Chapter 89 The Sin of Gender 89
Qin Shuangshuang had a complicated mood, please ask her master Fang Zhongyi to select the best and most suitable children for martial arts training from these orphans, not that Qin Shuangshuang doesn't want to treat them equally, but children with good martial arts qualifications, it will be easier to survive on the battlefield in the future!
Fang Zhongyi has been idle for a long time since he arrived in the border city, there are tenants in the land, the houses have been built, and the people he likes have also married, although he is very happy with the Bai family every day, but he has not moved for too long and his body is a little itchy, and now teaching a group of little hairy people to practice martial arts is also a pastime.
Among the hundreds of children, Fang Zhongyi selected a total of one hundred and eight children with good qualifications, and there were twelve girls among them.
Since you want to cultivate your own team, you can't let General Qi spend money to raise these children, but it is not easy to raise so many children, not to mention that these children still have to practice martial arts, the consumption of physical strength in martial arts training is huge, children who practice martial arts must eat three meals a day, and they must be full of three meals and must have meat, otherwise there will be big problems in their bodies!
Fortunately, Qin Shuangshuang saved enough money by killing Hu people during this time, so he first built a large yard for these children to live in, recruited more than a dozen tenants, bought a thousand acres of land, and then raised some pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, so that the things produced in his own family were enough to be self-sufficient.
It's really not easy to deal with these things at once, fortunately, Qin Shuangshuang is also a person with connections now, there are not many other places in the border city, there is a lot of land, Qin Shuangshuang's thousand acres of land she bought quite easily, the price is not high, the high-grade field is four taels of silver per mu, and the middle field is three taels of silver, which is two taels of silver cheaper than the land price of Qinjia Village.
However, it took some time to find tenants, and it was Qi Pengju who took a hard time to see Qin Shuangshuang finding, and moved ten households from the emigrants who built the border city to Qin Shuangshuang as tenants, so that Qin Shuangshuang would not leave thousands of acres of fertile land vacant.
The pigsty and sheep pen used for breeding, the chicken pen and the duck pen Qin Shuangshuang have also been built with good bluestone, and four long-term workers have been hired, waiting for the spring to catch all the cubs to raise, and this time in the winter will be vacant first!
After finishing his family's affairs, Qin Shuangshuang began to work again after the spring no longer provided dried vegetables.
This time, Qin Shuangshuang did not plan to let Huyan Babur sell things, but let him buy wool and then make wool products.
In fact, this matter is a bit mysterious, before Qin Shuangshuang wanted to train Huyan Babur to be a Hu merchant but couldn't think of what to let him do, but at night Qin Shuangshuang dreamed that a group of strangely dressed people were shaving sheep.
These men sorted the shaved wool and sorted the coarser and softer wool into two piles and washed them separately.
Then the wool is spun into wool, and in a wonderful way, four bamboo needles of different thicknesses are used to weave the wool yarn spun from the fine wool into clothes, hats, gloves, socks, etc......
The coarse wool thread is dyed in various colors, and with a technique that Qin Shuangshuang has never seen, it is made into carpets and cushions that are as large as the size of handkerchiefs and are full of patterns.
After Qin Shuangshuang woke up, she remembered everything she saw in her dream clearly, and she also remembered the various crafts in it clearly, which even made Qin Shuangshuang feel that as long as she wanted to do it, she would be able to do the same immediately.
For this fantasy thing, Qin Shuangshuang could only think that this was the woman who sent her back to be reborn and was touching her through a dream.
Since this dream, Qin Shuangshuang has an idea, in the dream, the warmth of the sweater is excellent, only wearing a thin layer in winter is already very warm, if you wear a thicker one, it will be warmer than the cotton clothes, and it will not be the same as the cotton clothes, as long as you wear the sweater products, you will definitely like it, so the sweater made of things, the market is not to worry, but you should worry about the source of wool.
Qin Shuangshuang's plan was to let Huyan Babur buy wool on the grassland with the Hu people who were good at grazing, and when these Hu people tasted the sweetness of raising sheep and selling wool, they would naturally continue to expand the scale of the sheep breeding flock.
The more sheep are raised, the more money you earn, and the money earned can be exchanged for grain, vegetables and even luxury goods in the Central Plains, when the chain of breeding and feeding is formed, the lifeblood of the grassland tribes will be controlled in the hands of the big dye, if the Hu people dare to make a big mistake, only need to cut off the transaction with the Hu people, it is enough to make the Hu people have internal strife!
If you want to promote wool products, you must first have samples, Qin Shuangshuang also relied on his own money, directly, bought four big fat sheep, anyway, it is cold now, pour a layer of water on the mutton and put it in the vat outside the house, and it will soon freeze hard, and it can be left for as long as possible.
The mutton let Fang Yao, who was talking about eating roasted whole sheep when he saw the sheep, toss, and Qin Shuangshuang pulled Qin Miao to toss the wool together, Qin Shuangshuang thought about it, he would definitely run out often in the future, and the tenants who farmed the land at home and the long-term workers who farmed the sheep would be under the care of Fang Yao.
As for the wool piece, Qin Shuangshuang hopes that after Qin Miao can learn it, he will lead the woman she rescued from the Hu people to do it with the children who were not selected by her! Qin Miao has always been very ingenious, and Qin Shuangshuang believes that Qin Miao will not let her down.
Qin Shuangshuang and Qin Miao tossed for more than a month in the inexplicable eyes of Bai's, Fang Zhongyi and Fang Yaoyao, and made a set of sweaters, wool gloves, hats, socks, and a pair of one-meter-square cushions!
When the thing was made, the whole family was shocked, and at first everyone loved the cushions, which was a great luxury to enlarge and make a carpet on the floor! But after everyone tried on the sweater once, the cushion was put aside, and no matter how nice the cushion was, it couldn't compare to the warmth and comfort of wearing it.
After trying it out, Fang Zhongyi immediately went to buy more than a dozen big sheep, the whole family had to make a sweater, as for the mutton, it could be kept and eaten slowly, anyway, there were more than 100 children in the family, one big fat sheep a day, and it would be eaten in a few days.
This time, it was no longer just Qin Shuangshuang and Qin Miao who sorted the wool and spun the wool and knitted the sweater, but the whole family went into battle together, and even Fang Zhongyi took a hundred or so little apprentices to help shear the sheep, divide the wool, and wash the wool, and completed the most time-consuming thing in the early stage in one day.
When it was time to knit sweaters, Bai had a whim to bring over a few people who were with her on weekdays, so that they could also learn the craft of making wool products, and then they would teach other women, so that everyone could also make more money in the future.
Qin Shuangshuang felt that this kind of thing did not flow into the fields of outsiders, and she also believed in the character of those good people who got along with the Bai family, so she didn't stop it.
Who knew that before the Bai family went out to have a cup of tea, he saw the eldest grandson of the village chief, Dahu, running in in a hurry and saying to Qin Shuangshuang, "Your mother has an accident!" ”