Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

In order to prevent Jiang Qi from dying at the hands of the Huns, Jiang Tuan carefully learned about the situation of the Huns.

Ning Ling had heard a lot about the Huns from his adoptive father Ning Bai, such as that the Huns lived on the grasslands and usually made a living by raising livestock.

Their children start learning horse riding and archery when they are very young, so they are very strong in fighting.

After listening to Ning Ling's introduction, Jiang Tuan understood that the Huns that Daxia faced were similar to the Huns of Blue Star in ancient times.

In this case, they should not be short of wool.

"Go and rob them? It's not impossible, but I don't know if we can find where they live. The last time the general went to fight the Huns, he returned empty-handed.

If we look for it again this time, or if we capture some Huns, we might be able to find it."

Just as Jiang Qi was thinking about how to find the Huns, Jiang Tuan's face was already full of speechlessness.

"Your Majesty, is this all you can think of doing?"

"Yeah? What else?"

It's no wonder Jiang Qi said that. After all, the Central Plains and the Huns have been in hostility since the previous dynasty. It's either you hit me or I hit you. It's a feud that lasts for generations.

When the Huns knew what good things the Central Plains had, the first thing they thought of was how to snatch them away. The same was true in reverse: if the Central Plains discovered what good things the Huns had, their first reaction would also be to snatch them away.

The difference is that the Central Plains was an agricultural civilization and a settled people, while the Huns were a nomadic people and they moved around everywhere.

The Huns could cause trouble for the Central Plains at any time, but in ancient times when there were no compasses or maps, it was difficult for the Central Plains to find them.

After Jiang Qi's explanation, Jiang Tuan had only one idea: as expected, a tough world does not need so many bells and whistles!

After lamenting the directness and violence of this world, he still wants to pull people towards the path of "peace", or at least not behave so vulgarly.

"Do business, Your Majesty. In Daxia's current situation, it's hard to feed the people. Wouldn't fighting and killing be a waste of time?"

"Business? Is it about merchants?"

"Yes! That's right. Your Majesty, no matter how the country changes, merchants will always exist.

Even though the Central Plains and the Xiongnu fought to the death, I am sure that there must be merchants who walked between the two for profit. If others can do it, we can do it too.

Of course, to be on the safe side, we cannot do it in the name of Daxia. We need to find a few reliable merchants to do it on our behalf. This way we can get the wool and let the Xiongnu relax their vigilance. "

There were definitely merchants, not only among ordinary people, but also among nobles and royal families. Otherwise, how would they know about the Huns?

It is not impossible to let merchants go to the Huns to buy wool, but what should they pay in order to successfully buy the wool from the Huns?

There is no money. The treasury is empty enough to run horses. There is definitely not enough food and cloth. It is not enough for Daxia!

"Salt, Your Majesty, we sell salt. But we don't sell coarse salt, but the fine salt that I have purified.

When the merchants arrived in the Xiongnu, they told them that this was salt from the best salt wells, or that it was salt specially supplied to their majesty, or even that it was salt that gods eat.

No matter how bizarre it is, we must make the Huns believe that this salt is extremely precious and willing to pay ten, twenty or even thirty times more than ordinary salt to buy it. "

"Where did you learn all this?"

Jiang Tuan thought that Jiang Qi would be very satisfied with this idea after hearing it, but he didn't expect that the other party would ask him where he learned it from.

Is there any need to learn this? Isn't this just advertising? The world he lives in is full of it. It's just that in the world he lives in, exaggeration and false propaganda are crimes, but in Daxia, he has no such concerns at all.

"We have many such things in our place, so we don't need to learn. Your Majesty, don't worry about this for now. Just tell me if this method will work."

"Okay, but in this case, the method of purifying salt must be kept strictly confidential."

"Yes, it must be kept secret. I heard that before Daxia, there were many salt smugglers. They spread the news under the guise of salt dealers. There is no need to worry that the Huns will be fooled."

They temporarily agreed to go to the Xiongnu to buy wool, and Jiang Tuan then proposed the third way to keep warm, which was to improve the production efficiency of clothes.

Jiang Tuan originally did not intend to write down this method because he had no idea how to make spinning machines and looms.

The reason he wrote it was because when he studied history, he learned that both things had undergone many updates and iterations.

With each iteration, the clothes are made faster.

Since someone had successfully created the world he lived in, he didn't believe that the people of the Great Xia Dynasty couldn't succeed. Sometimes, it's not that people are not smart, but they just lack the necessary innovative spirit and motivation.

Jiang Tuan plans to take the route of offering a large reward.

He gathered some highly skilled craftsmen together, provided the research route, and those people were responsible for the specific research. Whoever came up with the result first would be given a lot of money by him.

He thought it over. Since he could use very little of the things the emperor gave him, he might as well use them as start-up capital and do something to speed up energy collection.

Jiang Qi was deeply moved by Jiang Tuan’s words.

Although the other party's ultimate purpose of doing this is to go home early, some people say this and that, but once they see power and money, they will forget it completely.

But Jiang Tuan is different from those people. He does not attach importance to the status and wealth given to him. He is only interested in making Daxia stronger, which is a good thing.

If Jiang Tuan knew what Jiang Qi was thinking, he would probably laugh and say: Your Majesty, you know nothing about the benefits of modern times.

In his opinion, there was nothing in the ancient times that suited his wishes. Nothing was comfortable or convenient. He had nothing he wanted. What was good about that?

In fact, Jiang Tuan had such an idea not only because Daxia had nothing, which made him uncomfortable and bored, but also because he had no vision and knew nothing.

Because he had no vision, he could only tell that the pearls Jiang Qi rewarded him with were very big and the silk was very beautiful, but he could not see the other workmanship and materials at all, so naturally he did not know the true value of those things.

Because he doesn't understand, he doesn't know that the ancients were not as boring as modern people think. Some powerful people used to play more tricks than modern people.

One of them really didn't know, and the other was really stupid. As the two talked, they both felt that the other was really nice to them, and a beautiful misunderstanding thus arose.

After talking about keeping warm, the next thing is to keep warm.

As for keeping warm, it shouldn't be counted as "clothes", but don't expect Jiang Tuan to write out a perfect plan. It's good enough if he doesn't forget anything.