"We Qi Wangfu sent people to reclaim thousands of acres of wasteland last year, and planted cotton at the beginning of this year, but according to the agreement with the Ministry of Industry, eighty percent of them will be purchased by the Ministry of Industry, and the remaining two percent will be at our own disposal, so calculated, it is estimated that there will be 10,000 catties of cotton, in addition to we also bought 300 Silla women, after the training of textile craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry, now they can be proficient in spinning and weaving and other work, as long as this year's cotton comes, cotton textile work will be carried out immediately, and whether it makes money or not is secondary, The main thing is to accumulate some experience in this area. The prince talked eloquently and talked about the preparations made by the Qi Palace's for textiles.

"Well, the preparations in my mansion and in Liulang's mansion are the same, and they are both managed by Zihao on their behalf." After Li Ke listened, he was the first to pick up the conversation and said Chapter 42 Whaling Ship Road.

"Our Cheng Mansion is similar, but the female workers are not prepared so much, only a hundred are prepared." Cheng Huailiang also continued, and then Qin Huaiyu, Li Jingye, Li Jingheng and others introduced the situation in their own houses, most of which were similar to what Cheng Huailiang said.

After listening to everyone's words, although Wang Zihao nodded with satisfaction on the surface, he sighed slightly in his heart, when King Qi was in Chang'an, he had already made the importance of textile and Cheng Huailiang very clear, and required each family to make more preparations, especially in terms of skilled weavers, there must be at least one hundred female workers who have reached a certain level, but they did not expect that they really only prepared a hundred female workers, obviously not enough attention to the textile matter.

Although Wang Zihao understands in his heart, but in his identity. It's hard to say anything, but he is also secretly sneering, when the cotton comes down next year, if the textile industry is really as His Highness said, it begins to show real great power, and when they are not enough, then just watch the two palaces get rich!

"Brother Qian. How are you prepared at home? After asking Cheng Huailiang about the noble brothers, it was finally the turn of those businessmen, and the first of them was Qian Gui, who sent Yuan Tiangang's apprentice to Dengzhou.

"Chapter 42 The whaling ship Qi Zihao brother. The younger brother's house also prepared 300 female workers, and at the same time signed agreements with many peasant households, in addition to handing over cotton to the Ministry of Labor. I have to sell it to my little brother! As soon as Qian Gui heard that he was called, a stirring spirit immediately stood up and replied. He is not qualified to be involved in the two industries of coal mining and glass manufacturing, but he has a share in several industries such as cement, honeycomb coal, and canning factories, and he has invested a lot of money, and it is precisely because of this that he was invited here.

Hearing Qian Gui's answer, Wang Zihao was very satisfied, but his face was silent, and he asked a few other businessmen. I found that they had also made a lot of preparations, for example, there were at least 200 female workers.

Although these people are rich, they have no power or power, so there are many industries that cannot participate in it, and they can only watch others get rich. This time, it was not easy to get Wang Zihao's guidance, and I heard that it was ordered by His Royal Highness King Qi himself, so they were all very hard-working, and compared with acquaintances like Cheng Huailiang and them, Qian Gui, who had never met Li Susu, was more convinced of him.

Knowing the status of each family's preparations, Wang Zihao has a rough estimate of the textile industry next year. In particular, the most critical skilled workers, each family together has about tens of thousands, and when it comes to the real development of the textile industry, with these skilled workers with those new hands, a large textile team can be organized soon.

Just when Wang Zihao was faithfully carrying out Li Su's orders in Chang'an, on the Yellow Sea in the northeast of Dengzhou, there was also a big ship that was working for Li Su, this ship looked like a fishing boat, but the size was larger than an ordinary merchant ship, and there was a huge deck at the bow, and there were many strange weapons around the ship.

Although the day has just dawned, but the crew on the ship has been busy, this kind of thing is inseparable from people all the time, so the crew on the ship is two shifts, the crew on duty yesterday has just been replaced to rest, although the new crew has rested all night, but the spirit is not very good. Last night, the wind rose, the whole ship was shaky, even if it was sleeping in a hammock, but it was also shaken down from time to time, and finally someone simply tied himself to the hammock, but after a night, the whole body was strangled sore, and it was normal for the spirit to be sluggish.

The old nest carried a bucket of precious fresh water and cloth, and cleaned the deck very carefully, this morning the wind was light, but the deck was soaked in seawater, and now it must be cleaned with fresh water, otherwise the deck will be corroded.

The old nest is actually not old, he is only in his early thirties, but he has been fishing at sea all the year round, and his face is wrinkled by the sea breeze, but he looks very old, plus he is wooden, so he got such a nickname. He was originally a native of Huangxian County, and used to make a living from fishing, but since all the big families used big boats and trawl fishing, the fish production increased several times at once, and the price of cheap fish has dropped and dropped.

