When he returned home, he found Du Yiti waiting at home with Ahed and Samai, and after seeing Xiao Zheng, Du Yiti said to him with a happy face: "Dear Lord Guogong, what you have always wanted, our caravan has brought you back."

"You mean you brought the cotton back?" Xiao Zheng asked in surprise.

"Yes, our caravan has gone through a lot of hardships and thousands of miles of trekking through mountains and rivers......."

"Alright, stop! Where did you get so many idioms, take me to see it."

Following Du Yi mentioned a large open space not far from Dongshi, he saw more than a dozen ox carts filled with sacks, and some of them showed white cotton balls from the cracks in the sacks.

I was so excited, I opened a sack, grabbed a handful of cotton, and looked at it, although it was not as good as that of later generations, but it would definitely be able to be used in the textile.

Turning around, he gave each of the three of them a bear hug: "Old guys, thank you, you have shipped it so quickly, I will double the reward for this first batch of goods, and I will give you what you want tomorrow."

Just this sentence made Du Yi excited, and this guy also patted Xiao Zheng and said: "I know that the true god will definitely take care of a trustworthy person like you, and now your name has spread in all corners of the Tang Dynasty, even the Turks know that you are powerful, no wonder God will give you such a beautiful wife......."

Hurry up and stop this guy's talk, or he'll really talk endlessly.

After this excitement, Du Yiti took a small wooden box from the side and handed it to Xiao Zheng and said: "Grandpa Guo, these are the seeds of those plants that you asked us to find for you, some of which we haven't found yet, but here are things that are often grown in the Western Regions, and I don't know what the Han people call them, so I brought them back to you."

When I opened the box, there were four cloth bags inside, and when I looked at the seeds inside, I couldn't tell what the seeds were, except for the pumpkin.

"Great, don't leave today, let's go to Yingzhou Pavilion in the evening, I'm in for a treat, thank you three."

Early the next morning, he called the public to take the cotton truck and went straight to the Yushan factory.

When I arrived at the factory, I didn't see anyone, but I heard a burst of shouts coming from the square.

Curiously walked by, and saw Li Sanniang leading hundreds of strong palace maids to practice martial arts with sticks in their hands, it seems that these palace maids have been practicing for a while, and their movements are very uniform, quite sassy and heroic. Seeing Xiao Zheng and others coming, Li Sanniang took the move and walked over.

Xiao Zheng, who couldn't cry or laugh, only to know when he asked, it turned out that after Li Sanniang saw that after the factory was built, in addition to farming and doing some farm work, these palace maids had nothing to do for the time being, so they trained these people as female soldiers, one to strengthen their bodies, and the other to come to the family nursing home.

Originally, these palace maids agreed with Li Sanniang very much, and as soon as she proposed it, she was recognized by all the palace maids, so the large square outside quickly became a school field for martial arts. Xiao Zheng looked at Li Sanniang's expression much better than before, after all, it is much better to have something to do than to stay in his own house and be depressed.

As soon as Xiao Zheng explained his intentions, Li Sanniang suddenly became happy, turned her head and called a female soldier, and after a while, more than 200 palace maids were gathered, and more than 200 people were ordered to quickly unload the cotton bales into the warehouse, and more than a dozen bales were left in front of the decotton-de-de-flowering machine.

Gong Yi and Xiao Zheng were a little nervous, they had seen the guy who was decottoning in the museum before, but fortunately, the principle of this thing was simple and easy to understand. It's definitely no problem for Gong Yi to make wood, but he really combines iron and wood together, and he is also the first to get started, and both of them have no bottom in their hearts.

Watching the rolled cotton in the machine by dozens of circular saw blades fine sawtooth hook off the cotton fiber, through the fan to separate the fiber and cotton seeds, Xiao Zheng felt a little relieved.

At first, the separation of the fibers and the cottonseed was not very clean, and when the spacing of the machine was adjusted, the cottonseed flowed out of the trough.

