Zhenghe three years is a year of large-scale planting of cotton in Haizhou and Xuzhou, during this year, the subsidized farmers in the two states planted more than 300,000 acres of cotton, from July to October, a total of 60 million catties of seed cotton were picked, and there were as many as 20 million catties of lint after the seeds were removed!

Under the processing of the new loom, two catties of lint can be woven into one zhang, that is to say, the cotton harvested in the first year, if all woven into cloth, can reach 10 million zhang, which is equivalent to one million pieces of cloth, and the market price is 600,000 guan.

You must know that last year in the preparation of the cotton Chamber of Commerce, in addition to the cost of buying machinery, a total of more than 600,000 yuan, a year to repay the principal, such a deal, so that the purchase of monopoly rights at that time everyone is excited, which means that even if not to expand the scale, they will be net in the future, although to deduct some labor and raw material costs, but half of the income is always there.

And, seeing that this industry is so profitable, how can it not expand reproduction? Those powerful families are now doing two things, one is to try their best to promote cotton cloth and strive to make the market bigger; The second is to let more states start to promote cotton planting through their own influence.

Of course, there is no subsidy in these states, and the peasants grow cotton, sell the cotton and then buy grain, anyway, the price of cotton cloth is also rising along with the price of cotton, and the first batch of farmers who planted cotton get several times the harvest from the fields than they usually grow grain.

The master left with his front foot, and a figure appeared beside Ah Lian behind him.

"Chen Junshi!" Mercy stood up and saluted.

"I've said it many times, and I am called Uncle here." The man known as Chen Junshi waved his hand lightly and said softly: "You have worked hard. ”

"It's not hard, compared to Pengcheng, it's a blessing here." Ah Lian whispered.

"Your sweater knitting skills have spread to the south, and the Holy Father's side is recruiting weaver girls to specialize in knitting sweaters...... It's funny to say that the wool was obtained from the Beiyu through Rongcheng, and then the wool was spun into wool and woven into sweaters, so as to raise military funds for the Holy Religion, which was entrusted to the blessings of the Great Song Dynasty and Zhou Quan's house. ”

Zhou Quan didn't take the skill of knitting sweaters seriously, he just mentioned the master, and then the master pondered it again, and he could really knit a sweater similar to that of later generations. After Ah Lian learned, she divided the flat needle, flower needle, and ingots needle, and then passed on this weaving method to the Manichaeans and brought it back to the south, which became a way for Manichaeism to collect money.

Seeing that Ah Lian's expression was a little strange, Chen Junshi knew that she was thinking about that Zhou Quan again.

"Zhou Quan has a lot of old grudges with my Holy Sect, but now his biggest trouble is not us, but the Liangshan thief. Some time ago, the Liangshan thieves suddenly passed through the state, and the government only dared to close the city and defend themselves along the way, so the Liangshan thieves broke through to Mizhou and seized the sea ship and went to sea. At that time, I thought that they would attack Haizhou, after all, Haizhou also has millions of catties of cotton...... I never thought that they disappeared into the sea, there is no news so far, but at this time, Zhou Quan also went to sea, if they met at sea, it would be good. Chen Junshi laughed.

Ah Lian's heart jumped suddenly, and suddenly, he felt that the words of the military advisor were a little disgusting.

If that young man Lang Jun, who is outstanding, has amazing skills, and is arrogant, really disappears into the sea, should she be happy or ...... What about melancholy?

She couldn't help but look towards the east, it is said that Zhou Quan is on the far sea in the east.

When she looked, Zhou Quan was no longer at sea.

He stepped on the gunwale, stepped on the land of Tamna, and then took a deep breath.

"Master Lin, after you go back this time, you won't go to sea, specialize in flying clippers, and within a year, I will see flying clippers!"

Because he stayed at sea for several days, Zhou Quan was a little dizzy after coming ashore, he endured it for a while, and then said to Lin Chuanzhong.

"The villain already has some ideas, thanks to the mention of the Yanei, the villain will definitely live up to expectations."

If there is a flying clipper, the time of sea voyage will be greatly shortened, even if it is far inferior to a steam ship, but the steam engine will not be able to be made in at least three or five years, and Zhou Quan will not count on it for the time being.

Between the two looking at each other, a man was brought to them.

"Yanei, this person is a Mizhou maritime merchant, surnamed Li, named Qing, and the big ships we saw just now were brought by him." Pingxin with Li Qinglai shouted from afar.

Li Qing came to Zhou Quan, grinned, and then bowed down and said, "The villain has seen Yanei!" ”

"Boss Li has worked hard." Zhou Quan said lightly: "You bring these many ships...... It's a coincidence. ”

They are talking here, and Lu Jinyi can see it clearly.

They stood on a roof, carefully covering their figures, so that they were not afraid of being discovered by Zhou Quan. At first, when they saw Li Qing being stopped, their hearts were entangled, but when they saw the person who stopped Li Qing and brought him to Zhou Quan, everyone began to clench their fists.

Zhou Quan's subordinates can fight well, Lu Jinyi is deeply aware of it, even those who look half-old, as long as there are twenty or thirty people in formation, the same number of adults or even twice as many as them, they can't break their array if they are idle.

Therefore, if Zhou Quan can be lured out and divided between him and his men, then the casualties can be reduced as much as possible, and Zhou Quan's subordinates can also avoid the occurrence of Zhou Quan's subordinates escorting him to escape in a desperate battle.

