In the study room of the Waiting Mansion Annex, Wu Yong put down the pen and paper, stood up, and moved his muscles and bones. Since Dong Chong was ordered to die by the Son of Heaven, Liu Hong has not gone to Huaguang Hall to listen to lectures for many days, and Wu Yong naturally has a free time.

If it was in the past, Yuan Shu and others would have come to the door and invited Wu Yong to join them, or drink and have fun, or play in the suburbs.

But because of the incident caused by Wang Gui last time, it indirectly led to the death of Dong Chong, and Yuan Shu and others were driven back to their ancestral land by the elders of the family.

However, Wu Yong's life did not become boring, except for reading, riding and archery, he spent most of his daily time with the sisters of the five families, telling them interesting stories, and occasionally arranging a new shadow puppet play, so that these sisters would gather in Wu Yong's courtyard whenever they had free time.

No, Wu Yong opened the door of the study and heard bursts of exclamations coming from the wing room in the front yard. That wing room was specially cleaned up by Wu Yong, and only a few sets of tables, chairs and benches were placed in it, which were specially used for these sisters to listen to stories and watch shadow puppet plays.

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Wu Yong came to the living room, sat down to rest by himself, and drank tea. At this time, the living room was empty, and Wu Yong estimated that Cheng Zhao and several maids should also watch the excitement in the wing.

At this moment, Cen Sheng led a person and walked in with a smile on his face, and saluted: "Lord, look who is coming!" Wu Yong looked up and found that the person who came was Zhuo Liang, so he immediately got up and saluted, and said with some surprise in his voice: "Uncle, why did you come to Luoyang?" Zhuo Ju's face shook and said, "What? I'm not welcome to come? ”

"How can it, my nephew wishes that my uncle could stay in Luoyang." Wu Yong said with a smile. Zhuo Ju laughed and said: "Even if you still have some conscience, it is not in vain that I came from Nanyang day and night to deliver things to you." After speaking, he handed a letter to Wu Yong's hand,

"Take it apart and see for yourself, it's all in there. You arrange a room for me, and after a day and a night of travel, I will rest for a while. Wu Yong took it in surprise, and then asked Cen Sheng to arrange it, and he himself read the letter skimmingly.

The letter was written by He Lian. She first told the situation in the township, including the Wu family, the situation in Fuwangli, and the situation in Funiu Cottage.

Because of Wu Yong's relationship, the villagers in Fuwang take good care of the Wu family, and even the heads of the five families over there often send people over to condole.

And Fuwangli has become the richest township in the surrounding Wan County in just a few months, and many townships are proud of marrying families in Fuwangli.

As for the development of Funiu Cottage is even more rapid, Wu Yong left in the past few months, they used those coal and stone resources, and attracted a lot of displaced people, now twelve villages, each village is comparable to the existence of a township.

At the end of the letter, He Lian asked Wu Yong how he was doing in Luoyang? Whether he has ever been sick, whether Cheng Zhao takes care of him on weekdays, etc., between the lines reveals his concern for Wu Yong, which can't help but warm Wu Yong's heart.

Wu Yong looked at it very seriously, for fear of missing any information. I don't know how long later, there was another sound at the door, Wu Yong put down the letter in his hand, and went to the gate to take a look, but it was Yan Zhan and Shen Tubi, talking and laughing, while unloading the goods in the carriage.

Seeing Wu Yong come out, Shen Tubi immediately stopped the movements in his hand and said, "I've seen Xianjun!" Wu Yong hurriedly helped him up and asked with a smile, "I didn't expect you to come too!" Why do you bring so many items with you, day and night? "Shen Tubi is one of the twelve village owners of Funiu Cottage, he is in the prime of life, and he has some force, so he was arranged for this Luoyang delivery trip.

When he saw Wu Yong's question, he immediately said mysteriously: "Xianjun should take a look at these goods first!" Wu Yong was a little curious, so he opened a tightly wrapped sack and found that it was white cotton inside, and he was immediately pleasantly surprised.

After that, he saw Yan Zhan holding down a few pieces of cloth, so he touched it with his hand, and asked with some uncertainty: "Is this cotton?" Seeing Shen Tubi nodding, Wu Yong was very pleased.

At that time, he only said to Yang Ji that cotton could be woven into cloth, and the specific operation was not explained, but he didn't expect Yang Ji to really weave cotton into cloth.

Nowadays, the main fabrics are silk, linen, kudzu cloth and animal fur. Silk silk is a general term for silk and silk fabrics, the unwoven is silk, and the woven is silk.

Although silk silk is woven by the people, because of its high price, ordinary people can not afford to wear silk clothes, and most people wear clothes made of linen.

That's how the "cloth people" came about. But linen has a characteristic, that is, it is very rough, in ancient times when the level of productivity was low, linen cloth was not treated thoroughly, if it is worn as underwear in contact with the skin, for a long time, it will lead to itchy skin, and in severe cases, skin diseases.

As for the kudzu cloth, it is produced from a kind of name

"Kudzu" is an herbaceous plant, and its fibers can be used to weave cloth. But that's it

"Kudzu" mainly grows in the southern region, and it is rare in the north. Although woolen fabrics have good warmth, if they are not thoroughly processed, the taste is very unpleasant, which does not meet the aesthetic standards of the people of the Han Dynasty, so they are used more by the nomads in the north, such as the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Qiang and so on.