Put the seeded cotton into the spinning wheel, with the rotation of the spinning wheel, the thin silk threads are continuously pulled out, and it is easy to do with the thread, as for the process of weaving and spinning and washing and dyeing, Xiao Zheng is not worried at all, there must be no shortage of such masters among the palace maids.

After finishing all this, he taught these palace maids the technique of playing cotton to make quilts, and looked at the first quilt sewn by the palace maids.

Patting the fluffy quilt with his hand, Xiao Zheng said to the public with emotion: "It's done!" In the future, we will call him Luban Weaving, once this work is popularized, don't say that feeding 3,000 people, it is no problem to feed 300,000 or 3 million, and you don't need to use strong labor, and your old man's reputation will be passed down through the ages."

In a word, the husband lost his beard and raised his beard, and the red face smiled chrysanthemums, and he didn't dare to say it with his hands.

Before leaving, he took out two hundred silver coins and said to Li Sanniang: "This is the deposit for the first batch of cotton cloth and quilts, and we will sell them on behalf of them in the future and send money on a monthly basis."

Two hundred silver coins are not much for the three thousand palace maids, but this is the first entry for the three thousand palace maids after they come out, this is the spark of hope, and it is the beginning of their self-reliance!

Before going out, all the palace maids saluted Xiao Zheng and said in unison: "Thank you Xiao Gong for your kindness!" ”

The eldest grandson in the palace received a gift from Li Sanniang, saying that it was a quilt and cloth made of white stacks, and the cloth was very strong when touched with his hands, and the quilt was not as heavy as the fur fur on his body, but he didn't know how to do it. Li Shimin hugged the eldest grandson and said: "It's still Xiao Qing's method, and now the third sister is also telling us in disguise that she is very happy, and that's enough."

Some wealthy ladies in Chang'an City received two gifts from the folding flower building next to the Qujiang River, a small roll of cloth and a thin quilt, made into clothes and found that the fabric was very close-fitting, and now the weather is slowly getting hotter and sweat-absorbing, and it is very comfortable to wear.

Zhehualou sent over is certainly not ordinary, hurry over to ask the price, to the price of this cloth is rare than half of the silk, this time let the people who buy it, for a time the ladies in Chang'an City have to wear a cotton cloth proudly, that is, the eldest grandson Huangsun also has a few more such clothes, anyway, this thing is cheap and comfortable to wear, better prepared for the summer.

Even happier was Du Yi mentioning a few Hu merchants, they never imagined that Bai Diezi, which no one wanted as firewood in the Western Regions, would be sold at such a high price here by Xiao Zheng, and for a while, more Hu merchants who traveled to and from the Western Regions joined the team to transport Bai Diezi, and the vehicles that delivered cotton to Yushan County were endless.

Li Sanniang's factory director and shopkeeper also officially took office, and she was very busy with shipping and purchasing goods for a while, and the busyness of the business field also made her slowly transform from a female general on the battlefield to a business strongman.

"If this thing doesn't have more than ten times the profit, will you Xiao Zheng be so concerned?" Du Ruhui pointed to the cotton cloth on the table and said.

"Lao Du, this thing is half cheaper than silk, and it won't make that much," Xiao Zheng explained with a smile.

"I read less than you, you don't lie to me", Du Ruhui also learned his tone to the fullest.

"Originally, I was discussing with you how to pay taxes, but you might as well have deviated my indecent rewind."

While the two were talking, someone came in and told the two that Li Sanniang had asked to see them.

"It's definitely coming to you, it has nothing to do with me," Du Ruhui said with a smile.

"Lao Du, look at why you are smiling so faintly" Xiao Zheng looked helpless.

"I've seen Du Shangshu and Xiao Shilang" After Li Sanniang entered the door, she saw Shi Yi, and after returning the salute, Du Ruhui threw Xiao Zheng into the house and left.

"The princess is polite, I don't know what the princess has to do here," Xiao Zheng asked.