Uncle Zhou hurriedly responded and said, "A few years ago, when I went to Zhao General Assembly to harvest cotton, I talked to him once, and he said that all the blacksmiths in the surrounding areas were recruited. The rest of D-M are either inseparable from their homeland, or the owner is not bad, and there is always a bite to eat, and they don't want to come here anyway. He said that after the year, he would go to Datong and the surrounding cities to find and ask, there are many military forts and blacksmiths, so it should not be difficult to find. ”

Dong Ce nodded: "Cheng, you can do this with him, don't worry about the silver." In addition, now that the workshop is in charge of you, you have recruited people, and you can settle down directly. Come back and make a note. ”

"Yes." Zhou Bo responded.

As he was talking, Bai Zhongqi, who had been standing under the hall, came in with light steps: "My lord, Lord Shi is here." ”

"Oh? Stone came in. Invite him in. ”

Zhou Zhong was dressed in iron armor and strode in, his waist was straight, his face was ruddy, he was full of energy, and his complexion was much better than before. It's normal to think about it, he has always had nothing to do before, almost just eating dry food, but now he has someone under his hands, doing what he wants to do, and his natural spirit is different.

Dong Ce smiled and quipped: "Yo, it's General Zhou, why didn't you stay in your barracks and come here?" I'm still because you can't let go of those new ones for a moment! ”

Zhou Zhong is younger, and his personality is also very out-of-the-box, and he is a little bohemian, because Dong Ce is very casual when he talks to him, and he also seems close. If it were Shi Jin, it would definitely not be like this.

Zhou Zhong scratched his head and said with a smile: "My lord, don't make fun of me." ”

He greeted his brother again, and in front of Dong Ce, Uncle Zhou just responded lightly.

"Something?" Dong Ce asked.

"There is a matter, I discussed it with Lord Shi, I don't know how to stop, come and ask my lord."

Dong Ce said with interest: "Let's talk about it." ”

"It's about the names of the newcomers." Zhou Zhongdao: "There are too many names called these days, like tree roots, dogs, second, third, fourth, aquatic, etc., I don't know how many." In the new army, there are many people with the same name, and even some with the same name and surname. The names overlap, so it's really hard to distinguish, and sometimes the order can be wrong, and there are many hidden dangers. And now we are still few, the situation is better, my lord, you said that there will be an expansion of the army, the more people in the future, the more serious this problem will be, I want to ask my lord, what should I do? ”

"Don't worry, the expansion of the army will happen sooner or later, don't worry about this. You kid, you're a good learner, and you know how to talk about me. Dong Ce glared at him, and Zhou Zhong's intentions were recognized, so he had to scratch his head to cover up.

"As for this?" Dong Ce groaned a little. To be honest, he also ignored this problem, in this era, elegant is elegant, and vulgar is extremely vulgar. For example, those literati and doctors, not to mention how they are, at least they read a lot, have a high level of education, and have a high level of culture and artistic cultivation. Therefore, the names they have given have been very elaborate and very elegant. Not only is it good, but it is also elegant, and most of them have some allusions.

is like the Hou Fangyu Hou Gongzi of the word dynasty, like Lu Xiangsheng, like Hong Chengchou, like Yang Sichang.

But in the Ming Dynasty, a small number of people had very elegant names, and the vast majority of people had extremely vulgar names.

The biggest headache is that the repetition rate is too high.

Most of the soldiers under Dong Ce are not from good backgrounds, and if they can have a serious name, it will be considered good. Most of them are dog eggs and aquatic tree roots and the like, as Zhou Zhong said, there are few people now, and they can't see it very much, and if there are too many people, there will be big trouble.

He thought about it, picked up the brush, took a piece of paper, wrote the four symbols of '〦''' ”

When Zhou Zhong saw it, he couldn't help but grow his head for a while, and said with a wry smile: "My lord, they know me, I don't know them." ”

Zhou Bo caught a glimpse of it on the side, and reprimanded in a low voice: "Straw bale, why don't you even know Suzhou yards?" ”

"Huh?" A hint of embarrassment appeared on Zhou Zhong's face: "What is this called, Suzhou yards?" Do you use this word in Suzhou? ”

Zhou Bo sighed, too lazy to look at him.

Dong Ce smiled: "Oh, Uncle Zhou knows? ”

"Yes, sir." Zhou Bodao: "These days, I have been in contact with Zhao Dahui, and many of them use Suzhou yards, so I have also met. ”

Dong Ce said to Zhou Zhong: "This thing is very easy, basically you can watch it twice, but it's just one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ninety." The ones I wrote just now are six, seven, eight, nine. ”

Dong Ce took the piece of paper back, wrote the four Chinese characters "six, seven, eight and nine" on the right side of the four Suzhou yards, and then wrote "First Killer Team" and "Li Goudan" on the back.

