Liu Renyu is fifty-three years old this year.

At this age, even as a middle-level officer, he is not very qualified.

After all, not everyone is Li Siyuan. At the age of fifty-one, he can still rush straight to the Khitan army, rush left and right, capture the thief and return.

Not everyone is Shao Sheng. He was still galloping horses at the age of 47, and Gatlin was fully fired.

So he retreated, but he did not completely retreat because he is now the Yuhou of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the eighth-rank official.

Above the surface of Fengze Lake, the water waves are rippling and birds and gulls gather.

On the meadow by the lake, the shepherd boy is grazing sheep.

The sheep were sent from the northwest. It is said that it is a sheep breed that withstands what disease it is. Liu Renyu doesn't understand it very well and doesn't remember it.

He only knew that the court was really persevering and had all kinds of strange sheep species, some of which were really useful, such as producing more wool.

While he was imagining, he had already arrived in front of a newly built house.

His former subordinates of the state warship stood outside and tried hard to maintain order. Tutuan Township, who returned home from Hebei, named the county and township, and received rewards one by one.

Chu Zhongye also came and greeted Liu Renyu.

"All the wool cloths shipped from Guanxi?" Chu Zhongye asked.

"There are three roads in Guanbei, Zhili, and Guanlin, and there are also some royal lords, not many. The Daku is located here for convenience." The imperial village was just replying.

Chu Zhongye suddenly carried a piece of fur cloth and felt it was quite heavy, much heavier than silk.

"The saints have put a lot of effort into the people of Guanxi." Chu Zhongye put down his hair cloth and said, "For more than a hundred years, Guanxi has been gradually sinking. Even the rewards of Shen Ce Army have to be transferred from Guandong to transport silk and silk. Now it is the first time I see you."

Guanxi is not without silk. In fact, even places like Suizhou, Xiazhou, and Yinzhou were produced in the pre-Tang Dynasty. However, due to various reasons, the yield was not high and the quality was not very good. People called it "mixed silk", and there was not even a name.

In the past twenty years, everyone has felt that winter seems to be colder.

When I was the governor of Suizhou, there was Suizhou silk. However, today, the traces of Suizhou silk are hard to find. There may be many factors, but the weather reasons must not be ignored.

This way, the situation is a little bad. Where did the rewards from the soldiers in Guanbei come from?

Perhaps it can be adjusted to Guanzhong, and silk from south to north to export silk from south to north, but today, when the production of silk from Guanzhong is declining, it is not a cure for the symptoms.

The rewards were given by non-silk cloths, which were found in the pre-Tang Dynasty. In fact, they were also made of animal hair - linen and other things were not good at all.

The saint prepared for the future twenty years ago, but now he has achieved some results. He has a solution: give it a reward with wool cloth.

"Actually, the martial artists didn't like Maobu very much at the beginning," said Liu Renyu: "If this thing was not really useful, it might have been noisy and chaos."

The wonderful use is to keep warm. When the weather is getting colder, wool cloth is really useful and a necessity is a necessity, so the warriors accepted it.

"Yes." Chu Zhongye smiled and said, "Don't look at the second day of February, I haven't taken off my sweater yet."

Why is silk so popular that it can be used as money? In fact, it can be made into clothes. This is its initial and most original function. Over time, due to the lack of precious metals, people have to use other items instead, such as food and cloth - all the urgent needs of life.

The Daxia court paid salaries to officials, and copper coins accounted for very little, and grain and silk were the big ones. Even the jerky distributed during festivals and festivals also assumed the monetary function when it was distributed to officials.

Mao cloth is now also a necessity, so it has the possibility of becoming a currency, especially with the help of cold weather.

Liu Renyu also had a sweater on his body. At this time, he was also paying close attention to the expression of the local hero who received the reward with the ticket. After a long time, he whispered: "Mr., from my perspective, the soldiers still prefer silk."

"I've been used to things for many years, so why can I turn it around so quickly?" Chu Zhongye said: "Besides, silk is divided into different levels. Everyone wants Qinghe silk, but how is that possible?"

The reputation of Beizhou Qinghe Silk has not been challenged yet. Because of its dense texture, heavy, wear-resistant, and beautiful, it has always been the best reward in the army.

Other places, the quality of silk is uneven.

Silk weaving technology has improved in Xiangyang and even further south in Hubei Road in recent years, probably because of the migration of many Wei Bo immigrants, bringing Hebei's advanced textile technology over.

But the textiles produced locally are still different from those produced in Hebei. In short, they are like the fusion of the styles of the two places, highlighting the beauty, beauty and thinness, just like silk in Xuanzhou and Hangzhou in Jiangnan.

But this kind of thing is more popular in the upper class, but it is unappreciable for warriors.

They will think that you cut corners. The same piece of Jiangnan silk uses absolutely no silk as silk as Henan silk, and there are more silk in Hebei. Although the style is beautiful, I think you are cheating me.

There was no way, the military men paid attention to practicality, and what they wanted was the coexistence of beauty and durability. In history, the Song Dynasty paid compensation from the Jin Dynasty, and the Jin people cursed and returned all the Hangzhou silk, demanding that Hebei and Henan silk be replenished. This is actually the reason.

