diymy #231 - Reel Spinner and Catherine's Messenger
#231 - Reel Spinner and Catherine's Messenger
During this time, Jeanne went to the vicinity of Wild Spider Forest with Pasilic every day, making the giant spiders there look battered and exhausted.
This was partly to train Jeanne's witch magic, and partly to clear the periphery of the Wild Spider Forest so that the sawmill could operate normally.
The current sawmill has more than a hundred lumberjacks cutting trees and more than eighty sawyers. These fir and pine trees will be made into various boards and transported to Autumn Island by waterway.
Standing on the mudflats on the shore of Autumn Island, Horn stood on his horse, watching the lake in the rain.
In the misty rain, beastmen laborers drove small boats to transport pieces of wood that had been peeled, sawn into short sections, and baked to remove moisture to the port.
At the port, several clerks and craftsmen constantly inspected the results and handed salt, sugar, and industrial coupons with the appearance of indulgence value but inferior to indulgence coupons into their hands.
With this industrial coupon, you can go to the carpenter's workshop to exchange for a set of solid wood furniture.
This kind of industrial coupon is very popular within the Beastman United Kingdom, after all, this kind of beautiful solid wood furniture is a rare commodity.
Especially since it comes from the great Third Eyre Empire, a foreign thing from the suzerain state.
Besides, it can be sat on and has practical value.
Now, relying on salt, sugar, and furniture, Horn has absorbed a large amount of beastman labor. The beastmen in Nanze frequently exchange wool for furniture and handicrafts in the name of tribute trade.
Thinking of this, Horn couldn't help but sigh once again, Duke Danner, you say you, you're dead, and you sent me almost all kinds of handicraft laborers, so kind.
As the permanent residence of the hanging boss, Fort Jeanne gathers a large number of laborers from Qianhe Valley.
These laborers are not without skills. After working for the workshop owners for many years, they already have the level of technicians, but they cannot get the association's access approval and proof of identity.
The masters inside the guild are one radish and one pit, and the positions are passed down from generation to generation. How can they give them these outsiders of unknown origin.
"Alas, the guild."
Clamping the horse, Horn left the shore and ran quickly towards the Papal Palace.
After crossing the simple small wooden bridge, Horn came to the Mechanical Palace.
Hilov was sitting in a wheelchair, already waiting.
In front of her was a machine more than one person tall, which was placed in a temporary shed built in the yard.
It is composed of a wooden frame, a rotating wheel, lead blocks, scrolls, and slender teardrop-shaped brackets. Under the rotation of the star-forged gears, black wool is wound on the iron fork, and it gradually turns into black fine yarn.
"Dangdang, the scroll spinning machine you wanted, I made it." Hilov smiled.
Manufacturing more efficient spinning machines is Horn's solution to the shortage of military uniforms.
But he did not use the Jenny machine in history.
The counter-intuitive thing is that although the Jenny machine is held in a very high position, the yarn it produces actually has great problems.
The Jenny machine is not an all-purpose spinning machine. It can only spin short-fiber cotton, and the cotton yarn spun is too thin and uneven, and it is easy to break, and the quality is not good.
The cotton yarn spun by the Jenny machine is not the material for pure cotton cloth, but the material for blended cotton, linen, and wool cloth.
When weaving pure cotton thread produced by it, linen and wool are used as warp threads, and cotton is used as weft threads to weave.
But the problem is that Horn doesn't have cotton at all, and there isn't much flax, so he can only use sage to replace it.
Analyze specific problems specifically. Since there is no cotton, Horn can only find another way.
The technical direction he gave to Hilov was changed to Richard Arkwright's roller spinning machine, a British watchmaker.
This spinning machine has four pairs of rollers, which are driven by water power. The fibers are twisted together by the rollers and rotating wheels, so the spun thread is strong but rough.
Fortunately, the roller spinning machine can spin woolen cloth, and Horn's several carts of combed gravel raw black sheep wool will be moldy if left there.
When Horn talked to Hilov about this, he just regarded it as a long-term goal to see if she had any inspiration.
But unexpectedly, in just ten days, she made a prototype.
"How did you grow this little brain?" Horn said in admiration, reaching out and rubbing Hilov's furry head.
Hilov's ears stood up on both sides, comfortably enjoying the caress: "This is not my credit. In fact, this kind of machine had a prototype in the ancient Eyre Empire, but it was called a wind spinning wheel."
"Wind spinning wheel?"
"Yes." Hilov handed a drawing to Horn, "In the ancient Eyre book "The Book of Agriculture", it is recorded that wind spinning wheels were widely used in the Storm Hills on the west coast of the Emerald Sea.
The wind spinning wheel has 32 spindles, uses a windmill as a power source, and uses spindles and yarn frames to complete the twisting and winding of yarn strands. The transmission between the various components is completed by guide wheels and leather straps.
And I simplified its structure and replaced its original windmill structure with star-forged gears and water power."
After all, the number of star-forged gears is limited. If water power can be used, it is better to use water power first.
It's just that the current prototype, which is more than one person tall, is driven by a rotating wheel sacred machine. Star-forged gears have high energy density and can drive larger machines with a smaller volume.
If it is replaced with water power, it is estimated that the entire prototype will have to be enlarged by more than one time.
While thinking, Horn saw Brock walking in, and he immediately called the dwarf over.
Lowering his head, Horn asked Brock: "Have you seen the drawings of the roller spinning machine?"
"I've seen it, but I don't understand it." Brock said truthfully, "But I've seen the decomposed components, and some of them require special materials."
"Can't we make it?"
"We can make it. The components can be replaced, but the overall design has to be changed. Ms. Hilov may have to redesign it, which will take a lot of effort."
"Then how long will it take to make this?"
"If three or five craftsmen are drawn from the clockwork rifle side, it will take about twenty days." Brock's dull voice slowly said, "But the output of the clockwork rifle may decrease by one piece per day, at most one piece."
"Okay." Horn patted Brock on the shoulder, "Then I'll leave this to you."
After chatting with Hilov for a while about the principles and design of the roller spinning machine, and arranging the timeline with her again, Horn set off again, preparing to go to the industrial area to take a look.
But as soon as he went out, he was stopped by Pasilic.
"What's wrong? Grandpa Chrispa?" Horn asked, looking at Pasilic, who was grabbing his reins.
Pasilic looked serious and snapped his fingers. A strange little blue bird flew down from the tree branch: "I received a message from the Joan Party in Fort Jeanne."
Although Horn basically took away all the secret parties in the Fort Jeanne area, he still retained some of the original informants.
Training troops in Daze Township does not mean being isolated from the world. Horn still cares about the situation outside.
Seeing that even Pasilic, who has always been unserious, became serious, Horn's heart trembled.
The message from the Joan Party in Fort Jeanne... Could it be that the Grand Duchess is going to launch it in advance, but he is not ready yet.
"What's the message?" Horn's tone became hurried.
"They said - nothing happened between the church and the Grand Duchess."
Suppressing his anger, Horn continued to ask: "Don't joke around, what is it?"
"Catherine, the hostess of the Megdi Merchant Guild, has sent an envoy who will arrive in Fort Jeanne soon. She wants to meet with you and wants you to send someone to pick him up. Our Daze Township is not easy to enter."