Natural disaster at the beginning: I will lead the system to build a safe zone

The penicillin issue made Shi Anan feel a little disappointed, mainly because she had developed various things smoothly before. With the drawings given by the system, she only needed to follow them step by step and improve her experience to make things.

Penicillin is different. It is the only one that has a system-provided production method but has to be suspended due to limited conditions.

However, this is also because penicillin itself is special. After all, other things can be improved if problems are found after testing, but if the penicillin test fails, a life may be lost, and Shi Anan cannot afford to take the risk.

Although she was temporarily in a bad mood because she couldn't develop penicillin, Shi Anan quickly calmed down because she was really too busy.

First, the compost was made. Since it was the first time to be used, Shi Anan watched the whole process almost. Then came the vigorous spring planting.

And maybe because he told Xiao Yi that he was going out, he sped up the development of the spinning machine. He hadn't even started yet, but after a few days, he told her that the spinning machine was ready and just needed to be tested.

Because of this, Shi Anan specially called a few women who knew how to weave to go with her to test the effectiveness of the spinning machine.

When it comes to weaving, most ordinary people in this dynasty still used spinning wheels, spindles and primitive waist looms for weaving.

The spinning wheel is mainly made of pottery and stone, and is round in shape with a hole in the middle for inserting a rod.

When using it to spin yarn, you can first twist a piece of the fiber to be spun and wrap it around the pole, then hang it down. Hold the pole with one hand and turn the disk with the other hand, and the fiber will continue to stretch to form silk thread.

The spindle is a straight wooden rod with pointed ends inserted into the small hole in the center of the spinning wheel. It is the product of the combination of the spinning wheel and the straight rod. The working principle is similar, both rely on rotation to twist the yarn.

Another primitive waist loom is also called the squat loom. It is one of the oldest and simplest looms in the world. It relies on two horizontal beams in the front and back, and uses people instead of the support, and ties them to the weaver's waist with a belt.

When weaving, the weaver sits down and relies on the position of his feet and waist to control the tension of the fabric.

During the weaving process, the weaver uses a warp-dividing rod to divide the warp yarn into two layers, forming a natural shed. Then a bamboo heald rod is used to pass the thread vertically through the upper warp yarn, a bone needle is used to guide the weft, and finally a weft knife is used to beat the weft.

Although the efficiency is not high, simple weaving work can be completed with these things.

But the spinning jenny that Xiao Yi made now was the first hand-cranked spinning machine of this era.

The women who were called to experiment were all very excited. Although they didn't know what the spinning jenny was, they knew it was a tool that could speed up their weaving.

Just look at those farming tools and you will know. If Miss Shi can take them out and teach them how to use them, they must be of good quality!

While waiting for the spinning machine, several women started chatting.

"Hey, you've been to town before. Have you ever seen any useful spinning machines in town?"

"We live in a remote and poor area. The town is not much better. How can we use a good spinning machine?"

"Yes, then, this spinning machine was really invented by Miss Shi? What's wrong with her brain? How can she be so smart?"

"Miss Shi is a person blessed by the gods. How can she be the same as us? Not only her, but also Mr. Xiao who invented the spinning machine is not an ordinary person."

"Need I tell you, that appearance is not ordinary at first glance, but Miss Shi and Mr. Xiao both have divine looks, they are quite a match, I don't know if they will be together in the future."

"Shh, shh, shh, don't go out and say anything, lest you ruin Miss Shi's reputation. Whether they are together or not, we just wish them the best."

"I'm just telling you that, I'm sure you won't spread it around!"

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Just as they were chatting, Shi Anan, Xiao Yi, and a few villagers carrying a wooden spinning machine came over.

Several women looked at the spinning machine with curiosity. The appearance and structure seemed quite simple. How could it improve the spinning efficiency?

"Miss Shi, is this the spinning Jenny? It doesn't look like anything special." One of the women asked.

"Yes, although the Jenny spinning machine looks simple, it is very practical. It is a kind of hand-cranked spinning machine. Its main working principle is to use a large hand-cranked wheel to drive a small wheel, which in turn drives multiple spindles to spin."

"Talking a lot is not as good as practicing. Who of you will try it first?" Shi Anan asked the women.

"I'll do it, I'll do it!" the woman who had just spoken responded enthusiastically.

Shi Anan nodded and taught her how to use the spinning machine. The woman was quite dexterous. Although she had never touched a spinning machine before, she quickly became familiar with its use under Shi Anan's instruction.

She hooked the cotton roving onto the spindle bar, and then used a large hand-cranked wheel to drive the small wheel, causing all the spindles to rotate and twist. While twisting, she would stretch the yarn, then reverse the large wheel to detach the yarn from the spindle bar hook, and wind the yarn onto the spindle through the pressure plate on the spindle bar. In this way, the spinning machine can handle multiple spools at the same time, so the spinning efficiency is extremely fast.

The other onlookers couldn't help but exclaim in admiration: "This is really fast. It used to be very difficult for us to spin yarn, but now it comes out in a flash!"

"Actually, this spinning machine is not the best." Currently, what Xiao Yi has made is the initial form of the spinning Jenny, which is a form with only 8 spindles. However, this is also because he was relatively conservative for the first time, and he can continue to improve it later.

"If this is not the best, then what is the best?!" The woman who was spinning couldn't help but ask. She was the operator and she could fully feel the difference between using this spinning method and the previous one.

Shi Anan explained: "Since this is the first time, we only made 8 vertical spindles. In the future, if we improve it, we can increase it to 18, 30 or even more. The more spindles there are, the more yarns can be spun at the same time."

"And the spinning jenny is just a type of hand-cranked spinning machine. We can also improve it into a foot-operated spinning machine, which can free our hands even more. In addition, there are water-powered spinning machines that can be directly driven by water power, and no manual spinning is required. However, there is no suitable place to place a water-powered spinning machine here for the time being."

Her words overturned everyone's worldview. They felt that they had saved a lot of trouble when facing this new hand-cranked spinning machine. They could not imagine how spectacular the water-powered spinning machine was that did not rely on human power.

Just as several women were scrambling to try out the spinning machine, Shi Anan's reward arrived as scheduled:

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for leading his subjects to successfully develop the Spinning Jenny Machine. Reward: 1 Flying Shuttle Loom Blueprint, System Currency +2000 Silver Coins]

Wow! The flying shuttle loom. It's not enough to improve her spinning efficiency. She also needs to improve her weaving efficiency.

However, they have no time to develop the loom now, because a hidden crisis is gradually revealing its claws.