The cotton seeds bought from the hands of the business traveler Fan's family have been harvested this year.

This year, 50,000 acres of cotton were planted, with a yield of 300 kilograms per mu, totaling 15 million kilograms.

These cottons are all grown in the lord's mansion and belong to the lord.

Lin Yuan now urgently needs to spin so much cotton into spindles, and then spin them into cotton cloth.

The price of a piece of cotton cloth is three times that of linen.

So much cotton, all spun and woven into cloth, is a huge amount of input.

Moreover, cotton also helps to improve the living environment of the people in the south, making quilts and jackets, so that they no longer have to worry about being frozen to death in winter.

But with so much cotton, advanced looms are necessary.

So, Lin Yuan directly summoned the great carpenter Zhu Youxiao back from Dahongshan and asked him to upgrade and improve the existing spinning machine.

Zhu Youxiao saw that it was a carpentry challenge, and he was immediately interested.

was so busy that he forgot to sleep and eat, and he didn't close his eyes for 2 days in a row, and he finally upgraded the traditional textile machine.

The original two-spindle spinning machine was slow, but he directly upgraded it to a sixteen-spindle spinning machine, which increased the efficiency by eight times at once.

There is also a loom, which has also been improved by him into a pedal shuttle loom, which no longer needs to be operated by multiple people, one person sits on the loom and can run on the foot, which greatly improves the weaving efficiency.

In addition, he saw that cottonseed was very difficult to peel, so he had the idea of inventing a seed removal machine.

As long as a person turns the axle, the cottonseed falls off on its own and becomes a ball of pure cotton.

This set of textile machines is directly promoted.

Not only cotton spinning, but also spinning and spinning.

Lin Yuan can be sure that this is the beginning of industrial leather.

On August 30, people all over China received a system announcement.

"Ding! System announcement: Welcome to enter the world of Musou for 1 year, on the occasion of the 1st anniversary, the system will hold a grand auction on September 1, welcome everyone to bid, so stay tuned! ”

It turned out that it had been 1 year.

Lin Yuan recalled that 1 year ago, when he had just landed in Xiangyang City, he only defected to the Yuejia army with enthusiasm, and followed the Yuejia army to suppress bandits in Malan Mountain, but he unexpectedly obtained a village building order and recruitment order.

From then on, he became a lord.

Diligent development of the territory, within one year, he has successively leveled Suizhou, Yingzhou, Dangyunmeng, occupied Hanyang, and swallowed Hongshan, and completed the impossible cause of many people.

There is a faint momentum of the first lord in the world!

In the past 1 year, he has experienced a lot, and he has also come to the knife many times, and he has faced all kinds of dangers, which has made his originally apprehensive mind more and more mature.

Of course, in the past 1 year, many people have also been eliminated.

Not to mention far away, let's just say that the first few thousand lords in Suizhou were all eliminated.

There are fewer and fewer familiar people, and the turmoil in the world is getting bigger and bigger.

Lin Yuan also sighed when he thought about it.

I don't know how they're doing.

Since it is the 1st anniversary auction, the system will definitely release a lot of good things.

Lin Yuan unconsciously looked forward to it.

Now, all he needs to do is prepare enough money for the auction.

Of the 2 million taels of gold he brought back from Lin'an, 300,000 taels have been used to recruit talents, and 1 million taels have been placed in the treasury as a special fund for the development of the territory.

In other words, the money he could use was only 700,000 taels of gold.

This is also a very huge number, but compared with those big families and big valves, there is still no advantage.

Moreover, this auction is no longer limited to Inhumans, even NPCs know about it.

In other words, Zhao Gou, Li Qianshun and other camp emperors will also participate in the auction.

And then there are the dormant overlords.

So it's highly competitive.

Lin Yuan estimated that at this auction, there must be something very important to auction.

We can only see it then.

August 31, the day before the auction.

Once again, there was good news in the territory.

First, the golden leopard Tang Long has finally summarized and perfected the forging method of heat treatment, and it can be put into large-scale production.

In this way, all the weapons and armor under Lin Yuan's command will be re-hardened to improve the hardness and toughness of the weapons.

This measure can greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the non-commissioned officers.

However, if you want to put it into large-scale production, there is also a drawback, that is, there is not enough coal.

Lin is far away in Jingxiang, and there is not enough underground coal.

Coal furnace steelmaking requires a large amount of coal, and this lack of phase must be solved.

The places with the most coal in China are undoubtedly Datong Mansion and Pingdingshan.

It is a pity that these two places are firmly controlled by the Jin State, and it is very difficult to buy a large amount of coal from the Jin State.

Lin Yuan handed over this matter to Wang Anshi to find a way.

Another happy event was that Ling Zhen's arquebus was finally completed.

After a month of refinement and continuous improvement, Ling Zhen finally reduced the size of the barrel to the point where he could hold it in one hand.

Moreover, in order to prevent the explosion of the chamber, he cooperated with Tang Long to improve the hardness and toughness of the barrel in an all-round way.

Now, the first version of the arquebus is finally complete.

At the test site of the weapons workshop, Ling Zhen poured fine-grained iron beads into the arquebus, and poured ** into the hole at the end of the gun, pulled out the lead, and aimed at the arrow target 10 meters away.

After the fuse was ignited, with a 'bang', a puff of black smoke erupted, and four or five iron beads shot out, piercing the target 10 meters away.

"Good!"

This scene directly attracted a round of applause from the weapons workshop.

Even Zhang Yajiu, the sword-casting master, looked moved.

Lin Yuan was very satisfied.

At a distance of 10 meters, you can shoot through the target, which is already good, but it is not enough!

Just because an iron ball can shoot through a straw target doesn't mean it can shoot through iron armor.

Ling Zhen reloaded the iron bullet again, this time, aiming at a pair of light iron armor.

With a thud, the iron bullet hit the iron armor, only to deform the iron piece of the armor, and it was bounced open.

It can't hurt the inside of the iron armor at all.

Sure enough, Lin Yuan's guess was not wrong, this version of the arquebus was still too powerful and had to be improved.

However, Ling Zhen was already very powerful, and he actually advanced the arquebus by hundreds of years with just his own research.

Lin Yuan immediately pointed out a few flaws and deliberately guided him.

For example, the problem of the barrel, now after loading the bullet, it can only be fired flat or upward, how to achieve a down-turn shot?

For example, the separation of bullets and **, is it possible to learn from artillery and combine the two into one.

There is also the shape of the bullet, whether it can be borrowed from the arrow, and it is also sharpened.

For example, is the way the arquebus is ignited when it is wet, or when it rains, it fails? Is there a quicker way, such as a flint?

The research and development of muskets must be accelerated, Lin Yuan estimates that the West and the Japanese people should have developed them a long time ago, perhaps now they have reached the point of muskets.

It can't be put off any longer.

This time, the arquebus can only be said to have been developed, and then it only needs to be slightly improved, so that the bullets fired are more powerful, and they can be used in actual combat.