Guo Rong is not as eager as Feng Yi, and the people who drink tea and talk about it are still the amorous characters in Yangtai and other places.

He was poor since he was a child, and he entered the Guangling Jiedu Embassy to serve the inner house, read and read in the Guangling Jiedu Embassy, and then married into the Yang family with Xu Hou, he can be said to be a descendant of Anning Palace, and in his early years, he went out of the palace with the three princes, and also monitored it instead of Xu Hou.

Guo Rong's parents died young, but two brothers are still alive.

Although Guo Rong has served the palace for many years and has not returned to his old residence in Yangzhou for more than ten years, he has never severed his correspondence with his brother's family.

It's a pity that the heirs of the two brothers' families are not successful, but they both want to pass on a son to him to seek shade, Guo Rong did not agree, and then the relationship became a little estranged.

In the past three or four years, the situation has been turbulent, and Guo Rong has lost contact with him completely for a period of time.

Guo Rong's former home, a village northeast of Shao Bo Lake, is the worst flooded area in northern Yangzhou since the beginning of summer, and Guo Rong does not know what is going on in his two brothers' homes.

Although he followed Han Qian in Jianghuai during this time, and even for a period of time he was less than a hundred miles away from his old home, he never had the opportunity to contact him, thinking that maybe he dragged his family with his mouth at this time and became a disaster victim in Yangzhou City.

"When I return to Yangzhou, I will find the two elder brothers of Lord Guo and send them to Tangyi to reunite with Lord Guo." Wang Jun said.

At present, Huaidong controls the large-scale entry of displaced people into Tangyi, which is definitely not something that Wang Jun can oppose, but sending Guo Rong's two brothers' families to Tangyi, no one will deliberately leave trouble when Huaidong and Tangyi have not torn their faces.

Guo Rong is naturally extremely grateful.

When the night was getting cooler and it wasn't so hot and sleepless, Guo Rong, Feng Yi, and Feng Yi said goodbye and left.

There was no sudden incident to disturb everyone tonight, and the night was peaceful and leisurely.

Xi Ying sent the maid to bring hot water for Wang Jun's master and servant to wash.

When I woke up in the early morning, it was raining outside the window, the maid Xiangyun was still sleeping deeply, Wang Jun listened to the courtyard and was still quiet, and I didn't know if Han Qian and they got up, so they didn't rush out of the house.

After thinking about it, Wang Jun smiled again in his heart, and secretly said that this is Han Qian's residence, and the guards around him must be tight, how can there be a lot of people?

After a while, listening to the sound of the wing room next door, Wang Jun pushed the door and tiptoed to the porch, looked through the window, but saw a library next door, I don't know when Han Qian got up, and was standing inside reading something at this time.

Han Qian heard the sound in front of the corridor, and saw that Wang Jun was wearing a long robe, but his crow-colored hair was scattered, his face was as white and clear as the first snow, his long eyebrows were in his temples, and his eyes looked over like a clear deep spring, and asked with a smile: "What, woke you up?" ”

"I just woke up and heard a sound here, how long has it been raining?" Wang Jun asked.

Han Qian looked at the rain curtain outside the corridor and said, "It's been more than an hour, and seeing that this rain is not in a hurry, it will probably rain for a whole day." ”

Seeing Han Qian coming over to help her open the door, Wang Jun walked in on tiptoe, saw Han Qian holding a large volume of drawings in his hand, tilted his head and leaned over, and asked in surprise: "This is the pattern of the newly made hydrospinning wheel in Xuzhou?" ”

"......" Han Qian handed the atlas to Wang Jun and said to her, "I thought that there was a place that could be improved at night, and I didn't sleep well after that, so I got up and came over to look at the atlas at this time, but it may be useless to think about my thoughts at night......"

"Can I see all of this?" Wang Jun asked.

She stood for a moment and then struggled, leaning back on the bookshelf behind her, and on the row of shelves against the east wall, there were almost all books on the method of weaving, as many as forty or fifty volumes.

In comparison, the "Weaving Chapter" she got from Han Qian more than two years ago seems to be very thick, but it has still been refined.

"You've seen it all, so I have more excuse to detain you." Han Qian looked at Wang Jun's deep and beautiful eyes covered by long eyelashes, and there seemed to be a clear ripple in his heart, and said with a smile.

"Then I'll have to wait until I can see it all." Wang Jun's eyes lifted slightly, glanced at Han Qian, and said in a low voice.

At this time, a guard came over from the front yard, but there was an urgent matter that Han Qian needed to go to the front office to deal with immediately, Han Qian said to Wang Jun, and left the house first.

