Lu Wenhuan, the newly appointed core of the Lu military group, has been leading the army to garrison the Jinghu border and building a number of cities in the past few years since he took over the official position of his brother Lu Wende's Jinghu envoy, and has been strengthening the defense of the Jinghu frontline.

However, he felt far less imposing than his brother Lu Wende, especially this year.

The reason is very simple, according to the practice of the Great Song Dynasty, only during the war can the envoy centralize all the power of the local party, government, and military, which is equivalent to a king in a fiefdom.

In times of peace, even in relative peace------ magistrate took back the administration.

This is equivalent to removing one of the legs of the Lu family.

The Lu family's smuggling of goods from the island in the name of the army was stopped, and they had to pay taxes; The Lu family's borrowing of warships to transport supplies had to be reduced------ and even after they planted cash crops and harvested, the taxes they should pay were also a lot.

Except for their own families, it is unlikely that they will want to requisition local labor at will.

Without these conveniences, the Lu family felt breathless.

All kinds of inconveniences often make them think of the benefits of war paradoxically.

Of course, Lu Wenhuan, the core of the Lu military group, still has a clear mind, and he only found out how much effort his brother had made to bring the Lu military group to the current situation after inheriting his brother's career.

He tried his best to be as smooth as possible within the family, and actively contacted Jia Pingzhang and Lord Jia in the imperial court, and constantly sent talents of the Lu family to the imperial court.

Outside of the Great Song Dynasty, he has always maintained friendly relations with Liuqiu Island, and the two sides are mutually beneficial

The Lu family has long had more than 300,000 acres of fertile land on Liuqiu Island, and the labor force they sent alone has been formed into three large villages, Dalu Village, Zhonglu Village, and Xiaolu Village, with a population of more than 20,000!

And the ratio of men to women is not too high------ Lu family also has two textile factories on Liuqiu Island!

At the same time, the Lu family monopolized the sale of kerosene in the west of the entire Xiangyang City------ that oil was good, it could be lit and cooked.

Kerosene lamps and kerosene stoves have been selling well in the Great Song Dynasty now, and kerosene has long been a monopoly ------ sought-after items, which is simply the income of daily income.

The Lu family once sent personnel to look for kerosene wells at home and abroad------ and they inquired privately, saying that they had this thing on a big overseas island------ but they found nothing for several years.

It can only be said that the people of Liuqiu Island have good luck, and they really have the help of the gods to find it.

The Lu family also benefited from growing cotton, and after the harvest, they could sell either seed cotton or lint.

Not only that, they also have spinning mills and weaving mills, but when the cotton yield is high, it is not as convenient as selling raw materials directly.

On top of that, they can use cotton raw materials to top up kerosene payments.

It's not fair to think about it, Liuqiu Island sells money by filling kerosene from a kerosene well on a large island overseas, and what about yourself? But they have to work hard to plant cotton to exchange it with them.

There is really no way about this, kerosene is so easy to use, five times brighter than any whale oil lamp, and it can also cook rice.

If the Lu family wants more kerosene, they have to have a variety of cotton.

It was still the year before last, and a member of the Lu family came to complain to Lu Wenhuan.

He said cryptically: "Originally, we had negotiated with the people in the north to rent their dry land, and when the harvest was over, we would give them half of lint, or cotton cloth.

But they don't talk about faithfulness, and we are just about to harvest the first crop of cotton now, and they will change it to two! ”

When Lu Wenduan heard this, Lu Wenduan's heart became angry: "How can you be so unfaithful!" ------How is the cotton harvest better than here?! ”

"It's a lot higher------ but the cotton sucks the fields, and I don't know how much struvite was transported there! There are hundreds of miles in it, but there are hundreds of soldiers------ it is better to send someone to rob their place!! to repay the hatred in our hearts!! ”

Lu Wenduan, the envoy of Jinghu System, smiled bitterly: "We are guarding the border for the Great Song Dynasty officials, how can we be good at fighting?!" ”

Anyway, the yield is always higher than growing cotton on your own land, which is considered an additional income.

went to the enemy-occupied area in the north to plant cotton, and it was the people from the Lu family's partial house who found someone else to act as an agent.

