Originally, except for Li Yuan and Zhao You, everyone else didn't take cotton seriously.

In their opinion, there is Sinong Temple in charge of buying cotton seeds, and next year they only need to spend a little money to be able to buy cotton clothes to wear.

But after Qin Tian and Song Gongqing reminded them, Li Shimin and the crown prince Li Jiancheng were both moved, and hurriedly began to find a way to buy cotton seeds.

And the open and secret struggle between the two has also caused the price of cotton seeds to gradually rise.

When the price was high, the mercenary merchants naturally had to transport the cotton seeds from the countries of the Western Regions at all costs.

In this way, both the speed and the number have increased a lot.

Seeing this situation, Qin Tian finally showed a light smile.

Tang Rong saw that Qin Tian was still laughing, and immediately knocked him on the head: "I really don't know what you think, Xianggong, you are stupid, a good business is so yellow, but you can still laugh." ”

Originally, those cotton seeds of theirs could be planted on dozens of acres of land, and after dozens of acres of cotton were harvested, they were made into cotton clothes, which was all money.

Now that everyone grows it, their cotton is worthless.

Originally, if it's not worth it, it's not worth it, but he laughed and reminded Li Shimin to buy it, she was really angry.

Qin Tian saw that Tang Rong was angry like this, but he laughed: "Madame, do you think your father-in-law is the kind of person who is willing to suffer?" ”

"Isn't it?"

"The matter of cotton has been learned by the saints, and the ministers have also learned that there will not be much to plant next year, and there will definitely be more in the year after next, and there will be more and more in the future.

Tang Rong shook her head: "I don't understand." ”

Qin Tian knocked Tang Rong's head on the head like Tang Rong just now: "You, you're so stupid, do you have to deseed, do you have to play it before you can make clothes, whether it is deseeding or playing cotton, will other people beg, then we have to come and beg you to be me, at that time, we can make a lot of money by deseeding and playing cotton, remember, doing business, if everyone else follows, we can't do it, otherwise it won't make money." ”

As soon as Qin Tian said this, Tang Rong suddenly came to his senses, even if those people planted more cotton, if they wanted to shed seeds or play cotton, they still had to come to them?

"Xianggong, you are really amazing." Tang Rong was excited, and then pounced on Qin Tian, who slapped her on the ass.

"Just now, I dared to knock you on me, and I was stupid."

"You...... You knocked me too, and said I was stupid......" Tang Rong's cheeks were flushed, and she couldn't help herself.

And just when the two were flirting in the house, Tang Rong suddenly had a rumbling stomach.

"Xianggong, what time is it?"

Qin Tian also felt hungry, he took a look and found that it had already passed noon.

"What's the matter, it stands to reason that the cook should have brought the food by now?" Qin Tian shook his head, then got up and said, "I'll take a look." ”

"I'll go too."

The two walked to the kitchen, and on the way met Lu Huaniang, who also came to the kitchen to check on the situation because she was hungry.

"Xianggong, haven't you eaten yet?"

Qin Tian nodded, his expression was a little unsightly, and Tang Rong snorted: "The cook is getting more and more excessive." ”

The three of them looked at each other, then walked towards the kitchen.

As soon as he arrived at the kitchen, he saw that there was smoke coming from inside, a cook was choking in the smoke and coughing, Qin Tian waved his hand to smoke, but the smoke was too thick, and it didn't disperse at all.

"What's the matter, how can you cook so slowly, how can the smoke be so big?" Qin Tian shouted outside, and then a cook ran out from inside: "Young master, the weather has been a little humid these days, the flint can't make a fire, and the firewood is not good, so far, it hasn't burned yet." ”

As he spoke, the cook began to cough again.

Qin Tian looked at the two flints in the cook's hand, his expression condensed slightly, the ancients had trouble making fire, and it was useless to drill wood to make fire, but it was not as convenient as imagined.

So under normal circumstances, the fire is passed down from generation to generation, so that a fire is not extinguished, many large families, and even some people watch the fire.

It's just that this is sometimes very dangerous, the fire has never been extinguished, and if you are not careful, it may cause a fire, so Qin Tian ordered his subordinates not to do this.

But if you don't, it's a problem when you eat.

It would be nice to have a lighter, Qin Tian thought to himself, but this situation was obviously unlikely.

However, Qin Tian felt that a lighter was unlikely, but there should be no problem with a match, right?

In fact, matches have already appeared in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, when someone soaked a wooden stick in sulfur, and then only needed a little spark to ignite the wooden stick, and then used it to light the fire.

This method is much more convenient than flint, but compared to the kind of matches used by Qin Tian in the later generations, it is still very troublesome, because this kind of thing still needs at least some sparks, and sometimes it is not necessarily able to ignite.

After thinking of this, Qin Tian felt that he could make a safety match, he had never thought about it before, and he didn't use fire much because he didn't use it much, but now that he found this problem, he couldn't sit idly by.

The cook was standing aside and still waiting for punishment, the whole person looked particularly aggrieved, Qin Tian glanced at him, and shouted: "What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and cook, you want to starve us to death?" ”

The cook was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly showed a happy look: "Young master, don't worry, the meal will be ready soon, and it will be good immediately......

With that, the cook went into the smoke-filled kitchen again.

At this time, Qin Tian and Tang Rong returned to the room, but the meal was not ready immediately, they waited for half an hour before the meal was finally served.

After eating, Tang Rong supervised the people to play cotton, Lu Huaniang went to Sihaiju to check the accounts, and Qin Tian locked himself in the house and began to make matches.

If you want to improve the current matches, you can use white phosphorus, which is applied to the stick, and with a little rubbing, whatever it is, the stick will ignite.

However, Qin Tian felt that white phosphorus was too easy to burn, and it was poisonous, relatively speaking, it was a bit dangerous, and it was okay to use white phosphorus as a fire fold, but not as a match.

Therefore, to make a safety match, it is still necessary to use some phosphide, and then rub it with red phosphorus to make a fire.

Safety matches are more troublesome to make, so Qin Tian first made a fire fold, which is a thin cylinder, put white phosphorus in it, and then add a little flammable debris, when you use it, you only need to blow it a little to ignite, if you don't use it, cover the lid, and it will be extinguished.

It is much safer than using white phosphorus as matches.

Although the fire excerpt was simple, Qin Tian still spent half a day and several tests before it was finally done, and at this time, it was already before dusk, and it was time to make dinner.

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