Chapter 384 Wool

After seeing Hongjiang River, we went to see Shi Da.

Shi Da saw Su You and said, "Young master, there is a lot of noise over there at Lao Hong, but I don't make so much noise."

Su You looked at the roaring rock crusher: "It's not much better here. How is the cement burning?"

Shi Da said: "Okay, okay, the ore here is of high quality. But the sulfur ore has to come from Chang'an. When will the components of this four-wheeled carriage arrive?"

Su You said: "The road has not been repaired, and the carriage is not available for a long time. Isn't the road being repaired?"

Shi laughed and said: "We have cement. This section of the road is much easier to build than in Sichuan!"

Su You said: "You have to spend money everywhere... The more cement there is, the emptier my wallet will be..."

Shi Da was also a little worried: "That's good, labor is cheap here, otherwise it would be scary!"

Su You touched his chin: "I wonder if I can ask the imperial court to send a few Xiang troops here. Anyway, those people are just for free food... No, no, Weizhou can't afford to support them now..."

Shi Da said: "Then make more jade and porcelain and earn more cattle and sheep."

Su You slapped his forehead: "Oh! I reminded you. You should be busy first. There are a lot of things happening recently."

Longshou Village is a model village that Su You personally worked on. In addition to applying nitrogen fertilizer to wheat and putting sheep in pens and pigs in sheds, there are also hay warehouses and green storage warehouses.

The green storage is of an experimental nature. With ammonia and yeast, it is actually very simple.

Dig a hole in the ground and cover it with cement to create a green storage kiln.

After the forage is chopped, mixed with ammonia and yeast, then covered with cement board, tarpaulin and soil, and then it can be stored.

Of course, it is impossible to use alfalfa. Later generations of green corn straw are the method. Su You uses sorghum that is about to mature.

The use of yeast alarmed Xue Xiang, and he hurried over to check. He was specifically studying Qu Yao!

When Su You told Xue Xiang about the importance of green storage, Xue Xiang, who was almost going crazy with his thoughts, waved his hand and said, Weizhou is a special zone. If you produce your own yeast, you won't be accepted... Hey, how about you not knowing how to moisturize?

We can also do some wine research. How about directly producing high-quality wine in Weizhou and selling it to the Yi people?

Su You said it's a good idea to transfer all the goods, but first you have to have enough food to feed people and fill the Changping warehouse. Otherwise, people won't have food to eat and you use the food to make wine, and you will be impeached and demoted.

Bar.

Xue was so angry that he threw his sleeves and walked away angrily.

Feng Lizheng now admired Xiao Su Tanhua so much that he kept talking about how our Su Xiaotanhua was doing.

The fifty sheep are growing up day by day. They were all released before, but now they are raised.

The villagers of Longshou Village are not ordinary hardworking. After building the canal, they are laying the canal boards; the women deliver meals, feed the pigs and sheep and remove weeds; after the canal boards are laid, the men come back to harvest the first crop of alfalfa to make fodder.

The next step was to divide the sheep. If there were not enough lambs, Xiao Tanhua would be given larger ones. Many of them were frame sheep. Once alfalfa and grains were given, they would grow as long as the air.

Little Tanhua said that she would sprinkle water filtered from the saline-alkali land on the sheep's fodder. She didn't know how. Sun Laoer next door tried to be lazy and refused to listen. Hehehe, his sheep are not as well raised as mine.

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Are you kidding me? I heard that little Tanhua’s knowledge has been published in books about farming and raising sheep! Now the Queen Mother is taking charge of it herself!

The young man named Xiao Shitou built many workshops along the canal. The wheat is not yet ripe, but the big wooden waterwheel is already spinning.

Those who make hemp rope, those who hammer pulp, those who grind powder, those who cut wood...

What Feng Lizheng was full of praise for were the two hydraulic lawn mowers given to the village by Xiao Tanhua.

The water wheel shaft head is replaced with a large S-shaped blade, which cuts two cuts per revolution. People only need to feed the straw forward from behind.

This thing never stops, and if it is not put to good use, Feng Lizheng feels that it is a waste of a good thing, so he arranges for three shifts of staff, working without stopping.

Old Man Feng's idea is very simple. In addition to those that are made into fodder, it is easier to eat sheep, isn't it?!

The ammonia delivered by the barrel truck is not only used to make silage, but it can also be applied to the ground, and then the wheat will grow like crazy.

Xiao Tanhua said that this is just the beginning, and there will be better fertilizers in the future.

Hearing that Xiao Tanhua was coming today, Old Man Feng was waiting under the jujube tree at the entrance of the village early in the morning.

