novelhk Chapter 142
Chapter 142
And this answer is actually correct. The most important taste in the world is indeed salty, because salt gives us strength. Otherwise, there would be no one specifically assigned to handle salt transportation.
Ever since the method of drying salt was introduced on the sky curtain, various courts have attached greater importance to salt, and the money earned from it has become a very important source of income.
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The ancestor of carpenters is Lu Ban. Legend has it that Lu Ban once went to the mountains and accidentally cut his hand with grass. He observed carefully and found that the leaves of this grass had serrations.
Based on the shape of this leaf, he invented the saw, a carpenter's most basic tool. With a saw, he could cut wood and create the right kind of wood.
Daqin
Lu Ban?
The Mohist disciples were stunned!
They didn't know when the aforementioned King Zhan was, and the era of Yi Yin and Peng Zu was too far away, but Lu Ban and others knew.
To be precise, there was a conflict between Mohism and Lu Ban.
Lu Ban went from Lu to Chu to help the King of Chu build siege equipment to attack Song. But Mozi traveled ten days and ten nights from Lu to Chu to stop the attack.
Then he had a competition with Lu Ban, and in the end the Mohist school won.
But why did Lu Ban become the ancestor of carpenters in the end, and what about the victorious Mozi?
Or has he become the forefather of another industry?
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The founders of the textile industry were two women: Leizu, the emperor's wife, who was primarily involved in silk weaving; and Huang Daopo, who made significant contributions to cotton weaving.
Huang Daopo was born in Songjiang Prefecture in the late Southern Song Dynasty. Her family was very poor, and she was sent to another family as a child bride. However, the mother-in-law of this family was not a good person and abused Huang Daopo.
[They had no choice but to drift to Yazhou, where they learned cotton spinning techniques from the Li women and made some improvements to them.]
After living in Yazhou for forty years, she returned to her hometown of Songjiang Prefecture by boat during the Yuan Dynasty and passed on her weaving skills.
【From then on, Songjiang cloth became famous both at home and abroad.】
She herself was commemorated with a shrine, known as the Weaver Girl and the Goddess of Cotton. Even today, a nursery rhyme still circulates in Songjiang: "Grandma Huang, Grandma Huang, teach me yarn, teach me to spin..."
The entire ancient world was surprised, especially the people in Songjiang area during the Yuan Dynasty. They did not expect that this nursery rhyme would be passed down to later generations.
There is honor in it!
Ming Dynasty
Zhu Yuanzhang actually knew this person, but Huang Dao Po's temple had been destroyed in the war. Since later generations valued this person so much, he decided to find someone to rebuild it.
"People in later generations still mostly wore cotton clothes, so cotton seems to be very important. I think farmers should be required to grow some cotton so that they can have cotton clothes to wear in winter."
"Well, let's go to Songjiang and investigate, and try to spread the techniques left by Huang Daopo." Queen Ma suggested, "Since this Songjiang cloth is famous both at home and abroad, it must have something special."
The following ancestor is quite interesting. Although he is only the ancestor of a very small industry, he is definitely beyond everyone's expectations.
[The founder of the pen-making industry—General Meng Tian of the Qin Dynasty.]
[Of course, the pen here isn't the fountain pen or pencil we usually use, but a traditional writing brush. It's said that he felt carving on bamboo slips was too slow, and he kept trying to find a solution.]
[Later, while hunting, he found a rabbit's tail stained with blood, so he made a brush out of rabbit hair, and continued to improve the material.]
[There are wolf hair brushes, goat hair brushes, and special rat hair brushes.]
Daqin
Qin Shihuang's brain completely crashed, and the generals under his command became the ancestors of the pen-making industry. The two are not very related.
All the officials in the court congratulated Meng Tian and hoped that he would make the brush as soon as possible. According to some information on the sky curtain, Daqin had already made paper.