Chapter 378 Slow Progress in Synthetic Fibers
Many people may think that clothing is not a problem, because they simply do not feel the difficulties that this problem can bring.
Because no matter in the original world or in the current world, people do not feel any restrictions or effects on wearing clothes.
This world started with the textile industry due to the industrial revolution. This has greatly improved the production of fabrics on the market. Even the most ordinary farmers and workers can have one or two clothes. Talk about decent clothes.
Even if the family is very poor, it doesn’t mean that they have no clothes to wear. At most, they don’t have many clothes and need to be patched.
In the original world, it was even simpler. With the emergence of chemical synthetic fibers, clothes? That's enough to make the closet full of stuff.
Although in places such as poor African countries, the development of the garment industry is indeed not possible because the industry is too backward, for any country with basic industry, as long as there is a chemical fiber factory, it can be used to make There will never be any shortage of material for clothing.
Even for some economically and industrially developed countries, only ready-made clothes are sold on the market, because the profit from selling fabrics is too thin, and the efficiency of handmade clothes is too low.
It will gradually develop into high-end customization, and will no longer be the daily clothing needs of the past.
However, if you move forward in time, many people will find that in the past, most people did not have so many choices when it came to dressing.
Even the emperors in the feudal era only had "no more than eight sets of regular clothes in four seasons." Although this means frugality, but for modern people in the original world, there are only eight sets of regular clothes in four seasons? Either he is poor or he is lazy.
Because even for an ordinary person who is short of money, it is impossible to wear the same clothes in summer and winter in the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
And no matter how poor you are, you will always have two sets of clothes to wash and wear in rotation.
In addition, if you wear the same set of clothes in Spring and Autumn, you can make up at least six sets of clothes, which is already very few for ordinary people.
However, in that dark age, several members of the family only had one pair of trousers, farmers had to work in the fields naked in the dark, and the women and children at home had no clothes to wear and could only hide in bed...
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This kind of thing is unimaginable to modern people in the original world, but this kind of day was only a few decades before Purficott traveled through.
Even when Purficott was a child, he only had new clothes to wear during the Chinese New Year, and the poor in remote and impoverished areas still had no clothes to wear.
This cannot be said to be the status quo for the current northern border, but it is not too different.
Because in the current northern border, due to the construction of shelters and the preliminary layout of Perfect Court to connect with the domestic industrial system, the main industrial categories are concentrated in heavy industry, among which the steel and mechanical processing industries are mainstream.
Again, other industries are basically supporting these two industries. As for the textile industry, it is not that Perfectcott has ignored people's livelihood, but that the north cannot provide the raw materials needed by the textile industry.
In this era before chemical synthetic fibers, the main raw materials of the textile industry are only natural biological materials and plant materials. Biological materials are easy to understand, such as animal hair, such as wool, velvet, etc.
Plant raw materials are fibers extracted or obtained from plants such as cotton and linen.
Of course, if you are in the East, you can also add animal protein to the raw materials. After all, silk is really difficult to understand for the ancient Europeans in the original world. In the modern world of the original world, humans have begun to use spider silk to make textiles, not to mention the various types of man-made fibers.
In short, because the north lacks large-scale cotton and linen cultivation and large-scale animal husbandry, there is relatively little investment and construction in the textile industry.
Although there were no textile factories that imported cotton yarn and wool from the colonies in the New World for weaving and made cloth for sale to the people in the north, overall the scale was still small.
The aboriginal people in the north mainly maintain traditional agriculture and animal husbandry. They raise some livestock to obtain furs. They also plant some cotton and linen, but the scale is not large and can only satisfy the local people's self-sufficiency. And a small amount of surplus is sold as local specialties.
Perficott’s original plan did not include the idea of developing traditional agriculture and animal husbandry to provide raw materials for the textile industry.
The reason is simple. With the coming of the end, traditional agriculture and animal husbandry will inevitably die.
In Purficott's plan, agricultural cultivation in the future will inevitably adopt a greenhouse model, and the livestock industry may have a certain proportion of farms to maintain the supply of meat, eggs, and milk.
But these are obviously unlikely to meet the needs of large-scale industrial production.
The most that can be done is to set up a greenhouse and breeding farm in each settlement and shelter to achieve self-sufficiency to a certain extent.
Because of this, Purficott didn’t take the traditional textile industry to heart.
Relatively speaking, it is much simpler to use petrochemicals to obtain synthetic fibers, and then use synthetic fibers as textile raw materials. At least this can continue to stably provide raw materials for factories even in extremely cold environments. .
Instead of relying heavily on the weather and natural environment like traditional agriculture and animal husbandry.
Although Purficott has not made a detailed estimate of the oil reserves in the north, given the current interest rate and exploitation level of oil in the north, it is unlikely that it will be fully exploited within at least a hundred years.
Especially since Purficott has only found one oil field so far, it is still unknown how much oil there is in the entire northern border.
So relatively speaking, the development of the oil industry is a great benefit to the northern border and is also the general trend in the future.
Only so far, even though Purficott had arranged for people to conduct research on synthetic fibers when he first left Langton, he did not miss this matter after arriving in the North, and even after the oil was extracted She also provided special guidance on this, but the research group she arranged failed to produce results that satisfied her.
This makes Purficott feel very uncomfortable, but considering the actual situation that chemistry in this era, let alone industrialization, can complete theoretical construction and separate from alchemy, it is already thankful. This situation was not particularly difficult for Purficott to accept.
The reason why she found it difficult was that these people couldn't make synthetic fibers despite their alchemy skills.
Yes, those researchers used alchemy to separate and process crude oil and then tried to make synthetic fibers from the obtained products.
There is nothing wrong with this idea, but there are no tangible results.
(End of this chapter)