Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 232

Originally, except for Li Yuan and Zhao You, no one else took cotton seriously.

From their point of view, since Sinong Temple is responsible for purchasing cotton seeds, next year they only need to spend some money to buy cotton clothes to wear.

However, after Qin Tian and Song Gongqing reminded them, Li Shimin and Prince Li Jiancheng were all moved, and quickly began to think of ways to buy cotton seeds.

The open and secret struggle between the two has also gradually increased the price of cotton seeds.

If the price is high, profit-seeking businessmen will naturally ship cotton seeds from the countries of the Western Regions at all costs.

In this way, both the speed and the quantity have relatively increased a lot.

Seeing this situation, Qin Tian finally revealed a slight smile.

Seeing that Qin Tian could still laugh, Tang Rong immediately slapped him on the head: "I don't know what you think, Mr. Xiang, you are stupid, a good business is so dirty, but you can still laugh. "

Originally, their cotton seeds could be planted with dozens of acres of land, and after the dozens of acres of cotton were harvested, they were made into cotton clothes, which was all money.

Now that everyone is planting, their cotton is worthless.

Originally, if it is not worth money, it is not worth it, but his husband still laughed and reminded Li Shimin to buy it. She was really angry.

Qin Tian saw Tang Rong become so angry, but he laughed: "Madam thinks your husband is the kind of person who is willing to suffer?"

"Is not it?"

"The Holy Majesty has already learned about the matter of cotton, and the officials have also learned that there will not be much planted next year, but there will definitely be more in the next year, and there will be more and more in the future. It is obviously impossible to make money by making cotton clothes, so we can only Find another way."

Tang Rong shook her head: "I don't understand."

Qin Tian imitated what Tang Rong did just now and knocked Tang Rong on the head: "You are so stupid, do you have to remove the seeds of cotton, do you have to flick it before you can make clothes, no matter whether you remove the seeds or flick the cotton, other people will Well, I have to come to you to beg my husband and I at that time. At that time, we can make a lot of money by removing seeds and plucking cotton. Remember, in business, if others follow suit, we will not be able to do it, otherwise It doesn't make money."

When Qin Tian said this, Tang Rong suddenly came to a realization, no matter how much cotton those people planted, it didn't matter how much cotton they planted, if they want to remove the seeds and pluck the cotton, they can't come to them?

"Sir, you are really amazing." Tang Rong was very excited, and then she rushed towards Qin Tian, ​​who slapped her ass.

"Just now you dared to knock on your husband-in-law and called me stupid."

"You...you hit me too, and you said I was stupid..." Tang Rong blushed, unable to control herself.

And just as the two were flirting in the room, Tang Rong's stomach suddenly growled.

"Sir, what time is it?"

Qin Tian also felt hungry. He took a look and found that it was already past noon.

"What's going on, logically speaking, the cook should have delivered the food by now?" Qin Tian shook his head, then got up and said, "I'll go and see."

"I'll go as well."

The two walked to the kitchen, and on the way they met Lu Huaniang who came to the kitchen to check the situation because she was hungry.

"Sir, haven't you eaten yet?"

Qin Tian nodded, looking a little ugly, Tang Rong snorted: "The cook is getting more and more excessive."

The three looked at each other, and then walked towards the kitchen.

As soon as he arrived at the kitchen, he saw thick smoke rising from inside. A cook was choked by the thick smoke and coughed non-stop. Qin Tian waved his hands to move towards the smoke, but the smoke was so thick that it didn't even disperse at all.

"What's going on, how can you cook so slowly and smoke so much?" Qin Tian yelled outside, and then a cook ran out from inside: "Master, the weather is a bit humid these days, Huo Shi There is no fire, and the firewood is not easy to light, so far, it hasn't burned yet."

As he spoke, the cook coughed again.

Qin Tian looked at the two pieces of flint in the cook's hand, his expression froze slightly. It was troublesome for the ancients to make fire. It is not necessary to drill wood to make fire, but making fire with flint is not as convenient as imagined.

So under normal circumstances, the torch is passed on from generation to generation, so that a fire will not go out. Many big families even have some people who watch the fire specially.

Just doing this is sometimes very dangerous, the fire will never go out, and if you are not careful, it may lead to a fire, so Qin Tian ordered his servants not to do this before.

But if you don't do this, it will become a problem when you eat.

It would be nice to have a lighter, Qin Tian thought in his heart, but this situation is obviously impossible.

However, Qin Tian felt that the lighter was unlikely, but there should be no problem with the matches, right?
In fact, matches have already appeared in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. At that time, someone soaked a wooden stick in sulfur, and then only needed a little spark to ignite the wooden stick, and then used it to light a fire.

This method is much more convenient than flint, but compared to the kind of matches used by Qin Tian's later generations, it is still very troublesome, because this kind of thing still needs at least some sparks, and sometimes it is not guaranteed to be able to match. ignite.

After thinking about this, Qin Tian felt that he could make safety matches. He hadn't thought about it before, mainly because he didn't use fire very much, but now that he discovered this problem, he couldn't just sit idly by.

The cook stood aside and was still waiting for the punishment. He looked extremely wronged. Qin Tian glanced at him and shouted, "What are you still doing, hurry up and cook, you want to starve us to death?"

The cook was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately showed a look of joy: "Don't worry, young master, the food will be ready soon, it will be ready soon..."

Saying that, the cook got into the kitchen with thick smoke again.

At this time, Qin Tian and Tang Rong returned to the room, but the food was not ready immediately, they waited for half an hour before the food was finally served.

After dinner, Tang Rong supervised people playing cotton, Lu Huaniang went to Sihaiju to check the accounts, and Qin Tian locked himself in the house and started making matches.

If you want to improve the current match, you can use white phosphorus, apply white phosphorus to the wooden stick, as long as you rub it slightly, no matter what it is, it will ignite the wooden stick.

However, Qin Tian felt that white phosphorus was too flammable and poisonous, relatively speaking, it was a bit dangerous. It was fine to use white phosphorus to make firecrackers, but not to make matches.

Therefore, to make a safe match, you still need to use some phosphide, and then rub it with red phosphorus to make a fire.

It is more troublesome to make safety matches, so Qin Tian first made a fire zhezi, which is a thin cylinder with white phosphorus inside and a little flammable debris. If you don't use it, put the lid on and it will go out.

Much safer than using white phosphorus as a match.

Although the Huozhezi was simple, it took Qin Tian half a day and several experiments before he finally made it. At this time, it was already before dusk, and it was time to make dinner.

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