Lin Ling found that this very handsome, but obviously martial arts Wei Lan Gongzi, was very special.

When he said that he wanted to see what "cotton" looked like, he was happier and more eager than when they talked about hiring a model.

Well, it's a boy who doesn't love money and plants.

Speaking of cotton.

In the world in which the Great Moon Kingdom is located, the material and cultural life of science and technology is comparable to that of the Southern Song Dynasty.

This is a major event that occurred at the same time in history: the popularization of cotton in mainland China.

There is a very interesting saying, that is, "the Song people wore paper clothes, and the Yuan and Ming Dynasty wore cotton clothes".

This is to express that before the Song Dynasty, cotton was not popularized in the land of China.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, the poor in China sometimes wore paper clothes, the rich wore fur and silk clothes in ancient times, and the poor wore linen.

In the Chinese history that Lin Ling is familiar with, the ancient Western Regions of China called cotton: white stack, which is the germplasm of grass cotton in Central Asia, with poor quality and low yield, which cannot be planted and promoted on a large scale.

In the Han Dynasty, white stacks were introduced to the Western Regions (that is, the Turpan Basin area in later generations), but most of them were used as ornamental flowers.

In the Tang Dynasty, white stacks were not popularized in mainland China, and cotton cloth was only brought by Hu merchants through the Silk Road, and it was still considered a luxury item.

Even so, the cultivation and spread of white stacked grass cotton, which can be used for simple cotton weaving, was still slow, and it stopped in Hexi before the Yuan Dynasty.

Before the Song Dynasty, China only had the word "cotton" next to the silk, and there was no word "cotton" next to the wood.

The word "cotton" began to appear from the Book of Song.

In China, there is only kapok for filling pillows, and there is no cotton for weaving.

During the Song Dynasty, perennial Asian cotton species (Indian cotton and Egyptian cotton, more suitable for subtropical climate) were introduced into the Yangtze River basin and transformed into annual Asian cotton, laying the foundation for the great development of Asian cotton in China in the early Yuan Dynasty.

The record says: "Between the Song and Yuan dynasties, it was rumored that it was planted in China, and Guan, Shaanxi, Fujian, and Guangxi were the first to obtain its benefits. ”

As for the promotion of cotton across the country, it was as late as the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and it was Zhu Yuanzhang who used coercive methods to push it out.

By the end of the Qing Dynasty, more hardy and higher-yielding American cotton entered the Chinese mainland, replacing the widely cultivated Indian and Egyptian cotton.

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In the time and space where the Great Moon Kingdom is located, the perennial Asian cotton seed was bought by Lin Ling from the maritime merchants of Quanzhou and the Hu merchants of the Silk Road at a large price when she traveled to do business three years ago.

It's just that she can't popularize this good plant so that more people can eat and clothe.

Her strength is not enough to fight against the main economic pillar industry of the Great Moon Country.

The reason is very realistic, she is in the Dayue country, where the silk fabric industry is developed, if cotton is popularized and becomes a cheaper daily clothing necessity, it will move too many people's interests in the silk fabric of the Dayue country.

Therefore, Lin Ling only planted cotton on her own land, constantly selected and improved varieties that were adaptable, maintained them for her own use, and did not sell them to the outside world.

However, as long as people of insight and long-term vision have a long-term vision, they all know how much benefit the popularization of cotton planting will be to people's livelihood.

Lin Ling felt that this beautiful boy was really unexpected by her, and his ideas were very interesting.

He discovered the special nature of "cotton" for the first time.

Yes, very knowledgeable.

Jiang Qi watched his sister look at Wei Lan with an eye that looked at interesting creatures and found sparkles, although his heart was a little sour, he still understood what he should do as an elder brother again......