Chapter 45: Wool tree blossom

Not surprisingly, Raymond ran out and sent a few batches of thieves to the house. There were knights from here, that is, other territories came out to rob. This kind of temptation is not likely to be used for eating, and it is also not easy to reveal richness, and forcibly return it directly.
It ’s funny. Raymond knew that the other party was fully equipped and knew that they were knights and thieves. They were n’t afraid. They had cavalry. The vinegars were infantry and archers. After a short meal, after the weapon with the poisonous vine juice cut through the opponent's skin, they will soon have symptoms of dizziness and vomiting, unable to fight back, and all the equipment will be seized.
How good, I have already acquired so many weapons without changing to iron, and can equip some Fujika soldiers.
The knights and thieves thought about it for a long time and could not think of where such brave warriors came from.
Until Raymond said, "Send these guys back to Lord Baron."
Baron, can a baron raise such a good soldier? Dozens of people here, should the baron leader approach all the soldiers, right?
The knights and the thieves replied deadly, "Warrior, I don't know which baron you are following, and are you interested in following a heroic and powerful Viscount."
Raymond: "No."
"Wait," he did not expect such a decisive refusal, he quickly said, "I do not hide from you that we are a vassal of a Viscount. He is not only good at war, but also generous. He gave me my sword , If there is a warrior like you to take refuge, you will definitely get more rewards. I am very familiar with the surroundings, when the time comes, I will take you ... hehehehe ... "
Not only Raymond, even the serfs, showed a disdainful expression, generous? How generous? Can it be compared to the Baron Lord of Northumberland?
This disdain was too obvious, the head immediately said: "I have no lie, you can open my bag and see if there is a honey roasted apple in it. This is the former Viscount Master who specially asked the chef to bake me. Yes, it's fragrant and sweet, I don't want to finish it all at once. "
When it comes to the word "sweet", all members of the trade team at the scene wriggled their throats, a bit boring.
The first person thought they were heart-warming, describing it in an exaggerated tone: "This adds apples baked with honey, which has almost no sour taste. The golden honey juice penetrates into the flesh, making it taste sweet. Yes, every bite can feel the sweet and rich flavor ... "
"Don't say anything!" Raymond touched his throat uncomfortably. He thought of brown sugar and boiled the apple. The apple flesh was soaked. The bowl was filled with sugar, and the snoring was sweet. .
Others also remembered the full sugar banquet, but it didn't take long before, the memories were fresh, and the appetite had not fully recovered.
The man was stunned, only to see that their expressions were disgusting.
Under what circumstances, in the past, he encountered similar situations, and he was unsuccessful. He always said that when he paints food, he always gets some mouthwatering sounds. Why are these people disgusted, and is his brain sick?
"Gad his mouth and stop him from talking about this nonsense," Raymond said impatiently.
Immediately someone sealed the opponent's mouth with a rag, and no one wanted to listen to him again and again to describe how sweet and delicious the honey was.
They got together, whispering insult to this stupid knight. The Northumbrians dazzled with sweeteners.
Look, when this fool is sent back to dig the dung, you know that you can't use honey to seduce the Northumberland trade team. Even the vinegar soldier of the lowest serf status of the trade team is full. Sugar.
...
The poor knights and thieves were escorted to the Northumberland collar, and when they crossed the farmland to the castle, they began to boo, no wonder the knights did not accept the temptation at all.
Although Northumberland was only a baron leader, the wheat was tall and strong, and the fruits on the fruit trees were so large that even the cabbages were larger than they had ever seen.
Almost every serf in the field has farm tools, not by hand. More importantly, there are ditches on the edge of the field. It seems that the river is not far away. Through these crisscross channels, the water is directly irrigated into the field No more effort required.
... The baron looked very rich.
Lord Lord did not see these knights and thieves, and did not intend to ask their adults for ransom. Northumberland was short of manpower. They were pulled directly to live with the slaves. It was not a cottage outside the castle, but a corner of the corridor.
Which knight is willing to fall into the slave class at one time, and originally wanted to talk about it in front of the baron, but now there is no chance, so I intend to sow the slaves here.
Unfortunately, people are very comfortable with the status quo. The couple were hungry for a few days as usual, the slaves rested and slept after finishing their work, and they were basically in a state of shielding in the face of the new couple's puppet. At this time, they might as well perform more and strive to live in that hut.
