Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

Several ministers suddenly realized when they heard the words.

To be honest, wars are frequent in this era. Although there is a rule that two dice draw one or three dice draw one, but when it is really urgent, one will catch one.

The country is going to be destroyed, and the law is still in charge.

Even the country of Zhao has captured the young men of all the people several times over the years, let alone those other countries.

In this era, it is very common for many families to have all men dead and only women left. It is not surprising that these palace people have stayed in the palace for a few years and found that their father and brothers have all died.

So all the ministers opened their mouths one after another, praising the king for being compassionate to the people, and he is a good king with love.

But Zhao Dan didn't come here today to listen to the flattery of these Zhao ministers.

"This is scissors." Zhao Dan picked up a tool in the hands of a woman, gestured to Zhao Sheng and others, and then said to the woman who was a little frightened: "Come on, talk to Mr. Ping Yuan and others. , what are you doing now?"

The woman looked at Zhao Dan timidly, and then said in a low voice, "Go back to Your Majesty, this is shearing sheep."

"Sheep shearing?" Yu Xin, who was born in a poor family, couldn't help asking: "Why is this? Isn't the purpose of raising sheep is to kill them for meat?"

Zhao Dan laughed loudly, grabbed a handful of wool from the basket beside the woman, and said to Yu Xin: "Yu Qing, look at this, what do you see from here?"

Yu Xin shook his head in a daze: "I know that the king wants to shear the wool, but what is the use of the wool?"

Zhao Dan asked Ji Piao, the manager of the wool workshop, "Is this a good season for shearing sheep?"

Ji Piao hurriedly replied: "My lord, it's spring now, and the wool of sheep grows extremely long to keep warm in winter, so spring wool is more fine than autumn wool."

Yu Xin looked at it, and suddenly realized: "Could it be that the king wants to use wool to spin yarn?"

Zhao Dan said with a smile: "Yu Qing really knows the widow, come, and follow the widow to go on."

In the front, once you enter the yard, there are dozens of large wooden barrels in the yard. There are also some women standing there. The wooden barrels are filled with water and there are many wools in them. If you look carefully, you will find The water in the wooden barrel was steaming in the spring morning.woman

People kept pulling some wool out of the barrel and putting it away, then poured out the water and replaced it with new hot water, then put new wool into the barrel, and continued the process.

Li Bo said, "Your Majesty, is this to wash the wool?"

Zhao Dan glanced at Ji Piao.

Ji Piao hurriedly replied: "Back to Li Qing, that's exactly the case. You should know that sheep live with the grass all day long, and there are inevitably many impurities such as weeds in the wool that need to be washed, and the suet in the wool also needs to be washed. .”

Li Boxin picked up a small strand of wool that had been cleaned, looked carefully at it and said, "The suet on it seems to have not been completely cleaned."

As an internal historian, Uncle Li is very sensitive to this kind of cutting corners.

Ji Piao smiled and said: "Li Qing misunderstood, the suet cannot be washed off completely, otherwise it will become hard and cannot be spun at all."

After watching the wool cleaning, everyone went on to the third courtyard.

There are also some women in the third courtyard. They are responsible for thinning the wool, that is, making the wool more fluffy, so that it will feel fluffy in the hand.

The tools they use to thin the wool are also very strange. It is a kind of utensil made of dozens of thick iron needles inserted densely on the wooden board. This kind of utensil can make the wool that has been washed and dried naturally fluffy. Loose, a bit like cotton.

In the fourth courtyard, everyone saw women skillfully shaking the newly developed wool loom, twisting the fluffy wool into strands.

"Your Excellencies." Zhao Dan smiled at the ministers in front of him holding a long and thin woolen thread: "Now that there is thread, then how to make cloth clothes next will not require widows." Is it a cover-up? The widow has already had people try it. The wool and the cotton that the widow just took you to see in the Shaofu warehouse, the clothes made are enough to keep warm in winter, and even have the ability to keep out the cold. Better than the furs of the steppe people."

Pang Nuan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and said: "If that's the case, wouldn't it be possible to attack Mobei and completely drive out the Huns if this thing is equipped on a large scale among the cavalry troops?"

Xiangbang Zhao Sheng thought of something else: "My lord, what is the cost of this wool weaving?"

