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White stacked cloth, that is, cotton cloth, in the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the price was still very expensive, such as the Middle Tang Dynasty, Jia Chang in Chang'an, "between the city, see the sale of white shirts and white stacked cloth, the line is adjacent to the kitchen." When someone is sick, he uses a piece of silk cloth, and he does not refrain from holding a heavy price, so he replaces him with a head."

It can be seen that the "white cloth" was very precious at that time, so that "the price is not restrained".

After entering the Song Dynasty, the Central Plains cotton is still scarce and precious, which can be reflected from the tributes of the surrounding ethnic groups and foreign countries, the northwest cotton tribute land, mainly in the Gaochang (Turpan) area, the Song Dynasty envoy Wang Yande was ordered by the emperor to send an envoy to the Western Regions, from the Taiping Xingguo six years (981) to the west, the first year of Yongxi (984) returned to Beijing, which was seen along the way, but only Gaochang has a "white stack".

After the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, it has not been able to control Hexi, and the contact with the Western Regions is intermittent, after Li Yuanhao captured the Hexi Corridor during the Renzong period, the transportation is even more difficult, even the wine recipe has been lost, and the cotton species is even more difficult to introduce from the Western Regions, so there is basically no cotton cultivation in the Central Plains.

However, the Western Regions could not be introduced, but India's cotton was introduced to Liangguang, Hainan Island, Fujian and other places through Dali and Jiaozhi. Now there are a lot of people planting in these places, just because there are no suitable processing tools, so that the processing cost of cotton is very high, just to remove the cotton boy is very difficult, and it is time-consuming and laborious to tear it by hand.

However, Hainan Island has always been regarded as a daunting path, and the exile of officials to Hainan Island is regarded as a punishment second only to the death penalty, and no one knows that the Li women on the island have mastered a cotton spinning technique that is enough to warm the whole world.

It was not until the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty that Huang Daopo, who escaped from marriage, ran to Hainan Island and learned cotton spinning technology from Li women, and then Songjiang cotton cloth was born. The feat of "clothing is the world".

Yes, it is the dexterous hands of the Li women on Hainan Island. warmed the whole world.

In his previous life, Yang Yi had seen the cotton bow used to beat the quilt, but he had never seen a churning car or a spinning cotton wheel. These things have long since retired from the stage of history in later generations, and few people know about them.

So I had to let Han Bier send people to Hainan Island to learn, now that Guangnan is developing, the Yang family has a large number of properties in Qinzhou and Guangzhou, it is not difficult to send people to the island to learn cotton spinning technology, Li women refuse to teach, then use money to smash, pull half a boat of silver, I don't believe that no one wants to teach.

After Han Bi'er sent a letter to Fang Nan. Soon returned to the Grange, what Yang Yi did seemed to be extremely boring, fooling around, but the shrewd Han Bier vaguely guessed that things were not so simple;

Yang Yi took Qing Niang out to play, and the invention of the mulberry leaf picker seemed to be a coincidence, but coupled with the cotton spinning technology, Han Bier immediately smelled an unusual smell.

What Yang Yi wants to do may not be as simple as adding a financial path to the Yang family, these speculations are put in his heart. made Han Bier uncomfortable and panicked.

Qing Niang felt ashamed, last night Yang Yi did let her cover all her clothes in order to prevent her from freezing, and the little girl was moved to tears a lot. Today, he is as well-behaved as a pet cat, taking care of him everywhere.

Yang Yi was wrapped in two layers of mink fur, and he was almost sweating from the heat. Qing Niang just didn't let him open it, and the snowflakes outside the door fell on the vineyard. Silent winter is coming.

Qing Niang sat in front of the piano table, in the golden toad next to the piano table. Cigarette smoke wafted out, making her beautiful face a little hazy, after the piano drill guidance, Qing Niang's piano skills have improved a lot, the sound of the piano is sparse and faint, like the snow falling in the sky.

When Han Bi'er entered the house, Yang Yi was sitting under the Xuan window, quietly looking at the snow outside the window, listening to the sound of Qing Niang's piano, she had to temporarily press the doubt in her heart, and motioned to the waiting maid in the Xuan Hall to move the copper furnace to Yang Yi's side, and then sat down to help him warm the wine in person.

Yang Yi seemed to have expected her to come back again, and he was not surprised to see her at all. took a sip of her warm wine, and said softly, "Is there anything you want to ask?" ”

"Yes, but the slave really doesn't know where to start, but I vaguely feel that the master is eyeing the silkworm breeding and cotton spinning, but I am afraid that he has other plans, can the master have any ideas to talk to the slave, and the slave can make some arrangements in advance."

"Hehe, it's worthy of a vixen, come, let's have a drink first."

Han Bi'er suddenly mentioned in her heart, sure enough, she guessed correctly, and since Yang Yi was eyeing these two things, this matter was definitely not trivial, she briskly poured herself a glass of wine, Yang Yi touched her lightly, and did not forget to take a picture of Qingniang who was caressing, and then drank it all.

The invention of the Jenny loom led to the first industrial revolution. This matter is known to the future generations, and Yang Yi naturally understands it in his heart.

Now that he invented the mulberry leaf picker, and then promoted Guangxi, Annan and other places to vigorously develop the mulberry sericulture, the silk output of the Great Song Dynasty will definitely increase exponentially;

On the other hand, the emergence of these tools such as churning and cotton bows will also greatly reduce the processing cost of cotton, as long as it is promoted through the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, the rise of the cotton industry in the Great Song Dynasty has become a foregone conclusion.

