Chapter 410 Du Huan’s Reminder

The drums stopped, and a man slowly walked out of the corner gate. He was covered with special pyrogen armor, holding an arc-shaped fire-breaking shield in his hand, and was walking towards the center of the venue step by step. In the center of the venue, a wooden barrel filled with turmeric oil.

"Your Majesty, this is a death row prisoner. I borrowed it from Dali Temple. If he can complete this test, the Ministry of Justice can exempt him from his death penalty at his discretion." Fang Zongyan explained in a low voice.

Zhang Huan didn't say anything. He looked at the tester attentively. He had used the turbulent oil barrel in the center of the field. When it burned, it would instantly produce flame waves, which was very powerful.

At this time, a soldier appeared next to the corner gate. He held a rocket in his hand and slowly aimed at the surface of the turmeric oil barrel. The lid was open, revealing the black oil surface.

Gradually, the tester approached the oil barrel. With a "swoosh!", the rocket drew an arc and shot it into the turbulent oil barrel accurately. Everyone on the scene held their breath. A circle of flames ignited on the turbulent oil barrel first, and then became bigger and bigger. The tester's legs obviously began to shake. He took a step back. Suddenly, a flame rose into the air, and the flame tongue burst out around. The tester was immediately engulfed by the fire ball. Everyone saw a bright yellow sea of ​​fire, but no one was seen. In an instant, the flame tongue was withdrawn, revealing the tester's straight body. He suddenly fell down slowly, and a scream came from the stands, and all the officials stood up.

Zhang Huan did not move. He could see clearly that the tester's pyrogenic armor turned gray, but there was no damage. Moreover, at the moment when the flames were exposed, he threw away the fire-breaking shield in his hand. Zhang Huan knew that this person was probably scared and fainted, but on the battlefield of bloody fighting, it was impossible for a cowardly person like him to appear. In other words, if this person was just scared and fainted under this red flame, it would prove that Du Huan's pyrogenic armor was successful.

At this time, several followers ran forward and put out the flames with sand, dragged the tester aside, untie the flaming armor for him, checked for a moment, suddenly someone stood up and reported loudly, "He is still alive!"

There was a sudden cheer in the stands, and Zhang Huan smiled slightly. At this time, Du Huan quickly walked forward and bowed to Zhang Huanshen, "I was lucky enough to succeed."

"Mr. Du's pyrogen has opened my eyes. I wonder if you have any difficulties that I need to solve for you?"

"Report to Your Majesty, my ferroster is very bulky and has difficulty walking. I just work to adapt to naval battles. I still need to use light ferroster to take on land, but the effect of taking ferroster blended is far less than that of using cotton. The lack of cotton cloth in the Tang Dynasty is the main problem I face."

‘Cotton?’ Zhang Huan didn’t know what cotton cloth was. At this time, Fang Zongyan smiled and said, “Your Majesty, cotton cloth is white stacked cloth. It’s very expensive to buy in the East City.”

Zhang Huan suddenly realized, and suddenly, he seemed to remember something, pondered for a while and said, "I remember that there are many Zuozang, all of which are obtained from trade with the Western Regions. I can take you to see it."

The group got up again and went to Taifu Temple. Taifu Temple was opposite the military weapon surveillance and arrived in a moment. When Taifu Temple Minister Zhang Yanshang heard that His Majesty had arrived, he hurried out to greet him.

"I don't know that Your Majesty is here, please forgive me!"

Zhang Huan smiled and said, "I am inspecting the military weapon surveillance today, but the military weapon surveillance needs white cloth. I remember that you had this item in stock in your last report, so I will take them to see it."

Zhang Yanshang slapped his forehead, "Yes! Yes! I will take Your Majesty here."

The two most important warehouses in the Tang Dynasty were Zuozang and Taicang. Taicang mainly stored grain and was located in the Dasi Nong Temple. Zuozang mainly used money storage. In addition, gold, jade, jewelry, silk and other objects were also stored in Zuozang. The area occupied was huge and composed of warehouse groups of hundreds of warehouses, with very strict vigilance.

The white stack of cloth Zhang Huan was looking for was in the miscellaneous warehouse. Zuo Zangcheng led everyone to the huge warehouse and opened the warehouse. As the door rumbling opens, a long-lasting dry smell rushed towards him. Zhang Yanshang apologized: "Your Majesty, many of the things in it were left by Emperor Suzong. It was a long time ago, please don't blame him!"

"I remember that during the New Year, the King of Kucha gave a tribute to a batch of white cloth, and it's still there?"

"Here! I will take Your Majesty." Zuo Zangcheng responded and led the emperor and hundreds of people to enter the huge warehouse.

