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Chapter 13 Skilled Craftsmen


Li Lu wiped out the three Turkic tribes and made a windfall, not only got a lot of gold and silver, cattle and sheep, horses and tens of thousands of cheap labor, but also the Han people who talked to him more, these people and things suddenly made Li Lu's rank in the background change from the township chief to the town mayor, ouch, it has risen by half a level, he now understands that this administrative level is measured according to the number of people in later generations, that is not, Li Lu now has 100,000 people, but he is only a town mayor, you must know that even in Datang, 100,000 people are a lower state, and there are only 20,000 or 30,000 people in a county, Li Lu looked at it for a while and then closed the background of the system, this system must have been influenced by the Jews when it was crossed, or it couldn't be so dark.Li Lu took a deep breath, to fight a world in the prairie that only talks about strength and does not talk about benevolence and morality, it is a copy of hell, it is too difficult and too difficult, in order not to be bullied, he has to bully others, of course, this bullying refers to the upper echelons of those tribes, as the only feudal centralized tribe among the many tribes in Saibei, Li Lu and his Hujiasi are relatively Turkic, Hui and the rising Xue Yantuo and other slave countries have undoubted advancement, Li Lu found a very interesting thing by destroying the three parts of the capital, that is, don't look at these steppe empires are very glamorous and powerful in appearance, but it is not difficult to completely destroy them, as long as the upper echelons of their tribes are completely destroyed, the slaves they squeeze are liberated, and the civilians will give them some benefits, no one remembers those former tribes, and it is not an exaggeration to say that these grassland people are milk or mothers, although they still have the possibility of rebellion, but Li Lu is not afraid, he has two sharp weapons, one is ideological and political education, comprehensive education and brainwashing, The second is the new Taoism he promoted on the grassland, you haven't seen it for a long time, those grassland barbarians who originally sowed three parts, after coming to Xiling, they all abandoned Hu Ming to accept Sinicization, and became Taoist believers, on the contrary, those real Han people are not so enthusiastic about Taoism........

Just in the beginning of spring, the Age of the Huangjia people, the king of the Jiankun Han people, the newly attached tribal civilians and those who were demoted to slaves because of their crimes, Li Lu issued an edict in Xiling City, officially announcing that the name of his small regime is Jiankun, what Qigu, what Huangjiasi, what Suqi Stone is no longer used, and he became the Khan of Jiankun, while further clarifying his identity after the Han people, Li Lu openly used the Central Plains era in Saibei, this year is the first year of Zhenguan (that is, 627 AD), Stop using the Turkic and Turkic languages, use Chinese and Chinese characters in full, and in short, everything is on par with the Central Plains......."

Yunqing, you are going to Chang'an, the road is long, it is thousands of miles away, I will explain your affairs, please be sure to let Emperor Tang know, please!"

Although the system people were summoned by themselves and were absolutely loyal to themselves, Li Lu still showed enough sincerity, which made Zhou Ling, the envoy who was ready to venture through to Chang'an, very moved, "Your Majesty, please rest assured, even if Yun Qing dies, he will definitely let His Majesty the Tang Emperor know that there is a Han blood clan outside the Saiwai, and I will definitely send your handwritten letter and seal to the Tang Emperor......"

After Zhou Ling finished speaking, he took the mission, holding the gifts carefully prepared by Li Lu, and dressed up as Xue Yantuo and walked into the prairie without hesitation.

They wanted to go south to Chang'an City, the holy place of the Li family and all the Han people.Why did Li Lu send Zhou Ling to Chang'an to see Li Er, he didn't want to hug his thighs, which thigh was the thickest in the 7th century, this still needs to be asked, naturally it is the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty's surname is Li, and his own surname is Li, plus he was a descendant of the Tang royal family in his previous life, so that Li Lu could not resist the desire to return to his sect in his heart......

After sending Zhou Ling away, Li Lu returned to Xiling with some melancholy, he once again went to the place where those Han laborers lived, wanting to hear their true thoughts, after visiting, Li Lu found that many of these people were looted by the Turkic barbarians in the former Sui Dynasty.When asked if he would be willing to escort them home if he had the opportunity to return to the Central Plains in the future, almost all of these people chose not to go back, and they were willing to stay and follow Li Lu.Hearing this, Li Lu's heart pierced for a while, who doesn't want to return to his hometown, but these people's hometowns have changed over time, and their relatives have died and gone, and they can't find them.They are now truly unaccompanied, and I am afraid that there are no relatives willing to help them.Therefore, if Li Lu really let them return to their hometown, I am afraid that it will harm them.Even if they return to the Tang Dynasty and settle down elsewhere, I am afraid that because of their background and the reason that they have been captured by the Turks, they may be discriminated against.Especially those women, maybe they will be considered to have lost their virginity, the dog-day way of the pomp egg......

