Chapter 904： Down jacket and straw coat (on)

The new year is coming, however, in January 1508, it seems a bit cold ...

Generally speaking, the northern hemisphere is the hottest in July and the coldest in January. . . ! Therefore, Marin has always felt that the Spring Festival is the most reliable. Because, after the "Spring" festival, it means that the "Spring" day is coming soon. The special New Year in the Western calendar, in January, is cold and undesirable.

Of course, he is now a European and naturally has to go to the countryside to celebrate the New Year in the Western calendar. But after the New Year in the West of Germany, a cold ‘tide’ originating from Eastern Europe came to the north of Germany, causing the entire north of Germany to be frozen.

Normally, the northern part of Germany is weakly affected by the warm currents of the North Atlantic and will not be too cold in winter, at most a few degrees below zero. However, in January this year, because of the cold 'tide' in Eastern Europe, the temperature dropped below 10 degrees below zero. In many areas, the general snowfall is extremely cold.

In modern times, cold is just cold. But in ancient times, cold weather meant that someone would freeze to death ...

Sure enough, the reports sent from all over the place reported the death of someone.

However, this is also no way to do things. Because, in this era, Europeans did not have down jackets or cotton jackets. As for the quilt, there is no. Because, in this era, Europeans have not yet used cotton ‘flower’ products.

As for the quilt made of down, only the nobles and wealthy merchants have it. And those serfs obviously had no money to buy duvets. And the down jacket or something, even the nobility.

It's not that nobles can't afford down jackets, but down products have a disadvantage-easy to get together ...

Quilts made of down are fine because they are tiled and the down is evenly distributed. However, if it is made into clothes, the wrapped down has a characteristic-it is easy to deposit down. Finally, the down of the down jacket all piled under the clothes ...

Therefore, even nobles can only wear a few layers of sheep's wool clothes to keep warm in winter. Moreover, the effect is not too good.

In this weather, most people basically shrink at home and sit in front of the fireplace to roast fire.

The problem is that in this era, the forest belonged to nobles. Without the permission of the nobility, the peasants did not dare to enter the mountains and cut wood at will. Otherwise, if caught, no one will be wronged.

In the face of the cold, the well-meaning aristocrats may allow farmers to enter the mountains and cut wood for heating. If it is cold and ruthless, it doesn't matter whether people are alive or not. Moreover, in this era, the aristocracy, regardless of the life and death of the people, is the majority. Therefore, it is rare to encounter a noble man who cares about the life and death of the people, and the serfs will be grateful.

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Relatively speaking, the situation in Beihai is much better in other countries. Because, Marin promoted the adobe house and Huo Kang. At least, in the manor under the name of Marin, every household has lived in adobe houses and ondol that keep warm 'sex' very well.

Moreover, for the serfs of his own estate, Marin did not skimp on the distribution of firewood. Therefore, when the severe cold came, only two people died in the manor under the name of Marin in Beihai. Others, because of the Kang hiding in the adobe house, were not greatly affected by the cold.

Most of the people who were reported to be frozen and killed in this place were what happened in other noble estates, especially the old noble estates.

This is because the estates under the names of the ministers and generals under Marin are mostly imitated by Marin. Because it imitated Marin's manor, it also promoted adobe houses and kang. Therefore, there are very few people who freeze to death in Marin's mansion.

Most of the original mansions of old noble families still retain their former habits. The houses where the serfs lived are still very dilapidated. Because they did not get information sharing from Marin, their serfs could not live in adobe houses with better heat preservation.

In fact, the cost of adobe houses is very low, and the price of **** is very high. However, those old nobles, because most of them have not been reused by Marin, naturally cannot share information with Marin and the new nobles under Marin. Therefore, the low-cost and practical house of adobe house has not been promoted in the old noble manor. This time, the extreme cold 'tide' that happened once every few decades naturally killed many people.

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Although the cold 'tide' is rampant, life must continue. Many people must continue to work, otherwise, the entire society will be "chaotic".

For example, Marin and his ministers must work normally to deal with various problems. Of course, in the office of Marin and his ministers, there is no shortage of fire stoves.

There must be no Kang in the office, nor a fireplace. However, Marin promoted a stove with an external chimney, which made the office not cold and did not worry about stuffiness or even gas poisoning.

However, those who work outdoors are miserable. For example, the guards guarding the big ‘gate’ of the palace are shivering in the cold ...

And on the street, the employees who transported food and other essential supplies were trembling with cold. Basically, pedestrians walking on the street shake while walking, as if they had a cerebral thrombosis.

