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Chapter 35, it is not enough to smash the Yellow Dragon

The morning sun in winter, piercing through the diffuse morning mist, sprinkled on the majestic Yan Mountain like a dragon.

The vast mountains and fields are covered with snow, and all kinds of birds, animals, flowers and trees are still lying in the embrace of snow at this time.

Although the mountains are depressed in winter, and the birds and beasts are extinct, the strange rocks and rocks scattered among them, and the towering cliffs still maintain a majestic posture. And a few plum trees blooming between the cliffs add a touch of bright color to this white ice and snow.

In the hall of the floating castle "Third New Tokyo", Yue Fei, who had just woken up, yawned while holding breakfast and sat down next to the spacious and bright sealed glass window, slightly curiously overlooking the Yanshan Mountain that winds and towers at his feet - this piece of Chinese homeland that has not seen the Han flag for 200 years since the rise of the Khitan in the late Tang Dynasty and the fifth dynasty, making the people of the Central Plains feel familiar and unfamiliar!

Since the pre-Qin period, Yanshan has been the natural boundary line that separates the grassland from the Han land, and it is also the forefront of the struggle between Chinese civilization and nomadic barbarians. Since the Later Jin Emperor Shi Jingjiao ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun, for nearly 200 years, the Han family of the Central Plains has been obsessed with regaining the northern gate of the Central Plains...... However, the result was repeated setbacks, and even big defeats, and a complete defeat.

In fact, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong also participated in the two Northern Expeditions five years ago, but at most they were only on the outskirts of Yanjing, and they had seen the Yanshan moat that had guarded the northern border of China for thousands of years, but they never thought that one day they would be able to cross Yanshan and stride towards the farther north!

And it's also in the cold winter wax moon when snowflakes are flying and dripping into ice!

Thinking of this, Yue Fei couldn't help but shudder slightly, and subconsciously wrapped the down jacket on his body tighter.

-- The "Third New Tokyo", a floating city built by Doraemon, is spectacular and magnificent on the outside, like a heavenly palace, but on the inside it is a shoddy thing (by the standards of the future world), with no electricity, running water, or central heating. When I flew in the Bianliang area, it was already cold enough. When I arrived in the sixteen states of Yanyun where the weather was freezing and the ground was frozen, it was blown by the wind of the cold winter wax moon, and it was really like an ice cellar, and the cold was like a needle prick "fluttering" into the bones, and it was useless to let everyone make the brazier prosperous.

In this regard, Guo Jing and others are not unprepared, when they were in Bianliang and Xiangzhou before, they wanted to collect a batch of cotton clothes and quilts for use in the cold when they went north...... Then I was surprised to find that at this time in the Song Dynasty, cotton cloth had not yet been popularized! Ordinary people are actually wearing paper clothes!

-- During the Northern Song Dynasty, because cotton production was very small, cotton cloth was rare, and silk was expensive, so poor families often used paper to make clothes. There is a cloud in Wang Yu's poem "Taoist Clothing": "Brown soap scarf of crown cloth." (It was the main raw material for papermaking at that time, so it was called the crown.) "Fortunately, there is quinoa to cook porridge, and he is ashamed of the paper. "Wait. In addition, there are paper tents, paper quilts, and the like. Therefore, there is a saying that "the Song people wear paper, and the Yuan people wear cotton......

As for the large-scale popularization of cotton cultivation and cotton weaving, it was not until the Ming and Qing dynasties -- specifically, after Huang Daopo in the Yuan Dynasty went to Hainan Island, stole cotton weaving techniques from the local Li people, and brought them back to her hometown in Jiangnan to promote them.

Prior to this, during the Tang and Song dynasties, cotton cultivation was confined to the remote wilderness of Xinjiang, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian, and it was not until the end of the Southern Song Dynasty or the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty that cotton cultivation gradually spread in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Shaanxi.

