Destiny Only Han

Chapter 630 Liu Ying: Is it still possible to take revenge in the ninth world?Although it can last forever.

Silk workshop.

After replacing with the old-style looms, the weavers struggled for a long time to go from extravagance to frugality, and finally regained their past experience, weaving silk creakingly.

Although the silk here is not "inch brocade inch gold" brocade, it is equally valuable and is the favorite of merchants in the Western Regions. Every year, more than [-] pieces of silk and millions of catties of tea are loaded on the back of camels and shipped to Central Asia, the Middle East, and even the Peloponnese and Apennines were exchanged for various precious stones and silver coins with strange shapes.

Well, the Silk Road was also called the Jade Road at the earliest. For example, Yumen Pass was named after the jade merchants entered the Han Dynasty from here.

However, from the Spring and Autumn Period until the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu and established the Western Regions Protectorate, the Zhou Dynasty and the enfeoffed vassal states mainly relied on imports, that is, they exchanged gold and silver for famous horses and beautiful jade in the Western Regions, rare and exotic animals. exit.

For example, donkeys were introduced from Africa during this period...

After the Han Dynasty became strong, the Han people renamed the Jade Road the Silk Road, which brought order and peace to the countries in the Western Regions, allowing wealth to flow unimpeded on this golden road!
Although the current Han Dynasty did not set up the Protectorate of the Western Regions, the Huns were maimed and hid in the bitter cold of Mobei to lick their wounds.

And without the support of the Huns, the Wusun people have also become quieter, and they are no longer in a state of full-scale war with the Yuezhi people. Although the two sides still do not communicate with each other, they have divided up the Hexi Corridor according to the actual control area. It's time to live our own lives behind closed doors...

After peace, order will inevitably re-emerge.

Although the road will be exploited layer by layer, businessmen chasing profit still come in droves, turning the jade road into a silk road in advance.

After all, merchants used to travel through war-torn areas. Gold and jade are small in size and can be buried in advance to avoid losses. However, if the camel caravan carried such expensive and cumbersome commodities as silk, it could only be used as wedding dresses for horse bandits...

The same is true for fast-moving consumer goods such as tea. Although Liu Ying ordered the tea brick craft nearly 1000 years in advance, this drink that can make life more enjoyable is the favorite of nomadic tribes just like spirits !
The most notable characteristic of the nomads is the duality of hospitality, greed and viciousness...

This is especially true for businessmen, sharing milk and salt, and the friendship of wives and daughters, does not prevent them from riding a horse, picking up a knife and looting you...

These are the values ​​of nomads.

It's not my fault that I robbed you, but your fault, I just blame you for being too weak, just like their logic when they robbed you, a cowardly man is not worthy of having such a beautiful woman as his wife!

Well, better than Genghis Khan, he also had his wife taken away, but Mier's begging was revenge. After all, Ke Erlun, Genghis Khan's mother, should have been snatched back soon...

After the middle of the day, it is said that Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Jin family, strolled into this silk workshop.

To Liu Bang's ears, the noisy sound of locomotive looms is like hearing fairy music.

After all, silk can be directly used as money for a long period of time, and it is a hard currency like grain, copper coins, and gold.

Therefore, weaving silk is printing money!

Liu Bangdong looked around, and suddenly saw a familiar figure in the corner who seemed to be unable to dodge, so his good mood disappeared.

Zhang Buyi.

Although that servant is beautiful, with red lips, white teeth, and delicate features, he is just like a white-faced mistress killer, but he is a pig who has cheated on his family's cabbage. He tried his best to restrain his face, so he would never show him any kindness in daily life...

Zhang Buyi also noticed this point, he originally wanted to slip away directly, after all he knew very well that Liu Bang didn't want to see him, but since Liu Bang saw it, it would really be a long life not to go forward to say hello.

So he rushed over with a flattering face, and bowed: "Meet my uncle..." (Note 1)

Well, since Liu Bang went on tour in a low-clothes, Zhang Buyi naturally couldn’t directly address Liu Bang as His Majesty, besides, he has a temper, so he just used this address to provoke, no, just to remind Liu Bang, I am your son-in-law...

Liu Bang's eyes narrowed slightly, he clenched his fist lightly, snorted in reply, and immediately led the dejected Liu Ruyi out of the silk workshop.

Zhang Buyi followed, nudged Liu Ying lightly with his elbow, and raised his chin to Liu Ruyi:

"What's the matter? How did you torture him again? All right, now, dare to deal with King Zhao in front of His Majesty...Aren't you afraid that Mrs. Qi will cry and blow the pillow wind again?"

Liu Ying reached out her hand to pick her ears, pretending to be disdainful: "So what? Pillow wind? Mrs. Qi blows it so hard that my mother can't blow it?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Buyi looked at Liu Ying with an expression of 'you are serious'.

After all, outsiders don't know about the affairs of the palace, but there is a curious and big-mouthed eldest princess in his family. He knows more about the relationship between Liu Bang and Lu Zhi than Liu Ying...

