Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 698

In the midst of busy work, it seemed that winter came 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 on the top 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 here, I called on you by name, so I want to thank you..."

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

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

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

"Yuan Zhi, how's it going in the barracks?" Fei Qian poured two glasses of wine for the two with his own hands, and then asked Xu Shu.

Two days ago, the [-] 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 trying to read. I heard that many soldiers even dreamed about it at night. Newly recognized characters, and some people even directly changed the names of everyone in the team with recognized characters..."

It is winter now, and the rain and snow are natural protection umbrellas. In this situation, 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, and 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, but now they had to be forced to learn together, otherwise the partners in the same team would not be able to eat wine and meat, and they would 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?
"What about 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 freeze to death, and there is no way around it.

Before, I thought about explaining to Zaoyi about the issue of asking farmers to pay attention to the burning of briquettes in closed houses and pay attention to carbon monoxide. 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’s description is cotton...

The road was blocked by heavy snow, and the caravans also stopped. It is estimated that there is no cotton in the Western Regions and so on. It is estimated that we will not know until the snow melts in the spring of next year.

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 took it into 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 when he was chatting with Huang Yueying, 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, which was also a skill used by nomads to resist wind and snow.

The collection of wool from sheepskins has already begun since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, 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, flicked, and finally it can be rubbed out of the thread.

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 Hu people also used wool to weave felts and blankets, and 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 many words in those days 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 a lot of words...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)