Pan Mei, Qin Zaixing, and more than 20 barbarians were sitting in the living room drinking tea and chatting. Yuping was making tea for them. She had no opinion about Yuping. Pan Mei. She heard that she was a virtuous and capable woman and got along well with her daughter. Besides, without three wives and four concubines, would a man still be called promising?

Most of the chiefs Song Jiu knew each other. Chenzhou drank and danced and talked about folk songs, but they couldn't name them. They talked about the rituals one by one.

After sitting down, Song Jiu asked Qin Zaixiong: "How about Chenzhou now?"

"Haha, brother, I want to thank you. Last time I bought a lot of farm tools and farm books, I asked the court to send out a few old farmers to teach the children. The people of Chenzhou have lived much better in the past two years. Maybe you won't recognize them in two years."

"Brother, it's better. I'll take you to Hezhou to take a look later."

"Shundian."

Song Jiumeng, the elder brother knew Shundian as soon as he arrived in the capital? He said, "Okay, I'll treat you today, where do you live?"

"Inn."

Song Jiu didn't know the specific one. When Pan Mei came back, she arranged them to the inn. When will the emperor summon him? That was the emperor's business. Don't let them come to the Song family first and then stay in that wealthy inn. It doesn't matter if you stay in the inn, there is a Shun shop next to it. This food and accommodation is bad.

Song Jiu first replaced the official uniform.

Even Pan Mei took off her official uniforms and came in casual clothes, but she didn't look like wearing her official uniforms. She sat down again and said, "General Pan has worked hard in the past few years."

Now Qin Zaixiong understands how unaccustomed people from the north will be when they go to the south. Just like when he came to the north at this time, he was anxious to buy fur coats everywhere, which was so cold. Pan Mei said: "It's okay. When I first went down, I was not very used to it. After staying for a few years, I slowly adapted. This is what you want, see if it is it?"

Song Jiu opened the bag and said, "It's it."

"Your husband can't explain clearly, so let me find my subordinates."

"Is he wrong?" Song Jiu asked puzzledly. It wasn't his gentleman who couldn't explain clearly, it was Song Jiu who made a mistake, it was really wrong.

"Wrong, this thing is not in Lingnan, but in Limu Mountain on Qiongzhou Island, nor is it called Caomianzi. The Han people still call it Mumian. Fortunately, some of the cloths are circulating in the Central Plains. My subordinates did not find it in Lingnan, so they followed Jimianbu and finally found it. One night later, I will return to Beijing."

Pan Mei didn't say much, but she could imagine how hard the soldiers under his command had for this small bag of cottonseed. How big was Lingnan? He found Hainan again from Lingnan. No wonder Pan Mei brought it back until now. Maybe several soldiers died because of it.

"General Pan, it's worth it!" Song Jiudao.

"Xiaojiu, it's not that simple. I heard that no one except the Li family would do it, including deseeding and weaving thread."

"I know that its lint is short. It is not a long lint cotton like the Western Regions and Dashi, so some Li family members use silk yarn to blend it. The blending is also difficult, but if it is spinning and weaving cloth directly, it is more difficult to use this kind of coarse cotton. There is no hurry. I think it can adapt to the weather in the north for at least a few years. During this time, I can develop a more efficient loom."

"Will you?"

"I won't."

"Then what are you blowing!"

"Everything changes in the world make sense, and it is also the category of material science." However, Song Jiu also had a headache, the first was cement, the second was copper smelting, and the third was textile machine. No matter how much it costs, it would make him suffer a lot of headaches.

Even if the test of anti-rust paint was moved, it was impossible to make it. After it was made, the laboratory product was applied to the Baiyu Bridge cable and then put it down. Because it wanted to make mass production and reduce costs, it still needed a lot of funds to test it. It could be tested and sold to whom? The anti-rust paint is not very useful now, and it is not worthwhile to spend energy on research and development.

But the laboratory is still a gold-selling cave. The cost of the two acids is compressed, and various ores do their best to distinguish their components. This is even more difficult. He can remember how many molecular formulas or molecular formulas can't be remembered. How to distinguish them. After the screening, it must be purified, and after purification, it must also test the reaction results of various substances together. One is more complicated than the other. However, it has a great significance, and is even more important than the sum of steel, copper smelting, textile and cement.

He didn't understand Pan Mei and asked again: "Xiaojiu, it's said that the river has become better, why is it so bad?"

He just asked, and had no other thoughts. No matter how bad the river was, the Song Jiu family was not too bad. Song Jiu replied: "General Pan, it has changed. Someone wanted to build a house last year. I asked me to send students to inform them, so that they would stop and build them in a unified manner in the future."

"You'll pay this money?"

"General Pan, there are many families in the river. This year, more than 200 households and nearly 1,000 foreign households have come. They have also made efforts and cannot discriminate. Besides, there are some coolies in Hebei who have worked hard. I have so much money to build houses for so many families, and even if I have money, I can't pay off. That's what I really have. This is the capital city, and I am another minister. Can I have a good end to win over people's hearts?"

"Yes, it's important for people to have self-knowledge. Just you know."

"I may be careless if I am a small person, but I can still grasp the general direction. I plan to measure the planning and design first from next spring, but still not start construction. Everyone has their own ideas and mediate one by one, at least until after autumn or even the spring of the following year. Now almost all people have work, and by then, their economy will be more abundant, and I will support a small part. Besides, so many families build houses in a unified manner, and the materials are used, and large-scale transportation will reduce costs. In addition, people have built many houses in recent years, and many people have experience, and even the money of craftsmen can save half of the money. The house costs will be further reduced. Combined with the two, every household can build new houses. At that time, at least the river will be completely renewed."

