Guo Song said with a smile: "This kind of short-staple white stacked cloth is inconvenient, after being transported to the Central Plains, the cost is higher than silk, and the magnates want to buy a little, but now that the Central Plains is in turmoil, there are not many people who want to buy it, but if this kind of white stack is planted in large quantities, the problem of winter clothing for ordinary people and soldiers will be solved." ”

Keeping warm in winter has always been a problem that plagues the people, rich people can use cotton, that is, cotton to fill the bedding, can also use duck down, goose down or even cashmere, but because the output is not high, the price is relatively expensive, ordinary people can not afford it, they can only desperately add clothes to the body, and wear five or six clothes when they go out once.

But once cotton is planted in large quantities, there is a very high-quality and cheap filler, and the cotton clothes come out, and the weight is light, the breathability is good, and the soldiers can even make sleeping bags, which also solves a big marching problem.

Lin Dongzhu's face was full of frustration, and no one bought the white stacked cloth, doesn't that mean that he is completely hopeless?

Guo Song smiled and asked, "Will Lord Lin grow this kind of cotton?" ”

"Cotton?"

Lin Dongzhu was stunned for a moment, "Did the envoy mean Bai Diezi?" ”

"It's not nice to call it white stacks, it's better to call it cotton."

Lin Dongzhu nodded again and again, "It's good to call cotton, I can plant it, and I've been planting it for more than 20 years." ”

"Next year, I plan to arrange a large number of planting in Xizhou, please be the master to teach them to grow cotton, of course, it is not for you to work in vain, as long as the planting can be successful, I will pay you three hundred yuan, how about it?"

Lin Dongzhu was overjoyed, three hundred yuan a year, twenty-five yuan a month, he nodded again and again, "I am willing!" ”

"In addition, I will buy all the 300 acres of cotton you planted this year, and I will teach you a good way to remove cottonseeds."

Guo Song asked him to take paper and pencils, Guo Song drew him a cotton gin style, and said with a smile: "The principle is very simple, that is, use a log roller to accumulate and squeeze out the cottonseeds, which is much simpler than you peel by hand, simple and fast, and you can think about it yourself." ”

Lin Dongzhu has been dealing with cotton for decades, how can he not know? He understood it at once, and slapped his head heavily and said, "Why didn't I think of this solution?" ”

This kind of cotton gin appeared in the Song Dynasty, and it is also the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people.

Guo Song then bought all the cotton cloth in his inventory at the price of two yuan a horse, there were hundreds of horses, cotton cloth actually still has a lot of advantages, Guo Song planned to give it to his family, and at the same time, it could be regarded as helping this Lin Dongzhu tide over the difficulties, so that he could devote himself to inventing the cotton gin.

Zhao Wei smiled bitterly: "I thought that the envoy wanted to promote the white cloth, but I didn't expect it to be the ..... in the end Cotton is interested. ”

Guo Song shook his head and said: "It is not so easy to promote cotton cloth, first of all, it is stuck in the planting link, planting hemp and spinning hemp has been thousands of years, planting and weaving are very mature, suddenly let everyone plant cotton weaving, it is difficult for ordinary people to accept, there is no decades or hundreds of years to promote, it will not easily replace silk and hemp."

And cotton to keep warm is not the same, everyone knows that cotton on the market is a good thing, but it is too expensive, ordinary people can't afford it, once the same cotton appears, cheap and good, it will definitely be popular, people are also willing to plant it, planting for a long time, everyone will start to use it to weave, which is called curve promotion. ”

Mulberry hemp has been cultivated for thousands of years, and it is very difficult for the people to change their living customs, if it were not for Zhu Yuanzhang's forced promotion of cotton, the formation of cotton cloth would have to be postponed for hundreds of years.

Of course, the most important reason is that the quality of the cotton itself is not good, and it is not until the emergence of high-quality long-staple cotton that the cotton cloth is completely liked.

This trip to Gaochang Guo Song was not in vain, at least he discovered the cotton planting land, laid the foundation for large-scale cotton planting tomorrow, and also solved the problem of smelting pig iron.

When Guo Song returned to the county office, the county magistrate Cheng Ruxiao reported: "The lowly post has been agreed with the smelters, and most of the people are willing to accept the conditions of the envoy to go back, and they say that as soon as the three-month salary is paid, they will leave immediately." ”

Guo Song nodded, "I will arrange for someone to transport the money, you have to make it clear to them, it's okay not to go, don't take the money, but if you take the money and refuse to go, you will bear the consequences, I don't want this to happen." ”

Cheng Ruxiao broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead, and said in a loud voice: "I will definitely make it clear to them that I will never let the situation of not going after taking the money." ”

Guo Song then went to the military camp to comfort the Xizhou garrison, and then returned to Tingzhou.

.......

Luoyang, 200,000 Western Tang army soldiers under the city, since the surrender of Wang Xiaotian, the lord of Cuiguan, Zhu Zhu's army easily captured Yuzhou and Shaanzhou, Zhu Zhu immediately sent people to Ruzhou, Zhengzhou and Huaizhou, to the defenders of these states promised high-ranking officials Houlu, and took a lot of money to buy, the three state guards could not withstand Zhu Zhu's silver bullet offensive, have changed their flags, declared allegiance to the Son of Heaven.