In fact, Li Lu didn't know that every time after the troubled times was a time of population redivision.In troubled times, in order to escape the troubled times, the people naturally became homeless.And once the troubled times are over, I am afraid that most of them are already willing to live in the local area, but not necessarily willing to return to their hometowns.And the population has undergone such a redistribution.In fact, their hometowns may not be all their relatives anymore.Since they were willing to follow him, Li Lu had to show due sincerity, he quickly evaluated these Han indentured laborers, selected the advanced active producers among them to give commendations, not only let them end the contract in advance, but also awarded them official positions or gave them a lot of rewards, these successful examples soon stimulated all the Han indentured laborers, and they all exerted all their enthusiasm, striving to let themselves also enter the sight of this Jiankun Great Khan.Of course, when Li Lu treated the Han people well, he did not forget the Hu civilians who were not classified as Han people, and he also promised them that as long as they could contribute to Jiankun, they would be able to get points, and if the points were enough, they could apply for a change of household registration in the Household Registration Section of the Department of Civil Affairs......

Among these lucky people, there are two couples who are very eye-catching, Wang Tong and Fang Hui are Han couples who combined after coming to Xiling, Kesu Mu and Eliza are a small Persian couple who fled to Xiling, these two couples came to Xiling by mistake, and became neighbors by mistake, and became good friends, Wang Tong was a paper-making master before he was looted to Saibei, his ancestors were paper-making families from Cao Wei, and when they registered after being rescued, they said that they would make paper, As a result, he was received by the king, who was said to be a natural stranger, and encouraged himself to study the paper, and said that he would provide all necessary help.Wang Tong has been experimenting since then, although Cai Hou paper is good, but in this Saibei, it is obviously not very suitable, there is no hemp here to let themselves squander, this is sad Wang Tong, one day Ke Su Mu came to visit the door, this guy is a Persian but can speak fluent Chinese, when he heard that Wang Tong was worried about the paper raw material only wood veneer, Ke Su Mu went home and took out a roll of papyrus he brought from Egypt, and told Wang Tong about the production process of papyrus, and the two people who like to study began to stop experimenting, One day, when Li Lu came to inspect, he asked the two with a smile, "You only use tree bark, aren't those wooden hearts a waste?"

”As a result, the two papermaking masters comprehended, they set up a waterwheel by the thawing Qian River, using water power to pound the wooden heart into wood pulp, and then after cooking, grinding, pulping, papermaking, pressing, drying and other dozens of processes, to create Jiankun may be the world's first batch of leather paper, although their set of leather paper production process is all based on the handicraft people's naked eye observation and hand experience to grasp, such as the depth of the curtain bed into the pool in the paper-fishing process, the size of the waves, etc., can only be operated by sight and feel, However, the set of leather paper making skills they studied can also be processed into more than ten varieties of painting fairy paper, note paper, national color paper, etc., not only for calligraphy and painting, but also for binding, packaging, etc., and a lot of simple machinery is also used in the papermaking process, which is the most sophisticated papermaking process in this era.Li Lu was very happy to learn that they succeeded, he took the initiative to set up a papermaking workshop with these two masters, none of them expected that many years later, people would regard this workshop as the earliest abuse of modern papermaking, so that many large papermaking companies claim to have the blood of this workshop.......

It was said above that these are two families, after talking about men, you have to say that the women of these two families, Fang Hui is very ordinary, she turned out to be an ordinary woman in the Han land, and then unfortunately was plundered by the Turks to Saibei, suffered all the insults, and finally survived, and found her other half in Xiling, even this name was still in the register, the official who wrote gave her a name, just like her name, Fang Hui is an extremely intelligent woman, she is not only a very superb hemp and silk textile master, And she is also a master of embroidery, this ordinary woman inadvertently left a very strong stroke, when later generations mention her, often do not call her by name, but call her "Caiyun Fairy", which means that she can weave the same bright silk as the fairy in the sky......

Someone is going to say, what are you kidding, this is in Saibei, the mulberry tree can't live, and there is no mulberry tree so how to feed the silkworm baby?

Without mulberry trees and silkworm babies, you can't weave silk?

Not necessarily, the origin of Jiankun silk is inseparable from another equally great woman, this woman is also a good woman, her name is Eliza is Kesu Mu's wife, a beautiful Persian orchid, the reason why Kesu Mu took her into exile Kunjian is that Eliza's beauty alarmed a Persian nobleman, and she had to flee, after this Eliza came to Jiankun, she picked up her own craftsmanship in weaving carpets in Persia, and the carpets woven were very popular, and even Li Lu collected her works.The reason why Kunjian silk is related to her is because when she and Fang Hui were picking mushrooms together, she found a strange green cocoon, she took it to Fang Hui to see, and Fang Hui saw at a glance that this was the legendary green silkworm, which is also the so-called silkworm, which is a valuable thing that is hard to find......

This is a big discovery, although ordinary silkworms may not be as good as mulberry silk, but it is better to feed, with these little cuties, Fang Hui and other ingenious women can turn them into soft gold-like silk.......

For skilled craftsmen like these two young couples, Li Lu gave the highest courtesy, from ancient times to the present they are the real driving force of society, science and technology are the primary productive forces, which is an eternal truth.Wang Tong and his family have become famous, Kesu Mu and Eliza have also obtained the long-admired Han household registration status, and no one in the entire Jiankun country does not give a thumbs up, these two are amazing!

That's right, Li Lu is a typical tree, he wants his people to know that skilled people are capable people, Kunjian is a small people, and he can rely on advanced science and technology and concepts.......