It didn't take a few days for Li Qing to suddenly accept the news of Mrs. Ru spread in Dingfu and Fuzhou, and then spread throughout Dachu with caravans coming and going from the south to the north and the ubiquitous intelligence officers. Regarding Li Qing's sudden concubine a few months before the wedding, except for a very few people who vaguely knew a little bit of the inside story, most of the rest of the people would smile heartily, although Li Qing is a peerless general, but he also has a common problem with men! The hero is sad about the beauty, and he will not be so bento when he becomes a concubine in the future, before the princess enters the door, the beauty is accepted into the door first, and the princess is fierce again, and now she is afraid that she can only sit in the palace and sulk. Clever! Countless colleagues in Dachu praised it in unison.

Compared with the huge sensation caused by Li Qing's brazen acceptance of concubines in the hinterland of Dachu regardless of the princess's face before the wedding, it was relatively calm in the two states of Dingfu, and it was only an occasional conversation after dinner.

Even ordinary people felt that the war was getting closer and closer, and the endless convoys drove day and night on the galloping road leading to the grassland, and groups of soldiers who had just finished training were rushing to the front line under the leadership of the officers. "Defeat the barbarians early so that you can go home for the New Year!" Some passers-by waved their arms and called out loudly to the soldiers, and the soldiers turned their heads in unison with smiles on their faces, but without the permission of the officers, they could not answer, and the officers who led the team waved their fists vigorously and responded: "Defeat the barbarians, go home for the New Year!" ”

"Defeat the barbarians and go home for the New Year!" The officers under this officer shouted in unison. Soon the slogan was shouted in the ranks of these recruits who left the city.

In a newly opened workshop, Li Qing listened to the shouts from the street, and said to Shang Haibo beside him with a smile: "Mr. Shang, the soldiers hope to defeat the barbarians before the Chinese New Year, and I really don't have any confidence?" ”

Shang Haibo was full of energy, "Marshal, time is not important, what matters is the confidence of the soldier to win, the military spirit is available, and the victory can be expected." ”

The owner of this workshop standing opposite the two is Long Sihai of Jing'an County, since he took the lead in paying 100,000 taels of silver to buy the debts incurred by the marshal, this gentry is considered to be the head of the flood luck, not only his son entered the marshal's mansion as an errand, Li Qing also gave him another opportunity to make a fortune, that is, to produce some military items. These military items are not big items such as tents, these things have long been fixed cooperative businessmen in the two states, but what Li Qing handed over to him were some small items that looked inconspicuous, but the profits were absolutely considerable.

One is gloves, there was no such thing in the army before, winter combat, most of the soldiers' hands are frozen and cracked, if you fight outside for a long time, the cracked blood is often stained with the weapon, and it is heart-rending pain to take it off, many veterans wrap their hands with strips of cloth, but this kind of strips of cloth cannot protect their fingers, and secondly, after wrapping the strips of cloth, the flexible surname of the hands has also dropped significantly, Li Qing remembered the gloves after seeing this situation.

The second is a hood, similarly, the helmets worn by the soldiers were simply lined with a layer of cloth before, Li Qing designed a hood, when wearing a helmet, the hood was first put on, and then the helmet was covered, which not only kept warm, but also increased the protective effect.

"Dashuai, this is a sample we produced, you see, if you agree, then use this as a model and produce it on a large scale." Long Sihai is full of energy and has become a regular supplier of the military, and the wealth contained in it can be guessed by pigs.

Picking up the gloves that were made by Long Sihai to be extraordinarily beautiful, Li Qing laughed, "Mr. Long, are you making military gloves for us, I think it's Wang Sun Gongzi, everyone young ladies wear your gloves and ride on a tall horse to look more stylish." ”

Long Sihai's face couldn't help sweating, the meaning of the handsome is that he is not satisfied, he is very careful to make these gloves, and if they are made at this cost, he doesn't make much money, and his attention is to put a long-term line, catch a big fish, and make a long-term investment in the handsome!

"Please advise!"

"Mr. Long, I want to use these things for the soldiers, the first is to keep warm, the second is to be non-slip, and the third is to be strong, in the case of satisfying these three, you can take into account comfort, as for being beautiful, if you ensure the above points, it doesn't matter!" Li Qing said with a smile.

"Little one got it!" Long Sihai suddenly realized.

