After capturing the Flame Spider, Richard had the spider nest searched for it and took all the eggs away.

Caught the Spider Queen, these spider eggs can hatch flame spiders.

After collecting the spider eggs, Richard sent people to dig up some nearby plants, preparing to find some mice to do experiments to see if there were any plants that could detoxify the flame spider poison?

Generally speaking, some detoxifying plants often grow near the nest of highly toxic organisms.

If an antidote plant can be found, the flame spider will be much less of a threat to humans.

At that time, there may not be a need for a magician, and ordinary people will be able to raise flame spiders.

After entering the new lair, the Flame Spider Queen was very frightened, and waited for more than ten days before slowly adapting to the environment.

In late March, there was another round of good news from the territory.

The task of developing a new type of textile machine arranged by Richard was finally successful.

The looms in the Dawn Plane are all old-fashioned looms that are very inefficient.

There is also no silkworm raising technology in this area of the Grant Kingdom, and of the three continents discovered by the Dawn Plane, only some areas on the west coast of the Divine Radiance Empire can produce silk.

Silk was transported from the Divine Radiance Empire to the Kingdom of Grant, a transportation route of more than 20,000 kilometers, resulting in silk becoming an expensive luxury.

A silk garment in Nolan costs more than eight gold coins, and silk in the province of Geda costs even more.

Under the comparison of the nobles, a silk dress often exceeded ten gold coins, which was about twenty or thirty percent more expensive than the royal capital.

Generally speaking, there is an unspoken rule in the kingdom of Grant, and those who wear silk clothes are nobles.

In the northern region, the most common are linen and cotton.

The region of the Kingdom of Grant, which is close to the Kingdom of Delong, will also grow cotton and spin cotton cloth.

In recent decades, some provinces in northern Xinjiang have also cultivated cold-tolerant cotton, and a lot of cotton cloth has appeared in the market.

Because the territory captured a lot of sheep and raised a large number of sheep, Richard planned to use wool, weave wool thread, and make sweaters, felt, and wool cloth.

The technology of textile wool thread has been studied for three or four years, and the technology has become very mature.

There is no difficulty in material selection and washing process, and the fat of wool can be washed very cleanly by using lime aqueous solution.

After the mass production of steel in Haaland's territory, it was already possible to make slender steel combs, and it became much easier to comb wool.

Using an old-fashioned spinning wheel, wool can be spun into yarn.

Although the finished product is still relatively coarse, it is not as fine as cotton. But sweaters made of wool have a very good warmth effect.

This winter, Richard is already preparing to distribute sweaters to the army on a large scale.

Six years ago, the Territory set up a quilt factory, which at that time was just a tailoring factory, making clothes for the army and serfs.

Five years ago, Richard began to organize female slaves, began to weave cotton cloth, and accumulated textile technology.

In the beginning, the efficiency was very low, and the textile technology was insufficient.

After several years of accumulation, the skills of the female textile workers in the territory have improved a lot.

But with an old-fashioned loom machine, the efficiency of weaving is far from enough.

Richard learned in his previous life that the beginning of the Industrial Revolution was textile technology.

I vaguely remember the invention of the Jenny machine, which greatly improved the efficiency of spinning.

The invention of the Jenny machine is, to put it bluntly, a brain hole problem, and there is no difficulty.

If we think of science as an infinitely tall tree, technological achievements are the fruit of this tree. Some of them are technically difficult and may never be able to pick the fruit. Some are so low that they can be picked up with a raised hand.

Jenny is a very low fruit, to put it bluntly, the spindles are arranged vertically, but to open this brain hole, it takes very good luck and talent.

The apple smashed on Newton's head, and Newton came up with the law of gravitation. If you hit an ordinary person on the head, you will only break the head.

Richard knew about the Jenny Machine, but he didn't know how it was constructed.

Although he had learned about the Industrial Revolution, Jenny machines, sheep eating people, and other historical knowledge, he had never seen an old-fashioned textile machine.

The task of researching a new type of loom can only be entrusted to the craftsmen of the territory.

After four years of continuous improvement, the craftsmen were left with tinkering with the original looms, and there was basically no progress.

Just when Richard became more and more disappointed and temporarily lost attention to textile technology, the good news suddenly came.

A carpenter named Scott accidentally kicked down the spinning wheel and found that the spinning machine was still spinning, and he immediately opened this brain hole in a flash of inspiration, arranged several spindles vertically, and drove them with a spinning wheel, and the effect was increased several times at once.

Upon hearing that Scott had succeeded in building a new spinning machine, Richard immediately granted him the status of a freeman and appointed him director of the textile mill, in charge of the wool and cotton spinning business.

There are now more than 100,000 sheep in the Haaland territory, which can shear about 100 tons of wool every year.

It takes three kilograms of woolen cloth to make a woolen dress, which can solve the clothes of more than 30,000 people.

With the expansion of sheep farming, the territory soon became self-sufficient in clothing, and in a few years it was even possible to sell woolen cloth clothes.

Richard knew in his heart that cloth was a bulk commodity, second only to food in its daily life.

Many lords in the northern Xinjiang region did not grow cotton, mastered textile technology, and needed to buy cloth from the outside world.

As long as wool textile and cotton textile are developed, they can bring a lot of income to the territory.

Haaland's territory is a mountainous territory, and the arable land is very small, so it is difficult to grow cotton on a large scale, so Richard can only increase investment in sheep breeding.

Because the price of mutton in the market is relatively expensive, the price of a live sheep of fifty or sixty catties is often three or four silver coins.

To buy tens of thousands of sheep, you need to invest 10,000 gold coins in cash.

Richard didn't have that much money, and now that there was a light in wool weaving, he had to stop slaughtering live sheep and increase the size of the flock.

As for how to solve the problem of meat in the army, it can only rely on pig breeding.

Haaland has pig farms in his territory, which have grown in size in recent years and have begun to put a lot of pork on the market.

Today's pig farms can slaughter thousands of adult pigs of more than 100 catties a year.

Supplying the pork slaughtered from the pig farms to the army was still a little insufficient, but during this time, the soldiers could only overcome it.

As for indentured slaves, freedmen, it will be difficult for them to eat the meat sold by the government for a year or two.

Because of the shortage of meat and the increasing price, many hot freedmen took bows and crossbows and chose to become part-time hunters.

Because of Richard's thin tax policy, no additional taxes were charged for hunting.

However, there is a law in the territory that prohibits hunting young beasts and pregnant female beasts, and in addition, ordinary people cannot hunt magical beast cubs, insect magic creatures, or dig magic plants.

Relying on hundreds of hunters to hunt, he barely managed to maintain the supply of meat in Haaland's territory.

It's just that this year's meat price has skyrocketed by about three times.

Some freemen who had some money to spare bought piglets and lambs from other territories and invested them in the breeding industry, taking advantage of the soaring price of meat to make a fortune.

(End of chapter)