Martial Arts Master Travelled to Ancient Time and Farms Chapter 247

   In early April, the imperial court issued a clear order to send new scholars to Yongzhou to serve as officials.

  The city of Yongzhou shook once again.

Cheng Ling said that if he resigned, he resigned. At the time of resignation, many colleagues retained him. After a few days of resignation, many colleagues regretted. After ten days of resignation, the voices of retention and regret disappeared, but all kinds of ridicule gradually became heard. middle.

   This is the hot and cold world, and Cheng Ling doesn't care.

  Some people are hypocritical, and some people are sincere.

   Cheng Ling's life is not a failure. After resigning from office, some businessmen are eager to try, so that Yin tricks want to seize the many formulas behind the exquisite pavilion.

   Those who came to Cheng's workshop to spy, naturally came in vertically and went out horizontally. Cheng Ling didn't need to make any tricks against the delicate pavilion, and her two colleagues when she was the master clerk helped to deal with it.

What no one knew was that, on the eve of the Xinke Scholars' assignment to Yongzhou, Fang Zhan sent a secret letter together with an agricultural book called "Nongsang Shiji" through a special channel to Wei The king's desk.

  Fang Zhan's letter, Emperor Wei still wants to take a look.

Halfway through, he made a light "huh", but he joked with Chang Hong, the chief of the chamberlain beside him, and said, "Fang Zhan, I thought he was going to report corrupt officials at length again, but I didn't expect this time to be kind. "

What Emperor Wei won't tell anyone is that since Fang Zhan was released from Beijing, every time he received secret reports from Fang Zhan and various evidence of impeachment against local officials, what rose up in Emperor Wei's heart was a wave of love and hatred. add.

   Even later, when Emperor Wei looked at Fang Zhan's secret letter, he often had to do some psychological preparation first.

   The current letter is the first of its kind. Fang Zhan didn't swear at the beginning of the letter and cursed.

  Wei Huang continued to read the letter, and when he saw two-thirds of it, he let out a soft "Huh" again, but after reading the entire letter, he was silent instead.

  Fang Zhan's letter…

   Emperor Wei put Fang Zhan's letter aside, and quickly picked up the other three books that came with the letter.

  Why is it said to be three volumes?

  Because the agricultural book that Fang Zhan presented to Emperor Wei along with the letter was originally a set of three volumes. A "Nongsang Shiji" is actually divided into three parts: upper, middle and lower.

  The upper part talks about crops, the middle part talks about climate, and the lower part talks about tools.

  Wei Huang briefly flipped through the crop section, skimmed the climate section, and opened the third volume of keynote tools at once.

   These three volumes are full of pictures and texts, and the drawings in the third volume are especially detailed.

  From the improvement of ordinary farm tools, for example, changing the straight plough to the curved plough, changing the two-legged trolley to the three-legged trolley, changing the pulley to the rollover…

   To the construction of various water conservancy facilities, to the detailed explanation of the new oil press, and finally, to the cotton gin, cotton spinning machine, and the most important jacquard loom!

  Wei Huang did not know about fortifications, but he understood the meaning of a new type of textile fabric.

   In particular, as mentioned in Fang Zhan's letter earlier, the thermal insulation effect of cotton has been highly valued by Emperor Wei.

In the    Celebration Hall, the voice of the emperor's expectation sounded: "Quick, Chang Hong, is there another package that came with the letter? Come and show it to me!"

   The package was taken and opened.

  Chang Hong personally checked it again and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the contents of the package, and then presented it to Emperor Wei.

   Of course, the things that are in the hands of the emperor have already been checked for several rounds, so it is unlikely that there will be any problems. Chang Hong did this because one was cautious, and the other was just to show it to the emperor.

   "This...is cotton?" Wei Huang squeezed a ball of snow-white and soft cotton, and kneaded it with his tentacles.

   He couldn't help rubbing it a couple more times before he couldn't bear to put the ball of cotton aside.

  The touch of cotton is too wonderful, ahem, you can't talk to outsiders.

   There is not much cotton in the small package. After I let it go, there are still three items in it.

   One is a jacquard cotton cloth woven from cotton. The cotton cloth is not too large, and Wei Huang directly holds it in his hand. I just feel that this cotton cloth is very different from silk, but the touch is actually very comfortable.

  The Emperor Wei asked Chang Hong: "Old Chang, look, how does this cotton cloth compare to linen cloth?"

  The emperor has only worn silk products in his whole life, and things like kudzu can't get into his eyes, nor can they be presented to him, so he feels very strange when he sees this cotton cloth.

  Chang Hong hurriedly came over to take a closer look at the cotton cloth in the hands of Emperor Wei, who handed it to him. Chang Hong touched it with her hand, then narrowed her eyes and said, "Your Majesty, the cotton cloth is soft and slippery."

   After he said, he pulled the cotton cloth again and said, "The cotton cloth is stronger than silk, and more delicate than kudzu."

   He lifted the cotton cloth to look at the light again, and Chang Hong said again: "This kind of color..."

   This cotton cloth is sapphire blue, with a pure and rich color. The jacquard on the cloth is river and sea moiré, and the moiré is also sapphire blue, but it is slightly darker than the base cloth.

   Looking at the light like this, the dark blue moiré floats on the sapphire blue cloth, like waves rippling in the ocean, so gorgeous that it seems to be no less than brocade.

  Chang Hong breathed lightly and said, "Your Majesty, even kudzu can't be dyed with such rich colors. This cotton cloth is really strange."

   Emperor Wei nodded. He listened to Chang Hong's words, his eyebrows stretched, and he picked up the other two items in the package.

  The original two remaining things, one is a cotton waistcoat, and the other is a cotton jacket of moderate thickness.

  Half a quarter of an hour later, Wei Huang, who tried the cotton waistcoat himself and put on the cotton jacket again, laughed out loud.

   Shangjing in late spring is still a bit cold at night.

  After putting on the padded jacket, Emperor Wei really realized what "warming" meant.

  No, this is more than just keeping warm, this is really too warm, it was only warm for a moment, and after laughing, Emperor Wei broke into a thin sweat.

  Chang Hong quickly persuaded: "Your Majesty, just give it a try. Now that the season for wearing such large clothes is over, let's change them quickly."

  Emperor Wei was willing to change it, but said: "Change it and change it, this waistcoat is for me to wear outside. Now at the end of spring, this thing is just right, hahaha!"

   Another burst of laughter came out of the hall. Compared with cotton and cotton spinning machines, or new-style looms, what Emperor Wei was most concerned about was the thermal insulation effect of cotton.

  The Great Wei generals, garrisoned in the north, always had to suffer from the cold when winter came. In the autumn and winter seasons, the hands and feet are frozen, the bones and muscles are rubbed together, and it becomes difficult to defend the city.

  In the hall of Qingshou, a series of voices from Emperor Wei resounded: "Go on and promote cotton planting!"

"Can this thing be grown in the north and south? Oh, by the way, this "Nong Sang Shi Ji" also describes in detail how cotton is grown. Okay, Chang Hong, dispatch the Craftsman Division to print the "Nong Sang Shi Ji". discipline"."

   "The author of the book, the author of the book... Cheng Ling? Announce this person to Beijing, I want to see him in person!"

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