Chapter 1189 This is nothing, this king once talked to a weaver
Chapter 1189 This is nothing. I once had a relationship with a weaver girl... (please subscribe and vote)
Li Ke was a little unhappy, Cheng Chubi slapped Li Ke on the shoulder again,
"Of course you, brother Xian, are indispensable. Besides, brother Yu, I also have a plan. When the time comes, the three of us will go into battle and appear in front of your father. Tsk tsk..."
Li Ke, who was so happy just now, turned a little dark. "Brother Chu Bi, please don't make trouble again. My father has a bad temper these days."
"I know, I know, it's because your father has a bad temper, so I just want to make him laugh."
"As soon as I saw the warriors of the Tang Dynasty, before they went out to fight.
Even if we have winter clothes that are strong, durable, and can keep you warm, do you think your father will still be crying?"
Listening to Brother Bi's arrogant and arrogant dialect, Li Ke and Fang Jun nodded in agreement.
They were all a little impatient.
That night, Cheng Chubi began to draw a machine for removing seeds. Anyone who has seen this thing will find it very simple.
Cheng Chubi once visited a museum that he visited when he was in college and admired seed-threshing machines from various periods in history, also called manual cotton gins.
That is, it is made of a few metal sticks and some wooden structures.
However, considering that I am now making samples, I decided to build an all-wooden machine.
Just make a few metal parts in the transmission area.
Moreover, it uses a foot-operated transmission method, which is more conducive to freeing the hard-working hands of working people.
There was also a spinning machine. After all, Cheng Chubi didn’t know how to spin hemp thread.
But at least he knew the shape of the spinning machine that matched the cotton gin, and he also made a spinning machine with a simpler craftsmanship.
As for the Jenny Spinning Machine, Cheng Chubi had seen the drawings but not the real thing. This kind of more advanced machinery would be built again in the future if there was a chance.
What Cheng Chubi needs now is to produce cotton cloth as soon as possible, rather than making mechanical inventions.
After Cheng Chubi drew up the design drawing, he took Li Ke, a high-quality royal tool maker, with him early the next morning to Jiucheng Palace, a place specializing in machinery and repairing things.
Neither Craftsman Hu nor other craftsmen were surprised that Cheng Taichang, who frequently appeared here, showed up again.
One would just think that he had been ordered to make parasols again, and when Cheng Chubi took out the drawings, he babbled for a long time.
Naturally, a craftsman would not dare to neglect. After all, no one could be sure whether the novel machine that Mrs. Cheng came to tinker with might have been ordered by His Majesty.
The structure is very simple, and a group of craftsmen work together to make it work together.
The drawings were sent over very early in the morning, and by the afternoon, the machinery over there had been completed.
After all, it is a wooden structure, and many of the materials are readily available. It was easy for Cheng Chubi to lift up about half a person.
There is a pedal at the bottom of the side. As long as the pedal is stepped on, the machine will rotate, and there is a small gap between the two embossed wooden sticks.
This thing was placed in Qingyou Pavilion. Cheng Chubi sat on a pony with a large box of cotton next to it.
In front of the cotton gin, a huge piece of linen cloth has been laid out to facilitate the collection of deseed cotton.
Cheng Chubi's big feet began to step on the pedal, and then the small but very stable machine began to rotate.
Cheng Chubi picked up two cotton blossoms and plugged them into the gap...
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The cotton passed easily, but the cotton seeds were blocked behind and fell helplessly into a bamboo basket under the gin.
Li Ke and others looked at the tall and heroic Cheng Sanlang in amazement, sitting on the pony with a serious face, stepping on the cotton gin.
I repeatedly stuffed the cotton in, and the cotton passed through easily, but the cotton seeds fell into the basket in despair.
The process is so simple, just roll the seed cotton and turn it into cotton easily.
Today is a day off. Fang Jun, who was expecting to see something big, watched for a long time and couldn't help but complain.
"That's it?"
Cheng Chubi glared at the guy unhappily. "Otherwise, this step is the most tedious and labor-intensive part of cotton production."
Li Ke, who knew everything about His Highness King Wu's emotions, seemed much more cautious.
"Brother Jun, please don't underestimate me. If you really follow what Brother Chu Bi said, you can spin yarn into thread by taking cotton seeds."
"The process of making this kind of fabric can be said to be the simplest among all the cloths we use."
"Do you know where linen comes from? If you want linen to become linen, you not only have to soak it, wash it, bleach it, but you also need to thread it."
After hearing this, Fang Jun couldn't help but look at Li Ke with a sincere expression.
"Brother De, you know so much."
Having said this, Li Ke raised his head, his eyes far away and his expression gentle.
"Haha, this is nothing. Brother Yu once had a weaver girl..."
Cheng Chubi stopped the cotton gin instantly, Fang Junzhi's ears froze, and all eyes were focused on the face of the King of Wu.
Even though Li Ke was thick-skinned, now he felt like his face was about to be burned into countless holes by these guys.
"Ahem, I was chatting with a weaver about the hardships of making linen..."
"Really?" Cheng Chubi's face was full of disbelief. It must be the sage's time to allow this guy to talk about serious topics with the opposite sex.
"Brother Chu Bi, can you please stop interrupting my train of thought?" Li Ke felt that he was deeply insulted by Brother Chu Bi's gaze again.
"Chengchengcheng, you said you said..."
“From harvesting hemp, to soaking hemp, washing hemp, bleaching hemp, and finally soaking hemp.
It takes about a month or two to get enough twine to weave a piece of linen cloth."
"It took so long?" Cheng Chubi couldn't help but say in surprise, but he really didn't expect it.
But I finally realized why cotton fabrics were so popular in later generations, while linen fabrics were relatively rare.
I think it has a lot to do with the cumbersome process.
"This is natural. Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to endure the hardship and fall into the trap of... um... Brother Chu Bi, let's talk about cotton."
Cheng Chubi shrugged his shoulders happily. Damn it, as expected, this guy is definitely a sage. He took the time to chat with the young lady about his life ideals and gained a wealth of knowledge.
Li Keshen frowned, but luckily no one in the gang dared to laugh at a dignified prince in front of him like Cheng Sanlang did.
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Empress Changsun couldn't help but feel happy as she watched Li Mingda happily eating the ice cream cone in front of her.
"Eat slowly. Eating this food too quickly is not good for your stomach."
"Okay mother..." Li Mingda nodded obediently, took a small sip, and continued to attack the ice cream cone in his hand.
"It's so delicious, mother. I want to treat Third Brother and Third Brother Cheng to some ice cream, okay?"