In the south of Fuyang City, the ancestral home of the Zhu family.

Zhu Zongting and Zhu Wanning sat in the pavilion in the back garden.

Each of them lowered their eyelids, as if they had their own agendas.

I don't know how long it took.

Zhu Zongting slowly raised his eyelids and looked at Zhu Wanning, who was sitting opposite.

Then he slowly spoke: "This matter is urgent, let's wait and see what happens."

"If the princess really has the intention of taking a concubine for the prince, it will only affect the time of these few days."

"Compared with other families, our Zhu family's advantages are naturally great."

Zhu Wanning nodded slightly when she heard this, and then asked, "Has my brother ever informed my grandfather about this?"

"Naturally, I have been informed." Zhu Zongting's face paused slightly, and then he replied, "After returning from the Drunken Immortal Tower last night, my grandfather also sent someone to find me to Yiyang Courtyard to discuss this matter in detail."

Zhu Wanning looked up at Zhu Zongting, and said in a slightly changed tone, "What did Grandpa say to his brother?"

"It's nothing." Zhu Zongting shook his head slightly and said, "It's nothing more than going with the flow, kissing and kissing."

The words fell.

Zhu Wanning's eyelids couldn't help lowering slightly again.

The so-called going with the flow is nothing more than forcing this matter to be forced.

Just order the Zhu family brothers and sisters to wait for the final result in peace.

And the so-called proximity and proximity are nothing more than an indication of Zhu Huaimin's attitude towards this matter.

That's what I think about.

Zhu Wanning slowly raised her head, nodded slightly, and said, "Wanning knows, please ask my brother to tell grandpa, and say that Wanning will definitely go with the flow."

Zhu Zongting's face paused slightly when he heard this, and then he spoke again: "In addition, grandpa had already written to my father last night, asking my mother to return home on a later date."

As soon as this statement came out.

Zhu Wanning's eyes suddenly had an inexplicable look, and her face couldn't help but turn red.

Correct.

Just when Zhu Wanning and Zhu Zongting's brother and sister were chatting.

More than half a hundred noblewomen a year were invited to enter the Changchun Palace of King Yan's Mansion.

And half an hour later, he came out of the Yan Wang's Mansion with a smile on his face.

Then he walked straight towards the Zhu family's ancestral house located in the south of Fuyang City.

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Noon.

Yanwang Mansion Carrier Palace.

Xu Yi, who was dressed in dark jade clothes, sat upright in the study of the side hall.

Methodically processed the documents from the king's camp.

though he was not always in the king's camp.

But because of the existence of military laws and military regulations.

made him in Fuyang City, but he knew everything about everything in Wang's camp.

At this time, Xu Yi was already immersed in the paperwork.

As for the matter of taking concubines.

Mo said that he had been handed over to Wang Qiujin to deal with.

Even if he didn't, he would never put too much of his mind on taking concubines.

None of them.

The matter of taking a concubine is for Xu Yi.

It's just the most insignificant ripple in the majestic world.

I don't know how long it took.

Xu Yi gently put down the last document in his hand.

Looking up at the closed study door, he whispered, "First Ann."

Yang Xian'an, who was standing outside the study room of the side hall, quickly bowed his hand when he heard the words and said, "The minister is here."

"Enter." Xu Yi slowly retracted his gaze and said calmly.

"Yes." Yang Xian'an agreed, and then gently pushed open the door of the study and walked in.

More than ten years later.

Yang Xian'an gently closed the door of the study, stood two steps away from Xu Yi, and bowed again, "Sixth Master."

Xu Yi nodded slightly, and then motioned for Yang Xian'an to step forward and take a seat.

After Yang Xian'an slowly sat down.

Xu Yi looked up

Looking at Yang Xian'an, he ordered, "Captain Xin sent a document saying that nearly half of the new soldiers in the king's camp lack winter clothes."

"From now on, the old five commercial houses will purchase 15,000 sets of warm cotton clothes and 15,000 sets of bedding and other items in Shanggu County, Yuyang County, Guangyang County, Zhuo County, and Dai County."

"In addition, find a hundred shrewd men, five hundred kings' battalion soldiers, and another caravan to bring 200,000 taels of silver to Guanzhong."

"Yu Guanzhong bought cotton on a large scale."

The words fell.

Yang Xian'an quickly bowed and said, "Obey!"

The reason why he ordered the purchase of cotton in the Guanzhong area, which is more than 2,000 miles away.

Nothing more than a little.

That is the current Great Zhou Dynasty, except for the large-scale planting of cotton in the Guanzhong area, even if cotton is planted in the rest of the region, it is mostly planted with an ornamental object.

Therefore, the number can be imagined.

And the reason why Guanzhong grows cotton on a large scale.

Behind it is naturally inseparable from Xu Yi's fuel.

If it weren't for the disaster relief period in Guanzhong, he would have obtained a large amount of cotton from the household department when the rain and snow were in good luck, which he used to make cotton clothes and quilts to keep out the cold.

