Chapter 195: Cotton-padded clothes have become popular
Then, thinking of something, he quickly took out two glass bottles from his pocket.
Each one is filled with refined salt.
Then, he said to a group of forbidden soldiers: "You must stay here to the death. No one is allowed to enter this salt field without His Majesty's order!"
"Yes, Commander!"
All the Imperial Guards looked solemn.
If they follow this speed of making refined salt, they will be able to carry this refined salt with them when they go to the battlefield in the future.
Li Zhi, on the other hand, quickly took out a pair of black gloves from his pocket and put them on his hands.
He also put a woolen hood tightly on his head, put on his armor, got on his horse, and galloped towards Chang'an City.
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Liangyi Hall.
Li Shimin, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Cheng Zhijie and others who were discussing the newly opened cotton-padded clothes shop in Chang'an City were staring at the bottle of fine white salt on the coffee table. Everyone looked at it.
I couldn't help but taste it cautiously.
“Not even a hint of bitterness!”
Suddenly, Cheng Zhijie's eyes widened, "Your Majesty, this refined salt seems to be of better quality than the salt used in the palace!"
"I know!"
Li Shimin glared at Cheng Zhijie fiercely, and quickly moved the bottle of salt towards him.
"Li Zhi, is this refined salt made using the recipe provided by King Jin?"
"Your Majesty, that's right!" Li Zhi quickly responded with his hands raised.
"How much of this kind of refined salt can a small salt field produce in a day?"
Li Shimin asked again.
Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help but stare closely at Li Zhi.
"Your Majesty, a small salt field can produce twenty kilograms a day!"
"Twenty pounds?"
Suddenly, Li Shimin, Cheng Zhijie and others could not sit still.
"The output of official salt is even higher!"
Cheng Zhijie stood up, glared, and raised his hands to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, I, an old minister, insist on taking the Youwuwei army to the east of the river at starry night!"
On the side, Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji, although they did not speak, had the same meaning in their eyes.
"Your Majesty, with this method of making salt, when we attack the Turks in the future, our soldiers of the Tang Dynasty will no longer need to carry vinegar cloth, and each person can carry several kilograms of refined salt!"
After hearing this, Li Shimin's mouth twitched slightly, and he couldn't help but glare at Cheng Zhijie again.
"You are General Youwuwei. If you lead the Youwuwei army to Hedong like this, do you know how much chaos it will cause?"
"Your Majesty, then Lao Cheng will go home and tidy up and go secretly!"
Cheng Zhijie's face lit up and he said quickly.
Li Shimin ignored Cheng Zhijie and shouted directly: "Li Wei!"
"His Majesty!"
"Hurry up and take a team of forbidden troops, travel secretly to Hedong, and closely guard the salt pond!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Li Wei responded and hurriedly walked out.
"Oh, Your Majesty, this..."
Seeing this, Cheng Zhijie looked anxious.
After talking for a long time, when he saw that Li Shimin was ignoring him, he looked at the two bottles of refined salt on the table.
"Your Majesty, these are these two bottles of refined salt. Lao Cheng's family is poor and he hasn't bought refined salt for a long time. Lao Cheng will take one bottle away first and go back to have a taste!"
As he said that, a pair of big furry hands stretched out.
"Old man Cheng, I have never tasted such fine salt!" Li Shimin stared.
"Exactly, Old Thief Cheng, there are only two bottles of refined salt, one for Your Majesty, and one for the rest. We should share it equally..."
On the side, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others also stared and started to argue.
"Your Majesty, when I went to Hedong, the King of Jin told me that if I want to make refined salt, I must bring him a bottle. These two glass bottles are the bottles that the King of Jin gave me to fill with refined salt!"
Li Zhi said aloud.
"Um?"
Li Shimin, Cheng Zhijie and others were all startled and looked at Li Zhi blankly.
"What do you mean, this bottle of refined salt belongs to Prince Jin?"
"I only have two glass bottles, so I only brought these two bottles back!"
