Taoyuan Farmhouse Daily
Chapter 62
It was the first time cotton appeared in Taoyuan Village, and many people had never seen it, including Song Wancheng, who had only heard about it before and had never seen it.So when the Chang family's cotton was taken back, it immediately attracted the attention of many people. Everyone wanted to know how this thing was woven into clothes and how it was.
Song Wancheng was also very interested, and he told Chang Xile to call him when he was handling cotton.Song Wancheng is a very curious person, interested in everything.And I will try it myself, there is no such thing as some noble scholars who disdain to be contaminated with accidents of reading, especially this kind of rough work that working people will do.
Chang Xile felt that only by understanding people's livelihood can he be a good official, and only by knowing how the people work can he understand the hard work involved.Song Wancheng has such qualities, and he has a high chance of becoming a good official in the future, so he naturally supports him to see and experience everywhere.
When he was about to start processing the cotton, he asked Song Wan to come over early in the morning.And Wanniang and Song Yuxi also came over, the two families are now very close, and they often visit each other on weekdays.Song Yuxi is now playing very well with the children of the Chang family, and Wanniang is also very close with the sisters-in-law.Later, Wanniang was very good at economic matters, and it was also because of her relationship with Mrs. Cao and Mrs. Ding during these days in Taoyuan Village.Seeing how they manage the workshop, they gained a lot of experience, which Wan Niang did not expect at the time.
"What's the use of this thing?" Song Wancheng asked curiously when he saw Chang Yu carrying out a wooden shelf.
Chang Xile introduced: "Look at these cottons, there are cotton seeds on them. We have to separate the cotton seeds. And this thing is used for separation. It can be called a cotton gin."
Song Wancheng suddenly realized, and said in admiration: "Your brain is faster than ordinary people. It is easy to pick this thing by hand, but you actually thought of using tools."
Chang Xile smiled, and to be honest, if he hadn't had the experience of later generations, he would definitely not be able to figure out how to use tools to save trouble and effort at the beginning when he came into contact with strange things for the first time.Almost all agricultural tools are slowly explored in practice, and there is a step-by-step process.
"We only planted one acre now, but it is really easy to harvest two hundred catties by hand, but if we plant more in the future, it will be different. Using tools can improve efficiency and save labor. It will drop, and the profits will be huge.”
Song Wancheng also understands this truth, but he has never seen a person like Chang Xile who knows how to use tools and think about making things. He sighed: "Now there are so many tricks in Taoyuan Village, you still need to save money. Artificial. You want to lead the whole village to become rich, so don’t you have to come up with a lot of tricks to achieve it? Sometimes I really want to dig out your brain to see if you are different from ordinary people.”
"Then I have to stay away from you, maybe one day you will chop off my head with a single brain twitch."
"Then I have to have this chance too! It's not like you don't know that you have Uncle Tiger who can crush people to death with one hand." Song Wancheng glanced at Chang Yu with a look of fear.Now everyone follows Chang Xisheng and calls Chang Yu Uncle Hu, because his lethality is too great.
From time to time, this little guy goes up the mountain to get a bear or a wolf to come back, especially after he has a bow and arrow, his hunting skills are even more powerful.Chang Xile was afraid that he would bring disaster to the back mountain, and also controlled the number of times he went hunting.
After finishing speaking, Song Wancheng said with emotion: "It's really a blessing from the previous life to be a fellow countryman with you."
Song Wancheng has been to so many places, but he has never seen anyone like Chang Xile.
This world pays attention to clans. In fact, big clans still help each other very much, but no one is like Chang Xile. They don't simply give money, but point a way.
After all, it is not easy to maintain unilateral charity.Only by standing up on your own can you change your predicament.
What Chang Xile did was a virtuous circle. Not only did it not harm her own interests, but she even increased her own interests in this circle, but it also achieved the purpose of helping, and did not make the beneficiary feel inferior.
"If I didn't have the folks who used to offer you an egg and a handful of vegetables, I wouldn't be where I am today." Chang Xile said sincerely.
Song Wancheng stretched out his hand to pat Chang Xile's shoulder to express his approval, but before reaching Chang Xile, Chang Yu patted her away.
Song Wancheng was not happy, "You little brat, you are too domineering. Brother Chang and I are good brothers, what's the matter if we touch each other?"
Chang Yu just looked at him like this, without saying a word, but the meaning of rejection was very obvious.
Song Wancheng originally wanted to tease him, but Song Yuxi on the side didn't want to, and made Chang Yu angry, so what should I do if I ignore him then.
"Father, don't you want to see how to use this thing, why haven't you started yet?"
Song Wancheng didn't know what his son was thinking, so he had no choice but to give up.
