After hearing Li Tai's specific plan, Master Yuan gave up his thoughts.
In any case, as long as the King of Wei has a record here, he can just go back and inform Du Biejia. In this way, he has at least completed the matter, and Du Biejia will feel a lot more relaxed.
Because we have to wait for the peacock to come over and let the peacock connect the specific skills of wool weaving with Master Yuan.
So Li Tai and Yuan Keshi continued to chat. Li Tai asked about the development of the Hehuang Valley and Xihai County, and told Yuan Keshi that when he returned to the Hehuang Valley, he would bring the armor he had prepared for the Xuefu soldiers.
Yes, the Steel City began to be put into use last year. Blast furnaces and other things were also built, and sewage and other things were released first.
After all, the purpose of integrating the coal industry and ironmaking industry and making it a mixture of coal and steel has not changed.
For Li Tai, sewage is simply not a problem that can be solved in this era.
Therefore, it is impossible for me to delay the Steel City for sewage treatment, especially the steady advancement of blast furnace ironmaking technology.
As for how to deal with sewage waste, it is natural to leave room for sewage treatment, but there is no solution yet.
Nowadays, many sewage treatment tanks have been built for sedimentation, but the method of treating sewage still only involves filtering waste residue through filters, and then separating water sewage in sedimentation tanks, which are more physical methods.
The filtered waste residue and the metal in the sedimentation tank can eventually be recast through various methods.
Again, if the quantity of these items is below a certain level, there is no point in recycling them.
But when various metals can be re-refined and separated from the wastewater, the waste residue will be easy to deal with.
Compared with real things like waste residue, it is easy to say that the real difficulty is to treat sewage.
After all, Li Tai didn't know how many metal elements there were in this industrial wastewater.
As far as this era is concerned, it may not be more deadly than the water in the Indus River. As for the analysis of the metal chemical elements in it, it depends on Pan Shizheng, but no one knows when the results will be obtained.
As for Lu Cai, he didn't dare to directly cultivate any aquatic plants in the sewage.
Instead, the sewage is diluted to see if any flowers and plants can survive in such sewage.
Therefore, the sewage will at most pass through a filter layer composed of activated carbon and sediment, and let nature filter out some of the residue. Anyway, Li Tai has no shortage of activated carbon and sediment, so he will use up whatever he uses.
However, after this certain level of treatment, the pollution caused by discharge into Luoshui River can still be tolerated.
At least nature's self-purification ability will not allow this sewage to cause irreparable damage to Luoshui.
However, Li Tai also knows that there are still few blast furnaces in the Steel City now. When there are more blast furnaces in the future, the entire Luoshui river will not be able to bear it.
Therefore, we still need to continue to study this method of dealing with pollution, and let Pan Shizheng and Lu Cai continue to attack it.
With the industrial integration brought about by the mixture of coal and steel, after Li Tai provided sufficient steel materials and coal, the speed of armor forging also increased.
At the same time, Li Tai's steam engine also found a use at this time, which was to extract water from the Luo River and guide it into the required pools to prepare accordingly for the entire industry.
After all, the main function of steam engines in the past was to pump water, and now the effect of using this thing to pump water is the same.
The most important thing is that the working efficiency of this thing becomes stronger and stronger with the continuous burning of coal.
Although using water power was quite common for ancient people, the technology was also very mature.
However, the water flow in the stable section of Luoshui River is almost fixed, and no matter how much improvement is attempted, there is a limit.
Nowadays, there are steam engines to pump and deliver water, and you can even decide the direction of the water flow yourself, which brings great convenience to the ironmaking industry.
Even so, this steam engine is still quite backward, but it is very useful in a place like the Steel City where coal and steel are mixed.
The coal needed to start this thing and the steel needed for maintenance can all be easily obtained here.
After all, the low transportation costs brought by the Grand Canal make both iron ore and coal less valuable.
Not to mention, this steel city has concentrated almost all the master craftsmen in Li Tai's hands. Maybe one person's wisdom is not as good as Watt, but the combined strength of everyone can almost use the potential of this steam engine to the extreme.
Not to mention that the kinetic energy of the steam engine is not enough for these people, but they can always think of ways to improve its efficiency.
