The queen's carriage did not actually go north along Yongji Canal.

Cai Songyang, the envoy of Tiande Army, reported that Wang Rong gathered a large army and wanted to attack Jizhou. The vanguard of his horse suddenly rushed to the vicinity of Yongji Canal. It was not safe, so he advised the queen to change the route, go to Bozhou, to Cangjing, and then go north.

When Tianxiong Army heard this, they cursed and almost wanted to settle the score with Tiande Army.

However, Zhe Fangai still followed the advice and changed direction to the east.

On March 11, 905, the army arrived in Ande County, Dezhou and stayed for one day.

After sending the Dezhou Governor Wei Xun, Zhe Fangai met the palace official Su who came under the order of the saint, and then accepted the "gift" from Shao Shude to her.

"This is..." Zhe Fangai took apart the first piece and was stunned for a moment.

"Empress, the saint has a virtuous reputation about this thing..." The palace official Su's face was a little red.

"Say." Zhe Fang'ai probably guessed it a little, and her face was a little red.

"I really love the evil spirits of my wife, so I protect her well." Su said with a hard bullet.

Zhe Fangai was silent for a while, and suddenly smiled.

Yue Niang and Juan Niang peeked from the side.

Along the way, the queen sometimes laughed at them and officials, but it could be seen that they were perfunctory smirks. This was the first time they saw this smile, which was a joy from the heart. The queen was so beautiful that she couldn't stand it.

Zhe Fangai took the gift, waved her hand, and surrounded by palace servants, she went to the inner room to change her clothes.

Su breathed a sigh of relief.

This gift was named "Bram" by the saint, made of whale baleen, brocade, and colorful thread.

As for the origin of the whale, there is a story. Simply put, at the beginning of winter last year, I don’t know what happened, but a giant whale stranded on the coast near Wudi.

When the villagers discovered it, the whale was still alive. Because the court had issued a reward before, it flew to the government. Soon, Wei Xun, the governor of Dezhou, rushed over with two hundred state soldiers.

Question: What should I do if a stranded whale is found? Should I treat it quickly, so that it can escape danger and return to the sea?

Answer: Wei Xun, the governor of Dezhou, was overjoyed and reported to the saint. After the saint learned about it, he made a quick decision and appointed Wang Yong, the governor of Shaofu as the imperial minister, and led more than a hundred officials of the Interior Affairs Office, the Sinong Temple, the Shaofu Palace, and the craftsmen to Wudi. With his highest instructions, they slaughtered and processed on the spot.

The Master of Wudi County was urgently mobilized more than a thousand people to assist the imperial envoy in doing business. At this point, the matter of this whale has spread to the north and south, and has become a topic of conversation for many people after dinner.

While urging officials and the people to do business, Wang Yong, the Shaofu Supervisor, carefully read the saint's highest instructions.

At this time, he realized that whales mainly live in the cold waters in the extreme south and north. The water there is cold, but there are many fish and shrimps, so whales often move there. When winter comes and the sea water gradually freezes, whales will leave, swim south, and enter a warmer sea to feed.

In fact, coastal people can see whales appearing on the sea from time to time, and occasionally they can see those who are not lucky enough to get stuck on the beach. But it is the first time that they are so mobilized like this.

The imperial envoys worked all winter on the beach of Wudi.

The final result is more than 50,000 kilograms of meat, nearly 12,000 kilograms of fat, more than 5,000 kilograms of whale bones and whale skin weighing more than 3,000 kilograms of which are the main results.

From these results, we can see that the whale was dismantled quite thoroughly.

The Masters even sawed the whale bones and put them into a large pot to steam and boil the oil. The whale bones after boiling the oil were not wasted. They were calcined and smashed into powder, collected and handed over to the Imperial Household in Yangxin County, Dizhou for treatment.

The imperial village just opened and enclosed a large-scale wild fruit forest to make orchards. These whale bone meal will be used as fertilizer in orchards and farmlands in the future to see how effective it is. The "highest instructions" say that the calcined whale bone meal is a very excellent phosphorus fertilizer. The amount of more than 5,000 kilograms is very large, and it can at least weigh more than one hectare of the field.

The function of whale oil is not taught by people, and the craftsmen in Shaofu know at least several uses.

The first one is naturally to eat it. Eating it directly is very nutritious, but no one will waste it like this.

The second type is to light the lamp. A considerable part will be reserved in the palace as lamp oil, and then a part will be taken out to make candles. The saint intends to give it to his subordinates as treasures.

The third type is to make it into cream. No one has done this for the time being, it is a waste.

In addition to the scope of cognitive cognition of Shaofu craftsmen, there are actually two uses.

One is made into soap, but no one can do it.

The second is to be used as high-quality lubricants. Whale oil and seal oil are both lubricants with excellent texture. They are useful at this time, but they are not very useful. You can think of ways in the future.

Craftsmen are certainly aware of the use of whale skin.

