Martial Arts Master Travelled to Ancient Time and Farms

By the beginning of 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 fake, 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 King's Eucalyptus.

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.

So that 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 all the time.

Wei Huang continued to read the letter, and when he saw two-thirds of the letter, he gave 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 crops section, skimmed the climate section, and opened the third volume of the 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 agricultural tools, for example, changing the straight plough to the curved plough, changing the two-legged aquilegia to a three-legged one, and changing the pulley to a rollover...

From the construction of various water conservancy facilities, to the detailed explanation of the new oil press, and finally, the cotton gin, cotton spinning machine, and the most important jacquard loom that occupies a large space!

Wei Huang actually didn't 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 that the emperor expected: "Quick, Chang Hong, is there another package that came with the letter? Come and show it to me!"

The package was picked up and opened.

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

Of course, if you want to get the things in the hands of the emperor, you have already checked them 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 soft white cotton, and kneaded it with his tentacles. It felt warm and fluffy, and felt wonderful.

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 was not much cotton in the small package, and after it was released, there were 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.

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 that 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 Emperor Wei's hand, and Huang Huang 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 speaking, he pulled the cotton cloth again and said, "The cotton cloth is stronger than silk, and more delicate than kudzu."

Lifting the cotton cloth to look at the light again, Chang Hong said again, "This color..."

This cotton cloth is sapphire blue, the color is pure and rich, the jacquard on the cloth is Jianghai 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, as if it is not inferior to brocade.

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

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

It turned out that the remaining two things, one was a cotton waistcoat, and the other was a cotton jacket of moderate thickness.

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

In Beijing in late spring, it is still a bit cold at night.

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

Wei Huang 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 soldiers, garrisoned in the north, always had to suffer from the freezing cold every winter. 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 Celebrations, 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 in Beijing, I want to see him in person!"