Amid the creaking sound, a device the size of a small cabinet was operating. Its appearance was unique and driven by a hand shaker. At this time, Sima Lingji shook the handle and drove the device called "hand knitting machine".

The twelve thread ingots on the knitting machine are constantly rotating, and the metal needles are constantly moving, woven a ring-shaped braid.

The three people watching on the side were shocked by this complex and exquisite device and were stunned. Sima Lingji looked at the other person and recalled the first time she saw the manual knitting machine running, her expression was probably the same.

Hand-cranked knitting machines are exquisite machinery that have never been seen in the world. They have complex structures because they have a disc structure, also known as "circle machine", and are a powerful tool for mass-making knitted socks.

Jia Niu, who was dazed, finally came to his senses: "Uh... sister-in-law, this knitting machine is so amazing! Did Manager Lin and the others do it?"

"Yes, this is a 'prototype machine'. I was supposed to treasure it and keep it as a souvenir. Manager Lin asked me to operate it myself in order to let me understand how the knitting machine knitting socks. Today, in order to introduce the principles of the knitting machine to everyone, this knitting machine was borrowed from Manager Lin."

Sima Lingji asked Jia Niu and his wife to experience what "knitting" is, and she introduced it on the side.

There is a difference between knitting and textiles. Textiles are fabrics made of warp and weft threads perpendicularly interwoven with each other. Knitted fabrics are fabrics made of one or several threads bent into coils along the weft or warp direction, and then tied into coils.

Textiles are all kinds of common fabrics. Because the warp and weft lines intersect and are bound by each other, the extension and elasticity of textiles are limited to certain limits, and cloth socks have no elasticity at all.

Therefore, knitted socks are better than cloth socks. First of all, they are stretchable and elastic. They fit the feet and will not have wrinkles, breathable and sweat-absorbent, and the comfort is much higher than cloth socks.

That's why knitted fabrics are not as strong and firm as textiles, so knitting technology is most suitable for knitting tight fabrics like socks.

Knitting is divided into warp knitted and weft knitted. Knitted fabrics are rare compared to textiles, but not without them. Fishing nets can be regarded as knitted fabrics. Knitted socks are of course more complicated than fishing nets.

Therefore, it is very troublesome to knitted handmade knitted products. A skilled worker can make three to four pairs of knitted socks a day, so the cost remains high.

With manual knitting machines, the speed of knitting socks is significantly improved, but this still requires shaking the handle with your hands. If hydraulic drive is introduced, it becomes a hydraulic knitting machine, and the speed of knitting socks is greatly accelerated.

It seems like a few words. The craftsmen under King Xiyang spent several years and spent countless money to make practical hand-crank knitting machines. For this reason, King Xiyang gave the skilled craftsmen no less than 100,000 jins of rewards.

It took the craftsmen almost two years to create a practical hydraulic knitting machine.

A hand-knit machine the size of a small cabinet turned into a hydro-knit machine, the size has been several times larger. Each hydro-knit machine is as big as a large wardrobe.

The knitting machine for knitting socks is actually a "weft knitting machine" that can quickly weave ring-shaped fabrics. Because there is a large disc in the structure, it is called a "circle machine".

This is the first time that Wu Ming has carefully read the album, so he asked his wife with guilt: "How much does this hydraulic knitted sock machine cost?"

"The copper coins are less than 500 stag."

"Ah?" Wu Ming was stunned when he heard this. The price of this hydraulic knitted sock machine was beyond his expectations.

Jia Niu on the side was also scared: "Five hundred stags per machine! This can buy more than twenty horses and a decent house..."

Sima Lingji replied: "Of course it's expensive, it must be expensive. This is a machine that can constantly knit socks with thread..."

"Hydraulic knitting socks machine can knit ten pairs of socks every hour. If the thread is enough, you can knit one hundred and twenty pairs of socks in a day and night."

She paused and said a new term: "When the sock knitting machine is running continuously, the average fault-free running time reaches 68 hours, that is, it is more than five days of continuous fault-free operation. Even if there is a fault, it will be fine to repair it, so how can it not be expensive?"

"When the sock knitting machine is running, the operator will not be too tired to operate. The three-lined liner will be replaced and the people will be shut down, so the cost will be reduced."

Jia Niu thought about it and asked again: "Sister-in-law, how much does a pair of socks knitted from such machines cost?"

"It's not about the cost of the sock weaving machine. The cost of knitting a pair of socks with hemp and kudzu thread is about three cents. A pair of socks are sold in the residence for six cents. At such a low price, are you afraid that you can't sell them? Are you afraid that the people can't afford to wear them?"

Wu Ming felt incredible about this cost: "The cost of three cents, the price of six cents? As long as a person has hands and feet and works hard, he can buy a few pairs of socks for a day's income!"

