golden scales

Zhuangzi divided the front, middle and back into three parts.

The front is the silkworm room and the dormitory of the silkworm raising lady, and the middle is the office area, where data statistics and silkworm development are observed and drawn into a map.The whole silkworm raising process relies on the old experience provided by the silkworm raising lady, and Song Yingxing, who has never raised silkworms before, sums it up into technical specifications.

The two most important points of these specifications are temperature and humidity control, while taking into account lighting and ventilation.Today's thermometers aren't good enough for accurate chemistry experiments, but they're fine for controlling the temperature in a house.Zhu Cihong also used this thermometer to measure her body temperature, and the reading was slightly higher, but still within the acceptable range.

The research and development of the hygrometer was a bit bumpy. The direction given by Zhu Cihong was the hair hygrometer. Facts have proved that this kind of idea can only be a handicraft in elementary school natural knowledge classes, and it is too rough for production and experiments.Later, the students of Jingshi University still used the heat phenomenon when water evaporated to invent the psychrometer. When using it, it is necessary to compare it with a public table to know the indoor humidity, but this is the highest that can be done at present. technology too.

The application of these two small things makes it possible to concentrate silkworm rearing.During the gestation process of silkworm eggs, the so-called urination of silkworms requires women to urge them with their own body temperature, so the speed of urination varies, and the simultaneous hatching of ants and silkworms cannot be guaranteed.With a thermometer, the indoor temperature can simulate the most suitable environment for ant silkworms to hatch.

If it is too cold, use a fire dragon to increase the heat, and if it is too hot, open the window for ventilation.

The same goes for humidity.If it is too dry, use a damp cloth to hang it on the wall, and if it is too wet, ventilate and release carbon.

Under the condition that the silkworm eggs remain unchanged, using this artificial control method greatly reduces the loss caused by accelerating greening, allowing as many ant silkworms as possible to hatch and then sent to the breeding room.

For silkworm farmers, greening is only the first hurdle.After the vigorous silkworms are produced, there will be a large supply of mulberry leaves.Generally speaking, one silkworm egg needs seven or eight loads of mulberry leaves, and it is impossible for ordinary people to be self-sufficient.The mulberry leaves must be fresh.It cannot be overnight, so it is impossible to stock up in advance, and can only be purchased from the mulberry garden.

The purchase of mulberry leaves is also divided into spot futures.

Because spot prices tend to be extremely high, futures are generally popular.That is the so-called "tip leaf".Prepay before the silkworm season, and then go to the mulberry field to collect goods when the silkworms want to eat leaves.This transaction method puts great economic pressure on the small farmer's family, and it is necessary to raise money to pay for the whole season's leaves in advance.

At this time, they can only go out to borrow usury.

The same is true of "green seedling money", which is a loan that all farmers who plant grain in the spring must borrow. Therefore, in order to completely eliminate usury in Daming, there must be a strong and reputable financial system.

In the spirit of being a master, Zhu Cihong really wanted to rescue the silkworm farmers from the oppression of usury so that they could produce more raw silk for him.As the crown prince, economic means are simpler than political means.All it takes is to provide low-interest loans to farmers.The form of loan does not require real silver, and rice is used as hard currency, allowing farmers to repay in silkworm cocoons.

As a result, this kind of "good deed" was resisted by the owners of mulberry gardens—they themselves were also loan sharks.As a result, the price of mulberry leaves soared, which still forced farmers to borrow money.

Is Zhu Cihong a person who can accept failure and slap in the face?

of course not!

"I originally thought that the economic problem should be solved by economic means. They just think I'm easy to bully? Let the Zhejiang Procuratorate send someone down to investigate! Is there any mulberry farm owner who is not willing to only earn leaf money. I will let him take any money If you can’t make any money, you have to spit it out!” Zhu Cihong ordered sharply.

After three or five unbelieving mulberry garden owners had their property confiscated and their families allotted to Liaodong, the people finally came to their senses: the crown prince wants to do good things, and whoever dares to turn this good thing into a bad thing will do nothing good for that family.

It is also an iron-fisted means to shelter the crown prince. During the 20 years of Chongzhen, Zhejiang farmers finally had their first good year in their lives.Not only is there no court tax.Even the gathered country gentry had to put away their sharp minions and watch a large piece of fat slip away from under their claws.

Song Yingxing has contributed a lot to this matter, not only teaching the sericulture lady to read the thermometer and hygrometer, but also designing the direction of the copper pipe water conditioner to prepare for the next season of sericulture.Now in the north there are also sericulture and silk reeling, but because of the problem of silkworm eggs.The quality and output are not as good as in the south.In the south, it is more difficult to raise Simian silkworms, and the water and heat conditions are good, and mulberry leaves can also be supplied all the time. It is too wasteful to only raise spring silkworms.

It's just that the temperature in summer in the south is high, and diseases and viruses are hard to guard against.If small farmers raise summer silkworms or even autumn silkworms, it is easy to lose money, so the folks only raise spring silkworms.

Zhu Cilang spent so much money to improve the silkworm room and to summarize the technical specifications. Of course, it was not for the annual spring silkworms.What he wants is a "golden mountain" that can make silkworms spin and cocoon in various environments such as summer and autumn!

