Guo Dalu suddenly smiled: "Actually, you don't need to be in such a hurry, Huang Xueheng, the county commander of Yinxian County, has already brought the god bean into Beijing to offer auspicious rui, as long as the old emperor is not old and confused, he must know the benefits of this god bean, and the world will be promoted, and the northwest region will inevitably get the corresponding seeds." ”

Lou Dalang said with a smile: "This dare is good, but it is also good for Brother Guo to give more divine bean seeds, a little more, a little more, and a few less families will starve." ”

Guo Dalu could realize that Lou Dalang's words were not fake, but sincere, and suddenly his heart moved--this cotton had just come out by his own hands, and before he could find a suitable planting location, Lou Dalang came to the door, could it be providence?

You must know that in its own origin time and space, the northwest land was originally the main production area of cotton, and those saline-alkali lands could not grow other crops, but cotton cultivation was excellent.

Guo Dalu said with a smile: "Brother Lou, brother, I have a business here that makes a fortune, are you interested in stepping in?"

Lou Dalang heard "make a fortune", his heart was a big jump, can be called a big fortune by Guo Dalu, it must be a great business, he swallowed his saliva, just wanted to pat his chest, but suddenly sighed, wry smile: "Brother Guo, I want to come down in one bite, but I know how many catties and taels I know, my Lou family is also in the northwest of some small doors, can help Guo Geer some small favors, if this business has to be done all over the world, my Lou Dalang can only drag you back, this kind of harm to friends, I will never do it!" ”

Guo Dalu laughed: "Brother Lou is a real person, don't worry, my business, the more beautiful the mountains and rivers in other places in the Da Li Dynasty, the more fertile the land, the more you can't do it, only your northwest is the most suitable place to do this business." ”

Lou Dalang's eyes lit up with stars, rubbed his hands and said, "Brother Guo will not visit me, tell me quickly, what kind of business is it?"

Guo Dalu grabbed a handful of cotton from the side and handed it to Lou Dalang: "Brother Lou, look, how is this thing?"

Lou Dalang actually arrived in Houlong Village, he had already seen the novelty like white clouds, but he had been reluctant not to take a second look, then saw Guo Dalu inquiring, only then took the cotton into his hand, carefully rubbed it between his fingers, and then said: "This thing is wonderful! If I guess correctly, it should be the raw material of some kind of fabric, although it is not as smooth as silk, but it is much better than linen, well, let me think about it, I have seen a fabric from a large island in the south, called kapok, but it is somewhat similar." ”

Guo Dalu slapped his thigh heavily: "Brother Lou is really a knowledgeable person! Kapok -- yes, Kapok is produced on Hainan Island, which is somewhat similar to my cotton -- hey, why did I forget Kapok before, and Wang Daopo, forget it, I don't know if there is this person in the Da Li Dynasty -- it's just that my cotton yield is higher than Kapok, and the fiber is longer than Kapok, which is easier to post-process. ”

Lou Dalang took the cotton and said in a deep voice: "Cotton--this name is good, Brother Guo, do you want to plant this cotton in the northwest?"

Guo Dalu nodded: "Yes, Brother Lou, I want to plant cotton in the northwest, and in the later stage, I will also make you all kinds of spinning threads, weaving machinery, and even printing and dyeing methods, and clothing drawings, so that the northwest will become the most important textile industry base in the Great Li Dynasty!"

Lou Dalang listened to Guo Dalu's grand plan, and the whole person trembled with excitement, this, what a huge industry this must be, the Lou family is going to make a fortune! No! Not only is it a big fortune! If you really want to occupy an industry in clothing, food, housing and transportation, then the Lou family will become the soil emperor of the northwest, and you will tremble if you stomp your foot on the entire northwest.

You must know that the big businessmen who monopolize an industry are different from the traveling merchants, and the traveling merchants who dump materials will be killed, but the most important "clothing" industry that controls the people is related to the national economy and people's livelihood.

Lou Dalang pinched his tiger's mouth to calm himself down, he thought for a while and said: "Brother Guo, the center of the world's weaving and spinning industry has always been in Jiangnan, Jiangnan's linen and silk occupy seven points, and the sericulture industry is extremely developed, even in Yinxian County, almost every family can hear the sound of looms, why doesn't Guo Ge'er plant this cotton in Jiangnan and prosper this weaving and spinning industry?"

Guo Dalu gave a thumbs up: "Okay! Brother Lou, you are not carried away by this great benefit, and if you can ask this, it means that you are an insider." Let me tell you why Jiangnan is not suitable for promoting the cotton textile industry. ”

"The land in the south of the Yangtze River is expensive, and the best land has been taken away by the cultivation world to plant immortal medicine and immortal trees, even if the remaining land has a high-yield crop like the divine bean, it is not enough to grow cotton, otherwise, this cotton field has taken away the only remaining grain field, and it really wants to starve the farmers to death?"

