If this is calculated, it will take at least a few years to really develop light industry. Because the cultivation and yield of cotton is a big problem! Now most places in Datang are planting this cotton as an ornamental plant in small quantities.

It's hard to get out! After all, the promotion of crops by the imperial court is still maintained on the cultivation of high-yield grains such as potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn. This is all what I contributed to the imperial court two years ago, and for this I also got the title of 'potato county man'.

Now let the imperial court continue to promote the cultivation of cotton, it seems that the imperial court does not have so much manpower and energy!

Pondering and pondering, but I still think it's a useful thing. Moreover, it is the kind of project that benefits the country and the people and can also increase the development of science and technology. After all, in later generations, many products such as gauze cotton balls and ordinary protective masks need cotton cloth. And more fabric products are developed little by little from cotton.

To this end, in addition to arranging for my two Zhuangzi farmers to plant new crops, I also increased the cultivation of cotton.

It's just that the seeds of this cotton are slightly more complicated. There is no one in the mall at all! Fortunately, there are many manors in Chang'an City that grow this cotton as an ornamental plant. So I went to the palace and got enough seeds...... And the planting method, I also got the detailed steps from the gardener of the royal garden, this thing is quite easy to plant, as long as it is planted in the spring, ensure sufficient sunlight and water to grow smoothly. The only trouble is that this plant has a serious insect infestation. When it begins to bloom and bear fruit again, it requires special hands to catch insects by hand.

And the yield of this thing is really not high, and I have to find a way to increase the yield to grow enough cotton.

Fortunately, this kind of agricultural matter does not require me to use the strength of the academy to conduct research, and the imperial court uses special departments and enough manpower to study these. As long as they are asked to allocate a small number of people to study it, this kind of cotton, which has been cultivated for a long time but has always been used as an ornamental plant, should soon be cultivated to be able to be harvested on a large scale. And the production of cotton cloth and cotton thread, this is relatively easy. After all, since a long time ago, there has been a method of making various linen and silk products into threads and cloths, and looms can be used to make cotton cloth with a slight improvement. Now I only need to ask the researchers in the academy to cooperate with the people of Lubanmen to work together to improve the textile machine and increase the transmission mode of using steam engine power or motor power, then the semi-automatic loom should be easy to make.

After I mentioned it, it only took a short time for the people of Lubanmen and the researchers of the academy to make a model of a mechanically powered loom from wood chips.

Now it is equivalent to preparing for one of the main industries of the new city, and when enough cotton is planted, the new light industrial textile mills can be carried out smoothly.

But when I think of cotton, I suddenly think of the place where cotton was abundant in later generations, that is, the hot and dry border area of the Tang Dynasty. Then can I arrange where the people will go and directly buy a large amount of land to grow cotton, will it be able to add a long but very stable income to me?

"No, no, I'm not referring to income, but I want to build a basic industry that can promote scientific and technological progress!" I muttered to myself.

But it's also a good method, and when the method of growing cotton is developed, I go to a suitable place to buy a large piece of land, and then start hiring people to grow cotton.

It was only later that I pondered that in this era, although human resources are very worthless, and the price of ordinary land is also very cheap. But when cotton is grown so far away, transportation is a big problem! In this era, the speed of long-distance transportation is calculated in 'years'!

So if I can't solve the problem of long-distance transportation, then I have to build new cities near the cotton fields.

"Alas! Transport~ Carriages and camels are definitely not good, the speed of that thing is too slow. However, the railway consumption of trains is also a difficult problem to solve, and if you use cars to run long-distance transportation, how to solve the gasoline problem! "I'm a little helpless, after all, there are not a few production areas in Datang that can produce 'fierce fire oil'. The production quantity of a small number is not enough for the imperial court to reserve. And this thing is basically the crude oil of the future! Not only does it look dangerous for me to refine gasoline from it, but I don't really know if it's the oil that the future would call it, and there's no progress at all in our academy on refining this technology. I can only hope that the academy will work out a solution.

In addition, plans and plans for new cities are becoming more and more refined. So, shouldn't I give this new town a name?

Although the name 'January City' sounds good, I prefer to call the new city 'Crescent City'! That is, the intention of the new January City. After all, I was extremely surprised at how quickly White Jade City could be completely completed in a month. I really don't know what kind of tools these people use to sit down so easily.

Even if the materials and building materials are rich, the speed of construction is too shocking. However, this makes the name of this 'immortal disciple' on my head more and more louder, and it is more and more fully believed by Chang'an City, Luoyang City and the people around me......

Also, for a new city, construction is not a particularly complicated matter, but the trouble is how to build supporting facilities in the new city. This includes public facilities such as water, electricity, and heating, and the construction of a railroad around the city in the new city, which I named the 'Crescent City' on my drawings......

Therefore, these things can only be tried in the white jade city that has already been built.

But the problem with the railways is still impossible to implement because I don't have enough steel. After all, in this era, iron tools are controlled military materials! Even the smelting technology of the imperial court has been greatly increased, so that the steel output has increased several times compared to the past. But I still had a hard time scraping together enough steel.

The good news, however, is that new methods of smelting steel have been developed at the academy, and research into facilities such as blast furnaces has progressed dramatically.