Everything depends on Li Qing.

Because they were a little far apart, they couldn't hear the conversation between Li Qing and Zhou Quan, and they only felt that Zhou Quan seemed to be very cold to Li Qing at first, but later, the two talked and laughed and became very familiar with each other.

And Li Qing also pointed his fingers from time to time, as if he was gesturing something.

Gao Hun muttered and scolded: "Thief bird, waiting for people to be annoyed, and I don't know what they are talking about!" ”

"Li Qing is saying that the native king of Tamna did not dare to slack off when he saw that we were outstanding, and temporarily lent this port to us, and they regarded Zhou Quan as our accomplice, so they did not send anyone to stop it." A faint voice sounded next to him.

But it's Yan Xiaoyi.

Gao Hun said in surprise: "Can you hear what they say?" ”

"Lip Talk." Yan Xiaoyi stared over there, intently speaking.

Gao Hun was greatly impressed and patted Yan Xiaoyi's shoulder: "I'm convinced, I didn't expect you to have such skills." Li Qing is not bad, he said this, it should be able to dispel Zhou Quan's suspicions, right? ”

"How can it be so easy, Zhou Quan is asking him again, why do you take so many people and boats to the sea, Li Qing said that he wants to go to Goryeo and Japan at the same time, Zhou Quan is asking Goryeo and Japan what specialties they have, and what are the customs...... This guy clearly didn't believe what Li Qing said, he was still tempting, but pretending to be trusting! ”

When Yan Xiaoyi said this, he remembered that he had fought with Zhou Quan, in terms of fighting alone, Zhou Quan was not as good as him, but the ability to hide the blade in his sleeve was too high, which made Xiaoyi suffer a big loss.

"How did Li Qing explain it?"

This time it was Lu Jinyi who asked, although this Xiao Yi is his righteous son and apprentice, but in addition to his martial arts are not as good as him, the rest of his talents are above him.

"Li Qing's answer is like a fluent, he was originally a Mizhou maritime merchant, he has been to Japan and Goryeo, it is not surprising that he can answer, but Zhou Quan's house, but he may not trust this, I expect Zhou Quan will continue to inquire."

Yan Xiaoyi guessed correctly.

Zhou Quan was not in a hurry to leave the dock, and maintained the posture that he could jump on the boat at any time, but he found another thing.

This is a bamboo tube, but it seems to be wearing something at the mouth of the tube, and then Zhou Quan raised the bamboo tube, put his eyes together, and looked towards the shore.

Telescope.

Since the glass has been made, how could Zhou Quan not build a telescope.

It's just that the current telescope is still very simple, and he can't make steel pipes, not even qualified copper pipes, so he can only use bamboo tubes to make do.

Holding a telescope and looking around, especially looking in the direction where Lu Jinyi and the others were for a while.

At the same time as he raised the binoculars, Lu Jinyi's face changed slightly, and his years of licking blood made him feel alarmed, and he immediately ordered: "Hide, no one is allowed to stick out their heads, close the windows!" ”

Although I don't know what Zhou Quan is holding in his hand, since he looks here, it will not be a good thing. They just peeked out through the crack in the window and saw Zhou Quan holding the same position for a while before retracting the binoculars.

He was talking to Li Qing again, asking Li Qing if Japan and Goryeo had so many goods, and what things he was transporting to these two countries to sell. Li Qing said that he had recently heard that copper was produced in Japan, so he was preparing to send more ships and wanted to bring more copper back to China, and as for Goryeo, he heard that Haizhou needed giant trees, and he wanted to go to Goryeo to tow giant trees to Haizhou shipyard......"

"Deal with it well, Japan's copper, Haizhou Shipyard needs giant wood, both of these are Zhou Quan's own revelations, presumably he won't slap himself!" Yu Yang stroked his palms and smiled: "Brother, it's a big deal!" ”

Sure enough, after hearing Li Qing's response, Zhou Quan showed a look of joy, different from Fang Cai's perfunctory response, the current joy is real happiness. He smiled and arched his hand to Li Qing: "In this way, Li Shipowner is still the big customer of our Haizhou Shipyard, which is really disrespectful, disrespectful." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare to say this in front of Zhou Yanei."

"If you can do it, if you can do it, you can do it, and the owner of Li Shipowner will make a great contribution to Haizhou!"

The atmosphere between the two of them finally really blended up, and Li Qing took the opportunity to say: "Yanai is here to Tanluo, I don't know what is going on, the villain is willing to work for Yanei!" ”

Zhou Quan's expression moved slightly, and then he smiled: "If I want to meet the earth king of Tamna, it is said that they call him the Star Lord, I don't know if it is okay?" ”

Li Qing said with a smile: "This is a trivial matter, the villain will let him come to meet Yanei!" However, since this person is not in the harbor now, it may take some time, and the Yanai has been tired at sea for a long time, if he does not give up, please at least rest for a while in the place where he rests? ”

Zhou Quan hesitated slightly, nodded, and followed Li Qing forward. Seeing this scene, without waiting for Xiao Yi to explain, suppressed cheers sounded around Lu Jinyi.

Even Lu Jinyi himself couldn't help but smile.

But his smile suddenly froze, because when he saw that Li Qing was going to lead Zhou Quan here, something happened again.

Two of those Japanese actually appeared on Zhou Quan's way forward! (To be continued.) )