Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 224

Wang Hou probably felt ashamed, he was hanging around here basking in the sun all day long, he looked like a hooligan Liu Bang, compared to Lu Ji, who was much more dedicated than him, and followed the head of the bodyguard to the suburb near the city in a daze. As soon as I entered the textile workshop, I saw her standing there staring intently, the two carpenters squatting and watching, and the six women in the city were strangely shaking the big wheel together, passing by the seedlings one by one. , the large pieces of cotton miraculously follow the rotation of the wheel, and merge into a thin cotton thread.

Once you have thread, you can weave!

In fact, the line defense machine is not a new technology. The technology used in flax spinning and silk reeling is similar, but for cotton, some adjustments are needed. However, it is the same as the technology of rubbing salt on fresh fish and soaking it in concentrated brine to preserve freshness. , the method is very simple, but the most difficult thing is to come up with something out of nothing.

Cotton had been introduced to the Central Plains when Zhang Qian traveled to the Western Regions in the Western Han Dynasty, but now it is the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is still raised in Cao Cao's garden as an ornamental plant!

From the ornamental flowers to the clothes people wear, there is only one difference!
This is the idea that Wang Hou came up with himself. On a big case not far from the spinning machine, the cotton sent from Funiu Mountain was spread out on this table after the seeds were removed. Two craftsmen One person held a one-meter-long bamboo bow hanging from the table, and the other hand held a hammer that looked like a rolling pin. One hammer after another struck the downward bowstring, and a magical scene suddenly emerged. Under the whipping of the trembling arches, the originally tight cotton buds swelled up visible to the naked eye, the fibers between the cotton were completely opened, and the white cotton with a little light yellow was like a big flower. Like a cloud, chubby piled on the table.

The cotton slivers used by the spinning machines are taken from the large stalls of cotton flowers. I really don’t know how the genius who invented the first method of plucking cotton got the inspiration. Anyway, Wang Hou got the inspiration from their community. I got the inspiration from the shop next to the market, because before crossing over, their family played the trumpet there every day.

"Stripping cotton~"

Concentrating on supervising the spinning, Lu Ji didn't even know that Wang Hou had come in. Suddenly, Wang Hou's arm wrapped around her slender and lovely shoulders, and she froze in fright immediately, and responded in astonishment and anger. Turning her head, she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Wang Hou's old face that had begun to grow a beard.

But people in this era are really not used to the intimacy and casualness of modern people. Although Wang Hou didn't push away Wang Hou's arm that was holding her, the girl still complained with a blushing face.

"Master, there are so many people!"

"Has the cloth been spun?"

What diverted her attention was the work. With her arms around her, Wang Hou's eyes fell on the loom on the last side, where more than a dozen bundles of cotton threads that had been spun had been placed on the loom, and were worked hard by a weaver lady. Pulling the shuttle, it was more than one meter long. When Lu Ji mentioned this, she immediately became excited, and she really forgot to be shy, and looked at her little head in excitement.

"My lord is truly a genius. Even the top-secret cotton weaving method of those people from the Western Regions can be easily deciphered! This material is really good! Although it is not as lustrous as silk, it is finer than silk, and it is far softer than linen. Keep it warm, and after the first piece of new cloth comes down, I must personally sew a new robe for the master!"

If a wife is so virtuous, what more can a husband ask for?

Looking at this girl's bright eyes, Wang Hou's heart felt drunk for two or three minutes. When Lu Ji exclaimed, he suddenly slapped her on her slender waist again, like in idol dramas. Leaning in his arms, he stared straight at her dazed big eyes, very domineering president's eyes.

"Woman, then I'm looking forward to your robe!"

In Lu Ji's stupidity again, Wang Hou put his arms around her slender waist and then turned half a circle in an idol drama, his eyes met the domineering president's fiercely to a man, covering his old face, but in the eyes The backbone of the carpenters of the two palaces, who had leaked their fingers, pretended to be superior and hummed.

"The slingshot bow, the spinning wheel improved by Madam, the loom, and the cotton carding machine. Can you learn how to make these things?"

"Go back to the master, you can do it!"

This time, instead of covering their eyes and putting on a show, they hugged their fists, and they both bowed down together, but Wang Hou's next words almost made them both vomit blood.

"There is still one month before autumn cotton picking. During this time, you will build three hundred cotton beds, one thousand spinning machines, and one thousand looms for Benzhou Mu!"

In an instant, the faces of the two carpenters turned green, Wang Hou was so skinny!But before the two of them nodded in response, Wang Hou had already spoken again.

