-- Liao State went to Beijing

Among the five capitals of Liao, only Shangjing is the real capital, the rest are accompanied by the capital, Shangjing is also one of the most prosperous cities in Liao, and even as long as the goods appear in Kaifeng, less than a month, here will also appear, the children of the nobles can be seen everywhere to lead the yellow, the right Qingcang, swaggering through the city, caravans come and go, showing the vitality of the city.

It's just that unlike usual, whether it is the children of the nobles, the caravans, or the common people, there is sorrow written on their faces.

Then a group of sergeants approached, and all of them looked at them as if expecting something, but these sergeants all kept their heads down, not daring to make any response.

"Hey, it looks like there's still no news of victory." Seeing the sergeant walking over, several people began to chat.

"Haven't you heard, the Jurchens are not satisfied with ten thousand, they are invincible, and now that the Jurchen climate has been established, it is not so easy to defeat."

"It's just that my Liao Kingdom has been peaceful for a hundred years, and I don't know when it will be chaotic."

"If you want me to say, if you have the ability, you should hurry up and go to the west or south to buy some industries, in case it arrives... At that time, there was a way to live. ”

A couple of men and women sat in the corner of a restaurant, listening to these gossips, and whispering from time to time.

"This Liao country is really panicking now, it seems that Xiao Langjun is right, the Khitan has been peaceful for too long, and it is rotten in his bones, and he is not the opponent of the Jurchens who have just come out of the mountains." A woman whispered with a tea bowl.

"Lian'er, be careful!" Shi Qian shrewdly then drank tea and looked around, and then said, "The war between the Khitan and the Jurchens is something that Xiao Langjun is extremely concerned about, and I have many brothers in the country, but there are not many helpers here, so be careful this time." ”

Lian'er touched the package on the side and said, "Is this thing really that important?" Isn't it just a piece of cloth? ”

Shi Qian's eyes were a little trance-like, and he said, "Xiao Langjun said that this thing can eat people... It must not be untargeted, we have found out the place in the past few days, and I am going to meet the man tonight. ”

Lian'er nodded and said, "Then I'll answer outside, and if it's wrong, retreat immediately." ”

Shi Qian smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm not going to the palace this time, I'm just a new science and technology scholar, and it won't be a big deal." ”

- Late at night

The lively Shangjing City slowly quieted down, and two black shadows bent over and then came to a courtyard outside the night.

Shi Qian gestured to Lian'er, Lian'er nodded, took out a piece of cloth and stood on the edge of a tree, the color of the cloth was the same as the bark, unless you deliberately took a torch to check, others passing by would only see it wrong.

Shi Qian looked at the wall, first threw something in, and after a while, he climbed over the wall and went in, and when he arrived in the courtyard, he saw a dog lying on the ground, Shi Qian smiled and continued to touch it.

In a room in the courtyard, a young man who was standing in his old age was reading a book, but this person's face seemed to have something written on it, and his heart was not entirely on the book.

This young man is the new Kejin Shi Yelu Dashi.

Yelu Dashi is a native of Shangjing, the eighth grandson of Yelu Abaoji, the eighth grandson of Liao Taizu, the royal blood of Zheng'er Bajing, studious since childhood, good at riding and shooting. He is also fluent in Chinese and Khitan languages, and is a rare cultural person among the Khitan people, and the year before last, at the age of 29, he became the only Khitan jinshi in Khitan history, so he was greatly praised by Yelu Yanxi and became a popular person. He was first appointed to the position of Hanlin Yingfeng, and soon after was promoted to the position of Hanlin Chengzhi to draft an edict for Yelu Yanxi. Because the Khitan text called Hanlin "Lin Ya". Therefore, the court called this talented young nobleman Dashi Linya.

Although the official fortune was prosperous all the way and his reputation was prominent, but the disadvantages of the war in the Liao State made this young man's face full of sadness, and he had been studying the art of war in the past few years, and from time to time he consulted with the officers and men in the army, as if he had the attitude of going to war and killing the enemy at any time.

His behavior also reached Yelu Yanxi's ears, which made Yelu Yanxi appreciate him even more, in the current situation of the Liao army's successive defeats, Yelu Yanxi needs a model who dares to fight, just two days ago, Yelu Yanxi canonized Yelu Dashi as the Taizhou Thorn History, if the time moves in two days, Yelu Dashi may not be in Shangjing anymore, he is not leaving at this time is waiting for the sergeant who will set off with him at that time.

Taizhou belongs to Shangjing Road, adjacent to Changchun Prefecture occupied by the Jurchens, it is the front line, because of the threat of the Jurchens, the original local assassin Shi directly fled, and the people in the city were panicked at this time.

Because it was the front line, Yelu Yanxi gave him 3,000 soldiers and horses, and everyone knew that these 3,000 men and horses could only strengthen their courage in front of the Jin soldiers, and they would not play a big role at all.

