Basic necessities of life.

When it comes to eating, Li Kuan has always been obsessed with potatoes, corn, pumpkin, peanuts and peppers.

However, when it comes to clothes, what Li Kuan misses is cotton.

I am now wearing silk fabric, although it is cool, but the sweat absorption performance is not good.

If you have a cotton garment to wear on your body, it should feel better to the touch.

And in Datang, let alone cotton clothes, even the word "cotton" still does not exist.

Today, Datang only has cotton that can be used to fill the bedding, and there is no cotton at all.

Li Kuan didn't know where the origin of cotton was, and after searching for it many times in Chang'an City, he gave up.

Now, suddenly, in his own herb garden, he found a piece of cotton.

This surprise came a little suddenly.

I like to collect all kinds of exotic flowers and plants and plant them in the herb garden, which is something that everyone in Chang'an City knows.

Many people thought that this was a plaything, and that Li Kuan had money and no place to spend it, so he had to keep buying all kinds of strange seeds from Hu Ren.

Only Li Kuan himself knows that he is in order to have the opportunity to discover some flowers and trees that are not yet available in the Tang Dynasty.

After casting the net for so long, today I finally have a harvest.

If you catch a big fish in the net, even if you don't have any new harvest in the future, it's worth it.

"Jingwen, is there only this small piece of cotton in the palace?"

Li Kuanqiang suppressed the excitement in his heart and wanted to confirm what the situation was.

This cotton, logically speaking, will not appear in Chang'an at this time.

But if this was collected by Ma Zhou from the hands of the Western Turkic Hu merchants, then it is also in the past.

After all, the territory of the Western Turks today is also very vast, and even many Central Asian countries in later generations are now under the rule of the Western Turks.

It can be said that the Western Turks occupied the key point of the Silk Road and were one of the most important intermediate countries in the exchange between the East and the West.

"Lord Wang, that's all there is to it. You know, the exotic flowers and plants planted in the Baicao Garden will not be planted in a large area all at once. What, is there anything wrong with these flowers? ”

Although Cheng Jingwen also felt that the flowers in front of her were quite beautiful, they were not to the extent of surprise.

And with her understanding of Li Kuan, it is obvious that there is something special about this flower.

"There is no problem, not only is there no problem, on the contrary, planting this flower makes great sense. It can even be said that Ma Zhou has been in Liangzhou for so long, and the credit is not as good as finding this flower. ”

"Huh?"

Hearing Li Kuan say this, Cheng Jingwen was stunned.

Liangzhou can have today's prosperity, and Ma Zhou's credit is obvious to all.

To put it mildly, the subordinates of the entire Chu Palace, except for Wang Xuance, may have the greatest credit for Ma Zhou.

Now the prince actually said that his credit was not as good as finding these white flowers.

The prince is not the kind of person who loses his mind with playthings.

Why do you say such things?

"Jun buy, you immediately arrange for someone to go to Liangzhou quickly, and let Ma Zhou vigorously collect cotton seeds."

As one of the most important crops in later generations, cotton played a huge role.

Not only is it relatively large in production, but the most important thing is that the price is also cheap.

As long as large-scale planting, it can completely solve the problem of clothing for most people.

And, in addition to making clothes, cotton has many other uses.

Even in medicine, she has her own uniqueness.

In order to promote cotton as quickly as possible, Li Kuan feels that it is worth paying a big price.

"Cotton seeds?" Xi Junmai stepped forward a little confused, "Lord Wang, is this kind of white flower?" ”

"That's right, it's this white flower. Since Ma Zhou was able to find these seeds last year, there is a good chance that some Hu merchants in Liangzhou City should have planted them. ”

At this time, no one should have discovered the textile function of cotton, and it was used as an ornamental flower.

Li Kuan guessed that among the Hu merchants in Liangzhou City, there should also be people who planted it in the garden as an ornamental flower.

If you're lucky, you might be able to find more seeds, which will be of great significance for achieving large-scale promotion as soon as possible.

"Lord Wang, I've never heard of this cotton before, could it be that it has any other use?"

Cheng Jingwen saw that Li Kuan solemnly arranged for people to go to Liangzhou to collect seeds, and her curiosity became even stronger.

"That's right, Chang'an City didn't have it before, and I gave it this name. Hehe, let me sell it, the use of this cotton, and after a while, I will let you see it. ”

The greenhouse of the Chu Wangfu has not been expanded in recent years, and Li Kuan feels that it is time to expand again.

In order to get more seeds as soon as possible, it is necessary to speed up the growth cycle of cotton.

If you don't use a greenhouse, you can only grow one crop a year.

Unless Li Kuan can get a large number of seeds, it will take at least seven or eight years for large-scale promotion.

