Seeing that the time of an hour was coming soon, Xu Ping understood the situation in the village clearly, explained some precautions to Lu Song and Sun Qilang, and let them go to their own people. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Taking a deep breath, Xu Ping cheered up and said to Cai Qi and Li Shi, who had just walked back: "The two ministers, the time is just right, it's been an hour, I don't know if there's anything you don't understand?" ”

Cai Qilang said: "Naturally, there is, this is a new crop that we have never seen, I see it in my eyes, but I still don't know what they are." Xu waits for the system, you can talk about it. ”

Xu Ping promised and came to the two rulers.

Wherever they saw, the others stopped and gathered around.

Xu Ping accompanied Cai Qi and Li Shi, starting with the first exhibit.

"It's a cottonseed, it looks inconspicuous, but if you plant it, you can grow a tall cotton plant. In addition to seeds, cottonseed can be extracted from oil, but cottonseed oil is toxic to humans and animals, cannot be eaten, and can only be used for other purposes. ”

"Oh - it's poisonous, but you can't be sloppy." After Cai Qi finished speaking, he remembered something, "You can't eat it, but it should be okay to make lamp oil if you want to, just to prevent profiteers from making trouble." ”

"Xianggong is right, cottonseed oil can be used as lamp oil, but the smoke is slightly larger. After the oil is squeezed out, it is turbid and black, with some bitter taste, which is toxic to people, and after eating, it will have less sperm and no children. The cottonseeds in the village are all collected and stored, and the oil is not extracted. In the future, there will be more cotton planting, and it is necessary to guard against this section. ”

In fact, cottonseed oil is not inedible, but it must be refined to remove impurities, how can there be such conditions in this era? Xu Ping simply didn't fight that idea, and directly disposed of it as waste, mainly to return it to the field.

After looking at cottonseeds, there are several cotton specimens, corresponding to the seedling stage, the growth period, the spit bud and the spitting stage. This is Xu Ping's arrangement according to the botanical museum in his heart, and he first used cotton to explore the experience.

It is a pity that although these ministers are all from the prefecture and county pro-people officials, none of them are particularly familiar with agricultural affairs. Just listening to Xu Ping talk about it once, I don't know what to say at all, and there is nothing to ask.

When it came to the introduction of cotton, Li Shi asked: "Xu waiting, look at this cotton is puffy and puffy, I don't know if I want to reel silk?" ”

"Back to Xianggong, cotton and silk and linen are a little different, there is no need to reel silk, and there is no need to impregnation. You only need to roll out the cottonseed after harvesting, then you can comb and spin the yarn, and then you can weave the cloth. ”

There are more officials who know a little about textiles, and they ask gossiping. Since the rules set by Ding, the pro-people officials of the prefectures and counties have brought to persuade the peasant envoys to persuade the peasants. Few officials will go down to work in the fields, but they all know a little about mulberry and hemp weaving. Because your own family may not farm, but the average family will have a spinning wheel. In order to set an example, since Empress Taizu Song, she has been raising silkworms and weaving silk in the palace, and even if the ministers are pretending, these are always indispensable at home.

The emperor personally cultivated the fields, and the queen took the lead in raising silkworms and weaving silk, which is a typical manifestation of the small peasant ideology under the natural economy. The starting point of persuading the peasants to teach is naturally blameless, but it shows that the emperor's family has to eat the grain they grow, wear their own cloth, and live a self-sufficient life from top to bottom.

Xu Ping is actually not familiar with the real traditional Chinese cotton textile technology, he first relied on Yongzhou to understand the weaving methods of the local people in Yazhou, and secondly, he relied on his own foundation to learn agricultural machinery, mixed up, and engaged in another set. But the truth is always the same, and the actual process of machine weaving is not much different from that of later generations.

Traditionally, cotton is picked by ginning, then loosening, spinning, and then weaving into cloth.

Ginning, pine, spinning, this is a very different process from silk and linen, history is gradually developed from the Yuan Dynasty, to the peak in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and then basically stood still.

Removing cottonseed from cotton is a labor-intensive task. Historically, from the invention of the cotton gin by Huang Daopo to the "Taicang-style" rolling mill in the Ming Dynasty, it has not made progress since then, and even some regression.

The "Taicang-style" rolling mill can be regarded as the pinnacle of small manual rolling mills, which is enough to meet the needs of family ginning, and then develop, that is, large-scale cotton machinery, which has entered the stage of large-scale cotton textile industry. The commodity economy is the catalyst for industrialization, and it is almost impossible to develop under the conditions of the natural economy.

This has nothing to do with the political system, the commodity economy can give birth to the capitalist system, but the capitalist system does not necessarily give birth to the commodity economy, and the relationship between the two is far less than imagined.

In fact, the revolution of the cotton spinning industry in Europe and the United States was caused by the American Eli, which is somewhat similar to the "Taicang-style" rolling mill? Whitney's new cotton ginner. Just as the "Taicang" mill actually cemented its position as a natural economy in China, the Whitney's new mill also cemented its position as the largest plantation owners in the southern United States. This new machine greatly increased their economic power and increased their political power, and was an important one of the technological catalysts of the American Civil War.