Since I came here, although I haven't missed my schoolwork, whenever I have free time, I run around with the children of the Chang family.At first, Wanniang was a little worried, because Song Yuxi's body was not very good since she was a child, she was weaker than ordinary children, and she would get sick every now and then.
But I didn't expect that after running around like this for a while, I would get tanned, my body would become much tougher, and I would eat more than before.Probably because you are in good health, you can remember reading better, and your homework is even better, so Wanniang no longer cares about him.But it is required that the daily homework must be completed, otherwise they are not allowed to leave the house.
Song Wancheng rubbed Song Yuxi's head, "Alright, you are the one who is impatient."
The cotton gin made by Chang Xile is a very simple original cotton gin. It consists of two rollers that are next to each other and rotate in opposite directions. The seed cotton enters between the two rollers and spits out from the other side like a cloth belt. , the cottonseed will be stuck.
This cotton gin is faster than a hand gin, but not as good as a pedal gin.
Chang Xile did not make a pedal cotton gin. First, it was relatively more complicated. He didn’t have time to think about it. There is still little cotton, so he put it aside for the time being. Anyway, this cotton gin can also be used now; second. Although the pedal cotton gin has high working efficiency, it can easily damage the fibers and affect the strength of the produced yarn products.
Therefore, unless a large-scale processing state is formed in the future and efficiency must be improved, it is better to use the original cotton gin to remove cottonseed first.
This thing is easy to operate. Chang Xile demonstrated it once, and everyone knew how to do it.
The children Shanzi and Song Yuxi scrambled to get started as if they were just playing around, and finally managed to deal with the more than 200 kilograms of seed cotton.
Cottonseed can be used to extract oil, and cottonseed oil can also be used, but it must be refined.Unrefined cottonseed oil contains a lot of gossypol, which has a great impact on male fertility, and women who eat it may cause menstrual disorders and amenorrhea.
Chang Xile is not very clear about how to use the current situation to remove gossypol and other harmful substances in it, and there is no way to test it here. I don't know whether the refined oil meets the standards, so I temporarily gave up the idea of making cottonseed oil.Anyway, there are still few cotton seeds now, and there are not enough to make seeds, let alone extract oil.
Even if there are more crops in the future, oil extraction is not necessary. Cottonseed husks can be used to grow shiitake mushrooms, and cottonseeds can be ground and used as feed for cattle and sheep and land fertilizer, which will not be wasted.
After removing all the cotton seeds, Chang Xile's first thing to do with the cotton was to bounce a quilt.
The tools for playing cotton are also very simple, just a bow with tensioned strings and a small mallet. Put the tensioned strings in the cotton, and use the mallet to strike the strings to make them vibrate, so as to achieve the purpose of combing the fibers.
But it is easier said than done.Chang Xile just saw someone playing it in a farmhouse while traveling.At that time, I also tried to get started, but I couldn't grasp the essentials.Every time I played it very badly, on the contrary, it made the cotton fly up and choked my lungs from coughing.
Therefore, he is only in charge of guidance here, and he is determined not to get started.
Before picking the cotton, the cotton should be placed on a specially made table covered with straw mats.The cotton should be placed evenly, and everyone didn't feel anything, and tried to follow his request.
Song Wancheng has the same virtue as Chang Xile, with good brains but poor hands and feet.
And it was Chang Yu who did it without any surprises in the end, but after trying it for a while, he mastered the technique and played it with style.Others know it well, but after all, it is inevitable that they are unfamiliar, and the first few quilts are probably not very good.
Picking cotton is also a technical and physical work, and it will be greatly reduced if it is not done well.
"This thing is quite interesting." Mrs. Cao said while playing it.
Second Sister-in-law Cao no longer has to run around to set up a stall, she just hires people to do the stall. They have been doing it for such a long time, so they naturally know how much they earn every day, so they are not afraid of being coveted.Besides, if you don't trust me, you won't let go.
The second sister-in-law Cao left the food stall to take charge of the cornel workshop and the milling workshop.
The Chang family members were trained by Chang Xile. Although they don't know many characters, basic arithmetic is no longer a problem.And every time he will instill some management theories that fit the situation here, teach them how to use data to analyze, etc. The course is all aimed at training them as managers.
Among them, Mrs. Cao and Mrs. Ding are the best learners. Except for Chang Xisheng, the other brothers in the family are not good at management, but are more suitable for work.
Although Chang Xixing is dull, he is a good farmer, while Chang Xiwang is doing well in the oil mill. He is willing to put in the effort, but he is not willing to use his brain.So the management was handed over to these two sisters-in-law, and Mrs. Wang was in charge of the family affairs.She is the elder sister-in-law, so it is only natural that she should be responsible for these things.
Her temper is too soft, she can't manage people outside, but she can manage the family very well.
