Chapter 693: Cold Arrows in the Back
The princess of the northern kingdom has decided to promote the four-season silkworm breeding method to the south!
As soon as this news came out, the whole country was shaken. Especially in the places in the south where mulberry and silkworms are grown, the people are even more excited.
Although the climate in the south is mild, and it is not a problem to raise silkworms three times a year, they once laughed at the silkworm farmers in the north and laughed at them fiercely. As a result, I didn't expect that Liangzhou went to a northern princess, and the northern princess studied the four-season silkworm raising method, and she quickly popularized this method to every place around!
Now, the north can raise ten seasons of silkworms a year, which is far higher than them!
Although the silk in the north is not as soft as that in the south, and most of the woven cloth cannot be used as clothes, who told them to spread this powerful princess of the north again? She was stunned to weave all kinds of mats and curtains with these coarse silks, and then the reputation of Liangzhou silk went up, but she crossed the southern silk!
Because of this, the sericulture farmers in the south were indignant.
"Hmph, if we also learn the four-season silkworm raising method, we can also weave more silk, and then sell the silk from the south to all parts of the country, and we will definitely be able to suppress the reputation of the northern silk!"
The Liangzhou silk has now become the representative of the northern silk. As long as everyone talks about northern silk, the first reaction is Liangzhou silk. Even in the territory of the foreign tribe before, the silk cloth woven from the silkworm reeling silk raised there was also under the banner of northern silk.
Now, this opportunity has finally come, and it was sent to them by the princess of the northern kingdom on her own initiative. When the originally indignant sericulture farmers saw this, they were all dumbfounded.
"This ...... It can't be true, right? The princess of the northern kingdom is really so kind, willing to give us such a precious method for nothing? I remember that when they implemented this method in Liangzhou and even outside Liangzhou, they also collected money! ”
"That was before, they were poor, and they had no way to collect money. But now it's different, how well do you see Liangzhou developing now? Almost everyone in Liangzhou is well fed and warmly dressed, and they are not short of money, so naturally they don't care about the little profits. Of course, it was also because the princess of the northern kingdom played this matter to the emperor, and the emperor also strongly supported it, and specially allocated funds from the treasury to support her actions. Chu Xu, the boss of Yizhichun in the south, patted his chest and said that he would pay half of the cost for silkworm farmers out of his own pocket. In this way, we don't have to spend money? ”
"Another point is that if the border trade between the Chao and Lang people is getting better and better today, the supply of northern silk has become saturated, but the demand for southern silk is still rising. The reason why the princess of the northern kingdom did this is also to increase the production of our southern silk, so that we can continue to send silk to them, so that we can make money from the Lang people! This is called killing two birds with one stone, mutual benefit and win-win! ”
Everyone figured out the key to this, and slowly put their minds at ease.
Before Harukeda decided to do this, she did write to the emperor first. In the memoir, she listed her plan in every detail, and also wrote down all the possible results. Of course, the most important thing is the paragraph she listed at the end - in this way, Nan Silk was sent to the border in a steady stream, how could she earn an extra 200,000 taels of silver from the Lang clan in a year. As soon as this example is opened, other small border countries will follow suit, and their interests will be doubled, and the national strength of our Celestial Empire will inevitably flourish.
True. In addition to the border between the Celestial Empire and the Lang people in the north, there are more than a dozen small countries bordering their borders in the other three directions of east, west and south. If they can also open border markets with these small countries, continue to sell them all the good things of the Celestial Empire, and then make money from them, then it will be really difficult for them to prosper in the Celestial Empire!
The emperor was moved.
He quickly gave Chunzhi a reply, granted her request, and ordered the state treasury to allocate 500,000 taels to assist Chunzhi to go to the south to pilot and promote the four-season silkworm breeding method.
When Chunzhi was approved, she took the money with her, and then, accompanied by Pan Yatou, she went to the south to supervise the matter in person.
When the silkworm farmers in the south learned that it was the princess of the northern country, the ancestor of the four-season silkworm cultivation method, who came to teach everyone the experience, they were all so excited, not to mention that they were interested in learning, and before Chunzhi taught the method, everyone had already praised her.
However, in the face of the praise that came to her face, Pan Yatou was very uncomfortable.
