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The officials who lived in the guest rooms washed up and came to the amusement park. After the tedious greetings, Xu Ping arranged for everyone to have breakfast. By the time it's over, it's already over.

Xu Ping said to Cai Qi and Li Zhi: "The two ministers, the weather is fine today, and the village will arrange cotton picking." ”

Cai Qi said: "You are the landlord, everything is arranged by you, and we all follow your orders!" ”

"Why did Xianggong say that? I deserve it! There are too many people, and if there is no charter, it will be a mess. When you look here, I look there, and when you go back, no one will finish reading it, wouldn't it be bad? ”

After Xu Ping finished speaking, seeing that everyone had no opinions, he said: "In the morning, let's first look at all kinds of cloth woven from cotton and the clothes made of it." At noon, I had refreshments, and then I went to the field to watch the villagers pick cotton, how about it? ”

Cai Qi looked at Li Shi and nodded: "Okay, that's it." Xu waits, you have to watch carefully, don't let the officials who come move around. With so many people coming to Zhuangzi, it is not easy for you, and the saint and the prime minister also have high hopes, so you must not come for nothing. ”

After speaking, he turned to Yan Shu, Li Shu, Wang Juzheng and the others: "You all help Xu Zhizhi to watch together, which one has left the team, don't have to understand, after you go back, don't blame the political hall for punishment!" ”

Several people agreed together, and the relaxed atmosphere just now disappeared a lot.

Xu Chang and Lu Song took a few shrewd and capable Zhuang guests to lead the way, and everyone went out of the garden together and walked to a large courtyard next to it. This yard was newly established in spring and summer, and was specially used for cotton processing.

When I entered the courtyard gate, there were two big ginkgo trees at the door, both of which were more than one hug thick. The tree had been moved from somewhere else, and it was now in full bloom, providing great shade.

Starting from the door, there is a large yard of one or two acres of land, all of which are paved with cement except for a few flower beds.

Cai Qi and Li Shi were stunned: "Xu is waiting to make a big hand!" ”

Cement is still a very precious thing, and bridges are only used in key places, and most of them are to build some bridges with large spans or very important ones. I didn't expect Xu Ping's yard to be paved with cement, and he couldn't see it in his garden. From this, we know how much hope Xu Ping himself has for cotton.

The wings on both sides of the courtyard were equipped with various machines, and they were not started at this time. Only Sun Qilang took a few people to check the machine inside, and it looked a little empty.

This year, the new field affairs of the three divisions have created a lot of wealth in the world, and as soon as everyone sees these guys, they know that they must be monsters who can spit out yellow and clear copper coins. Many people wanted to take a look, but Xu Ping's direction remained the same, and Cai Qi and Li Shi also followed him forward, so they had to dispel their thoughts.

Cai Qi moved out the political hall and asked everyone to abide by the rules, and no one dared to take this as a deaf ear.

When I walked to the main room, I saw that there were various booths in the hall, all of which were carefully made of bamboo and wood. On the booth, there were various cotton products, as well as semi-finished products at various stages of processing, and there were small boards next to them, and detailed introductions were written in block letters.

When Guo Yan saw it, he couldn't help but smile. Back then, he was the chief bookkeeper of Zhongmu, and Xu Ping engaged in new farm tools, so he also held such an exhibition, so that the surrounding big households could come and see. At that time, I deliberately asked Xiuxiu, a little girl, to explain, and before I knew it, ten years had passed, and I didn't know what happened to the little girl now.

Entering the hall, Xu Ping said to Cai Qi and Li Shi: "Xianggong, what is placed here is how the cotton is picked from the ground, step by step, how it became cloth and clothes. There are small boards next to each with rough instructions on them. You can take a look at it and get a general impression, but don't leave this hall. If you have any questions, you can write them down and ask me when the time comes. For one hour, I will take you with me again and look at it the same from beginning to end, and if you don't understand, you can ask me at that time. ”

According to the process of Xu Ping's previous life, there was an explanation at the beginning, but everyone was not prepared, and Xu Ping was saved. First visit freely, then group observation, then explanation, and finally ask questions to summarize, this process Xu Ping was used to doing in his previous life, I don't know how many I participated, and I have organized it many times.

People in this era are still not used to it, it should be Xu Ping accompanying several important people, watching all the way, talking all the way, and preparing to answer questions and solve doubts. However, Cai Qi and Li Shi were both instructed to follow Xu Ping's path, and they had no objections. At that moment, Cai Qi ordered to go down so that everyone could move around freely.

After all, Xu Ping was also limited by his status in his previous life, and he had no opportunity to contact the high-level. How many of the real leaders came to visit and inspect the matter? It's just a state of seniority. How precious is the leader's time, where is it possible to do it step by step, not to ask the master to accompany him to look around, to ask you a few words, is already concerned about practical matters. When necessary, you have to accompany the secretary to write the summary of others.

There are benefits of having little knowledge, and Xu Ping's practice of entertaining little minions in his previous life is more conducive to doing practical things. With his current status and the support of the emperor, no one will find fault with him.

Cai Qi, Li Shi, Yan Shu and Li Shu walked together, Fan Zhongyan, Wang Juzheng and Zheng Xiang walked together, and the other officials looked at who was familiar with whom, divided into small groups and small groups, and walked in the hall in twos and threes.

