Du Fu was embarrassed at that time, the other party would treat him as Ye Chang!

He is not famous now, Ye Chang is polite to him, which has made him a little frightened, and now he is mistaken for Ye Chang, which means that he has taken the glory that Ye Chang deserves.

He hurriedly got up to avoid it: "A certain non-Ye Shiyi Lang, the lady recognized the wrong person." ”

The barbarian girl's face suddenly turned red, Du Fu was also young at this time, but his face looked old, so he was regarded by her as a respected elder, and he sat on the main seat, so there was this misunderstanding.

She got up and rolled her eyes, and saw Ye Chang smiling and groaning on the side, Jiao Sui is not, Du Fu is not, could it be said that this young man is?

It's too young, but it's seventeen or eighteen, and it looks a little younger than me!

Therefore, the barbarian girl hesitated slightly, and then said to Jiao Sui: "Jiao Langjun, may I ask Ye Langjun...... Where? ”

Jiao Sui suddenly made a sad face, while Ye Chang smiled and said, "What's the matter, you lost again, right?" ”

"Yes, yes, I lost, I lost! Listen to you three more times! ”

The barbarian girl was a little inexplicable, but she didn't know that Ye Chang had just made a bet with Jiao Sui, that is, to bet that she would recognize the wrong person. Ye Chang lost naturally to supply nectar wine, and Jiao Sui lost to run for Ye Chang three times, and Du Fu was a witness.

"This one who can't smile is Ye Shiyilang, Ashima, didn't you say that you want to meet him, why don't you see him soon?" Jiao Sui said.

The barbarian girl Ashima raised her eyes and looked at Ye Chang, no longer doubting it in her heart, and then gave a salute at the moment: "Nu Ashima visits Ye Langjun." ”

"Excuse me, you have already given a salute, Brother Zimei's salute is the same thing as my salute." Ye Chang smiled.

The girl's name made him a little hungry, his throat itched a little, and he began to miss some kind of plant that originated on the other side of the sea.

Ashima is down-to-earth and generous, and the women of the Six Edicts originally had a status in the clan, and they often received people and entertained guests, and they would come forward. Therefore, even if the embarrassment of admitting the wrong person was revealed, Ashima said: "We came from afar, prepared a little generous gift, and specially presented it to Ye Langjun." ”

Although she learned Tang Chinese and spoke fluently, she still didn't notice some details, and she didn't use a modest "thin gift" when she mentioned her gifts. She beckoned back, and two barbarians retreated, and a pair of camels fell from their horses.

The two barbarians brought the camel closer, and when they lifted it, they saw that there were rolls of white cloth inside.

Ye Chang had just glanced at it and hadn't said anything, but Du Fu over there said "Huh": "It's actually a white cloth?" ”

"What a white fold of cloth, but cotton...... Well, there are no cotton growers in the Central Plains today? ”

"What is cotton?" Du Fu asked in surprise.

Ye Chang suddenly sat up straight, and his originally casual gaze became bright.

Cotton was introduced to China very early, but it was introduced to the Central Plains relatively late, and it was planted on a large scale in the Central Plains at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and it was not popular until the Ming Dynasty. At this time, cotton was cultivated in small quantities in the Western Regions, and also in some barbarians in the south. The cotton in the Western Regions is not easy to weave, while the cotton from the southern barbarians is suitable for weaving, and the woven cloth is called "white folded cloth" at this time, because it is scarce, and the price is even more expensive than silk!

Seeing Ye Chang see his gift change like this, Ashima was immediately happy: he could move it with his wealth, and he was much more sure of it this time.

"Yu Niangzi, is this a white cloth?"

Reaching out and stroking it, confirming that the cloths were made of cotton, Ye Chang asked Ashima again.

"It is the white cloth that the Tang people call it, and in our tribe, it is called Jibei."

"This cloth is your own production?" Ye Chang asked again.

Ashima hesitated slightly.

She could see that Ye Chang was very interested in the white cloth, and she wanted to invite Ye Chang to go, and this white cloth could be of great use. But on the other hand, the so-called broom self-cherishing, the Yue Zhao to which she belongs is now lonely and embarrassed, and the old territory has also been occupied by the Southern Zhao, just such a specialty, but she doesn't want to be coveted.

"But such a tall thing resembling a hemp stalk, the fruit is like a peach, and it blooms after autumn, revealing the inner flocculent, and the color is white?" Ye Chang asked while gesturing.

When this question is spoken, Ashima knows that the other party really knows how to do it, not fake it.

"Yes, it's our own white stacked cloth."

Ye Chang heard that her tribe produced cotton, and immediately moved his mind.

Nowadays, the clothes mainly rely on silk linen, the output of silk is always limited, and hemp is rough and difficult to weave, if cotton weaving can be promoted, it is a huge industry!

However, it takes a lot of land to grow cotton, and Ye Chang now has no land.

After closing his eyes and thinking for a while, Ye Changcai looked at Ashima again: "Ah Niangzi......"

"Ye Langjun calls the slave Xiaowei or the girl." This barbarian woman is very generous.

