Chapter 231 The Scroll Spinning Machine and Catherine's Messenger
During this period, Jeanne and Paslik would go to the wild spider forest every day, making the giant spiders there disgraced.
On the one hand, this is to train Jeanne's witch spells, and on the other hand, it is to clear out the periphery of the Wild Spider Forest so that the sawmill can work normally.
Today's sawmills have more than a hundred tree fellers and more than eighty sawing workers. These fir and pine trees will be made into various boards and transported to Qiu by waterway. On Twilight Island.
Standing on the mudflat on the shore of Qiumu Island, Horn stood on his horse and looked towards the lake in the rain.
In the mist and rain, lycanthropic laborers drove small boats to transport pieces of wood that had been stripped of bark, sawed into short sections, and roasted to remove moisture, to the port.
At the port, several petty officials and craftsmen continued to test the results and handed salt, sugar and industrial coupons that appeared to be indulgences but were worth less than indulgences into their hands.
With this industrial coupon, you can exchange it for a set of solid wood furniture at the carpenter's workshop.
This kind of industrial coupons is very popular within the United Kingdom of Beastmen. After all, this kind of beautiful solid wood furniture is a rare commodity.
Especially because it comes from the great Third El Empire, a foreign thing from the suzerain country.
Besides, it can sit on it and has practical value.
Nowadays, Horn has absorbed a large number of lycanthropic labor forces by relying on salt, sugar and furniture. The lycanthropic people in Nanze frequently exchange wool for furniture and handmade products in the name of tribute trade.
Thinking of this, Horn had to sigh once again, Duke Dardenne is dead even if you say you are, and he sent me almost all types of handicraft workers. You are so polite.
As the permanent residence of the wall-mounted god, Castle Joan of Arc has gathered a large number of workers from the Qianhe River Valley.
These laborers are not unskilled. They have already reached the level of skilled workers by working for the workshop owners all year round, but they just cannot obtain the admission recognition and identity certificate from the guild.
The masters within the guild are like a carrot and a pit, and their positions are passed down from generation to generation. How can they be given to outsiders with unknown origins.
“Hey, the guild.”
Pinching the horses, Horn left the shore and ran quickly towards the Papal Palace.
After crossing the simple wooden bridge, Horn came to the Mechanical Palace.
Silov was sitting in a wheelchair and had already started waiting.
In front of her was a machine that was as tall as a person, placed in a makeshift work shed in the yard.
It consists of a wooden frame, a runner, a lead block, a scroll and a slender drop-shaped bracket. Under the rotation of the star-cast gear, the iron fork is wrapped with black wool, which turns into fine black wool little by little. yarn.
"Dangdang, I made the reel spinning machine you asked for." Shilov smiled.
Making more efficient spinning machines was Horn's solution to the shortage of military uniforms.
But he did not use the historical Jenny machine.
The counter-intuitive thing is that although the Jenny machine is held in high esteem, the silk thread it produces actually has big problems.
The Jenny machine is not a universal spinning machine. It can only spin cotton with shorter fibers, and the cotton yarn spun is too fine and uneven, easy to break, and the quality is not good.
The cotton yarn spun by Jenny's machine is not made of pure cotton, but a blend of cotton, linen and wool.
When weaving the pure cotton thread produced by it, flax and wool are used as warp threads, and cotton is used as weft threads for weaving.
But the problem is that Horn has no cotton at all, not even much flax, so he can only use sage instead.
Analyzing specific issues in detail, since there is no cotton, Horn can only find another way.
The technical direction he proposed to Shilov was changed to the reel spinning machine of British watchmaker Richard Arkwright.
This spinning machine has four pairs of reels, driven by water power, to twist the fibers together through the reels and wheels, so that the spun thread is strong but rough.
Fortunately, the scroll loom can weave woolen cloth. The black wool from Horn's several carts of combed gravel will become moldy if left alone. When Horn talked about it with Shilov, he just treated it as a long-term goal to see if she had any inspiration.
But she didn't expect that in just ten days, she had even made a prototype.
"How did you get such a big head?" Horn said in admiration as he stretched out his hand to rub Shilov's furry head.
Shirov's ears stood up to both sides, enjoying the touch comfortably: "This is not my credit. In fact, this kind of machinery had a prototype during the Ancient El Empire, but it was called "Wind spinning wheel."
"Wind spinning wheel?"
"Yes." Shilov handed a drawing to Horn. , the wind spinning wheel was once widely used in Storm Hill on the west coast of the Emerald Sea
The wind spinning wheel has 32 spindles. The windmill is used as the power source. The spindles and yarn frames are used to twist and wind the yarn. The transmission between the various components is completed by the guide wheel and leather straps.
And I simplified its structure and replaced its original windmill structure with star-cast gears and water power. ”
After all, the number of star-cast gears is limited. If water power can be used, it is better to use water power first.
It’s just that the prototype machine in front of us, which is as tall as a person, relies on wheels. Driven by the Holy Machine, the star-cast gear has high energy density and can drive larger machinery in a smaller size.
If it were replaced by hydraulic power, it is estimated that the entire prototype would have to be more than doubled.
While thinking, Horn saw Brock pushing in the door, and he immediately called the dwarf over.
With his head lowered, Horn asked Brock: "Have you read the drawings of the reel spinning machine?"
"Yes, I don't understand." Brock To be honest, "But I have seen its decomposed components, and some require special materials."
"Can't we make it?"
"If we can do it, the components can be replaced. But the overall design has to be changed, and Ms. Shilov may need to redesign it, which will take a lot of effort.”
"Then how long will it take to make this?"
"It will take about twenty days to recruit three or five craftsmen on the clockwork gun side." Brock said slowly in a dull voice, "But The production of clockwork guns may drop by one piece per day, at most." "Okay." Horn patted Brock on the shoulder, "Then I'll leave this to you."
After chatting with Shilov about the principle and design of the reel spinning machine, and once again arranging a timeline with her, Horn set off again, preparing to visit the industrial area.
But as soon as he went out, he was stopped by Paslik.
"What's wrong? Master Crispa?" Horn asked, looking at Paslik who was holding his reins.
With a serious face on his face, Paslik snapped his fingers, and a strange little blue bird flew down from the branch: "I received a message from the Joan Party in Fort Joan of Arc."
Although Horn basically took away all the secret parties in the Fort Joan area, he still retained some of his original informants.
Training troops in Daze Township does not mean being isolated from the world. Horn is still very concerned about the situation in the outside world.
Seeing Paslik, who had never been serious, become serious, Horn's heart trembled.
The news from Joan's party in Fort Joan of Arc...could it be that the Grand Duchess was about to launch an early attack, but he was not ready yet.
"What news?" Horn's tone became urgent.
"They said - between the church and the Grand Duchess - nothing happened."
Suppressing his anger, Horn continued to ask: "Stop joking, what is it?"
"Catherine, the hostess of the Megdi Chamber of Commerce, has sent an envoy. He will arrive at Fort Joan of Arc in the near future. He wants to meet you and ask you to send someone to pick him up. Our Daze Township is not accessible."
(End of this chapter)