At present, only large enough profits can make the nobles and dignitaries pay attention to the cotton spinning industry.

If the price of cotton raw materials increases.

Are you still playing?

Wouldn’t it be more profitable for them to make other purchases?

Ma Qian of Taishi Company said that if the profit is less than 20%, it is not considered a promising business at all.

The profit of the cotton textile industry is of course more than 20%.

At this time, it is actually a money printing machine.

The value of woven cotton is higher than that of silk, and its credibility is second only to gold.

It has the potential to become a credit collateral supporting the gold standard system and even, in the future, banknotes.

Just like the American Empire in later generations used oil to guarantee his US dollar hegemony.

The reason is simple. Today, cloth, copper coins, and gold are the three forms of currency generally recognized and accepted by the people.

"That's exactly what I want to do..." Liu Che sighed in his heart.

If the Han Dynasty wanted to develop industry, it had to concentrate resources.

But it is obvious that Liu Che cannot afford and dare not play the scissors game between industry and agriculture.

If he dares to play like that, public opinion and people all over the world will spit on him to death.

He, the Holy Emperor, will soon become Jie and Zhou.

There will be countless people shouting loudly: Time will be lost and you will all perish!

Then send him, the emperor, and his scissor-difference policy on industry and agriculture to hell.

China is not the European continent, and Chinese people and Chinese scholar-officials are not the serfs and noble lords of the European continent.

Even the most vicious Chinese rulers do not dare to play the game of scissors between industry and agriculture.

At that time, Xia Jie named himself the sun, the god of the scorching sun.

However, the people would rather die with the sun!

Even the sun dares to be extinguished.

Is there anything else that Chinese people and scholar-bureaucrats dare not kill?

Historically, the reason why China’s capitalism has sprouted is always a sprout.

Except for the interference and interruption from the foreign conquerors.

This is also part of the reason.

It is simply impossible for China's literati and common people to tolerate a man-eating monster like capitalism running rampant in the world.

China's humanistic thoughts and values ​​since ancient times will not allow things like sheep to eat people.

The deep-rooted rural party plot and the simple benevolence of the scholar-bureaucrats themselves will prevent such a situation.

You can live in a land of fish and meat, and you can bully men and dominate women.

But no matter what, you have to act like a humble gentleman on the surface.

But capitalism and the bourgeoisie want to tear it all to pieces, break it all, and crush it all.

The most thorough and explicit selfishness and the values ​​of money first and profit first are laid out.

In other words, capitalism and the bourgeoisie want to make young people give up their illusions, so that pretenders have nothing to pretend, and to make the people at the bottom fall into hell.

As a result, he offended men of letters, landlords, powerful officials, nobles, and ordinary people at the same time.

It's amazing that it can germinate successfully.

But Liu Che knew that this monster would one day wear a tie, a suit and leather shoes, look like a human and a dog, and be free in one mouth and universal in the other.

Although there are countless corpses under its feet, and the abyss of blood is rolling with no end in sight.

Moreover, it is indeed the only way for human development.

It is also the path that mankind must take to move towards a higher level of civilization.

As a time traveler, Liu Che couldn't do it. He watched helplessly as his empire, nation and people indulged in the illusion of self-sufficiency for two thousand years.

A price always has to be paid.

Either now or in the future.

The price and blood paid by revolutionaries in history to develop industry are still vivid in our minds.

There is no way.

Liu Che could only try his best to find as much nourishment for this monster as possible without causing greater harm and destruction.

To this end, he did not hesitate to start a world war, throwing the entire world into the flames of war, destroying and enslaving countless kingdoms and nations, and irrigating this monster with corpses and blood.

For this reason, he has no moral integrity, loses his integrity, and tries every means to make money and resources.

To this end, he will build a large number of whaling ships and turn the whales in the entire sea area into corpses.

Liu Che himself conservatively estimated that in order for China's capitalism to grow from germination to adulthood, at least 10 million humans would have to be sacrificed.

And I want it to grow to a stage where I can talk about eating aspects in the shortest possible time.

It is estimated that the price will be the annihilation of all nations in West Asia and South Asia.

Even China itself may be harmed by it.

However……

"This is the price necessary to carry out industrialization before the Christian era..." Liu Che thought in his heart.

Even in later generations of Europe, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of lives were sacrificed over hundreds of years in order to achieve industrialization.

The indigenous people of the Americas were almost completely wiped out, and all of Africa was destroyed and torn apart, even in their homeland.

The corpses and blood of countless people were also shed.

Facts have proved that without sacrifice, there will be no industrialization.

Liu Che had no choice. This was not something he could do without if he wanted to.

It is something that will inevitably happen and appear in the future.

Either the Chinese will send others to the altar, or other people will send the Chinese to the altar.

If that's the case, then why not send others to the altar?

The cotton spinning industry is currently the only industry Liu Che has found that can do the least harm to Zhu Xia, but help the industry the most.

Even the smelting industry is not as good as the cotton spinning industry.

It can absorb a large number of people, create jobs, create countless profits, attract countless people, and drive the development of related technologies.

Starting from this year, the Andong Protectorate will also vigorously promote cotton cultivation.

Within five years, Liu Che will develop a million-acre cotton planting industry throughout Andong.

One of the most important customers for the cotton cloth produced is the nomads on the grasslands.

The whale meat obtained from the whaling industry can be refined into oil, and the bones can be ground into powder, which can also be given to the nomads on the grasslands.

As for salt and medical care, they are indispensable resources.

Through these four products, coupled with China’s own huge size and super digestive capacity.

In the future, as long as the nomadic tribes on the grasslands are conquered and then settled, they will complement China's agricultural civilization.

In fact, they will have to rely on China's farming civilization in the future.

Otherwise, they will starve and die.
Chapter completed!