Love the people, it should be!

Although he does not have the feelings of the Virgin, on the premise that he has become a rich man, Xu Qilin is still willing to give back to the society more.

And for Wang Fangyi's hard work and hard work, Xu Qilin also gave a reward. After playing the imperial court, Wang Fangyi was already the governor of Ganzhou, although he had no real position, he was equivalent to the adjutant of the assassin history.

In addition, Xu Qilin intends to exercise Wang Fangyi, or because he is lazy, he runs around outside, and most of the people who exercise their powers are Wang Fangyi.

Even, Xu Qilin was wondering if he could recommend Wang Fangyi to take over as the assassin after he left office, so as to ensure the continuity of the policy and make Ganzhou more stable and richer.

Of course, in terms of rank and seniority, it is a problem. Fortunately, Xu Qilin's official rank is barely qualified, and he is supported by the performance of Da Yingku, so his qualifications can be slightly worse.

And Wang Fangyi can be regarded as a member of the government with grace, and without going through the imperial examination, he can only consider military merits, or start from the grassroots level.

The history of thorns is a little high, and Xu Qilin also thinks it is unlikely. He once proposed to Wang Fangyi that he would be the county magistrate of a certain state in Hexi next year, and slowly climb up with his political achievements.

Wang Fangyi is very grateful and willing for this. While helping Xu Qilin run Ganzhou, he has learned a lot. If you can herdsmen a county, you can just apply what you have learned.

Don't look at the county order belongs to the "sesame official", the grade is between the sixth grade and the seventh grade, but the power is not small, and it is also a position that many high-ranking officials have done at the grassroots level. Even the jinshi who won the imperial examination most of them did not get such a real shortage.

And the county order to the history of the assassin is one level behind. Xu Qilin can also be regarded as a detour, ready to promote and fulfill Wang Fangyi.

Wang Fangyi knew the trick of this. The better Ganzhou develops, the better he is, as Xu Qilin's adjutant, he naturally makes great contributions, and also lets the court know that he has experience in governing places.

Coupled with Xu Qilin's kind words, it is logical to recommend them in the future.

Anyway, Wang Fangyi is now full of energy, with a team of several craftsmen, holding drawings, according to the assigned villages, one by one windmill mills are built, making Ganzhou very Nordic style.

By the time this work was completed, it was time to harvest the cotton, and even Xu Qilin, a lazy man, rushed to the cotton production area with his maid to supervise the harvest.

The sky was blue, and the endless cotton fields covered the ground like a huge white sheet. The cotton peach grinned, spitting out clumps of soft snow-white cotton wool, fluttering in the wind, as if smiling and nodding to people.

"Xu Cheng." A few people who looked like old farmers rushed to greet them, but it was a small official who was personally taught by Xu Qilin and was in charge of the entire cotton industry, and the head of the group had a happy face, "The lower officials have already inspected it, and it can be picked, and it is also a bumper harvest." ”

Xu Qilin withdrew his gaze from the cotton field and sighed: "Spectacular, a certain person is shallow in learning, and he only thinks of these two words to describe it." ”

"If Xu Cheng says that he is a shallow learner, then no one dares to say that he is talented." The petty officials complimented with smiling faces.

Xu Qilin smiled and waved his hands humbly, and he also knew the hard work and longing of these small officials.

To put it bluntly, they are already experts in growing cotton and are technical authorities. In the future, planting will be promoted, and it will be popular wherever it is. What's more, Xu Qilin has already promised to repay their merits to the imperial court for them and strive for entry.

What is called inflow is the difference between officials and officials. Xu Qilin doesn't care what he can learn, and he has a skill to give an official, in his opinion, it is not too much.

As long as the value of cotton is recognized and valued by His Majesty Li Er, it is not difficult for these people to become officials from officials. Value needs to be decided, and Xu Qilin is convinced of this.

Symbolically inquired about the preparation of the harvesters' recruitment, gloves and other tools, Xu Qilin waved his hand and gave the order as if he were commanding thousands of troops.

In order to make the first harvest have a sense of ceremony, Xu Qilin must be present. This order must also be given by him, so that it seems solemn.

Men and women carrying baskets and baskets on their backs lined up according to the ridges, and with the command, the harvest began in a charge.

This scene is truly spectacular!

Xu Qilin suddenly felt that his words were lacking, but he didn't have too much loss, and like others, he was also quite excited.

The cotton of white flowers, the silver of white flowers, is just around the corner. Well, that's the kind of profiteering.

In the midst of the hot labor scene, Xu Qilin saw the local farmers.

