sinovels Chapter 60
Chapter 60
The vast grassland is now cold and windy with the approach of winter, and the wife of the Hun merchant is sitting in the tent, anxiously waiting for her husband to come home. Her husband has gone to do business with the officials in the Central Plains city. It has been about two months, and the grass on the grassland has withered and yellow, and the cattle and sheep have begun to chew hay. In such a cold day, she worried that her husband would collapse on the road because of the cold and never return.
At this moment, with the sound of the tent door being opened, the Hun merchant's wife was pleasantly surprised to find that her husband walked into the tent with the cold all over his body.
"Hasen! You are like an eagle on the prairie. How did you come back?" The wife helped her husband take off his robe, and found that he was wearing a strange piece of clothing inside, which was very rough to the touch, but It turned out to be warm.
The Xiongnu merchant took off his coat and drank a cup of warm milk tea to dissipate the chill in his body before he calmed down. He said cheerfully, "It's all thanks to this sweater made by the people of the Central Plains. This sweater is too warm. , it’s warmer than a sheepskin vest inside.”
Sitting by the firepit, the wife carefully touched the sweater on her husband, and asked, "How did you get this dress? Didn't you do business with people from the Central Plains?"
The Hun merchant tore some of his clothes to make it easier for his wife to caress. He proudly said, "This is what they gave me when I did business with them."
The Xiongnu merchant began to talk about his experience of trading with the Central Plains people this time.
"We were waiting outside the border city with Shanyu's caravan. I saw that the soldiers on duty at the city gate were all wearing sweaters like me. They were shivering in the cold like the little lambs on the road, but they were very warm. I believed they must be because of the sweater they were wearing, so after I traded the sheep I brought with the people from the Central Plains, I asked them if I could buy a few. A sweater."
Said that the Xiongnu merchant took a sip of milk tea like thirsty, and under the anxious urging of his wife, he continued: "The Central Plains man who traded with me wanted to make friends with me, so he gave me one directly, but he said This one is not a very good one, and the better ones were worn away by the soldiers at the border."
"In the entire caravan, I and three other Hun merchants made friends with the Central Plains people. They all gave us a sweater, which is very warm." The Hun merchant said triumphantly to his wife, and then he leaned into his wife's ear He whispered, "Even Shan Yu's caravan leader didn't make friends with the Central Plains people. That mean goatee lost the Central Plains people's friendship because he charged too much."
When his wife heard the news, she covered her mouth in surprise and looked at her husband. After the two laughed for a while, his wife began to ask him what novel things he had seen this time.
"That's too much. People in the Central Plains enjoy the goat milk they drink very much. It doesn't even smell fishy. I asked. Their sweet goat milk is boiled with almonds and honey is added to it." The Xiongnu merchant said with emotion. Said that this is simply a luxury they cannot imagine living on the grasslands.
"My friend invited me to a teahouse to drink this kind of milk tea once. It was as sweet as honey," said the Hun businessman with a smile and took out a water bag from his chest, "I brought it back for you and the children. Yes, that kind friend told the owner of the restaurant and asked me to take a bag."
The wife took a sip cautiously, as if it only touched her lips, but after she tasted the taste, a dreamy expression appeared on her face: "My God, this is really sweet like stone honey. It doesn't have any smell, let's give it to the children tomorrow morning."
The Xiongnu merchant continued to talk about what he had seen and heard: "...I later found out that the one who is going to trade with us this time is the younger brother of the Emperor of the Central Plains, and he is also the most favored one."
His wife asked suspiciously, why is he said to be the most favored?
The Xiongnu merchant replied in a tone of exclamation: "The younger brother of the Emperor of the Central Plains, oh, people in the Central Plains call him a prince. This prince has two mountains full of sheep! Two hills of sheep, I saw those sheep in the sheep farm. , as if white clouds directly covered the mountain, only when they returned to the sheep pen, I could see the original appearance of the mountain."
His wife couldn't help but exclaimed, but immediately covered her mouth with her hands, for fear that the sleeping child behind her would wake up.
The wife said in a low voice: "That's really favored. There are so many sheep on two hills. Even Shanyu doesn't have so many sheep."
The Xiongnu merchant replied affirmatively: "Shanyu should not have so many sheep, and all the soldiers at their border are wearing sweaters like mine. It is said that the prince made them for them, and they can wear them at a very cheap price. But only they can use such a cheap price, and other Central Plains people in the city will have to pay another price if they want it.”
The wife was silent for a while and said, "It would be great if I could live in the city of the people from the Central Plains. During the two months you were away, Shanyu's people came and took away a few sheep, saying that the tax was not enough."
The Hun merchants were also silent, and a dignified atmosphere permeated the small tent.
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Bianguan City is full of joy, after all, the Chinese New Year is coming.
