Lu Bu: My wife comes from two thousand years later

After the battle between the four parties, Gongsun Zan withdrew his troops. Lu Bu had fulfilled his promise and retreated to Bingzhou. Yuan Shao finally got a chance to breathe.

It is now the end of June and it is almost the autumn harvest season. At this time, not only the various princes, but even the thief Zhang Yan will be very well behaved. Only when the farmers harvest the grain will the thieves have something to rob.

The first thing Lu Bu did after returning to Bingzhou was not to form an alliance with Zhang Yan, nor to ask Yuan Shao for Henei County, but to arrange his marriage with Amo.

At this time, it had been just over a year since Wang Yun passed away. Normally, Zhang Mo should have observed a three-year mourning period, but Wang Gai said that she had already given birth to a child, and the child was not her father's biological daughter, so one year would be enough.

Since the eldest brother had spoken, Zhang Mo wanted to give the little one an officially recognized identity, and was also worried that she might be pregnant with another little dumpling, so the sooner the marriage happened, the better. So, while Hanoi County was not yet in hand, the two of them discussed and decided to get it done.

Lu Bu had waited for this day for so many years, and the woman he was marrying was his beloved. He wanted to make this marriage known to the whole world, but Zhang Mo was a low-key person. At her strong request, Lu Bu reluctantly agreed to keep everything simple.

He said that everything should be kept simple, but when Zhang Mo saw the betrothal gift he brought to the Tulou, she was so surprised that her mouth couldn't close.

In the Han Dynasty, there were strict requirements for betrothal gifts and dowries. The highest was the betrothal gift for the emperor to marry the empress, which was generally 20,000 kilograms of gold, equivalent to 200 million coins. Next, according to different classes and levels, the emperor married concubines, princes married queens, high-ranking officials, small and medium-sized officials, wealthy businessmen, small and medium-sized landlords, and even common people.

According to Lu Bu's current official position, he belongs to the level of a high-ranking official, and the betrothal gift is generally only a few hundred thousand, or at most a million coins. However, the betrothal gift and various pearls, agates, silks, satins, and antique jades that Lu Bu sent, added together, exceeded the standards for princes to marry queens.

Not only was Lu Bu so high-profile, but the dowry that the Wang family prepared for Zhang Mo far exceeded the standards for a queen, with a total of 999 loads.

"Third brother, what are you doing? Are you giving me the entire Wang family as a dowry?" Zhang Mo looked at the long list of dowry and her eyes were almost dazzled.

Wang Ding said, "Only two hundred of these are the dowry given by the Wang family. The rest is your own money, and the dowry I, your third brother, gave you."

Wang Ding took out the account books of the coal mine, paper mill, printing house, and other businesses over the past few years and said, "I've saved all the dividends from these years for you and will give them to you as a dowry. If Lu Bu ever betrays you, all this will be your own private money. Even if you do nothing for several lifetimes, you can still live like an emperor."

"Brother, you're really thinking ahead!" Zhang Mo looked at Wang Ding with a mixture of laughter and tears. "You opened all these shops yourself. I didn't contribute anything. How can I have the nerve to take a share of the profits?"

"Without the paper you made, those interesting storybooks, and that one-of-a-kind wine, how could my shop be doing so well? Just take what I give you. Now that you're back, I'm hoping you'll make some more weird things. I'm going to Jizhou to squeeze out the Zhen family and become the richest businessman in the north, or even the richest businessman in the world." Wang Ding said with a proud look on his face.

"Zhen family?"

Zhang Mo nodded. "If possible, it would be nice to bring him down. My master and I are planning to open a medical school and create a medical industry chain to make money. I'll borrow your shop to sell some of it. I'll discuss the details with you after my wedding."

Wang Ding laughed heartily and said, "I knew you would bring a big surprise when you came back. I'm really looking forward to it!"

"It's just that... we can't rely on these to crush the Zhen family. Food, salt, and textiles are the main needs. We definitely can't compete with the Zhen family in the food and salt industries right now. Let's start with the textile industry. When I have some free time, I'll find a craftsman to research textile machines and see if we can increase work efficiency and reduce costs."

In the past, Zhang Mo's focus was on raising and training troops. As the income from papermaking and printing was more than enough, she didn't think about doing anything else. Now that Lu Bu is in charge of military and political affairs, she can concentrate on the economy.

In ancient times, the number of spindles on a spinning wheel was generally 2 to 3, with a maximum of 5. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, with the development of social economy, large spinning wheels with dozens of spindles gradually emerged based on various traditional spinning machines.

The large spinning wheel is different from the original spinning wheel. It has dozens of spindles and can be driven by water power for large-scale specialized production.

Taking spinning hemp as an example, a general spinning wheel can spin a maximum of 3 kilograms of yarn a day, while a large spinning wheel can spin more than kilograms a day and night, and the production efficiency is dozens of times higher than the original.

Zhang Mo had seen the structure of this spinning wheel in class before, and had also seen the finished product made of spinning wheel parts excavated from an ancient tomb of the Song Dynasty in the museum. If she could find a craftsman who made spinning wheels in this era to do some research, she should be able to make it.

However, Bingzhou has limited land, and growing grain is more important at present. Hemp, a textile raw material, cannot be grown on a large scale, and spinning wheels cannot be mass-produced at present. However, we can go to Xianbei and Xiongnu to get some wool and try wool spinning. If we can make clothes like wool sweaters, they will surely become popular among the upper class soon.

There is also cotton. She doesn't know whether cotton is grown in Xinjiang now. She only remembers that cotton is native to the subtropical region. my country's southern regions such as Yunnan and Guangdong are subtropical, but those places are still barbaric lands, full of poisonous insects. It is said that prisoners sent there basically never return.

During this period, you can first inquire whether there is cotton growing in Xinjiang. If not, you can send a team to the south to look for cotton.

Thinking of the planting industry, Zhang Mo remembered that water wheels should be popularized in Bingzhou. After the autumn harvest, she organized the people to dig ditches and carpenters to build water wheels, so that the land in each county can be fully automatically irrigated before next spring sowing.

However, before that, the land in Bingzhou had to be re-measured, and only after all the hidden fields were uncovered could water wheels be popularized.

Zhang Mo suddenly felt that there were many things waiting for her to do. The land surveying could have been done as early as when Lu Bu first entered Bingzhou. The old fox Jia Xu must have been afraid of offending people, so he had to wait for her to come back to do it, so he went to Hedong County to keep himself safe.

This matter is the most troublesome, and the first family to cooperate is the Wang family. The eldest brother has just sat on the position of clan leader for a few months, and many people in the clan are still dissatisfied with him. Now he is going to make a big move, and I wonder if it will cause any changes.

She has traveled here for so many years, and although she has killed many people, they were all on the battlefield. She could never do something like "kill those who don't obey, and kill until they obey." Moreover, killing can only solve temporary conflicts, but cannot solve long-term conflicts. She needs to think carefully about how to make everyone as satisfied as possible.

Seeing Zhang Mo in a daze again, Wang Ding waved his hand in front of her eyes, "Why are you frowning? You and Fengxian will have your wedding in three days. Put aside those trivial matters for the next few days, rest well, and wait to become a beautiful bride."

"Yeah!" Zhang Mo nodded. It was her first time getting married in two lifetimes, so she was still a little nervous.