In June of that year, Luo Yong, who was in Longxi, heard that someone wrote a lyric for "The Song of White Drops". Recently, a woman in Chang'an City was singing, which is said to be very popular.

In this way, the promotion of this cotton cloth is also in place. It seems that the batch of cotton produced in Changle County this year should be sold at a good price.

In the sixth month of the lunar calendar, autumn is coming to Longxi, and in the process of cotton planting, it is about to enter a relatively critical stage - to the top.

The so-called pinch-top is to pinch the tips on the branches of cotton plants, in order to remove the advantages of the top, limit the growth of the branches, and transfer as much nutrients as possible to the buds and cotton bolls, thereby achieving the goal of high yield.

This year is their first year in Changle County to grow cotton. No one has any experience. Fortunately, there is some information on agricultural planting in Luoyong Space, and there are also a lot of cotton planting in it, so he started to learn and sell it as soon as possible.

However, the fertilizer used by later generations in the process of growing cotton was not used in the seventh century AD, so they had to use organic fertilizer instead. Organic fertilizer is good, but it is not targeted.

When it was about to start to be the focus, Luo Yong ran to the cotton field every day. In addition to the large area of ​​cotton field in the Gongfu field, some wealthy families in the countryside also planted a lot. Luo Yong has often walked between villages recently.

"I think the cotton in your house can be used to start to beat it. Let's fight it, and I will start to beat it tomorrow." Luo Yong said this after seeing the cotton in a wealthy family's house this day.

"Why is the cotton in the Xu family taller than my family? If his family doesn't beat me?" This family is still a little reluctant. He has been dealing with crops for most of his life. Once the crops in this field are hurt, they will not grow much. He still knows this truth.

"The cotton plants in your family have been watered too much and become broken." Luo Yong said to him: "The cotton plants in the Xu family are good-growing, strong and powerful. They are topped later. I will pick them up a few more branches in the past few days. If there are too many branches, there will be more cotton bolls in the future."

"These cotton plants in your house are too weak and weak. If you try hard to suck branches now, they will bloom less in the future, bear fewer fruits, and will easily fall off. Even though the branches are prosperous, the harvest will not be good."

Luo Yong said it in detail, and the rich man felt it was reasonable after hearing this. He just thought that the harvest of his own cotton field was destined to be less than that of the Xu family, so he felt a little unwilling.

He was also blamed for being too greedy. In order to make these cotton grow well, he always asked someone to carry water to water. The county officials had told them before that the crops were not very popular with water. He was really obsessed with it. Somehow, he always wanted to water them. Now that he was better, he had watered too much.

Early the next morning, the old and young workers in the wealthy family went to the field to give cotton a heart.

This is not a very heavy task, but it also takes labor. The wealthy family has enough manpower and a large piece of cotton field. It will be finished in more than a day. After the cotton is promoted and planted in the future, every household will plant cotton. When the current season comes, every household will have to go to the ground to play with it, which is quite busy.

After this family began to take the lead, the cotton from other places also entered the time when they could take the lead. The wealthy families who planted cotton immediately became busy, and even more so in the public servants' fields. The tenant farmers went out early and returned late, and almost all day long were spent in the field.

Some people are also worried that pinching the core will damage the crops, but because they have received subsidies from the county before, the so-called short hand of the person is used, although they have some doubts, they still do it according to the county's statement.

There was a rich family who was stubborn with Luo Yong, saying that he had planted these crops for decades and had never seen anyone do this.

Seeing that he was very resentful of the matter of beating the heart, Luo Yong also knew that many other people also had this idea, so he said to him: "Why don't you leave a mu of land this year and don't beating the heart when you get the harvest, and see if it's better to harvest the cotton field, or not."

Seeing that Luo Yong had made concessions, the man was still a little reluctant, but he still agreed to Luo Yong's proposal, leaving a mu of cotton land without any effort, and the rest was beaten.

The reason why Luo Yong did this is to eliminate the doubts in the minds of farmers and thus enable the cotton planting work to be carried out smoothly next year.

