As soon as he saw Zhang Mingwei, Zhu Cihong was a little embarrassed and said: "Mr.'s trust really can't be completed on time." That's all there is to it! ”

As he spoke, he pointed to several transports in the fleet that followed him on the river.

Pointing to the generals who have followed Zhang Mingwei for a long time, they are not surprised to see this scene.

However, on the side of the imperial court officials and army, Lu Jiude and below, including Liu Liangzuo and Huang Degong, and in the team that had just been recruited, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and others were all shocked.

You know, this is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the future emperor of the Ming Empire! When I met Xingguo Gong, I was not only excited, but also took the initiative to admit my mistakes, just like a student meeting a respected teacher!

At this moment, they couldn't help but have a deeper understanding of the status and power of Xingguo Gong.

Zhang Mingwei didn't think about it so much, after all, this kind of thing was too ordinary for him, and when he heard Zhu Cihong say this, he asked a little curiously, "What is that?" ”

"The cloth and cotton wool needed for military uniforms" Zhu Cihong heard this, and hurriedly replied, "Didn't Mr. say that you need to change your clothes so that the soldiers can fight with peace of mind, and let me do this?" ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Mingwei remembered.

Indeed, when the army marched south from the north, it was in July and August, when the weather was hot. Now that it's October, I'm going west to suppress thieves soon, and it's still the Xiaoice River period, so the weather is already a little cold.

The army led by Zhou Yuji was the army that Zhang Mingwei gave priority to supplying and changing clothes, and he only gathered more than 20,000 sets, so he led this number of troops to pursue Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

This is not Zhang Mingwei's hypocrisy, although the previous imperial army, after considering these things, after all, even the military salary has been in arrears. However, Zhang Mingwei felt that since he had already led the army, he had to ensure the needs of the army as much as possible.

All along, in his later years, whenever he looked back on the past history, he felt very sorry for the revolutionary martyrs who fought against the superior enemy under such difficult conditions. If we can improve the situation of the revolutionary martyrs, at least we will pay less for the blood of the heroes.

It's a pity that he didn't travel through that era, but since he traveled to the end of the Ming Dynasty, he had to do his best. This uniform is a must for the army, so naturally he has to complete the change of clothes as much as possible.

However, at present, there are nearly 300,000 thieves who accept Zhao'an, and although some of them will return to their hometowns, most of them are actually homeless and need to be organized into tuntian soldiers, engineering soldiers, and so on.

If their military uniforms can be slowed down, then the army that will be organized into a regular army and will go to the west to fight, including the army of thieves who have been reorganized, as well as Liu Liangzuo, Huang Degong and other departments, must be redressed.

Even if Zhang Mingwei selects these troops again, the regular army has now reached about 150,000, and there are indeed a lot of military uniforms needed.

Therefore, when he heard Zhu Cihong's words at this time, Zhang Mingwei immediately asked: "Don't have so much inventory?" ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhu Cihong suddenly said a little angrily: "The warehouses over there in Nanjing are all full of rats that can starve to death, where did they get the inventory." That's all, I just received it after I temporarily pressed it down. ”

When Zhang Mingwei heard this, he suddenly realized that he was done with this matter.

In the warehouse at the end of the Ming Dynasty, if there were still materials to be piled up, it would be a strange thing!

However, he was also a little strange, so he continued to ask: "Isn't Jiangnan a land of fish and rice, producing silk and the like?" ”

"Yes!" Zhu Cihong listened, replied, and then probably learned it from Zhang Mingwei, and spread his hands and said, "But in such a short period of time, how can you be so fast when you want to spin into cloth?" ”

Daming military uniforms are generally issued with military uniform materials, that is, fabrics and the like to the soldiers themselves, and then the soldiers' families will make military uniforms, rather than directly issuing finished clothes.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong's answer is cloth and the like, rather than directly talking about military uniforms.

Hearing his explanation, Zhang Mingwei, who had been accompanying Zhu Cihong to the city, suddenly stood up. This made Zhu Yujiao, who followed him and listened to the two of them all the time, almost hit him.

Zhang Mingwei stopped, and everyone else naturally stopped. They were a little puzzled for a while, so they looked at Xingguo Gong one after another, not knowing what was going on with him.

I saw Zhang Mingwei turn his head to look at Zhu Cihong, pat his head, and asked with a smile: "At this time, is there no shuttle yet?" ”

Although it was a question, his tone was actually affirmative.

Sure enough, when Zhu Cihong heard this, he asked a little inexplicably: "What is a flying shuttle?" ”

After answering, he was afraid that it was because of his own lack of knowledge, so he turned his head again and asked the people beside him, "Have you ever heard of the shuttle?" ”

When the group behind him heard this, they all shook their heads together. However, Sun Yingyuan added: "Your Highness, I haven't heard of the shuttle, but there are darts." ”

When Zhang Mingwei heard this, he was amused in his heart, and he was still darts, I will fly you!

