I studied in modern times

Chapter 564 Mother Cart and Holy Mother Shuttle

Ding Chou (22) in July of the first year of Yuanyou.

The watermelons in the Imperial Garden have finally reached harvest time.

Because they were planted in April, they are late ripening.

However, the number of watermelons produced is quite a lot.

Wen Xunniang led Meng and Di Qiang to work in the melon field in the garden early in the morning.

One after another, they picked round green-skinned watermelons and then put them into baskets by other female officials.

Zhao Xu watched from the side and was quite happy. At the same time, he couldn't help but think in his heart: "It's time to harvest the watermelons on Xihe Road, right?"

"In a few days, the local cotton will be harvested."

Zhao Xu was looking forward to this, looking forward to the moment when Xihe's cotton was delivered to the capital.

Especially the Queen Mother, she likes to see the harvest.

"After returning to my mother, my son has been practicing for a long time." Zhao Xu replied with a smile: "Moreover, Shen Kuo has been ordered to prepare a treasure for the mother-in-law as a gift for the holy day of the mother-in-law."

Don't underestimate it. In the imperial garden, Zhao Xu had people reclaim these pieces of land.

However, the Queen Mother seemed to be in a bad mood today.

The emotional value of the two palaces, especially the Empress Dowager, was immediately filled to the brim.

The little bit of unhappiness in my heart immediately disappeared, and my whole person became even more happy.

Its frame structure also seems to be different from the commonly seen spinning wheels.

So, I would come and see it when I had time, and I would visit here in person every time after the fruits and vegetables were harvested.

Zhao Xu smiled reservedly: "It is a treasure that benefits the country and the people, and it is also a thing that benefits the great mothers and mothers in the world."

"Oh!" The Queen Mother turned to look at Zhao Xu and asked, "What treasures have the officials prepared for me as a gift?"

The Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager Xiang beside him were all focused on the watermelon harvest.

But the reality is that since ancient times, most emperors have not even bothered to act. If you have the time, wouldn't it be nice to play with beauties in the palace?
Therefore, Zhao Xu's performance has become the characteristic of his wise king.

Her eyes were looking at the figures busy in the melon field, but she didn't know what she was thinking about.
"Brother Six, tomorrow is the holy day of the empress. Have you memorized all the relevant etiquette?" Xiang Queen Mother suddenly asked.

This time, it is no exception.

However, this spinning wheel is different from ordinary spinning wheels.

Its spindles are not arranged horizontally but vertically in front of the workbench.

Not to mention, a trick of soaking copper in water allowed the court to mint two to three million more copper coins than before in addition to reducing taxes.

The Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager Xiang saw a spinning wheel appearing in front of them.

The Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau headed by Shen Kuo has invented and created things one after another for more than a year.

Moreover, ministers below a certain level may not even be able to smell it.

It does not stand upright, nor is it a common horizontal spinning wheel.

Up and down, everything is beautiful.

Other improved and modified utensils are now gradually becoming popular in the city of Bianliang.

It will be given to relatives, clan members, and wives of the prime ministers.

Although many of them are fancy and ingenious things, they can even be called 'luxury things'.

It’s amazing. Once you’re interested, you go to the ground to water and pull weeds.

Not to mention firearms.

The Queen Mother was finally moved: "How could there be such a treasure?"

Although, from beginning to end, Zhao Xu was just showing off.

Of course, fruits and vegetables after harvest will not be wasted.

However, these things did appear in Bianjing City and even became popular.

"Mother-in-law and queen mother can go and see her now."

Moreover, many of them are beneficial to the national economy and people’s livelihood.

At the same time, it is also an implicit political statement.

These watermelons will be given to the ministers as rewards on the Kuncheng Festival tomorrow.

But the problem is, the most fearful thing is comparison!
Everyone knows that the emperor's plowing and the queen's silkworm cultivation are the basic professional practices of the emperor.

It is regarded as an entertainment activity that cultivates sentiment.

The reason is very simple - to gain reputation.

Since this year, she will personally come here every time when the fruits and vegetables grown in the Royal Garden are harvested.

"Sun Chen will not lie when he replies to his mother-in-law." Zhao Xu said with a smile: "Now, the treasure that Sun Chen ordered Shen Kuo to prepare is in the Funing Palace."

A quarter of an hour later, in the side hall of Funing Hall.

But it is a very novel form.

It's like... it's like a spinning wheel that has been kicked to the ground!

"Mother, Queen, please look..." Zhao Xu clapped his hands, and a female official stepped forward, sat in front of the spinning wheel, and shook the wheel.