After harvesting the cotton, they can rest comfortably. According to the income of 1.5 times the grain yield per mu, they will be equal to 50 percent more income this year. If you still plant it in the coming year, how can you miss this good thing.

Xu Qilin also saw the women's cotton harvesting army, all of whom were slaves and maids of textile workshops full of longing for "city registration". In order to make them feel at ease, Xu Qilin even built a residence for them in advance.

The desire for freedom and the urgency to get rid of the status of slaves and maids make them full of energy. Among them is Zhou Qi, and her mother is also impressively listed.

More cotton pickers are recruited from the surrounding towns and villages, paid according to the amount of harvest, counted in person, and never defaulted.

Not only do you get paid, but you also have to eat. In the shed next to it, a cauldron was boiling and preparing meals. The smell of meat has wafted out, stimulating people's senses and raising their enthusiasm for work.

Anyway, no matter what the picture is, Xu Qilin tries his best to meet it, so that he can mobilize such a large cotton picking army, complete the harvest as soon as possible, and carry out textile processing as soon as possible.

"Ah Lang, come and rest." Scarlett beckoned, and the melons and fruits were already prepared under the shed.

I didn't work, and I didn't need to rest.

Xu Qilin waved his hand in response and continued to look out, as if the general was watching his army march in high spirits.

After persisting for a long time, the picking team had gone deep into the cotton field, and it was far away, so Xu Qilin relaxed and returned to the shed.

Well, the juice is good, Xu Qilin drank a large glass, took a long breath of relief, and saw Adjani staring at the cooking shed not far away.

"It's not productive." Xu Qilin rolled his eyes, "I haven't eaten any food at home, and I still want to grab food from the workers." ”

Adjani seems to have been accustomed to hearing Ah Lang's evaluation of herself, isn't she just a foodie, she doesn't care at all, and she opened her mouth to defend: "But people are a little hungry, and the smell of meat is really attractive." ”

"It's the most ordinary mutton soup, what's tempting or not." Xu Qilin said: "If you are hungry, you should hurry up and eat, while the cotton pickers have not returned." ”

Adjani was happy, turned around and ran to the food shed, not dragging mud and water at all.

Scarlett laughed twice and said, "Don't blame Ah Lang, she is a rice bucket and a bottomless pit in her stomach." However, it grows pretty fast, didn't Ah Lang notice it? ”

"Seems so!" Xu Qilin estimates that he can see it every day, so it is difficult to detect Adjani's growth, including Scarlett.

"The slave family is not slow to grow." Scarlett straightened up, looking tall, and straightened her chest.

Xu Qilin smiled and didn't praise her, for fear that she would think too much. Picking up the abacus casually, he recalculated the output and benefit ratio of cotton and mulberry and silkworm breeding.

During the millennium from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, the fabrics available to the ancient Chinese were mainly silk and linen.

The so-called cloth clothes refer to the linen cloth. The air permeability is very good, and it can even be said to be air leakage, and rough, and the warmth performance is its huge shortcoming, and most of them are worn by ordinary people.

Silk is exquisite, but it comes at a high cost. From the cultivation of mulberry trees to the cultivation of silkworms, to the silk reeling, the process is complicated, consuming a lot of manpower, and the common people generally cannot afford to wear it.

Moreover, the wearing comfort of silk is not very good. It does not absorb sweat in summer and is easy to fit closely; Winter is not warm either, and it is the same as linen.

Cotton, on the other hand, solves the two major problems of comfort and warmth very well. The fabrics spun can have muslin and cheesecloth, and take into account the needs of the upper and lower classes.

In terms of yield, cotton is also higher than that of silkworms, and the labor cost is very low, and it has more advantages than silk in terms of cost.

Well, Xu Qilin feels that cost is a big problem. No matter how good the thing is, the price is too high and no one cares, let alone the ordinary people.

The price of cotton spinning products will most likely remain high in two or three years, which is caused by the imbalance between supply and demand, but not the price and value can be linked.

In other words, cotton spinning products have a lot of room for price reduction.

Therefore, as long as the planting of cotton is promoted and textile technology is disseminated, even if the people cannot afford to buy the finished products on the market, they can plant one or two acres of cotton, and the homespun homespun cloth is enough for clothing.

If all the farmers grow cotton and every family has a loom, then the price of cotton cloth has fallen, and the cotton spinning workshop in Dayingku will not be able to make money?

This concern actually has some reason, but Xu Qilin doesn't care. The cloth woven by the people's families is no problem to wear at home, but the degree of fineness and patterns can not be compared with the big workshops?

