Chapter 504: World-famous Black Technology (Please vote and subscribe)
The head of the Ling tribe was very disgusted with this matter. He didn't know why the Han tribe suddenly changed the system. It was okay under normal circumstances. The main reason was that he was responsible for this transaction. If he failed to complete the task, he would definitely be punished when he returned.
However, the attitude of the Han tribe was also very persistent. Even if it was just a matter of transferring from one hand to the other, the process must be followed. According to the leader, this was a rule that no one could break. Of course, the main purpose of doing so was to make everyone familiar with monetary payment as soon as possible.
In the end, the Ling tribe had no choice but to bite the bullet and come here to exchange things. However, after the private ownership began, many aspects were very different from before, such as the transaction between the two tribes this time.
In the past, if the products made by the Ling tribe wanted to enter every household in Liuyang County, they only needed to paddle a raft to the shore and exchange materials with the Han tribe. Then how to distribute the goods to the residents below and how much each family should receive were all things that the Han tribe should consider.
But things are different after private ownership. Now, for the same purpose, there are two ways to distribute the things of the Ling tribe to each household. The first is to trade between the two tribes, and then the Liuyang County officials will sell them to the people; the second is that the Ling tribe pays a commercial tax to Liuyang County for entering the city for trade, and then they sell them to the people of the Han tribe.
However, the second method is still too difficult for the Ling tribe to accept. At present, they can only use the first method that is similar to the previous one to trade.
After arriving in the city, Liuyang County quickly called in the clerks who are good at calculations, counted the various materials of the Ling tribe in turn, estimated the prices, and finally paid them the money they deserved. Then the Ling tribe said the list of materials they wanted, and then calculated the payment according to the price of the Han tribe. In this way, the currency that had just arrived in the hands of the Ling tribe returned to the Han tribe in a blink of an eye, and it didn't even move. Their leader, Xiao Huzi, was quite helpless. Isn't this just a waste of time?
But when he left at the end, Chief Chai still told Xiao Huzi about the changes that would occur later.
"At present, the main materials produced by your tribe can be divided into two types. One is utensils, such as brush holders, bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, cages, winnowing baskets, silkworm flats, brooms, mats and other bamboo products. We can trade such things in the future.
The other is fresh food. We are going to set up a trading market here in Liuyang County, and then you can go to the city to trade with the people. The main products are lotus leaves, lotus pods, fish, shrimps, crabs, water chestnuts, lotus roots, and live ducks and duck eggs.
These things are easy to spoil, and we need new goods every day. If we still trade like this, it will take a long time. You can go back and trade with them. I need to talk to your leader.
Oh, by the way, our leader said that you should continue to increase the supply of products, especially cool mats, silkworm flats, and pen holders. You should also get more lotus leaves. Hmm - let me think, and the leaves of the reed, as long as they are wide and long enough, we want them here.
As for food, you don’t have to worry. Even if you don’t grow rice yourself, you can always buy food from us. You just need to produce more materials. "
After hearing this, the little mustache didn’t think much of it, but the last two sentences made him frown. What does it mean? We don’t grow food ourselves, but buy it from you? Although the other party guaranteed that we can buy it anytime, why does it still feel like there is something wrong.
As for the four products that the Han tribe asked to increase the supply, he didn’t quite understand it. Cool mats are easy to say. After all, it’s early summer now. The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and cool mats will definitely sell well, but what the hell is that silkworm flat?
This thing was passed down from the Han tribe in early spring. It looks like a big round plate with a very short bamboo ring on the edge. It can't hold anything at all. It's not as practical as a winnowing basket. The Han tribe explained that it was used to dry things, which is quite interesting.
However, in recent times, the Han tribe has been asking for more and more silkworm flats. What on earth are they drying? Why do they need so many?
As for lotus leaves, that thing is easy to explain. At first, it was the Ling tribe who actively promoted it. Because the Ling tribe lacked containers before, their tribesmen basically used bamboo tubes to cook rice, and then poured other meat and vegetables together with rice on the clean lotus leaves. This way of eating is called hand-pulled rice in the Han tribe.
At the beginning, the Ling tribe just tried to sell it. Unexpectedly, the leader of the Han tribe actually asked for lotus leaves. It was fine to dry them, but they were not used to hold rice, but to wrap food.
But they didn't care about this. Why did they care how the Han tribe used it? As long as they knew that the Han tribe was useful and could exchange things from the Han tribe, it was enough.
As for the last item, reed leaves, this was the first time in history. This thing can't be eaten or drunk, and it can't be used to wrap things like lotus leaves. There are a lot of them in the swamp. Can this thing be exchanged for money? The little mustache was very skeptical about this.
But he didn't say anything. Let the Han tribe be stupid. Anyway, it has nothing to do with him. After counting the ironware, white salt, ceramics and cloth he wanted to take back, the little mustache quickly took his people back.
Just when they were leaving on the bamboo raft, Chief Chai stood on the shore and stroked his beard, wondering why the leader wanted so many reed leaves.