A little boy walked slowly, squatting in front of them, and looked curiously. The knights were much taller than ordinary slaves, and their temperaments were not the same.
"... haha, kid," the knight thief with hands and feet smiled at him. "What's your name? Live here?"
The little boy looked at them with his face in his arms. "My name is Aaron, and my mother is the cook in the castle."
While the other slaves were sleeping, the caretaker also went to drink water. The knight-thief headed by the knight whispered, "We are also new to the castle, but they forgot to untie our rope. Otherwise, you take my The rope is untied and I will play with you. "
Aaron blinked his brown eyes. "No, I'm going to find Lance."
The knight thief hurriedly said, "Then you let go of me, I'll give you candy. Do you know the sugar? It's sweet, just like honey." I don't know if this child hasn't seen sugar before, he should know that he lives in the castle. Right.
"Oh ..." Aaron said slowly. "Do you mean this?"
He found a piece of sugar cake from the bag, which was given to Lance by the lord, and Lance gave it to him again. And as a cook's child, he has seen honey and brown sugar, as well as various sweet foods. His mother's hands were all brown sugar.
other side:"……"
Aaron licked two sugar biscuits and said, "I'm not using it, I'm a little tired."
other side:"………………"
greasy? greasy? ? It's ridiculous when sugar can be boring.
But look at such a big piece of nut candy in their hands. In their castle, even the lord's son can't pack such a big piece in his bag and eat it on the go!
Northumberland is terrible. It doesn't seem to be very rich here, but it is very rich.
This point, after finding out that Northumberland has also implemented national military training, was even more affirmative, and completely eliminated the idea of ​​running away.
...
Cui Qichao had wanted to move out of the castle long ago. While he was getting rich, he had another group of people, and he began to think about repairing the house.
The castle is always dark and humid no matter day or night, summer or winter, especially in winter. Cui Qichao remembers building a yard near the church. Generally speaking, the second best place in the territory is where the priest lives and the church. In view of this so-called best consideration of defense, Cui Qichao thinks that the priests live better.
At the beginning, he only said that he would build a yard underneath and take a vacation. The stewards did not think much. This kind of thing is not ordinary in terms of their lord's temperament, without the expense of manpower.
But the stewards are not pure fools. Cui Qichao's requirements are becoming more and more detailed. They feel wrong. The master often said that the castle was strangely cold. Don't you want to move out?
This time they really wanted to die. Our castle was colder or colder, but it was safe. There were trenches on the outside, the stone walls were so hard, and there were more than a dozen people hiding food inside for six months. Looking at the entire continent, wars are frequent, and thieves are rampant. How can any lord not live in the castle.
"That's what it says, but the cottage has become our line of defense. All the people are planning to proceed steadily. By then the invaders will be subdued before they reach the grassland. If there is a case, we will withdraw the line of defense. Isn't it okay to go to the castle? "Cui Qichao pointed and showed them.
Those farmers are probably the ones who do not want Cui Qichao to be the worst. They have never been to Northumberland, and they know that no lord may give the serfs sugar.
Now the days of Northumberland are getting better and better, how could serfs hope that the enemy's iron hoof came.
"Master, think again!"
When Cui Qichao heard their wailing sounds, they all felt like a tyrant, but he was still unmoved. "I want to sit north and south, the pattern is the same as that of the courtyard house. Many kinds of flowers, many kinds of vegetables, and the river directly lead Come in the yard ... "
Now in Northumberland, Cui Qichao basically said that when he said he was going to build a house, the prisoners of war were immediately taken to moving stones and chopping wood.
As the residence of the lord, the house must be made of the best materials. The stones are stacked, the roof is covered with shale slabs, and the interior must be covered with slate. The windows cannot be like castles. Opening a window hole is required. .
The most important thing is that even if it is built on this flat land, you can't listen to what the master said. There are peasant soldiers to defend and do not do any reinforcement at all. There is a circle around the courtyard of the Lord ’s courtyard, digging trenches is not necessary, it is necessary to build a fence, and thorns must be covered at the non-exit to see who dares to climb.
From this point of view, the house must not be built for a while and a half, Cui Qichao kept doing it, and let these people take half the time to repair the roads and bridges in the manor, and abolished miscellaneous taxes such as bridge tax. Yes, farmers have to pay taxes when they cross the bridge of the master. This will only be the first step. In the future, taxes will be less and less, and income will be more and more.