Zhao Dan smiled slightly and said: "I have ordered others to calculate this problem. As long as the scale of wool spinning increases, its cost and output will be far higher than that of mulberry and hemp! Just think about it, gentlemen. Such a comparison Sangma is warmer and more cost-effective than sangma, is it a good choice for the widowed people?"

As soon as Zhao Dan's words came out, the eyes of several ministers lit up, and they simply followed Zhao Dan out of the courtyard and discussed the matter in an empty space.

Li Bodao: "Your Majesty, I have another question. You must know that there are not so many places in the Central Plains where sheep can be raised on a large scale. Could it be that Your Majesty wants to raise sheep on the Monan Grassland?"

Zhao Dan laughed loudly and said, "Li Qing, Li Qing, you are really smart. Not bad! I just want to make the Huns, Wusun people, Yiqu people and all the herdsmen on the grassland become Sheep breeder of widows!"

As soon as Zhao Dan said these words, all Zhao's ministers were shocked.

After a while, Zhao Shengcai said: "Your Majesty, the Monan Grassland is thousands of miles from east to west, if such a large area is filled with sheep, there must be hundreds or even tens of millions of sheep? At that time, will there really be so much wool for shepherds to weave, and will there really be so many people buying it?"

Zhao Dan thought yes, of course!As a time traveler, the widow doesn't even know this?The widow even knows about the enclosure movement, and what the consequences of the enclosure movement will be, but you don’t believe what the widow says.

So Zhao Dan coughed and said with a smile: "Actually, if you want to know whether something will be successful, you just have to try it, right? Well, didn't the widow just established the Shaofu this year? Let The Shaofu allocated a piece of land on the Huns grassland in the north to do this, whether it will be effective or not, let us wait until two or three years later, how about it?"

The Shaofu can be understood as the emperor's private butler organization. Its responsibilities are mainly divided into two aspects: one is responsible for collecting taxes on mountains, seas, pools and lakes and collecting local contributions for the use of the court; needed supplies and services.

In fact, the position of Eunuch Ling already had the embryonic form of Shaofu Ling before, but now it is just completely confirmed and given a real title.

After hearing what Zhao Dan said, Zhao Sheng and others naturally stopped objecting.

When he was leaving the palace gate, Pang Nuan couldn't help but asked Zhao Sheng when there was no one around: "Mr. Pingyuan, can you tell me about the success of wool weaving, Your Majesty?"

Zhao Sheng frowned and shook his head, and said: "Although what the king thinks is very good, but to be honest, I am not very optimistic about this matter."

Pang Nuan was stunned for a moment, then sighed: "I actually kind of hope that this will come true."

Zhao Sheng shrugged his shoulders and said, "Anyway, even if you fail, it doesn't hurt. Let the king make trouble."

Obviously, Zhao Sheng is not very optimistic about his king's wool spinning operation this time. For this Xiangbang, it feels more like a meaningless toss.

Chapter 849 Li Yuan Encountered a Great Thing (Second Update)

Yingdu.

It was a very good morning, a carriage drove slowly out of a certain mansion, many people recognized the person on the carriage, that was Li Yuan, the friend and advisor of Lord Chunshen Huang Xie.

Although the battle on the front line was tense, Li Yuan seemed to be in a good mood, which could be seen from some of the little tunes he was humming.

The carriage slowly drove out of Yingdu City and came to a Zhuangzi outside the city.

The reason why I came here was mainly because a minister I knew told Li Yuan yesterday that there was a big business here with Li Yuan.

Li Yuan actually didn't take the minister's words seriously at first, until he heard a word from the minister's mouth that made him very excited!

Strictly speaking, it should be Zhao Guo's papermaking technology.

Since the appearance of Zhao Guo's papermaking technology, this kind of paper, which is said to be quite cheap, has become popular all over the Chinese world.

It's just that Zhao Guo has always strictly controlled the outflow of paper. After all, the paper produced is not enough for even the people of Zhao Guo, so the Zhao Guo paper that other countries can get is very, very rare.

But even so, Zhao Guozhi still became an existence pursued by princes and nobles from all over the world.

Among other things, in Yingdu of Chu State alone, a piece of Zhao State paper can be sold for a hundred Chu State ant nose coins, and a hundred pieces of paper cost [-] yuan. This is definitely a very expensive price up.

For a long time, countries have been researching and imitating Zhao’s papermaking technology, and have produced some paper one after another. However, due to Zhao’s strict control over this technology, no country has produced it yet. Paper can be as beautiful and durable as Zhao's paper.