Lou Dalang nodded: "It makes sense, the Jiangnan area has already been because of silkworm raising and silk harvesting, and there has been a disaster of mulberry fields occupying grain fields, if you plant cotton again - it really won't work." However, Guo Ge'er, although the northwest is wide, it is all saline-alkali land, and it is dry every year, which is not suitable for growing crops. ”

Guo Dalu said with a smile: "Don't worry, my cotton is different from other crops, it can grow in saline-alkali land, but when it comes to cotton peaches, you need to water more, I have a karez here, as long as you build a way to dig a well, you can collect rainwater in the rainy season, and then use it in the dry season." In fact, it is better to plant cotton in the Western Regions, where the temperature difference between day and night is large, and the cotton fibers grown are longer, which is more conducive to weaving. ”

Lou Dalang said with a smile: "Brother Guo has already thought so carefully for our people in the northwest, so what else do I have to say, when I return to my hometown, I will immediately take out all the silver in my family, buy saline-alkali land, dig what karez wells, and plant cotton extensively!"

Guo Dalu said: "After the cotton harvest next year, I will send the special spinning and loom of Houlong Village to you, and you recruit those skillful women to work, these industries are labor-intensive industries, and a large number of laborers can be placed. ”

Li Bo was listening to the conversation between Brother Guo and Lou Dalang just now, and he was already so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, this cotton business made a fortune when he heard it, why did he leave it to a foreigner?

That's right, Lou Dalang is a relative of the fairy upstairs, but if he gives him some more shares of snow candy, it will be enough to repay this favor, why would Brother Guo give such a huge windfall in the cotton business? If it weren't for Guo Dalu's growing prestige now, Li Bo would have been unable to interrupt him.

But after listening to it, I realized that the cotton industry is not suitable for Jiangnan, and it is actually related to soil, environment, population, etc., in fact, these truths, Brother Guo has mentioned them in the Yixue class before, but he is careless, can it be said that his disciple of the science sect is not as far-reaching as Lou Dalang?

When Li Bo heard Guo Dalu mention textile machinery, he was so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut, yes, the cotton industry really makes money in these machinery, and the machinery invented by Brother Guo must be different from the common looms in the market, it must be what - yes, the efficiency is higher, the people in the northwest want to weave cloth and make clothes, and the machinery produced in Houlong Village is different, the bulk of the cotton industry is still earned by Houlong Village, and the people in the northwest are just making some physical hard money.

By the way, Guo Dayi also talked about this point, this is called technology monopoly, and technology is what really makes a lot of money! In contrast, Lou Dalang had to invest a large amount of money in reclamation, digging wells, and planting cotton in the early stage, and in the later stage, he also had to organize people to spin threads, weave cloth, and sell them by hand, which was really making hard money.

Li Bo secretly gave a thumbs up to Guo Dalu's back - Guo Ge'er is amazing, dug a big pit for Lou Dalang to jump, but Lou Dalang also rushed to jump into the pit, a posture of the world to give up on me, if anyone persuades him to stop at this time, quit the cotton industry, and keep him spitting on your face - dare to block the Lou family's fortune, go to death!

Guo Dalu took Lou Dalang back to his home, the two talked at night, when Lou Dalang heard Guo Dalu to him to describe the prospects of the textile industry, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep at all, Guo Dalu did not hide his secrets, the key points of cotton planting, the pests and diseases that need to be prevented, the engineering and technical difficulties of karez excavation, before the establishment of large-scale centralized workshops, how to promote small looms in small households through the way of processing, and then go to large factories and so on to solve the problem of power source, and then go to large factories and so on - even how to promote cotton cloth, a new textile distribution means, have been thought of for Lou Dalang。

The two talked about entering Hong Kong, Guo Dalu jumped out of bed barefoot, took out a pencil and wrote, Lou Dalang waited next to him, looked at one and marveled, and from time to time combined with the actual situation of the economy and people's livelihood in the northwest, corrected the measures, such as all employees of large textile factories must be women, because the folk customs in the northwest are not as open as Jiangnan, and it is a great thing to let women go out to work.

If there is a man in the factory, there will never be a female worker who dares to come to work, and no amount of silver will be given. Therefore, Houlong Village still has to trouble training some female loom maintenance personnel - Guo Daluxin said that this is the so-called feudal etiquette on the head of women.

However, as more and more women in the Northwest become textile workers and earn a share of their own money, their status in the family will also increase, and one day, some brave women will challenge the oppression that weighs on their heads.

Wait until dawn, Guo Dalu has sorted out a thick outline of the development of the northwest textile industry, naturally, some specific implementation links, but also need Lou Dalang to explore and experience. But with this high-level outline, Lou Dalang is no longer blinded, and the real great future is in front of him. (To be continued.) )