346. Cultural exchange
In the early summer of this year, several medical officers sent from Chang'an City arrived in Jinchang City. They brought cows with acne, saying that they wanted to grow acne with local people.
Jinchang City distributed documents to the counties under its jurisdiction, allowing medical officials from all over the country to go to the prefecture to learn acne. Luo Yong also received it. He not only asked the county's medical officials to go, but also arranged several doctors in the market. There were all in the townships below the county town. The county government went to spend money and asked them to go to Jinchang to learn acne.
The people of Changle heard that they were going to eat acne here, and they were all very happy. Last year, when Chang'an City started to promote the cultivation of vaccinia, the news spread to Longxi during the summer season.
Almost all people believe that cowpox can exorcise evil spirits, and they also look forward to the day when they can get acne. This time the court was quite powerful, sending many medical officials from Chang'an City to promote acne cultivation across the country. Now even border areas like Changle County are in place.
From Chang'an City to the westernmost part of Longxi, these medical officials have been promoting acne-consuming technology all the way. It took more than a year for these medical officials to do so, but it was not slow.
However, Luo Yong, the cotton gin they recently started selling, was sent to Chang'an City in just over a month.
Many people in Chang'an finally understood that the reason why the coffin board was able to transport so many white stacks to Chang'an City in such a short time was that it was because of this thing.
"That coffin board is amazing. Last year, I sold white stacked cloth. This year, I don't know how much I should have earned after going back and forth?"
"This little thing costs five pieces of good silk, which is really not cheap."
"Why don't you make one yourself?"
"It's really impossible to create."
"Just just the hooked stick in the middle, you and I will probably not be able to make it even if you spend ten pieces of good silk."
"Luo is so awesome with those disciples!"
"I heard that they are all from ordinary merchants and hawkers."
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"I saw the third uncle of the Chen family hurried out of the city two days ago."
"There are so many people who have left the city these two days, and they are probably heading to Longxi."
"What should I do when I go to Longxi?"
"It's better to buy land to plant white buns. What's the point of doing? Now the white buns in Chang'an City have not yet dissipated, and the price of white buns should not be reduced for the time being."
"Just like this for the past three or five years, I will definitely not be able to get out of here."
"Even if the price of white folding cloth in Chang'an City has dropped, there are other places in the Central Plains, Jiangnan and Jiangbei, and I heard that "The Song of White folding" is widely circulated."
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The reason why these big families in Chang'an City are optimistic about the prospect of white stacked cloth and go to Longxi to buy production is another more direct reason, that is, white stacked cloth is easier to obtain than linen and silk, and has a lower production cost.
If you plant hemp, you will plant it in spring and harvest it in autumn. After you collect it, you will have to rinse him, wash him and rub him. Although most people in the world wear hemp, this linen is not a very easy thing to obtain.
And that kind of mulberry silkworm breeding is even more troublesome. A group of spring silkworms starts to serve them from the silkworm seeds and must be served until they spin silk. I don’t know how much mental energy it will take to grow mulberry trees, and don’t even say that the mulberry trees originally had to occupy the land.
Compared with linen and silk cloth, the white stack is really convenient. When planting and harvesting in spring, the white stack with seeds is collected, and you just need to put it in the cotton gin and roll it to get clean velvet, which is used to spin and weave cloth. Moreover, the white stack with woven is of good quality, which is softer and delicate than linen.
As soon as the cotton gin in Changle County came out, many people in Chang'an saw the benefits of this white bun. Unfortunately, the white buns were only suitable for planting in Longxi, so some capable families went to Longxi to buy a white buns.
There are also some knowledgeable people who say that the white stacked flowers may not be able to be planted in Longxi, and some places with similar soil and soil in the Central Plains should be able to be planted.
If you can plant specific places and cannot plant them, you can only slowly explore and verify them later. When the white flowers bloom in Changle County this year, merchants and wealthy families from all over the country will definitely come to Changle County to buy flower seeds.
Before we knew it, the small town on the border of Changle County became a place for many Chang'an people to yearn for.
The girls yearn for the large white flowers, and the men yearn for the wealth that the white flowers can create.
No matter how those Chang'an people yearn for it, Changle County or Changle County, although this year is a bit lively than in previous years, the people in the county still have to work hard every day.
A few days ago, the magistrate of County Luo locked up the tofu workshop and passed on the tofu craftsmanship to the people of Changle.
At that time, many monks from Dunhuang City came to study, and a few Taoist priests who traveled all over the world. In the past, Changle County was too small and poor, and monks didn't like to come very much. Recently, there have been a lot more. The arrival of these people has greatly enriched the spiritual and cultural life of the local people.
When it comes to Buddhism and Taoism, Buddhism should still be a little prosperous in Changle County. After all, there are so many monks in Dunhuang, so there are fewer Taoist priests. Most Taoist priests like those places with outstanding people and powerful places, and they don’t come to Longxi very much, so the people of Longxi don’t have much feelings for those Taoist priests.
However, there have been rumors in the market that Sun Simiao, the founder of this method of cowpox, was a very accomplished Taoist priest. The monks expressed disapproval of this, saying that Doctor Sun was also very proficient in Buddhism.
First, some rumors were rumored, and the propagandist escalated into face-to-face debate. As the debate was debated, some people couldn't help but start.
At this time, monks were not as obedient as they did in later generations. Thinking about the fact that they dared to walk around the world in this era, they must have to be a little adventurous and a little bloody.
Not to mention Taoist priests, they have done too many things like being uneven and righteous. It would be amazing to meet these two gangs of people together.
On this day, Luo Yong was discussing with his disciples whether to set up a Yan'erfei workshop in Changle County.
County magistrate Guo Fenglai hurried over and said, "The servant who was guarding the gate just now came to tell me that Yan was a few Taoist priests who had made an appointment with monks to meet outside the city."
Luo Yong heard this and said, "Take a few more people over here, they are arrested, and take them to prison for a few days."
"All arrests?" Guo Fenglai thought, otherwise he would have arrested one or two people who took the lead in knocking. After all, he didn't want to offend those monks and Taoists. Besides, so many people were locked in prison and had to provide them with food.
"Don't tell anyone who participates, and you can catch them together." He dared to challenge his fight in the realm of Changle, and really thought that the name of the coffin board was vain.
Guo Feng received the order and indeed took more than thirty servants out of the city. Unfortunately, they were still a little late. When they arrived, the monks and Taoists had already run away on horseback.
Don’t think that monks don’t ride horses. There are so many monks in this era who can go there. First of all, most of them are literate, and they are basically from good families. It is common for monks of this era to go to the battlefield.
But in the eyes of rulers like Li Shimin, monks were still too kind, so he used to be more resistant to Buddhism and was worried that the prevalence of Buddhism would affect the military's combat effectiveness, but his current vision and angle of view of the problem seem to be somewhat different from the past.
Since the Battle of Gaochang and the emergence of Jingua, many Buddhists have also recognized this Central Plains emperor much higher than before.
In the following days, the people of Changle often saw some monks and Taoists with injuries on their faces. They avoided the officers, for fear that the county magistrate of the coffin would ask them to settle the score after the autumn.
The folk customs of this era are really open. In the Central Plains decades later, a celebration called "Qihan Hu Opera" was even popular. In early winter, a large group of people were naked and poured water on each other, singing and dancing for fun. The scene was bold and lively, and many emperors and princes loved to watch it.
In this environment, especially in this fierce Longxi area, monks and Taoists fight, to the locals, it is nothing to the eyes of the locals. Some people think that the magistrate Luo County is a bit too serious this time.
Chapter completed!