Coincidentally, just as the Guo family father and son were discussing wool, Shao Xun was also talking about this with the Tuoba Xianbei children who were traveling south with him. There was a so-called loom brought by the Hu merchants in the Sangziyuan of Youcheng, which was very outrageous.

The thing was actually assembled on site in Yecheng. It was very huge. It stood almost as high as a house. The spindle hung down. One man rotated the spinning thread with his hands and rolled the thread with a coil pole. The other man prepared the roving and wound it into a disk shape.

The weaving cloth is carried out on the beam at the top of the machine, and the woven cloth is rolled on the beam.

The whole process is almost all manual, and the machine seems to provide only some trivial effects.

In short, it is very inefficient.

Shao Xun felt that the real wool spinning machine was definitely not like this. The ones brought by this group of Hu merchants were too backward.

Animal fiber was first used by nomadic peoples, but the real technological development was basically after entering the farming area.

However, in ancient China, animal fiber textiles such as wool and camel wool are rarely used in agricultural areas. Even if they are on a whim and develop related technologies, they will soon be lost in the long river of history.

The real development of wool spinning is actually in the Central Asian city-state countries. They have a considerable level of civilization, writing, and various related technologies, and can develop complex machines that are difficult for nomadic peoples to master, and eventually spread to the east and west.

Most of the wool fabrics unearthed in China are in Xinjiang, which shows that.

The process of spreading this wool spinning technology to the east was not very smooth, because there were silk textiles in the Central Plains, but after they were introduced to the Mediterranean to the west, it immediately attracted the love of the locals. Their main fabrics now are wool and linen.

Shao Xun felt that if you want to find a truly advanced wool spinning machine, you have to go to the Central Asian city-state to find the "Tiangong Kaiwu" at the end of the Ming Dynasty and mentioned wool spinning. "The weaving and sheep species were all from the barbarians at that time, so weaving workers are all of their own races, and China has no classics."

"A thing of wool can protect you from cold." Shao Xun held a piece of wool cloth in his hand and said, "There may be various defects, the hair is short, thick, and hard, and cannot be spun directly. You must first clean the wool, then twist and spin it into yarn-""

Shao Xun handed the wool cloth to Pu Gu and said, "Look at how."

"It's much thinner and softer than the felt blanket." Pu Gu said after touching it carefully.

Shao Xun couldn't help laughing.

The standard for treating wool is much lower than that of spinning and weaving fabrics. The wool is generally laid flat, humidified and heated, and then beat and crushed, that is, external force is applied to allow the wool to naturally tangle. Some do not even remove the grease on the wool at all, and the technical content is very low.

Authentic wool treated with oil removal is spinned into thread and then woven into cloth. It has a high technical content and is naturally softer than a felt blanket.

Shao Xun took out another piece of wool cloth, looked at Yin Yuan, the assistant minister of the Yellow Gate, and said, "You are from Dunhuang, can you tell what this thing is called?"

"(ji), that is, the cloth woven by the Western Hu." Yin Yuan replied: "There is a country of Bin in the Western Regions, which is skillful in art and good at weaving.

Henkel ordered that merchants be prohibited from wearing brocade, embroidery, brocade, and style. It will be ranked alongside brocade, which shows its value."

"It was found in the Han Dynasty, why is it rare in this world?" Shao Xun asked.

"Maybe it's too expensive." Yin Yuan said, "Dou Gu, the chief minister of Han, sent 800,000 yuan, and only got more than ten pieces of money."

"What should Dou Gu buy?"

"In the Han Dynasty, Dukes and Mausoleums used bamboo as little as a few days, and in winter, they spread it on top with fine laying on top, which was warmer. In fact, this thing still appeared from time to time until the Three Kingdoms." Yin Yuan said: "Sun Jian always wore red in the late Han Dynasty, and thought that his identity was precious. Wei Wen also gave two Zhangs of the Crown Prince of King Wu. In Jin, the people of Jie in Liangzhou still knew how to weave this thing. I think there should be one among the members of Liu Shizhong. It is Xihu (cui) cloth."

