Water Margin farming to become powerful

And when they heard Tang Long and Sun Xin were still talking about improving the equipment, everyone was shocked, and immediately admired the two of them.

They knew that this machine was designed by people like Sun Xin and Tang Long. They had heard that the supervisor would have a strong design ability, but they didn't expect this ability to be so terrifying.

Just designing a machine can increase the efficiency of cotton by more than 100 times. Even the reincarnation of Lu Ban and the God of Wealth in Lidi are in front of us, and we dare not say that we can do such things.

Everyone was dumbfounded, and then some people showed joyful expressions.

In the past six months, the supervisory committees in various places have been promoting cotton planting techniques. Whether they are big landlords or the leaders of the local supervisory committees, some of the fields under their hands are planted with cotton.

To be honest, under the guidance of the Supervisory Committee, the cultivation of cotton is not a big problem, and with the Supervisory Committee, the textile industry needs a lot of raw materials, and the sale of cotton is not a problem. The only problem is that the purchase price of cotton is too high. Somewhat low.

It’s not that the factory store behind is too big to bully customers. Everyone who has known it knows that the purchase price of cotton is low because the factory considers profits. The cotton processing process is too complicated. Less than half of the money is spent on the cotton ginning process, and now the efficiency of cotton pressing has increased by more than 100 times. What does this mean?
The cotton ginning process, which originally accounted for a small half of the production cost, is basically free of money now!

The price of cotton cloth must be greatly reduced, especially after the establishment of the cotton ginning factory in Qingzhou, the cotton of this season must have a good market.

Even if the Cotton Ginning Machinery Supervision Committee is only willing to use it in Qingzhou for the time being, the transportation in Qingzhou is well developed, and it is not a big problem to transport your own cotton to Qingzhou with the freight.

The next moment, someone quietly took a breath.

"what happened?"

Surprised by the people nearby, they saw the shocked face of the man. They also looked over and whispered: "After using this machine, the pre-processing of cotton seems to be easier than hemp yarn!"

"what?"

Everyone didn't realize it at the beginning. In the eyes of everyone, the fiber of cotton is relatively fine, and the cloth woven is far softer and more delicate than linen, so the price of cotton cloth is also much more expensive than linen. Everyone subconsciously thinks that cotton is It should be something that is much more precious than linen. At this moment, when I heard such words, I just felt unfortunate in my heart. How could cotton be cheaper than linen?

But following the surprised expression of that person, everyone also began to think, and soon everyone opened their eyes wide.

As if he was right!

Hemp making has always been a troublesome process. The hemp stalks are collected, the leaves are beaten, and then the hemp stalks are soaked in water to mash, and then taken out to dry in the sun. After various processes, the hemp yarn can be finally produced.

With the development of the textile industry throughout Shandong, large and small hemp pools have been built in various places, just to facilitate the nearby hemp stalks to be thrown down for retting after harvesting, so as to reduce the transportation cost of those green hemp stalks.

But even so, the final retting process is still quite cumbersome.

In contrast, the cotton harvesting process is much simpler.

Although picking cotton needs to be stepped on one by one, but in the eyes of people at this time, this is really not too heavy physical labor, at least it is not too troublesome compared to cutting hemp.

And after the treatment, the superiority can be clearly distinguished. It is so easy to get cotton fiber by drying and ginning, which is much cheaper than retting!
Seems like... cotton can really be cheaper than linen!
Everyone opened their mouths in shock.

This is really beyond their imagination.

Sun Xin and Tang Long discussed the matter for a while, and when they turned around, they saw that everyone was discussing something with surprise on their faces. He was a little confused, so he asked the farmer on the side, and before the dealer answered, Sister Gu smiled Replied: "They are saying what you said before, that cotton cloth will really be cheaper than linen."

Sun Xinyan couldn't help laughing. Even Sister Gu and the others found it hard to believe when they said this inference at the meeting, but this situation is indeed true.

In the later generations, linen is a high-end textile material, and its price is much more expensive than pure cotton. Even cotton and linen blends are high-end textiles. The price exceeds pure cotton, and it is several times higher than ordinary chemical fiber blends.

As for ramie, which was widely planted among the people at this time, because the sackcloth woven was relatively hard and straight, it was too uncomfortable to wear, and basically few people would use it for daily wear.

It is almost inevitable that cotton cloth will replace linen cloth based on the development of Sun Xin's previous life.

As for the reason why some folks have been wearing hemp in Sun Xin's previous life, the main reason is not because of industrial production considerations, but because the ancient Huaguo in his previous life has been pursuing a small-scale peasant economy for a long time, and the cost advantage of producing cotton cloth has to be on an industrial scale. Only then can it be manifested.

The labor cost of the ginning step alone, as it is now, by small farmers alone would drive up the price of cotton cloth considerably.

In contrast, retting only needs a pond, so if it is self-produced and sold on a small scale, linen will have a cost advantage.

But once it entered the era of slight industrialization, even in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the consumption of linen was rapidly decreasing.

Just like in Zhoucun, Shandong Province in the previous life, after the cotton production scaled up in the late Qing Dynasty, no one in the soil workshop dyed linen anymore.

In the big dyeing workshop, Chen Liuzi learned cotton dyeing and weaving technology at the beginning, and never mentioned linen. It can be seen that even at the level of industrialization in the late Qing Dynasty, the common people usually wore cotton cloth more.

The shock of everyone after thinking of this is beyond words.

The people who can be present today are more or less knowledgeable, and after a little thought, they will know what it means that the price of cotton cloth produced in Shandong is even lower than that of linen.

Shandong has a cotton gin, but other places in the Song Dynasty do not have such good equipment.

Moreover, the supervisory committee vigorously promotes cotton planting. Now the supervisory committees all over Shandong have learned how to grow cotton, and even private households can serve cotton well, which will inevitably form a cost advantage quickly.

If Shandong can produce low-priced cotton yarn, it is almost doomed to enter the market in other places in the Song Dynasty.

The first wave must be to harvest high-end textiles in these markets. In other places in the Song Dynasty, the price of cotton cloth is still high.

And that's not all, because the process of cotton spinning is more economical than that of hemp spinning. After killing the local high-priced textiles in the first wave, the second wave can compete with the local linen.

It is warmer to wear, and the price of softer, more comfortable and breathable cotton cloth is even lower than that of linen, and it will definitely replace linen quickly!
In an instant, everyone understood why Sun Xin specially called representatives from all over Shandong to observe the trial production of the cotton gin with him. The opportunity behind this could almost make Shandong the most affluent place in the entire Song Dynasty! (end of this chapter)