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Li Mu is very busy, Wang Jian is very busy, and Zhao Dan is also very busy.

What is Zhao Dan busy doing?

On this day, Zhao Dan took Xiangbang Zhao Sheng, Si Kou Yuxin and other important ministers of Longtai to the imperial garden of Zhao Guo's palace city.

It is said to be an imperial garden, but in fact, only a small part of this large area of land is dedicated to growing flowers, and the rest of the land has its own purpose.

For example, there is a garden for hunting on horseback, a large area dedicated to growing cotton, several acres of fields, for example, several pits dedicated to manure, and a workshop about the size of a large family's house, surrounded by a fence on all sides.

A temple man ran out of the workshop, bowed to Zhao Dan and said, "Ji Piao, the head of the Mao Fang, has seen the king. ”

Zhao Dan nodded, then pointed to the small workshop in front of him with a smile, and said to the ministers in front of him: "Ladies and gentlemen, what the widow wants you to see today is here." ”

In fact, it should have been Mrs. Lamb instead of Ji Piao who appeared here, but it was obviously not appropriate to use Mrs. Lamb as a commentator.

Several ministers of Zhao couldn't help but glance at each other when they heard this, and they all saw curious looks on their faces.

What is this going on, Lord?

Under the leadership of Ji Piao, everyone walked towards the workshop.

When they approached the workshop, there was a sudden bleating sound, and several ministers looked up and found that not far away was a sheepfold with dozens or hundreds of sheep in it.

Zhao Sheng couldn't help but smile and said, "The king is really good Yaxing, he actually raised sheep here." ”

As Zhao Dan's uncle, in this informal setting, Zhao Sheng is still qualified to speak more casually.

Zhao Dan also smiled: "Pingyuanjun misunderstood, the widow raised these sheep not because they were idle and bored, and Pingyuanjun will know what these sheep are for later." ”

The crowd continued to walk inside, and then they saw dozens of women holding a strange-looking tool in the square in front of the sheepfold, and they were holding their hands on one sheep after another.

Obviously, there was a notice, and after seeing Zhao Dan and the others coming, the women hurriedly got up and saluted Zhao Dan: "Meet the king!" ”

Zhao Dan waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't be polite, the widow just brought a few Qing family to come over today to have a look, and you just wait and do what you are waiting for." ”

As the king, Zhao Dan's words were naturally orders, so the women did not dare to disobey and began to work one after another, but then the screams of the sheep came and went, obviously Zhao Dan's arrival put a lot of pressure on these women.

As Zhao Dan walked, he said to Zhao Sheng and the others who were a little puzzled: "These women are all former palace people, and many of their relatives have died, so they stayed in the palace, just to give them a little work to do." ”

Several ministers suddenly realized when they heard this.

To be honest, wars are still frequent in this era, although there are also rules for drawing one out of two or one out of three, but when it is really urgent, it is to see one and catch the other.

The country is going to be destroyed, and you still have to deal with the laws of.

Even Zhao Guo has arrested the whole people several times over the years, let alone other countries.

In this era, it is common for many people to have all the men in their families die, and it is not surprising that only the women are left, and it is not surprising that these palace people stay in the palace for a few years and go out to find that their fathers and brothers are dead.

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

However, Zhao Dan is not here to listen to the sycophants of these ministers of Zhao today.

"It's scissors." Zhao Dan picked up the tool in the hand of a woman, gestured to Zhao Sheng and the others, and then said to the woman who was a little frightened: "Come, tell Pingyuanjun and the others what you are doing now." ”

The woman glanced at Zhao Dan timidly, and then said in a low voice: "Back to the king, this is sheep shearing." ”

"Sheep shearing?" Yu Xin, who was born in a poor family, couldn't help but ask: "Why is this, isn't raising sheep to kill and eat meat?" ”

Zhao Dan laughed, 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 a little dazedly: "The minister knows that the king wants to shear the sheep, but what is the use of these wool shearing?" ”

Zhao Dan asked Ji Piao, the head of the wool mill on the side, "Is this a good season for sheep shearing?" ”

Ji Piao hurriedly replied: "Back to the king, it is spring now, and the sheep will grow extremely long in order to keep warm in winter, so the spring wool is more beautiful than the autumn wool." ”

Yu Xin looked at it, and suddenly realized: "Doesn't the king want to use wool to spin thread?" ”

Zhao Dan said with a smile: "Yu Qing really knows the widow, come and come, and continue to move forward with the widow." ”

In front of you is a courtyard, in which are placed dozens of large wooden barrels, and there are also some women standing there, filled with water, and in which a lot of wool is placed, and if you look closely, you will find that the water in the barrels is steaming in the slightest of this spring morning. woman

Some of the wool is constantly removed from the bucket and put away, then the water is poured out and replaced with new hot water, and then the new wool is put into the barrel and the process continues.

