Chapter 51: Keeping Warm in Winter [Update 1]
Wei Shengxue accompanied Ying Zheng to meet with the Mohist leader and the head of the Gongshu clan. Each of the two families held their own views, unwilling to miss out on this opportunity to achieve immortal fame. Of course, each claimed that their own clan was more adept at this task.
She looked at their attitude and found it was not much different from the auntie who was pulling people to scan the code at the school gate.
Wei Shengxue personally prefers the more familiar Mohist school. From Mo Ge to Mo Fa and then to the Mohist masters, her impression of them is that they are very capable and are masters of staying up late to work hard.
However, since Ying Zheng had asked them to come along, he must have some thoughts about Gongshu Jia. Ultimately, this was a matter for the Great Qin, and the most important thing was the Great Qin Emperor's opinion.
Wei Shengxue looked at Ying Zheng, trying to get a hint from him. However, there was a hint, but she couldn't understand it!
She could only see him return a look, but she couldn't parse complex or detailed information from it. Sorry, as she was a student who hadn't yet entered society, she didn't have the skill to do so yet.
Finally, Meng Yi couldn't stand it anymore, so he leaned over to her ear and "whispered" to her about His Majesty's plan.
——Is there any way to arrange for both families?
"Don't their two companies have completely overlapping professions?" She didn't have the ability to negotiate with this industry competitor in person.
Meng Yi's voice was barely audible: "The Gongshu family excelled at metalworking, while the Mohist family was more inclined towards carpentry."
Wei Shengxue thought, if that's the case, then the responsibility for the woodblock engraving job should be very obvious. It must be given to someone who is more professional and familiar with it.
Meng Yi glanced at the person on the throne. His Majesty wanted to have his cake and eat it too. As a subject, he could only cooperate.
Wei Shengxue didn't understand the other expressions, but this time she strangely understood what Meng Yi meant.
The guy above is the "adult wants it all" type.
Her fingers unconsciously played with the ring around her waist, and she looked thoughtful.
Gongshu Lang and the Mohist leader were multitasking, they were still talking, but they couldn't help but glance over here several times.
The actions of Meng Yi and Wei Shengxue just now were so obvious that they couldn't ignore them.
"Copper movable type!"
copper!
Gongshu Lang keenly sensed the metal element and quickly pricked up his ears.
Wei Shengxue explained, "Movable type printing requires the creation of movable type molds, which are then selected and arranged according to the needs of the article. Once printing is complete, the molds can be disassembled and prepared for next use."
As a man who was proficient in invention, Gongshu Lang immediately discovered the beauty of it.
"It is more flexible than woodblock printing. If you make a mistake in one word, you only need to change it. The error tolerance rate is lower."
The Mohist master then pointed out its shortcomings: "Movable type printing requires craftsmen to be literate."
How can one choose the correct fonts to compose an article if he is illiterate? But in today's Qin Dynasty, literacy is a big hurdle.
Moreover, given the current book collection situation, there is actually not that much need for a variety of articles.
However, Gongshu Lang received the task of making copper movable type and left with satisfaction. Although he might not be able to use it now, he might not be able to use it in the future.
It is normal that Gongshujia, who came to heat the stove, could not compare with Mozijia's constant following.
Wei Shengxue watched the two of them leave in a friendly manner and blinked in confusion.
"Tong'er, how come they are reconciled again?"
The system doesn't understand either. [Your human emotions are complex and changeable, and the system's emotional simulation program cannot fully imitate them.]
If you can't figure it out, just forget about it. Anyway, with their strength, they can't cause her any harm.
Wei Shengxue put the matter behind her and had a meal with Ying Zheng before returning to Changsheng Palace.
On the way back, I happened to see Princess Yangzi directing the palace servants to dry the fur in the yard.
"Fox fur?"
Weishengxue subconsciously looked up at the sky. The autumn here seemed to be quite warm. It was almost late autumn, but the temperature monitored by the system was still above 24 degrees.
According to this temperature trend, the temperature in winter will not drop below -5℃, and even snow may not accumulate.
Princess Yangzi saw her return, straightened her skirt, and came forward to greet her, asking, "Immortal, don't you like fox fur? We have wolf fur, rabbit fur, tiger fur, bear fur in the palace... Feel free to bring them over."
Weishengxue was stunned by this long list of XX skins. This must be a catch-all for all the furry wild animals.
"I don't need it," she took a step back and refused openly, "I have spiritual power. Winter and summer don't make much difference to me."
The only impact is that everything withers in winter, and the power of the wood spirit is not as strong as in other seasons, which will make her practice a little slower.
"That's great." Princess Yangzi looked at her enviously. This effect of keeping warm in winter and cool in summer was really eye-catching.
She explained, "The summers in Qin are hot, but the winters are cold, making both difficult. We should take them out and dry them before the weather turns cold. We can also pick out the good leathers and have them made into cloaks or jackets, which will make the winter more bearable."
Wei Shengxue recalled the decoration of the room and seemed to find no heating equipment.
But even wealthy people in the interstellar space would purchase different palaces to meet the needs of different climates. As the royal family that holds all the power in the world, they would certainly not lack palaces for summer escape and winter escape.
When she said this, Princess Yangzi looked helpless.
Before, Qin State’s entire focus was on attacking the six states, and everything had to give way to this goal.
Would a temporary palace make the Qin army stronger, the king more wise, and his ministers more loyal?
If you can't do anything? Then why build it? It's useless!