Then, a shocking scene appeared - all the spindles on the spinning wheel began to work as the female officer operated.

All the spindles started spinning as the female official shook the yarn wheel.

In the creaking sound of the spinning wheel, both palaces saw it, and the spindles on the spinning wheel worked at the same time.

They counted the number of spindles and there were eight in total!

and so……

Can this spinning wheel spin eight spindles at the same time?

Does it mean that one person and one spinning wheel can now complete the work that took eight people and eight spinning wheels in the past?
Although both palaces live in deep palaces, they already don’t know what is going on outside?
But they know a basic common sense.

Since ancient times, men have farmed and women have weaved.

Women's spinning and weaving are important sources of income for the family.

It can even be said to be the main source of income for the family.

Because in a farming family, the food harvested by the father and brother, or husband and son, is the bottom line to maintain the family's food and clothing. Generally, no one is willing to sell it unless it is a last resort.

The cloth earned by women's spinning is the main way a family pays taxes and makes purchases.

Cloth has been currency since ancient times.

Now, a spinning wheel that can hold eight people has appeared.

In other words, the women of the Song Dynasty were blessed!
They can now spin more yarn, weave more cloth, and exchange for more money!
Zhao Xu looked at the spinning wheel facing the Empress Dowager, bowed to the Empress Dowager and said: "Mother, Queen Mother, this is the treasure I ordered Shen Kuo to make and dedicated to the Mother's Holy Day!"

"I ordered him to call her Grandmother's Car."

"I want to use this car to spread all over the world, so that people all over the world will know that the Great Mother of the Song Dynasty honors the world and protects and supports me. I serve the great mother and the queen, so I extend my kindness to the women and children of the world, so that everyone in the world can enjoy the queen. The mother is kind and holy, the queen is kind.”

The Empress Dowager looked at the spinning wheel in front of her and was so excited that she could not speak after listening to Zhao Xu's words.

"Good boy! Good boy!" She burst into tears.

She knew what the spinning wheel in front of her represented!

It is no exaggeration to say that the appearance of this spinning wheel means that it will go down in history and be immortal!
What is the great Song Dynasty?
Her historical status will go to Lei Zu!
From then on, women and children all over the world who weave cloth will be grateful to her, and will all remember that it was because of her that the official ordered Shen Kuo to invent this spinning wheel!
Compared with this, the little trick played by the governors of the capital yesterday was nothing!

Even the Queen Mother sneered in her heart: "Ha! Ignorant person!"

"How do you know the relationship between the official family and my grandson?"

With this thing, tomorrow's Kuncheng Festival Holy Ceremony, the chief ministers will be slapped in the face - the emperor is a filial son! And he is the most filial person!
It was to the Queen Mother that I felt a little bit tasteful.

Although Sixth Brother mentioned her and said that he wanted to "serve the mother-in-law and queen mother and extend grace to the world" before ordering Shen Kuo to build this car, after all, it was the mother-in-law's car.

But who is Zhao Xu? The experience of studying abroad in Hyundai made him pay great attention to details.

He immediately held Empress Dowager Xiang's hand and said, "My mother's birthday is next month, and I have prepared a treasure for her."

"It's a matching thing with the Grandmother's carriage, and it's called the Holy Mother's shuttle!"

"The mother-in-law spins yarn, which means that the mother-in-law gives birth to the emperor and protects me."

"The Virgin Mary weaves the cloth, which means that the Queen Mother is kind and nurturing me to become a successful person!"

"On the Queen Mother's birthday, the Virgin Mary's shuttle should also be presented in front of the Queen Mother."

Queen Mother Xiang's eyes suddenly turned red, she knelt down and held the child in her arms.

"Brother Six...Brother Six..."

Although this child was not born in her belly.

However, even if it is a biological child, I am afraid that it may not be more filial than this child!

Zhao Xu nestled in the Empress Dowager Xiang's arms and called softly: "Mother, my son is here..."

But in my heart, there was another thought.

The flying shuttle was named the Madonna shuttle, and the original spinning jenny was named the Mother shuttle.

Naturally, it is not only used to draw in the relationship between him and the two palaces, nor is it only used to strengthen the relationship between him, the emperor, and his family.

At the same time, it is his self-packaging and propaganda - in traditional Confucian society, filial piety is supreme.

Loyalty and filial piety, loyalty and filial piety, a filial son must be a loyal minister, and a loyal minister must be a filial son.

This is the truth that Confucianism has propagated for thousands of years!

As the master of the world, the emperor naturally has to lead by example.

This is also the reason why Zhao Xu could not liquidate the Empress Dowager in his previous life.

