I am not a deposed emperor of Han Dynasty

Chapter 25
Seeing Yu Wuyou's solemn expression, Liu He began to speak eloquently.

"For the same piece of land, cotton is harvested [-]% less than hemp."

"However, the weight of cotton consumed to spin yarn of the same weight and then weave into cloth of the same weight is only [-]% of the weight of hemp."

Liu He stopped at this point, and looked at Yu Wuyou with a slightly provocative look.

"Your Highness, you can speak directly if you have something to say."

"I want to test you. If the same piece of land is used to grow cotton, how much more cloth can be spun than hemp?"

It turned out that Liu He was going to test Yu Wuyou's arithmetic.

Without the slightest hesitation, Yu Wuyou took out a planed wooden tablet without changing his expression, and wrote while talking.

"Assuming that a piece of land can produce one cotton, it can produce one and three cents of hemp."

"Suppose one cotton is needed for one cotton, and three linens are needed for one linen."

"Therefore a plot of cotton can be woven into a cotton cloth, and a plot of linen can be woven into a quarter of a centimetre."

"In the end, we know that the cloth that can be woven from a piece of cotton is more than twice that of hemp."

Yu Wuyou calculated quickly and accurately, and Liu He applauded after listening.

"Yuqing is good at arithmetic."

"It's all taught well by His Highness."

"However, there are still some things that Yuqing left out."

"Please enlighten me, Your Highness."

"It takes much less manpower to harvest cotton from a field than to harvest hemp from a field."

"It takes much less manpower to weave a cotton cloth than to weave a linen cloth."

When Liu He said this, he stopped again, raised his chin, and asked Yu Wuyou to continue talking.

"So, no matter how you calculate it, growing cotton is much more cost-effective than growing hemp, and weaving cotton is much more cost-effective than weaving linen."

"Yuqing is extremely intelligent." Liu He clapped his hands and said.

"Your Highness taught me well." Yu Wuyou nodded slightly and said.

"Since spinning cotton is more cost-effective and convenient, people in the world will no longer wear linen clothes, but only cotton clothes."

"Cotton grows fast and cotton cloth is woven fast. Naturally, some merchants will specialize in cotton cloth. At that time, more and more cotton cloth will be woven, and the price will become lower and lower."

"And when the common people find that buying cloth directly is more cost-effective than weaving by themselves, they will naturally stop weaving by themselves and go directly to the market to buy cloth."

"Then the spare time can be devoted to farming, can it make people's lives more prosperous?"

Liu He didn't leave any suspense this time, and said all these words in one go.

The somewhat gloomy Changyi Palace became brighter and warmer after Liu He said these words.

The sun shone obliquely into the main hall, illuminating countless wandering dust that were circling and dancing.

Yu Wuyou thought about it carefully, nodded, and finally understood what His Highness meant.

"It seems that this little cotton is really useful."

In fact, Liu He still had some things to say, and he made Tai Taishi so shocking that he frightened the young doctor.

These woven cloths can not only be sold to the common people of the Han Dynasty, but as long as the price is low enough, they can also be sold to Guishuang, the Western Regions, and even Daqin.

Unlike expensive silk, not only the rich can afford cotton cloth, but also the poorest common people can afford cotton cloth. With small profits but quick turnover, they can make more money.

At that time, all the people in the world will wear cotton cloth woven by big men.

What kind of situation would it be like to be able to weave such a large amount of cotton cloth? Even Liu He dared not imagine - under this huge business, there may be many things that Liu He feels familiar with. Something strange again.

Although Liu He and Dahan still have a long way to go between now and then, just thinking about it is enough to make people feel excited and excited.

"Okay, I'm already hungry, Yu Qing will accompany me to have a meal, I will cook some delicious dishes for you!"

"Zi said, the gentleman stays away from the kitchen. It's better not to go to the east kitchen under the door, after all..."

"Zi also said: kindness is kept in the heart, and pigs and sheep pass through the intestines."

Yu Wuyou thought about it, whether it was "The Analects of Qi" or "The Analects of Lu", there seemed to be no such vulgar sentence.

"Dare to ask Your Highness, which article in "The Analects" does this sentence come from, "Wenzheng" or "Xueer"?"

Liu He replied with a look of success, "This son is not that son."

"Which kid is that?"

"Liu Zi!"

Yu Wuyou thought for a while, and finally remembered the scene where he called himself Yuzi yesterday when he was eating Roujiamo in the carriage. It turned out that His Highness was paying back for this incident.

"His Royal Highness has learned the tricky things very quickly."

"That's Yu Qing, you are a good teacher, hahaha!" Liu He laughed three times, stood up from the throne contentedly, and walked outside the Changyi Hall.

Behind him, followed Yu Wuyou with a dark face, and he seemed to be saying something disrespectful.

Because he was in a very happy mood, Liu He took charge of the cooking in East Kitchen himself, and made some special dishes with the existing ingredients and cooking utensils.

One is leek egg soup, and the other is steamed egg custard.

The ingredients are ordinary, but they become extraordinary because of the unique cooking methods.

Especially when the bowl of golden egg custard with dried shrimps was brought out from the cauldron, it was an eye-opener for those cooks and servants who had only seen various vegetable soups and meat soups in the "chaotic stew" style. They have never seen such an easy-to-make and such a good-looking food.

The younger maidservants beside them even swallowed while watching.

The cooks even looked at Liu He with admiration, wishing they could bow their heads.

With the "assistance" of these two dishes, both Liu He and Yu Wuyou's appetites were much larger than usual.I ate two more bowls of bean rice alone, and even chewed a few more pieces of hideous jerky.

Liu He finished the last sip of bean rice in the lacquer bowl, wiped his mouth, stood up and said, "The widow is going back to the hall to rest, and I won't be able to wake me up until half an hour later."

"Zai Yu sleeps in the daytime. The Master said: "Rotten wood cannot be carved, and a wall of dung cannot be smashed. "

Sitting on the couch, Yu Wuyou said coldly from behind Liu He, regardless of the egg custard that Liu He had just eaten.

"Hmph, sound sleep is indispensable, and short naps have their own charm. If Yu Langzhong has experienced the taste of this nap, he won't say that the widow is rotten wood and dung."

After saying this, Liu He, who was a little annoyed, left the East Kitchen with a flick of his sleeves, and headed straight for Fuyao Hall.

However, Liu He's "sleep" today is not destined to be enjoyable. Just when he was on the bed and you were about to talk about the importance of cotton with Duke Zhou again, the door of Fuyao Hall was knocked loudly.

"Who!?" Liu He shouted angrily and full of collapse.

"Your Highness, I'm an official." Yu Wuyou's voice came in.

"Didn't the widow say, call me in half an hour!" After Liu He finished speaking, he pulled the quilt over his head.

"Your Highness, it's Tian Wusui who's here."

This name was like a needle that stuck between Liu He's eyebrows, and he immediately came to his senses.

Liu He sat up from the bed, smoothed his thoughts, threw off the comfortable and smooth brocade quilt, jumped out of the bed with bare feet, and ran towards the outer hall.

(End of this chapter)