Chapter 1133 Feasibility Report
Feng Duhu didn’t know that Pei Qian planned to take advantage of the merger to attack Hedong and pave the way for his son Pei Xiu.
In other words, Pei Qian planned to kill people with a borrowed knife, and borrowed Feng Duhu's dragon-slaying knife to kill the opposition voices in Hedong.
However, even if Feng Duhu knew Pei Qian's little thoughts, he probably wouldn't care too much.
From the position of being in charge of a country, you cannot expect that everyone below you will be pure tool people.
They are living people, and it is normal for each of them to have their own thoughts.
As long as the general direction is correct and everything is fine, then it will be fine.
Of course, in the eyes of Feng Duhu, everything is fine, but for the Bingzhou family, it is a serious problem.
“Why don’t they grab it? It wouldn’t be faster to just grab it!”
When Guo Pei sent the news back to Taiyuan, there was an uproar immediately.
After entering late winter, Bingzhou has become very cold.
However, the governor's office had already prepared. This year, most of the coal mined by the Xinghan Conference in Bingzhou was supplied to Bingzhou.
In any case, iron ore mining has just begun, and a large amount of iron will be smelted next year. Xinghanhui itself cannot use too much coal yet.
The number of people freezing to death in Taiyuan City this year is far less than last year.
At present, there are only about 20 people who have reported, less than 30 people.
Most of them are poor people who have no ability to work and are homeless.
Anyone who has the ability to work has long been recruited by Xinghanhui's high-paying job recruitment.
After all, we are really desperate, and the fact that the construction site provides food and housing alone is enough for people to risk their lives and seek refuge.
As for the wealthy families, even the stoves are used in this cold winter.
But the thing burned inside is not coal, but smokeless charcoal.
Not only is it warm, but there is not much smoke.
But I don’t know if it’s because the stove is too hot, but people in the big room have already begun to take off their outer robes:
"Is there any difference between them and robbing now? They are robbing now!"
The speaker didn’t know whether he was hot or angry, his face was red:
"Of all of you here, there is one family. Which family's land was obtained for nothing? Which family's land is superfluous?"
"Then Ghost King Feng opened and closed his mouth and asked us to hand over so much land. How can it be so easy in the world?"
"That's right! If the imperial court does not care about face and insists on using power to seize people's land, I think it means they want to follow the old path of the new dynasty! Then King Feng Gui, does he want to imitate Wang Mang?"
“Didn’t Ji Han claim to act in accordance with the law? Did Zhuge Villager know that King Feng Gui did this?”
…
The atmosphere in the room was fierce, and everyone was filled with anger. At the same time, they kept glancing at Wang Chen and Guo Pei, who were sitting at the top.
Wang Chen looked at Guo Pei, the only calm-looking person present, and asked:
“Zhong Nan, what do you think?”
Guo Pei shook his head and smiled:
“Feng Duhu is also a famous person in the world and is known as a far-sighted person. How could he do such short-sighted things that are unpopular?”
Hearing this, everyone could not help but look sideways.
Someone said in a weird way:
"Isn't that right? The Guo family has a great business. Brother Guo went to Chang'an again and specifically married the Pei family in Hedong. Naturally, he is not short-sighted..."
Enter your mother!
Everyone present scolded Feng Ghost King.
It’s not surprising that they are like this.
After all, just taking a few schools and asking everyone to hand over the land accumulated over generations is simply more uncomfortable than cutting off the flesh of the thigh.
Having not said bad words to Guo Pei is already considered a well-mannered person.
Those who are more thoughtful can’t help but wonder, how many benefits did the Guo family get in Chang’an?
Is it worthy for him to say good things about King Feng Gui on this occasion?
A mere concubine of the Pei family is not of such great value.
Speaking of in-laws, which family in Taiyuan is not related to them?
Wang Chen, who was sitting there, was still married to the Guo family?
