Take the mall to Datang

But some people found out that Lantian County had a bumper harvest this year, and after inquiring, they found out that the main problem was those people who patrol the streets in Chang'an City every day to snatch night fragrance.

Then Guo Shouyi, the magistrate of Lantian County, wrote a memorial about the bumper harvest and reported it to the imperial court. It was very simple that Yuanshan, the founding baron of Lantian County, invented something called chemical fertilizer. After experiments, it could increase the yield of farmland by [-] to [-] percent per mu. .

As a result, the day after Guo Shouyi gave the memorial, Yuan Shan was called to the East Palace.

"Your Majesty, my minister." Yuan Shan said immediately when he saw Li Shimin.

"Yuanshan, I heard that your chemical fertilizer can increase the yield of farmland, but this is the case." Li Shimin said.

"Your Majesty, there is indeed such a thing." Yuan Shan replied.

"That's great. If this chemical fertilizer is applied to the entire Tang Dynasty, wouldn't it be able to make the people have enough food and clothing? Yuan Shan, what do you think?" Li Shimin said.

Yuan Shan was a little helpless for the obvious fertilizer formula he wanted, and kept his face calm, saying: "What your majesty said is that I am willing to offer the formula of chemical fertilizer to the imperial court."

Immediately after explaining the method of retting organic fertilizer, Li Shimin immediately said: "It turns out that making chemical fertilizer is so simple."

Yuan Shan was laughing in his heart, the base fertilizer is good for production, but where do you go to find so much night scent, don't you still have to take it step by step, so he said: "Your Majesty, don't act too hastily at this time, the 'raw materials' needed for organic fertilizers are not easy to collect I think it would be better for the imperial court to issue a decree to build latrines and cesspools in various places, and encourage people to develop the habit of using latrines and pay attention to hygiene, which is conducive to the collection of feces raw materials, and saves manpower and transportation costs."

"I will consider this. It seems that you handed over a memorial not long ago, which said something about cotton planting, the Datang Merchants Honor List. This is your idea." Li Shimin asked.

"This was brought up by the princess during the discussion with the minister. It's not entirely the minister's intention." Yuan Shan hurriedly dragged Li Xiuning into the water together. This matter was originally a project of the Supreme Emperor. Now that the two father and son are not dealing with each other, this is an accident. There might be trouble.

"The matter of cotton is helpful to the common people, but the matter of the honor list of Tang merchants should not be mentioned again. The matter of cotton should be handled according to the previously negotiated matter, but the price of recycling by the imperial court should not be too high." Li Shimin said.

"Your Majesty, without the list of honors, I can only guarantee that the court's recovery price will be [-]% of the market price." Yuan Shan said immediately.

This Li Shimin is obviously lowering the price, and he does not give reputation or subsidy to the project funds. If he wants to lower the price, he can do it with one sentence, anyway, he has an objection in his heart.

"What is the specific price of Jiucheng?" Li Shimin asked.

"I can't guarantee the price as you go, but it will definitely not be higher than the price of silk and satin." Yuan Shan said.

"Well, we'll discuss this matter later." Li Shimin seemed dissatisfied with the [-]% discount on the cotton recycling price.

Li Yuan originally planned to customize it for the Tang army. When the cotton was recycled, his private treasury would have [-]% more profit from the cotton. There is really no other way, so I can only go to the market as I go.

Yuan Shan didn't have much hope for Li Shimin's attitude. After he came out of the palace, he felt a sense of crisis, because once the production method of base fertilizer was spread, Chang'an Yexiang would become a "sweet pastry". His fertilizer factory seems to be facing a crisis of shortage of raw materials.

The average harvest in Sanli, Sili, Wulizhuang, and Lantian Village is very good, and the fertilizer factory itself is not enough. If there are some competitors, even if their fertilizer effect is good, they still need to have Raw materials are produced.

With a sense of crisis, Yuan Shan immediately began to think of a way, so after returning to the champion, he began to send people out to various cattle and horse markets to buy cattle, cattle, horses, and pigs as much as he wanted.

A few days later, the Datang mobile vehicle-mounted toilet was born, and these were prepared for road repairers.

The [-] helpers recruited by Zheng Qi were strictly prohibited from defecating anywhere, and all of them used simple toilets in work-intensive areas.

Textile factories are much simpler, because these sanitation facilities have been built long ago, and they are also the main raw material collection targets for fertilizer factories.

Half a month later, the imperial court really announced the method of making soil-based fertilizers, and asked local yamen to supervise the construction of latrines and pay attention to personal hygiene and other matters.

Chang'an City was the first to be tried out, especially the commercial-intensive areas of the eastern and western cities, which were the first to be built.

After the news about chemical fertilizers spread, some businessmen also took up the idea of ​​using chemical fertilizers. There were also large households with large populations and livestock, and all of them were kept for their own use. This directly led to a crisis of raw materials for the chemical fertilizer factories outside Chang'an City.

Now the basic output of the chemical fertilizer factory can only meet the amount used by several townships in Lantian County. The business has been impacted. Yuanshan can only choose to optimize the product and gradually transform from soil fertilizer to produce real fertilizer.

After the autumn harvest, all the farmers in Sili and Wulizhuang went out to work to make money with others. After the promotion last year, the people who worked on the kang had not stopped since the beginning of spring. Just after the autumn harvest, the farmers started to work again .

The farmers in Wulizhuang are now able to bring home at least fifty cash every day when they go out to work, and more can reach two to three hundred cash, earning no less than skilled craftsmen.