At this time, he has also determined.

Because there are more people who have written through the history of the late Ming Dynasty, the information on black technology will naturally be checked more.

Cotton is spun to get cotton yarn, and then through weaving, cotton cloth is obtained. In this whole process, there were two very large improvements, both of which took place after the eighteenth century.

The first big improvement was in the weaving area. In the 18th century, the British occupation of India stimulated their ability to weave cloth at a very low cost to obtain cotton and other materials. As a result, in 1733, the English watchmaker John Kaye invented the shuttle, which greatly improved the efficiency of weaving.

And it is really the improvement of weaving efficiency, which naturally stimulates the demand for cotton yarn. So, in 1764, James Hargreaves, a weaver in Lancashire, England, accidentally invented a new type of spinning machine, which he named after his daughter.

It is conceivable that the original loom was one spindle, but Jenny's spinning machine has been improved to 80 spindles, which is more efficient than usual.

It is also because of this that the Jenny spinning machine made many people who used the old spinning machine at that time have no food, so that many people smashed the Jenny spinning machine and were not allowed to make this new spinning machine.

On the Chinese side, there was a person who made a very big contribution to the textile industry during the Yuan Dynasty, that is, the famous Huang Daopo. However, her contribution is not only to improve the efficiency of weaving, but to make a set of rolling, stretching, spinning and weaving tools (such as agitators, vertebral arches, three-spindle pedal spinning wheels, etc.) to improve the spinning efficiency, and to improve the entire cotton-to-cotton process.

If it is only about spinning efficiency, of course, the Jenny spinning machine that appeared hundreds of years later will be higher.

Therefore, after understanding the problems encountered by Zhu Cihong at this time, Zhang Mingwei immediately remembered the two good things of flying shuttle and Jenny spinning machine, which are one of the magic weapons.

"Go find a few carpenters at once! It's best to know how to make a textile machine. Zhang Mingwei turned around and said a word to Liu Jin, a family member who was following him, before he smiled at Zhu Cihong and said, "There are two good things that can greatly improve the production process from cotton to cotton cloth!" ”

As soon as they heard this, everyone who heard it couldn't help but be stunned. On Guogong's side, how can there be such a good thing casually?

And Zhu Cihong and Zhu Yujiao listened to it, and they were not stunned, but overjoyed. Because they know how Zhang Mingwei's stuff came from, and when he says so, it's definitely a good thing!

Although thinking so, Zhu Yujiao couldn't help but ask: "Sir, shouldn't it be a formula or style similar to cement and glass?" ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Mingwei thought for a while, then nodded and said, "Almost!" ”

The shuttle and the Jenny spinning machine can achieve a monopoly in the textile and weaving industry, and it is not wrong to say that it is like a cornucopa.

When Zhu Cihong on the side heard this, he hurriedly said: "Mr. has donated two recipes for making a fortune to the court and the people of the world, this time, Guogong should keep it for himself!" ”

After finishing speaking, he also deliberately took a look at his sister-in-law. I thought in my heart, if I dug up all the good things of Guogong and used them myself, then I would be sorry for my sister-in-law!

He is the crown prince, and he will be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty in the future, and if he donates to the imperial court, he will donate it to him, which is true.

However, when Zhang Mingwei heard this, he shook his head and said: "These two things are too domineering, if I use them myself, all the other people engaged in weaving and weaving will lose their livelihood, or they will have no source to supplement their families." It's not what I want to see. ”

Speaking of this, he paused again and said: "What I want to see is that the people of the Ming Dynasty can live and work in peace and contentment, and they will no longer be hungry and cold!" Therefore, these two good things that can greatly increase the production of cloth should be made public, so that Daming can have more clothes, reduce the price of clothes, and everyone can change clothes to wear! ”

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at him with that kind of admiration. Especially the group of generals who were born as thieves, they used to belong to a very poor class, and naturally they knew how big it was to have a new dress to wear!

According to Guogong, his new things can make ordinary people change their clothes and wear, so that the people of Daming will no longer be hungry and cold, and for a while, under the empathy, many of them have red eyes.

The country is for the country and the people, and in the world, who can match it!

Zhu Yujiao was also moved, and when she was about to speak, she suddenly heard Zhang Mingwei change his words and said: "But what you said is also reasonable, it is not good if it is so free, it must be restricted, including the previous cement formula!" ”

What he said was something that everyone didn't expect, and suddenly, they were a little dumbfounded by the sudden change of Xingguo Gong.

"Sir, what kind of restriction law, is it to collect money?" The prince asked questions on behalf of everyone.

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