"Prison is back?" Xu Zi wiped his sweat first, and when he saw Chen Daojian, his eyes lit up, he walked over and grabbed Chen Daojian's arm, looked at it, and said with a smile: "Okay, it's thin, it's darker, but people look very energetic, and their eyes are bright, well, I really still have to go out to practice." ”

"I've seen the prince." Chen Daojian's eyes were sour for some reason, he tried to restrain his emotions, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen the prince for almost two months, and I miss it very much." ”

"Well, you're in a good hurry, it's a good time, we're very busy." Xu Zixian sat down with a smile, a servant brought a new robe over, Xu Zi first took off the soaked robe and changed into a new robe, the whole person has become energetic, he said to Chen Daojian: "There are about fifteen days, the cotton field is going to be harvested, the hydraulic textile factory is testing the machine, there will be small problems and troubles every day, but in general, the problem is not big, and when it is made of lint, we will start to spin vigorously." ”

"What does the prince think of the yield per mu?"

Chen Daojian was quite interested in this issue, and the speed of development of the Eastern Domain was beyond everyone's expectations, especially Xu Zixian used the method of military training all the way to the north, and actually discovered two large coal mines and iron mines very easily. Although it is not a high-quality mineral deposit, but there is and there are two different things, with coal and iron ore, the Eastern Domain can make its own iron, make a large amount of iron trade, and it is a very good commodity, salt and iron, as well as cotton, coupled with the large area of tea plantations in the plan, Chen Daojian felt more and more that after being driven out of Qizhou and stripping off the internal system of Fujian Road, it was a better development opportunity for the Eastern Domain and the Nan'an Hou Mansion.

Everything is off track now, but who's to say it's not better?

"The yield per mu is quite good." Xu Zixian was very interested, he and Fu Qian, Chen Jie and others set off at dawn in the early morning, at that time, the grass on the side of the road carried early morning dewdrops, the sea breeze was very strong, and it felt very cool.

They began with the hundredth house and continued their patrols until the seventeenth hundredth.

"There will always be an average of 200 pounds." Xu Zixian said: "It didn't disappoint. ”

Chen Daojian's eyes showed excitement, the output of this seed cotton is quite happy, in fact, it is almost the top output in this era.

The planting area and output are added together, and the cotton stock will exceed 20 million catties, but this is seed cotton, and after removing the cotton seeds, the lint obtained is one-third, that is, 7 million catties of lint.

According to the current market price, 20 catties of lint can be worth more than two dollars, and all these cotton are sold for more than 700,000 yuan.

If all of them are spun into high-quality cotton cloth and spun into cloth from existing lint, the minimum is about 400,000 horses.

If the quality is high, the price of a piece of cloth was about three kan money in the Seongjong period, and in the Chongde period, the price skyrocketed, and the price of a piece of cloth rose to about five kan money.

If it is sold in the Japanese country, the price will have to rise three times.

The cloth of Nan'anhou Mansion may not be able to be sold at such a high price, but considering that cloth is also in short supply, and it is a hard currency like iron salt, even if the average price is six times, the final income is much stronger than simply selling cotton.

Although the income this year is not much, in a few years, the income of lint may be tens of millions of catties, enough to spin millions of pieces of cloth to meet the cloth needs of the entire south and the Wa country of Calluzon, and this profit is too great.

Now it's important to control costs and expand revenues.

Of course, it is necessary to remove the labor cost, the purchase of cotton is based on the cost price, and the construction cost of the textile mill, the original family textile is changed to the factory weaving, and the workers have to be paid a lot of wages.

A woman or a man who works ten to twelve hours a day in a textile mill should be paid at least four times a month, which should be the result of a satisfactory situation for both parties.

This income will be deducted from the previous investment in the short term, but even if it is paid in full in the future, with the further development and expansion of the cotton fields, the profit is quite promising, and it should be similar to the salt and iron business, or even better.

Judging from what I watched this morning, the bean fields and cotton fields were about to be harvested, which was a very happy result.

Li Yi always had a relieved smile on his face, Chen Daojian rubbed his hands excitedly, and the officials around him were also smiling, everyone now regarded the Eastern Domain as their home, and the Eastern Domain and the Nan'an Hou Mansion were climbing higher and higher, which was of course extremely good news for them.