"Niangniang......" Ye Chang felt his throat a little dry again: "What are you asking for when you come here?" ”

Ashima's heart jumped slightly, and she bowed down again: "The slave begged the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty to save my clan, but there was no way to enter, so he came to Ye Langjun's place, only asking Ye Langjun to introduce him to the eldest princess Yuzhen." ”

It turns out that the Yue Xi edict to which Ashima belongs is one of the six edicts of Yunnan in the Tang Dynasty, located in the easternmost part, close to the Tang Dynasty, and has always been close to the Tang Dynasty. However, because of the invasion of Tibet, the Six Edicts swayed between the Tang Dynasty and Tibet, and in the face of the threat of Tibet, the Tang Dynasty also intended to support one side of the Six Edicts to fight against Tibet.

Datang chose Pi Luoge's Nanzhao, and the remaining five edicts became victims. Ashima belonged to the Yue Xi Zhao, first the edict lord Bo Chong was harmed by Bai Manzhang Seek, and although Jiannan Jiedu made Zhang Qiu and Qiong flog Zhang to death, he did not order the edict master for the Yue Zhi Zhao, but moved the people of the Yue Xi Zhao to the far away, and all the jurisdictions were returned to the Southern Zhao.

Although Bo Chong had no children, his nephew Yu Zhiyuan could inherit the position of the edict, so he was not convinced, moved his tribe to cross the Lushui, built a double city on the bank of the Dragon River, and continued to fight against Nanzhao. It's just that in the face of the Southern Zhao, which had already annexed several edicts, the remnants of the Yue Zhao were too weak, so they had to seek external assistance.

"Nanzhao is in Shunyi, but in fact it is connected with Tibet, isolating us from the way to pay tribute to the Tang Emperor, and persecuting our people, we have been cornered, if there is no support from the Tang Dynasty, we can continue. This time, I led people north to pay tribute, but I was also blocked by them, and the journey was difficult and dangerous, and I begged for mercy......"

Speaking of this, Ashima bowed again, and her voice whimpered, so that she could not continue.

"In other words, do you want me to speak well for you in front of the eldest princess Yuzhen?" Ye Chang asked.

"Don't dare to ask for more, just ask Ye Langjun to take this line."

Ye Chang hesitated for a while, Jiao Sui looked sympathetic, and Du Fu frowned. After a while, Ye Chang said: "You are tired from afar, please stay first, wait for me to think twice......"

"Now that Nanzhao is being forced day by day, the slaves can wait, but the people of the slave department can't wait." Ashima fell to the ground: "I just ask Ye Langjun for mercy!" ”

"Hehe, I'm just a civilian, but I'm not a powerful person in the Tang Dynasty, even if I have the heart, I'm powerless." Ye Chang didn't like others begging like this, so he avoided it: "Ah Niangzi, if you really want to solve the problem, please go and rest for a while." ”

At this point, Ashima had no choice but to leave with Xiang'er.

"Ye Shiyi, don't agree to this." After they left, Du Fu said solemnly: "National affairs, we can't do it, Jiao Sui, you brought these barbarians to see Ye Shiyi, you really caused trouble for Shiyi Lang!" ”

Jiao Sui pouted and said: "Why do you say this, the eldest husband should have the ambition of the world, even if he can't be a class, he must also be a high-level person!" ”

"I often hear people say that you are bold from the beginning, sure enough, you don't want to think about it, Shiyi Lang was given gold to return to his hometown, on the surface it is glory, but in fact it is abandoned by the Son of Heaven, if he is hidden and waiting for the opportunity, after the Son of Heaven forgets it, there will be a comeback day. But now it is colluding with the barbarians and the inner clan, this is the way to cause trouble, and it is a monstrous disaster! ”

When Du Fu said this, he was shocked.

Although Jiao Sui is bold and loves to take care of things, he has no intention of harming Ye Chang, Du Fu's analysis is much deeper than he thought, and it also makes him realize how much risk it will be if Ye Chang really intervenes in the affairs of the Six Edicts.

Du Fu was full of fists, and Ye Chang was quite grateful.

"What Brother Zimei said is, however, I am very quiet, and I do intend to go to Chang'an." Ye Chang smiled a little lightly: "I don't enter Chang'an City, I only wait in the other business of the eldest princess of Jingzhao Rimchuan Yuzhen, presumably San Lang won't be too suspicious, right?" ”

"It doesn't hurt if you don't enter Chang'an, it is said that because Shaanxi County is too guarded, water and land transfer makes Wei Jian dig the canal, so it will be in the east of Chang'an City Wangchun Tower to present His Majesty, this is a grand event, the Quartet will come to see." Du Fu said with a smile: "I came this time to invite Eleven Lang to watch the ceremony together. ”

"It's done?" Ye Chang couldn't help but feel moved in his heart: "Then you can take a boat to Chang'an?" ”

"Exactly."

"That being the case, let's go and see this one." Ye Changdao.

"Look at the excitement and look at the excitement, but what the barbarian girl invited, in a foolish opinion, Eleven Lang still does not increase with the day."

