Ruixue Zhaofeng year, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the snow is sprinkled, covering the entire Guanzhong land again.

"Grandpa Huang, Grandma Huang!" Mo Sha was dressed in a fur coat, extremely cute, and shouted sweetly beside Empress Changsun and Li Shimin on the snow runway.

"See the father and the queen mother!" Princess Changle saluted.

"Get up!" Empress Eldest Sun looked at her daughter and granddaughter and said with a loving face.

Empress Changsun felt sorry for Princess Changle and Mosha's mother and daughter for the lonely Spring Festival, and Danian sent someone to approach them to the palace, and the task of receiving people from Mojia Village was naturally handed over to Wu Meiniang.

"What a good boy! It's your New Year's money! Empress Eldest Sun took out six silver tickets and handed them to Mosha.

I don't know when it began, Chang'an City has begun to popularize the use of silver tickets to issue New Year's money, especially the large family population, the annual New Year's money is not a small amount, plus the New Year's money is in the hands of children, every year children lose copper coins and silver abound, very unpleasant, and the silver ticket is just a piece of paper, simple and convenient to carry, but much more convenient than hard silver and copper coins.

"Thank you, Grandma Huang." Mosha sensibly took it and thanked him.

"Go ahead! Go play with your aunt! ”

Mosha got the New Year's money, so she happily went to play with her aunt, Princess Changle watched her daughter and sister play in the snow, and the sorrow between her eyebrows could not be dissipated.

Empress Changsun didn't know her daughter's intentions, so she stroked Princess Changle's hand and complained: "Changle is not worried about Merton, Your Majesty is really, there are still a few days before the New Year, and Merton has to go out immediately." ”

Li Shimin couldn't help but say with a straight face: "Military law is ruthless, Merton is already half a month behind the others, if he can't reach the front line on time, if he has the crime of missing the deadline, even I can't protect him." ”

"The sin of missing the deadline?" Princess Changle couldn't help but be startled, and said: "Then what should I do, now that it is snowing heavily, I will go to Yumen Pass for thousands of miles, if I miss the deadline because of the wind and snow, what should I do?" ”

Li Shimin couldn't help but snort: "Don't worry, this kid is a thief, and he can't suffer a loss." ”

As an emperor, he naturally knows that he needs to be more detailed, this kid is a thief, along the way under the banner of escorting materials, using the horses of the post station, and there are more children of the Mo family on the road ahead, plus there are many carriages, the brick road is smooth, and the marching speed is as high as 200 miles a day. At this rate, in less than a month, the firearms supervisor can reach Yumen Pass, even if it is delayed for a few days because of wind and snow, it will not affect the imperial army.

To use one word to describe the march of the firearms superintendent, that is, to march with all their strength regardless of money and cost.

"Two hundred miles a day! It's already Lanzhou! Empress Changsun was relieved when she heard Merton's marching speed, she had already traveled a third of the way in just a few days, and half of the brick road from Lanzhou to Yumen had been paved, so that even if the rest of the journey was difficult to walk, Merton's time to reach Yumen Pass as scheduled was enough.

However, they didn't know that the wind and snow in Chang'an City were just a little more flavorful for this Spring Festival, but in the northwest, the wind and snow here were much heavier and extremely cold.

For ordinary people, they can hide in their houses and light a stove to keep warm, but on the vast official road, the team has been marching in the wind and snow.

"Lord Sacrificial Wine, you can't go any further, the wind and snow are too big, the weather is too cold, if you march rashly, the soldiers are afraid that they will be frostbitten." Xue Rengui looked at the wind and snow in the sky and couldn't help but worry.

"Frostbite?" Merton's heart sank, looking around at the soldiers, he couldn't help frowning, although the soldiers of the whole army had military coats on their bodies, their hands and faces were still exposed, and their limbs were stiff after a while.

"There's a village ahead, so why don't I set up camp first and then make plans." Xue Rengui suggested that according to the map, there is a village chief five miles ahead, and the firearms supervisor can also replenish it.

Merton could only nod his head as he looked at the firearms warden cold and hungry.

"Speed up, a small town five miles away, set up camp." With Xue Rengui's loud shout, the entire firearms supervisor suddenly strengthened his spirit, and with concerted efforts, he soon arrived in the town.

There are not many people in the town, but there are only hundreds of households, when the firearms supervisor is stationed, Merton looked at the map, and couldn't help frowning, today due to the wind and snow, the firearms supervisor only walked thirty miles, so the speed of the march, compared with the previous two hundred miles a day, is simply a turtle speed.

