In front of the utility courtyard of the official residence, Shuangwen and the mother and daughter, Yuwen Broken Gold, Li Ji's wife, and Yunhe and many other ladies in the military mansion were chattering around Yun Shao, who was full of surprise, and they were extremely excited to follow him.

And Gao Yue was also full of smiles, clapped his palms, and said to Yun Shao: "Ah Ni, do you remember that when I was camping in Baili City, I asked Yan Xiang to bring grass and cotton seeds from Guangzhou City, and try planting them in the field of Alanta Temple? ”

Yun Shao raised his black eyebrows, thought about it seriously, and said that there was indeed such a thing, and the officials in the palace at that time still called this "Mian", "only Qingqing ......"

When it came to the title of "Qingqing", the other ladies all burst into laughter, only Yunhe covered his face with a fan and did not make a statement.

Because now it is spread all over the Xingyuan Mansion, the lady of the Da Yin family likes to call her husband "Qingqing", and she also shouts it in front of people.

Gao Yue was also a little embarrassed, but Yun Shao continued, "Only Qingqing has given this thing a new name, cotton." ”

"In our township, we all call this thing a white stack." A lady who married from Lingnan spoke.

"How nice cotton is, Qingqing is called cotton, that is cotton." Yun Shao hurriedly corrected the lady and said.

Gao Yue smiled and raised his hand, "From Baili City to Xingyuan Mansion, Master Ming Xuan has always followed Yue's conception, and with the help of Shuangwen, Zhuzhu, Broken Gold and other ladies, he has finally prepared how to make cotton into silk and how to prepare cloth utensils. ”

Then, amid the cheers of everyone, Gao Yue lifted a large piece of cloth in the courtyard, and several utensils inside were suddenly displayed in front of everyone's eyes.

One of them, Gao Yue called it "driving the car", and then Song Zhuzhu said to Yun Shao that the fruit of cotton is like a peach, which has seeds, and the cottonseed can be rolled out with this thing to get a seedless "white stack tidbit", and the cottonseed that comes out can be used for fertilizer and livestock consumption;

The second, which Takagaku calls the "vertebral arch", hangs it, uses the bowstring to play the cotton to make it soft, and then rolls it into strips on a wooden plank;

The third piece is called "Spinning Wheel", also called "Treadmill" or "Spinning Wheel", in fact, the system is basically similar to the folk spinning and hemp wheel at that time, you can use the pedal to step on the wheel to rotate, you can also use the hand crank, and then pull the cotton wool to pull the strands, through the yarn hole, and then separated by the weaver's fingers, each of which is attributed to the "yarn spindle" - because people have five fingers, that is, there are four finger seams, so Master Ming Xuan believes that the limit of this kind of spindle is four spindles;

The last one is the loom, which is no different from the loom used to weave silk and linen, and all it has to do is to weave cotton ingots into cotton cloth.

In fact, under the intervention and guidance of Gao Yue, and the concerted efforts of Master Ming Xuan and the ladies of the military government, this set of simplest cotton weaving processes is much more spanning than the history of the real plane.

According to Tao Zongyi of the Yuan Dynasty, when he lived in seclusion in Songjiang, he had seen the local cotton weaving industry, "Songjiang Mansion went east for more than 50 miles, said Wu Nijing, and its soil was barren and thin", so the people could only seek the "tree industry", that is, to grow cotton and spin cotton cloth to pay taxes and live, but there was no car and vertebral arch at the earliest, the people could only use their hands to peel out cotton seeds in cotton peaches, and then use a kind of bamboo made of "bamboo arc" to play cotton, it can be said that "it is very difficult", and later according to Tao Zongyi, it was a woman named Huang Daopo, Came here from Yazhou, taught the people the four-step utensils of "defending, playing, spinning, and weaving" of cotton, and also taught them the technology of "wrong yarn, color matching, heald, and flowering", which is the so-called jacquard and dyeing tricks, and then the cotton spinning industry flourished in Songjiang Mansion, continuing the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

Now, with the efforts of Gao Binglang, there is no need to wait for Huang Daopo, the four-step basic procedures of the cotton spinning industry are complete, as for jacquard printing and dyeing, there is no need to consider it for the time being, and the factor color cotton cloth is enough to use.

"This thing is used as cloth, the most cold, and the cost is far lower than silk, and it is the most suitable to sell to soldiers and households." Gao Yue's implication is that once cotton spinning clothes and shirts are promoted nationwide, it will be of great significance to the people of the whole country, and people can get fabrics that are more expensive than silk and linen, and it will form a "common people's consumption wave" that can change society.

One or two of them, who are more sensitive to the economy, have seen the glorious prospects of cotton planting, and as family leaders, they have begun to calculate:

Yangzhou and Lizhou are not suitable for the cultivation of this kind of grass and cotton, Xingyuan Mansion has no idle land, but Fengzhou and Xingzhou can be planted, not only that, there is still a vast and sparsely populated situation, immediately pay money to buy a large number of idle fields there, mix wheat and cotton, and then hire people to weave into cloth, you can follow the Xingyuan Mansion's thousand ships, sell it to other places, and the profits are absolutely considerable!

At this time, they whispered, and the other party's ideas and plans were corrected, and the biggest worry was not that there was no land and no money, but that there was no one.

Growing and spinning cotton requires manpower.

What Xingyuan Mansion lacks is manpower.

In other words, what I am lacking now in Tang is this, after the Anshi Rebellion, more than half of the national household registration was lost, from about 60 million before the chaos to 20 or 30 million now, and what the imperial court directly controlled will shrink by half, and there are not enough people who want to farm and become soldiers.

After Gao Binglang took over the Xingyuan Mansion, in order to solve this problem, he also worked hard, he first gathered the poor households of the third class in the whole mansion, and half-lured and half-forced them to work, but this group of manpower was concentrated in the shipyard, mule workshop or iron official armor.

"You don't have to worry." At this time, when Yun Shaohe stepped forward happily and touched all kinds of cotton spinning utensils, Yun He shook his fan and said to several military ladies, "I heard that when Xifan invaded the rank before, many party items in the northwest fell into the enemy, and the holy lord was very angry in the Zichen Palace, and the brother-in-law had a meritorious conquest and slightly settled in the northwest, so do you see that there are many more party slaves in Xingyuan Mansion recently?" ”

These ladies of the military government nodded - the nearly 2,000 party members captured by Gao Yue were handed over to the imperial court, and the rest were all unceremoniously escorted back to Xingyuan Mansion as "party slaves", and 400 people were distributed to Ming Huaiyi's Fan cavalry as slaves, and the Xingyuan city pongs who had become a trend of "reward competition" accepted without any mustard (at this time, the party had no unified national consciousness at all, and Gao Yue estimated that it would not be produced), and the rest were all sent to the military government as slaves.

"Immediately, if the Holy Lord asks his brother-in-law to go to the party again, will there be more than 10,000 party slaves who will bring back Xingyuan? Whether it is planting cotton fields or weaving cotton cloth, there is no need to worry about running out of manpower. Yun and this little girl, without any sympathetic expression on their faces, said this openly.

"This girl has a hard heart, it seems that she can really assist me in my career." Gao Yue put his hands behind his back, a little surprised, and also looked at Yun He with a little appreciation, thinking so.

Because although he had not discussed with Yun He in advance, in his heart, Gao Yue had actually formed a huge bloody plan to suppress the Northwest Party Xiang Fang, a plan mixed with imperial court suppression and the same clan remuneration competition, or to put it more bluntly, a "slave plundering" plan.

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