Li Dongxue said: "We will arrange for the directors of each district to start preparing to set up some counters to sell cloth, mainly of course, we still have to let go first, the quality of our and Yusheng's production is still very trusted in recent years, according to my meaning, we play our own brand in advance, much better than those unproductive goods counterfeit Songjiang cloth." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The whole north is not without cloth merchants, but they are quite scattered homespun production-based, and the quality is of course uneven, unlike Suzhou and Songjiang, because there are still considerable foreign trade exports, and the quality is also based on the north and the entire southern market...... In the context of a small-scale peasant economy, almost any village in the Ming Dynasty can be self-sufficient, including agricultural products and considerable necessities of life, such as cloth, and a considerable number of people are self-weaving, including shoes, socks and other things, only salt, ironware, medicinal materials, these things will make people spend money to buy.

If the merchant's cloth wants to be sold, the quality must be stronger than that of the farmer's self-spinning, not only to be thick and warm, but also to pay attention to the texture and style.

The northern cloth is much worse than the Songjiang cloth in the south, and it is not like the large textile factory with dozens to hundreds or even thousands of people in Susong, and the cloth collected by thousands of households is not comparable with the large-scale factory with quality control, and the cloth merchants use the northern cloth to fake the Songjiang cloth from time to time...... At least so far, the origin and brand of northern cloth have not been taken, and Songjiang cloth is a well-known hard signboard.

"It's called and clothed." Zhang Han said: "Simple and easy to remember, each piece of cloth is embroidered with a pattern, we must have brand awareness, there are fakes, ask the Military Intelligence Department to find a way to solve it, and the brand must be played first in the early stage." ”

Everyone nodded, although they may not understand what Zhang Han meant by brand awareness, and new words often pop up in the mouth of this adult that everyone doesn't understand, but it does not prevent everyone from understanding the meaning of Zhang Han's words.

"It's going to be big next year." After coming out of the house, Sun Jingting said to Kong Min with a red face: "Next year's goal is one million pieces of cloth, can Brother Zhi's cotton field meet the demand?" ”

"It's easy to calculate." Kong Minxing said with a smile: "This year's average production capacity per mu is stable to about 50 catties, and if the planting area is expanded, it will be calculated as 3 million mu, 15 million seed cotton, 5 million catties of lint, and less than 500,000 spinning fabrics, which is exactly twice as bad as your requirements." ”

Sun Jingting frowned and said: "Next year, the cultivated land area can only be increased to three million mu?" ”

"It's been fast!" Kong Minxing said: "Now 50,000 or 60,000 people are constantly reclaiming wasteland, the year before last was only 500,000 mu, last year it was 1.6 million mu, this year it is not necessarily 3 million mu, the reason is that a large number of soldiers have been gradually transferred, there are fewer and fewer people who reclaim the land, and they have to leave part of the land to grow all kinds of miscellaneous grains......

The two extremely high-status political officials turned their heads to look at Zhang Han together, and Sun Jingting said angrily: "Why do you want to transfer a large number of soldiers? ”

Kong Minxing said: "This year is definitely not going to fight anymore!" ”

Zhang Han spread his hands and said: "The trade route in the north has used tens of thousands of soldiers, and there are still quite a lot of soldiers to support the logistics support to the east, and there are many reconstructions and defensive projects in Qingcheng and other places, and some are transferred to Lizhuang and other places, to be honest, the training plan for the soldiers has almost stopped this year, so there is still a shortage of manpower, you don't know." ”

Sun Jingting pondered: "The crux of the problem is that the expansion of the army last year was too powerful!" ”

Kong Minxing immediately said: "That can't reduce the troops, absolutely not." ”

Sun Jingting glanced at him and said: "Who can be stupid enough to say that he wants to reduce the army, but he can't continue to recruit soldiers, at most, he will train more qualified officers, and after two years, the money will be put together, and if there are officers, there will be strong soldiers." ”

The people were silent for a moment...... It is indeed the case, with the financial resources of He Yusheng, it is easy to raise more than 100,000 soldiers according to the standards of Ming officers and soldiers, but the combat effectiveness of such soldiers will decline sharply, and the combat effectiveness of the Shangtuan Army is trained by high-intensity training and combat, these more than 40,000 soldiers are now Zhang Han's top hearts, and everyone also understands that everything now is supported by the army, so no matter how difficult it is, they think that they cannot continue to expand the army, but no one has the idea of reducing it.

"There can be no more wars."

When Zhang Han went out of the door, Sun Jingting was still chasing and shouting behind him.

"Got it." Zhang Han didn't look back, just answered.

The sun was shining outside the courtyard, and as soon as the dark place came out, his eyes suddenly couldn't adapt to it, Zhang Han stopped, and the people who followed him also stopped.

A group of new army soldiers shouted a trumpet and ran from the distant avenue, cool hats, decent gray military robes, very tightly tied cowhide belts, short summer military boots, the number of soldiers is not large, about a squadron, the team is not very neat, it can be seen that this is a group of recruits who have not been training for a long time.

