Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 242 Prussian Blue?Do not!Jiuquan blue!

Hubayi got up early, and after delivering greetings to the Governor's Mansion, he brought his assistants to the market in Jiuquan excitedly.

To Hubayi's surprise, the markets in most cities are quite messy, but now the market in Jiuquan is orderly and the ground is extremely clean.

Such a market makes people feel happy physically and mentally. Not only Hubayi thinks so, but his buddy also said:

"Shopkeeper, this Jiuquan City is different from before. This Zeng Taishou is really capable!"

"Stop yelling, Zeng Sima is just the overlord's Sima, not the prefect of Suzhou."

Hubayi took his buddies to stroll around the market for a while, but shook his head a little, there are too few commodities in Jiuquan City!

Having experienced the prosperity of Gaochang City and Shazhou City, it is difficult for Hubayi to take a fancy to the goods in the market of Jiuquan City.

Guazhou City also has cheap ironware that can be purchased. Hubayi walked around the market in Jiuquan City, but he didn't see any goods that caught his eye.

Hu Bayi still shook his head, sandwiched between Zhangye City and Guazhou City, Jiuquan City is really too featureless.

If only the service of the inn is better, it is not enough to keep these businessmen.

After all, for businessmen, time is money, and the profit of running a business route is quite large. There is no value of stopping in a city without value.

At this moment, Hubayi saw a lot of people crowded in front of him, and he led his buddy over curiously.

Taking a closer look, it turned out to be a cloth shop. Hu Bayi was a little puzzled, why were there so many people at the door of the cloth shop?
Cotton has long been grown in Longyou, and many countries in the Western Regions produce cotton products.

However, compared with the smoothness of silk, the cloth woven from cotton is too rough and the colors are not gorgeous enough.

When King Jianning was in Guazhou, someone improved the cotton weaving technology and invented the cotton weaving machine.

It also vigorously introduced better cotton varieties from the Western Regions and even Dashi. Now the cotton cloth in Shazhou also has a certain reputation.

However, merchants in the Western Regions prefer cold-resistant plush fabrics and gorgeous silks, and no merchants in the Western Regions will purchase cotton cloth in large quantities.

The cotton cloth produced in Shazhou, Guazhou is welcomed by the people. This kind of textile is more comfortable to wear than linen, and it is much more comfortable to wear next to the body than linen.

All in all, cotton cloth is a commodity that merchants look down on and people like very much, the price cannot be sold, and the value of long-distance transportation is not high.

But why did this cotton shop gather so many merchants?

Hubayi squeezed in curiously, and saw that the cloth sold in this shop was different from that sold in other cloth shops.

The cloth sold in this shop is actually colorful!
And the shop owner is demonstrating to the businessman how washable the color of the cloth is.

The boss's purple cloth was put into the water basin and rubbed vigorously. Although some purple appeared in the water basin, the unfolded cloth still maintained a bright color.

Hubayi's eyes lit up, there is such a powerful dyeing cloth?
We must know that silk in this era is more of a consumable.

Because of the dyeing technology of this era, silk will fade seriously as long as it is washed. For example, the clothes worn by the emperor are rarely washed. The clothes worn by Emperor Sui Ming of the former Sui Dynasty and washed three times will be recorded in the history books as Frugality, that's why.

The color of the silk clothes that have been washed three times will be washed away. This is indeed quite frugal for the supreme emperor.

As for the clothes worn by dignitaries and dignitaries, they are usually simply dusted off. If they are really dirty and need to be washed, they will be thrown away after washing once or twice at most.

Not just silk, but most textiles of this era.

The dyes of this era were all extracted from animals, plants and ores, and the dyed colors were not bright enough.

But the cotton cloth in front of me is quite bright in purple, and it won't fade after washing!
This kind of purple is a purple that Hubayi has never added. If this kind of fabric is made into clothes, it will definitely be loved by the kings of the Western Regions and the governors of the Great Food!
Thinking of this, Hubayi rushed to buy cloth, when the store took out another piece of blue cloth.

There is such a bright blue in this world? !

This piece of blue is brighter than the purple just now, shining with a charming luster.

I only heard the shopkeeper say: "Masters, this piece of cloth is the treasure of our shop! This kind of blue was named by Zeng Taishou himself——Jiuquan blue! This is the only color in Jiuquan. You can only buy it in Jiuquan. Only then can I buy such beautiful cloth!"

Looking at this dark blue fabric, Hubayi thought of the salt lake he had seen.

The salt lake reflecting the blue sky is this blue in the sun, which is really beautiful!
This fabric is sure to command a high price!
There are mainly two kinds of clothes these days, material and color.

Silk is of course the best material. This comfortable and breathable material is suitable for wearing next to the body no matter in spring, summer, autumn or winter.

But the cotton is also very comfortable, and the most important thing is this bright color, it is so eye-catching!
Whether it's the ostentatious Dashi, or the more corrupt and depraved Byzantium, this bright color will definitely drive those nobles crazy!
Dozens of rolls of Prussian blue, oh no, Jiuquan blue fabrics in the store were swept away by the merchants, and the merchants who did not buy it heard that there would be more goods tomorrow, so they all decided to come to the market again tomorrow.