So after hesitating for a few days, I decided to arrange for the construction of the main structure of the new city first. That is, to build concrete roads and four-story houses.

In addition, the question of the location of the new city has long been reported to the imperial court. However, the proposal that I hope to build it near the main producing area of the coal mine was rejected by the imperial court. They even want to build a new city that is the same as the White Jade City, a city where people can live comfortably!

Later, after arguing for a long time, I was able to get through these people, so that the court finally agreed with my opinion. It's just that my suggestion is to let the imperial court directly use the cement whose output has been relatively stable, to repair the existing several large cities, and by the way, to build an additional day of cement roads on the main official roads of the Tang Dynasty, which will be used as a highway in this era.

Speaking of highways, I have to mention the research work of the imperial court on the 'automobile'.

After the imperial court obtained a few cars and motorcycles, a large number of people have been arranged to study how to imitate them.

It's a pity that these people have been studying for a long time, except for being able to imitate an empty shell, they haven't studied anything at all, which is not as good as Lu Banmen's private research! If you look at it, the difference between craftsmen is quite large!

However, after these people were researched and sent a copy to the imperial court, they actually developed the 'steam engine car', which I had long forbidden to waste time and energy to research......

It's just that this kind of car is very strange. The main structure of the carriage of this era, coupled with the wooden copper-clad wheels, is to use the chain transmission method to connect the wheels with the small steam engine on the board, and then it becomes a slower speed than the carriage, but also emitting black smoke to pollute the environment, and even because of the all-wooden body plus the metal steam engine, as long as it runs continuously for dozens of minutes, it will ignite the steam locomotive waste with a wooden shell due to high heat......

Anyway, when the academy people came over and saw the joke, they all understood why I didn't agree with them at all......

However, the craftsmen of the imperial court actually used the method of hand-forging, hand-forging, and carving an engine out of newly produced steel! When I saw how laboriously this gasoline-burning engine was so laboriously made by hand, I was dumbfounded! I didn't expect that people in this era are really ingenious! Even such a complex engine can be forged little by little and imitated with tools, and it can still be started, how can this not make me sigh at the patience and craftsmanship of the people of this era really amaze me!

But it also gave me a good inspiration.

If I dig the handmade person of this engine from the imperial court to my academy, then the future scientific and technological progress will really be related to this person. And after I brought the people back to the academy, I gave them to the researchers. Although I was treating him in the guise of healing, I was actually rebuilding their confidence.

And the newly recruited master craftsman has been assigned to the steam locomotive research room. These people obviously didn't seem interested in this person, but they dragged their knees and begged me the next day, so I could arrange for them to meet in advance.

In addition, after finally getting permission from the imperial court, I directly gathered the craftsmen and new people who built the White Jade City, and then I began to announce this year's plan. I left here with the people I had gathered, and flew over to the place I saw on the map, and flew over with a wooden kite. Then I began to arrange for people to build the prototype of a new industrial city here.

After all, we can't waste a lot of time waiting until the smelter is studied and understood!

It's just that the number of people given to me by the imperial court is too much. For this reason, I flew back and forth from Chang'an City several times before I brought most of the people over. After all, hundreds of thousands of people and workers let them hurry up and start building a new city, Crescent City.

This time it was easier than the construction of the first White Jade City, after all, these craftsmen and servants had all participated in the production of brick and concrete buildings!

It's just that I'm stumped by the problem of building materials again~ I've wasted several trips just by bringing hundreds of thousands of people over. However, there were enough people, but the confusion about building materials affected me.

After all, the manpower and building materials needed to build a city are huge numbers! Although it is said that the imperial court has long prepared enough building materials and cement. But moving to a new city can also be a hassle. There were too many people, and eating became a serious problem. Not only are the meals not prepared, but even the cement used to build the houses is now impossible to bring here. After all, the road is long, and with such a large amount of building materials, my good help can be done.

Again off topic!

However, when it comes to cement and various steel pipes, I need to pull them out of the hands of the Ministry of Engineering in Chang'an City little by little. It's just that the amount of cement is so large that we simply can't use shopping malls and warehouses to move enough quantities. Therefore, I could only arrange for the mandarin duck and the duck to work together for more than ten days before taking away all the cement powder from the Ministry of Industry with wooden kites, and sending it to the warehouse to store the shocking amount of cement steel pipes and other building materials and transfer them to the new city to be pure.

It's just that under the influence of all aspects, although the new Crescent City is smaller than the new White Jade City, it is also better to imitate. However, the demand for new materials, and the speed at which houses are being built are too fast. A lot of people are still thinking about coming over and having a look.

Finally made the main structure of the new city, and then I arranged for Mandarin and Yang and Nie Xiaoqian and my maids to work together to make trouble before I waited for the new house to be built, and by the way, I paid attention to the interface of crying and falling asleep, and let them cry if they wanted to cry when they wanted to cry!

After reserving enough money, I left here again and flew towards the reserved place in a new city: Crescent City. I'll have to prepare the wine and food for the celebration here.

It's just that the blast furnace of heavy industry was quickly improved by the talents of the academy, and then a model was made that could open a large smelter. I just have to take this thing to the academy to see how it works. It's a pity that the model is done, but the loom has encountered difficulties! This thing seems to be more difficult to control than the silk one.

I'm starting to wonder if these women are doing something wrong.