Recently, the number of new troops in Lizhuang is far from being compared with the previous two years, Zhang Han remembers very clearly that when he was in Lizhuang the year before last, he could often see the new army team of thousands of people running and practicing everywhere under the leadership of the officers, as far as the mountains of Lingqiu, as close as all over Datong, including Xinpingbao and other border places, and often saw the soldiers of the merchant army of the brigade training and training.

It can be said that Zhang Han's majestic style was built up bit by bit by himself, but in terms of the actual deterrent effect in various parts of Datong, it was still a detachment of officers and men of the New Army who ran out during training.

"Still inferior to cavalry and farther logistical supply capabilities......"

Zhang Han did not fail to think that with his current military strength and financial resources, he may not be able to use the territory of the left-wing Mongolia, first from the Thirteen Mountains as a stronghold, completely recover Yizhouwei and Guangning and other places, collect the Liao people to cultivate the land and tuntian, and then advance from Guangning to Liaodong and Liaozhong by two routes, with the ability of more than 40,000 soldiers and 100,000 soldiers, against the 60,000 Jurchen Eight Banners, about 20,000 foreign vassal Mongolia and the left and right wings of Mongolia, plus about 30,000 or 40,000 Han troops, and the Jurchens will have about 1120,000 troops, or count the old and the young. The total number of real combat-effective soldiers is more than 40,000 people, which is about the same as the number of soldiers in He Yusheng.

But Zhang Han still felt that the strength of his side was weaker, the merchant army was mainly infantry, and there were quite a lot of recruits who had not experienced hard fighting, and the way the merchant army fought had great requirements for logistics.

What is important now is to strengthen the cavalry, at least more than 20,000 people, and slowly expand the logistical supply capacity to the territory of the left wing of Mongolia, so that it can be considered enough to consider the battle with the eastern captives.

Before that, Lin Dan Khan took the initiative to move westward, that is, he had to fight, otherwise, it was better to maintain the current state before the financial and manpower did not reach the level of control of the left wing and the ability to fight against the eastern captives......

"Li Gui, come here."

Li Gui was chatting with Jiang Yi, Wu Qi and others, and when he heard Zhang Han calling him, he hurried over.

"An order is sent to all regiments on the Eastern Front and to Liang Xing, that from now on, except as necessary to maintain the caravan, no force other than self-defense shall be used without authorization, and the Line of Actual Control shall end at the demarcation line between the Karaqin Department and the Left Wing Ministers."

"Yes, my lord, can you tell your subordinates why?"

Li Gui was a little surprised, as an attendant military attaché, he knew that the military division had spent a lot of effort on the eastern front recently, and if he retreated at this time, it would be in vain to make the previous efforts in vain, as an attendant military attaché, his duty was to make Zhang Han and the military communicate up and down, even if Zhang Han had a clear order, he still had to ask the reason.

Zhang Han glanced at the attendant military attaché...... In terms of personal ability, compared with Zhang Shixiong, who is fierce and brave and as cold as a rock, or Xia Xiping, who is scheming and wise, Li Gui is a grade worse than these colleagues, but after experiencing some things, he has become cautious and cautious, and he is not afraid of triviality.

"There is only one explanation...... Zhang Han smiled: "Make it clear to them, the military department has no money, no money to fight a bird war, let's go back to maintain daily training." ”

"Huh?" Li Gui's mouth could be stuffed with an egg, and after half a ring, he said with a wry smile: "My subordinates know, go to the Military Orders Department now, and then strive to send Tangma within an hour." ”

"Hmm." Zhang Han nodded, and Yusheng's style is to do something immediately, and it can't be delayed, especially the people around Zhang Han are used to this kind of vigorous and resolute style, Li Gui almost didn't hesitate for a moment after receiving the order, and went directly to the direction of the Military Command Division.

At this time, Zhang Han realized that Tian Jitang was still following him, and there was a feeling of wanting to speak and stopping on his black face.

Zhang Han scratched his head and said, "Tian Heimian, didn't you already say that there would be no war this year. There is a part of the overincome from the copper mine, plus the income from the cloth, and the two places add up to 800,000 more than the budget, so the deficit is only about 1 million, which is about the same as last year, why is it still so sad? ”

Tian Jitang looked a little crying and laughing, and said: "How can adults learn from those people, and say that the nickname of their subordinates ......"

"Isn't that a good thing?" Zhang Han said with a smile: "The hand of the wealth is responsible for the proprietor, in the past, we Shanxi people did business, and we liked to find a person with a tight hand to manage the accounts, and your black-faced nickname is right for Lao Tian's identity." ”

Tian Jitang pursed his lips, and couldn't help but feel moved in his heart.

Anyway, if he listens to Zhang Han's words, he can really accept this not-so-elegant nickname.

However, Tian Jitang didn't come over today to talk about this, he gritted his teeth and said: "My lord, it's not for financial matters, since you don't use the army, with your current income and overdraft some silver, you can bite your teeth and stand down, and in two months, the income of the cloth will be again, so you won't be so nervous." The subordinates are going to say something else......"

"Swallowing and spitting ......" Zhang Han saw that Tian Jitang was really in trouble, he pointed to the river, and said: "Idlers get out of the way, let's talk by this ditch." ”