In the Yuyuan, the drama is being performed on the small stage. The plot has entered a critical stage. The concubines in the harem are fascinated by the sight. Yuwen Wen, who had just walked to the door, saw this, and "passed the door" and turned to the small pavilion on the other side.

It was late autumn and the weather was cool, so Yuwen, who was sitting under the pavilion, felt the autumn wind was also comfortable. It was a bit bored while sitting, so he began to think about things.

Just after talking to Yang Ji, Yu Wenwen mentioned cotton cloth, of course, wasn't asking this question when he was idle. With the continuous expansion of cotton planting area, cotton cloth has become an inevitable trend.

Although cotton and linen have their own advantages, overall, cotton is sweat-absorbing, soft and has better adaptability, which is bound to be better than linen.

In another ten or twenty years, cotton planting in Zhouguo will completely replace hemp planting, which will become a reality.

According to the historical trajectory, cotton cloth replaced linen and became the fabric used by ordinary people, until the Yuan and Ming dynasties.

The process of history was nearly six or seven hundred years ahead of schedule. It was not that Yu Wenwen was too capable, but that he changed the "traditional concept".

In this era, cotton was called "Jibe" and cotton cloth was called "Jibe". There were tributes from foreign countries outside the territory, so the Central Plains court could not be said to be unfamiliar with this kind of fabric.

But he regards it as an extraterritorial specialty and never thought of promoting cotton planting in the country and then promoting cotton textiles.

Jibei (cotton) is just an ornamental flower in the garden.

Hemp textile has existed in the Central Plains for thousands of years. Everyone subconsciously believes that cloth is fabric made of hemp textile, just like using chopsticks to eat, it is a normal thing.

The government collects taxes from the people, and they collect in-kind taxes, including land rent (grain), cloth (silk, linen) or silk (raw silk) and hemp (hemp fiber). This has been the case since ancient times. No one has ever thought of levying gebei (cotton) shaped like ornamental plants as taxes.

Because it's useless.

It was not until the Song and Yuan dynasties that Huang Daopo was in Yazhou (Hainan) and learned cotton textile technology from locals and related textile equipment, which brought mature cotton textile technology into the Central Plains.

By the early Ming Dynasty, the imperial court began to force cotton planting on a large scale, and it became a fact that cotton cloth completely replaced linen.

The key to the problem is that cotton textile is an imported product to the Central Plains or an advanced textile technology spontaneously introduced by the people. The courts of all dynasties did not think about actively introducing it. Even though they knew about Jibeibu during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the development of textiles in the Central Plains was very slow.

And now, Yuwen Wen has just made up for this link.

The imperial court led the "technology introduction", so the promotion of cotton textiles is naturally much faster than that of the people's spontaneous introduction. The current cotton textile technology is indeed the same as in "historical" and comes from Qiongzhou (Hainan).

The local cotton planting and cotton textile technology in Qiongzhou are of course also imported products. They are brought by overseas merchants, and their ultimate source comes from Tianzhu.

One of the origins of cotton is India (India). Cotton textile and cotton printing and dyeing technology are naturally the strongest in this era. Yuwen Wen himself does not know about the relevant technologies, so the rapid development of Zhongyuan cotton industry is of course due to "technology introduction".

Based on the already mature hydraulic textile (seam textile) technology, technical personnel are organized to research and improve the hydraulic textile of cotton. Therefore, the "seamless connection" of the textile industry is successful and the era of cotton cloth is coming.

It sounds easy, and can be summarized in hundreds of words, but it took Yuwen Wen twenty years to achieve this "small goal".

How many twenty years can life take?

In all dynasties, so many emperors, and how many emperors have been in power for more than twenty years? For the emperors, what is wrong with doing when they have time? Are you bored and introduced technology to develop the cotton textile industry?

If you grow cotton, you don’t practice elixirs. If you don’t say that you live forever, it’s not better to live for a few more years. Can you make cotton?

From Yuwen Wen's southern expedition to Lingnan to the present, it has been twenty years since countless people worked hard for this to achieve their current achievements. It was not something he could just move his mouth.

The palace maid brought snacks and fine wine. Yu Wenwen drank and drank it himself in the pavilion. In this case, he should recite poems to entertain the fun. There is a ready-made poem, that is, the wine is singing, and life is in terms of geometry.

The first few sentences of "Short Songs" by Emperor Wu of Wei Cao are most appropriate at this time. Yuwen Wen murmured "Singing with Drink" and pondered the current situation.

As for the leeks, my knife has been sharpened, and the harvest season has come!

What Yuwen Wen said about "cutting leeks" actually originated from later stock market terms. The market makers are the harvesters, so retail investors are the ones that grow ones.

Now, the dealer is the court, and the leeks are the big families in various places, including aristocratic families.

