The list of materials carried by the imperial court this time, Zhong Qinbo, Xia Hongdi and Wei Shangshu, discussed for a long time, and looked at the goods and quantities reported by the ship merchants.

In the end, they decided: to use blue and white porcelain and pastel ware as the mainstay, supplemented by court embroidery.

This suggestion was made by Zhong Qinbo, who said at the time: "Your Majesty! Lord Shangshu, no matter how gorgeous the silk is, it will be dozens of times more profitable if it is sold overseas.

But our embroidery, especially palace embroidery, this is a work of art, a priceless treasure, hundreds of times the profit we can also think about.

Moreover, compared with the brocade in pieces, the embroidery is light and small, and it is better to preserve. As long as the box where the embroidery is placed is sealed, even if it falls into the sea, it is not afraid!

Let's use goshawks, fiery horses, tigers and the like as a picture, and use the gift of national treasures to give to the monarchs of those countries that have established diplomatic relations, and we don't believe that we will blind them! ”

"The minister seconded the proposal! The number of silk brought by the shippers accounted for the largest, these silk fabrics occupy a place and are afraid of moisture, porcelain and embroidery are just right, a small quantity is easy to take care of and the value is high! ”

Wei Shangshu silently calculated in his heart: porcelain = (mud + technology), embroidery = (brocade + rust skills), these two most valuable things are craftsmen with these skills, how much are raw materials worth? !

Hundreds of times the profit? National treasure? It's a thrill!

His Majesty the Emperor personally decreed, and from now on: all the embroidery girls in the palace will take this sea trade commodity as the main work content, and no one can delay them from generating income for the imperial court!

I am really glad that there are not many female protagonists in the palace, from the emperor's concubines, princesses to the queen mother, there are less than twenty people.

In addition, Xia Hongdi does not love to reward concubines, in addition to the embroidery of the regular clothes for the masters every season, the workload on weekdays is completely unsaturated, With these orders, they are very happy to finally have a place to show their strength.

Many of these people have been pinching needles since they were three years old, and it can be said that they can be regarded as the best rust technicians in the Great Xia Dynasty.

Several generations of court embroiderers, absorbing the strengths of hundreds of schools, integrated many embroidery techniques across the country, to form today, the unique Daxia court embroidery.

Although court embroidery is used in the court, it has strict artistic aesthetic standards and norms, requiring all aspects such as composition, materials, and stitching to be played within the inherent procedures and norms.

However, their patterns are also very wide-ranging, including: landscapes, flowers and birds, dragon and phoenix patterns, birds and animals, auspicious eight treasures, etc. In the use of more emphasis on the meaning of auspiciousness, everywhere there is an interesting "lip color", the so-called "picture must be intentional, the pattern must be auspicious".

Moreover, the palace embroidery is generally made of fine satin fabrics. In addition to the velvet thread made of silk, embroidery thread also uses gold and silver thread twisted from gold and silver hammer foil, and some embroidery key parts are decorated with pearls, agate and other precious stones.

In addition to the dragon and phoenix, which are not suitable for commercial purposes, other auspicious patterns and gorgeous jewelry decorations will be the favorite of high-ranking officials and nobles no matter which country they are placed in.

Especially double-sided embroidery, this kind of embroidery process on the same substrate and in the same embroidery process, embroidering the front and back of the image is the same, which is breathtaking.

From small fans, handkerchiefs, purses to large screen patterns, more than half a year is enough for more than 300 embroidery girls to make a lot of fine products.

Yuan Laoer, Yuan Laosan and Hu Sanniu, during this time, the firing of pastel porcelain was burned to the point of magic barriers.

Dozens of court painters took action, and the pattern was painted perfectly.

In a short period of time, there has been a significant improvement in the quality and quantity of pastels.

The people in the R&D center are full of energy, they represent the highest level of porcelain in the Great Xia Dynasty, and they have to go overseas to exchange for gold.

The three of them knew that their eldest brother (brother-in-law) had a big idea, and the emperor's order was difficult to disobey, and they couldn't stop it.

I can only work the firing of this batch of porcelain, and strive to let the eldest brother (brother-in-law) sell a few more sets, so that the pastel porcelain can be famous overseas.

They were so busy that they didn't even have time to go back to the house in the same village, and the Fan sisters held their stomachs and raised a baby in Dali Village, and Ma couldn't help but sigh:

"The parents of this son who have no interest are worried, this is too big, and they are also worried, the second and third children are like this, just right!"

Fan Qinghe nodded, and couldn't help but ask worriedly: "Mother, the three-headed father and uncle, don't you want to follow the eldest brother to the sea?" ”

Ma Shi raised his eyebrows and scolded: "They dare!" The old lady doesn't break their legs! What did they say? Asking and asking, he was anxious, afraid that the two unfilial sons had any plans to rub together.

"No, mother, aren't we just afraid of what happens." Fan Qingju hurriedly denied that her man really hadn't said that.

The Fan sisters smiled at Ma flatteringly, and it was good to have a man who was in charge of her mother, this time, she didn't even have such a powerful sister-in-law.

I didn't see my father-in-law holding an old face every day, and he couldn't persuade his eldest son, so he could only sulk by himself, and the atmosphere was so tense that they spoke carefully.

It was already mid-autumn in a flash, and in the entire Great Xia Dynasty, except for the second-crop rice that was still growing in Yazhou and Lingnan, the autumn harvest in the rest of the places was completely hopeless.

This year's bean paste and dried noodle shop in Dali Village has also been discontinued, and even the spicy pot base with Shu Zhixia has been sold out.

This was not difficult for them, and Mrs. Zhongqinbo also taught them other tricks during this year.

