Under Wu Zhou, the scenery is still the same.

Now, it is the middle of March, and the spring is bright and the pastures are flourishing.

The grassland under the plug is full of cattle and sheep.

It's just that the life of the herdsmen living under this plug is a little different.

Although at present, except for the Dugu clan, other clans generally exist in the form of clans and have not been separated.

However, the rumors have already spread.

Within this year, all the clans under the Yanmen County in Wuzhousai must be organized into households, changed clans into households, and become independent.

It's a death order!

Any clan that disobeyed would be expelled from the Great Wall and sent to live in the Makunan.

In the beginning, many herders were at a loss and didn't even know where to go.

But now, nowhere else.

The herdsmen under Wu Zhousai, everyone is looking forward to separating their families as soon as possible and living independently.

Even, even the upper echelons of many clans feel the same way.

Hao Lian Tuhu is one of them.

As usual, Hao Lian Tuhu drove the cattle and sheep back to the clan's wall.

His wife immediately greeted him and asked, "Has the lord of the clan returned?" ”

"No ......" Hao Liantu Hu shook his head: "My brother is in the city of Shanwu, serving the angels day and night, I'm afraid he may not be able to come back for a while......"

When his wife heard this, she was disappointed and said, "Ah, why didn't this adult come back earlier?" ”

"The Lu family divided their families yesterday, and each family got more than 20 sheep and several horses!"

"The few families at the top of the clan have even divided dozens of cattle and sheep into each family!"

"The merchant from Chang'an immediately went to the Lu clan and made a contract with them, a pound of washed and combed wool can be sold for fifty yuan! Cashmere is more expensive, and it can be sold for a hundred dollars per catty! ”

"The people of the Lu family, I heard that someone has already gotten the money!"

Hao Liantu Hu listened to his wife's chatter, and also lowered his head, and couldn't help but scratch his scalp depressedly, and after a long time, he said: "My brother is more important to serve the angels in Shanwu City after all...... Let's talk about the separation of the family when my brother comes back......"

When the wife heard the word 'angel', she immediately stopped chattering.

Now, in this Cypriot clan, the angel is already a figure linked to the gods.

And not just because of the legends.

And because of the miracles I saw with my own eyes.

In the case of the Dugu clan, in the past half a month, the clan has actually given birth to more than 30 newborns.

It's nothing short of a miracle!

Last year, at this time in the clan, only eighteen children were successfully born.

Of these eighteen children, several were born with disabilities and had to drown in pain.

As for pregnant women......

Last March, more than a dozen pregnant women in the clan died of difficult births, haemorrhages and other ailments caused by waiting to give birth.

But this year, only five pregnant women from the Hao Lian clan died in childbirth.

Everyone else gave birth without a hitch and gave birth to a child that was healthy and strong without any problems.

This is not the only case for the Hao Lian clan.

The Dugu clan, the Lu clan, and the Xianyu clan all seem to be like this.

This year, the survival rate and health of pregnant women and babies are far higher than last year.

Like the Hao Lian clan, they miraculously saved most of the pregnant women and newborns.

This is undoubtedly a miracle!

For the clans, especially the women, this is more devotion to them than any religious propaganda or belief.

Nowadays, many women even make a clay figure in the vault, worship and pray in the morning and evening, praying to the great angel to bless their safety.

This phenomenon is particularly pronounced among women of childbearing age.

Hao Lian Tuhu's wife is no exception.

She had just prayed before the clay statue she had sculpted, so the fear of angels was naturally very serious.

"Have you sheared all the wool today?" Hao Lian Tuhu remembered what was going on and asked.

"Cut!" When his wife heard this, she was a little listless, and said depressedly: "More than 300 sheep, shearing about 50 catties of wool down......"

"I took my three sons and them, lit a fire by the river, washed them with the alum and alkaline soil I bought, and dried and combed them, and then sold them......"

Hearing this, Hao Lian Tuhu's heart hurt as much as a knife.

Fifty catties of coarse wool, after pulping and washing, combing and drying, you can get at least twenty or thirty catties of wool, and sell it to the Han people, which is thousands of dollars.

It's enough to go to the Han people, buy several beautiful cloths, and even buy some salt and tea.

What's more, you can buy the magic medicine brought by the angels.

The kind of precious artifact that can keep the mother and child safe and reduce the premature death of the mother and child has now become the most precious treasure under this plug.

