Steam Daming: Stop calling me to supervise the country

Chapter 94 The Idealist

In the early morning of the second day, it rained last night, the autumn rain was bleak, the fallen leaves were withered and yellow, the autumn wind was cold and cold, and a pool of blue waves was cold with sadness.

The road paved with bluestone slabs was slippery, paper money was spilled, and a heavy coffin was slowly carried out from the Cao Mansion.

As soon as Fang went out, Chen Xu stumbled down from the bridge, and he knelt in front of the coffin with red eyes and cried, "Yangshan, why did you just leave like this? What can I do? You take me away too. Bar."

The hoarse wailing of the woman's heart trembled. This was a step before the funeral, but I didn't expect Chen Xu to be so sad. I don't know if it was really sad or because of his acting skills.

Because he was afraid of colliding with the emperor's grandson, Zhu Zhanchang did not go out, and waited until the funeral was over before going out.

Cao Xinyue also did not go out. Zhu Zhanchang was quite puzzled when he saw Cao Xinyue who was throwing stones at the edge of a water tank.

"Miss Cao."

Hearing Zhu Zhanchang's voice, Cao Xinyue took two steps back and saluted respectfully. At this time, she was wearing filial piety, and her arrogant appearance was gone. Her eyes were completely red, and she had obviously just cried.

There were still tears in his eyes, and his grievances were written all over his face. I felt pity for that.

"Why don't you go and see your father."

"Clan elders, the uncles said women can't go."

Zhu Zhanchang looked at Cao Xinyue with pity: "Your family's clan law is strange, and daughters are not allowed to send their fathers."

"Is that the clan law? It's just that these people are afraid that my daughter who will marry out in the future will share too much property, and they won't even let me in the mourning hall."

The people of the Cao family would not care about Cao Xinyue's full of distress, nor would they listen carefully. Instead, they prayed for her to say a few more words so that they could get the hang of it.

Zhu Zhanchang smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect you to have some brains."

"If Your Highness likes to be sarcastic, then I will be sarcastic." Cao Xinyue gritted her teeth slightly, with a stubborn expression on her face that was about to be unbearable.

Cao Xinyue has been trained to be proficient in elegant tea art, and it is estimated that she understands a lot of rules and etiquette. The reason she was trained like this is simply that she will be the victim of a family marriage in the future to marry a high official or a family friend.

Because she is the direct daughter of the Cao family, her status determines that she cannot get married. She is part of the future prosperity of the Cao family, and the adoptive younger brother will be the master of the family in the future.

It is estimated that the elders of the Cao family wanted to suppress Chen Xu and prevent her from taking too much power, so they deliberately prevented Cao Xinyue from guarding the spirit and did not let her send her father the last journey.

In this era, no matter how powerful a woman is, she must be virtuous and virtuous, even if she has clan etiquette on her head.

Because Cao Yangshan and Chen Xu only have such a biological only daughter, they dote on Cao Xinyue. , Even if she gets married in the future, the backer of the Cao family can cover her.

It's just that her father died in the prime of life, and her mother became a widow. Will the younger brother from the second uncle's family tolerate her like her father in the future?I'm afraid I have to live by looking at other people's eyes.

Everything has changed in just a few days, and the attitude of the clan elders towards her has changed. This change is subtle, making her almost carefree life full of sorrow.

"Have you been to your family's farmland, silkworm breeding or tea farm?" Zhu Zhanchang staggered the topic.

"I haven't been there, but I've seen cotton fields."

"Oh? You haven't been to a tea farm, but a cotton field?"

"It was my father who planted some cotton in the yard."

"Can you take me to see it?"

Cao Xinyue took Zhu Zhanchang to her mother's yard. The small yard was fresh and elegant, with a strong bookishness. There was a small field in the yard, and cotton was planted on it.

It was autumn, and cotton should have grown, but the cotton in this yard was not growing well.

Cotton needs light, and it is difficult to plant well in rainy and rainy places like Jiangnan Water Village. The planting area of ​​the Jianghuai Plain is larger.

"My father told me that cotton is not as delicate as silk, it is cheap and easy to grow. Our Cao family has a large cotton field in the north. If we grow more cotton, we can make cotton clothes and keep people warm."

Zhu Zhanchang looked at the poor growth of cotton. Cotton needs a lot of light, but if it is planted in a large area in a place with good light, transportation is a big problem. The transportation cost in ancient times was too high.

The emergence of the steam engine can greatly solve this problem.

Cao Xinyue lightly touched the wet soil on the ground, as if thinking about the past: "My father said that there are thousands of mansions and mansions in the world. It's tough."

Thinking of Chen Xuan's evaluation of Cao Yangshan, this man is too bookish and seems to be an idealist.

"My father and several uncles had a lot of quarrels about cotton planting. A few years ago, several uncles threw their cups in the ancestral hall and pointed their noses at my father for not being able to rely on the imperial examinations, and would not be able to do business. After reading it, it's useless and high-spirited, if it weren't for the eldest son of the Cao family, he would be a poor scholar begging on the side of the road."

"Your uncles are bold enough to scold their eldest brother and patriarch like that."

Cao Xinyue sighed helplessly: "On the same day, he was deprived of all his positions and money, and he was expelled from the family, but the doubts about his father have not stopped since then. At that time, my father had a good atmosphere and was lying in bed when he was sick. It's good to be in bed for half a month."

It has to be said that as the patriarch of a big family like the Cao family, his father was really incompetent and did not bring enough benefits to the family.

Idealists are often more ridiculous, but also more respectable.

"So your family's cotton business should be quite a lot."

"I don't know very well. There should be a lot of words when listening to mother and father talking."

Compared with silk, cotton is more important to people's livelihood. After the steam engine is completed, the transportation cost of cotton can be greatly reduced, and it is feasible to concentrate production areas.

The main cotton producing areas in the future are the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the lower reaches of the Yellow River and Xinjiang, and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are now prosperous. Although there are decrees by Zhu Yuanzhang, the economic benefits of cotton are not as good as those of silk, tea, etc., so there is no way to spread the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in a large area. It can be planted in the plains of the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

"Do you have an industry in the north?"

"Yes, but I don't know."

"Why do you care so much about our industry?" Cao Xinyue asked curiously.

Zhu Zhanchang: "It's just curiosity,"

"You wouldn't want to take our property, would you?"

"Oh no, you shouldn't like it." Cao Xinyue denied herself.

"Your imagination is a little richer." Zhu Zhanchang was speechless.

Cao's family's funeral was very quiet, and many people came to express condolences. Because Cao Xinyue didn't let her accompany her or keep her alive, she was so angry that she simply hid in Zhu Zhanchang's small courtyard. There was nowhere to hide except here.

After the coffin was buried, Chen Xuan came to find Zhu Zhanchang.

"His Royal Highness has been delayed for the past two days due to personal affairs. Tomorrow I will take you to visit various businesses in Huzhou Prefecture."

　Today is the fourth update, the second update

　　
　
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