A clerk brought a cup of sour soup and drank it, Xu Zi drank it all first, feeling better, he looked at Chen Daojian and said, "I'm afraid that there is something important to pass on to us this time?" ”

"Yes," Chen Daojian nodded in agreement, and said, "It's just not convenient." ”

Xu Zixian understood, nodded, and said, "Let's go to my signing room to talk, Fu Muzhi, Kong Xuanping and they are also here." ”

Nan'anhou's signing room is the top priority of the entire Hou Mansion Annex, across the road wall is the renovated archive room, all the official documents that need to be archived are filed here, Nan'an Hou Mansion is more standardized in the official process, and also pays attention to the responsibility system, such as a government decree, from the top level of the signing decision-maker, to the proposer and the executor, all must leave a name seal letter, included in the file.

If the decision-making is wrong, it is easy to have an adverse impact on the career of the officer.

This is the system of official circulation, and the cardinal's office conducts regular performance appraisals, and the pro-people officials are closely related to the trust of the people. In the army, it is jointly assessed by the cardinal's room and the Department of Judge Justice, from officers to soldiers.

The entire Nan'an Hou Mansion was gradually woven into an orderly and efficient net by Xu Zixian, and everyone was in the net, even Xu Zixian himself.

Efficiency, integrity, fairness, justice, in some places, as long as efficiency, fairness and justice are the last things to be considered, or even not considered. And honesty is also relatively speaking, Xu Zixian's first consideration is of course efficiency, but if you can't take into account fairness and integrity, then efficiency is meaningless.

Everyone followed him into the signing room, and the outside was clothed with armor and swords, and there were more than a dozen attendants in iron armor who were patrolling around with swords or swords.

Chen Daojian looked at it carefully for a while, compared with the warriors of the Wa Kingdom, the armor warriors of the Great Wei were undoubtedly much better.

The samurai are brave and fierce, and they draw their swords at every turn, and some of them are fake models, but most of the samurai value their promises and take life and death lightly, and there are some ancient relics of the pre-Qin period in China, which is also a fact.

They were able to die for the daimyo, and even disemboweled for trivial things, such as the samurai who oversaw the kitchen, and if a meal went wrong, the daimyo had to be careful that the samurai in charge would go disemboweled.

Of course, they were not afraid of death on the battlefield, and it was a fact that the Japanese samurai were quite strong.

But they are very scattered, lack of organization, and there is no serious battle formation training on the battlefield, and some daimyo can train in battle formations, and even have a lot of ideas, but judging from the current situation of the island country's economy and materials, it is impossible to train a pure samurai army that is always available, has heavy armor and sophisticated weapons, and can set up battle formations.

These heavy armors in front of them can only be worn by nobles in the Wa Kingdom, and ordinary samurai can have at most a piece of leather armor or bamboo armor, and those are light, that is, the people are bound into an army, and they are not equipped at all, just a spear per person.

"Junhou," Chen Daojian said to Xu Zixian, "I heard that after refining refined iron in the central part of the country, is it planning to build an armor forging bureau of the Weapons Bureau here in Nan'an?" ”

"Yes." Xu Zixian led the first house, the house is the north house, the relative side room is much cooler, after people come in, the attendants half open the window, there is a sea breeze blowing into the house, the sun does not shine in, making people feel more comfortable. After answering, Xu Zixian said again: "Our current cavalry camp has about thirty percent of iron armor, and the rest are chain mail, leather armor, and cotton armor. In order for soldiers to be fully defended, they must wear multiple armor, but after wearing multiple armor, it will affect their speed. If you don't wear arm guards, shin guards and other accessories, the iron armor will weigh about forty pounds, if the full set is brought together, it will weigh seventy pounds, plus the weight of the human body and the weight of the weapon, even if the heavenly horse is quite good, the mixed horse is also very good, in the end the burden is still too heavy. It is our idea to press out some cuirass with water power, integrally formed, front and rear beams, this kind of armor weighs 30 pounds, the front and rear protection is a piece of fine iron, the protection is quite good, and then with an iron helmet, if necessary, add a stop to protect the neck of the vital point, at most no more than 40 pounds of heavy armor, for the war horse, this load is much smaller, and the vital points of the soldiers can also be protected in place, which is quite cost-effective. ”

Xu Zi first showed a contemplative look, and then continued: "In the future, the light cavalry may only wear chain mail and iron helmets, weigh no more than thirty catties, and they will be fierce and light horse knights, responsible for sentry, reconnaissance, and erection of beams. It can also produce a large number of divine arm bows and assemble them for light cavalry, and they even only wear leather armor, which is specially used to harass the enemy's grain routes, isolate enemy sentries, and harass behind enemy lines, which can be called chasers. ”

Xu Zixian was indeed imagining, Li Yi and Chen Daojian were both sitting quietly, and no one disturbed them.