The farmers were rejoicing and encouraged. When they saw a good stone, they picked it up and gave it to them. They did their best to support the lord to build the house. They all heard a little bit of wind. It is said that the house was built by the lord himself. If the lord moved out from the castle, wouldn't it be closer to everyone, and it would be more convenient for them to worship the lord.
In addition, Cui Qichao also let people level a field in the place where the cottage is concentrated, covered with stones, and made a wood burning pit in the middle, surrounded by long woods for people to rest.
This is even the earliest public entertainment facility in Northumberland. Villagers can gather here in their spare time. Women are not in their narrow hut when the sun is getting better, but they all sit here to do housework.
Any notices in the manor are also posted here.
Later, this "square" became the place of Northumberland. Every once in a while, the people in the manor and the people from the villages who came a little further away were here to take out the surplus materials for production. exchange.
At night, people who had no worries and had enough energy at that time could also sing and dance here, tell stories and listen.
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When the Northumberland trade team returned, it was close to the cotton flocking season.
This time, I mainly changed all kinds of spices and ironwares, which are very expensive items. Fortunately ... the brown sugar they brought was more expensive, so they were full.
Raymond remembered the lord's hobbies. In addition, he also collected some seeds by the way, most of them were vegetables, especially tubers. Beets were in front of him. He always thought, who knows if this is not the case? There will also be sugar crops.
Most of the iron is built as agricultural tools, and a small part is used as weapons. Of course, in critical situations, the former can also be used as the latter, especially Northumberland's armed forces are mostly farmers.
Prior to this, Northumberland craftsmen and slaves who studied craftsmanship produced a large number of wooden farm tools, all of which were manufactured by Cui Qichao in accordance with the orders of the farm tools used by Huaxia at about the same period, which greatly improved the productivity of farmers and allowed them to grow from bare hands Free the ground.
Replacing these wooden farm implements with iron parts will undoubtedly take efficiency to the next level.
It can be said that no lord will collect so many iron farming tools, they have not been able to exchange iron sugar, and they will not feel the need. It is better to fight more weapons and settle other territories?
Cui Qichao also found many useful things in the seeds brought back by Raymond, such as new natural pesticides, the seeds of the insecticidal plant Neem tree, which were brought back from the Far East.
The bitter extract is harmless to humans and animals, but it can slowly kill insects and inhibit spawning and reproduction. The disadvantage is that it can make plants a bit unpalatable. However, in the current situation, this is not a big flaw.
Unfortunately, Cui Qichao never seemed to have any good luck. He found corn, potatoes, and other high-yield crops. I do n’t know when I will see them. Maybe I ca n’t find them before I leave. After all, they are still in the Middle Ages. Can appear here.
Raymond also told Cui Qichao that he passed by the city where he changed beets, and found that their beets were bought by the church at a very low price, and those growers were proud and felt that they had taken advantage.
This is not surprising.
"The church's cultivated land should also be set aside for beet planting," said Raymond. "By then, our brown sugar may not be able to change that much."
"I know, but in recent years, even if the price has been reduced slightly, it must still be in short supply. And, this is not the case." Cui Qi Chao said, "The church will use a part of the output to produce beets, and their food and even grapes will decrease."
Northumberland's grains and grapes will be abundant, but the grapes will be delayed, and the planted grapes will have no results in the first year. They have to wait for two to three years, and then they can produce continuously.
After calculating the time for making sugar, Cui Qichao began to write to the Archbishop.
He was going to suggest that the archbishop set up a trading area in the parish area, convening nobles from all over the country to buy brown sugar, and at the same time can trade with each other. If a church is in town, you don't have to worry about it. Like Northumberland, every time you go to another place to change things, you always have to be suspicious. As an intruder, you are also afraid of being hacked.
For the church, it saves the time of one-by-one sales and can also collect trade taxes.
For Northumberland, such a big move better covers them and also facilitates everyone, and it doesn't need to be so hard to buy and sell in the future. Manors living independently and producing and selling themselves take this opportunity to increase transactions and information exchange.
Suggestion to the archbishop, whether it can be adopted depends on how he is active.
