Capital Datang

Chapter 280 The Wool War

In the living room of Yuan Tiangang's residence in the Daoist Academy, Li Yin was looking at a brass object on the coffee table with a puzzled expression. The pocket watch should be a few laps larger. //// Open the box gently, and there are two stacked small discs inside. The twelve hours and scales are engraved on the discs, and the two discs are connected together with a chain.

"Brother Chunfeng, this thing should be used to measure time, right?" Li Yin held the two discs in his hands and looked at them for a long time, but he didn't know what they were, and could only judge from the twelve hours engraved on them. It turns out that this thing should be used to measure time, and its function is similar to that of later generations of watches.

Hearing Li Yin's words, Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang looked at each other with a smile and said, "Your Highness guessed right, this is Chunfeng's improvement on the basis of the corona, and finally designed this portable corona, as long as you wear this corona, You can always check the time you are in!"

"Huh? This thing turned out to be a corona?" Li Yin was very surprised when he heard it. In his impression, coronas are all carved from stone, and they are generally relatively large, and they are all fixed in a certain place. Unexpectedly, Li Chunfeng It is indeed a remarkable invention to make the corona so delicate and moveable.Capital Datang 280

Seeing that Li Yin was interested in the corona he made, Li Chunfeng reached out to pick up the corona, and then began to explain the structure and use of the corona: "Please look, Your Highness, although this corona is not big, it is actually two coronal surfaces. Linked together with a chain, when the chain is pulled taut, the two coronal surfaces are just perpendicular..."

Following Li Chunfeng's explanation, Li Yin finally figured out the use of this portable corona. Of course, it must be more troublesome than the watches of later generations, and there are also certain errors, but in the era of Datang, it is undoubtedly the most advanced. The timer is off.

"Brother Chunfeng, why did you come up with the idea of ​​designing this portable corona?" Li Yin asked with a smile while holding this exquisite corona.Li Chunfeng is a very busy person, usually he can't even find anyone, so he definitely wouldn't make this exquisite timer for no reason.

After hearing this, Li Chunfeng showed a wry smile and said: "Your Highness, in fact, this is what I owe you."

"Eh?" Li Yin was taken aback after hearing this, put down the corona in his hand and asked, "Brother Chunfeng, what do you mean?"

"Your Highness does not know that the sextant designed by the lower official last time actually has some flaws, that is, when measuring longitude and latitude, you must know the exact time in advance. Although you can use other methods to calculate the time, it is still more troublesome after all. So the lower officials designed this portable corona, and if it is used together with a compass, it can quickly calculate the time." Li Chunfeng explained with a bow.

"Haha~, so that's the case, brother Chunfeng is thoughtful!" Li Min said happily after hearing this, "However, brother Chunfeng has to write down the method of making and using this corona, and I will send it to Deng immediately. State, after all, the Nautical Academy there is about to start giving lectures, and the method of using the corona will also be taught at that time."

"Hehe, don't worry, Your Highness. As early as when I successfully developed this corona, I sent people to Dengzhou to send the production and usage methods. It is estimated that it will arrive in a few days. It will definitely not delay the voyage. The start of the academy!" Li Chunfeng said with a smile.

Li Yin didn't expect Li Chunfeng to move so fast, and he was overjoyed at the moment. Not only did he buy the patent right of this portable sundial on the spot, but he also served as the host himself. Although the new inventions they made were also for their own purposes, in Li Yin's view, all they did were also serving themselves.

After bidding farewell to Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, Li Min found Wang Zihao and explained to him the few patents he had just acquired, especially the wool cleaning technology, which is a profitable tool and must be properly handled use.

A veteran in shopping malls like Wang Zihao naturally knows the profits that the wool textile industry can bring, so after Li Min ordered, he immediately called all the major textile merchants in the association for a meeting as the chairman of the Textile Industry Association. After all, both he and Li Yin know that wool textiles and cotton textiles are the same. If you want to develop this industry, it is useless to rely on only one or two companies. Let an industry thrive.

After the meeting held by Wang Zihao, many people from Chang'an City, where the sports meeting was being held, immediately left the city, and they all galloped northward after leaving the city. With a large amount of copper coins, they began to buy wool "wool" that no one wanted before. Of course, although it was purchased in name, because no one wanted wool "wool" before, the price these caravans bought from grassland tribes Very low, you can buy a big car for almost no money.

However, the grassland tribes are not fools. When they saw the Han people swarming to buy the wool that no one cared about before, they immediately knew that the Han people must be of great use. , So in just a few months, the price of worthless wool has increased more than ten times.

