Yun carefully sewed the cotton clothes.

Last year, more cotton was planted, and more was planted, which also meant that there were many loopholes in management. Some of the cotton flowed from the "private route" to the north. Coupled with the high price of the imperial court, it gave these "private cotton" the opportunity to sell well.

Therefore, after the autumn of this year, Zhang Dian prepared to issue a decree to severely punish the smuggler cotton merchants, but he instinctively felt uneasy about the results of the implementation of this decree, so he found Wang Ju to inquire.

Wang Ju asked Zhang Dian not to be too tight, otherwise he would give someone a handle.

Then he discussed a sentence from the Book of Songs with Zhangdun.

&n/;《Wind. July": July fire, September clothing.

"July" is mainly about the living conditions of the people of the country throughout the year, and it is also the longest poem in "The Wind", this sentence appears twice, and it is the first of the first two paragraphs.

Most people understand that there is a big Mars falling in July, which means that the weather is hot. In September, there are women who give clothes.

Why is it given, "General Interpretation of Mao's Poems": Whoever gives clothes is also given. This poem is given clothes, and winter clothes are also given. The cover of the September woman is successful, and the silk and linen work has been completed, and it can be used for clothing. It is not said that the winter clothes of the month have been completed, so they are also given.

This is still very vague, but you can see some of the laws of the Qin and Han dynasties, that is, the ancient clothing system.

Some laws and regulations of the Qin and Han dynasties clearly stipulate that in winter, the state sends cloth envoys to give brown clothes to the poor people, and a large brown cloth is made of fir cloth (a kind of linen) 18 catties (Qin Jin, about nine city catties), which is worth 60 Wen. Fourteen catties of fir cloth are used for medium brown, and eleven catties of fir cloth are used for small brown.

If this sentence is understood, perhaps future generations will be able to understand that ancient cotton was not popularized. How the people kept out the cold.

The ancient use of fur has a long history. In the Qin and Han dynasties, there were even more crude wool products and clothing. As well as felt carpets, furs, and, of course, if you are rich and powerful, you can use real kapok in very small quantities.

But in ancient times, ordinary people could only use thick linen cloth to pile up to keep out the cold. It was not until later that the mulberry sericulture developed, and many poor families were born. Began to stuff waste silkworm heads into the linen.

This is not what Wang Ju is going to say.

Although the Song Dynasty was more advanced than in ancient times, the way to keep out the cold was still roughly the same.

What he wants to talk about is that in ancient times, he also attached importance to the people at the bottom.

After hearing this, Zhang Dan expressed his envy for the ancient times.

Wang Ju asked rhetorically: "How much is Baili Xi worth?" ”

"How much is Baili Xi worth?" Zhang Dian didn't reflect it for a while, that was the famous virtuous minister of the Qin State, can it be measured by money?

Wang Ju said again: "Five sheepskins." It's an open sale. Brother Zihou, there are still people selling women in our dynasty, and the country can't ban it, and in the south, there are many barbarians who forcibly capture Han people as slaves. There are also some barbarians who catch Han people as livestock and sell them in Jiaozhi. However, Brother Zihou, let's ask which important minister dares to say it publicly. Buying and selling a person, even if it's a woman! ”

So in ancient times, it was not necessarily as good as everyone said.

But even in such backward ancient times, there was still a lot of respect for the poor people.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation, clothing is the first.

If Zhang Dian grasps too tightly in order to accumulate wealth, it will inevitably attract more opposition.

It was precisely because of this persuasion that Zhang Dian finally gave up the punishment of the illegal cotton merchants, and more cotton was sold in the private market.

That's still the story of the Autumn Queen, not the story of the Autumn Queen, and the Yun Clan can't know. Just know, the price of cotton products will not fall in a short time.

First, the original price was too high and the demand was large, and second, there were originally cotton products, cotton cloth for big food, and Li cloth from Lingnan. On the value of craftsmanship, Li cloth is higher, one is mixed with silk, more smooth, and the other is the weaving art of Li Nu, with many exquisite national patterns. But originally, the price of Lebanese cloth was above silk, but the big food cotton cloth was far above that of Lebanese cloth, because it was a foreign product, "foreign goods, and cotton cloth, with strong sweat-absorbing function." This cotton cloth is not wanted to be Wang Ju for the time being, because the big food and the Western Regions are long-staple cotton, but long-staple cotton can not be planted in Lingnan and the Central Plains, even in later generations, the cotton introduced is also from the Americas of fine staple cotton, although the yield is higher, the quality of cotton fiber is better, still not as good as long-staple cotton. The distance is too far, even if it is a lump of mud, from the big food to the Song Dynasty, the cost is unimaginable.