Liu Runzhong heard this.

The Jie people are indeed authentic "Xihu". The problem is, "Your Majesty, the Jie people in Shangdang are good at mahjong. This kind of skill passed down from ancestors is already difficult to find." Liu Run Zhongshu said: "Why don't you go back and ask?"

"The wool weaver in Sangziyuan, Youcheng is a Jie person." Shao Xun glanced at him and said, "I was weaving for Shi Le in my early years.

But don't I? What I want is a loom. The ones in Sangziyuan can only be said to be worth it. If you don't want a single one to sell for tens of thousands of yuan, you have to think of a way."

"Your Majesty, what is expensive is fine, flowers, and their fabrics may not be wool, but they may be relatively expensive beast fine hair." Yin Yuan said: "Ban Chao of Han Dynasty was stationed in the Western Regions for many years. The nobles of Chang'an often asked him to buy Yuezhi horses, Suhexiang, and Fenghai (fine blankets). The Weiyang Palace in Han Dynasty was ruled with a guest pole (fine hair mattress made of cashmere), and this thing is worth a thousand gold."

After hearing this, Shao Xun sighed and said, "I am not as luxurious as Emperor Wu of Han. Tai Chi and Zhaoyang Palaces are just felt carpets.

""

After saying that, he looked at Pugu and said, "Did you hear it?"

"I heard it." Pugu said quickly.

"Hold the treasure mountain without knowing it." Shao Xun said, "But I am not asking you to weave a piece of fine, spend it, weave a piece of hundreds of dollars or more than a thousand dollars. The more people you buy, the more you earn."

Pu Gu heard that he had a brain and smiled bitterly, "Your Majesty, the Xianbei people can only fight, kill, and have bad hands. They are stupid, so they may only sell wool."

After hearing this, Shao Xun laughed and scolded, "No hope."

However, it is also a way to sell wool.

He knew that in terms of breeds of sheep on the northern grassland, they were almost all sheep, and there were very few goats.

The top cashmere comes from goats, but the hair is mainly produced by sheep.

According to the quality of the pasture, the ratio of large livestock to small livestock is between 1 to 5 to 1 to 10. The small livestock here are actually sheep, while the large livestock are horses, cows and camels.

The better the quality of the pasture, the more large livestock, the closer it is to one to five, and vice versa, because large livestock eat more and consume more.

The quality of the Tuoba Xianbei ranch is good. Although it is not one to five, it is not far away. From now on, they can give up some of the resources to raise livestock to raise sheep.

Sheep do not eat grass roots, which is much better than goats.

Of course, there is no need to do this now, because they cannot consume their own wool, and most of it is wasted. Being able to sell this part of the wasted wool can greatly improve the economic conditions of these tribes, and at the same time further deepen their economic ties with the Central Plains.

The market and customers are all in the Central Plains. What rebellion do you do? Will you ruin your own job?

"Now Tuoba has settled, I will continue to promote some things." Shao Xun looked at the other tribes and said, "Whether you want to or not, you have to follow my steps. Whoever has wool or even salt ponds will benefit greatly in the future."

Wool defat requires alkali or weak acid salts.

In the Middle Ages, Europeans used wood ash and even urine to remove fat from wool. After the scale became larger, they began to use soda ash. There was a natural alkali lake in Hungary, which almost supplied most of the soda ash from Europe.

There are actually a large amount of soda ash on the grasslands in northern China (most of which exist in the form of salt ponds), but no one has mined it.

Economic means are essential to control the grassland more deeply and for longer.

But grasslands are often in a trade deficit position. Apart from livestock, fur, cow horns, animal tendons, there are only scattered medicinal materials, honey, wax, bird feathers and other commodities.

Wool products are definitely a powerful tool for balance deficit.

As long as you cultivate relevant consumption habits, you will gradually improve in all aspects, such as more advanced textile machines, better sheep species (hard hair, long, fine and soft), etc.