10,000 years is too long.

Li Kuan hopes that in three or four years, cotton will be planted on a large scale in Chang'an City.

Then it will take two or three years to promote it in Guanzhong Province, Hebei Province and Henan Province.

Six or seven years later, let cotton fabrics enter the homes of ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty.

It's not that easy to accomplish this task.

The cost of building a small greenhouse is not worth thinking too much about.

"Lord Wang, as soon as you say that, I am even more curious."

Cheng Jingwen saw that Li Kuan was actually selling Guanzi, stomped her feet, and said coquettishly.

Don't look at her as a mother, in fact, she is just a girl under the age of twenty.

In the next generation, she is still a student girl.

"Yes, Lord Wang, what is the use of this cotton, I only heard that there are cotton flowers in Jiangnan Province and Lingnan Road, and I heard that it can be used to fill the bedding. Could it be that this cotton, like cotton flowers, can be used to fill bedding? ”

Qing'er also raised questions on the side.

"I guessed a little bit right, this cotton, naturally, can also be used to fill the bedding. But its greater use is to make cloth. ”

For Cheng Jingwen and Qing'er, there is nothing to hide.

"Making cloth?" Cheng Jingwen looked confused, "Husband, I heard that cotton can't be used to make cloth?" ”

"Yes, cotton can't, but cotton can, and that's where its greatest value lies. To put it mildly, once cotton is planted on a large scale, linen can be withdrawn from the stage of history. ”

Li Kuan's assertion, even if Cheng Jingwen and Qing'er trust him very much, it is difficult to accept for a while.

However, as long as you know that your own prince planting cotton is not a plaything, it is enough.

"Let's go, let's go look elsewhere, maybe there will be new discoveries."

Li Kuan was suddenly full of interest in his own Baicao Garden, he had not been here for half a month, and he had such a big surprise.

It's like cotton, if it weren't for the scene of seeing it blooming, Li Kuan wouldn't have recognized it, and he hadn't planted cotton in his previous life.

Everything else is similar, you may know what a certain flower or plant looks like at a certain stage, but at another stage, you may not recognize it.

For example, in the Hereafter, there are countless people who have eaten rice and wheat, but those who do not know their seedlings will grab a handful.

There are not so many miracles in the world, Li Wan took the small corn around the Baicao Garden, and there was nothing special to find except cotton. "Lord Wang, didn't Fang Erlang say it when he left Beijing, there are many strange flowers and plants, and there are the most in the South Seas, and when the fleet comes back, maybe there will be a lot of surprises."

Cheng Jingwen saw that Li Kuan was a little disappointed, so she comforted her.

On last year's trip to Nanyang, Wei Chihuan and the others focused on spices, and did not pay much attention to other things.

When they set off this spring, Li Kuan specially told them to pay attention to all kinds of rare crops in Nanyang.

This time in the South Seas, the main task of the fleet was to build and improve the supply point, collect some special vegetable and grain seeds, and finally go to the spice island to load spices and come back.

Due to the clear purpose and clear route, you should wait until the beginning of winter to return to Chang'an City.

"Forget it, with this cotton, the surprise is enough." Li Kuan sighed, thinking that it was better to get the cotton matter done properly first, "Jun buy, you can send someone to Liangzhou and tell Ma Zhou that he can understand the source of cotton." If you know the news, let the Northwest Trade send a caravan to set off to the Western Regions to get more seeds back. ”

Li Kuan thought about it and felt that there might not be a large number of cotton seeds in Liangzhou, and he might go to the Western Regions to harvest more.

It just so happened that the people of the Intelligence Investigation Bureau of the Chu Wangfu were also allowed to infiltrate the Western Turks in case of emergency.

……

With a burst of autumn rain, the heat in Chang'an City has decreased.

This summer, many people in Chang'an City have left many different memories, and the spread of ice-making technology has quietly changed many industries.

Diandude is one of the beneficiaries.

"Grandpa Wu, how about it, I didn't lie to you, this salt-baked Dengzhou prawn in Dude is a must in Chang'an City, right?"

Chao Fang and the eunuch Wu Qi sat together again, tasting the food.

The common language between foodies and foodies is incomprehensible to ordinary people.

Like Chao Fang, a medical family, and Wu Qi is a eunuch who doesn't even know who his parents are, it stands to reason that they don't have a common language.

In the area of food, the two can talk very well.