Xu Ping couldn't leave, so in the corner of the hall, he called Lu Song and Sun Qilang over and asked them about the preparations in the village. Cotton harvesting is an extremely labor-intensive operation, and in order to wait for these officials to come and visit, the village has been waiting there and has not started. Now we have to make the harvest period shorter, which requires a lot of manpower.

With Xu Ping's status, it is not that he cannot use his power for personal gain, such as recruiting the surrounding Xiang army to work in the field. Even half of the wages of the people hired outside would be enough to silence those people. It's just that it's easy for people to grab the handle by doing this, Xu Ping has just cleaned up Ouyang Xiu, as soon as this kind of thing is done, the hat of the despicable villain will soon be buckled.

The characteristics of the times, the weight of public opinion in Shilin is very heavy, coupled with the increasingly heavy forces of Taiwan, Xu Ping must check himself if he wants to really lead the reform of this era. Although it is not as simple as Wang Anshi and Sima Guang in history, it is also necessary to clean oneself.

Thinking about spending all day and wine, leaning on the red and green, and thinking about monopolizing power and making people respect, that is to treat the people of this world as fools. Drunk and lying on the knees of beauty, waking up to control the world, and being happy enough, you will have to bear the consequences and bear the infamy of the world. If you are infamous and memorized, then you really have to learn Ding Wei, Xu Ping estimates that he doesn't have that ability.

Fortunately, there are enough ways to make money by yourself, and you don't have to be like those powerful ministers, desperately using power to make money.

Sun Qilang also has an official body now, and the good or bad is mixed in the officialdom and knows the seriousness of the matter. The two rulers took a group of courtiers to Zhuangzi, and once something went wrong, Xu Ping's face would be lost. He cheered up and arrived at the village in advance, and inspected and tended the machine almost day and night.

Lu Song is for the sake of people with a lot of money, a rural place, where to find so many people at once? The surrounding people, whether they live on Xu Ping's Zhuangzi or not, men, women and children are all mobilized by him. Anyway, I rely on the weight of the cotton picked to give money, and everyone who can pull it is pulled, and now I can't care so much.

Thousands of acres of cotton are not a small amount, and Xu Ping also cares. One is that it is normal that this can be exchanged for a lot of money, and the stall in my home is getting bigger, and the expenses are getting bigger and bigger. Another one, the machine that has been set up in the new field of the third division, waiting for these cotton to be fed, is related to Xu Ping's political performance, which is even more important.

Li Shi took out his reading glasses, put them on carefully, walked in front with Cai Qi, and looked all the way forward.

The first one is a few cotton flowers picked from the ground, and a few snow-white flowers are cute. Next to it, there are a few other colors, the same one placed there.

On the small sign is a description written by Xu Ping himself, writing about the varieties of these cottons, the growth period, the approximate yarn yield of each flower, and so on. I also talked about the difference between these colors of cotton, the characteristics, and why I put it here.

Li Shi held his reading glasses with his hand and bent over to look at it.

White cotton is the main variety, in addition to the variety of stable and high yield, this color is single and neat, and white is the color that is most likely to be on other background colors. As a commodity cloth, white has great superiority.

Colored cotton is naturally colorful and can be spun and woven directly, and the cloth does not need to be dyed again. Dyed cloth will inevitably fade when worn and washed, and colored cotton does not have this shortcoming, and is the most suitable for making intimate clothing. However, the natural color is deep and shallow, and the direct weaving is not good-looking, and the color looks gray, which is far less bright than the dyed color, so it is not suitable for making clothes to be worn outside.

The two kinds of cotton have their own characteristics, and in general, white cotton has obvious advantages, and Zhuangli is also dominated by white cotton.

Li Zhi held his reading glasses, straightened his waist and said to Cai Qi: "Xu has always been careful in doing things, and if you want me to say, these colorful cotton are useless." The color is gray and mixed, and the woven cloth is the next grade of the lower grade. He still put it away and put it here, indicating that the underwear should be used to the fullest. ”

Cai Qi nodded: "The underwear is all white and monotonous, and it is not easy to wash." If you use this colored cotton, it is indeed a way, and it may be popular in many years! ”

But I didn't know that Xu Ping was inspired by the color cotton underwear in his previous life, so he deliberately cultivated the color cotton variety, which was specially used to weave underwear in the future, and maybe it would become a high-end product in this world.

Cotton grown naturally in nature is inherently colorful, and natural white cotton is not as white as snow in later generations. It is because of the needs of human bleaching and dyeing that generation after generation of artificial selection has bred cotton as white as snow. Thousands of years later, the color cotton that was originally everywhere was almost extinct, but it became a rarity.

Xu Ping has the insight of his past life, and of course he will maintain the diversity of species, who knows when the time comes, which cloud will rain? It's better to keep more choices for your children and grandchildren.

In fact, not only cotton, but also the species of this world, Xu Ping will not only use the technology of later generations to cultivate and breed, but also try to retain the original wild seeds. He has always wanted to build a large-scale botanical garden, but he has never had the energy or opportunity to do it, and one day it will be built. (To be continued.) )