I am afraid that it is a cotton thing, and it is still a strange plant used by large families to watch.

In the process of cash-for-work after that, Xu Yi distributed cotton seeds to the victims of the Guanzhong disaster many times, so that every household could choose an acre of barren land to plant.

And agreed to find someone to buy at the price of grain when winter came.

It can be seen that since then, Xu Yi has been preparing for the feudal domain again.

And in this era, cotton clothes, bedding and other things in a broad sense.

Although its name is cotton, it is filled with hemp and kudzu.

Its cold-keeping effect naturally cannot be compared with cotton.

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In the study room of the side hall of the Yanwang Mansion Carrier Palace.

Xu Yi, who was sitting on the Taishi chair, was slightly calm.

Then he continued to instruct, "In addition, find a vacant land of about fifty acres in the city of Fuyang."

"Build a workshop on top of that clearing."

"As soon as the cotton arrives, we can hire women workers in the city to sew cotton clothes and quilts."

Yang Xian'an's face turned straight when he heard this, and then he bowed and said, "Obey!"

Xu Yi nodded slightly and said, "Go ahead."

"Yes." Yang Xian'an slowly got up and bowed.

After Yang Xian'an's figure completely disappeared in the study room of the side hall.

Xu Yi slowly got up, picked up a glass of water and poured it into the inkstone.

Pick up the ink ingot and grind it slowly in the inkstone.

As he grinded, he recalled in his mind all the memories he had seen in his previous life about Jenny's spinning machine and the shuttle loom.

True.

This era also saw the existence of various spinning machines and looms.

However, the existing spinning machines and looms, without exception, are too slow.

Jenny spinning machines and shuttle looms can save costs and improve efficiency.

So why not?

A moment later.

Xu Yi paused the grinding ink ingot in his hand.

Then he took a piece of white rice paper and slowly spread it on the bookcase.

When everything is ready.

Xu Yi slowly sat down, stretched out his hand to pick up the pen, and slowly painted on the white rice paper.

It didn't take a while.

A strange spinning machine emerges vividly on rice paper.

Xu Yi stared at the lifelike spinning machine on the rice paper for a moment.

Then he picked up the pen again, and dismantled them one by one according to the memories of his previous life.

When Xu Yi paused again, the stroke of the pen in his hand was stopped.

Under the strange-looking spinning machine, there are dozens of parts of different lengths and styles.

And the left side of each part is marked by Xu Yi with numbers

Serial number.

Xu Yi held the wolf pen and groaned for a few breaths.

Finally, he slowly picked up the pen in the lower right corner of the rice paper and wrote--Qiusheng spinning machine.

The biggest advantage of this spinning machine is that it can spin eight spindles at the same time.

In this way, it is equivalent to the spinning volume of eight people by only one person.

And that's just the beginning.

After the eight-thread spindle spinning machine, there is also the sixteen-thread spindle spinning machine.

In Xu Yi's impression, Jenny's spinning machine can spin up to 80 spindles at the same time.

It's not that he doesn't want to do it in one step, and directly make a Jenny spinning machine that can spin 80 spindles at the same time.

It is really the structure of the eight-thread spindle Jenny spinning machine that it only remembers.

Xu Yi stared at the rice paper painted with "Qiusheng Spinning Machine" on the bookcase.

He muttered in a low voice, "The rest will depend on the Gongzheng Institute and the Strange Objects Academy."

The Gongzheng Office in his mouth is a subordinate official structure of the royal palace, and its role is equivalent to that of the Ministry of Industry in the Six Ministries.

As for the Strange Thing Academy, now there is only one person in the courtyard, Zhu Zongnian.

After more than 100 breaths.

Allow the ink to dry thoroughly.

Xu Yi gently moved the rice paper painted with the autumn sound loom aside.

Immediately afterwards, the paper was relaid and the pen was painted.

A moment later.

A machine that looks as weird as the Qiusheng loom vividly appears on the rice paper.

After the structure is completely disassembled.

Xu Yi picked up the pen and slowly wrote in the lower right corner of the rice paper: "Shuttle loom."

The so-called shuttle weaving machine.

The main principle is to rely on two small wheels inside the shuttle.

With the help of spring forces on both sides of the chute, the two small wheels in the shuttle can fly back and forth.

After that, by using the dislocation of the lines and the fixation of the shuttle, a delicate cloth can be woven.

It can be said unceremoniously.

After the combination of "Autumn Sound Spinning Machine" and Shuttle Loom in pairs.

With the same number of employees, the production capacity it produces will far exceed all the cloth rows of the Zhou Dynasty!

It's even a complete hanging!

Allow the ink to dry.

Xu Yi sorted out the maps of the Qiusheng spinning machine and the shuttle loom and put them in the sleeve.

These two things, although they are not famous now.

