A few days after her apprenticeship, the fair girl could indeed feel the change in his master's attitude towards her. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, it was as if she had fallen into another world all of a sudden.

This was no longer the world she knew, and if someone had told her that she was actually a ball under her feet, she would have scoffed, but after listening to the conversation between her master and her mother, she suddenly realized that what her master said made so much sense.

"The Earth revolves around the Sun, and at the same time the Earth itself rotates, and the Moon revolves around the Earth. In addition to the earth, there are also planets such as metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and so on. ”

In the past few days, the girl has been as if she had suddenly received some huge blow. Now, stargazing has become something she does every day, colloquially known as 'poisoning'.

Qin Xin was also happy to see this situation appear, after all, it was still very good to be attracted by one thing and not come to trouble him.

Nunu and Xiao Huangying don't seem to be very interested in things like stargazing, after all, things that are so far away can't be touched, just look at the playing time, and there is no need to understand their operating rules.

Probably only my fair girl, who is so persistent, wants to exhaust all the truths in it.

After understanding that the fair girl should not be in trouble for a short time, Qin Xin came to the place where the Zheng family raised silkworms and weaved silk.

The last batch of autumn silkworm cocoons of the year has been harvested, and at this time most of the servants are busy processing the cocoons, how to deal with them, in short, the capsule-like cocoons are drawn into a long silk thread, rolled up with a silk frame, and put it like a coil that we see in later generations for later use.

Seriously, in the 21st century, there are really not many places where you can see silkworm breeding, and it is difficult for Qin Xin to find relevant information on Taobao, but if you really want to find relevant information, it is not completely absent.

For example, when Qin Xin wanted to learn about ancient farm tools, he accidentally saw a shop selling spinning wheels, but to be honest, the spinning wheels he saw at that time were too simple, Qin Xin always thought that there would be an easier way to get rid of the cocoon, so in the past six months, Qin Xin had made different attempts, but finally found out. This thing can't be simplified at all, but I can only buy a book that introduces related technologies, and this book was bought only after Qin Xin searched Taobao hundreds of times, and the content just met his requirements - an introduction to the development of silkworm weaving technology in China.

It is said that in the period of the Yellow Emperor, there was silkworm raising technology, so how did people in ancient times reel silk, "silk reeling" is the process of turning cocoons into coils and storing them for later use. There is a record in the Book of Rites: and a good day, the lady reel, the three basin hands, and then the auspicious person who is distributed in the three officials, the wife, and the wife, make the reel. ”

The actions of the princes' wives are depicted here, although only symbolically. But after comparing the actual operation of his stepmother Zhuang Mi and his servants, Qin Xin also understood the meaning of this ancient saying better.

I saw that at this time, his stepmother Zhuang Mi reeling silk is still room temperature water, and there are three pots of hands, that is, many times to soak the cocoon into the water, in addition, in the process of reeling silk, but also 'where the reeling, every drowned and hand vibrate', why do you have to 'hand vibrate', because there is a glue in the cocoon, the silk is glued together to form a cocoon, if you do not use water to dissolve the glue in the cocoon, so as to degum, the silk is not easy to separate.

And I have to say that the silk reeling at this time is still a step-by-step process, the first step is to soak in water, open the cocoon, take out the dead silkworms in the cocoon, and destroy the stickiness between the silks, and the second step, there is another group of people, with a spindle, to roll up the silk.

In Qin Xin's book, these two steps of work can be completed by one person, that is to the prosperous Song Dynasty, there is a kind of pedal reeling car, the structure of the reeling car, there is a kettle in front, used to boil hot water to kill silkworms and dissolve the glue in the silkworm cocoon, the temperature is 80 degrees, if there is no thermometer, it is appropriate to see the bubbles the size of crab eyes, the back of the hot kettle is the body of the reeling car, a roller, this roller is driven by pedals, the advantage of this method over the previous is that people can sit in front of the hot kettle, after cooking the cocoon, As long as you find the silk head of the cocoon and pull it apart a little, you can use the foot pedal to rotate the roller to complete the whole process of silk reeling.

In other words, use both hands and feet.

"Why is Zizhi so free to visit today?" After Zhuang Mi completed the symbolic work of silkworm reeling this autumn, he asked Qin Xin enthusiastically.

