"Yarn mill?"

Zhu Yijun said with some doubts.

"What's going on at the mill?"

"It's not a big deal, now the yarn mill has expanded to a scale of 100,000 spindles, and at the current scale, the yarn it spins in a day is far more than the yarn spun by 100,000 spinners."

"Oh, that's 100,000 people!"

Zhu Yijun was surprised.

"It's amazing, if it weren't for the mill outside the city, I'd really like to go and see how the machine you are talking about spinning yarn."

Zhu Yijun has always had a young curiosity about the machine, and when he noticed that he was transferred to the machine, he immediately forgot his previous unhappiness.

"Well, it's not very convenient, but if you're interested, I'll get you a few books later."

"Books?"

"Yes, some books on mechanics."

The space itself is an e-book of some mechanical principles published at the end of the Qing Dynasty, which is very suitable for mechanical literacy, of course, it needs to be modified, and it is also a book that the apprentices are currently learning, and the knowledge in it is very simple and not profound, but it can make people understand mechanical common sense.

"Well, you put the book here, and I'll let the guest use it to pick it up."

Then Zhu Yijun said again.

"However, Zhiyuan, although I don't ask about the trivial matters in this company, since you mentioned the yarn factory, I have to remind you of something."

This kid...... Seeing that he still remembered this, Shi Yiwen thought to himself in his heart, and considered how to make up for the previous "gaffe".

"The north has never grown cotton, now we have set up a 100,000 spindle yarn factory, when the time comes, whether the cotton can be supplied, you have to grasp it in advance, after all, in winter, is the best time to sell cotton cloth, and, in winter, the Lugou River will freeze, how about the water turbine you said last time? Are you sure you can survive the winter? ”

Listening to Zhu Yijun express his worries one by one, Shi Yiwen said with a smile.

"I just happened to tell you about this, when I came, I deliberately took a turn outside, and now the cotton planted in the suburbs of Beijing is almost about to be harvested, and the growth is exceptionally gratifying, speaking of which, the north is more suitable for planting cotton."

Looking at Zhu Yijun, Shi Yiwen said again.

"Actually, when I first set up a yarn factory, I thought about this problem, this yarn factory, it is a good thing, but in the far run, it is a matter of benefiting the country and the people."

"Oh? How to benefit the country and the people? ”

Zhu Yijun said curiously, for him, who has always been determined to be a wise gentleman, he is naturally extremely sensitive to "benefiting the country and the people".

"The people in the north have always been poor, in the final analysis, or because the output per mu is limited, millet sorghum is one acre, even if it is more than one stone, millet is only three dollars a stone, sorghum, wheat is six dollars, land output is limited, naturally it is poor, after all, the people farming, in the end they have to sell grain to pay taxes, buy cloth and clothing, this poverty probably refers to the people can not earn silver...... After all, in a peaceful and prosperous world, most people can still eat. ”

In front of the emperor, of course, there must be reservations, as for the so-called "clean family" is just an exaggeration of the literati, most of the time, the people can still eat, as for whether they can eat enough and eat well, then there is a difference.

"Well, that's true."

Zhu Yijun nodded, and then said solemnly.

"But in the world, there are many people who can't eat enough, after all, there are not many years when the wind and rain are good, Zhiyuan, your pressurized water well, but it has a great contribution to the world, and the living people are more than millions of people, speaking of which, you have ...... credit."

It is only natural to give it to an earl.

Seeing that Zhu Yijun mentioned the pressurized water well again, Shi Yiwen smiled.

"It's good to be good for the people, as for the credit or not, I never thought that if it is good for the people, then it must be good for Your Majesty, after all, Your Majesty is a herdsman for the sky. He is the father of the people of the world. ”

Although Zhu Yijun has heard a lot of similar words, but now when he hears Shi Yiwen say this, he can't help but feel a little excited in his heart, and even a little moved, because Shi Yiwen's pressurized water well really benefits the people, and the people have a full stomach, and the world will naturally be peaceful.

When looking at Shi Yiwen, Zhu Yijun silently remembered this credit in his heart. Then he asked.

"Just now you said that the people are poor because they have no silver, and it seems that the people can earn silver by growing cotton?"

In fact, for Zhu Yijun, who is the emperor, "mulberry flowers compete for fields" is not a new thing, and the people in the south of the Yangtze River are willing to plant cotton in the final analysis, or because they get far more from planting cotton than from planting rice. Presumably, you can earn money by growing cotton in the north.

"That's true,"

Shi Yiwen replied with a smile.

"Counting up, the income from growing cotton is several times that of growing grain, and each household only needs to take out one or two acres of scattered land to earn a few taels of silver, which is not much, but it can also allow the people to get some benefits from it and slightly change the situation of poverty."

Then Shi Yiwen said again.

"This year I also cultivated cotton varieties in Zhuangzi, and when I arrived next year, I will promote the planting of improved cotton in various places, and it is no problem for an acre of land to produce more than 100 catties, and at that time the people will plant an acre of cotton to make a profit equivalent to planting three or four acres of sorghum, and at that time, the situation of the people's poverty must be alleviated to a certain extent......

Of course, the people have silver in their hands will also stimulate the surge in cotton sales, in modern times every cotton harvest, will always stimulate the production of cotton cloth, cotton yarn and other light industrial products, this is a kind of economic cycle, after all, only the people have silver in their hands, they dare to consume, like another time and space, when the people empty all the money, to buy a house, in the short term it seems that the chicken farts soared, but in fact it overdrew the consumption potential of the people, and then the people naturally did not dare to consume, As a result, the economy is in trouble.

"Well, if that were the case, the life of this common people would have been better."

Zhu Yijun nodded, although he had never been out of the palace to contact the peasants, but he could learn about the poverty of the people, especially the people in the north, from the mouths and twists and turns of the ministers. As the emperor, he knows very well what keeps the country stable, and whether the people can live and work in peace and contentment.

"Yes, in fact, throughout the ages, what the people of the world have asked for is the simplest autumn, nothing more than to be able to eat and clothe themselves, to have a room to shelter from the wind and rain, so to live and work in peace and contentment, in their eyes it is a peaceful and prosperous world, Mingzhi, in fact, this is also your responsibility!"

Looking at Zhu Yijun, Shi Yiwen said solemnly.

"It is to let the people of the world live and work in peace and contentment, and when the court is governing, it is also to see if the people can get benefits......"