"Mother, do you think that these people are too enthusiastic about us? We haven't done anything yet, they've already praised us like this, and this is basically roasting us on the fire! If our promotion is not successful this time, then the joy of these people is likely to turn into anger, so why don't they tear us apart? ”
"Then don't let them tear it up, let's just do it." Haruka is very calm.
Pan girl pursed her lips. "I always felt like there was a conspiracy here."
"Whatever! No matter what conspiracy they have, as long as we do what we have to do, so that they can't find a chance to do it, then no matter how clever the conspiracy is, it will be useless. Chunzhi said slowly, "Now you just need to remember one thing - the emperor agrees with this matter, then they don't dare to do bad things too blatantly." ”
Pan girl suddenly realized.
"I see! No wonder you have to write to the emperor at the beginning! ”
Harueda smiled. "This kind of good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, where do I dare to take the lead? This work is naturally the emperor's. And it's totally worth it to exchange a piece of head work for his protection. ”
Pan Yatou nodded again and again. "That's it, mother, you think it so well!"
Haruka smiled faintly again.
"Now, are you still worried?"
"Don't worry anymore!" Pan girl quickly shook her head.
Harueda nodded. "Since you're not worried, let's do things well!"
"Hmm!" Pan girl nodded vigorously.
It's just that this is easy to say, but it is also a bit difficult to actually operate. The climate in the south and the north is very different, and the four-season silkworm raising method in the north must not be directly copied and used. When Harue and her daughter came here, they had to study the soil and climate carefully, and then find a way to slowly improve the methods they had at hand so that they could fully adapt to the south.
This improvement will definitely take a lot of time and effort.
As soon as Chunzhi and Pan Yatou arrived in the south, they plunged into it.
But there is a foundation in the past, so they are not too hard. After a whole month of hard work, they had already figured out a rough way to improve it.
After sorting out the matters that need attention, Chunzhi asked people to notify Chu Xu to come over to discuss specific operation matters - since Chu Xu was also the one who paid for it, then the first place they arrived at was naturally the location of Yizhichun in the south designated by Chu Xu.
However, unexpectedly, Chu Xu came in a hurry, and what he brought to them was a thunderbolt on a sunny day - "Princess, no, the little lady and the little boy are gone!" ”
Although Chen Yatou and Xi Boy were both named county lord and marquis respectively, Chunzhi didn't like others to call them so, so it was enough to ask everyone around them to call them Miss Gongzi. As the days went on, everyone else did the same, and they all screamed like this.
Now the little lady and the little boy that Chu Xu said are naturally the morning girl and the Xi boy.
This time, I came to the south to promote the four-season sericulture method, and the spring branches had to stay in more than one place. As soon as she left this time, she would leave for a year, and the two children were reluctant to her, clamoring to come with her, so she took the children with her. It's just that the children are still young, and they can't interfere in these serious things, so after arriving here, Chunzhi handed over the two children to Chu Xu and asked him to arrange for someone to take the two children out to play.
As a result, this is happening now.
Haruka's heart sank.
"Why didn't they see them?" She asked in a deep voice.
"That is, today I asked someone to take them out to eat glutinous rice lotus, the two little ones didn't eat enough, they were clamoring to play on the street, and the little guy took them there. As a result, in front of a juggling stall, the little girl was not careful, and the two children were taken away! Chu Xu was so anxious, "After I learned the news, I had already asked someone to look for it." It's just that the stakes are so important that I don't dare to hide it, so I'll come and tell the princess about you. ”
The more Haruka listened, the more gloomy her face became.
Pan girl is also anxious. She is a mother who naturally knows how much damage the loss of the child hurts to her mother. Especially, now that both children have been taken away!
"Could it be that it is a flower photographer? But the morning girls have been very shrewd since they were children, strangers don't let them get close at all, they can also work hard, how can the person who shoots the flowers deal with them? That is to say......" The more she thought about it, the colder her heart became, "we are here to work diligently for the people, but they are taking my younger siblings behind their backs, and they want us to be unable to do this?" Their behavior of putting cold arrows behind their backs is too shameless! ”
"But no matter what, we have to keep doing what we need to do." Haruka finally spoke coldly, "Otherwise, we will really fall for their way." ”