Chapter 357 60. Koshu Raw Silk Armor Japan

   "This is Hachioji's local silk?"

  Tadaemon put down the soy sauce dish in his hand, took out a towel and wiped his hands, fearing that he would have sweat or dirt on his hands. Japanese silk, it seems that because the spinning technology is not very good, the silk fiber for weaving silk is relatively short. Therefore, it is generally not possible to wash with water. If it is washed, it may cause shrinkage of the clothes and the problem of fluffing.

  We didn’t say that people bought them. If they soiled their silk, wouldn’t they harm them. So it doesn't hurt to be careful to avoid disputes.

   "Yes, yes, the small one is the long house, called the long house Tademon."

   "Oh! Hahahahaha...coincident!" Qixuan Songping who was eating the eggplant suddenly laughed, ignoring that the eggplant was hot.

   "What a coincidence, you have the same name as the official."

   "Oh, oh, oh, little offense, little offense." The village house quickly apologized.

  What's offensive, but it's just a name. This year, Uemon is called Uemon, and I am afraid that there are hundreds of thousands of people in Japan. If everyone offends, life will not be possible.

   "How much does this silk cost?" Chuemon doesn't have to buy it, just ask the price first.

   "Five hundred dollars!"

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  Tadaemon and Matsudaira Chisun were surprised at the same time. Although both of them are men who do not cook, they do not usually go to the vegetable market, but they do know how much silk is expensive. After all, both of them are wearing them, and the price is definitely not cheap.

  The one thousand five hundred dollars that the village house in front of me is talking about is definitely the most standard Kuanyong Tongbao Xiaoping coin with more than half of the copper content. As for anything like **** as a hundred dollars or iron money, it's all gone. Those tattered things, people hate dogs, are inferior currency issued by the shogunate to collect money.

  The ratio of one or two gold to Kuanyongtongbao Xiaoping money is about one to three thousand. There is no general rule for this thing, because you are in the place where the copper coin is produced, it may be one or two for four to five thousand dollars. If you are in the deep mountains of Sado Kingdom, where the miners all have gold but no copper, then one or two will be exchanged for two thousand five hundred or two thousand.

  There is no uniform exchange price for this thing in Japan, we can only say a similar figure. In other words, the white silk in front of me is worth half a tael of gold.

  A few years ago, when Chuemon went to Kyoto, he bought silk. Because Nishijin weaving in Kyoto does have a better technical level than Hachioji, and the silk is embroidered or dyed, the price will naturally be much higher. At that time, the price was more than two to three, which was quite expensive.

  Unfortunately, I didn't ask what the price of Nishijin Ori's ordinary white silk is. In addition, I didn't expect that the price of Hachioji's silk would be so cheap.

   "This is two points." Tademon took out a small two-cent gold coin. One or two equals four points.

   "Master Xie, Master Xie, Grandpa Lord Hou Bandai, Jue Lu Gaodeng." That village house should have seen some markets, and can speak such good things skillfully.

  "Sit down, and tell the official about the Hachioji's silk." Chuemon asked the vendor to bring a roasted rice stick to the village house to eat.

  Because Chuemon had something to understand, after seeing this piece of plain silk, Chuemon heard him talk about Koshu silk again, which evoked part of Chuemon’s memory.

   "We got Jiazhou silk, it's alright..." Now that the adults have asked, the business is done, and there is food, the chat box will be opened.

  The terrain of Hachioji will not be repeated, because the farmland is mainly concentrated near the river in the valley, and the increasing population will either enter the mountains to reclaim terraces or engage in other rural sideline businesses.

  Persuading agriculture to teach mulberry, and persuading agriculture to teach mulberry, China has been crying for thousands of years. The small peasant economy of men farming and women weaving is not just men plowing and farming, women spinning and weaving at home. In the same way, raising silkworms and weaving silk is also a meaning. Those who grow cotton spin cotton yarn, and those who raise silkworms do not just smoke silk.

  Now all over Japan, as long as the place where mulberry trees can be planted, there is basically a sericulture industry. Because of the increase in the urban consumer population, the demand for silk has increased, and many people in the feudal clan raise silkworms.

  The Kyoto side is famous for its superb textile technology and embroidery technology, and Kai and the nearby area are famous for the excellent quality of silk.

  Silk, the place of origin is different, there are really big differences. The most famous one in the Qing Dynasty next door is Jilihu Silk, the finest silk from Nanxun Town, Huzhou, Zhejiang. Not only a large number of exports, but also a tribute to generations. Its quality is much better than the ephedra silk produced in Hangzhou next door. At that time, Hu Xueyan also exported Jilihu silk and gained huge wealth.

  Different silkworm species, different water quality of silk reeling, the level of spinning technology of silk workers, etc., are all important factors that determine the quality of silk. This thing basically depends on inheritance, and there is no unified standard at the moment.

  Returning to Hachioji, according to Nagabo Chuemon’s description, every household raises silkworms. However, ordinary farmers only end up raising silkworms, and the cocoons they raise are usually sold to the local village houses. There are also rural taxpayers or usurers like those we talked about before.

  Anyway, ordinary people only raise silkworms, UU reading www. The follow-up of uukanshu.com does not matter. They basically don't make money in this industry, which is equivalent to raising silkworms for a day and having a bite of food.

  The relatively well-capitalized part of the rural affluent people will recruit rural surplus labor, or their own servants and family members, to engage in silk reeling. After the silk reeling is completed, raw silk is obtained. At this time, the raw silk can actually be sold to large textile merchants, just like those large merchants in Nishijin, Kyoto who have dozens of hundreds of looms, and they are profitable anyway.

  However, there are also people who are like the Nagado Chuemon in front of them. Of course, raw silk will be sold, but if you have a loom at home, you can produce plain silk, which is white silk, at home. At this time, the profit is greater and the price is higher.

  As for the subsequent dyeing, or even over-dyeing, printing and dyeing, the technology is too high-end that the farmer can master. The large amounts of gold and silver threads, peacock hair and other precious materials needed for embroidery are not available to farmers. The farmer's business scope in the entire sericulture industry only ends with plain silk.

  The more processed, the more valuable, each stage has a division of labor, that's it.

  However, Chuemon also found one thing, according to Nagabo Chuemon’s account. Basically, the farmers in Hachioji are operating on their own. There is neither a trade guild nor a monopoly, which seems to be very casual.

  (End of this chapter)