"Have you heard of Tai Shigong! If you can't complete the task, Benzhou Mu will cut off your heads with a single knife, and let you and Tai Shigong call you brothers!"

"Little one takes command!"

A layer of cold sweat broke out on the forehead, and he hurriedly agreed, and the two carpenters ran away.

Is Master Zhou's show of affection so beautiful?Do not toss you both are to blame!However, after satisfying his bad taste, Wang Hou strolled leisurely up to the second floor with Lu Ji's slender waist in his arms.

Now this huge factory building that he ordered to build in the spring is still empty at this time, only a few rows of spinning wheels and looms are placed at the door, but looking out from here, it is next to the coastal area not far from the port. On the plain, the cotton fields one after another are already pleasingly green, and huge white cotton bolls are protruding from their heads, swaying gently with the sea breeze, so pleasingly white!
And a family of cotton contractors took the fully fermented fish viscera and manure from the biogas tank of the port canteen with pain and joy, and sprinkled them on the roots of the cotton.

Even in the huge Han Empire, it was the first time that Dashi asked for money!But thinking that after the autumn harvest, two asbestos peaches can be exchanged for one stone of wheat, a happy smile still appeared on the faces of these contractors.

Looking down, Wang Hou's old face is also full of happiness, but compared with their happy aura, the happiness on Master Zhou Mu's face always has such a golden light feeling, and his pupils seem to change. It became the shape of five baht coins.

These days, cloth is directly currency!

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It's really called the dead like a husband, who can't give up day and night, and in a blink of an eye, it's the day of autumn harvest again, and the whole emerging Rizhao City is caught in a kind of extraordinarily romantic excitement.

In the past few days, even the iron and steel plant has been closed. The whole family, young and old, have worked together, and the children have also participated in the labor, picking up the cotton bolls one by one, throwing the cotton into the burden, and stuffing the burdens one by one. It was full, and there were impatient growers, who had just picked up their burdens, and couldn't wait to pick them up at the back door of the Rizhao Yamen to exchange things there.

At the beginning, we had promised two asbestos peaches and one stone of wheat, but when we got to the place, we found a wide variety of goods, such as old wine from Jimo, new hoes from Rizhao, fences, fresh fish, millet, wheat, bacon, and planting with burdens. Huo was dazzled for a while.

After choosing for a long time, the burden was filled with bacon, cloth, and food, and then the whole family rushed to their manor outside the city excitedly. The children were looking forward to the fish and meat for dinner, and the women were thinking about how to cut them in two. The men simply grinned for the joy of the women and children, and then got into the cotton field even more vigorously, pulling down the cotton bolls.

Rizhao County created the long-lost sense of happiness.

On the other side, in the Rizhao Commercial Building, Wang Hou's "happiness" also came in his state animal suite on the fifth floor.

"How? Master!"

"This is a new cotton gown that Sister Lu and I worked hard to design and sew just for you! After you put it on, Master, your figure really looks a little bit healthier!"

Cao Hongjie was smiling happily with little stars all over her face, but behind her, Lu Ji's smile was obviously a bit stiff, and Wang Hou's mouth twitched when facing the huge brass mirror.

Lu Ji wanted to sew a new cotton gown for herself. In Wang Hou's mind, the first impression was Wu Yanzu in a black cotton cloak, but now, in the mirror, he was wearing an old army coat and selling sweet potatoes with his arms in his arms. Huang Bo!
"How is it? My lord! You must be talking!"

"Ah! It's really great. Look at the cuffs, look at the stitches, Red Festival, you really put your heart into it! But my master, I am dressed so energetically and handsomely, but the prime minister doesn't have a new cotton coat. When I think about this, I feel uneasy, otherwise, Shall we dedicate this padded coat to the prime minister?"

"That's right! What the master said is very true, sister, do me a favor, let's sew a new winter coat for the prime minister!"

Talking cheerfully, she pulled Lu Ji, who was crying with a small face, and the girl went down in high spirits again, leaving Wang Hou sadly froze in front of the mirror with her old face.

But looking down at the new padded gown that was as dusty as the old army coat, Wang Hou once again showed a wretched smile on his face.

Forget it, if you want to soil together, you can pull one unlucky one!Thinking that Mr. Cao is also wearing a soiled military overcoat with a helpless look on his face, this guy can't help but laugh out loud again!

　Bring more cotton, I'm almost frozen like a dog, and it will snow if I have nothing to do...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)