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The earliest title of Zhuge repeater is the Yuan Rong crossbow, according to the record in the "Three Kingdoms": "(Zhuge Liang) profit and loss crossbow, called the Yuan Rong, with iron as the arrow, the arrow is eight inches long, and one and ten arrows are fired." ”

It means that Zhuge Liang improved the original repeater, removed the turnips, and named it the Yuanrong crossbow. The arrows of this Yuanrong crossbow are made of iron, eight inches long, and can fire ten crossbow arrows in a single load.

The so-called Yuan Rong means marshal. Zhu Xi explained: "Yuan, Daya. Rong, Rong car also. Rong is the Rong chariot, that is, the ancient military chariot, this kind of military chariot uses a single wheel, two wheels, and a horizontal rectangular carriage with a door at the back. The front end of the wheel is balanced, and the upper yoke is used to drive the horse. This kind of chariot was unearthed in the terracotta warriors and horses pit of Qin Shi Huang.

Therefore, the earliest meaning of Yuan Rong referred to a large military chariot, and then its meaning was gradually extended to have the meaning of a large army, or a commander, or a commander. It can be seen that Zhuge Liang named this kind of repeater as the Yuanrong crossbow, which was used as the Dinghai Divine Needle in the war, so he was very confident in it. And actual combat has proved that this is indeed a militaristic weapon.

Since things were going very well, and on the way back to the valley the people were in high spirits, and when the group returned to the valley and took a piece of baggage stored here, and then untied the blanket and put it on the horse's buttocks, they tied the sturdy king of Linyi to the back of a horse and rode north.

Along the way, everyone was inexplicably excited, and the singing of "Men Should Be Self-Improvement" resounded in the sky. The warriors who triumphed in the southern expedition captured the lord of a country with only fifty men, and they did not lose a single person. What a glory it would be to sacrifice the prisoners of the Beijing division on a different day? As for the possible retaliation that Lin Yiguo might launch, whether it was Guo Bin or Wang Yue, they didn't care about it, and even Zhu Fu, the assassin of Jiaozhou, who got the news afterwards, could only be secretly happy.

It's no wonder that they have big nerves, but the Han people at this time have a sense of superiority from the bottom of their hearts over the surrounding Siyi. At this time, the Han Dynasty had a strong military and a superior political system, and the advanced nature of the Central Plains culture was well known to the world. The so-called Siyi Binfu and all countries come to the dynasty, the Han Dynasty at this time is the real heavenly kingdom. Not to mention the small Linyi country, even for the Xianbei people and Xiongnu people in the north, the superiority in the hearts of the Han people is also obvious. This superiority is not only understood by the Han people, but also taken for granted by the Xianbei people and the Xiongnu people.

Now that the king of Linyi has been captured, whether it is Zhu Fu or Wang Yue, or even the scholars behind him, they can only rejoice at the arrival of the opportunity for meritorious service. Everyone let go of the speed of their horses and galloped all the way, and they arrived at Jiuzhen County in less than a day. Because there was a scholar in the county, Guo Bin and the others followed the guide straight to the Zhuangzi to rest.

This time when I went north and went south, my mood was completely different, and now that the great achievement was completed, everyone was happy and ate and drank very much on the Zhuangzi. Even Guo Bin, Guan, Zhang, Huang Zhong, and Dong Xinger also have the idea of amusement. Although they also rested on the Zhuangzi here, everyone was in a hurry, where was they in the mood to take a good look at this Zhuangzi?

Therefore, Guo Bin, under the guidance of the people in the village, took Dong Xinger to the back of the village to watch the flowers. Where does he know how to appreciate flowers, but the housekeeper said that the flowers called "white stacks" behind Zhuangzi are very rare, Guo Bin thought that Dong Xing'er's daughter's family would follow him around, since he heard that there is a garden in the village that Shixie loves very much, so he wants to come over to have a little romance. Although neither party has ever said anything about the relationship between the two, they both know each other's meaning in their hearts.

Don't look at Guo Bin's noble status outside, he is extremely respected, and his means of turning his hands into clouds and covering his hands into rain is a bit breathtaking. However, once it comes to the relationship between men and women, Guo Bin has become the poor dick who blushes and has a thick neck when he sees a beautiful girl, and he can't even understand a neat word. If it is in the later life, a woman like Dong Xinger with a slender figure and a beautiful appearance, Guo Bin has only seen it on TV and wall calendars, if it is said that she has indeed bragged about this kind of bull when she drinks with her buddies as a girlfriend, but everyone knows that it is crazy talk after drinking.

Sure enough, when he came down to the so-called "garden" under the guidance of the Shi family, Guo Bin was really shocked when he looked at the green plants in front of him.

How did Guo Bin look at these plants, how familiar he looked, and when he approached and saw the green flowers like peaches, he was really sure that this so-called ornamental plant that even Shixie liked very much was actually cotton! Yes, he was not mistaken. Growing up in the countryside, he didn't know how to grow this crop, but at least he knew! What's more, some cotton peaches have cracked, leaking out the white cotton inside.

Guo Bin muttered: "Cotton, cotton, isn't it just flowers!" ”

When the next person saw Guo Bin lose his temper like this, he was naturally very proud in his heart, but he was flexible after all. Although he didn't know what Guo Bin's origin was, he didn't dare to be presumptuous when he saw the owner's cautious appearance towards Dabin. Therefore, he introduced with a little reserve: "Don't hide it from the child, this flower is called Bai Diezi." It's not fully mature yet, and it's not quite good to look at. In September, the flower is fully opened, and the white flowers inside are fully revealed. At that time, the mountains and fields are full of white flowers, which is really beautiful. Even the head of our Shi family has to rush over from Panyu every time he arrives, just to see the wonder of the white stacks in full bloom! ”

When Guo Bin heard this, his head was full of black lines, and he really couldn't understand what was so beautiful about the cotton planted.