Although Mrs. Sun still has energy now, the housekeeping is gradually transferred to Mrs. Wang, but she still dare not let her take charge of the money.The Chang family now has a solid family background. Although they have invested a lot of money, every time they earn a little, they have new things to do, so the funds are always flowing.But even so, compared to before, there is still a lot of money left on hand.
Although the Wang family is much more honest now, Mrs. Sun is still worried. It is really Mrs. Wang's temperament that makes her dare not fully trust her.
"Arms are still quite sore after a long time." Ding Sansao said, she also tried it just now, and she knew that this job was not so easy to do.
Seeing that the cotton became whiter and whiter as it bounced, Mrs. Sun couldn't help but stepped forward to touch it, "This thing looks good, and it will definitely be very warm in winter with this quilt."
Chang Xile said: "The cloth woven with this thing is also very good, but I have to trouble my sisters-in-law for a while."
Although cotton is a new thing, the principle of weaving it into thread is similar. The sisters-in-law in the family are all good at weaving cloth, and these will not be difficult for them.
Now it is for self-use, and the number is not large, so I will not hire others.Moreover, the Chang family still doesn't have the concept of hiring people to serve them. They have always done what they can do by themselves.
Chang Xile didn't have time to improve the spinning wheel and loom here, and he only knew a little about these, so he had to communicate with the carpenters, he provided ideas, and the carpenters tried to find ways to realize them.It's not impossible for Chang Xile to struggle on her own, knowledge takes a long time.This time, he only intends to remind one or two words, and let these carpenters use their brains to figure it out.Although this process will slow down, it is also improving their creativity.
After all, what he knows is limited, and if these people want to be independent, they have to learn to think, instead of just relying on him.
The majority of people are very wise, as long as they have a piece of soil suitable for growth, they can give many surprises.Most of the various objects that have survived forever in history were invented and created by these lovely people.
Second Sister-in-Law Cao said angrily, "Xiao Wu is really being more polite. Wouldn't it be nice to say such things to my sister-in-law?"
Chang Xile clasped her hands together, and said seriously: "It's my younger brother who made a mistake, please don't blame my sister-in-law."
Second Sister-in-law Cao laughed even more, "Look, I'm such a shameless person that others would even apologize to me if they wanted to confess."
Everyone laughed when they heard this, and teased Chang Xile one after another.
Now Chang Xile's reputation is very famous in Daoxiang County and neighboring counties. Whether it is the agricultural tools, or the harvest of rice, dogwood, camellia oleifera, mung beans, wood, etc. at a generous price, the local people have received real benefits. the benefits of.
In fact, the prices that Chang Xile charges for these items are not much higher than other merchants, but are controlled at a relatively reasonable price, and they cannot disrupt the local economy because of themselves.Because of sudden changes, huge shocks can easily lead to the collapse of the local economy.
After all, he can't manage all the projects. If the interests of other businessmen are damaged to a certain extent, it is very likely to counterattack and get it back on other places.In the end, it was still the common people who lost their interests, and the extra money he gave was just taken away by those businessmen in other ways, and he even established an enemy for nothing.
Although he now has the strength to not be afraid of ordinary businessmen, he has been rewarded by the emperor anyway, as long as he is not touched, no one will touch him.But if it really makes people desperate, then it's not necessarily true. Cutting off people's wealth is equal to killing people's lives, and there are always people who are willing to take risks for their own interests.
So he was just like those businessmen who deliberately lowered prices during the harvest, which led to the depreciation of these agricultural products. The prices were uniform and did not fluctuate much.
In this way, although those businessmen were unhappy, they would not be unbearable.
Everyone saw this, and he was exempted from taxes, so he was naturally very grateful to Chang Xile.Although Chang Xile has always emphasized the brand of Taoyuan Village, everyone still will not forget to ignore the role of Chang Xile.
That's why some people even set up a long life card for Chang Xile at home and enshrine it every day, hoping that Chang Xile will be healthy and live a long life.
Perhaps because of the comparison from the outside world, when the Chang family faced Chang Xile, they were more relaxed than before.They often make jokes with each other, and treat Chang Xile, who is an outsider's myth, as an ordinary person as a family member, so that Chang Xile can live in a more relaxed environment.
Otherwise, being worshiped as a god all day long, Chang Xile really doesn't think it's a pleasant thing.
It doesn't take too much time to play the quilt. Song Wancheng took his wife and children to spend a meal at Chang's house, and saw the finished product in the afternoon.
Because cotton cloth has not been woven yet, the quilt cover is made of high-quality linen and silk.Chang Xile once tried to let everyone use the form of quilt covers, which is more convenient to remove and wash, without having to remove stitches and sew every time.But he felt that such a good proposal, which was widely used in the previous life, would not work here.
Everyone felt that the quilt was not flat enough, nor did it fit well enough, and it was just a few stitches to mend without getting tired, so they gave it up.