"Yes, it's really good. It's the first time I've eaten shrimp when I've grown this big. After eating some salt-baked Dengzhou prawns from Dude, I felt that I would never be able to eat other dishes in the future. Wu Qi smashed some mouths and was very satisfied, "It's just that the price is a little more expensive, and the smallest shrimp costs thirty-eight yuan, and after this plate, the money is gone." ”

Since the use of saltpeter ice making has realized the possibility of producing ice anytime and anywhere, in addition to making various cold drinks such as ice cream and cooling down, Li Kuan's first thought is to transport seafood from Dengzhou back to eat.

Fresh oysters, prawns, large yellow croaker, as well as tuna, moray eel, and squid, Li Kuan couldn't help but salivate when he remembered his days in Dengzhou Mansion.

Chang'an looked back at the pile of embroidery, and the top of the mountain opened a thousand doors. As soon as the concubine laughed on the red dust, no one knew that it was a lychee.

Lychee is a fruit that is not easy to preserve, and in the absence of ice cubes, Tang Xuanzong can get lychees from Lingnan and return to Chang'an for Yang Guifei to taste.

Now it shouldn't be difficult to get some seafood from Dengzhou back.

There is seafood to eat in this Chu Wangfu, and Li Xueyan naturally knew it as soon as possible.

After inquiring again, it could still be transported like this, and she immediately let the shopkeeper of Diandude do the same.

In addition to the cabbage banquet, Diandude once again launched a seafood banquet, which can be regarded as completely establishing its position in the restaurant in Chang'an City.

Even if the Wuheju on the opposite side immediately followed up, it felt like something was missing.

The most important thing is that the chefs of Diandude are always able to learn about the new dishes of the Chu Wangfu as soon as possible, which leaves a very deep impression on some foodies.

"This pan-fried yellow croaker is also very good, the meat is delicate, and it is not comparable to salted fish at all."

Chao Fang was very satisfied, and put a piece of yellow croaker meat in his mouth.

"I heard that when His Royal Highness the King of Chu went to Dengzhou for disaster relief, he personally took the fleet out to sea to fish, and what he caught was the big yellow croaker, which solved the food crisis in Dengzhou Mansion. I thought that the big yellow croaker that the people of Dengzhou could afford to eat, and the taste must not be much better, but I didn't expect it to be so delicious, which is really unexpected. ”

Wu Qi couldn't help but be a little envious of the people of Dengzhou.

Such a delicious thing, they can actually be used as a cook.

How extravagant is that?

"Well, speaking of which, we were able to eat this seafood feast, and we are also thanks to His Royal Highness King Chu. If he hadn't discovered that saltpeter could be used to make ice, where would it be possible for the seafood from Dengzhou Mansion to be sent to Chang'an City. ”

Chaofang has fantasized many times about eating seafood by himself.

But he never imagined it would be like today.

Especially the large plate of sashimi with ice cubes in the middle of the table, which he had never thought of eating before.

Before that, he was already very satisfied when he was able to buy salted fish made from large yellow croaker in the seafood house.

"It's true, Dengzhou's seafood, this is really unimaginable before."

"Gonggong Wu, I've heard that in a few days, Diandude will launch another beef banquet, I'm really looking forward to it."

Whether it was the Sui and Tang dynasties or the Song and Ming dynasties, ploughing cattle belonged to the control materials for the Central Plains Dynasty.

Many people may see a scene on TV or on it:

"Little Er, a pound of beef and a pot of fine wine."

Actually, this is a misleading, in ancient times, it was not so easy to eat beef, and even eating beef would be illegal, even if the cow was raised from childhood to adulthood.

It can be said that the status of the cattle in ancient times was no worse than that of the cattle in the three kingdoms of Afghanistan in later generations.

As an important farming material, unless your cattle are too old to walk, or accidentally injured, then you can only kill them with the approval of the government.

Therefore, eating beef is definitely a thing that ordinary people may not have a chance to do in their lifetime.

Even characters like Chao Fang and Wu Qi have not eaten beef many times.

That is, after the pigtail dynasty, the government didn't care much about the cattle killing.

"Whole Cow Feast?"

Hearing Chao Fang say this, Wu Qi felt that his saliva was about to flow out again.

"Yes, from Liangzhou. Isn't the cement road open now, and there are a large number of tribes around Liangzhou, raising a lot of cattle and sheep. ”

As an old customer of Diandude, Chao Fang knows a lot of things.

"Transporting beef from Liangzhou to Chang'an? That's a great idea. ”

"yes. I heard that this is also the leader of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, and now many nobles in Chang'an City have arranged caravans to Liangzhou and Dengzhou, for these delicacies. ”

In later generations, the rich people had a party, the oysters had to be flown in from Australia, the steak had to have been killed a few hours earlier, and the caviar was sturgeon roe from the Black Sea......

The nobles of Chang'an City, driven by Li Kuan, have also embarked on a different road of pursuing food.

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