There are many types of food and clothing, and there are different expectations at different times.

Lawrence walked into the tool room with a pile of wood, followed by a slender and energetic blonde girl who was 1.65 meters tall.

Sophia was the first beauty Lawrence had ever seen, even more beautiful than Helen at the beginning.

At the beginning, it was a lot of hard work in the manor, and it was an energetic adolescence, and at the same time, in contrast to a group of expired barbarian women, as long as the foreign beauty who did not work was a little cleaner and had bigger breasts, she would definitely be a beauty.

Later, when I saw Helen again, I felt very ordinary, and even felt that her chest was a little collapsed, her face was a little yellow, and her waist was a lot thicker.

Beautiful women are all raised, and Lawrence not only has to maintain his own health, but also helps Sophia and others maintain their beauty for a longer time.

The first is beautiful clothes, which are the biggest elevation of beauty and the main source of temperament.

"Sophia, today we're going to make a carousel for easy spinning, and a carder that can break up the wool."

Sophia nodded and said, "Yes, master!" How can I help? ”

Lawrence didn't want Sophia to touch the axe, hammer and nails, the girl was not fit for this kind of manual work.

"You just sit or stand aside and rest, and when you rest, help me sense the people and animals around me, and if anyone comes near you tell me."

Sophia responded obediently, "Yes, master!" Sophia got it! ”

Lawrence sat on a stool and began to work, the wooden tenon structure could be built without nails, but nails were built to save trouble, and Lawrence no longer had to go through the trouble of punching holes to save nails.

The wooden wheel was simple, and Lawrence first made the spinning wheel and then the carder.

The wool is sifted and the bloody wool is removed, as well as the dirty wool with feces and dirt.

The rest of the wool is also divided into black wool and white wool, black wool is suitable for black clothes and coats, gloves and hats, and white wool is suitable for white clothes, especially underwear and the like.

Lawrence drove more than a dozen nails into a plank, then flipped the board over so that the side full of nails was facing upwards.

In the same way, another plank was made, but the slight difference was that this board was slightly curved.

Lawrence compared the positions of the two pegboards so that the nails of the two pegboards could cross each other.

Then a wooden frame was made, so that the top nail board could be fixed, so that the top nail board could easily swing, and the top nail could easily pass through the bottom nail board.

Placing clumps of wool on the bottom pegboard, Lawrence tried to separate them with a card.

It was a little strenuous, but with the push again and again, some wool like cotton was also pushed to both sides of the card.

Sophia sat on a chair and looked at the place, and only after Lawrence had tested it did she ask, "Master, isn't it easier to use a comb for this?" ”

Lawrence explained: "It's pretty much the same, it's actually quite quick to get people to divide the wool by hand, but it's easier to save trouble." ”

At this stage, a skilled worker must be worthy of these wooden equipment that is not easy to use.

Due to the relationship between population and area, and the large number of idle women under his command, the use of labor is the wisest choice at this stage.

Lawrence only planned to develop some textile equipment that was in line with the current situation, such as the traditional hand-cranked textile wheel.

Even the spindle, without spindles and shuttles, was too advanced for the era, especially the barbarian women in the neighborhood, who Lawrence felt preferred to make woolen sweaters by hand.

The simpler the textile tool, the greater the improvement of the current simple textile technology.

Lawrence thought about how to get his housewives familiar with the tools as quickly as possible, and made another spinning pendant.

The structure is a hollow round piece of wood with a small stick that allows the wool thread to be wound around it.

The working principle of the spinning pendant is to turn the lever with one hand and pull the fiber with the other hand.

The simpler the tool, the less time it takes to learn, the easier it is to get started, and the easier it is to accept and promote, so the easier it is to improve efficiency.

The whole process of sorting wool and pulling loose wool into wool is so simple that even in very early antiquity, it can be quickly mastered.

This kind of work is very suitable for women, and it is also suitable for the boring pastime of the long eternal night, when people feel that time flies quickly, and they do not need to use their brains.

Lawrence was researching how to make tools easier and safer when Sophia suddenly looked out the door.

"Master, Sariel is here."

"I'm here." Saliel walked in curiously and said with a suspicious expression, "Are you stealing something?" ”

Sophia explained: "No, it was the master who asked me to practice witchcraft, depending on what I said. ”

"Oh! Come on, Sophia! Sariel smiled and encouraged, then walked over to Lawrence, who was working, "Lawrence, I asked, and found that we may not have enough wool. ”

Before Lawrence could speak, Sophia asked, "How can it not be enough?" Thousands of pounds! ”

"I asked several women, and they all said that each of them needed more than 60 pounds of wool to make clothes. ”

Lawrence raised his head and said directly: "Impossible, I have calculated this matter, our sheep can't support this number at all!" ”

Saliel argued, "That's what Emma and Bull said, don't believe me to call them over!" ”

Seeing that Salil was going to call someone, Lawrence stopped her, "No, I know what's going on." ”

Saliel paused to look at Lawrence, curiously waiting for an answer.

Lawrence explains: "They're talking about fur, and if you count the wool sheepskin, it doesn't really take that much, and it's fifteen pounds of wool per person a year, which is an algorithm that takes into account wear and tear and the extreme cold climate on our side." ”

A thick wool coat is a must-have warm clothing for every man, and this one alone costs more than eight pounds of wool.

"We have enough wool now, about eight hundred and sixty if we don't count the foresters, including the newly purchased slaves and the people of the ferry port, and the newborn babies."

"In addition to wool, we have linen and sheepskin coats, and everyone can have a new garment, and the men and warriors of the estate can even have two or three."

Saril breathed a sigh of relief and said happily, "That's good! Then we can raise more sheep ourselves, so that we don't have to buy other people's wool, and we have to sell wool ourselves to make a lot of money! ”

Lawrence smiled: "No, the flock of sheep on the manor can no longer continue to expand, and it will stop when it reaches a hundred." ”

Saliel looked at Lawrence with a frown, "Why is that?" ”

Lawrence had thought about this a long time ago.

Human power is always limited and cannot violate objective laws.

The northern territory is not suitable for growing grain and not suitable for farming, this is the natural law of the northern territory.

"One of our sheep needs 700 kilograms of forage a year, which is about 90 acres of grass, or three times as much bush."

"Think about the range of activities, how long it takes to travel in a straight line from our manor to ten acres of land, and we don't have grass here, most of the area is farmland and buildings, or waterways and rocks."

"Especially in winter, when there were few sheep that could afford to feed them, once there were too many of them and they were concentrated, we had to feed the grain."

"Buying wool from outside is the most cost-effective thing than raising our own sheep, and we only need to raise a small number of goats and sheep in the lower forests and nearby manor towns, mainly for goat milk and mutton."

Sariel thinks Lawrence is so powerful, he sees so far away, he is worthy of being a crow prophet who can predict!

"Hmmm! Then let's cut down more trees and exchange wood for wool! "Sariel thinks it's still a lot of money, they have very, very much wood.

Lawrence felt that this matter was also important, "Yes, in the future, it is forbidden for the rest of the people to cut down oak at will, and it is the same in the village of Uge, which must be allowed by us and pay taxes. ”

"These trees are our property, including everything in the mountains, forests, rivers and seas, even if it is a bird flying in the sky, the feathers it falls are ours! So is the dung! ”

Saliel happily agreed, "That's right! It's all ours! ”

(End of chapter)