061 【Denim】
There are really not many options, and they have to be realistic.
Throughout human history, the "faiths" that can carry out large-scale social mobilization or stability maintenance are none other than those Abrahamic religions, Buddhism, Confucianism, nations, capital, and the Red Way......
But none of these ideas are perfect, even though they are all considered sacred and perfect by a part of the population.
Leaving aside those of the feudal era, the last three of the six cases had their own problems, especially for the Indians and the United States.
The Indians are not a unified nation, the race is still relatively uniform, but the culture, identity, and geography are highly dispersed, and the road to nationalism is destined to be difficult. Not to mention blacks and whites.
Capital, the structural flaw of this road, will be clearly explained by a bearded gentleman in more than 20 years.
The red road, at present, is still in the stage of complete utopia, and as for the practical path of later generations, not everyone can take it.
In Ma Whistle's view, there is actually only one country that can get through, that is, China, where he lived in his previous life, a giant entity that has long held strong collectivism and strong secularism.
The rest of the countries, including the Soviet Union, had a serious rejection of this path.
Of course, there are other reasons why Ma Whistle is reluctant to get too involved in this red road, and the specifics are not easy to explain, ahem......
After thinking about it, Ma Whistle realized what his problem was.
The first problem is that he does not have any firm beliefs of his own, at most he has some religious tendencies, although many of his choices are very resolute, but they have nothing to do with faith, more like following nature...... It sounds funny to let people who have no faith shape the beliefs of others.
The second problem is that he is always looking for a truly perfect faith, which is obviously not possible.
Ma Whistle felt that he should change these two problems, but after thinking left and right, he found that neither of them could be changed.
Sure enough, the country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change.
Thinking to no avail, he could only put the matter on hold again.
In fact, if you think about it from another angle, it doesn't seem to be a big deal. It seems that there are never many people in the world who have a firm faith, and there has never been a long-lasting faith.
In the long run, the successive beliefs of history may be nothing more than an episode in the natural course of society. Just like a person who reads an inspirational story or a touching story, he will be high-spirited or compassionate for a short time, but eventually he will return to the normal area of action and moral level.
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Prior to the successful patent application, Ma Whistle did not sell cargo pants to the outside world.
He wasn't sure if this would adversely affect the patent application, so he only made some sales in the town.
The results of the sale were not unexpected.
This durable, chic cargo pants have been praised by people alike, especially farmers and workers, who no longer have to worry about being easily worn out by heavy work.
After the market of peasants and workers in the town was saturated, Ma Whistle returned to the clan for a while, selling some overalls to the clansmen, and of course, more importantly, presiding over teaching and military training, and participating in the cultivation of farmland.
Thanks to Clark's Town, the Sleeping Bear Clan has more iron farming tools and seeds, and agriculture is growing more smoothly than expected.
There should be some harvest of winter wheat this year.
Although it is not enough to become a staple food, it is no problem for everyone to eat some food from time to time.
Under the teaching demonstration of the planting department, most of the people of the sleeping bear clan have more or less mastered some planting techniques, which means that agriculture can be carried out on a large scale next year.
Patent applications have been slower than Ma Whistle expected.
At one point, he suspected that the three of Thomas had an accident on the road, such as encountering robbers or infighting.
It's entirely possible, especially the latter.
The configuration of six revolvers makes these three people enough to be called the most elite light cavalry trio, and their self-protection ability is still good, and they still take the famous Santa Fe Trail, and the security is better than the general route.
But such a firepower configuration will also lead to a sharp increase in the intensity of internal strife, and it is not surprising that they will all end up together.
Fortunately, it turned out that Ma Whistle was too worried.
The reason why Thomas has been there for so long is simply because the patent office is too slow......
After a painstaking patent application, Thomas and Floyd finally returned to Clark Town in March of the following year, just after winter had passed.
"You're finally back!" Ma Whistle saw the three people in the dust, and couldn't help but say, "How is it, has the patent application been successful?" ”
"It worked, both worked." Sigmund Freud took out two patent certificates.
He then complained: "Those bastards at the patent office are like they haven't woken up from hibernation, I don't know why it's so slow to look at pants!" ”
"Good." Looking at the two patent certificates, Ma Whistle smiled.
But he also muttered a little in his heart.
What is the strength of patent protection in such an inefficient patent office? Although he didn't expect much.
It is not extravagant to protect the appearance design, at least protect the rivet reinforcement technology, otherwise jeans, a product with almost no technical content, will not make too much money.
In fact, this is a misunderstanding on his part. The speed at which the patent office examines patents has always been slow, and so has been in later generations, but as a person engaged in theoretical physics and secondary education, of course, he does not know this, and Thomas and Freud naturally do not understand it.
"And the fabric you want." Thomas fetched a leather bag and handed it to the horse whistle, "We bought a sample of all the sturdy and durable fabrics we could see in St. Louis, especially the blue ones. ”
Ma Whistle opened the leather bag, which was full of fabric samples of various colors.
Soon his eyes lit up, and he found a thick cloth of indigo.
This is exactly what he remembers denim, almost as durable as canvas, but softer than canvas, the material of choice for jeans.
"What kind of cloth is this?"
"Denim."
Ma Whistle nodded slightly: "Denim ......"
Subsequently, under his organization, the Clark Clothing Company officially began to be formed, a company belonging to the Sleeping Bear Clan, which was managed by Mary.
In the past few months, a number of houses have been built in Clarktown, including a garment factory, and workers are ready-made. So it's pretty much a no-brainer.
As soon as the factory was founded, it was up and running, branding the jeans, marketing them to the surrounding area, and contacting the bulk purchase of denim to produce the most authentic jeans.
The jeans are priced at $3.99 and sold at a discount of $1.99.
That's right, this is exactly the routine that Ma Sen often saw in online shopping in his previous life, the goods are always on sale, and the number at the end is either 9 or 8, giving people a feeling as if they are very profitable.
With these routines in mind, the salesmen of the clothing companies began to sell their products to the surrounding white settlements.
Not surprisingly, jeans, like their original history, have been warmly welcomed by working people, even if they are not very cheap, they are still out of stock.
It seems that people have been expecting this kind of pants for a long time, and now someone has finally made it.
The newly baked Clark clothing company almost immediately embarked on the road of rapid development.