283. Cannibals
Luo Yong still has a lot of seeds on hand now, but he dare not take them out easily.
The last time I took out the corn, it was already a risk. Nowadays, people all say that this is the sixth valley given by heaven. God blesses the Tang Dynasty, and the saints today are the true dragon emperors who are loved by heaven.
But perhaps one or two old foxes had noticed that the summer of the Sixth Valley appeared in Chang'an City happened to be when Li Shi Luosanlang first entered the capital.
In the eyes of many people, Luo Yong is a bit mysterious. If the Sixth Valley was made by him, I believe everyone would not be too surprised. But in this way, the emperor's position is...
So even if he uses a few more heads for Luo, he would not dare to take out the seeds in the space easily. Especially the potatoes and sweet potatoes, this not only concerns his personal wealth and life, but also concerns the stability of the entire situation.
At this moment, the power of all the gentry families is still quite strong. The Li family became emperors. While playing the role of assisting, the other major families also constrained the royal power to a certain extent.
This constraint will make the king quite unhappy, but it will also make them always be alert. It restrains the king and prevents the nobles of the nine five who are in high positions from doing whatever they want. This is the balance between imperial power and ministerial power. After the Tang Dynasty, ministerial power gradually declined.
At this time, the power of the prime minister was not given by the royal family, but the group that mastered the prime minister was itself a powerful family. They had powerful power, had a deep mass base and a lofty social status.
During a peaceful period, these forces united and suppressed each other, and reached a balanced and stable structure with the imperial power. Once this balance is broken, the entire society may fall into chaos.
Under such a big background, Luo Yi did not dare to flap his wings randomly when he used this small butterfly.
The reason why he likes to collect seeds this time was not to bring private goods, but to really want to find a seed. This seed is not easy to find, and it is difficult to get what he wants in a short period of time, so he could only release his reputation of collecting various seeds in the Western Regions early, with the intention of letting these Hu merchants find seeds from all over the country and give their preferences.
Luo Yong was very generous and enthusiastic about these Hu people who came to him with seeds. Not only did he tell them all kinds of jokes as the other party wished, but he often brought out many wine and food to entertain him. One or two pots of white wine were always indispensable.
The seeds that Luo County Magistrate was looking for were not other, but cotton.
When he was sorting out the books and materials in the space earlier, he saw a passage about the text that in the middle of the Tang Dynasty there was a kind of cloth called white cloth in society, which came from the Western Regions and was expensive and only people with noble identities could afford it.
Many people in later generations believed that this white stacked cloth was cotton, and pointed out that in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, cotton had already been planted in Xinjiang, but it was not introduced to the Central Plains. The Central Plains began to plant cotton on a large scale, and it would have to wait until the Song and Yuan dynasties.
Luo Yongtong has been here for so long and has never heard of a white cloth like a cloth. Perhaps it was because it was too early and it was still the early Tang Dynasty, and it was still more than a hundred years before the middle Tang Dynasty.
I don’t know if there were already people in Xinjiang, that is, the Western Regions countries with the population at that time, starting to grow cotton. However, even if there weren’t in the Western Regions, there should always be one in India. India is one of the origins of cotton in later generations, and one is Arabia.
Luo Yong is currently actively contacting Hu merchants from all over the country. If this matter is done, then he, Luo Sanlang, can be directly upgraded to Luo Gong.
However, whether this cotton planting will eventually fall into his hands depends on how God will do.
Two days ago, while Luo Yong was having a drink with a group of Sogdians, there were several middle-aged Sogdians at the dinner, and they were very knowledgeable, so Luo Yong brought up the cotton to him:
"I heard that cloth can also be produced in the Western Regions, either silk, marijuana or leucorrhea. Have you heard of it?"
"The Western Regions can indeed produce cloth, but I wonder which one is what Mingfu said?"
"I just heard that it is stronger than silk cloth and softer than linen cloth. Its color is as white as snow, and it is very warm when worn."
"This..." These Sogdians all looked confused.
"It seems that my brothers and I have too little knowledge. I don't know who was listening to what the Ming Mansion said and which country did this cloth come from?" One of the Sogdians asked Luo Yong.
"Even if several Hu merchants who passed by Changle County talked to me, they heard others talked about it and didn't know it." Luo Yong smiled and shook his head, picked up the wine pot and poured wine for the Sogdians.
"If you can know which country this thing comes from, it will be easier to inquire."
A Sogdian picked up the wine glass and drank the white wine in the glass, and then smacked his lips with some slightest desire. The white wine is really strong, but the price is too expensive. If they hadn't brought the seeds to the scene today, the Changle County Magistrate would not have taken it out for nothing.
"The Western Regions are so big and there are so many countries. The places we brothers have been to are very limited. If you ask the big food merchants, they might know more." One of the older Sogdians said to Luo Yong.
"Tsk, the big cannibal..." The Sogdian next to him snorted, obviously disliked the big cannibal merchant's appearance.
These people traveled between countries, walked on the desert and the Gobi, and occasionally fought with wolves and robbers, and they also had blood in their hands.
But killing a person is completely different from selling people as livestock. Although not every big food merchant does trafficking, it is all that they do the most.
"The cloth that Saburo said is very precious. Perhaps it was planted in the royal manor of a certain country. It is unknown to outsiders that they may not hear it." The older Sogdian said again at this time.
"That's possible." Luo sat cross-legged on Hu's bed, with his hands in his arms, his face slightly drunk, and nodded with a smile, as if he was just listening to a strange and unconscious thing.
"If this is true, it will be difficult for others to know the method of weaving."
"Don't China also have many secret methods of weaving that are not out of the box."
"Tsk, it's not just a secret method of weaving cloth. Even a silkworm seed is unwilling to be taken out of seclusion." The people started to say in a mixed manner again.
"Be careful, too." Luo Yong was very resistant to human trafficking, but in this era their behavior was legal.
He also wanted to be purified in his eyes, but there were some things he should do. In his life, he must try his best to do what he could do at that time so that he would not leave any regrets in the future.
I knew that the newly opened Hashero had been there a few days ago. He had been there on the day he opened. He had also gone to have wine with others in the past two days and was quite familiar with the store.
Luo Yong thought about it and sent someone to send some soy milk, fried dough sticks and mixed noodles to the morning of tomorrow, so that the Kunlun slaves could have a hot meal first, and then asked the store to take more attention in the next few days. Although the big food merchants were asked to take advantage of it in vain, this is probably the only thing he could do at the moment.
However, before we could spend this night peacefully, something happened to the new cannibals today.
In the middle of the night, a group of big food merchants were angry and wanted to go to the cement workshop outside Changle City, saying that the manager of the cement workshop had abducted their Kunlun slaves.
The manager of the cement workshop was Apu. Luo used his men under his command. The officers who patrolled the city at night could not watch him suffer any losses, so they stopped the big food merchants halfway.
Luo Yong and Qiao Junlin were called out in the middle of the night. When they rushed over, the two sides were confronting each other. In the dark night, torches were blown by the night wind on the Gobi Desert. The murderous faces of the other party flashed lightly and darkly in the fire, like ghosts.
Luo Yong and Qiao Junlin didn't say anything, they just walked to the front of their side and stood firm.
Chapter completed!