At this time, Meng Zheng was also beside him, but Meng Zheng had never been good at raising silkworms and weaving silk. She just followed her husband over to see what was going on.

"Nothing, I just want to come and see." Qin Xin said so in his mouth, but in fact, he was already a little nervous about this aspect in his heart. After all, after knowing that unless he can move out of the entire modern silk reeling production line, if he wants to improve the efficiency of silk reeling, he will ultimately have to rely on manpower, the most primitive method, and there are not too many shortcuts, what he can do next is to rely on step by step to initially improve the efficiency of silk reeling.

After visiting the whole process, Qin Xin took a few silkworm cocoons back, said a word to his stepmother, and left.

Next...... Qin Xin needed a few carpenters.

……

Knowing that Qin Xin had entered Shangcai City and had taken away a few skilled carpenters, everyone's eyes in Shangcai suddenly became more concerned about Qin Xin.

In the mansion of a doctor, several people who have a relationship with colleagues and friends in the officialdom, as well as relatives with uncles and uncles, started to discuss.

"I heard that the son-in-law finally made a move."

"But just picking a few carpenters from the hundreds of craftsmen, it doesn't seem like a big deal, right?"

"That's right, I said that you were too worried before, his position is the chief of 100 workers, at best, there are only 100 workers, although he is valued by the king, and he is inexplicably made a sergeant, but thinking about it, it can't affect the overall situation of Cai Guo."

"This can't be said that although the population of Zhengyi is not more than 10,000, and there are more women than men, if you can really gather people, it is also a force that cannot be underestimated."

"I always think that this will be because the king thinks that there are not many people who are credible to him now, but at least, the Zheng family is still credible. That's why he gave it to the other sergeant as a woo. ”

"Anyway, let's see the situation first."

Meanwhile......

Cai Hou's side also received the news very quickly. However, because the person was taken away directly, he didn't know what Qin Xin was going to do. You can only wait for those carpenters to be put back by Qin Xin before you can understand it again.

After returning to Zhengyi, Qin Xin set the size and asked different people to work together to complete different parts of the reeling car. At the same time, we also worked together to solve the problem of foot transmission.

After a small experiment of half a month......

A brand-new small pedal reeling cart appeared in a secret room.

But if it doesn't work, you'll have to try it to find out.

Next, Qin Xin remembered that the silkworm cocoons were cooked first, and then reeled silk in a cold basin, commonly known as the "cold basin silk reeling method", although the silk reeling could also be completed in a hot kettle, but the temperature, after all, was difficult to control, and the ancient text was: cold basin silk is the top, and fire silk is second. …… The silk of water is the silk reeled by the cold basin, shrewd and brilliant, tough and colorful. The silk is the best grade, and the splendid leno is also said.

When the reeling cart turned, there was a squeaky sound, and the silk obediently rolled itself in a circle......

Meng Zheng, Zhuang Mi, and several other stepmothers all looked at Qin Xin with their mouths open.

As for the carpenters who had already been sent back by Qin Xin...... Cai Hou asked what they had done in the past half a month, and probably they could also tell what they had done, but the role of the reeling car, to be honest, they might not necessarily know. After all, carpentry and silk reeling are two completely different industries. And the most critical part of silk reeling should be the control of water temperature.

The development of silk reeling is: room temperature water (long-term soaking) silk threading, spinning cocoon silk strands→ water (warm water) silk soaking, spinning cocoon silk strands→ boiling water boiling cocoon technology popularization→ hot kettle silk reeling method appeared, reeling car appeared→ reeling silk began to pay attention to temperature control, summed up effective methods (crab eye size bubbles are appropriate) →

The cold dish reeling method (hot water for a few minutes, then transfer to cold water) →

Even cold cuts (lost).

In this era, most of them still stop at the first two. But if the temperature is not controlled, then the efficiency of the reeling car will also slow down. As long as Qin Xin doesn't say this, even if he also has a reeling car, the efficiency of others is not as good as Zheng Yi. After all, imagine that one person is racing on a dirt road under his feet, while the other is a regular track. Now, all Qin wants to do is to quickly follow the research of the reeling car as a template, first make dozens of frames, the efficiency of silk reeling has been improved, and it will also be of great benefit to the efficiency improvement of textiles in the future. After all, to weave, silk reeling is a step that can never be bypassed.

"Husband, this thing!" Meng Zheng.

"It's called the reeling car."