In fact, they had already started processing. They first stored salt for a while. When they returned to Peking Mansion, they would soak it in water to restore the fresh skin state. The next step was like wool and leather degreasing, soak it in alkaline water (using soda ash obtained from the salt lake), and then scrape off the remaining fat, meat and other substances on the inner surface of the skin with a knife, then take it out and peel it evenly, press oil, clean it, and repeat it several times...

In short, there is no essential difference from traditional leather tanning.

The tanned whale skin is about two or three millimeters thick, and can be made of leather armor, with excellent protection ability.

You can also make water, raincoats, rain boots, etc. Whale leather rain boots have excellent waterproof performance and will not deform or break in cold environments. It is a very high-quality leather. It is not a problem to make one or two thousand or even two or three thousand pairs of rain boots for a whale.

The craftsmen in Shaofu know so many uses, but the content of "The Supreme Instructions" is quite "outrageous": the first thing is to ask if there are whales. If there are, make bras, the function and shape are as follows... If there are any remaining ones, make some skirts, and the shape is as follows...

Of course, Shao Shude did not write everything in it because he knew that his technical level was limited at this time.

For example, the use of whale internal organs - whale liver and some internal organs can be made into cod liver oil.

The viscera of whales is very rich in vitamin A and vitamin D. The cod liver oil preparations made can be used as nutritional health products or even medicines. They are very valuable for young children who need to supplement these vitamins. Some special parts of whales' viscera, such as the thymus, pituitary gland, thyroid, etc., can be used for pharmaceuticals, because these can extract more than 20 hormones.

However, without the corresponding technical level, everything will be in vain. Shao Sheng asked someone to take the internal organs back to see if they can be eaten.

Oh, you can't forget the caudal fin and intestines.

The tail fins of the whale are extremely large and the meat is delicious. The people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs have taken it away. The imperial chef cut it into thin strips according to the "Supreme Instructions" according to the meat texture, soak it in scald water several times. After it cools down, some seasonings are added to make a cold dish.

The intestines were given to Sinong Temple. The saint happily drew the shape of the whale intestine condom, and told Sinong Temple to put it on the XX of the livestock, and then massage it... to collect that.

Theoretically, although this artificial insemination method has a slightly lower success rate, it can greatly speed up the breeding speed - everyone who understands it understands it.

From this perspective, this poor fin whale was really dismantled and used all over, without much wasting.

Comparing the medieval European sea whaling, the Bilbao people got off the big boat, took a canoe to approach the lazy and slowly swimming whale, killed it with a spear, and left after cutting the blubber, allowing the whale's corpse to float on the sea.

It's an inexcusable huge waste!

Zhe Fangai quickly put on her bra and changed into a new skirt.

Yue Niang, Juan Niang, Su and others looked at it carefully. Well, it seemed much taller, and it looked very beautiful with the gorgeous phoenix skirt.

Zhe Fangai was slightly uncomfortable. But when he thought that this was made by his husband, he was immediately overjoyed and refused to take it off again.

"Empress, the imperial chef is waiting outside and brings some jerky and shark fin..." Su reminded again.

"Let's eat together." Zhe Fangai said happily: "This thing is precious because it is rare, but it doesn't exist on the land."

Su hurried out to give orders.

Yue Niang and Juan Niang looked at each other and they could see that the queen was in a very good mood. The official family is really a good method, and no one can match the ability to please women. The wild women around the official family are really lucky, and the queen probably won't bother with them.

The imperial chef quickly brought the dishes and served some wine.

Several women were flattered and sat with the queen, talking and laughing, and ate until evening.

When it was getting dark, the whale oil candle was lit.

The fire was particularly bright, far beyond ordinary candles. It didn't have too many odors, and it seemed to be very resistant to burning. I heard that Shi Chong, a native of Jin, liked to use this kind of candle, which was very luxurious, and I don't know where he got it.

"I just heard you say this, and I realized that the big fish is full of treasures." Zhe Fangai looked at the bright candlelight and sighed: "It's useful to get one. More than 50,000 kilograms of meat are as high as a mountain. If you can catch dozens of them a year, it's really..."

"The queen might as well tell His Majesty that she would send the Ping Navy to sea to catch whales." Yue Niang suggested.

Zhe Fangai looked at her, smile disappeared, and said earnestly: "This matter is a bit hindered. You are the daughter-in-law of the Tian family, and everyone is staring at you in every move. It is not easy to go out to sea to catch whales! Do you know where the whales are? The storm and waves on the sea are ruthless. If you go out to sea for dozens of days, you still haven't found the whale, but you are in danger. The ship is overturned and the people are dead. It's all the fault of the Tian family. At that time, the Censor Qingliu will impeach, and the saint will be very upset."

"Mother, my daughter-in-law knows that she is wrong." Yue Niang said hurriedly.

Zhe Fangai nodded, the matter was revealed, and then he smiled and said, "There are some whale baleens, Yue Niang, Juan Niang, please share them. You can find a skilled craftsman to make them. You can also share some whale oil candles, but I can't use many of them here."

"Yes." The two responded in surprise.

"Don't forget the one Zhao Concubine." Zhe Fangai reminded again.
Chapter completed!