Chapter 175: Interests come first
The arrival of the half-elves injected new life into the territory, and after hearing that there were master weavers among the half-elves, Suren immediately ordered the establishment of a weaving factory.
The amount of cotton originally planted in the territory has also doubled, originally planted cotton to make cotton clothes, and now Su Lun has a new plan, making cotton cloth, you must know that although silk is smooth and comfortable, but the price is too high, cotton cloth is also a high-end cloth, and it is more popular in the north, its warmth effect is better.
In addition to the need for skilled workers, the establishment of a weaving factory also requires professional looms, there are not many looms in the territory, the weaving efficiency is not high, and the woven cloth has large gaps. Su Lun looked at the loom in front of him, this is a single spindle spinning wheel, which can only spin one silk cotton at the same time.
And the textile technology used by the half-elves now is already a three-spindle spinning wheel, which can spin three silk wools at the same time, not to mention the others, and the efficiency alone has been increased by three times.
After studying the structure of the looms, Suren upgraded the existing looms.
Possessing the powerful skill of machine control, Su Lun knew these machines well, and after talking to several master weavers for a while, Su Lun modified these looms on their suggestion.
The technology of the three-spindle spinning wheel is not difficult, to put it bluntly, as long as you understand the principle, you can easily make it. In many cases, it's not that technology can't do it, but that thinking has fallen into a misunderstanding. After figuring out the problems of these looms, Suren first made a three-spindle loom machine.
If you can spin three spindles at a time, why not add more? Finally, after some transformation, Sulun succeeded in making a loom that can spin five spindles at a time and a textile machine that can spin nine spindles.
The structure of the five-spindle loom is not difficult, and the three-spindle loom is about the same, and the structure of the nine-spindle loom is much more complicated, and the five-spindle loom has been essentially different.
The efficiency of the nine-spindle loom is already comparable to that of the Jenny spinning machine in the early stage of the industrial revolution. As for making a loom that can spin more spindles, Suren has no plans to do so for the time being. It is true that it can be produced in the future, but this era is not the highly prosperous society of the previous life.
Too much production will directly cause the price of cotton cloth to fall, which is not good news for Suren. The production level of this world is only the level of the Middle Ages, the consumer market is limited, and the appearance of a large number of cotton cloth will directly lead to a decline in the price of cotton cloth.
When a large number of cotton cloth is on the market, but the market has not expanded, the price of cotton cloth will directly plunge. The more powerful and efficient the loom that Su Lun finally put his heart to, the more the price of cotton cloth fell, and the final result was likely to be that cotton cloth became a commodity that ordinary people could buy and sell at will.
Cotton cloth, which could have been easily profitable, had to be turned into a small profit. In the same way, the increase in the production of cotton cloth will also lead to an increase in the range of cotton planting, and the price of cotton will also rise, which will further compress the profits of cotton cloth.
Of course, in this way, the common people will get a lot of benefits, such as after the price of cotton cloth comes down, they will also wear it, but what does this have to do with Su Lun? So the best technology is not the best choice, he doesn't want to turn luxury goods into cabbage, that will not benefit him.
Many times technology is not stronger is better, but economic benefits need to be considered.
In order to prevent the technology of the textile machine from leaking, Suren deliberately used the most complex structure of the nine-spindle loom, and the nine-spindle loom also has the advantage of requiring a small number of weavers. The smaller the number of people, the lower the risk of leakage, the technology of the nine-spindle loom is very complex, and it is very difficult to steal the school.
[New Textile Machine: After the improvement and upgrading, the efficiency and quality have been improved by leaps and bounds, with work efficiency +30, quality +10, output +40, strong and durable +15, and serious work +15]
With a new type of textile machine, the weaving mill was built quickly, but there were some problems with the time when the weaving factory was established, at this time it was completely green and yellow, the cotton had not been planted, the ice and snow had not melted, and the business road had not been opened.
However, although there is no cotton, there are many flax, ramie, jute and other plants growing in the wasteland, and the half-elves often collect these plants and weave them into cloth.
Moreover, some linen cloth is no worse than cotton cloth, just like fine linen and ramie cloth that has been woven by a master is very comfortable to wear, and many churches use fine linen and ramie cloth to make clothes.
Some churches have a rule that prohibits wearing cotton and silk and other clothing, which originally meant that church members should wear ordinary linen to sharpen their will, but instead of cotton and silk, they wear fine linen and ramie.
The land outside the north of the town has been reclaimed in large quantities, and more than 100 cultivated cattle have all been pulled out to cultivate the land.
