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Looking at Zhang Zhongyao's back as he left with confidence, Chen De sighed in his heart that the court strictly prohibited the border towns from privately trading with foreign ministries. The merchant groups in Lanzhou just filled this vacancy. The control of the government in this era could not really control the trade between salt, tea, and cloth. The more regulated, the larger the price difference would be. Lanzhou would definitely cut a huge piece of cake from this cake born out of thin air.

The rest of this cake will probably be divided by the civil servants and military officials who have left the town in the suburbs. However, the money will not be used to recruit warriors, but to seek the fields and houses, and even create a prosperous scene of singing and dancing on both sides of the Bian River. According to legend, when the Jin people came to Kaifeng Prefecture, they looked from afar and saw that the roofs of the Bian Jing Palace were all gilded, shining in the sun, which really embellished the peace.

The Chengying Camp, which is extremely elite in the future, is still given by the officials of the Song Dynasty, Chen De couldn't help but smile bitterly. He had already selected dozens of smart soldiers through the Jiangzuo Camp to follow Kang Qudagan's Sogdian caravan to establish Lanzhou cargo warehouses and strongholds. With the support of Chengying Camp's force, this commercial network should play a greater role. Since the commercial network has gradually taken shape, the affairs of Jiangzuo Camp must be taken seriously. Lanzhou cannot always rely on the risky transit trade to maintain it. Thinking of this, Chen De waved to the Ya Bing and ordered him to inspect Jiangzuo Camp early tomorrow morning.

Jiangzuo Camp received two thousand slaves taken back from the grassland tribe. Li Jian became the most powerful lieutenant in Lanzhou. However, the food, drinking, defecation, and sleeping of two or three thousand people really worried him. Spring and summer came, and most of the more than 200,000 kilograms of wool cut off from the sheep who had been overwintering were still piled up in the warehouse. The summer in the north was short, and it was estimated that another 200,000 kilograms of autumn hair would have to be cut in winter. Before the severe winter came, turning these wool into the sweater mentioned by the commander became a dead order from Li Jian to himself. Therefore, during this period, his temper became very bad and irritable, and he became the King of Li Yan, who was tempted by the slaves.

Chen De had some consideration when he handed over all the captured grassland tribes to the craftsman camp. He assimilated the grassland tribes into farming people. In history, the rulers succeeded fewer and failed more. It would be better to directly turn them into a group of handicraft labor groups that could only rely on the giant Lanzhou. A farmer needs to master dozens or hundreds of agronomic and survival skills to make a living, while the workers in the workshop only need to do a good job in front of him. Being forced to become a workshop laborer is far easier for the grassland tribes than forcing farming. Managing labor slaves is much easier than serfs. Historically, as long as there is a market, whether it is yellow, black or white, there is no such simple and heavy race that has never been used for the work.

Over the years, except for working in the workshop, they have no other means and skills to make a living. If Lanzhou is destroyed, they cannot return to farming or grazing life due to the professional and meticulous division of labor, they will also sink and destroy together. As for whether this has allowed foreigners to master more advanced production organization methods than farming, Chen De didn't think much about it, after all, everything is still operating in the Lanzhou system.

The next day, the east was not clear, and the white fish belly just emerged in the sky. The people of Lanzhou, who had spent half a year in military management, had already gotten up. Women were doing housework, while diligent households went out of the city to their fields and sheep houses to do all kinds of work. The soldiers of various battalions began to do morning exercises. The new day began, and the whole of Lanzhou was a beehive buzzing and flying, busy from top to bottom.

"Lack of laziness, get up!" Alan jumped up from the wooden bed like a spring. Although he was nostalgic for the warm room and the clean and smooth bedding, he still didn't want the supervisor's whip and military boots to kick him out of the quilt. The almost strict militarized control was very effective for all slaves, especially the female slaves who were still ashamed. They wore their clothes neatly without waiting for the supervisor to break into the house with a fierce spirit. But to be honest, for many female slaves, they could only wear such clean and tidy clothes in their lives when they arrived in Lanzhou.

