Chapter 83: The Powerful One is the Most Respected

Usually, it takes half an hour to sleep at noon, but Qu Wentai waited for an hour and a half, but no one came to spread the news. Qu Wentai couldn't stand it anymore. He was a prince of Gaochang State. Although he was a descendant of the Han people, Qu Wentai had never been to the Central Plains. He believed that the four counties and 18 counties of Gaochang State were already large and boundless. Of course, the eighteen counties in Gaochang State are dozens of times larger than those in the Central Plains.

However, the population can only be counted as low as the county. Of course, during the Qu dynasty of Gaochang, he formed an alliance with the Western Turks in advance, and later was sent by the Turks to the ground for a while, and he had not suffered any grievances. Kucha, Cheshi Front, Cheshi Back, or Loulan, Shanshan must rely on the breath of Gaochang. The prince of Gaochang, the small-strong prince of the Western Regions, Qu Wentai, has been held by countless people since he was born. When has he suffered such grievances?

"Sigh..." Qu Wentai sniffed coldly and said angrily: "I won't wait, I'll fight if I want to fight!"

When Qu Wentai said this, if he hadn't been full of snot, he would have been domineering. It was a pity that this made Ma Mengming startle. He stepped forward and covered Qu Wentai's mouth and said, "My little ancestor, don't cause disaster. If you want others to hear this, our Gaochang Kingdom will be over!"

More than 30 years ago, when Ma Mengming was not the chief of Gaochang State, but was just the Houfang Office of the Juliu County, he had seen the Turkic army, Che Zizi, Ma Xiaoxiao, and just three thousand cavalry, defeating the 13,000 troops and horses of Gaochang State.

In the end, King Gaochang was the minister, and the division between the Eastern Turks and the Western Turks allowed Gaochang's national fortune to continue. Now, the 200,000 troops of the Western Turks have not returned. Such a powerful enemy cannot be resisted by a small country in Gaochang.

Qu Wentai had never seen the world, but he could see that there were many troops in the Tang Dynasty, densely packed with moving tents everywhere, surrounding Gaochecheng in a whole circle.

Chen Ying was very comfortable sleeping until he woke up slowly at the third hour of You. After Chen Ying woke up, he accidentally found something very novel in the backyard of Gaoche Xiangfu.

"cotton!"

These are all cotton without elastic flowers, which fills the warehouse. However, when Chen Ying saw these cottons, he was a little disappointed. This is different from the long-length cotton seen in later generations. Instead, it is an Indian short-length cotton. Not only is the gray color, but the cotton fiber is also very short.

"Cotton is a treasure" and is not only the most important fiber crop, but also an important oil crop, a crop with high protein content, and a textile, fine chemical raw materials and important strategic materials. In addition to cotton weaving, as well as using its fiber textile, cottonseed oil is used for salad oil and edible oil, hydrogenated for ghee and margarine, and the cake residue or seed kernel after oil extraction is used as poultry and livestock. About 200 million gallons of cotton seed oil are used to produce food such as fries, butter and salad condiments.

However, Chen Ying found that although these cottons were not good, the people of Gaoche still kept things very hard. They are still using cotton as flowers, and the cotton they produced is thrown into the warehouse at will.

Chen Ying pointed at the maid and asked, "What is this for?"

However, the maid was so scared that she went out to avoid the door. After a while, King Gaoche quickly ran to Chen Ying and knelt down and told Chen Ying a lot. Although King Gaoche's Tang Yan was a bit confused and had a serious sound of curling tongue in the Western Regions, Chen Ying could still understand it. King Gaoche said that his daughter would not speak Tang Yan!

Chen Ying looked down on his face and looked at Gao Chewang and said, "You will be a citizen of the Tang Dynasty in the future. It is not OK to say that Tang Yan is not allowed. Anyone over four feet must learn to say that Tang Yan immediately. People who don't know how to say that Tang Yan cannot be an official or aristocrat, so do you!"

Gaochewang looked sad.

In fact, no one will have a headache if anyone is stuck. If you are in your forties, you will learn a foreign language and it is one of the most difficult languages ​​in the world. You will definitely be fooled.

However, Chen Ying immediately thought of the difficulties in governing the Western Regions. That is cultural identity. Although during the Han Dynasty, Western Regions culture was influenced by Han culture.

However, during the great turmoil of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, although it was officially called the so-called assimilation of slags, the Western Regions were inevitably transformed by Hu.

During the Jin Dynasty, there were actually about 300,000 Han people in the Western Regions. However, as the court did not take into account the Western Regions, these Han people in the Western Regions were surrounded by the Hu people. In order to survive, they changed to learn Rouran during the Rouran occupation, and during the Turkic occupation, they changed to speak Turkic.

Now let alone the Hu people, even the Han people in the Western Regions could speak Chinese without more than 100,000 people. Chen Ying felt that the official written article of the Tang Dynasty must be issued, and he would not speak Tang Yan. Even if he was a tribal leader, he could not serve as a local official.

If you want to rebel, you can. Anyway, I have an army of 100,000, and are sharpening my knife.

Chen Ying looked at the cotton in the room and said, "King Gaoche, what do you think these things are used for?"

After hearing this for a long time, King Gaoche understood what Chen Ying meant. He hurriedly gestured and said, "Report to the general, this is a white fold, a kind of flower, but it is easy to burn and can be used to cause fire!"

"What, it's arousing fire!" Chen Ying almost choked by his saliva when he heard this. He had thought that these people would conquer heavenly things, but he did not expect that they would conquer heavenly things so violently.