This is the first time that Chang Xile's proposal has been rejected by everyone. I feel that not everything is suitable for this place, but I am also happy about it.Now that the Chang family has more knowledge and more ideas than before, they will not follow blindly, but have learned to think. This is a good sign.
The quilt was made according to the size of the 1.8-meter bed tube commonly used in previous lives. It was wide and big, weighing a full ten catties.I don't know what's going on here, all the quilts are small and short, every time Chang Xile rolls them up and then covers them up but not down, covering left and right, it's very uncomfortable.
Now it's not that there is a lack of materials, he doesn't want to wrong himself.
Wan Niang touched the newly plucked quilt and sighed: "This thing is really warm."
Mrs. Cao touched the soft and warm quilt, and said: "Isn't it? This quilt is no worse than the silk quilt, and it's useless. The silk quilt is as expensive and not as rough as hemp. This thing can be grown in an acre of land." More than 200 and nearly [-] catties. This is the first time I have no experience in planting. There will definitely be more than this next year. This is easier than raising silkworms. Silkworm cocoon spinning is much more troublesome than this."
Song Wancheng also praised: "If such a good thing can be widely planted, it will be a great fortune for the country."
Chang Xile said with regret: "It's a pity that many people still cling to hemp and silk. The promotion of this thing is hindered, and I'm afraid it won't be a big tool in a while."
This is the news that Pei Qingyun brought him. New things are not easy to promote, and the common people don't have much fertile land, so they can't be forced.Otherwise, once this happens, it is likely that some places will force farmers to plant all of them for the sake of political achievements, and as a result, there will be no rations.
Landlords who own a large amount of land are not willing to grow these new things. They are still accustomed to hemp and silk and do not want to change them. As a result, there are not many people who grow cotton.
Although Chang Xile knows that this is a normal historical process, everyone will eventually see the goodness of this thing and use it widely.But precisely because he knew the benefits of this thing, he felt that planting it later would be a loss, so he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.You even want to fly over and knock those stubborn people on the head, why are you so stupid!
Song Wancheng also heard from him before that he didn't know how good this thing was at first, but now that he saw it with his own eyes, he couldn't help but sigh.
"Forget it, some people are the first to taste this benefit without this life. We in Taoyuan Village know that this thing is good, so it should be more varied."
Chang Xile nodded. Lizheng came over to look at these cottons before, and he also admired them greatly. He decided to let everyone plant them widely next year.
Cotton grows well on sandy loam soils and is very drought tolerant.In Taoyuan Village, there are quite a few small soil slopes that are not used for land reclamation, which are just suitable for this feature. At that time, those slopes can be cleaned up and all of them can be used to grow cotton.
Now that everyone has money, each family can buy enough farm tools to ensure that everyone can have them.Unlike in the past, when several stores were often purchased together, they could only be used in turn no matter when they were busy or free, which was a waste of time.Now there is no need to worry about this, and many people have bought livestock such as cattle and donkeys, and their efficiency has also been improved, so they have more energy to open up wasteland.
When the cotton cloth is woven, it is even rarer to see it.Much softer than linen, it is very comfortable to the touch and feels warmer.
Grandma Sun proudly bragged about how comfortable the quilt she covered at night was. She used to be shivering from the cold at night, but Grandma Tang didn't work, and now she covered her head until she was sweating.Especially the quilt just after drying, it is so warm when you sleep at night, and you don't want to get out of bed the next morning.
In fact, the Chang family has already started to use heavy silk quilts, which are no worse than cotton quilts, so Mrs. Sun really thinks it is good for convenience, but she is also bragging.
And the new quilt is really comfortable to cover, but the quilt will not be good after a long time, and it needs to be played again.
It's winter now, and the weather has turned cold. Everyone in the Chang family got a new quilt and mattress, and they all feel very warm.
Everyone became more jealous when they heard it, and they all said that they would plant a few acres of cotton next year.
Grandma Sun said: "Don't you have a lot of people in your family? Let's open up more barren hills. Our Xiao Wu said that the cotton will be harvested at that time, and this is the amount."
Grandma Sun stretched out five fingers, and the other party's eyes widened, "There are so many!"
Grandma Sun was very satisfied with the other party's expression, "Besides, this thing has been taken care of. Two or three hundred catties per mu is not a problem, so it's a good deal."
The man made a calculation in his heart, his eyes lit up immediately, he stopped chatting with Mrs. Sun, and ran straight home.
That night, many Humane Chang families confirmed the news. Everyone got a clear answer, and they would also get cotton seeds for free. They all went home happily, and they all expressed how many varieties they could plant in the spring of next year.
The weather is getting colder, another year is about to pass, and a new year is coming.