Shortly after the heart was over, there was another top dressing. Then everyone looked at the cotton paper strips growing one by one, followed by a cotton boll, and finally a snow-white velvet flower blooming.

The people of Changle also called this kind of flower Baidiehua. As people from Changle County, they knew very well that the book "The Song of Baidie" was written by the county magistrate to find someone and was a fictional story. Therefore, in this Changle County, boys and girls are not as fanatical about the story of Baidiecheng as elsewhere.

But even though they know it is a fictional story, people still yearn for the fictitious Baidicheng and the love story that happened in Baidicheng, especially when the pieces of white flowers bloom.

In the season of cotton harvest, men, women, young and old hang pockets made of old clothes and rags on their bodies, picking cotton in the fields. The county officials bought cotton on the ground, including cotton with seeds, for one pound and two and a half.

Although the cotton is quite light and the yield of the varieties in this era is not high, the price is very good, one pound, two and a half dollars. If a mu of land can produce more than 100 pounds, it can be sold for more than 200 ounces. This is difficult to achieve by planting other crops.

While the officials purchased cotton in the fields, someone drove a ox cart to transport the collected cotton back to the city.

Since they started to build cement roads at the end of last winter, they have issued several corvee labor services. Now, a long section of the road from the main road outside Changle County has been renovated into a cement road. It is really much smoother and more comfortable to transport goods on this cement road than the gravel road, and it is also more cost-effective.

The cotton collected from the ground was finally sent to Luo Erniang's cashmere workshop for processing. In a room in this cashmere workshop, the female workers were rotating the cotton ginning machine at this time.

When Luo Yong bought cotton seeds from those big cannibals, his disciples had already started to build cotton gins. The first cotton gins were built and put into use as early as the beginning of this year, but it was not known to outsiders.

This year, Luo Yong will make some money from this cotton first. After the cotton planting is widely promoted and opened in Longxi, his disciples can start selling cotton gins.

There is now a mechanical workshop in their county, which is led by Hengzhi and runs with several other disciples. In addition, they also gather this group of skilled artists.

Among these artists, some were brought from Chang'an City, some were recruited in Changle County, and some were even newly cultivated in the past two years. Sometimes, craftsmanship is indeed necessary to be talented. If you seek those who are talented and willing to work hard, you will be taught quickly.

Nowadays, many cotton gins have been stocked up in their machinery workshop, several models of various sizes, and the prices have been set, so I will wait to sell them out next year.

Luo Yong asked them to make as much as possible. If they didn't have enough money, they told him that he would come forward to borrow money from someone. Of course, after the cotton gins were sold, the money they earned would be Luo Yong. After all, it was the earthen paper he provided, and he also invested a lot of money.

Not only this cashmere workshop, but also the income from the Needle Floor is Luo Yong, and the Needle Floor they jointly organized with the Guo family in Taiyuan this year. Although Luo Yong's disciples came forward, the income from this is actually Luo Yong.

This time, Luo Yong met many Hedong merchants in Chang'an City. After their cooperation with the Guo family was on track, several other needle shops would appear on Hedong Road one after another.

Luo Yong's disciples and the craftsmen under their command said that the needle making technology they mastered should be the most sophisticated in this era, and they can also build some needle making equipment, which saves manpower to a considerable extent, which other people cannot learn for the time being.

This time, the cotton ginning machine that was being used in the cashmere workshop was invented by an American named Eli/Whitney at the end of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

In later generations, cotton gins were divided into roller ginseng and serrated cotton ginseng. The one they are using is the serrated cotton ginseng. Because the cotton seeds of grass cotton are extremely difficult to remove, and it is difficult to remove cotton seeds with ordinary bar pressing methods, so they must be serrated.

This Whitney cotton gin is very cleverly designed. You just need to put the cotton into the cotton bucket and shake the handle to separate the cotton wool and cotton seeds during the operation of the machine.

I heard that in the country of Great Food, girls used to peel cotton seeds by hand, and worked for a whole day, but their income was only a handful of cotton. Now, these female workers in Lishi County turned the cotton ginning machine and separated a bucket of cotton wool in a moment.
Chapter completed!