Jinghu made Lu Wenhuan not know at all, and he had no relationship with the Lu family at all.

Last year, the people in the Lu family's side house came to Lu Wenduan with red eyes: "It's so hateful, they even want me to wait for 30% of the harvest!" Otherwise, one or two pieces of cotton will not be shipped back! ”

The Jinghu system made Lu Wenhuan angry!

It's tolerable, it's unbearable!!

It was so shameful that it was so cheap----- however------

The person from the Lu family's side room said: "There are only 1,800 troops in a radius of thousands of miles------ as long as my Lu family sends a few hundred people, I will definitely be able to drive them all out!" ”

Lu Wenhuan pondered for a long time and said: "------At this time, the Liuqiu Guards are fighting with the Tatars, although there are many achievements, but there is no conclusion yet------ if you attract the Tatar brigade, it will be unfavorable to my Lu family."

If you don't have one achievement, you will all deserve the flood. ”

He can only comfort himself in this way------ anyway, the area rented in the north is larger than last year, less than 30%, but the total amount is still a little more.

But ah, cotton has long been known as "soft silver" among the people, and it can be exchanged for gold, silver and kerosene at will, and it can be exchanged for money and money------ which is less than 30%, which is really distressing.

Zhang Island Lord and his friends have long calculated that with the total population of more than 100 million in the Song Dynasty, the pure textile industry can flourish for at least 100 years, and if you count North Korea, Japan, India and the Western market, it is not an exaggeration to say that it has reached a prosperous period of 200 years.

Wang Defa excitedly imagined: "Even if the technological progress is slow, what will the Great Song Dynasty become ------ the early industrial revolution in the first two hundred years?!" What will become of this nation??!! ”

Zhang Island Master laughed and said: "It is impossible to make slow progress, the Great Song Dynasty has always taken the initiative to learn from us------ think about the demand for cotton cloth for 100 million people or the whole world, even if it is a pair of shoes for one person for three months, it is really an incomparable big market!"

It's time to start seeing the dawn of the early industrial revolution! ”

Industrial development, even in primary industry, has a huge demand for raw materials that is far from being comparable to the handicraft industry.

In fact, as early as the Northern Song Dynasty, cotton has spread from India to the Great Song Dynasty, and in Hainan Island, Guangnan East Road, Guangnan West Road, and Fujian Road are all sporadically planted.

It's just that those cotton seeds are all Asian cotton seeds, and the quality is not too good.

Zhang Island Master and they brought island cotton seeds, which are the best long-staple cotton, and they can definitely weave good cotton cloth.

Jingnan Road, where the Lu family is located, is the first place to receive the good seeds sold on Liuqiu Island, even earlier than those planted in Shandong, and they have benefited the earliest and the most.

Therefore, their Lu family dared to take a huge risk and secretly cooperate with the magistrates controlled by the northern Tatar bandit group.

The north was originally developed earlier than the south, and there were far more fields, especially dry fields, than in the south.

The damage caused by the war in the past few years has been enormous in the north, where there is still a lot of idle land, but there is a lack of good varieties of cash crops.

Corn and potatoes had already reached them, but they could only feed people and not bring money.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this, or perhaps it is the bribery of the Lu family that played a role, and the cooperation between the two sides has been a success.

But the magistrate in the north repeatedly broke his trust when the cotton harvest was about to be harvested, which was also troublesome enough.

This year, when the cotton is about to be picked, Jinghu System makes Lu Wenhuan worry in the house, maybe the other party can propose a forty percent discount!

However, he first received a secret envoy, who had been in charge of Jia Pingzhang's liaison with the Lu family for many years.

Trustworthy, and without a major event------ the secret envoy showed him a secret letter.

After reading it, a layer of cold sweat broke out in his head------