Wang Chen was able to keep his composure and was not as angry as others. He just looked at Guo Pei:
“Zhong Nan, you called everyone here today. Could it be that you want to talk about this matter?”
"Of course, otherwise what else can happen?" Guo Pei said matter-of-factly, "Isn't this matter worth calling everyone over to discuss?"
"Enough is enough, but..." Wang Chen glanced at Guo Pei, "Zhong Nan, don't you think the imperial court's appetite is a little too big?"
Bingzhou has changed its owner, and it is not incomprehensible that everyone should show their loyalty.
On the contrary, it is a reasonable thing.
For example, take the Wang family themselves. Wang Yun, the main figure of the previous generation, died for his loyalty to the Han Dynasty.
As for the generation of Wang Chen and Wang Ling, they followed the general trend and contributed to the Wei Dynasty.
Now someone has come back with the slogan of restoring the Han Dynasty. Although Bingzhou opened the city gate and surrendered, he even spent a lot of money and food to help the Han army go south to fight for Guanzhong.
But it was wartime.
The victory is now decided.
It is normal for the victor to redistribute the benefits after taking over the annexed state.
But you have to follow some rules, right?
I just want to cut the flesh on everyone’s thighs. No, this is no longer cutting the flesh, but I want to saw off everyone’s lower body.
Is this reasonable?
“The Guo family is one of the largest families in Taiyuan. If the imperial court really facilitates this matter, the Guo family may not be able to escape. Why didn’t Zhong Nan mention everyone’s difficulties to the imperial court?”
Hearing what Wang Chen said, Guo Pei no longer pretended, but when he saw that he was confident, he stroked his beard and smiled:
"How can I be a person who doesn't know the importance of things? In fact, apart from promising a school, Feng Duhu also gave me something else."
When some impatient people heard this, they almost couldn’t help but curse:
“What is so valuable? Can it cost our families all their own land?”
When Guo Pei heard this, he was not angry. He just bent down and opened the box at his feet, took out the things he had prepared and put them on the table.
Everyone looked at it intently and couldn't help but be a little stunned.
“This is...clothing?”
It is indeed just a piece of clothing, and a double garment.
This time, even Wang Chen couldn’t hold his breath:
Is King Feng Gui planning to exchange such a piece of clothing for the land in everyone’s hands?
Although this overcoat seems a bit special and very thick, no matter how thick the overcoat is, it is just a piece of clothing.
Even if it’s gold and jade clothes, they’re not worth that much land, right?
Guo Pei was not in a hurry to explain. He smiled and pinched the thick coat on the desk:
“Do you know what’s sewn into this dress?”
Someone said angrily: "Even if it is filled with gold and silver, it can't be exchanged for the land in my hand!"
“Wow!” Guo Pei patted his clothes and shouted, “What’s sewn inside is silver, silver that can be grown!”
"What's the meaning?"
Guo Pei bent down again, took out handfuls of white fluff from the box under his feet, and put them on top of his clothes.
Wang Chen picked it up curiously, raised it to his eyes and looked at it. He pressed his fingers a little and felt a little silky:
“It’s not like catkins or reed catkins. What is this?”
Guo Pei laughed and patted the coat on the table: "How can reed catkins make such thick clothes?"
Wang Chen raised his brows and said, "So there is actually this kind of lint in this coat?"
"That's right, this is called Baidiezi. It is produced in the Western Regions. Some of it has also flowed into the Southern Barbarians from the body poison. It is cultivated like mulberry and hemp. It can be made into clothes or made into overcoats to keep out the cold."
“If it is made into ordinary clothing, it is much better than linen clothing. It is not only comfortable to wear, but also wear-resistant.”
“If it is made into a coat to keep out the cold,” Guo Pei said, patting the cotton coat again, “it will be like this, thick and warm!”
The so-called duyi refers to clothes that have a lining and can be filled with stuffing.
In this era, the winter clothing and outer robes were basically double coats.
The best ones are fur clothes, that is, fur.