There is no food in the family, and they can't feed the whole family by fishing alone, during that time, the old nest was anxious, and almost found a rope to die, fortunately, His Royal Highness King Qi opened some canning factories in various counties at that time, and also looked for female workers, his wife and brother-in-law are poor, and they are not so particular, for this family, they all entered the factory as workers, and the monthly wages of the two were added together, which was higher than the income he had previously earned when he went to sea. As a result, the family of three people worked, and the income was several times higher than before, and the children and the old lady in the family finally ate a few full meals.

But the good times didn't last long, and the seventy-year-old lady in the family accidentally fell while watching her eight children, and as a result, she broke her bones all of a sudden, and she hummed in pain every day. Lao Wozi is a filial son, and for his mother's medical treatment, he not only spent all his savings some time ago, but also owed a lot of foreign debts.

To add insult to injury, because of the old lady's disease, this is scored to see the child, the brother and daughter-in-law have no man in the family, and the whole family depends on her income, so naturally she can't quit her job, but she can only let her wife quit her job, and as a result, the family suddenly lost nearly one-third of her income, and it seems that she can't make ends meet, so as soon as he heard that Qi Wangfu organized a whaling ship, and the treatment was increased three times at once, he immediately signed up without hesitation, for the wife and children of the family and the old lady, let alone a whale, even if it is the god of the sea, Lao Tzu also dared to give him a fishing cannon.

"Cheer me up, there is mutton for breakfast today, if anyone dares to be lazy, give me a drink of the sea breeze!" At this moment, a young man stepped out of the captain's room in the middle of the ship, and scolded the listless crowd with a serious face.

As soon as the old nest saw this young man, he immediately lowered his head and concentrated on his work, and no longer dared to think about the affairs of his family. The person who came out was named Zhou Yu, don't look at the young people, but he was the captain of this whaling ship. I heard that the identity of this Zhou Yu is not simple, he used to be the steward of the entire Qi Wangfu fishing team, this time because the whaling ship went to sea for the first time, so he volunteered to temporarily take the position of captain, it is estimated that after the deputy captain Liu Dabeard is affirmed, he will go back to be the steward of the fishing team.

Looking at all the crew members who were shocked and began to concentrate on their work, Zhou Yu nodded with satisfaction, the reason why he volunteered to run to the whaling ship as a captain was not for the three times the salary, after all, with the salary of his fishing team manager, not only did he not worry about food and clothing, but also the people who proposed his relatives were endless, and his mother personally selected the most beautiful girl in ten miles and eight villages to set up a family affair, and they would get married at the end of the year. And the reason why he ventured to the whaling ship was mainly to see that His Royal Highness the King of Qi attached great importance to this matter, and as a newcomer who had just entered the core of the Qi Palace, he naturally had to behave well, otherwise it would be difficult to gain a firm foothold in the future.

Zhou Yu walked to the bow of the boat, holding the railing and looking at the surrounding sea, but as far as the naked eye could see, there was no abnormality, and his heart couldn't help but feel a little anxious. They have been out to sea for six days, and if they can't find any trace of the whale, they can only go back to replenish their supplies and go to sea again, although he has expected this situation for a long time, but after all, this is the first time that a whaling ship has gone to sea, and if he returns empty-handed, then his face will not look good.

"Let's eat!" At this moment, several crew members who were in charge of cooking carried a large round bucket and shouted as they walked, and the crew members who were either serious or pretending to work next to them heard this, and immediately came to their senses, ran over one by one to get the dishes and chopsticks, took their breakfast and began to devour it wildly. Today's breakfast is rice porridge mixed with chopped mutton, as well as two steamed buns and a fresh fish, but most people only take steamed buns, and few are willing to eat fish. They went to sea for six days, and the supplies on the ship were almost used, and today's mutton was the last batch of canned food, and it was estimated that they would only be able to drink white porridge or eat fish in the future.

Zhou Yu had already eaten breakfast in the cabin, and now it was the time for the daily routine search, he opened a leather case around his neck, took out the telescope inside, and began to carefully search the sea in the distance. He had a total of two leather cases around his neck, one was a telescope, and the other was a nautical compass, these two things were important instruments for navigation, but because of the limited production, except for the ships of the Qi Palace, the other ships were not prepared. These two things are also a symbol of the captain's status, and no crew member on board has the right to touch them except him, otherwise they will be severely punished.

"Huh? How can there be a ship here? Just as Zhou Yu was turning the camera to look around, suddenly, he saw from the camera that there was a mast rising from the sea level in the north, and it seemed that a ship should be passing by. But now they were far away from Dengzhou, and they were on the Yellow Sea, and no ship would normally dare to pass through it, and they would never dare to come here if they did not have a sailing compass!!