Similarly, although Hu merchants don’t like stackcloth, stackcloth is something that almost all industries need, especially if it is used more in the military, and it cannot be cut at will.

Therefore, at present, we can only start with machinery.

"You big craftsmen... don't have any ideas?" Fei Qian put down the model of the hand-cranked car and asked Huang Chengyan.

Huang Chengyan smiled bitterly and said, "There are some, but they are not very practical..."

"Let's hear." Fei Qian said while looking at other equipment.

Huang Chengyan said: "At the beginning, some people wanted to use hydraulic power... As a result, there was a lot of mud and sand here, and the bearings were often stuck in mud... Lord, you know, this is different from the forged equipment..."

Fei nodded subtly.

Hydraulic saws and hydraulic forging are not always sawed or forged. They will only be put down when they are used. On the one hand, the machine's stress may not be able to bear continuously. On the other hand, whether it is a saw or iron material, it is not continuous. Empty saws and empty punches are very damaged.

The textile industry is different. The thread needs to be continuous. If it breaks, it means that many things need to be done over the top, so you can't stop at the right time when you open it...

"Later, some people said they used wind power," Huang Chengyan sighed, "This wind power is not reliable than hydraulic power... Even if the wind power is too big or small, just the wind direction... Is it better to use people directly... Later, some people wanted to use animal power... The result was not good. Is mules and donkeys used to pull mills? It doesn't matter if they are not light or heavy, but they are used to pull wires...

Huang Chengyan smiled bitterly and said, "So he went around a long way and came back again, and he could only use manpower..."

Fei Qian also fell silent.

Although I didn't see it with my own eyes, Fei Qian heard Huang Chengyan talk about it so much hope and disappointment that had passed in the process. If it weren't for Fei Qian's persistence and Huang Chengyan's scientific research expenses as a big test worker, how many times could an ordinary craftsman do such improvements?

Later textiles used electricity, stable, convenient and fast energy to drive textile machines, and people worked in three shifts without resting.

Before electricity, it is steam, and the boiling point of water is generally fixed, so it can naturally be effectively controlled...

But the problem is that at present, there is neither electricity nor a steam engine. I won’t mention electricity. Steam engines are also things that require materials science, metallurgy technology, manufacturing technology, etc. to be met before they can be unlocked. It is not that after coal, water and steel are clicked, they will be automatically synthesized.

So, after going around and around, there was still no progress?

So what to do? Cultivating more apprentices is a good idea. Apprentices are difficult to get out of school for less than three or five years. Some of them may be intentional by the master, but more of them are limited by their personal abilities, just like in later generations, there are also a large number of factory workers who do not want to continue their further studies and development.

This is very troublesome.

Fei Qian frowned and thought.

At the beginning, Fei Qian might have seen this problem too easily.

After all, this is inevitable. For Fei Qian, the memory of the big machinery and factories in later generations was too profound. It would affect Fei Qian a little bit, which made him accidentally develop an illusion. Now he needs to make up for and correct it...

Fei Qian's eyes were patrolling back and forth on various mechanical models on the table.

There must be something to improve. Fei Qian believed in this, but he couldn't find it out for a while.

Fei Qian closed his eyes and recalled the various fragments in his mind. Suddenly, a picture jumped out and then flashed by.

Fei Qian followed, then turned around and looked at the first hand-cranked cart carefully. After rummaging over and over for a long time, he suddenly grabbed the fragment that flashed past, "If this... is changed to... the way of pedaling...

"Pedal?!" Huang Chengyan murmured and repeated, then clapped his hands, "Pedal! Yes, pedal! Why didn't I expect it?!Pedal, haha, pedal!"

The disadvantages, or disadvantages of hand-cranking carts, are that they need to cooperate with each other. One person pulls the silk from the pot of the silk cocoon and continuously on the head of the wire, and the other person manually transfers the cart so that the wire can be wrapped around the cart. If the two people cooperate without tacitly, it will cause problems with the wire when they are fast or slow.

Now if it is changed to a foot pedal, it is just a small change in the rotation mode of the reel, then the textile worker can control the speed by himself, step faster when the wire is pulled smoothly, and slow down when there are some problems. The hands can be freed and the wire is specially connected. This not only liberates both hands, but also releases twice the labor force!

"Where are people! Go and call the boss! Haha! Step, step!" Huang Chengyan took the hand-cranked car in Fei Qian's hand and rushed out of the showroom in a blink of an eye. In the corridor, he shouted and greeted the craftsmen, and immediately improved according to Fei Qian's idea, and even threw Fei Qian aside.

Fei Qian was stunned for a while, then looked at Huang Chengyan and others who were fully committed, and even quarreled loudly for some questions, and couldn't help but smile.
Chapter completed!