If the temperature is not enough, you can use a ground fire dragon. If the temperature is too high, you can only use copper pipes to run cold well water to cool down.In this way, the steam pump brought by Shen Tingyang came in handy, and the output value must be much higher than pumping water in the mine.

The lady of the Sun family finally watched the silkworm babies "go up the mountain" to spin silk, and was busy with the last sleepless period.During the entire development process of the silkworm baby, the mulberry leaves cannot be stopped for a moment, otherwise the silkworm baby will starve to death.In addition, the "technical specifications" in Zhuangzi are meticulous, and a lot of energy is spent on observation, reading, and reporting every day, which is more tiring than raising silkworms at home.

However, the effect is also obvious. In previous years, it would be good for the Sun family's wife to encourage [-] to [-]% of the young to hatch at home, but the number of hatched here is extremely high.During the whole process, very few silkworms died of illness, as if they were really blessed by gods and Buddhas.

"The method here is difficult to learn even if you want to. First, you can't find so many copper pipes." The lady who raised silkworms in the same room complained regretfully, regretting that she could not learn this method.

The wife of the Sun family said: "After all, it is the emperor's family, but it has a lot of money. With so much money, it is enough to buy woven silk and satin. Why do you need to raise silkworms?"

"You don't understand." The head of the room is a tall and thin lady from Suzhou, who coughed lightly and said: "The crown prince is a god in the sky, and what he cares about is not silk, but to pass on the method of raising silkworms in the sky. come down."

"It's useless if you pass it on." The young woman who complained just now mumbled to herself.

"The only expensive things here are yarn and copper pipes. And the copper pipes are not unusable after one use. If you can raise three seasons of silkworms every year, it will be worth using them for a few more years." The room chief said again.

The lady of the Sun family thought to herself: Even so, it is not easy to collect the first sum of money.

She thought so in her heart, but she was worried that the head of the room was the "head lady" and was in charge of a class.Although he was not under her command, he was still an "official", so he didn't answer any more questions.

Originally, the dormitory had fallen into a complete silence, but suddenly there was another voice from the corner: "You said, we only have a hundred or so ladies here, if all the silkworms raised are harvested, how many do we have?"

Everyone made a calculation in their minds, but the result was that they were taken aback.Usually at home, people with many daughters only raise silkworms with five or six sheets of cloth. If the harvest fails one year and the leaves cannot be bought next year, they can only raise two or three sheets of cloth.Now they are raised together here, no matter whose family they belong to, they all have to be taken care of, which means that one person raises more than ten sheets of silkworms!

And eating mulberry leaves is even more scary. All the leaves are picked in the early morning when the night is cool, and the dew is not dry when they are sent to the Zhuangzi.From this point of view, other silkworm farmers near the mulberry garden may not be able to buy many leaves.

Let's compare our hearts to each other, and think about how distressing it would be if we couldn't buy mulberry leaves when the silkworm baby had slept for two or three sleeps, day and night, if we hadn't been in Zhuangzi.

This Zhuangzi is the only one in the world, and he has already shown his ferocious mouth.What's more, there is no real technology cross-generation, but only a generation of management level and method.If it hadn't been for Zhu Cihong's suppression of private usury, the nearby silkworm farmers would not only have no mulberry leaves, but would also owe a large amount of foreign debt, even if they were forced to die.

"It seems that the difficulty of raising silkworms is not very high, and intensive breeding can still be promoted." Zhu Cihong was greatly encouraged by the reported data.

Zhejiang's political participation stands below, but there is no joy on the faces of other officials.He finally moved his legs, stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "My minister Zhejiang Wu Yi is participating in politics, and I have something to report to Your Highness."

Wu Yi was originally an aide of Shi Kefa, and a Jinshi in Chongzhen for 16 years.Because it was followed by the Jiashen Change in 17 years, the Jinshi in his department were very confused, and they fled around, and finally stabilized when Beijing was restored.

Zhu Cihong personally selected him to participate in politics in Zhejiang, and he was also grateful for Wu Yi, who in another historical time and space, after the subjugation of the country, insisted on Taihu Lake, attacked Hangzhou three times, and finally died unyieldingly.

"Your Highness, I have visited many silkworm farmers recently, and they have suffered from leaflessness. This year's harvest may not even be half of previous years. If Your Highness insists on doing this silkworm farm, I'm afraid it will do too much harm to the farmers." Wu Yi cautiously Choose words, for fear of offending the murderous crown prince.

Zhu Cihong was not angry: "What Wu Dacan said is not unreasonable, but here is a calculation. It is to give the same amount of mulberry leaves to a large number of silkworm farmers, and then let them struggle to pay a small amount of raw silk on the food and clothing line...or We use these mulberry leaves to produce more raw silk, make a profit, and then turn around to make farmers live a better life. It is not difficult for Dacan to choose between the two.”

"Your Highness, I'm afraid these silkworm farmers have starved to death before they can make money in the future." Wu Yi did not give up because of this: "And if you make money in the future, how can you guarantee to benefit these farmers?"

In Wu Yi's view, this is a matter of competing with the people for profit. Once it really makes a profit, it will only suck the bones and suck the marrow. How can it be possible to worry about the life and death of those farmers?He didn't know about the British "sheep eating people", but Daming's "silkworm eating people" was about to happen.

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