Chapter 8: Hansehu Heaven

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The stuffy man immediately knelt down and responded, "That's right! Let us be the leader! ”

Jia Daoshi laboriously squeezed through the crowd and knelt down side by side with the stuffy bastard, "Poor Dao swears to die and is willing to be a pawn before the horse!" ”

The Yellow River raft guest first made a deep bow, knelt down and solemnly swore an oath: "More than 20 people under my dragon are hard-working raft guests, and now they are the lord, if they are half-hearted, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed!" ”

Ma San, the raft guest, knelt down and said: "My Ma San admires Ye Yingwu and good at fighting the most!" Now I am willing to follow the lord, if I violate this oath, there will be no corpse! ”

The milk baby quietly turned out from behind Sun Yi and knelt gently in front of Sun Yi, "For as long as I can remember, I don't remember that I was full, master, please don't leave me alone!" ”

It happened so suddenly that Sun Yiyi was speechless for a while.

He originally planned to return to Wolf Mountain after staying here for a while, striving to return to modern times.

However, now that corn has appeared, it needs to be re-evaluated.

The idea of "anti-Qing Fuming" popped up again in Sun Yi's mind.

There were four major reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty: internal and external troubles, political corruption, exhaustion, and force majeure. Now "force majeure" can be crossed out.

But Sun Yi immediately raised another question: why was the high-yielding corn no longer fresh in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, and there was still a famine in the northwest?

Checking his mobile phone, Sun Yi found that another god-level high-yield crop from the Americas, sweet potato, had also been planted in the Ming Dynasty at this time.

Sweet potatoes entered China through two families surnamed Chen: one was the Chen family in Dongguan, Guangdong, Chen Yi; One is the Chen family in Fuzhou, Fujian, named Chen Zhenlong.

Historical records of the Chen family in Fuzhou are very detailed, and Chen Zhenlong brought sweet potatoes to China from the Philippines in 1593. When the Spanish colonists entered the Philippines, they introduced sweet potatoes from the Americas to solve the local food problem. Chen Zhenlong, a businessman who did business in Luzon, wanted to bring this kind of thing to his hometown, but the Spanish colonizers were very strict and strictly checked various ports. Chen Zhenlong took a rattan of a sweet potato and braided it into a basket, and then took the basket on the boat and returned to his hometown in Fuzhou.

After bringing it back, he and his son wrote a post to Jin Xuezeng, the governor of Fujian at the time, suggesting that he try to grow this sweet potato in Fuzhou. The Chen family was the first to start growing this kind of thing in their own farmland, and four months later it was successful, and immediately sent another post to the governor of Fujian. At this time, Fujian was in a severe drought and was immediately faced with a shortage of food, and Fujian Governor Jin Xuezeng made a quick decision and told all parts of Fujian to immediately start promoting sweet potatoes, so that sweet potatoes were popularized in Fujian, so that Fujian was able to survive the food crisis at that time. Therefore, in Fujian, sweet potatoes are also called golden potatoes.

It is said that the people of Fuzhou set up an ancestral hall for the Chen family, and the ancestral hall is dedicated to Chen Zhenlong and his son, and Chen Zhenlong is enshrined as the secretary of the Ministry of Water, and the governor Jin Xue is enshrined in the temple. The Chen family began to promote sweet potatoes across the country, and they went north to Zhejiang, Shandong, Henan, and south to Guangdong, but it was very unsuccessful. The descendants of the Chen family wrote the family's experience in promoting sweet potatoes into a book called "The Legend of the Golden Potato"

Corn and sweet potatoes, two high-yield crops, one by land and one by water, one north and one south, one west and one east, were sent to the door respectively, and the Ming Dynasty actually perished because of famine!?

"The dragon and the phoenix chicks have to settle the world", the double insurance carefully arranged by God can't save Daming! It can be seen how the Ming Dynasty changed its tricks to die!

To say that corn is spontaneously planted by the common people in the northwest and has not received the attention of the government, but it is the governor of a province who promotes sweet potatoes in Fujian.

The identity of a governor is not enough, Xu Guangqi's identity is enough, right?

During the Wanli period (1607), Xu Guangqi's father died, and Xu Guangqi was buried and returned to his hometown of Songhu to guard the system for three years.

The following year, Xu Guangqi tried to grow sweet potatoes in his hometown, which was a great success, summing up the thirteen benefits of sweet potatoes and calling them "Thirteen Wins of Sweet Potatoes", and published "Sweet Potato Shu", requesting promotion.

