my magic industry

Chapter 5 Jenny Spinning Machine

In the academy's propaganda for military students, it seems that going to the north to become a military mage is a road full of bright prospects.

It seems that as long as these mages who have only studied for three years go to the battlefield, they can beat up the religious lunatics in the north.

The former Xia Lin Carr really believed in this statement, and was even full of teenage fantasies about it, but now Xia Lin does not believe even a single letter.

And the facts that Ellen said were indeed almost the same as what he had guessed.

The empire trained them to increase the magic support available to the front line, and to compete with those evil light priests who had mastered the power of magic.

Although in order to ensure the source of the spell scrolls, the army will pay great attention to protecting them, but the military mage still has to go to the front line.

After all, there is a problem of cost and success rate in making spell scrolls, and as long as a first-ring mage is on the front line, he can provide seven to eight first-ring spell support every day.

And being on the front line means that there will inevitably be casualties, especially in order to reduce losses, both sides will focus on taking care of each other's spellcasters, and the casualty rate of military mages remains high.

Unlike mages who cannot wear metal armor and have thin skin, although priests of the Evil Light Cult are also spellcasters, they can cast spells while wearing metal armor.

Moreover, their power, which is called the evil light by the people in the north, also has the effect of recovering injuries.

Relying on the protection of the armor and the power of the evil light, the survival rate of the priests of the evil light sect on the battlefield is naturally much higher than that of the mages.

After hearing Ellen's words, Xia Lin became silent for a while, feeling a little grateful in her heart.

If he hadn't awakened the memory of his previous life the night before, and realized something was wrong from various clues, he would have stepped into that fire pit like those young sergeant students at his level who didn't know much about the world.

Although he had some sympathy for those students who were dying, Xia Lin himself was a mud bodhisattva struggling with half of his body in the mud pit, so he didn't have the extra energy and time to pay attention to them.

After silently sending them a blessing from the bottom of her heart, Xia Lin continued to chat with Ellen again.

The imperial capital of the Sassen Empire, Helgana, covers an area of ​​about [-] square kilometers. Although Viscount Greg is an undoubted close minister of the emperor, the manor of the Greg family is not close to Helgana.

Xia Lin felt that the carriage had been driving for about an hour before it finally stopped. The road conditions in this world are not good. Even if there are quite high-end cushions on the seats, when he got off the carriage, he felt that his The buttocks seemed to be turned into four petals.

However, he has gained a lot along the way, and seeing that Xia Lin can chat and laugh happily with their master, the coachman sitting in front of the carriage and Ellen's personal servant also respect him a lot.

The place where Ellen brought Xia Lin was not his manor, but a small village named Berwick, and the residents of this village were all sharecroppers and serfs of the Greg family.

Berwick Village is close to the river, with convenient transportation, and there is a forest in the south of the village, which is rich in natural resources. Most of the craftsmen in the Gregg family estate are gathered here.

Seeing the manor owner's carriage, someone in the field quickly ran to report the news. Not long after, a village chief with the appearance of a small old farmer ran over and entertained the group of people on horseback.

Under the guidance of the village chief, Xia Lin and the others found a carpenter's shed full of wood and various tools in the south of the village.

In the shed, half a dozen carpenters were creaking and sawing logs into planks.Seeing the village chief and Ellen, they knew that there was probably some work for them, so they stopped what they were doing.

"I have a spinning tool here that I need you to make, Xia Lin, you show them the blueprint."

As a nobleman, Ellen had no interest in talking to these carpenters, and said straight to the point.

When the carpenters got the drawings from Xia Lin, they obviously couldn't understand them at first, but these people are all old carpenters. After understanding the concept of three views under Xia Lin's guidance, they soon understood the content of the drawing.

After reading Xia Lin's drawings, they chatted with each other, and it didn't take long for the carpenter with the darkest skin to say affirmatively:

"My lord, these paintings are very interesting, I think we should be able to make them!"

"Since it's feasible, let's do it now! If you succeed in making this tool, I promise that each of you will be rewarded with ten silver mals! This is my friend Xia Lin, and he drew these blueprints." Yes, if you don’t understand anything, just ask him!”

After getting an affirmative answer, Ellen's expression relaxed a little, but soon became serious again.

He didn't plan to go to a clean and cool place to avoid the sun, so he just stood in the messy carpentry shed and stared at the carpenters' movements until his valet cleverly moved out a processed stool from a corner and Just sat down on the side.

Xia Lin knew that his plan had reached the most critical stage. As long as he could take out the spinning jenny, his plan would be a complete success.

For this reason, Xia Lin had to cooperate with these carpenters. After all, he had never touched carpentry tools. He was a giant in theory but a dwarf in practice.

Therefore, Xia Lin assigned drawing tasks to each carpenter in detail, and explained to them the detailed data and processing requirements of the parts on the drawing one by one, almost holding a production meeting for them.