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Explanation: The catty unit in this article is calculated according to modern times, that is, 1 catty = 10 taels, not the ancient 1 catty = 16 taels. My mind is often confused, and I still make such a number == definitely will I often make mistakes, so I am greedy for convenience.
Song Wancheng was also very interested, and he told Chang Xile to call him when he was handling cotton.Song Wancheng is a very curious person, interested in everything.And I will try it myself, there is no such thing as some noble scholars who disdain to be contaminated with accidents of reading, especially this kind of rough work that working people will do.
Chang Xile felt that only by understanding people's livelihood can he be a good official, and only by knowing how the people work can he understand the hard work involved.Song Wancheng has such qualities, and he has a high chance of becoming a good official in the future, so he naturally supports him to see and experience everywhere.
When he was about to start processing the cotton, he asked Song Wan to come over early in the morning.And Wanniang and Song Yuxi also came over, the two families are now very close, and they often visit each other on weekdays.Song Yuxi is now playing very well with the children of the Chang family, and Wanniang is also very close with the sisters-in-law.Later, Wanniang was very good at economic matters, and it was also because of her relationship with Mrs. Cao and Mrs. Ding during these days in Taoyuan Village.Seeing how they manage the workshop, they gained a lot of experience, which Wan Niang did not expect at the time.
"What's the use of this thing?" Song Wancheng asked curiously when he saw Chang Yu carrying out a wooden shelf.
Chang Xile introduced: "Look at these cottons, there are cotton seeds on them. We have to separate the cotton seeds. And this thing is used for separation. It can be called a cotton gin."
Song Wancheng suddenly realized, and said in admiration: "Your brain is faster than ordinary people. It is easy to pick this thing by hand, but you actually thought of using tools."
Chang Xile smiled, and to be honest, if he hadn't had the experience of later generations, he would definitely not be able to figure out how to use tools to save trouble and effort at the beginning when he came into contact with strange things for the first time.Almost all agricultural tools are slowly explored in practice, and there is a step-by-step process.
"We only planted one acre now, but it is really easy to harvest two hundred catties by hand, but if we plant more in the future, it will be different. Using tools can improve efficiency and save labor. It will drop, and the profits will be huge.”
Song Wancheng also understands this truth, but he has never seen a person like Chang Xile who knows how to use tools and think about making things. He sighed: "Now there are so many tricks in Taoyuan Village, you still need to save money. Artificial. You want to lead the whole village to become rich, so don’t you have to come up with a lot of tricks to achieve it? Sometimes I really want to dig out your brain to see if you are different from ordinary people.”
"Then I have to stay away from you, maybe one day you will chop off my head with a single brain twitch."
"Then I have to have this chance too! It's not like you don't know that you have Uncle Tiger who can crush people to death with one hand." Song Wancheng glanced at Chang Yu with a look of fear.Now everyone follows Chang Xisheng and calls Chang Yu Uncle Hu, because his lethality is too great.
From time to time, this little guy goes up the mountain to get a bear or a wolf to come back, especially after he has a bow and arrow, his hunting skills are even more powerful.Chang Xile was afraid that he would bring disaster to the back mountain, and also controlled the number of times he went hunting.
After finishing speaking, Song Wancheng said with emotion: "It's really a blessing from the previous life to be a fellow countryman with you."
Song Wancheng has been to so many places, but he has never seen anyone like Chang Xile.
This world pays attention to clans. In fact, big clans still help each other very much, but no one is like Chang Xile. They don't simply give money, but point a way.
After all, it is not easy to maintain unilateral charity.Only by standing up on your own can you change your predicament.
What Chang Xile did was a virtuous circle. Not only did it not harm her own interests, but she even increased her own interests in this circle, but it also achieved the purpose of helping, and did not make the beneficiary feel inferior.
"If I didn't have the folks who used to offer you an egg and a handful of vegetables, I wouldn't be where I am today." Chang Xile said sincerely.
Song Wancheng stretched out his hand to pat Chang Xile's shoulder to express his approval, but before reaching Chang Xile, Chang Yu patted her away.
Song Wancheng was not happy, "You little brat, you are too domineering. Brother Chang and I are good brothers, what's the matter if we touch each other?"
Chang Yu just looked at him like this, without saying a word, but the meaning of rejection was very obvious.
Song Wancheng originally wanted to tease him, but Song Yuxi on the side didn't want to, and made Chang Yu angry, so what should I do if I ignore him then.
"Father, don't you want to see how to use this thing, why haven't you started yet?"
Song Wancheng didn't know what his son was thinking, so he had no choice but to give up.
Since I came here, although I haven't missed my schoolwork, whenever I have free time, I run around with the children of the Chang family.At first, Wanniang was a little worried, because Song Yuxi's body was not very good since she was a child, she was weaker than ordinary children, and she would get sick every now and then.
