The fourth master smiled and narrowed his eyes: "You can't say that, if you want to expand the cultivation of cotton, you don't necessarily have to use this clumsy means this year, right?" Growing cotton is more profitable than growing rice, and farmers will be willing to switch to cotton if they are persuaded by good students! The so-called harmony makes money, do you have to use such a strong means to solve the problem!? ”

Guan Kunyu stared at the fourth master with a surprised expression, and seeing that the other party's expression did not seem to be fake, he said incredulously: "Fourth master, you are not serious, are you!?" You...... It seems that he is not in charge of cotton procurement on weekdays, right? ”

The fourth master raised his eyebrows: "Indeed, but so what, am I still wrong!?" ”

Guan Kunyu smiled and spread his hands: "Fourth master, this is admitting that I guessed right?" I saw that your family was indeed a cloth merchant. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"You're lying to me!?"

"No, no, no, it's just in passing. Actually, I really think that the fourth master is thinking about things too simply. ”

"Is there anything wrong with this!? Not to mention that under the current cotton price, at least twice as much as rice is charged per mu, even if the price drops in the future, cotton planting is still more cost-effective than rice! What reason do they have not to grow cotton!? ”

"There are many reasons, such as the fact that I have grown rice all my life, and I can't grow cotton. Another example is that their own field is a good paddy field, and it is a pity to grow cotton. Another example is that when rice was planted in the past, the land had to be reorganized to plant cotton, which was troublesome. Or maybe it's raining today, don't plant; Tomorrow the old sow will give birth to a baby, and she will not plant; The day after tomorrow, the old king of the neighboring village married his daughter-in-law, but he still didn't plant! ”

The fourth master was dumbfounded when he heard this, and it took a long time for a sentence to come out: "Are you joking!?" How could someone say such an inexplicable excuse!? Isn't there anyone who wants to make money!? ”

Guan Kunyu said helplessly: "Although the reasons I said later are exaggerated, it is a pity that there will indeed be farmers who are interested in profitable cotton, but it is absolutely impossible to get a large number of farmers to switch to cotton in a short period of time!" They are too conservative to fear loss, and they really can't afford to lose, so if it weren't for the fact that most of the people around them were growing cotton and making money, they would probably just wait and see or even refuse.

And now the cloth merchants need time! What is needed is a fast, large-scale replanting of cotton, otherwise it will be too late in time!

I think you must have chosen the soft method of the fourth master at the beginning, but the result must have been unsatisfactory, otherwise there would have been no previous suppression of food prices. ”

Although it does sound a little incredible, why most farmers would resist the obvious matter of making money.

But in fact, agriculture was an industry that was slow to respond to new varieties, and the family property did not allow farmers to take risks during this period, so resistance was inevitable.

I want to ...... Well...... For now, I want to ......

Why did the famous sheep cannibalism movement in Britain happen? Isn't the reason that the traditional British farmers were unwilling to accept the more lucrative sheep farming business, and as a result, the capitalists were forced to go shirtless and play hard?

And Prussia, due to the population boom, the food harvest failed, and there was a famine, what to do? The solution we came up with is not to grow wheat, let's switch to high-yield potatoes! Wouldn't it be nice to change the staple food to potatoes and be full!?

Well, it stands to reason that everyone is hungry under ******, and the promotion of potatoes as a high-yield crop should be very popular, but the ideal is the ideal after all, in fact, no matter how hard the persuasion is, the Prussian peasants just don't buy it! The reason is that if you grow potatoes, you can't make bread!? Everyone is used to eating bread, but they are not used to eating potatoes, so they must have a bad review!

In the end, Prussia had to send in the army, put guns directly to the heads of the peasants, and supervise them to shovel the wheat from the fields and plant potatoes!

It's so violent!

Does the fourth master's method work? Absolutely!

But too slow! God knows how many years it will take to infiltrate the peasants and turn the corner.

But now that the cloth merchants have burned their butts, they have no time to wait, and they are reluctant to lose those profits because of the high price of cotton!

So they just came straight to the hard! Just like the sheep cannibalism movement in Britain back then, anything that hinders Lao Tzu from making money will be kicked out directly! With their background as cloth merchants, as long as they can negotiate and unite, they are really not afraid of the backlash of the small landlords at the bottom.

The fourth master said helplessly: "Okay, okay, even if I believe your fallacies, but so what? Guan Gongzi, what do you really want from these? ”

Guan Kunyu said with a smile: "I just want the fourth master to let our Guan family go, it is impossible to satisfy the appetite of your master and his allies in just one year, I am afraid that the Songjiang area will not be peaceful in the next few years, if it is really like the fourth master, you said before, let our family go to take over the work of the Shi family...... The Guan family's small arms and legs have to be tossed and scattered in a few clicks. ”

"Yo, so I wronged you?"

Guan Kunyu smiled: "Grievances naturally can't be talked about." Our family is like a pearl, a pearl is a good thing, but if you take it to sharpen the knife, won't it be a waste? ”

"Heh, it seems that Guan Gongzi thinks very highly of himself, okay, then I'll listen to your thoughts, since you don't want to sharpen your knife, what do you want to do?"

Guan Kunyu pondered for a moment, his face quite hesitant.

Although he had already decided to do this, he still couldn't help but waver a little at this moment. Some of the butterfly effects brought by the traverser are unpredictable, but some are more or less predictable.

What Guan Kunyu is going to throw out now is something that can be predicted.

Doing so can certainly win over the cloth merchants, but at the same time, it will also cause huge negative effects! Of course, this negative effect does not affect him Guan Kunyu.

Guan Kunyu sighed and asked, "Fourth Master, what do you say you need for weaving?" ”

"Cotton, of course!"

"But cotton can't be turned directly into cloth, you have to spin it first, right?"

The fourth master glanced at Guan Kunyu and didn't speak, he really felt that there was no need to open his mouth for this kind of question.

"Okay, I want to ask the fourth master, in the future, there will be more cotton, what are you going to do with this cotton? Do you add a spinning machine by hand? ”

"That's nature, does Guan Gongzi still know what kind of spell he can directly turn cotton into cotton cloth?" The fourth master smiled, "If Guan Gongzi really has such ability, I will definitely report to the master and recommend you to the emperor to be a national teacher." ”

"I don't know how to spell, but I have a new machine that can spin sixteen spindles at once! I don't know if with this, can our Guan family be regarded as the pearl of your master? ”