Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 741 The Status of a Craftsman (add one more)
On the coast, the men continued to study the Three Treasures of Thousand Islands.

The women are also studying the three treasures in their eyes, the giant dragon, the gold mine, and the golden pearl.

Finally, the ship sent to explore the way came back. They successfully found Manila Bay, and then sent a team of people to go north from the land.

As a result, the people on land came back one step faster than the fleet.

Those who came back brought amazing news.

"The son-in-law of Baoliu knows that we saw a stone tablet at the port over there. According to the date on it, it should have been left by Soochow during the Three Kingdoms period. Because it is so old, I can't see exactly what is written on the stone tablet?"

"Soochow?" Liu Mu really didn't expect it.

The captain continued: "Also, we also found some other traces, no more than 20 years old at most. Some of them had something engraved on the board, and we broke it when we touched it, but we wrote down the contents."

Liu Mu hurriedly asked: "What is it?"

"During the Sui Dynasty, some people went out to sea and went south along the coast. They must have arrived at the place where we have been to now, and then went south. According to the above book, they should have detoured a long way, and then came to that port. .”

Liu Mu asked the captain in a low voice: "You have seen my chart, what do you think?"

"I guess, it's going around like this..." The captain drew a circle.Liu Mu understood. The boat sailed to the Gulf of Thailand, then circled around the South China Sea for a long time, and then circled to Luzon.The captain didn't have a sextant and couldn't tell too many directions, so he just walked along the coast.

So he just thought he was going in a certain direction, but he didn't know that he had almost turned a full circle.

Liu Mu asked again: "Is anyone there?"

"Yes, but it's the same as nothing. The largest tribe we saw was very similar to the village before the Three Emperors and Five Emperors in the book, but there were only about 30 people. They didn't even have pottery or weapons. They used hardened wooden poles. There was no bow."

"Understood, you guys go to rest." Liu Mu signaled the explorer's fleet to go to rest first.

Whether to move to Manila Bay, Willow had no idea.

In fact, you can definitely choose a good pier within a hundred miles up and down here. It is too far to go around Manila Bay. There is no need to go there now, and even go further north to the northernmost part of Luzon Island to find a suitable pier. The place is not bad either.

Liu Mu followed Xiao Ling'er's suggestion to find those old foxes.

The old foxes of the Qi family wandered around the surrounding forests, even if they were carried around with sliders, it would be very hard work for them, after all, their age was there.

When Liu Mu found them, there were more than 20 old men gathered around a huge shed, and laughter could be heard from a distance.

Liu Mu went in and sat down, but saw the old men of the Seventh Family. These are all nobles and the top nobles of Tang Dynasty. There are such cases.

But the fact is right in front of our eyes, these people are indeed sitting together.

Zheng Yuanxuan of the Zheng family was talking and laughing with everyone, while busy with his hands. When Liumu came in, Zheng Yuanxuan threw a fan he had made in his hand to Liumu.

After taking over the fan, Liu Mu was full of nostalgia.

This thing almost disappeared when Liu Mu was young, but when Liu Mu was very young, he could still see it in the countryside.This is a fan woven from palm leaves, which is extremely low in cost and purely natural.

Zheng Yuanxuan had a loud voice, and smiled heartily: "This thing is easier than splitting bamboo slices, and you can make dozens of them with the effort of talking. In the words of our village, you can earn dozens of pennies for this effort, haha Ha ha."

The old craftsman was also laughing along with him.

Cui Hong signaled Liu Mu to sit down, and then shouted at an old craftsman: "Old Zhao, continue talking about your business."

"The little old man has compared with everyone. The one that shakes without water sound is small, the water sound is slight, it is green, and the water sound is loud, it is old. The best oil extraction is between young and old, drinking water Qinggang is the most suitable. As far as the ones we cut down at the beginning, the longest pile has been thirteen days old and hasn't broken."

Thirteen days, this time is very important.

With this time, it is guaranteed to transport the coconuts to Cixi, and then immediately enter the workshop to start processing.

If the time is too short, then a workshop must be built nearby.

It is not a good choice to build a workshop in this Luzon Island. It is too far away. Those who leave their hometowns cannot recruit excellent craftsmen. They can recruit some unskilled coolies, but these people cannot do important things at all.

"Old Zhao, when will we see the first bottle of coconut oil?"

"I'm afraid we'll have to wait a little longer. We didn't bring the oil press with us. We'll find suitable stone and wood to make it here. It will take at least five days to make it. It will take ten days for the real oil to come out."

Since I have been busy all the time, it is not easy for anyone to rush.

Cui Hong turned his head and looked at another craftsman: "Uncle Fu."

This is a craftsman from the Cui family, a domestic craftsman, and one of the big foremen of the yarn weaving workshop. When he heard the question, he immediately pulled a small rattan box from his backpack, took out a few pieces of cloth and handed it over.

"Third elders, take a look. This can be even better. There are no large yarn machines or looms here, but a few hand-cranked yarn machines. This material has surpassed the fine linen on the market in Chang'an. Dyeing I don’t know why, we don’t have dyes on hand. We found some flowers, plants and fruits that can make dyes here, but this time there are no dye craftsmen.”

"It's a trivial matter, just ask Lingnan for help."

The dye really doesn't matter.

Fuber still added: "There is no dye here. I don't know how to color or fade. It's a pity."

"Good material, let's talk about coloring. This can be several percent better."

"It's more than twice as good. This is a very fine white linen material that can be worsted. The raw material alone is more than one grade better than the abaca in Lingnan. It is completely two different types of linen."

Fu Bo had brought another old craftsman, this one was the foreman of the weaving and spinning workshop from the Li family in Zhao County.

"Report to all the masters that we arranged to cut hundreds of stones of abaca by hand, but we didn't pick the ones that were chopped along the way. Then we started peeling the hemp, and there were about ten catties of dry hemp. These hundreds of stones of abaca came from a sub-field If you cut it out, you should be able to cut out thousands of stones per acre."

This number is astonishing, but abaca grows densely here with a height of more than six meters. It is really not a problem to cut an acre and get dozens of tons.

"Abaca the size of an acre of land, the sun-dried hemp can be said to be close to a stone, and it will be more if it is peeled finely."

Liu Mu was not surprised to hear this data.

Liu Mu has learned about the production of abaca in later generations. Each hectare is about [-] ton to [-] tons of dry fiber, and one hectare is [-] mu, so it is normal to have abaca per mu here.

(End of this chapter)