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When Sun'er went back to his hometown to study, the cotton field was spitting out cotton wool one after another. Looking around, it was white and green, as if the field was full of white flowers in spring.

Tang Zhi looked at it and said: "If the branches and leaves are pruned, it will be a flower for viewing!"

Song Yuyan said: "Then let's take a few plants back and plant them in the courtyard..."

Tang Zhi gave her a white look: "I'm just talking. During the past six months of growing cotton, I have discovered that growing cotton is not as easy as growing grain. Seeing that you have been running around for cotton these days, you are dark and thin. I'm going to kill all the chickens I raised to give you nourishment, I'm afraid I won't be able to make up for it. I'm already exhausted from taking care of the cotton fields, and I don't want to go home and grow cotton."

Song Yuyan squeezed the flesh on her body, then hugged Tang Zhi suddenly, and then frowned: "In comparison, I think you are much thinner. Just leave the matter of picking cotton to me, you Stop running around after me."

Tang Zhi felt that her method of measuring weight by hugging was unreliable, but hugging was already the norm between the two of them, and she didn't feel uncomfortable at all, but accepted her statement happily.

"There are Huang's father and son in the cotton field. I will hire some people to pick the cotton. There should be enough manpower. Then you will be able to relax. As for the wax garden, I will help you look after it. Don't go around Ran."

"Then you have to be careful."

Sun'er, who was going to help out in the cotton field after school from the free school, saw the two people embracing each other, thought about it, and decided to go home and feed the chickens before coming back—yes, Tang Zhi also raised four at his home in Jinchuan Township. But because she can't stay in Jinchuan Township all the time, Sun'er is handed over the great business of raising chickens.

Although Sun'er usually went to study at the free school, the chickens at home grew fatter and fatter under his careful care, Song Yuyan asked him: "If I want to start a chicken farm, would you like to help me raise chickens? "

Sun'er: "..."

Although raising chickens is not something worth looking forward to, Song Yuyan's words are undoubtedly a recognition of his ability, and he is still a little proud in his heart, and he is more careful when raising chickens.

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Cotton bobbing is not only done once, but also harvested many times. The people hired by Tang Zhi helped Song Yuyan, Huang and his son reduce their workload a lot, but they had not confiscated cotton before, so Song Yuyan had to ask Huang Tusu to train them first. .

Cotton is such a fresh crop for the common people. Many people in Jinchuan Township will watch the harvesting work when they pass by the cotton field, and some people secretly picked some back while watching the field.

The patriarch also came to see it in person. Once he came, those people didn't dare to steal cotton under his nose.

"This cotton looks really like cotton wool! But it's really soft when you hold it." The patriarch held the cotton and felt his hand was very hot.

Song Yuyan was so hot that she wiped off her sweat. Cotton is indeed a good thing, but she was too tired to harvest it. She thought it was a good thing that Tang Zhi had the foresight to hire some short-term workers to help, otherwise the harvest would never be finished.And she has to think about finishing the cotton in the shortest time, otherwise the cotton will deteriorate if it is left for too long.

As for how to deal with it, she had discussed with Lou Gao for a long time before. Her suggestion was to find an experienced weaver, give her some cotton, and let her figure out how to weave the cotton into cloth.In addition, it can also be stuffed into quilts and clothes after the cotton is plucked and sold as a winter warmer.

Lou Gao agreed with her plan, so he recruited many female weaving workers from Lou's workshop. Although it was the first time for them to see cotton, they heard that Lou Gao wanted to turn cotton into cloth. Difficult."

At present, the cloth is only silk, hemp, etc., which are all twisted into threads by people, and then woven into cloth.Although cotton looks loose, in fact its softness and density provide women workers with a lot of convenience.

Before the official harvest, Song Yuyan and Lou Gao provided some cotton for the weaving women to try weaving, but Song Yuyan remembered that before weaving, there seemed to be steps of removing the cotton seeds and plucking the cotton to make the cotton more elastic.