Wang Jun has always been curious about the construction method of the hydro spinning wheel, but a thick album in his hand is difficult, looking at a bookcase in front of the window, he tiptoed to move many books related to weaving, only to sit down and read carefully, to pass the rainy time.

Only then did she know that these forty or fifty books could be said to record the whole picture of Xuzhou's vigorous development of cotton weaving and all aspects.

The history of soaking linen and weaving silk can be traced back to two or three thousand years ago, and the history of cotton weaving in the southwest has been several hundred years. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the Central Plains region has a history of water drainage and water distillation.

Theoretically, there is no problem with using water to drive the axles and spinning wheels or looms.

However, compared with the water mill and water drain, the hydraulic spinning wheel is much more complex and delicate in terms of components.

Counting from the Qiuhu Mountain period, a water-powered spinning wheel can be said to be the culmination of Han Qian's development of craftsmanship in the past seven or eight years.

After Han Qian arrived in Xuzhou, he began to vigorously promote cotton field planting and cotton weaving, and wanted to build a water-powered spinning machine and water-powered weaving, but it was not until last year that the engineering school was able to build the first water-powered spinning wheel that could reliably borrow water to drive the axle to run, and the water-powered loom was not yet mature.

Huaidong's spies failed to see the actual sample of the hydrospinning wheel, not because Han Qian deliberately asked for secrecy, but because it had been in the experimental stage for a long time, and it was not until the end of last year that six large-scale hydrospinning wheels with a total of nearly 500 yarns were built, and they were only used in the weaving workshop directly under the jurisdiction of the Industrial Manufacturing Bureau for trial.

Seeing this, Wang Jun was taken aback.

She has great expectations for the water-powered spinning wheel, but she never thought that a water-powered spinning wheel would drive nearly 100 yarns, which is equivalent to a few people operating a water-powered spinning wheel, which can be equivalent to 100 home spinning workers.

The components of the hydrospinning wheel were too complicated, and Wang Jun skimmed through them cursoly, then looked through other books and archived letters.

From many letters, it can be seen that Han Qian had already planned that as long as the hydrospinning wheel could run stably, he would not sell it to other private weaving workshops and workshops because of technical secrecy.

Even if he didn't have the memories of the dream world, Han Qian's understanding of cotton cloth and salt and iron, which could form a primary industrial system under the conditions of the world, was far deeper than that of the talents of the world.

The monopoly system of salt is implemented, and at present, Xuzhou can seize the passage through the Qianjiang River to central Guizhou and Nanzhao

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It is already extremely difficult to traffic salt in other places, and we can't expect too much in a short period of time.

Although the iron-making technique in Xuzhou is also higher than that of the current world, the problem lies in the family clans that control the localities, many of which have their own iron-making workshops, basically monopolizing the local smelting and casting industry.

At the same time, because the clan lords can force extremely cheap and sufficient slaves and maids to work, and if it is evenly distributed, Xuzhou cannot occupy an absolute advantage in terms of cost.

Only cotton cloth, compared with the performance of linen Geyi, has great advantages, and the cotton weaving industry is also one of the areas where it is easiest to form a primary industrial system in Xuzhou, and it is also a thing that Han Qian has spared no effort to promote in Xuzhou in recent years.

The climate in Xuzhou is mild and moist, and the slope terraces are the majority, which is also more suitable for cotton and wheat rotation - at present, before the large-scale reclamation of low-lying land in Liyang and Tangyi, and the expansion of the planting scale of rice fields that are easy to irrigate and not afraid of waterlogging in summer, a large area of old fields with higher terrain is also recommended for cotton and soybean and wheat crops to be planted in rotation, which is more suitable.

In addition to the method of planting cotton weaving, these books also have the similarities and differences in the production organization methods of cotton planting and weaving, as well as the discussion of cotton cloth sales in Jianghuai, Hunan, Jingxiang, Sichuan and Shu, so that Wang Jun knew that she had tried to plant three to five hundred acres of cotton fields at the foot of Jianyuan Mountain in the past two years, which could only be regarded as a master.

When planting one acre of cotton field, you can get about 80 catties of seed cotton in autumn, and you can weave nearly 20 cheese cloth.

At the beginning, the price of Jianghuai cotton cloth was the same as that of silk silk, and the price of each horse was as high as thousands of yuan, which also meant that an acre of cotton field could produce an output value of up to 20,000 yuan. And even after several suppressions, at this time, the price of Jianghuai cotton cloth dropped to four or five hundred yuan per horse that the common people could barely accept, and one acre of cotton field was planted and finally woven into cotton cloth and sold, and it could still get 10,000 yuan.

