When it comes to food, clothing, housing and transportation, clothing comes first.
The clothes in the Central Plains were mainly made of silk, silk, and linen. Among them, silk brocade was only used by the top nobles, followed by silk used by ordinary nobles, and finally linen used by the common people at the bottom.
The appearance of cotton cloth did not occur until after the Song Dynasty, and it was not until the early Ming Dynasty that cotton became the main raw material for clothing.
"It's worth the trip!" Jin Yao couldn't stop smiling. The linen on his body had long been uncomfortable to wear, and silk and silk were difficult to popularize. Finally, he found a raw material that could replace linen.
"Do you have a lot of this thing here?" Jin Yao looked at Taoyao hurriedly.
"Kapok is only used by a few people as potted plants. There may be some in the wild, but not many!" Taoyao shook her head. This thing is a weed. It says it looks good, but in fact it is just that. Once it blooms, it will dry up quickly.
Therefore not many people take care of it.
"Seeds, I need its seeds, many, many seeds!" Jin Yao said eagerly.
You don’t need any kind of seeds. It would be a sin not to load a few trucks with this kind of seeds!
Taoyao hesitated for a moment, but she could give the answer without asking the boss, "There won't be many seeds in this thing, maybe only a few taels. How many do you need?"
"Car, I need at least one car, hundreds of pounds!" Jin Yao said.
"This is very difficult unless you hire someone to search for it!" Taoyao said.
"You can find it as much as you want!" Jin Yao said seriously.
"Okay, let me ask for you!" Taoyao turned around and negotiated with the boss, asking the boss to hire someone to pick cotton seeds.
The boss also frowned and talked to Tao Yao a lot. Jin Yao also saw that the boss thought the value was not high and was unwilling to spend the time and energy to pick it.
"I'll pay! One gold for a hundred catties!" Jin Yao said directly.
Tao Yao was stunned. One hundred kilograms of seeds can be exchanged for one gold. Is it so expensive? You have to know how much ordinary seeds cost per kilogram. What kind of seeds can be valued in gold?
But Tao Yao still told the boss. When the boss heard Tao Yao's offer, his breathing became rapid. He turned around and chatted a lot with his companions, and then a group of people gathered around him.
"They asked, what you said is true, one hundred pounds for one gold!" Taoyao explained.
"Absolutely count, take as much as you have!" Jin Yao nodded immediately.
Tao Yao turned to look at the crowd and continued to express Jin Yao's meaning, so a group of people immediately packed up their stalls and ran out of the city.
"They said, let you wait here for two days, and they will go back to collect kapok seeds now," Taoyao said.
"sure!"
This thing is just a weed now. Jin Yao naturally doesn't expect anyone to get several carts of cotton seeds now, and he doesn't go back so quickly.
"Aren't you hungry?" Jin Yao looked at Tao Yao. They hadn't eaten for almost a day. As a warrior, he could naturally endure it, but Tao Yao couldn't.
It was okay if he didn't say it, but as soon as he said it, Taoyao's belly growled dissatisfiedly, and she blushed with embarrassment and dared not look at Jin Yao.
In fact, she had been hungry for a long time, but she just saw that Jin Yao was in a mood and couldn't be disturbed, so she held on.
"Let's go eat!" Jin Yao smiled and found a wine shop.
The hand-picked rice, barbecue, naan bread, and wine from the Western Regions are all top-notch, so Jin Yao ordered them all without hesitation.
After being chased for so long, I didn't eat much last night, so naturally I ate a lot.
Tao Yao ate very little and looked at Jin Yao in shock. In their country, eating more means strong. Therefore, Tao Yao did not feel anything bad about Jin Yao's appetite, but thought it was a good thing.
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"What a pity. It would be better if I had a moonlight cup!" Jin Yao sighed while drinking the wine.
A luminous cup of fine grape wine. If you want to drink, play the pipa immediately. Don’t laugh when you are lying drunk on the battlefield. How many people have fought in ancient times.
Although there is no war now, there is good wine but no matching wine bottles. After all, it is a bit worse.
"Moonlight Cup, what is that?" Taoyao asked curiously.
"A wine bottle made of jade, as the saying goes, Lanling's fine wine is filled with tulips, and the jade bowl contains amber light. But it makes the owner drunk, and they don't know where they are in a foreign country." Jin Yao sang with a smile.
"Are you a noble from the East?" Taoyao suddenly asked.
Originally, she thought that Jin Yao was just a down-and-out scholar from the East, but now looking at Jin Yao's demeanor and the poems that came out of his mouth, it was obvious that he was not comparable to ordinary scholars. Even the gentleman who taught them elegant language could not compare with him in demeanor.
Up.
"That's right!" Jin Yao thought for a while, he was the Emperor of Zhou. If he was not a noble, no one else was.
"During this period, you stay in the royal city to help me buy kapok seeds. I have to go out for something!" After having a good meal, Jin Yao left all the stolen money from the robbery to Taoyao.
"Where are you going?" Taoyao asked in confusion.
"Take a taste of the local scenery!" Jin Yao would not say that I was going to spy on the military situation and then bring a large army here in the future.
Thinking of this, Jin Yao felt that he was not a human again. He asked Taoyao about the situation in the Western Region, but it was used to attack the Western Region in the future.
I feel like a little girl who deceived people.
"Okay!" Taoyao nodded.
"I'm leaving!" Jin Yao jumped out of the window and left. With the speed of a grandmaster, he was no slower than a horse. Therefore, Jin Yao chose to buy a camel.
"First, Cheshi, then Wusun, then Dawan, Kangju, Daxia, and then return from Puli and Yina around the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau mountains, which will take about two or three months!" Jin Yao calculated the route.
Tao Yao thought Jin Yao was only gone for a few days, so she stayed in Cheshiwang City to help purchase the seeds Jin Yao needed.
However, Jin Yao did not wait until Da Qin's army appeared.
Taoyao did not expect that their powerful chariot division would be so vulnerable. At first, they only said that a big country in the east had attacked their subordinate Pulei. However, not long after the news reached the royal city, the second news came, saying
Pulei has been captured by the enemy, and all the soldiers and people have been captured by the enemy.
So her father and brothers led an army of 30,000 people to Che Shiweidu to resist the opponent's attack.
Everyone also believed that if the king's army went out, they would definitely win a big victory. After all, this was not the first time such a war happened. Even if it was a battle with Wusun, they would be victorious and triumphant very quickly.
However, the facts once again exceeded all of their expectations. They did not wait for the return of Master Wang, but instead waited for a magnificent black army, which surrounded the royal city like a long dragon. Her father and brother Wang
They were all captured by the other party.
"So weak!" Xiao Xu rode on a war horse and annihilated the main force of the king's chariot division. He didn't give much command, so he let his deputy Qiang Gui take command. Then he won the battle and captured the chariot division king and various nobles.
Xiao Xu really felt that he was very weak. There were clearly cavalry and infantry, so why did he have to fight with them in the wilderness instead of defending the city.
Forget about going out of the city to fight, why do you have to wait until you have formed your own troops before launching an attack? Compared with the Central Plains, this kind of tactics is hundreds of years behind. It is more like the tactics used by the princes fighting for hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period.