But I didn't expect that after running around like this for a while, I would get tanned, my body would become much tougher, and I would eat more than before.Probably because you are in good health, you can remember reading better, and your homework is even better, so Wanniang no longer cares about him.But it is required that the daily homework must be completed, otherwise they are not allowed to leave the house.
Song Wancheng rubbed Song Yuxi's head, "Alright, you are the one who is impatient."
The cotton gin made by Chang Xile is a very simple original cotton gin. It consists of two rollers that are next to each other and rotate in opposite directions. The seed cotton enters between the two rollers and spits out from the other side like a cloth belt. , the cottonseed will be stuck.
This cotton gin is faster than a hand gin, but not as good as a pedal gin.
Chang Xile did not make a pedal cotton gin. First, it was relatively more complicated. He didn’t have time to think about it. There is still little cotton, so he put it aside for the time being. Anyway, this cotton gin can also be used now; second. Although the pedal cotton gin has high working efficiency, it can easily damage the fibers and affect the strength of the produced yarn products.
Therefore, unless a large-scale processing state is formed in the future and efficiency must be improved, it is better to use the original cotton gin to remove cottonseed first.
This thing is easy to operate. Chang Xile demonstrated it once, and everyone knew how to do it.
The children Shanzi and Song Yuxi scrambled to get started as if they were just playing around, and finally managed to deal with the more than 200 kilograms of seed cotton.
Cottonseed can be used to extract oil, and cottonseed oil can also be used, but it must be refined.Unrefined cottonseed oil contains a lot of gossypol, which has a great impact on male fertility, and women who eat it may cause menstrual disorders and amenorrhea.
Chang Xile is not very clear about how to use the current situation to remove gossypol and other harmful substances in it, and there is no way to test it here. I don't know whether the refined oil meets the standards, so I temporarily gave up the idea of making cottonseed oil.Anyway, there are still few cotton seeds now, and there are not enough to make seeds, let alone extract oil.
Even if there are more crops in the future, oil extraction is not necessary. Cottonseed husks can be used to grow shiitake mushrooms, and cottonseeds can be ground and used as feed for cattle and sheep and land fertilizer, which will not be wasted.
After removing all the cotton seeds, Chang Xile's first thing to do with the cotton was to bounce a quilt.
The tools for playing cotton are also very simple, just a bow with tensioned strings and a small mallet. Put the tensioned strings in the cotton, and use the mallet to strike the strings to make them vibrate, so as to achieve the purpose of combing the fibers.
But it is easier said than done.Chang Xile just saw someone playing it in a farmhouse while traveling.At that time, I also tried to get started, but I couldn't grasp the essentials.Every time I played it very badly, on the contrary, it made the cotton fly up and choked my lungs from coughing.
Therefore, he is only in charge of guidance here, and he is determined not to get started.
Before picking the cotton, the cotton should be placed on a specially made table covered with straw mats.The cotton should be placed evenly, and everyone didn't feel anything, and tried to follow his request.
Song Wancheng has the same virtue as Chang Xile, with good brains but poor hands and feet.
And it was Chang Yu who did it without any surprises in the end, but after trying it for a while, he mastered the technique and played it with style.Others know it well, but after all, it is inevitable that they are unfamiliar, and the first few quilts are probably not very good.
Picking cotton is also a technical and physical work, and it will be greatly reduced if it is not done well.
"This thing is quite interesting." Mrs. Cao said while playing it.
Second Sister-in-law Cao no longer has to run around to set up a stall, she just hires people to do the stall. They have been doing it for such a long time, so they naturally know how much they earn every day, so they are not afraid of being coveted.Besides, if you don't trust me, you won't let go.
The second sister-in-law Cao left the food stall to take charge of the cornel workshop and the milling workshop.
The Chang family members were trained by Chang Xile. Although they don't know many characters, basic arithmetic is no longer a problem.And every time he will instill some management theories that fit the situation here, teach them how to use data to analyze, etc. The course is all aimed at training them as managers.
Among them, Mrs. Cao and Mrs. Ding are the best learners. Except for Chang Xisheng, the other brothers in the family are not good at management, but are more suitable for work.
Although Chang Xixing is dull, he is a good farmer, while Chang Xiwang is doing well in the oil mill. He is willing to put in the effort, but he is not willing to use his brain.So the management was handed over to these two sisters-in-law, and Mrs. Wang was in charge of the family affairs.She is the elder sister-in-law, so it is only natural that she should be responsible for these things.
Her temper is too soft, she can't manage people outside, but she can manage the family very well.
Although Mrs. Sun still has energy now, the housekeeping is gradually transferred to Mrs. Wang, but she still dare not let her take charge of the money.The Chang family now has a solid family background. Although they have invested a lot of money, every time they earn a little, they have new things to do, so the funds are always flowing.But even so, compared to before, there is still a lot of money left on hand.
