Lin Gao Qiming
Chapter 1370 Silk Price
Chapter 1370 Silk Price
Baskets and baskets of cocoons filled with white flowers filled the warehouse. Wang Siniang and Li are women from the south of the Yangtze River. Both of them have seen silkworm flowers before, but they have never seen silkworms so well and smoothly raised this time.
The discarded dead and diseased silkworms are so negligible that they can be ignored. Wang Siniang has taken care of the silkworms. According to her experience, at least [-] to [-] percent will be lost every silkworm season. I didn't expect the method Miss Li taught them to be so effective!Not to mention that the quality of the cocoons harvested is surprisingly good.Generally speaking, the silkworm flowers of this silkworm raising should be at least [-] points - in previous years, it would be considered a very good year.
Master's silkworm seeds are good!Ms. Li's teaching method is also good!Now they finally have an explanation!Both Wang Siniang and Lizheng breathed a sigh of relief, they both knew the impact of their own performance this time on their future status in the villa.Especially Lizheng, who was one of the six students taught by Zhao Yingong himself at the beginning, and later He Ning, who was parachuted down, became the "Seven of Gods".They are the master's personal students, and their status in the villa is different from ordinary servants. Everyone knows that they must be the master's cronies in the future.Therefore, on top of their own sense of superiority, there is also a strong sense of uneasiness.The sense of competition is particularly strong.
The spring silkworms were harvested, and Wang Siniang gave the silkworm raising ladies a holiday. Those in the village could go home, and the servants rested for a few days to prepare for the upcoming second silkworm breeding.
Sericulture can actually be done several times a year.In some places with superior water and heat conditions, where the supply of mulberry leaves is sufficient, it can even grow eight seasons a year.In terms of the climatic conditions in the south of the Yangtze River at that time, four or five seasons of the year were not a problem.In Huzhou, there are also farmers raising five-season silkworms.
But in the actual silkworm rearing, farmers rarely raise multi-season silkworms, and most of them only raise one season.After the debut of raw silk in June, the sericulture work was over.On the one hand, the scale of the small-scale peasant economy is limited, and farmers have to take care of both planting and other sideline businesses. However, sericulture requires a lot of manpower, and continuous sericulture for a long time requires labor that small farmers cannot support.On the other hand, which is also the most important issue, the local method of sericulture does not have a clear concept of disinfection. Although there are measures such as cleaning the silkworm room and brushing with lime water, the cause of silkworm disease is not clear.The disinfection of silkworm tools and silkworm rooms is not enough. After the temperature rises, viruses and bacteria become more active, and the probability of silkworm disease increases significantly.
In addition, it also involves the temperature and humidity control required for silkworm rearing. Spring is neither cold nor hot, with moderate dryness and humidity.In summer and autumn, this natural advantage no longer exists and human intervention is required.There are quite high requirements for sericulture technology and capital investment.This is very difficult for sericulture farmers who are mostly small farmers.
In Li Yaoer's view, farmers in the south of the Yangtze River generally only raise silkworms for one season, which is a waste of mulberry resources.Considering the water and heat conditions in the south of the Yangtze River, it is relatively safe to raise silkworms for three seasons.
When Shen’s family started harvesting cocoons, the silkworms of Shen Kaibao’s family hadn’t “go up the mountain”.The whole family is suffering. Seeing that the silkworm's body has become transparent, and it has gradually stopped eating, the whole family's heart is lifted. This year's success or failure depends on it.If the silkworm flowers are not good, the land to be pledged will have to be named Cao, not to mention that he owes Mr. Zhao a whole lot of debt!What do you give back?Every time Shen Kaibao thought of this, he was so anxious that he couldn't sleep.
A brazier was set up under the "mountain shed", and the cooked silkworms that were originally on the silkworm foil were transferred to the "mountain shed", and the fire was used below to urge the silkworms to climb up the clusters tied with straw after being heated on the mountain shed.In the room, there was the sound of rustling and rustling.
