Aga Mu stared at Liu Tan with wide eyes and stammered, "Your Highness... Are you serious?"

Liu Tan also felt that he had been a little too excited. He coughed lightly and said, "It should be possible. I just have an idea. Don't rush to tell A Xuan when you get back. If it doesn't work out, he'll be disappointed."

Agamu immediately said: "Your Highness can definitely accomplish what he wants!"

Liu Tan laughed: "You have confidence in me. Okay, you must be tired after traveling all the way. Go and rest."

Aga Mu knew that His Royal Highness the King of the Northern Territory must have some ideas, so he stopped disturbing Liu Tan.

In fact, the first thing Liu Tan did after he left was to write a memorial, explaining the importance of stealing the house, and by the way, explaining the importance of beating the Cheshi Kingdom.

After he finished writing, he couldn't help but sigh. Of the countries that had attacked him when he was sending his bride off, the only one left was Cheshi. However, because of the special status of Cheshi, he couldn't act rashly.

He originally thought that he would not be able to take revenge in a short period of time. As long as the Huns were not destroyed or completely suppressed, the Cheshi Kingdom would still have to remain there.

I didn't expect that he would seize the opportunity so soon.

What if Lu Xuan finished fighting the Xiongnu, or waited until the Xiongnu discovered that Cheshi had changed its master? By then, he would have already occupied Cheshi, and he would dare to fight the Xiongnu if they dared to come.

However, at that time, if the Xiongnu wanted to come here, they had to either cross Zhuoxie Mountain or pass Lu Xuan first.

After Liu Tan finished writing the memorial, he happily sent someone to deliver it to Chang'an at full speed, and then began to study wool.

In fact, humans' use of wool can be traced back to the Stone Age, but over the years, wool has been used more to make blankets and felt. In terms of textiles, wool has different lengths and a high impurity content, which makes it difficult to process and therefore expensive. Therefore, even Central Asia, which is good at making blankets and felt, has not been able to make wool into soft and light clothing.

If you want to turn wool into clothing, you must first make it into something that can be woven on a large scale, and then you must make it possible for the wool to enter the wool top manufacturing process.

Liu Tan went to the warehouse specifically to take a look at the wool, but was smoked out before he even entered.

Miao Rui looked at Liu Tan, who was holding his nose and frowning, and said cautiously, "Your Highness, this wool smells quite strong, so most palace servants are reluctant to come here. What do you want to see?"

Liu Tan ran to a place with less smell and took a deep breath, and instantly lost his appetite.

If you want to lose weight, you can put your house next to this warehouse, the effect will definitely be good.

Unfortunately, Liu Tan had no such idea. He had finally gained some weight after playing with Liu Che for four months. When Liu Che was leaving, he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Keep working hard and gain some weight. You are still too thin."

In order to prevent Liu Che from disliking his thinness the next time he came, he decided not to go near the warehouse.

Of course, even if they don’t get close, the people below still have to do what they are supposed to do.

He turned to Miao Rui and said, "Don't worry about anything else for now. Find a warehouse and have someone dewool and clean the wool first."

The wool cannot be woven without being cleaned, so before studying the next step, he decided to let these people clean the wool first.

Raw wool contains too many impurities, including grease, sand, feces, dust, grass thorns, and all kinds of things. Oh, there may also be some insects in it, such as fleas.

Fortunately, this warehouse is outside the palace, otherwise Liu Tan would definitely have people clean up the entire palace for him. Forget about other things, he absolutely cannot tolerate fleas!

As for the process of cleaning the wool and removing the dirt, Liu Tan actually doesn't need to explain it. After all, even if you are making felt or a blanket, you have to clean the wool first.

The first thing to do when cleaning the wool is to loosen the wool little by little to form fluffy small pieces, and then remove all the impurities inside to ensure that there is nothing else except the wool and the grease on it.

After the wool is opened and threshed, it is washed.

Even in the Western Regions where wool utilization is relatively high these days, wool is mostly cleaned with water or some plants. The cleaning effect is not very good, so the wool remains rough and hard after washing.

Liu Tan speculated that in later generations, wool would be cleaned with chemical detergents. Unfortunately, Liu Tan was not sure of the ingredients of those detergents, so he could only ask people to try washing with soap first.

I have to say that even a simple wash with soap can make the wool cleaner, especially the cleaning of grease is much better than before.

After cleaning, the wool is dried and then combed.

Wool combing is divided into rough combing and fine combing. Rough combing is to simply comb the wool to remove the knots and hair balls inside, preparing for the next step of fine combing.