It is said that the wisdom of the working people is infinite. Song Yuyan, a theoretician who has never played cotton, can only tell what she knows, and those clever female textile workers have figured out the tools for ginning and picking cotton according to her description. .

For the first time, Song Yuyan did not need to bother about one thing, and he achieved it.

After the first piece of cotton cloth was spun, Lou Gao couldn't put it down when he touched the cotton cloth. Cotton cloth was softer than linen and the daughter's cloth of Xiangshan County. According to the feedback from the female workers, spinning cotton was much easier than spinning silk and linen.

Lou Gao has already figured out how to make money from cotton cloth: he first lets people release the news to attract people's attention, and then waits for the cloth shops and common people to watch the cotton cloth and stir it up, so he won't worry about the cotton they planted not being sold. up.

Song Yuyan sold all the cotton he harvested to Lou Gao. Although Lou Gao also grew cotton himself, he didn't grow too much. If he wanted to use cotton cloth to open up the market, he had to save more cotton.He and Song Yuyan were the only ones who had grown cotton in Mingzhou, so it was inevitable for him to buy Song Yuyan's cotton.

Since cotton and Wax Garden are harvested in August and September, Lou Gao and Song Yuyan are so busy that they don't touch the ground. Fortunately, the operation mode of Wax Garden is relatively mature, and Tang Zhi occasionally helps to keep an eye on it. The work below is carried out in an orderly manner.

Now the Sanguoshan Wax Garden has expanded a lot, and Song Yuyan and Lou Gao have also opened a wax garden in Fenghua County. Although Song Yuyan invests half of his annual income, relatively, as people's demand for candles increases The more she got, the more rewards she got.

After nearly three years of construction, Mingzhou's "Sanguoshan Wax Garden Candle" is famous in Liangzhe Road for its bright, long-lasting, and no need to cut candles. Merchants from neighboring states such as Yuezhou and Taizhou will also come to Mingzhou to buy candles. .

There are still three months until the New Year's Eve, and Fan Zhizhou has to spare time to pay attention to the gift giving.Originally, he didn't pay much attention to these things, so he just waved his hands and asked people to prepare the ceremony according to the previous list.However, he later remembered that the candles used in the yamen seemed a bit special, so he asked the people below where he bought them.

The people below told the truth, and he vaguely remembered that Liu Chuo had brought a lot of these candles with him after he was transferred.At that time, he thought that Liu Chuo lived a luxurious life, or that he had accepted bribes from the underworld, but he didn't expect that he bought these candles at a high price because he really thought they were useful.

He paid a little attention to those candles, and after learning a lot about the Sanguo Mountain Wax Garden, he felt that the candles produced here could be put on the list of rituals.

Knowing the relationship between Lou Gao and Lou Hao, he told Lou Hao about it.Lou Hao said: "My son and others did this together, and the subordinates can't be the masters!"

Fan Zhizhou always thought that the Lou family should be in the lead in this matter, but he didn't expect that a third person was involved in it. It just so happened that the candle making technology was created by that person. It would be very difficult to ignore her role in it. is difficult.

He had no choice but to invite Song Yuyan and Bai Can together when Zhaolou Gao came.

Lou Gao and Song Yuyan had dealt with Liu Chuo and others a long time ago, so they were naturally not afraid, and Bai Can had seen a lot of things in the world with Lou Gao in running the plantation these years, and they would never see each other like they did before. People of higher social status feel reserved or nervous.

When the three saw that Fan Zhizhou did not act inappropriately due to nervousness, the conversation between the two parties went smoothly.

It was Lou Gao who was negotiating with Fan Zhizhou, because he knew how to negotiate so that the government could accept some candles as a gift at a price they could afford.

Fan Zhizhou is not a stingy person, he did not adopt the practice of other Zhizhou "buy some special products at a low price, and then send them to the palace as festival gifts", but bought a thousand candles at the market price.

In view of the kindness of the governor, Lou Gao and Song Yuyan didn't mind introducing cotton to him.

