shock!She can travel through time

Chapter 422 Harvesting Cotton

In modern time and space, Lin Wanwan met Lu Shouyue once at Xie Yuting's restaurant, and the other party gave her an invitation to attend his mother's birthday party in Haicheng.

Regarding this matter, Lin Wanwan had also received an invitation from Lu's mother on WeChat, so she had nothing to say.

Lin Wanwan was thinking of paying back the gift she received from Mother Lu's super delicate bracelet before!
She has already prepared all the presents, and I believe they will not be much worse than what Mother Lu gave her.It is the pendant made of rare cat's-eye alexandrite, which comes from the handwriting of the Tang court craftsman.

Put aside the modern affairs for the time being, Lin Wanwan started to prepare for the whole process of cotton weaving after returning to Tang Dynasty.

The first step is to register the dried cotton into the warehouse, and this step is also the one most concerned about by people other than Linjiazhuang.Because the cost settlement is at this step, and then the cotton is processed into cotton cloth or cotton quilts and other finished products for sale, which has nothing to do with the cotton growers.

The second step is to lead the clansmen in Linjiazhuang to deal with cotton for money.

Cotton was grown in the Tang Dynasty, except for Yan County, it was only grown in the Western Regions, Lingnan, Nanzhao and other places.

The cotton on the market was brought over by Hu merchants from the Western Regions, not in other cities, only in the West Market in Chang’an, the center of the world, but the quantity is not much, not as much as the direct Gaochang cotton cloth.

The reason for this phenomenon is very simple. Li Shimin has not yet penetrated Gaochang, and has not brought back the seeds of Gaochang cotton. This historical event did not happen until the 13th year of Zhenguan.

Because there is no real cotton, it is naturally impossible for the people of Datang to know how to process and weave cotton.

Those Hu merchants who brought cotton from the Western Regions to Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty thought they could make a lot of money, but in fact they barely saved their capital including the travel expenses.The profit is not high, and businessmen are naturally reluctant to bring it.

Raw cotton, the Han people in Datang couldn't handle it at all.

Not to mention cotton quilts, playing cotton quilts also requires skill, not just stuffing cotton in the quilt cover.So what's the use of simply bringing cotton over?There is no buyer's market!

But it’s different now in Shanxian County. At the time of New Year’s Eve last year, Lin Wanwan bought a complete set of improved Huang Daopo looms and a complete set of cotton ginning mixers from modern times. Cloth has a huge effect.

At the beginning, Huang Daopo returned to Wunijing with the technology. In a few years, "teaching him the surname woman made a lot of tiredness. After a while, she was changed to Wujing and became famous all over the world. There are more than a thousand families who look up to her." Vega, the god of cotton in China's textile industry.

If Lin Wanwan also has the noble sentiments of Huang Daopo and teaches all the peasant women in Shan County for free, then she should be able to replace Huang Daopo and become China's "Vega".

Huang Daopo's achievements are so great, she has been treated as a celebrity through the ages, her reputation among the people is extremely high, and she is admired by all people after her death, but when she was alive, the court didn't show her anything!

Lin Wanwan not only wants to be famous after death, she also wants to be famous in life.

She is a layman, not a saint, and the first thing she thinks of is a woman with the same surname who is closely related to her.First help the poverty of your own family, and then go to benefit the world!

In rural households, it can be said that every household has a loom.The loom that Huang Daopo brought back was not a pure creation, but an improvement, and the same is true of the loom that Lin Wanwan got from Datang.

These weaving and seed-removing machines, the third uncle in the family has long received Lin Wanwan's secret order, and has made many frames according to the gourd painting scoop, just to prepare for the follow-up work after the cotton is harvested.

In the contract between Xiao Chong and Lin Wanwan, it was agreed that after three years, Lin Jiazhuang would disclose these cotton gins, mixers, wooden bows, spinning wheels, looms, etc. one after another, and teach women with foreign surnames.

That is to say, this windfall can be made by the Lin family village for three years.Three years later, Lin Wanwan will lead the women in Quanzhou County to make a fortune together, making Shan County the cotton planting base and cotton textile center of the whole Tang Dynasty.

In fact, both Lin Wanwan and Xiao Chong understood that even without this contract, this secret could not be kept for too long.

Instead of letting other nobles take advantage of it, Lin Wanwan might as well make it public, and give herself a reputation!

Maybe I will become China's "Vega" in the future, a celebrity through the ages.

Besides, the weaving of cotton is similar to that of silk, hemp, and kudzu. As long as the weaving girl has the raw materials, she can succeed with a little more thought.

Li Shimin brought Gaochang cotton back to Datang after 13 years in Zhenguan. This is how the common people slowly figured it out for more than a hundred years. The difference is that people with advanced tools are more efficient.

Of course, if Lin Wanwan is determined to prevent the development of this technology, it is not impossible, just control the source of cotton cultivation.

In the Tang Dynasty in history, even though Gaochang cotton was introduced later, not much cotton was actually used for weaving into cloth, and most of it was planted a little as ornamental flowers.

The reason for this may be that the thinking has not been opened up, and all aspects of technology have not been understood.

Now that Lin Wanwan has the wings of a butterfly, the entire cotton-related industry will inevitably be pushed back many years.

In order to make up for the loss caused to Lin Wanwan by publicizing three years later, Xiao Chong will help Lin Jiazhuang open up the upper-level sales of cotton products without charging intermediate fees.

Xiao Chong didn't even have a hand in the business affairs. The Cotton Chamber of Commerce proposed by Lin Wanwan was obviously a matter of great interest, but he was not tempted, let alone asked Lin Wanwan to share this part of the benefits with other gentry and nobles in Shan County.

With him here, and Lin Wanwan's own name as Le'an Township Lord, Lin Jiazhuang's profit from the cotton line in Yan County is still no problem.

The only thing Xiao Chong did was to take some cotton seedlings and give them on credit to relatively backward and poor villages within the jurisdiction of Shan County with less developed water conservancy.Let them grow cotton instead of hemp, which will be guaranteed by the county government, and the Lord of Le'an Township will be responsible for purchasing after the autumn harvest.

In order to advance this matter at the beginning, the officials of the county government were tortured to death under Xiao Chong's hands.

The people in the poor valley are ungrateful, incomprehensible, and stubborn, making them change is like dying.

"Civil servants" all complained that Xiao Chong was doing nothing, no matter what these peasants were doing, they said that the imperial power would not go to the countryside, why bother!

Being poor has nothing to do with the county government. When the autumn harvest comes, just collect taxes step by step. What are you doing to help these poor people!

Having said that, in fact, the "civil servants" in the county government complained privately, but more of them submitted.

Especially those non-staff "contract workers" who have been rooted in Hu County for generations, respect the county magistrate from the Xiao family in Lanling even more.

Because they all understand that the county magistrate this time is really doing things for the county, not just for official career.

Of course, Xiao Chong's ambition is his own business. Lin Wanwan now wants to lead Linjiazhuang and the surrounding villages to become rich, get rid of poverty and become well-off.

(End of this chapter)