When Song Jiu said this, he ran to the room and found a drawing and said, "General Pan, look, this is a sample diagram in the future river."

Pan Mei opened it and looked at it, questioning: "How much does it cost?"

The top is so beautiful.

"It may not cost much, it is mainly a unified plan and looks neat. Then look at it again and feels extremely beautiful."

"Do those people have so much money?"

Yuping smiled when she heard this.

"why are you laughing?"

"General Pan. Some couples in Hezhou work together. If it is good, the old man and the old mother will work together. By next year, most people will be able to build beautiful houses without Jiulang's support."

Pan Meicai returned to the capital and didn't understand it very much. Yuping said again: "On average, one person will work, and the monthly salary will be around three yuan."

"That's it... no wonder they said that the river is getting better. It turns out that the money is hidden at home."

In fact, there will be a huge trouble.

Yuping said again: "The school has been open for more than three years, and open-air education has been more than three years. Not only has the economic conditions in Hezhong improved, but more than 90% of the people will know a few words and can simply arithmetic. Next year, it can be said that this place will be one of the best yard areas in the capital, with only one house missing."

"Xiao Jiu, there is no shortage of cloth in the north. What do you want to do?" Pan Mei didn't want to talk more about the people in Hezhong, and then went back to the topic of cotton. There was a reason why he said this. Although the economy of Wu and Yue and Southern Tang were better than that of the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty's economy was gradually recovering. It still couldn't catch up with the results of these two countries, and the climate and terrain were caused. But the best silk thread in the country was not in Wu and Yue, nor in Southern Tang, but in Hebei!

"General Pan, I will talk about mulberry weaving first. Generally, people raise more five foil silkworms, some more, some less. On average, less than five foils. Raising five foils requires a little seven acres of mulberry fields, and five foils can take sixty kilograms of silkworms. Each kilogram can get one or three cents of silk, which is seventy-eight kilograms. If you are skillful, you can weave it into fifteen pieces of thin small silk, but small silk is difficult to weave. If you are skillful, you can only use four or five hundred cents of silk to get one or more silk to get one. But if you are skillful, you can only get four or five hundred cents of silk, but this is the biggest profit. It can reach more than seven foils. The whole family is nailed on it. If you want to save effort and weave it into ordinary silk, you will only have two pieces, and the income is less than three foils. I am talking about the silk industry. If the income of hemp and chew is lower, you will use the land of sloping hemp and carries kudzu. But what about cotton? One acre of land can harvest six or seventy kilograms of lint."

This is Song Jiu's guess. The output is generally terrible now, but there are about 60 or 70 kilograms of lint.

"General Pan, look at the inner clothes on me. It is a cotton cloth woven from long velvet cotton transported by Dashi. It is soft and insulated. The price of one piece is almost twenty coins. There are also a small amount of cotton cloth from the Li people, and the price is no less than ten coins per piece. The blended fabric of the Li people is ten kilograms per piece, and the cotton cloth of Dashi is twenty kilograms per piece. Calculate its profits. And it will not be as tiring as the silk industry."

"So much, why didn't you say it earlier in Tanzhou?"

"General Pan, my husband is obsessed with learning and occasionally said a few words to me. At that time, I was young and didn't know the importance of it. I'm afraid even my husband didn't think about it carefully. After so long, how could I think of it one by one?"

"Brother, can Chenzhou grow it?"

"You can plant it, but no matter where it needs to be adapted, Brother Qin, you might as well go back and send someone to Qiongzhou to ask for some seeds. No matter how the harvest is, you can load it first and load it for a few years to make it adapt. I will test a new loom here and then hand it over to you. Chenzhou will become better at that time." Song Jiu said this in his heart. Chenzhou is just a point. When Chenzhou is better, the surroundings will be better. Otherwise, the Beijiang barbarians in the north, the Nanjiang barbarians in the southwest, the Meishan barbarians in the northeast, and the powerful Tian family in the southwest, and the more barbaric Kuixia barbarians in the southwest. Martial expedition is definitely not a solution, but it will be worse. But after they saw the various benefits brought by advanced production methods, they wanted to learn well, want to live a happy life, and spontaneously approach the Han civilization, which is more effective than any strategy.

Pan Mei finally understood its value, and after a while, she asked again: "Who else will plant mulberry trees and silkworms in the future?"

"There are too many people, and the price of cotton cloth will automatically fall, while the price of silk will automatically rise, just like in ancient times, people who ate millet and beans, and wheat was introduced, and they started to eat noodles. When more people plant rice, they started to eat rice and noodles. Beans and millet in the Tang Dynasty were still the staple food, but now noodle rice has become the staple food. Don't worry about how to change, I only saw that with it, more people will wear thick clothes."

"This is better than the merit of pacifying Shu."

"That is martial arts, this is literary achievements. It is not easy to compare. Only when both civil and military practices can the country be strong. Otherwise, no matter how rich you are, you will be just a weak Tang Kingdom."

While we were chatting, several people came outside, and they all knew each other, including Zhao Chengzong and a few yamen.

As soon as the yamen met, they sang fat noo and said hello to Pan Mei. They were seniors and important generals of the country, and it was not their turn to play big names. Pan Mei smiled and said, "Chengzong, why did you have time to come here?"

The attitude is extremely kind.

But his attitude made Song Jiu feel terrified. Could it be that Pan Mei is Zhao Pu's man? The dispute between the three Zhaos made him feel a little scared.

Zhao Chengzong said: "General Pan, I am here to find Jiulang."

"Sit down and say."

Zhao Chengzong and others sat down, and Yuping was busy making tea again. Zhao Chengzong said, "Jiulang, Hezhou Development, my business is getting better, but big trouble is coming."
Chapter completed!