I am happy to be a mother in a famine year, I have a system to farm the land

"Qiu Qi, it's easy to find this manpower. After all, the wages paid by the cement workshop are indeed high."

“But there are so many people, and it’s impossible not to have so many tools.”

Zhu Qiuqi thought for a while and said, "Uncle Zhang, I will handle this matter. Just don't worry and find someone."

Zhang Kui saw that Zhu Qiuqi was paying attention, but he didn't ask further questions.

Since Zhu Qiuqi said she would handle this matter, they didn't have to worry.

After Zhu Qiuqi returned to the Zhang family, she told Xuanyuan Ke that she needed more tools.

Xuanyuan Ke pondered for a moment.

"You draw the tools you need, and then mark the required quantities, and Gu will have people do it as soon as possible."

Xuanyuan Ke had already spoken, and Zhu Qiuqi was no longer worried.

After all, these royal products are all high-quality products.

Zhu Qiuqi thought of what Xuanyuan Ke had mentioned about the coldness in the north, and then Zhu Qiuqi remembered that there seemed to be no cotton in this place.

The clothes everyone wears in winter are filled with reed cotton.

That is to say, their family's life has been better this year, so some animal feathers were stuffed inside.

But these feathers didn't seem to be clear and clean, and Zhu Qiuqi could obviously smell the fishy smell of animals on the clothes the old lady of the Zhang family prepared for her.

For this reason, she specially collected the feathers and cleaned them with the detergent and bactericide in the system for a long time before she dared to use those feathers for her family.

When the old lady of the Zhang family used those feathers before, she was still sighing in her heart. Zhu Qiuqi didn't know what to use to treat those feathers, but they didn't even have any odor, and they still smelled of flowers.

Now she has not made cleaning fluids and disinfectants, so she can only deal with them.

But this incident also reminded Zhu Qiuqi that maybe she should look for cotton.

After all, those feathers are not cheap. Even if their family is not short of money, she still feels that those feathers are ridiculously expensive.

If the old lady of the Zhang family hadn't been worried about her children being cold, she probably wouldn't have bought those feathers.

Zhu Qiuqi thought that potatoes and sweet potatoes had already appeared, and even peppers had appeared. It was impossible that there would be no crops like cotton.

She thought for a while, went back to the room, took out the pen and paper, drew a pattern of cotton on the paper and showed it to Xuanyuan Ke.

"I wonder if Your Highness has ever seen such crops."

Xuanyuan Ke didn't expect that Zhu Qiuqi would suddenly ask about crops, but he also knew that Zhu Qiuqi couldn't ask casually, there must be something important.

He took the paper and looked at it, and found that he had never seen anything on it.

"What is this?"

Zhu Qiuqi looked at Xuanyuan Ke's expression and knew that he had never seen him before, and felt a little disappointed.

"This thing is called cotton. When it matures, the outer shell is hard, but the white flowers inside are very soft."

Xuanyuan Ke stared at the piece of paper for a while, and finally shook his head.

On the other hand, Rong Xiuyun on the side heard Zhu Qiuqi's words and fell into deep thought for a while.

Just when Zhu Qiuqi was disappointed, Rong Xiuyun suddenly stood up.

Everyone was shocked by his actions.

"Xiu Yun, what's wrong with you?"

Rong Xiuyun looked at Xuanyuan Ke.

"Your Highness, I wonder if that piece of paper and blueprint can be shown to me?"

Xuanyuan Ke was a little confused, but still handed over the drawing.

"Madam, do you know where this cotton comes from and what it is used for?"

Zhu Qiuqi remembered that when she bought chili peppers before, she bought the seeds from a foreigner.

"The woman heard from a Fanbang man that she bought the pepper seeds from that Fanbang man. He said where could they have such white flowers."

"As for the effect, I heard that the white flowers are very soft and warm when held in the hand."

"The woman heard from His Highness today that it was bitterly cold on the border, and she thought of the feathers that my mother put in her clothes when she was making winter clothes a few days ago."

"The women were thinking that if the feathers filling the winter clothes were replaced with cotton, would it be warmer?"

"There are many soldiers on the border. If we need too many feathers to fill winter clothes, the supply will be in short supply. But if we have these white flowers, maybe the soldiers on the border can wear winter clothes and no longer endure the cold winter."

When Xuanyuan Ke heard Zhu Qiuqi's words, he was stunned for a long time and then stood up.

He looked at Zhu Qiuqi in astonishment, and the hands hidden in his sleeves clenched into fists unconsciously.

"Mrs. Zhu, are you telling the truth? How much does that compare to the yield of white flowers?"

Zhu Qiuqi shook her head, "This civilian woman doesn't know. After all, we have never planted it in Zhou Dynasty."

"The women just heard about it, so they thought that using these white flowers might be much cheaper and more practical than those feathers."

When Xuanyuan Ke heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

Zhu Qiuqi was right. They had not planted this white flower all week, so how could they know its specific yield?

At this moment, Rong Xiuyun, who had been silent until now, suddenly said: "Your Highness, if this cotton is high-yield, it can produce about ten stones per acre."

As Rong Xiuyun finished speaking, everyone looked at him in shock.

Ten stones is not a small number. Each stone weighs sixty kilograms. Aren’t these ten stones six hundred kilograms? This is really productive.

But why did Rong Xiuyun know the yield of cotton?

Zhu Qiuqi looked at Rong Xiuyun with a somewhat complicated expression.

"Master Rong, have you seen this cotton?"

Rong Xiuyun nodded, "My father brought this back from further west, but I don't know if it came from Fanbang."

"At that time, my father was just looking for grain seeds, but he didn't expect to find this thing."

"But so far, the white flowers are only sold as ornamental flowers. Because the girls over there like the white flowers, we planted more this time..."

Zhu Qiuqi was stunned for a moment. She really didn't expect that Prince Rong would take the cotton to Baiyue.

Logically speaking, this cotton should come from the Western Regions.

Is it possible that Prince Rong went to the Western Regions before?

It seems that she will really have to go to Baiyue in the future, maybe she will find something good.

"Mrs. Zhu, you just said that these white flowers can be used to fill winter clothes, but is it true?"

Zhu Qiuqi nodded, "I'm not sure, after all, I haven't seen it before. But since the white flowers are warm in your hands, they shouldn't be cold if you put them in your clothes."

Rong Xiuyun's fingers couldn't help but tremble. If things were true as Zhu Qiuqi said, wouldn't their people no longer have to suffer from the cold in winter?

Xuanyuan Ke on the side also reacted at this time and said quickly: "Xiu Yun, I wonder if I can buy this cotton from Baiyue?"

Rong Xiuyun was stunned for a moment when she heard Xuanyuan Ke's words.

"Your Highness wants to buy cotton?"

Xuanyuan Ke nodded, "You heard it just now, it's bitterly cold in the north."