Time is like an arrow, time flies like a white horse, and it came to June of the fourth year of Chongzhen.

In the past few months, something has happened to Da Ming and Hou Jin.

Let's talk about Daming first, the first thing is that sweaters that are popular in Jiangnan are finally not uncommon in the north.

In fact, when sweaters were only marketed in Jiangnan, they could occasionally be seen in rich places such as Jingshi, Datong, and Ludong, and there were more in Pujie and Liangzhou in southern Jinnan, but because the price was not cheap, the people in the north could not afford much, and they were only circulated in a small and medium-sized range of wealthy households, and did not form a scale.

However, after the Lantern Festival, the price of sweaters began to dive, from the original average price of four coins of silver to three coins of silver.

Don't look at the lack of only one penny, in terms of proportion, it has dropped by two to five, and it is a lot cheaper than cotton clothes all of a sudden, and the general public can afford it by gritting their teeth, and the entire empire, as long as there is a place where sweaters are sold, there is a rush to buy.

Even if it is about to enter spring and the weather is going to be hot, it will not affect this craze, even if you can't wear it for a while, you can prepare for this winter, who knows if it will rise back again in half a year.

The wealthy were a little dissatisfied at first, as soon as the price of sweaters dropped, they couldn't show their identity, but soon thin sweaters appeared, these thin sweaters in addition to being more beautifully knitted, more varied styles, the important thing is that the price is higher, and because of the thin, it is just right to wear in spring and autumn, which meets the needs of these people to be able to wear X for a long time, although the sales are not as hot as ordinary sweaters, but the profits brought to Zhuolu Trading Company are not a lot.

Thin sweaters had just been sold, and woolen cloth and clothes cut from woolen cloth reappeared.

Different from cotton and linen silk, woolen cloth is not only warmer and more wear-resistant, although the price is not cheap, but it is easy to use and durable, so that poor people feel more cost-effective.

On the other hand, after the woolen cloth is scalded with a fire bucket, it is unusually crisp, and the clothes can be kept for a long time, and it will have more face when worn out, unlike cotton and linen silk, which can not be wrinkled if you are not careful, and this feature makes the rich and noble people pay special attention to it.

And the different thickness of woolen cloth, but also let it in addition to the hottest dog days can not be used, the rest of the season can be worn, these woolen cloth colors are also many, the price is different, so that no matter the poor rich and poor, can according to their own financial resources and needs, buy a set or even several sets of woolen clothing.

Poor families can buy the cheapest and thinnest cloth, go home and cut it themselves, and the rich can naturally buy different thicknesses of cloth or ready-to-wear according to different seasons, so that woolen cloth and its ready-to-wear are sold even more than sweaters, and the whole empire is proud to wear woolen clothes, and it is a popular trend for a while.

The second incident involved the acting king Zhu Dingwei.

After the autumn of last year, this king did not listen to people's persuasion, and forced the tenant farmers to plant tens of thousands of acres of sweet potatoes and potatoes, and many people waited to see him laugh, and the north had never heard of two kinds of things a year, not to mention that no one knew about this thing before.

The result is naturally surprising, in just a few months of work, Zhu Dingwei harvested tens of millions of catties of grain from the ground a few years ago, and then went with the flow, and the Zhuolu trading company that provided seeds became famous. (Strictly speaking, it is the labor union that controls the seeds, but it is collectively referred to as a trading company to the outside world.)

In addition to the extensive cultivation in the Xuanda area under the vigorous promotion of Governor Geng and He Zhizhou, the big households in the west and south of Jin, stimulated by such a high yield of the Daiwang, all found the door of the Zhuolu Trading Company, and even the governor of the three sides, Yang He, and the governor of Jiliao, Sun Chengzong, also sent people to contact.

Naturally, the trade unions will not let go of this good opportunity, and all the rich households have made real money and grain, so they have pulled the seeds and left, and they have made a lot of money.

As long as he promises to be the same as Xuanda, he can collect the seed fee for the trading company after collecting the grain, and he can trust Governor Geng as the middleman.

June is the harvest season of sweet potatoes in the first half of the year, from the feedback from all over the situation, it is not surprising to get a bumper harvest, Governor Yang also personally wrote two letters, one to Geng Ruqi, one to the trading company, a thousand words, nothing more than to thank the sweet potato potato for pulling him in a crisis.

Yang He, after the official to the military department, two years ago he was promoted to the governor of the three sides, supervising Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningbo, this person is gentle on the bandits, advocating to Fu as the main, the original history because of the lack of money and food to settle the bandits, the bandits fell and rebelled, and after the failure of the appeasement, Chongzhen was imprisoned and questioned to death.

Now the main force of the thieves and the most famous leaders have been wiped out in the battle of Zhuolu Mountain, but as long as the drought in Shaanxi, Gansu and other places does not ease, there will be no fewer troublemakers, Governor Yang, who has been suffering from nothing to care, finally because of sweet potatoes and potatoes, which are not only drought-tolerant, but also high-yield grains, and greatly relieved, as long as there is one or two more harvests, he is confident that the people in Shaanxi and Gansu will be completely quelled.

As for Sun Chengzong, the governor of Jiliao, in the end, he extinguished the idea of planting sweet potatoes and potatoes, and he pursued the strategy of Liao people guarding Liao soil, building dock forts, and advancing step by step in Liaodong.

In order to feed the war with war, you have to farm in Liaodong, if it is ordinary food, it is just that, the Jin people go back and forth to the city to defend, the grain output is not high, and there is no distress, but sweet potatoes and potatoes are different, so much grain is in the field, with the field ability of the Ming army, it will definitely not be able to keep, then it will become a capital enemy.

Speaking of Zhu Dingwei, everyone else has a bumper harvest, but he is almost out of harvest.

The harvest was not completely lost, that was because the 200,000 catties of seeds that Zhuolu Trading Company gave him on credit a few years ago had a harvest of 4 million catties, otherwise, the acting prince would have planted all the grain harvested before the year in one go, and in the case of no harvest, not only would he lose face, but also suffer heavy losses.

As soon as the news came out, the people who planted sweet potatoes and potatoes were in an uproar, and then they knew that the Zhuolu Trading Company had been warned in pieces before, and the seeds needed to be bought from them was not a lie, but a real game.

At this time, whether it is a rich family or a common person, anyone who still wants to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes will obediently pull grain to Zhuolushan to change seeds, and the roads in Baoan Prefecture will be blocked for a while.

Fortunately, Zhiwen made sufficient preparations before going north to the grassland, and the seeds were not worried, but the Qian steward and others who stayed in the mountains were very busy.

Of course, in the future, the center of gravity of Zhuolu Mountain will move outward, and if you want to change the seeds, it is estimated that you will get outside the plug.

Sweaters, wool, cloth and grain are so profitable, it is inevitable that they will fall into the eyes of people with hearts, and some people began to inquire about the background of Zhuolu Trading Company, but most of them withdrew after knowing that they had the support of Geng Ruqi, the governor of Xuanda, followed by Zhu Dingwei obediently sent people to pull grain for planting, and let the remaining small number of people almost disperse.