Lu Chengqi smiled and said: "Li Qing, let me ask you, is this persuasion of agriculture and mulberry reconciliation?" As the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, should he persuade the nongsang? ”

When Li Jie heard this, he said with a simple face: "Back to Your Majesty, I will encourage and supervise farming and silkworm raising. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"Then what should you do when you raise silkworms?" Lu Chengqi then asked.

"It's weaving." Li Jie said assumedly.

Lu Chengqi smiled, Li Jie, this person is too honest, he follows what others say, such a subordinate is hard to find! Immediately said: "After weaving, isn't it for the cold?" I know that Dashun is based on agriculture, and naturally we cannot forget the fundamentals. But I found that not all of my people could afford to wear silk and satin, so how should I be? ”

Li Jie was stunned, he hadn't thought about this problem. His family is solid, and there is no risk of shortage of clothes, so naturally he can't feel the pain of a leaky house and unclothed clothes. Li Jie is an honest man, and he thinks hard about this question, but there is no answer. He knew that it would be difficult to keep out the cold with only a sackcloth jacket. In the past few decades, the temperature has become colder and colder year by year, although the imperial court has not received reports of people freezing to death, but Li Jie has also heard of this kind of thing. Now that he is a secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Li Jie didn't expect this problem to fall on his head, and he forgot for a while that he was meeting the saint in person.

Lu Chengqi saw that Li Jie had no answer for a long time, and said with a smile: "I don't know Li Qing, have you heard of kapok?" ”

Li Jie, who was erudite and knowledgeable, immediately understood what Lu Chengqi meant, and said happily: "What does Your Majesty mean by using kapok to make clothes?" ”

Lu Chengqi laughed and said, "Li Qing, you finally understand." Yes, I do mean that. If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't find cotton, I didn't want to use this kapok. ”

Li Jie was stunned and asked, "What is this cotton?" ”

Lu Chengqi didn't know how to describe it, so he had to draw a plausible painting. After Li Jie saw it, he suddenly exclaimed: "Your Majesty, isn't this Bai Diezi!" "Li Jie is erudite and talented, and he is also involved in exotic flowers and plants, and he also happened to know this cotton. In fact, Lu Chengqi didn't draw it like it, but he drew a rough picture, and by describing its shape, Li Jie could remember it.

Lu Chengqi was also very surprised, and said: "Li Qing also knows cotton? ”

"The minister once read a book that described it like this. This is the book called this thing white stacks, the book said 'grass, really like a cocoon, the cocoon silk like fine silk', but the minister did not know that this thing is the cotton that His Majesty said. ”

Lu Chengqi laughed and said: "I thought I couldn't find cotton, and I wanted to use kapok instead, but now it seems that I don't need it." Li Qing, do you know where this cotton is produced? I want to plant it on a large scale, so that my people will not be afraid of the cold. ”

Li Jie carefully recalled it and said: "The book says that cotton is produced in the Western Regions, and it is owned by the Uighurs. However, the minister has also heard of it, and there are also such things in central Yunnan, Guangnan West Road and other places. Lu Chengqi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, yes, Xinjiang does produce cotton, but the Uighurs don't seem to have a good relationship with Dashun, and it is unknown whether they can get it. But there is cotton in Yunnan and Guangxi, which Lu Chengqi did not expect.

In fact, as early as the Qin and Han dynasties, a kind of cotton called Asian cotton has been introduced from India to Yunnan and other places. This cotton, also known as coarse lint cotton, does not yield much. But it is better to have strong adaptability, strong disease resistance, good elasticity, and a good effect on cold protection. Before I found high-yield long-staple cotton, it was good to have this kind of coarse staple cotton.

Lu Chengqi was naturally very happy, and immediately ordered: "Li Qing, no matter how much it costs, you must find this cotton!" Li Jie gladly received the decree, and he also intended to make some merits, since there is a holy decree, why not?