"Lord Sacrificial Wine, now that the wind and snow are blocked, I will wait for the wind and snow to stop before setting off." Xue Rengui suggested.

Merton shook his head and said, "No, the firearms supervisor has already postponed his departure, and if it is blocked by wind and snow, I am afraid that it will really be missed." ”

The population of the northwest is very small, and there is only a small town far away, and there is not much manpower to clean the snow along the road, so we can only wait for the snow to melt slowly, so it is still unknown when the road will be walked.

"Go, get the local village chief!" Merton commanded,

Soon, Xue Rengui arrived with a gray-bearded village chief,

"Meet Mohou!" The old man said excitedly, the official news is extremely well-informed, and he is naturally thunderous about Merton's name, and even in the recent ink art exhibition, he has heard of Mo Jiazi's amazing performance, but he didn't expect to be summoned by the famous Mo Jiazi now.

"I don't know the village chief's surname!" Merton asked.

"I'm tired of asking for questions, the old man is exempt from your surname Ma!" The village chief replied.

Merton bowed slightly, the Ma family in the northwest is a big surname, and there is no clan in the local area, so I am afraid that he will not be able to be the village chief of the real power faction.

"Ben Hou asks you, there is cotton cultivation here." Merton asked, staring at the padded jacket on Village Chief Ma's body.

Village Chief Ma said proudly: "That's nature, the bitter cold in the northwest urgently needs something to keep out the cold, and Mohou promotes cotton in Datang, and I naturally plant it in the northwest." Now every household grows cotton, making quilts and cotton jackets to keep out the cold, and the cotton jacket on the old man's body is planted in his own field, and he sews it by himself. ”

Merton breathed a sigh of relief, his previous layout had finally paid off, and now cotton is blooming everywhere in Datang, and with cotton, the matter of the firearms supervisor being frozen can be solved, if there is no cotton planted locally, then he can only dismantle the quilt of the firearms supervisor.

"Now Benhou needs your help for a matter, you have brought in the women of the town, and Benhou needs them to sew two pieces of cotton overnight, a thousand sets each." Merton said solemnly.

Village Chief Ma was taken aback, and couldn't help frowning: "1,000 sets a year, there are not many people in the town, even if the quilts are removed, I'm afraid it's not enough!" ”

Merton shook his head and said: "You can rest assured, this thing is very small, it doesn't use much cotton and cloth, and Benhou won't let them do it in vain, each set of 100 yuan, this is a hundred silver tickets, which can be cashed on the spot." ”

"A set of 100 cents!" Village Chief Ma's heart moved, Baiwen money is not a small amount, if there is money to take, then this matter may be easy to do.

"Please also ask Mohou to instruct, the old man will definitely try his best to do it." Village Chief Ma gritted his teeth and said.

At that moment, Morton picked up the pen and paper, drew two extremely simple patterns on the paper, and handed them to the village chief Ma.

"It's a hat." Village Chief Ma looked at the pattern in the shape of a hat on the drawing, and the only difference was that the hat had two long pieces of cloth.

"Not bad!" Merton nodded, what he prepared for the firearms supervisor was the famous cold protection artifact in the future, the ** hat.

**The hat was originally a winter hat of the Soviet Union, which was originally used to protect against the cold, and later China was improved and became a famous **hat, and became the winter standard of the military.

If he has a ** hat, he believes that the cold problem of the firearms supervisor will definitely be solved, even if it is windy and snowy outside, the entire firearms supervisor can still march normally.

"This is forgive the old man's clumsiness." Village Chief Ma can read the ** hat, but he can't read another pattern, and Merton's drawing is very much like two cylinders, with a line connected in the middle.

Merton couldn't help but say: "This is a glove, due to the urgency of time, just make a cylinder, will wear it in, do not affect the horse rope and cart, in the middle is a rope to connect the two gloves, can be hung around the neck, easy to carry." ”

"Mohou Gaojian!"

Village Chief Ma suddenly praised and said that in this way, it can not only keep warm, but also have extremely simple workmanship, even ordinary village women can easily make it. I have to say that it is too easy to earn this hundred dollars.

With the departure of the village chief Ma, the whole town suddenly boiled, a hundred yuan, only a little cotton and cotton cloth, and the workmanship is simple, this is probably a good business that has not been encountered in a hundred years.

The snow was pouring down all night, and the whole town was sleepless all night, the lights were bright, and every household was rushing to make hats and gloves.