"We have to train again!" Yelu Dashi knocked on the table and muttered to himself, he thought about it, and felt that the only way out was to retrain his own army, and train an army that could fight as well as his ancestors hundreds of years ago.

"Your Excellency is so ambitious."

At this time, there was a burst of laughter outside the window, and Yelu Dashi exclaimed, "Who is peeping outside?" ”

Shi Qian pushed the door in, and said to Yelu Dashi, "Lin Ya, don't worry, I am the one who helps you." ”

Yelu Dashi looked at Shi Qian, who was dressed in night clothes, and was trembling with fear at first, but when he heard Shi Qian say that he was here to help him, he slowly walked towards the table where he put his saber, and asked, "Who are you?" Who asked you to help me? ”

"I said... If you get closer to that knife, we'll probably have a hard time talking. Shi Qian raised his chin to show that he had noticed the leader of Yelu Dashi's team, and Yelu Dashi stopped, he didn't want to take any chances.

Shi Qian walked into the room, closed the door with his hand, and said, "Lin Ya, since you want to train the army, have you ever thought about what is most lacking now?" ”

Yelu Dashi thought for a while and said, "If you want to talk about sergeants, you have to train them, and if you want to talk about generals, I can promote them by myself, and the most lacking thing should be money and food." ”

Shi Qian clapped his hands and said, "That's right, I'm here to send you money and food, you see, can we sit down and talk." ”

Seeing that Shi Qian really didn't seem to have any bad intentions, Yelu Dashi nodded and came to the tea table, motioning for Shi Qian to sit down.

Shi Qian was not polite, and after sitting down, he no longer spoke, but looked at Yelu Dashi with a smile.

Yelu Dashi was a little furious when Shi Qian looked at him, and said, "You haven't told who sent you here, what kind of money and food did you send?" Why do you look at me like this, is there anything unclean on my face? ”

Shi Qian shook his head and said, "It's not, I mainly want to know, what is so special about you, let my little Langjun send me all the way to send you money and food." ”

"A long way?" Yelu Dashi's eyes rolled, and he said in disbelief, "Could it be that you and your master are both Song people?" ”

Shi Qian smiled and said, "Now I understand why Xiao Langjun values you so much, Lin Ya, now you don't need to know who we are, let me ask you first, you said that you want to train soldiers, do you know how much food it costs to train a good fighting army?" ”

Yelu Dashi calculated in his heart and said, "I'm going to train 3,000 soldiers first, and I need about 50,000 yuan a year for food and armor." ”

Shi Qian nodded and asked, "This is already cheap, so big Shi Linya, do you have so much money?" ”

Yelu Dashi waved his sleeves with a wry smile and said, "Although I am a descendant of the royal family, there are not one thousand but eight hundred people like me, and there are only thousands of people like me. ”

"Then what is Da Shi Linya going to rely on to train his troops? You must know that whether it is to dismiss unqualified sergeants, recruit qualified warriors, and build ordnance, it takes money. Shi Qian asked again.

Yelu Dashi sighed, "Do you have any solution? ”

Shi Qian took out a package from his arms, handed it to Dashi Linya, and said, "Please Lin Ya take a look at this thing first." ”

Yelu Dashi carefully opened the package, and inside was a box, the only thing in the box was a square piece of cloth, a shaft of cotton thread, and a pinch of white hair.

Yelu Dashi took the cloth and looked at it carefully, touched it again, then sniffed it again, and finally licked it, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, and then picked up the white hair and looked at it carefully for a while, and finally said with some uncertainty, "Is this made of wool?" ”

Shi Qian praised: "Dashi Linya is really thoughtful, most people can't imagine that it is wool when they see this thing for the first time." ”

Yelu Dashi touched the piece of cloth and said with admiration, "I thought that wool could only be made into felt, but I didn't expect it to become so soft, it's really ingenious." ”

Wool is an important textile raw material in the world, in China, as early as the Neolithic Age, China's Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Gansu and other regions of the handmade wool textile production has sprouted. However, the wool of China is more made into felt, such as the felt hat of the Song army is pressed from wool.

The general reason is that the problem of how to remove sheep fat from wool has not been solved.

You know, the wool that is sheared from the sheep is called raw wool. In addition to wool fibers, raw wool also contains a large number of impurities, the composition of impurities can be divided into two categories: natural impurities and additional impurities, natural impurities are mainly sheep secretions, sheep fat, sheep sweat and sheep excretion itself. The main foreign impurities are grass clippings, apple seeds and sand.

Everything else can be removed by washing, except for mutton fat, which is the secretion of the lanolin glands, which adheres to the surface of the wool and plays a role in protecting the wool. Lanton fat is insoluble in water and can only be washed off by emulsifiers or organic solvents. If you don't remove the mutton fat, not only will the wool become very hard, but also the smell is strong, but although there is some peculiar smell, the bottom working people are still willing to wear this kind of heavy hat to protect from the wind and rain, and such tents made of felt are also more popular, at this time most of the tents on the grassland are made of this material.

