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Chapter 9 The First Snow

"What is this?" Looking at the milky white tea cup floating in the tea cup, Ulutus looked at the tea cup in front of him strangely.

"I used to serve in the palace. Some masters liked to drink tea with milk." Hunur looked at Ulutus's face and saw that he was just simple curious and without any dislike, so he plucked up his courage and explained: "I saw Ale's wife making something yogurt recently. I heard that it was the prince you told her to make. I thought to myself that the prince might not like drinking tea on the grassland, so I made a cup of it according to the method in the previous palace."

Upon hearing this, Ulutus looked at Hunur carefully for a while. When he had just traveled through time, he just felt that this little eunuch was pitiful. He had just entered the imperial palace of the Jin Kingdom, but the Mongols rushed in. A little eunuch was on the grassland, and when he thought about the situation, he knew that it was not very good. Being able to survive until now only means that the other party's fate is strong enough.

Fortunately, the other party is not bad by nature, so he doesn't care much about Hunur's previous affairs of obeying the nanny.

Now seeing the other party trying to please him with care, Ulutus was a little funny and a little vigilant, "As long as you do everything I command, you will always be in the tent. But if one day I find that you are doing something criminal under my name, don't blame me for not thinking about the relationship between master and servant."

"Yes - yes! Hunur must do his best to do things for the prince and must not dare to commit crimes." Hunur knelt down with joy. Although Ulutus's words meant to be pounding, he also heard the other party's assurance to him. In this way, he would not have to panic that his place would be lost in the tent and his situation would be worrying in the future.

"Okay! A new group of slaves came to the tribe. Go and help me see if I have settled down, and also see how those craftsmen performed." Wulutus gave a sweet date, and Hunur immediately got up with a smile and rushed to complete the task.

Seeing the other party's anxious look, Ulutus couldn't help laughing again. Although Hunur was a little careful, he sometimes acted silly and stupid, which brought a little fun to the somewhat dull tribal life.

Thinking of this, he picked up the tea cup that Hunur placed on the table. He scooped a small spoon and drank it into his mouth. It was sweet and astringent, mixed with the mellow fragrance of goat milk and the fragrance of tea. It was completely different taste experiences from the simple goat milk and tea in the tribe.

"I didn't expect Hunur to make milk tea?" Ulutus drank the tea cup with some satisfaction and licked the milk on his lips. As an otaku who used to play games all night and relied on milk tea to refresh his life, his nostalgia for milk tea after traveling through time is beyond words.

If the tribe hadn't been able to make that taste, he would have to drink three large cups every morning and evening.

But now, Hunur's tea cup is a surprise. He regrets that Hunur has walked so fast.

After a few days like this, the wind suddenly blew on the grassland. The sun, which had appeared early in the past, disappeared at noon. Only thick clouds covered the sky and were very close to the ground, as if it was about to be pressed on the roof.

The herdsmen who live on the grassland all year round know that this is the rhythm of winter!

Ulutus didn't have time to pay attention to the changes in the season. These days, he arranged for the wool spinning workshop to carry out primary processing of the dry wool, and arranged for the carpenter to create the textile machine he needed. At the same time, he also went to the blacksmith workshop to check the processing and production of iron farm tools, and put forward his own suggestions.

In addition, in order to increase the military power of the tribe, he also had some ideas about the tribe's weapons manufacturing. Relying on traditional cold weapons such as swords and spears, Ulutus felt that he had no chance to expand his fiefdom in his life. Therefore, according to his memories before traveling through time, he drew drawings of muskets so that the craftsmen below could think about it and make the finished product for him to see.

After all, he can't become fat in one bite. He Ye never thought that he could make a useful musket immediately. Everything has always been a process from nothing to something. Only by solving some problems can you develop subsequently.

In addition, it is to make bacon and sausage!

Before winter began, Ulutus asked his subordinates to slaughter a batch of sheep and horses. After cleaning and preliminary drying, it was a concentrated marination process.

In fact, in this era, marinated bacon was not uncommon. In the Song Dynasty in the south, marinated bacon and other marinated foods were delicacies on the tables of the people. But in the grassland, this was relatively rare. The common method for grassland people to process meat is to make it into jerky.

On weekdays, this is also a common food for people in the grassland. However, it is good to eat it for 365 days a year and occasionally change the taste. In addition to bacon, sausage is also a major specialty food.

The intestines of these sheep and horses can be used to make them into sausages with a plump taste. When it is spring, it can be served. Thinking about the scene at that time, Ulutus couldn't help but drool.

With a beautiful fantasy of food, the first winter snow finally came to Hulunbuir grassland. Looking around, it was covered with heavy snow of goose feathers. In a short while, the entire grassland was covered.

A green spring village was also covered with winter clothes, and the ministries were also indented into the wooden houses built in autumn. The fire pits prepared when building houses were built were also used.

The raging fire was burning, making the kang warm. Even the whole house was warm. Since not every house had a kang, the families that originally had separate houses moved to collective dormitories. In this icy and snowy winter, it was very lively for everyone to get together.

In order to find something for everyone, Ulutus gave everyone a intensive literacy training. Thanks to the three scholars who bought the slaves, the teaching work of the tribe will not be entirely under Zhuo Ya's hands.

Moreover, these three scholars also have talents such as painting and musical instruments, which greatly enriched everyone's spiritual life. The three scholars were very grateful for Wulutus's decision to arrange for them to be the teacher. They were all scholars who were captured from the Central Plains and wanted to learn civil and martial arts and sell them to the imperial family.

No one thought that even the emperor was gone, and he became a slave, and no one appreciated their talents at all. Therefore, being able to be a teacher is to some extent an identity of their identity.

Therefore, they worked harder to impart knowledge, and some of the textbooks were woven by Ulutus himself. Since there was no cultural atmosphere of reading and literacy on the grassland, it was difficult to buy paper and pen. In order to solve this problem, Ulutus specially built a small paper workshop, which not only produced hard paper for writing, but also soft paper for toilet use.

Thanks to the proximity to the Greater Xing'an Mountains, there is a lot of forest resources, so there is no need to worry about the inconvenience of obtaining materials. However, the scale is too small and can only meet the needs of the tribe at present.

But it would be great to be able to do this in the first year of time travel!

It is only 1220 years now, and it will take several years before Genghis Khan's death. The situation has changed dramatically due to the dispute over the Khan throne. In addition, the Dongxia Kingdom, built by Puxian Wannu, a rebel from the Jin Kingdom in the east, will be several years before it will rebel.
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