The county lord of Qingqi followed Li Zhi back to the Li family compound, it was already midnight, and it was already midnight, and the little marquis did something to her on the carriage back, but he never really lifted the big coat.

The night in the mountains is cold, and now it is the cool time of early autumn, don't look at the daytime price and the sun has been warm, and the cold wind is swishing in the middle of the night.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was no later cotton, and the legends that circulated in history such as Si Tian's five official and positive cotton fifteen taels, and the deputy envoys of the guest provinces and the imperial city below the three taels of cotton are all biased.

Because the word cotton did not appear before the Great Song Dynasty, like the above related records of Lu is actually the word "cotton", this cotton is not cotton, but a kind of velvet extracted from the floating silk on the surface of the silkworm cocoon, which is expensive, so that it is calculated in two, and many small officials have no cotton only Luo Juan.

Xinjiang region unearthed the earliest cottonseed produced cotton quality is very poor, the popularization value is not high, at this stage in the southwest has a road to the later India, through Sichuan, western Yunnan, through the north of Myanmar, into India's Assam, Assam is the origin of Asian cotton, the kapok in southwest China is along this route into the country.

But it is obvious that the kapok in the southwest of this era entered China along this route, or later, the local cotton in the country broke its shell, the white is like a defeat, it is difficult to weave a very complete grey cloth, almost a strong wind on the wisps of broken, more for the poor mountain grass people to take this as a shirt.

The dignitaries and nobles wore the kind of silkworm cocoon floating silk velvet fabrics, the difference was only the different content, what "dyeing and embroidery, 罽毲 [jì duō] silk stacking, Langan fine cloth, weaving articles such as silk brocade" are also later things, this is because the introduction of cotton cloth in the Western Regions was earlier than cotton planting.

That is to say, the cotton varieties introduced in the Western Regions were planted in the southwest of the Tang Dynasty in the time of Xuanzong in the Tang Dynasty, which was still thirty or forty years ago.

Li Zhi is very fortunate to be reborn in such a mysterious era for him, as long as he can open the shop function in the smart instrument as soon as possible, he can use the power of one person to let cotton enter the country, and then begin to spread north and east, so he has developed large-scale cotton planting and consumption of cotton products.

His next step is to continue to borrow the name of Zhengqing Wenqitang and officially get involved in the cotton spinning industry, of course, at present, he can only borrow wool wool yarn to build the foundation of the enterprise.

On the way, he told his intentions, and until he returned to her bedroom, the little county lord had been holding his hand and discussing it fiercely, but he was not distracted by the invasion of the man's palm along the way.

"Is it because of cottonseed that you want to go to the Western Regions again?" There was a sorrow in her tone.

"I returned this time with a small caravan, and the group did not turn back halfway, but had already harvested enough cottonseed along the way. I don't know what it was, including some vegetable seeds, and the caravan would write to me when they returned, and bring them back to me. ”

He was already counting the time, sending letters to inform a few acquaintances of the caravan, but at this time, he had not yet reached his destination, and a large number of people were not on the way back.

Fortunately, along the way, out of the boundaries of Yiwu and Gaochang, it is not uncommon to see that kind of cotton plantation along the way, even if the next caravan meets them halfway, it can still buy enough cottonseed back.

"That's good, a round trip in the Western Regions is a few years, if you leave again, I'm afraid I'll be half-aged when you come back!"

"Hehehehe, I can't afford to waste all my good years in the yellow sand and dust, you little lady makes me even more reluctant, I just have to run a trip, and I have to wait for our three children to be born!"

"I'm going to kill you, and you haven't passed the door yet, how can you say something shameless! Who... Who said to give you a life... Three kids! ”

Looking at the little county lord's face full of shame, Li Zhi couldn't help laughing, "Less? Don't have too many, four or more, I'm afraid I won't be able to do anything about it! You also know that I, a literary master, can't always be bored at home, and I can't say that I have to go around collecting wind or something! ”

"I hate you, I always tease people! Hey, no, what is Caifeng? Do you still want to go out and mess with flowers? Her face changed dramatically.

"Collecting wind refers to the collection of folk customs, when the dynasty is not secret, thinking about the righteousness of the style, the history is lost and seeking the wilderness, where is the dirty in your mind!" The little marquis is full of black lines.