Shu Zhixia launched before the bottom of the spicy pot was sold out: no rice porridge hot pot, bone and pot soup, sauerkraut pickled pepper cold pot fish, clear soup haggis hot pot, mushroom pigeon soup, health medicinal soup, etc.

Although there is no spicy pot, there is no shortage of secret spicy dipping water, so the business has not had the slightest impact on this dipping water that is delicious on the soles of the shoes.

Yuba, bean bubbles, bean skin, and frozen tofu are put into the bottom of these pots, and there is nothing undelicious.

The franchisees are also relieved, the bottom of the pot is more varied, the elderly and children love it more, and not everyone can eat spicy food.

The production method of the rest of the pot base, each pot bottom costs 5,000 taels of silver per year, and you can choose according to your own needs.

No one is a fool, after the bosses of the franchisees have tasted the taste of these pot bottoms, they know that they can't replicate it in a short time, and which of them will easily offend the queen? I was very happy to pay all the tuition fees for the bottom of the pot.

When the month's period arrives, the selected products and merchants will be announced in the Rifan Temple.

Zhong Qinbo has done his best to be fair and just within his ability, and all parties are convinced.

When the family is still in the capital and has not returned home, after getting the admission ticket, they began to allocate resources from all parties on the spot, from the boat to the accompanying people, to the most important goods, all of which must be carefully arranged.

Old man Diao and several other merchants gathered together, they were all selected businesses, all of them were the most powerful in Daxia, this gathering, mainly on their preparation for going to sea to discuss materials.

"Master Diao, a few of our brothers, take your horse as your head! In addition to tea, what other preparations did your family make? ”

"The preparation is really a lot, the water-based and competent family members, enough food for more than two years to chew, a doctor, a few herbs, pickles and dried vegetables can't run, and the rest depends on them."

"It's the same, it's the same, our Su family also invited Mr. Feng Shui to accompany us, this going out, it depends on the genius."

"Everyone, no matter how prepared we are, we are not as good as the court brings, who has the ability to inquire about what the court has brought?"

"This idea is good, this idea is wonderful, Master Diao, you can work hard, hard work"

Zhong Qinbo, who was remembered by this group of people, was putting the list of materials that HNA needed to carry in front of Xia Hongdi, and Xia Hongdi was dumbfounded.

"Aiqing, why do you need to bring so many vegetable seeds? Up, thousands of pounds?! ”

"Your Majesty, people are short of vegetables and vegetables, but it's not good to defecate, just eating staple food, fish and shrimp is not enough."

"But where can I grow vegetables on the boat? Can seedlings be planted? Xia Hongdi felt that he still knew something about farming, which was unheard of when growing vegetables on a sea boat.

"The minister plans to make more wooden boxes, as long as these wooden boxes are filled with fertile soil, keep the soil moist, and properly bask in the sun after the seedlings emerge, it should not be a big problem. In case one doesn't come out, it's a big deal, we will all sprout bean sprouts, and the soybeans in the seeds will bring the most, and this doesn't need soil to be done! ”

Xia Hongdi is good at receiving new knowledge points, sending bean sprouts, he thinks he can have this, he can eat it after passing through water and mixing some salt.

"What is the use of these saltpeters? Want to make ice on board? The emperor said that he couldn't understand it again, and asked curiously.

"Your Majesty, since saltpeter can be used to make ice in clear water, what can be turned into ice cubes after being put into seawater should be unsalty water, maybe it can be used for drinking? Isn't this afraid that the sea is vast and there is no fresh water to drink, in case it is really not needed, it is also good to make ice cubes to preserve fish and shrimp meat. ”

"It stands to reason, fish and shrimp can't be caught all the time, so what is a cork life jacket?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the life jacket is a special cork made of clothing, this cork wood has the greatest buoyancy in the water, after the two hundred pounds of men wear it, even if they don't know the water, they can float in the water, in case of bad luck and capsize, they can hold on for a while."

"This is good, this is good, take it to me to see, it sounds like it can be used if you can swim in the water!"

Heiwa had to study Lao Yuantou, and finally selected one of dozens of woods, made a life jacket, and presented it to Xia Hongdi.

You can't appreciate the beauty of this life jacket just by looking at it, and in the end, I let two fat eunuchs who know how to water put on life jackets and try them in the lake of the palace.

After the two fat eunuchs got into the water, they didn't use any force, and their entire upper bodies floated up, and this cork life jacket was proved to be very useful.

"Why do shipbuilders bring it? And bring so many people? ”

"Your Majesty, don't they all say that it is not advisable to build a car behind closed doors, how many of these shipbuilders are perennial sailors? How far can our sea ships go, what problems are prone to occur on the way, and how can they improve without experiencing it themselves? ”

Zhong Qinbo gave a detailed description of the role of every item that His Majesty the Emperor was puzzled about, and Xia Hongdi nodded again and again:

"On this list, I'm all right, Aiqing look at the purchase, make more of these life jackets, two pieces per person, those merchants are interested, you can also let them buy a batch!"

These big fat sheep merchants, Xia Hongdi can't help but want to get a handful at any time.

So, there was no need for Master Diao to inquire about them, and the imperial court gave them a list of materials prepared very intimately, and specifically mentioned life jackets.

The face of the imperial court must be given, and after they saw these cork life jackets in Dali Village, they thought it was really good. After letting people try it out in the deepest river, each family purchased two pieces for their traveling steward and householder.

In addition to these, the most important fifty percent of the goods were used as the escort fee and grain, and they paid it very actively, which made Wei Shangshu breathe a sigh of relief, and now, one of the most important materials for the voyage was also complete.

(End of chapter)