Although the Wang family is much more honest now, Mrs. Sun is still worried. It is really Mrs. Wang's temperament that makes her dare not fully trust her.
"Arms are still quite sore after a long time." Ding Sansao said, she also tried it just now, and she knew that this job was not so easy to do.
Seeing that the cotton became whiter and whiter as it bounced, Mrs. Sun couldn't help but stepped forward to touch it, "This thing looks good, and it will definitely be very warm in winter with this quilt."
Chang Xile said: "The cloth woven with this thing is also very good, but I have to trouble my sisters-in-law for a while."
Although cotton is a new thing, the principle of weaving it into thread is similar. The sisters-in-law in the family are all good at weaving cloth, and these will not be difficult for them.
Now it is for self-use, and the number is not large, so I will not hire others.Moreover, the Chang family still doesn't have the concept of hiring people to serve them. They have always done what they can do by themselves.
Chang Xile didn't have time to improve the spinning wheel and loom here, and he only knew a little about these, so he had to communicate with the carpenters, he provided ideas, and the carpenters tried to find ways to realize them.It's not impossible for Chang Xile to struggle on her own, knowledge takes a long time.This time, he only intends to remind one or two words, and let these carpenters use their brains to figure it out.Although this process will slow down, it is also improving their creativity.
After all, what he knows is limited, and if these people want to be independent, they have to learn to think, instead of just relying on him.
The majority of people are very wise, as long as they have a piece of soil suitable for growth, they can give many surprises.Most of the various objects that have survived forever in history were invented and created by these lovely people.
Second Sister-in-Law Cao said angrily, "Xiao Wu is really being more polite. Wouldn't it be nice to say such things to my sister-in-law?"
Chang Xile clasped her hands together, and said seriously: "It's my younger brother who made a mistake, please don't blame my sister-in-law."
Second Sister-in-law Cao laughed even more, "Look, I'm such a shameless person that others would even apologize to me if they wanted to confess."
Everyone laughed when they heard this, and teased Chang Xile one after another.
Now Chang Xile's reputation is very famous in Daoxiang County and neighboring counties. Whether it is the agricultural tools, or the harvest of rice, dogwood, camellia oleifera, mung beans, wood, etc. at a generous price, the local people have received real benefits. the benefits of.
In fact, the prices that Chang Xile charges for these items are not much higher than other merchants, but are controlled at a relatively reasonable price, and they cannot disrupt the local economy because of themselves.Because of sudden changes, huge shocks can easily lead to the collapse of the local economy.
After all, he can't manage all the projects. If the interests of other businessmen are damaged to a certain extent, it is very likely to counterattack and get it back on other places.In the end, it was still the common people who lost their interests, and the extra money he gave was just taken away by those businessmen in other ways, and he even established an enemy for nothing.
Although he now has the strength to not be afraid of ordinary businessmen, he has been rewarded by the emperor anyway, as long as he is not touched, no one will touch him.But if it really makes people desperate, then it's not necessarily true. Cutting off people's wealth is equal to killing people's lives, and there are always people who are willing to take risks for their own interests.
So he was just like those businessmen who deliberately lowered prices during the harvest, which led to the depreciation of these agricultural products. The prices were uniform and did not fluctuate much.
In this way, although those businessmen were unhappy, they would not be unbearable.
Everyone saw this, and he was exempted from taxes, so he was naturally very grateful to Chang Xile.Although Chang Xile has always emphasized the brand of Taoyuan Village, everyone still will not forget to ignore the role of Chang Xile.
That's why some people even set up a long life card for Chang Xile at home and enshrine it every day, hoping that Chang Xile will be healthy and live a long life.
Perhaps because of the comparison from the outside world, when the Chang family faced Chang Xile, they were more relaxed than before.They often make jokes with each other, and treat Chang Xile, who is an outsider's myth, as an ordinary person as a family member, so that Chang Xile can live in a more relaxed environment.
Otherwise, being worshiped as a god all day long, Chang Xile really doesn't think it's a pleasant thing.
It doesn't take too much time to play the quilt. Song Wancheng took his wife and children to spend a meal at Chang's house, and saw the finished product in the afternoon.
Because cotton cloth has not been woven yet, the quilt cover is made of high-quality linen and silk.Chang Xile once tried to let everyone use the form of quilt covers, which is more convenient to remove and wash, without having to remove stitches and sew every time.But he felt that such a good proposal, which was widely used in the previous life, would not work here.
Everyone felt that the quilt was not flat enough, nor did it fit well enough, and it was just a few stitches to mend without getting tired, so they gave it up.
This is the first time that Chang Xile's proposal has been rejected by everyone. I feel that not everything is suitable for this place, but I am also happy about it.Now that the Chang family has more knowledge and more ideas than before, they will not follow blindly, but have learned to think. This is a good sign.
