In late November, another heavy snow fell into Yingtian.

Early in the morning, Zhu Zhanji received a report from Zhou Chen that the wool textile factory had been completed.

The textile industry in the Ming Dynasty actually made great progress, and even iron tools have begun to appear in many textile equipment.

These changes have greatly promoted the development of the textile industry.

Especially for cotton textiles, Daming did not restrict cotton cloth. From top to bottom, no matter the value, you can wear cotton cloth to keep warm.

Therefore, it has played a great role in promoting cotton planting, and the corresponding textile technology is also the same.

After all, the textile technology of cotton is much more difficult than hemp and silk.

There are even certain requirements for the weather, otherwise the produced cotton thread will easily break, in this case textile technology.

For textile wool, it is simply a matter of being so simple that it cannot be simpler.

The wool textile factory was built, and all textile utensils were made of traditional textile tools, but Zhu Zhanji did not do anything like steam textile machines.

Mainly because it's too late, it's winter now.

He had to start producing the wool immediately and sell it while it was cold.

Otherwise, it will be not easy to sell when the weather gets warmer.

Moreover, the current textile technology is not too bad, especially in some places, spinning wheels can even reach five ingots when weaving hemp.

Even when producing cotton cloth, it can reach four ingots. You should know that before the industrial revolution in the 18th century, Europe's strongest textile technology was still at two ingots.

It was not until the steam textile machine appeared that nineteen ingots were reached.

So Zhu Zhanji is not in a hurry to get the steam textile machine out now.

After all, if technology is not good, manpower can be used to make up the atomic bomb by planning. Without steam textile machines, at most, it will be just a waste of workers. Now the least valuable thing is undoubtedly manpower.

With a lot of manpower, it is actually not cost-effective to use steam engines that are time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Of course, the steam engine must be done, but it is definitely not now.

After the textile factory was built, Zhu Zhanji arranged all the women who had rescued from the ground of Ji Gang's mansion in.

Zhu Zhanji arranged a place for workers to live in the morning at the wool textile factory.

The people are arranged here, and news from the Ministry of Revenue soon came because of this incident, the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War cooperated.

The acquisition of wool went very smoothly.

The Ministry of Revenue directly brought some salt, pottery, cloth and other things, and easily exchanged a lot of wool from the grassland.

These wool transports responded to the queen and pulled them directly into the warehouse set up by Zhu Zhanji in the textile factory.

With all these things in place, the first trial production of the wool textile factory started under Zhou Chen's surveillance.

"Your Highness the Grand Prince!"

In front of the textile factory in Huangzhuang, Zhu Zhanji was wearing a thick cotton robe.

A thick layer of snow had fallen on the cotton robe. Looking at the newly built courtyard in front of me, a satisfied smile appeared on my face.

It was obviously a bit rushed in half a month. Although there are still many places in this courtyard that look relatively simple.

However, some important places have also met the requirements for use.

After entering the front yard, Zhu Zhanji saw Zhou Chen coming over with a group of women.

These women were originally from Ji Gang's house. Except for some who chose to go home, they were arranged by the Ministry of Justice to send back their hometowns, most of the remaining women chose to stay.

After everyone finished their salute, Zhu Zhanji looked at Zhou Chen and said, "If you start production immediately, how much can you produce in a day?"

Zhou Chen bowed and said, "Go back to His Royal Highness, the textile factory now has more than 600 textile machinery. If it is fully produced, it can produce more than 10,000 pieces of silk cloth of various colors a year, and in a day, it will be about twenty or thirty pieces."

Zhu Zhanji thoughtfully changed the length of a piece of cloth, about 570 cm short, about 775 cm long, and about 40 cm wide.

On average, the length is about thirteen meters and the width is eighty centimeters.

Ten thousand pieces of cloth a year, and one piece of cloth can usually only make two pieces of clothes, which means that this textile factory can only make twenty thousand pieces of clothes a year, and only fifty or sixty pieces a day.

"Still slow!"

Zhu Zhanji frowned and said, "Can there be a way to produce more?"

The business relationship between wool is the plan on the grassland.

If production cannot keep up with the pace, it is easy to cause the purchased wool to be stockpiled up in large quantities and then wasted in vain.

Even if you waste money, as long as you can achieve your goal, it is very cost-effective.