This is the first step when silkworms make cocoons.Silkworms that cannot climb a cluster are not healthy silkworms, and cannot make cocoons—even if they climb up, sometimes they just crawl around, but they just refuse to cocoon.At this time, apart from praying silently in their hearts, they can only leave everything to luck.
The humidity in the silkworm room is very heavy—the baby silkworms have to urinate before going up the mountain, so there is a strange smell of dampness in the air, but this is also a signal that the silkworms have matured and are about to cocoon, so everyone is very happy.Looking forward to a good year this year.
Three days after "up the mountain", the fire was turned off as usual.Shen Kaibao opened the corner of the reed curtain with trembling hands and took a look, his heart pounding.The whole family surrounded him, holding their breath and concentrating, not even daring to take a breath.
fine!The straw clusters are covered with a piece of snow-white, at first glance, there are eight points, maybe nine points.This is really a rare good year in recent years!Shen Kaibao's family immediately burst into laughter, and now their hearts are settled.The whole family suffered from hunger and insomnia for a month, borrowing money and paying interest.
The same laughter rose up everywhere in the village.Silkworm flowers are very good this year, and most people can pick seven or eight.A few like Shen Kaibaobao's house can get nine points.
The breathless farmers who were forced by the famine and debts breathed a sigh of relief.Finally got through this year.The riversides and rice fields are now full of women and children again.These people are much thinner than a month ago, their eye sockets are sunken, and their throats are sore.However, the sense of relief and lightness made their spirits very high.
Everyone was thinking about their plans after harvesting the cocoons.Naturally, some of the silkworm cocoons had to be returned first to borrow rice and mulberry leaves from Mr. Zhao—fortunately, Mr. Zhao had this year, otherwise it would be really hard to say how many of these cocoons would be his own.
The next step, of course, is the main event for women - silk reeling.The white silk is reeled, sold to silk customers, and exchanged for silver and copper coins: the debts owed must be repaid, and the jackets and summer clothes in the pawn shop must also be redeemed... The housewives and men of various families are planning For essential expenses, see which ones must be spent and which ones can be delayed.
Duoduo Niang also came back from Master Shen, her face was full of joy - although she had worked really hard this month, the one tael of silver wages she had just paid was heavy in her bosom, and she also brought back the four-color thank you gifts from Wang Siniang, all of them These are "delicious food"-the children in the family are as happy as monkeys unlocked.There is also a piece of Songjiang cotton cloth.
Duoduo Niang's silkworm flowers are not bad either, and they are worth eight points.In addition, Duoduo Niang ate everything from other people this month, and she even got a tael of silver back, so she immediately became the envy of her neighbors.If you raise silkworms at home, the profit depends on God's will, or help others raise silkworms to make money and stability.
Every household brought out their silk carts, and the women made silk by hand. The sound of silk reeling machines and the heat of boiling water pots were everywhere in the village.A lively scene
However, everyone's joy did not last long.The first batch of "silk cocoon guests" who came along the pond road brought bad news.
The first silk cocoon customer to arrive was "Huang Xiaozhuan". He was sickly when he was a child, and his family was afraid that he would not be able to support him, so he left a pigtail at the back of his head, which was not cut off until after "marriage". But it has stayed.
He doesn't have a silk business himself, but every year he makes a living out of the cocoons and raw silk that several silk businesses in Hangzhou come to buy nearby.He is very familiar with the people in the village.He is not bad as a human being, although it is necessary to deceive people, but it is not too much.If someone's family is in trouble and it's really difficult to go to him, he is willing to lend a penny and a half of the debt to others without mortgage.
Shen Kaibao's house is the most familiar "Huang Xiaozhuan" in the village. In the past, when he went to the village to collect cocoons, he always stayed at his house.This time, I brought the four-color water gift as usual.
"Kaibao, are you selling cocoons or making silk this year?" Huang Xiaozhuan asked Shen Kaibao quietly, pulling Shen Kaibao to sit under a willow tree by the vegetable field behind Shen's house.
"Silk is sold naturally, how much can silkworm cocoons be sold for?" Shen Kaibao said disapprovingly.Selling silkworm cocoons is only done by families with insufficient staff.
