Jingguo, Ning'an County, in a teahouse next to the cotton ginning workshop.
Before the cotton ginning machine was successful, those workers and scholars kept finding faults and raising doubts, but now, all the points they had previously found faults and raised questions have become areas of praise.
However, these workers and scholars did not understand many things and asked Fang Yun questions.
Fang Yunzhi told all he knew without reservation and answered the questions seriously.
After Fang Yun said a few words, the best and most experienced workers instinctively looked around for pens and ink and began to record, while the disciples of Zhang Heng's family took out their "phonograph conch shells" with a smile.
The phonograph conch shell can not only record the sounds present, but can even play them back, making it extremely valuable.
The two descendants of the Zhang Heng family were not originally qualified to use treasures of this level, but because they came with Fang Yun, the great scholar Zhang Hu of the Zhang family specially approved a conch shell for the two people, allowing them to record Fang Yun's words about the Gong family after getting Fang Yun's permission.
The two sons of the Zhang Heng family were extremely proud. They knew very well that the reason why Zhang Hu specially approved the conch shell was because of Fang Yun's identity and status. He did not think that Fang Yun could achieve much in fortifications, and it was mainly to highlight Fang Yun's identity.
But now, the two Zhang family members have obtained first-hand and valuable engineering skills. As long as Fang Yun allows, they can hand over the conch shell to the Zhang family.
The human race has a complete plan to protect the mechanical technology of the industry. Unless the inventor of the technology dies, others must use the technology with the inventor's approval. In addition, the Holy Academy's Engineering Hall will decide how much technology usage fee to pay to the inventor based on the importance of the technology.
In Shengyuan Continent, any engineer or scholar who creates new technology will at least become the head of a prominent family, and may even have the opportunity to be promoted to a famous family!
Because Fang Yun stood at a different position and angle, what he said was often very insightful and thorough, making the workers fascinated.
Ao Huang fell into sleep after listening for half a minute, then curled up in the air and fell into a deep sleep, snoring from time to time.
The things of the craftsmen are useless to the dragon clan. Ao Huang doesn’t want to learn, and Fang Yun doesn’t care either.
It took Fang Yun a full hour to answer their questions.
After a while, the stubborn old man Liu Yu rubbed his hands together. With a blazing light in his eyes, he said, "Fang Xusheng, do you have any idea about the cotton-spinning mechanism?"
The first step in spinning is to remove the seeds from the seed cotton to make lint cotton. This is called ginning, and the mechanism used has just been successfully improved by Fang Yun.
The second step is to flick the cotton.
The fluffing process rearranges the cotton fibers, makes the lint fluffy, and further removes impurities, preparing for the third step of spinning.
Fluffing cotton and fluffing cotton are essentially the same, both of which are to make the cotton fluffy, but fluffing cotton generally refers to fluffing the cotton batting inside the quilt.
Whether in Shengyuan Continent or the ancient Chinese nation, the tools for making flower petals are the slowest to develop. It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that the ancient Chinese nation switched to the more advanced box-type flower petal bow.
Shengyuan Continent still uses ordinary cotton-spinning vertebral bows. It is extremely labor-intensive, so the cotton-spinning workshop is the place with the most people. Some engineers have proposed some directions for improvement, but either the mechanical technology does not meet the requirements. Or there are some key areas that are missing, which cannot be made up by a few geniuses, but must be accumulated from generation to generation.
The reason why many geniuses can bring about a technological innovation or even a major change is largely due to the accumulation of their predecessors.
The Shengyuan Continent is not short of geniuses, but it lacks accumulation.
Fang Yun listened to Liu Yu's words and nodded with a smile. He had already thought of a plan for improvement.
At present, the cotton-fluffing mechanism used in Shengyuan Continent is a cotton-fluffing vertebral bow, and one person can only fluff more than ten kilograms of cotton per day.
Fang Yun originally wanted to follow the steps to launch a slightly more advanced box-type flower bow, which could allow one person to produce up to 100 kilograms a day.
However, in the process of improving the cotton gin, Fang Yun discovered that the technology of Shengyuan Continent could already support the more advanced "wooden drum cotton gin". The wooden drum cotton gin not only has a higher output than the box-type cotton gin, but also has a higher degree of mechanization, which greatly reduces labor intensity and is simple to operate, meaning that workers can use it with a little training.
If the human race wants to ensure development during the war, it must ensure that there are enough people in all walks of life. It is impossible to force everyone to serve in the army.
Now that the efficiency of the machinery has improved and labor has been liberated, it can not only directly enhance the combat capabilities of the mechanical beasts, but also directly increase the number of human soldiers!
Now that the technology was in place, Fang Yun decided to skip the "box-type cotton-popping bow" and go directly to the more advanced wooden drum cotton-popping machine.
Fang Yun glanced at everyone and asked, "Do you have any questions about the new cotton gin?"
"No no!"
Everyone's heads were shaking like rattles, and Ao Huang was shaking his head in a half-asleep state, making everyone laugh and cry.
Fang Yun said: "Since there is no problem with the new cotton gin, let's start the new wooden drum cotton gin now. However, you have to give me some time, because starting with the cotton gin, our county has to formulate some standards. The first standard is to build a new mechanism according to the new mechanism drawings! The workers also have similar drawings, but the mechanism drawings of our county will be greatly improved and more reasonable!"
"Hmm! Hmm! Hmm!"
The workers kept nodding their heads. They didn't know what a wooden drum cotton spinning machine was, nor did they understand what the new mechanism drawings Fang Yun mentioned were, but they knew it was a remarkable improvement as soon as they heard it.
In front of Fang Yun, just nodding is enough!
Fang Yun smiled. Promoting the blueprints of later generations in Shengyuan Continent would definitely have a very good effect, because the painters of the second realm could achieve a lifelike state, making the blueprints more realistic. As for the third realm painting, "jumping onto paper", it was almost like directly drawing the same mechanism, making the process of manufacturing the mechanism simpler and more accurate.
Fang Yun stood up and was about to draw a blueprint, but the official seal moved. He reached out to take a look and found that it was a letter from the great scholar Zhang Hu.
Fang Yun read the letter carefully, and an extremely strange expression appeared on his face.
Because the book said that Lei Shushan of the Lei family was also improving the "Tanhua Vertebrae Bow", but the direction of the improvement was unknown.
Fang Yun thought about it and decided that if Lei Shushan was on good terms with him, he could postpone improving the cotton-spinning machine, or remind Lei Shushan to focus on other mechanisms. But since he was not familiar with Lei Shushan, and the two were competitors in the palace examination, he would just pretend not to know about this.
Liu Yu said, "Fang Xusheng, when you leave the workshop to rest, talk to your private soldiers and staff about mechanical technology. Although the new cotton gin was improved by you during your tenure, this technology cannot be taken away even by the Jing Kingdom royal family. It still belongs to you. From now on, every time you create a new cotton gin, you will get a certain amount of silver."
Those workers and scholars looked at Fang Yun with great envy.
Fang Yun smiled and said, "I have thought about this a long time ago. All the income I get from improving the organization during the palace examination will be donated to the 'Fang Yun Student Aid Fund' to build subsequent libraries and... for future needs."
"You are truly a rare kind person among the human race!" Liu Yu exclaimed. (To be continued)