Li Zhi said in a low voice.
"well!"
After hearing this, Li Shimin quickly took away a bottle of refined salt.
Cheng Zhijie and Fang Xuanling sighed heavily.
Looking at the bottle of refined salt in front of me, my face was filled with heartache.
However, this bottle of refined salt was what the King of Jin wanted, and they did not dare to intercept it.
We can only ask Li Zhi to take the bottle of refined salt and rush it to Lijiazhuang, out of sight and out of mind.
at the same time.
In Chang'an City, a cotton-padded clothing trend has become very popular.
The cotton-padded clothes that the heads of the Cui family and the Zheng family both praised were actually in Chang'an City.
Therefore, a group of distinguished and wealthy businessmen, out of curiosity, ordered their servants to buy one at will.
Then, when I put it on and tried it on, I was immediately delighted.
“It’s unbelievable that such a comfortable cotton-padded jacket is sewn with white quilting!”
"Butler, why are you still standing there, why don't you go buy a few more items!"
"Wait a minute, does this cotton coat also come with cotton pants and gloves? Buy them all for a certain person!"
"Yes, sir!"
"Go quickly and buy those cotton-padded clothes for me. Such useful clothes, I want to give them to those great scholars!"
"Butler, go quickly..."
In less than a day, the entire city of Chang'an began to become noisy. Hundreds of cotton-padded clothes and trousers in the cotton-padded clothes shop were sold out within half an hour.
"Sir, it's bad, those cotton-padded clothes have been sold out!"
"Master, the cotton-padded clothes shop only has a hundred sets of cotton-padded clothes, and they have all been sold..."
"Who still has cotton-padded clothes?"
"Sir, there is only the cotton clothes shop owned by the Cui family and the Zheng family!"
"What about the Wang family? Some time ago, weren't the managers of the Wang family and the Lu family in Chang'an City also purchasing Bai Diezi throughout the city?"
"What? Sir, I don't think I've heard that the stewards of the Wang family and the Lu family sew white quilts out of cotton-padded clothes!"
"Prepare the car, I want to visit that Wang Jiajiulang!"
"It's the master!"
"Butler, prepare a car to go to the Wang Family Courtyard..."
Soon, before Wang Hui could recover from the news that the cotton-padded clothes shop had become popular in Chang'an City, the main hall of the Wang Family Courtyard was once again filled with a number of noble families.
"I wonder what brings you here this time?"
"Master Wang, we all just want a cotton-padded coat!"
A family member from an aristocratic family said.
"Cotton coat?"
Wang Hui was startled, "I wonder why you want those cotton clothes?"
"Wang Jiulang might not know that the fifth man of the Cui family in Qinghe and the eighth man of the Zheng family gave a set of cotton-padded clothes and trousers to the head of the Cui family and the head of the Zheng family in Qinghe a few days ago. After the two heads of the family put them on, they both praised the cotton-padded clothes.
They are not only comfortable but also warm. Especially the cotton gloves, which can be worn on the hands and can hold books and read normally. This is extremely important to us.
Many gentlemen and scholars like this kind of clothing very much!
Moreover, we have all worn those cotton-padded clothes, and they are actually more comfortable than satin clothes!"
"Exactly, we also know that Langjun also purchased a lot of cotton-padded clothes some time ago, so we would like to ask Jiulang to sew some cotton-padded clothes and gloves using white folding fabrics!"
Hearing this, Wang Hui looked strange.
"You may not know that after purchasing Baidianzi, I also asked the tailors in my house to try and sew cotton-padded clothes with Baidianzi. However, the cotton-padded clothes were a little comfortable at first.
However, after wearing it for two days, the white folds inside the cotton-padded jacket became like those waddings, wrinkled together. Not only was it not warm, it was also very uncomfortable!"
"How can this be?"
All the people from noble families had expressions of shock and suspicion.
Wang Fei frowned as he watched.
"If you don't believe it, Wang will ask the tailor to sew one for you. You will know after you try it!"