At the same time, the shop owner also told the merchants that as long as Jiuquan is a shop in the cloth guild, this kind of Jiuquan blue cotton cloth will be on the shelves in the near future, and more brighter colors will be developed one after another. Interested merchants can go to other shops to see Look.

At this moment, Zeng Mu and Zhao Chen visited this newly opened workshop together.

Originally, Zeng Mu wanted to invite Zhao Chen and Wang Xue to open a pharmaceutical factory producing salicylic acid in Jiuquan.

It's a pity that there is no willow forest near Jiuquan. Although aspirin can be synthesized industrially in later generations, it can only be extracted from plants in this era.

Zeng Mu dismissed the idea of ​​building a pharmaceutical factory, but he invited Zhao Chen to come to Jiuquan to inspect the project and see if any workshop could be built.

When Zeng Mu was in Liulin, he gave Zhao Chen and Wang Xue the first round of investment.

Later, when the pharmaceutical factory wanted to expand, it also relied on the NPC cultivated by Zeng Mu.

Now that Zeng Mu had spoken, Zhao Chen followed him to Jiuquan to investigate what industries could be developed here.

After Zhao Chen arrived in Jiuquan, he did a lot of research. It wasn't until he saw the cotton cloth in Jiuquan that he came up with an idea.

Jiuquan has a history of producing cotton cloth for a hundred years, but what is produced here is ordinary white cloth, and only ordinary people can wear it.

Cotton cloth is naturally not a high-end product, but cotton cloth can become the first textile material in later generations, and part of the credit comes from dyes!
Dye, let the white cotton have more colors!

Zhao Chen is studying pharmacy, and there is a big category of chemical pharmacy is dyes, which he also studied in his undergraduate period.

If one of the most famous colors in the world, accompanied by the memory of the industrial age and deeply embedded in human genes, is Prussian blue!

This kind of dye was invented by German workers. This kind of blue is very bright and not easy to be washed off by water. It was very popular when it was launched.

Later, the Second German Empire purchased Prussian blue fabrics as military uniforms, which further allowed this color to be soaked into history and became a memory of the industrial age.

As it happens, Jiuquan has the raw materials needed for Prussian blue dye!

The chemical formula of Prussian blue is ferric ferrocyanide, which was naturally chemically synthesized in the post-industrial era, but when Prussian blue was first born, it was roasted with plant ash and cow blood, washed with water, filtered and evaporated, and then added with ferric chloride solution obtained after.

The most unique thing is that Jiuquan has all these raw materials!
Not to mention the plant ash, as long as the calcined grass can be obtained.

Jiuquan is close to Zhangye, and there is a relatively well-developed animal husbandry industry. There are a lot of cattle and sheep here, and cattle blood is easy to get.

The last is ferric chloride solution. Jiuquan is close to Guazhou. Ferric chloride is just industrial waste that no one wants in Dashuixia Iron Works. Zeng Mu can easily get a lot from Dashuixia Iron Works.

With these raw materials, Zhao Chen finally prepared Prussian blue after a period of experimentation and proportioning!

Zeng Mu was overjoyed. Dyestuffs are a large category of chemical industry. This is also an industry closely related to the textile industry, and it is a proper profiteering industry!

After getting Prussian blue, Zeng Mu did not sell the dye at a high price, but asked Zhao Chenji to build a dye workshop, and then called people from the cloth guild to sell the dye to them.

Zeng Mu also deliberately named this dye Jiuquan blue, intending to use this dye to increase the popularity of Jiuquan.

Zeng Mu announced at the cloth guild meeting that all stores that joined the cloth guild could purchase Jiuquan blue dye under license.

All of a sudden, all the cloth merchants joined the cloth guild, and the Prussian blue cotton cloth exploded as expected!

This kind of cotton cloth, which is bright and not easy to fade, soon became the signature specialty of Jiuquan. Merchants from Guazhou and Zhangye would come to Jiuquan to buy Jiuquan blue dyed cloth.

After visiting the workshop, Zeng Mu asked Zhao Chen beside him, "Gong Zhao, how long can our technological advantages last?"

Zhao Chen calculated: "The laboratory preparation is not difficult. The preparation method of Prussian blue is written in textbooks. It only takes a few weeks to determine the proportion of raw materials before it can be imitated."

Zeng Mu frowned: "If Prussian blue is so easy to manufacture, then Jiuquan's monopoly can't last long?"

Nowadays, the players are also very busy, and the long-term players are all showing their talents in Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea and developing their own territories.

Zhao Chen smiled again and said: "The output of laboratory preparation is too low. To reach the output of our workshop, industrial transformation must be completed, and a large number of skilled workers are needed. Now our technological advantages, this is not So easy to follow."

Only then did Zeng Mu heave a sigh of relief. Looking at the workers' busy dyeing workshop, he felt a sense of grand ambitions.

(End of this chapter)