Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 191

It was late at night, and Zhang Zhao hadn't fallen asleep yet, and his whole body hurt like he was about to fall apart. Teaching people to play cotton was more tiring than him cutting people in battle.

And after today's day's work, Zhang Zhao also discovered some problems. The cotton he planted seemed to be different from what he had imagined before time travel.

The flowers of the cotton he is planting now are thin and not plump at all, and the fibers are thick and short, so it is far more difficult to remove the cotton seeds than he imagined.

Are the cotton seeds of later generations selected after generations of cultivation?Zhang Zhao couldn't figure it out.

In fact, this is because Zhang Zhao knows too little about cotton. Although there are indeed factors of selection and breeding, the bigger reason is that the cotton that is generally planted in Anxi and Hezhong is actually an Indian grass called coarse staple cotton. cotton.

The long-staple cotton that is more suitable for weaving is originally produced in South America, and the fine-staple cotton is produced in Central America. It is estimated that Zhang Zhao will never see these two in his life.

And what he can find is Indian grass cotton or Asian cotton, which is called coarse staple cotton. This kind of cotton is characterized by low yield, short and thick fibers, and difficult seed removal.

This is also a major reason why cotton has been introduced to the Western Regions as early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and even the Eastern Han Dynasty, but it has not been popular.

First of all, the low yield of this Indian grass cotton has caused a huge problem, that is, it has to compete with food for land.

Because if the yield is high, farmers can only take out a little open space to plant some, which can meet the family's needs for clothing and warmth.

But if the yield is low, it will be troublesome. It is better not to plant a few acres of land.

Although keeping warm was a big problem for ancient civilians, compared with eating enough, there are many ways to keep warm.

Animal fur and rags can all play this role. Even if the whole family cannot get out of the bed in winter and rely on the human body for warmth, it is better than starving.

Secondly, its fibers are thick and short, and it is difficult to remove the seeds, which leads to the cost of manpower to turn this cotton into cotton wool and cotton cloth, which will be very expensive or even terrible.

In this way, the price of cotton products will become extremely high, so this kind of warmth is not bad, and the quality is not bad, but the expensive stuff is naturally abandoned by most people.

"Hey! Huang Daopo! Huang Daopo! Why are you from the Yuan Dynasty? If you are a person from this era, what kind of cotton loom and cotton spinning technology do you improve?"

For the first time, Zhang Dawang felt the difficulty of opening golden fingers. Just such a cotton textile technology involves more than a dozen key technologies and dozens of aspects. If you only know part of it, it will be troublesome.

Of course, it cannot be said that it cannot be opened, it can be opened, but it is not fully opened, it can only be opened a little, and it looks like a freak.

Panting, Mrs. Cao came over with a large tray. In the black lacquer tray was a large plate of stewed lamb chops with cheese, a large bowl of soup cakes, a bowl of rice with honey and a bottle of Khotan purple wine.

It looked quite heavy, Cao Shi carried it all the way over, even a few drops of crystal clear sweat oozed from his forehead.

Zhang Zhao glanced at this woman in surprise. Among Zhang Zhao's several women, Cao is the most beautiful. She always has an intellectual soft beauty, but it seems that she still has such a deep feeling for Zhang Zhao. resist.

Who knows if her resistance is pretending to attract Zhang Zhao, or if it's real, if it's true, who can guarantee that she won't give me a knife in the middle of the night to kill King Zhang?
Similarly, Mrs. Cao rarely took the initiative to come to see Zhang Zhao, let alone take the initiative to deliver food like this today.

As a general, eating is the most important part of ensuring force, not one of them.

If you eat poorly or less, you will not get a lot of energy sources such as protein and fat to supplement, not to mention fighting in battle, just daily exercise can make you tired and bleeding.

This is also the root of the saying that the poor are rich and the military is rich. Not to mention the cost of purchasing weapons, armor, war horses, etc., just one item can eat up an ordinary family.

For example, Zhang Zhao, his current daily meal intake is about three or four catties of mutton, about two catties of rice noodles, not counting melons, fruits and wine.

As for the sheep at this time, it would be good to have [-] catties of clean meat after slaughtering, that is to say, Zhang Zhao would eat one sheep every five to six days, and five if he kept it for a month.

Ordinary families, even wealthy households, rarely can afford it. Only a medium-sized landlord family with a land of [-] mu can afford to support such a person.

In Zhang Zhao's Regret Mountain City, there are at least three hundred sons who eat and drink like this ruthless cooking machine. They all have fat bellies, thick arms and thick legs, and just eating is a lot of money.

But the fat on their bodies is not accumulated in vain. In the event of a big battle, they can fight on and off for four or five hours while only eating two rice balls and drinking some water.

This kind of fighting intensity can last for more than three or four days, and it is basically common to lose more than ten catties after a battle.