At the beginning, even if the magic medicine given by the angels was eaten, the remaining clay pots would be boiled with water repeatedly.

There are even Cypriot tribes, who have heard the news and bought these discarded crockpots at a high price.

However, no one wants to sell.

Many clans have used these discarded clay pots as sacred objects and enshrined them in front of the clan's totemic idols.

Thinking of this, Hao Lian Tuhu said to his wife: "I heard that there are merchants from Chang'an, among the clans, who teach people the art of hammer spinning, if you have time, go and learn it......

"Buying wool is not a long-term solution after all! Learn to spin and weave, and there is hope for my family! ”

When his wife heard this, she glanced at him and said, "You understand, I don't understand?" Let me tell you, I have already gone to learn yesterday, and today I am ready to learn at home, the hammer spinning technique taught by the Han people! ”

As he spoke, he opened the tent door of the vault and walked in with Hao Liantu Hu.

As soon as he entered the vault, Hao Lian Tuhu found that there were already several women in the vault.

It's all his daughter-in-law.

The women, each holding a special flat wooden comb with a surface made of numerous sharp wooden nails, sat on the floor, combing the wool that had just been dried.

The dome was filled with the faint smell of wool.

Hao Liantu Hu knew that this was a combing technique taught by the Han people.

Very simple, it is to use this special wooden comb that is exchanged for wool from the Han people, and comb the wool that has been washed and removed from impurities into fluffy and soft wool braids.

This kind of wool will be bought by the Han people at a price of fifty yuan a catty.

It's nothing, though!

Hao Liantu Hu knew that the women of the Dugu clan who had separated from their families were now being instructed by Han craftsmen how to spin the wool into fine yarn, and then use something called a loom to weave beautiful, soft, snow-white and charming woolen cloth.

And such a woollen cloth, with twenty taels of wool, can be sold for three hundred dollars.

The value of wool has increased several times!

Moreover, Hao Lian Tuhu had seen the kind of woolen cloth woven by the Dugu clan.

Soft, warm, beautiful, no odor, even if you don't sell it, it's great to keep it for your own use!

The wife went straight around the daughters-in-law who were combing their hair, walked straight to a corner in the dome, picked up something that Hao Lian Tuhu had never seen, waved her hand at him, and said, "What do you think this is?" ”

Hao Liantu looked at the object in surprise, frowned slightly, and asked, "What is this?" ”

He stepped forward and found it to be a very simple artifact.

It is made of wood with long and thick ends, and a fixed wheel-like structure in the middle.

"It's called mallet spinning!" The wife said triumphantly: "I begged the wife of the Dugu family to sell it to my baby!" ”

"With it, I can spin this wool into fine yarn......"

As he spoke, his wife started to operate in front of Hao Liantu Hu, unfamiliar and clumsy.

I saw that she first wound the combed wool little by little to the wooden stick in the middle of the object, and then turned the so-called 'mallet spinning' upside down and began to spin.

Although it looks slow, the fluffy wool is really slowly carried by it, and gradually turns into a fine yarn.

"That's amazing!" Hao even Tu Hu's eyes widened.

Although the spinning was slow, it was a success after all.

Moreover, Hao Lian Tuhu knew that the women of the Dugu clan could spin several catties of wool like this every day.

These spinning yarns are then woven over a period of several days on a device called a 'loom' to form woollen cloth.

Even, a woman with a clever mind can use bone needles and wooden needles to directly beat these fine yarns into shawls, sweaters and even trousers.

"What's so great about this?" His wife glared at him and said, "I heard from the craftsman of the lady from the Han Dynasty that they have a very powerful spinning machine, which can spin more than ten catties of yarn a day!" ”

"When the family is separated, I will take the wool and come back with them for another one...... As long as twenty pounds of wool, you can get ...... In this way, my daughter-in-law and I may be able to weave dozens of woolen cloths this year......"

At this point, his wife's chattering instinct began to flare up again.

"Half of these cloths have been sold, so that they can be exchanged for salt, tea, and ironware needed at home, and the rest I plan to exchange them for some angelic elixirs, so that they can give birth to a few white and fat boys for our family next year!"

"For the rest, I'm going to use it to build a big house, like the Senehan!"

"Sturdy! Sturdy! It can shelter from the wind and rain, unlike this dome, when it rains and blows, the wind and water leak everywhere......"