The structure of the spinning jenny is very simple, and the most difficult thing is the rotating spindle bar connecting the spinning spindle and the drum and the crank wheel on the right.

In less than half an hour, several skilled carpenters processed the frame, rollers, and sliding tension rods.

As for the two runners, it is also easy to solve. The big one is directly modified with the spare carriage wheel in the carpentry workshop, and a crank is connected to the wheel. And the file processing is precise.

In order to save time, only three rotatable spindle rods were processed for demonstration. When the materials were ready, Xia Lin directed the carpenters to assemble these parts. There was a cobbler in the village, and the transmission belt was processed and sent over quickly.

After assembling the spinning jenny, Xia Lin tried to rotate the parts that needed to be rotated, and found that the group of carpenters who only had a three-piece set of saws, planers, and axes was still not very good at processing circles. The spindle rod creaked when it turned.

He asked for some soybean oil to smear the joints, then hung the roving on the hook of the spinning spindle, and began to spin the yarn carefully.

Ellen had already got up from the stool when she saw Xia Lin assembling the spinning jenny step by step, and stood aside and watched impatiently. Now Xia Lin finally demonstrated the operation process of the spinning jenny. He stared intently.

Go forward, turn the wheel to collect yarn, loosen the tension rod, move back, tighten the tension rod, turn the wheel to spin...

The magical power brought by the exquisite wooden mechanical structure made everyone around them widen their eyes in disbelief.

"By God, so much spun yarn has been spun with only three spindles in such a short period of time. If all the remaining thirteen spindles are made, at least two pounds of spun yarn can be spun in one day! A pound of spun yarn costs five coppers." Biss...two pounds...then you can earn an extra twenty copper biss!"

The carpenter who was the head of these carpenters was good at mathematics and had probably been in contact with the spinning industry. After a little calculation, he estimated the profit of the spinning jenny, and he was amazed.

"Hiss! Twenty copper pess?!"

Ellen, who was also marveling at the working efficiency of the spinning jenny, gasped when he heard the carpenter's estimate. He also did some mental calculations, but the conclusion he reached was completely in line with the carpenter's estimate.

One vertical spindle spinning machine can increase the profit of twenty copper coins a day, so if nearly 1000 spinning women workers in my chamber of commerce can own one, wouldn't it be able to bring nearly two gold coins to Greg's chamber of commerce in one day? Lent's profit? !At the end of that year, it was seven hundred gold rents!That's double Greg's family's annual income! ! !
Although the premise of obtaining this profit is that the Greg Chamber of Commerce is able to provide so many vertical spindle spinning machines, and at the same time, the Chamber of Commerce only needs to pay each female worker five copper bis per day.

But even if the cost of the vertical spinning machine is added to increase the wages of female workers, the profit margin of the Greg Chamber of Commerce is not small, and the most important thing is that Ellen can see from the vertical spinning machine that the Greg family has become a spinning machine. Possibilities for Yarn Industry Giants!
Although the Greg Chamber of Commerce has always been a member of the Imperial Textile Guild, it is very weak compared to those real giants in the textile industry. They usually rely on those giants to leak a little profit from their fingers to live.

But if one can grasp a key part of the textile industry, maybe the Gregg family's voice in the textile guild can be raised to the level of those giants.

Isn't this the opportunity I envisioned to lead the Greg Chamber of Commerce to grow stronger?

"Xia Lin, my dear friend! Please don't worry! I am not a stingy person, and I also value the reputation of our family. Your vertical spinning machine will bring you forty gold Lunta as a reward and our family friendship!"

While thinking, Ellen grabbed Xia Lin's shoulders excitedly and solemnly promised.

"This is my honor, thank you for your generosity! If I design a new machine, I will definitely give priority to cooperation with Greg Chamber of Commerce!"

Xia Lin originally expected that thirty gold lents would be enough, but he didn't expect Ellen to increase his psychological expectation by an extra ten jinlents. He was immediately elated, and seeing Ellen became more and more pleasing to the eye.

If there is a chance, Xia Lin will definitely choose Ellen as his partner first. After all, it is hard to find such a discerning and generous partner.

Moreover, the Greg family has a certain influence in the imperial capital. As a first-ring mage and an ordinary honorary knight, Xia Lin feels that he still needs this collaborator to protect him from the wind and rain before he develops and grows.

"I believe in you. After all, who would have thought that as long as the spindles are placed upright, they can spin twice as many spindles at once! My friend, your wisdom inspired by the gods will definitely bring us more wealth!"

After the guests and the host enjoyed themselves, Ellen distributed rewards to the carpenters, and immediately asked her personal servant to go to the manor to fetch forty golden coins, put them in a linen purse and handed them to Xia Lin, and asked His coachman drove Xia Lin back to the imperial capital with a caring look.

(End of this chapter)