On the third day of October, the Great Dynasty Meeting has ended.

Pingzhangtai.

Kaqu stood behind me, raised his eyes and looked at Xianyang City under the blue sky and white clouds in late autumn and sighed: "Your Majesty, Xianyang is really the best city in the world, and the ministers have traveled in all directions, and have never seen such a majestic city!" ”

I smiled and teased, "Then why don't you move to Xianyang to live, how about I give you a three-entry mansion?" ”

Kaqu smiled and responded: "When the minister is no longer running for the Western Regions and the Great Qin Yongshi, the minister must be cheeky to ask His Majesty to allow the minister to live here!" ”

I waved my hand, and after the two sat down, I asked about the matter: "The court meeting is over, you haven't left yet, there must be something inconvenient to say in the Xianyang Palace, there is no one now, say, what's the matter?" ”

Kaqu said respectfully: "Your Majesty is wise, the minister has a question, and I hope Your Majesty can solve the minister's doubts!" ”

"It's about the jade carving, right?" I have long seen through his little care, after all, as long as it is made by hand, it will definitely leave some traces, and he has been selling glassware for a year, and it is impossible for him to find it with his shrewdness.

Kaqu looked surprised and complimented: "Your Majesty is like a god, and the minister wants to ask......

I stopped him and said lightly: "You guessed right, it's not a jade carving, it's a man-made object called glass, the reason why I didn't tell you the truth is because it does require a lot of effort and complex craftsmanship to make, if you directly tell those who buy it that it's a man-made item, who will pay a lot of money to buy it?" ”

Ka Qu understood, and then explained: "Your Majesty must not misunderstand, the minister just wants to know the true origin of this thing, so that he can better tell the story." ”

"Oh? How do you tell a story? I looked at him strangely.

Kaqu smiled mysteriously and said in a low voice: "Some people have already seen that this thing is manufactured, but the minister intends to declare to the outside world that this thing is indeed made, but it is not done by man, but the stone is affected by the auspicious aura on the body of the dragon of Daqin's Rui Beast!" ”

"Hahahaha......" I laughed, "good you Kaqu!" It's hard for you to learn some of Daqin's culture, but it's used to become a profiteer! ”

Kaqu smiled embarrassedly, and then sighed: "Your Majesty, the minister's move is not only for himself, Your Majesty doesn't know, now although the countries of the Western Regions have recovered their national strength slightly, but Guishan and Kangju are afraid that the war between Great Qin and Huli will affect them because of the Qin army stationed in the Western Regions, so they are unwilling to continue to do business with the Western Regions, and the ministers can only look for some goods that they do not have to attract them to continue to trade with the Western Regions." ”

I smiled, knowing what he was trying to express, and comforted: "I have ordered the Hexi Inspector to discuss the construction of the Hexi Road with Prime Minister Zuo, if the Chi Road is completed, I believe that the trade between the Western Regions and Daqin will be more frequent, and when Kangju and Guishan see that you can prosper without relying on them, they may in turn seek to trade with you." ”

Hearing this, Kaqu really looked overjoyed, and said respectfully: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" ”

"Anything else?"

As if remembering something, Kaqu immediately took out a delicate cloth bag from his bosom and placed it on the desk.

"Your Majesty, this is a strange flower seed that the minister bought from a Kushan man, and it is said that this flower will produce very white flowers, which are very beautiful, and it cost the minister ten gold coins to buy them! So I have been keeping it close to my body, and I only remembered when I entered the palace today, and I remembered that it was specially dedicated to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty can make people plant, and you can watch it after confirming that it is harmless. ”

Hearing that he spent ten gold coins, I teased, "Spend so much money to buy a few flower seeds?" It seems that you are also a lover of beauty. ”

Kaqu said embarrassedly: "Your Majesty smiled, vassally elegant, vassally elegant......"

In fact, he only spent a gold coin, where did he forget it in Xianyang Palace, he just felt that this kind of thing was just a casual gadget, and it was really a loss of face to get it at the court meeting, and the Guishan man blew the sky wildly, who knows whether the flowers are smelly or fragrant.

I casually opened the cloth bag and poured the seeds on the case, just glanced at it and I was stunned, staring at the seeds in front of me: these twenty or thirty seeds are not cotton seeds, what are they?! The cottonseed with a few strands of cotton is so easy to identify!

Seeing that I was stunned, Kaqu said cautiously, "Your Majesty, but what's wrong?" ”

Hearing this, I looked up at Kaqu and said excitedly: "Kaqu, I want to reward you, reward you heavily!" These seeds cost ten gold coins, right? I'll reward you tenfold! No! Hundredfold! ”

Kaqu is a little confused, what's going on?

I immediately got up and urged, "Follow me back to the Temple of the Four Seas!" Shan Ben, go and call Ge Yue over! ”

Kaqu's fat body followed me all the way to the Temple of the Four Seas, and I sat down panting and drank a large sip of tea, while I put the cotton seeds aside and began to write.

When he finished writing, Ge Yue also walked in in a hurry.

I handed the paper in my hand to Ge Yue and instructed: "These are cotton seeds, and the planting methods and precautions recorded on them are the cotton planting methods, you immediately select the cadres who are good at farming to go to the Western Regions with the canal, and find suitable land for planting cotton according to the soil quality requirements above, and plant cotton on a large scale!" ”

Kaqu and Ge Yue were both confused, and Kaqu finally came back to his senses and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, this is a cotton seed?" Is there anything special? ”

I asked rhetorically, "Nothing special?" ”

"This ...... Don't dare to deceive Your Majesty, the minister has seen cotton, it turns out that the Guishan man sold cotton seeds to the minister, and the minister will definitely settle accounts with him when he goes back! ”

Seeing that Kaqu was filled with righteous indignation as if he had suffered a great grievance, I was curious: "Have you ever seen cotton?" ”

Kaqu nodded: "There are many nobles in Kushan who grow cotton for ornamentation, it is said to be native to the Peacock Dynasty in southern Kunlun, and many people see it blooming as white as snow and plant it as a strange flower. ”

I said angrily: "Tyrannical things! Such a warm fetish is actually planted as an ornamental flower! ”

Then I explained the role of cotton to the two of them, and they were surprised after listening: "Not only can it be used to make cotton clothes, but also bandages, cotton swabs, and so on!" How could no one find out that it had such an effect? ”

"It's not necessarily that no one has found out, it's just that there is a lack of a way to peel cottonseeds and then spin them, and it just so happens that I know a little bit about it!"

I looked at Ge Yue: "You select capable officials to go to the Western Regions as soon as possible, Jiuyuan County and Hexi can also grow cotton, and I will teach you how to weave after large-scale output." ”

He also said to Ka Qu: "Ka Qu, you have made a great contribution to this matter, I will not go around in circles, you will continue to search for cotton seeds after you go back, but you must not reveal the matter of cotton, as for the reward, what do you want?" ”

Kaqu said respectfully: "The minister knows the stakes of this matter, as long as it is beneficial to His Majesty, Great Qin and the Western Regions, the minister does not ask for a reward!" ”

"In this way, Daqin will receive one percent less from glass products!"

Kaqu was overjoyed when he heard this, this is a lot of wealth, thank you immediately!

I nodded with satisfaction, I really fell asleep and came to the pillow, Daqin just experienced the snow disaster and sent cotton, God bless Daqin!