Over the years, as Liu Ying's status has become more and more stable, and Lu Zhi is getting older, mainly due to menopause, she decided to live out her true self, and no longer indulge Liu Bang...

Therefore, even if Liu Bang stayed in Jiaofangdian every day, he would quickly change from being respectful to being a guest, to being cold-eyed and swearing at each other. After the unfinished fight, the fight is over...

So, where's the pillow wind to blow?

Facing Zhang Buyi's eyes, Liu Ying looked indifferent.

It's normal for middle-aged couples to quarrel, especially Lu's pheasant belongs to the type of big bird spreading its wings instead of the type of bird depending on people, and naturally falls in love with Liu Bang...

Anyway, no matter how noisy the two of them are, the relationship on the historical line is much better.

When Liu Ying and Zhang Buyi made eye contact, Liu Bang suddenly stopped, looked at Liu Ying with some doubts and asked:

"Why is manpower weaving here? Your water-powered spinning wheels, well, forget it, what about your rumbling steam spinning wheels? If you use machines to weave, the efficiency will be increased by more than ten times! The taxes paid by Kuaiji County can at least Double!"

Well, the reason why Liu Bang didn't mention the hydraulic spinning wheel was mainly because he absorbed the experience of Guanzhong.

Guanzhong has a large population, and the daily consumption of rice and noodles is astronomical, and rice millet needs to be shelled, that is, "pounded rice", and wheat needs to be ground into flour. Therefore, on both sides of the river of "Eight Waters Around Chang'an", there are water hammers and mills for pounding rice everywhere. surface water mill.

As we all know, the current Han Empire is a feudal dynasty, and the powerful class has a hundred ways to justifiably monopolize and make money.

The water reels and mills on both sides of the river are no exception.

Although a single business does not make a lot of money, it cannot withstand the high demand, and water does not cost money. You only need to block the river and build a dam to obtain a steady stream of power.

The Shuidu Mill works day and night, and the wealth that can be earned every year is actually quite considerable.

Well, coincidentally, the most important daily economic income of the knights of the fiefdoms in Europe is also to collect fees from the mills and bread ovens in the village...

But as Cao GUI said, meat eaters are contemptible, and when the rich and powerful block rivers and build dams to make huge profits, the direct result is that the water level of the river drops, the farmland has no water for irrigation, and the crops dry up and wither.

Therefore, after several large-scale conflicts broke out between the small landlords and the big nobles, Liu Bang decided to stand on the side of the small landlords, and issued an edict to limit the number of water mills on both sides of the river, and give priority to ensuring water for farmland.

And the one who carried out this edict was naturally Ting Wei Hou who sealed this legalist vicious dog.

After all, the cruel legalists were never afraid of offending people. A large part of what they have learned all their lives is to use legal provisions to attack nobles, let them frame each other, and then set off a big prison and cut off thousands of heads...

Well, the violent conflict between the small landlord and the big noble is actually operated by Liu Ying secretly. On the one hand, the powerful and powerful have indeed gone too far, but more of it is actually revenge!

The hydropower station and spinning wheel he built were demolished. Those guys still want to dam the river and build a water mill to make money?
Ha ha.

Therefore, when Liu Bang mentioned the hydraulic spinning wheel, Liu Ying scratched her head and changed the topic a little: "It seems that when my mother reeled silk and raised silkworms in the past, Dad, you must have never helped me!"

Liu Bang was stunned for a moment, but the expression on his face remained the same: "Yeah. That's a woman's job, and I, an old man, can't interfere..."

Then where were you when my mother lived in Tianzhong (nòu weeding)?It can't be living in a side house, that is, drinking and having fun at Aunt Cao's place... Liu Ying complained in her heart, but he wouldn't say anything that was not conducive to unity, but echoed Liu Bang and said:

"alright."

"Those machines are used to weave linen, cotton, and wool. The silk is too thin. The important thing is that manpower cannot control the uniformity of the silk. Therefore, although the spun silk looks generally the same, it is actually uneven in thickness."

"If machines are used to weave, it is difficult to adjust a suitable force, and it is extremely easy to tear the silk thread. On the contrary, manual weaving is more suitable, and the strength can be adjusted at any time according to the feel of the weaving process to avoid yarn breakage. ..."

Well, the legendary hydraulic spinning wheel is specially used for spinning, that is, linen yarn. After all, the thickness of plant fibers is easier to control than silk. The important thing is that linen is not worth much, so it will not be as careful as spinning silk.

ps: I have an idea, that is to let 'Baori Longmei' rape Liu Ying, and then roll with the ball, go to the depths of the grassland to reproduce the golden family, inherit a weak claim of the Han Empire, you will not spray me, will you?

Note 1: Uncle is not uncle. "Erya. Interpretation of Parents" says that the father of the wife is uncle, which means father-in-law.

As for the title "uncle", it can refer to the mother's brother or younger brother, and also refers to male acquaintances in society who have the same seniority as the mother. The "Yi Li" in the Thirteenth Confucian Classics also records that the emperor called the princes of different surnames as uncles. , the princes of different surnames are uncles...

(End of this chapter)