However, in the end, it was found that it was not manpower and public welfare that restricted the production of hats and gloves, but raw materials.

"The villagers don't have cotton anymore, so they can't do it anymore!" Village Chief Ma's wife said with a sad face.

"How many sets have been made." Village Chief Ma asked.

"It's only 500 sets." The wife replied.

Village Chief Ma shook his head and said: "No, this is far from enough, it really can't be done, let the villagers dismantle the quilts and make them into hats and gloves." ”

The wife was surprised: "Those are all quilts that have just been made this year, and now the snow is heavy, how can the villagers survive the winter if they don't have quilts." ”

"How to survive the winter? It's nothing more than lighting a fire, and this thousand sets of hats and gloves must be completed, first, Mohou is a westward expedition, if the military situation is delayed, you and I can't finish eating and walking, second, Mohou is extremely generous, but give us enough money, a set of one hundred Wen, this is a rare good price, after this village, there is no such shop. Village Chief Ma analyzed.

The wife nodded helplessly and said, "I'll go and persuade the villagers." ”

"Do you still need to persuade this? Who is Mohou? But the God of Wealth, who turns stones into gold, but none of the things that pass through his hands are worth ten thousand gold. Today's hat is just Mohou's handy, he naturally doesn't like it, but it can become a cash cow for my Majia Village. Village Chief Ma said excitedly.

His wife's heart moved: "You mean, I will continue to make this hat and glove in the future." ”

Village Chief Ma nodded without hesitation and said, "That's nature, now that the weather is cold, how can Mo Hou need a hat to keep warm, and other soldiers who come and go don't need it?" Ordinary business travelers don't need it, and the herdsmen of the northern steppes don't need it? Not to mention that this hat is made by Mohou, and it will definitely sell well in Datang. ”

The head of Ma Village is well aware of Merton's ability and influence, and once this hat comes out, it will definitely become the first choice for the north to protect against the cold, and if Majia Village can seize the opportunity in this opportunity, it will be of infinite use for a lifetime.

Sure enough, when the village chief Ma said the opportunity, the whole Majia Village boiled again, they originally thought that this was a one-time deal, but they did not expect that it could become a livelihood, at the moment, the villagers of Majia Village did not hesitate at all, directly dismantled the newly beaten quilts, and made them all into hats and gloves.

The next day, the snow was boiling, and even though it was already bright, it was still very dark.

"Immediately reorganize the army and prepare to go!" As Xue Rengui shouted, the entire firearms prison camp was suddenly in mourning.

"It's so cold, how can you march!"

"That's it! There is already snow on the road, and even a brick road is not conducive to the march! ”

Many firearms wardens complained.

"Yelling what? The sake priest ordered that there would naturally be a way to march! Don't hurry up and prepare. Xue Rengui shouted.

"Yes!" The soldiers commanded.

The firearms superintendent is extremely strict in military discipline on weekdays, and although the weather is bitterly cold, he still carries out military orders to the letter.

Soon, the whole firearms superintendent was ready, but Merton did not need to give the order to go, but seemed to wait for something.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the direction of Majia Village, and I saw a group of villagers stepping on the snow one after another, led by the head of Ma Village.

"Qiyu Mohou, Majia Village is fortunate not to be dishonored!" Village Chief Ma said respectfully, stretched out his hand, and the villagers' packages revealed familiar hats and gloves in later generations.

Merton picked one up and looked at it, and nodded with satisfaction, although it couldn't be compared with the later generations, but the warmth was up and down.

"Good job, this is a hundred silver tickets, you order." Merton reached out and took out a hundred silver tickets and handed them to Village Chief Ma.

Village Chief Ma took it casually and said: "Mohou is famous all over the world, and the villain can naturally be trusted. ”

"Send it down!" With a wave of his hand, Merton instructed Xue Rengui,

Soon, one by one, the soldiers received their hats and gloves in turn, and the soldiers kept them on their heads, and suddenly a warmth welled up in their hearts, and they no longer had the cold just now.

"It's so warm!"

"This hat is good, it can protect your ears, and even your face is not cold."

"It's a bit clumsy, but it's enough."

One by one, the firearms officers took the new equipment, and they couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately knew the reason for the order they had just given to continue the march.

"I heard that this is a hat designed by Mohou himself, specially prepared for the cold." One soldier said one after another.

"In my opinion, this hat is called Mohou Hat!" A soldier's proposal was immediately echoed by the whole army.

Suddenly, the Mohou hat spread in the firearms prison, and it is believed that it will soon spread throughout the Tang Dynasty.