Based on the current high grain prices in Jianghuai, even if each stone of japonica rice is as high as 2,000 yuan, the output of one mu of cotton field is enough to be equivalent to the output of two and a half acres of rice fields in Jianghuai; In terms of grain prices in Hunan, Jiangxi and Sichuan, one acre of cotton fields in Xuzhou can be worth the output of five acres of rice fields.

The output can be said to be quite amazing; If the price of Jianghuai rice falls, there is still room for Qianyang cloth to reduce the price significantly.

The problem, however, is that even with the new law implemented by Han Qian in the first two years after his arrival in Xuzhou, which is also the process and spinning wheel and loom recorded in the "Weaving Chapter" that Han Qian gave to Wang Jun two years ago, the labor involved in planting cotton fields to spinning and weaving cloth is still too large.

According to the method recorded in the "Weaving Chapter", three to four women weavers in a household can only weave thirty or forty pieces of cloth a year, taking over one spinning wheel and one loom day and night.

That is, in addition to farming, a family weaver can only weave ten pieces of cloth per year; If there is no continuous improvement of the spinning wheel and loom, a family will plant two or three acres of cotton fields on average, and it will be the sky.

After all, the area of cotton fields planted in Xuzhou and its surrounding prefectures and counties gradually increased from six or seven thousand mu six or seven years ago, and even on the eve of the Jinling Incident, the area of cotton fields planted in Xuzhou and surrounding prefectures and counties only exceeded 100,000 mu.

However, in the next two years, with the further deepening of Han Qian's control over Xuzhou, large-scale reclamation of sloping terraces suitable for cotton planting was carried out, and the scale of cotton planting expanded by leaps and bounds, reaching its peak last year, exceeding 500,000 mu.

This year, because a large number of cotton seeds, farm tools, cotton farmers and weavers have to rush to support Tangyi, the cotton planting area in Xuzhou and surrounding prefectures and counties has not continued to increase.

Even so, even if only half of the seed cotton harvested after the autumn of last year was woven into cotton cloth, it would take almost 200,000 or 300,000 family weavers to work day and night, and invest 70,000 or 80,000 spinning wheels and looms to digest it.

In fact, the total population of Xuzhou is less than 250,000, where is it possible to have so many family weavers?

Since he wanted to build a primary industrial system in Xuzhou, Han Qian even before the war of eliminating the feudal domain, when the cotton planting area in Xuzhou was 20,000 or 30,000 mu, was outside the weaving institute to which the Han family belonged, and vigorously encouraged large families with surplus money and grain to recruit weavers to set up weaving workshops or larger-scale workshops to absorb the growing cotton cultivation.

What Han Qian wants to do in Xuzhou is to continuously promote technological progress in order to form a cotton weaving industry in the shortest possible time, instead of trying to keep it secret.

Xuzhou Industrial Manufacturing Bureau, every new improvement of the spinning wheel loom, in addition to the weaving workshop directly under the jurisdiction of the first trial for a period of time, will also be taken out at the fastest speed for private weaving workshops and workshops to procure.

In addition to the four weaving workshops directly under the direct jurisdiction of the Industrial Manufacturing Bureau, at the end of last year, there were more than 140 small and medium-sized weaving workshops in 59 townships in seven counties in Xuzhou, employing 17,800 weavers in the whole state, five times the number of weavers employed by the Xuzhou Industrial Manufacturing Bureau.

The Industrial Manufacturing Bureau and the weaving workshops throughout the counties and townships in Xuzhou have generally adopted six- to eight-thread spinning wheels and larger looms, employing one weaver who can afford to pay for three to four family weavers.

The poor labor involved in this is where the profitability of the workshop and workshop lies.

A weaving workshop employing more than 100 workers earns no less than a small-scale grange in a year.

Coupled with the fact that a considerable portion of the seed cotton is directly used to fill winter clothes, bedding and other purposes, and thousands of home spinning mills and looms are also in operation, it is barely possible for the cotton weaving industry in Xuzhou to absorb the output of the 500,000 mu of cotton fields in the local and surrounding states and counties last year.

And even if half of the cotton fields are woven into cloth, Xuzhou will be able to weave about five million pieces of cotton cloth before the new seed cotton is harvested in the autumn of this year.

From the process of developing the cotton weaving industry in Xuzhou, it can also be seen that cotton cloth is more suitable as a natural advantage of primary industry, and at the same time, after the price has been greatly reduced, because it is soft, warm, firm and other aspects are better than linen, as long as it can enter the state and county, it can be very popular - but it is not easy to enter the state and county, and the world is not a society where commodities can circulate freely.

