From Chief to Ball

At least it's warm inside, much better than those outside who are still digging holes and mud, and it won't be cold in here.

What surprised them even more was the windows of these houses, which they had never seen before. For ventilation in summer, most of them were blocked with straw curtains in winter, so they were always dark in winter.

However, the windows in these rooms are different from those in other places. The window lattices here are smaller, which obviously took more effort.The small window sills are covered with a thin layer of translucent fish skin or thinly scraped sheepskin.

In this way, the room is bright and warm, and the heat will not escape, and it will not be very dark because the windows are blocked.

This is very rare in Yucheng. It seems that there are not many houses in the whole city that are so bright. The female workers are sure that even the house where the leader named Jixia lives does not have such windows——The workshop in Yucheng He can make a lot of exquisite things, but this leader only likes the simple and rough ones that can be made on a large scale. This kind of labor-intensive windows is rare.

There are also many platforms built of wood in the room, and there is a round wooden pier under each platform. Obviously, these round wooden pier are for them to sit on.

Several female workers couldn't help but yelled, not because of anything else, but because it was obviously a job that could be done sitting, and sitting was easier than standing, and it was in such a warm and bright room.

Not to mention me, even my previous master never lived in such a warm and bright house.

The leading Xiacheng woman coughed lightly, stood on the first wooden pier and said, "Whoever I call out to will sit here."

These female workers don't have names, but they have a wooden sign that they are already familiar with, with numbers written on it, and they rely on this wooden sign for eating and sleeping, so they are very familiar with it.

After reading the numbers one by one, the women sat on their wooden pier one by one. The height of the wooden pier was just right, facing the side by the window. The height of the wooden platform was just right enough to put hands on, and the wood was scraped smooth. , painted with wood lacquer, looks very comfortable.

There was a handful of bone needles on the wooden table, which were both thick and thin, and there were a few balls of thread, a ball of solidified grease, probably to lubricate the bone needles so that they could pass through the cloth.

Every fifth wooden pier was vacated, as if it was reserved for others, but those people did not appear at this time, and they did not know who they were.

After everyone sat down, the leading woman from Xiacheng blew a whistle to draw everyone's attention and said, "I will take care of you people from now on. You have all used bone needles before and sewed clothes before." , so you are lucky to have come to this room."

"The fire is to keep your hands warm, so that you don't pinch the bone needles; the small window lattice is to fix the fragile thin leather so that the light can't be seen clearly."

"Your house is brighter and warmer than the house of the Department of Urban Planning and Statistics. You can work wherever you go, but other places may not be sitting, and there may not be such a warm place."

"Let's talk about the rules first. Where I sit now, I will sit there tomorrow, and it will be the same in the future. I will remember where I sit now."

"The empty space is reserved for the women of Xiacheng. They are still learning, and they will come over in two days and teach you. Groups of five, the person who manages you in each group is the future owner of the empty wooden pier .”

"In the future, there will be a whistle for going to work, a whistle for eating, and a whistle for leaving work. Even if you are relieved, there will be a whistle for relief. You will be asked to relieve your hands about every one and a half hours. You must line up to go to the new Repairing the toilet, if you are caught going to another place, you will be deducted three days of corn. If I didn’t blow the whistle, if you can’t hold back, you have to ask your team leader, and you can only go if you agree. One toilet, one extra day will be deducted from Taube."

"Bone needles and balls of thread are inspected every day, and those missing are compensated by themselves, which is not too much, seven days of taobei."

"Do you understand?"

The female workers agreed, and the leading Xiacheng woman said: "In the past few days, you should first learn the whistle sound, and understand what the different whistle sounds mean, so as not to cause trouble when I blow the eating whistle and you go to the latrine. thing."

The female workers had already seen Xiacheng's strange and weird rules, and they were not surprised when they saw it, but they were wondering in their hearts, what were the owners of those empty wooden piers doing these two days?Could it be that he is also learning to understand the whistle sound?

Chapter 1 One Foot Cloth, Half Husband

Of course, the hostesses of the empty wooden pier are not learning to listen to the whistle, they have already got used to this method, and they have mastered the rhythm of long and short after listening to a few times. Moreover, these whistle sounds are not suitable for them. There are not many quotas, and they can be easily completed. They have sewed a lot of clothes in Xia City.

In fact, these two days they are also studying, or discussing, how to sew a dress at the fastest speed, and how to save the most fabric?

This may seem like an easy problem, but it is actually very difficult to do.

The reason is very simple, because the widest linen cloth at this time is only more than one foot wide, and it takes many steps to sew a piece of clothing. It is absolutely impossible to cut it from one piece of cloth, and even requires a dozen pieces of cloth to be pieced together.

Why is it only one foot wide?Because cloth is woven by people.

Linen is also a kind of warp and weft thread cloth. Naturally, it is the same as all weaving procedures. After the warp threads are densely packed, the weft threads are passed through these dense warp threads by shuttles to form a weaving structure.

For the first time, the odd-numbered warp threads go down, and the even-numbered warp threads go up for the first time, and the shuttle leads the weft threads across; then the odd-numbered warp threads go up, while the even-numbered warp threads go down, and the shuttle leads the weft threads back through the other end.

