The third volume sailed in the Ming Dynasty

One person counts short, three people count long.

The solution of the saline-alkali land in the Zhoushan Islands made Qin Haoming happy, but also reminded him of his new ideas.

Not just because he can resettle a little more displaced people, but because he sees the business opportunities and applicability in them.

However, in coastal areas, because of the infiltration of seawater, there is basically saline-alkali land in the land near the sea. In this way, a large amount of land has been wasted, and no grass has grown.

The coastline of tens of thousands of kilometers in the Ming Dynasty, and the saline-alkali land, is it comparable to the 170,000 acres of Zhoushan Islands?

Of course, that's a bit of a stretch now.

However, if Li Xiaofeng can succeed, at least in Fujian and Guangdong, Qin Haoming plans to transform saline-alkali land for mulberry and silkworm cultivation, focusing on the development of the textile industry.

Compared with the soap workshops with smaller workers, the textile industry is a giant in terms of employment.

It is understood that the largest sector of light industry in Jiangnan is divided into two categories: cotton textile industry and silk textile industry, which is second only to agriculture in the position of the secondary industry.

Most of the workers in the cotton weaving industry are rural women, and the traditional small-scale peasant economy has given them the skills that the textile industry needs.

With the development of the textile industry, wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan gathered these rural women together for unified planning and management to improve the output and quality of textiles.

In the Song, Tai and Su regions, where the cotton textile industry is most concentrated, the number of women who are mainly engaged in the textile industry has increased substantially.

The development of the cotton spinning industry stimulated the development of the processing industry, especially the urban professional dyeing workshops and the small rural dyeing workshops, and secondarily benefited the raw material merchants and the transportation industry.

Different from the cotton textile industry, the silk textile industry has a very high degree of specialization, with 3,500 government-run looms in Jiangnan and 10,000 private-run looms and more than 100,000 employees.

The procedures of the silk weaving industry are much more complex than those of the cotton weaving industry, and the number of workers it requires far exceeds the needs of the cotton weaving industry.

Qin Haoming can't estimate how many people are needed, but at least hundreds of thousands of people are indispensable.

Think about it, among the textile raw materials include cotton, cashmere, wool, silkworm cocoon silk, chemical fibers, feathers, down, etc.

The raw materials of textiles are mainly the downstream industries of the textile industry, including the garment industry, home textiles, industrial textiles, etc.

The textile industry is subdivided into cotton textile, chemical fiber, hemp textile, wool textile, silk, textile knitting industry, printing and dyeing industry, etc.

How large will the employees of these upstream, midstream and downstream industries be, and how many families can they support?

If you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are rich, you will help the world!

Nowadays, with different identities and statuses, it is natural to look at problems from different angles.

As the governor of the two provinces, the resources at his disposal are no longer the same. In addition to the military aspect, the people's livelihood must also be taken into account.

It is not used for the government in other regions, and the displaced people are regarded as flood beasts, and they are all driven out of the country, so as not to cause war and turmoil in the jurisdiction.

Of course, objectively speaking, what they do may have something to do with the lack of food in the local area.

But Qin Haoming understands that population is also a strategic resource in troubled times.

If the textile industry is developed and the displaced people are properly resettled, it will also bring him a huge amount of wealth.

Now the price of Daming silk and satin, depending on the type and quality, is about eight to twenty taels of silver per horse, and a few excellent quality can reach forty taels of silver.

Not to mention much, if the price of silk is estimated at a low value of ten taels per horse on average, then each load of half-raw silk can be woven and dyed into a load of silk, about eighty horses, and the price is as high as eight hundred taels of silver!

Moreover, this is only the price of Daming's domestic market, and the export price generally needs to be doubled or tripled, and it is expected that the price of a load of silk can reach more than two thousand taels!

In this way, even if the consumption caused by weaving into silk is added, then the export price of silk of the same weight is ten times higher than that of raw silk!

What kind of concept is this, what kind of wealth, just look at the rise of Zheng Zhilong.

What's more, growing mulberry and silkworm and weaving satin is a sustainable industry and a renewable resource. Gold and silver will be mined, but raw silk and satin can continue to be produced year after year.

It's man-made!

If this seemingly useless saline-alkali land can really become a land for planting mulberry trees, wouldn't it have laid a solid economic foundation for Qin Haoming's rise.

A feeling was inexplicably stirring in Qin Haoming's heart, and he couldn't imagine that today's mistake made him think a new way, and he had a thorough solution to how to solve the problem of displaced people.

At the same time, it also gives a solid backing for its own power to advance rapidly.

"Governor Qin, if mulberry leaves are planted in the future, those idle plots that cannot be used for planting can be concentrated in silkworm breeding and silk reeling workshops, so that it will be convenient from beginning to end."

Shen Shouchong is clearly more interested in the textile industry than in the salt works.

"Yes, among the wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan now, five out of ten are businessmen who run textile factories, and the other five are maritime merchants.

Wu Feng said with envy.

"This governor wants to let them all lie down, there is only one top wealthy businessman in the Ming Dynasty, and that is us."

Qin Haoming, who was in a good mood, laughed and was full of pride.

If you want to develop the textile industry, in addition to people and raw materials, you must also have tools.

At present, there are three main production tools of Daming Textile Cotton Industry: looms, carts and spinning wheels. It seems that there is also a kind of car called "Taicang car", which only needs one person to operate, and can spend 100 catties a day, and get a net spend of more than 50 catties.

In fact, this is the shuttle loom, but it has not yet become popular.

However, these are not enough in Qin Haoming's eyes. He was going to cheat and produce Jenny's spinning machine.

Different from the current spinning machine, this spinning machine arranges the spindles vertically and drives them with a spinning wheel, which greatly improves the efficiency of spinning.

This Jenny spinning machine is simple to make, but very clever in design.

When spinning, as long as the operator turns the large runner of the spinning machine and drives the shaft, the shaft will rotate the spindle rod through the rope sleeve.

After this step, a small reversal of the large runner turns it down again to remove the yarn from the spindle hook. Finally, put down the spindle pressure plate to make the spindle rotate coaxially with the spindle, and wind the yarn onto the spindle, which completes the whole process and spins the cotton into cotton yarn.

Not only that, the thickness of the cotton yarn spun by the Jenny spinning machine is consistent, and the cotton cloth woven with this cotton yarn is uniform and fine, and the quality is better than that of ordinary cotton cloth now.

It is conceivable that with the advent of Jenny's spinning machine, which has the advantage of speed and quality, all the spinning mills in Jiangnan will be defeated by him.

At that time, the textile industry will be the only one, and some things will be more convenient to arrange.