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Chapter 290
In fact, Lao Wu was not angry because of this incident.

She is not a fool, Wang Hua's proposal yesterday was very good, if implemented, it will benefit the country and the people.But there are also many disturbances. In her later years, as Wang Hua thought, sometimes she does not have the thunderous atmosphere and means that she has done for more than ten years.

Therefore, several prime ministers were called and discussed for a long time, what method should be mainly used to carry out some beneficial reforms, which caused the least controversy.But that's it, the courtroom is still arguing, and she can tell that it's all arguing for interests.

Is this still my minister?Old Wu's face turned pale with anger.

After the court was over, there was still anger in her heart, first Wang Hua, and then these court ladies.

This is the crime of fire at the city gate.If Wang Hua really wanted to hold a carnival in the palace, she might just laugh it off and say that he was unrestrained, which was not considered excessive.Just don't hook up with the princess or anything.

The maid backed away in fright and went to change clothes.But because of this, a few days later, the situation remained the same.Even Shangguan Xiaowan joked with Wang Hua once, eating Wang Hua's small tofu.

But towards the end of June, the good news gradually came.The first is the arrival of the little brother.

This was the person Wang Hua was looking forward to the most, so he immediately asked him to talk to him.The result disappointed Wang Hua.Talked about it, tried it, I have courage, but I am still very unfamiliar with the art of war.This is purely a swinger, not at all the demeanor of the world-famous general in Wang Hua's impression.I looked at his mount, it was also a big navy blue horse, and I didn't see the white camel in the history books either.

The white camel was a minor matter, mainly because he didn't see any trace of a general in his younger brother.Or, like Su Xun, he only worked hard after middle age?Wang Hua was puzzled.In desperation, he had to be made a captain.

When the people arrived, the plan began to be implemented.After all, after October in the north, it is very cold, which is even more unfavorable to the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.Coupled with the thousands of miles away, there are many times when they cannot run with their identities open.Therefore, it is necessary to delay more than two months on the road, so that the time period for implementing the plan is not more than one month.It is even more urgent than he himself has to make 氍毹 and prepare to make porcelain.

At the end of June, Wang Hua personally took the blood camp out for training.No one is surprised that the blood battalion often goes out for training, and uses the training to further eliminate soldiers.Otherwise, instead of 4000 people, it would become an army of more than 1 people.This also lost the original characteristics and flexibility of the blood camp, and there were many exceptions in the blood camp, and the imperial court did not allow them to be too large.

But after leaving the city, Wang and Xiao each left Chang'an with an army of 3000 each.And more than half of these 6000 people are composed of Hu fighters.Almost all the barbarian soldiers in the blood camp were taken away.

Wang Hua brought the remaining soldiers of the Blood Camp back to Chang'an again, and continued to recruit and train. Except for Wu Zetian and a few important officials, no one knew about the actions of the Blood Camp this time.And the few people who knew were very worried, afraid that they would expose their targets.

Up to now, Wang Hua has not disclosed the matter of the telescope.Once this thing is made public, it will definitely be lost. If the flexible Turkic people have this sharp weapon in their hands, the Tang Dynasty army will be more passive.Therefore, Wang Hua's mind is that he would rather not publish this kind of thing, nor plan to make it public.

After returning this time, Wang Hua made some more.In fact, it is not difficult to polish the lens, and Wang Hua also carried out some reforms.It turns out that the earliest telescope in history was a monocular with a wooden handle.Wang Hua didn't have rubber or plastic in his hands, so he used wood glue, deer glue, some ink, and some materials such as iron wire to make the handle of the mirror.This is softer, while still allowing for some minor focus adjustments, and easier to carry than a wooden handle.

However, this handle king painting feels weird to the touch, because there are wires, it is a little sticky, and there is a sticky touch.

Wang Hua's army distributed ten handles along the way.This kind of thing is inside the blood camp, and there are still many soldiers who don't know that this kind of thing exists.All the scouts in charge of the telescope are confidantes of the blood camp, and their family backgrounds are even more reliable.Those in the know call them eye-hands, or eyes.

But Wang Hua knew that this was his wishful thinking, and sooner or later more people would know about it.A day of secrecy is a day.

And then there's cotton.

It's fine for ordinary people, because Li Xian ordered it, which attracted many people's attention.At first, the field was sparse, and some people laughed, saying that Li Xian didn't understand farming.There are also respectful people who say that Li Xian cares about the people's sentiments.But after May, things gradually went wrong, and the cotton grew up with lush branches and leaves.Blossoming yellow or white or red flowers bloom like stars in the sky.Because of getting a lot of space and fertilizer, the mother plant grows even more vigorously, standing in the farmland like small trees.