In fact, cotton cultivation is not a very troublesome problem, but the real problem that prevents cotton from spreading is its deseeding process - because the cottonseed is born in the cotton peach, and there are so many of them that they are wrapped around the cotton wool and peeled by hand is like a nightmare. It was not until the Li people understood the new cotton peeling tools and solved this difficulty that the popularization of cotton cloth among the Chinese people became possible.

Therefore, at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, cotton cloth was still called "white folded cloth" by the Central Plains, which was a luxury item rarer than silk, and it was not popularized among the people at all. It is completely impossible to equip an army with a full set of cotton clothes and quilts in a short period of time.

Before cotton clothing was not popularized on a large scale, in addition to the kind of paper clothes that looked cold, the ancient Chinese had been using linen as the main clothing. Although linen cloth also has thickness, and it is impossible for people to wear linen cloth as rough as a sack, if it is compared to cotton, whether it is warm or comfortable, it is far behind. If you really let people wear a linen dress and break into Manchuria in the cold winter moon...... That's probably going to freeze to death!

The reason why ancient Chinese farmers had the custom of "cat winter" is because in such a cold season, if there is no good warm clothing, no one dares to hang around in the wild for a long time, so they can only obediently stay in the house to bake the fire and wait for the end of winter.

Thanks to Guo Jing's face being big enough, he finally mobilized the wealthy and powerful families to manage to collect a batch of leather clothes and felt, but the number was still slightly insufficient when it was spread over the 800 soldiers...... So, Doraemon had to let Nobita go home again, and together with his mother, he took the yen bills he had just pawned his belongings and went to the thrift market to buy a lot of old quilts and second-hand down jackets, which could be regarded as filling the gap in winter clothes.

Yue Fei and his colleagues expressed extreme amazement and love for this set of warm winter clothes of the Yue era - this "down jacket" was far more comfortable and warmer than the sheepskin jackets they were usually reluctant to wear. Although they could not figure out how they could make such fine clothes out of chicken and duck feathers......

As for the sumptuous food in the floating city, they were full of energy - even a relatively simple breakfast, with enough bread to eat, pickles and bacon to accompany the meal, plus a bowl of vegetable soup with golden oil droplets floating and a few green vegetables, and the officers had fruit and sugar cubes for after-dinner entertainment...... Yue Fei really couldn't imagine how he got fresh fruits and vegetables in the army, don't forget that it's winter!

-- Well, these out-of-season fruits and vegetables, which were regarded as rare by the Song people, were nothing more than unsalable goods that Wang Qiutong bought at the reserve price at the small vegetable market on the next street after returning to his home. The reason why Nobita was not allowed to buy it in yen was because Japanese fruits were so expensive that a watermelon could be sold for two or three thousand yen, which really made Wang Qiu, a poor man, tremble......

Just as Yue Fei was fiddling with the green vegetable leaves in the bowl with a spoon, and looked at an apple in his hand in a daze, he suddenly felt a tap on the shoulder. Looking back, it turned out that Han Shizhong was holding a large dinner plate piled high and full, and walked up to him and sat down.

Compared to Yue Fei, who was refreshed in the morning, Han Shizhong was much more tired at the moment, because he and his own soldiers had just done a fierce exercise - since they took off, the six hundred infantry had been divided into twelve squads, taking turns shaking the magical prop [Fengshen Fan] outside the back gate of the castle, driving the floating city to the north day and night. And Han Shizhong, the infantry commander, out of curiosity about the "artifact" and in order to show himself in front of the immortals, led by example and took the lead in participating in the first shift of labor in the morning. But...... Although this [Fengshen Fan] is really magical to use, but after shaking it for a long time, it really makes people's backaches and arms hurt. However, in order to make a good impression on his new boss, Han Shizhong didn't dare to slip away halfway, and insisted that after shaking for an hour, he was now tired and hungry, and his stomach sounded like a drum.

