Lin Feng planned to earn 10 million taels of silver in five months. The ten tycoons in the city and hundreds of local businessmen came to buy soap in large quantities. They could sell nearly 10 million yuan in a month, so Lin Feng established the J Soap Factory.
Not long after, Lin Feng was preparing to set up a textile factory, prepare a series of textile machinery, and establish a textile factory to expand his business. The first step was to make a shuttle loom. The shuttle loom had a simple structure, but it could increase the weaving efficiency by several times. It was, of course, the best choice for developing the textile industry.
Before he transmigrated, although he did not receive any industrial design orders from the textile industry, as an all-rounded genius, he had also understood the structure of textile machinery and was very clear about the structure of the shuttle.. He knew where to install the springs and how to arrange the guide rails.
On this day, Lin Feng spread out a piece of Xuan paper on the table and used a fine brush to put some ink in the brush and inkstone. Then, he began to draw the design drawings of the various parts of the flying shuttle. After 25 minutes, Lin Feng had already finished drawing five blueprints.，He took the blueprint to the blacksmith shop to find someone to make a flying shuttle.
When he went to the blacksmith shop, Lin Feng was careful. He handed different parts to different blacksmiths to make, so as to prevent a single blacksmith from knowing the structure of the entire shuttle and copying Lin Feng's secret.
In the Wang family's blacksmith shop, Wang Tietou, the head of the household, took the blueprint of the spring and looked at it left and right, unable to understand.
"Young Master, why did you bend the refined iron into such a shape?”
Lin Feng did not answer Wang Tietou's question. Instead, he said,""You don't have to care about what I do. You just have to do it.”
Lin Feng was dressed in silk clothes, and his temperament was different from ordinary people. Wang Tietou was not angry at Lin Feng's words. He only felt that people from rich families should be so domineering.
"Young Master, I will charge you thirty copper coins for this.”
"Sure!"
Even if Lin Feng was just a toy, what did it have to do with Wang Tietou? As long as Lin Feng was willing to pay. Wang Tietou saw that Lin Feng was rich and did not waste any more time. He began to make the spring with the blueprint.
He used a piece of refined iron to heat it red, then placed it on the anvil and repeatedly hammered it into a thick iron wire as thick as incense. Then, he used pliers to wrap the thick iron wire around a wooden stick to make a spring. Finally, he placed the spring in the water and quenched it.
Lin Feng was delighted to see him make it, so he went to test the spring's elasticity. However, after trying it a few times, Lin Feng felt that the spring's elasticity was relatively ordinary. If he pressed it too much, it would lose its elasticity and distort.
Li Zhi thought about it and felt that this might be caused by the lack of elasticity of the iron. The springs of the later generations were made of specialized spring steel. Even if it was not good enough, it would still be made of steel. It was probably very difficult for springs made of iron to meet the requirements, especially if they were made of inferior iron from the Ming Dynasty blacksmith.
"Wang Tietou, don't use iron to make this, find a piece of steel to make it!”
Wang Tietou was stunned." Young Master, good steel should be used on the blade. Isn't it too extravagant for you to use steel to make this thing?"”
"How much does it cost to make it with steel?" Lin Feng shook his head.”
Wang Tietou thought for a moment and said,"I'm afraid it'll cost one silver coin."”
Lin Feng smiled and said,"Just do it boldly. I'll give you every cent of the silver."”After a pause, Lin Linfeng said,"Knock this steel wire a little thinner. It should be half as thick as this."”
Wiping his sweat, Wang Tietou said,"Good! Since Young Master is willing to fork out silver, I will just waste it.”
Wang Tietou blew the bellows again and burned a piece of steel that he had found. After a quarter of an hour, the piece of fine steel was beaten into a thin strip and wrapped around the wooden stick. After quenching, a steel spring was completed.
He tried the steel spring and found that it worked well. However, Lin Feng was not satisfied. He had Wang Tietou change the angle of coiling and the thickness of the steel wire. He made more than ten different steel springs and finally found the one with the largest elasticity.
After making the spring with a high elasticity, the other components were easy. Lin Feng asked several different blacksmiths to make guide rails and sink railings. Finally, he asked the carpenter to make a new loom that was twice as wide as the Ming Dynasty loom and installed the shuttle on it.
In order to keep it a secret, the shuttle on the loom was wrapped with a few wooden boards, so that the loom operator could not see the structure of the shuttle.
After making the flying shuttle loom, Lin Feng was in a good mood. Making this loom required blacksmiths and carpenters. The cost was about three taels of silver per loom. Li Zhi could afford to make hundreds of them. Li Zhi was prepared to build a large-scale weaving factory and hire 400 weavers with 400 looms.
This required a large factory.
It was impossible to find such a large factory in the city. The houses of the Ming Dynasty were all courtyard structures. The rooms were small and the courtyards were large, and the land use rate was very low. If five looms were placed in one room, it would require eighty rooms. These days, all the houses with 80 rooms were luxuriously decorated mansions! Lin Feng might not be able to afford it with all his assets.
Lin Feng planned to set up the factory outside the city where the land was cheap and find an empty space to build a large factory.
If a loom occupied three square meters, Lin Feng would need to build a factory that was 1,200 square meters. This was not a big project. He found dozens of carpenters and masons to do it quickly.
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