Lord Harland.

Lord Harland Text Volume Chapter 190 Textile Technology After capturing the flame spider, Richard had people search carefully in the spider nest and take away all the spider eggs.

After catching 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 again from the territory.

The task assigned by Richard to develop a new textile machine was finally successful.

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

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 Glorious Empire to the Grant Kingdom. The transportation route was more than 20,000 kilometers long, causing silk to become an expensive luxury product.

A piece of silk clothing costs more than eight gold coins in Nolan, and the price of silk in Geda 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, there is an unspoken rule in Grant Kingdom that those who wear silk clothes are nobles.

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

The area near the Kingdom of Grant and the Kingdom of Delon also grows cotton and spins 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 the territory captured many goat-like people and raised a large number of sheep, Richard planned to use wool to spin wool threads and make sweaters, felts, and woolen cloths.

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

The material selection and washing process are no longer difficult. Using lime water solution can wash the fat of wool very cleanly.

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.

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

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 textile machines, the efficiency of spinning is far from enough.

From the knowledge he learned in his previous life, Richard knew that the beginning of the industrial revolution lay 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 matter of imagination, 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-level fruit. To put it bluntly, it means arranging the spindles vertically. However, to open up this idea, you need 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 had learned about the Industrial Revolution, the Jenny Machine, sheep eating people and other historical knowledge, he had 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 as Richard became more and more disappointed and temporarily lost 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 spinning. He immediately opened up this idea and arranged several spindles vertically and drove them with a spinning wheel. It worked. The price has increased several times.

After hearing that Scott had successfully manufactured a new spinning machine, Richard immediately granted him the status of a free citizen and appointed him as the director of the textile factory, responsible for managing the wool spinning and cotton spinning businesses.

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

It takes three kilograms of woolen cloth to make a suit of wool clothing, which can clothe more than 30,000 people.

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

Richard knew in his heart that cloth was a bulk material and its importance in daily life was second only to food.

Many lords in the northern Xinjiang region did not grow cotton. They had mastered textile technology and needed to purchase 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 purchase tens of thousands of sheep, you need to invest 10,000 gold coins in cash.

Richard didn't have that much money, and now that wool textiles had shown promise, he could only stop slaughtering live sheep and increase the size of the sheep flock.

As for how to solve the army's meat problem, the only solution is to raise 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 kilograms 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 indentured servants and freedmen, it would be difficult for them to eat officially sold meat within a year or two.

Because of the shortage of meat and its price becoming more and more expensive, many hot freedmen brought their 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.