Chapter Thirty-six The First Spinning Machine

  "Come on, Wenzi, let's go take a look at that loom together! My villa can wait for another time when you have the chance to visit. I'll prepare a set for you here later."

  At this time, Sima was obviously unable to control his excited mood. He even had the leisure to take his younger brother to visit his "home" here. After all, the successful production of the spinning machine was not like other things. This meant that this place finally counted as a factory, unlike the stone mill flour machines they produced before, which were just stone mills with electric motors and iron plates beaten together. If you say that's also a factory, Sima himself would probably feel embarrassed.

  But this spinning machine is different, with over a thousand mechanical parts on it, it's really light industry machinery, and it's a serious machine manufacturing industry. The successful trial production of this spinning machine means that Sima has indeed built a large factory on this original pebble beach in just a few months, what's more exciting than this?

  Although it is possible to buy a large number of old spinning machines at a low price from the future world through time-space anomaly points, Sima thoroughly dispelled this idea after buying only a few.

  Although it would be cheaper, a large number of second-hand spinning machines "at least for this era, old-fashioned spinning machines with 1950s technology levels" appearing in the world is obviously not very appropriate, let alone second-hand machinery. Moreover, it violates the original intention of Sima's establishment of the factory.

  If it were done by someone else, this space in 1915 might have been a colonial point for plundering wealth, at least initially, Sima himself had such an idea. However, as the number of times he came and went increased, and his interactions with the people here also increased, plus the factory that poured out his heart's blood rose from a savage land.

  Simar's feelings towards this world have changed from the earliest stage of just being a market for wealth accumulation, to a kind of feeling like home. Looking at the establishment of the factory, Simar no longer thinks about just setting up an assembly workshop here as he did in the early days.

  Rather, he wanted to make this place his own home, and the idea of building a villa was just that. Similarly, bringing in large quantities of old mechanical product blueprints was also due to the same mindset. Sima even thought about setting up a small thermal power plant here, because it would make this place seem more like a city, rather than a temporary factory powered by diesel generators.

  Many times, Sima asked himself if he really loved his country. If he did, he would probably be thinking of ways to utilize this anomaly in the timeline to achieve his dream of a strong nation. However, deep down, Sima had his own dreams for a strong nation.

  Making the country strong, at least Sima feels that's what he's doing now. After all, being a hero is too tiring. Although Sima knows that maybe what he's doing now will mostly be destroyed in the war, but there will always be some left, and that's enough.

  As he walked towards the factory building, Sima was almost suppressing his inner excitement. A spinning machine, the first spinning machine in this factory, was inside that large factory building ahead. Although it was still hundreds of meters away, Sima even felt as if he could hear the "whooshing" sound emitted by the spinning machine.

  Simma even began to think about what kind of name he should give this loom, and what model number it should have. Should he directly use the model number from the 21st century, or come up with a new one? Simma was hesitant for a moment, after all, this was the first industrial product of this factory, even if it was just a trial production.

  "Brother! Don't get so excited!"

  Ye Wen looked at his excited and barely restrained taboos walking in front of him, kindly reminding him that he had never seen him so happy before. Not even when he kissed his first love, was he as happy as he is now, all because of a sewing machine?

  "Haha! I'm just too excited! My factory can finally produce machines! It's my factory!"

  Simmering with a few smiles, even his own cousin might not understand why he was so happy, this is just the beginning. It's just the beginning. He can't be too happy, maybe there will be more things worth being happy about in the future.

  "I dare say that once our spinning machines enter the market, all of Asia's, and perhaps even the world's, existing spinning machines will be eliminated overnight. Our machines are far more advanced than theirs. Production efficiency has increased by at least 30%!"

  In the workshop where the spinning machine was running, Stom-Gwell stood beside the spinning machine and said loudly with some pride, "I have asked countless times about the origin of the drawings of this spinning machine, but Sima always smiled and didn't answer. And every day, the old boss Gao who came to the factory obviously didn't know where the drawings of this spinning machine came from either."

  It doesn't matter where the drawings of this spinning machine came from. What matters is that I am its creator, although not its inventor. As he looked at the spinning machine which had been running normally for over ten hours, Sturmwel still felt a sense of pride in himself. After all, he was not a textile mechanic and yet he had managed to produce such an advanced spinning machine within a month.

  "This Master Zhang and that Master Hu, and that other one... If it weren't for their efforts, I think we wouldn't have been able to manufacture qualified parts to make this loom."

  Stuhrm-Gewehr introduced his team to his boss, if it weren't for them, he probably wouldn't have been able to make this loom and would have lost his job.

  "Haha! For the past month, everyone has worked hard. Tonight at the factory canteen, I'll treat you all to a celebration and drinks. Of course, the bonus I promised earlier won't be reduced, but instead will be doubled!"