At the same time, it was also the reason why he now had to make excuses with the Empress Dowager.

Of course, Zhao Xu is not a loser!
When shuttles and spinning machines were decorated with Confucian filial piety, they were given the name of the emperor's birthday gift to the emperor and the empress dowager.

No one can stop the expansion and promotion of these two machines.

Who dares to question the filial piety of the emperor?

Who can slander and slander a machine that has been dubbed the 'Mother Car' and the 'Mary Shuttle'?

Strange skills?

presumptuous!

The crows at the Yushitai will be happy to send to prison the traitors and traitors who dare to criticize and attack the emperor and the two palaces in this way.

As for those ignorant people who smash machines and burn down workshops?
That is even more of a capital crime for rebellion!
Everyone can get it and kill it!
And by the time the scholar-bureaucrats discovered that something was wrong, nothing could be stopped.

The torrent of the times will roll in.

Those who obey will prosper, those who go against will perish!

……

Distant Xihe Road, Didao.

Wang Daxu rode a horse and led his cavalry, patrolling on this road that had been patrolled countless times.

"But I don't know, what's going on with my brother Daqiang now?" Wang Daxu was riding on his horse, a little absent-minded.

Because he just received a letter home from Bianjing.

His wife asked someone to write it.

The letter said that everything was fine at home, and that all the money sent to Qianha's (Xiang Zongji's) family had been received.

It is also said that Dalang has started to learn this year and has entered the famous "Mr. Fan's Private School" in the area.

The wife said that the husband said that the old man in the family was a good scholar. At the same time, the old man also liked reading very much. Every time he came back from school, he would write.

At the same time, his wife also told him that in the first half of this year, his mother fell ill. Fortunately, he went to the hospital on Macing Street in time to ask a doctor and prescribed medicine and she was cured.

That is, there was no mention of the whereabouts of his brother Dagang.

This made Wang Daxu very worried.

He only knows now that his brother Daqiang separated from Guo Gui on the construction site in Hebei.

Dagang seems to have chosen to go south, to Guangxi.

He also asked Xiang Qianha, who told him that he had begged for mercy from Gao Gongshi (Gao Gonghui). With the grace of Gongshi Gao, he sent a message to the Gao family when he sent someone back to Beijing last time. When the Gao family goes to Guangxi, help find his younger brother.

However, Xiang Qianha told him not to have high hopes.

Because the Guangxi side is too far and too big.

It's probably hard to find.

Wang Daxu knew that this was a fact.

Therefore, he becomes more and more worried.

"Buddha bless me, my brother Daqiang will be safe in Guangxi."

"If my brother can return safely, I will definitely go to Zisheng Temple and offer sesame oil..." Wang Daxu could only silently look in the direction of Zisheng Temple and pray.

Wang Daxu was thinking in his heart when a team appeared on Didao ahead.

He was riding a horse and saw it from a distance.

That's a huge team.

Men and women, young and old, were all in tattered clothes and had haggard faces.

Wang Daxu looked at it and sighed in his heart: "How pitiful!"

He knew that this was another Qiang tribe that came from the mountains to beg for work in the Song Dynasty.

I heard that there was a disaster there and it didn't rain for almost a month this summer.

Unexpectedly, they encountered Western bandits who extorted money and forced all ministries to hand over grain. Those who could not hand over grain had to give it to young men.

Therefore, many tribes began to flee into Xihe.

If it were in the past, Qiang would not be welcome here in Xihe.

Even if they come, they will be left outside the border, and they will be given some food and left alone.

This is mainly due to the fear that the Western thieves will work carefully and lurk among them, and the inside should be coordinated with the outside.

At the same time, it is also because, unlike Shaanxi, Xihe has very little local output and cannot supply too many people.

But it's different now.

The entire Xihe area is open to accept all "righteous men" who come to "Gui Ming".

There is no need to scrutinize any fine work anymore.

Everyone who comes is a guest!
As long as they enter the country, they will be given the household registration of the Xihe government, and then "good people" will come out to give porridge and comfort.

Finally, it was the people from Yahang who came forward and signed the contract with these people.

These people were sold to manors in various places at extremely low wages.

However, these poor people are extremely grateful.

There is no other way. In the face of natural disasters and man-made disasters, it is good to have something to eat, a place to live, and someone to protect them.

Wang Daxu didn't think too much. He rode up on his horse and led his people forward.

One of his tasks is to find and discover the fleeing Qiang and Dangxiang tribes, and then take them to the Walled City built on Didao.

The porridge shed set up by "good people" and "righteous merchants" there has been open since June.

(End of this chapter)