After Li Jie's order left, Lu Chengqi thought that the promotion of cotton was not easy. It is now the period of the Xiaoice River, it is too late to grow food, where can I care about growing cotton? Chinese farmers have never believed in any good seeds, and only when they saw with their own eyes that other people's millet was good, they borrowed some seeds from others to plant. So after so many years, China's grain has not changed, about 200 catties of grain per acre.

This stubbornness is due to the cautious and cautious character of the Chinese peasants. Their family's lives were on these few acres of thin land, and if they hastily changed their seeds, and if there was no harvest, they should drink the northwest wind. This is still the case for cereals, let alone cotton? I can't eat this thing, and I don't know how to use it, so how can I make the peasants believe that this kind of thing can be exchanged for money?

"What a headache!" Lu Chengqi couldn't help but sigh, and said in his heart: "If it really doesn't work, I have to spend money and silver in the Huangzhuang first, buy some thin fields, and try to plant them." Oh, and the looms, too...... Having cotton is only the first step, and if I knew that I could be reborn, I would have studied history, physics, and chemistry seriously, and now I have a big head......"

When the book is used, Lu Chengqi can be regarded as experiencing this embarrassment, as a reborn person, he understands everything, but he is not proficient in anything. Nothing else can be done except to grasp a general direction. Lu Chengqi didn't know that there was a lot of knowledge, and what he often lacked was a kick in the door. What great things and ordinary inventions lack is a flash of the spirit.

Lu Chengqi inadvertently changed the trend of history. Although history has changed, with the emergence of Lu Chengqi, there will be more and more changes. After all, Lu Chengqi knows the process of human history, and with him, China's development is at least much faster than that of the official history. In the official history, China took many detours, and when the Song Dynasty was closest to capitalism, it was destroyed by Jin; After the Southern Song Dynasty reached its peak, it was destroyed by the Mongols because of its inability to follow-up; At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when capitalism sprouted, it was suddenly wiped out by the sudden Xiaoice River, the displaced people and the Manchurians. At this point, the Chinese nation began to lag behind the world. Even before Lu Chengqi was reborn, China still failed to catch up.

Now, with Lu Chengqi from later generations, the insight he has that transcends the millennium of this era is the most valuable wealth!

"Forget it, I don't want to. This problem will be solved by Shen Kuo and Su Song, there is no reason why Huang Daopo can invent the pedal three-spindle spinning wheel, these scientists can't invent it! Professional things, let's leave it to professionals to do......" Lu Chengqi was relieved after he stopped worrying about himself. Don't fight your shortcomings, that's the wise thing to do. It's like knowing that your level of ancient literature is limited, so don't think about arguing with those imperial envoys who are full of poetry and books. They will easily defeat you in the most familiar way, and then force you not to do what they want, as if Dashun is going to destroy the dynasty.

At this moment, not only Lu Chengqi figured it out, but even Lu Chenhuan figured it out. He was also depressed before, but this time he led the army, and he suddenly found that he didn't seem to know these forbidden troops. Even his own soldiers were transferred to train for a long time. Now that they are on the march, the behavior of these pro-soldiers is a little uncertain even to Lu Chenhuan. Not to mention the middle and low-level officers below, such as Captain Rong, Captain Rong, Captain Renyong, Lieutenant Renyong, Captain Yuwu, Deputy Lieutenant of Yuwu, Captain Xuanjie, Deputy Lieutenant Xuanjie, etc., it seems that he does not need to arrange it, all the marches, stationing, logistics, sending scouts and other matters are done in an orderly manner, which makes the original high-spirited Lu Chenhuan depressed.

However, he finally figured it out, this time he came out to seek promotion capital, what do you care about this? If you do well, I'm afraid you will have to be a general of the First Guard, and then you will be awarded the rank of lieutenant of the light car, then you will really glorify your ancestors and envy others.

After Lu Chenhuan figured it out, he was also happy to be the shopkeeper and let his subordinates do things. He rode on a tall horse, happily tending to his horse's lance and bow and arrows, waiting for the day when he would go to battle. (To be continued.) )