the textile factories opened in various places, are basically all yarn mills, because the yarn mills invest the least equipment, are easy to recruit personnel, and have good sales. In a sense, this avoids competition with advanced foreign cotton cloth, which is also a misplaced competition.

Since Yang Yuanzhao opened a cotton textile factory, he did not intend to mismatch competition. Advanced equipment and precise machines are the root cause of the success of the cotton textile factory. From the beginning, he considered all aspects of cotton textiles, from the beginning, cotton yarn, cotton cloth, and even future printing and dyeing. If it weren't for China, he would not have the habit of wearing ready-to-wear clothes, he would even get it out.

Compared with the rapid progress of cotton yarn, the progress of weaving workshops is a little slow. In itself, the most common ones in China are yarn mills, not fabric factories, but more famous Chinese cotton cloth relies more on hand-made textiles. Many official and private cotton textile enterprises currently established only spinning and without weaving. Weaving requires a large number of technical workers. Even if it has been scientifically designed and has reduced a lot of subjective things, weaving is still a technical job.

In the cotton textile plan, at the beginning, almost 500 weaving women weaving workers were recruited from the south and from the place where China's textile industry was the most concentrated. These women were barely familiar with the weaving technology in the past one or two months. The rest were still on experimental machines to gradually weaving and reduce the difficulty of weaving. It was not a feminine worker who had no idea about this. As a last resort, they had to select talented people from those who already had a foundation and strengthened their training. Unfortunately, the time was too short. So far, the 1,500 people selected can barely weaving under the guidance of others, but the inefficiency is at least three times worse than the experienced ones.

Originally, in cotton textile mills, the number of looms is larger than the number of spinning machines. However, without workers, spinning and weaving, at this moment, it became unbalanced. The weaving rate of spinning is less than 10%, and the remaining cotton yarn is piled up. More and more efficient spinning machines are now becoming a burden that restricts overall production. More and more cotton yarns are either directly retailed and sold to farmers for making homemade cloths, or they have to be sold to other places. When piled up, they will only pile up the warehouse.

The traditional small peasant economy in China, spinning and weaving are all completed in one piece. Baotou is not a traditional weaving area, and there are also sporadic weaving, but the quantity is too small and not suitable for selling it.
Chapter completed!