In front of the civil residence, Shuangwenhe lives in mother and daughter, Yuwen Saijin, the wife of Li Jie's family, and many wives in the military mansion, chattering around Yun Shao with surprise on his face, and was particularly excited to follow him.

Gao Yue also smiled, clapped his palms, and said to Yun Shao: "A Ni, do you remember when I was in Bailicheng Yingtian, I asked Yan Xiang to transport grass cotton seeds from Guangzhou Maritime Warehouse and try planting in the Alantu Temple field?"

Yun Shao raised his black eyebrows and thought about it carefully. He said that this was true. At that time, the officials in the mansion called this "Mian" and "only Qingqing..."

When it comes to the title of "Qingqing", the other ladies laughed loudly, only Yunhe covered her face with a silk fan and did not make any statement.

Because now the Quanxing Yuan Mansion is spread all over the world, the wife of the Dayin family likes to call her husband "Qingqing", and she also calls her in front of others.

Gao Yue was also a little embarrassed, but Yun Shao continued to say, "Only Qingqing gave this item a new name, cotton."

"In our countryside, we call this thing Baidie." A wife who married in Lingnan said.

"How nice cotton sounds. Qingqing calls it cotton, that's cotton." Yun Shao hurriedly corrected the lady and said.

Gao Yue raised his hand with a smile, "From Bailicheng to Xingyuan Mansion, Master Mingxuan always followed Yue's idea, and with the help of all the wives such as Shuangwen, Living, Broken Gold, etc., he finally made all the cotton into silk and how to make cloth utensils."

Then, amid the cheers of everyone, Gao Yue lifted a large piece of cloth in the yard, and several instruments inside were immediately displayed in front of everyone.

One of them was called "chasing a car", and then Song Zhuzhu told Yun Shao that the fruit of cotton is like a peach, with seeds in it. This thing can be used to pluck the cotton seeds to obtain seedless "white layered tidbits". The cotton seeds that are taken out can be used in fertilizer or used for food in animals;

The second piece of Gao Yue called it a "peel bow", hang it up, use the bow string to play the cotton to make it soft, and then roll it into strips on the wooden board;

The third item is called "flying car", also called "treadmill" or "spinning wheel". In fact, the standard is basically similar to the folk spinning carts at that time. You can use the pedal to steer the wheel, or you can use hand-cranking, then pull the cotton wool to pull threads, pass through the yarn hole, and then separate through the weaver's fingers, and each is added to the "spindle" - because people have five fingers, that is, four fingers, so Master Mingxuan believes that the limit of this kind of bunting is four spindles;

The last piece is a loom, which is no different from a loom that weaves silk and linen. All it needs to do is weave cotton ingots into cotton.

In fact, under the intervention and guidance of Gao Yue, and with the efforts of Master Mingxuan and the wife of the military palace, this simplest cotton weaving process is much more transcendent than the history of the real plane.

According to Tao Zongyi of the Yuan Dynasty, when he lived in seclusion in Songjiang, he had seen the local cotton weaving industry. "The Songjiang Prefecture was more than 50 miles east, called Wunijing, and the land was barren." Therefore, the people could only seek "tree industry", that is, planting cotton and spun cotton cloth to pay taxes. However, there was no chariot or pedicle arch at the beginning. The people could only peel cotton seeds from cotton boa with their hands, and then use a bamboo arc to make cotton to play cotton. It can be said that "it was very difficult to achieve". Later, according to Tao Zongyi, he was a woman named Huang Daopo. When he came here from Yazhou, he taught the people four-step tools for "defending, sprinkling, spinning, weaving" cotton, and also taught them the "false yarn, color matching, threading, and flower breaking" technology, which is the so-called jacquard and dyeing tips. Then the cotton spinning industry flourished in Songjiang Prefecture, continuing the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

Now, with Gao Binglang's efforts, he no longer has to wait for Huang Daopo. The four basic procedures of the cotton spinning industry are complete. As for jacquard printing and dyeing, it is not necessary to consider for the time being, and the colored cotton cloth is enough to be used.

"Using this thing as cloth is the most cold-proof and the cost is much lower than silk. It is the most suitable to sell it to military soldiers and households." Gao Yue's implication is that once cotton and clothes are promoted nationwide, it will have a great significance to the people of the whole country. People can get fabrics that are more affordable than silk and hemp, which will form a "wave of consumption for the common people" that is enough to change society.

One or two of the military women who are more sensitive to the economy have seen the glorious prospects of cotton planting. As family members, they have begun to plan:

Yangzhou and Lizhou are not suitable for planting this kind of grass cotton. Xingyuan Prefecture has no idle fields, but Fengzhou and Xingzhou can grow it. Not only that, there is still a vast land and sparsely populated area. I immediately pay for a large amount of idle fields there, mixed wheat and cotton, and then hire people to weave them into cloth. Then I can sell them to other places with the thousand-hu of ships in Xingyuan Prefecture. The profits are absolutely considerable!

At this moment, they whispered, and they had made up for their ideas and plans. The biggest worry was not that they had no place or money, but that they had no one.

What is required to grow and spin cotton is manpower.

What Xingyuan Mansion lacks is manpower.

In other words, this is what I lack now. After the Anshi Rebellion, more than half of the national household registration was lost, from about 60 million before the rebellion to now 20 to 30 million. The court directly controlled half of the amount, and there were not enough people who wanted to farm and serve as soldiers.

After taking over Xingyuan Mansion, Gao Binglang also worked hard to solve this problem. He first gathered all the poor households in the third grade of the mansion, half tempted and half forced them to work, but the workers were all concentrated in the boatyard, mule yard or iron official armor.

"Don't worry." At this time, when Yun Shao and Jing'er stepped forward happily and touched various cotton spinning utensils, Yun He shook the fan and said to several military wives, "I heard that when the Western Fan invaded the ranks, many Dangxiang Fans in the northwest fell to the enemy. The Holy Lord was very angry in the Zichen Palace. My brother-in-law made contributions to the expedition and decided to set the northwest. So you see if there are many Dangxiang slaves who are Lifu in Xingyuan Mansion recently?"

The women of the military palace nodded - the nearly two thousand Dangxiang people captured by Gao Yue, and they handed over 300 people to the court to express their wishes. The rest were escorted back to Xingyuan Mansion without any politeness to serve as "Dangxiang slaves". Four hundred people were distributed to the foreign cavalry in Minghuaiyi as slaves. The Xingyuan City, which had become popular, accepted it without any grudge (at this time, Dangxiang had no unified national consciousness at all, and Gao Yue probably wouldn't have made it happen). The rest were sent to the military palace as slaves.

"Immediately, if the Holy Lord asks his brother-in-law to conquer Dangxiang Fanluo again, there will be more than ten thousand Dangxiang slaves who will bring back Xingyuan? In that case, whether it is planting cotton fields or textile cotton cloth, there will be no worries about the absence of people." Yunhe, the little girl, said this openly without any compassion on her face.

"This girl is so tough-hearted. It seems that she can really help me in her career." Gao Yue put his hands behind her back, a little surprised, and looked at Yunhe with some appreciation, thinking of this.

Because although he had not discussed it with Yunhe in advance, Gao Yue had actually formed a huge and bloody plan to suppress the northwest Dangxiang Fanluo, a plan that was mixed with the imperial suppression and the remuneration of the same clan, or to put it more bluntly, a plan to "slave plunder".
Chapter completed!