Yao Yanyan didn't expect her Majesty to react like this. She knew that her Majesty was afraid of all kinds of ugly bugs, but silkworms were not ordinary bugs! It’s not ugly. In Yao Yanyan’s eyes, the white silkworm is really cute. She touched the head of the silkworm’s protruding head lightly with her finger, and watched it sluggishly retracted. She couldn’t help but smile, to your majesty. Said: "Look, your majesty, it is very cute, it doesn't bite, and the whole body except for the mouth and some black spots under the body accidentally, the other parts are white and snowy, but it is beautiful!"
Yao Yanyan didn't know what was going on. When she saw this silkworm, she felt very kind, as if she had really raised silkworms for a long time before.
However, in His Majesty's eyes, no matter how beautiful this silkworm grows, it is a soft and still moving thing. When he sees this kind of thing, his heart will get hairy.
Seeing that her Majesty was really resisting, Yao Yanyan had no choice but to order someone to find a box to put it in, cut a few leaves from the mulberry tree, spread it in the box, and carried the box on foot.
On the way back, His Majesty the Emperor wanted to continue to embrace Concubine Ai, but seeing that Concubine Ai had been teasing the silkworm, his outstretched hand retracted again.
After finally returning to Feiluan Palace, His Majesty was about to have a good time with Concubine Ai, but he didn't expect Concubine Ai to bring the silkworm to the bed.
Looking at the concubine lying with his back to him, His Majesty the Emperor felt very depressed. He never expected that he had guarded against men and women, and even missed a small bug!
It was not a taste for him to lie down and toss around, and Ai Concubine was still turning her back to him, teasing the bug, and didn't worry about his mood at all.
His Majesty the emperor was so anxious that he wanted to scratch the wall, and finally couldn't help it. He moved to lie next to Concubine Ai, and put his hand on Concubine Ai's shoulder, "Ai Concubine, it's late at night, it's time to turn off the lights and go to bed."
Yao Yanyan didn't look back and said, "Your Majesty, go to sleep first! The concubines will have to play for a while."
His Majesty the Emperor really didn't think of any fun with a bug. He refused to admit that he was actually fought over by a bug, and couldn't help but start taking eye drops, "Ai concubine, this kind of bug doesn't know what it eats outside? What if it is poisonous? What if it bites you? Do? How dangerous!"
After Yao Yanyan heard this, she turned around and looked at her majesty in amazement, "Why do you say that, your majesty? The silkworm is a baby! It doesn't bite and is not poisonous." As she said, she sat up, and put on that one. The silkworm's box was pushed forward.
The brocade box covered with several layers of mulberry leaves was pushed in front of your majesty, and the white worm in it was curiously poking his head in the direction of your majesty.
His Majesty shivered with fright, and quickly sat up and moved back. He glanced at the dull-looking thing lying in the small box, and said disgustedly: "Isn't it just a bug, what kind of baby can it be? Can gold be produced?"
Yao Yanyan said happily: "Your Majesty, you are right! It can really produce gold!"
His Majesty the emperor was stunned, feeling that his concubine was attacking him, he shook his head and said: "I don't believe it, the gold is obviously made from the mine."
Yao Yanyan really didn't know when she saw her Majesty, and said strangely: "Don't you know, your Majesty? Silkworms can make silk and cocoons. These silks can be woven into silk. The silk is beautiful when worn, and it can be sold for a lot of money!"
The word "money" touched His Majesty the Emperor. He couldn't help but glanced at the contents of the box again. Seeing the worm just eating mulberry leaves, he couldn't imagine what silk looked like.
"This bug is so small, how much silk can it spit out? Even if it spins silk every day, it’s not enough to make a veil for a year?" Moreover, the silk spit out of this bug’s mouth is made into clothes that can be worn. On the body
His Majesty’s dislike was not without roots. Nowadays, civilians in Qi state basically wear linen clothes, which are woven from hemp and a little cotton. This material is very rough and can even be worn by people with delicate skin for a while. For red, the emperor used it once when he was outside the palace when he was young. After only half a day, red spots were rubbed out on the skin, and the richer people would use cotton cloth to make clothes. High-ranking officials will choose cloth woven with cotton and part of lotus silk to make clothes.
