In Liu Jin's view, this Ming land is vast, the population is very large, and the products are extremely rich, which is not comparable to a small place like the British Isles.

It was only after the development of capitalism in the British that the famous 'sheep eating movement' appeared, because the rapid rise in the price of wool prompted a large number of farmers to switch to sheep for wool.

As a result, a large number of peasants lost their jobs and were forced to flood into the cities, where they became wage laborers of the factory owners, which in turn promoted the development of capitalism in disguise.

But Daming is different, Daming is very vast, just in terms of cotton, there are many places where Daming is ready to produce cotton.

Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Beizhili these places are all cotton-producing, the climate of these areas is very suitable for cotton production, the yield is also high, and more importantly, the population of the Ming Dynasty is large, this cotton output is definitely the world's first in this era.

With such a huge cotton production, it is far from being comparable to a small place like the British Isles.

The capitalist development of the Ming Dynasty, from the very beginning, it was able to achieve self-sufficiency, and it itself had an extremely vast market for raw materials and a huge domestic market.

There is a good side to this and a bad side.

On the good side, the initial development can not rely on external forces, and on the other hand, there is a lack of motivation for the other party's expansion, which may be an important reason why the Ming side has never been able to finally go to the world like the Europeans, because it is already rich enough, and there is no motivation to expand externally.

But who knows how long this textile industry has only been emerging, and it has only been less than two years since Liu Jin came up with new looms and looms.

Now there is a shortage of raw materials, and there is not enough cotton.

This made Liu Jin a little unbelievable that Daming's cotton output would not be able to meet the needs of these factories now.

"Zhang Gong, this is impossible, there will be no cotton now?"

Liu Jin said with some disbelief.

"How is it impossible~"

"You don't go out to see, now in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area, there are at least thousands of large and small textile factories, large textile factories, such as the Wang family's Caiyun Textile Factory, employing tens of thousands of people, tens of thousands of machines weaving cloth day and night, how much cotton is not enough."

"What's more, there are more large-scale textile mills under construction now, and then the cotton will be even more scarce, and the price will rise."

Zhang Mao's eyes widened slightly, and he said helplessly.

Originally, I just saw the huge profits of the textile factory, but I didn't see the huge risks behind the textile factory, and there were too many people who opened the factory.

There are too many people investing.

As long as the textile factory sells the machine from the Beijing Machinery Factory, you can open a textile factory with a few random people and weave cloth out in a steady stream.

And as we all know, we've always liked to do business in a swarm.

As long as anyone makes money in a certain business, everyone will follow the swarm to do this business, and the most important thing in Beijing and Tianjin is that there is no shortage of rich people, and textile factories make money, so everyone will follow to open textile factories.

"How many textile mills~"

When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately pondered.

The Ming Dynasty is the most powerful country in this era, and it is also the richest country, which itself has a very strong wealth accumulation.

It's not the same as the historical British Isles.

The British Isles themselves were very poor and had little capital, so the development of capitalism needed to go through a primitive stage of capital, and this primitive stage of accumulation of capital was carried out by relying on the bloody plundering of many overseas colonies.

It was only after this stage that the British Isles received the original funds for the development of capitalism, which developed rapidly, eventually leading to the Industrial Revolution.

But Da Ming is different, Da Ming is too big, and it is rich enough.

These big landlords, gentry, nobles, etc., of the Ming Dynasty, are all very rich, even if there is no primitive accumulation of capital, they have enough wealth.

Once this capitalism arose, the Ming Dynasty's own wealth alone was enough to promote the rapid development of capitalism.

This is illustrated by the fact that the textile industry alone has grown to such a large scale in such a short period of time.

You must know that even if capitalism has developed to a certain scale and extent in the British Isles, it may not be as large as the current Beijing-Tianjin area.

After all, where is the foundation.

"This is a serious problem~"

"Without cotton, these factories will not be able to continue to operate, and everyone will lose a lot of money."

Liu Jin thought about it and frowned.

"But isn't it, we just ordered tens of millions of taels of silver from you, if there is no cotton, what is the use of these machines?"

Zhang Mao nodded and said.

"Stinky boy, just give me a refreshing word, can this machine be returned?"

"A few of us are not bigger than your family's big business, these tens of millions of taels of silver are going to be lost, and I will drink the northwest wind in the future." 110 Literature

"When the time comes, I will come to your house every day to eat and drink~"

Zhang Mao looked like a scoundrel, there was no way, this investment was too big, if it was an investment of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, he would not say a word.