This requires the weaving woman to be able to throw the shuttle with her left hand, catch it instantly with her right hand, and then change the odd and even warps up and down, and then use her right hand to throw the shuttle from between the odd and even warps back to her left hand, which is considered to have completed a cycle.

Therefore, the width of the weaving cloth is only related to the distance that the human hands can throw left and right. Before the invention of the "flying shuttle", the only way to increase the width of the weaving cloth is to increase the manpower to be responsible for throwing and catching the shuttle. Obviously, Save time by taking the time to sew two bolts of cloth together.

Even in the age of steam, the principle of shuttle weaving has not changed, it is nothing more than that the throwing and receiving shuttle has changed from human to mechanical bouncing.But the earth has gravity, so it needs extremely high speed to make the shuttle fly approximately straight, which is also the source of the unbearable noise in the textile factory in the steam age.

This is an unchangeable condition, and all clothing-making thinking can only be fixed within this condition.

Chen Jian's idea is a workshop system similar to an assembly line. Some people specialize in cutting, while others specialize in sewing tops, sleeves, collar buttons and so on.

The least process, the most economical fabric, and the fastest speed are the problems that the garment department must solve.

In the past, clothes were sewn by individuals, which naturally fit the body and are very comfortable.But if this kind of workshop is produced on a pseudo-assembly line, it is impossible to guarantee that every piece of clothing will fit.

Back in Xiacheng, when Yu Qian'er and the others had just come into contact with numbers and units of measurement, Chen Jian asked them to count the average height of the tribe.

At this time, I turned it out, according to the standard deviation and variance, which I learned a long time ago, and then separated the men and women, and divided the clothes into two sizes.

It is certainly impossible for these two sizes to take into account everyone's height and shape, but overall they can still be worn.At least this doesn't just happen casually, it needs simple statistics as the basis, otherwise the standard size clothes made can't be the most applicable.

The biggest problem caused by Xiacheng's various weird units of measurement is that in the history of this world, the word "husband" may no longer appear, because Xiacheng's ruler is not millet ruler but wheat ruler.

In the history of the emergence of the word husband, the ruler is millet ruler, the length of a hundred grains of corn is one foot, and a husband of ten feet is just majestic; but according to the wheat ruler in Xiacheng, a husband of ten feet has already transcended the category of human beings .

All in all, it is absolutely impossible for Chen Jian to be a man in this era. He can't even be more than eight feet tall and have a beautiful appearance. Most Xiacheng men can only be described as five feet tall.

After determining the standard average height and body width, a person with a marked figure was found from a group of people in Yucheng, and stood in the house as a model. These women who are good at sewing clothes figured out the most economical fabric and process. Method.

Every woman is a master of frugality. In this era, no fabric can be wasted. Every woman also has her own way of fiefdom.

Each person was given a piece of linen, a copper knife or rare copper scissors, and they were not required to make them, but to cut the cloth according to their own cutting methods.

The most economical method must have the most processes, and the method with the least process must use the most materials. What Chen Jian has to do is to find out the balance between the processes and materials from the cutting methods of these women.

It took a day to decide on a way to cut and sew, but there are still many steps to the final completion.

From cutting to final garment, a total of 14 yuan of fabric is needed, with a total of 23 processes.From the special making of wooden molds to the convenient cutting according to the picture, to the sewing of the sleeves, Chen Jian has to assign a dedicated person for each process.

However, the time required for each process is different, so Chen Jian must ensure that the women in the clothing department of the dyeing workshop are divided into 23 parts, but the number of people in each part is different, and at the same time, the number of completions in each part is required to be the same every day.

According to the standards of the female workshop workers today, Chen Jian asked the Xiacheng women to select the most stupid Xiacheng women here.

It is difficult to choose the best one in anything, but it is very easy to choose the stupidest one. The women laughed and picked out the stupidest people in sewing. The cloth is brought, taking one hour as the time, and calculating the completion of each process within one hour.

Roughly based on half the efficiency, I estimated the manpower needed for each process to ensure the perfect connection between the upper and lower processes.

Four or five days had passed after all these were done. The first batch of wool felts from the dyeing workshop had been made, and the women in the clothing department had understood the meaning of the various whistles. Chen Jian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Everything has to be started from the beginning, no one can help him, because the method here is different from Xia Cheng's, he can only do this by himself.

The reason why he was relieved was because the garment department could be regarded as a model, from planning and statistics to the model of workshop operation, every person in Xiacheng who participated in it had learned what they needed to learn.

People in the Planning and Statistics Department know the meaning of statistics; people in the Dyeing Workshop know the operation method of division of labor and cooperation; workshop workers have learned discipline, and will inevitably learn the use of weights and measures and numbers in Xiacheng in future work —In the future, their offspring will be able to get in touch with one, two, three, and feet and feet earlier.

It is impossible for the dyeing department to only do these two things. In the future, there will be specialized thread spinning, wool spinning, weaving, dyeing, etc., but no matter what new departments appear, they can continue to operate according to this method.

Chen Jian no longer needs to start from scratch, he only needs to adjust the plan in general, or propose a new plan.