Chapter 69: The Little Women and the "Stepping Stones" (Part II)

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When she came to Qindao, the royal capital of the Han Kingdom, she was greeted by a new world that was different from her cognition, which was a vibrant hot land..... Those Dao aunts didn't lie to her, here, women can enter the women's school founded by Yang Rong and Liu Taoer to study and learn calligraphy, and they can also serve the country from the army, and even there is a special female soldier unit Mulan Brigade in Li Han's army, and even women being officials is nothing new, and the feudal etiquette that binds women here has almost been weakened and ignored to the point that it is almost unhearable, this is really her Huang Xiu'er's paradise.......

Huang Xiuer did not go to school, she was illiterate, but she has a pair of skillful hands, she was born in Jiangnan is a textile master, and soon she found a job in the royal textile factory that she was satisfied with, watching the silk weave from under her hands, and then turned into fine silver coins, she herself can support herself, and she can also go to night school to sign up for study, which is unimaginable in her hometown........

The cotton spinning technology that Han Guo got from Ah San and Li Min in Yazhou was very primitive and backward, but Huang Xiuer was still shocked when she saw these primitive cotton cloths, which is comparable to gold.

She loves weaving, and now she sees Li Han's Royal Textile Factory recruiting textile masters to attack the difficulties of cotton spinning, Huang Xiuer is tempted, so she gave up the silk weaver position that already has a good treatment, and came to the cotton textile department, she learned from those weavers who can spin cotton. Roll the slivers and roll them tightly and unevenly; Spun cotton yarn in a coarse and thin section, as if a snake had eaten an egg. However, she was not discouraged and insisted on practicing and striving to learn the operation process as soon as possible.

It didn't take long for her to master all the operational processes: peeling cottonseeds, agile and sharp; Stretch cotton wool, fluffy and clean; Roll the tampon, elastic for application; spinning cotton yarn, fine and hurried; Woven cotton, the grain is evenly straight. Whenever she saw the dragon's claw-like cotton leaves and snow-like cotton in the cotton field, whenever she sat in the cotton spinning picture scroll of "the car turns light thunder and autumn spun snow, and the bow bends and the clouds bend in the half-moon night", she feels an indescribable pleasure. The cotton can be spun, the cloth can be woven, and Huang Xiuer, who is eager to learn and think, has found another problem: it is too slow to peel the seeds of cotton one by one with her fingers; Moreover, the small bow that plays cotton wool is only about a foot and a half long, and it is still a string, which must be plucked with fingers, the bow body is small, there is no strength, the string is easy to break, and the fingers are laborious to pluck the strings. She often wondered if there was any new way to improve work efficiency.

She told her few girlfriends after coming to Qindao about her thoughts, but they all persuaded Huang Xiu'er to die of that heart, even those royal craftsmen can't solve the problem, how many of us women can do it? But Huang Xiuer she was not discouraged, one day she wanted to make a bowl of noodle soup when she returned to her place after work, when she picked up the rolling pin, she suddenly remembered that the cotton seeds or with her fingers one by one peeling, it was too slow, a look at the rolling pin in her hand, this inspiration suddenly came up, said to do it, she immediately threw down the dough, found a number of cotton seeds, took a small iron rod, and then put the seed cotton on the hard and flat hammering stone, with the iron rod to roll out the cotton seeds, this effect is really much more efficient than peeling by hand......

She told her friends and girlfriends about her findings, and after they experimented, the women shouted happily: "Ouch, Sister Xiu'er, you can really do it, so that you can roll out five, six, seven or eight seeds at once, and we won't have to count them one by one with our fingers!" Huang Xiuer was very happy to see everyone, but she was not satisfied with the existing results.

She felt that it was still more laborious to roll the iron rod with her hand, so she continued to seek new methods, and suddenly, she thought of the time when she had recently gone to the beach of Qindao to play and relax, and saw the pedal spinning wheel made by the royal craftsmen. Finally, four planks were used to form a wooden frame, on which two wooden columns were erected, the head of the column was set under a square log, and in the center of the column was a wood-iron shaft with a crank; The diameter of the iron shaft is smaller than that of the wooden shaft, and the thickness of the two shafts is unequal, and the speed of rotation is different. Huang Daopo and two sisters, one woman fed seed cotton to the gap between the two axes of ironwood and wood, and the other two people shook the crank, as a result, the cotton wool and cotton seeds quickly separated the inner and outer sides of the two axes.

"Great, effortless, and work!" The women gathered around their handmade cotton gins, like chickadees, and jumped for joy to celebrate the success!

Li Han is a wonderful country that attaches great importance to scientific and technological inventions, Jinyiwei has an important responsibility is to collect the world's skilled craftsmen to serve the Han Kingdom, the husband of one of Huang Xiuer's best friends is precisely a Jinyiwei, he heard his daughter-in-law nagging what they women tossed out a new cotton gin, he knew that his opportunity to receive meritorious service was coming, he quickly notified Jinyiwei's supervisor of the skilled craftsman captain after confirmation, Song Zhong who got the news was extremely shocked, This is a major scientific research project personally explained by His Majesty the Emperor, but I didn't expect that the problems that the royal craftsmen did not solve, and a few women saw the light of day......

Song Zhong hurriedly reported to Li Chengzong, Li Chengzong sighed after listening, weaving is really a woman's natural skill, so he asked Yang Rong to come forward to meet Huang Xiuer, under the royal funding and coordination organization, set up a cotton spinning research team headed by Huang Xiuer, they learned from the Tianzhu people to use the small bow body from one and a half feet long to more than four feet long, the bowstring from the string to the rope string, the finger plucked string into the rod string. This sturdy and powerful bow bounced up the cotton, and the rhythm was distinct, as if a beautiful labor song sounded, and the cotton played loosely and hurriedly, quickly and cleanly. Then, in the spinning process, with the help of the royal craftsmen, they created a three-spindle spinning wheel, which replaced the single-spindle hand-cranked spinning wheel of the past. The pedal is vigorous, and it also frees up both hands to hold the cotton yarn, and can spin three yarns at the same time, with fast speed and large output, which is the world's most advanced spinning wheel in this time and space, and it is really a great technological revolution. In the weaving process, they also have a certain reform of the loom. Huang Xiuer draws on the traditional silk weaving technology of China, absorbs the advantages of the white folded cloth created by the predecessors, and learns and studies the cotton weaving technology such as the wrong yarn color matching and the heald thread with everyone, and weaves the quilt, mattress, belt, silk (hand towel), etc., with folded branches, group phoenix, chess game, words and other patterns, bright and picturesque, so that the world-famous Qindao cloth was born in the future.

In order to commend Huang Xiu'er for his outstanding contribution to the cotton spinning of the Han Kingdom, Li Chengzong specially forced the political affairs hall to pass the first patent law of this time and space, and issued the first patent certificate to Huang Xiu'er, and officially named the three-spindle foot spinning wheel made by Huang Xiu'er as Xiu'er Car, and the Royal Textile Factory took the lead in purchasing the patent license from Huang Xiu'er and promoting its use.......

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