Sima Lingji nodded: "Hydraulic knitted socks can be knitted in large quantities and low-cost so that the cost of socks can be reduced and the cost of wearing socks will be greatly reduced. Then the daily lifestyle of people wearing socks will appear sooner or later."

The resounding conclusion made the other three people here agree very much, but Jia Niu always felt something was wrong and his mind was a little confused, so he took a pen and calculated it on the paper, and the questions became bigger and bigger:

"Even so, one machine can knit 120 pairs of socks in one day and night, and can run continuously for 30 days in a month, and knit 3,600 pairs of socks. Excluding the purchase cost of the sock knit machine, the profit of each pair of socks is 1800 yuan after selling, which is calculated based on ten-silo..."

"And a hydraulic knitted sock machine will fold 500 stag of copper coins, and that's what you've got to... knitted socks for fifty months and sold them all to make a profit!"

Sima Lingji smiled, with a mysterious smile: "All Xiyang Textile Workshops that participate in the joint guarantee of circulation vouchers will start knitting workshops one after another, first knitting socks. The first batch of three workshops that will be officially opened. Each workshop has fifty sock knitting machines, and ours is one of them."

"If there are enough raw materials and there are not too many failures, the monthly socks will not be worth 170,000 pairs, and soon there will be a big order."

"There is a war ahead and winter is coming soon, so the government has to purchase cold clothes for the soldiers who went to war. The same was true last year. The cloth socks worn by the soldiers were sewn in the military camp with the tailors. This year, the government has to purchase knitted socks for the soldiers and purchase a large amount of them."

Hearing this, Jia Niu became excited and his voice trembled a little: "Then... Could it be..."

Sima Lingji smiled and said, "The king wants to take this opportunity to make all the owners who invest in opening sock knitting workshops earn back the cost of purchasing a hydraulic knitted sock machine!"

"So...... in the future, each machine has a profit of about ten tons per month..." Wu Ming stuttered a little, "When fifty sock knitting machines and socks are sold well, the profit of five hundred tons per month... Six thousand tons per year? So much?"

“This is too little profit.”

Sima Lingji was excited when she saw that her husband finally became serious: "What she said just now is just knitting a pair of socks with hemp and kudzu thread as an example. It is just a cheap product to open up the market, relying on small profits but quick turnover. To have high profits, we have to rely on other socks... I will talk about this later."

Speaking of this, she put together the album and revealed a secret to the people present. She was not qualified to know this secret, but the Xiyang Palace transferred the knitting workshop that was about to be officially opened to her and her husband, and some secrets would be revealed.

"Everyone knows that Huangzhou is famous for its hydraulic textile fabrics. However, now a large number of hydraulic textile workshops are springing up like mushrooms after a rain. If Huangzhou's textile industry does not respond in time, it will decline sooner or later."

"The large households in Shannan made a contract with Huangzhou's textile workshops at the cost of supplying locally produced hemp and gee to Xiyang. After the agreed period ends, Huangzhou textile workshops will transfer hydraulic textile technology to them."

"Now, the hydraulic textile workshops of major local households have begun to be put into production, consuming the hemp and cherry produced in the local and nearby areas, and will never be supplied to Huangzhou. The best-selling Huangzhou cloth in various places will not be said to have a drop in output. The price has no advantage and sales will shrink significantly."

"The big bosses will not sit and wait for death, nor will the king watch the prosperous textile industry in Huangzhou withering. Therefore, the emergence of knitting machines is not only the end of Huangzhou's textile industry, but also a new starting point. The knitting industry that is starting in Huangzhou cannot compete elsewhere."

"Only the knitted socks in Huangzhou can be knitted, only the knitted workshops in Huangzhou can be made, only the hydraulic knitted sock machines can be made in Xiyangwang's workshops, and only the craftsmen in the workshops can be repaired, and none of these knitted sock machines will be left Huangzhou!"

"Knitted socks with low prices will definitely be sold well in various places like the cheap Huangzhou cloth before. If the big players in various places want to make profits from it, they have to cooperate with the big owners in Huangzhou. Therefore, raw materials such as cherry and hemp from all over the country must be honestly supplied to Xiyang at low prices!"

"The raw materials for knitted socks are not only hemp and kudzu, but also products not only socks, but also other knitted products. Therefore, the types of products of knitted workshops will increase, and the monthly profit of the workshop is more than 500 trump cards."

Just five hundred trump cards, a very big tone, but Jia Niu didn't think his sister-in-law was talking big. After he looked at each other with his wife, he spoke with a little embarrassedly: "Uh... that... what I said about investing before..."

When Wu Ming saw Sima Lingji nodding and laughed: "All of them are good brothers, just do what you said before!"
Chapter completed!