“…… What are you thinking about when you don't eat early in the morning? The soup is almost cold! Han Shizhong munched on the dough and said indistinctly, "...... The weather is so cold right now, if you don't hurry up and eat a hot bite, be careful to freeze into ice cubes in the bowl! ”

“…… It's nothing, I just recalled what Guo Zhenren said before, and I felt a little puzzled, I don't know what the meaning is. ”

Yue Fei pondered for a moment and replied casually, "...... Straight to the Huanglong Mansion...... The capital of the Kingdom of Jin was Hoeryong, further north of Huanglongfu. If the real people who protect the country want to break through the Jurchen capital and capture the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Wu begging, how can they just fly to the Huanglong Mansion and do it? ”

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On the castle tower of the floating city's "Third New Tokyo", Wang Qiu and the others had already eaten breakfast, chatting and drinking tea and eating snacks.

Although the weather in the northern part of the country is like an ice cave, it seems that there is something special about drinking tea while watching the heavy snow.

In the center of the tatami mats, a Japanese-style kerosene stove brought from Nobi's house is placed, and it is very small and shiny, very beautiful, and a small red flame jumps in the transparent glass cover, giving off a warm smell...... A small metal teapot is placed on the kerosene stove, tea leaves and water are added, and after a while, the rich aroma of tea and white steam fill the room with the whining sound of the kettle boiling.

“…… smashed the Huanglong Mansion and drank bitterly with the monarchs...... Hey, I didn't think about it at that time, so I directly quoted Grandpa Yue's famous saying. But looking back now, it's really a joke! I actually mistook the Huanglong Mansion for the location of the capital of the Jin Kingdom at this time......"

Professor Guo held the teacup and blew on the hot air, and laughed self-deprecatingly, "...... Unexpectedly, Huining City is actually in the north of Huanglong Mansion, and those Song Dynasty officers and soldiers below don't know how to laugh at me, an immortal! ”

-- Yue Fei's famous sentence "go straight to the Huanglong Mansion and drink with the monarchs" made people remember this famous military town in the Liaojin Dynasty, but it also made many people mistake the Huanglong Mansion as the capital of the Jin Kingdom at that time.

But in fact? Huanglongfu is located in Nong'an County, Jilin Province in the future, the earliest is the Buyeo Mansion of the Bohai State, after the Khitans conquered the Bohai State, it was renamed Huanglongfu, and it was one of the earliest major cities in the Northeast to be opened. The earliest capital of the Jin Kingdom, located in Huining City on the shore of the Tiger River, near Harbin, Heilongjiang Province in the future, was the base camp of the Jurchen Wanyan Department, and the two were separated by hundreds of miles.

The reason why Yue Fei wanted to mention the Huanglong Mansion was not because it was the capital of the Jin Kingdom, but because the Five Kingdoms City under the jurisdiction of the Huanglong Mansion was the location of the prison where the Jin people imprisoned Song Qinzong and Song Huizong, the two deposed emperors!

But the problem is that since these two emperors were not taken captive and went north, but stayed in the "New Tokyo" and "Second New Tokyo" of Bianliang to practice immortal arts, then Huanglongfu was an ordinary enemy town for the Song people, and it had no special meaning...... So, before he knew it, Professor Guo made a joke.

“…… Just make jokes, I don't think anyone will come to talk to you. Wang Qiu took a sip of hot tea, overlooked the snow scene under his feet, and said casually, "...... I'm more concerned about how long it will take to get to Hoeryong, the capital of the Jin Kingdom? ”

“…… Well, judging from the current degree, it only took us one day and one night to fly from Xiangzhou on the bank of the Yellow River to Saiwai north of Yanshan. Then wait until tomorrow, at most the day after tomorrow, you should be able to arrive in Huining. Doraemon put down the teacup and dorayaki and compared them on the electronic map before replying, "...... Now should it be time to discuss, how should this strategy battle of Jin Guodu be fought......"