Even the various beautiful buildings that my father liked were not started until after the unification of the six kingdoms.
"Since winter is so cold, how do you survive?"
Princess Yangzi counted on her fingers and gave examples: "Brazier, warm room, fur coat, hot water bottle, and stay out of the house."
"Is this warm?"
"That's about right." As the princess of the Qin Dynasty, she would never be short of heating.
But the same may not be true for others, it all depends on their integrity.
…
In the study of Changsheng Palace, Weishengxue was sitting at the desk. There was a piece of paper on the table with a few simple words written on it: kang, honeycomb coal, wool yarn, cotton, and down.
These are all warm items that can be used in winter, and the data is provided by the system.
As for Wei Shengxue, she was someone who always failed history class, but she was able to remember cotton and wool, and it was because these two raw materials were tenacious enough that she survived into the interstellar age.
Self-centered
Her understanding of cotton is that it is white and can be used to make quilts, clothes, pillows and cloth.
The system could search the database, but unfortunately, the information in the database was too comprehensive and too much. They found more than 80 crops called "cotton" at once, of which more than 30 were suitable for textiles and warmth. They could not be sure whether these varieties existed in this world.
Anyway, Weishengxue had never seen it here, and no matching plants were found within the system's scanning range.
So cotton was the first to be excluded.
Weishengxue knew that down needed to be made from duck and goose feathers. She had read about them in imitation novels and seen them in videos by various craft bloggers, where they were wrecked. The main problem was the feathers escaping. This required a high level of fabric craftsmanship, something Daqin couldn't currently achieve.
Therefore, this item was also eliminated.
What's left are wool yarn, honeycomb coal, and a kang.
Wei Shengxue hesitated for a few minutes holding the pen, but still didn't cross them out.
Anyway, she is not doing it alone. With the manpower available now, she can definitely do both.
There is no need to worry about the kang, as the system directly pulls out the design drawings left by a previous host. The drawings are very detailed and divided into several different specifications and functions. The craftsmen can make them by copying them.
Wei Shengxue thought about making a copy of the blueprint when he had time and having someone hand it over to the Mohist School... or the Shaofu, as they seemed to be the ones responsible for the construction.
Honeycomb briquettes...
"Tong'er..."
【Don’t look for me, I don’t know how. 】
It is a system for cultivating immortals. Initially, the information stored in it was all related to the world of cultivating immortals. However, as more hosts came along, some of them were more unconventional, so gradually, various other information began to accumulate.
But this honeycomb coal... coincidentally, it only has textual information.
Honeycomb briquettes: Highly flammable, quick to ignite, powerful, and low-cost. Each briquettes can burn for about an hour. They are economical, honeycomb-shaped briquettes made from crushed coal slag mixed with other inexpensive materials.
The system read out the text in the data word by word, without a single redundant word.
Wei Shengxue wrote down these words and planned to hand them over to the Shaofu along with the kang blueprints so that they could study them.
Finally, there is wool yarn. Hey, this is what she is most familiar with.
"Knitting scarves was a trend in our school back then, so I jumped on the bandwagon and bought half a box of yarn: thick, thin, solid, patchwork, and colorful. It cost me nearly half a month's living expenses."
The system, which understood her deeply, interrupted her directly: [Where is the final product?]
Wei Shengxue shut up.
The scarf, along with the yarn that took up half a box, successfully arrived where it belonged during her move.
Being able to be decomposed into biodegradable trash cans is also a contribution to environmental protection.
In order to successfully destroy the traces of her dark history, she even watched the wool manufacturing process on Starnet to determine that they were dry garbage. On a dark and windy night, she put them into the big belly of the black robot.
Finally finding something she could do, Wei Shengxue couldn't wait to take action.
"I bring warmth to the Qin Empire. I'm such a good person. As a good person, it's not too much for me to have people knit me a few scarves."
system:……
Wei Shengxue ignored its sudden silence and directly told Yang Zi that she would go to the farm to see the sheep tomorrow.
Princess Yangzi was emotionally stable and very receptive to her various sudden ideas. She showed no strangeness when she heard it, and didn't even show any doubt. She directly asked about the specific time so that she could prepare the carriage in advance.
Wei Shengxue was sitting on the swing in the yard, swinging, her fluttering skirt showing her good mood.
Sheep are really good partners of human beings. Their meat can be eaten, and when the fur and skin are together, they can be used to make fur coats. When the fur and skin are separated, the skin can be eaten and made into leather, and the hair can be spun into yarn to make clothes. They have a wide range of uses. Even the horns can be expanded to make sheep horn lanterns. Every part of the sheep is useful, and there is no waste at all.
From Princess Yang Zi, we learned that the Qin Dynasty processed wool by making wool felt and wool blankets, and only people of low status were willing to use them because the smell was too strong, not only would it be uncomfortable for the owner, but outsiders would also dislike the owner's vulgarity if they smelled it.
[Wool is divided into two types: wool and cashmere. The latter is softer, more comfortable and more valuable.]
Wei Shengxue certainly knew what the system said, but since she was starting from scratch, she should keep it simple first.
"Perhaps these jobs can be brought to the textile factory, which would solve the problem for the maternity and children's hospital."
[I thought you were planning to put the textile factory under your own name.]
Wei Shengxue retorted in surprise: "How is that possible! I don't want to take care of all this."
Besides, it is not as good as getting the job under her official name. She can start working in the factory after the training.
In their interstellar terms, graduation guarantees job placement, and includes a permanent position!
I wake up laughing even in my dreams!
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