In fact, at this time, cotton had already begun to be planted in the Western Regions, and even cotton was used as a textile raw material to weave cotton cloth, which was also used as currency in some areas.

However, in the Central Plains, people still only use cotton as an ornamental plant, and do not recognize its economic value.

Moreover, the cotton yield at this time is very low, the production is extremely difficult, and it is already very troublesome to husk, not to mention removing cotton seeds, collecting cotton, and spinning into cloth is an extremely difficult thing.

It was not until Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty forced the promotion that cotton was planted in large quantities in the Central Plains. Since then, cotton cloth and cotton clothes have become indispensable daily necessities for the people.

In particular, the appearance of cotton clothes and quilts allowed the people of the Central Plains to live a warm winter. How did cotton survive the winter before it became widespread?

As mentioned earlier, rich people can use fur mattresses, and where there is kapok, they will fill the bedding with kapok.

What if there is no money and no kapok? Only stuff quilts can be filled with items such as flannel and straw. You can imagine how poor the ability to keep warm is.

There are even some people who bury themselves in the grass at night for the winter, and there are many such people. Now with this cotton cloth, Wu Yong must do something for the people, and cotton is one of them.

With it, the people's lives will be much better. Moreover, cotton is also a strategic material, and with cotton clothing, the army's winter combat capability can be guaranteed to the greatest extent.

In fact, the biggest advantage of this is immigration, the population of the Central Plains has exceeded 50 million, which is completely at the limit of this era, if it develops like this, sooner or later chaos will break out.

However, in the border area, the climate is cold in winter, and the living conditions are very poor, and few people are willing to go. Nowadays, with cotton clothes and quilts, a large number of immigrants can be sent to the border areas, which solves the population crisis and strengthens the imperial court's rule over the border areas.

The moment he saw the cotton cloth, Wu Yong's thoughts diverged. At this moment, Shen Tubi took down another jar from the car, and said to Wu Yong with a smile: "Xianjun, what is this again?" Wu Yong opened the lid curiously, and saw at a glance that the jar was filled with syrup, so he asked excitedly: "How much syrup has been made?" When planting sugar beets, Wu Yongye Yang Ji talked about the sugar making process, but he didn't expect him to really be able to make syrup.

At this time, Wu Yongcai realized that he had underestimated the ancients, they just didn't expect that sugar beets could make sugar and cotton could weave cloth, and once they knew, they could easily make it.

In fact, for a long time, the roots and leaves of sugar beet were used as vegetables. The cultivation of sugar beet as a sugar crop began in the second half of the eighteenth century, and after only 200 years of development, it has become a sugar raw material with half of the country and sugarcane, which shows its importance.

In ancient times, sugar had many synonyms or synonyms, such as: 饧, 饴, bighead carp, 蝻 and so on. "Chu Ci.

The Conjuring:

The sentence "Honey bait, there is some gluttony", the bread is a sugar cube. China is one of the first sugar producing countries in the world.

In the early days, the main sugars produced were caramel and sucrose, and caramel occupied a more important position. The first sugar in China appeared in the Western Zhou Dynasty and was called starch.

Caramel is a kind of sugar made from rice and malt through saccharification, which is viscous and commonly known as maltose.

Glutinous rice flour can be boiled into glutinous rice flour. 饧 is an ancient sugar word, ancient sound Tang. Later, with the introduction of sugarcane cultivation and sucrose refining methods from ancient India, sucrose gradually emerged.

In China, there are records of sugarcane cultivation as early as the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. During the Warring States period in the fourth century BC, the initial processing of sugarcane was already recorded.

The sugars that people make from sugar cane are called sand sugar. It should be noted that the sucrose here is completely different from today's concept.

It's very coarse, and it's not yet refined into a rich variety. At this time, the only thing that was done in sugar production was to boil concentrated sugarcane juice to make brownish-brown brown brown sugar that was as hard as a stone.

Sucrose was actually introduced to China from ancient India, but interestingly, in Sanskrit

The original meaning of the word "sugar" is

"Chinese". This is because the art of sugar making has taken a huge leap forward in China after it was introduced to China.

The Chinese created a method of decolorizing syrup with yellow mud to create white sugar and rock sugar, which were later transmitted to India.

It is human nature to be addicted to sugar, and the main function of sugar is to provide heat energy. About 70% of the energy required by the human body is provided by sugar.

In addition, sugar is also an important substance that makes up tissues and protects liver function. In ancient times, when the material was not developed, the sugar that could be eaten was all high-ranking officials and nobles.

Now with this beet sugar making technique, Wu Yong has one more thing to do for the people, that is, to make the people can afford to eat sugar and experience a feeling of happiness.

Thinking of this, Wu Yong couldn't help but ask again: "How is the output of sugar beets?" Shen Tubi touched his nose and replied with some embarrassment: "There are too few beet seeds this year, only less than three acres have been planted, a total of about 9,000 catties of beets have been harvested, and the syrup produced is less than 500 catties, and this time I brought 100 catties." ”