"Oh, I remembered, the so-called princes don't pay tribute to poetry, the Son of Heaven doesn't collect style, the music officials don't reach Ya, and the history of the country is unknown, that's what you are talking about?"

"It's okay, after all, my big county lord will not be reduced to the ranks of ordinary women, and he still knows some words of questioning!"

"What's wrong with the woman's family? I also like to chatter about melon seeds, string celebrity scenes, inquire about some gossip, and pass on a little bit of market anecdotes. ”

"Yes, I don't care about you, do you want to lay out the futon for you, hug you and tell you a few stories to put you to sleep?"

"Poof! I don't dare, today my father also strictly told me that I can't do anything that violates the rules and regulations with you, and I am already very kind to be able to stay in the Li family's compound! ”

"So..."

"I didn't say anything! If you have any doubts, when you see your father tomorrow and ask him yourself, I will come out of my father's study in the middle of the afternoon because I am anxious for you, and I will be soaked! How dare you ignore his strict commands? ”

"Alas, they all say that girls are outgoing, why didn't it happen to you? By the way, where is Uncle Yang, why didn't you go to Liujian Village with you? ”

"The weavers I brought back are gone, and I heard the torturer say that he seems to be looking for someone, and he will come back in three or two days."

The head of the sentence is another descendant of Yang Gaotang's side, just like Tong Lao Liu, who has already followed the county lord of Qingqi at this time, and is also a person with a kung fu foundation, so Li Zhi can't figure out the depths.

The two of them stood in front of her bedroom and muttered for a while, until they heard the sound of Ping'er and Cui'er in the house, and he reluctantly let go of Lord Qingqi.

When he returned to his residence and sent away Tong Lao Liu, who was always not far away from him, he saw that the fourth girl had already spread the two kinds of rice paper that Li Zhi had brought back on the table.

And I don't know who to learn from, has been divided into a knife of the column into a stack, a knife can be sold to millions of the best rice paper in later generations, its preciousness is self-evident, not to mention that the emergence of today's rice paper is to create outstanding achievements in the paper industry, in a sense, it is not inferior to the merits of the three emperors and five emperors since ancient times.

Of course, this is only his personal opinion, others are afraid that they will laugh off their big teeth when they hear it, but it also means that Chun Rou, Xia Shu, Qiu Feng, and Dong Hui dare to slack off a little, at this time, in order to protect these, the four women sat around the table and did not dare to leave for a moment.

"Qiu Feng, the four of you will go and rest, you can sleep lazily tomorrow, I have to go to the Linhuai County Mansion early in the morning, remember to go to Master Liu after waking up, and send the reward I promised!"

Qiu Feng nodded, compared to the other three women, this woman is the most thoughtful, and she can't miss a big thing.

For example, Chunrou paid extra attention to serving Li Zhi, "Little Marquis, I'll go and get warm water for you to wash and sleep!" Xia Shu and Qiu Feng, you two helped the master change his clothes first! Donghui, you go fill the tub with water! ”

"The bath bucket is free, I'll just wash it in the copper basin alive." He waved his hand again and again, not because he was willing to get dirty, but because he really couldn't enjoy being scrubbed back and forth by the four big girls.

This kind of thing can't be avoided, once they are separated, it will naturally provoke the four girls to cry and cry for a while, if Steward Zhang knows, the position of the personal maid is not guaranteed.

And Li Zhi couldn't show it, he was embarrassed to wash his face in front of them, after all, the predecessor Li Zhi had always faced it calmly.

"Then Na Cheng, especially tomorrow I am going to see the king of the county, the master has been busy in the workshop for three days, and his whole body stinks! Besides, this is also the order of the county lord! ”

It didn't take long for the little girl to serve him very quickly and take off his clothes, obviously he was extremely skilled, and he didn't even see much of a shy expression on his face, if it weren't for Li Zhi's resolute and stubborn stop the stripping of his crotch underwear, it would have been a very embarrassing scene.

Looking at the embarrassed little marquis, Xia Shu and Qiu Feng covered their mouths to steal fun, and Donghui was already waiting for the bath bucket to be ready.

The bedrooms of the Tang Dynasty were generally small, and the wooden beds were placed close to the root of the wall, just like the desks and chairs in the hall.

Moreover, the small size of the bedroom can make it difficult for ghosts and gods to survive, which is an inherent tradition in ancient times, even if the place where the emperor's holy body rests, it is also a secret place of less than ten square meters.