1. Cotton cloth should not be asked

Pinglin Cloud Bird Eight Window Autumn,

Strong pressure on the forty states of Xichuan.

The generals are not greedy for Qiang horses,

See the edge at the top.

—————————— Xue Tao's "Chipping Building", the Chipping Floor was built in Victoria when Li Deyu left the town of Xichuan during the fourth year of Tang Wenzong's Yamato (830), when Xue Tao was over the age of six

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At the end of the feast, Gao Yue and Wei Gao divided into two routes from Shancheng to Jingshi.

Wei Gao took the road from Taozhou, passed through the cool plateau of Songzhou in the summer, and then went to Sanssouci City in Victoria, deployed to continue the siege, and then went to Chang'an;

And Gao Yue went directly from Chengzhou, into Hechi City, and then through Xingyuan Mansion, where a group of talents had been reserved in the Jingjie Division and the entire Taofen School Palace and Martial Arts Palace, and Gao Yue was ready to place them in Wuzhou: after all, according to his original negotiations with Wei Gao and Ximen Cang, Wuzhou and several other states were about to be incorporated into the jurisdiction of Xingyuan Mansion. After the arrangement was made, Gao Yue went to Chang'an City on Luogu Road.

It is expected that in autumn and August, he will be able to ask the emperor in the Daming Palace.

After the sun rose the next day, there was a rush of traffic in front of the Shancheng Government Office, with a cloud of horses and a banner waving, respectively surrounding Gao Yue and Wei Gao, and embarking on the road to Beijing.

Before leaving, Mu Di also came to see off Ji Gong.

"It's useless." When Gao Yue was dressed in a good court dress and wore jade ornaments and fish bags, he suddenly said this to Mu Di.

Mu Di was slightly surprised, but he quickly understood that he was secretly observing Gao Yue, and Gao Yue must be secretly observing himself - Gao Yue knew what Mu Di wanted to do.

"Why did Ji Gong say this?" Even so, Mu Di still couldn't hold back and asked.

He was a little unwilling, and his ideas were suddenly denied.

"The reason why a country like Xifan was able to boast of its martial arts strength for a while was just to take advantage of the exhaustion of the civil strife in my Tang Dynasty, its own problems have accumulated too much, your expectations, this way can be experienced, but when all the problems come together, it is far from being able to solve it well, especially if you copy the experience of others."

After speaking, looking at the depressed Mu Di, Gao Yue sighed, patted the young man Zampu on the shoulder, and his tone became gentle, "How will you choose?" It is to brave countless guns and spears and cold arrows in light and darkness, return to that plateau, and change there; Or calm down, stay in Liangzhou to practice Buddhism, and finally attain the Tao - this Tao thinks that the latter is better for you. ”

Then Gao Yue stepped out of the door of the government office.

"Sena tired!" At this time, Mu Di's voice came from behind him.

Sena tired is the Western Tibetan word for "be brave and give it a try".

Mu Di has already made up his mind, in fact, the country of Xifan is now difficult to compete with the Tang Empire militarily for the time being, but he is more concerned about the "national economy and people's livelihood" as Yuan Tongzhi said, as long as he can find a new path of rebirth for Xifan, he is willing to "give it a try".

At this moment, Yuan Tongzhi, who was accompanying Gao Yue, looked at Mu Di, who looked a little stubborn, with sympathetic eyes.

And Gao Yue turned his head and looked at Mu Di with a little understanding and even admiration in his eyes.

Leaving Liu De's room, Gao Gu in Shancheng to deal with political and military affairs, and the Weirong Army, the Decisive Army and the Xuanwei Army of Shence were all left behind the main road in Helong, and then Hu followed the team of Ji Gong, only to go on the land from Hehuang to Longyou, and then entered the boundary of Chengzhou, passed the majestic Qishan, and soon arrived at Qiuchi Mountain. ”

And Gao Yue, who was riding on the snow, looked at everyone's expressions, but it was a little subtle.