Now the traditional wool felt and wool blanket making technology can basically be used here.

However, the wool that was made was simply not suitable for spinning, so the next step Liu Tan knew was to comb the wool again to straighten it.

After that... even Liu Tan got stuck.

Those things he had made before, at least he might have seen them or come into contact with them while playing with models.

But he had never come across the wool making process before. All he had seen before were finished products.

After combing, Liu Tan tried to have people weave the wool directly using a spinning wheel, because at this stage the wool became particularly fluffy and dense, but the yarn spun in this way still needed to be stranded.

At this point, the finished product is almost ready. All that remains is to make these wool yarns into clothes.

When the first woolen garment was made, both Miao Rui and Bigo were a little surprised.

Most of the wool products they had seen in the past could still reveal the original form of the wool, but wool sweaters were different. They looked clean and fine, and felt very soft.

Miao Rui and Bigo thought about the raw wool they had seen before, then looked at the clothes, and both said that they could not connect them together.

After they finished expressing their feelings, they looked up and found Liu Tan sitting there with a frown on his face.

They couldn't help but ask, "Your Highness? Is there something wrong?"

Liu Tan was stunned for a moment: "Ah? No, it's just a little different from what I thought."

The cost was far different from what he had imagined. This cost was only slightly cheaper than using cloth, and in fact it could not be used as armament at all.

In fact, apart from the high consumption of soap, the rest is labor cost.

Perhaps because there are fewer people in the North, labor is more expensive, but even so, it is impossible to supply in large quantities.

Because the weaving speed cannot be achieved.

The norm in the Northern Kingdom is that women are treated like men and men are treated like animals, so when farming, the whole family goes to work. How can there be any women sitting there quietly weaving?

As for the previous steps, Liu Tan thought about it and decided that they could be transferred to other places. He immediately wrote a letter to Ji Fei, asking him to find a way to purchase wool in Guanshi. He wanted to purchase it in large quantities but not all at once, and it would be best not to let the Huns notice.

However, there are also requirements for wool. Those with sand and various impurities must be cleaned. Try to directly clean the wool you get. This can at least save a lot of manpower.

Think about it, wool is not very useful on the grassland. It is just used to make wool felt, but no one makes new wool felt every day. So for them, wool is basically a useless thing. Therefore, Liu Tan should be able to purchase wool at a very low price in the early stage of information asymmetry.

As for the request to clean the wool, it is also normal. After all, it is collected by weight, and the impurities are also counted by weight. There is nothing wrong with them not wanting it.

Anyway, they are the only ones buying wool now, and there are more sellers than buyers. I believe the Huns will help them clean up.

After there is no need to worry about this aspect, the next thing that needs to be improved is the problem of weaving requiring a large number of people.

Because he lacked understanding of this area, he simply transferred Xiao Cheng over temporarily and said, "Go and help me investigate what people are using for textiles nowadays."

Xiao Cheng was silent for a moment before he said, "Your Highness, do you mean to know what tools the common people use for weaving?"

Liu Tan nodded: "Yes."

Xiao Cheng smiled and said, "You don't need to ask me about this. I already know that spindles are commonly used nowadays."

Liu Tan was stunned for a moment: "Spindle? Isn't there a spinning wheel?"

Xiao Cheng said, "A spinning wheel... needs to be made of wood, which most people can't afford."

Oh, yes, the situation here in the Northern Kingdom is special. Wood is extremely precious, so wooden things are also relatively expensive.

Liu Tan said helplessly: "Forget it, let someone get me a spinning wheel."

Only by improving production efficiency can the problem of insufficient manpower be fundamentally solved.

Xiao Cheng choked and looked at Liu Tan, feeling very confused. He didn't know what their prince wanted the spinning wheel for.

If it was Huo Guang who spoke, Xiao Cheng might have asked directly. Although Prime Minister Huo seemed very strict on weekdays, he actually had a good temper.

Well, it is said that his temper was tempered by His Royal Highness the King of the North.

But Xiao Cheng felt that it was because Huo Xiang had a good temper. After all, Huo Xiang was a man who was strict with himself and lenient with others. Of course, the premise was that you were also a gentleman. When facing villains or criminals... then they would see how powerful Huo Xiang was.

Xiao Cheng left with a lot of questions in his mind. He was very quick and delivered the spinning wheel to the Northern Border Palace that same day.

But Huo Guang and others also came in along with the spinning wheel.

Thus, in the palace of the Northern Territory, there appeared a strange sight of Liu Tan watching the spinning wheel and others watching Liu Tan.