Speaking of this, it was actually in late spring, because when we were controlling the flood in early spring this year, we unexpectedly conquered the sticky tribe that had glutinous rice. This made Luo Chong immediately think of several delicacies that he loved to eat in his previous life, rice cakes, cross-bridge rice noodles, and rice dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival.
It's a pity that these rice products must contain glutinous rice, and the Han tribe has always planted japonica rice, so there is no way to make these foods, but starting this year, there will be no shortage of them. So, when the new season of glutinous rice is not yet mature, Luo Chong has already asked Liuyang County, which is close to the swamp, to prepare reed leaves, which are the best materials for making rice dumplings.
After talking about food, there have also been new changes in clothing, that is, the business of raising silkworms and weaving cloth in the Han tribe has begun to get on the right track.
In the newly built Ruyang County, a large number of brand new bamboo silkworm flats were moved into the silkworm room after being washed and dried. The silkworm room here is very large. It is a temporary shed built according to the leader's method. It is far away from the construction site and is quiet.
The silkworm room is filled with rows of wooden racks, on which are placed layers of silkworm flats. The chestnut silkworms raised inside are all naturally overwintered silkworm eggs collected from the wild. As for the mulberry silkworms, since the mulberry trees have just been transplanted and have not grown up yet, only green chestnut silkworms can be raised.
It is now early summer, and the first season of spring silkworms have begun to "go up the mountain" to make cocoons. Silkworms have the habit of climbing up when they make cocoons. Therefore, in response to this habit, modern silkworm farmers use plastic nets to put on the silkworm racks to let the silkworms go up to make cocoons, which is convenient for later cocoon collection. This is what Luo Chong heard from the female teacher who loved to raise silkworms in his previous life.
However, in the thousands of years without plastic, ancient silkworm farmers also had their own way, which was to tie rice straw into bundles and stand them in the silkworm flats, so that the silkworms could climb up to make cocoons. Because the shape of the straw bundles is like a mountain, the process of adult silkworms going up the straw to make cocoons is also called "going up the mountain."
The spring silkworms here are spinning cocoons, and the newly hatched summer silkworms in the silkworm house next to them are still in the state of ant silkworms. If you quietly enter the silkworm house and listen carefully, you can hear the rustling sound of the silkworms eating leaves.
Sericulture has entered a large-scale stage. At least the first centralized silkworm house has been built, which also proves that this fully artificial breeding model is feasible. However, Luo Chong is still not satisfied with the silk weaving technology. The
first generation of silk looms was modified from flying shuttle looms, but at present they can only weave plain white silk. Even if they are dyed later, they are plain, that is, pure-colored silk cloth. Such silk is at most more skin-friendly when worn on the body, but Luo Chong still feels that such silk cannot meet the positioning of top-level silk in his mind. The world-famous Chinese silk in the past was not so low.
Think about the famous Shu brocade in the previous life. People weave it with flowers, and it is not printed and dyed later, but directly woven with patterns. Such cloth can be regarded as a real boutique.
The fabrics in the textile industry can be divided into two categories according to the pattern and color. One is to weave first and then dye. Although the dyeing methods are different, they all mean the same thing. The other is to dye first and then weave. This method is to directly dye the yarn into color, and then use colored threads to directly weave the cloth with patterns.
This method can also be woven with ordinary looms, but the woven patterns are all horizontal stripes, which look like prison uniforms and hospital uniforms. It is quite ugly to use it to make ancient Hanfu. It can be used to make a quilt cover and bed sheet. Of course, it can also be woven with horizontal and vertical strips together, and the woven cloth is a checkered cloth, full of Scottish style, which is even more nonsense to use it to make Hanfu.
So what Luo Chong wants to restore is the famous CNC loom in ancient China, which can weave cloth with automatic coding. It can directly weave brocade with irregular patterns according to different codes. This was a very powerful black technology in ancient times, and it is also the reason why Shu brocade can be famous and well-known in China.
Although Luo Chong had never seen that kind of loom in a museum in his previous life, he had learned about the working principle of this loom in a documentary. Although he could not guarantee that he could make an identical one, it was not a problem to have the same function.
As for the technical reserves, it can be said without hesitation that the current textile technology of the Han tribe can fully meet the standards on the eve of the Industrial Revolution, and there is no pressure to restore a technology from two thousand years ago.
Now, if the textile industry of the Han tribe does not develop towards the high-precision and sophisticated CNC, it can only develop towards mechanization and full automation in terms of efficiency. Otherwise, it can only give up the development of the textile industry and concentrate all its research and development efforts on printing and dyeing, and find a way to do copperplate printing.
However, Luo Chong has no such plan at present. After all, the structure of the Han tribe is here. If it embarks on industrialization all of a sudden, the majority of working women in the Han tribe will have no food to eat. The factory will produce automatically, and there will still be a few people. Luo Chong now needs to provide them with jobs, so he can only change the direction of development.
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