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After the fifteenth century, with the discovery of new shipping routes, Europe's overseas trade expanded dramatically, and the woolen textile industry flourished rapidly in the Flemish region in the northwest corner, which also led to Britain in its vicinity.

The development of the wool textile industry has greatly increased the demand for wool in the UK, in addition to meeting domestic demand, but also to meet foreign wool demand, wool prices have soared, and sheep raising has become more and more profitable compared with traditional agriculture.

The landed aristocrats drove out the peasants who had rented their land and occupied the land where they could raise sheep, and the peasants who had been evicted from their homes became homeless vagrants. This is the enclosure movement.

Thomas More, a famous writer at the time, wrote in his famous book "Utopia" about the "sheep eating people" in England: "Your sheep used to be so tame and satisfied with a little food, but now they are said to have become very greedy and arrogant, and even want to eat people......"

The "sheep eat man" enclosure movement made huge profits for the landlord aristocracy, turning it into a bourgeoisified new aristocratic class. And large numbers of peasants were driven out of their homes and became empty-handed vagrants. In order to survive, they had to sell their labor power for a living, becoming cheap labor for the development of British capitalism. Therefore, "sheep eat people" can be said to be one of the important ways of the primitive accumulation of capital in Britain.

The enclosure movement began in the 70s of the 15th century and lasted until the end of the 18th century, that is to say, at this time, the tragedy of "sheep eating people" was being staged in England.

Of course, during the same period, the Ming Dynasty also saw the germ of capitalism, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, where the cotton, linen, and silk textile industries also developed rapidly, and there were many super workshops, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they were factories.

As a result, the large number of cotton and mulberry trees planted in the fields has squeezed out the space for grain crops, and Jiangnan, known as the "land of fish and rice," can no longer produce self-sufficient grain, and needs to buy grain from the two lakes area, where "the lakes are wide and ripe and the world is full."

In a sense, this is already the Chinese version of "sheep eating people", of course, it may be more appropriate to call it "cotton eating people" or "silkworm eating people".

It's just that at this time, the natural disasters in the north of the Ming Dynasty continued, the vast number of farmers could not even eat enough, how to get the money to wear cotton and silk, the domestic market demand shrank, and the overseas demand did not increase, so the scale of production in Jiangnan did not expand as sharply as the United Kingdom.

Of course, the above situation is not clear, but this does not prevent him, who has been baptized by the market economy in later generations, and keenly smells the opportunities from it.

Since ancient times, China's textile industry has been ahead of other regions, and even the two foreign trade routes, one land and one sea, have been known as the "Silk Road".

However, in Zhiwen's impression, the developed cotton and silk textile industries, linen products, but the level is not leading, and the overwhelming woolen textiles in later generations, whether they are crude sweaters or fine woolen products, are nowhere to be seen at this time.

To say that the Han people do not like woolen fabrics, this is not true, woolen fabrics do not lose silk in terms of beauty, and far exceed other textiles in warmth, except for summer is not suitable for wearing, spring, autumn and winter can be.

Da Ming only has the most basic leather jacket and felt, and the level is estimated to be similar to the difference between the nomads outside the Saiwai, except for the poor families and the army are willing to wear, people with a little financial resources can't look down on them, let alone rich families.

To say that this is because the Han people raise less sheep, and thus less wool, the current Zhiwen will never agree.

After escaping along the way, He Xiaojie unearthed a lot of wool, sheepskin and sheep felt, which shows that the number of sheep is not a problem.

If you can take this opportunity to make beautiful and generous sweaters, woolen pants, crisp and temperamental woolen cloth and ready-to-wear in Daming, then it will become a major livelihood event for Zhiwen and his party, including orphans, including those peripheral people, a total of more than 2,000 people.

There is still a lot of grain, it is not a long-term solution to sit and eat in the mountains, cross the Yellow River, enter the western part of Shanxi, although there is a drought, it is much better than that of northern Shaanxi, and it is not realistic to pin the hope of eating this important event on the "treasure hunting" to find grain.

Of course, the premise is to keep the real core secret that wool can be spun.

As for whether this sheep will eat people in Daming, Zhiwen can't care about it, so let's solve the survival problem of these two thousand people first.

After seeing how Baqian turned wool into wool in the memories of later generations step by step, and after a few days of careful consideration, Zhiwen realized that Baqian's secret technique - lime water and Chinese medicine miscanthus salt, which can wash off the mutton fat stained on the wool - is the key.

It can make the wool that can pierce people into silky smooth, so as to provide conditions for further finishing of wool.

Zhiwen didn't know how the wool was degreased in later generations, and he didn't know how the wool was degreased in other regions in the same period, but he knew that only he and Baqian had mastered this method in the current Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the other medicinal herbs on the back of the sky are not completely useless, in addition to being used to hide people's eyes and ears quite intentionally, Baqian also uses the juice after boiling licorice to further deodorize the wool that has lost most of its smell after baptism, and at the same time, it can also make the wool have a little licorice scent, interfering with the judgment of those with ulterior intentions.

Thinking of this, Zhiwen asked rhetorically: "Eight thousand, knitting sweaters or anything is not the key, when it comes to spinning and weaving, are you better than Aunt Song?" ”

How to spin the defatted wool into thread, weave it into a sweater, or further spin it into woolen cloth to make a ready-to-wear garment, is not a problem for the smart and industrious Ming people.

Yachiba just accidentally discovered the method of degreasing wool, as for drawing silk into threads, knitting sweaters, etc., all of them were personally explored by his late mother and taught to him.

"That's right." Yachi admitted, "I'm so stupid, my mother taught me hand-in-hand for a long time, and I barely learned it." ”

Originally, it was not the turn of the male farmer and the female weaver to learn these things, but Dr. Sun could not heal himself, and the eight thousand mother was seriously ill and felt that he would die soon, so he could not bear the loss of this technique, and he did not want his father and son to wear warm clothes, so he forced the eight thousand to learn from her.

Eight thousand father and son, since they wore sweaters, they didn't want to wear any leather jackets and felt coats again.

It's just that those sweaters, after the death of Baqian Niang, were buried in the ground with his mother by his father and son.

"Believe it or not, eight thousand, as long as Aunt Song and the others learn the trick of spinning and weaving, it won't be long before you can't catch up with them." Zhiwen said with a smile.

He didn't say yet, even if he didn't teach, as long as there was wool that had been stripped of fat, those who were ingenious, when they saw their sweaters, looked at them a few times, they could turn a pile of wool into a sweater, and even more, they could weave woolen cloth, and then cut woolen coats, and so on.

"I believe it!" Yachi honestly admitted, "So what's the most important thing?" ”

Zhiwen leaned into Baqian's ear, whispered a few words, and then whispered: "Remember, from now on, you don't know this crucial step, no matter who asks you, only I know." ”

"In the future, I will be able to prepare a potion for washing wool, and I will be enough for one person, and you don't have to do eight thousand again."

"Let's sum it up, and add some medicinal materials to it, which will not affect the effect, but also hide people's ears and eyes, and it is best to lead people crookedly."

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