I only heard that the person was still chattering: "Childe, don't you know, this Bai Diezi was originally passed down from the Body Poison Country, so it is extremely rare. In the entire Jiuzhen County, I am afraid that only we have this thing in Zhuangzi. I heard that this white stack can grow to three zhang tall in the poison country, and I don't know if it's true or fake. ”

However, at this time, Guo Bin was a little delirious. When he looked at the cotton all over the mountains, what he thought about in his heart did not involve the wind and moon at all, and now his face was solemn, and all that was left in his mind was how to use this cotton layout.

As one of the world's most important crops, cotton has a huge yield and low cost in later generations, but it is a real white oil. As a raw material for cotton production, it has become an important driving force for human technological progress, an accelerant for the first industrial revolution, and plays an extremely important role in the modern history of the world.

Capital is the driving force that drives mankind forward, and nothing compares to the ability of light industry to create wealth, which is not technically demanding but has frighteningly high profits. Nowadays, it is generally believed that the beginning of the first industrial revolution was the invention of the Jenny spinning machine in England. Spun cotton yarn. Cotton yarn is the previous process of cotton cloth production, and the industrial production of cotton cloth is possible only if cotton yarn can be produced in large quantities.

Therefore, driven by this economic interest, capital began to enter the cotton textile market, it is precisely because of the drive of capital and interests, all kinds of technical problems can be overcome one by one, the first industrial revolution is in full swing, and the human beings living on the earth have really begun to become increasingly closely connected with the modern history of the world. Once there is a need for technology in society, it will push science forward more than ten universities.

Although it is a bit naked, a little not noble, and even a little unclean, no one can deny its powerful driving force, which is the fundamental driving force for the development of human society.

Therefore, how could Guo Bin, who saw the cotton that opened the key to the modern industrial revolution, give up this hope of helping the Chinese nation take off?

The reason why cotton has such an important position in the modern history of the world is not because cotton cloth is really too easy to wear, but completely better than things such as silk and linen. If you talk about the yield alone, the yield per mu of cotton is not higher than that of hemp, if you talk about comfort, it is far worse than silk, but cotton cloth can achieve great development, and can become a key item that affects the world economy and even political and military dynamics, what is the reason?

Cotton has both comfort, practicality and economy, which is the fundamental reason for its final victory.

Compared with linen, silk is supple and smooth, and it is an extremely high-grade cloth; Although linen cloth also has summer cloth made of ramie, it has been used to make mourning clothes, deep clothes, court clothes, crowns, scarves and hats since the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, but its use and promotion have regional and temporal constraints. Because the summer cloth is light and cool, it is mostly used in summer, so it is called summer cloth. However, its obvious lack of warmth makes it not very popular with northerners. Especially in the cold late autumn, early spring, and even winter, no one wants to wear linen.

And in terms of warmth, silk and cotton cloth undoubtedly threw off linen for several streets. The so-called warehouse is honest and knows etiquette, and knows honor and disgrace when food and clothing are sufficient. Only when people first meet the problem of food and clothing, can they have the leisure to consider ethics and morality and personal honor and disgrace.

In terms of comfort, linen cloth has been eliminated, so why has silk not become such a cloth that is so widely used and has such a huge impact like cotton? So that's where economics comes in.

Silk and cotton yarn are both raw materials before they are spun into fabrics, and the process of obtaining silk is undoubtedly extremely complex and costly. Whether it is picking mulberry leaves, raising silkworms, or reeling silk, it is a laborious and difficult work that requires great skill and experience, especially silk reeling, even in later generations, it still has a great harm to the body of workers, because silkworm cocoons must be soaked in hot water to extract silk.

Cotton yarn, on the other hand, only needs to be planted everywhere, and after picking, it will be seeded, and then cotton yarn can be spun. Therefore, the difficulty in producing cotton yarn lies in the removal of seeds. Unlike the mysterious and complex silk weaving techniques of the Orientals, the work of deseeding cotton could be done by uneducated black slaves who worked at a very slow pace. As for its technical support in silk reeling, China's Yuan Dynasty appeared after Huang Daopo's improved "Han (churning car, that is, cotton gin), elastic (cotton bow), spinning (spinning wheel), weaving (loom) tools". By the middle of the eighteenth century, the first Jenny spinning machine appeared in England, which made the spinning of cotton yarn enter the stage of large-scale and industrial production.

In addition, the limitations of sericulture technology make it possible for only China to master the production technology of this high-end clothing product, while the rest of the world is only engaged in top-level processing, and in any case is limited by China's supply of raw materials. Cotton is different.

As long as there is land, water and light, cotton can be grown in a wide range of areas in the world, and the technical requirements for the planters are extremely low. Before the Civil War, plantations that relied on black slaves to produce cotton were spread throughout the southern United States precisely because cotton was extremely adaptable. Therefore, the production and processing of cotton has a very obvious economic advantage.

It is no accident that cotton was able to overwhelm linen and silk as the world's most important garment fabric, and became the most important fuel for the first industrial revolution. The popularization of cotton cloth has a very deep and reasonable logical basis, which is the choice of capital and the choice of the people of the world.

Guo Bin naturally doesn't know so much knowledge, and he can't say anything about the advantages of cotton cloth, but he knows that the trend of cotton cloth promotion is unstoppable, and he misses the comfort of wearing cotton clothes. Therefore, he secretly thought about how to make the best use of cotton.

Looking at Guo Bin's distracted appearance, Dong Xing'er was also helpless, but she was extremely proud in her heart. Helplessly, this Guo Bin is not romantic at all, although she has never heard of the word romance. And proudly, this man must be thinking about something big again!

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