Chapter 191 Textile Technology

After capturing the flame spider, Richard had people search carefully in the spider nest and take away all the spider eggs.

After the spider queen was captured, these spider eggs could hatch flame spiders.

After collecting the spider eggs, Richard sent people to dig some nearby plants and prepare to find some mice for experiments to see if there are any plants that can detoxify the flame spider?

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, magicians may not be needed, and ordinary people can raise flame spiders.

After entering the new nest, the flame spider queen was very frightened. It took more than ten days before she slowly adapted to the environment.

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

The task of developing a new textile machine arranged by Richard was finally successful.

The textile machines in the Dawn Plane are all old-fashioned textile machines with very low efficiency.

There is no silkworm breeding technology in this area of ​​the Grant Kingdom. Among the three continents discovered in the Dawn Plane, only some areas on the west coast of the Holy Glorious Empire can produce silk.

Silk was transported from the Holy Glorious Empire to the Kingdom of Grant, and the transportation route was more than 20,000 kilometers, making silk an expensive luxury.

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

As the nobles competed with each other, a piece of silk clothing often cost more than ten gold coins, which was about 20 to 30 percent more expensive than the capital.

Generally speaking, there is an unspoken rule in the Kingdom of Grant that those who wear silk clothes are nobles.

In the northern region, the most common cloth is linen and cotton.

In the area close to the Kingdom of Delong, the Kingdom of Grant also grows cotton and weaves cotton cloth.

In recent decades, some provinces in the northern border region have also grown cold-resistant cotton, and a lot of cotton cloth has appeared on the market.

Because the territory has captured many sheep-bodied people and raised a large number of sheep, Richard plans to use wool to weave wool yarn and make sweaters, felt, and woolen cloth.

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

The selection of materials and washing processes are no longer difficult, and the use of lime water solution can wash the fat of wool very cleanly.

After the large-scale production of steel in the Harland Territory, it has become possible to manufacture slender steel combs, and combing wool has become much easier.

Using the old-fashioned spinning wheel, wool can be spun into wool yarn.

Although the finished product is still relatively rough and not as fine as cotton cloth. But the sweater woven with wool yarn has a very good warming effect.

This winter, Richard is ready to distribute sweaters to the army on a large scale.

The territory established a bedding factory six years ago. At that time, the bedding factory was just a cutting factory that made clothes for the army and serfs.

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

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

After several years of accumulation, the technology of the territory's textile workers has improved a lot.

However, the efficiency of weaving is far from enough using the old-fashioned textile machine.

Richard learned from the knowledge in his previous life 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 simply a brain hole problem, without any difficulty.

If science is regarded as an infinitely tall tree, technological achievements are the fruits on this tree. Some technologies are very difficult and may never be picked. Some are very low and can be picked 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 this brain hole, you need very good luck and talent.

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

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

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

The task of researching new textile machines can only be handed over to the craftsmen of the territory.

After four years of continuous improvement, the craftsmen could only repair and patch up the original textile machines, and basically there was no progress.

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

A carpenter named Scott accidentally kicked over the spinning wheel and found that the spinning machine was still turning. He immediately opened up this idea and arranged several spindles vertically and used a spinning wheel to drive them. The efficiency was increased several times at once.

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

There are now more than 100,000 sheep in the Harland territory, and about 100 tons of wool can be sheared every year.

It takes three kilograms of woolen cloth to make a woolen suit, which can solve the problem of clothes for more than 30,000 people.

With the expansion of sheep breeding, the territory's clothes will soon be self-sufficient, and in a few years, woolen clothes can even be sold to the outside world.

Richard knew that cloth was a bulk commodity, and its importance in daily life was second only to food.

Many lords in the northern border area did not grow cotton and master textile technology, so they needed to buy cloth from outside.

As long as either wool textile or cotton textile developed, it would bring a lot of income to the territory.

The Harland Territory is a mountainous territory with very little 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 is relatively high in the market, a live sheep weighing 50 to 60 kilograms often costs three or four silver coins.

To buy tens of thousands of sheep, you need to invest 10,000 gold coins in cash.

Richard doesn't have that much money. Now that wool textiles have seen a glimmer of hope, he can only stop slaughtering live sheep and increase the size of the flock.

As for how to solve the problem of meat for the army, it can only rely on raising pigs.

There is a pig farm in the Harland territory. In recent years, the scale has been increasing and a lot of pork has been put on the market.

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

Although there is still a slight shortage of pork from the pig farm to supply the army, the soldiers can only overcome it during this period.

As for contract slaves and freemen, it will be difficult to eat meat sold by the government within one or two years.

Because of the shortage of meat and the increasing price, many freemen have chosen to become part-time hunters with bows and crossbows.

Because of the low tax policy formulated by Richard, hunting will not charge additional taxes.

However, the territory has laws that prohibit hunting young animals and pregnant mothers. In addition, ordinary people cannot hunt monster cubs, insect-like magical creatures, or dig magical plants.

Relying on hundreds of hunters to hunt, the meat supply in Harland Territory was barely maintained.

However, the price of meat this year has skyrocketed by about three times.

Some free people with extra money bought piglets and lambs from other territories and invested in the breeding industry, taking advantage of the skyrocketing meat prices to make a profit.