After all the slaves arrived in Lanzhou, the supervisors only issued simple Dangxiang and Mongolian orders in the first ten days, and taught some Chinese. Then, all the daily orders were all Chinese. Those who could not learn were whips and hunger. Soon, everyone learned Chinese. Compared with the same beliefs, systems, and languages, they were Chen De’s most basic requirements. People who could not integrate into the behemoth of Lanzhou have no right to survive.

Out of basic humanity, Chen De did not separate the shuihaige3 and the plundered families. But Ah Ring was a rare single household. Although the supervisors pretended to be bullies, in order to leave space for those families to say goodbye in the morning, they would definitely rush into Ah Ring's room as soon as possible if other families and his family did not stand in front of the door properly.

"Stand up, stand up, gather, set up, set off, eat, start work!" The supervisors of the marshal camp issued orders in an orderly manner. The procedures and rules of the marshal camp were extremely simple and extremely rough. At the beginning, there were some intentional troublesome thorns. After cleaning up a few meals, they repeated the same things every day day after day, month after month, almost causing the original grassland tribes and the current marshal camp slaves to form new conditioning reflexes and instincts.

"Sit down at the seat, you idiots, idiots, dirty things covered with bedbugs!" Yuan Zhen, the supervisor of the craftsman, shouted loudly, waving his whip, he was a very kind person, but Li Jian told him that the more fierce he was to these slaves, the more they would dare not have a sense of treason. In the face of absolute force, the slaves could only surrender, and only after confirming that all these slaves were abide by the rules of the workshop, they could be a little more kind. Youdao what kind of soldiers he would take. Yuan Zhen was a good soldier, and he and Li Jian were both a good soldier.

He absolutely obeyed the orders of his superiors. At the beginning, the first thing that Yuan Zhen did every morning was to grin at the wallet where he was washing his face and acted fiercely. Later, this expression became a habit. Now that the supervisors in the craftsman camp walked out, they were not close to each other, and they couldn't even say a wife. Yuan Zhen was also considering whether he wanted to find a wife among these female slaves. There were several grassland women with pointed chins, which were also beautiful enough, but they could not show any slightest expression now, otherwise what was waiting for him would be transferred from the supervisor position.

"You parasites, the Lanzhou government will give you food and wear them. Let's see what else do you do except twist threads every day? What is this thing that knitted? Can it be worn?" Li Jian angrily picked up a piece of wool like a fishing net. Even the common wool felt blanket, not everyone in the grassland tribe can weave them. In the past few months, Chen De asked him to select from these two thousand slaves who were good at knitting sweaters, and asked the slaves to summarize the methods of knitting sweaters. The blacksmiths made eight thousand fine and soft iron needles and distributed them to the slaves' hands. Every ten days, Li Jian asked the slaves to compete with the speed and quality of knitting sweaters, hoping to discover the talents and tricks of sweaters.

"The commander and commander will be kind to you. Every ten days, you will have the opportunity to win ten lamb legs, but what about you? Everything you make is garbage! Garbage! Garbage!" Li Jian angrily threw those wool pieces like broken fishing nets onto the table. He stubbornly believed that Chen De could turn these wools into warm sweaters. He had to take out a day every ten days to let these slaves stop working on twisting threads and find and compete for knitting sweaters.

According to Li Jian's view, slaves should be allowed to spun wool into wool, and then make the wool felt carpet that already existed in this era according to the guidance of the craftsmen. However, Li Jian would carefully hide his suspicion of Chen De in his heart, because countless experiences have proved that the commander's foresight is like a helper of God. After venting the anger in his heart to these slaves, Li Jian waved his hand and ordered: "Start!"

The soldiers began to roast fragrant lamb legs next to them, which was a prize for the top ten slaves who were well-woven, and the slaves clumsily tried to knit a bunch of wool into what the craftsman said. Everyone guessed that the knitting method of this sweater should be similar to a felt blanket, but no one had seen what a sweater was. The temptation of ten lamb legs was real, and all the slaves were working hard to turn the wool into clothes that could be worn. Chen De didn't care about wasting these wool and wool, because only sweaters could make monopoly profits. What was wasted today would be ten times or hundreds of times one day.

