Daqian's current textile technology is quite developed, but there is no good way to weave wool.

The royal family wanted to incorporate the grassland into Zhuxia, and the idea of making the grassland the raw material base of Zhuxia could not be promoted.

Even in modern society, the population of the northern grasslands is far lower than that of the Central Plains, and even the population of the entire grassland is not as large as the population of a city.

Wang Jing wanted to incorporate the grassland into the Zhuxia civilization and be managed by the Great Cadres, which was extremely difficult. Unless he doesn't care about it, he sends all the royal family to the grassland, and spends a lot of money and grain every year to maintain it.

But this is impossible, it looks like a lot of flowers in the early stage, but it can completely rely on the blood transfusion of the Central Plains, and the Central Plains Imperial Court will not do this kind of thing, even if it barely supports it for a few years, it will eventually collapse.

Therefore, the best way is to make the Northland grassland have hematopoietic ability, and then attract the merchants, nobles, and officials of the Central Plains to develop it.

Guided by the imperial court and spontaneous by the people, only in this way can the grassland be firmly controlled in the hands of Zhuxia.

What is the most essential reason for the opening of the Age of Discovery in real history?

For gold, for wealth.

Because the Ottomans blocked the Silk Road, Western European countries began to explore new routes in order to gain wealth. Later, when they discovered the New World, they also started out to gain wealth.

And the Age of Discovery, except for the very beginning, was supported by the state. In the end, there was no need for state support, and the nobles and big businessmen began to come up with real money to support, and they eventually obtained huge benefits from this.

The barren grasslands of the Northland, coupled with the bitter cold, few people are willing to come, and Wang Jing wants to create profits from the wool. There was no good way for the Imperial Craftsmen and the Weaving Bureau, so they could only try to find a way throughout the country.

Wang Jing issued an edict that those who could improve wool or directly use wool to spin into thread or cloth were given knighthoods, official positions and other rewards.

For a time, all parts of the world were looking for ways to improve the textile process and find a way to spin wool into cloth.

The wool woven by the improved wool weaving process of the imperial court was rough and could only be spun into heavy wool blankets, which could not be used to make clothes.

However, wool blankets are also useful, in this era, the winter cold relied on fur or cotton, and the common people mostly relied on grass or reeds. In this era, there was no cotton in the Central Plains. Wool blankets are inexpensive for both the army and the people.

After seeing that there was no suitable wool fabric, someone in the family made a suggestion to fill the clothes directly with wool to keep out the cold, but this practice is good for ordinary people, but it is impossible to use it to make money.

If this is the case, wool will not provide much benefit at all, and those noble and powerful people will not care about the grassland at all.

Although wool fabrics have not yet achieved breakthrough technology, the imperial court's grassland strategy has been steadily advancing, and the imperial court's expenses have become more and more expensive, and many ministers in the court have begun to oppose the strategy of immigrating to the grassland.

After several years of high investment, the finances of the imperial court could not stand it. The imperial court did not only spend money in the Northland Grassland, if it weren't for Wang Jing's high prestige, this policy would have been overturned long ago.

In the forty-seventh year of the Mandate of Heaven, Wang Jing became more and more old, and the grassland policy he implemented required a large amount of grain every year to maintain, and the imperial court was short of money and grain, so he asked the states and counties to contribute money to support. The state and county had limited money and grain, and they were transferred to the grassland to maintain the rule of the grassland.

In the 40th year of the Mandate of Heaven, the imperial court built a city in the Mobei grassland, and at the same time immigrated 300,000 people to cultivate land on the grassland. But the grasslands are barren, coupled with the cold winters and long hours, and only one grain can be grown barely once a year.

The food obtained was simply not enough to sustain a living, and in the first few years there was relief from the imperial court and tax reductions, which was barely supported.

But when the tax exemption period expired and the imperial relief ended, the food still could not supply the family's life, so many people began to flee the grassland.