Hunting cavalry, light cavalry, wall cavalry, classical heavy cavalry, these can all be available in the future.

Light cavalry has an advantage in scouting and can also fight in front of the formation to prevent enemy light cavalry raids. And the chassars will also do quite well to harass behind enemy lines and cut off reconnaissance and food routes.

The Wall Cavalry has unrivaled attack power, but the armor should not be too thick and bulky, which will affect its mobility.

Classical heavy cavalry should not be composed too much, but if there are some particularly difficult and difficult battles, when the wall cavalry cannot break through the heavy enemy formation, the classical heavy cavalry can play the role of a hammer.

The war horse wears a curtain and neck guard, and wears vests on both sides, with parasites and vests behind them, and when they move, they look like heavy tanks.

At least in this day and age, it is.

Knights are also full body heavy armor, scarfs, necklaces, iron masks, arm guards, heart guards, layers of iron armor leaves up to the knees, then shin guards, iron boots, knights will also wear iron gloves.

A full set of armor plus horse armor weighs more than 100 catties, and the strongest war horse cannot carry such a long march, so it can only arrive at the battlefield on the premise of conserving physical strength and then wear it, and then quickly charge in a cavalry formation.

Such a heavy cavalry charge is not something that ordinary military formations can resist.

Of course, it is only an assumption that the cavalry battalion has only about thirty percent of the iron armor, which is not too suitable, and the infantry battalion lacks more than seventy percent of the armor, and there are only less than thirty percent of the foot soldiers.

This is related to the large-scale expansion of the army a few months ago, because the expansion of the army was too fast, which led to the scarcity of armor worse.

It is also related to the recent situation in Jianzhou, where large areas of mines have been closed, miners have been lost, and the price of iron tools has skyrocketed, and Jianzhou has restricted the sale of the Eastern Domain, so it can only continue to buy iron from Tingzhou and even the Jiangnan area.

Fortunately, there are iron yards and mines in the Eastern Domain, and once they have iron-making capacity, they can produce high-quality fine iron.

This is undoubtedly to give everyone greater confidence, not only in terms of trade income, but also in relation to the construction and strength of the army of Nan'an Houfu.

More Divine Arm Bows, more Crossbow Arrows, Better Blades, Horizontal Blades, Barrier Blades, and of course, more and better armor.

If the infantry were generally equipped with iron armor, the effect would be completely different.

"Infantry battalion," Xu Zixian continued, "In the future, we plan to equip and pierce armor, which has large leaves, is easy to wear, and easy to maintain. ”

Chen Daojian's eyes lit up when he heard this, he thought for a while, and said: "If this is the case, the cavalry battalion will use cuirass, the archers will use chain mail, the foot soldiers will use piercing armor, cotton armor, and leather armor, and it will be used for light cavalry or chassars?" ”

"Pretty much." Xu Zixian said with a smile: "It is also very likely to eliminate the leather armor, the protection is too poor, and if the cotton armor is not inlaid with a large number of iron blades, the protection is also poor." If I pass the drawing skills, I'd love to equip both the light cavalry and the chasers with chain mail, which is not bad for knife and arrow resistance. ”

Li Yi interjected: "What about the officers and soldiers of the water battalion? ”

"The armor of the officers and soldiers of the water battalion is the same as that of the iron cavalry, the armor can not be too heavy, and it is too difficult to jump the gang, which affects the physical strength and shape. It can't be too light, they sometimes have to jump over the enemy ship and fight......" Xu Zixian pondered for a moment and said: "It should still be mainly armor, but it should be equipped with net boots, shin guards, and necklaces, some with a full set, and some only with armor and self-protection." ”

In fact, this means that the officers and soldiers of the water battalion, such as crossbowmen, are good with light armor, while the jumping gang can be divided into the selection of the front and the main team of the Chinese army.

Once you jump to the enemy ship, you can only end in death, either the enemy dies, or I die.

Xu Zixian said in a deep tone: "We should give the soldiers better armor and treatment, because compared with being born and dying, willing to risk arrows and stones, being traumatized, and even being stumpled and dying, what we give to the soldiers now is not much, and it is not good." ”