Well, this guy has raised a new problem, that is, cotton and mulberry hemp are not enough!

Weaving is not a cloth made of air.

While the loom is working, it needs to consume a lot of raw materials, and the raw materials consumed are silk, twine, and cotton thread, all of which are limited, and in the current Great Qin Empire, these things are in quantity.

In this case, the emergence of the steam engine has greatly improved the efficiency of the loom and the efficiency of the spinning machine.

But this does not mean that the Great Qin Empire will be able to harvest enough cotton, enough linen, and silk.

The reason is very simple, the total quantity of raw materials is placed there, there are not enough materials, no matter how the productivity develops, even how developed the industry is, it cannot complete the production, after all, the essence of industry still needs raw materials.

And the key is that the Great Qin Empire at this time is relatively short of raw materials, and I only heard Gong Yu Shangzao open his mouth and say.

"Now that I have this loom in Daqin, the efficiency is so high, I can spend the usual thousands of pieces of cloth in just one day, but the problem is that I can weave so much cloth, and the materials needed are too little, after all, the original weaving efficiency of my Daqin is too low, and the mulberry hemp cotton planted by the people is limited, so what kind of large-scale production in this situation!"

The voice of the latter.

After it came out, Win Zheng couldn't help frowning, this question was really a headache, but Win Changsheng on the side couldn't help but laugh a few times, and then said.

"What's the problem?"

"Isn't that a problem? Nineteen sons? ”

For a while, the public next to him couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

And Ying Changsheng laughed and opened his mouth to say.

"Of course it's not a problem!"

I only heard Win Changsheng open his mouth to say to Win Zheng on the side.

"Father, think about it, do I lack the land to grow cotton and mulberry hemp?"

"This ......"

Ying Zheng was slightly stunned, and then reacted.

Well, there was no shortage of land during the Qin Dynasty, and the Great Qin Empire, as Ying Changsheng had repeatedly said before, was a country with a vast land and sparsely populated country, and the population of this country was not large, only 20 million people, and 20 million people were distributed in the vast land of China.

It's simply so vast that there are still large tracts of untapped forest wilderness and swamps in the land of Guanzhong at this time.

This is still the case in the densely populated Central Plains in later generations.

Under such circumstances, there is no shortage of land in the entire empire, and when there is no shortage of land, it is normal for some land to be naturally reclaimed for planting mulberry cotton.

I only heard it, Ying Changsheng smiled and said to Ying Zheng.

"Now this mulberry hemp cotton is not enough to use, the way is very simple, isn't it to go back, in the coming year, find a way to reclaim more land, and then plant mulberry hemp, or cotton, to produce, those raw silk that can be woven is used to produce those cotton threads, and twine, so that you can supply the loom to work!"

Ying Changsheng's voice fell and Ying Zheng couldn't help but nod again and again.

He felt that what Ying Changsheng said was indeed reasonable.

With the consumption of the Great Qin Empire, it is only more than more than 20 million people, and the cotton of tens of millions of acres of land is enough to supply the needs of the Great Qin Empire.

But.

Even so, Ying Zheng quickly thought of a new question, this question was nothing else, and he only heard Ying Zheng open his mouth to say to Ying Changsheng on the side.

"You kid said that planting this mulberry hemp, this is not a problem, and planting cotton is not a problem, but the problem is that planting so many of these things, doesn't it consume a lot of manpower, doesn't it mean that I Daqin, many people are powerless, to cultivate the land, but to work on these crops?"

Well, although these cash crops can bring extremely high economic benefits, in Ying Zheng's view, these things are not conducive to the long-term stability of the Great Qin Empire.

The reason is very simple, the clothes are a little torn, and you can continue to wear them after sewing, even if the clothes are not covered, it is nothing, even if you can't keep out the cold in the cold winter, there is no fire, and then squeeze it to huddle to keep warm.

In Ying Zheng's view, the most important problem of the Great Qin Empire was the food problem.

The most important thing for the Great Qin Empire was to ensure that all the people could eat enough.

Only in this way can the long-term peace and stability of the Great Qin Empire be guaranteed, in such a situation.

Winning politics is naturally unwilling to let the vast majority of people in his country work on these cash crops, without neglecting farming, and the worry of winning politics has reached the ears of Win Changsheng.

Ying Changsheng was inevitable, laughed a few times, and then opened his mouth to say to Yingzheng.

"In the eyes of the sons, this worry of the father is completely superfluous, and my Great Qin doesn't have to worry about this at all, the reason is very simple, my Great Qin Empire, I don't need so many people to cultivate at all!"

Well, Ying Zhengsheng didn't intend to let the ordinary people of the empire farm at all, let them dispose of these mulberry cotton, after all, these cash crops require a lot of manpower and are labor-intensive industries.

In this era, which is still far from realizing the mechanization of agriculture.

The best way to deal with these cash crops, which require a lot of manpower, is to adopt the system of slavery, which is cheap and not too expensive to work in.

Let these slaves.

Carry out farming, let them pick cotton in the cotton fields, let them, let them, to produce silk, let them make those twine, only in this way can the Great Qin Empire flourish.

After all, the population of Daqin today is too small, only 20 million people, it is really too little, if slavery is not adopted on a large scale, how can this vast land be completely developed?

"My Daqin can completely let ordinary people buy some slaves, and then work through these slaves, so as to cultivate the land and produce cotton and mulberry hemp, so as to meet the needs of my Daqin's weaving machinery!"

Ying Changsheng's voice fell.

Win the government thoughtfully.

Although the Great Qin Empire had begun to buy slaves from overseas to enter the territory. , but these slaves did not flow into the people, but went to all these slaves in the government.

It was used by the government of the Great Qin Empire to build roads, build city walls, and mine ores.

As for the folk of the Great Qin Empire at this time.

At this moment, slavery has been completely abolished, and there is not a single slave up and down the Great Qin Iron Kingdom, and there are only one free people after another.

All the former slaves were pardoned.

The people of Qi became citizens of the Great Qin Empire.

At this time, after hearing Ying Changsheng's proposal, Ying Zheng inevitably frowned a little.