Chapter 1196 Brother Dingfang, the least complicated garment-making process is
Chapter 1196 Brother Dingfang, the least complicated garment-making process is white folding cloth (please subscribe and vote)
At first, large-mouth trousers were only used by soldiers marching and fighting, but later people were found wearing these trousers.
Work and life are far more convenient and decent than the original traditional clothes. This kind of pants gradually spread among the people.
As wealthy families, some of these pants are made of fox fur or mink animal skins, or they are wrapped in bird down with silk.
Many times poor people wear trousers made of burlap and filled with reed flowers to keep them warm.
But now, Li Shimin saw a pair of wide-mouthed pants that he had never seen before, with such a thin opening. No, they should be called thin-mouthed pants.
Cheng Chubi quickly unbuttoned all the buttons on Fang Jun's clothes.
Without waiting for Fang Jun to react, he directly pulled off the cotton-padded coat and handed it to Li Shimin flatteringly.
"Uncle, please feel it. Is it thick? Is it comfortable?"
Li Shimin looked at Fang Jun, who was shirtless and awkwardly covering his chest with his hands.
He glanced at Cheng Sanlang again and couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"Why do you just let him dress like this?"
Cheng Chubi turned around and saw Fang Jun's smug look on his face. He almost laughed out loud and explained with a dry cough.
"Uncle, not only is he like this, but His Highness and I are also like this.
After all, this thing is too hot. It would be weird to wear something inside in this weather, and it would be suffocating to death."
Li Shimin looked at this thick cotton coat carefully, and Cheng Chubi explained to him that it was stuffed with cotton.
Its warmth retention and convenience far exceed that of other fabrics.
Li Shimin raised his eyebrows, looked at Cheng Chubi and asked.
"Cotton...I just remembered. You tried growing cotton in Chang'an before, but the cotton has already been grown?"
"Yes, uncle, one acre of land can harvest about four to five hundred kilograms of seed cotton. After removing the seeds, there can be about one hundred and seventy kilograms of lint, which is cotton."
"One acre of land can yield 170 kilograms of cotton?" Li Shimin's expression couldn't help but change.
"Yes, my nephew planted more than 1,300 acres of cotton this year and harvested about 650,000 kilograms of seed cotton."
"..." Li Shimin stared blankly at Cheng Chubi, his eyes bright, as if he was looking at a good treasure.
Although Cheng Chubi had been prepared for it, at this moment, he faced Li Shimin's cannibalistic gaze.
I still felt my anus was tight, so I quickly tightened my legs and straightened my back.
Li Shimin caressed the cotton-padded coat made of white folded cloth and glanced at Cheng Chubi again.
"You are really talented. You actually grew cotton. Unfortunately, I heard that it would be very difficult to weave this cotton into cloth."
"Actually, it's not difficult at all." Li Ke suddenly said this from the side.
Li Shimin looked at Li Ke, and Li Ke quickly pointed at Cheng Chubi.
"Father, it's him, Brother Chu Bi, he has a way."
There was no other way. Faced with too much pressure on his biological father, Li Ke felt that it would be more appropriate for Brother Chu Bi to solve the problem.
"You...take off all your armor first..." Li Shimin said helplessly as he looked at these three young men with strange looks and sweating constantly because of the heat.
Over there, Zhao Kun was very discerning and had already opened the package, revealing a set of cotton-padded clothes made of white folded cloth inside.
Li Shimin walked over, thought for a while, and immediately gave the order, "Go to the Zuowei camp quickly and tell Chai Qing and Su Qing to come and see me."
Cheng Chubi and Li Ke also took this opportunity to quickly pull off their armor and wipe away the sweat.
He began to explain to Li Shimin, who was carefully looking at the set of hundred-fold cotton-padded clothes.
The cotton for the top is about one pound, and the pants are about one pound, which is exactly two pounds of cotton.
The reason why it is made to be more close-fitting is naturally to make it easier for the soldiers to wear it, without hindering them from wearing armor and allowing them to perform various movements flexibly.
In addition, there are also cotton gloves. Cheng Chubi also specially made two kinds of cotton gloves.
One is five-finger cotton gloves, which are thinner, and the other is palm-shaped cotton gloves.
This kind is much thicker, but the front half can be untied to expose your fingers and then put on easily after you complete the movement.
Just when Cheng Chubi was wearing gloves and proudly showing off his little cleverness.
Chai Shao and Su Dingfang finally arrived at the Dabao Hall together.
As soon as they entered the palace gate, they saw Cheng Sanlang, Li Ge, and Fang Jun, a trio of monsters wearing weird clothes, and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
"Your Majesty, I wonder why your Majesty's ministers and others are here?"
Li Shimin pointed at these three young people. "Go ahead and take a look at what they are wearing..."
"This...isn't this white cloth?" Chai Shao and Su Dingfang looked at each other.
"Could it be that the filling here is also cotton?"
Li Shimin nodded and then spoke.
"Cheng Sanlang just told me that he would donate cotton to the court for the court to weave and make winter clothes."
"Cheng Sanlang, are you kidding me? A piece of white folded cloth sells for several pieces in Chang'an, and it's no cheaper than silk."
"Furthermore, Su heard that the process of folding white cloth is very complicated..."
"Brother Dingfang, the least complicated garment-making process is white folding cloth." Cheng Chubi immediately became happy and raised his fingers.
He pointed at Li Ke, pointed at Fang Jun, then raised his thumb and poked his chest.
"These cotton-padded clothes are made from a certain kind of cotton. It only takes ten days to weave the cotton into cloth and then make it into cotton-padded clothes."
"Only ten days?!" Chai Shao and Su Dingfang both couldn't help but feel shocked. They subconsciously turned to look at Li Shimin.
Li Shimin nodded with a complicated expression.
"The Duke Lu's Mansion just sent cotton to Cheng Sanlang ten days ago, so it has been exactly ten days since today."
"How is this possible..." Chai Shao looked at the three people blankly, then his eyes turned and fell on the cotton coat on the table.
I took it into my hand and felt the thickness. I could feel that if I wore it on my body, it would definitely be much stronger than Mai.
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At the invitation of Cheng Chubi, Li Shimin and two military generals also rushed to Qingyou Pavilion.
Cheng Chubi quickly asked Cheng Fa and the others to carry out the cotton gin and spinning machine.
Someone brought the remaining seed cotton and then sat there to demonstrate it in person.
While demonstrating, he also used his rich broadcasting voice to narrate in a rhythmic tone.
"Cotton only needs to be processed by this gin, and the cotton seeds will fall off one after another, and you will get pure white cotton.
If you want to turn cotton into cloth, it couldn't be easier. First, turn it into hollow cotton slivers.
Then it is connected to the spindle and pulled into yarn by rotating the spinning machine..."
Under Cheng Chubi's demonstration, Li Shimin, Chai, and Su watched the seed cotton turn into cotton in the blink of an eye.
Then in a few blinks of an eye, the cotton turned into hollow slivers, which were then spun into threads...
Cheng Chubi was very satisfied that his hands were becoming more and more skillful. Although he was not as good as Zhiniang, at least it didn't break during the demonstration just now.
"Okay, now everyone please move to another exhibition... ahem, go to Zhi Niang's side..."