"Mr. Long, this first batch of goods will be delivered in a month, can you guarantee that it will be delivered on time? If you fail to deliver on time, not only will you be penalized, but subsequent orders will not be given to you. ”

"Don't worry, the small ones will be delivered on time, quality and quantity. Now that the workshop is fully operational, I am preparing to expand production and recruit more workers. ”

Li Qing said as he walked: "Mr. Long, most of the women you need here are female workers, and a large part of these female workers are military dependents of my Dingzhou Army, martyrs, you can't treat these workers badly in terms of wages!" If I hear the slightest rumor, you know the consequences. ”

Long Sihai said with a smile: "Dashuai, that's okay, the villain is a businessman with rules and disciplines, and he is paid according to his work, and there will definitely be no situation that Dashuai said." ”

"It's a pity!" Li Qing bent down and picked up the filling in the handset from the workshop, shook his head and said: "These silk fills in it, although it has the effect of keeping warm, but compared to cotton, it is far less, but unfortunately, although I asked around, I didn't find this kind of thing." ”

"Cotton?" Long Sihai struggled to widen his eyes, "What kind of flower is that?" Dashuai, what role can he play? ”

Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Cotton is a good thing!" At that moment, he briefly told Shang Haibo and Long Sihai about the use of cotton, "It's a pity, it seems that we don't have this thing in Da Chu?" ”

"I don't know what this thing looks like? Sir, have you ever heard of this thing there? Long Sihai's eyes lit up.

Li Qing described the appearance of the cotton and said, "I haven't seen it either, but I have heard it said in the early years that this kind of thing is said to have this kind of crop in the far west." If there is cotton, we will use it to make cotton clothes, bedding, military tents, shoes and socks, and then we will not be afraid of twice as cold in winter. ”

Shang Haibo on the side was more and more surprised the more he listened, and looked at Li Qingdao: "Dashuai, is this flower you are talking about called cotton?" Does he really have this purpose? ”

"Of course!" Li Qingdao: "It's okay, what did I lie to you about?" ”

"Dashuai, what color does this flower bloom in?" Shang Haibo asked again.

"It's not necessarily, it's red, it's pink, it's white, it's all colors!" Li Qing replied nonchalantly.

Shang Haibo jumped up all of a sudden, and the reaction was so great that Li Qing and Long Sihai were startled, "What's wrong with you, Mr. Shang?" ”

"I've seen it, I've seen this thing." Shang Haibo said loudly.

"What?" Li Qing was surprised and delighted, "Where did you see cotton?" Has anyone planted it in our Dachu? ”

Shang Haibo shook his head, "No, no, I saw it at Mingyan, Mingyan kept him as a flower, I asked her once curiously, she said that when she was from the people of Murowei, she saw this flower on the mountain, and thought it was very beautiful, so she dug it back and raised it." ”

When Li Qing heard this, he was ecstatic, turned around and left, "Let's go, Mr. Shang, let's go and have a look!" ”

The sudden visit of Li Qing and Shang Haibo made the Military Intelligence Investigation Department busy for a while, and compared with the hundreds of people in the Dingzhou headquarters of the Survey and Statistics Department, the Military Intelligence Investigation Department seemed very calm, except for an older doorman, not even a single guard could not be seen at the door, if it were not for the black-and-white plaque of the Military Intelligence Investigation Department at the door, people who passed by would never have imagined that this was an extremely important yamen of the Dingzhou Army.

"Shuai, Mr. Shang, why did you two have time to come together?" Mingyan hurriedly greeted him, Mr. Shang often came to the Military Intelligence Investigation Department, but the marshal only came once when it was established and listed, and today the two giants of Dingzhou came at the same time, didn't something particularly important happen? Mingyan was a little uneasy in her heart.

"Mingyan, what about your flowers?" Shang Haibo couldn't wait to ask.

"Flowers? What flowers? "Tea smoke is inexplicable, Tao Ranju was originally her former residence when she was a popular girl, there are flowers and trees, garden pavilions are readily available, and there are dozens or hundreds of kinds of flowers alone.

"It's the pots of flowers you brought back from the Murowei people!" Shang Haibo said loudly.

Mingyan said strangely: "Mr. Shang, what time is it now, the flower has long withered." ”

Li Qing ignored Shang Haibo's disappointed face and said, "Is there any fruit, is there a seed?" ”

Mingyan, who was puzzled, nodded and said, "Of course, this flower is very beautiful, I specially collected some seeds, and I am going to raise a few more seedlings here next year." ”

"Bring it!" Li Qing ordered.

The cotton seed was quickly delivered to Li Qing's hands, and with the familiar cotton attached, Li Qing laughed happily, "This is it, this is this thing, Mingyan, you have made meritorious contributions, how can there be such a thing in the Murwei people?" ”

Shang Haibo explained to Ming Yan in a few words, and when he heard Li Qingfa ask, Ming Yan said: "Yes, I have seen it from the people of Murowei, but it seems that they don't know the purpose of this flower!" ”

"Mingyan, send someone immediately, send someone to the Murowei people, collect the seeds of this flower, the more the better, we can have cotton next year!" Li Qing picked up the treasure and laughed out loud.

(To be continued)