It is reasonable for cotton to replace linen and wool. Cotton is not only soft and comfortable, but also easy to clean. It is a good material for underwear. It is said that after Europeans introduced Indian cotton, their personal hygiene level has been greatly improved.
Of course, Marin did not want to use cotton to replace silk and wool velvet. Why? This is not in his interest! If cotton was popular in Europe, then silk and wool velvet would fall out of favor. The silk trade in the Ming Dynasty was precisely Marin's important interest. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to replace silk and wool velvet with cotton.
But cotton can be used for underwear!
Marin's plan was to make Europeans accustomed to wearing cotton underwear and wool sweaters in the future. As for the outside, nobles and rich men were wearing silk coats, and ordinary people were wearing wool and linen coats...
In this way, the three types of textiles have their own living space and do not interfere with each other. Marin also guarantees the interests of his own silk.
In fact, this distribution model has a very later style. In modern times, people are accustomed to wearing cotton underwear, and sweaters on the outside to keep warm. Then, they are casual outside, depending on personal preferences and financial resources...
Under the promotion of Marin, some women in Beihai have learned to knit sweaters and knit sweaters and sweaters that have good cold resistance. These sweaters are tight and do not appear cumbersome after wearing them. They can also wear silk robes on the outside, which is very convenient and fashionable. Before Marin introduced sweaters, Europeans' internal cold resistance clothes were mainly sheepskin jackets and furry ones. However, the cold resistance is not very good. In particular, the arms are not taken care of. Or, they are simply made of woolen cloth, which is worn with multiple layers, but very heavy. Unlike hand-woven sweaters, if the craftsmanship and materials are good, the wool sweaters are light, warm, and breathable.
In addition, the most important point is that hand-knitted sweaters are not restricted in the venue and do not require machinery and equipment. They are very suitable for idle women. Just buy a few balls of wool and a few wooden needles in the store and you can knit sweaters without any trouble.
Malin clearly remembered that in his previous life, his mother and the woman next door were about to arrive. Before winter came, several women in the neighborhood gathered together to chat about gossip while knitting sweaters on their hands.
Knitting sweaters can produce benefits. Women with good skills can not only knit sweaters for their families, but even Malin will arrange shops under Beihai Shanghui to place orders with women with good skills during the slack farm, ask them to help knit high-quality sweaters, and then purchase them for centralized sales. In this way, those skilled women also have an additional income during the slack farm, which can subsidize their family income. This is definitely a great thing for ordinary families, and can make the family's financial conditions much better.
In addition, knitting sweaters can consume a lot of wool, which is also a good stimulus for the sheep farming industry. After all, even inferior coarse wool can be used to knit sweaters after being spun into wool, and it is cheap.
In this way, Beihai Country has formed a complete industrial chain of "raising sheep - sheep sheep - purchasing wool - spinning - knitting sweaters", which has supported many people and made the lives of ordinary families much better. At the same time, it can also generate a lot of tax revenue.
Even Malin ordered to spend money to hire women with the highest level of knitting sweaters in a certain place to organize young local women and girls to learn the skills of knitting sweaters from them during the slack season. In this way, knitting sweaters has become an important task for ordinary women in Beihai Country in their spare time. Not only can they pass the time, but they can also bring income to their families. Of course, the premise is that your skills should not be too fashionable. Otherwise, the purchase of the store will refuse to accept it...
As of now, due to limited funding and traditional social concepts, the craftsman school run by the Beihai State currently only recruits boys. As for girls, they cannot go to school normally.
But Marin has decided to use the opportunity of teaching sweater knitting skills to teach girls how to recognize some characters. It is not necessary to have a high level, but at least recognize characters, and then learn basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division at the primary school level. In this way, in the future, you will not be deceived by people because you have no calculating ability.
Even Marin did not intend to spend money to establish a special girls' school, but instead planned to borrow churches from all over the country. Anyway, except Sundays, churches are also idle. During the slack season, it is possible to call all the women in the church in the name of holding a "sweater knitting training class". While knitting sweaters, nuns were asked to teach girls how to read and add, subtract, multiplication and division.
The teaching equipment is also very simple - the nuns who teach use blackboards and chalk, while the girls who study use the cheapest sand tables and branches. In this way, without the use of the venue and no money, the girls in Beihai can have the most basic writing and arithmetic skills. It doesn’t take much highs, and it’s enough to have the second grade level of elementary school. Moreover, the time is set at 100 slack farms, which does not delay the girls’ daily work for their homes…
As for the title, it is implemented in the name of "sweater knitting training class". Anyway, under the control of Marin, the people of the church dare not say anything. It does not cost to borrow the church venue. As for teaching little girls to read, they must use nuns to avoid any strange priests. Although nuns are not everywhere, it is not difficult to arrange a nun in one church. At worst, the official arranges a carriage to go to the convent to pick up nuns to teach in churches in various places.
Of course, for some particularly smart girls, Marin doesn't want to bury and waste them. Once the nun finds that the little girl is very smart, Marin will grant financial funds and send her free access to the girls' school specially set up by Marin for further training. Then, based on her strengths and hobbies, she will cultivate her into suitable talents.
As a time traveler in later generations, Marin does not discriminate against women. Even in his previous life, Marin did not dare to discriminate against women. Otherwise, he would have been warned by the female boxing...
Therefore, Marin agreed that if women shift their attention from love, entertainment, makeup and luxury to business, except for doing physical work, they will not be much different in other aspects.
Of course, in this era, due to the limitations of social values, Marin could not provide women with too many employment opportunities. However, in some industries, women are required. For example, gynecologists, especially obstetricians and gynecologists and nursing professions, women are required. At present, the midwives in Beihai Country have little education and low professional qualities, which is a safety hazard.
You should know that women's production is related to the major plan of population growth. Therefore, most of the smart girls selected from the "sweater knitting training class" will be trained to become professional gynecologists and nurses in the future.
Of course, it depends on personal interests and expertise. For girls who don’t like to be doctors, Marin will arrange for them to learn about clothing tailoring and design, as well as art and other professions that are very suitable for girls. Some people will stay and serve as teachers in girls’ schools to cultivate more smart women.
If there are very rare scientific research women, Marin will not refuse. On the contrary, they will especially encourage and protect them. After all, more scientific researchers are what Marin expects.
The basis of all this is the basic education and selection of the "sweater knitting training class". Malin is already very familiar with this secret operation method of "selling dog meat with sheep's head". Just like the "craftsman school" that is very popular in Beihai Country now, it is actually a primary and secondary school that is very popular in later generations. However, it is only for the common people and focuses on science. After all, Malin needs to protect the interests of the nobles. However, it does not prevent the common people from standing out through the science and engineering industry and changing their own destiny.
Chapter completed!