Barbarians are not humans, especially those barbarian warriors, who help to train when they are idle, these barbarian warriors can easily suppress those bison and make them have to act according to the will of the barbarians.
After being cleaned up several times, these bison have become qualified ploughing cattle, but more than 100 ploughing cattle, it is basically unrealistic to cultivate 50,000 acres of land, and in many cases can only use manpower. After defeating the orc alliance, a large number of orc slaves, gnolla slaves, goblins, and bear goblins were captured, and these slaves were used to cultivate the land.
Outside the north of the town, there is a simple sewage treatment plant, where all the sewers and drains are gathered, Su Lun is wearing a mask at this time, directing the apprentices to make farm fertilizer, in addition to domestic sewage, there are feces and other excrement, and even the cow dung, horse dung and sheep dung in the territory are collected and sent here.
In addition to a few humans, there are more goblins and kobolds here, and the manure is fermented and then processed with a few processes, and it is made into farmhouse fertilizer, although the fertility of these farmhouse fertilizers is not as good as chemical fertilizer, but the effect is not bad, coupled with the effect of the harvest altar, the land yield of Zhenbei City will definitely rise sharply this year
Only half of the newly opened land is used to grow food, and the rest is usually grown with a variety of crops, such as soybeans, sesame, ramie, fine flax, sugar beets, cotton, and so on.
In addition to potatoes, wheat and barley are planted in the grain part, and the brewery in the north of the town is trying to make various grains for sake brewing, and he is going to make some high-strength wine, which is more popular in the cold weather in the north.
After this year, there will definitely be more food in Zhenbei City, and these grains will deteriorate and become moldy after a long time, so the best way is to sell or consume them, and the excessive delivery of food from the northern wasteland to humans does not need to be thought about to know, it will definitely be a loss, but it can be sold to some tribes in the wasteland who are willing to make friends with Zhenbei City, such as the centaur tribe. Speaking of which, Suren hadn't seen the little mare for a while, and he didn't know how she was doing.
If the operation is done well, Suren will soon be able to use grain to pull up an alliance in the wasteland, in addition to selling grain, wine is also a major consumer of grain, and the price of wine is much higher than that of grain. The other races of the wasteland also like to drink, but because of the food production, the wine is more precious, and even if it is sold to Carthusian City, it has a lot of income.
There are two kinds of liquor in this world, one is wine, which is aimed at the aristocratic class. One is ale wine, for ordinary people, the rum produced by Su Lun with waste honey is also for the nobility, the sales of low-end rum are not good, those mercenaries and caravan guards feel that it is too light, this kind of wine is more popular in the southern provincial capitals, but the channels of Zhenbei City cannot be extended there.
For oat barley and potato brewing, there are attempts in the brewing workshop, if you want to brew a high number of alcohol, you need to distill, the distillation vessel is not very difficult to make, the only problem is sealing, but in this magical world, there are many ways to solve the sealing problem.
These techniques need to be slowly explored and tested, many times a lot of the knowledge that Su Lun brought from his previous life can not be used in this world, just a few years ago, Su Lun has practiced a lot, such as black powder, a big killing weapon, Su Lun was also made according to the proportion, but the result is that black powder cannot explode in this world.
There is a kind of black powder in this world, called dwarf gunpowder, the specific formula Su Lun does not know, the dwarves strictly keep the secret and do not leak it, it is said that the cost of this gunpowder is very high. Of course, there is another reason, the high-level professionals in this world are too strong, and the power of dwarven gunpowder is not as strong as imagined. At least a single fireball explosion of wizards is more powerful than a barrel of dwarven gunpowder.
Su Lun was very busy during this time, and thanks to his hard work, a large number of fertile fields were reclaimed, irrigation facilities outside the territory were gradually improved, farm manure fermentation plants were built, weaving factories were established, and the oak forest in the north of the town also grew very well.
Miss Chrissy is also very busy during this time, Suren has entrusted the affairs of the Consulate to her, and at the same time, in order to improve her strength, she will find time to go to the training ground every day to train dodge, and she has made great progress during this time.
The weaving factory is also entrusted to her to be in charge, Chrissy is still learning all kinds of management knowledge, the little maid's studious attitude is worth encouraging, he really needs a competent maid master.
At present, Chrissy is still very capable, but in the future, Suren's strength will become stronger and stronger, and there will be more and more things in the territory, and Chrissy will definitely not be able to take care of it alone, and Suren needs to recruit some more maids to share her pressure.