"Li Yi, don't sell it, hurry up and talk about it carefully."

Li Er led everyone back to the pavilion, and after sitting down, Li Yi began to elaborate.

"Yes, Your Majesty, uncles, this thing is called cotton clothes, and the secret of it is the cotton inside." Li Yi took out a cotton shoe, borrowed a knife from the guard, and slashed it down, and the cotton shoe was cut out, revealing the flocculent cotton inside.

Li Yi took out Li Yi's cotton, divided it among the people, and then continued: "This is cotton, a kind of grass and trees that grow in the West, cotton is a very magical plant, it doesn't need to be spun, you just need to make it fluffy, and then stuff it directly into the cloth, you can make cotton clothes, as for the effect, Your Majesty and the uncles have already seen it." ”

Everyone looked at the cotton in amazement and kept rubbing it around.

"Yi'er, you said that this is grass and trees, which means that this can be planted?" Fang Xuanling took the lead in asking the key.

"Yes, not only can cotton be grown, but it is also very easy to grow. Three years ago, Chen bought a large number of seeds from Hu Shang, and then tried to plant them in Jiangnan for three years, harvesting a total of 2 million catties of cotton. ”

"What? Two million catties? Li Er and everyone were happy, what they cared about was the amount of cotton, and when they heard that there were two million catties of cotton, everyone was ecstatic.

"However, two million catties is not enough." Suddenly, Li Yi splashed a basin of cold water.

"How so? Two million catties is not enough? The eldest grandson Wuji asked.

"This set of cotton clothes has a total of nearly ten catties of cotton, even if we are saving some, it will cost at least eight catties, that is to say, 300,000 troops, we need at least 2.4 million catties. Another point, in this cotton, there were originally seeds, and after the seeds were removed, I don't know how much can be left, so we still have a gap of at least 500,000 to 1 million catties of cotton! ”

When everyone heard this, they fell silent.

Li Er's fingers tapped on the table and asked in a deep voice, "Do you have an idea?" ”

"Yes."

Li Yi's words lifted everyone's spirits.

"It's August now, sowing must be incomprehensible, but the Jiangnan side is also sowing this year, about 500,000 catties can be harvested, the remaining gap, the minister can find a way to buy from the Western Regions, cotton will be harvested in October, how to be timely, it can be sent to Datang in November, and it will not delay next year's expedition." But there are many accidental factors in this kind of thing, and the minister dare not guarantee it. ”

"I didn't let you guarantee it." Li Er smiled and waved his hand. "You just do your best, in fact, 500,000 catties of cotton in the south is enough, it's really not good, even if you only send 200,000 troops, I have the confidence to win this battle."

Li Er is not blindly confident, sending troops in winter, in the case of mental calculation and unpreparedness, Datang's winning rate is very high.

"Okay, that's the case, Xuan Ling, you order the Ministry of Civil Affairs to fully cooperate with Li Yi to make cotton clothes, and Li Yi is the main one."

"Yes." Fang Xuanling hurriedly responded.

"Pharmacist, you reformulate the battle plan and change the time of the expedition to January next year."

"The old minister obeys!"

After that, Li Yi also joined the discussion and made a lot of suggestions, and it was not until the evening that Li Yi and Li Jing returned home together.

In the evening, the family had a reunion dinner, played with a group of bear children for a while, and then rested early.

The next day, Li Yi left the house early in the morning.

"Rickshaw."

On the street, Li Yi intercepted a rickshaw driver.

"Hey, this Lang Jun, are you going to take a car?"

"Not bad." Li Yi said that, and the coachman quickly stopped the rickshaw, put down the handrail, bowed down and asked Li Yi to enter, then lifted the car and ran forward.

"Lang Jun, where are you going?"

"Pearl Square, there is an inn."

"Okay, sit down."

The coachman found his way and ran straight away.

"Coachman, how much can you earn in a day?"

On the way, Li Yi chatted with the coachman.

"Lang Jun, this is not accurate, when it is good, you can earn five or six hundred wen a day, and when it is bad, it will only be two or three hundred, and if you catch up with the bad weather, you won't make any money. However, I am already satisfied, and I now earn enough money a month to support my family. ”

"And what did you do before?"

"Before? It is to work as a coolie for others, and all you earn is strength money. ”

"Hehe, it's not bad, these days, as long as you can make money, what can't you do?"

"Xiao Langjun's words are reasonable, we don't want to be like Lang Jun, we pay attention to decency in everything, what we pay attention to is to eat and dress warmly, as long as we can make money, we can do anything."

"Then you do this, is there any gossip?"

"Why not? However, it was only there at first, and then it disappeared. ”

"Why is that?"

"It's all because it's called...... What do you call for a report..."

"Newspapers?"

"Yes, it's a newspaper, I don't know how to read, and I can't figure out what it is, but I heard that this newspaper has the words of our Chang'an Jade Qilin, he said a lot of good things for us, and said that this rickshaw was invented by him, and with him to speak, others naturally won't chew their tongues."

"Huh? Do you know the Jade Kirin? Li Yi said a little weirdly.

"Hey, Xiao Langjun, you're a layman, who doesn't know the Jade Qilin Li Engong in Chang'an City? If nothing else, just talking about this rickshaw, my family can't even eat enough, and now, I can occasionally eat a few pieces of pork. ”

When Li Yi heard this, he smiled, didn't speak again, but turned his gaze to the street.

He saw that every few dozen steps, there would be a rickshaw passing by, and these rickshaws generally have people on board, it seems that the coachman's business is very good, every coachman's face is full of smiles, looking at these smiles, Li Yiton felt relieved, it turned out that his persistence was not wrong.

The rickshaw was not slow, and after a quarter of an hour, Li Yi arrived in front of an inn.

After paying the driver's fare, Li Yi got out of the car, looking at the signboard of an inn, Li Yi had mixed feelings for a while.

He still remembered that there used to be three sisters and brothers living here, one of them seemed to have a deep love for him, but it was a pity that God made people, Li Yi and her finally had no fate, and now there is an inn all over the Tang Dynasty, and branches have been opened in many state capitals, and the three sisters and brothers have already left Chang'an, and I don't know when they will come back.

Shaking his head, Li Yi suppressed the feeling in his heart, walked into the inn, and reached out to take out his membership card.

"Noble? I don't know what the noble man commanded? ”

As soon as the little guy saw Li Yi's membership card, he was scared and nervous, he knew that there were few such membership cards in the entire Datang, he had been working here for a year, and it was the first time he had seen a membership card of this level.

"I'm looking for someone, his name is Guzat, you go and tell him, just say that Li Yi is coming!"

"Yes, you wait!"

The little guy agreed, turned around and was about to leave, and immediately thought of Li Yibao's name, and suddenly his feet trembled, Li Yi? In the entire Datang, there is only one person who can be called this name, as well as a member card of this level......

Thinking about it, the little guy was even more excited in his heart, and his feet sped up.

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