After becoming an animal, I also have to farm

Because the climate in the north is too cold and the time suitable for growing crops is not long, Chen Yuanzhen took out greenhouse technology as a key item as soon as he came here.

She got the cotton seeds from the caravan at the beginning of this year.

From breeding and seedling raising to transplanting, crossing and picking, Chen Yuanzhen has been doing it personally together with the people in charge of management, and has accumulated a lot of experience in cotton planting.

"Ding ding ding~ Look! This is my secret cotton base!"

The cotton that has been growing for several months is carefully cared for in the greenhouse like a delicate flower. The bursting white cotton bolls are the result of everyone's sweat and hard work.

Several women with scarves tied on their heads and baskets slung over their shoulders were chatting and laughing as they walked through the cotton fields picking cotton wool.

Lin Miao walked forward and touched the soft cotton wool. Meeting Chen Yuanzhen's expectant eyes, he shook his head cruelly.

"No, the system doesn't indicate the progress of the task."

"Ah? What's going on?" Chen Yuanzhen was a little disappointed and didn't understand why the system didn't recognize this as an invention that benefited the people.

Lin Miao walked around the cotton field, and finally an idea struck him. He touched the cotton and said to himself,

“Cotton, a light-loving crop, is not well adapted to low temperatures.

But Chen Yuanzhen and I built a greenhouse in Beidi, which solved this problem and allowed us to successfully grow cotton in Beidi.”

After taking the credit for herself, Lin Miao emphasized several times that they had innovated, and only then did she see the task progress move forward one level.

really!

Just as Lin Miao guessed, only after she got the assist and added her own name to the list did the system recognize that the cotton belonged to her and the Empress's achievements that benefited the people.

Chen Yuanzhen saw Lin Miao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and screamed excitedly.

"Great! Great! I got my 300 tons of salmon!

Let’s go to the textile factory!”

Chen Yuanzhen pulled Lin Miao and rushed to the textile factory by the river. The workers there were all recruited female workers.

More than twenty female workers were spinning yarn on hand-cranked spinning machines, and a dozen weavers were busy at the looms.

When everyone saw Chen Yuanzhen coming with Lin Miao, they all looked up and greeted Chen Yuanzhen.

"Master Fucheng, you are here!"

Chen Yuanzhen waved to them and told them to just focus on their own work and not to bother her.

The female manager was watching the workers washing wool by the river. When she heard that Chen Yuanzhen was coming, she quickly wiped her hands and walked over.

When Chen Yuanzhen saw her coming, she asked her to introduce the current situation of the textile factory to Lin Miao, and also lied that Lin Miao was a technical consultant she invited to help everyone solve technical problems.

The female manager with a neat bun believed it. She looked at Lin Miao with shining eyes and began to introduce the situation of the textile factory to Lin Miao.

Every detail was clearly described, including how many spinning wheels, looms, workers, how long they worked each day, how much yarn was spun, and how much cloth was woven.

She also led Lin Miao and Chen Yuanzhen to a group of female workers who were spinning cotton cloth, spread out the cotton cloth, and gently stroked it with her hands.

“The cotton that Lord Fucheng brought back is really good stuff!

Not only is the yarn easy to spin, but it's also flexible and doesn't break easily. The resulting fabric may not be as fine as the silk and satin worn by the nobility, but it's soft, breathable, and easy on the skin, making it a great buy!

The advantages of cotton described by the housekeeper are all real and have benefited the people of the flower-growing countries for thousands of years.

But Lin Miao saw that the housekeeper was still wearing coarse linen clothes, so he asked,

“Isn’t it cold to wear sackcloth now?

Winters in the north are extremely cold, so you can fill two layers of cotton cloth with cotton wool to make a cotton coat. This coat keeps you cool when it’s cold and warm when it’s hot, making it very suitable for wearing next to the skin.

It was just a casual remark, but the housekeeper seemed to have been enlightened. With tears in her eyes, she bowed to Lin Miao.

"Thank you for your guidance, sir! I would like to thank you for saving our lives on behalf of the local people!"

Lin Miao was a little puzzled as to why the housekeeper thanked him so solemnly. It was just a method of making warm clothes. Was it necessary to make it so exaggerated?

So he turned his head and looked at Chen Yuanzhen, wanting to ask her if she knew why.

Chen Yuanzhen didn't understand why the two of them were suddenly staring at her. She was stunned for a moment, and then she told Lin Miao the reason.

"When we first arrived, no one had clothes to wear, and many people froze to death every year. So I thought of getting a weaving machine so that everyone could make wool sweaters to keep warm.

After all, those Mongolian barbarians only eat meat and throw away all the wool and other things.

But later I discovered a problem, the wool they gave us in exchange was smelly and pungent!

Cleaning the weaving was very troublesome, time-consuming and labor-intensive, so I asked someone to find a way to get cotton."

Lin Miao also felt that spinning wool to make clothes was troublesome, and sweaters were not easy to wash and were not as warm as cotton clothes. So he suggested,

"We still need to plant cotton on a large scale. Whether it's spinning cloth or making cotton clothes, it will benefit the people of the north without any harm."

"That's my plan too. As for the wool I collected, I plan to make sweaters and sell them."

When I heard that Chen Yuanzhen wanted to sell the sweaters to the Mongolian barbarians to make a profit, I hurriedly stopped him.

"Forget it, I guess when the war breaks out, we won't have enough here.

If the fighting in the south gets too intense and refugees flock north, we can distribute sweaters as a way to attract people. This will help stabilize the army's morale and keep them warm."

Chen Yuanzhen scratched his head a little embarrassedly and explained,

"I'm afraid it won't work if each person makes one. The weaver girl doesn't spin much thread every day, so the output of cloth won't increase."

The female manager following behind the two heard Chen Yuanzhen mention the speed of weaving, and she took the initiative to explain to them,

"Sir, it's not that the weavers are lazy, but their spinning efficiency is just that. Everyone's arms are sore and numb from spinning, but they can only spin this much cotton thread in a day."

When Lin Miao heard the keyword "hand crank", he frowned slightly and thought to himself that hand cranking is of course tiring, not only tiring but also slow.

Is it because the labor-saving foot-operated spinning wheel and multi-shuttle loom have not been promoted and applied?

Seeing Lin Miao frowning and not saying anything, the female manager thought that her previous explanation had offended her, and quickly pointed to the nearest spinning machine and said,

"Sir, what I said is not false. Look at this rock wheel. If it is too big, the Weaver Girl will have a hard time winding it. If it is too small, it will affect the spinning speed.

If two people work together, one twisting the cotton thread and the other cranking it, it would be faster, but that would require twice as many people."

Lin Miao is actually a giant in theory but a dwarf in action.

She had only seen the two old looms that were about to fall apart at her grandmother's house when she was a child.

Watching the spinning woman laboriously turning the wheel with her left hand, Lin Miao always felt something was wrong and tried to recall the working principle of the pedal-operated spinning wheel.

But after thinking for a long time without any results, he tentatively said to the female steward,

"Can you design it so that the rollers rotate with your feet? That way you can free up your hands to rub the cotton and spin the yarn."

"Here, may I ask, sir, where should I place my feet?"

The housekeeper was puzzled. She pointed at the wooden spinning wheel up, down, left and right, without leaving any unnecessary details and asked in confusion.

"Uh, this..." Lin Miao remained silent, feeling guilty.

Don’t ask her! She really doesn’t understand!!!