Changan.

After receiving Duan Feng's report, Xiao Jingmao suddenly felt a headache.

"It seems that this battle will not end for a while. ”

Massaging his temples, he felt a terrible headache, just the things in the city were busy enough, and now he had to maintain the front-line supplies, which was really more and more.

As soon as he looked up, he saw the stacked documents on both sides, and suddenly let out a miserable howl from his mouth, and the whole person collapsed directly on the seat as if his bones had been torn off.

"With so much work, it's better to quit early. ”

"There's no way, who made that Mongolia so tenacious, and it can continue to support it despite such huge losses?" Sitting on the other side, Yang Chenglong took a sip of tea, and replied with a smile.

"Alas. That's exactly what you say. After all, the war was too hasty, and the materials we had accumulated were still too small, and at most they could last two or three years. And this winter clothing matter is too urgent, with our current strength, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get together!" Looking sideways at Yang Chenglong sitting next to him, Xiao Jingmao pursed his lips and complained: "Although these are not your business, but you openly came to me, okay?"

"What's so bad?"

Putting down the teacup, Yang Chenglong put on a natural look: "If you want to make so many winter clothes, you must need a lot of cotton and sisal." Naturally, these things can only be transported to the front line as quickly as possible by relying on railways, don't you say?"

"But I'm a little curious, how far has your railroad been built?" Xiao Jingmao asked with some curiosity after sitting down again.

The Red Phoenix Army fought several fierce battles with the Mongols, and captured tens of thousands of prisoners of war, and after obtaining these coolies, the lack of labor to build the railway was also solved in a short time, and the length of the railway construction could be thousands of miles a day.

"The rest of the railways have all been suspended, and only Tongchuan to Yan'an is currently being built, and in order to facilitate the supply of the army, I have mobilized civilian forces to build the railway from Chang'an to Xinping, and according to the current progress, it will probably be completed by this time next year. ”

Yang Chenglong put away his playful appearance before and reported with a serious face.

After hearing this, Xiao Jingmao breathed a sigh of relief: "If the railway is completed, the pressure on logistics will be weakened a lot." ”

The speed and capacity of the railway are far better than the storage of power, and the most important thing is that it will not be affected by the dry period of the river, after all, it is now close to winter, and the water is almost exhausted, and it is difficult for ships to move.

Because of this, Xiao Jingmao was forced to mobilize a large number of people, which barely maintained the logistics supply of the army.

Yang Chenglong smiled: "That's right. That's why I opened another railway. When the time comes, after the railway, we can also transport a large amount of ordnance and materials to the front line, and when the lord gets these things, I think that Mongolia will definitely not be able to support it, and it will be a sure defeat. They're just holding on now!"

"Oh? Tell me about it?" Xiao Jingmao asked with some curiosity.

Yang Chenglong talked eloquently, showing the furrow in his chest: "Think about it, in order to maintain the current army of 200,000, we have spent a lot of energy, and this is also after we occupy the five roads of Jingzhaofu Road, Lizhou West Road, Lizhou East Road, Yanyan Road, and Qingyuan Road, we can maintain such a scale." And the Mongolian command claims to be hundreds of thousands, if you want to meet the rations of so many soldiers, how can you meet the Fengxiang Mansion Road alone?"

In this way, there is some truth. Xiao Jingmao pondered for a moment before replying.

Yang Chenglong continued: "It is precisely because of this that if they want to maintain a large army, they can only draw food from other places. The Central Plains is too far away, and its route has been cut off by us, so we can't get supplies at all. And the land of Mobei and Tibet is a land of bitter cold, and the grain produced is too little, even if there are places such as the Western Regions and even Taixi, but how can they get supplies if they are far away? I am afraid that the emperor of the sky is far away, if they hear about the disastrous defeat of Na Ali Buge, they will take the opportunity to become independent, and even commit rebellion!"

After hearing this, Xiao Jingmao smiled softly: "If it is according to you, then we will definitely win?"

