After saving the villain [Transmigration Book]

Although it was a bit of a surprise, Ji Fengjun still followed the original plan, first went to see the cloth workshops of the four masters, and also attended some gatherings held by them. Yangzhou has many wealthy businessmen, and it really lives up to its reputation. The extravagance of these banquets is indeed breathtaking—— — One can't help but wonder whether their coffers are fuller than the national treasury.

Although Ji Fengjun knew that emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business is not advisable, but the ethos of these wealthy businessmen is really wrong.

Naturally, he didn't put all his energy on it. He went on to visit the homes of the people who raised silkworms in Yangzhou City. Although these things were cumbersome, they had to be done. It is also very fulfilling, and Ji Fengjun also knows a little about the lives of ordinary people in Yangzhou City.

The two looms in front of him are the looms he asked someone to find. These two looms belong to the Lu family. Just by looking at them, one can't help but marvel at the wisdom of ancient laborers. The home loom is indeed extremely ingenious, but it does have room for improvement.

Thinking of what shopkeeper Wang told him, Ji Fengjun was also a little surprised—the Chen family is studying how to use water power to drive the loom, and it seems that it has achieved some results. It is more than ten times faster than the original one. This should be a large water power spinning wheel. prototype.

In the previous life, Huaguo also had looms powered by water power early, 400 years earlier than the West, but——Ji Fengjun sighed lightly, recalling the memories of the previous life, even if he lived in this world for a long time, but Thinking of that humiliating history, he also felt uncomfortable, but fortunately, the era he lived in was not what it used to be.

Of course—the water spinning wheel of the Chen family has nothing to do with silk. After all, silk is precious, and it will be damaged even if it is used on a loom. Numb.

But this is indeed a great improvement, but he knows that this is definitely not the extreme, and the efficiency can still be improved.

His thoughts drifted to other places again. Indeed, as he thought, although Yangzhou is rich, only a small part of the life is rich. As for the night market in Yangzhou City, although it is a great attraction, it is beneficial to many ordinary people. But after all, those who can benefit are only a few.

Ji Fengjun thought about it. According to his original idea, it is good. The time when cotton was introduced to Huaguo in the previous life is unreliable. However, Huaguo was also one of the first countries in the world to grow cotton, but it was not until the Song and Yuan Dynasties that cotton cultivation became popular. open.

The direction of this world is very similar to that of the previous life, and it is roughly the same today. In the northwest and the Western Regions further to the northwest, there are few people who can grow cotton, but the cotton planted has small bolls, called grass cotton, and it is easy to pick. Inconvenient, it did not spread.

There is not much cotton grown in the south, and more people still raise silkworms and reel silk, and make clothes from hemp—although these two have their own advantages, they are indeed inferior to cotton. After that, they look for products that are easier to grow varieties.

Although Ji Fengjun's memory is a little fuzzy, the south should be the place where cotton planting sprang up. He thought that there would be some harvest in Yangzhou, but judging from the current situation, he really has to look for it in other places, so he can only look for it in the south. ——Could it be in the Lingnan area?

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Transition chapter, there are some cards, cover your face

The knowledge about cotton in this article comes from "China Cotton Geography" edited by Baidu and Xu Peixiumei Fangquan