Chapter 188 Cotton and Cotton Armor(2/2)
You old Zhang Zhong, you are in your forties, but you can still attack a teenage girl. This will happen in future generations, waiting to be put in jail.
Zhang Zhong immediately did not dare to look at Zhang Zhao. Although the fifteen-year-old girl had reached the age of marriage, the age gap between the two was too big.
He originally did not plan to marry and have children, because he had sworn in front of the Emperor in White and Princess Fengtian that he would guard Erlangjun and protect him for the rest of his life.
However, in recent years, Erlangjun has become more and more powerful and does not need the protection of his stupid old servant at all. Zhang Zhong's heart has come alive.
The idea of finding a woman to carry on the family line became stronger and stronger, and I couldn't bear to be seduced by this scheming man who was also eager to find a backer.
Under Zhang Zhao's teasing gaze, old Zhang Zhong wailed, covered his face, stumbled away with the flower cloth, and didn't even care about the wine and steamed cakes that fell on the ground.
Looking at Zhang Zhong running away, Zhang Zhao laughed loudly. The feeling of missing his loved ones just now disappeared a lot.
Guo Waner glanced at Huabu who ran away with envy. It has been almost a year. Ayiguli, the vixen, was pregnant last month. Why hasn't she done anything yet?
The warehouse was filled with snow-white cotton. After Zhang Zhao ate the steamed cakes sent by Hua Bu, he came to the warehouse in person.
Here, dozens of apprentices of all ages were gathered together. These were the ingenious people Wu Yuan'er recruited from all over.
Although Li Shengtian, the deputy king's subordinate organization, has not yet asked Zhang Zhao to establish it, Zhang Zhao has already begun to establish a civil service system based on the scale of the Central Plains Jiedushi.
Wu Yuan'er took office as the Jiedugu Yatui of Polu Prefecture and established the Yamen specializing in Miantie. Later, when the scale increased, Wu Yuan'er became the Jiedu Magistrate and was in charge of Miantie.
After everyone had arrived, Zhang Zhao began to demonstrate cotton seed removal and cotton bombing for everyone.
The deseeding tool is relatively simple and easy to master. It only requires a pressure roller.
Zhang Zhao spread the seed cotton on the pallet, rolled it with a press roller so that the fibers were pressed between the press roller and the pallet, and then started rubbing and rolling it from slow to fast until the cotton seeds were completely removed from the cotton.
Until the middle is out.
In fact, there is already a similar process, but the tools are not in Zhang Zhao's hands. This pressure roller, which is derived from the experience of later generations, is so easy to use and efficient.
But even with the pressure roller, this is still an extremely tedious and laborious task, but it is better than easy to master.
Judging from the tediousness of seed removal, it is not an easy task to promote cotton to the general public. The labor cost is too high.
But playing cotton is even more difficult. Not only is it tedious and laborious, but it is not something that can be learned in a short while.
At the same time, playing cotton requires a large wooden bow made of beef tendon. The cost of this bow alone is not cheap. In addition, wooden hammers, shovel heads, millstones, etc. are also used.
When playing, you must first hit the strings frequently with a wooden hammer to let the cotton spread on the wooden board gradually loosen.
Then two people will use yarn or other things to form a mesh on both sides of the cotton batting to fix the cotton batting.
After the gauze is finished, use a wooden disc to grind it to make it flat, solid and firm. Only then will the cotton be considered complete.
Zhang Zhao only learned it for a while when he was a teenager. He had to fumble and recall it, and his back and back ached even before he finished playing the quilt.
The people around were stunned at the wooden stools. Amidst the popping sounds, they watched the noble Vice King of the Kingdom of Jin and the governor of Polu Prefecture sweating all over his body and covered with white catkins.
This was completely beyond the imagination of people at this time. No one expected that a prince actually worked hard himself and invented this complete set of tools for playing cotton.
Among them, the former Queen of Karakhan, Cao Shi, was the most stunned. Looking at Zhang Zhao's more skillful movements and tireless explanations, she suddenly felt that this man was really so special.
Although he is ruthless and murderous without batting an eyelid, he can be so benevolent at times, and can be so condescending as to improve people's livelihood. This is simply unimaginable.
Chapter completed!