Li Bo opened his mouth and said, "My lord, is this to wash these wools? ”

Zhao Dan glanced at Ji Piao.

Ji Piao hurriedly replied: "Back to Li Qing, that's exactly the case." It is important to know that sheep are accompanied by grass all day long, and there are inevitably many weeds and other impurities in the wool that need to be cleaned, and the mutton fat in the wool also needs to be cleaned. ”

Li Boxin picked up a small strand of wool that had been washed, looked at it carefully, and said, "The mutton fat on this side doesn't seem to be completely cleaned." ”

As an internal history, Lieber is very sensitive to this kind of cutting corners.

Ji Piao said with a smile: "Li Qing misunderstood, these mutton fats can't all be washed off, otherwise they will become hard and can't be spun at all." ”

After watching the wool washing, the group continued into the courtyard of the third entrance.

There are also some women in this third courtyard, who are responsible for thinning the wool, that is, making the wool more loose, and holding it in the hands will have a fluffy feeling.

The tools they use to thin their hair are also very peculiar, which is a kind of utensil made of dozens of thick iron needles densely inserted into wooden boards, through which the wool that has been washed and dried naturally can be fluffy, a bit like cotton.

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

"Ladies and gentlemen." Zhao Dan took a long and thin woolen thread and smiled at the ministers in front of him: "Now that there is a thread, then how to make cloth and clothes doesn't need to be disguised, right?" The widow had already let people try it, and the wool and the cotton that the widow had just taken you to see in the Shaofu storehouse made the clothes that were enough to keep warm in winter, and even better than the fur clothes of the steppe people. ”

Pang Xuan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said: "If this is the case, then if this thing is equipped on a large scale in the cavalry troops, wouldn't it be able to attack Mobei and completely exterminate the Huns?" ”

And Xiangbang Zhao Sheng thought about something else: "King, what is the cost of this wool weaving?" ”

Zhao Dan smiled slightly, and said: "This problem has also been calculated, as long as the scale of wool textile comes up, then its cost and output will be far better than mulberry hemp!" Zhu Qing, think about it, is such a kind of clothing that is warmer than mulberry hemp and cheaper than mulberry hemp a good choice for the widowed people? ”

As soon as Zhao Dan's words came out, the eyes of several ministers also lit up, and they simply followed Zhao Dan out of the courtyard and discussed the matter in a vacant land.

Li Bodao: "The king, the minister has another question, you must know that there are not so many places in the Central Plains that can raise sheep on a large scale, does the king want to raise sheep on the Monan grassland?" ”

Zhao Dan laughed and said, "Li Qing, Li Qing, you are really smart." Not bad! The widow wants to make the Huns, Wusun, Yiqu and all the herdsmen on the grassland become the widow's sheep breeders! ”

As soon as Zhao Dan's words came out, all the ministers of Zhao State were immediately shocked.

After a full moment, Zhao Shengcai said: "King, this desert grassland is thousands of miles away from east to west, if such a large area of land is all raised with sheep, I'm afraid there must be hundreds or even tens of millions of sheep?" Will there really be so much wool to weave for the shepherds, and how many people will really buy it? ”

Zhao Dan said in his heart, of course! The widow doesn't even know this as a traverser? The widow even knows about the enclosure movement, and even more knows what the consequences of the enclosure movement will bring, but ...... And when the widow says, you will not believe it.

So Zhao Dan coughed and said with a smile: "Actually, if you want to know if something can be successful, you just need to try to do it, isn't it?" In this way, didn't the widow just set up a Shaofu this year? Just let Shaofu set aside a piece of land on the Xiongnu grassland in the north to do this, is it effective and wait until two or three years later, how about it? ”

Shaofu can be understood as the emperor's personal stewardship, and its duties are mainly divided into two aspects: first, it is responsible for collecting taxes on mountains and seas and ponds and collecting local contributions for the use of the court; Second, it is responsible for the supply and service of all the needs of the court, such as food, clothing, daily life, and safari play.

In fact, the position of eunuch order had already had the prototype of the Shaofu order before, and now it is just completely determined and given a real name.

As soon as they heard Zhao Dan say this, Zhao Sheng and the others naturally no longer objected.

When he left the palace gate, Pang Xuan couldn't help but ask Zhao Sheng when there was no one: "Pingyuanjun, do you tell me about the king's wool weaving?" ”

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

Pang Xuan was stunned for a moment and sighed: "I actually hope that this matter can come true." ”

Zhao Sheng shrugged his shoulders and said, "Anyway, even if you fail, it won't hurt, just let the king toss it." ”

Obviously, Zhao Sheng is not very optimistic about his king's wool weaving action, and for this Xiangbang, this feels more like a meaningless toss.

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