Chapter 1438 Two years in a hurry (Part 1)
Chapter 1436: Two years in a hurry (Part 1)
As the saying goes: Food is the most important thing for people.
But among the "food, clothing, housing and transportation", "cloth" ranks first. Why is this?
People can not wear clothes, but they cannot ignore food. From birth to death, food will accompany humans throughout their lives.
So, no matter from that perspective, food is more important than clothes?
But the ancients put "cloth" in front of "food", and there is naturally a reason.
The ancients believed that the reason why people are human beings is different from other wild animals is not only because they can use tools, but also because they are more thoughtful and moral. The "clothing" not only can cover the body and avoid the cold, but also makes people always remember that the reason why we are human beings is moral constraints.
Food is the basic substance necessary for human survival and the foundation of human survival and continuation. Morality allows human beings to stand out from all things, while food only allows human beings to survive.
Therefore, the word "food" ranks second, while the "cloth" that can restrain human morality ranks first.
The word "英" is above food, which is the ancients'' emphasis on their own moral qualities and is above food.
The importance of ''clothing'' is self-evident, and in troubled times, making clothes is also the most valuable thing, and it can even replace gold and silver and trade as currency.
If weaving technology is improved and the cloth production is increased, it means that more wealth is obtained.
So, Qin Hao was so excited after seeing the Jenny spinning machine.
In fact, there were looms and spinning machines in the late Han Dynasty, but they were too backward and the production efficiency was too low. Even if they were continuously weaving, they could only weave one piece of cloth per person a month.
The Jenny spinning machine was invented by British textile worker James Hargreaves in 1764 AD. Although it still requires manpower, it has increased the spinning capacity of the old-style spinning wheel in Britain at that time by 8 times, which was the beginning of the first industrial revolution.
Although the old-style spinning machines in Britain were still lagging behind in 1764, their efficiency was at least ten times that of the spinning machines in the late Han Dynasty more than 1,500 years ago. In other words, as long as Qin Hao owned the Jenny spinning machine, the total amount of cloth produced under his jurisdiction was at least ten times or even more than before.
The Qin army''s finances have always been very tight. After all, they have to support a large number of troops, and the construction work in various places under their command is also continuing.
While cultivating and maintaining a living, it is also developing, which naturally requires huge capital supply, but such a huge capital gap is simply impossible to fill in by tax revenue alone.
Therefore, since the Battle of Hetao, the Qin army has been in a state of imbalance in revenue and expenditure. If it weren''t for the support of God''s treasure, the finances would have collapsed long ago.
According to Qin Hao''s original plan, after two years of cultivation and construction, the various places under his command will not only recover their vitality, but will also achieve certain development. At that time, the current political income will definitely exceed the expenditure, and will naturally get rid of this imbalance in income and expenditure and embark on a virtuous road of sustainable development and construction.
But if Qin Hao gets the Jenny spinning machine, the Qin army''s productivity will surge in the short term and create several times the wealth and resources that are before, which will allow the Qin army to return to balance within two years.
I have to say that the Jenny spinning machine is definitely a powerful tool, but the exchange price is really not cheap. It costs a full 500 summoning points, which is more than the sum of the previous four technologies.
Although expensive, it is also worth the money. As long as you have it, the productivity between the Qin army and other princes will be completely expanded, so Qin Hao will never let it go no matter what.
"Exchange Jenny spinning machine." Qin Hao ordered.
[Okay, Jenny spinning machine made the drawings, exchanged successfully, consumed 500 summoning points, and the host currently has: 3400 summoning points. 】
After a strong light flashed, a drawing appeared in Qin Hao''s hand. It was the manufacturing drawing of Jenny''s spinning machine.
Qin Hao suppressed the excitement in his heart and smiled and said to himself: "With it, the major princes will never catch up with me in the future. The gap between them and me will only grow bigger and bigger."
The premise of this sentence at present is that other princes will not allow the Jenny spinning machine, otherwise other princes will usher in a huge explosion in productivity, and arbitrary work is also crucial to the confidentiality of Jenny spinning machine.
After redeeming the Jenny machine, Qin Hao continued to browse other items and exchanged the seeds of seven crops: cotton, carrots, corn, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, and rapeseed.
In fact, many of the crops in China are not native. During the Western Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian sent a mission to the Western Regions to bring back many crops: cucumber, sesame, walnut, pepper, coriander, broad beans, garlic, grapes, pomegranate, watermelon, spinach, etc. This shows that Zhang Qian''s achievements are really great. As for the seven crops that Qin Hao exchanged this time:
Cotton was introduced to China during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, carrots were from the late Song and early Yuan dynasties, corn was from the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, tomatoes were from the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, peppers were from the late Ming Dynasty, and pumpkins were from the Yuan Dynasty.
As for rapeseed flowers, they were introduced and introduced to China in the mid-1950s after the founding of New China.
Qin Hao is not a random exchange. Cotton produced by cotton can be made into cotton coats. Combined with Jenny spinning machine, it can promote the development of the textile industry.
Corn is also a high-yield grain, and it can further increase grain production with potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Carrots, tomatoes, and pumpkins have increased the types of edible vegetables.
Chili can be used for seasoning, and rapeseed canola can be squeezed.
In short, the seven crops exchanged by Qin Hao are all things that can help him.
Although these things are of high value, what is redeemed is just seeds after all, and Qin Hao needs to cultivate it himself to dig out the value, so the redemption price is not expensive. Except for the corn worth 150 summon points, the other six types have only 250 summon points.
Redeem seven crops and consumed another 400 summoning points. Qin Hao’s summoning points were also reduced to 3,000 to take you, and 2,000 of them have been reserved to summon a million people, so there are only 1,000 summoning points left for Qin Hao to squander.
Qin Hao recalled and found that he had exchanged a lot of good things from the mall, including:
Blast furnace steelmaking method
Full set of horse harness design drawings
Glass firing method
Soap manufacturing technology
First generation hybrid rice seeds
Cement manufacturing method
36 articles on papermaking in Xuancheng
Genetically modified potatoes
Song Crossbow Manufacturing Drawings
Tang Knife Casting Manual
Complete collection of Ming ship construction manuals
Haitian Dao Soy Soy Sauce Recipe
Haitian aged vinegar recipe
Taitai Le Chicken Essence Manufacturing Formula
24 Methods for Refining in the Twenty-first Century
Jenny spinning machine
And: cotton, carrots, corn, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, rapeseed flowers
Unconsciously, under the influence of Qin Hao''s intentional or unintentional, this era has been completely unrecognizable, and the process of civilization can be said to be developing rapidly.
Qin Hao, who has so many good things, actually, even if he does not expand externally, he can still become the overlord of the princes by just digesting the things in his hands. But he has never forgotten his original intention, which is to end the troubled times and unify the world.
In order to unify the world as soon as possible, Qin Hao chose to lie dormant, and in the next two years, Qin Hao has been cultivating and resting to accumulate strength.
Qin Hao was like a mountain, which made all the princes breathless. When he saw Qin Hao entering the full cultivation, the princes from all over the country couldn''t help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then started a more fierce annexation war.
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