In addition to Hebei silk, the reputation of Bananyaobu has increased rapidly in recent years. Gradually, all the silk produced in Qianshan South West Road were topped with Bananyaobu. Even the silk production areas of Weizhou and Minzhou, which have developed in the past twenty years, are also faked to be called Bananyaobu.

No matter what the origin is, the overall quality of Bananlangbu is relatively constant and is also popular among the army. It has always been an important part of military rewards.

Muffin is something from another dimension.

As of now, the quality of each place is similar, at least the origin of silk is not as different. At the same time, it is thick and strong, giving people the impression of sufficient materials.

For these reasons, it is possible to replace silk as a military reward.

"I won't talk about this." Chu Zhongye left the reward site and said, "Since the martial artists accepted it, the reward volume of wool cloth will gradually increase in the future. According to Zhao Shaojian, a total of 400,000 wool cloth was distributed last year, with an astonishing number. This year, there may be more. As the main wool cloth producing area, Kansai is really time to operate."

A region that should have gradually fallen and is in poverty has the possibility of resurrection. Could the saint really be able to go against the will of heaven and change his fate?

Chu Zhongye saw it very clearly. When the three-step rotation system of Daxing in Guanxi was implemented on Henan Road, he gradually became a little unable to deal with it.

The population is dense, the land rights are complex, and there are not even a lot of sheep suitable for the Henan climate. There are too many factors that have led to the fact that the two states of Henan and Huaihai still have mulberry forests, and people mainly weave silk when they are idle.

They need to import wool cloth to keep warm, which gives the Kansai people an opportunity to reap a lot of profits from Kansai. In the past 100 years, their ability has become weaker and weaker. The comparison of the economic strength of Kansai and Kansai has reached a staggering level.

The saint, he really changed the world and deserved the country.

*******

In the Liang Palace in the former Bianzhou, the queen Zhe Fangai was reading a book.

The prospective daughter-in-law Yue Niang and adopted daughter Juan Niang took out milk, cream, tea and sugar, and joined hands to cook a pot of tea and brought it over.

Zhe Fangai took a sip and looked a little stunned.

The milk tea is filled with sugar, and it tastes like this when the official is here.

Generally speaking, the milk tea is filled with green salt, and Zhe Fangai is used to the taste of salty milk tea. Only the official family loves sweet milk tea. Since he was lucky to Beidu, Zhe Fangai hasn't drunk this kind of tea for a long time.

"The sugar is good, it should be the sugar in Shenzhou." Zhe Fangai put down the teacup and smiled at the two of them.

"Yes." Juan Niang said, "It was sent by Woyang Palace."

She is the daughter of Li Renmei, and later handed over to Pei Zhenyi to raise her and was named a princess.

In fact, the border states produce sugar more or less.

The source of sugar is sea beet. It has been introduced for some years and is still being cultivated repeatedly to seek varieties with higher sugar content.

"Is the people in Woyang Palace still a good life?" Zhe Fangai asked casually.

"It's much better than before." Juan Niang said directly: "If you encounter any disaster in the past, you need the government to provide relief. Now when you are free, you can weave wool cloth and plant some places. Even if there is a bleak disaster in winter, you won't be able to survive it at all."

Near the Woyang Palace, the conditions for agricultural farming were not very good. The ministers mainly grazed and used limited land for planting, but few people planted grain, but many people planted sea beets. The herds were not stupid. They found that planting sea beets to squeeze sugar and then exchanged for grain, which made them more and much more. The sugar-grabbing technology was undoubtedly taught by the imperial court.

With the Woyang Palace, which is both a management agency and a trading market, and also a place for textile wool and vegetable-growing sugar, the members of the Woyang Palace will not run around.

And their experience can also be promoted to many places.

The Khitan-like environment is better than that of the surrounding area of ​​Woyang Palace. If you build a city in an excellent location and attract merchants, craftsmen and other craftsmen to settle down, you can encircle a large area of ​​grasslands around you.

In addition to the artificially manufactured grassland boundary line, the most important thing that surrounds them is economic connection.

Incorporate it into the ruling system politically and the unified market economically, so that it is possible to achieve the effect that is difficult to achieve by force conquest.

"The Palaces are my Shao Brothers' foundation. They have a good life and can save a lot of trouble." Zhe Fangai said: "My grandma Juan, are you willing to--"

Juan Niang turned pale and she felt very resistant, but she didn't dare to say it.

"Forget it." Zhe Fangai sighed and said, "Let's talk about it later. I'm not good at some things. Although men don't always have homes, they still have to find him to make decisions about everything."

Juan Niang's face finally turned bloody.

Yue Niang looked at her silently, feeling a little sympathetic. She escaped for a while and when she arrived in Beidu, the queen probably wouldn't have much time to worry about this.

There are more and more women around the official family. This time the queen brought Concubine Zhao, Concubine Feng Shu and others to go with her. I don’t know what kind of scene it would be.
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