The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 141 Inability to Sufficient Cloth is a Big Problem!
Use the tax package system?This is an opportunistic management method, and Xifan's local management method is similar to this.To put it bluntly, you pay me money, and I don't fight your gang protection fee logic.

There are many ways to pay the protection fee. The place that produces grain pays grain, and the place that does not produce grain pays cattle, sheep and other special products.The royal court of Xifan collected the protection fees from the big tribes, and the big tribes collected the protection fees from the big and small tribes.Theoretically speaking, in addition to paying protection fees, if the royal court of the Western Domain uses troops abroad, all tribes, big and small, will have to send people to help.However, the decree to the Fifth Battalion did not say anything about helping the scene!

The reason why Song Yingkui thinks this method is a tricky investment is because although it is convenient to collect taxes and has low management costs, it has weak control over the local area.This is to admit the existence of local forces openly and aboveboard, and even encourage local forces to strengthen their strength step by step.It saves a small amount of money and loses a lot of money.

The Xifan regime can be maintained for a long time in this way, mainly because their good places are directly controlled by the royal court. After other tribes pay the protection fee, the remaining savings will not be much, and they can only barely survive and it is difficult to save. The capital of rebellion.But the situation in Zhengdi is different. The products in the mature farming areas are richer than those in the half-agricultural and half-pastoral Xifan, and the sources of income are more diverse than those of the Xifan tribes. No one knows that various small feudal lords like the Tu Emperor will save What a huge fortune.

If this policy is implemented for a long time, there will definitely be a group of local powerful forces in the true sense, instead of only wealthy families and few powerful families like in the reign of Dazheng.

Regardless of what happens to him in the future, at least this policy is beneficial to him.It can make the living environment of the Fifth Battalion Army improve rapidly, instead of having no place to do business except Sanchakou as it is now.It is not certain that the Wuying Mountain Road, which has been interrupted for a long time, will be restored in a short period of time.

If you think about it carefully, the geographical location of Wuying is not bad.There is a mountain road in Dawa Prefecture. If the road leading to the Sanchakou is repaired, and the manufacturing industry of Wuying is added, it may even become a commercial center if it is well managed.In addition to covering most of the Xisu abandoned land, its influence can also connect with Sunan, Qingfan, and even the Hexi area.

"Xiaohu, go talk to shopkeeper Guo, ask him to find a few tailors and women who can make clothes, go to the army to measure the size of all the soldiers, set a rule, and make one for all the soldiers in my fifth battalion as soon as possible." A set of military uniforms, and two pairs of cloth shoes.” At the same time as the situation was improving, Song Yingkui’s wallet bulged a lot due to the battle with Otani Yeo.After thinking for a long time, the idea of ​​uniforming the whole army can finally be started.

At present, the clothes worn by the soldiers are all brought from their own homes. The clothes in good condition are fine, but the clothes in poor condition will affect their image and combat effectiveness.

After Jiang Xiaohu delivered the order to Guo Kaifeng, this guy soon came to discuss with Song Yingkui about making military uniforms. "Guardian, whether to use cotton or linen for military uniforms. The price of cotton cloth has risen sharply now, and the expenditure will be a bit high."

"Is cotton much more expensive than linen now?" Song Yingkui knew that the price of cotton was usually twice that of linen, but from Guo Kaifeng's tone, it seemed that it had increased a lot?
"Cotton is not produced in our area, and most of the cotton cloth is shipped from the Central Plains. Now it is not easy for merchants from the Central Plains to come to us, and the price has risen sharply. In fact, it is not only cotton cloth that has increased in price. Since last year, linen has also skyrocketed. No matter what Whether to use cotton or hemp, the expenses will not be less."

"The price of cloth has risen so much, how can the people of our fifth battalion solve the problem of wearing clothes?" The problem is that the land is too small, and many necessities of life cannot be solved by themselves. Once there is a problem in the circulation link, the resources will be cut off.Wuying is a place that produces both hemp and cotton. Song Yingkui felt that he didn't care enough about many things and ignored some very fatal details.

"What else can I do? I can only use old clothes to make up for it. I haven't seen that in recent days, the clothes worn by the people on the street are mostly patched and patched. Dressed the same."

What did the feudal lords wear?Ordinary feudal lords just collected all kinds of rags together and wore whatever they had.Only nobles would wear clothes made of whole cloth.

"Didn't the annihilation of the vassals bring out a lot of property from them? No matter how expensive the cotton cloth is, you can still buy it. This is the first time for my Fifth Battalion to dress up with cotton cloth. As for the five Regarding the lack of cloth in the camp, let me think carefully to see if I can come up with a better solution." Although the cotton cloth was ridiculously expensive, Song Yingkui still felt resentful and decided to change the whole army into cotton clothes.

"Will guard and military uniforms be made of cotton or single clothes?"

"Let's make unlined clothes first, and then make a set of cotton clothes. By the way, there are a lot of military uniforms to be made this time. You might as well recruit some women to set up a garment factory. When you need to make military uniforms, you can make military uniforms. In normal times, you can make military uniforms." Use soles to make military shoes."

Compared with military uniforms, military shoes consume a lot of money. If there are many training and combat tasks, a pair of cloth shoes can only be worn for one or two months. This is a purely consumable product that takes a long time to make.

After sending Guo Kaifeng away, Song Yingkui paced back and forth in the room. Clothes came first in terms of basic necessities of life. Clothes were not self-sufficient. This was a big problem, and we had to find a way to solve it.

There is not enough sunshine in Wuying, so it is impossible to grow cotton. There seems to be some kind of hemp, but there is only so much land, and the more hemp is planted, the less land to grow food.Food and cloth can only be guaranteed, and it is impossible to have the best of both worlds.

It is not feasible to solve the problem of cloth shortage by growing hemp by oneself.Besides, linen is not as durable as cotton, let alone as comfortable as cotton.

In addition to cotton and linen, there is another material that can be used as cloth, which is wool.In Bai Feiyan and his tribe, many people only wear woolen clothes.

It's just that the woolen cloth they wear has not been degreased, so it has a strong smell and tends to become lumpy when worn.There was also a problem with their weaving technology, and the cloth weaved was very thick.In short, those kind of clothes are not good quality, and normal Zheng people would not wear them.

Song Yingkui knows the general idea of ​​degreasing wool, and he can be sure after several experiments.The problem is that the output of wool is very low, and the price of cloth made from wool must be very high, which also cannot solve the needs of ordinary people who lack cloth to make clothes.As written in time travel novels, the wool on the grasslands is extremely cheap, and it is a bit taken for granted to make a fortune by making woolen cloth.

Yes, most grassland tribes have not mastered the technology of degreasing wool, and the woolen cloth they weave is difficult to wear.But the people of the grassland tribes not only rely on wool to make clothes, they also need to make felt.Felt tents are essential equipment for nomads, and wool is also the main raw material for making ropes on the grasslands.Even if it is not used for weaving, wool is not useless on the grasslands. It is unlikely to get a lot of cheap wool from nomadic tribes like a fool!
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