Chapter 673: There Are Tools for Washing Clothes

Li Longji looked at Li Yi in confusion, thinking, I asked you where to find people to farm, and you recommended someone to me?

"Third brother, to open terraces, livestock must be involved. When the water network is built and the river flows, water transportation will increase, and cattle and horses will be sent to plow the fields."

Li Yi returned to the matter that Li Longji asked.

There are cattle and horses rented out in the manor to pull carts. When the water network is laid, the cattle and horses will be rented out again in winter.

In the spring, summer and autumn seasons, as long as there is enough water in the water network, the cattle and horses will be idle.

"We still need a lot of plows and harrows." Li Longji knows farming.

"Drill wells on the mountain to get water, and the water flows down. Mountains without water must be barren mountains, with stones and some weeds, and there is no need to open terraces."

Li Yi introduced the future terrace arrangement, not to open a large terrace when he saw a mountain.

In fact, there was no barren mountain in the place he bought, only a small hill that was not suitable for terraces, so he flattened it.

"Can terraces be planted with wheat?" Li Longji thought it would be easier to manage if wheat was planted.

"Grow rice. This year, the Jiangnan Road harvested a large amount of seeds. In addition to supplying Henan Road, I want to try to grow them on terraces to see if we can have two seasons a year."

Li Yi pointed to the direction of Jiangnan, that is, Fujian.

Champa rice was first planted in Fujian in history, and then promoted. After mutation, hundreds of Champa rice varieties were developed.

The rice planted in the village now is ancient rice, with low yield and good taste. Those varieties were spread to Japan and Korea, and there were later varieties when Li Yi was there.

The Northeast rice he was eating later was not delicious, and the taste was getting worse and worse.

If these two kinds of rice are planted together, they are just in the flowering period, and it is estimated that new varieties will appear.

As for what the new variety is, God knows.

Li Longji was relieved and did not stay in Li's village. He turned around and went back to Xingqing Palace.

Li Yi was bored and didn't want to sleep. He was walking with his hands behind his back, and he heard the sound of water.

He walked over to the sound and saw a group of women in the village washing clothes by the small river in the village.

What they were washing now were silk clothes, using the method of washing, applying soap, rubbing, and floating in the water.

Linen clothes need to be beaten with a stick to beat out the dirt in the fibers.

Cotton clothes, of course, are washed on a washboard.

Washboards are not suitable for rubbing linen, which hurts the hands too much, and silk cannot be rubbed either, which is not good for silk.

The farmers in the village are very hardworking. Now they have finished washing and hung them up to dry before noon tomorrow.

Silk is the easiest to wash, and it cannot retain water.

"Boss, boss is here." A woman found the shadow under the light.

A group of women greeted and turned around to continue washing.

"It's too tiring. How can you wash clothes like this? I, the boss, am ashamed." Li Yi threw down a sentence and turned and ran away.

Back in the courtyard study, he began to draw.

After drawing, he ran to the workshop, found the person on duty, and handed it over: "Make it first, a total of three kinds."

The sun rose the next day, and Li Yi got up late. He took a bath first and asked the palace maids and eunuchs: "Have you eaten?"

"Wait for the boss to eat together." Taohong replied.

"Push the dining cart, let's go to the river to eat."

Li Yi has said several times that you don't have to wait for him. The palace maids and eunuchs will wait except for those who are hungry on duty at night.

Nine people brought the dining cart to the river where they washed clothes. The waterwheel on the river was connected to a wooden barrel.

A rod connected to the lid can be lifted at any time. It rotates and has a hexagonal buckle.

When it is pressed down, the buckle will be stuck on a buckle on the wooden barrel lid after a few turns, driving the rod on the wooden barrel lid to rotate together.

The person washing clothes looks at the barrel, and when it is almost turned, he lifts the rod and presses the other rod, and the direction of rotation is reversed.

Li Yi looked at it and said: "In fact, you can add a clutch, then switch the track, replace the positive belt with an eight-shaped belt, and operate it manually twice, which is safer and faster than the current one."

One pulley drives another wheel, and the two wheels rotate in the same direction under the connection of a belt.

If the belt is in an eight-shaped shape, the two wheels rotate in opposite directions.

As long as a clutch device is added, the two groups are switched back and forth, and the rotation direction of the washing machine will change accordingly.

This is the washing machine made by Li Yi, which is driven by water.

The other one is hand-cranked, and the third one is pedal-operated.

The manual washing machine at the beginning was like this. Later, steam engines were introduced and used instead.

"Boss, the night shift said you came and ran away. I didn't expect you to find a solution. Boss, you are the best."

The laundry workers who changed shifts during the day were full of admiration. Today they used a hydraulic washing machine, which was fast and labor-saving.

"It should have been thought of earlier. The hand-cranked and pedal-operated ones can be sold. The seal does not need to be too tight, and there is no need to worry about water leakage.

As long as the speed of shaking and pedaling is controlled, the damage to silk clothes will be small."

Seeing that there were no problems in the actual operation, Li Yi was satisfied and stayed here to eat.

The farmers who had nothing to do heard about it and ran over to watch the magical things.

The washing machine does not have much technical content. According to the current use of various machines in the farm, the washing machine is nothing more than a use.

In the afternoon, Li's farm was connected to a large number of barrels by the Bashui River.

People in the freelancer community took out their own clothes and lined up to be washed.

The notice board at the bridgehead had the design drawings and principle descriptions of three washing machines posted on it.

The actual hand-cranked and foot-operated ones were placed next to them for people to try.

The Yulin Flying Cavalry asked for a set of drawings and two actual machines and ran to the palace.

"Your Majesty, Dongzhu Li has come out with something new, good stuff for laundry." Yu Lin Fei rode outside Xingqing Hall and shouted.

After a while, people nearby came to watch.

The two palace maids shook and stepped on the washing machine, and the washing machine started spinning rapidly.

The person who is shaking shakes it a few times and shakes it in another direction, and the one who steps on it does the same.

"It's hard to shake, but I only wash a few pieces of laundry, so it works well."

Yao Chong arrived, and he was not surprised at all when Li Yixin brought out something.

What he was afraid of was that Li Yi had been silent for a long time and occasionally threw out a small convenient thing, which was good.

Zhang said he took over it himself and tried it: "It's really good. If you make one for people who wash clothes, they will make more money."

Bi Gou looked at it carefully: "It's not technically difficult. It's not a luxury. People with good hands can do it themselves."

Regretful, he was happy again.

"Our household department has repaired the water network this year. Wouldn't it be possible to put many small waterwheels on the river in the water network, and they can thresh grains, UU reading www.uukanshu.net and shell them. If they are replaced by buckets, they can be used as washing machines."

"Old Bi, please save some face." Song Jing couldn't stand it anymore. He was such a serious person, and now he had learned Li Yi's speaking style.

"Who are you calling shameless? The Ministry of Household Affairs will be responsible for water network maintenance in the future." Bi Gou glared.

"Didn't your household department make any money from the ship cooperation?" Lu Huaishen asked Bi Gou.

"Why do you always target me?" Bi Gou turned his head.

"We can arrange it in the Yeting Palace." Li Longji thought of a place. The Yeting Palace was busy with work, especially washing clothes.

Many people start working as soon as they get up early in the morning and work until dark without even having a bite to eat.

The longer the day, the longer it takes to work.

Li Longji also knew that people who made a living by washing clothes outside the palace would make more money with this item, especially when it was difficult to do laundry in winter.

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