Chapter 203: Inventing the Sweater

In the autumn of the second year of the Heavenly Period, the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia successfully completed the first official large-scale trade, and this huge scale of official trade is obviously difficult to erase from the history books. Later historians said that this trade laid a solid foundation for Mongolia's inclusion in the administrative territory of the Ming Dynasty.

This trade also meant that the Ming Dynasty no longer imposed a trade blockade on Mongolia, but instead dragged the Mongols into the quagmire of the commodity economy. And with the abundance of substances, the will of the Mongol nobility was corrupted. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also successfully obtained a large number of horses, cattle and sheep from the Mongols through trade, as well as various raw materials from the grasslands.

The Mongols also obtained military equipment from the Ming Dynasty, which made the Mongols move towards a new heyday in cold weapon militarily. However, the era of cold weapons has gone far under the development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty.

A large number of horses, even more than 60,000 war horses, those horses can be used as war horses. And those middle horses can barely be used as war horses.

Obviously, it doesn't matter, the imperial court can't digest it, and it can be sold to the civilian market.

At this time, it was the royal capital, and there was a great commercial demand for horses. First of all, the transportation development of Beizhili, those heavy carriages need a lot of horses to pull. In addition, mining, metallurgy and other production activities also require a lot of animal power. Horses are even more needed at the inn.

In addition, there is also a great demand for horses from wealthy private households.

Soon, these 150,000 'imported horses' will enter the market circulation. After the military picked 50,000 horses, most of the other 100,000 horses were absorbed by the royal capital, with only 30,000 dismounted and 1,000 put on the horse. and 2,000 horses were driven to the provinces of Daming for distribution.

These are on the horse for the price. It soared directly to 300 yuan. The price of the launch soared to 150 yuan.

There are very few good horses in the Ming Dynasty, and at this time the border trade is monopolized by royal capital, and most of the good horses are bought by the Central Army, and there are not many good horses that can enter the market circulation, and it is very normal for prices to soar, and they still love to buy or not.

As for those BMW-level, the number is even rarer. This time, the Mongols sold less than 100 horses. Zhu Youxiao was overjoyed when he learned that the trade was successful, and at the same time kept most of the BMWs.

These BMWs serve as a scarce resource. Naturally, it was to stay and be used to reward meritorious military generals. However, Zhu Youxiao still kept 20 BMW horses and put them on the market in batches for auction.

The higher the price, the better, so that when the reward is given, it will appear powerful.

As an emperor, at this time when interest groups were just formed, it was okay to reward money. Because many of these people who were recruited were not rich before. But when they get rich, it is not enough to reward them with money alone, and at this time they must reward them with some monopoly resources that the royal family can grasp.

These horses are a great resource.

"Well, can the animals handle it?" Zhu Youxiao asked Yang Guorui this day. Yang Guorui replied: "Those cattle, sheep and livestock have been rushed to various places in Beizhili for slaughtering and processing. With the purchasing power of the people of Beizhili at present. It is not a big problem to digest these cattle, sheep and livestock. Moreover, it can be processed into various meat products and sold to various provinces, especially by sea, which is now more convenient and can be marketed to the south. ”

"There are also those leather goods and wool, which are processed into various fur clothes, leather goods, blankets, woolen and other products in Zhangjiakou. Soon, we will have a large industry that can develop rapidly. Yang Guorui reported that at this time, the Daming woolen process was mostly woolen woolen, and the imitation technology actually existed, but there was no development.

Obviously, the north is not a developed area for the textile industry, and most of the raw materials such as wool, camel hair, and cow hair are produced in the north, so there are not so many industry talents.

However, with the intervention of royal capital, various factories have now begun to develop various production technologies.

"I came up with a woolen product, which is to process the wool into velvet thread, and then knit it into sweaters, and Aiqing can let the following factories try it." Zhu You said to Yang Guorui.

"Sweater?" Yang Guorui was stunned for a moment, and then bowed down and said, "The minister obeys the order." ”

As an employee, more often than not, it is necessary to grasp the management of details, so as to be a good employee. The general direction of development should be managed by the boss, and employees do not need to worry about it. Yang Guorui understands this very well, but the emperor often has good ideas for details, and Yang Guorui is getting used to this more and more.

Chinese culture, the Taoist theory of yin and yang and the five elements, as well as the Zhouyi Bagua, can simplify complex things into a very simple one. Therefore, those literate readers like to grasp the general direction, but they don't pay much attention to the details, which is not only a cultural advantage, but also a defect.

Zhu Youxiao's ability to open up today's situation has a lot to do with paying attention to details.

The research and development of wool spinning technology, as well as the research and development of velvet thread, were quickly arranged.

Velvet is also wool, which is something that has only appeared in modern times. Obviously, it is relatively simple to process all kinds of wool into velvet, and the difference is only in the level of production efficiency. Knitting technology has a long history in China, and knitwear was unearthed in the Spring and Autumn Period. It's just that people don't use velvet, but other materials.

So the sweater was made in less than a month.

Processed wool is obviously the easiest thing, as long as the wool is processed into threads, there is really no technical difficulty.

There are also techniques in knitting, but more patterns are still being explored by the organization. To put it bluntly, it's knitting sweaters!

Soon two months later, the first sweater store appeared in Beizhili.

Sweater shops can tailor sweaters, sell all kinds of yarns, and teach women how to knit sweaters. Woolen yarn began to slowly become popular in Beizhili and began to spread to other provinces.

The girls in the boudoir also have one more project when they are popular, that is, knitting sweaters.

At the same time, in the winter of this year, a large number of fur clothes, leather goods, and various grassland commodities also appeared in Beizhili. The Royal Trading Company, by monopolizing trade with the Mongols, made a lot of money during the winter of that year. Especially in Beizhili in the winter of this year, the purchasing power of the people has obviously increased again. and the advent of wool and sweaters, which gradually turned wool imitations into a mass commodity, while also reducing some of the demand for cotton.

Regardless of the simple yarn, woolen products became a popular commodity, and the impact on the Mongols was obviously huge. The Ming Dynasty's strong demand for wool, camel hair, and yak hair apparently hastened the move into the cities that dragged the Mongols into the quagmire of a commoditized economy. (To be continued......)

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