After writing the letter, Cui Qichao didn't care so much, and began to focus on the work in the territory. The cotton was mature and ready to be harvested.
From the beginning of cotton, those cotton fields have become Northumberland's famous tourist landscape. Well-known nobles think that the place where cotton comes from is sheep grown on wool trees, not to mention serfs.
The serfs had faintly heard that this was a wool tree. Before maturity, they did not see any difference, and they did not know how the sheep grew out. The tree was not tall, so how could they hold the sheep?
It was not until the white cotton slowly appeared that it refreshed everyone's perception: there is no sheep on the wool tree, and wool is directly grown! Fuck it! Snow white!
Pieces and pieces of white cotton opened in one place, and looked a bit like sheep in the distance, except that they would not move.
Not to mention serfs, even all the stewards, knights, and priests couldn't help but wander around the ground and looked down at the wool.
The priest William studied for a long time and said: "This should also be a miracle. On the continent where the wool tree was originally grown, the environment is bad and it is not suitable for sheep to live. Therefore, the merciful God has compassion on their encounter and gave them the wool tree. This way grows directly. "
The onlookers nodded and thought it made sense. That was the case. God is so kind. It is better than a long sheep. You don't have to feed the sheep, and you don't have to pick the wool and handle the wool.
Cui Qichao: "..."
Because Lord Baron is the highest status here, William will naturally look at him for feedback after speaking his opinions.
Cui Qichao nodded slowly and agreed: "You are right, this is God ’s blessing. It can grow safely in Northumberland and is also God ’s care. I will donate a portion of this cotton ... wool to the church."
William was so happy that he liked the generosity of the baron, where he never had to worry about levying a tithe. It is said that Northumberland is small and partial, but since the Baron took office, he has lived here better than the bishops of the Grand Aristocracy.
He didn't bother to report to the church. He wanted to refuse gluttony in his heart. He also refused to eat meat during fasting with strong willpower. But during the fasting period, he really couldn't refuse those delicious foods sent by your lord, every meal was full ... cough. Fortunately, there are not many churches in Northumberland, and he can still control the situation. He also believes that this is a secret that he and the baron tacitly share.
Without mechanical assistance, cotton can only be collected by hand, and the white bolls were picked off, and the cotton was separated from the cottonseed by a new ginner manufactured by the craftsmen. Baskets of snow-white net cotton were transported to the master's warehouse and were about to be processed into various cotton fabrics.
Lord Baron had a long-term plan for how to use it, and instead of replacing wool, he asked for cotton to be spun into cotton for intimate clothes. The wool was warm but it was too itchy.
And these medieval people do n’t wear underwear at all. Cui Qichao has endured it for a long time. He needs close-fitting clothes.
In addition, Cui Qichao also made cotton bedding. Previously, he used fur blankets, wool blankets, and pillows made of grain.
The people in the castle are envious when they see it. The master really enjoys it. It feels so good to see the fluffy cotton, and it doesn't itch at all. Unlike wool, you have to make a base with other fabrics first. The quilt is a bit heavy, but in the hearts of everyone, I still feel that I have an identity.
In any case, it is also rare to make things expensive. Cotton fabrics are relatively rare in the entire continent, and they are mostly in the north. I have never seen a quilt like a master doing this. Everyone couldn't help but fantasize about it, and wait for the output of cotton to increase. Will it be the same as a full sugar banquet?
From soft cotton pads to fluffy cotton quilts, and bulging cotton pillows, they lay on the bed after being full of sunshine, adding some warmth to this dark room.
The moment Xiao Bai saw the quilt, before Cui Qichao said "No", he flew to bed and the whole cat smashed into the thick quilt.
Cui Qichao: "..."
Xiaobai rolled up comfortably before climbing out of bed, his face "you haven't said no, it's OK", anyway, it knew that Cui Qichao couldn't let him sleep on the bed, whether he was alive or bitten off the cat's head. Enjoy it.
It can only be said that Xiao Bai, who is familiar with the way of doing cats, is becoming more and more aware of it.
At this moment, Lily knocked in, holding a few thick cotton cushions in her arms, stacked high, she tilted her head to reveal her face, and laughed softly: "Master, three pillows ... no, the cat's nest is also Okay, embroider different marks as you said. "
noob:"………………"
Cui Qichao said slowly, "No, it's a pillow and two cat nests."
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