In the 15th and 16th centuries, the woolen textile industry in many European countries developed rapidly, and after the opening of new shipping routes, the economic and cultural exchanges between various regions and nationalities in various regions of the world were expanded. The United Kingdom is located on the center line of Atlantic shipping, and foreign trade has expanded dramatically, which has further stimulated the development www.biquge.info of the British wool export industry and wool weaving industry, the demand for wool has surged, the price of wool in the market has begun to soar, and sheep raising has become a very profitable business, but it needs a large area of land.

As a result, the aristocratic landlords fenced their land and public land to graze their flocks of sheep and forcibly enclosed the land of the peasants. Farmers lost the land they needed to support their families, and they wandered to unfamiliar places with the old and the young.

This was the "enclosure movement" in the bloody history of British capitalism, and this enclosure movement was supported by the state, and in 1593, the English Parliament repealed the anti-enclosure law, causing a enclosure frenzy. After the outbreak of the bourgeois revolution in 1640, the bourgeoisie ceased to oppose the enclosure, and from 1688 onwards the government openly supported the enclosure.

Because of sheep raising, they enclosed the land, because the peasants who enclosed the land for farming were driven out of their homes and became homeless vagrants.

Thomas More, a well-known writer of the time, wrote in a book entitled "A Useful and Interesting Golden Book of the Most Perfect State System and the New Island of Utopia": "Sheep have become so tame and have little desire that they have become so greedy and ferocious that they want to eat people, and they want to level our fields, our houses, and our cities."

As a result, this famous enclosure movement also has a more famous name, called the sheep cannibalism movement.

Britain can enclose these farmlands into sheepfold pastures in order to raise sheep and get wool and cashmere, and stage a sheep cannibalism, so there is no reason for Datang to put his own good natural pastures, and the endless prairie is not cheap, but it is cheap in vain, and Xue Yantuo is destined to become an enemy in the future.

In the past, it was said that there was no profit on the grassland, and it was generally not easy to sell live cattle and sheep to the Central Plains, and although there were cows and sheepskins, the demand for cattle and sheepskins in the Central Plains countries was not so great after all, and the people hardly knew how to wear clothes made of these cows and sheepskins. In the case of meat, it cannot be sold to the Central Plains due to preservation problems.

But wool is different, there is no problem with storage and transportation, and it is very useful to make wool.

Knitting into clothes, hats or whatever, not only can you wear them in winter, but the yarn is a little thinner, and it is no problem to weave it into a thin sweater, or a woolen sweater in spring and autumn.

There are also all kinds of blankets, wool pads, scarves and so on that will become a commodity in the market.

In the past, he didn't know how to deal with wool, but now with Wu Yuanqing's method of processing wool, he has created a spinning wheel suitable for spinning wool, so for ordinary women in Datang who can spin yarn, it is not too easy to learn to spin wool.

When the time comes, I will learn how to use wool, and it is foreseeable that woolen products will become the best choice for people in the north to survive the winter in a few years.

Once woolen fabrics are widely recognized and popularized, the price of wool will naturally rise, and sheep raising will naturally be profitable.

The grassland suitable for grazing sheep is no longer a chicken rib for Datang.

The grassland can generate a lot of benefits, so the Tang Dynasty's garrison on the grassland is absolutely worthwhile.

When the time comes, you can build a city on the grassland, and even migrate the population from the Tang Dynasty to vigorously develop animal husbandry and textile industry, just like Ordos in later generations, the city was almost completely dependent on animal husbandry and textile industry at the beginning.

Not only can they develop themselves, but they can also drive the development of other tribes, let them raise a large number of sheep, and Datang will buy wool, so that they can make money without looting, and with money to earn, they can buy food from Datang and buy all kinds of things, and the tribes on the grassland will definitely no longer focus on the matter of grabbing points from the east and west of Datang all day long.

And the built city will also be the strongest fortress of the Tang Dynasty to control the grassland, with these cities, plus the people on the grassland can eat enough by raising sheep, not to mention the border troubles in the north, at least it can be much less.

Wu Yuanqing explained his thoughts to Li Shimin in detail.

Li Shimin frowned and asked some things he didn't understand from time to time, and when he understood, he asked Wu Yuanqing to continue, and then asked again if he had questions.

Weng and his son-in-law talked about this in the main hall for a long time, and the conversation ended after Wu Yuanqing took out all the things that could be taken out in his head.

The next day, Li Shimin called Wu Yuanqing into the palace again for an exchange, and at the same time asked him to bring all the guys, because Li Shimin wanted to see the whole process from cleaning wool to making wool to weaving.

After such a few days, Wu Yuanqing knew that Li Shimin was moved.

As long as Li Shimin's heart is moved, Wu Yuanqing is not worried that the ministers will vigorously oppose it, after all, this is a profitable thing.

And it is not only beneficial to the Tang Dynasty, but also to these ministers.

None of these ministers have a few industries in their families, but almost all industries in Datang are now saturated, and it is even more difficult for their industries to develop and expand.

But it's different on the grassland, it's a blank place, wool textile is also a blank industry, and it can be expected that the future is bright, then the first person to enter this industry will inevitably reap rich returns.

The samurai caravan had made a fortune from the war behind the army before, and they had long been drooling with envy, and now it was a fool not to seize such a great opportunity.

Sure enough, within two days, the decision to crusade against Xue Yantuo was decided, and the reason used was that Wu Yuanqing committed the crime and conspired against him as Wu Yuanqing said.

As soon as this decision was made, the foreign envoys who jumped up and down to ask for Wu Yuanqing to dispose of Wu Yuanqing also died down one by one.

They can't stop fighting, Datang just finished fighting the Eastern Turks, and they continued to beat Xue Yantuo without taking a breath, so violent and tough directly scared their courage.

Besides, even the high-ranking officials of the Tang Dynasty, who supported them behind their backs, Sun Wuji, didn't speak, and they were still stumbling.

It's just that he took pity on Xue Yantuo's envoy in Datang, and he didn't understand what was going on with a confused expression.

The world is changing too fast, two years ago, the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and Xue Yantuo was still close, and he was canonized as a khan, and he was rewarded with golden knives and whips, so why is he about to go to war now.

Xue Yantuo's envoy was like a mourner, crying and begging to see Li Shimin, wanting to ask the Tang Emperor what was going on, what Xue Yantuo did wrong, we can change it.

It's a pity that he was greeted by the closed palace gate, and the two words "missing" conveyed by the chamberlain through the palace wall.