This is the national warehouse of the Tang Dynasty. It is magnificent, with a depth of 300 steps and a height of more than 20 meters. The materials inside are piled up like mountains, but they are classified and arranged neatly to facilitate the audit of the tents. After walking about a hundred steps, Zuo Zangcheng brought everyone to the storage point of cotton cloth. They were all packed in bundles, one bundle of ten pieces, about one hundred bundles, mainly from Dashi and the Western Regions. They were obtained from trade and tribute.

Zhang Huan smiled and said to Du Huan behind him: "Mr. Du, is so much cotton enough?"

Du Huan shook his head, "Your Majesty, I didn't make it clear. I need to mix cotton thread and ketanium to make ketanium cloth, not woven cotton cloth."

"This." Zhang Huan was a little embarrassed. Datang did not produce cotton, so how could he do cotton thread?

Du Huan seemed to understand what Zhang Huan was thinking. He smiled slightly and said, "Your Majesty, I have been eating for many years and have been to Egypt and Byzantium. I found that people there seem to not grow hemp. They all grow cotton, with large yields. Especially gentle and warm, they are much better than hemp. They can solve the problem of clothing for a large number of people. And Anxi also has it. Why doesn't Your Majesty let the people in the Central Plains plant large quantities to increase their income?"

Since the grain output in the Jianghuai region is much larger than that in the Central Plains region, with sufficient water sources and no disasters are prone to occur, Zhang Huan considered mainly growing grain in the Jianghuai region, and instead of planting mulberry and hemp in the Central Plains region, Du Huan now advised him to grow cotton. After a while, Zhang Huan suddenly understood Du Huan's real intention. He did not want any cotton cloth to make hot cloth. He was actually urging himself to develop cotton planting.

Zhang Huan glanced at him and smiled silently. Du Huan knew that the emperor had seen his true intention, so he quickly knelt down, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for your false sin!"

"If you want to advise me in the future, just say, don't bend around, I won't blame you, get up first!" Zhang Huan did not take Du Huan's innocence seriously. He was really interested in this kind of cotton cloth, so he said to Zuo Zangchen: "Pick up a bundle and let me take a look."

Zuo Zangchen immediately stepped forward and picked up a bundle of relatively fragmented ones, took out half of them and handed them to Zhang Huan, "Your Majesty, this was from the Dashi Trade last year. Please check it out."

Zhang Huan took the cotton cloth and gently unfolded it. The snow-white fabric was soft and comfortable, and the feel was indeed much better than the linen cloth. At this time, Zuo Zangchen took out another section and served it with both hands. Without touching it with his hands, just glanced at it. Zhang Huan felt that this section of cotton cloth was a little different from the cotton cloth just now. The color was gray and cold, and there was no full and bright feeling. He reached out and touched it. The cotton cloth was rough and completely gone, and it was not as soft as before, and even hemp was not as good as it was.

Zhang Huan frowned and asked, "Where is this cotton cloth?"

Zuo Zangchen hurriedly said, "Report to Your Majesty, this is produced by Gaochang Country, and it is indeed much rougher."

"No wonder there was cotton in the Western Regions for hundreds of years, but I couldn't enter the Central Plains. It was me, so I would rather buy fine linen." Zhang Huan shook his head and said to Du Huan: "If you have a way to make my Tang Dynasty cotton cloth like the big food cotton cloth just now, then I will adopt your suggestion and promote cotton planting in the Central Plains."

Du Huan quickly gave a deep bow, "Your Majesty, the cotton cloth for the Great Food mainly comes from Egypt. I am willing to take a sea boat to go to the Great Food to invite Egyptian textile craftsmen to come to the Tang Dynasty to teach his skills."

"You can't go. If you go, if you are caught by Dashi again, will all the secrets of my Tang Dynasty be leaked?" Zhang Huan waved his hand and smiled. At this time, he suddenly thought of something, but he couldn't see it clearly. It seemed to be an extremely important thing. He thought hard for a moment, but still couldn't remember what it was.

Finally, he had to shake his head and said to everyone: "Let's go! I have been wasting too much time today, so I have to rush back to deal with the court."

Everyone walked out of the warehouse with him and walked to the gate of Taifu Temple. Zhang Huan smiled at Du Huan and said, "I will send someone else to complete the matter of going to Egypt to learn textile technology. The sir is only dedicated to studying weapons. It is best to create the Greek fire of Dashi. Let's return it to others by the way."

Du Huan waved his hand quickly, "Your Majesty, Dashi's Greek fire recipe was stolen from Byzantium after working hard. It is their highest secret, just like our Datang Thunder recipe, Dashi dreamed of getting it, but it was difficult to get it."
Chapter completed!