Agriculture Escape: Ultimate Boss Has A Space Pocket! (3)

Chapter 452

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

If Bai Wutong had not ascended the throne and become the Great Empress, the southern frontier would still be the territory of the Ling Kingdom. They could have bought a large amount of cotton from the Ling Kingdom.

But now, it was clearly impossible to trade with the Ling Kingdom.

They had planted a lot of wisteria, but the linen and clothes made of wisteria were far inferior to the comfort of cotton. With poor craftsmanship, it was even rough to wear them.

The increase in the price of wool was caused by the situation where the supply could not meet the demand. Forcefully suppressing the price would cause dissatisfaction among the Syrians.

However, blindly accommodating their prices would also keep the price of cotton high. The commoners could no longer afford low-cost and comfortable cloth.

It is time to both regulate market prices and market demand.

Actually, cloth made of cotton and wool and silk was not cheap compared to the price of linen. In modern times, a short-sleeved shirt marked with 99% pure cotton was often very expensive.

Everyone was used to it. Synthetic fibers and other artificially synthesized materials were popular in the city.

Synthetic fiber was the most common man-made material extracted from petroleum. It was also called brocade, nitrile, and so on depending on the material type.

It was a compound that had been transformed into liquid by oil refinery processing and then compressed to form synthetic fibers. These fibers had many advantages, such as anti-UV, preventing clothes piling, resistance to wear, and so on. It made up for the shortcomings of natural fibers.

Therefore, many modern clothes labeled with pure cotton products had actually added a lot of synthetic fibers.

With the shortage of cotton, Bai Wutong immediately thought of petroleum as a substitute for raw materials.

Previously, a batch of petroleum had been transported over. A portion of it had been extracted from fuel, and the waste had been made into asphalt. There was still some left.

Bai Wutong thought for a long time. In any case, since they had already gotten to this point, it was not too surprising to use petroleum to make clothes.

She got someone to tear the high-temperature burning of the oil waste into a filament and found another big shot in the research lab, Hai Dongli.

Hai Dongli was a mute. Before Bai Wutong discovered his talent, he had always liked to fiddle with strange things.

Everyone thought that he was a lunatic. Only Bai Wutong, who had seen the flying mold he had made, said that he was a genius and recruited him into the research institute.

Hai Dongli was very grateful for Bai Wutong's recognition of him and was very satisfied with the environment of the research institute. He stayed in the research lab every day and often forgot to eat.

People gave him nicknames, like big bee, the kind that wanted to ascend to the heavens all day long.

After Bai Wutong found out, she specially instructed someone to be his assistant and take care of his food and daily life.

He was even more grateful to Bai Wutong. As long as Bai Wutong needed something, he would do his best to research it. He even explored the prototype of an engine under Bai Wutong's guidance and could skip the steam engine era.