Even the women in Wulizhuang are busy making matches. Now the profit of matches has increased to [-] yuan a day. A large number of matches are wholesaled to several surrounding cities, especially through Luoyang. In the north and south directions, the price is four or five cents.

This is thanks to Ma Zhou's strategy for the merchants. The sales volume has gradually increased, and the production pressure is very high. Now it is not selling goods that are in short supply, but selling volume.

If things go on like this, matches are likely to increase the selling price, which is a planned thing. The sale of candles is also very profitable. From Chang'an to Luoyang, there are completely vacant markets, which are allowed to sell.

The candle business of Changsun's family is definitely the best gift in Chang'an, especially for literati. Candles are widely used in Chang'an, but they are still unaffordable for ordinary people.

The pulley carriages made by Yuanjia Workshop are welcomed by merchants, especially the wealthy merchants who grow cotton. It can save a lot of time to go to Chengdu. When the autumn harvest is used to transport grain, the pulley carriages are dispatched. It is useful, so that Blacksmith Lu is now making pulley bearings every day and has no time to do other things. For this reason, he has recruited several new apprentices, and has gained some fame in the Chang'an blacksmith circle.

In October, the road between Datang and Chengdu becomes lively. From time to time, there will be a convoy of hundreds of people, horse-drawn carriages, carts, etc., starting from Chang'an and going straight to Chengdu.

Chapter 172 Cotton Listing

In mid-October of the ninth year of Wude, in the textile factory of the Cotton Chamber of Commerce, the temperature in the factory building is filled with fire walls and geothermal heat. It is very noisy here now. In order to prevent the female workers from concentrating on their work, they are plugged with earplugs made of cotton in their ears. .

Most of the female workers are spinning thread. With the application of Jenny looms, there are ten spindles on one loom, and the spinning speed is ten times higher than that of ordinary looms. There are now sixty Jenny looms, which is directly half of the top. The amount of thread used by female workers, but the actual situation is that the amount of thread spun by 20 people will be satisfied.

Zheng Qi and Xue Kai were going crazy seeing this situation. They didn't expect the loom provided by Yuanshan to be so efficient that other threads could be used for weaving. They had already seen the future of Tang cloth. The industry will be led by the Cotton Chamber of Commerce.

"The cloth is out." The management told you to gather in the textile factory and wait for the first cotton cloth to be produced.

It is not easy to produce this piece of cloth. First of all, the cotton must be sorted, removed, washed, dried, etc., and the cotton must be rolled into sliver, spun into thread, and then weaved.

"So soft cotton cloth." Zheng Qi said happily.

Xue Kai and the others also came to wipe the cotton cloth. Yuan Shan was very excited, but his face was very calm, and said: "Dear Chamber of Commerce shareholders, starting from today, the Cotton Chamber of Commerce will spread cotton all over the Tang Dynasty."

"There should be applause here." Yuan Shan said suddenly.

Everyone froze for a moment before realizing that it was written in the employee handbook that applause was needed at this time.

In the sparse applause of the crowd, Yuan Shan said: "The wholesale of cotton can now be carried out, and the members of the Chamber of Commerce are notified that the Cotton Chamber of Commerce will let cotton float all over the Tang Dynasty."

"Quack quack!" The applause this time was much better than before.

A week later, there was another burst of explosions in the Yuanjia store in Hepingfang. Not only that, but also a lot of wealthy businessmen came, and the inner circle of Hepingfang was blocked for a while, and the crowds surged. In such a lively place, even the patrol officers in the square came out to help maintain law and order.

In front of the shops in Hepingfang, Peng Dahai, the inspector, squeezed over from the crowd. When he saw Yuan Shan, he said respectfully, "Young Lord, is it open again today? There are too many people in Hepingfang, so don't let go of the explosion." Be careful of hurting people."

"What Peng Yuxun said was that he forgot about the hidden dangers because he was so busy with the bustle, so he stopped immediately, causing trouble for Peng Yuxun." Yuan Shan said politely.

This happened not once or twice, and he didn't know why more people came to see the excitement every time.

The Hepingfang store is well-known in Chang'an. Let alone the top-grade products sold in the store, the large row of plaques hanging on the store's facade is a unique landscape. For small things like candy, there will naturally be more people watching the excitement. It’s been a long time since Hepingfang set off a blasting rod. Today, it suddenly played so loudly. Can you not attract people to watch the excitement?

"Look at the things hanging on the door of the shop. Someone actually hung a foot of cloth on the shop. What is this for?" asked a spectator.

At this time, a scholar was also watching the excitement, and when he heard someone questioning, he said, "That banner says, Wu De's cotton product launch promotion meeting in October, [-]th year."

Then the scholars began to explain to everyone that the literal sense of the cotton product launch promotion meeting was that this person was none other than Ma Zhou who was mixed in the crowd, and his current identity was "Tuo".

"You don't know yet, look at my clothes are made of cotton cloth, see how soft the quality is, and how skin-friendly the fabric is, cotton cloth can not only be used for clothing, but also can be used to make quilts for filling Cotton, you won’t be afraid of the cold in winter, and the ten-jin quilt can easily survive the winter without stress.” Ma Zhou was talking hard.

Suddenly someone asked, "That's not right, this cotton cloth hasn't been sold yet, how did you wear it?"

Ma Zhou had already prepared his speech and said: "To tell you the truth, this is thanks to my second uncle's third cousin's nephew's cousin who works in the textile factory of the Cotton Chamber of Commerce. She got the goods in advance and paid for it." A lot of twists and turns."