The clothes of the royal family, such as the emperor and the nobles above the imperial concubine, are all woven from lotus silk. This lotus silk has to be extracted from the lotus stalks during summer and autumn, and then dried with a very cumbersome process to make a thread before it can be woven into silk.
Because this lotus silk has elegant origin and complex craftsmanship, a piece of satin woven from lotus silk is hard to find, and only the royal family can wear it as clothes.
His Majesty touched his extremely comfortable lotus silk satin clothes, and he couldn't help but think of the slim lotus in the pool, and then he looked at the silly but not ugly bug in front of him. The resentment in my heart came out again.
When Yao Yanyan saw the expression on her Majesty, she knew what he was thinking. She affirmed: "Your Majesty, my concubine guarantees that the silk woven from this silk must look better, even better than the one woven from lotus silk. Think about it, a lot of lotus silk satin is hard to find among folks. We produce every year. The lotus silk satin is enough for the palace, but if we raise a lot of silkworms and sell the silk woven from the silk, wouldn't we be able to make a lot of money every year?"
She broke her fingers and counted it to her Majesty, "First of all, lotus silk is expensive, and only lotus silk in the summer and autumn can be used. Spring lotus silk is not strong enough to be twisted into a thread, and it is difficult to increase the yield; but silk is different. As long as you keep warm, silkworms can live all year round. One silkworm can live for two months, at least six rounds in December a year, and the silk spit out by a silkworm can be as long as thirty feet!"
His Majesty the Emperor was shocked and stared at her with wide eyes.
Yao Yanyan continued: "Secondly, silkworms are also easy to feed. Your Majesty, this silkworm can live only by eating the leaves of mulberry trees. We need to raise silkworms. There are only a few trees. Besides, there are so many trees in this palace. Manpower, are you afraid that you can't take care of this little silkworm?"
"Third..." Yao Yanyan blinked at her Majesty. "Now there is no precedent for woven silk into silk in other countries, but we have used it first. This is not a business opportunity? Other countries must have never thought that we would actually use this small Weaving with insects. At that time our silkworm silk can be sold to other countries and earn their money! Your Majesty, are you right?"
"Yes! Concubine Ai is too right!" His Majesty the Emperor's eyes lit up when he heard that it could make money. He stretched out his hand to hold Concubine Ai's hand and said happily: "Concubine Ai, how did you know that silk can weave cloth? What? How did you know that this worm is called a silkworm?"
When His Majesty asked this, Yao Yanyan was also puzzled. She scratched her head and said: "Yes, Your Majesty, how did I know?"
His Majesty: "I think Concubine Ai must be a fairy in the sky in her previous life! That's why I can understand so much."
Yao Yanyan pursed her lips and smiled. Because she often came up with strange words or thoughts on weekdays, the two of them didn't entangle this anymore.
The emperor said: "Our country's Hesi is not enough all year round, and we have to buy goods from Wu Guo. Every time Wu Guo makes our Qi's money, this time it is our Qi's turn to make money!"
Yao Yanyan nodded, and the two of them lay down holding hands, and began to imagine the dream of making the country rich and powerful by relying on silk. His Majesty's eyes turned from the disgust at the beginning of the silkworm to admiration.
Yao Yanyan felt that he was not looking at silkworms, but piles of gold.
Yao Yanyan said: "Your Majesty, you can rest assured to deal with state affairs. The concubines will bring the concubines below to raise silkworms and weave cloth in the harem. They will surely fill the Treasury of Daqi again, and then your Majesty can move money from the treasury into the small treasury Up!"
His Majesty's eyes lit up, "Yes, in this way, the money owed to me by the treasury can be repaid! My star picking building can be built again."
It turns out that Your Majesty still remembers the Star Picking Tower! Yao Yanyan touched her majesty's head distressedly, and heard her majesty say: "Ai Concubine, since the silk spit out by this worm can be used for weaving, isn't it okay for other worms?"
Yao Yanyan asked, "What bug?"
His Majesty the Emperor: "Spider!"
Yao Yanyan:...
She was strangely silent, and then decisively rejected the terrible proposal of her Majesty.
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The names of the heroes and heroines are taken from a line in the Book of Songs: Yanyan Yufei, Chachi Qiyu. Then I saw Yogurt Miao’s message in the comment area today. It’s so cute. This child's shoe thinks that the names of Yanyan and Her Majesty can be explained as: Yanyan wants to fly, send Qiyu. . (*^▽^*)
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