Therefore, the high price of cotton will remain for a long time, even if it will become cheaper and cheaper, especially this year, cotton is not sold by catties, but by two sales, almost similar to the price of raw silk.

This Yun didn't know, only knew that the price had fallen a lot this year, although it was almost similar to the price of raw silk, but seeing its softness, it was warmer than raw silk, so he bought fourteen taels for her husband who was about to leave the capital to go to the border and made cotton clothes.

"Husband, it's hard to be outside the plug, you have to take care of yourself," Yun said as he sewed his clothes.

"Yes," Kang replied.

Compared with the garrisons of the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was undoubtedly more benevolent.

However, there are many defects, first in the capital to raise, with the prosperity of the city of Tokyo, many soldiers contaminated with a pompous temperament. It has dragged down the country's finances. At the same time, the soldier's own family also lived a very hard life, mostly living a life of separation from his wife.

This was also one of the crises of the Song Dynasty. It was not enough for Wang Ju to propose a system of military reduction, so Wang Ju thought of the combination of the five-year compulsory military system and the military system.

However, this road is still far from being realized. Even if the second step of the reduction has not yet been implemented.

But Yun wasn't too worried.

It's been like this all these years, although my husband went to the northwest, but there haven't been many wars in recent years. On the contrary, the most dangerous frontier area was not the north, but the south, and many forbidden soldiers could never return after going to Jinghu South Road and Lingnan because of water and soil inadaptability.

Moreover, her husband Kang Cheng is still a tenth general of the Guangrui Battalion of the cavalry, which is equivalent to the salary of a semi-ordinary soldier, so although the family life cannot be said to be good, it can also maintain a food and clothing.

"Husband, the northwest doesn't seem to be very quiet." Yun continued to speak one by one.

"That's better, I'm so meritorious."

"Don't talk nonsense, in the battle of Dashun City, I heard that many people died."

"That's a person who has no ability, with my martial arts. Can you die on the battlefield? ”

"You're good at martial arts. But what about that Hu Qian? ”

The two were just joking. The northwest has not been very peaceful in recent years, but the situation of the four small roads is different, Qinfeng Road and Jingyuan Road have some conflicts, but the scale is not large. It seems that Yan Yanlu has fought a few battles, and it is not a particularly big battle, and there are not many dead soldiers. Moreover, Kang Cheng went to the relatively quiet Huanqing Road.

However, the dialogue between husband and wife, careful analysis, can expose many problems.

Compared to the Tang Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was more benevolent to the families of the martyrs, but these pensions were not necessarily distributed to their families after layers of deductions. On the contrary, the promotion of meritorious generals was not very good, such as Zhang Kang, and Cai Ting, the battle of Dashun City was really meritorious, but Cai Ting continued to float in Weizhou, so that Cai Ting reluctantly wrote a poem:

Frost and autumn dawn, purple plug old base, yellow clouds and decay grass. Hanma hissed. Bian Hong called the moon, and the iron clothes in Longshang were cold early. The sword song is tragic. The gentleman's kindness must be repaid. Saiyuan Le, full of sheath brocade collar, Shanxi is young.

Laughing. Diao Doujing, a beacon fire, and a safe consumption. The Holy Lord is worried, mighty and far-reaching, arrogant and forgiving. The years are sad to the evening, who misses the old people of Yuguan? Taiping is also peaceful, and entertaining, don't hesitate to fall down frequently.

I have merit, but did the court really treat me as an old man in Yuguan and forget it?

Another example is Yao Ji, who did not get promoted to many officials, and continued to stay in Liyuan Fort.

And Wang Ju.

Therefore, the general soldiers would rather not make meritorious contributions than fight to the death on the battlefield.

Secondly, the border is relatively calm, and ordinary people can't think of the battle below, or most of the soldiers are not ready for the big war below.

Again, no matter Wang Ju and Wang Shao, they saw these situations, but they didn't care, because their hole cards were not the forbidden army, but the border army and the Fan army. The Praetorian Army was further marginalized on the battlefield.

When the husband and wife talk, it has nothing to do with life and death, but only the separation of suffering......