In fact, as Gaochewang said, since the oil content of cotton wool is about 18%, which is similar to Xinjiang soybeans, and cotton is flammable, it is not unavoidable for these people to dry the cotton and use it as a ignition-induced object after they are dried.

Chen Ying thought that these people would make cotton into fillings for bedding or cotton shoes or boots, but he didn't expect that they would actually cause fire.

Chen Ying pointed to these cotton flowers and said, "Remember, let's separate cotton wool and cotton, this general will be of great use!"

Gaochewang didn't understand why Chen Ying got angry, so he was so scared that he kowtowed repeatedly like a chicken bantering rice.

Chen Ying said again: "Does there be many white stacks like Gaocheguo?"

Gaochewang thought for a while and said, "Not too many, these things were planted by the nobles for viewing!"

"I don't care. You go find me such a thing now!" Chen Ying said: "You can announce to the public in the name of this general that although this general, the more cotton, the better!"

Gaochewang nodded repeatedly.

In fact, it is not difficult to play cotton. Chen Ying has watched TV series and has seen cotton tweaking with a large wooden bow. When playing, he frequently hits the strings to make the cotton on the board looser. Later, two people will use yarn to fabricate the two sides of the cotton twill vertically and horizontally to fix the cotton twill. After the gauze is ready, press and grind it with a wooden disc to make it flat, solid and firm. After such cotton is ready, you can sew cotton coats, cotton trousers, quilts, and cotton hats. In this way, the soldiers will have a great effect on keeping cold.

Of course, down jackets have better effect. However, down jackets are too easy to fall off, especially in battles. Once worn or scratched, the down inside will fall out quickly. In this way, many soldiers actually have no down on their buttocks or knees, only two layers of cloth are left, and many people still have frostbite of different severity and weight.

Chen Ying doesn't even have to make a wooden bow now, and he directly let someone use the captured Persian longbow equipped by the Western Turkic army to directly take the cotton-padded cotton.

I briefly gave some instructions on how the maids played cotton, and Chen Ying found that it was already evening.

But whenever Chen Ying thought that Gaoche people actually treated cotton as something that caused fire, he was very angry. It can be imagined that if Gaoche people did this, then the cotton in Gaochang Kingdom would probably be treated like this. Chen Ying thought that he didn't know how much cotton would be burned in vain as something that caused fire, and Chen Ying was trembling with pain.

After all, down cannot be popularized throughout the world. Now most people in the Tang Dynasty either use kapok or straw to keep warm, so Chen Ying was very angry.

Chen Ying was very angry, which caused him to eat half a bowl of rice during dinner.

Fortunately, Luo Shixin accidentally mentioned that the little prince of Gaochang came to see Chen Ying.

Otherwise, Qu Wentai might be frozen to death outside.

It was incredible that Cao Dan threw Ma Mengming and Qu Wentai outside the Prime Minister's Mansion and went to work on his own affairs. As a result, everyone forgot the envoy of Gaochang Kingdom.

If Luo Shixin hadn't mentioned it accidentally, they might have been frozen.

When Chen Ying heard Prince Gaochang come to ask for a meeting, the first thing he thought of was cotton. According to historical records, cotton was only available in Gaochang State and it was passed down to the Central Plains.

When Chen Ying summoned Ma Mengming and Qu Wentai, both of them were trembling with cold and could not speak: "Gaochang Order Yin, Prince Gaochang, pay homage to General Chen!"

After seeing the two, Chen Ying seemed to see countless cottons, and of course he felt much better.

Chen Ying asked: "Gaochang Order Yin, Prince Gaochang, please sit down!"

The attendant quickly carried the Hu bed behind the two of them.

Ma Mengming and Qu Wentai sat down slowly, saying that they were sitting, but in fact they were just a little bit of their butt.

Ma Mengming was very nervous. He couldn't figure out what Chen Ying's attitude was now. He was thinking about how to speak in his head.

Suddenly, Chen Ying held a handful of cotton and asked, "Ma Lingyin, can you tell what this is?"

Ma Mengming nodded and said, "Report to the general, foreign ministers know that this is a white dice!"

Chen Ying smiled and said, "There is such a thing in Gaochang State!"

Ma Mengming nodded and said, "Yes!"

"Very good, very good, just have it!" Chen Ying smiled very brightly, and he paused and said, "You go back and tell King Gaochang to transport all the white folds in Gaochang State to this general... No, don't worry, let him put the white folds in Gaochang City and prepare them, and this general will pick them up in person!"

When Ma Mengming heard this, his face was as scared as earthy.

Chen Ying had no intention of accepting King Gaochang's surrender. He wanted to destroy Gaochang's country with determination.

Ma Mengming plopped and knelt on the ground. He used his knees to move to Chen Ying: "General Chen is kind, General Chen is kind!"

Chen Ying was confused: "What are you mercy?"

Ma Mengming said: "Please give me kindness to General Chen and allow me to continue the country's destiny!"

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "There is no day, and there is no two masters in the country. There can only be one emperor in this world, then my emperor. Ma Lingyin, go back and tell King Gaochang that smart people should not do stupid things. If they are smart, they should demote themselves to the throne and go to Chang'an to ask for an enemy. This general can protect him from his wealth for the rest of his life. Otherwise, Gaochang will definitely have blood flowing and corpses like a mountain!"

At this moment, Qu Wentai suddenly stood up, pointed at Chen Ying and shouted: "Don't deceive people too much!"
Chapter completed!