For example, in the great battle under Polu Prefecture, Zhang Zhao's regretful mountain all relied on this kind of fighting ability to forcibly exhaust Saktu's Gulam guards.

The same is true for attacking the Persian food road in the jungle. As long as Zhang Zhao and his men are determined to attack a food storage point, his Shandu soldiers can complete six to seven attacks in one day with only hand-to-hand combat time in each battle. , all in about ten minutes.

It was through continuous attacks that they managed to prevent the Persians at the grain delivery point from resting and eating. They rushed in to hack and kill the people in the food delivery point almost after they were exhausted.

"Your Majesty seems to be talking about Huang Daopo just now. I don't know where the lady is, so that Your Majesty is so concerned about it?"

Mrs. Cao obediently put the food in the wooden tray in front of Zhang Zhao one by one. This meal before going to bed is the most important. Only by eating well can a fat and strong body be cultivated.

Sitting cross-legged, Zhang Zhao looked at Cao's back, and his hands naturally followed his gaze downwards.

The back is straight and tender, the slender waist is unbearable to hold, and the buttocks are round, soft and elastic, she is indeed a natural beauty.

"Your Majesty!" A sound like a kitten's whining sounded, and Zhang Zhao's heart skipped a beat when he was called. When he turned his gaze back to Cao's face, he was startled.

At this moment, Mrs. Cao was looking at him with watery eyes, her lips glowed with water, looking fresh and tender, her slender waist slightly twisted, and the perfect curve gave Zhang Zhao a feeling of rippling water.

Fuck!Is this woman in spring?On weekdays, didn't you just talk nonsense to yourself, biting your lip to cope with it?Why is it like this today?

When things got to this point, how could Zhang Zhao still eat?He picked up Cao Shi and put it on his shoulder,
"Is Your Majesty just worrying about the cotton and iron franchise yamen? I see that dozens of people have studied for a day today, but it seems that few people can master the technology."

Cao Shi covered her small mouth as if she was snickering, her eyes were narrowed into slits, and she looked quite cute.

"That's right! This Wu Yuan'er, someone asked him to pick some ingenious ones, but in the end he found some stupid ones. After teaching him for a day, few of them could actually operate them!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Zhao was very angry. He had never seen such a stupid group of people shrinking and cowering, unable to learn anything.

"It's not the military officer's fault. He is good at welcoming and sending, sending and receiving, and sending envoys to foreign countries, but you ask him to find some ingenious people who can learn things quickly, and he is so urgent. Where can he find it?
We can only catch some weavers to make up the number. These weavers were first frightened by the military officers and then shocked by your majesty's majesty. "

That's right!Zhang Zhaoyi thought, this is really the case. If it was him who was suddenly taken away by the government, and then witnessed a king working in person, he would have lost all three views and was terrified.

Who knows what they really want them to learn, or some weird stuff made by noble people to amuse them?

Who knows if his head will be chopped off by accident?

In such an environment, and Zhang Zhao himself had to grope while remembering, it would be strange to learn something.

"If Your Majesty trusts your concubine, you might as well leave this matter to your concubine!" Cao plucked up her courage, and volunteered to invite Ying while Zhang Zhao was gnawing on the lamb chops.

"Leave it to you? Are you going to play cotton with a group of men yourself?"

Zhang Zhao is not happy anymore, the word "concubine" cannot be used casually, at least it must be the concubine of the lord of a country.

Zhang Zhao is now Suiye's Ju'er Khan and the vice king of Khotan, Cao and others are already on the list of Zhang Zhao's official concubines, so she can call herself a concubine, but how can there be a concubine of a king to recruit A group of men playing cotton?
Mrs. Cao smiled again, seeming to like Zhang Zhao's jealous look, and waited for a while before speaking.

"Your Majesty misunderstood, have you forgotten that your concubines come from the Han, Japanese and Celestial Clan? The slave's mother clan had the habit of weaving cotton hundreds of years ago.

Therefore, when the concubines see the tools invented by the king today, they will know how ingenious it is and what changes it will bring to the cloth (cotton cloth). Therefore, please allow the concubines to recruit three hundred weavers from the mother clan to help the king achieve success. This industry! "

"Good! Great good!" Zhang Zhao happily knocked the wooden tray with the lamb ribs. This is called a professional thing, let professional people do it.

Since members of Cao's mother clan have hundreds of years of experience in making cloth with cotton, wouldn't it be just right for them to play cotton?

wrong!Excited Zhang Zhao froze for a moment, he jumped off the bed and carried Cao Shi on his shoulders again.

"Okay! You already knew what I was going to do with the tools I took out, but you still looked at the cotton that I had been playing for a day!

So restless, let the lonely king 'teach' you a lesson! "

(End of this chapter)