After Lian Wu Zetian heard the news, he brought his ministers and invited a few Gaochang businessmen from the workshop. While looking at it, he asked, what is the difference between this kind of grass cotton seed and the grass cotton seed of Gaochang?
Several Gaochang businessmen bent down to check.Not only is there a difference, but the difference is huge. Where can they hang a few peaches on the grass cotton?Now the first batch of cotton bolls have been hung on the grass cotton seeds here, and there are more than a dozen of them, and the cotton branches are all bent down.

How is this going?Could it be that something produced by the royal family is different?They raised their heads blankly and said, "Your Majesty, it's not good, it's great."

But I was thinking about another thing. The amount of grass cotton seeds in the Western Regions is not large, but the cotton cloth woven every year can increase some income for many people's families.If the Central Plains of the Tang Dynasty could produce this kind of cotton, it would not be good news for Gaochang people.

Wu Zetian didn't care whether the people in Gaochang lived well or not. She was very happy after hearing this, and told Li Xian to ask his farmers to take good care of the cotton.After the harvest, look at the yield per mu and how much benefit it has.

In fact, the calculations were wrong. Li Xian's Zhuangzi was fertile land, and he just piled up the fertilizer, which almost made the cotton go crazy.If the branches are not plucked in time, there may be big problems.In addition, there are cotton products, which are also calculated according to the prices in Chang'an.This is a very different concept.

But as a result, cotton became popular faster than Wang Hua thought.

At the end of June, some early-maturing cotton finally couldn't bear it, and happily opened the husk to reveal the snow-white cotton wool.All of a sudden, the whole Chang'an was even more sensationalized.Wu Zetian took the minister again to inspect the field, and then watched the servants in the farm pick cotton and some dried.So I watched them take off the seeds with great interest, and then spin and weave.After a piece of cotton cloth came out, he ordered the ministers to write poems.

Let Li Xian do his best.

However, as Wang Hua expected, after obtaining some approximate production and planting requirements, many families started a new round of land grabbing, especially in the Western Regions, where wasteland is everywhere, but now it has become a treasure.Also, picking is very troublesome, and there are farmers, where do they come from.

The situation finally started from Chang'an and spread to various places.As for the seeds in Li Xian's field, they became even more sought-after.I don't know, I dare not use seeds from the Western Regions or Lingnan.Although Li Xian is moderate, there is a powerful person behind him.Isn't this potential energy borrowed?

Only then did Li Xian understand that Wang Hua said, I'll help you, but I helped this cotton.There is still no news about that sailing.But now I can see how much help this cotton has given him!
Thank you very much, but it is not easy to reward in person, so when I heard that my daughter often "fooled around" with Wang Hua, I asked Li Gu'er to bring a lot of precious jewelry to the Wang family.As a result, Wang Hua only kept a part and gave it to Sanfeng, Dafeng, and his mother, and gave the rest to Li Gu'er.

Li Bao'er was very happy that day, and made Wang Hua ride as many times as he wanted.

But Wang Hua's main focus is still on two handicrafts.He wants to win, not only is it related to the state system, but also the news of Sifeng.If Mo Chuai can really provide some information, he can more or less judge Sifeng's possible whereabouts from this information, and who is this enemy who wants to deal with him.

Wang Hua is bound to win, but this time Mo Chuai is also bound to win.

Some news came through.First of all, Taiyuan. The decree was quickly made, and the major families cooperated very well to send all the best 氍毹 technicians in the family workshop to Chang'an, but due to the reason of the journey, these people were still halfway.

But another bad news came.With the cooperation of these families, it was finally discovered that several Turkic people had just produced 氍毹, which had been handed down to Taiyuan, but the number was very small.Also let Kuai Ma take it to Chang'an.Wu Zetian and the officials watched curiously.

The Turkic people produced a variety of wool products, including 氍毹, and felt sheds. Many tents were made of wool products.But being able to appear in Taiyuan shows that the workmanship is very sophisticated, otherwise there would be no merchants traveling so far to bring it to Taiyuan, would it be stupid?

Sure enough, these 氍毹 workmanship is very exquisite and gorgeous, and there are some gold and silver thin threads on them, and the patterns are even more colorful.

This is a layman watching, but Wang Hua saw the problem at a glance.These 氍毹 are imitating the Turkic style, but they have a strong Han and Dashi style inside.The Han style is easy to understand.