"This year's market is not good." Huang Xiaozhu sighed and slapped his thigh, lowering his business and said, "You probably don't know yet, this year the city's yamen issued a notice saying that this year's silk cocoon—"
"I know this. How is the market going?" Shen Kaibao was startled. He had always had a bad feeling about this year's raw silk market. Xiao Zhuang's words made his whole body tense again.
Huang Xiaozhu sighed again: "It's bad! It's so bad that everyone will have no way out!"
He is literate and often travels around the city. He has more detailed information than Shen Kaibao. This year, in the name of relief, he has entrusted all the raw silk and cocoon sales in the whole prefecture to the Famine Relief Bureau, so all silk cocoon companies have to go to the Famine Relief Bureau. Get an approval to buy.
"...Brother, think about it. On the one hand, the money for famine relief will come from here. On the other hand, it will go up to the magistrate, and down to the committee members of the famine relief bureau. Which one should not get wet? Think about it, this year's market will be good. Got it?"
Therefore, this year, the peers discussed together and set a public price. All the big and small peers, as well as the "silk customers" who went to the countryside, had to purchase according to this public price, which could only be lowered and not raised.
Shen Kaibao heard that everyone was going to hang up, and he hurriedly asked: "Don't be fooled, what's the price this year?"
"A load of silk costs 25 taels of silver."
"What?!" Shen Kaibao almost jumped up: the market has dropped by more than half compared to last year, his heart sank to the bottom, and his mind was dazed, "This is asking us silkworm farmers to hang themselves!"
"Brother! Don't worry!" Huang Xiaozhu hurriedly said, "This is something that can't be helped..."
Shen Kaibao didn't know how he got home.A heavy uneasiness then enveloped the originally happy village.After Huang Xiaozhu, a few guests came, and they spoke the same words as Huang Xiaozhu.Only this price is not willing to increase even a penny.No matter whether you beg or scold, these people insist on the original price without changing it, and they say it "hardly": I will add one or two for you, what shall we eat?This year's silk business is difficult!
(End of this chapter)
Baskets and baskets of cocoons filled with white flowers filled the warehouse. Wang Siniang and Li are women from the south of the Yangtze River. Both of them have seen silkworm flowers before, but they have never seen silkworms so well and smoothly raised this time.
The discarded dead and diseased silkworms are so negligible that they can be ignored. Wang Siniang has taken care of the silkworms. According to her experience, at least [-] to [-] percent will be lost every silkworm season. I didn't expect the method Miss Li taught them to be so effective!Not to mention that the quality of the cocoons harvested is surprisingly good.Generally speaking, the silkworm flowers of this silkworm raising should be at least [-] points - in previous years, it would be considered a very good year.
Master's silkworm seeds are good!Ms. Li's teaching method is also good!Now they finally have an explanation!Both Wang Siniang and Lizheng breathed a sigh of relief, they both knew the impact of their own performance this time on their future status in the villa.Especially Lizheng, who was one of the six students taught by Zhao Yingong himself at the beginning, and later He Ning, who was parachuted down, became the "Seven of Gods".They are the master's personal students, and their status in the villa is different from ordinary servants. Everyone knows that they must be the master's cronies in the future.Therefore, on top of their own sense of superiority, there is also a strong sense of uneasiness.The sense of competition is particularly strong.
The spring silkworms were harvested, and Wang Siniang gave the silkworm raising ladies a holiday. Those in the village could go home, and the servants rested for a few days to prepare for the upcoming second silkworm breeding.
Sericulture can actually be done several times a year.In some places with superior water and heat conditions, where the supply of mulberry leaves is sufficient, it can even grow eight seasons a year.In terms of the climatic conditions in the south of the Yangtze River at that time, four or five seasons of the year were not a problem.In Huzhou, there are also farmers raising five-season silkworms.
