Chapter 68: The Little Women and the "Stepping Stone" (Part II)
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Li Tang launched an attack on Wang Shichong as scheduled according to his strategic plan, under the leadership of Li Er, they quickly divided their troops and strategized, and the army directly hit Luoyang City, Wang Shichong had no choice, so he had to send batch after batch of envoys to Qindao, begging Li Chengzong to send troops to rescue him as soon as possible, but Li Chengzong was actually eyeing Wang Shichong's Luoyang City, how could she send troops to rescue Li Er's soldiers when they were in their prime? So Li Chengzong always excused himself, but helplessly, the situation in Luoyang may be extremely dangerous, maybe Wang Shichong's face is extremely thick, and batches of envoys make Li Chengzong feel a little impatient, after dealing with the envoys sent by Wang Shichong, he looked up and looked west, "Li Er, although in the official history, your battle of Tiger Prison Pass is famous, and Dou Jiande was also captured by you in that battle....... but Dou Jiande is Dou Jiande, he doesn't have enough strategic and tactical vision...... I don't believe that 1,400 years of time will not erase the advantages of you, a son of the plane......"
Just when Li Chengzong sighed, Song Zhong, the head of the Han State's big spy and the commander of Jinyiwei, came to Li Chengzong and told him that the cotton spinning machinery had made a key technological breakthrough.
In the first year of Wude, Li Chengzong's caravan brought back a cotton seed called "Tianzhu cotton" from Yazhou (which was later known as Hainan Island), which was very slender and long, and its strength was particularly high, making it the best grade of textile fiber. Clothes woven with Tianzhu cotton have excellent touch and good breathability and sweat absorption, and because of the luster and high affinity of Tianzhu cotton to dyes, the color of the clothes is bright and bright, and it is by no means comparable to other cotton clothes. But the problem is that Li Chengzong and his Han Kingdom can't solve this problem of how to spin yarn quickly, you must know that the first industrial revolution in history was started in the cotton textile industry, if this problem is solved, then it is not a problem to launch an industrial revolution.
The famous white cloth in history is actually cotton cloth, but now their spinning and threading technology is pinched to death by the Gaochang people and the people of the Western Regions, not to mention the Han Kingdom, even the Tang Dynasty in the west can not get cotton textile technology......
Now, although Tianzhu cotton has solved the problem of cotton seeds, and the promotion of planting is not a big problem, this textile instrument has saddened the skilled craftsmen of the Han Kingdom and Li Chengzong, so when Song Zhong told him that the problem was solved, he was very happy.
"What, you said it was a young little woman who solved the problem?? Li Chengzong said in surprise, "Song Zhong, you tell me about this little woman in detail, I want to see how capable this little woman is......"
Song Zhong began to tell about this little lady, it turned out that this little woman who fled from the Tang Dynasty in China to Qindao solved Li Chengzong's big problem, her name is Huang Xiu'er, a native of Yuhang, China, she was born in a poor family in Hangzhou, where there is a paradise on earth, she was born at a time when the world changed greatly, even this Jiangnan can not escape natural disasters and military disasters, including Huang Xiu'er's family, the toiling masses in Jiangnan are not only exploited and oppressed by the landlord class, but also attacked by natural disasters for many years, so that the rich Jiangnan area has become "people like broken temples, Ten rooms and nine emptiness".
However, in the midst of the smoke and blood of the joint attack of soldiers and bandits, the people who inherited the glorious tradition of their ancestors' industriousness, bravery, and glory are still planting melons and grains, planting mulberry and cotton, cultivating for men and weaving for women, constantly creating social wealth and developing social production. Huang Xiuer sprouted, took root, and grew up in such a people's soil.
Due to the difficulties of the world, the poverty of her family, and the loss of all her relatives at a very young age, Huang Xiuer is lonely and helpless, and she has been closely linked with labor since she was a child. Chopping wood for cooking, washing, washing, taking needles and threads, mending and mending, everything is her own cooking. She is ingenious, eager to learn and inquisitive, willing to use her brain, and good at pondering. The work done by adults, she can draw inferences from each other when she sees it, and quickly get started.
In addition, all the women of this era are textile masters, she can quickly get started with any hemp spinning and silk, and under the flexible manipulation of her skillful hands, silk and linen are woven out of Huang Xiuer's hands.....
However, in those years, adult laborers were still not fed and clothed, not to mention Huang Xiu'er, a lonely young girl. Life forced her to become a child bride in a family with a land. Huang Xiuer grew up from five watches in the middle of the night, waiting for the whole family to eat, drink and wear, and in the four seasons, she worked hard and cut Tibet, and she returned with the cows and horses. Although she is very young, she has a lot of work experience. Rich experience makes her even smarter. She was exhausted by the work at home every day, but she still squeezed in time to continue to practice textile skills.
Early one morning in the second year of Wude of the Tang Dynasty, a Li Han merchant ship on the Qiantang River was about to anchor and go to sea, when suddenly an unkempt young woman came up from the bilge, knelt in front of the shipowner, and begged to take her to Qindao, the royal city of the Han Kingdom.
It turns out that in the past few years, many families have been extremely poor, so they have abandoned their families and businesses, wandered the world, and found another place to live. Huang Xiuer's in-laws are not bankrupt, but she cannot continue to survive, although she is more diligent than bees, more affected than cattle and horses, and she is inevitably beaten and scolded, taken away from bed and fasted. The day before she got on the boat, Huang Xiuer was at home, and as soon as the sky was bright, she went down to the ground, and the sun went down before she went home, so tired that she went in and fell asleep on the bed with her clothes.
The fierce in-laws don't ask for reasons and scold non-stop. Huang Xiu'er struggled to get up and say a few words, and was immediately dragged out of bed and beaten severely, but her husband not only did not dissuade her, but instead whipped her and helped her with a stick, and locked her in the firewood room after the beating, not letting her eat or sleep. Huang Xiuer was in extreme pain, and was no longer willing to endure the torture of this feudal prison, and was determined to break free from the feudal shackles of etiquette and religion and leave the dark family. She knew that there was no way for her to live in Jiangnan, so she decided to abandon her hometown and sail away to earn a way to live........
She lives by the Qiantang River, and her vision is much higher than that of ordinary rural women, especially when she knows from some Taoist aunts that there is a Han country on the side of the Qilu land in the north, as long as she is a Han woman, she can read and learn calligraphy, and even become an official, this is simply a paradise for Han women, she Huang Xiu'er wants to live, she really wants to go to that Han country to see, to see if it is as beautiful as those Taoist aunts said. In order to survive, to live a better life, and to get rid of her tragic fate, Huang Xiuer escaped from her in-law's house, ran to the Qiantang River, and hid in the bilge of the merchant ship......
This merchant ship is actually directly subordinate to Li Chengzong's Han merchant group, which is not a problem for the Sai personal, after listening to Huang Xiu'er pour out her painful experience and her intention to go to Li Han to see her, looking at her in tattered clothes, her face is full of blood and tears, and he can't help but feel extremely sympathetic, so he nodded and agreed to her request. So, Huang Xiuer boarded the merchant ship, looked at Qiantang Mansion from afar, said goodbye to her dear birthplace with tears, and crossed north with the ship.
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