The women walked around like butterflies in flowers, laughing and laughing.
Zhang Hui held her newborn baby in her arms with a smile on her face, almost as if she had returned to the heyday of Prince Liang's palace.
She is the mistress, the princess, concubines Li, Chen and Shi are around her, chatting with her aunt Zhu about some household matters.
The daughter-in-law and daughters took it upon themselves to decorate the house, and the family happily prepared to welcome the winter solstice.
"Mother..." Mrs. Zhang came over with a dyed woolen sweater and said, "The new sweater made by the Shaofu was issued by the Bureau of Fashion."
Zhang Hui only glanced at it and then turned his attention to the child.
This is her fourth child in her life. She gave birth to a son and a daughter to Zhu Quanzhong and a son and a daughter to Shao Shude.
The person who was speaking was Zhu Yougui's wife, Mrs. Zhang, who was a minister in the provincial palace. She had just turned seventeen last month. At this time, she glanced at the child in Zhang Hui's hand with envy, and stretched out her hand to touch it.
Zhang Hui handed the child over, and Mrs. Zhang took it with a smile.
The saint is generous, the queen is kind, and the children born to the concubines can often be taken care of by themselves. Although there are officials in the court who think that this will lead to
Give the foreign relatives exclusive power, but no one has paid attention to it yet - the biggest foreign relative in the Xia Dynasty is Zhe
Now she has a family, and Queen Zhe can take care of her children.
"Alas!" Zhang Hui touched her daughter-in-law's head and sighed softly.
A few years ago, Mrs. Zhang was pregnant once, but she ended up having a miscarriage because she was too young or for some other reason. She lost such a precious opportunity, and she doesn’t know when the next time will be.
There was a burst of laughter outside.
Zhang Hui raised his eyes and saw Shao Shude walking in with his four-year-old daughter Shao Hui in his arms. Zhu, the head of the Shangfu Bureau, followed behind, looking at the child eagerly.
Zhu Zhang is the wife of Pengcheng County in the former Tang Dynasty, the sister of Zhu Quanzhong, and the wife of Yuan Jingchu, the queen of Nanyang County Prince Yuan Shuji. The Yuan family was a powerful family in Songzhou and married Zhu Quanzhong. Quanzhong was destroyed, the Yuan family was convicted, and the three clans were exiled to Tao.
state.
Zhu became a palace official in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and gave birth to a daughter for Shao Shude.
However, Shao Sheng didn't seem to have much interest in Zhu. This may be related to the fact that Zhu had done farm work when he was a child, and his appearance was only average to above average.
After completing the achievement of making Zhu Quanzhong's sister's belly bigger, Shao Sheng's interest quickly shifted to other women.
"Official." Zhang Hui immediately stepped forward and saluted.
"Are you still getting used to living in Suyu Palace?" Shao Shude sat down.
Palace attendants Shi and Chen immediately stepped forward and massaged his shoulders very hard.
The women of Zhu Quanzhong's family, from Zhang Hui on down, the Zhu family, the Shi family, the Chen family, the Li family, the Wang family, the Zhang family and their two older daughters have all moved to Suyu Palace in Dongdu Garden.
As for Zhang Hui's biological daughter, she has been adopted as an adopted daughter by Shao Shude and made a princess. There are rumors that this adopted daughter will be used to marry the Qian family in Hangzhou, but I don't know whether it is true or not.
"I am familiar with people in the official family and Suyu Palace. I can see the children from time to time. I am very satisfied." Zhang Hui stood up, poured a bowl of boiled tea for Shao Shude and said.
This is true.
Suyu Palace was the palace where the emperor temporarily lived when he was hunting and visiting. It was not very big. But with familiar people living around him, Zhang Hui really felt at ease.…
The Ministry of Internal Affairs released a large number of people from the Chang'an Palace brought by Prince Le'an out of the palace, and then selected and recruited some of them. Shao Shude sent more than ten people to Zhang Hui's side, including even Bian who was recruited.
Liu, the daughter of Liu Renyu, the general of Zhouzhou, was once the great family of Prince Liang's family.
Every day when I open my eyes, there are people serving me, and I live a life of fine clothes and fine food. I am still surrounded by familiar people, and except for the fact that the people have changed, I am almost the same as before.
Well, another small difference is that the previous generations are all in disarray, although they still use their previous titles in private.
Of course, this was something Shao Sheng acquiesced to and even encouraged. He liked that Zhang was called Zhang Hui’s mother, and he also liked that Zhu Quanzhong’s daughters still regarded Zhang Hui as their legitimate mother.
"Okay, that's good." Shao Shude picked up the tea cup and took a sip, saying, "Xuan Niang's matter."
"But it's up to the officials to make the decision." Zhang Hui sighed quietly and said.
"You are not pretentious." Shao Shude laughed loudly, put down the tea bowl, hugged Zhang Hui into his arms, and said, "The Qian family in Hangzhou is not bad either. If they are respectful, why won't I use it in the future?"
Xuanniang is Zhang Hui's biological daughter, who is thirteen years old this year. Shao Shude intends to marry her to the Qian family in Hangzhou to consolidate the relationship between the two parties and jointly deal with Yang Xingmi.
Yang Xingmi was really paving the way for his son. After the sudden execution of An Renyi, which frightened Tian Guan and Yang Shihou, the rebellion and counter-insurgency war began.
Just over two months ago, the city of Xuanzhou was destroyed and Tian was appointed leader. Yang Shihou decisively invested in Qian Liu.
