Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

Chapter 103: Luxury of the times, noble cotton
Li Yuanji was thinking about these things and was constantly hesitating in his heart. Although cotton planting in Lingnan was not as good as those places in the Western Regions, it was still pretty good, especially in Hainan, where a lot of wild cotton could be found. Cotton seeds did not need to be exchanged at all. The only thing that needed to be considered was how to plant it.

But now there is another problem before him, that is, the arable land is limited nowadays. Once cotton is planted, how can grain be grown?

As well as exchanging for sewing machines and cotton-fluffing machines, all of these require contribution points. And cotton planting is also a headache.

The sewing machine cost 500 points, and the cotton fluffing machine cost 300 points. Now 800 points are gone. What does he have left? The cotton planting manual also costs 200 points. So 1,000 points are gone just like that?

Li Yuanji was very conflicted, but soon he stopped thinking about it. The cotton-fluffing machine could not be used for a while. At least he had to wait until the cotton was planted, which would be a few months later. Now all he needed to exchange was a sewing machine.

After thinking it over, Li Yuanji immediately clicked on the production drawings and process of the sewing machine and clicked on the redemption. Five hundred contribution points just disappeared like that. Although Li Yuanji felt distressed, he barely made up for the loss by thinking about the rewards in the future.

"Minghe, go call Liu San over."

With the technology and drawings, Li Yuanji didn't want to wait any longer. After a while, Liu San arrived.

"See you, Your Majesty."

Li Yuanji handed over all the drawings and processes in his hand to Liu San.

"This is a sewing machine. Take it and study it carefully. Make this sewing machine as soon as possible. The most important thing for you now is to make this sewing machine. Put everything else aside and do it later."

Upon hearing this, Liu San immediately agreed. Then Li Yuanji wrote two more letters and a piece of paper with cotton drawn on it.

After finishing it, Li Yuanji thought of something and immediately opened the system. Looking at the exchange price, Li Yuanji gritted his teeth and started to exchange. The two hundred contribution points were gone again, and this time what he exchanged was the cotton planting methods and techniques.

Li Yuanji read it through and made some simple modifications. For example, the base fertilizer needed for cotton planting was changed to feces instead. After reading it, Li Yuanji found that planting cotton was more difficult than planting rice, and the water requirement was also not small. As for pest control, Li Yuanji also changed it to an appropriate amount of wood ash.

Li Yuanji had no other choice. Now that he had none of these, what else could he do? He could only plant what he had. The worst that could happen was that the harvest would be worse, but there was nothing he could do about it.

The only good thing is that the soil here is still very fertile, which is a big advantage.

After it was done, Yu Minghe was called over.

"Minghe, send someone to deliver this letter to Feng Zhixun, and send another person to deliver this letter to Feng Ang. Be sure to hand it over to them personally."

At present, the most suitable places for planting are Guangdong and Hainan. Li Yuanji had no choice but to let Feng Ang and Feng Zhixun do it. He was determined to see how cotton planting would go in the first year.

After making the arrangements, Li Yuanji finally had some free time again. Looking at the 320 contribution points he had left, he felt uncomfortable. He knew he had to use them when he needed them, and the pain after using them was real.

Afterwards, Li Yuanji asked someone to call Ning Chun and Yang Shu.

"Dahe, now that the basic construction of the city is complete, the next thing is the city wall. This must be taken seriously, and then some people can be allocated to start building the palace. After your houses are built, it will be time for me to build my palace."

Li Yuanji smiled after he finished speaking. His palace now was better than those rich families in Chang'an, not to mention the rich people on earth. Li Yuanji was also very eager. Ning Chun smiled and agreed.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. I will go down and start making arrangements right away. Construction will begin tomorrow. By then, I will transfer more people over and strive to complete the construction of Your Majesty's palace as soon as possible."

Li Yuanji likes this kind of people who are good at handling things, who know how to draw inferences from one example and make him worry-free.

"Okay, I'll leave it to you. There's one more thing. Hurry up and get the people naturalized. Get the registration done as soon as possible. There are quite a few people willing to become naturalized now. Get this done as soon as possible and keep a close eye on it in the future."

Ning Chun agreed immediately, and when he saw that nothing was wrong, he slowly walked out.

Li Yuanji then looked at Yang Shu.

"Yang Shu, I'll give you a task. Go to the surrounding chieftains and move those who are willing to become naturalized citizens into the city. The number is set at 10,000. Once the number is reached, stop. Unless someone is willing to become a naturalized citizen, don't bother with them."

The population of Haikang City has reached 50,000? This task is really not difficult for Li Yuanji. It was difficult at the beginning, but now the changes in Haikang have spread. Every day there are people who are willing to become citizens. In the past, this was unthinkable.

That is to say, Haikang has not yet been fully developed. After the harvest, when trade starts here, those people will come to beg him to become citizens and enter Haikang City. By then, they can become citizens, but if they want to enter the city, they will be controlled.

Yang Shu was stunned after hearing this, but he didn't think much about it. As for why he said to stop before and now wanted to move another 10,000 people in, Yang Shu didn't think about it at all. To him, whatever Li Yuanji said was the truth.

"Yes, my king, I will go now."

After arranging the two of them, Li Yuanji was completely free.

Two days passed and Li Yuanji was in the yard. He completed today's task and his contribution points increased by ten points, now totaling three hundred and thirty points.

Yang Qingwan came to Li Yuanji's side.

"My dear, I and the maids I brought with me are not enough to do the tailoring and sewing. You have to arrange some more people for me, and some more space. If there are too many people, they can't all do this in the palace."

Li Yuanji pulled Yang Qingwan to sit down. Looking at Yang Qingwan who was determined to do something, Li Yuanji immediately spoke.

"Don't worry, this matter has been arranged for you. You don't have to do it yourself, ma'am. I asked Dahe to build a separate yard and found a hundred skillful women. You can just go and take over.

As long as you teach them, the clothing will be expanded later. Now you just need to adapt to it, and you don’t have to do it yourself. Just take care of the clothing.

In addition, I will prepare a few houses for you. They are all on the main roads of the street. They will definitely be prosperous in the future. You can open some shops and do some business, just like in Chang'an. In this way, the palace will have a stable source of income. "

Opening a shop to do business is not a rare thing. In Chang'an, the Eastern Palace and the Qin Palace all have their own shops to increase their income. Even Li Yuan had the same business.

(End of this chapter)