The next morning, Yan Yan ordered a few things, all of which were unique things from his own home, including a cotton jacket made of cotton a few days ago, as well as lotus root flour, yamba flour, and the half of the cotton cloth sent by Zhou Wan.

According to the rules, she is still the queen mother who went to see first, and the queen mother was very surprised to see Yan Yan send a cotton jacket this season, and learned that this cotton jacket was made of cotton in her own field, and the queen mother held the cotton jacket and touched it, and then put it on her body to feel it, and finally came to the conclusion that it was no different from silk cotton.

Seeing this, Yan Yan took out half a piece of cloth sent by Zhou Wan again, and the Queen Mother also touched it, but because she wore silk and satin every day, and she didn't wear anything like kudzu linen, she didn't have much interest in cotton, after all, the feel of cotton cloth was still much inferior to silk.

Aunt Rong on the side said that the cotton cloth is smoother to the touch than Ge Ma, and it should be more comfortable to wear closer than Ge Ma.

Coming out of Cining Palace, Yan Yan went to see the emperor. Although Li Cong couldn't tell the difference between cotton cloth and kudzu linen, he could also feel that the cotton jacket made of cotton was almost the same as the cotton jacket made of silk cotton, and immediately put this cotton jacket on his body, felt the warmth effect, and then ordered Yan Yan to sit opposite him.

"Come, child, tell me how many acres of cotton have been planted this year, how much cotton has been harvested, and how many such cotton jackets can be made."

He wanted to change winter clothes for the army, the soldiers in the north were too bitter, most of the soldiers could not afford to wear cotton jackets and cover cotton quilts, and better were to use local sheepskin or wolf skin and other cheap inferior animal fur to make overcoats, and almost used all kinds of leaves or catkins to avoid the cold, which did not work at all, so there were soldiers who froze to death every year.

Yan Yan shook her head, there are less than ten acres of land on her side, plus Zhou Wan's side is only twelve acres, according to last year's data, the yield per mu is less than 200 catties, which is about 18 catties, and the total is about 2,000 catties, and this is still seed cotton.

However, Yan Yan estimated that the cottonseeds harvested from the 12 acres of land this year can probably be planted with 200 acres of cotton next year, and so on, and 3,000 acres of land the year after tomorrow, that is to say, it will take two years to replace all the soldiers of the army with cotton supplies.

This figure is within Li Cong's budget, in any case, the trial planting of cotton is a success, five years later, the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty can probably wear cotton jackets and cover cotton cloth for the winter, it can be regarded as the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, no, it is a stroke worth writing in the entire history of China, and it is a very important stroke.

The rest is to eat, no, after asking about cotton, Li Cong asked about the cultivation of yams and rice.

This year, hundreds of acres of potatoes have been planted in Zhuangzi, some of which are left by Yan Yan, some are left by Zhuangzi, and some are transplanted.

After a rough estimate, it is estimated that a hundred potatoes can receive 50,000 catties of yams, and Yan Yan plans to keep them as staple food for the villagers, and donate the saved food to the imperial court.

"Say, girl, what reward do you want this time, together with that kid, I really didn't expect that kid to really have two strokes, and he actually subdued the most difficult Master Yang." Li Cong's face swept away the previous haze and smiled.

"Thanks to the emperor's uncle's mercy, the courtier's fatherless and motherless orphan surnamed was given the title of county lord, which is already a great grace, and please ask the emperor's uncle to stop thinking about the courtier, peace of mind about state affairs, the courtiers said, everything the courtiers do is not a reward, just to be able to share the worries of the emperor's uncle and the queen mother's old man, this is the duty of a courtier." Yan Yan knelt down and politely refused.

She is afraid that the emperor will be happy and cause her some other trouble, as the old saying goes, blessings and misfortunes lurk, and it really touches the interests of some people, and there are many people who are secretly staring at her, can she prevent it?

"Flatten, let's do it, you don't want to reward it, I'll let that kid go to Taixue, how about it?" Li Cong changed his mind.

He thinks that Lu You is indeed useful, but he is a bit unjustifiable to use it like this, and it will not be easy to be promoted in the future, so he wants Lu You to study hard for two years and strive to end up early, as long as he has fame, he can be the emperor to seal everyone's mouth.

"Thank you Uncle Emperor's grace, I talked to him about this topic, he said that he will wait until next year to get the qualification to show talents, and now he can't convince the public, why bother to give outsiders a handle?" Yan Yan politely refused again.

As soon as Li Cong heard that Lu You was going to end next spring, it was only half a year, so he didn't say anything, he had already assessed Lu You, and knew that Lu You still had some real talent in his stomach, and a small show should not be difficult for him.

Coming out of the south study, Yan Yan went to Kunning Palace, originally she wanted to find the queen to inquire about Concubine Chen, but unfortunately the queen was not in Kunning Palace, saying that it seemed that a concubine had given birth, and the queen went to guard it herself.

Coincidentally, the crown princess was not there, but Yan Yan saw Li Xi, played with Li Xi for a while, and told stories for a while, Yan Yan was worried that Lu Jin should be hungry, so he said that Li Xi would let her come back.

As soon as he entered the house, Yan Yan heard from the porter that Mrs. Lu and the Zhu family were here.

Fortunately, this time Qinghe Qingmiao was at home, and he watched Mrs. Lu and Zhu's family, and didn't let them walk around, but only stayed on the kang where Lu Jin slept in the hall, when Yan Yan entered, Mrs. Lu was sitting on the kang to play with Lu Jin, and Zhu asked Qinghe a few words on the side.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know that my grandmother and mother would come, I went to the palace to give a New Year's gift, and I bothered you to wait for a long time." Although Yan Yan roughly guessed the other party's intention, he didn't want to say it first.

Sure enough, as soon as Yan Yan thought of this, he saw Zhu Shi ask: "That's the case, Da Lang's daughter-in-law, we heard that Da Lang hasn't been to the academy these days, it seems that he has entered the Ministry of Industry to do things, what is going on?" ”

Yan Yan smiled and explained a few words when he heard this, saying that Lu You had read a few books on Mozi and Guiguzi when he was a child, and there were many of them involving organs, Lu You was very interested in these things, and he studied them by himself, and learned some carpentry work for this, which happened to be the emperor recruiting talents in this area, so she recommended him to try it.

"Mechanism? When did he learn this? Can these things be learned without a master? Old Lady Lu turned around and asked.

"Back to my grandmother, I don't know the specifics, he said that when he was a child, he couldn't pass the time alone, so he used to read, paint, and do this kind of manual work, and he must have started from a simple one." Yan Yan said with a smile.

It's just that as soon as she said this, Mrs. Lu and Zhu couldn't laugh.