"Maybe you can even ask Han craftsmen to build some animal pens for me and dig a few cellars!"

Speaking of this, the woman hung her head again: "What's the point of saying this without separating the family?" ”

"The wool that has been washed, dried, and combed for hard work has been taken to the clan......"

"If you sell it, you won't get much of it!"

"I've worked hard, what is this for!"

Hao Lian Tuhu listened, and also sighed with emotion: "Yes, what is it all for so busy!" ”

He was the minor leader of the clan, and he was also against the separation.

But these days, looking at the life of the Dugu clan, it is thriving.

Especially those high-level people in the old days, after the separation, they still eat and drink spicy food, and their living standards have not declined, but have risen a lot.

They used their power to share a lot of livestock than others, and then they took advantage of the convenience of knowing Chinese and being able to communicate with Han people, and learned technology first.

Then, with the help of Han merchants, they organized things called workshops, hired women in the clan, spun and weaved cloth for them, and made a lot of money one by one.

So, one by one, they put on silk clothes and crowned hats.

There are even people who plan to save money, and when their household registration is really for Han nationality, they will send a son to study in Neijun, so as to become a big man like an angel!

Now, under this stopper, there is no one who misses and cherishes the clan.

From top to bottom, everyone wants to split up.

Everyone wants to live a good life like the Dugu clan, where men graze and women weave!

Those small clans took action one after another.

Some of them didn't even wait for the chiefs to return, and then split up their families.

That is, to the Hao Lian clan, the family is big, the leader does not come back, and the family is unsustainable, so he can wait like this.

Even so, the murmur within the clan grew louder.

Hao Lian Tu Hu knew that if the clan lord Hao Lian Po Nu would never come back.

I'm afraid that the pressure within the clan will cause the clan to split automatically.

Everyone will act on their own, divide the property, and then live their own lives.

Thinking of this, Hao Lian Tuhu suddenly remembered another thing, and asked his wife, "Where did Wu Niang and Qi Niang go?" Why didn't you brush your hair here? ”

As a high-level clan, Hao Lian Tuhu is also very sinicized.

The title of children is also the same as that of the Han people, and they are referred to as Lang and Niang.

"They......" Thinking of the two daughters, the wife Nunu said to the outside of the vault, "Dress up outside!" These two little ladies now want to marry the heroes of the Han Dynasty like the daughters of the clan adults! ”

Since ten days ago, the first batch of clan women married those Han Dynasty officers and even nobles, and the whole clan has gone crazy.

Now even herdsmen want to marry their daughters to a Han Dynasty officer.

Because......

Someone's daughter, after being married by a Han Dynasty nobleman, was so favored that she sent someone to the clan, took her whole family to Shanwucheng, bought them a big house, and purchased many utensils, and from then on she would be a rich man of the Han Dynasty.

I heard that he may be taken to Chang'an in the future!

This matter, the whole clan that stimulated it, was crazy.

Hao Lian Tuhu is no exception.

There is an officer of the Han Dynasty, even if he is a small soldier as a son-in-law, it is better than marrying his daughter to these men!

At least, there will still be a family to rely on in the future, and not everyone can be bullied casually.

Besides, those soldiers of the Han Dynasty still followed the great angels.

As a soldier under such a big man, are you afraid that you won't be able to get promoted and make a fortune?

Thinking of this, Hao Lian Tuhu bowed his head and said to his wives and daughters-in-law: "Wu Niang and Qi Niang, they will have to dress up well in the future to make them more handsome......

"Don't ask them to do things at home, and let them stop going out and go crazy......"

"I heard that when the angels come to plug it again, it is estimated that a group of women will be selected to be married to the heroes of the Han Dynasty!"

"And they are all the heroes of Captain Changshui!" Speaking of this, Hao Lian Tuhu couldn't help but emphasize the words 'the heroic hero of the captain of Changshui'.

If his own daughter can be fortunate enough to have an officer of Captain Changshui......

Even if the soldiers take a fancy to it, the whole family is honored!

That is the great hero in the hearts of Wuheng people, the symbol of a true warrior.

Not to mention the present, even in the past, it is the dream goal of all Wuheng people.

Now that there is an opportunity, Hao Liantu Hu will never miss it!

"Oh......" When the wives and daughters-in-law heard this, they both looked at each other, and then nodded.