Weizhou has a total of five counties. Little Tanhua loves to come to our village, and people from other villages go around and envy us!

A group of men and horses, dressed in black and black armor, were walking in the distance, with several four-wheeled carts towing behind them. It was hard to tell who was leading the group.

When the cavalry stopped, a rider jumped out of the second carriage and took off his felt hat: "The old man is waiting so early?"

Feng Lizheng took a look and said: "Oh, why is this young official dressed like this?!"

Su You smiled and said: "I have to work. I have never sheared a sheep. Come and learn. Where are the sheep?"

Feng Lizheng said with a smile: "In the circle, the old man has not divided his family. He uses the big circle. The small officials have a big happy event!"

"Oh? Your bride is pregnant again? Congratulations, old man, I am a young man in northern Shaanxi. With Weizhou's new policy, when there is a baby in the family, the government will send wine and lamb..."

"Really? Oh, that's such a pity! No, no... the bride is not pregnant, but some of my ewes are pregnant!"

Su You really didn't understand this: "What do you mean? Is this worthy of celebration?"

Feng Lizheng smiled and said: "Of course! Cows and sheep only come into heat in autumn and winter, and now it is the middle of summer! This must be your skill, Tanhualang!"

With a black line on my forehead, I have no ability to make a ewe pregnant!

But Su You thinks it's amazing, sheep also know how to keep warm and think about it?

Okay, this is not the focus of today. After Hu Luan was happy with Feng Lizheng, the group started to go into the pen to shear sheep.

Even if the sheep are docile, the big rams are not that easy to mess with. Not only are they very strong, they will bite people when pushed hard.

Su You tried several times, but finally gave up and waved to Feng Lizheng: "In the future, except for the rams that have been reserved for breeding, the rest of the rams will be castrated when they are born! The tails must also be cut so that the feces will not stick to them.

It caused infection in the tail. Oh, I’m so exhausted..."

The price of northwest sheep was too cheap. One sheep only cost 500 renminbi. Su You paid 100 renminbi for the wool of each sheep, and gave three guanshu notes to both the big and small sheep.

Old Man Feng's hands trembled as he held the Shu banknotes. This was the wages of a man who had to go without food or drink for half a month after Xiao Tanhua came here.

In previous years, when it came to half a year's worth of melons and vegetables, the family had never managed to get enough.

I didn't know how to express my gratitude, so as I spoke, I wanted to put my head down and feed Xiao Tanhua.

Su You touched the back of the cleanly sheared sheep and said, "Why kill it? It's not time yet. The family has some money. It's fair to buy some farm tools and pull two feet of cloth to make new clothes for my wife. Take good care of this sheep."

, even if it becomes too big to eat, someone will come and collect it.”

This is a real huge profit. In Bianliang today, a sheep is worth three times, which is a six-fold price difference.

The remaining problem is how to deliver high-quality mutton to Xijing, a thousand miles away, and Tokyo, three thousand miles away.

With a lot of wool, Su You returned to Weizhou.

The large workshop in the south of the city is officially in operation.

This is a big event for the Su family. The Su family weaving experts brought by classmate Su Xiaoxiao have been waiting for this day for so long.

From coarse wool to woolen wool, there are many processes in between. Su You's nature has always been to control the upstream, so the main thing to grasp is the wool.

He does not intend to directly take over the entire industrial chain. Like the brewing industry, he only intends to process the wool until it is combed and dyed at most.

Raw wool contains a large amount of impurities. It is first roughly sorted to remove large volumes of impurities.

Then use a detangling machine to loosen and remove impurities from the tangled raw wool. The principle is to use two hydraulic rollers with different speeds and use the teeth on the top to comb and pull the raw wool. This will make the raw wool fluffy and remove impurities.

Then the wool is sent to the washing tank, soaked in low-temperature soap alkali solution, and pushed by rollers, squeezed and washed with water to remove oil stains and fine impurities in the wool.

Then the wool is sent to a press roller to remove the moisture and air-dried in a cool place.

At this time, the wool also contains a large amount of plant fiber. It is also necessary to soak the grass-containing wool in a dilute sulfuric acid solution, then dry and bake it to turn the grass into brittle carbon, which can be separated from the wool through combing.

, after washing with water to remove the residual acidic substances on the surface of the wool, drying in the shade and adding oil to moisturize it, it can be turned into textile material.

Before the kerosene comes out, you can only use glycerin to hold it in place.

This whole method, which uses a variety of machinery and reagents, plus the subsequent dyeing process, is absolutely leading the way.
Chapter completed!