Three Kingdoms

In the midst of all the busy work, it seems that winter is coming very quickly. With the sudden cold wind overnight, the first snow of the second year of Chuping is fluttering, covering the entire sky of Pingyang City.

Standing at the top of Pingyang City, watching the falling snowflakes gradually dye the entire earth into pure white, it is indeed a boundless scenery.

Especially when there is a small red clay stove and a jar of corn wine next to it. Although it is not green ant wine, it is brewed from this year's new corn, so it has a special meaning.

After a while, Fei Qian saw Xu Shu and Zao Zhi coming hand in hand, and he greeted with a smile: "Come on, let's try this year's new corn wine, haha, speaking of it, this is thanks to Zijing, the old farmer gave it to me When I came, I asked you by name to thank you..."

Zao Zhi runs to the fields every day. Although he is young, some farmers near Pingyang are familiar with this kind of farming work, especially when Zao Zhi arranges livestock to carry out large-scale deep plowing, measures plant spacing, and organizes planting. During the time of top dressing and irrigation, the prestige of Zao Zhi was established through such trivial field matters one after another.

Nowadays, among the farmers near Pingyang County, not many people know the full name of Zao Zhi, but when it comes to Zao Zhi, everyone basically knows it...

Zao Zhi cupped his hands and said, "I just tried my best, I really don't dare to take credit."

Fei Qian smiled and did not continue to say anything, but motioned for the two of them to sit down.

"Yuan Zhi, how is it in the military camp?" Fei Qian poured two glasses of wine for the two of them with his own hands, and then asked Xu Shu.

Two days ago, the three thousand cavalry who accompanied the southern Xiongnu Chan Yu Fuluo on the armed parade also rushed back to Pingyang and are now stationed in the military camp. Fortunately, they rushed back early, otherwise they would have encountered such a heavy snow on the road. , which is also quite troublesome.

Xu Shu took the wine glass and said: "Ji Dangxian is organizing that... well, literacy competition in the camp. Haha, now all the soldiers are working hard to read. I heard that many soldiers even dream about it at night. With the newly recognized characters, some people even directly changed the names of everyone in the team with the characters they recognized..."

It is winter now, and rain and snow are the natural protective umbrella. Under this situation, even if you have the best intentions, it is mostly powerless. The outdoor temperature close to zero will be a nightmare for all those who are marching and on the road.

Therefore, since it was not easy to carry out training, Fei Qian simply ordered a literacy competition to be organized in the military camp. The outcome was linked to the food and wine they could get in the New Year. The motivation to learn that suddenly burst out from the soldiers was simply Unprecedentedly, after receiving military pay, some people would always want to go to Pingyang City to spend some money, but now they all stay in the camp.

Food is the most important thing for people. It’s the New Year. Who doesn’t want to eat something good?

Originally there were some veterans in the military camp who insisted that literacy was of no use, but now they have to learn together. Otherwise, the friends in the same team will not be able to eat and drink, and they will probably be talked about for a whole year...

Haha, Fei Qian raised his head and smiled. If he had known it would have such an effect, this kind of competition should have been held earlier. But can we also hold some military exercises and competitions next? Anyway, we can't conquer long distances in winter, so We can't leave these soldiers completely idle, can we?

"Where are the farmers?" Fei Qian asked Zao Zhi.

Zao Zhi put down his wine glass and said: "The briquettes have been delivered to every household. Although the quantity is not large, there will be many fewer people dying from the cold this winter..."

Fei Qian nodded, silent.

Every winter, people freeze to death, and there's nothing that can be done about it.

I was thinking about telling Zao Zhi about asking farmers to pay attention to carbon monoxide when burning briquettes in closed houses. Then I thought about it. In the Han Dynasty, this thing was almost impossible to happen...

Houses in the Han Dynasty were poorly sealed. There were air leaks all over the house. Farmers were definitely not willing to use large amounts of briquettes. They would only use them when they couldn't stand the cold. Therefore, it would be extremely difficult to reach a lethal concentration. not easy.

However, this cotton...

Some time ago, when I was chatting with Linagu, I talked about some fruits from the Western Regions. Then Linagu said that I seemed to have seen such fluffy snow-like flowers in Xiqiang, but I didn’t know if what Linagu was describing was cotton...

Heavy snow has blocked roads and caravans have stopped. Things such as whether there is cotton in the Western Regions will probably not be known until the snow melts in the spring next year.

But now, maybe there is something that can temporarily replace cotton...

Fei Qian took out a ball of string from his sleeve, handed it to Xu Shu and Zao Zhi, and said, "Come, take a look, guess what this is?"

Xu Shu took it in his hand, identified it, and said, "This is...wool...wool rope?"

"Wool rope? But the 'rope' should be thicker. Maybe it is called a 'thread'?" Zao Zhi also looked at it carefully and then said.

Nowadays, in the Han Dynasty, regardless of whether they are Hu people or Han people, they mostly use animal furs to keep warm. The better ones are tigers, wolves, mink foxes, etc., the middle ones are sheep and dogs, and the worst ones are hare furs. But for For these furs, ordinary people and soldiers still cannot afford them.

Because, it's too expensive. Therefore, most people and soldiers used two layers of Gebu, and then filled the middle with hay to make a simple down jacket to keep out the cold. There are few chickens and ducks that are usually raised, and there are no large-scale chicken and duck farms. There are no anti-inflammatory and antibacterial antibiotics. When there are too many chickens and ducks, it is easy to develop chicken and duck plagues. Therefore, chicken and duck down feathers were also affected in the Han Dynasty. No.

Fei Qian said this yarn casually when chatting with Huang Yueying. Unexpectedly, Huang Yueying fiddled with it directly...

In fact, in the Han Dynasty, there were already preliminary processes for wool processing. Wool was used for weaving, and it was also a skill used by nomadic people to withstand wind and snow.

Collecting wool from sheepskins has been practiced since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but it did not reach a large scale and no one paid special attention to it.

Fei Qian asked some Hu people. Most of them comb the sheep when spring is about to enter summer, and then they can comb out a lot of hair. These are the sources of wool. Sometimes the sheep do not have time to comb. It will rub itself on the wooden piles somewhere, and then it can also be collected, which is called wool picking.

Then it is soaked in alkaline water, dried in the sun, and elasticized, and finally it can be rubbed out.

However, the wool of the Hu people in the Han Dynasty was very thick, and there was no way to make it as thin as Huang Yueying's. Therefore, most of the Hu people also used wool to weave felts and blankets, and few used it to weave woolen clothes.

But since Huang Yueying has the technology to process wool again, knitting woolen sweaters seems to be on the agenda. However, the way the Hu people collected wool was too wasteful, so Fei Qian took out the wool from Xu Shu and Zao Zhi, just to plan a plan for shearing the wool.

I think back then, many words were kind words...but now many words are for zombies...sigh...what should I do? If the author were to put down the keyboard and pick up the pen, he would probably forget how to write many words...