Chapter 246 Do You Think You Win?
Cai Yan didn't know if anyone was wearing gloves, ear protection, etc. In this era, it was not too cold in winter in Hangzhou. He had not seen anyone bringing these warm objects. However, when he first went to Kaifeng, he prepared all the warm and cold objects. The gloves and ear protection were not so complicated. Anyone who could sew them out after seeing them.
After the golden gourd stone and sand were sent to Kaifeng, there were no soldiers around the courtyard of Xiangguo Temple Street. However, Su Mei did not step out of the courtyard and still sorted out some accounts in the courtyard. If Boss Su had not heard about the little emperor being punished by the government in Fanlou, he would not have made a pair of half-finger gloves.
Cai Jing had long disappeared, and Zhao Fujin was still holding cotton gloves and looking at the Kongkong Road...
"Fourth sister."
Listening to the sound coming from behind, he quickly turned around and hid his gloves behind him. Seeing her panic, Zhao Jinnu became a little curious.
"What's the fourth sister hiding? I don't even want to see her for the second sister?"
"No...nothing"
Zhao Fujin blushed and lowered his head, and another sound of footsteps came, both big and small, and the leader was the crown prince Zhao Huan and the attendant Li Gang.
The princes had just finished their lectures. When they passed by the Chuigong Hall, they saw Zhao Fujin holding a broom. Zhao Huan walked over with a mischievous way. Seeing that the elder brother had changed, they had to follow him.
Zhao Fujin looked up and saw so many people, and his little hands were even more hidden behind him. Seeing this, Zhao Gou wanted to go around Zhao Fujin's back to find out. How could Zhao Fujin want to let the ninth brother who always talks bad things about Wulang see him, so he quickly turned his body. Now, everyone saw the half-part gloves she was holding.
It looks like a ball of cloth or something. If it's just these, why should I hide?
Zhao Kai walked forward in confusion and said, "What is the fourth sister holding in her hand? It looks like the white stacked cloth sent to the palace by the Cai family a few days ago."
White folded cloth was found in the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the royal family did not lack it, but the price was outrageously high. It was sold to the Song Dynasty by merchants from the Great Food Kingdom. Some wealthy families also used white folded cloth as strange flowers and plants to decorate the garden, but few people used it to spin and weave cloth, and even if it was woven, it was not as durable as fine linen cloth.
Rich people wear brocade clothes and silk. In summer, silk is smooth and cool. In winter, they are filled with silk cotton, which is light and warm. In summer, the poor people wear linen with large gaps, which is equally cool and durable. In winter, they use wool, chicken feathers, duck feathers, etc. to fill it with reeds, which can also make do with warmth. In most cold norths, they have to winter in winter, so they don’t think about how to weave cloth with cotton.
Merchants who travel at sea are all extremely smart merchants. Since the Silk Road of the Han and Tang Dynasties and the Western Regions, the Spice Road has been thousands of years. Can spices in Southeast Asia be artificially grown?
Cai Yan scoffed at this. Guangnan, Fujian Road, and Liuqiu Island have at least 80% similar climates to the South Ocean. The distant West also has a similar environment. Can't spices be grown in these places?
It’s not that it can’t be planted, but that no one is willing to cut off the profits of the East and the West ten times. Scarcity is precious, and spices are everywhere in the country. How can profits be generated?
Gaochang cloth was very famous during the Han and Tang dynasties. Cai Yan did not believe that the powerful Han and Tang dynasties could not get Gaochang weavers. One was that merchants were unwilling to cut off their wealth. The other was that the people on this land had high-end silk and low-end linen cloth. After all, it was still a matter of human mind.
If Cai Yan was a person of this era, he might not have done something that would never know the final result. Since he knew that the future would be the world of cotton, the result would be self-evident. Even if the initial difficulties were difficult, he would be willing to do these things.
After improving the loom, I used a slingshot to bounce the cotton into silk cotton, and sent one hundred pieces of cotton into the palace, and a thousand kilograms of cotton became the favorite of the ladies of all sizes.
When everyone saw Zhao Fujin turning his body to avoid Zhao Gou and revealing half of the gloves held by his small hand behind him, Zhao Huan was roughly guessing.