When other slaves were called idiots, a male man from a noble family might have faintly flashed in his eyes, but Alan's feelings were completely different because he had a nickname called "Useless Alan", which was also the reason why he could not find his wife after his mother died. Alan was not good at riding horses, shooting archery and sheeping sheep, and he was not like a grassland man. Since he was ten years old, he relied on this to weave felt blankets, and later he helped the head man to weave felt blankets, because his ancestors were also considered nobles in the tribe. His father died for the tribe. The head man did not rely on his power to turn him into a slave, let alone what if he turned a useless person like him into a slave?

There are also divisions of labor among men and women in grassland tribes. Men hunt and herd sheep and women spin and cook. Therefore, since the Lanzhou Jiangzuo Camp launched the reward of ten lamb legs, women who won the prizes every time were women. Although men worked hard to knit sweaters, women who were not familiar with spinning and felt were good. Because of these ten lamb legs, as well as various motivational rewards for spinning on weekdays, these tribal people who were temporarily in slave status quickly degenerated to the status of men and women in the matriarchal clan era. Among all the men, Alan was the one who was closest to the top ten in the sweater knitting competition.

Since that competition ten days ago, Alan worked in the factory for seven hours every day, he has been thinking and experimenting with various knitting techniques. He does not comb his hair, does not wash his beard, and his body is sloppy, others have become accustomed to it, "useless Alan". The night before yesterday, it seemed like a meteor crossed the night sky. Alan used a fine needle to braid a small ball of wool into a thick and soft piece, and then carefully connected the edges to form a wool cylinder.

After trying the length and size, Alan put it on his feet. Although his five toes and the first half of his feet were exposed, Alan still felt that the thick socks made the soles of his feet very comfortable. Perhaps, this is the kind of sweater that Adult Jiangzuo mentioned, Alan thought to himself.

He spent the first half of his life knitting felt blankets, which made Ah Leng's hands very flexible. He was sure that what he had knitted was the sweater that Master Jiang Zuo called. His hands flew up and down, as fast as lightning.

The ball of yarn in front of him was consumed very quickly. Facts proved that mentality determines success or failure. Even if the things Alan knitted in the end were not recognized by Master Jiang Zuo, just by relying on the speed of knitting, he would surpass everyone unprecedentedly and become the first man to eat lamb legs!

However, now Ah Leng has no spare time to think of lamb legs and swallowing saliva. Focus is a necessary condition for a man to succeed. A pair of skilled hands keeps crafting, his head is also turning rapidly, and a work of art is gradually born in his hands.

At some point, a pair of leather boots stopped in front of A Leng, but A Leng didn't notice that a drop of crystal beads of sweat lowered from his nose. He quickly shook his head without thinking. With a bang, the bead of sweat hit the man's vermilion military robe in front of him.

Chen De waved his hand to stop Yuan Zhen, who wanted to scold Ah Leng, and watched with interest as a fur sock gradually took shape from Ah Leng's hand. His hands were so flexible that the wool socks seemed to be growing at a visible speed. What shocked Chen De was that the style of this sock was almost the same as that of the thick-shaped wool socks of later generations, and even better.

When he walked back after patrolling, Ah Leng had already started knitting his second wool socks. It can be seen that the two socks were different in size. This guy's technique was not yet proficient enough, but that was enough. The first step in the wool sprinkler career was finally taking the lead.

"Stop! Time is up!" Li Jian made a deep voice, and most of the people who did not expect to get the lamb legs were resting for a day. The mess they made would be broken into a ball of wool. Ah Leng, who was really striving towards the ten lamb legs, was almost exhausted and cut the last thread with scissors. For five hours, he only drank water and ate a little steamed bun in the middle, creating a pair of wool socks.

Note: Before the Industrial Revolution, there was the agricultural revolution. The increase in agricultural productivity caused an increase in per capita grain production, resulting in a decline in grain prices, and the excess population was forced to transfer to industry. First of all, it was labor-intensive, with low technical content and sufficient market preparation. This is the truth about the so-called "sheep eat people". The factory handicraft industry developed in Lanzhou is a good road to start with the wool textile industry. Market demand will continue to stimulate technological improvements, but the most optimistic estimate is that it will take at least a hundred years before modern industrial analogs will appear. Haha, it is estimated that Chen De will not see the coming of the steam era in his lifetime.

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