Chapter 231: The Spinning Machine and Catherine's Messenger

During this period, Jeanna would go to the wild spider forest with Pasrick every day and make the giant spiders there look dusty.

On the one hand, this is to train Jeanna's witch spells, and on the other hand, it is to clear the periphery of the Wild Spider Forest so that the sawmill can operate normally.

There are more than one hundred lumberjacks and eighty sawing workers in the sawmill today. These fir and pine trees will be made into various boards and transported to Qiumu Island by water.

Standing on the mudflats on the shore of Autumn Dusk Island, Horn stood on his horse and looked towards the lake in the rain.

Amid the drifting mist and rain, beastman laborers drove small boats, transporting pieces of wood that had been stripped of bark, sawn into short pieces, and baked to remove moisture, to the port.

At the port, several clerks and craftsmen kept checking the results and handed them salt, sugar and industrial coupons that looked like indulgences but were less valuable than indulgences.

With this industrial voucher, you can exchange it for a set of solid wood furniture at the carpenter's workshop.

This kind of industrial voucher is very popular within the Beastman United Kingdom. After all, this kind of beautiful solid wood furniture is a rare commodity.

Especially since it comes from the great Third El Empire, a foreign thing from the suzerain country.

Besides, it can be used for sitting and has practical value.

Today, Horn has absorbed a large number of beastman laborers by relying on salt, sugar and furniture. The beastman people in Nanze frequently exchange wool for furniture and handicrafts in the name of tribute trade.

Thinking of this, Horn couldn't help but sigh again, Duke Dane, you, even though you are dead, still sent me almost all kinds of handicraft workers, you are so polite.

As the residence of the Great God of the Wall, Jeanne d'Arc Castle gathers a large number of laborers from the Thousand River Valley.

These workers are not without skills. After years of working for workshop owners, they have already acquired the level of skilled workers. They just cannot obtain the guild's admission recognition and identity certificates.

The masters in the guild all have their own positions, and the positions are passed down from generation to generation. How could they give them to outsiders with unknown origins?

"Hey, the guild."

Steering his horse, Horn left the shore and ran quickly towards the Papal Palace.

After crossing the simple wooden bridge, Horn arrived in front of the Mechanical Palace.

Shilov was sitting in a wheelchair, already waiting.

In front of her was a machine more than one meter tall, which was placed in a makeshift shed in the yard.

It consists of a wooden frame, a rotating wheel, a lead block, a scroll and a slender teardrop-shaped bracket. As the star-cast gear turns, black wool is wrapped around the iron fork, gradually turning into fine black wool thread.

"Dangdang, I have made the spinning machine you wanted." Shilov said with a smile.

Horn's solution to the shortage of military uniforms was to create more efficient spinning machines.

But he did not use the historical Jenny machine.

The counterintuitive thing is that, despite the high praise the spinning jenny received, there were actually big problems with the silk thread it produced.

The spinning jenny was not a universal spinning machine. It could only spin cotton with shorter fibers. Moreover, the cotton yarn it spun was too thin and uneven, and was very easy to break, so the quality was not good.

The cotton yarn spun by the Jenny machine is not the material for pure cotton cloth, but the material for a blended cloth of cotton, linen and wool.

When the pure cotton thread produced by it is used for weaving, linen and wool are used as the warp and cotton is used as the weft.

But the problem was that Horn had no cotton at all, and even less flax, so he had to use sage instead.

We need to analyze each case specifically. Since there is no cotton, Horn can only find another way.

The technical direction he proposed to Shilov was changed to the reel spinning machine of British watchmaker Richard Arkwright.

This spinning machine has four pairs of reels, driven by water power, which twist the fibers together through the reels and the rotor, so that the spun thread is strong but rough.

Fortunately, the reel loom can weave woolen cloth, and Horn's several carts of combed gravel and raw black wool will get moldy if left alone. When Horn talked about this with Shilov, he just regarded it as a long-term goal to see if she had any inspiration.

But unexpectedly, she even made a prototype in just ten days.

"What's wrong with your little head?" Horn said in admiration, rubbing Shilov's furry head.

Shilov's ears stood up to the sides, enjoying the touch comfortably: "This is not my credit. In fact, this kind of machine has a prototype in the ancient Ai'er Empire, but it is called a wind spinning wheel."

"Spinning wheel?"

"Yes." Shilov handed a blueprint to Horn, "It is recorded in the ancient Aiel book "The Book of Agriculture" that wind spinning wheels were once widely used in Storm Hill on the west coast of the Emerald Sea.

The windmill spinning wheel has 32 spindles, with the windmill as the power source. The spindles and yarn frames are used to twist and wind the yarn, and the transmission between the various components is completed by guide wheels and leather strips.

I simplified its structure, replacing the original windmill structure with star-cast gears and water power."

After all, the number of star-cast gears is limited. If water power can be used, it is better to give priority to it.

However, the prototype in front of him, which is more than one meter tall, is driven by the Holy Wheel Machine. The star-cast gears have high energy density and can drive larger machines with a smaller volume.

If it were powered by water, the entire prototype would have to be more than doubled in size.

While thinking, Horn saw Brock pushing the door open, and he immediately called the dwarf over.

Looking down, Horn asked Brock, "Have you seen the drawings of the reel spinning machine?"

"I saw it, but I didn't understand it." Brock said honestly, "But I saw its disassembled components, and some of them require special materials."

"Can't we do it?"

"It can be done. The components can be replaced, but the overall design will have to change. Ms. Shilov may have to redesign it, which will take a lot of effort."

"So how long will it take to make this?"

"It will take about 20 days to get three or five craftsmen working on the clockwork guns back." Brock said slowly in a dull voice, "But the output of clockwork guns may drop by one per day, at most."

"Okay." Horn patted Brock's shoulder, "Then I'll leave this matter to you."

After chatting with Shilov about the principle and design of the reel spinning machine and arranging the timeline with her again, Horn set off again to take a look at the industrial area.

But as soon as he went out, he was stopped by Pasrick.

"What's wrong, Chrispa?" Horn asked, looking at Pasrick who was holding his reins.

Pasrick's face was serious. He snapped his fingers and a strange little blue bird flew down from the branch: "I received a message from the Joan party in Jeanne d'Arc."

Although Horn took away almost all the secret agents in the Jeanne d'Arc area, he still retained some of the original informants.

Training troops in Daze Township does not mean being isolated from the outside world. Horn is still quite concerned about the situation in the outside world.

Seeing that the usually frivolous Pasrick became serious, Horn's heart trembled.

The news from the Joan party in Joan of Arc Castle... Could it be that the Archduchess is going to launch an attack in advance, but he is not ready yet.

"What news?" Horn's tone became hurried.

"They say - between the Church and the Archduchess - nothing happened."

Suppressing his anger, Horn continued to ask: "Stop kidding, what is it?"

"The hostess of the Magedi Chamber of Commerce, Catherine, has sent an envoy who will arrive at Jeanne Castle soon. She wants to meet you and wants you to send someone to pick him up. It is not easy to enter Daze Township."

(End of this chapter)