super concubine

Chapter 81 Cotton
On the second floor of Binman Building, in the private room facing Yaqian Street, Li Yuan and several squires were eating wine and food in the private room. A servant stood in front of the window, staring at the street intently.

Those squires were Yuanwai Zhao and Yuanwai Lin, one of the two Yuanwai Zhou came, and only Qian Xiu was present among the three Qian brothers.

Qian Xiu was the one who took the initiative to lower the food price to [-] taels to Xiao Mo in the Yamen last time!
One day after Xiao Mo left Shen County, Li Yuan found out about the mining industry in the three towns. At first Li Yuan didn't care about it. Mining industry is not a good industry. Besides, his group had nothing to do in order to stockpile food two years ago. Surplus money to work.

However, Li Yuan kept his mind on it. While sending people to the three towns to find out the situation, he also called these gentry over to discuss it together.

They were the only big merchants in Shen County, and the mining industry was hugely profitable. Of course Li Yuan knew this, and they would certainly not miss the opportunity if possible.

Merchants value profits!
After everyone arrived, they expressed their views on the mineral matter. Everyone agreed, that is, they didn't know what was going on with the minerals and how much they produced, so they all kept a wait-and-see attitude.

While they were discussing, the people Li Yuan sent to the three towns rushed to the meeting overnight, and as soon as they entered the door, they described the current situation of the three towns to the gentry.

"Lively!" This was the reflection of the three towns by the observers sent out by Li Yuan.

It's really lively. Now under the plan formulated by Xiao Mo, the three towns are led by Lu Lu. On the basis of retaining the aborigines of the three towns, refugees are included in the household policy of each town, and then the land is divided.

Instead of allocating all the fields, Xiao Mo asked Lu Lu to plan all the vacant fields over the years because of fleeing famine, and then compiled them into official fields and allocated them to the victims for planting. The crops produced by the fields For the profit, Xiao Mo also posted a notice, saying that the county will only charge some management fees, and the excess profit will be subsidized by the dividend system to the widows.

As for the fields of the widows, there is also a solution. It is very simple. Xiao Mo must not assign tasks to each of the hundreds of victims, so some of the idle victims have become farmers, and those who are unable to farm Everything is contracted out.

Of course, all of this is based on the successful drainage of Feishui. If there is no water source, nothing is said.

However, Xiao Mo still made two preparations, one is to protect the drinking water of the three towns, ordering that no matter what happens, no matter whether the wells in the three towns are dry or not, they must not be damaged. Needless to say, the people of the three towns also It's not that stupid; the second is to send people to the coastal areas of Fujian and Lingnan to look for a white flower.

Xiao Mo said that it is called cotton, which can be viewed or made into padded clothes and quilts. In short, it is very useful. Xiao Mo's task for those sent out is to bring the seeds back to Luzhou at all costs.

Cotton began to be introduced to China during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, first in the frontier areas. Later, after the prosperity of shipping, cotton was also planted in Fujian and Guangdong. Compared with rice, cotton is easier to grow and does not need to be affected by paddy fields. In this way, those widows can plant seeds in their fields without having to pay too much labor!
With cotton, there is naturally craftsmanship, which happens to be the strong point of women, and has nothing to do with food, but if the promotion of cotton is successful, it will also bring certain benefits to the three towns. If you have money, you still have to worry about buying No food?

After making these preparations, it is mining.

Xiao Mo has no idea about this, and can only rely on those experienced miners!
Of course, the people Li Yuan sent out couldn't see these things, but the vibrant scene of the three towns is really impressive.

After the mobilization, the people in the three towns actively responded to the call of the county, and all the people started to build their own homes together!

After telling Li Yuan what he saw in the three towns, Li Yuan asked, "How many iron mines can there be in these three towns?"

The man replied: "I don't know about this small one, but judging by the number of those blast furnaces, it seems that there are a lot of them!"

Nonsense, so many blast furnaces have been set up, and there is no iron ore, isn't it full of food?

Li Yuan waved his hand to the man, and then the big merchants in Shen County discussed together all night.

As a result of their discussion, of course, their hearts were moved, and it was better to act than to move. The next morning, Li Yuan went to the county government to look for Xiao Mo, but was told that Xiao Mo had gone to Luzhou, and he would not come back for several days.

a few days?Li Yuan was in a hurry. When Li Ji found a grain merchant from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, what would he do with the iron mine?

But there was no other way, so Li Yuan had no choice but to go back and tell the other people the news that Xiao Mo was going out.

After analyzing it, everyone felt that Xiao Mo might be hiding from him on purpose, and everyone's faces turned black.

"Mr. Li, what do you think about this matter?"

All eyes were on Li Yuan, Li Yuan shook his head and said, "If it's iron ore, would you all be willing to exchange it for grain?"

Everyone's eyes lit up, this is a good way.

But then they were discouraged again. Didn't Xiao Mo sign an agreement with everyone last time?If you go to him again, the grain price will be eight qian silver a stone. This price is exactly the price that everyone bought grain back then. After so many years, these grains have not yet produced profits!How could these country gentlemen be willing?

Besides, it's not that they don't have food now, this Xiao Mo is amazing, he doesn't know where the food has been conjured, and he still puts out food for a hundred stones a day!
After thinking about it, everyone had better decide to go to Xiao Mo, eight dollars is eight dollars, don't miss this opportunity and never come again!If you miss this village, there will be no such shop.

If you can get the right to mine iron ore, the profits will not be comparable to these old grains!

So for several days in a row, Li Yuan and others were guarding the Binman building, waiting for Xiao Mo to come out from the yamen.

　Three shifts completed

　　
　
(End of this chapter)