Different from the desolate border city in the past, this year's border city is decorated with lights and festoons, and some people even invited dragon and lion dance teams.
The people in Bianguan City knew that all these changes started with the arrival of King An.
Da Niu happily brought her daughter to the city to buy honey today. This was impossible before, after all, the family was poor, but since Da Niu was elected to An Wang’s textile factory, the situation has changed .
When she got the first month's wages, the big girl couldn't even believe her eyes. She escaped home like a thief that day. When she put the monthly money on the table, everyone in the family, including his disgusting big girl, The father-in-law who gave birth to a daughter kept his mouth shut.
From that day on, the eldest girl's right to speak in the family gradually increased. When she took her monthly money and pulled new clothes for herself and her daughter, no one in the family dared to speak. The big girl raises it, and the family members will starve to death just relying on the harvest in the field.
The eldest girl brought a large piece of meat to the family that night to add vegetables to the family. The father-in-law and mother-in-law looked like they had never disliked the eldest girl, and the husband was still taciturn, but he could finally be upright I put meat in the big girl's bowl.
In the past, he secretly saved it and kept it for himself. Once his father-in-law and mother-in-law found out, there would be no peace for the whole night.
When the eldest girl returned to her room at night, she hugged her daughter and cried fiercely, while her husband hugged them silently, just like he used to protect them.
The big girl who was leading her daughter planned to wear new clothes for her husband, so she and her daughter couldn't lose money. As for the parents-in-law?It's enough to make a living.
Thinking of this big girl, I can't help being grateful to King An, or in other words, as long as the people in Border City think that King An is a good man with a compassionate heart.
King An likes to raise sheep, and he also likes things made from wool, so he opened a textile factory and a woolen factory. Although some of them are occupied by veterans, the remaining places are enough for the villagers in the surrounding villages to live comfortably and comfortably. life.
Wang An is very generous to the people below, and because he will go to the factory from time to time to check the situation of the employees, the financial management below will not dare to embezzle, and the monthly money he takes home for one month is enough for a family of eight to cover food, clothing, housing and transportation for three months Yes, and this is still a family that spends money lavishly. It is not impossible to save a month of money and spend the first half of the year.
Because almost all the employees in the weaving and woolen factories that King An wants are women, it is also understandable that women have been doing weaving since ancient times, but this also makes the women in Border City straighten their waists stand up.
After all, the family has to rely on their own daughter or daughter-in-law to support them, and they dare not throw their temper at the family's pocketbook.
This also led to the expansion of the textile and woolen factory, and the women from the surrounding farms and even the city almost flooded the factory.
It's not that no one has said acid words, but since the clothes that Wang An called the cashmere coat woven by the female workers were sent to Beijing, no one dared to speak acid words to them again.
After learning from Miss Yuruo of the sheep farm that the cashmere dress was given to the emperor and the concubine by King An, all the hired workers who had gone through the process of those clothes went crazy.
And their family had the same reaction as them when they heard about this incident. A patriarch who reacted the fastest in the surrounding villages immediately prepared to open an ancestral hall to worship their ancestors.
As for women not being allowed to worship their ancestors?So what if I make an exception this time, this is the person who made clothes for the emperor!
The employees were also surrounded by groups. During the Chinese New Year, when the factory was on holiday, everyone gathered at their homes and listened tirelessly to the boring production procedures.
They even started discussing whether the emperor and the concubine would wear that cashmere sweater.
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The emperor put it on, not only did he put it on, but he went to court in a fair manner. If it wasn't for the cold weather during the Chinese New Year, he would have liked to wear this dress outside, so that all the ministers could see how strong his brother is. Filial piety to him.
Concubine De, who was given a cashmere sweater by her own son, also became the most watched person in the harem this year.
In the harem of the old emperor, the harem of the old emperor had no reason to be hostile to each other after the death of the old emperor, which made everyone calm down. After all, they were all locked up together for a lifetime until they died, and they fought like they did when they were young. What's the use of going?There are not a few people who eat vegetarian food and chant Buddha. Those who have children will usually have old sisters come to sit and listen to new things outside after the children enter the palace or send things.
In addition to sending cashmere sweaters back to Concubine De, King An also sent a lot of gadgets, even goat milk powder, which reminded Concubine De of her childhood memories.
All the old sisters looked at Concubine De enviously. After all, even if a child sent something back, she would not be so caring. Concubine De said everything, and her heart was full of happiness.
And the emperor didn't give in too much. After showing off the cashmere sweater sent back by his younger brother at the court meeting, he felt that it was not enough, and he even summoned all his direct line team to his study.
Helpless to listen to how the emperor praised King An's team:...
Hold on, this is the emperor.
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small theater
Emperor: my brother balabala...peace balabala
Team: (fake smile) (applause) (when will I leave work)