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Chapter 923 Cotton on the Road ([-])
Ma Zhiwen dragged the people away, leaving the soldiers all over the floor with uncontrollable surprises on their faces.

"Did I hear correctly just now? It's all cotton? More than 1 bales?!"

"[-] packs, pinch me quickly, is that the number?!"

"Wait a minute, who's right? A pack of one hundred catties, and more than 1 packs. How much is the total?"

"...More than a hundred thousand catties?"

"How could it be so few, impossible, impossible, you miscalculated."

"Then how much did you say?"

"I can't count, but it must be more than one hundred thousand."

"Aren't you stupid? It's so difficult to calculate? More than 1 bags, a bag of ten catties is more than 100 catties, and a bag of one hundred catties is more than one million catties."

"More than 100 million? Eighteen thousand bags, 180 million catties?!"

"My God! Are there so many?"

"How many acres of land will it take to grow so much cotton..."

"Wow, which country did these five ships come from? It's amazing..."

The soldiers calculated the weight of the cotton, and turned to look at the five large ships in the distance, full of admiration.

"If only our own cotton farmers could grow that much cotton."

"What are you thinking? If we had this ability, we would have been exposed to cold every year for so many years, and it was hard to get even a warm cotton coat?"

"So I'm not hoping."

"It must take a lot of land to grow so much cotton, maybe thousands of acres. With so much farmland, we would rather grow food. Can we grow cotton?"

"That's true. Cotton is difficult to provide. It's better to grow food than to have such a good farmland."

"Hey, what are you talking about, don't think about those old things, think about it now, with more than 100 million catties of cotton in front of you, how much can we get?"

"...Eh?!" Among the soldiers who were chattering endlessly, many of them heard this reminder, blinked their eyes, pulled their thoughts back to their eyes, looked at the building and ship, and slowly raised their faces. A dreamy smile, "Hey, maybe! It's possible!"

"Such a big ship is here, we can't be the master, we must report it to Qing Shao, more than 180 million catties of cotton, how many people are there in our Bai family army, I don't think it's enough to share it on everyone's head. "Finally, those who are better at counting are more clear-headed, and they are not as excited as everyone else.

"They're here for business. So much cotton must cost a lot of money. Even if we want it, it depends on whether our general can squeeze out the money to buy it."

"Yes, foreign products are not cheap. If you buy all this cotton, it will cost 10,000+ taels of silver, right?"

"Wow, so expensive?!"

"Foreign goods are not cheap. When we were in the north, do you remember the price of tea bricks brought by merchants from thousands of miles away? This is still transported from the inland to the frontier. It can be cheaper to ship some things by big merchant ships across the ocean. ?”

"Hey, that's right. We couldn't even drink thick tea foam before, but at least we don't have to worry about eating and drinking tea when we come here."

The soldiers recalled bitterness and sweetness for a while, lamenting the difficulty of life, and then some people saw that the three of them, Chief Baibao Ma Zhiwen, had finished their conversation. Judging by the expressions of the three of them, they should have a good conversation, and all of them were smiling. This made the soldiers feel a little more hopeful.

Seeing that the soldiers under him were still there, Ma Zhiwen waved to them, telling them to prepare boats and fresh water immediately and send them to the five large ships.

There is a row of small boats moored here at the pier. They are all old boats bought from foreign shipowners through the road laid by Jiajia Village and Jiaji Ship Company after the village chief came. They are cheap and usable, and they are used for daily water training for soldiers. .

(End of this chapter)