The economic revolution is the commodity economy that brings down the natural economy, which is the economic base, and the change of the political system is determined by the economic base. And not the other way around, the political system to determine the economic base.

Without a revolution in the commodity economy, the change of the political system will be meaningless, and will not only not reflect the progressive side of society, but will even lead to the opposite. Historically, with the exception of a few countries, due to the influence of religion, history, geography and cultural traditions, the capitalist system and the commodity economy can promote each other, and the capitalist system of most countries has led the national economy to the plantation economy.

The economic base determines the superstructure, this is the conclusion of historical materialism. If, on the other hand, a revolution that thinks that the superstructure can bring about the economic base, it becomes social Darwinism.

As a traverser, what Xu Ping needs to do is to complete the revolution of the commodity economy to the natural economy, as for how the superstructure will change, history will give the answer, that is the natural historical process.

The fact that the innovation of cotton-playing machinery has been extremely slow in China, with little progress for hundreds of years, is due to the lack of demand from China's smallholder economy. Social needs give rise to social change, and without demand, even if change occurs, it will slowly disappear in the long river of history and be obscure.

In the very beginning, the development of spinning machines in China was far ahead of Europe, and spinning machines similar to Jenny appeared in China much earlier than in the United Kingdom. In fact, until the beginning of the British Industrial Revolution, they still imported cotton cloth from China, and Chinese cotton cloth, especially in the Jiangnan area, is still synonymous with high quality.

China has not broken through the shackles of the natural economy, the development of the commodity economy has not been able to develop, and the social resources have not been effectively allocated. And the key is in the cotton textile industry.

Chinese tradition is the pinnacle of the natural economic development of small farmers, almost to an extreme. When you are ahead, you can naturally be complacent and consider yourself the superior country of the Celestial Empire. When the economic revolution comes, this maturity becomes a burden, and the threshold for a commodity economic revolution is higher than anywhere else in the world. New economic revolutions often choose to break through in relatively backward places in the past, and Xu Ping's economists in his previous life gave him a nice name, "late-mover advantage".

In the face of the new technological and economic revolution, the places that used to go fast will become stubborn strongholds and the opposing force of the revolution. In relatively backward places, they can take root and sprout and gush out.

Smallholder economies can often be equated with natural economies, especially in ancient China, where agriculture was founded. The small-scale peasant economy is characterized by eating the food they grow and wearing clothes made of their own woven cloth, so that they can be self-sufficient in food and clothing. Clothing and food are the foundations of the small-scale peasant economy, and the tendency of the commodity economy to replace the natural economy will be unstoppable as long as one of them is turned into a complete commodity. Before industrialization developed to a fairly high level, it was basically impossible to completely commercialize grain, and in fact, the only choice was clothing, and only the textile industry was available.

This is the reason why Xu Ping attaches infinite importance to the cotton textile industry, as long as this industry develops, the tide of commodity economy is unstoppable, and no one will stop it, but will only strive to be the tide maker in this tide.

The economic revolution is not to see how many factories are built, how many workers are employed, how much steel can be produced, and how much industry accounts for the economy, but whether the economic foundation of the whole society has changed. As long as the economic base changes, it will naturally drive the development of the entire society's industry in a more reasonable direction.

Xu Ping's plan is very simple, he has found this breakthrough, and after so many years of preparation. Now everything is ready, just waiting for the arrival of the east wind. This year, we will first test whether the textile industry chain of the entire three divisions is smooth, and next year we will form a large industry with the help of the strong economic strength of the three divisions, and quickly promote it in the Central Plains.

The new social existence will give birth to a new social consciousness, and seize this node to complete the construction of the theoretical basis for the creation of wealth through labor. The so-called words are originally combined with what is done and complement each other.

The creation of wealth by labor is only the introduction of the commodity economy, and the commercial exchange will make the multiplication of wealth the second step, and the reproduction can be expanded after the multiplication of wealth, so as to form a positive cycle is the third step.

After these three steps are completed and tested in practice, the wheel of commodity economy replacing the natural economy will never stop. The third division is both the front and the driver, and will roll forward with this big car unstoppable.

This is Xu Ping's plan, as a traverser, to bring the revolution to the world. He didn't know if he could succeed, so he could only keep his feet on the ground and do it step by step. On this path, he will encounter countless difficulties, and he will overcome countless difficulties. He will also be subjected to countless cold eyes and misunderstandings, and he can only face these things silently, and history will eventually give the answer.

(The reasoning in these chapters is a bit heavier, and there is no way, so you have to plan what the protagonist is going to do.) I've also found that if you don't say it explicitly in the book, it will cause some readers to misunderstand, so it's better to say it. The only thing I can assure the reader is that I have not copied the information, and you will not see the theory or the examples written in the book, which you will not see in another book. This kind of content is mixed in with the storyline, which can really lead to a difficult read. But the characteristics of online novels, if you don't write these contents, it is easy for people who read them to look confused, and they don't know what the protagonist is going to do. I hope that readers will be more forgiving, more tolerant, and more forgiving. (To be continued.) )