The outside world is not aware of this, mainly because the development of the cotton weaving industry in Xuzhou is developing by leaps and bounds, and the scale is extremely limited in the past few years.

Even in the year before last, that is, the year just after the Jinling Incident, that is, in the first year of Yanyou, the cotton planting area of Xuzhou and surrounding states and counties was only 200,000 mu.

The seed cotton produced the year before was not harvested until the end of September, and then woven into cloth, which was delayed until last year before being shipped to various places for sale.

After deducting the consumption of local weavers themselves and the large-scale requisition of the army, the cotton cloth exported last year was only 1.3 or 4 million horses; The year before last, only 500,000 or 600,000 pieces of cotton cloth were sold.

Therefore, it is not particularly conspicuous.

However, the seed cotton produced last year has been woven into cloth this year, and the total amount of Xuzhou that needs to be exported has suddenly surged to 4 million horses, which is somewhat jaw-dropping.

At this time, even if only one-third of it was imported into Jinling, it would have temporarily exceeded the carrying capacity of the Gyeonggi counties.

In addition to Hunan, Gyeonggi and the sale to Sichuan and Shu through Changxiang Hou Wangyong, there is no restriction on the import of Qianyang cloth produced in Xuzhou by Jiangzhou and Guangde Prefecture.

After a cursory glance at many books, Wang Jun rubbed the swollen sun

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Acupoint, I know better why Han Qian is in a hurry to cooperate with Yang Zhitang, and I understand that the cooperation with Yang Zhitang has temporarily encountered obstacles in Shen Yang's place, why Feng Yi and Guo Rong can't wait to talk about her marriage contract with Han Qian.

In addition to Han Qian's need to recruit landless poor and displaced people from Jiangdong Zhuzhou County to supplement the serious shortage of labor in Tangyi - in Han Qian's book, whether it is a homeless person or a landless poor, they all have a common title, that is, labor force--Jiangdong Zhuzhou County is more urgent to open the mouth of cotton cloth trafficking in Xuzhou and Tangyi.

Not to mention Xuzhou, at present, Han Qian has cultivated 300,000 mu of cotton fields in Tangyi at once, and it will enter the harvest period in another month, and he will be able to harvest about 20 million seed cotton by then.

Tangyi is only 1230,000 soldiers and civilians, summer and autumn clothes and bedding are counted, an average of 3 million catties of seed cotton is consumed a year, and the remaining seed cotton is either directly or spun into yarn, or directly woven into cloth, must be successfully exported to Jiangdong Prefecture, in order to exchange for all kinds of materials that Tangyi is in short supply.

There are a total of 15 prefectures in Jiangnan East Province, and the population is prosperous, with a total of six or seven million.

If Qianyang cloth can be trafficked unimpeded in Jiangdong Zhuzhou County, the scale of Qianyang cloth that can be exported in Jiangdong alone will be more than double that of Hunan Zhuzhou.

The cooperation with Yang Zhitang was temporarily hindered by Shen Yang and the forces of the Jiangdong family, and Tangyi also needed to make peace with Huaidong to a certain extent......

"Hey, Han Qian can't help you come in this room, this is to make up his mind to detain you!" Xi Ying went out early in the morning, and returned near noon, and saw Wang Jun sitting in front of the window stretching, putting away the oil-paper umbrella, walking to the front of the porch, and talking to Wang Jun through the window.

The maid Xiangyun stood aggrievedly in front of the porch.

She got up early in the morning to wash, and saw Wang Jun sitting in the next room flipping through the documents, and wanted to follow in, but she didn't want to be stopped by the guards on duty in the courtyard.

There are too many secrets of Xuzhou and Tangyi soldiers involved in this courtyard, not only is it strictly forbidden for her to enter, but also it is strictly forbidden for her to walk around in this courtyard at will - wherever she goes, there is a maid staring, but Wang Jun has no restrictions, and she is depressed.

Wang Jun raised her head and saw that Xi Ying's sideburns were wet with rain and a stack of letters under her armpits, and she didn't know where she had gone in the morning, earlier than Han Qian left, but she didn't pay attention to her teasing and asked where Tang Shiyu and the others were.

After she came over with Han Qian last night, Tang Shiyu and the two attendants who escorted her did not appear again, so she couldn't ask a word.

"Leave you here as a guest and tell them to go back - Tang Shiyu has already left with the fleet to go back to Yangzhou, and your two servants are still living in the inn in Nanxiang, if you want something, tell someone to say it." Xi Ying said.

They trust Wang Jun, but whether the people around Wang Wenqian are trustworthy or not, let's just say it.

