The rise of the prince

Chapter 465 Cotton
The snow was knee-high, the sky was gray and cold, and the cold wind blew across the mountain from time to time, shaking off the snow. In the snow-covered back mountain, more than 200 new troops lined up in three rows, standing quietly in the snow, with piles on their shoulders and hats. Snowflakes, but they remained motionless.

Li Xingzhou was wearing a bearskin coat. The cotton planting industry was not popular in this era, and there were no cotton coats to keep out the cold in winter. He was a prince, so he could naturally wear expensive silk and precious mountain mink and other animal furs. For ordinary people, he could wear thick The linen is already good.

But linen and cotton are not at the same level in keeping out the cold. The soldiers of the new army wore leather cloaks, but they were still shivering from the cold.

Every winter, many people in Jingguo die from the cold, especially the poor people who can only afford linen clothes. In fact, not only Jingguo, but the whole world is like this. The feeling of being frozen is more uncomfortable than dying directly. .

Cotton has actually existed for a long time, but it has always been only in Xinjiang in later generations. Nowadays, there are a small amount of planting in the southwest of Liao Kingdom and other places. The history of many people wearing cotton clothes is a long history. It was not until Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty vigorously supported cotton planting that cotton clothes began to rise. , Then gradually entered the homes of ordinary people.

Cotton is really a good thing, Li Xingzhou thought in his heart, if there is a lot of cotton, the living standard of the people in Jingguo can be improved, and many people will die in winter.

Immediately, he thought of areas suitable for growing cotton. He kept recalling in his mind, and he remembered the general location. The teacher in middle and high school geography class asked him to go back to the country. There are those cotton fields in the country, the lower reaches of the big river, and the northern Henan plain.
Thinking about it, Li Xingzhou was taken aback suddenly. He remembered that there seemed to be another place. Although it was not the biggest, it was also very suitable for growing cotton, walnuts, etc.
"The first row is listening!" Li Xingzhou said loudly in the snow.

"Here!" The sergeants in the first row said in unison.

"Take a step forward!"

Snapped!
The soldiers in the first row took a step forward.

"Raise the gun!"

Swish!
The rapid-fire guns with bayonets were put down at the same time. This is the result of countless times of practice. Everyone used the front sight to aim at the front, but in fact the aiming of the smoothbore gun is not so meaningful, because as long as the gun is fired, there is no bullet driven by the rifling. It's all floating around.

But because of Zhao Si's various improvements, now Wangfu's sudden-fire guns have entered the stage of cone-headed projectiles and integrated bullets. The pinnacle of firearms.

To go further, unless there is a steam engine, the integrated forged barrel, the steam engine drives the boring tool to bore out the barrel, and the steam engine pulls out the rifling, high-precision processing improves air tightness, and realizes afterloading of ammunition.

All this is stuck in the new power. If there is no new power, the gun technology of Wangfu will be locked.

"Shoot!" With an order, more than 60 guns merged into one sound, and the bullets whizzed past. Fifty steps away, the bushes exploded, the branches and leaves scattered, and the snow shook off. The gunshots echoed in the mountains. .

"Second row, ready to shoot, raise your gun!"

The second row and the third row stepped forward tacitly, and the second row raised their guns to point forward.

"shooting!"

Snapped!
"Third row, ready to shoot, raise your gun!"

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The sound of guns resounded on the mountain all afternoon, and the blue smoke filled the forest, and the forest was filled with the smell of gunpowder, and the birds and animals in the forest scattered and fled in fright.

With the expansion of banditry in Montenegro, Li Xingzhou had to put the new army's shooting training on the table again. Two hundred elite musketeers and six squads of artillery were much slower. Because of the cold weather, many people's fingers were so cold. , the loading action is stiff.

It seemed that this problem had to be solved. Fortunately, he had 2 taels of silver sent by Du Zhisi entered the account. With the silver, everything was easy to talk about.

