Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 408: Warming up in bed
At night, Perfecto had gone to bed.

Although she still stayed in an ordinary civilian house in the underground city and did not light a stove to keep warm, she did not feel very cold at night overall.

On the one hand, she covered herself with a thick enough quilt, which is also a common way for ordinary people to keep warm at night. As long as you cover yourself with two layers, it can basically play an effective role in keeping warm.

Although these quilts are not stuffed with cotton, but linen.

Although the cotton textile industry had already occupied a very important dominant position in the textile industry with the development of the Industrial Revolution during this period, in most cases cotton was still spun into cotton yarn and then woven into cotton cloth.

Cotton cloth can be processed into various textiles and also made into clothing for sale, but stuffing quilts with cotton wool to keep warm is not a popular practice in the Victoria Empire.

In fact, making a quilt is not a simple task. It is not just about stuffing cotton into the quilt.

The old world of this world, like the Europe of the original world before Perfectocte crossed over, is not suitable for growing cotton, which also leads to the fact that the old world countries of this world do not have the important skill of cotton fluffing.

They can only spin cotton into thread and then make it into cotton cloth like spinning wool, but they cannot process cotton into cotton wool for warmth.

European countries during this period were still using their traditional cashmere fabrics, and the same was true for this world. Most people used thick woolen clothes to keep warm in winter, but this was limited to the nobility.

Most ordinary people still use linen as their main clothing material. In winter, it is good enough to have a cashmere blanket or linen quilt to keep warm.

In the 18th century in the original world, most of the cotton cloth produced by the British was exported, and the main export destination was South America.

There is actually a very interesting story here. In the 17th century, cotton textiles had just become popular in Europe, but Europe did not produce cotton at that time, so cotton could almost be said to be highly dependent on imports.

At that time, the main places where Europe could import cotton were India and the New World of America. Indian cotton immediately became popular after entering Europe.

This was a cheap textile that was equivalent to linen in quality but only one-third of the price. Naturally, it quickly became popular among ordinary people.

However, the British government at that time eventually issued a decree prohibiting people from using cotton cloth for reasons such as protecting the local textile industry.

Because there was a clause in the decree at that time that "muslin, scarves, cotton and linen blended coarse cloth, and solid dark blue cotton cloth are not subject to this decree", the jeans made of cotton canvas later became dark blue, which is also a little joke in history.

In addition, cotton clothes during this period were mostly used as summer wear, which is why pure cotton clothes were considered pornographic. When they got wet, they were semi-transparent and would stick to the body!

Therefore, in this era, the technology of using cotton to keep warm was not pointed out.

If Perfect had realized this problem a few years before the disaster, he might have taught the world's textile factories how to make cotton wool, thereby creating things like cotton-padded jackets and quilts.

But now that we have reached this stage, with less than a year to go until the end of the world, it is meaningless to develop these technologies. A year is not enough for the textile factories to digest the technology, not to mention that in this last year, the Empire will move all the industrial capacity it can to the North. It is estimated that they will not have much time to produce cotton textiles.

What's more crucial is that with the coming of the end of the world, the main cotton producing areas will also fall into a cold winter, and it will be impossible to grow crops. Even if they are grown, they can no longer be transported by sea as in the past.

Therefore, the main raw materials of the textile industry in the future will transition from natural fibers to synthetic fibers. Perfect has ensured this through Wei'er's research results. Currently, clothes and other textiles made of synthetic fibers have been put on the shelves in the North, but they have not yet been fully popularized.

If he switched to textiles made of synthetic fibers, Perfecto felt that at least he wouldn't have to put a thermos in his bed to ensure that he wouldn't wake up from the cold at night.

This is also another important reason why Perfect didn't feel cold. She put a copper thermos in her bed.

This kind of thermos is actually just a container. Copper is used only to avoid dirtying the quilt. Ordinary people can also use cast iron, but the thermal conductivity of iron is not as good as copper.

It will be filled with hot water, and the heat released by the hot water will ensure that the cold can be kept out at night.

Putting such a thermos in your bed when you sleep at night can indeed help keep you warm and avoid waking up from the cold in the middle of the night.

Perfect suddenly remembered that she had this skill, so she rubbed a copper thermos according to her childhood memory and put it in the quilt so that she could sleep more comfortably at night.

As for hot water? Although the residents of Chernobog don't light stoves at night to save money, it doesn't mean they can't even afford hot water.

This also made Perfect think that maybe he could have some people process some thermoses and sell them cheaply so that these people could live more comfortably.

After all, if you don't want to light the stove and burn coal to keep warm, it should be okay to boil a pot of hot water, right?
Perfect still remembers that when she was a child, this was how her family kept warm in winter. When she woke up the next morning, the water in the thermos was still a little warm, and it was just right for washing her face and brushing her teeth.

However, when conditions improved, these were no longer used, and families began to use electric blankets, down quilts and the like to keep out the cold. Later, they even developed electric heaters, warm air air conditioners, and floor heating and other cold-keeping equipment, so it was difficult to feel cold in the winter.

The thoughts in her mind made Perfect sleep not very sound, especially since the temperature in the room was always relatively low. Although the quilt was warm, her head was exposed outside and she still felt cold. This also caused her to have some headaches and she tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

Fortunately, the dungeon was relatively quiet, so Perfect, who was used to a quiet sleeping environment, didn't feel it was too difficult.

However, just when Perfect was finally feeling sleepy and half asleep, he suddenly heard a scream: "There's a fire! Come and put it out!"

The scream broke the tranquility of the night and woke Perfect from his sleep.

(End of this chapter)