In addition, cotton also grows very well. Women are pinching and weeding, and will bloom after a while, and it is not far from the high yield. Although it is the first time to plant it, it has not disappointed the hard work of farmers. Wu Song decided to start preparing spinning and weaving, otherwise the high yield will not be a good harvest, and in the end it will be useless.

There are 3,000 acres of newly reclaimed open space by a river. This is rocky land. Wu Song lost a lot of effort to reclaim it. Master Cheng was in charge of official business. The government office was exempted from tax for three years, and then he collected 50 kilograms of grain every year. If someone else had to give up the run, he would have to know that in the era when there was no fertilizer, the yield of this kind of rotten land was only 200 kilograms of wheat per mu, and soybeans was only 100 kilograms. In addition to the consumption of seeds, labor, irrigation, etc., there was nothing left.

But Wu Song accepted it and arranged for Jia Simin to install more than a dozen waterwheels, and at the same time he punched hundreds of hand-pressing wells. He used his head to build a small room, arranged for farmers to cultivate carefully, transform the soil according to the standards of the vegetable fields, and used a large number of fermented bean cakes and sesame cakes. Jia Simin couldn't help it and asked, "Brother, if you don't tell me why you want to build such a house in farming, I won't manage it."

"Children's temper, I'll tell you don't talk nonsense. First, build the frame. After autumn, you are ready to put a thick bamboo pole on it, then cover it with a transparent plastic cloth, and heat it with a fireplace. As long as the temperature is right, we can eat fresh fruits and vegetables during the Chinese New Year." Wu Song said about the greenhouse.

But Jia Simin sounded like a fantasy, saying, "It's very cold in winter. Can fruits and vegetables grow? It's a bit incredible."

"You are a farmer. You should understand the characteristics of plant growth. For example, small melons can bloom and bear fruit when they wear single clothes. Our name is a greenhouse. It uses firewood to increase the temperature and change the local microclimate." Wu Song explained.

Jia Simin thought for a long time and said, "No, it's not appropriate. What should I do if it snows? The transparent plastic sheet has poor thermal insulation performance and is as cold as it is."

"You can think of this and you think carefully, but there are always more ways than difficulties. We can cover it with straw curtains and hire more people at that time. When it is cold at night, it will be warm and open the straw curtains during the day. If the firewood is not burning enough, we can burn charcoal. In short, there must be many ways. Just hire a thousand strong men in three thousand acres of land, and one person is responsible for a greenhouse. When there is insufficient staff, just hire temporarily. Now we need to start preparing bamboo poles and firewood for burning fire."

Seeing that Wu Song said it was certain, Jia Simin no longer doubted the authenticity, and carefully considered what vegetables to grow and made a lot of money. After careful consideration, Jia Simin decided to plant 500 acres of leeks. Northerners like to eat dumplings most during the Chinese New Year, and the most common dumpling stuffing is leeks and tofu. The second is small rapeseed. Rapeseed is very common in the south, but it is not as frozen in the winter in the north, and there is no way to eat it. So it would be great if it was planted in a greenhouse, and rapeseed is simple and has no technical content. There are other wild vegetables and vegetables. As for melons, cucumbers, etc., less than 100 acres of melons and vegetables, explore experience, and choose large-scale planting after the Spring Festival, which is just one and a half months before ordinary open-air melons.

In Tongda Machinery House and in the laboratory, Ma Jun and several craftsmen were studying the loom, which was Wu Song's improved loom. The loom in the Northern Song Dynasty was quite mature and advanced. Wu Song added a shuttle on this basis, known as a shuttle loom. The shuttle loom has stable performance and is more than twice as efficient as an ordinary loom. The problem is that adding a shuttle is too simple and the technology is very easy to leak. At least Wu Song doesn't want it to leak soon.

Ma Jun said: "Everyone is a skilled craftsman in the machinery workshop. The flying weaving machine designed by Master Wu is ingenious. In order to prevent the leakage of technology, everyone expresses their opinions."

A craftsman said: "Women who can weave cloth are all old craftsmen. You can know this technology by just a few glances. I think there is only one way to cover the part of the shuttle with a hardwood shell. If there is a problem with this part, it can only be opened by a specialized technician. Only in this way can the leakage of technology be prevented."

Ma Jun nodded. It seemed that this could only be done by this method. It was a matter of time before it was leaked, so try to be late. What ordinary craftsmen in production saw were ordinary looms with well-made craftsmen. The last step was to install shells and shuttles.

Due to the arrival of summer, the rain continued, and the sales of water trucks entered the off-season, and the production slowed down. Hundreds of craftsmen were drawn to produce looms and spinning machines to cope with the hemp and mulberry planting that Dongpingfu vigorously promoted, as well as emerging cotton spinning. According to Wu Song and Cheng's idea, the Silk Road to the West will start from Dongpingfu in the future. Line cloth and cotton, cotton are medium and low-end clothing materials, and silk is high-end products.

There is no way to play with tea in Dongpingfu. After all, in terms of climate, although it can be grown, the quality of the tea grown is far inferior to that in Fujian, Zhejiang and Xinyang. Dongpingfu has just begun to develop porcelain, mainly medium-grade porcelain with the largest export volume. During this period, porcelain technology was mature and there were many craftsmen, so it was still easy to develop porcelain.

At this moment, the guard came to report, saying, "The head of Liu's escort from Tongda Cart Shop in Yizhou Prefecture sent two teams to send two hundred strong men." Wu Song was very happy when he heard this, and said to Jia Simin: "Zhengfa considered not enough manpower, so there were two hundred more. Liu Tang was really good. He arranged to plant vegetables for you."

Jia Simin said: "Brother, don't worry, I must have made arrangements."

Jia Simin went over and saw that this group of people was really good. They all said that the people in Yizhou Prefecture were poor. I didn’t expect that they were so poor. Compared with the beggar team, none of them could not wear torn clothes. In addition, they were tired all the way.

Jia Simin said: "Those who know carpenters, blacksmiths, and handicrafts stand up?"

After a dozen people stood up, Jia Simin asked someone to arrange for the ironware workshop or the machinery workshop. More than 180 other people stood in front of him.

Jia Simin said: "Don't be nervous, do you think I'm like a tiger?"

Everyone laughed, of course Jia Simin was not like a tiger.

"The main thing is to grow vegetables, build canals, build houses, and build roads. There is no other work. You don't have to be nervous. Three meals a day are enough to be full, and the wages are paid monthly. But don't relax. Those who are passive and lazy and lazy will find more than five times will not listen to the arrangements and work randomly. Those who spread rumors and cause troubles, and those who do not listen to the arrangements will be fired once they are discovered."

(End of this chapter)
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