After all, after the steam engine converts the power of water vapor from thermal energy into mechanical energy, Li Tai doesn't know how to make it more efficient and use it more conveniently. He needs to let the craftsmen continue to improve and discover it themselves.
Only by combining it with practice can we produce more suitable steam equipment. There are so many master craftsmen here who can finally find a more suitable way to use it.
Of course, what Li Tai really hopes is that someone will emerge who can further improve the steam engine.
In terms of applying technology to convert steam engines from mechanical energy into other mechanical energy, Li Tai believed that the abilities of these master craftsmen would one day successfully improve the steam engine.
Of course, this must have been a long time ago. Now it is enough that the steam engine can pump water.
Li Tai and Yuan Keshi talked about preparing armors for the Xuefu soldiers. Similarly, Yuan Keshi also talked about how he met a prince from the Sassanid Kingdom on the way and came to Datang to bring reinforcements.
However, Yuan Keshi could also see that it was impossible for the Tang Dynasty to send soldiers thousands of miles away to rescue.
Firstly, it is not necessary, and secondly, how can we afford the losses on the road?
"Sasan..." Li Tai felt thoughtful when he heard the name of this country.
To be honest, Li Tai was very vague about many things during the Zhenguan period, let alone foreign countries.
The only thing I know is that the Tang Dynasty and the Dashi Dynasty later stood at both ends of the Eurasian continent.
As for the so-called Sassanids, it seems that they were slaughtered by the big food, until they were completely destroyed.
Later, when Datang and Dashi fought against each other, it seemed that they were in the original Sasanian territory. To a certain extent, it was considered a graveyard dance.
"What's the problem with Belus?" Master Yuan couldn't help but asked when he saw Li Tai thinking about this.
"There's nothing wrong with it!" Li Tai said with a smile, "I just didn't expect that there is a country in the West."
Li Tai did not struggle with this matter, because Li Tai knew that Datang could not intervene that far now.
Goguryeo in the northeast, East Turks in the northwest, and the prosperous Tubo, until these guys are solved, it is impossible for the Tang Dynasty to reach out so far. Even if Li Shimin wants to be afraid, he will give them advice.
While Li Tai was thinking, Peacock came over in a hurry. Seeing Li Tai just saluting, Li Tai asked her to sit down.
After the tea was served, Peacock took a sip of tea, calmed his breath, took out a scroll, handed it to Bai He, put it in Li Tai's hand and said,
"Your Majesty, why did you come to see me? This is the wool spinning technology treatment you asked for. I have brought it with me."
Li Tai nodded, and then said to Peacock, "How far has your wool spinning technology reached? Can you degrease and deodorize hair?
Now we need to establish a fur distribution center in the Hehuang Valley to process the raw materials for wool textiles?"
“I have never processed cashmere or sheepskin so I can’t guarantee it, but I have accumulated a lot of skills in processing duck down.
There are research directions, you just need to try different things slowly, and you should have results within a year at most!"
After hearing what Li Tai said, Peacock gave Li Tai a decisive guarantee.
After all, the biggest problem with animal hair is the treatment of oil. In order to deal with oil, Li Tai was responsible for the money and Peacock was responsible for research. In the end, many methods were studied.
I tried physical methods including immersion cleaning, roller brushing, chemical soap, quicklime, milk, petal water, and even tea water, and slowly found the most suitable materials to continuously remove grease.
Therefore, duck down in the first few years tends to smell after sweating during exercise, and down jackets tend to feel prickly when worn inside.
Especially after the emergence of cotton, the competitiveness of the duck down market has dropped even further.
However, although for Li Tai it was a left-hand fight against a right-hand fight, left and right fighting each other, it was not the same for the people below.
Moreover, Li Tai was more or less aware of the potential of the wool textile industry, so he did not stop investing in this area.
In recent years, the smell of duck down has basically disappeared, and the tail of the down has even been actively cut off to reduce the needle-pricking feeling that the down brings to the wearer.
So as time goes by, down jackets continue to circulate in the market.
Now we need to process the wool or cow hair. Peacock has never processed it before, but he dare not give Li Tai a guarantee.
After all, there are subtle differences between living things, but after all, degreasing technology has been developed, and the right direction is there.
One year of trying was enough to come up with a degreasing process for wool. This was Peacock's confidence in the craftsmanship of his own cloth.