But in the actual silkworm rearing, farmers rarely raise multi-season silkworms, and most of them only raise one season.After the debut of raw silk in June, the sericulture work was over.On the one hand, the scale of the small-scale peasant economy is limited, and farmers have to take care of both planting and other sideline businesses. However, sericulture requires a lot of manpower, and continuous sericulture for a long time requires labor that small farmers cannot support.On the other hand, which is also the most important issue, the local method of sericulture does not have a clear concept of disinfection. Although there are measures such as cleaning the silkworm room and brushing with lime water, the cause of silkworm disease is not clear.The disinfection of silkworm tools and silkworm rooms is not enough. After the temperature rises, viruses and bacteria become more active, and the probability of silkworm disease increases significantly.
In addition, it also involves the temperature and humidity control required for silkworm rearing. Spring is neither cold nor hot, with moderate dryness and humidity.In summer and autumn, this natural advantage no longer exists and human intervention is required.There are quite high requirements for sericulture technology and capital investment.This is very difficult for sericulture farmers who are mostly small farmers.
In Li Yaoer's view, farmers in the south of the Yangtze River generally only raise silkworms for one season, which is a waste of mulberry resources.Considering the water and heat conditions in the south of the Yangtze River, it is relatively safe to raise silkworms for three seasons.
When Shen’s family started harvesting cocoons, the silkworms of Shen Kaibao’s family hadn’t “go up the mountain”.The whole family is suffering. Seeing that the silkworm's body has become transparent, and it has gradually stopped eating, the whole family's heart is lifted. This year's success or failure depends on it.If the silkworm flowers are not good, the land to be pledged will have to be named Cao, not to mention that he owes Mr. Zhao a whole lot of debt!What do you give back?Every time Shen Kaibao thought of this, he was so anxious that he couldn't sleep.
A brazier was set up under the "mountain shed", and the cooked silkworms that were originally on the silkworm foil were transferred to the "mountain shed", and the fire was used below to urge the silkworms to climb up the clusters tied with straw after being heated on the mountain shed.In the room, there was the sound of rustling and rustling.
This is the first step when silkworms make cocoons.Silkworms that cannot climb a cluster are not healthy silkworms, and cannot make cocoons—even if they climb up, sometimes they just crawl around, but they just refuse to cocoon.At this time, apart from praying silently in their hearts, they can only leave everything to luck.
The humidity in the silkworm room is very heavy—the baby silkworms have to urinate before going up the mountain, so there is a strange smell of dampness in the air, but this is also a signal that the silkworms have matured and are about to cocoon, so everyone is very happy.Looking forward to a good year this year.
Three days after "up the mountain", the fire was turned off as usual.Shen Kaibao opened the corner of the reed curtain with trembling hands and took a look, his heart pounding.The whole family surrounded him, holding their breath and concentrating, not even daring to take a breath.
fine!The straw clusters are covered with a piece of snow-white, at first glance, there are eight points, maybe nine points.This is really a rare good year in recent years!Shen Kaibao's family immediately burst into laughter, and now their hearts are settled.The whole family suffered from hunger and insomnia for a month, borrowing money and paying interest.
The same laughter rose up everywhere in the village.Silkworm flowers are very good this year, and most people can pick seven or eight.A few like Shen Kaibaobao's house can get nine points.
The breathless farmers who were forced by the famine and debts breathed a sigh of relief.Finally got through this year.The riversides and rice fields are now full of women and children again.These people are much thinner than a month ago, their eye sockets are sunken, and their throats are sore.However, the sense of relief and lightness made their spirits very high.
Everyone was thinking about their plans after harvesting the cocoons.Naturally, some of the silkworm cocoons had to be returned first to borrow rice and mulberry leaves from Mr. Zhao—fortunately, Mr. Zhao had this year, otherwise it would be really hard to say how many of these cocoons would be his own.
The next step, of course, is the main event for women - silk reeling.The white silk is reeled, sold to silk customers, and exchanged for silver and copper coins: the debts owed must be repaid, and the jackets and summer clothes in the pawn shop must also be redeemed... The housewives and men of various families are planning For essential expenses, see which ones must be spent and which ones can be delayed.
