Since some people have proposed to increase silk production, it means that the increased production can be completely digested by the market. At least whoever proposes it will come up with a solution.

Wei Guangde doesn’t need to consider the terminal, so the rest is production.

Let the owners of textile workshops expand the scale of the workshop and increase the number of looms. If the output is expanded, there will naturally be a greater demand for raw materials. When the output cannot be raised in the short term, they can only compete to raise prices in order to compete for a small amount of market supply.

The prices of raw materials have risen, which has attracted farmers to voluntarily change from planting rice to planting mulberry silkworms.

If you voluntarily change the purpose of the field, it is impossible for everyone to rush up.

According to Wei Guangde's understanding of the current people, although they have various problems, they are all very real. Even if they find that mulberry planting and silkworm breeding profits are greater, they will not use all the fields to do this at once, but will only use part of the land to convert rice to mulberry planting.

In fact, Wei Guangde found that in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an imperial edict to encourage planting mulberry trees and silkworm trees and cotton.

Thinking about this, the only thing Wei Guangde is still uncertain about is whether the silk produced has a sales channel and how to make the owners of textile workshops willing to increase the number of looms. As long as these two problems can be solved, then the silk production will be greatly increased in a few years without changing rice and mulberry seeds.

Well, we still need to figure out the first question, whether the sales route is really what I guess, is sold to foreign countries.

Wei Guangde knew that these days, both the East and the West like silk, namely Japan in the east and Arabia in the west, and Europe in the west. It is said that a piece of silk was shipped over and the price increased several times.

Of course, unlike in the Ming Dynasty, those who can afford to consume Ming Dynasty silk are rich local people, and ordinary people will definitely not be able to afford it.

In the Ming Dynasty, the situation was actually similar. Most of the people wore local cloth clothes or ordinary cotton clothes, and high-quality cotton and silk were not affordable.

While reading the materials, Wei Guangde also unexpectedly discovered something he didn't know before. Cotton was not found in China since ancient times, but was introduced to the Central Plains at the end of the Song and early Yuan dynasties. It was only a small amount of it was planted in the south before, and most of it was used by local ethnic minorities to spin and weave cloth.

This means that when the founding of the Kingdom of China, the production of cotton in the Ming Dynasty was not large, but it was only gradually expanded after more than a hundred years of promotion. Not only did the planting technology improve, but also classified cotton varieties and grades, and textile technology was much more optimized.

Just like the Songjiang velvet cloth that Wei Guangde likes, it is the top-notch fabric in cotton fabrics now.

Who should I ask for information?

Wei Guangde is in trouble again now.

Chen Jin and the others said everything they knew. Wei Guangde asked in detail at that time, but because he didn't know about the Maritime Bureau, he forgot to ask about the silk sales. This is also the reason for the inertia of thinking. Wei Guangde thought that since ancient times, China had no worries about selling silk, and it would take as much as foreigners as they produce.
Chapter completed!