The economic civil war between the central court and local tribes has entered the second stage. In order to economically attack the manors of aristocratic families, the "Western Army" (Chang'an court in the west) used low grain prices and low prices for many years to defeat the "East Army" (Hebei, Henan, and Lianghuai in the east) and suffered internal injuries.

But the battle situation is now beginning to be "stalemate". The owners of the manors who are retreating step by step are very strong in survival. After more than ten years of hard work, they have adapted to the economic war under the new situation.

Corresponding to emerging employment-based farms, many traditional estates began to transform into new tenant farmers' manors or clan estates, planting cash crops at low labor costs and stubbornly survived.

The so-called low labor cost means that the owner of the manor uses a tenant farmer who is completely dependent on himself (the tenant farmer who signs a long contract or even sells his contract) to conduct low-cost agricultural production, and also starts to plant cash crops to make profits, and then uses the profit to purchase grain and cloth.

Another type of transformational manor is a manor operated by clans. The clan leader organized the tribe members and planted economic crops at low labor costs, which also achieved profitability and then purchased grain and cloth.

Tenants who are completely dependent on others can only have a bite of food to eat. In the clan, those who do not have the courage to leave their hometowns and work elsewhere can also have a bite of food to eat, and do not need wages.

Moreover, the clans will also ask about their well-being. When they are sick, they pay for a doctor. If they are urgently used, the clans will also stand out. It can be said that human feelings are heartwarming, making many people increasingly reluctant to leave their hometowns and clans.

On the other hand, when employing farms, the farmer (trade agency) must pay wages to the employer. This wage must not only ensure that the other party supports the family, but also have a surplus. The cost of employment is naturally higher than that of tenants and clans who are fully dependent on them.

The farmer who hires farms also has to bear the land rent and even take over the rent and adjustments of land owners, so invisibly, he cannot compete with the two types of manors in terms of cost.

Therefore, the war entered a stalemate stage. As the commander of the "Western Army", Yuwen Wen had to take measures to break the deadlock.

He can use resources to impose "economic sanctions" on the "East Army" that are stubbornly resisting, so that the cash crops grown in these estates cannot be sold at a good price, and even implement discriminatory tax policies, which will make the other party's operating costs soar, resulting in the more cash crops you will get, the more you will lose.

But Yuwen Wen thought he could not do this because it was like declaring the other party as a "non-national". However, the owner of the manor in Hebei, Henan and Lianghuai was also a commoner of Zhou, and was not the target of his implementation of the ** elimination.

The traditional manor owners chose to adapt to the new situation and succeeded, which means that the other party wanted to be a follower within the system, rather than being eager to rebel.

Local snakes want to be obedient to the people, but Yuwen Wen cannot ask for it, let alone he always emphasizes relative fair competition, and it is unreasonable that he is both an athlete and a referee.

The interest groups he supports must be the best winners in fierce competition, so you cannot be afraid of competition. Since the traditional manor owners have adapted to the first stage of the war, the next style of play must be changed.

In this way, the dealer can happily cut leeks.

The new approach is of course cotton planting. The "Western Army" hired farm will plant cotton on a large scale, directly bypassing hemp planting and hemp textiles, and open up a new battlefield.

It is not possible to make profits by having land, because cotton planting has a high technical content.

Cotton is divided into types. Some varieties have too fine or too short cotton. The yarns spun out easily break when they are thin, and the cloth woven when they are thick is not smooth enough. A typical example is the cotton planted in Gaochang, the Western Regions. Because the cotton fibers are of poor quality, the cotton cloth is "rough".

Therefore, high-quality cotton seeds must be long-length cotton, and such cotton must be introduced from India.

Then, cotton planting is an unfamiliar field for Central Plains farmers. There is no traditional experience to learn from how to fertilize, prevent floods and droughts, and prevent pests at each growth stage.

Third, cotton textile and dyeing technology are also different from linen textile and dyeing technology. Although the machine looks similar, without relevant technical guidance, the spinned yarn is easy to break, and the dyed cotton cloth is easy to fade.

Good varieties, planting, textiles, and dyeing technologies are of course in the hands of the "bankers", and the "Western Army" can get the "membership price".

Not to mention textiles, dyeing, and hiring farms can get good varieties. There are technicians to guide cotton planting. Those transformed manors who want to make profits by growing cotton have to spend money on good varieties and technology, and they will definitely not get the "membership price".

All kinds of local pesticides have to be bought for money. If you don’t buy them, you will definitely not be able to match them. At that time, the cotton fields will be infected with insects and there will be no local pesticides to deworm them, and you will be waiting for a bad harvest or even a dead harvest.

In this way, the increased technical cost of these manors that have to follow the trend to plant cotton offset the advantage of low labor costs. The "East Army" led by the "Western Army" will only "one step wrong, one step wrong."

In order to survive, I can only choose to become the "supplier" of raw materials for the entire cotton textile industry and can never get out of it.
Chapter completed!