"That's right. ”

Yang Chenglong replied: "After all, the times are different, and the situation can be reversed by relying on famous generals alone, and it has completely dissipated." After all, how powerful is that general, and how can he resist the continuous supply? In terms of national strength alone, it is not a lie that we want to defeat the Mongols!"

Xiao Jingmao replied, "Okay. Maybe you can wait for the lord to come back and then tell her again. But I'd like to ask you, what do you think should be done about the winter clothes?"

The winter clothes of the 200,000 army, according to the configuration of three pieces per person, are 200,000 pieces.

With so many clothes, it has already exceeded the usual inventory of the Chifeng Army, even if all the textile factories in the territory are mobilized, I am afraid that it will be difficult to make them in a short time.

Yang Chenglong also felt a little difficult, after all, the winter clothes are necessary for winter, if they can't be manufactured in a short time, and when winter comes, the soldiers in the army will freeze to death, which is a very serious matter.

Both of them understood Xiao Feng's temperament, so they naturally didn't dare to slack off on this.

"In order to satisfy so many winter clothes, in addition to enough cotton, there must be enough weaver girls. But you also know that there are many weaver girls in the city. But these weaver girls are all independent families and cannot be formed. It is the largest weaving workshop, with more than 100 people at most. In my opinion, maybe we should come forward and gather these weaver girls, so that we may be able to make enough winter clothes in the shortest possible time!" Yang Chenglong frowned, but he was a little worried about this matter.

Xiao Jingmao was stunned for a moment, and asked in a low voice: "You mean to build a government-run weaving workshop and call on the women in the city to help together?"

In any case, for the women of this era, because of the influence of science, they rarely go out, and as for gathering together, it is even rarer, because of this reason, the textile industry in Chang'an City is not vigorous, and it only relies on a few weaving workshops to maintain the fundamentals, but it is impossible to meet the huge winter clothing needs of the Red Phoenix Army.

Although Xiao Feng once made an appeal, there were few people who had no choice but to give up.

Moreover, those women themselves complained about Xiao Feng's existence, thinking that his behavior was quite inappropriate, and he had to give up his sitting position to others, and even thought that it was ridiculous for his woman to occupy a high position, and he had to choose a good partner to conclude a marriage and give up the power in his hands to this person.

In desperation, Xiao Feng had no choice but to keep his affairs secret, and always regarded himself as celibate, so as to maintain his position of power.

"That's right!" Yang Chenglong nodded and replied: "Only in this way can the manufacture of winter clothes be satisfied." ”

Xiao Jingmao was a little skeptical, and asked again: "Although this is the case, will those women come?"

"Don't worry. They're back. After all, in Chang'an, there is no shortage of people who have fallen out. As long as they have enough money, they will come. As for those who can only catch the wind and corrupt the morals, we don't need to pay attention. Yang Chenglong said.

"Well, as you say, a new weaving workshop. Xiao Jingmao made up his mind and decided to set up a new weaving workshop.

Speaking of this weaving workshop, they are not untouched, when they were in Taiyuan, they had organized local women and children to play once, but later because they were forced to evacuate, the weaving workshop was also forced to disband, and after coming to this Chang'an, because of the shortage of resources, they could only put the only resources into coal, ore mining, and the steel smelting and forging, which led to the birth of the steam engine and the railway, as for the textile industry is much behind.

Yang Chenglong said with a smile, and then said, "Since you agreed, it will be easy to do." By the way, I have heard that the Ministry of Industry has now developed a new type of textile machine, powered by a steam engine, with eighty spindles on it, and if such a sharp tool is used, the speed can be greatly increased. If you use this object as a tool, you can get these winter clothes in a short time. ”

"Great, if there is this thing, why worry that the winter coat can't be completed?" Xiao Jingmao suddenly smiled, quickly stood up, and left the government affairs yuan quickly.

If you can have such things, why worry about 600,000 winter clothes that can't be completed?