In fact, so far, Bai Liyan himself doesn't know why he wants to collect the sky, saying that he likes it, after all, half of his left face is terrifying. Love her, Zhou Kong is useless except for being shrewd with soldiers, saying that Zhou Kong is rebellious, it is purely to block the mouths of all the girls.

To this day, Bai Liyan can't say why, it's more like some kind of inexplicable feeling. I always feel that without Zhou Kong, life is not perfect, but the family has already raised a seven-room lady, if you want to say that it is not perfect, then you have to accept a few rooms to be perfect, this is obviously not something to Jiang Rong know.

After pondering for a while, he continued Jiang Rong's words:

"Zhou Kong is like this by nature, he speaks straightforwardly, it doesn't matter whether she is a woman or not, the important thing is that people's bodies are innocent.

As for her saying that Ben Hou is treacherous, shameless, despicable, and obscene, those have nothing to do with men and women, when she hit the city, she guarded the city, and Ben Hou set up three plans in a row, and with very few casualties, she lost 30,000 casualties, so she hated it, so she has been unconvinced, always thinking about one day competing with Ben Hou, because of this, she can't easily let her go, so as not to trouble Ben Hou in the future. ”

"You don't have to worry about it in the house, do you?" Jiang Rong asked rhetorically, and then said: "In the future, the house will not be spread out, let me do what to do in this room, listen to her or listen to me." ”

"Family affairs and internal affairs are still Rong'er, you and Fu'er and Xiao'er have the final say, if I am not there in the military, Zhou Kong is in charge."

Jiang Rong was surprised when she heard the news:

"Why, you're still going to give her military power!"

"She has 50,000 horses under her command, and she can't rush home to farm. She agreed, could her generals agree. ”

Zhou Kong guarded Zhaocheng with Fang Ke including a total of 30,000 horses, after the horse is entering the city, theoretically under its control, after the city of Zhaocheng was broken, a slave army of more than 10,000 people was attached to Zhou Kong, at this time the soldiers and horses were less than 30,000, plus the captured surrender and wounded soldiers, after the surrender of Zhaocheng, Zhou Kong's name was actually less than 50,000 people.

After the capture of Dekang, all parts of the country surrendered one after another, and a batch was replenished, and now there are actually more than 50,000 people under Zhou Kong's command, including 20,000 or 30,000 slave army prisoners and surrenderers. These are all falsely reported in the credit book, and they have to be cut anyway, and the more they are reported, the more they will be cut, and the more they will be left in the end.

Only by marrying Zhou Kong home, the soldiers and horses under his command and the military power will naturally enter the Yongxing Marquis Mansion as a dowry, so that there is a nominal army of men and horses who can be used at any time, and they can be stationed in the nearby capital county in case of accidents.

Naturally, these can't be explained to Jiang Rong, let alone to Lord Qiao, but after a long time, Jiang Rong is extremely sensitive to politics, and sooner or later she understands Bailiyan's deep meaning.

The women chattered in the front hall for a long time, seeing that Tang Tao was harmless to people and animals on weekdays, and once faced with the invasion of foreign forces, they would immediately instigate everywhere.

With her careful eyes, it is naturally useless to instigate Jiang Rong and Qiao Fu'er, and she specializes in playing right and wrong in front of Chunrou, Chunfang, Xiao'er, and Xiao Chunyu.

Chunrou is a smart woman with great connotation, although her status is low, but she has always suffered silently, it is difficult for Tang Tao to have a way to take her, Xiao Er has suffered many big losses from Tang Tao before passing the door, and she doesn't believe her sharp teeth when she has a long memory. However, Chunfang always has one less tendon, and she has been in the house for more than ten years, and Tang Tao's tricks have been tried and tested by her repeatedly.

The matter of Zhou Kong was discussed until four o'clock, after which Jiang Rong proposed to go to Qiao Jun's main bedroom to spend the night, and Bai Liyan agreed.

At the same time, Zhou Kong has been restless since she lived in the East Wing Pavilion, don't look at the murderous spirit just now, she is also awkward in her heart, how to live in the future.

"General Zhou, the sisters have all been arranged." Little Lotus said.

"Well, you sleep with me tonight."

"Okay." Xiao Lianzi happily accepted, and then said: "General Zhou, there are really a lot of subordinates in the Hou Mansion, just now the subordinates casually caught a question, guess what they said." ”

"What are you asking?" Zhou Kong asked.

"The subordinates asked them how Yongxinghou slept every night."

Zhou Kong's face was red when he heard the news:

"Dead Nizi, what are you asking for!"

"Hehe......" Xiaolianzi covered her mouth and laughed, and said while laughing: "General Zhou is quick to allow people, inquire about this matter clearly, so as not to suffer losses in the future." ”

"Dead Nizi, be careful that I cut your tongue!"

Zhou Kong was in a hurry, and Xiaolianzi was busy begging for mercy:

"Okay, okay, Xiaolianzi won't say anything, hehe......"

"You're still laughing."

When it comes to men and women, Zhou Kong is difficult to speak, urging Xiaolianzi to close the door and go to bed. That night, each room stayed awake all night, and Bai Liyan, Jiang Rong, and Lord Qiao kept talking about the early hours of the morning.

Early the next morning, Zhou Kong got up to wash, and was about to go out to find a well to fetch water, when the maid knocked on the door and shouted:

"Is General Zhou awake?"

Zhou Kong went to open the door, and the maid was also fully mentally prepared, but at first glance, she was still frightened when she saw the big scar on the left side of Zhou Kong's face.

Seeing that the maid looked scared, Zhou Kong eased up and asked with a calm face:

"What?"