That night, he entrusted Shen Yinfeng to help him find some of the best tailors in Jiangzhou City, and gave them the blueprints of the gloves. They are made of fine fur and require excellent workmanship. It can be temporarily removed for shooting, or it can be temporarily removed for fear of affecting shooting. If the soldier's hands are warm, taking off the gloves when firing will not affect the action in a short time.

As for gloves that do not affect movement at all and can keep warm, it is not possible at present. The limitation is not in the manufacturing process, but in the material process.

With the craftsmanship of these tailors, it will take six or seven days to make more than 200 pairs. By then, it is estimated that it will be the twelfth lunar month, and another year will be approaching. People in the north of Jiangzhou are panicked, and the shadow of the black bandits hangs over everyone's hearts.

"Has Yu Chengan left Beijing?"

"Reporting to the emperor, they have already been escorted out of Beijing. 87 female family members filled the teaching workshop, and the males were sent to Guanbei. According to His Majesty's instructions, it will be done before the end of the year." Fu'an whispered.

"Well, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs has done a good job and handled things neatly. I am relieved."

Fu'an bowed his head and dared not speak. Regarding the matter of Yu Cheng'an, the emperor specially explained the four words of Yushitai, Dali Temple, and Ministry of Punishment - it was done a year ago.

There are only four words for "it will be done a year ago", but Fu'an felt chills down his spine when he heard it, and he didn't dare to ask more.

The criminals are assigned, tattooed with linen clothes, and they have to carry more than ten catties of shackles, and walk thousands of miles all the way, which is a terrible thing.

But now in Dongyue, it's freezing outside, and it's okay to go south. After leaving Kaiyuan, there will be no snow in a few days.

But to the north, the mountains are covered with heavy snow, thousands of miles of ice, and thousands of miles of snow. Young and strong people will freeze to death on the road, let alone an old man like Yu Chengan who is over sixty years old.
The emperor specifically ordered the Ministry of Criminal Justice to finish it a year ago, but the meaning is actually very obvious, that is, to tell the Ministry of Criminal Justice tactfully, send Yu Chengan out to freeze to death!This is the way of life for Yu Chengan and more than 60 males in his family.

Every time he thought of these things, Fu An felt chills down his spine. He didn't dare to ask more about this matter, for fear of offending the emperor.

As for Zhang Rang, the judge of the Ministry of War, Yantie Tongzhi and Cansheng, the emperor agreed to be imprisoned in Yushitai Prison first, and then dispatched to Beijing in the spring of next year. Go again, survival is no problem.

The emperor had his hands behind his back, and Fu An followed behind silently.

He knew why the emperor hated Yu Chengan so much.

The root is not in Yu Chengan, and he is not in the position, so he can only be blamed for his hard life. He is a deputy prime minister, an official position that he did not have in the previous dynasty. He also set up a vice-president of Pingzhang under Zhongshumen, the prime minister, to divide the power of Pingzhang.

And the position of dividing the administrative power of the Pingzhang is to be a member of the political affairs and the deputy minister of the imperial court.

The position was set by the emperor by setting a precedent. At first, the ministers objected and were suppressed by the emperor, but now something like this happened
Yu Chengan, the person in charge of the peace affairs created by the emperor, colluded with foreign enemies, deceived the emperor and ignored his superiors, and accepted bribes through corruption. This is a slap in the face of the emperor!Also played very loudly.

The ministers don't say anything on the surface, but they will laugh in their hearts. At the beginning, they told you not to make your own biases. Now something happened. It depends on how you explain it.
　The author explains that the time will be "fast-forwarded", such as using New York's method to govern Jiangzhou. It is difficult to see great results without two or three years of persistence, but I shortened it to two or three months.The main reason is that human life is short. The Mongolian Western Expedition has gone through several generations of sweating, and the rise of Jurchen is also a matter of several generations. However, the life of the protagonist is only so short, so some events will be compressed.

　　For example, Mongolia fought Xixia for 23 years, but in the book, I may write it as two or three years, I hope everyone will forgive me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)