The message has been brought back.

In fact, the inclusive social nature of the Tang Dynasty was very beneficial to commercial development.But there is a bad habit of looking down on businessmen and their status.This started from the Han Dynasty. The employment system of the Han Dynasty was based on meritocracy, with filial piety and honesty as the criterion, and talents were promoted from bottom to top.I heard that there is an old man in his 60s in a certain place who still kneels on the ground every night to wash the feet of his 80-year-old mother. Well, you have enough moral character and become a county magistrate.

The intention of this system itself is good, but what is filial piety and integrity?Just like the same thing, the nature of Sima Guang and Sima Qian's writing is completely different.In the end, we had to rely on prestige, what kind of person is the most prestigious, and the disciples of officials and eunuchs, so four generations and three princes emerge in endlessly.In the end, the gentry is invincible.

A businessman also has prestige, but the ultimate goal of a businessman is to make money, even if filial piety is compliant, cheapness is not.To be a human being, you have to be like Wang Rong, who sleeps with money in his arms at night, and absolutely can’t talk about money during the day.

The status of businessmen plummeted.Therefore, the conditions of the Tang Dynasty were so good, and business was not the opponent of the Song Dynasty.Song Chaona was also forced.As a result, it was forced to become the richest dynasty in history because of its prudence in business.

As one of the three largest cities in the early Tang Dynasty, Taiyuan had a strong commercial atmosphere.But Taiyuan is not like Chang'an. It was built by Emperor Sui Yang, and it was built to the death. The bigger the better.Therefore, the area is much smaller, and many people live in the suburbs, as is the case in Luoyang.

In order to reduce costs, some workshop owners moved their workshops to the suburbs to form underground workshops in order to evade taxes.Some households or several households teamed up to make some things and sell them on the market, or directly to merchants.

Therefore, in this silent invasion, many people were captured by the Turks because they did not have time to escape to the city.There are some craftsmen here.The specific list was reported to the imperial court.

Great food craftsmen are also easy to understand.Now under the management of Mosang, the power of East Turks is very strong, coupled with the incompetence of West Turks, the power of Moshui has crossed Qingshan and Xuanchi (Zhaisangbo) in the west, and the area is twice that of Mongolia later Half big.It is not far from countries such as Dashi and Tocharia.It is not very difficult for the Turks to spend a lot of money to invite a few or dozens of skilled craftsmen to come.If Mo Chuan had prepared this matter after making an agreement with him in March, then he would have arrived in Turkic by now.

This was originally beneficial to the Turks, and it was not just a competition. It turned out that the Turks made 氍毹 for their own use. Now they can be sold, at least much more cost-effective than selling wool, and they can be exchanged for more materials from the Tang Dynasty.

Wang Hua held these 氍毹 in his hand and looked at them carefully, and found that the Turkic people had not fully integrated these styles.But after a few months, I believe this difficulty can be resolved.But Wang Hua smiled slightly, he didn't express his opinion, no matter how hard Mo Chuai tried, the result was still doomed.

But Wang Hua accelerated time.It's not because the court ladies are young girls, so they have to be scolded when they should be scolded, and at the same time, they further urge the craftsmen who will be in charge to perfect the new weaving and tapestry machines.This thing is waiting to be cooked.

However, as July was approaching, Song Wen also arrived in Chang'an, and he had something to report.But it also brought a piece of news, which proves that Mo Chuu is also bound to win porcelain.

Seeing Song Wen, Wang Hua entertained him happily.My own porcelain kiln in the south is booming, Xiao Yaxuan and Song Wen both contributed a lot.

Song Wen sat down and said, "Erlang, I have something to ask, are we going to expand production?"

"why?"

"Look at this account." As he spoke, Song Wen handed several account books to Wang Hua.Wang Hua glanced at it hastily. The best profit was last year, but it gradually declined after this year.The main reason is that the royal family spends a lot of money, and Wang Yi bought a lot of businesses, and usually likes to gamble for money.Anyway, the money in the house is like a flood, so it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter to Wang Hua, this cheap father has nothing to do now, why not let him gamble?Or let him intervene in the affairs of the porcelain kiln again, Wang Hua didn't have the guts, and he was afraid that someone in the court would dictate, after all, the status of a craftsman is low now.So in this year, Wang Yi lost more than 2 cockfights alone.Wang Hua's mother said a few words.Every time I swear not to gamble, but someone pulls it, and it leaves as soon as it is pulled.Fortunately, he still knows a measure, never playing too big.

