Chapter 155: Alternative Technologies
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Zhao Luan was excited and restless about Mao Geng's mention of Mao Geng at the first time, and even had the urge to report to the imperial court immediately.
But after all, Zhao Lu has been with Mao Geng for so long, and he has somewhat cultivated a rigorous attitude:
"Mao Geng, can Hokkaido really raise horses? We must pay attention to science in our decision-making. Talking about science is what you advocate, you can't pat your head to do things, raising horses, especially shepherding war horses, is a big matter, you can't be careless. Are you sure, can Hokkaido really breed horses? I'm talking about shepherding war horses. ”
Mao Geng's tireless emphasis on scientific attitude on various occasions not only affected Jiang Ang, the disciples of the Mao family, but also affected Zhao Luan, Zhao Lian and Jiang Ang built ships together, and over time, they also had a little scientific attitude. Today's Zhao Lian often talks about his scientific attitude.
The Great Song Dynasty lost a large area of land in the north, and since then there has been no territory for horse herding, which has always been a heart disease of the Great Song Dynasty, without excellent war horses, it is not easy to succeed in the Northern Expedition, if you can open up a first-class horse ranch overseas, it can be called a miracle feat.
Obviously, Zhao Luan has matured a little, and although he is impulsive, he still does not forget to ask Mao Geng to demonstrate the feasibility of raising horses in Hokkaido. Economically it seems to be feasible, Zhao said, and the technical feasibility needs to be demonstrated.
Mao Gengxin said, Hokkaido was an important base for raising military horses in Japan in later generations, and Oriental horses were successfully bred in Hokkaido, and until the 21st century, Hokkaido is still the world's famous ** center, and it is also the world's famous horse racing production area.
However, the Japanese horse breed of this era was not worth boasting about, and the best horse breed was the Mongolian horse called the Kiso horse.
Mao Geng stubbornly searched for the understanding of Beihai in his mind, so he had to introduce the climate of Hokkaido:
"The climate of Hokkaido, similar to the climate difference in Liaodong, after a while, it will be the coldest season, even if it is the northernmost part of Hokkaido, the coldest time, the lowest temperature is only minus 30 degrees, I think that Huo Qu was sick and sealed the wolf Juxu, the wolf Juxu Mountain is colder than the coldest place in Hokkaido, and the wolf Juxu Mountain is a good place to raise horses, it can be seen that from the climate, it can be determined that Hokkaido is a good place to herd horses."
Mao Geng had a plan to travel to Hokkaido in his previous life, and he had some understanding of the climate of Hokkaido, and the minimum temperature in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, was never lower than minus 15 degrees, and it was still the lowest temperature recorded at night, and it should not be lower than minus 10 degrees during the day. However, this era is the Xiaoice period, and the temperature is really difficult to say, but with the daytime temperature of minus six degrees reported in Hokkaido last time, it seems that no matter how low it is, it cannot be lower than three or five degrees. Wolf Juxu Mountain is in Mongolia, and no matter how cold Hokkaido is, it is warmer than Mongolia. None of you here know what minus 30 degrees is, but Hokkaido is not as cold as Mt. Wolfi, and that is undoubted.
In fact, the temperature is still second, the main thing is to have a good horse breed, so Mao Geng asked:
"Lord Han, I asked you to buy the ** from the big food merchant last time, I don't know when it will arrive."
"Just recently, I heard Puqu boast about how amazing the ** over there is, I want to see what is so strange about the horses that are transported!"
Mao Gengxin said, this does not need you to verify, as long as they are not inferior ** shoddy, the Arabian ** shipped is impeccable, and the famous Oriental horse in later generations is the result of the breeding of the majestic Arabian horse and the Mongolian bloodline horse.
As soon as Zhao Lian heard this, he immediately realized something:
"You mean, what Arabian horses were brought here for breeding? Then, the horse after breeding can beat the war horse of the Jin Kingdom, right? ”
"Congratulations on getting it right!"
"That's right. Well, you have to come up with some gifts! ”
Mao Gengxin said that the bicycle is given away for free, and the tunic is not right! I changed the name of it to riding clothes, and riding clothes are also free gifts, what else can I give!
"When Hokkaido brings back whale liver oil, how about sending the best whale liver oil to Kokuko?"
Whale liver oil is a high-grade supplement, and Mao Geng feels that giving Zhao Lu is enough to express his heart. However, Zhao Lu shook his head and said:
"Mao Geng, your sister-in-law thinks that my ship's riding costume is very powerful, and the workmanship is much stronger than that of a hand-tailor, and your sister-in-law thinks that you have the ability to design a kind of women's clothing, how about it? Just take the silk and linen from me, and send two sets of women's clothes in a few days! Remember to use buttons, not belts. ”
What else can Mao Geng say! The Duchess asked for two sets of women's clothes by name, aren't you satisfied!