Duoduo Niang also came back from Master Shen, her face was full of joy - although she had worked really hard this month, the one tael of silver wages she had just paid was heavy in her bosom, and she also brought back the four-color thank you gifts from Wang Siniang, all of them These are "delicious food"-the children in the family are as happy as monkeys unlocked.There is also a piece of Songjiang cotton cloth.
Duoduo Niang's silkworm flowers are not bad either, and they are worth eight points.In addition, Duoduo Niang ate everything from other people this month, and she even got a tael of silver back, so she immediately became the envy of her neighbors.If you raise silkworms at home, the profit depends on God's will, or help others raise silkworms to make money and stability.
Every household brought out their silk carts, and the women made silk by hand. The sound of silk reeling machines and the heat of boiling water pots were everywhere in the village.A lively scene
However, everyone's joy did not last long.The first batch of "silk cocoon guests" who came along the pond road brought bad news.
The first silk cocoon customer to arrive was "Huang Xiaozhuan". He was sickly when he was a child, and his family was afraid that he would not be able to support him, so he left a pigtail at the back of his head, which was not cut off until after "marriage". But it has stayed.
He doesn't have a silk business himself, but every year he makes a living out of the cocoons and raw silk that several silk businesses in Hangzhou come to buy nearby.He is very familiar with the people in the village.He is not bad as a human being, although it is necessary to deceive people, but it is not too much.If someone's family is in trouble and it's really difficult to go to him, he is willing to lend a penny and a half of the debt to others without mortgage.
Shen Kaibao's house is the most familiar "Huang Xiaozhuan" in the village. In the past, when he went to the village to collect cocoons, he always stayed at his house.This time, I brought the four-color water gift as usual.
"Kaibao, are you selling cocoons or making silk this year?" Huang Xiaozhuan asked Shen Kaibao quietly, pulling Shen Kaibao to sit under a willow tree by the vegetable field behind Shen's house.
"Silk is sold naturally, how much can silkworm cocoons be sold for?" Shen Kaibao said disapprovingly.Selling silkworm cocoons is only done by families with insufficient staff.
"This year's market is not good." Huang Xiaozhu sighed and slapped his thigh, lowering his business and said, "You probably don't know yet, this year the city's yamen issued a notice saying that this year's silk cocoon—"
"I know this. How is the market going?" Shen Kaibao was startled. He had always had a bad feeling about this year's raw silk market. Xiao Zhuang's words made his whole body tense again.
Huang Xiaozhu sighed again: "It's bad! It's so bad that everyone will have no way out!"
He is literate and often travels around the city. He has more detailed information than Shen Kaibao. This year, in the name of relief, he has entrusted all the raw silk and cocoon sales in the whole prefecture to the Famine Relief Bureau, so all silk cocoon companies have to go to the Famine Relief Bureau. Get an approval to buy.
"...Brother, think about it. On the one hand, the money for famine relief will come from here. On the other hand, it will go up to the magistrate, and down to the committee members of the famine relief bureau. Which one should not get wet? Think about it, this year's market will be good. Got it?"
Therefore, this year, the peers discussed together and set a public price. All the big and small peers, as well as the "silk customers" who went to the countryside, had to purchase according to this public price, which could only be lowered and not raised.
Shen Kaibao heard that everyone was going to hang up, and he hurriedly asked: "Don't be fooled, what's the price this year?"
"A load of silk costs 25 taels of silver."
"What?!" Shen Kaibao almost jumped up: the market has dropped by more than half compared to last year, his heart sank to the bottom, and his mind was dazed, "This is asking us silkworm farmers to hang themselves!"
"Brother! Don't worry!" Huang Xiaozhu hurriedly said, "This is something that can't be helped..."
Shen Kaibao didn't know how he got home.A heavy uneasiness then enveloped the originally happy village.After Huang Xiaozhu, a few guests came, and they spoke the same words as Huang Xiaozhu.Only this price is not willing to increase even a penny.No matter whether you beg or scold, these people insist on the original price without changing it, and they say it "hardly": I will add one or two for you, what shall we eat?This year's silk business is difficult!
(End of this chapter)
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