Chapter 46: Hands
The main textile force in Beidi is still mainly silk and linen, supplemented by cotton wool.
A Qinghai sheep breed shaved the image of "Uncle Ge", the tare weight is to touch twenty catties, the amount after combing, if according to the Taiji Palace procurement standards, that is, more than two catties, but this year the cold requirements are high, the quality requirements are low, so it can be widely sold.
The second is that Cangzhou No. 2 cotton has been vigorously promoted, and even the strength to eat milk has been squeezed out, but the foundation is too thin, Lao Zhang's own estimate, can ensure that there are three or four million mu of cotton land in Hedong, Hebei, that is a great performance. As for how to resist insect pests and how to resist the conversion of grain to cotton, that is another layer of challenge.
Only hemp is the real raw material for cheap and widely planted fabrics.
Taking ramie as an example, in the places where Zhang De has been, regardless of east, west, north and south, it can survive and find wild ramie. And because ramie has long stems, it belongs to filament hemp, which is a high-quality material compared to flax in the Western Regions, in the middle of the river, and along the Mediterranean coast. Therefore, even if the Han Dynasty established the "Silk Road", in fact, the mass products sold at home and abroad were actually mainly ramie.
It's just that hemp processing is obviously not so easy, just a filament process, is quite a toss people's spirit.
Zhang De's place in Wang Zhong was not purely cheap, just a set of hand-cranked carding machines, it can be said that Taigu County is hundreds of years ahead of Bashu.
Bashu's famous linen cloth gradually withdrew from the markets of major cities in the Kannai Province, and it was this kind of impact that was suffered.
However, after so many years, Taigu County has not even increased the number of hand-cranked carding machines, and it is still imported by Dahe Workshop, and it has to be imported.
More than ten years have passed, and the production efficiency has not improved much, but the ramie planting area has increased year by year. The counties around Taigu County, even if Taiyuan has been suppressed several times and wants to control the area, but "people die for money, birds die for food", as long as the imperial court does not have an order to kill the head if caught, then it will be hard to do it.
Taigu County has a history of pure grain imports for five years, and can also ensure that the grassroots of society are not turbulent, so it can be said that the political and economic "legacy" left by Wang Zhong's sycophant former county order is still quite rich.
Although Adam Smith's ancestors had not yet been born, this did not prevent the "invisible hand" from groping wildly in the area of Hedong Guannei.
Regulation? Inexistent......
The large hemp growers led by Taigu County can be said to be in a hurry to seek medical treatment. First of all, the market has to face the impact of new materials, not to mention silk, cotton wool, these two things, the development of the past ten years can not be described as fierce. Jia Junpeng took Jia's children and learned from Welsh Lao Tie to the sheep a few times, which stabilized Qinghai No. 2 sheep and Fengzhou No. 1 sheep.
Wool is denser, finer and softer than before.
As for wool spinning technology, Hanyang Woolen Mill can even rub camel hair, let alone wool?
The backlog of hemp stock for many years, several larger markets have not eaten, and the processing capacity is really unable to keep up. Another one, who has a little money at the moment, is running for cotton.
The poor wear mink, and the rich man wears cotton, this is the current market in the capital, that is, Luoyang.
Around major cities and port cities, even if there is a demand for hemp materials, they are often replaced by local goods.
Without it, the shipping cost is too high.
If Chang'an City is still the imperial capital, then there is nothing to say, there is something to earn, and there is a lot of money.
However, what did the emperor do when he moved the capital? first moved away the rich households, and then suppressed the "remnants of the defeated generals" and "remnants of flowers and defeated willows" of the Guanlong army leaders who stayed in Chang'an. How can the old brothers in Guanzhong, who have been ruined two or three times, have the appetite to give the poor buddies in the northwest to the bottom? What are you "poor"? I didn't see that they were all guarding Wuzhuang and eating government relief.
Problems and disasters, like money, are saved little by little. In these years, even cleavage has been saved, let alone this?
The local hemp farmers in Taigu County can't bear the pressure of hemp farmers, so they can only ask for help, in fact, the way is simple, the invisible hand of Kato Eagle will automatically regulate, and you don't plant hemp if you don't make money.
But the problem of the matter is here, not to mention Taigu County, even Taiyuan has been bypassed. What is the boundary of this land? The noble family is not less at all, these people can watch their investment go down the drain?
No, you can't!
As a result, a few years ago, they began to default on the payment of the horse farmers, which is similar to the strange phenomenon that Lao Zhang saw 1,500 years later, and the horizontal and vertical "code farmers" were also in arrears......
Not only was he in arrears, but he also had to work, he had to work overtime, and he had to die suddenly.
Zhenguannian's hemp farmers insist on saying where they are stronger than "code farmers", probably because the magnates of the northern capital directly omitted two steps in order to save effort, first arrears, and then directly died suddenly.
You're all dead, so what else do you need, right?
Quite logical.
It's a pity that this thing can be done every day? The hemp farmers have all died suddenly, where can they get labor to farm? Planting hemp, harvesting, drying, filamenting, and paralleling...... It takes people, and they can't all die suddenly.
Troubles and problems, accumulated, there will always be a time when they swell to the point where there is no forced number.
So Taigu County, which was forced to come out by Taiyuan, went to find the old leader, the senior of the king who was the county commander in Hebei.
As the saying goes, "People sit at home, and disaster comes from heaven", Wang Zhong never thought that Lao Tzu had left that poor place for ten years, and there was still something involved?
It's not involved, it's involved, there's no way, the person who said Xiang was the eldest brother who succeeded him to the county magistrate of Taigu County, and he once made him the master.
What's more, the threat of the northern capital Taiyuan, can it be used as a fart?
In desperation, Wang Zhong did not listen to his uncle's words, and went directly to Zhang De, but wrote a letter of guilt to Luoyang.
The Taiyuan magnates were stunned!
Groove ...... And this kind of operation?
However, there is no way, although it is now the county order of Shangxian County, Wang County Commander is as timid and afraid of things as ever and loves money......
If he is a thief, he must be "confessed leniently, and sit through the prison; Resist strictness and go home for the New Year". But he's not, he's an official, and he wants to talk about consciousness and organization.
Wang Zhong's heart thinks that Lao Tzu also has thighs, and now Lao Tzu is a "Shandong person", and the previous boss Secretary Xue is presiding over the construction of the Huanhai Expressway for the emperor's father, Lao Tzu is afraid of you Shanxi people?
I confess, I confess, I'm sorry for the court, I'm sorry for the people, I'm sorry for Your Majesty......
So Li Tai, the king of Wei who was in the capital, almost had a myocardial infarction when he was holding his heart. No matter how you look at it, it seems to be a pit.
Maybe you will offend your relatives in Taiyuan, maybe you will offend the relatives of your "friends", maybe you will offend Hebei Lao Tie led by Secretary Xue, and maybe you will offend the emperor's father......
Li Tai thought to himself that this king of kings had never heard of it before, what kind of hatred and grudge, to throw this kind of pit to Luoyang? Placed in front of this king?
Next door, isn't there a genuine prince next door? Doesn't he like farming? You hemp farmers are looking for the prince, what are you looking for this king? This king has eaten your rice in poetry?
What's even more disgusting is that Wang Zhong not only asked for guilt, but also said that he was able to save the hemp industry back then, but he was appointed by a master.
Li Tai is not stupid, here comes the spirit, hey, high, how tall is it? Let the king see.
It's okay not to watch it, but after watching it, Li Tai is even more congested.