Tang Shiyu himself was the leader of the spies in Yangzhou, and he left them in the camp last night to rest all night, and he sent them out of the camp early this morning, so it was impossible to give them the right to walk freely in the camp.

After a while, Han Qian also walked back with an umbrella, and Wang Jun realized that it was noon, and Han Qian and Xi Ying had gone back to the back house to dine with her.

During the meal, Xi Ying handed him the letter he had brought back, and Wang Jun knew that it was the naval army's battle plan to attack the west and north shores of Chaohu Lake.

In any case, Han Qian would not give up the advantage of the Tangyi Navy on the warships, and continued to attack the Shouzhou Army stationed in Chaozhou. He also didn't think that by doing so, he would take advantage of the Huaixi Forbidden Army, which was supposed to be mainly responsible for the military suppression of the enemy army in Chaozhou.

In addition, the navy attacked and disturbed the west and north shores of Chaohu Lake, mainly taking advantage of the imminent autumn ripeness, and rushed over to loot the crops and livestock in the field; Even if it does not kill innocents indiscriminately, it will coerce as many civilians as possible to move into Tangyi.

Military stalemate and confrontation are just so boring.

It is not capable of tearing apart the opponent's defense line in one fell swoop and gaining strategic advantages, but in addition to holding its own defense line, it is still necessary to do everything possible to constantly penetrate the enemy's territory and do everything possible to destroy and harass the enemy's agricultural production.

In the past three or four months, more than 2,000 elite troops in the mountains have relied on forcible expropriation of the enemy-occupied areas for supplies, and more than 4,000 civilians have been sent to the south bank of the Chuhe River for resettlement.

It is about to be autumn ripe, and even if they can't afford the casualties of the strong fortress, the Tangyi soldiers who have been resting for four or five months should take turns to kill the camp and move their muscles.

This plan was just a draft of the Military Intelligence and Staff Department, Han Qian sat at the dining table, browsed it, wrote down a few comments with a Jiao ink pen, and then instructed Xi Ying to transfer it to others for review.

After lunch, Han Qian did not rush to the front office, stayed in the courtyard to write a letter first, and then found a newly built four-wheeled carriage to carry Wang Jun, Xi Ying and others, and he wore a robe, and rode to Liyang City with Han Donghu and the guards.

In the past two or three years, although Liyang City has changed hands several times, it is very fortunate that it has not been devastated by war.

Li Zhihe gave up Liyang City, thinking that after the Shouzhou Army seized it, it would mainly be used to garrison troops, and it could not destroy the city wall, and it was meaningless to burn the houses in the city, so he completely ceded Liyang City.

And wait for Zhou to lead the troops to besiege the city, the defenders in the city finally chose to surrender the city, and the city that was renovated before the founding of Emperor Tianyou was able to be well preserved.

To tell the truth, if it weren't for the high terrain here, even if the canal was excavated, there would be no way to form a channel for thousands of stone boats to enter, and Liyang City, which is surrounded by mountains and easy to defend and difficult to attack, is very suitable as the military and political center of Tangyi.

It's just that there is no river transportation, which is the biggest flaw that Han Qian cannot tolerate, and it is destined to only become a foil for East Lake City in the future.

However, Wang Jun entered Liyang City at this time by carriage, but it was a different feeling.

Liyang City more than 1,000 wading in depth, the scale is not very large, the carriage passes through the city gate, the bluestone slabs paved by the long street have been stepped on and polished smooth, there are various rows of camphor trees on both sides of the long street, the green and thick shade, the raindrops are blocked by the leaves, it has become sparse, but the traces appear clearer.

The houses behind the camphor tree are lined up one after another, as if they are neat, the stone steps at the foot of the wall are thick with moss, the mottled paint on the portal, the courtyard wall is covered with verdant vines, and there are some fine and bright red stamens.

The houses on both sides don't look like they are inhabited, and there are only sparse pedestrians walking in the rain on the long street - Wang Jun heard Tang Shiyu say that after capturing Liyang City, Han Qian only moved a very small number of households into Liyang City for resettlement, and most of the houses in Liyang City were still empty.

Walking into such a city, Wang Jun seemed to be back to a corner of Yangzhou City.

"Who do you say I should invite to Yangzhou to say goodbye, so that your father will happily agree to let you marry me?" Han Qian lifted the reins in his hand, leaned over to the carriage, and asked Wang Jun.

"Huh?" Wang Jun was thinking about what kind of joys and sorrows had happened in the house with closed doors on both sides of the long street, and when he heard Han Qian's words, he suspected that he had heard it wrong, turned his head, and looked at Han Qian with clear eyes, not knowing what to say for a while......

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