Zhao Feng touched the cotton cloth in his hand, thinking that when these cotton cloths appeared in the market, those people would be shocked.
The cotton seeds that Zhao Feng brought back before have been planted on a small scale. After all, those caravans could not bring back many seeds, and they still needed to be cultivated.
Therefore, the real large-scale production of cotton cloth will probably have to wait until a large amount of cotton is planted next year.
The cotton cloth produced now can only be sold on a small scale, or supplied to the family and the palace first.
Zhao Feng asked Shen Chuchu to stay here. After making the cotton cloth, Shen Chuchu would go back and continue to take care of the business, while Zhao Feng was responsible for setting up production here.
It was almost winter now. After Zhao Feng asked the workers to make cotton cloth, they stored it in the warehouse. After returning to the manor, he found that Zhou Tong had been waiting for him.
"Mr. Zhao, has Sister Chu Chu gone back?"
Zhao Feng nodded and asked curiously.
"What do you want from her?"
Zhou Tong's face turned red and he quickly shook his head.
"It's nothing, I just want Sister Chu Chu to pay attention to safety when she goes back."
Zhao Feng suddenly laughed, nodded slightly, and said.
"I didn't expect you to get along with her quite happily."
Zhao Feng said this, raised his head and looked at Zhou Tong, and suddenly thought of something.
The cotton cloths that I make must first be sent to the palace through the Shen family, but after they are sent to the palace, it is estimated that not much will be given to Zhou Tong.
After all, I am doing business here with Zhou Tong, why not make some clothes for Zhou Tong first?
However, he didn't know Zhou Tong's size, so it seemed that he had to ask the maids.
Zhou Tong didn't know what Zhao Feng was thinking. When he saw Zhao Feng looking at him, his face suddenly turned red with embarrassment, and he thought, had Zhao Feng already seen what he was thinking?
"Mr. Zhao, what are you looking at?"
Zhao Feng suddenly looked away awkwardly, waved his hand and said.
"Nothing, I was just wondering about making something else."
Zhou Tong looked at Zhao Feng in surprise: "Are you still going to make it?"
"Mr. Zhao has now made glass bacon sausages, and now he has made cotton cloth. These are both things that can become popular all over the country!"
Zhao Feng smiled slightly, these things can indeed become popular all over the country, but what if they are just satisfied like this?
What he wants to do is to change every aspect of people's lives!
With this thought in his mind, Zhao Feng stretched and said with a smile.
"Okay, Your Highness, are there any vegetables in the house? I'm going to make some food. Come and eat?"
After hearing this, Zhou Tong said a little embarrassed.
"Mr. Zhao, there are only some cabbages left in the house now. Winter is coming soon. It is too difficult to buy vegetables now!"
When Zhao Feng heard this, he suddenly thought of something.
Indeed, it is very difficult to eat vegetables after winter in this era. Even not only in winter, but also in late autumn, if you want to eat fresh vegetables, you will have to pay a higher price than usual.
As for eating vegetables out of season, it is even more impossible. This is not something you can do if you have money.
The reason why vegetables in later generations are easy to obtain is mainly because of the greenhouse cultivation technology. In the greenhouse, a constant temperature and humidity environment is maintained, and vegetables can grow very quickly.
Thinking of this, Zhao Feng's eyes suddenly lit up and he immediately said happily.
"Your Highness, you really reminded me, just wait, I will let you eat fresh vegetables in a few days!"
After saying this, Zhao Feng walked out in a hurry. Seeing Zhao Feng's appearance, Zhou Tong couldn't help but open his mouth.
I thought about how I just said I would cook for myself, but now I am busy again.
But Zhou Tong is also looking forward to it and wants to know how Zhao Feng gets fresh vegetables?
After Zhao Feng left the manor, he went straight to the glass workshop.
Since glass products have always been made as luxury goods, Zhao Feng did not let the craftsmen make too many, so as not to affect the scarcity of glass.
But now, Zhao Feng thought of a better way, which is a vegetable warming shed.
The vegetable greenhouses in the back room are all built with plastic films, because plastic films are not only very light, but also have better light transmittance, but to be honest, the durability of plastic films is not as good as glass.
Glass is just too heavy, so if you want to build it, you must use a steel frame structure.
This was not made in later generations because there were cheaper alternatives. In fact, there are some permanent vegetable greenhouses made of glass, but now, Zhao Feng and the others can only use glass to build vegetable greenhouses.
If you want to use glass to build a vegetable greenhouse, you must make glass panels.
Zhao Feng had not asked those craftsmen to make glass plates before. On the one hand, it was because it was relatively difficult to make glass plates. The glass plates made by these craftsmen's unfamiliar skills were likely to be uneven in thickness.
On the other hand, it is because there are so few application scenarios for glass plates that they can only be used to make glass windows.
But now Zhao Feng can let them make some glass panels and build a vegetable greenhouse, so that there will be fresh vegetables to eat even in winter.
Zhao Feng had stayed in the capital before and knew that those dignitaries were not short of money at all, what they were short of was things that could show their status.
If you can grow fresh vegetables in winter and send them to the capital, you will definitely be able to make a lot of money!
Moreover, seeds of many vegetable varieties have appeared. Many of the seeds sent to him by the caravan before were vegetable seeds.
So after arriving at the glass workshop, Zhao Feng directly asked the craftsmen to expand the production scale, and then ordered very fine steel molds in order to be able to press the glass plates.
In later generations, if you want to make very flat glass plates, they are usually made of tin. You need to spread the glass liquid flatly on top of the tin water, so that the glass plate can be made very flat and smooth by melting the metal tin.
But it is also very difficult to obtain a large amount of pure tin. Zhao Feng plans to start making it first and build a metal smelting plant to smelt various metals.
Now Zhao Feng has asked the craftsmen to make steel, but apart from this steel, there are still many metals still emerging.
Some alloys may have appeared in this era, but it is very difficult to extract these metals.
Zhao Feng's next step is to make these pure metals, and then use qualified ratios to make various high-quality alloys!