"Take it, let the workshop make a brand according to this, and make it with big bamboo, which is convenient, tough and strong, and can be preserved for a long time. The bamboo card is half a palm big, and the front is written Suzhou yards, and the numbers are written next to it. Write the back of the compilation attribution, and write the name next to it. I remember that there was some space left for the place where the establishment belonged to the province, and after the province expanded the military establishment, there was nowhere to write it. ”

At the latest in the Han Dynasty, the number 1234 Chinese characters appeared, and it was written like this, and it has not changed. Sima Xiangru's letter to Zhuo Wenjun: 12345678900000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 After Zhuo Wenjun read it, he burst into tears. There is only one "100 million" missing from a line of numbers, and no 100 million is not exactly 'unintentional'? So Zhuo Wenjun replied with a "Grievance Poem......

In fact, for most of the time in ancient times, the numbers used to record were 'one, two, three, four', not 'one, two, three, and three'. "One Two Three Shops" was invented by Zhu Yuanzhang, and it was only from his time that he began to use it as a figure to prevent cheating in the accounts.

Zhou Zhong took the order and left, and Zhou Bo also took the opportunity to say goodbye and left with Zhao Tiean.

"Let's go, I'll take you to a realm." Dong Ce smiled, went out to lead the horse, and asked the family to prepare one for Huo Qingtong.

Dong Ce took Huo Qingtong out of the mansion, out of the inner city, and all the way to the warehouse.

Hearing that Dong Ce was coming, Cang Ambassador Su Dacheng and Cang Deputy Envoy Liu Daku hurriedly greeted Dong Ce and saluted Dong Ce.

"No excuses." Dong Ce jumped off the horse and shook the horsewhip: "Let's go, take the official to see where the cotton exists?" ”

"Yes." Su Dacheng hurriedly responded, and the two personally accompanied Dong Ce in.

Cotton is stored in the main house of a very remote courtyard, where the area is not small, and more importantly, the foundation is high, relatively dry, stored here, can effectively avoid cotton moisture.

When I opened the door, I saw that the tall warehouse was full of cotton bales piled up to the roof, and I didn't know how many there were.

On the other hand, Su Dacheng said: "According to what you said, the grain collected will be divided into seven catties and seven catties as soon as it is put into storage." Look at these cotton bales, all of them weigh seven pounds, and there is nothing wrong. ”

"Hmm." Dong Ce nodded and walked in.

Cotton is fluffy, a pound of cotton in the hand is a very small lump, seven pounds of cotton is almost the size of a hug, like a big quilt in later generations, in fact, it is six to seven pounds of cotton.

Dong Ce casually took out a bag and opened it, and opened it carefully, the cotton wool was soft and dry, with a little yellow in the white, Dong Ce looked through it carefully, and was very satisfied. The quality of these cotton is excellent.

Behind him, Su Dacheng and Liu Daku glanced at each other, they were secretly glad that they didn't do anything on it, otherwise they would not be able to eat and walk around if they were personally found out by adults today. Not to mention errands, it's good to be able to save your life.

"How many pounds of cotton are in the library now?"

Liu Daku said: "In the early autumn of last year, I bought 3,000 catties at a time, and then transferred 1,000 catties from above, but then made fat jackets and cotton jackets, most of them were consumed, and when you asked last time, there were only 800 catties left." Later, under your orders, my subordinates went to the lonely shop, and Master Su went to Yanghe, walked everywhere, and gave high prices to those cotton merchants. To date, 5,000 catties have been raised. It is expected that within three days, there will be 2,000 catties. It's just that these cottons are all seven cents a pound of silver, which is a little higher than last year's market price. and gave Zhao the hard-earned money of fifty taels of silver to Zhao's shopkeeper. ”

"Okay, you guys are still able to do things. As for spending more money, it's nothing. Dong Ce praised it, and the two didn't even dare to say it.

In fact, in such a short period of time, he was able to raise a lot of cotton, and Zhao Assembly's help is inseparable, he now has a very stable relationship with Panshi Fort, relying on the supply of various materials to Panshi Fort, in the past year, Zhao Assembly's business can be said to be extremely growing, and the scale has increased several times. Therefore, he also attaches great importance to the relationship with Rock Castle and tries his best to maintain it. This time, Liu Daku begged for his head and promised him hard money. Zhao Dahui gritted his teeth, and before the year passed, he ran around to contact cotton merchants from all over the world. On the evenings of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, he spent his time in the home of a merchant with whom he had a good friendship.

It can be described as somewhat bleak.

"Qingtong." Dong Ce looked at Huo Qingtong and said in a deep voice: "There are 5,000 catties of cotton here, and in the warehouse over there, there are more than 6,000 catties of copper coins. You can send and assign the kudin in this treasury at will. Those women who are left behind, you can spend them as you like. The official has only one request for you - after 20 days, hand over 300 sets of cotton armor. How is it? ”

Huo Qingtong looked at him, a flash of light flashed in her eyes, she pursed her lips and nodded heavily: "I will live up to the trust of adults!" ”

………… On the second day, the captains of the various armors were gathered, and not long after, they returned with a message. An hour later, all the Ding girls over the age of thirteen gathered outside the south gate to announce something important.

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