Zhuangzi divided the front, middle and back threefold.

In front is the silkworm room and the dormitory of the silkworm lady, and in the middle is the office area, where data statistics and the development of the silkworm body are observed, and the map is drawn. The entire silkworm raising process relied on the old experience provided by the silkworm raising lady, and then Song Yingxing, a person who had never raised silkworms, summarized it into a technical standard.

The two most important aspects of these regulations are temperature and humidity control, as well as lighting and ventilation. Today's thermometers are not good enough for precise chemistry experiments, but it's okay to control the temperature in a house. Zhu Cihong also used this thermometer to measure his body temperature, and the reading was slightly high, but it was still within the acceptable range.

The research and development of the hygrometer was a bit bumpy, and the direction given by Zhu Cihong was a hair hygrometer, which proved to be a handiwork of the primary school nature general knowledge class, which was too rough for production and experimentation. Later, the students of Jingshi University still used the heat phenomenon of water evaporation to invent the psychrometer hygrometer, which must be checked against a public table to know the indoor humidity of the tunnel, but this is the highest technology that can be done at present.

The application of these two small things makes it possible to concentrate on silkworm raising. In the process of breeding silkworm seeds, the so-called green promotion of the folk requires women to use their own body temperature to urge, so the speed of green promotion is different, and the ant silkworms cannot be guaranteed to hatch at the same time. With a thermometer, the room temperature can simulate the most suitable environment for the ants and silkworms to hatch.

If it is too cold, it will be heated by the fire dragon, and if it is too hot, the window will be opened for ventilation.

The same is true when it comes to humidity. If it is too dry, use a damp cloth to hang it on the wall, and if it is too wet, it will ventilate and release carbon.

Under the condition that the silkworm seed remains unchanged, this artificial control method greatly improves the loss caused by greening, so that as many ant silkworms as possible hatch and then send them to the nursery room.

For silkworm farmers, greening is only the first hurdle. After surging out the sturdy silkworm babies. There should also be a large supply of mulberry leaves. Generally speaking, a silkworm seed needs seven or eight mulberry leaves, and it is impossible for ordinary people to be self-sufficient. And mulberry leaves must be fresh, not overnight, so it is impossible to hoard in advance, and can only be purchased from mulberry gardens.

Buying mulberry leaves is also divided into spot futures.

Because spot prices tend to be extremely high. Therefore, futures are generally popular, which is the so-called "tip leaf". Pay in advance before the silkworm season, and then go to the mulberry garden to pull goods when the silkworm baby wants to eat the leaves. This type of trading is extremely financially stressful for smallholder families, who have to raise money to pay for the entire season's leaves.

At this time, they had no choice but to borrow from usury.

The same is true of the "green seedling money", which is a loan that all farmers who cultivate grain in the spring, so if you want to completely eliminate usury in Daming, you must have a strong and credible financial system.

In the spirit of being a master, Zhu Cihong wanted to rescue the silkworm farmers from the oppression of usury. so that he could produce more raw silk for him. As the crown prince, the economic means were simpler than the political ones, and it was only necessary to provide low-interest loans to the peasants. The form of the loan also did not require real silver, and rice was used as hard currency, allowing the farmer to repay it with silkworm cocoons.

As a result, this "good deed" was resisted by the owners of the mulberry plantations, who themselves were usurers. As a result, the price of mulberry leaves is soaring, and it is still a momentum of forcing farmers to borrow.

Is Zhu Cihong a person who can accept failure and a slap in the face?

Of course not!

"I originally thought that economic problems should be solved by economic means. They think I'm a bully? Let Zhejiang send someone down to investigate! If there is a mulberry orchard owner who is unwilling to make only leaf money, I will let him make no money. Gotta spit it out! Zhu Cihong ordered sharply.

After three or five unbelieving mulberry garden owners were confiscated of their family property and distributed to Liaodong. The people finally reacted: the crown prince wants to do good things, and whoever dares to let this good thing become a bad thing will have no good things in his family.

It is also an iron-fisted means to shelter the crown prince, and the Zhejiang farmers in Chongzhen's 20 years finally passed the first good year in their lives. Not only did the court pay taxes, but even the squires who had gathered layers of squires had to put away their sharp minions and watch a large piece of fat slip away from under their claws.

Song Yingxing has contributed a lot in this matter. Not only did she teach the silkworm raiser to read the thermometer and hygrometer, but she also had to design the direction of the copper pipe water air conditioner to prepare for the next season of silkworm raising. Nowadays, there are also silkworm reeling in the north, but because of the problem of silkworm seeds, the quality and yield are not as good as those in the south. In the south, it is possible to raise the more difficult four-sleeping silkworms. Moreover, the hydrothermal conditions are good, and mulberry leaves can also be supplied all the time, and it is too wasteful to only raise spring silkworms.

It's just that the temperature in the south is high in summer, and diseases and viruses cannot be prevented.

Zhu Cihong spent so much money to improve the silkworm room and summarize the technical specifications, of course, not for the spring silkworms in one season a year. What he wants is a "golden mountain" that can make silkworm babies spin silk cocoons in various environments such as summer and autumn!

If the temperature is not enough, you can use the earth fire dragon, and if the temperature is too high, you can only use copper pipes to walk cold well water to cool down. In this way, the steam pump brought by Shen Tingyang also came in handy, and the output value must be much higher than that of pumping water in the mine.