Even if there is a strict order from the imperial court, this situation cannot be stopped, if it is strictly stopped, it is forcing these people to die, and then the people can only go to the Huns to graze in order to survive.

Originally, there were still many people who wanted to rely on their children to stand out from the Luoyang Academy and be admitted to the officials. As a result, in the past few years, very few officials have passed the examination.

According to the system of the Daqian School Palace, the scholars of the Luoyang School Palace are selected from all over the country, so the pass rate is high, but now these people are directly entering the Luoyang School Palace, and many of them have not undergone systematic study and training at all, and the result of the examination is naturally not as good as those who have been admitted from the county school step by step.

In the end, except for some powerful families, who have already studied and successfully passed the assessment as officials, almost none of the other people succeeded.

Seeing this situation, Wang Jing had no choice but to suspend the plan to migrate to the grassland, and only stationed a large army to station.

At this time, there was a Huang family from Huiji County in Jiangnan who offered wool weaving techniques.

When Wang Jing learned about it, he immediately ordered someone to bring it and let him weave, and after some weaving, the first woolen fabric was sent to the Qianyuan Palace.

Wang Jing looked at the soft wool fabric on his hands, the texture was uniform, the material was soft, and there was no rough and hard feeling of the previous wool weaving sheet. At the same time, it is thicker than silk, cotton and other fabrics, which is more suitable for keeping out the cold.

"Your Majesty, this woolen fabric is woven from a mixture of raw silk and wool. Because wool is short and difficult to weave, wool is added to raw silk for blending.

After weaving, it has the characteristics of raw silk softness, and the special warmth of wool. At the same time, the cloth is soft, tough, and thick, making it a fine fabric. ”

"And there's a flaw to this fabric?" Wang Jing asked.

"Yes!" The master craftsman next to him said: "This kind of cloth is troublesome to weave, and the required wool also needs to be screened, and the cost of weaving is much higher than that of silk!" ”

Wang Jing nodded, and then ordered the Weaving Bureau to weave this wool cloth, the high cost is better, so that the profit is also high, with enough profits, Wang Jing also has the confidence to continue to implement the grassland policy.

After a breakthrough in textile technology, Wang Jing once again overrode public opinion and began to increase his support for the Zhenbei Metropolitan Protectorate. At the same time, merchants, wealthy households, powerful people, nobles, and officials in the country were encouraged to go to the grassland to buy land and graze cattle and sheep.

At the same time, Wang Jing gave this woolen fabric as a reward to the important ministers of the court and the princes and kings who divided the world. In this way, it stimulates the pursuit of this wool textile by those noble, wealthy and wealthy.

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"In the National Museum of China, there are many national treasures, but here is a national treasure is the most special, this national treasure comes from the northwest, is the wool and silk fabric made in the Qiandi Dynasty for 2,000 years, it is the [Five Stars out of the East to benefit China] brocade arm.

Measuring 18.5 centimeters long and 12.5 centimeters wide, this brocade arm guard has a cloud dragon pattern and is woven from a mixture of silk, wool and linen. There are eight Chinese characters woven on it: "Five stars out of the East to benefit China." ”

In fact, in addition to this brocade armguard, there is an even more precious brocade object in the Royal Museum. It is said that it was the carpet that the royal family of Daqian rewarded to the kings of the town and guarded the country, and there were two inscriptions on the left and right, and the inscription on the left read: "Five stars out of the east, benefiting China, punishing the barbarians, four Yi subdued, single in the fall, and the sky is infinite." ”

The inscription on the right reads: "Qi Wei is out of the same place, China Dachang, Siyi is punished, Beidi Le is stable, and the sky is boundless." ”

This brocade was made to encourage the princes and kings to defend the four directions and submit to the barbarians, and it was also made by the central dynasty to pray for political and military success and success. This tapestry shows the wisdom of our country in ancient times, and also shows our firm belief and determination to maintain the unity of the country.

It's a pity that this brocade is not on display many times because of its age, thank you for watching this episode of "National Treasure", and we'll see you next time. ”

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