You can't go without seeing Queen Ma when you enter the palace. Lao Zhu was overjoyed and angry, and he was a little tired. After approving a few important books, he took Zhu Su to find Queen Ma. Empress Ma was asking Shangyi in the palace to tell her history, and when she saw Lao Zhu and Zhu Su coming, she put on a straight face and asked Zhu Su why she sent a caravan out of the customs to trade with the Mengyuan herdsmen without authorization.

Zhu Su was a little embarrassed. Queen Ma is a loving mother on weekdays, but when it comes to righteousness, she is often stricter than Lao Zhu. was a little weak for no reason by her reprimand, and hurriedly explained:

"Erchen is about to explain in detail!"

So Zhu Su began to talk about sending caravans to the grassland to buy wool.

"My people of Daming were brutalized by Meng Yuan in the past, and their families were often destitute. When the son was in the village, he found that there were several members of the family who shared a winter coat to keep out the cold. Except for going out, the rest of the people can only shiver at home in a single dress. ”

"Brother Bao'er even told me that there are still people in the north who have a single coat all year round! That's the North! Wouldn't it be too thin to freeze to death if you wear it so thinly? ”

"However, the wool on the grassland has been piled up all year round, and the herdsmen regard it as useless, and they discard and burn it every year. Erchen remembered that in later generations, there was a method of spinning wool into wool. I think that with only a few copper coins, you can buy mountains of wool from the grassland. ”

"In later generations, there was a way to make sweaters out of double knitting, but unfortunately I only knew one of them, not the other. At that time, I need to take the trouble to study this method of knitting sweaters, and by extension. ”

"Sweaters can withstand the cold, and wool is invaluable. As long as this method is popularized among the people, the woman only needs to buy a roll of low-cost wool to weave a sweater for her family. ”

"I don't know how much merit can be done in this wool trade alone!"

"In time, maybe the people of the world will no longer endure the cold because they have no clothes to wear!"

Hearing Zhu Su say this, Queen Ma couldn't help but sit up straight, with a look of relief and pride on her face. "I heard your father say that you sent a caravan out of the customs, I just thought you were messing around, coveting the profits produced on the grassland, but I didn't expect you to have such good intentions!"

"This is a good deed for the benefit of the country and the people! If you thread the needle and thread, you guys can't do it, you have to be our women's family! "Queen Ma is scrappy." This method of knitting sweaters must be figured out as soon as possible. You've spun the thread, remember to send it to the palace as soon as possible! ”

"If you push the people one day earlier, maybe in winter, one less people will be frozen!"

"Yes." Zhu Su nodded. To promote knitting sweaters, it is only fitting for Queen Ma to come forward. Knitting sweaters must be promoted among women, and it is fitting that the queen of the mother world is in charge.

"Although sweaters are good for the country and good for the people, there are other more important things. The matter of steel and cement must not be neglected. Lao Zhu reminded. Steel production is a matter of weapons, and cement can be used to build cities on the grassland, and these two are the big killers of the pacification grassland in his heart. If Zhu Su focuses on a mere sweater, it would be putting the cart before the horse.

Zhu Su pursed his lips in his heart. After all, it's the limitations of the times. I can't see that this little sweater is the real killer of the Yongjing Prairie. As the most suitable strategy to deal with grassland nomadism, "sheep eat people" can play a role far from being comparable to sharp weapons and strong cities.

But even if he told Lao Zhu the story of the enclosure movement, Lao Zhu would not believe it without evidence. People in this era are still ignorant of economic and market forces.

It's better to wait for yourself to make some achievements first, and then let Lao Zhu open the sluice gate and release the water with his own hands, forming a rolling torrent that floods the grassland.

Queen Ma couldn't wait and asked Zhu Su how two needles could weave clothes. Zhu Su taught all his little knowledge of hand-knitted sweaters, and Queen Ma's eyes suddenly lit up thoughtfully. I just hate that there is no wool around me for the time being, otherwise I am afraid that I will have to test it on the spot.

I had dinner with Lao Zhu and Queen Ma in the palace, and it was already afternoon when I came out. When I arrived at the gate of the palace, I found that the carriage was still waiting, the royal guards were holding the horse's helmet and armor like a statue, Yao Guangxiao sat on the carriage and meditated with his eyes closed, and Zhu Su, who had a big bald head dangling in the sun, was dizzy.

"Why are you still here?" Zhu Su was a little stunned. "Since I have come to the palace, my father will definitely send the brocade guards to send me back. Monk, why are you waiting in the scorching sun? ”

"Amitabha." Yao Guangxiao opened his eyes at this time. A funny groom short coat was actually worn by him to feel like a master outside the world. "How can there be any reason to go ahead without the order of His Highness? All the guards are loyal people, even if the little monk wants to go back first, they will definitely not listen. ”

Zhu Su hurriedly ordered the repair of the spot, and paid for people to buy food and water for the soldiers to eat. This guard, which was motionless in front of the palace gate like a sculpture, had already attracted a lot of passers-by, and there were also many people selling sour pulp for baked cakes, but they didn't waste much effort.

"His Royal Highness Fang Cai is still fine when he is in the court?" While nibbling on the baked cakes, Yao Guangxiao asked Zhu Sulai in a low voice.

Zhu Su also happened to want to find a think tank to ask, so he told Yao Guangxiao about Ru Taisu's impeachment and desire to transfer him out of Huangzhuang and send him back to the main hall. Yao Guangxiao frowned slightly after hearing this: "Your Highness wants to keep your head down, no longer attract attention, and continue to do things in the Huangzhuang?" ”

"Not bad." Zhu Su's eyes lit up, "Do you have a way?" ”

"It's not difficult. Just hide in the crowd and no longer attract the attention of the courtiers. "Yao Guangxiao said." Na Ru Tai wanted His Highness to return to the main hall, which was a strategy to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle. ”

"In that case, why doesn't Your Highness move the main hall to the Imperial Mansion?"

"You mean?" Zhu Su understood. "Let the princes all come to study in the imperial village?"

"Not bad." Yao Guangxiao nodded. "I heard that His Highness wants to build a academy. In this case, it is better to persuade Your Majesty to let the princes also come to study in the academy. ”

"With the princes living together, no matter what you do in the imperial village, the courtiers will not think that your Royal Highness is the only one. That His Highness can be regarded as a real peace of mind. ”

Zhu Su lowered his head and pondered, this is indeed a method. He could have told Lao Zhu that he wanted to pass on the art of Gewu Science to the brothers, so that Lao Zhu would agree to let the brothers study together in Bifeng Huangzhuang.

But it's not enough to be a bargaining chip. Compared with Song Lian, Li Xiyan and other great Confucians in the main hall, his new doctrine is obviously not qualified. And the brothers are going to be vassal kings in the future, and Lao Zhu wants to come, and he doesn't care too much about whether they learn the too detailed knowledge of Gewu.

"Gotta get bigger first." Zhu Su groaned.

Yao Guangxiao was also groaning. He knew Zhu Su's reputation in the court. But in the final analysis, this highness is still just a young man who has not yet weakened his crown. In terms of age alone, it is still an age when he is pampered by his parents and has no taboos.

A young prince who is still young, why can he attract an old man like Ru Taisu to be so jealous? He, Yao Guangxiao, was thinking of strange goods, so he found the door. Ru Taisu has been calm all her life, how could she suddenly do such an unsafe thing?

"In the middle of the DPRK, there must be an undercurrent of some changes." Yao Guangxiao thought to himself.

(End of chapter)