"Yeah!" Li Tai nodded after hearing Peacock's words.
Suddenly Li Tai thought of something and said to Peacock, "How is the shuttle loom?"
"We have successfully produced one, and the weaving efficiency is indeed very fast, but there is still a long way to go before mass production."
Peacock said helplessly, "As you said, if mass production cannot be achieved, it doesn't make much sense."
"What's the problem?" Li Tai couldn't help but asked after hearing the reluctance in Peacock's tone.
To be honest, although a loom is quite complicated, strictly speaking, it consists of five steps: shedding, threading, beating, winding, and let-off.
Basically, all improvements in loom efficiency are slowly developed based on these five steps.
For example, the looms of the Han Dynasty used double pedals to solve the problem of opening, thereby improving efficiency.
The main problem with the flying shuttle is that after the entire process is completed, the wooden shuttle needs to be exchanged back and forth, and someone needs to cooperate.
However, with the emergence of the shuttle, one person can complete the weaving work, and can weave wider cloth than before, thereby improving efficiency.
And it is not a high-tech product. To put it simply, a shuttle with small wheels is installed inside the chute, and springs are installed at both ends of the chute, so that the shuttle can travel back and forth extremely quickly, thereby improving efficiency.
Li Tai's main problem now is to develop the highly elastic springs he needs and the round balls that can carry the shuttle.
After seven days of trying and scrapping countless parts, these Mo Lings finally built a flying shuttle loom by hand.
It can be said that Mo Ling completed this task perfectly, and the shuttle loom he wanted was just born.
"The shuttle loom needs to be mass-produced, so the spring on the shuttle and the balls that carry it are very important.
But Mo Ling said that the current steel mills cannot produce such tough steel, and polishing the iron beads into a round shape also requires a lot of manpower and time.
It’s easy to just make one for fun, but if you want to make it on a large scale, you have to slowly study the corresponding technology!”
Peacock said quite helplessly that although he found something good, he couldn't use it!
Li Tai heard Peacock's complaint, thought for a while and said:
"The matter of springs can only make Mo Ling slowly and continuously try out steel materials suitable for making springs. There is nothing I can do about it.
However, Mo Lingxian could be asked to standardize every component of the shuttle loom.
Especially when changing the shuttle, leave enough gaps to facilitate the maintenance and replacement of the loom."
"What about the iron beads?" Peacock's eyes lit up when he heard Li Tai's words, and he couldn't help asking.
Li Tai explained to Peacock: "Slow down, wait for suitable steel grinding tools, and save money slowly.
If you want to be faster, let Mo Ling create a rough embryo, take it back and polish it with a grindstone, and you can eventually polish it into something that can be used on it!"
To be honest, for Li Tai, what he wanted was not the steel balls on the bearings needed for the maglev train.
But they are just used as balls on the flying shuttle spinning machine. All you need to do is have a suitable rough embryo and prepare the polishing tools, and let the textile workers polish the balls themselves.
It’s not that the shuttle cannot run, it’s enough that these balls can reduce the friction of the shuttle’s movement.
After all, in the final analysis, the most difficult thing for me in this process is to find a suitable material for springs and how to create a grinding tool that can mass-produce springs.
As for the ball bearings, if they can be replaced by human power, then use human power.
At this moment, Peacock was relieved that his technique had been solved.
No matter what, as long as the problems of steel and grinding tools are solved, the flying shuttle spinning machine will theoretically be beckoning towards you.
Li Tai said to Peacock, "The area west of the Hehuang Valley where Yuan Keshi is located needs to establish a wool textile distribution center.
Whether it is spinning or weaving there, you will need the help of your men. When he goes to the Hehuang Valley, you need to bring him a whole piece of spinning yarn to the weaving industry chain. This matter will be difficult.
It’s all up to you to handle it!”
"No!" Peacock nodded after hearing Li Tai's words, then looked at Yuan Keshi and said,
"Please ask Yuan Langjun to wait for a while. It is best to wait until the steel city where Mo Ling and others are located can find excellent steel to solve the material problem on the shuttle loom. The loom brought there will definitely be the best.
technology!"
"Please rest assured, Lady Peacock, I will participate in the Game of Luoyang and will not return to Shanzhou until the Game of Luoyang is over!" Yuan Keshi said to Peacock respectfully.