When the twenty sand boats of the Lu Merchant House left Liuqiu Island, the first batch of sisal was harvested in the Badaohe area. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Director Zhang Laoshi was happy, he thought that he could make better sails, but Zhang Guoan did not agree.

Director Zhang Laoshi has tasted the benefits of cotton and linen blended sails, which are thin, light and tough, far finer than linen and stronger than cotton.

It's so perfect to use it as a sail!

Zhang Guoan really can't stand the sails of this time and space, they are basically woven from hay leaves, which are heavy and easy to break, but they are also blended with silk and cotton, but they are too expensive, and they are not strong.

At that time, the factory director Zhang Laoshi touched the rough surface of the Liuqiu canvas and said happily: "Since then, I have waited for the sails to be bigger and lighter." ”

Zhang Guoan said: "In fact, it is more suitable for people to wear when they are working......

"It's too rough, isn't it...... Some prick people. ”

"It's good to wear it twice and wash it twice...... Of course, we can wash and polish the fabric and then make clothes. ”

In fact, there is also the benefit of breathability and dryness.

The heat dissipation performance of cotton and linen is 5 times that of wool and 19 times that of silk, so in hot weather conditions, wearing linen clothing can make the surface temperature of the human skin 3-4 degrees Celsius lower than wearing silk and cotton fabric clothing.

And cotton linen can absorb water equivalent to 20% of its own weight, and at the same time, it can quickly release the absorbed water, and no matter how much sweat can keep you dry.

Needless to say, the people will know about this in the future.

Zhang Laoshi, the director of the factory, immediately added at that time: "The most important thing is to save cotton...... Very cheap ......"

Since then, there has been a kind of sailor cloth on the island of Rugu, which is cheaper than cotton cloth and better than linen cloth...... For a while, it immediately became the designated material for the military uniform of the Great Song Dynasty.

There are many imitation processors in the Great Song Dynasty, but the market is still in short supply...... Of course. That's for another time.

The harvest of sisal this time made Director Zhang Laoshi look forward to it even more.

Zhang Guoan commanded the long-handed and long-legged East African blacks to cut off the leaves of sisal, break them, take out the fibers, and cook them with caustic soda to remove the gum well.

Sisal is a perennial leaf fiber crop and is one of the most versatile hard fibers.

Due to the characteristics of hard fibers, they are white and tough. Strong tensile strength, elasticity, seawater immersion resistance, friction resistance, not easy to break, and less gum, not easy to slip and other characteristics.

This kind of long fiber is definitely not replaceable by bast fibers such as yellow and jute!

Director Zhang Laoshi touched this fiber and immediately said: "Master Zhang, this is definitely the best canvas with hemp!" ”

Zhang Guoan said: "Not yet...... To make fishing nets out of it, fishermen are now using too poor nets! ”

This is true, at this time, although the fishermen's nets are similar in style to the world on that side, the quality of jute is too poor, and so many rich fish resources are wasted...... The people of the Great Song Dynasty had few opportunities to eat sea fish. Of course, it also causes ordinary people to not eat seafood.

Zhang Laoshi was a little disappointed, but he could understand that as long as the labor tools were made better, the output would be more.

For example, the woodworking machines in the shipyard make it easy for them to process all kinds of plates when they build ships, which speeds up the shipbuilding.

The intimate contact with Lu's firm had an immediate effect.

Liang Xin, the chief shopkeeper of the Lu family, was waiting in line at the house of Pingzhang Jia Nidao to give a birthday gift. Let the caravan he led return to Ezhou City first, and let the clipper go back to report the news first. Prepare some manpower and corresponding materials, and immediately go to Liuqiu Island to start building a salt field and build a cement cave kiln.

At the same time, he also wrote a letter to report his harvest to the family of Lu Wende.

The money harvested this time will be huge, and Liang Xin, the big shopkeeper of the Lu family's firm, did not mainly mention the income from the operation, so there is no need to say this question in the letter. That's in front of you.

He mainly raised the issue of cement. It claims to be able to build taller and larger cities, and it is impregnable.

The security of the two cities of Xiangyang and Fancheng is where the core interests of the Lu military group lie!

The safety of the Jianghan waterway is the key point, as for money. That can only be the icing on the cake.

Another point is that the food provided there is also important and can feed a lot of people.

Unfortunately, when he arrived, he did not see the whales they claimed, and they heard that because summer was approaching, they had to go farther to the northern sea to hunt and kill...... However, he saw the huge skeleton of the so-called whale, which was really terrifying, and it turned out that the output of whale oil turned out to be a book of ten thousand kinds of trade, which can be considered later.

Another point is to build so-called cotton fields, which do not occupy paddy fields, do not have to worry about the sale of output, and it is said that there is also an oil crop called peanuts, and the output is also huge...... Therefore, judging from the food and techniques he took the initiative to provide, he was willing to make friends with me, and he was very sincere.

Lu Wende, the envoy of Jinghu Manufacturing, quickly finished reading the letter, and threw it aside, he really didn't value a foreign maritime merchant, and he was still on a deserted island, what use could he have, it was nothing more than recruiting people to make salt and earn money.

Half a month later, the merchant ship of the Lu family also arrived in Ezhou City, and then hurriedly sent the cement to Lu Wende's family.

Lu Wende looked at the two wooden barrels, one of which was brown and the other was gray lime, so he found a few plasterers, and according to the instructions in the letter, he learned what simple bamboo tendon components were used to make them.

Then Lu Wende recruited his sixth brother Lu Wenhuan, and the two drank together.

Now the sixth brother no longer has built a discussion ground for himself to trade with the north, in the sixth brother's own words: "I wait for a row of thunderbolts to hit, even if it is a city of steel, it will be turned into powder!" What's there? ”

So now, the brothers are close to each other, and they have a good time chatting over wine......

This time of trade with Liuqiu Island, what made him even happier was that he brought back Liuqiu coconut wine, which was very delicious, how to be willing to sell it to others, it should be his own brother to taste.

When the two brothers were drinking happily, someone came to report that the flow of cement was really useful...... Far stronger than the fired bricks, and grows ......

The two brothers glanced at each other, took advantage of the wine, and strode out to check.

Sure enough, I saw that the so-called cement bricks were standing on the ground, and they were still of both colors.

Lu Wende shouted: "Take my coiling dragon stick and ......"

Someone under his command immediately went to the weapon rack to take it down, and carried it and brought it...... This is a mixed iron point steel coil dragon stick, with a total weight of fifty-eight pounds, where can ordinary people play it......

The dragon stick is a weapon, also known as the "tip stick" in the folk, because a short stick in front of the dragon stick is connected by an iron ring, and it is like a whip when it is waved, which can produce "whip force" and is more permeable after hitting the target. Speaking of its origin, it is rumored to be related to Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin.

But in fact, it inherited the flail of the Han and Tang dynasties and shrunk it...... Later, it evolved into nunchucks.

I saw Lu Wende dance a few times, and the iron ring on the stick rattled, and the short stick on the head of the long stick spun like the wind.

At this time, he shouted "Bah" and waved his hand at the so-called cement brick! (To be continued.) )