The quilt was made according to the size of the 1.8-meter bed tube commonly used in previous lives. It was wide and big, weighing a full ten catties.I don't know what's going on here, all the quilts are small and short, every time Chang Xile rolls them up and then covers them up but not down, covering left and right, it's very uncomfortable.
Now it's not that there is a lack of materials, he doesn't want to wrong himself.
Wan Niang touched the newly plucked quilt and sighed: "This thing is really warm."
Mrs. Cao touched the soft and warm quilt, and said: "Isn't it? This quilt is no worse than the silk quilt, and it's useless. The silk quilt is as expensive and not as rough as hemp. This thing can be grown in an acre of land." More than 200 and nearly [-] catties. This is the first time I have no experience in planting. There will definitely be more than this next year. This is easier than raising silkworms. Silkworm cocoon spinning is much more troublesome than this."
Song Wancheng also praised: "If such a good thing can be widely planted, it will be a great fortune for the country."
Chang Xile said with regret: "It's a pity that many people still cling to hemp and silk. The promotion of this thing is hindered, and I'm afraid it won't be a big tool in a while."
This is the news that Pei Qingyun brought him. New things are not easy to promote, and the common people don't have much fertile land, so they can't be forced.Otherwise, once this happens, it is likely that some places will force farmers to plant all of them for the sake of political achievements, and as a result, there will be no rations.
Landlords who own a large amount of land are not willing to grow these new things. They are still accustomed to hemp and silk and do not want to change them. As a result, there are not many people who grow cotton.
Although Chang Xile knows that this is a normal historical process, everyone will eventually see the goodness of this thing and use it widely.But precisely because he knew the benefits of this thing, he felt that planting it later would be a loss, so he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.You even want to fly over and knock those stubborn people on the head, why are you so stupid!
Song Wancheng also heard from him before that he didn't know how good this thing was at first, but now that he saw it with his own eyes, he couldn't help but sigh.
"Forget it, some people are the first to taste this benefit without this life. We in Taoyuan Village know that this thing is good, so it should be more varied."
Chang Xile nodded. Lizheng came over to look at these cottons before, and he also admired them greatly. He decided to let everyone plant them widely next year.
Cotton grows well on sandy loam soils and is very drought tolerant.In Taoyuan Village, there are quite a few small soil slopes that are not used for land reclamation, which are just suitable for this feature. At that time, those slopes can be cleaned up and all of them can be used to grow cotton.
Now that everyone has money, each family can buy enough farm tools to ensure that everyone can have them.Unlike in the past, when several stores were often purchased together, they could only be used in turn no matter when they were busy or free, which was a waste of time.Now there is no need to worry about this, and many people have bought livestock such as cattle and donkeys, and their efficiency has also been improved, so they have more energy to open up wasteland.
When the cotton cloth is woven, it is even rarer to see it.Much softer than linen, it is very comfortable to the touch and feels warmer.
Grandma Sun proudly bragged about how comfortable the quilt she covered at night was. She used to be shivering from the cold at night, but Grandma Tang didn't work, and now she covered her head until she was sweating.Especially the quilt just after drying, it is so warm when you sleep at night, and you don't want to get out of bed the next morning.
In fact, the Chang family has already started to use heavy silk quilts, which are no worse than cotton quilts, so Mrs. Sun really thinks it is good for convenience, but she is also bragging.
And the new quilt is really comfortable to cover, but the quilt will not be good after a long time, and it needs to be played again.
It's winter now, and the weather has turned cold. Everyone in the Chang family got a new quilt and mattress, and they all feel very warm.
Everyone became more jealous when they heard it, and they all said that they would plant a few acres of cotton next year.
Grandma Sun said: "Don't you have a lot of people in your family? Let's open up more barren hills. Our Xiao Wu said that the cotton will be harvested at that time, and this is the amount."
Grandma Sun stretched out five fingers, and the other party's eyes widened, "There are so many!"
Grandma Sun was very satisfied with the other party's expression, "Besides, this thing has been taken care of. Two or three hundred catties per mu is not a problem, so it's a good deal."
The man made a calculation in his heart, his eyes lit up immediately, he stopped chatting with Mrs. Sun, and ran straight home.
That night, many Humane Chang families confirmed the news. Everyone got a clear answer, and they would also get cotton seeds for free. They all went home happily, and they all expressed how many varieties they could plant in the spring of next year.
The weather is getting colder, another year is about to pass, and a new year is coming.
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Explanation: The catty unit in this article is calculated according to modern times, that is, 1 catty = 10 taels, not the ancient 1 catty = 16 taels. My mind is often confused, and I still make such a number == definitely will I often make mistakes, so I am greedy for convenience.
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