Lord Harland.

Chapter 191 Textile Technology

After capturing the flame spider, Li Cha asked people to search carefully in the spider's nest and took away all the spider eggs.

Caught the Spider Queen, these spider eggs can hatch flame spiders.

After collecting the spider eggs, Li Cha sent people to dig up some nearby plants, planning to find some mice for experiments, to see if there were any plants that could detoxify the flame spider poison?
Generally speaking, some detoxifying plants often grow near the nests of highly toxic creatures.

If detoxifying plants can be found, the threat of flame spiders to humans will be much reduced.

At that time, a magician may not be needed, and ordinary people can raise flame spiders.

After entering the new lair, the Flame Spider Queen was very frightened and waited for more than ten days before slowly adapting to the environment.

In late March, good news came from the territory again.

The task of developing a new type of textile machine arranged by Li Cha finally succeeded.

The looms on the Dawn plane are all old-fashioned looms with very low efficiency.

There is no silkworm breeding technology in the Grant Kingdom area. Of the three continents found in the Dawn Plane, only some areas on the west coast of the Holy Glory Empire can produce silk.

Silk was transported from the Holy Glory Empire to the Kingdom of Grant, with a transportation route of more than 2 kilometers, making silk an expensive luxury.

In Nolan, the price of a piece of silk clothing is more than eight gold coins, and the price of silk in Gerda Province is even higher.

Compared with the nobles, a piece of silk clothing often costs more than ten gold coins, which is about [-] to [-] percent more expensive than the capital.

Generally speaking, the Kingdom of Grant has an unspoken rule that all those who wear silk clothes are nobles.

In the northern region, linen and cotton are the most common.

The area near the Kingdom of Delong in the Grant Kingdom will also grow cotton and weave cotton cloth.

In recent decades, some provinces in northern Xinjiang have grown cold-resistant cotton, and many cotton cloths have appeared on the market.

Because many people with sheep body were arrested in the territory and a large number of sheep were bred, Li Cha planned to use wool, weave wool thread, and make sweaters, felt, and woolen cloth.

The technology of spinning wool thread has been studied for three or four years, and the technology is already very mature.

There is no difficulty in material selection and washing process, and the fat of wool can be washed very clean by using lime aqueous solution.

After the large-scale production of steel in the Harland Territory, slender steel combs can already be manufactured, and carding wool has become much easier.

Wool can be spun into wool using an old-fashioned spinning wheel.

Although the finished product is still relatively rough, not as fine as cotton cloth.But sweaters made of wool are very effective in keeping warm.

This winter, Li Cha is already preparing to distribute sweaters to the army on a large scale.

The territory set up a quilt factory six years ago. At that time, the quilt factory was just a tailoring factory, making clothes for the army and serfs.

Five years ago, Li Cha began to organize female slaves, began to weave cotton cloth, and accumulated textile technology.

In the beginning, the efficiency was very low, and the textile technology was insufficient.

After several years of accumulation, the skills of the female textile workers in the territory have improved a lot.

But using old-fashioned looms, the efficiency of weaving is far from enough.

The knowledge Li Cha learned in his previous life knows that the beginning of the industrial revolution lies in textile technology.

I vaguely remember the invention of the Jenny machine, which greatly improved the efficiency of spinning.

The invention of the Jenny machine is, to put it bluntly, a brain problem without any difficulty.

If science is regarded as an infinitely tall tree, technological achievements are the fruits on this tree.Some techniques are very difficult, and you may never be able to pick this fruit.Some are so low that you can pick them up by raising your hand.

The Jenny machine is a very low fruit. To put it bluntly, it is to arrange the spindles vertically, but to open up this brain hole, it requires very good luck and talent.

The apple fell on Newton's head, and Newton proposed the law of universal gravitation.Hitting it on the head of an ordinary person will only smash the head.

Although Li Cha knew about the Jenny machine, he was not clear about the structure of this machine.

Although he has learned historical knowledge such as the Industrial Revolution, the Jenny machine, and sheep cannibalism, he has never seen an old-fashioned textile machine.

The task of researching new textile machines can only be given to the artisans of the territory.

After four years of continuous improvement, craftsmen can only tinker with the original looms, basically making no progress.

Just when Li Cha became more and more disappointed and temporarily lost his attention to textile technology, good news came suddenly.

A carpenter named Scott accidentally kicked down the spinning wheel and found that the spinning machine was still spinning. He immediately opened up this brain hole in a flash of inspiration. He arranged several spindles vertically and drove them with a spinning wheel to achieve a certain effect. The child has increased several times.

Hearing that Scott had successfully manufactured a new type of spinning machine, Richard immediately granted him the status of a freeman, and appointed him as the director of the textile factory, responsible for managing the wool spinning and cotton spinning business.

There are more than [-] sheep in the Harland Territory, which can shear about [-] tons of wool every year.

It takes three kilograms of woolen cloth to make a woolen suit, which can cover more than 3 people's clothes.

With the expansion of sheep farming, the clothing of the territory will soon be self-sufficient, and in a few years it will even be able to sell woolen clothes outside.

Li Cha knew in his heart that cloth was a bulky material, and its importance in daily life was second only to food.

Many lords in the northern Xinjiang area did not grow cotton and had mastered textile technology, so they needed to buy cloth from the outside world.

As long as one of wool spinning and cotton spinning develops, it can bring a lot of income to the territory.

Harland's territory is a mountainous territory with a small area of ​​arable land, making it difficult to grow cotton on a large scale, so Richard can only increase investment in sheep breeding.

Because the price of mutton in the market is relatively expensive, the price of a live sheep of fifty or sixty catties often costs three or four silver coins.

To buy tens of thousands of sheep, you need to invest [-] gold coins in cash.

Li Cha doesn't have that much money, and now the dawn of wool spinning has appeared, so he can only stop slaughtering live sheep and increase the size of the flock.

As for how to solve the army's meat problem, we can only rely on raising pigs.

There is a pig farm in the Harland Territory, which has grown in size in recent years and has begun to put a lot of pork on the market.

Today's pig farms can produce thousands of adult pigs weighing more than 100 catties a year.

Although it is still a little insufficient to supply the pork from the pig farm to the army, the soldiers can only overcome it during this period of time.

As for contract slaves and freedmen, it will be difficult to eat officially sold meat within a year or two.

Because of the shortage of meat and the price is getting more and more expensive, many hot freemen brought bows and crossbows and chose to become part-time hunters.

Because of the thin tax policy formulated by Li Cha, hunting will not charge additional taxes.

However, there is a law in the territory that prohibits hunting cubs and pregnant female beasts. In addition, ordinary people cannot hunt magical beast cubs, insect-like magical creatures, or dig magical plants.

Relying on hundreds of hunters to hunt, barely maintained the meat supply in Harland's territory.

It's just that the price of meat this year has soared by about three times.

The freedmen with some spare money bought piglets and lambs from other territories and put them into the breeding industry, taking advantage of the soaring price of meat to earn an income.

(End of this chapter)