  Simar shook hands with these masters one by one, all of whom were brought in by Old Gao from various factories in Tianjin and Shanghai at a high price. Now, although there are more than 2,000 workers in his own several factories.

  But the real core is still the more than 400 masters who are familiar with machines from Tianjin, Shanghai and other places. These masters have been working in various factories for over a decade, each of them is skilled with hands-on experience and has a keen eye for detail. At present, the factory can operate smoothly thanks to their presence.

  "The host is being polite, it's only right. After dragging things out for so long, we all feel a bit embarrassed to be bothering the host again, and if the host were to add more rewards, that would really be..."

  Old Hu rubbed his hands and said, but for a moment he couldn't think of the words. Eating at Dong's house should be working for Dong's family. Thinking about this month, in order to make this spinning machine, a lot of materials were wasted. Just the waste materials could fill two big cars. If it were in the past when I was in Tianjin, Dong would have been heartbroken.

  In front of the boss, this time it's different. This month, the materials for making machines are not enough, and a truckload is immediately sent over. Every day when everyone is working overtime, the canteen is asked to send over small stoves with rice, and for southerners who love to eat rice, they make bacon fried rice or something like that. As for these northerners, every day there must be a big bowl of meat noodle soup, but the "meat" in it is almost as much as sliced meat. Just because the boss treats everyone so well, if we can't finish making this machine in a month, everyone will feel ashamed. Fortunately, it's finally made now, and it's not a waste of the boss's kindness to everyone.

  "Old Hu! This machine wasn't built in a day or two, everyone has been working hard for a whole month, day and night, I've seen it all. In the future, this factory will still rely on you masters. Here, I'd like to thank everyone first, don't worry, as long as our company can make ends meet, we won't treat anyone unfairly. Once these machines are sold, for every spinning machine sold, there will be 10 dollars as welfare for you masters! And another 10 dollars will be given to the young workers and apprentices in the factory as welfare, it's not a lot of money, but it's a token of our appreciation."

  Simar patted his chest and promised the hundred or so workers standing in the factory that for every machine sold, he would take out twenty dollars to use as welfare benefits for the workers. However, Simar believed that doing so could win over the hearts of these workers to the greatest extent, after all, in a place like this, if you want to keep good workers, you can only rely on giving everyone more benefits.

  After walking out of the factory, it took a long time for Sima to calm down his excited mood. Originally, he was going to take his younger brother around, but due to time constraints, he could only wait until next time when his younger brother came over again to bring him to visit his new home and let him taste the culinary skills of the great chef from Beijing. Unfortunately, there is no opportunity for now.

  "Wenzi, you've met the little Li in the company. From now on, everything will be handed over to you. In the future, I may not return for a week or even longer. However, when I do go back, there will definitely be enough work to keep you busy. Also, please take care of my parents while I'm away. If anything happens, be sure to notify me."

  In the warehouse stacked with a large amount of supplies, Sima patted his younger cousin's shoulder and said that after all, everything had to be handed over to him. He really didn't know if his younger cousin could hold up, but apart from him, who else could he trust?

  "Brother! Don't worry about it! I've got everything under control. You've already told me what to do several times, so just relax and don't worry. I guarantee nothing will go wrong."

  Apart from being like a guarantor, Ye Wen really didn't know what else to do. In the past, unless he was running his own small shop, it seemed like he hadn't done any business at all. For the past two years, he had been working underground digging coal.

  What business will be done there, it's good to do this business with my brother, as long as I buy things, I don't need to worry about selling them. Fortunately, I only need to take care of that warehouse, otherwise, I really can't bear the burden.

  "Wenzi, this warehouse has an alarm system. This is the alarm device for you. Normally don't wear it on your waist. If someone breaks in during the day, just trigger the alarm. If it's at night..."

  Simar struggled back and forth in his heart for a long time before making such a decision, taking out something from his waist.

  "Brother! This... you are..." Ye Wen was startled by the thing his older cousin took out, a handgun. Ye Wen didn't think that his older cousin would give him a handgun. Ye Wen suddenly hesitated in his heart, wondering if taking on this job was a mistake.

  "Don't be so scared, rest assured I'm not asking you to kill him. Just tie him up and throw him into this space over here, that's all. Don't ask about anything else, I'll take care of it. Got it?"

  Xia Ma knew that his cousin would definitely think he had changed deep down, but this was an unavoidable measure. If possible, Xia Ma wouldn't want to do this either, but sometimes many things have to be done.

  "Brother!... Will you kill them when the time comes?" Although it was just a hypothetical situation, and although nothing had actually happened, Ye Wen still felt a chill run down his spine. His own cousin had really changed a lot.

  "It can't be helped, it's for our own good, for the sake of our family!" Sima didn't know if he could do it at that time, but he knew that at that time he might only be able to do things that he was not willing to do.