The dog thief in Meng Tangjun's guest's dog robbery and the rooster's crow stole a fox-white fur coat.
As for those rich people in the countryside, they may not even have a fur coat at home, and they wear cotton clothes in winter.
Attention, it is a cotton coat, not a cotton coat.
Mianyi is made of silk floss, which comes from silkworm cocoons, so it is called cotton clothes.
Of course, Feng Langjun descended from heaven to the Han Dynasty and made woolen materials from wool, adding another kind of cold-proof clothing to the people of the Han Dynasty.
The price is almost the same as that of fine cotton clothes.
However, none of the above three items can be afforded by Cangtou Guizhou.
After all, even in the industrial age, the price of real wool clothing was not low.
So there is the lowest level of cold-proof clothing below, which is the linen robe.
The stuffing inside is tangled hemp, or what Wang Chen calls reed catkins.
Min Ziqian, one of the seventy-two sages of Confucius and famous for his filial piety, wore this kind of clothes:
The father took his second wife and gave birth to two sons. Qian provided for his parents and showed great filial piety. The stepmother was jealous of him and gave birth to his own son, whose clothes were covered with cotton wool, and Zi Qian was clothed with reed catkins.
This is the origin of the so-called "Lu Yi Shun Mu".
No matter how much hemp or reeds are filled, it is of little use.
Those who should freeze to death will still freeze to death.
Hearing Guo Pei's words, Wang Chen subconsciously grasped the thick coat on the table as if he had grasped something, and his heart suddenly pounded.
He looked at the coat carefully and touched the fabric:
“Yes, it’s not like linen, nor like silk. It’s a little worse than silk, but it’s much better than linen.”
He pinched the clothes again and said, "I'm afraid it looks warmer than cotton clothes, but I don't know how much it costs?"
Guo Pei smiled: "This white stack can be grown like mulberry and hemp, and the catkins it produces can be directly spun into clothing materials. It is much more convenient than mulberry and hemp."
“We don’t know how to raise sheep and weave wool, but of all of you here, who doesn’t have land at home? As long as we grow more, no matter how expensive it is, how much more expensive will it be?”
Food, clothing, housing and transportation are the basic needs of the people.
Why should food and clothing come first?
It is because these two are the most important and indispensable.
As long as it is necessary for the people of the world, it is a big business that can make the country rich.
For example, salt.
No one present is a fool.
A fool cannot be the representative of a big family.
The huge room suddenly became quiet.
Everyone is trying hard to digest the news.
It is not said to be warmer than cotton clothes, as long as it is as warm as cotton clothes.
It is easier to make than cotton clothes and the cost is lower. Who will wear cotton clothes at that time?
Let’s not talk about the rich people in the countryside. Let’s talk about the army. The mainstream clothes for soldiers to keep out the cold are still cotton clothes - second-rate cotton clothes made of silkworm cocoon scraps.
Even among the Han army, those who could afford to wear clothes made of wool were at least middle- and low-level generals who commanded more than a hundred men.
Not to mention that it can also be made into ordinary clothing, and it is better than linen clothing.
It can replace both hemp and cotton. You can imagine how broad the prospects will be if it is available? !
“Gudong!”
Some people couldn't help but swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
“Gudong…”
…
“The matter is so big, how can we easily draw conclusions?”
Wang Chen was much more sober. He looked at Guo Pei:
"If this is really the case, how can Feng Duhu easily grant it to us? Let alone how can he turn a blind eye to the Xinghan Hui?"
That’s right, this is unreasonable.
Everyone’s eyes were turned to Guo Pei.
Guo Pei was not in a hurry. He bent down for the third time, took out a notebook with more than ten pages from the box, and handed it to Wang Chen:
“This is from Feng Duhu, please take a look.”
Wang Chen took it and saw on the cover: "A Feasibility Report on Promoting Cotton Cultivation."
"cotton?"
“That’s Bai Diezi.”
(End of this chapter)