Even when the officials were off duty, the distance from the door to the carriage was trembling.

Marin felt that he should invent a warming artifact ...

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He first thought of cotton clothes, but there is no cotton ‘flowers’ in Europe now. People who cross the Tang Dynasty can also get a lot of cotton ‘flowers’ from Gao Changguo. Marin now, not to mention that there is no cotton ‘flowers’ in his hand, even if he wants to go to Mexico to get cotton ‘flowers’, it will take several months. At that time, it was estimated that it was summer. Who would use the cotton coat?

Therefore, the first condition for making cold protection artifacts is to have materials ...

When covering the velvet quilt at night, Marin naturally thought of the down jacket ...

Down jacket is not made of velvet, but duck down. So, Marin sent his hands down the next day to collect duck down.

When enough duck down is collected, the down jacket is naturally sewn. Fortunately, Marin once read the information in this area, and also took down the old down jacket to play. Therefore, he knows that the down jacket is actually a garment made by sewing duck down into separate small lattice spaces.

In fact, this method was already available in the Tang Dynasty. The Southerners of the Tang Dynasty sewn the goose down in a double layer of cloth. Each square grid whose needle thread ‘crosses’ is a separate space separated from other square grids. There is goose down in the square ...

However, this method was not popularized in ancient times. Because after the Song Dynasty, cotton 'flowers' were promoted. With cheap cotton 'flower' quilts and clothes, such troublesome goose down clothes and quilts were abandoned.

As for the problem of heavier cotton clothes? The ancients were underdeveloped in productivity, and paid more attention to the cost issue rather than the issue of whether the clothes were heavy ... So, this early down jacket was not promoted ...

The modern down jacket was invented by foreigners after World War I. A guy named Eddie Bauer found that after the duck down was sewn in a small square space closed by needles, the clothes made no longer have the problem of depositing down the velvet ‘hair’. Then, a modern version of the down jacket was launched.

Compared with a cotton coat, the down jacket is light and breathable, but it is not worse than the cotton coat in keeping warm ‘sex’ performance. Then this down jacket became popular all over the world. In China, it was only in the 1980s that someone started wearing it. At that time, who had any particular opinion on down jackets, proper bosses or overseas relations ...

To do so, Marin ordered a tailor to sew the spread duck down into small squares with two thicker layers of cloth, and then made a bloated down jacket.

After wearing it, Marin found it really warm. Only, there is a smell of duck dung ...

So, Marin took off this down jacket with duck dung smell, and let people find the velvet and re-sewn a down jacket. Sure enough, this high-grade velvet has no peculiar smell. However, this cost is high-a few pounds of velvet, worth 10 gold coins ...

It is also said that this velvet down jacket costs up to 10 gold coins .... Counting fabric, needlework and tailoring labor, the estimated cost is 12 gold coins ...

Therefore, Marin feels that it is most economical to treat the duck down with the smell of duck droppings ~ www.novelhall.com ~ to remove the odor. Otherwise, if it is made of velvet, the general nobleman can't afford it ...

Marin surrendered this task to the cobblers because they had the technology to remove the odor after treating the animal leather with odor. Duck down is not leather, but borrowing their technology and making minor adjustments, it is estimated that the odor can also be removed.

However, without waiting for the technology for removing duck down odors to be developed, the down jacket spread in the Beihai national society ...

Because, wearing a down jacket, Marin walked alone in the snow for a long time, a look that was not afraid of the cold, and attracted the attention of the ministers.

At the beginning, everyone saw that Marin's down jacket was so bloated, and thought Marin was wearing a heavy coat. As a result, Schwartz ‘touched’ and found that the clothes were light ...

Then, Schwartz also "made" a few pounds of velvet, and asked Marin to process the material ...

So, the next day, Schwartz also wore a down jacket, a look like "I'm comfortable, I'm warm" ...

Then, all the high-level officials in the whole palace sent velvet, and asked for processing ...

None of them are people who are short of money. When they see good things, they naturally want them. What's more, the down jacket is very practical, allowing them to go out calmly in the cold weather.

These important officers and generals of the North Sea not only made themselves down jackets, but also made down jackets for their families. Although the "flower" fee is quite large, but their land uses advanced agricultural technology, the grain output is very high. Therefore, they naturally have the money to squander. Every down jacket does not make them feel expensive.

In this way, down jackets are rapidly gaining popularity in the Beihai country ...

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