He knew that the entire shogunate, whether it was military generals, officials, ordinary generals, and archers, had regarded the Xingyuan Mansion as his hometown.

At the end of June, in the northern suburbs of Xingyuan, to the dense "general barracks workshop" in Chiya Pass, the hot cooking smoke began to come out from one house after another, Gao Yue brought back the generals of the two generals, lined up the team in the big valley field, and then according to the book, after the armor, the staff, the flag and the pack horse were handed over and returned, it was the scene of "releasing the rod and being safe": the generals, at this time, were wearing black cotton clothes, wrapped around their foreheads, three by two, jumped off the avenue full of trees on both sides, ran down along the soil slope, and came to the courtyard of the camp in turn. and hugged the wives and children who came out to greet them.

In the courtyard where there was no smoke, the coffin was stopped, the cry of sorrow was raised, and the neighbors and military officials around also stood in front of the door with sad expressions, handed over the money and silk for the bereavement to the sufferer, and helped to find monks to do the work.

When passing by a cotton weaving workshop in the north of the city, Xiao Yi stood in front of the door, specially to greet Ji Gong.

Then Gao Yue dismounted, asked Quan Deyu and other staff members to go first, and went to the building of the government office to rest, and he followed Xiao Yi into the workshop.

The workshop is a long multi-rack room, which is full of Qiang women, the number is no less than two or three hundred, and each has its own duties, some shake the spinning wheel, some weave cloth, and in the courtyard there are also responsible for drying and printing and dyeing, Gao Yue looked at this group of busy women, as if he saw a group of beautiful spiders.

But Xiao Yi complained: "It's really in short supply." ”

In addition to the fact that the supply exceeds demand to express the prosperity of production and trade, there is also another meaning, that is, the production capacity is seriously insufficient.

Gao Yue gestured: "Brother Jing, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

Xiao Yi then continued: Now the whole world, the demand for our Xingyuan cotton cloth is very large, not only in the southwest, northwest and Gyeonggi land, but also to Shannan Dongdao, Jingnan, Kuifu and other places to sell, although it and the southeast of Jianghuai silk industry has its own target customers, but basically has replaced the original linen position.

The demand is large, but the production capacity of Kexingyuan Mansion is insufficient.

Even if many farmers, archers, and temples grow cotton, Fengxiang and Xingyuan all grow cotton, and even if they get one or two hundred thousand Qiang women to weave through the war, they still can't meet the requirements of each province.

At this time, Xiao Yi's face turned red with impatience, and he said to Gao Yue, Yisong, now that the land of Helong has been recovered, it is too suitable for planting cotton, and I immediately heard that the imperial court is still going to conquer Huaixi Town? If Shenguang Cai returns to the territory, then the originally blocked river transportation will be unimpeded again, and we will be able to connect Xingyuan with the entire southeast, and cotton cloth will be sold to the more densely populated Xuanhui and Jiangnan East-West Road!

As long as there is one person in every household who can wear cotton, the profit can simply go up to the sky.

So Xiao Yi, as a businessman, his hands trembled with excitement, and his complaints about insufficient production capacity also came from this.

"This is not a complaint from a foolish brother, the entire Xingyuan and Fengxiang cotton weavers all think like this: Yisong, you are the great Yin of the two mansions, you can't ignore this matter."

Gao Yue thought about it, and said to Xiao Yi first: "Fight Huaixi Town, but you need money." ”

At this time, Xiao Yi immediately patted his chest and whispered to Gao Yue: "These businessmen, in the years that Yisong is in charge, which one of them has not reached 100,000 yuan in family property?" In the endless collection of Huguo Temple, there are millions of money and silks stored, as long as Yi Song nods, you can borrow money for military salaries. ”

Gao Yue smiled in his heart.

Let's ask the law of history, who have you ever deceived?

The businessmen, who had tasted the sweetness of industrial innovation, began to go crazy and openly supported the war