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"There are some fine wool products in Kuoding County that you have never seen before. I wonder if you are interested?"

The leader of the Silla-Baekje business group was stunned. The price hadn't been negotiated yet, so why were they talking about high-quality products?

Of course, you still have to look at the fine wool products, and a few people won’t refuse them.

With doubts, several people followed Yan Kai to a new yard.

"hiss!"

As soon as they entered, several business group leaders' eyes widened.

The one hanging in the yard has a purple background and gorgeous patterns composed of gold and silver threads.

The smell of money shines in the sun.

"Zhixian Yan, what on earth is this?"

The wool blankets and wool coats I usually buy in Kuoding County can keep out the wind, keep me warm, and are beautiful in appearance.

But it's a bit monotonous in color and texture.

And the wool products we see now actually give them a silk feel.

But their feeling is not wrong, because this wool product was originally made by female workers in Kuoding County, adding some silk spinning techniques.

"This is velvet brown." Yan Kai introduced it to everyone.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was no such thing as velvet brown, because the raw materials for producing this velvet brown were only available in the late Tang Dynasty.

Velvet brown refers to wool fabrics made from cashmere, the best of which is produced in Lanzhou and is called "Lan Rong".

According to "Tiangong Kaiwu", the sheep producing this kind of cashmere came from the Western Regions in the late Tang Dynasty. The outer hair is not very long and the inner hair is fine and soft.

One is called velvet plucking, which refers to fine velvet hair. Use two fingernails to pull down the stems one by one and tie threads to weave brown velvet. This brown woven fabric is as smooth as silk when wiped.

Each person was so poor that he only had one penny to make the thread, and it took him half a year to make a piece of silk.

From these introductions, we can already see how valuable it is.

Fortunately, Kuoding County uses water power to increase production.

The technique of "weaving gold thread flowers" is also used in it. The brown velvet weaving machine is larger than the cloth machine. It uses eight heddles to thread the longitude strands, and four treadles are used to lift the warp and throw the weft twice, so the pattern is woven. The diagonal appearance makes the color more gorgeous.

This kind of cashmere products flourished for a while in the Ming Dynasty and were standard equipment for nobles.

What’s interesting is that during the Ming Dynasty’s crackdown on corruption, various corruption and bribery items had a conversion value, which was recorded in a book called “Rules for Valuation of Stolen Goods.”

The most expensive category of clothes in this book is "velvet brown clothes."

Its value is as high as eighty yuan!

Note that this is still velvet brown, not the most advanced blue velvet.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was almost equal to 700 yuan in modern times, so ordinary velvet brown clothes are worth more than yuan.

The value of blue velvet is more than ten times higher.

If you include the gold thread weaving technology of Kuoding County and finally make it into ready-made clothes, even if there is no brand premium, it is worth millions.

Now Kuoding County has made one ready-made garment, and Yan Kai also asked someone to take it out.

A green wedding dress.

Because the wedding of Sister Xiuer and that idiot Chun Yuzhen was scheduled for this winter, Yan Kai asked someone to make a wedding dress out of this kind of blue velvet. It would be gorgeous and warm to wear in winter.

The wedding dress was hung up and blinded the leaders of these business groups.

"Zhixian Yan, I want to marry a new wife recently..."

Before anyone could finish speaking, Yan Kai smiled and said, "I made this for my cousin."

Brother Idiom kicked the man below and glared, meaning to give you a chance to say it again.

So the person who spoke quickly changed his mind: "Can you order the same model at a high price in Kuoding County?"

"That's no problem, but I guess you'll have to wait until next year!"

"It's worth the wait, it's worth the wait!" He wiped the sweat from his forehead, almost causing trouble!

I heard that Yan Zhixian valued his family the most, but luckily he didn't ask him to give up his love.

"What do you think the price of this kind of velvet is?"

Yan Kai asked everyone what they were most concerned about.

Because it was produced in Kuoding County, Yan Kai shamelessly changed its name to Kuoding Rong.

"We are willing to pay fifty pieces for ready-made clothes such as wedding dresses!" A businessman extended a slap in the face.

Yan Kai sneered and said nothing.

"Sixty, right?" Someone added ten strings.

Seeing that Yan Kai didn't speak, someone added ten more strings: "Seventy strings."

"Everyone, why don't you milk me here?" He looked a little impatient and said, "One hundred and fifty!"

"What? One hundred and fifty guan, this is too expensive!"

"No two prices!" Yan Kai said decisively: "But if you buy the materials yourself, I can only charge you eighty guan for a piece of ready-made clothing material!"

The price is still very high, and the Silla and Baekje merchants still want to bargain. Yan Kai said: "But now I plan to hold a competition, and the prizes will be made of this kind of silk velvet."

Everyone got excited when they heard it. Since it was a prize in the competition, it meant that they could buy it without spending money. They were naturally interested in things that could save money.

"Yanzhi County, what kind of competition is it? We are willing to participate!"

"I plan to hold a football match. If everyone comes to participate, the prizes for the first, second, and third place prizes can be made of velvet!"

Selling velvet is part of the sheep's plan to eat people.

The entire Tang Dynasty will begin to develop the market for wool products, so that purchasing wool from areas such as Tubo will be natural and less abrupt.

Yan Kai wanted to build a reputation for Kuodingrong, so he thought of football matches.

He wanted to see if he could build momentum with this world-first movement.

I would also like to see if the Chinese are really unable to compete with other countries in the sport of football?

With nothing to do, he planned to start a football league and invite people from several nearby countries, as well as some states and counties within Datang, if they wanted to participate.

After all, if you only talk about luxury goods like velvet, many people will not be interested in it, but if it is football, a sport that everyone may like, then it can attract more people's attention.

"Football match?" Several businessmen from Xingluobaekje said they had never heard of this sport.

Then Yan Kai took them to the venue where the Secondary School Youth League was playing football.

"You can see that they also started training today. Generally speaking, it has some similarities with Cuju, but also has many differences."

We are all from the East Asian cultural circle, and when it comes to Cuju, everyone is familiar with it.

These people can also see that the fixed-line Secondary School Youth League is indeed new to this sport.

"Give everyone two months to recruit and practice. After two months, we will hold a competition in a fixed county. By then, there will be a certain amount of output of Kuoding velvet, and I will take out the best products as prizes!"

Qatar hosts the World Cup to promote their country, and there is nothing wrong with our Kuoding County hosting the Kuoding Cup to promote our own products!

In the end, Yan Kai made an agreement with those people that in two months they would bring people to Kuoding County, where they would conduct another month of adaptive training before the competition officially started.

"Ah, anchor, please lead me!"

"That's right, let's draw a lottery, we want to participate too!"

Netizens in the live broadcast room shouted excitedly, and they also knew that now Yan Kai could temporarily let a few people go to Datang.