Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 698 There is a yarn

  While busy, it seems that winter is coming very quickly. Accompanied by the sudden cold wind overnight, the first snow in the second year of Chuping fluttered and shrouded the entire sky of Pingyang City.

  Standing at the head of Pingyang City, watching the falling snowflakes gradually dye the whole land into pure white, it is indeed a boundless scenic spot.

  Especially when there is a small red clay stove and a urn of corn wine next to it. Although it is not green ant wine, it is better because it is brewed from this year's new corn, so it has some special meaning.

Fei Qian turned his head for a while and saw Xu Shu and Zaoyi coming hand in hand, so he greeted with a smile: "Come here, try this year's newly brewed corn wine, haha, speaking of it, it's thanks to Zijing, the old farmer gave it to you." When I came, I would like to thank you by calling your name..."

Zaozhi runs to the fields every day. Although he is young, some farmers near Pingyang are familiar with this typical farming practice, especially when Zaozhi arranges livestock to carry out large-scale deep plowing, measures planting distance, and organizes During the time of topdressing and irrigation, Zaoyi's prestige was established in such trivial field affairs one after another.

  Nowadays, among farmers near Pingyang County, when it comes to Zaozhi’s full name, not many people may know it, but when it comes to Zao’s business, they basically know it...

  Zaoyi cupped his hands and said, "I'm just trying my best, I really dare not take credit for it."

   Fei Qian smiled and didn't continue to say anything, but motioned for the two to sit down.

   "Yuanzhi, how is it in the barracks?" Fei Qian personally poured two glasses of wine for the two, and then asked Xu Shu.

Two days ago, the 3,000 cavalry who accompanied the Southern Xiongnu Shanyu Yu Fuluo to the armed parade also rushed back to Pingyang, and are now stationed in the barracks. Fortunately, they rushed back early, otherwise they would encounter such a heavy snowfall on the road , is also quite troublesome.

Xu Shu took the wine glass and said, "Ji Dang is now organizing that in the camp... Well, the literacy competition, hehe, all the soldiers are desperately learning to read. I heard that many soldiers even dream at night. Recognized characters, and some people even directly changed the names of everyone in the team with recognized characters..."

  It is winter now, and rain and snow are the natural protection umbrella. Under such circumstances, even if you want to, you will probably be powerless. The outdoor temperature close to zero will be a nightmare for all those who are marching and on the road.

Therefore, since the training was not easy to carry out, Fei Qian simply ordered to organize a literacy competition in the barracks. Unprecedented, there are always those who want to go to Pingyang City to spend some money after receiving their military pay on weekdays, and now they all stay in the camp.

  Food is the most important thing for the people. It’s New Year’s Eve. Who doesn’t want to eat something good?

  Originally, there were still some veterans in the military camp who insisted that it was useless to read and write. Now they have to be forced to learn together. Otherwise, the partners in the same team will not be able to eat wine and meat, and they will probably be talked about for a whole year...

Haha, Fei Qian raised his head and smiled. If he had known that there would be such an effect, this kind of competition should have been held earlier, but can we still hold some military exercises and competitions? You can't let these pawns be completely idle, can you?

   "Where are the farmers?" Fei Qian asked Zaozhi.

  Zaozhi put down his wine glass and said: "The briquettes have been delivered to every household. Although the quantity is not much, I think there will be a lot fewer people who died of cold this winter..."

   Fei Qian nodded, silent.

   Every winter, people will freeze to death, there is no way.

  Before I thought about explaining to Zaoyi about the issue of letting farmers pay attention to the burning of briquettes in closed houses and paying attention to carbon monoxide, but after thinking about it, it was almost impossible for this to happen in the Han Dynasty...

The houses in the Han Dynasty were poorly sealed, and there were air leaks on the top and bottom of the house, and the farmers were definitely not willing to use a lot of briquettes, and they were definitely willing to use them when the cold was unbearable. not easy.

  However, this cotton...

  Some time ago when I was chatting with Linagu, I talked about some melons and fruits in the Western Regions, and then Linagu said that I seem to have seen such fluffy snow-like flowers in Xiqiang, but I don’t know if Linagu is describing cotton...

  The roads were blocked by heavy snow, and the caravans also stopped, including whether there is cotton in the Western Regions, etc. It is estimated that we will not know until next spring when the snow melts.

   But now, maybe there is something that can temporarily replace cotton...

  Fei Qian took out a ball of string from his sleeve, handed it to Xu Shu and Zaozhi, and said, "Come on, have a look, and guess what it is?"

  Xu Shu got it in his hand, identified it, and said, "This is...wool...wool rope?"

   "Wool rope? But the 'rope' should be thicker, so maybe it's called a 'thread'?" Zaozhi also looked at it carefully, and then said.

Nowadays, whether it is Hu people or Han people in the Han Dynasty, most of them use animal fur to keep warm. The better ones are tigers, wolves, mink and foxes, the middle ones are sheep and dogs, and the worst is hare fur. As far as these skins are concerned, ordinary people and soldiers still cannot afford them.

  Because, too expensive. Therefore, most of the people and soldiers use two layers of Gebu, and then fill the middle with hay to make simple down jackets to keep out the cold. And there are few chickens and ducks that are usually raised, and there is no large-scale breeding of chickens and ducks. There are no anti-inflammatory and antibacterial antibiotics. If there are too many chickens and ducks, it is easy to form chicken plague and duck plague. So chicken and duck down feathers were also in the Han Dynasty. No.

  This thread was casually mentioned by Fei Qian and Huang Yueying when they were chatting, but Huang Yueying fiddled with it directly...

  In fact, in the Han Dynasty, there was already a preliminary process for the processing of wool. Wool was used for weaving, and it was also a skill that nomads used to resist wind and snow.

  Collecting wool from sheepskins has begun since the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, but it has not formed a large scale, and no one pays special attention to it.

Fei Qian asked some Hu people, most of them combed the sheep when spring was about to enter summer, and then a lot of wool could be combed, which is the source of wool. I will rub somewhere on the stake by myself, and then I can also collect it, which is called wool picking.

  Then it is soaked in alkaline water, dried in the sun, and then flicked. Finally, it can be kneaded and threaded.

  However, the wool of the Hu people in the Han Dynasty was very thick, and there was no way to make it as thin as Huang Yueying's. Therefore, most of the Hu people also used wool to weave felts and blankets, and very few people used it to weave woolen clothes.

  But since Huang Yueying has the technology to process wool again, weaving woolen sweaters seems to be on the agenda. However, the way the Hu people collected wool was too wasteful, so Fei Qian took out this wool to Xu Shu and Zaozhi, just to make an action about shearing wool.

   I think back then many words were kind...

   And now many words are zombies...

Ugh…

   What to do, if the author is asked to drop the keyboard and raise the pen, he probably forgot how to write many words...

  (end of this chapter)