Seeing everyone staring at him, Zhao Fujin had to give honest explanations.
Zhao Huan is the prince and the eldest brother, so naturally he can't steal his sister's things. Zhao Jinnu took half of the gloves and looked around for a few times, but he had never seen such a weird glove. Since it was a glove, it must be worn on his hands.
The little hand put on gloves, watched her move her fingers twice, and put on the small hat on the back of her hand, everyone's eyes lit up.
Zhao Jinnu said in surprise: "It's very warm! And it doesn't affect the flexibility of fingers." As he said, he said with envy: "It's still the fourth sister who is lucky. Before she got married, her future mother-in-law will feel sorry for her sister, and no one dares to talk about her sister in the future."
Zhao Fujin's face turned red, Zhao Jinnu took off his gloves and sent it to Zhao Huan's hand, and said with a smile: "Cai Shidu was worried that his entourage would be frostbite. It was cold in the north. If the soldiers guarding the border could also be matched..."
Li Gang, who had been observing half of the gloves, frowned slightly and suddenly said, "The court's expenses are insufficient, so it's difficult to be as the emperor said, but I also think this thing is very good."
It was Li Gang, who was supervising the censor and serving as the censor in the Hall of Power, who spoke. Zhao Jinnu hurriedly shut up and said nothing, and he didn't even speak a word for a long time, for fear of being "persuaded" by Li Gang.
Zhao Huan's palm was a little bigger, flipped the half-finger gloves made of ordinary floral cloth, and gave them to Zhao Fujin, who bowed his head and said without saying anything. "Cai Shidu is too strong-willed, and the fourth sister needs more persuasion. The father's emperor is only three or two days old, so the fourth sister doesn't have to worry too much."
Zhao Fujin lowered his head and said nothing, and his group of people were helpless. In front of Li Gang, who had always been upright, no matter it was the crown prince Zhao Huan or the young Zhao Gou, more than ten big and small, no one dared to speak casually.
After a group of people left, Zhao Fujin was left standing in the snow and looking at the south. He actually missed the man's badness, the man's arrogance and domineeringness...
At this time, Cai Yan didn't know that my mother felt sorry for her future daughter-in-law, and she didn't expect that the princess who was visiting a prostitute in Fanlou was the Princess Maode who was afraid to avoid. At this time, he was free and easy to chase foxes and hunt rabbits with people.
The road was blocked with heavy snow, and the long carriages traveled hard, transporting thousands of miles of live animals in the South China Sea almost died. Cai Yan didn't care about this. Isn't there a saying, "Goose feathers are given by thousands of miles, and the gift is light and affection is heavy?" Even if it is dead, it is a gift sent by thousands of miles.
Along the way, he escorted a long carriage team. He came to Yingtian, Nanjing on the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month. He joined the carriage team and met the "Ten Sisters" Dong Xianger.
Looking at the tall man behind Dong Xianger, looking at the royal family clans who appeared five miles outside the city, and looking at the big cart dragged behind them...
Zhao Zixi looked forward coldly and looked at Cai Yan riding on the war horse. Cai Yan was slightly silent, turned over and jumped off the war horse, clasped his fists in a cold face, and quietly looked at Zhao Zixi wearing a luxurious fox fur and brocade robe.
"Cai Xiaowu, do you really think you won?"
"Win? Bendu Protector will never win. The one who is qualified to win is the government and the court of the Song Dynasty."
Zhao Zishi slightly turned sideways to make Cai Hua see the carriage behind him more clearly and said coldly: "Everything you want is here. This prince admits that he was fooled by a villain for a moment. As you said, the Yingtian royal family should not extend his hand into Jiangnan, but do you think the court will be satisfied with the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce? Do you think the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce will extend his hand to Lianghuai and Lianghu?"
Cai Yan smiled disdainfully and said, "The Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce has stood opposite to all the powerful and gentry since the beginning, and will never stop, but so what? If the Protector wants the land, the entire Liuqiu Island will be Protector."
Zhao Zishi couldn't help but frowned, and he didn't want to admit it. He also knew that the bastard in front of him was right. Not only was the entire Liuqiu Island his, but also the entire Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce's fields also his, but under the witness of the government, he signed a contract that was destined to have nothing.
Why?
Chapter completed!