"Northwest?"

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Old Man Guan didn't understand, he was obviously talking about Songjiang, why did he go to the northwest? You can't hit the eight poles on both sides!

Guan Kunyu explained: "Grandpa, do you think that if we grow more and more cotton here in Songjiang, will there be fewer and fewer people growing food?" ”

"Then you still have to say!?"

"What if all the areas of Susonghang are planted with cotton and mulberry trees? With the appetite of the cloth merchants, even if the land is not good to buy in the future, they will definitely think of a way to let the farmers switch to cotton, the profit is too high! How many people will we be able to grow food in the future? ”

Old man Guan was a little silent, he knew these things, Susonghang has always been the land of fish and rice, but the same, it is also the land of silk, and recently there has been a rise in cotton weaving and soybean oil extraction, which can be said to be a situation where rice, mulberry, cotton, and beans compete for land with each other.

At the beginning of the country, there was no doubt that rice cultivation was overwhelmingly dominant and remained stable, but in recent years there have been some changes with the arrival of European trading fleets and the gradual development of land in other regions.

Because of the European trade, as a traditional silk production center, the area around Suzhou, Songhang has not only greatly expanded the planting area of mulberry trees, but also more and more people are engaged in silk-related industries, which has greatly squeezed the space for the cultivation of traditional grains such as rice. This situation has been further exacerbated by the recent rapid development of the cotton textile industry, which undoubtedly occupies more arable land than the mulberry trees that can be planted on the edge of the pond.

If it was changed to before, neither cotton nor silk would affect food production too much, after all, it could not be eaten as food, and if it could not grow food, no matter how much money it was, it would have to starve to death. But now it is different from the past, with the development and maturity of the two lakes and the two vast lands, more and more grain production and convenient waterway transportation make it very convenient for the Susonghang area to spend money to buy low-cost grain even if it does not grow grain.

So, with the support of the grain of the two lakes and Guangzhou, Su Songhang got rid of the shackles of grain planting, and the textile industry developed extremely rapidly under the temptation of huge profits from ocean trade.

In fact, there is already such a trend, and anyone who cares can see it.

The same is true in the original history, the Susonghang area has reached the point of ten acres of fields in the middle and late Wanli period, and cotton beans account for nine of them! Except for the food rations they eat, almost no one grows any more food! In the late Ming Dynasty, it had surpassed Gyeonggi to become the largest grain importer in one fell swoop!

That's right! At that time, the main grain producing areas had to purchase a large amount of grain to ensure that there would be no famine!

Because the land here has been largely converted to cash crops, a large number of manpower has abandoned growing grain in favor of more profitable trades, and prosperity and job opportunities have attracted more immigrants to arrive, and the local food can no longer meet local needs.

Yingtianfu and Shuntianfu, the two largest grain consumption areas, are distributed on the Yangtze River-Canal line, which is extremely convenient for the two lakes to transport, and naturally, a large part of the grain exported from the two lakes to the northwest will be cut!

And when the Xiaoice River period arrives in the future, natural disasters and man-made disasters in the northwest region continue, and it is inconvenient to transport grain from the two lakes to the north, coupled with the chaos, it is necessary to add a large number of guards and checkpoint points to the cost of plainly, even if the grain price in the northwest is high, it will not make much money, and after a few more years, most of the savings of ordinary people in the northwest will be emptied, and they cannot afford to buy grain, and naturally no one will transport grain there. Compared with the northwest, the demand is large and stable, and the key is that everyone has a little spare money, and the Susonghang area is the most ideal trading target.

Imagine, if Susonghang did not develop the textile industry to grow grain, there would be no better choice for the grain in the two lakes area than to sell it to the north.

With the grain supplied by the two lakes, even if the northwest during the Xiaoice River period is a little more difficult in the future, it will still be able to take a bite of milk from time to time, and perhaps the peasant army will not be as difficult to exterminate as it was back then. Without the peasant army stabbing in the back of the Ming Dynasty, it's okay to just rely on the Manchu gang to fight a grass valley, and don't even think about entering the Central Plains!

The great development of the cotton textile industry in Suzhou, Songzhou, and Hangzhou has made the local cloth merchants happy, and even the local grain merchants can make a lot of profits as long as they shift their business focus and turn the purchase of export sales into foreign purchases and domestic sales. It's just that the people and finances of the northwest region have suffered

Bankrupt Chongzhen.

After the two chatted about these things, Old Man Guan also roughly figured out the truth, but he patted Guan Kunyu on the shoulder and said:

"Don't think so much about it, look at our side, it's just that the typhoon is blowing like this, how many people have been ruined? If you go on for three or four years in a row and no one can survive anywhere, it's not your fault. ”

Guan Kunyu nodded, feeling a little better, but he still decided to try his best to get sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn and so on, but he asked for peace of mind.

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After coming back from the Shi family, the fourth master ran to the Guan family when he had nothing to do, staring at Guan Kunyu every day to see the progress of the Jenny machine, Guan Kunyu was not afraid of others to see, this kind of thing actually has no secrecy at all, and after it is made, let the master see it at a glance.

To put it bluntly, it's a question of creativity.

According to the books in his library attic, he made a primary version according to the gourd painting scoop, and after Jenny tried it, the fourth master was overjoyed and hurriedly went to offer the treasure.

This time, the fourth master walked for half a month, and then Guan Kunyu received the news and invited him to the banquet. Guan Kunyu, who had been waiting for this day for a long time, naturally did not shirk it, and got into the carriage with the fourth master.

The raging floods of the past have receded at this time, and the messy land has also regained a lot of vitality, and the homeless refugees on the street have not yet left the green buildings in Songjiang City, and they are eager to open their doors to do business and welcome customers.

Although it is inevitable that some cynical defenders will be cynical, but after such a flood and the baptism of high grain prices, the landlord's family has no surplus food, let alone these Qinglou girls, who will starve to death if they don't open the door to do some business?

After entering the Qinglou and entering the private room, Guan Kunyu saw today's main man, but unfortunately it was different from what he imagined, the person sitting in front of him was not a successful person who was not angry and arrogant, but a young man in white who was a few years older than himself!

At this moment, there are five warblers beside the young man in white and Yanyan at his disposal, obviously, this young man in white is a middle and old man.

Guan Kunyu couldn't help sighing, this kid doesn't play cards according to the rules! Say okay to negotiate you change to dog abuse!? Beware of overindulgence and untimely death!