To cultivate consumption habits, that is, to bring goods!

Sell ​​goods with the honor of the emperor!

At the end of the battle for the turbulent times, it turns out that it is selling goods!

*******

"Ji County, Dunqiu is fine. It was almost white in the late Jin Dynasty. Now the household registration is gradually regaining, but there is still wasteland." In the Jinyang Governor's Mansion,

Shao Xun sat on Hu's bed with his hands folded his eyes and slept. King Shao Yan of Han overcame his fear and tried to say in a steady tone: "But Yangping County is not good. This county is not seriously injured and there are not many wastelands. After the 1,200 guards of the Soyang Prefecture have multiplied, there are more household registrations, and two or three of them are divided into private land. Even if there is no land, they often farm with their subordinates. If there is two hectares of land in Weitu's home, there were originally three households to farm, but now there are more brothers and sisters, and each household has more land to farm.

Whether it is a guard or a corpse, the financial resources are not as good as before."

Hearing this, Shao Xun opened his eyes and said, "It's less than six years since the establishment of the Suoyang Mansion, and there are so many people who have divided the land, but it's not surprising."

The reason is very simple. These government soldiers were adapted from the original Luoyang Central Army and Chong and Yushi soldiers. They were originally from families with their families. Many people had more than one child when they were in government soldiers, and some even had adults. Now, in the past five or six years, is it strange that two or three out of ten people have divided the land privately?

"Goro, what do you think should be done?" Shao Xun asked.

"Grandma, I think." When he spoke, Shao Yan carefully glanced at Shao Xun.

"If you have something to say, you are my son, even if you say it wrong, can I really blame you?" Shao Xun smiled.

Shao Yan felt a little hot, so he stopped hesitating and said directly: "Grandpa, the government soldiers are the basis for establishing a country, so you must not ignore them. Some things should be done even if you offend others. Over the years, my grandpa tried every means to solve the situation of the government soldiers, the left and right cavalry guards, and the left and right Jinwu guards, and the left and right Jinwu guards have greatly improved. The left and right Feilong Guards are also slowly solving them. I feel that they should not be shaken, so I have to persist in doing them."

"Now, the government soldiers may be able to last for decades. But if they do it, the government soldiers can continue to prolong their lifespan for decades, even if it only extends their lifespan for five or ten years, it is always good."

"You said just now that this is an offending matter. For your father, you asked you to investigate the military and land in the world, and you have offended many people." Shao Xun said.

Shao Yan shook his head and said, "I'm not afraid of offending others."

"Then what are you trying to do?" Shao Xun laughed and said, "Your elder brother had discovered this problem a long time ago. When my father asked him if he would like to go down to clean up, he was afraid, why aren't you afraid?"

Shao Yan lowered his head and said nothing.

Shao Xun stood up, gently stroked his son's back, and said, "Come with your father to go to the Jinyang military palace."

"Okay!" Shao Yan suddenly raised his head, looking slightly excited.

"Haha! How old is he, he is still like he was when he was a child." Shao Xun patted his shoulder and smiled.

"Son, go and lead the horse." Shao Yan went out in a flash, even forgot about his salute.

Looking at Goro's back as he walked away, Shao Xun sighed slightly.

After sighing, my eyes were filled with smiles.

He is a man, not a God, but a father.

The son needs his father's affirmation, and the father also enjoys the time he spends with his son.

Goro is not bad. He really doesn't ask for much, he just wants other people's affirmation.

Perhaps, his sons are all very good, at least not particularly anthropomorphic, and at the worst they are of the middle-aged man.

If you make a mistake, you will correct it after pointing it out.

When you go out to experience things, you will slowly update your cognition and enrich your experience.

When they grow step by step, they have traces to follow. When they are in their twenties, thirties or even forties, their abilities and cognition will be much stronger than they are now.

This is life, no one is born to know it.

A moment later, a large group of knights ran out of the south gate of Jinyang.
Chapter completed!