Fan Zhizhou knew that Liu Chuo's transfer left with good achievements such as Champa Rice, dredging the two lakes, and resolving land annexation by powerful landlords.And he has been in Mingzhou for more than half a year. Apart from handling some official duties and visiting everywhere, he seems to have no political achievements at all.

If the cotton recommended by Lou Gao and the others can be widely planted in Mingzhou, the common people will no longer have to worry about getting cold in winter.

So the government came forward to collect some cotton seeds and a few bolts of cotton cloth from Lou Gao, and then sent them to Bianjing together with candles and other specialties of Mingzhou as a gift.

Song Yuyan and others don't know how the officials will react after receiving his ceremony. After her cotton planting was successful, the patriarch went out and bought a lot of cotton seeds from her, intending to let the clan set aside one-tenth of the land for planting. For cotton, if a family owns ten acres of land, it is necessary to plant one acre of cotton.

This kind of coercive method made the tribe quite dissatisfied, but after seeing Song Yuyan's cotton planting and the profits obtained from the cotton, most of them were moved.

Later, a new kind of cloth in the county town—cotton cloth began to be sold in cloth villages, and after the cotton cloth was soft, warm, comfortable and affordable, more and more people agreed to plant cotton.

"Women in each of your families know how to make women's reds, and they also have spindles. Since rubbing hemp clothes is rubbing, rubbing cotton is the same. After the cotton is planted, it can be woven into cloth, or stuffed into bedding and clothes. You don’t have to worry about getting cold in winter anymore.”

"In addition, Yizhuang decided that in the future, all winter clothes in the clan will be issued with a cotton coat, so the cotton you grow can also be sold to the clan. You don't have to worry about not being able to grow it. Yuyan has already agreed, as long as there are people in the clan If you want to plant, he can teach you how to plant.”

The patriarch explained these truths to the tribe, and many people listened to it.Some people still have doubts: "But when we pay the summer tax, we have to pay silk and linen. Does the court recognize cotton?"

"Don't worry, Zhizhou has sent the cotton and cotton cloth to the imperial court. I believe there will be a conclusion by the beginning of next spring at the latest."

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There is no need to wait until the beginning of spring next year. After Fan Zhizhou sent cotton and cotton cloth to the palace, and explained in detail how the cotton will benefit the people's lives, and Song Fu, Liu Chuo and others knew that it was Lou Gao and Song Yuyan who were messing with it. After they came out, they also believed in their character and endorsed Cotton, so the officials paid more attention to it.

Some officials in the court also said: "In recent years, there have been occasional natural disasters in various places, so that the people have been displaced, and they have a lot of troubles. They said that the previous chaos in Mingzhou was caused by the people's hard life. If the people If you can eat enough and dress well, then the chaos in the people will be much less..."

When the officials heard it, they thought it made sense.

Clothing, food, housing and transportation are the most concerned issues of the people. Now he has ordered the vigorous promotion of Champa rice. With the increase of grain production, the people can get closer to food and clothing.And if cotton is promoted, the people will not be afraid of the cold in winter, will they feel that their lives are still passable, and they will not think about the problem of resistance?

Therefore, the government quickly issued an order to encourage farmers in Liangzhe Road to grow cotton, and the imperial court also recognized cotton cloth as the tax item for the people of Mingzhou to pay the summer tax.As for the issue of seeds, he also asked Shibo to negotiate with foreign merchants to see if they could retrieve more cotton seeds from Tianzhu.

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After the winter in Mingzhou, the people really realized that cotton is a good thing to grow. A cotton coat is warmer than ordinary people wearing three linen clothes and paper clothes, but its price is only a little more expensive than linen clothes.

It's a pity that when they wanted to buy cotton-padded clothes, they discovered that the few acres of cotton grown by Song Yuyan and the seven or eight acres of cotton planted by Lou's family had all been used up, or spun into cotton cloth, or made into quilts and cotton-padded clothes, and they were all sold out. .