Yang Xingmifu mobilized the army to attack, and fought several battles in succession. Qian Liu also surrendered his base, but the battle was not going well, so he repeatedly asked Luoyang to send troops for rescue.
Since we have requests from the court, we naturally have to put down our dignity and send property and craftsmen as we should. In addition, the envoys sent by the court should also be well entertained, and should provide household registration and military registration, and check them carefully.
.
As a traditional means of political alliance, marriage will naturally be put on the agenda.
"The officials have thought carefully about it," Zhang Hui said.
"Don't worry. Qian Chuanguan is in Luoyang and won't go anywhere. After he marries Xuanniang, I will give him a job as an official when he graduates from the Imperial Academy. The couple both live in Luoyang and will not marry far away.
Shao Shude straightened Zhang Hui's hair and said with a smile.
"Really?" Zhang Hui was a little surprised.
"How can this be false?" Shao Shude smiled: "If I say it out loud, it will certainly be true."
Zhang Hui was overjoyed and hugged Shao Shude tightly.
"What do you think of the new sweater made by the young master?" Shao Shude asked again.
"It's much better than before." Zhang Hui said: "There is less odor, the hair is soft and the color is better than before."
"Yes." Shao Shude nodded, then smiled and said: "I will personally take off your clothes tonight."
Take off your clothes and put on the woolen sweater in the back room, my dear wife, you can try it on."
Zhang Hui blushed, chuckled, and said, "Officials know how to play tricks on people."
Seeing her charming look, Shao Shude felt very happy.
Zhang Hui has completely regarded him as his man, even if it is forced by reality, it makes Shao Shude extremely happy.
"The quality of sweaters is getting better and better, and the output is getting bigger and bigger." Shao Shude said: "We can't relax, we must continue to improve. "...
The quality of the sweaters made by Shaofu is naturally very good. During the production process, Shao Shude even went to supervise it once or twice in person and found that there were more and more slender and soft hairs on the sheep, so there was no need to select them specially. It was obviously
The result of gradual improvement in varieties.
During the Yunzhou War this year, when the north wind blew strongly, the wool military uniforms also played a huge role. Everyone who wore them said they were good at keeping out the cold.
In fact, Dunhuang has already donated cotton, and Lingzhou has also planted a batch of cotton in a small area on an experimental basis, and its ability to withstand the cold is also good.
That variety is very different from those seen in later generations. I don’t know where it came from. To be honest, there are not many places suitable for planting in the north, and as the temperature drops, there will be fewer and fewer places suitable for planting. Unless you cultivate
Produce new species.
Moreover, cotton has two huge drawbacks: it occupies cultivated land and consumes fertility.
The occupation of cultivated land is obvious. If cotton is planted on an acre of land, it will only produce cotton and no other harvest, and the yield does not seem to be high.
But if one acre of land is planted with leguminous pasture and sheep are raised, in addition to wool, the sheep will also produce additional outputs such as meat, milk, and skins.
Cotton also consumes a lot of nutrients in the ground.
Energy is conserved, your crops will not grow out of thin air, they must consume various nutrients, and cotton consumes a lot of it. But leguminous grass can fix nitrogen and subsidize nutrients in the ground, and sheep manure can also fertilize the field.
It plays an important role in maintaining soil fertility.
Therefore, due to various factors such as variety, cultivated land, fertility, and yield, it is currently impossible to promote cotton in the north.
Then, the main way to keep out the cold can only be wool.
The research on wool by Shaofu and the private sector has also become increasingly in-depth.
Soda ash is now widely used in wool degreasing technology. This material is widely used in northern Guanbei. Especially when the weather is cold, a large amount of soda ash will precipitate from the bottom of the dense salt lakes on the grassland. It has a miraculous effect in degreasing, and the output is large and the cost is not high.
Before that, Shao Shude once joked that wool could be degreased with urine. Well, it was not a pure joke. In fact, Europeans did this from the beginning, but later the development of Hungarian salt lakes produced a large amount of soda ash, which replaced
The smelly urine fat removal technology.
The grassland lacks everything except salt, whether it is edible salt (sodium chloride) or soda ash (sodium carbonate). One of the major tasks of the herdsmen in the Yinshan tribes in winter is to salvage soda ash from the salt lakes and sell it to the Central Plains. And
As the production model of both agriculture and animal husbandry in the Central Plains gradually expanded and stabilized, the scale of this business also expanded.
Both the Bei Ya Li Fan Yuan and the Privy Council have mentioned that there are Fan tribe chiefs who are keen on doing business, degenerate, extravagant and lustful, and are full of copper odor. Ordinary shepherds have also received a lot of benefits, their living standards have improved, and their combat effectiveness has increased.
dropped.
They believe that if they continue like this, at least the Tibetan tribes in Qinan will become more and more depraved. In the future, if more ferocious enemies come to seize the territory, they will probably not be able to defeat them.
Shao Shude commented: "I understand."
He is not ready to make any changes for the time being. Nowadays, there are fewer people and more land, which is very suitable for the three-crop rotation system. This time, the Khitan campaign harvested more than 400,000 cattle, sheep, horses and camels, which was enough for tens of thousands of households to complete the agricultural reform.
Everything is under control and there is no reason to change.
"The ambition of the official family surpasses that of the virtuous kings of ancient times." After the matter of the eldest daughter was resolved, Zhang Hui did not hesitate to give him all kinds of complimentary words.
"Then there must be a reward." Shao Shude said.
"What kind of reward does the official want?" Zhang Hui chuckled.
Shao Shude took out the black eye mask made by Shaofu, put it on his head, attached it to Zhang Hui's ear, and explained in a low voice.