Of course, there are low-grade wool, there are high-grade wool, that is, sheep wool, because it is just grown hair, fine and short, not only the light feel good, and there is no sheep fat, but also because of the high price, a sheep wool woven blanket will cost twenty times.

It can be said that before the advent of wool degreasing technology, the use value of wool was extremely low, and ordinary wool was even a garbage thing.

But this is very different in Jiang De's hands.

Wool degreasing technology was invented in Europe in later generations, and soon began the sheep cannibalism movement, Jiang De knew that it was powerful, and he knew that the key was the alkali solution used for degreasing.

Although Jiang De didn't know how to equip this alkali solution, he couldn't stand the targeted research of a group of Taoist priests with a certain chemical foundation such as Gongsun Sheng.

In fact, to put it bluntly, this alkali solution is the alkaline water reacted with miscanthus nitrate and hydrated lime, of course, according to the different wool, there can also be different and better formulas, but now this is enough.

Yelu Dashi touched the snow-white wool with his hand, pondered in his heart for a while, and said, "This thing is priceless, and I am becoming more and more interested in you." What do you want to do? ”

Shi Qian said, "There are many sheep in Liaodi, such as small-tailed sheep, which can produce five to seven catties of wool a year, and if it is a felt sheep, it can have ten to twelve catties of wool.

One is to exchange wool for money, if it is delivered directly at the place of origin, it is fifteen yuan a catty, if it is sent to the Nanjing border for delivery, it is forty yuan a catty, of course, this is the price of the middle grade, if it is the top grade, it is higher, if it is the lower grade, it is lower. ”

Yelu Dashi immediately gasped, this wool is basically something that no one wants in Liao, if you really want to buy, a catty of seven or eight dollars will be grateful to the herdsmen, don't think that the world is as rich as the Song State, the Song State is mainly agriculture, and the agricultural income has greater stability, and the Liao State except for Yanyun is mainly based on animal husbandry, a heavy snowstorm came, and half of the family wealth disappeared immediately, therefore, in the Liao State, whether it is metal currency or other non-livestock materials are very precious.

More importantly, if the wool is really valuable, then the sheep will become the same as the farmland has a stable output of production resources every year, a sheep in the Song State can be sold for twenty times, but in the Liao State is only worth seven or eight times, a sheep a year wool ten catties, if all according to forty dollars a pound, a sheep wool has an output of four hundred dollars, which herdsman will not have more than ten or twenty sheep? The wealth here is enough to drive anyone crazy.

And Yelu Dashi can also earn a lot of wealth from it, after all, as long as you are willing to spend money, collect tens of millions of catties of wool a year and play, ten catties of a sheep, so it is only a million sheep, is it a lot? One or two million sheep from the top and bottom of the Liao country have been looted!

Moreover, Yelu Dashi can still imagine that after this wool is sent away, it will not be long before it will turn into wool cloth and come back, and then it will be another income, and the wealth will flow like water.

Wealth is indeed like flowing water, but more is flowing into Jiang De's pocket, at this time in the Song realm linen is not consistent, but if it is silk, a horse for two, Jiang De calculates that if it is wool cloth, because of its warmth and novelty, it is not a problem to sell seven or eight times in the first two years, even in the later period, it can also be sold at the price of three or four times

A piece of wool cloth is about fifteen or sixteen catties, and about twenty catties of wool, taking into account various expenses and costs, Jiang De can also earn one or two pieces of cloth. If Yelu Dashi can provide 10 million catties of wool, Jiang De can earn 10 million or 20 million!

Sheep eat people, the source is profit! Sea of general interest!

The more Yelu Dashi wanted to breathe, the heavier he became, he stared at Shi Qian and asked, "Nanjing border?" Where exactly? ”

Shi Qian replied, "If you can collect enough wool from Dashi Linya, you will naturally know at that time, in order to show our sincerity, within two days, we will send gold and jade jewelry worth 50,000 yuan, but I don't know if Dashi Linya is willing." ”

Yelu Dashi calmed himself down for a moment, and then asked, "What are you going to do with the wool cloth?" Also, are you looking for me alone? ”

Shi Qian nodded and said, "Of course, Da Shi Linya is the first person we are looking for, and we also hope to be the last person, as for Da Shi Linya, how many people you are going to find to join this matter, it is Lin Ya's own business."

Some of the cloth woven from wool will return to Liao, and more of it will be digested by ourselves. ”

Yelu Dashi calculated for a while, a pound of wool sent to the border of Nanjing is 40 yuan, and he said to the outside world that 15 yuan is enough to make everyone crazy, if he can collect 10 million jin a year, it is 250,000 yuan, which is a full 250,000 yuan. If you can collect all the wool in the whole Liao country, it is not difficult to earn one or two million guan a year.

More importantly, Yelu Dashi knew very well that in this way, he could invisibly attract a large number of tribes to his side, and these people would become his staunchest allies.