After capturing the flame spider, Richard asked people to search carefully in the spider's nest and take away all the spider eggs.
Once you catch the Spider Queen, these spider eggs can hatch into flame spiders.
After collecting spider eggs, Richard sent people to dig up some nearby plants and prepared to find some mice for experiments to see if there were any plants that could detoxify the flame spiders.
Generally speaking, some detoxifying plants often grow near the nests of highly toxic creatures.
If detoxifying plants can be found, the threat from flame spiders to humans will be much reduced.
At that time, there may be no need for magicians, ordinary people can raise flame spiders.
After entering the new nest, the Flame Spider Queen was very frightened and waited for more than ten days before she slowly adapted 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 sericulture technology in the Grant Kingdom. Among the three continents discovered in the Dawn Plane, only some areas on the west coast of the Holy Radiance Empire can produce silk.
Silk was transported from the Holy Glorious Empire to the Kingdom of Grant. 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.
The nobles compare with each other, and a piece of silk clothing often costs more than ten gold coins, which is about 20 to 30% more expensive than in the royal 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 a lot of cotton cloth has appeared on the market.
Because many goat-like people were captured in the territory and a large number of sheep were raised, Richard planned to use wool, spin wool thread, and make sweaters, felts, and woolen cloths.
The technology of textile wool thread has been studied for three or four years, and the technology has become very mature.
There is no difficulty in selecting materials and washing process. Using lime water solution can wash the fat of wool very cleanly.
After the large-scale production of steel in the Harland territory, it was possible to make slender steel combs, and carding wool became much easier.
Using an old-fashioned spinning wheel, wool can be spun into wool.
Although the finished product is still relatively rough and not as fine as cotton, sweaters knitted with wool have a very good thermal insulation effect.
This winter, Richard is preparing to distribute sweaters to the army on a large scale.
The territory established a quilt factory six years ago. At that time, the quilt factory was just a cutting factory, making clothes for the army and serfs.
Five years ago, Richard began to organize female slaves, began to weave cotton, and accumulated textile technology.
At 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.
However, the efficiency of using old-fashioned textile machines 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, just a matter of imagination, without any difficulty.
If you think of science as an infinitely tall tree, technological achievements are the fruits on this tree. Some technologies are very difficult and you may never be able to pick the fruits. Some are very low and you can just raise your hand.
Pick up.
The Jenny machine is a very low fruit. To put it bluntly, it means arranging the yarn spindles vertically. However, to open up this idea, you need very good luck and talent.
An apple dropped on Newton's head, and Newton proposed the law of universal gravitation. If it dropped an apple on an ordinary person's head, it would only break his head.
Although Richard knew about the Jenny machine, he did not know the structure of this machine.
Although he had learned about the industrial revolution, Jenny machines, 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 left to the craftsmen of the territory.
After four years of continuous improvement, craftsmen could only tinker with the original textile machines, 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 type of 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 business.
There are now more than 100,000 sheep in the Harland territory, which 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 breeding, 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 and had mastered textile technology, so they needed to purchase cloth from the outside world.
As long as wool spinning and cotton spinning are developed, they can bring a lot of income to the territory.
The Harland territory is a mountainous territory with a small area of arable land, making it difficult to grow cotton on a large scale, so Richard could only increase investment in sheep breeding.
Because mutton is relatively expensive in the market, a live sheep weighing 50 to 60 kilograms 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. In recent years, the scale has become larger and larger, and a lot of pork has begun to be put on the market.
Today's pig farms can produce thousands of adult pigs weighing more than 100 kilograms a year.
Although the supply of pork from pig farms to the army is still slightly insufficient, during this period, the soldiers can only overcome it.
As for indentured servants and freedmen, it will 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 free people brought their bows and crossbows and chose to become part-time hunters.
Because of the thin tax policy established by Richard, no additional tax will be charged for hunting.
However, there are laws in the territory that prohibit the hunting of cubs and pregnant female beasts. In addition, ordinary people cannot hunt monster cubs, insect-like magical creatures, and cannot mine magical plants.
Relying on hunting by hundreds of hunters, the meat supply in Harland territory was barely maintained.
But the price of meat has soared about three times this year.
Freedmen with some spare money purchased piglets and lambs from other territories and invested them in the breeding industry, taking advantage of the sharp increase in meat prices to earn an income.