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Yan Kai could swear that he got these equipments just because of his phobia of lack of firepower, and he definitely had no intention of causing trouble.

So after handing the things to the craftsman, he felt relaxed again.

I am an anchor, so I still have to work on my own career.

Today he focused his camera on the dustpans in the backyard of the county government office.

"What is this anchor thing? Are they white eggs?"

"It looks familiar, but I can't remember it!"

The people in the live broadcast room looked at what was in the camera and asked curiously.

"This is a cocoon."

"What? Does a silkworm cocoon look like this?"

Very few people nowadays have seen silkworm cocoons, so they are very curious about this.

"So this white ball can also be understood as silk?"

"Are there any cocoons this season?"

Yan Kai smiled and introduced: "This is a spring silkworm. It spins cocoons in April. It takes about 26 days for this one in my house to spin."

"This can basically be said to be silk. When the time comes, it can be reeled as long as it is boiled."

"What? Still cooking?"

Some netizens in the live broadcast room said they did not understand.

"Haha, you see these in the dustpan, they are all dried in the sun to prevent mildew and moths."

"Then you need to use hot water to soften them before reeling them."

Yan Kai also did his homework in advance. Seeing how interested everyone was, he said directly:

"How about I show you silk reeling today? If you want to see it, click 1 on the public screen!"

Naturally, there is a group of 1 deductions below.

Yan Kai found Sister Axiu and asked, "Sister, can you reel the silk today?"

"Okay!" Axiu Tiantian smiled and asked Yan Kai to help carry out a strange machine from the room.

He also called Yankai’s sister-in-law to come over and help.

"Is this a silk reeling machine?" Yan Kai asked knowingly.

"Well, yes!" Axiu pointed to the machine and introduced it, then took Yan Kai to boil the cocoons in hot water before starting to reel the silk.

"I gained some insight again. It turns out that this was how silk was made in the past."

"How long does it take to make a piece of silk when you make silk like this?"

Yan Kai picked up a silkworm cocoon and walked to the side and asked with a smile: "Guess how much silk can be extracted from such a silkworm cocoon. The first one with the correct answer will receive a red envelope!"

"Fifty meters!"

"Two hundred meters!"

"One hundred and twenty meters!"

In this case, it would definitely be too slow to search, so everyone quickly put their guesses on the public screen.

At this time, Yan Kai saw a netizen hit the one-kilometer mark and said directly: "Congratulations to Tongzhou Zha Zhahui, you got the answer right!"

Everyone looked through the barrage messages one after another.

"What? A kilometer? So long?"

"Isn't it possible? I see that the prenatal check-up is only as big as my thumb!"

At this time, some netizens who had already searched for it posted a barrage saying:

"It's true, I just checked and found that the cocoon of spring silkworm is 900-1500 meters!"

"It's amazing, such a small cocoon can actually have such long silk!"

"I finally understand why silk was so expensive in ancient times!"

“Modern silk is actually not cheap either.”

Yan gave an 88.8 red envelope to Tongzhou Zha Zhahui, and then watched Sister Axiu and Niang reeling, and felt that something was wrong.

This is not the first time that the two of them have cooperated. Sister Yan throws a cocoon to add thread, and Sister Axiu shakes the silkworm.

The silk reel was the big reel on the silk reeling machine. As Sister Axiu kept shaking it, the silk that Sister Yan took over was wrapped around it.

Finally, Yan Kai discovered something was wrong.

This reeling machine actually requires two people to use it. Sister Axiu's hand-operated reel is the same as the big wheel on the sewing machine that I used to see.

The sewing machine's wheel can be rotated by the pedal, why can't this reeling machine's wheel be rotated?

If the silkworm is rotated by a pedal, wouldn't there be one less person?

This may be the difference in modern people's thinking.

The kind of silk reeling machine Yan Kai was thinking about happened to be the foot-operated silk reeling machine that only appeared in the Song Dynasty.

Of course, when Yan Kai thought of this, he didn't need to study and improve it himself, so he went directly to the live broadcast room for help.

"Family members, does anyone have the drawings of a foot-operated reeling machine?"

As soon as Yan Kai finished speaking, the netizens in the live broadcast room became excited.

"Here it comes, here it comes, here comes the work!"

"Quick, quick, take action, give us the drawings for the anchor!"

To be honest, Yan Kai’s live broadcast room is really unique.

When Yan Kai wants to make something, it's like an open tender, and everyone on the netizens can bid.

Winning bidders can also receive thousands of yuan in red envelopes each time.

This unique experience is not found in other live broadcast rooms.

Soon a drawing of a seated pedal reeling machine from the Ming Dynasty was sent to Yan Kai’s fan group.

"Okay! I'll give you a red envelope after you make it!"

This kind of reeling machine is much more complicated. Yan Kai definitely couldn't make it today. After finishing the live broadcast of the hand-crank reeling machine, he found the craftsman in the county government office.

"How's it going?"

Of course Yan Kai was asking about the crossbow machines.

"Sir, now we all work according to your assembly line. Each person is responsible for a part of the parts and then assembles them. We can build several units in a day."

At first, Yan Kai was worried about such a complicated thing. Each of them made a part. What if it didn’t fit together in the final assembly?

After all, many parts in the crossbow are relatively precise.

But these craftsmen perfectly explained to Yan Kai what it means that my eyes are rulers.

Except for the first crossbow, which has some problems during assembly, almost all the subsequent ones can be assembled at will.

Another advantage of the crossbow machine made by this kind of assembly line is that once a certain part of a crossbow machine breaks, it can be immediately replaced with another one.

"It's just that we don't have much wood." A craftsman reminded.

I brought a lot of wood with me this time, intending to make furniture or something in my new home here.

As a result, the backyard of the county government office, which was a latecomer, was not very big and could not use so much furniture. In addition, the people of the Yan family were not that particular.

All the wood was left, otherwise Yan Kai would not be able to find so many good materials to make a crossbow machine.

"It's okay. I'll ask Zhixun to go to Dengzhou to buy some more ingredients later."

After Yan Kai finished speaking, he took out the blueprint of the foot-operated silk reeling machine and gave it to them: "If we don't have the materials to make the crossbow machine, we will slow down and see how many of this type of silk reeling machine we can make."

The person who provided the drawings in the live broadcast room just now said that according to the data, this kind of reeling machine is several times more efficient than the current hand-operated reeling machine.

Now there are almost dozens of crossbows, so we will give them to Chun Yuzhen and the others for use first, and wait until they have the materials.

This kind of reeling machine does not have such high requirements for materials.

Several craftsmen looked at Yan Kai's drawings, and their expressions changed drastically after he explained it again.

Although they are craftsmen, their family also reels silk.

After looking at Yan Kai's machine, I found that just changing the hand-crank type used by two people to the foot-operated type at least doubled the efficiency.

Now if anyone tells them that Yan Kai is not the reincarnation of Lu Ban, they will be in a hurry!

As for why Yan Kai doesn’t start making things by himself?

That's because the ancestor is giving these craftsmen a chance!