"It's worth it for the official to waste ten years of effort and draw a drawing!" Hong Tao was very dissatisfied with this evaluation, he felt that his painting level was quite high, but he walked in a realistic style, which the ancients couldn't understand.

So this drawing was sent back to Kaifeng with his family letter, and there was his handwritten mention on the picture, Saiwai Snow City! Attention, it's all simplified characters, traditional Chinese characters he doesn't understand and doesn't want to learn, what do you love!

Speaking of simplified characters, there is now an opinion that it is a destruction of traditional Chinese culture. In fact, it's not that serious, most of the simplified characters we use are actually used in ancient times, for example, there are many simplified characters in cursive script, which are more simplified than simplified characters.

The word has been constantly evolving since the day it was born, and it can't be said that traditional Chinese characters are Zhengshuo, so what should we do with oracle bone inscriptions? What to do with the seal character? Compared to them, traditional Chinese characters are like simplified Chinese characters again.

There is no need for a nation's culture to be entangled in the evolution of writing, which is too superficial, too superficial and too formal. Culture is a kind of connotation, far beyond the superficial meaning of words, and the author himself has no right to define what is meant by traditional Chinese culture.

said a few words of nonsense, not that Hong Tao planned to implement simplified Chinese characters in ancient times, with his cultivation, it is not easy to write well, where to play culture.

But he was not idle, he was indeed doing a big thing, a big, big thing, how to rinse wool!

Since Huangzhou, Hong Tao has been pondering a question, how to develop the local economy? It is not a long-term solution to just grow rice sacs and flowers, this thing may have to be completely banned one day, and it can't be smuggled by the Great Song Dynasty for the sake of Huangzhou's economy.

There is no way out by relying on tuntian alone, even if the land in Huangzhou or Liangzhou is fertile, but due to climate restrictions, it is destined to not become a major grain producing area, and it is very good to be self-sufficient and have a slight surplus. We must not compare with Jiangnan, people have to die more than people, and the earth has to die more than the earth.

The cash crops are not working, and agriculture is not successful, so what other specialties can be obtained in Huangzhou? Don't talk about canned food, that thing is cheaper in the mainland, and it can't be made in Huangzhou or Liangzhou, where agriculture is not developed.

Animal husbandry, this is the characteristic of the Northwest Plateau, but due to the transportation conditions, in addition to the horses can be sold to the mainland, cattle and sheep are difficult to transport, and the cost of transporting them back will be very high, and there is no prospect for vigorous development.

But after arriving in Liangzhou, Hong Tao suddenly discovered a strange phenomenon, the women of those pioneers' families actually stepped on the big wooden basin in the cold outside. It's definitely not a game, it's cold, and the tub isn't empty, and there's water splashing inside.

Are they crazy? Hong Tao looked over and looked at it, and his head suddenly brightened! There was not only water in the wooden basin, but also a lot of wool and yak hair.

These women are not crazy, they don't want to waste any of their necessities, so they are rinsing the wool in the traditional way, drying it and spinning it loosely, which is used to weave cloth.

Wool products! Textiles!

Hong Tao almost gave himself a big mouth, this brain is too stupid, the British didn't produce bullshit back then, that is, there were many sheep, and then they used woolen products to pry open the door to Europe.

Of course, I don't know how to play with the loom, but I still know how to rinse wool. In fact, those women's wooden basins were filled not only with water, but also with human and animal urine. They use the alkali contained in their urine to degrease their wool so that it can be woven.

Degreasing with urine is too slow and disgusting. Hong Tao has a better way, and it's especially easy. It's not that there is caustic soda, it's not difficult to make that thing, and it's always used in the Huangzhou workshop. Soaking animal fur with caustic soda dilution solution not only degreases clean, but also speeds up.

As long as you have a relatively constant soaking time, you can save yourself the link of stepping on with your feet. Caustic soda is corrosive to the skin, so it was simply changed to a water-powered wooden hammer. Foot pedaling, wooden hammering, and beating are actually an effect, and later generations of washing machines work according to this principle.

With quick and easy rinsing tools, these women are relieved of heavy physical labor. And then what? You still need to ask, go spinning and weaving.

There are looms for looms, and if there are no looms, let Wang Hao purchase them from the south, or simply hire a few weavers to send them over and teach the women here how to use looms. If it doesn't work out, just don't knit wool or anything like that, and be lazy and get wool directly.

It's easier, you don't need to be taught, you can knit a sweater yourself. Imagine that the people of the Song Dynasty wore sweaters and pants under the smock skirt and robe, isn't it quite interesting. This thing is not only a matter of aesthetics, it is really warm, and it is lighter than wearing thick cotton clothes, which can definitely win the favor of the ancients.

Even if they can't accept it for a while, then they don't have themselves. It may be difficult to do anything else, but if you play the tricks of hype and promotion in later generations, Hong Tao really has no opponent in ancient times. Wrap a piece of cow dung in paper and sell it yourself, and you have to sell it for a high price!

As long as the wool has a market, there is one more product in Wujinxing, that is, sweater needles! In the future, whether it is a queen or a woman, when you have nothing to do, you must hold a few sweaters and knit sweaters.

You can also write a book of horse weaving, how to knit sweaters, all kinds of stitches and fancy depictions, so that it is widely circulated in the Great Song Dynasty, and the sales of this book will be higher than your own calculations and money scriptures.

The most important thing is that he controls a part of the main producing areas of wool, and in the future, Huangzhou, Liangzhou, and Ganzhou will no longer be chicken ribs that cannot collect taxes.

You can raise sheep, raise them in captivity, and then set up a rinse mill and a woolen mill. These things must have a fixed place of business, and they have to pay a high tax rate, who will let you make more money and destroy the ecological environment!

In fact, it is not only taxes, but also more upstream and downstream industries can be driven to develop together, such as loom manufacturing, parts supply, water power utilization, bleaching and dyeing, transportation, sheep breeding, sheep shearing girls and so on.

To say that the textile industry is really not weaker than the steel industry, Britain, Japan, including the Qing Dynasty all relied on silk and cotton cloth to develop. Its products are cloth and thread, but it is a large industry that is driven.

It will not take long for Liangzhou to become the financial and commercial center of the northwest region, because its location is at the eastern end of the Silk Road, and it is also closely connected with the inland, with trade routes in the east, south and west.

Even in the sparsely populated north, across the desert is still a wool producing area. Hong Tao doesn't believe that those black and white Tatars are unwilling to exchange wool for food, and with food, they still go around asking for a fart, and there is nothing to do with the Mongol Empire, so let's knit sweaters for Lao Tzu and me!