The investment of tens of millions of taels of silver, one for the three princes, and this person will almost have to pay nearly 4 million taels of silver, which if it is put aside in the past few years, they may not be able to buy much silver if they sell out the mansion.

In the past few years, Liu Jin has done a lot of business, and they have swelled rapidly, but the investment of 4 million taels of silver is also a huge amount for them.

"Zhang Gong, don't rush to return the goods first, we can find a way to solve the problem."

Liu Jin smiled and said, it is impossible to return the goods, how can it be returned.

"Xu Guangzuo, you have something to say, your brother-in-law refuses to return the goods, and this investment is about to be wasted~"

When Zhang Mao heard this, he immediately looked at Xu Guangzuo.

"Gong Zhang, let's listen to what Brother Liu has to say first."

Xu Guangzuo smiled helplessly and said, Liu Jin is his brother-in-law, and he can't open this mouth.

"Stinky boy, you should tell me, do you have any way to solve the problem of cotton shortage, if it can really be solved, I will not return this machine, if it can't be solved, this machine will be returned to me whatever you say."

Zhang Mao looked at Liu Jin, knowing that this kid had a lot of ideas, and he also wanted to hear what Liu Jin could do to solve this problem.

"There is not enough cotton, we have two ways to solve it~"

Liu Jin looked at the three of them, groaned, thought about it and said.

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Zhang Mao, Xu Guangzuo, and Zhu Fu's eyes also lit up slightly, Liu Jin actually had two ways to solve it, which was incredible.

When it comes to returns, it is actually because there is no cotton, but as long as there is enough cotton, the cloth they produce is still very popular, and they don't have to worry about selling at all.

Liu Jin opened a map of the world here.

"Everyone, please see, as long as our cotton-producing areas in Daming are concentrated in these northern provinces~"

"However, there is a characteristic of our Daming cotton, that is, many people do not grow cotton for sale, but to keep it for their own use, to make clothes, quilts and the like, and the surplus will be used for sale."

"So although our textile factory is short of cotton, in fact, there is still a lot of cotton that can be purchased below, as long as the price is high, there will definitely be a lot of cotton harvested."

Liu Jin thought about it and said, the three of them listened carefully, and nodded slightly after listening.

"But this is not a long-term solution, we have more and more factories, and we need more and more cotton, and we have two ways to solve this problem."

"One is to expand the source of cotton, and the other is to find alternatives to cotton."

"Expanding sources?"

"Looking for a replacement?"

When the three of them heard this, they immediately pondered.

"Right~"

Liu Jin nodded solemnly and continued.

"There are two ways to expand the source, the first is to expand the planting of cotton, now our fields in the north of the Ming Dynasty, most of them are planted with wheat, only a few pieces of land are used to grow cotton, if we can expand the fields of planting cotton, the yield of cotton will naturally increase."

"Second, our eyes can't just see our Daming, we can look west, like Ningxia, Gansu, and the Western Regions, which are also very suitable for cotton planting."

"And the cotton planting area in these places is much larger than our Daming, and the yield of cotton is very high, especially in the Western Regions, which is very vast, and the climate here is arid and sunshine is abundant, which is very suitable for cotton planting, and has a very long planting history."

"If our merchants can go here to buy cotton, or if we directly occupy the Western Regions, then we won't have to worry about cotton at all."

"In addition, if you look at the Golden Continent, the land here is very fertile and vast, and we can grow cotton on a large scale here in the Golden Continent in the future."

Liu Jin pointed to the location of the Western Regions and said slowly.

Later, from the Western Regions to Central Asia, this large area was the most important cotton producing area in the world, and the cotton produced here was not only high in yield, but also second to none in quality.

"The Western Regions?"

When the three of them heard this, they couldn't help but be slightly surprised.

When everyone's eyes were still limited to the inside of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Jin's eyes had already looked at the world outside the Ming Dynasty, the Western Regions, and the Golden Continent.

"This Western Regions produces cotton?"

Zhang Mao said with a slight surprise, since the Song Dynasty, the Central Plains has basically had no connection with the Western Regions, and there is relatively little understanding of the Western Regions.

In the past, even if there was some understanding, it was through businessmen, but no businessmen would sell cotton to Daming at all, because it would be a loss to grandma's house.