The lady of the Sun family finally waited until the silkworm babies "went up the mountain" to spin silk, and they were busy with the sleepless time after the worst night. During the whole development of the silkworm baby, the mulberry leaves cannot be stopped for a moment, otherwise the silkworm baby will starve to death. In addition, the meticulousness of the "technical specifications" in Zhuangzi makes it more tiring to spend a lot of energy on observation, reading, and reporting every day, which is even more tiring than raising silkworms at home.

However, the effect is also obvious, in previous years, it would be good for the Sun family lady to hatch six or seven percent at home, but the number of hatches here is extremely high. There were very few silkworms that died of illness in the whole process, as if they were really blessed by gods and Buddhas.

"The method here is that if you want to learn, you can't learn, and you can't find so many copper pipes first." The silkworm lady in the same room complained regretfully, regretting that she couldn't learn this method.

The lady of the Sun family said: "In the end, it is the emperor's family, that is, it is broad-handed." With so much silver thrown down, it is enough to buy and weave good silk, so why raise silkworms. ”

"You don't understand." The head of the room was a tall and thin Suzhou lady, and she coughed lightly and said: "The crown prince is a god in the sky, and what he cares about is not silk, but the method of raising silkworms in the sky has been passed down." ”

"I can't afford to pass it on." The complaining young woman muttered to herself.

"The only things that are expensive here are yarn and brass pipes. And the copper pipe is not used once can not be used, if you can raise three seasons of silkworms every year, it is worth using it for a few more years. The head of the room said again.

The lady of the Sun family said secretly: Having said that, this first sum of money is not easy to make.

She thought so in her heart, but she was afraid that the head of the room was a "leading lady" and was in charge of a class. Although he was not under her, he was also an "official", so he did not answer again.

Originally, there was silence in the bedroom, but suddenly a voice came out of the corner: "You say, we only have about a hundred ladies here, and if the silkworms raised are all harvested, how many will they have?" ”

Everyone calculated in their hearts, but they were startled. Usually at home, people with many daughters only raise silkworms with five or six pieces of cloth, but if the harvest is bad one year, the next year's shoots and leaves cannot afford to buy, so they can only raise two or three pieces of cloth. Now they are gathered together to raise silkworms, and it doesn't matter whose family it is, they all have to be taken care of, which is equivalent to more than ten silkworms raised by one person!

And eating mulberry leaves is even more scary, all the leaves are picked in the early morning while the night is cool, and the dew has not dried up when they are sent to the Zhuangzi. From this point of view, other silkworm farmers near the mulberry garden may not be able to buy many leaves.

Everyone compares their hearts to their hearts, thinking about how distressing it would be if they were not in the Zhuangzi, and after the silkworm baby slept for the second and third sleeps, they couldn't buy mulberry leaves when they wanted to eat the leaves day and night?

This Zhuangzi is only the only one in the world, and he has already revealed the mouth of a hideous beast. What's more, there is no real cross-generational technology, but only a generation in terms of management level and method. If it weren't for Zhu Cihong's suppression of private usury, the nearby silkworm farmers would not only have mulberry leaves, but also have to owe a large amount of foreign debt, even if they were forced to die, it would not be uncommon.

"It seems that the difficulty of raising silkworms is not very high, and intensive breeding can still be promoted." Zhu Cihong, however, was greatly encouraged by the reported data.

Zhejiang's political participation stood below, but there was no joy on the faces of other officials. He finally urged his legs, stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "Minister Zhejiang participates in politics Wu Yi, there is something to enlighten His Highness." ”

Wu Yi was originally Shi Kefa's staff, a jinshi of Chongzhen's sixteenth year. Because it was followed by the seventeen-year Jiashen Change, the Jinshi of his department were very confused, and they ran around, and finally stabilized when they recovered Beijing.

Zhu Cihong personally selected him to participate in politics in Zhejiang, which is also to thank Wu Yi in another historical time and space for sticking to Taihu Lake after the death of the country, attacking Hangzhou three times, and finally giving in.

"Your Highness, the minister has recently visited many silkworm farmers and suffered from the lack of leaves. This year's harvest is not even half of what it was like in previous years. If His Royal Highness insists on doing this silkworm village, I am afraid that it will harm the farmers too much. Wu Yi carefully chose the wording, for fear of angering the murderous crown prince.

Zhu Cihong was not angry: "What Wu Dashen said is not unreasonable, but there is an account to be settled here." It is to give the same amount of mulberry leaves to a large number of silkworm farmers, and then let them struggle to pay a small amount of raw silk on the subsistence line...... Or we can use these mulberry leaves to produce more raw silk, make a profit, and then go back to make the farmers live a better life. Between the two, it is not difficult to make a choice. ”

"Your Highness, I'm afraid that before I can make money in the future, these silkworm farmers have already starved to death." Wu Yi did not give up because of this: "And if you make money in the future, how can you guarantee that it will benefit these farmers?" ”

In Wu Yi's view, this is originally a matter of competing with the people for profit, once it really makes a profit, it will only knock on the bones and suck the marrow, where can you still worry about the life and death of those farmers? He didn't know that the British "sheep eat people", but the "silkworm eating people" of the Ming Dynasty was about to happen in front of him. (To be continued......)

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