The maidservant peeked at the sky around her again, and said carefully with the copper basin:

"This is a basin, a face towel, a wooden cup, and a toothbrush and salt for General Zhou. Ask General Zhou to go to the sink at the end of the verandah to wash up. ”

After the maid finished speaking in detail, Zhou Kong looked down at the basin. The basin was made of copper, and there was a large cotton towel stacked in the basin, but what I couldn't understand was a small brush and a small box of salt. Fingers on the toothbrush, Zhou Kong asked.

"What's the use of that?"

The maidservant replied:

"It's for brushing your teeth, just sprinkle salt on this brush when you use it."

"Brushing your teeth? You Xianguo people still use brush teeth! ”

Zhou Kong was surprised, this was the first time she had touched her teeth and had to brush it.

Nowadays, brushing teeth is still a luxury, only the powerful and wealthy can afford to brush their teeth with salt, of course, it is also important to have this habit, not to mention that it is not easy for ordinary people to buy a brush, salt is the most fatal.

Nowadays, plastic can not be counted on, toothbrushes are mainly made of wood and bristles, and there are also hard hemp silk made of slightly softer texture than bristles, but the hard hemp is easy to damage and fall off after frequent immersion in water, and it is not durable.

The bristles are not only pig hair, but the hair on the pig's body is tough, and the softness and hardness are moderate, and it is more fine, Bailiyan divides it into five grades, of which three are extremely fine, fine and medium are used to produce toothbrushes, and coarse and extremely coarse are used to make dirt and residue in the gun breech.

While other vassal states were struggling to clean their guns, the Xian army was already using bristles to clean their guns, and before the advent of high-temperature plastics, bristles had been an important tool for gun breezes until the advent of plastics after World War II. [Solution 1]

The New Deal has allowed agriculture to flourish in the past decade or so, and the traditional farming industry needs part of the ration for feed, and the development of the breeding industry means that there are more pigs, but the common white and black pigs have sparse manes, and the price is directly proportional to pork.

The more expensive the pork, the more expensive the bristles are relatively higher, Bailiyan for this reason people go into the mountains to catch wild boars and domestic pigs to cross to give birth to hybrid pigs, the resulting bristles are not only more and denser, and the grade is finer, the softness and hardness are moderate, more suitable for toothbrushes, the price is reduced to half to two-fifths of the original, so that more people can use the bristle toothbrush.

Then there is the salt drying method to return the price of salt to the public price, and the large use of salt has given toothbrushes a consumption momentum, which in turn has promoted the consumption of salt.

From the master to the servants and maids, everyone brushes their teeth, and even brushing their teeth has become a fashion and status symbol in the capital area.

Compared with other vassal states, it is a problem for ordinary people to eat salt, where can you see a more expensive toothbrush, Zhou Kong is well-informed, and it is the first time that he has seen it.

Curious, I followed the maid to the side of the sink at the end of the verandah in the east wing, and there was a clay pot on the side of the sink, and there was a special person to carry water to fill it, and it could be used by lifting the lid.

Just when Zhou Kong was ignorant, Bai Liyan came out of nowhere, which surprised Zhou Kong:

"People don't pretend to be ghosts, hide here and watch me make a fool of myself!"

Bai Liyan smiled cheekily:

"Hehe, General Zhou has never rinsed his mouth with a toothbrush before."

"Hmph, it's just some weird little tricks, and they deserve to be so praised!"

"That week, the general knows how much money can be made on this little toothbrush."

"Speaking of money, it's money, you have no other trick than to use money to buy people's hearts, right?"

"Eh, General Zhou's words are wrong, and military affairs are also money and food matters, if there is no money and food, how can it be used by the army. Don't underestimate this little brush, which is related to the use of salt, pig farming, farming, oil, leather, etc., and the profits can be very staggering, and it is not taxed. ”

The income generated by the simple rough economy comes from direct production, and it is also the original basic economy of social self-sustainability, and the total amount of the basic economy is roughly unchanged, in order to obtain additional income, it can only rely on the additional product value brought by the extension of the industrial chain.

For example, grain winemaking is a typical commodity with rich agricultural productivity and extended industrial chain.

How to extend the industrial chain, obtain additional economic benefits, and grab more benefits, Baili Yanyuan is more handy than the people in the world.

In addition to bristles, pig skin can also be made into glue or grease, and after calcination, pork bones form coarse particles of calcium carbonate, which are used to make ordinary bone china, or used in chemical and metallurgy. As internal organs with high cholesterol, pig liver and pork loin are good nourishing products for the wounded and seriously ill, and can also prevent night blindness.

All in all, the value of benefits obtained through the extension of the downstream industrial chain is not less than that of the main industry.

For example, salt, after the success of the salt drying method, the price of salt fell sharply, and it seems that the profits of salt barons are less, but salt is a necessity in all walks of life, and increased production means that more people are benefited and sales will increase.

At the same time, a large amount of salt also provides a stable supply of sodium chloride for chemical industry in the future, and a large amount of salt in the chemical industry allows the salt industry to obtain more stable and larger profits and fixed markets.

Zhou Kong has always been unconvinced, to convince her, it is difficult to rely on force and lip service alone, and she has nothing to say when she is based on facts, and she often has to accept it if she is not convinced for a long time.

[Note 1] Pig bristles, before the fifties of the last century, pig bristles and duck feathers were a type of military strategic control resources of the world's military powers. Before the advent of plastic, only pig bristles could be used for cleaning the gun breech, and duck feathers were an important filling for down and insulated quilts, and China provided more than 50 percent of the world's bristles during World War II.