But it firmly believes that with the increase in cotton planting next year.

These two things are bound to leave a rich enough mark in the long history of the textile industry.

Xu Yi settled down and threw out the slightly cluttered thoughts in his mind.

Then he took out a piece of white rice paper again and spread it flat on the bookcase.

Compared with Fang Cai, although Xu Yi held a wolf pen this time, he had not started writing for a long time.

His brow furrowed slightly, as if he was contemplating, as if he was caught up in the slightly complicated memory in his mind and could not return to his senses for a moment.

I don't know how long it took.

Xu Yi's brows slowly relaxed.

Immediately, he picked up the pen and slowly wrote four big characters on the white rice paper - cloth iron armor.

Xu Yi's pen paused slightly, and then continued to write slowly: "Take seven catties of cotton and beat it repeatedly."

"Take the cotton cloth and sew it into a jacket."

"Sew the beaten cotton into the jacket."

"Supplemented by a three-inch square piece of iron tiled in the sandwich of the jacket."

"Fastened with brass and iron nails, and kicked with the feet."

"To the extent that it does not swell, it is dried and harvested."

Wait for the last word to be written.

Xu Yi paused slightly, and then picked up the pen again and slowly painted in the blank space on the right side of the rice paper.

Compared to traditional armor.

Whether it is the cost or the production cycle, the cloth iron armor will be greatly reduced.

First of all, the armor pieces used in the cloth iron armor are all large armor pieces three inches square, and the armor pieces are mostly copper,

Nail fixing.

In this way, the material consumption will be greatly reduced, and the required armor formation time will also be greatly reduced.

On the other hand, traditional armor.

The number of nail tablets required is large and precise.

The nail pieces are stacked on top of each other, and the nail pieces need to be opened at the same time.

After the holes are opened, they are also braided with leather strips.

If the same number of craftsmen create both cloth armor and traditional armor.

I am afraid that such a spectacle will appear.

That is, more than ten pieces of cloth iron armor have been created.

And the traditional armor can be molded by more than half.

And the amount of silver spent between the two is basically the same.

In addition to this, there are two other advantages of cloth ironclad.

The first is to confuse the enemy.

Because the armor is sewn into the cloth, the enemy cannot attack from between the gaps in the armor as they would with traditional armor.

Second, it is easy to keep out the cold and wear.

The cloth iron armor is based on cotton, which itself has certain warmth characteristics.

Since then, due to its light weight, it is naturally not as cumbersome to wear as traditional iron armor.

Of course.

There are pros and cons.

Although cloth iron armor has many advantages such as high quality and low price, cold protection, and easy wear.

But there is one drawback that cannot be avoided in any case.

That's -- defensive.

Compared with traditional iron armor, the defensive performance of cloth iron armor is bound to be greatly reduced.

A moment later.

A vivid picture of iron armor on canvas appears on the right side of the rice paper.

Xu Yi slowly put down the wolf pen in his hand.

Gaze at the lifelike picture of the iron armor on canvas after the engraving.

He muttered in a low voice, "Those in the trap camp, the hundred households of the Xuanjia camp and the one below are all equipped with cloth and iron armor."

"A pair of ring arm armor has been added to the cloth armor of the hundred households and the uncle."

"Generals of Qu Chang and above are equipped with traditional iron armor."

"As for the five thousand soldiers of the Xuanjia Battalion, the original specifications remain the same, and they are still equipped with men and horses!"

Mo said that Xu Yi only owns two counties now.

Even Emperor Zhengde, who owns the entire world, will never be able to equip the entire army with traditional iron armor.

That's why.

Only then did the preciousness of the cloth iron armor be revealed.

Although its protection is not as good as that of traditional iron armor.

But it is many times stronger than leather armor and paper armor.

What's more, many times the lowest level of soldiers can't even wear leather armor and paper armor.

And a cloth iron armor with a much inferior defensive power to traditional armor.

At critical moments, it can definitely increase the survival rate of ordinary soldiers on the battlefield by many times.

After all, it's better to have a nail than not to have one.

As for the ring arm armor in Xu Yi's mouth.

In short, a pair of iron arm guards.

After adding a pair of ring gibbles to Tunchang and Baihu, their survival rate on the battlefield is bound to increase greatly.

And the generals of the length of the song and above.

The few led 500 troops, and the most led thousands of troops.

At this level, the importance of the safety of their lives in a military force is self-evident.

Therefore, this group of people must wear traditional iron armor that is more defensive!

As for the five thousand soldiers of the Xuanjia battalion.

This is the foundation of Xu Yi's life in troubled times.

Even if he eats and drinks less, he will never be stingy on the armament of the Xuanjia Battalion.

None of them.

Which is more important, Xu Yi can still tell the difference.

A moment later.

Wait until all the ink on the cloth is dry.

Xu Yi took it into his arms very solemnly.

Now.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

As soon as cotton arrives, armaments are renewed

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