"Guogong, it's okay for you to wear this riding costume when you ride a bicycle, but if you let the Duchess of Guo wear a similar fancy dress, I'm afraid it's inappropriate!" , also 6 Jiuyuan is more traditional, and there are still a few complaints about Zhao Luan being too avant-garde.
Zhao Yan smiled and replied:
"6 sir, when Zhao Wuling King Hu Fu rode and shot, so that Zhao was able to compete with Qiang Qin for a time, I think this riding is not only convenient for riding a bicycle, but also convenient for riding a war horse, it has great promotion value, I will demonstrate, it can play a better role than ordinary people. As for the Duchess of the Kingdom, it is reasonable to do her part for the promotion, right! ”
Zhao Lian quoted the classics, and immediately corrected the name of the strange costume.
This time, Mao Geng couldn't push it anymore.
Strictly speaking, Mao Geng has never thought of competing for business with the textile and garment industry of the Great Song Dynasty in terms of clothing, but because of labor safety and management, Mao Geng had to enter the garment industry.
With the exhibition of industry, Mao Geng had a strict problem when he tried to make lathes, that is, the traditional clothing of the Great Song Dynasty was not suitable as tooling, because the clothes of this era were tied to the body by the clothes belt, and the so-called wide clothes were untied when undressing. When entering an organic qì place, it is best to have no clothes on your body, because clothes and belts will affect safe production.
In the end, as a last resort, Mao Geng decided to make his own tooling. The tooling of later generations has been tested by time, and it can be copied and changed.
In order to make tooling, it is unimaginable to sew one by one by hand, so Mao Geng had to take three people to design a sewing machine, among these three people, including Tan Xiaochun and Wu Biaoyong, and another is also a reformer, who was born as a tailor, called Fang Gengshu.
In his previous life, Mao Geng went to a sewing machine factory for an internship, and he was quite familiar with the principle of the sewing machine.
This work began as early as the time of Lin'an, Mao Geng began trial production from Penghu, and Tan Xiaochun made a large model of zuò wood for repeated simulation - the whole process is the process of knotting and locking the upper and lower threads under the fabric. First, the needle is not threaded at the back end, but punched and threaded at the front end of the needle tip, when sewing the fabric, the needle drags the upper thread through the fabric, and there is a notched ring at the bottom to match, and the notched ring has a fork hook that will hook the random needle through the thread of the fabric, after the ring turns around, just tie a knot with another thread below, and then the fabric advances and enters the next cycle of threading the needle lead and knotting and locking, so that reciprocating, the machine can be sewn.
The first generation of sewing machines made by Mao Geng is relatively bulky, but it is okay to use, but the requirements for thread are relatively high, and only high-quality silk thread can be used for sewing.
The problem of the sewing machine was solved, that is, the problem of buttons, and there were garments that used wooden buttons in this era, but the wooden buttons were not durable and unsightly. It's not difficult to use copper buttons, but copper is tight, and it's really terrible to use it on buttons. However, the button system is not difficult for Mao Geng, because the construction of the national government to develop the rubber industry, the production of leather glue, bone glue and fish maw glue, these glue let Mao Geng feel the charm of the glue industry in this era, the industrial foundation of the Great Song Dynasty is not bad!
Subsequently, these glues suddenly became Mao Geng's industrial raw materials, not only used for cod liver oil gel coating, but also used by Mao Geng in the production of buttons.
Nowadays, the most high-end buttons have the texture of plastic buttons in later generations, and in many people's feelings, these buttons are like they are made of jade, but unlike jade, jade will break when you fall, but this button will not be broken no matter how you fall.
In this era, plastic dare not think, and rubber trees are still in the Americas. In the previous life, I heard that there was Eucommia ulmoides rubber, but it was not possible for Mao Geng to vulcanize the elastomer of Eucommia rubber at this stage. Mao Geng also tried to extract Eucommia ulmoides gum, which is also a natural polymer material native to China, but there are not many Eucommia ulmoides trees, and most of them are used to make medicinal materials.
Therefore, Mao Geng can only try his best to lead some alternative technologies.
Buttons are one of those products that are produced using alternative technologies.
The tires also use gelatin, although the performance of the tires produced is limited, the elasticity is insufficient, and the life is limited, but there is finally a tire with elasticity, which greatly improves the riding comfort of the carriage.
Mao Geng walked out of the country, sat in the carriage, and thought all the way, combined with the current era, what women's clothing can be handled.
Before he returned to the Special Mansion, he met the person who reported the news, and reported that Su Zhiyan's boat had arrived at the port.