Xu Guangqi served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites in the Chongzhen Dynasty, a scholar of Dongge University, a scholar of Wenyuange University, and a prince Taibao. Sun Yi didn't believe it, so Xu Guangqi didn't recommend sweet potatoes to Chongzhen!

Sun Yi was really speechless. If it doesn't work, what else?

Do you want God to send the finished grain directly to the warehouse, and then pout his ass and let the emperor of the Ming Dynasty kick it happily?

What makes Sun Yi even more angry is: agriculture is like this, and so is industry!

All intellectuals around the world unanimously agree that the invention of the Jenny machine was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Nine of the ten time-traveling novels start with Jenny's machine.

The Jenny machine, made in 1764, was the earliest multi-spindle hand-spinning machine, which could be loaded with eight spindles, and was suitable for spinning cotton, wool and hemp fibers.

And the textile technology of the Ming Dynasty is far ahead of the Jenny machine!

Ancient and modern textile processes are designed in response to textile raw materials. The fibers used for textile in ancient countries around the world are natural fibers, generally wool, linen, cotton, three kinds of staple fibers. The fibers used for weaving in the Mediterranean were wool and flax, while cotton was used in the Peninsular India. In addition to the use of these three fibers, ancient China also made extensive use of long fibers - silk.

Various textile tools appeared in China very early.

The image of the hand-spinning wheel has been found many times in the unearthed Han Dynasty cultural relics;

The earliest image of the pedal spinning wheel is the portrait stone of the Eastern Han Dynasty unearthed in Sihong County, Jiangsu Province;

In the fourth century AD, the Eastern Jin Dynasty painter Gu Kaizhi appeared in a painting with three spindles on his feet;

Late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty Huang Daopo (c. 1245-?) Changed the pedal linen spinning wheel to a pedal three-spindle cotton spinning wheel;

In the second year of Huangqing in the Yuan Dynasty (1313 AD), Wang Zhen's "Book of Agriculture" appeared in the pedal three-spindle cotton spinning wheel, pedaled three-spindle hemp spinning wheel, and pedaled five-spindle hemp spinning wheel.

Wang Zhen's "Book of Agriculture" also records a kind of large spinning wheel used in the "Central Plains Hometown of Males", which can spin thirty-two spindles at the same time! Four times as many as the Jenny machine that appeared four hundred years later!

What's even better is that a step further than the big spinning wheel is the "water to big spinning wheel", which is completely driven by water power!

Wang Zhen is not an engineer, so it is understandable that he does not have much record of the structure of the large spinning wheel.

Xue Jingshi was born in Wanquan County, Shanxi Province (now Wanrong County, Shanxi) in the early Yuan Dynasty. Born in a family of carpenters, he is the author of "The Legacy of the Azusa People", which introduces in detail the shapes, structural characteristics and manufacturing methods of various woodware. Drawings of parts and general assembly drawings are drawn, and each drawing indicates the name of the machine, the size and installation location, the production method and the estimation of man-hours.

It's a pity that "The Legacy of the Azusa People" was originally lost, and by the time of 2016, only two parts of it had been preserved: the first, the car, and the second, the loom.

Among them, the shape and specifications of the vertical machine (i.e., vertical loom), Hua machine (i.e., jacquard machine), cloth horizontal machine (i.e., linen weaving, silk loom) and Luo machine (i.e., Luo loom) are described and explained in the loom part.

Sun Yi estimated that in the five years of Chongzhen, the production process of the big spinning wheel must not have been lost! Even somewhere, there are countless large textile machines in operation!

From agriculture to industry, the Ming Dynasty never had a reason to perish.

But it just perished!

Sun Yi could only sigh, the Ming Dynasty was exhausted, and it was it that it wanted to die, and no one could stop it.

The only logical plan left for Sun Yi is to let the Ming Dynasty die! "Anti-Qing does not support Ming"!

If "not supporting the Ming", the "internal and external troubles", "political corruption", and "exhaustion of qi" of the Ming Dynasty were all transformed into Sun Yi's advantages at once.

Sun Yi found that he had confused several concepts before: nation, culture, state and regime, and he mixed these four into one word: "Ming Dynasty".

Sun Yi actually wants to save the first two, and he has nothing to do with the country and regime that belongs to the old Zhu family!

If you abandon the old Zhu family, what place is more suitable than the Wolf Mountain outside the Saiwai Mountains? Who is more suitable than these outcasts who can't survive?

Sun Yi's blood gushed upward, and he said to the Ming Dynasty people at his feet: "I promise you!" ”

There is a poem that praises:

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The desert is lonely, and the sun sets over the long river.

Zheng Peng out of Hanse, return to the wild goose into Hu Tian.

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(Tang) Wang Wei