But every time I lose, and if I lose a lot, it is also a big expense.

But Wang Hua didn't ask any questions, and it was even harder for Li Hong to say anything, so he just went on like this.

The main expenses are still on Wang Hua himself, too much money was posted in the blood camp.And from time to time to help the victims of the disaster, this is Li Hong's expense.But right now, a lot of money has to be prepared to build the ship, and the cost is not a small sum.In order to keep improving, the current best shipbuilding technology is not the Tang Dynasty, but the Dashi, so Song Wen went to Guangzhou in person to buy the shipbuilding blueprints of the Dashiren for reference, which cost another [-] guan.People are not tempted when there is less money.

Wang Hua shook his head and said: "The method you said is not good. What is precious? Because it is rare and beautiful, it is precious, so its price can be raised. If there are too many, let alone porcelain, it is ginseng. It’s also not expensive. I already knew about the problem you mentioned. Not only our porcelain kiln, Baolinzhai bought our original Qingshangou porcelain kiln, and the problem is even more serious. But this difficulty will be a few days away and I will go to Jiangnan in person. It is for the competition between the imperial court and the Turkic people to burn three pieces of porcelain. By the way, I will take you to burn a few new varieties, and let's talk about it after a few years."

Hearing Wang Hua mention the Turkic people, Song Wen said, "There is one more thing I forgot to report."

"Go ahead."

"At the end of April, several Turkic people were found stealing our porcelain stones and porcelain clay on the earth hill we bought."

The earth mountains he mentioned are the wild mountains containing kaolin and porcelain stones that Wang Hua came down from.Because of the profits of the Wang Family Porcelain Kiln, and the desire to obtain the recipe of the Wang Hua Porcelain Kiln, there are often porcelain kiln owners who steal earth and rocks and go back to burn them.Some people have actually developed some formulas, and found wild mountains containing kaolin and porcelain stones in other places in Jingdezhen.This led to the rapid expansion of Jingdezhen's current porcelain industry.

This incident itself is not strange, but the strange thing is the Turkic people.Could it be that Mo Chuai wants to make a joint venture between the three of Hantu Dashi?
But this difficulty is higher than that of making 氍毹. He must have a domestic porcelain kiln with excellent craftsmanship to cooperate with him, plus Dashi's glaze, to have any hope of winning.But which porcelain kiln is willing to risk the displeasure of the world and join forces with the Turkic people?
Even the seven surnames don't have the guts!
Song Wen said again: "Also, I suspect that someone has sold the technology. Therefore, I think it is possible for us to sell more episodes back?"

Buqu are slaves, they have no personal freedom.Now the workers hired by Wang Hua Kiln are all good households, or at least customers, so there is not much binding force.Even if you find out that they are selling their technology, you can't do anything to them, at most deduct some wages.But the steps are different. If you find it, you can beat it at will.

Song Wen's words made sense.

But Wang Hua shook his head again, and he said: "Why can our porcelain kiln persist until now, and the profits in the process are getting bigger and bigger, but no one eats it?"

"This is the emperor supporting Erlang."

"That's right, but why does the emperor support me?"

"Erlang has talent and learning."

"This is just one of the reasons. There is another reason, and that is moral character. Although I fight back and forth, I always have sympathy for the common people, so I am respected by the emperor. The loss of this book made the emperor feel disgusted when he heard about it. No technology, no defense, it is useless. One more thing, our financial resources will also focus on another aspect. But cooperating with Baolinzhai is also seeking skin from a tiger, and at the same time Part of the money will be transferred underground, so I have some things to tell you." Now Wang Hua has not yet entered the court, once he enters the court, he will show his fists, instead of being meek and slow like this.At that time, what is needed is great power, and then money will come in handy.But this money is also concealed from the Wei family, which is quite difficult.The reason for cooperating with the Wei family is just to take advantage of their situation.

As soon as he said that, the porter came in to report that Princess Anle asked to see her.

Wang Hua is strange, the meeting has been in his own courtyard for the past few days, and they just had a tryst yesterday.Why did you run to your own house so late in person?Wang Hua came out to welcome her.The two entered the room together, and Wang Hua asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?"

Li Bao'er was extremely shy, but also proudly said: "Erlang, I have some good news for you."

PS: I just changed the first update this morning, but there was a sudden power outage, and there was nothing left, so both updates were postponed.Still speechless until now.By the way, Li Gu'er made a speech, let's vote a monthly ticket for our Xiao Er, otherwise I will be unfaithful to Xiao Er.hehe.

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