Silk and cotton cloth, along with traditional tea and porcelain, opened the way for these few things, and the continuous plundering of overseas wealth by sea was enough to allow the Great Song Dynasty to complete the capital accumulation of an industrial revolution, even without bloody means.

Capital is like a giant beast, its power has accumulated to a certain extent, and it will inevitably find its own way out.

In order to pursue greater profits, capitalists will try by all means to innovate their own production technology, and technological innovation will reduce production costs and increase output, which will inevitably lead to the expansion of the market, otherwise it will be impossible to survive.

Yang Yi felt that he didn't have to think about anything else now, it was enough to guide Da Song to complete the basic capital accumulation first.

The greedy nature of capital itself makes it inevitable that when it grows stronger, it will cause changes internally and expand externally.

After he finished drinking, he whispered to Han Bi'er: "I plan to use the strength of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce to vigorously promote the mulberry sericulture in Quang Nam and Annam, and we will provide grafted mulberry seedlings and advanced sericulture technology, hand them over to the local people to plant and raise, and after signing a contract with the sericulture households, we can even provide a start-up capital to the sericulture farmers." After they produce silkworm cocoons, we will purchase them at a unified price and process them uniformly. This can greatly reduce the processing cost of silk after obtaining the finished product. Let's dump overseas through the ports of Guangzhou and Qinzhou. ”

Han Bi'er listened to his idea, her pupils dilated unconsciously, all along, Yang Yi's mind was on the court, and he rarely cared about the family's industry, but now he didn't make a move, and he was shocked when he made a move;

This kind of method of providing farmers with capital and technology, and then purchasing the output at a guaranteed price is very tempting. It is good for both businesses and farmers;

Merchants don't have to worry about the source of raw materials, and centralized processing can greatly reduce costs;

Farmers don't have to worry about the loss caused by price fluctuations, the price has already been set, and you can earn as much as you raise.

If it is promoted in this form, as long as the funds are sufficient, the slopes of Quang Nam and Annam can be covered with mulberry trees within two or three years.

In terms of funds, the entire Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce adds up. The capital is definitely more than 100 million yuan, and the Yang family still has two silver skulls in Japan that have not been mined, so funds are not a problem at all.

and the power in Yang Yi's hands to protect him, avoiding interference from the official. So............... Thinking of the huge prospect, Han Bi'er's hand holding the cup turned a little white;

Judging from various measures, Yang Yi does not seem to be running an industry at all. It's not like you're running a chamber of commerce's business, it's more like you're running a country.

Yang Yi continued: "Once I learned cotton spinning technology from Qiongzhou. Similarly, a cotton spinning trading company was established, and cotton promotion should also be carried out in this way. At that time, I will have some officials from the DPRK and China join in so that the trading company can grow faster. ”

Regarding the point of attracting officials from the DPRK and China to join the gang, Han Bier had heard Yang Yi mention it briefly before, although she didn't know what Yang Yi was going to do, but this matter was beneficial and harmful to the Chamber of Commerce, so she had to make it clear.

"Master, the entry of officials from the DPRK and China is likely to cause some trouble to the operation of the Chamber of Commerce, and the most worrying thing is that these officials will dictate the operation of the Chamber of Commerce, and they are only afraid that there will be chaos at that time."

"You don't have to worry about it, whoever dares to do a lot of things, I will let him go to Beihai to herd sheep."

With Yang Yi's words, Han Bi'er has nothing to say, don't look at this master now wandering outside the court like an idler, he wants to stomp his feet, and the entire Great Song Dynasty will be shaken.

Qing Niang stroked the piano while listening to the conversation between the two without a word, she didn't know much about these things, but there was one thing Qing Niang could hear, after her eldest brother Yang swept the north and the Western Regions, he seemed to be looking to the south again.

But it didn't sound like she was going to start a war, Qing Niang was relieved, she didn't care much about business and trade, although it cost a lot of money to collect, but Han Bier never lacked her money.

I heard Yang Yi ask softly again, "How are Xiao Feng and Lu Yongzan talking over there?" ”

Han Bi'er chuckled and said, "Xiao Feng will hang him for a few days before he talks, master, according to the preliminary investigation of the slaves, the Xiao family's property is at least two or three million." ”

"Hehe, leave some for others, don't overdo it."

"Don't worry, the slave knows. Lu Yongzan has already negotiated on his side, what goods he needs, our shops in Xining Prefecture will provide him with them, and his goods will be underwritten by us. ”

"That's not enough, it's best to send someone to Luoji to set up a shop, and I'll ask Han Qing to cooperate at that time."

Han Bi'er couldn't help but show a wry smile, where is this master doing business, it is clear that he is using merchants to cover up espionage activities, if this continues, Tubo will become the second Dali sooner or later, and he will smoke everywhere.

"By the way, the last time I went back to Hangzhou, Lin Ruhai said that it was difficult for Yueyao to continue to operate, according to my opinion, the prospects of Jingdezhen are limitless, Bi'er, you might as well suggest that he transfer to Jingdezhen."

"Master, are we going to get involved in the porcelain industry too?"

"Is porcelain bad? When you dig up the soil and burn it, it turns into gold, and I think it's alchemy. ”

"Hehe, others can make gold, but Ye is turning stones into gold."

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PS: Don't mention it, the computer is broken today, and I fiddled with it for a long time, but it still doesn't work, so I have to remove the hard drive and find someone to read the data inside, otherwise I can't even log in to the starting point account, and I got it until midnight, and the update is late, so forgive me.

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(To be continued.) )