The topic turned back to the barbarian girl Ashima, and Du Fu persuaded again.

He didn't say much, only a few words, and Ye Chang was only meeting him for the second time. But Ye Chang felt that Du Fu was very suitable for friends.

Therefore, he did not hide it: "I have no interest in the survival of the Yue Xi edict, but I am extremely interested in Bai Diebu." ”

"Oh, why so?"

"The people's livelihood is nothing more than four words, food, clothing, housing and transportation. Silk and linen fur, but the clothes are not exhaustive of the people of the world, although this is a prosperous age, when I entered Chang'an last year, but also saw that there are hungry people in ragged clothes. If I can do something for the people of Datang on top of food, clothing, housing and transportation affairs, how dare I shirk it! ”

Ye Chang's righteous and stern words made Du Fu stand up solemnly and arch his hand towards him: "I see!" However, Eleven Lang's own safety must not be ignored! ”

"If the country lives and dies for profit, will it not be avoided because of misfortune and fortune!"

A poem calmed Du Fu again, he twisted his beard and chanted twice, and then said to Ye Changchang: "When I first heard the poem "Title Fenglingdu", I felt that Shiyi Lang must be one of my generation. ”

"Hugh is going to be deceived by the words on his lips, this guy is not so saintly." Jiao Sui over there couldn't stand it anymore, and said in a weird manner: "Don't look at the righteousness he said, in fact, there are only two words, Kong Fang!" ”

Du Fu was stunned, he knew that although Jiao Sui liked to talk after drinking a little wine, he generally had something to say, and it was not groundless. Compared with his understanding of Ye Chang, he is naturally inferior to Jiao Sui, Jiao Sui criticizes Ye Chang like this, how can Ye Chang not be annoyed?

He looked at Ye Chang, but found that Ye Chang was not angry, but laughed.

"But you saw through it, what Fang just said is indeed a big word, in fact, this white cloth is profitable!"

"How profitable?"

"If you can plant it widely, the fabric clothes will be all over the world, think about it, how much can this sell, it should not be under the silk silk!"

"If that's the case, it's really a lot of interest!"

Seeing that Jiao Sui and Ye Chang began to discuss how much benefit Bai Diebu could bring, Du Fu was a little confused for a while. He didn't know if the righteous and awe-inspiring Ye Chang was his true color, or if the current Ye Chang who was dancing for the sake of copper coins was his true color.

The text is the voice of the heart, and the poem is the heart song. The one who can write such poems for the country and the people should be the real Ye Chang, right?

"It's a pity that no matter how good you calculate, it will be difficult to promote cotton after all."

The two talked for a while, and Jiao Sui sneered again and said something that was uninteresting.

Ye Chang said hesitantly: "So, I'm going to see the eldest princess of Yuzhen, I will come out of this matter, and there is not much benefit, but if the eldest princess of Yuzhen comes out, why worry about things not happening?" ”

"You don't want to monopolize it?"

"Jokes, I'm good at Ye Eleven, and I never shy away from it, but when did I see that I was monopolistic?" Ye Chang suddenly stopped when he heard this: "This cotton...... If the white cloth can be spread like mulberry hemp, the people can use it to pay their taxes, the state can use it to enrich the treasury, the merchants can make a profit from it, and the soldiers can use it to protect themselves from the cold—everyone is happy! ”

"Okay, you have to make a lot of money. Since you say that you are not exclusive to profit, why don't you make public the means of your paper mill and printing mill? Jiao Sui slapped his face unceremoniously.

"The paper mill and printing workshop are not in my name, but my sister-in-law's property." Ye Chang said immediately.

After a few things, Ye Chang handed over the paper mill and the printing workshop directly to his sister-in-law Fang just in case. this

"Poof, you, you!" Jiao Sui laughed at him twice, and then said what he had been holding back for a long time: "What about the nectar wine, are you willing to take out the nectar wine and make it public?" ”

"Naturally, I am willing, but Jiao Sui, you haven't married a wife yet."

"What?"

"If you take a wife, I will give you a winery to make nectar."

"Really!"

"Can I, Ye Shiyi, have words but not faith?"

"Just now, you were thinking about the white cloth that deceived the barbarian girl, but you are not ready to help them continue the clan!"

The two of them quarreled again, making Du Fu really speechless. After he came to Wolong Valley, he heard the two of them arguing constantly, and most of them were Jiao Sui thinking of ways to trick people into drinking nectar wine.

However, Du Fu was a little envious, the quarrel between the two of them seemed to be fierce, but it did not hurt their friendship.

Sometimes Du Fu felt that he was still a little estranged from Ye Chang, and Ye Chang looked at his gaze, which seemed to be a little sympathetic and solemn, not at all like he was open to Jiao Sui.

But it's always so unserious and unsuccessful, going to Chang'an is a very important thing, Ye Chang is young and impetuous, and he is older, so he should be advised.

Thinking of this, Du Fu coughed: "Eleven Lang, since you have made up your mind, when will you set off, and is this Wolong Valley going to be arranged?" ”