Cotton cloth is not synonymous with coarse cloth, coarse cloth can only be woven by ordinary people. Dayingku's cotton spinning workshop is to continue to develop and progress.

Moreover, there are many types of cotton cloth, including high, medium, and low grades.

Like the poplin worn in summer, the texture is delicate, the luster is smooth and soft, and the feel is soft and smooth; There are also flannel, thread, leno and so on, as high-end products, a large number of exports can earn more.

Then work the color, printing and dyeing and other technologies, and the cotton cloth produced by the workshop will have more quality advantages.

After another calculation, Xu Qilin felt that the prospects were extremely impressive, and there was no problem as a bulk export commodity alongside silk and porcelain.

In the afterglow of her eyes, Adjani staggered back. While walking, I stroked my stomach without any image, probably eating again.

Lamb soup boiled noodles are simple and delicious, and they are quick to make. For the laboring cotton pickers, there is enough to eat. Both earn money and manage enough, but no one is lazy.

This made Xu Qilin sigh again, the ancient people were real. No matter how well such a simple common people are governed, the magistrate should be killed.

There are really a lot of cotton pickers, and even the meals are batched. One hundred and eighty people sat on the reed mats, holding an old bowl and eating, and the mutton over there went down to the pot again.

People are real, Xu Qilin also uses to save these small money. Mutton soup, just soup without meat?

Watching people eat, Xu Qilin sniffled, either the smell of meat, or the hunger, he was also a little greedy.

But as soon as he finished talking about Adjani, he was embarrassed to grab food with the migrant workers. Fortunately, there is a special cooking shed for the officials, in order to reflect the proximity to the people, they make the same food, but there is more concoction in the soup, and there is also an extra staple pancake.

Soon, a small official brought the food, fragrant mutton soup and browned pancakes, Xu Qilin ate comfortably, and even put two large bowls of dry.

Adjani was the most admired by Xu Qilin, came back after a circle, and quietly went to fill another bowl, sucked and sucked, and drank it after a while.

I couldn't get enough of the soup pot, and the little girl probably couldn't eat it anymore, so she left again.

I have heard a lot of mountain spirits and sea monsters, but there are no rice buckets. Xu Qilin blinked his eyes, and sighed a little that he was lonely.

After eating, the officials rushed over to report and preliminarily weighed that the yield per mu was about 200 to 240 catties.

Xu Qilin believes that this data is still acceptable, after all, it is the first year of planting, and it is not a high-yield cotton seed in later generations. It is also understandable that the cotton planting land is very good, and only the yield of the lower fields is harvested.

Moreover, this is still the yield of seed cotton, and after the seeds are removed, there will be a decline.

However, with the increase of planting experience and meticulous field care, there is still room for growth in cotton yield in Hexi.

"Next year's planting will increase significantly." Xu Qilin said to several officials: "When the time comes, you will have to go to various places to guide and supervise, and the task is very heavy. After the cotton is harvested, you have to sum up your experience, and each of you has to hand in a proposal. ”

After a pause, Xu Qilin continued: "As for this official, I won't treat you badly. In the future, the imperial court will promote planting, and this official will recommend you to serve in various places. The benefits of cotton are not under the grain. The prospects for development are vast, and you should not underestimate them. ”

"Xu Cheng's vision has always been admired for his humble rank." One of the leading officials arched his hand and said: "Although I have not yet seen the benefits of spinning cotton, the inferior rank is convinced. ”

"Please rest assured that Xu Cheng will do his best to plant cotton all over Ganzhou."

"Xu Cheng is very scheming, and he can't wait for his humble position, and he will only look forward to the horse."

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Xu Qilin nodded again and again, and several officials bowed and retreated.

History has given the answer to how important cotton is.

By the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, "the benefit of textiles has been the top task of saving the poor, the business of enriching the country, and the resurrection of Guan Yan, which is not easy."

It can be said that the cotton textile industry has been second only to agriculture in a long historical period and has become synonymous with handicrafts.

"To Youyan in the north, to Chuyue in the south, to the Jianghuai in the east, to Qinlong in the west, the footprints passed, there are no people who are not clothed in cotton, and there is no soil that is not suitable for cotton. A family of eight, planting cotton, 100 catties a year, worry-free cold".

Under the traditional Chinese agricultural model of "male ploughing and female weaving", cotton textiles are all over the country, and it is almost "a must for ten looms".

Even the industrial revolution in Europe was carried out with the textile industry as an opportunity.

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