After all, the grassland people without horses are still very good at singing and dancing.

But if he could make money, Zhu Zhanji naturally would not want to waste money in vain.

Zhou Chen smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Your Highness, 10,000 pieces of cloth a year is the maximum limit. If you are adding, you can only buy more textile equipment. However, in a short time, you have already bought all the textile equipment you can buy. If you want to buy it, you can only wait until the craftsmen produce the new textile equipment, and secondly, you can go to Jiangnan to buy it before shipping it to the response day."

Zhu Zhanji fell into deep thought when he heard this. He glanced at the woman who looked at him nervously, and thought for a while and said, "Let them start trial delivery first!"

Zhou Chen nodded when he heard this and immediately started to make arrangements.

He obviously had rehearsed here a long time ago.

As the order continued, women walked into the various yards with signs in an orderly manner.

These yards with signs are arranged separately according to different processes.

Near the warehouse is the largest yard, which is used to deal with the smell of wool.

There is a sign saying drying is hung at the entrance of the yard.

When the wool is transported to the warehouse, it will be taken out for cleaning. At the same time, it will also be screened to filter out the debris inside, and then choose good weather for drying.

After drying it, the mutton smell of wool has actually been reduced a lot.

When Zhu Zhanji came here, he saw that there were already a lot of wool that had been dried before, which had been sorted out and loaded in a special basket.

Then, someone was transporting the dried wool to the next yard.

There is a "soaking" sign hanging at the door of this yard.

The yard is filled with wooden barrels of large and small, steaming.

Even when I walked in in the middle of winter, I felt a heat coming to my face, and I felt like I had followed into the sauna, but it just didn't smell very good.

The wool was transported over and was poured into the wooden barrels in the yard. Next to each barrel, someone was stirring with a stick.

Zhou Chen explained: "According to His Royal Highness the Grand His Majesty's instructions, these wools will be transported here after being cleaned and dried, and then put them in the boiled salt water for about one stick of incense."

Zhu Zhanji nodded. These were all what he taught Zhou Chen. After soaking the wool in boiled salt water, the smell of mutton at this time had basically been cleared.

Of course, in order to be more thorough, Zhu Zhanji also asked someone to use some high-level white wine to clean the wool again.

In this way, the mutton smell of wool can be truly removed.

"Take me to see the wool that completely removes the smell of mutton!"

Zhu Zhanji just looked at these steps roughly. After seeing that Zhou Chen did everything according to his requirements, he nodded.

"yes!"

The two left the yard here and passed several more yards. Compared with the previous places, the place is much cleaner and there are fewer people.

However, the busyness is no worse than the previous yards.

As soon as I entered the yard, I saw a very rhythmic sound of wood friction.

Arranged in the yard, there are about ten textile machines that Zhu Zhanji cannot name.

A dozen female workers were operating, and then Zhu Zhanji saw piles of originally messy wool. After passing these textile equipment, they quickly turned into slender wool.

He counted and found that the most machinery could knit five yarns at a time, and the fewer were three.

"Your Highness the Grandpa, these are textile machines in Le'an, Jiangxi Province. They can be used to weave these wools in a cart of five bunches."

Zhou Chen explained while explaining, and then walked to the side and took out an object wrapped in wool and handed it to Zhu Zhanji.

"Please look at His Highness the Grand Prince!"

Zhu Zhanji took it and looked at it. This thing is the so-called bunting (year-old), and every cart is to weave a thread at a time.

And the five bundles are a truck that weaves five threads at the same time.

Zhu Zhanji took the textile wool and put it under his nose and sniffed it. After finding that he could not smell the mutton smell at all, he felt a little relieved.

Actually, before this, he was still a little nervous. After all, most of the methods of wool removing the smell of mutton were heard from him.

There are many methods, but it is difficult for him to determine the specific effect. Now when he sees the finished product, he undoubtedly feels relieved.

The removal of the mutton smell means that most of his plan has been successful.

After all, it is not difficult to sell a sweater without a mutton smell.

After all, the softness and comfort of wool is much more comfortable than that of cotton, and the warmth is far greater than that of cotton.

With wool without mutton, the next thing to do is to improve production efficiency.

"Taisun, the yard next to it is a weaving yard."
To be continued...