I Transmigrated Into A Fantasy World To Farm And Build Houses!-Chapter 371: Cotton Planting Plan

After a moment of silence, Luban said:

"Iris knows how to sew clothes, but as for how to turn cotton into cloth... Humans know how to do it, so there is no reason we can’t learn. Once we have the cotton, we can slowly experiment."

Regarding weaving, Eric had indeed watched a series of videos on this topic. Two years before he transmigrated, pastoral-style craft videos were very popular. He was now very grateful to that trend for helping him learn a lot of knowledge, all of which was now useful.

Coincidentally, to attract views at that time, the bloggers making the videos also used very old machines, such as cotton gins and looms, which were all old-fashioned wooden machines. Their principles were relatively simple; if he recalled carefully, he could probably replicate them.

He pondered for a moment and said: "Actually, the principle of weaving is not too difficult; it is somewhat similar to spinning wool. The cotton picked must first be deseeded, then fluffing it up, spinning it into thread, and finally weaving it into cloth."

After speaking, the others were still bewildered.

Even if he explained the detailed steps now, it would still be very difficult to understand without seeing the process with their own eyes. Eric thought for a moment and temporarily stopped this topic, deciding to deal with it after the cotton was grown.

In his previous life, he heard that there were old textile workshops where the weaving process was very elaborate. Good cotton cloth was said to have to undergo "seventy-two transformations" to take shape, comparable to Sun Wukong.

The Hadu tribe was planting cotton to make cloth for the first time, so they didn’t need to reach such high standards. Even in his previous life, not everyone could wear and use such fine cotton cloth, and there was even less need for high requirements now.

Spinning wheels and looms were a bit difficult, but cotton gins were very simple. These things were not a problem for Dwarves at all.

As for the manpower for spinning, Eric also had a choice in his heart, which was the Cat tribe and Mouse tribe, who had more dexterous fingers. Their strength was not equal to large beastmen, but when it came to doing these delicate tasks, small beastmen were better, and among them, the Cat tribe and Mouse tribe were the most outstanding.

"Let’s just plant it first and then calculate. Cotton has very high requirements for temperature, so we must plant it as soon as possible. If we plant late, the harvest time will be delayed. In our place, the temperature starts to drop in September, and low temperatures will seriously affect the yield," Eric said.

"Since that’s the case, wait for the transaction to be completed, and we will quickly plant the cotton. But the tribe has you; your natural magic can shorten the growth time of plants, so growing cotton shouldn’t be a problem," Thomas thought for a while and said.

Thomas didn’t understand the requirements for growing cotton, but hearing Eric say that cotton feared the cold, then it was indeed a bit difficult for the Hadu tribe to grow cotton.

The location of the tribe had a slightly colder climate than the Red Grass tribe, and the entire Fantasy Dream Continent was colder than other continents. It was just that the Red Grass tribe was closer to the Elf Forest, where it was like spring all four seasons, so it was relatively warmer.

Fortunately, the Hadu tribe had Eric, a Snow Wolf who knew natural magic. Regardless of the type of plant, after being bathed in magic, its growth time would be shortened, so they could grow cotton this time too.

The more Thomas looked at Eric, the more satisfied he became; his luck was indeed better than other Snow Wolf patriarchs. Look at Queen and Karin; none of their heirs were as qualified as Eric, not to mention Queen hadn’t even found a suitable heir yet.

Previously, Thomas felt that although Eric had a good mind, his body was a bit weak and he needed more protection.

Now Eric was proficient in various types of magic, protecting himself was more than enough, and he could even help the tribe with farming.

Karin and Queen were extremely jealous, only Queen had a reserved personality and didn’t say it outright, while Karin had long been jealous enough to find excuses to fight with Thomas several times.

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Joseph and the others returned. Bruno was the first to breathe a sigh of relief. Finally, he could hand over this troublesome task to go do other things.

Out of respect for the sponsor, the bricks brought back from the Gray tribe were prioritized for use in the small garden. Coincidentally, the garden had already had a frame erected, so the new bricks brought back didn’t use up too many. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Eric also went into the forest to find some beautiful flowers, dug them up, and planted them in the cleaned-up garden yard. Human nobles were certainly very fastidious about their dwellings, but Eric was not an expert in decoration, so he could only try to make it look a little nicer.

The house prepared for Henry mainly prioritized comfort.

Since the other party had paid a great price, they couldn’t be too sloppy; such a large amount of cotton seeds had done Eric a huge favor. Originally, he hadn’t hoped for too much.

Hugh might not necessarily be able to get cotton seeds for him, and even if he could, for many reasons, he wouldn’t give them too much.

To grow cotton to meet demand, it might take several years to expand the scale. Now that the process had been shortened by several years, the amount of seeds Henry provided was enough for the whole tribe to use, with plenty left over to sell to other tribes.

Eric didn’t believe Corbin, having done business for many years, wouldn’t think of this. Wait until the Hadu tribe could also grow a large amount of cotton; it would certainly affect the cotton cloth business of the Halun merchant group. Perhaps they didn’t think beastmen and Dwarves could weave cloth.

But on the other hand, he could also see that Henry’s status was indeed not low since the Halun merchant group allowed Henry to provide so many cotton seeds.

On this side, Joseph personally led people to build the house; on the other side, the Halun merchant group had sent the cotton seeds, dairy cows, and nearly a hundred slaves in advance.

The Halun merchant group was showing their sincerity, and it must be said that this action made Eric extremely satisfied because he wanted to plant the cotton seeds early.

Whether it was Henry or Corbin, they were thoughtful enough to send slaves. Eric didn’t need to worry about not knowing how to grow cotton and raise dairy cows; with these slaves here, the beastmen just needed to learn from them.

Regarding the dairy cows, they just needed the cowshed of the breeding farm to be finished, and then build a dormitory for the humans, and it would be fine. The number of people Corbin brought was enough to take care of the herd. Eric just needed to find a few beastmen to act as guards to ensure the safety of the farm.

Although Corbin had also said that slaves and dairy cows could sleep together, Eric couldn’t do that.

They were all flesh and blood humans, and the weather here was harsh; when winter came and it was so cold, what would happen if the humans froze?

Moreover, no matter how clean the cowshed was, when the weather got hot, it was unavoidable to have mosquitoes, which would be miserable.

It was just that these humans were too timid; seeing beastmen, they trembled, not knowing what rumors they had heard to be so afraid. Beastmen didn’t eat people.

Besides dairy cows, the breeding farm also had chickens, ducks, and rabbits; the breeding scale was now quite large, so naturally, there needed to be beastman staff inside.

Even if it was Rabbit beastmen, Cat tribe, and Mouse tribe who had small bodies, these humans were afraid when they saw them.

Eric considered their feelings, so he had the staff dormitory built separately, trying to keep them a bit apart.