Episode 633: [Cotton Deseeding]

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Master Lu is still dressed in the same clothes, a cyan seven-rank official shirt.

Next to him, there was a wooden thing, like a round barrel, and with the shaking of Master Lu's hand, the barrel inside seemed to be turning.

It's just that it's far away, and I don't know what's inside.

Hearing the footsteps outside, Master Lu turned his head and saw that Li Chengqian and Duan Lun were back, and hurriedly saluted.

Li Chengqian waved his hand.

The person Duan Lun said came up with a way to come up didn't tell him just now, and now that he sees Master Lu here, it can't be Master Lu who came up with it, right?

He looked at Duan Lun, and Duan Lun said: "Your Highness, since you ordered it, let the minister go to find the person who deseeded the method, Carpenter Lu learned about it, and he devoted himself to research, and finally came up with this method today, after the test of the minister and Carpenter Lu, he was able to separate the cotton from the cotton seeds!" ”

"Okay, Master Lu is really smart!" Li Chengqian boasted, "I don't know how you did this deseeding?" ”

Master Lu said: "Your Highness, this is not done by the minister alone, it depends on Brother Blacksmith Zhang, and Lu Mou can make this deseeding bucket!" ”

As he spoke, a voice sounded outside: "You let one, let one!" ”

Hearing this, many people outside got out of the way.

Li Chengqian heard the sound and seemed to be coming this way, turned his head to look, and saw that two barrels were moving in this direction, and it was obvious that someone was coming in with buckets.

He hurriedly got out of the way.

It was Blacksmith Zhang who came in, and after he put the bucket down, he saw Li Chengqian. Hurriedly saluted.

After Li Chengqian answered, he asked, "These two barrels are too?" ”

"Oh, Your Highness is talking about this deseeding bucket? Yes. They are all the same as the buckets that Brother Lu brought before, but I am afraid that one will not be enough. So two more were processed, and at the speed of three barrels, the seeds of this pile of white stacks could be taken off in half a day! Zhang Jiangjiang said.

Li Chengqian asked: "What kind of action principle is this, you tell me!" ”

Under the explanation and demonstration of Master Lu and Blacksmith Zhang, Li Chengqian understood the principle of this deseeding barrel.

It is a barrel that holds a small cylindrical barrel that can be rotated, and the outside of this small barrel is serrated around the outside.

The large barrels are divided into two sides and separated by wooden planks.

While the cotton with seeds is placed, it is empty. The barrel on the side of the seeded cotton had a mesh of iron on the side near the small wooden barrel.

When you start working. When a person turns a small wooden barrel, when his feet are turning, his hand can pick up a handful of cotton, and then put it into the large wooden barrel, and then stick it to the mesh iron sheet, and then the cotton that pokes its head out of the mesh is bitten away by the serrations of the small wooden barrel, and the mesh is smaller than the cotton seed, so the cotton seed cannot pass. So when the cotton in his hand was almost bitten, only the seeds remained!

And after the small wooden barrel had bitten the cotton here, the empty wooden barrel on this side, the sawtooth suddenly took in. The cotton was blocked by the barrel planks and fell outside the big barrel.

It's strange how the small barrel turns to this side of the cotton. But it will reach out and bite the cotton, and when it reaches the other side, it will retract and spit out the cotton?

He took another barrel that wasn't used yet. Take it apart and take a look.

Inside the small wooden barrel was a jagged iron cylinder. It is not coaxial with the small wooden barrel, but is close to the side of the mesh iron, so when it turns, the side close to the mesh will stick out the serrations, and when it reaches the other side, it will be retracted.

Master Lu operated the seeding bucket alone, and after a while, a small handful of seedless cotton was produced.

Li Chengqian picked it up and looked at it, and sure enough, he didn't bring any seeds!

He praised, "Well, that's so smart! ”

He looked at Duan Lun and said, "Give the reward promised before to the two craftsmen!" In the future, this deseeding bucket will be used to deseed cotton! ”

"Thank you, Your Highness the Prince!" Master Lu and Blacksmith Zhang said, Master Lu said at this time: "Your Highness, this deseeding barrel still has many shortcomings, such as this cotton can be deseeded, but it will leave a lot of cotton left in the seeds, and there is no way to clean it all." In the future, the ministers will study more carefully and study the deseeding bucket more carefully, so as to remove the seeds more cleanly! ”

"Okay, if you have this intention, you deserve to be rewarded, I hope you can make persistent efforts in the future and invent the seeding bucket better!" Li Chengqian said to them.

The next way to remove seeds is to spin the cotton into thread, and then make it into cloth, and then make the cloth into clothes, see how the quality of the clothes is, and let Lao Li promote the planting of cotton when the clothes come out.

Li Chengqian did not know the technology of cotton spinning.

But he doesn't have to worry about this, the Tang Dynasty already has mature technology in this area, and Duan Lun will let people start work that day.

A few days later, Li Chengqian received the clothes sent by Duan Lun, and they were indeed made of cotton!

100% cotton!

Li Chengqian touched it, it was really good.

Now that the clothes are out, Li Chengqian discussed it with Duan Lun, and then after preparing to fill it, he took the clothes and went to see Lao Li.

Lao Li touched the clothes sent by Li Chengqian, and listened to Li Chengqian's cooperation with Duan Lun below, introducing the drought-tolerant and easy-to-grow cotton planting advantages, not taking advantage of the planting of fertile land, and the quality advantage of cotton made of clothes.

Clothing, food, housing and transportation, clothing is ranked first in people's needs, which shows the importance of clothing to people.

When Lao Li heard that his son had new fabric raw materials, he paid attention to it.

Touching this clothes, it turned out that he went to watch it twice a year, and before going to see it this year, he was told that the cotton had been picked by Li Chengqian, and he never thought that the cotton originally called Bai Diezi could be made into such a good clothes.

After Li Chengqian and Duan Lun finished speaking, Lao Li smiled, first praised Li Chengqian and Duan Lun's words, and affirmed the value of Li Chengqian and Duan Lun's cotton clothes, and then said: "Regarding the promotion and planting of cotton, I will immediately notify the ministers of the three provinces to come to discuss and make every effort to promote this matter, and Chengqian and Aiqing will carry out this matter!" ”

"Thank you, Father!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After the two saluted, they left room for Lao Li to discuss with the ministers!

Li Chengqian waited for two days, but he didn't see Duan Lun coming to him about this matter, let alone telling him about the cotton promotion plan, which made Li Chengqian curious.

He didn't go to the Ministry of Industry to find Duan Lun, didn't Master Lu get that seeding bucket in the Ministry of Industry recently?

Although most of the cotton has been deseeded, a small part of the cotton is still left for Master Lu and the others to use for experiments. It's good to ask Lu Dashi for news!

…… (To be continued.) )