Zhu Jun immediately led an expedition of 200,000 troops to Luoyang, all the way like a bamboo, the counties of Henan Prefecture opened the city and surrendered, just three days later, the army came to Luoyang City.

At this time, the Tang army of Luoyang City was only 6,000 people, and the eastern capital of Qi Rujie made Ge Shuyao defend to the death, Ge Shuhan was the son of the general Ge Shuhan, and Ge Shuhan was not guaranteed in the evening, which was criticized, Ge Shuyao did not want to follow in the footsteps of his father, he said to the generals: "I have the sword given by the Son of Heaven, and those who dare to come down will try the benefits of my sword!" ”

'Boom! Boom! Boom! ’

The drums of war shook the heavens and the earth, and the 200,000-strong army spread outside the city, and the banners and spears were endless, changing the color of the heavens and the earth.

Zhu Jun immediately looked at the city gate under the Qingluo umbrella and said, "Bring people up!" ”

Not long after, an official in his thirties was brought up, he was the Shaanzhou regimental training envoy Ge Shuxi, Ge Shuyao's brother.

Zhu Jun pointed at him with a sword and said: "You go and tell your brother that there are only 6,000 defenders in the city, and the king's 200,000 army can easily be crushed into powder, but I pity the people and don't want to add swords to the people, if your brother is willing to be loyal to Chang'an, I should play the son of tomorrow, and make him the prince, the prime minister, and the reward of 10,000 households, if he must be loyal to Chengdu, this king is not reluctant, and he is limited to withdraw from the south gate of Luoyang before noon tomorrow, otherwise my army will be pressed, and none of the 6,000 Tang troops will be killed, and the people will be miserable, it is all his responsibility!" ”

Ge Shuxi was sent to report the news, and Zhu Jun immediately ordered, "The army is encamped!" ”

The 200,000 army immediately set up camp, and the camp was five miles away from Luoyang, surrounding most of Luoyang City.

Ge Shuxi sat in a wooden cage and was taken up to the city, and a soldier took him to see Ge Shuyao, and when Ge Shuyao saw that his brother was coming, he frowned and said, "What are you doing here?" Could it be that you also surrendered to Zhu Jun and came to be a lobbyist? ”

Ge Shuxi said for a while: "I don't want to be a hero, my wife and children are in the hands of Zhu Zhu, I have to come to him to pass a word, Zhu Zhu said, he pity the people in the city to give you a chance, you are willing to be loyal to Chang'an, your prince, prime minister, food and ten thousand households, if you are not willing to be loyal to Chang'an, do not reluctantly, limit your army to withdraw from the south gate before noon tomorrow, do not kidnap the people of Luoyang and bury you with you." ”

Ge Shuyao pulled out his sword and said coldly: "You go and tell Zhu Jun that I will not leave, I will fight him to the death, let him see, who in the city will surrender to him?" ”

Ge Shuxi shook his head, "Although I can't be as generous and righteous as you, I also want to give advice, if you want the name of loyalty, you should lead the army out to fight Zhu Jun and die on the battlefield, instead of letting the people of Luoyang City suffer misery with you. ”

With that, he arched his hand and turned away.

Ge Shuyao didn't say anything, silently watched his brother leave, and he himself fell into deep thought.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhu Jun was squinting and listening to the report of Sima Yao Xing on the march.

"Li Bowen has made it clear that he is willing to surrender to the captain, he is responsible for guarding the Jianchun Gate tonight, and he will send a signal at the two watches to open the city gate to welcome the captain into the city!"

Zhu Jun snorted coldly, turned around and asked, "I'm not familiar with this Li Bowen, what do you think of the military advisor?" ”

Zhu Zhu's military advisor is called Liu Sigu, he turned out to be Yu Chaoen's chief strategist, a native of Jixian County, Youzhou, after Yu Chaoen's ambush, he fled back to his hometown to hide, but he was not willing to be lonely, and after two years of silence, he joined Zhu Zhu, he had advised Zhu Zhu not to enter Beijing, but Zhu Zhu did not listen, insisted on going to Beijing to report on his work, the military power was seized by his brother Zhu Tao, Liu Sigu also stayed in Youzhou, continued to serve Zhu Tao, after the coup d'état last year, Zhu Zhu felt that there was a lack of people around him, and remembered that Liu Sigu persuaded himself not to go to Chang'an, so he wrote to Zhu Tao, asked Liu Sigu to come to Chang'an by name.

After Liu Sigu entered Beijing, he was named a doctor and a scholar of Jin Ziguanglu, and became Zhu Zhu's chief strategist.

Liu Sigu stroked his scorched goatee and smiled: "This is easy, send a thousand soldiers to take over Jianchunmen, if this Li Bowen is sincere to surrender, he will inevitably withdraw the army, if he is a plan, then we will lose a thousand soldiers at most, of course the captain does not have to take this risk." ”

Zhu Jun smiled, "The military advisor has a point!" ”