The caravans of the Han people were naturally very angry about the increase in the price of wool by the grassland people. Later, there were several conflicts between the caravans of the Han people and the tribes, and several Han people died because of this.The "government" of the Tang Dynasty must resolutely suppress this kind of behavior that hurts the people of the Tang Dynasty. After receiving orders from their superiors, the Tang soldiers guarding the grassland immediately launched a lightning strike against the few tribes that dared to harm the Han people, and The method was very cruel, and almost all of those tribes paid the price of extermination.

The scale of this war caused by the wool trade was actually not large. Datang only used 2000 people at most once.Among the countless foreign wars in the Tang Dynasty, this was almost the smallest conflict, and it was inconspicuous at all.However, this war is extremely famous in history, and even has a special name, that is "Wool War".

After the Wool War, it greatly deterred the nomads on the grasslands. After all, the Tang Dynasty was already in a strong position, and now it used thunder to intimidate all the tribes on the northern grasslands. Then they immediately took the opportunity to lower the price and bought wool and even sheepskin at extremely low prices. In addition, they also threatened the necessary salt, tea and other commodities on the grassland to increase the proportion of sheep raised by the tribes on the grassland.

The above things all come from the purchase of wool, but Li Yin can swear that his original purpose was just to start a wool textile industry, and he did not expect the series of consequences above, and even caused It was a small war.Moreover, with the development of the wool textile industry in the future, the demand for wool in the Central Plains has been increasing, and under the half threat and half lure of the Han merchants, all the tribes on the grassland have increased the amount of sheep grazing , In this way, the amount of grazing cattle and horses will naturally decrease, which also indirectly weakens the combat effectiveness of the grassland people.

After the matter of the wool purchase was handed over to Wang Zihao, Li Min never asked about it again. After all, there was still a lot of family affairs waiting for him to deal with, so he didn't have the energy to distract himself from managing business matters.

In Xijun's bedroom in Prince Qi's Mansion, Li Min and Wen Xin are both here. After all, Xijun is in confinement now, Wen Xin is afraid that she will feel lonely, so he usually comes here to accompany her, and by the way, he can also play with ugly, while Li Min will stay here as long as he has time, mainly to spend more time with Xijun's mother and daughter and Wenxin. After all, he went to Taiwan for half a year before, and he will probably be even busier after leaving Chang'an this time, so take advantage of Now that I have time, I still spend more time with them.Capital Datang 280

"Husband, there are still ten days before the ugly full moon. Everything in the mansion has been prepared, and I heard that the sports meeting in the city is very lively. Why don't you take Sister Wenxin to see it!" Xijun on the bed said with a smile.It has been 20 days since Chou Chou was born, Xijun has been receiving the most careful care, and has been taking various nutritional supplements, so Xijun's face has already returned to rosy, and she is even fatter than before giving birth Some.

Li Yin and Wen Xin, who were playing with Chou Chou, looked at each other and smiled when they heard what Xi Jun said. They have been with Xi Jun these days, and it probably made Xi Jun feel a little embarrassed, so they asked them to watch it. Sports meeting, I want them to go out and relax.

"That's a good idea. I heard that tomorrow there will be a polo match between the Chang'an team and the Luoyang team. The Luoyang team was the champion of last year's Winter Games, and the Chang'an team has recruited several polo masters after their failure last time. I heard it is The strength has increased greatly, so tomorrow's game must be very exciting!" Li Yin also said with a smile.

Since it was Xijun's kindness, it was hard for him to refuse, and these astronomical hearts had been busy all the time, so as a husband, he should take her out to relax.Moreover, the sports meeting was also initiated by him, and it was the first time. It would be a pity if you didn't watch such a grand event.

Wen Xin saw that even her husband agreed, so she naturally didn't object, she just nodded her ugly little nose and said with a smile: "I've also heard that the sports meeting outside is extremely lively, but it's a pity that the ugly in our family is too young. Little, otherwise, if you take her with you, it will definitely make her happy."

As soon as Wen Xin's words came out of his mouth, Li Yin and Xi Jun immediately burst into laughter, and at this moment, suddenly a small person rushed in from outside the door, and shouted loudly while running: "Six brothers, six Sister-in-law, if you are going to the sports meeting, you must take me with you!"

Li Yin and the others in the room were startled by the sudden intruder, and when they saw clearly who came in, they heard someone outside the door saying loudly: "That's right, Brother Six, if you are going , be sure to bring us!" (To be continued.