Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 227 New Project

Seeing that Hua Lei wasn't thinking about anything else, Xiao Yuan felt a little tired, but he didn't say anything else. He turned around and went back to his room. The brother and sister washed up and rested.

The next day, Hua Lei accompanied Xiao Yuan to rest in Qingyun Lane for a day. In the evening, after sending Xiao Yuan back to the Imperial College, Hua Lei prepared to start working.

The duck and goose feathers have been waiting for a long time, and now the fabrics are in place, and Hualei's down jacket group is ready to start. Because when Shangguan helped to buy the crew, she also bought more than 50 family members of the crew, including many female family members. Because they all have indentures, Hualei is relatively safe to use them, so she put all these female family members in the down jacket group and let Tian Changmu's wife Zhang manage them.

Previously, she had been in charge of the cleaning and counting work of the slaughtering group. Now, Hualei asked Kong Xiaoya, who was married to Wu Sansi, to manage this work. Kong Xiaoya was already more than four months pregnant. Hualei did not need her to do it herself. She only needed to help count the number of cleaned chickens and ducks and distribute them to the purchase orders of various restaurants and the Imperial College. Relatively speaking, it was relatively easy and Kong Xiaoya should be able to do it.

Women nowadays are not like women in the past, many of whom do not know how to sew and buy ready-made clothes. In the Great Sheng Dynasty, almost every woman knew how to work, and their craftsmanship was very good. After Hua Lei put these women in the down jacket group, she took out the plans and drawings she had made on the ship and asked them to start cutting and making according to the drawings.

Hualei imitated the model of the clothing factory in the previous life. He found several people of different body shapes in Zhuangzi and measured their sizes. He made slight adjustments according to the measured sizes and made four sizes: large, medium, small and extra large. The style was similar to the style of the assault vest in the previous life.

Then, he used the fabrics he purchased from Shashi Fabric Factory as the outer layer and the fabrics Ruyi sent as the lining, and started making down vests. He didn't make many of each model, only 30 sets, and a total of 120 vests.

After all, there are no electronic devices such as sewing machines and overlock machines now, so people need to sew one stitch at a time, so the speed is very slow. And because the fabric is thicker and the style has more pockets, the sewing speed is even slower.

After watching the women's operations for a few days, Hua Lei divided the process of sewing clothes into several steps. One group was responsible for sewing pockets for the outer layer, one group was responsible for making the lining of the liner, one group was responsible for filling the liner with duck down quilting thread, and the last group combined several steps to complete the entire vest.

Because the process was complicated and we had no experience in making duck down jackets, when filling the duck down, there was either too much or too little. Also, the duck down in the liner was thin in some places and thick in some places, which was very uneven.

When the duck down is taken in and out, it flies all over the place. Not only is it a waste, but it also makes people uncomfortable. They always feel like their noses are blocked and they have difficulty breathing.

When Hua Lei saw that this was not going to work, she immediately found a batch of high-quality white cotton cloth and made a batch of breathable masks for everyone to wear.

Then I asked Uncle Zhao to weave a funnel-shaped smooth bamboo mat basket with bamboo. The large opening was put on the cloth bag filled with duck down and tied tightly. The small opening was connected to the inner liner. I held it tightly with my hands, and then gently patted the cloth bag filled with duck down with a bamboo stick. The duck down automatically entered the inner liner, and finally the duck feathers were no longer flying all over the sky.

Then use a small stick to gently pat the inner liner to spread the duck down flat, and then use thread to quilt it into diamond-shaped grids, so that the down in the inner liner will not move around. And after doing this for a long time, you will have a rough grasp of how much duck down to put in a liner. You probably need to hit the cloth bag a few times and pat it a few times, and it will be about right.

When Hua Lei saw this, she was amazed. The wisdom of the ancient working people was really amazing. Just by patting it hard a few times and patting it lightly a few times, the amount of duck down filled in each liner could be made almost the same. This was a profound knowledge, and Hua Lei knew she could not learn it.

In this way, they made and explored while making, and immediately found ways to solve problems when they encountered problems. After more than half a month, 30 sets of small-size products were finally produced. Hualei called the people who measured the size and asked them to try them on. It was a bit empty. After all, it was summer now, and these men only wore a short jacket. It was indeed a bit big to put on this down jacket directly.

Hua Lei didn't care. She just looked at the main clothing elements such as length, shoulder width, sleeve circumference and chest circumference. She felt there were no big problems, so she waved her hand and started making several other models of down vests.

During this period, Liang Xiangyi finally came back, half a month later than Hualei. The two of them first went to the Ministry of Rites to hand in the receipts to the school department. After paying the balance of the first batch of shipments, the two of them went to the printing house in the northern city together.

When Liang Xiangyi took out the rice grid and Tianzi grid contract he had obtained in Huai'an Prefecture and Huaiping Prefecture, not only did Gui Jijiu get shocked, but even Hualei was shocked. The first time Liang Xiangyi took action, he got 50% of the rice grid and Tianzi grid practice papers in the two prefectures, which was more than Hualei's.

It turned out that Liang Xiangyi was thinking that since this was the first time he had done this, he definitely lacked experience, so he had to be more diligent. So even though Hua Lei said that it was too late, he could just take over the prefectural city and the state capital, and just give up on the counties below.

But she still did not give up. After handing over all the books, she returned along the same route and went to the county town under each state capital to collect contracts. Although it was not as smooth as Hua Lei's, after all, she did not have a yamen runner like Lu Shui who could take advantage of the power of others.

However, with the examination papers from the county and prefectural examinations that Hua Lei gave her, as well as the documents engraved by Guan Yun in her hand, and her eloquence that she had honed in business, she managed to trick the hesitant dean and teacher of the academy into signing the contract.

Of course, before leaving for Huai'an Prefecture, she prepared a large number of grid-shaped practice papers to sell at Hualei's suggestion, but she didn't have enough to sell in the end. In the last county town, she also sold a few pieces of practice papers recommended as sales samples, so on the way back she kept regretting that she didn't prepare enough, otherwise she would definitely be able to sell a batch with her eloquence.

However, Gui Jijiu didn't think so. He helped Hualei fight for the transportation rights. On the one hand, he was tempted by the contracts in these places. On the other hand, he also wanted to repay Hualei for giving him the copyright of the rice-shaped grid and the field-shaped grid. His printing house didn't make much money. His paper mill made a lot of money. That was a big piece of fat meat. And the reason why the paper mill could eat this piece of fat meat was because of Hualei's rice-shaped grid and the field-shaped grid.