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Wang Ju values the military the most, and the most important thing in the military is speed.

However, his dream is not only speed, but also an army that can fight in various complex environments and move forward at high speed. For example, the 25,000-mile road of the epic, such as the Yuanmeng army that can detour from Western Xia to Dali.

There have been longer marches in history, such as the westward expedition of Yuan and Mongolia, or the army of Alexander. However, it is not as complex as the marching environment of these two armies, with tropical, temperate, snowy plateaus, Gobi Deserts, grasslands and snow-capped mountains......

This Wang Ju doesn't want to.

However, the Song Dynasty also had miraculous marching speeds, such as Gao Jixuan's support of Linzhou, with a daily itinerary of five miles.

But the speed of the march is not necessarily the faster the better, Cao Bin's troops entered Zhuozhou, and the army of more than 100,000 could reach two distances, and the result was very sad.

That's a special case, and the more common it is, the sooner the better.

At the beginning of February in Xining, tens of thousands of forbidden troops left the capital and went to various places on the Shaanxi Road to change their defenses.

Their march was exactly two distances.

It's not too fast, because they have good road conditions and don't need to worry about logistics. It's not too slow, after all, it's two journeys, you have to travel sixty miles a day, and you have to set up camp.

But Kang Cheng's Guangrui army did not march at a good pace, and they were also two distances, even though they were cavalry battalions. But it's also helpless, lack of horses. After the reduction of the battalion where Kang Cheng belonged, there were fewer soldiers on empty salaries, reaching more than 360 people, which was almost close to the standard configuration of 400 people. However, there were only about one hundred and eighty horses, and half of them continued to dismount and march, so that they could get up quickly.

However, no one has noticed that this has been the case for so many years.

In March, part of the forbidden army arrived in the territory of Huanqing Road.

"Brother Kang, look, there are a lot of horses over there."

That's the horse of the Parchie Army.

After the Battle of Dashun City, Cai Ting and Wang Ju took a part of the captured war horses and distributed them to the Baojie army. However, Huanqing Road does not have the Weiyuan area of Qinfeng Road, nor the Huluchuan area of Jingyuan Road, nor the Dasanchuankou area of Yanyan Road, so it can only pull out the barren mountain areas in the rear to raise horses for the Baojie army, half herding and half ding, and the soldiers take turns to be responsible for planting and cutting alfalfa green reeds, feeding war horses, and with special veterinarians. Wang Ju soon arrived in the capital and was in charge of Zheng Baiqu, Cai Ting continued to preside, and took out some cultivated land in the surrounding areas of various horse breeding sites and distributed them to the Baojie army for planting. He also drew out some barren land and used it to slip his horse. Collectively known as Martin.

These horses were their own, and the soldiers were carefully raised and the environment was suitable, so the horses were far stronger than the horses of the forbidden army.

Kang Cheng looked at these horses, and some envy flashed in his eyes, cavalry, how can you not love horses, not love horses?

Instead, those Baojie soldiers looked at them, and their eyes flashed with disdain.

Kang Cheng didn't care, it was true that compared to the forbidden army, the combat effectiveness of the border army was too strong. But no matter how powerful they are, their salary is not as good as that of the forbidden army, and they are cannon fodder on the battlefield, so why bother.

Thousands of troops moved on.

Within a few days, Kang Cheng's Guangrui battalion arrived in Gyeongju.

After settling in, training is also indispensable, but everyone is doing it.

The weather is getting hotter by the day. Kang Cheng heard a news in Gyeongju, saying that the Western Xia people sent 20,000 troops to attack Suide City to no avail, so they built eight forts around Suide City, and was defeated by Guo Kui's general Yan Da, and then Guo Kui moved the text to Youzhou: Xia violated the oath and invaded the Han border of the city, and its sin was very great. After hearing this, the remaining Xia soldiers quickly fled back to China.

"It turns out that the Tangut people are not good," this is the discussion in the army.

With the arrival of May.

At this time, this Guangrui battalion suddenly received an order to let them go to Guziling.

Kang Cheng's martial arts are outstanding, but he is only a ten general, and he doesn't know the specific inside story, so he asked suspiciously where Guziling is.

Soon it was reported that the Guziling was a mountain range belonging to Hengshan, in the northwest direction of Dashun City, and it had left the Song Dynasty's control area...... (To be continued......)