If things don't matter, Xiucai can solve them himself. He specially sent someone to ask Yingyi, explaining that it was not a trivial matter.

Yingyi cheered up and listened.

Xiucai said: "Earlier, the adults said about the military uniform and armor, and the subordinates have always kept it in mind. I haven't come up with anything good these days. But the mountains and rivers are heavy, and I didn't expect to hear an idea from a woman inadvertently. ”

"Oh?" Yingyi's eyes lit up: "Come and listen." ”

I heard Xiucai say: "It was a woman who prepared a gun barrel and said it unintentionally..."

The manpower of Crescent Valley has now been sorted out. There are more than 23,000 people in the Crescent Valley, of which nearly 9,000 are young and middle-aged, a little more are healthy women, and the rest are old and weak children. The conscription went to the early 3,000s, and there were more than 5,000 young and strong left, who would all be devoted to the construction of the Crescent Valley and the Bibo Valley. Therefore, the choice of manpower for the preparation of gun barrels can only be young and strong women.

While supervising the preparation of the gun, Xiucai heard something from a woman.

This is an era of deplorment, and ordinary people are in dire straits. Can't afford to eat, can't afford to put on clothes. The woman said inadvertently, saying that there was a kind of thorny vine in Fangcheng Mountain, cut it down and put it in water, soak it for about half a month, take it out, clean it, tidy it up, and turn it into a handful of twine. The twine is soaked in tung oil for three days, dried, and then put into water for two days, and then taken out to wash and dry, and then used for weaving, and the clothes made are extremely durable.

The woman also said that if you soak tung oil several times repeatedly, the clothes woven from thorn vine twine will be more durable. ”

After listening to it, Ying Yi couldn't help but say, "Have you seen the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?"

Xiucai laughed: "I know what adults mean. In the romance, Kong Ming conquered the Southern Barbarians, and there was a vulture bone with a rattan armor soldier, which caused a lot of trouble to Kong Ming. ”

"Yes, it's the vine armor soldiers. Ying Yi said: "I listen to this thorn rattan weaving clothes, and I have a sense of rattan armor." ”

Xiucai nodded: "The subordinates were the same at that time. Therefore, I feel that it may meet the requirements of adults. ”

Ying Yi's jaw head: "If it can be compared with the rattan armor, no, as long as there is half the effect, I will remember you a lot." But is this thorny vine common, and does it meet the needs of thousands or even tens of thousands of military uniforms?"

Xiucai said: "The adult's worries and subordinates have also thought about it. I asked the woman and said that this kind of thorny vine is extremely common in Fangcheng Mountain. I'm thinking that tens of thousands of sets will not be able for a while, but thousands of sets should be okay, right?"

Ying Yi smiled and said, "Since that's the case, then what are you hesitating about? ”

He said: "The manpower and silver are as you deploy, and on the premise of not delaying the preparation of the gun, try to make rattan armor as much as possible." ”

"Yes. Xiucai was very happy: "I will live up to the expectations of adults." ”

Yingyi was also very happy. An army must have all the armor in order to go to the battlefield. But the current situation is extremely difficult. If you can find a replacement, it is tantamount to opening up a new situation. The benefits to Yingyi are self-evident.

"If this kind of thorn vine armor works well, remember not to break the root of the thorn vine. It is best to be prepared for large-scale cultivation as well as growing food. We can't just have these 3,000 soldiers and horses, and there will definitely be more and more in the future. He thought about it and instructed carefully.

Sun Xiucai understood.

"The situation near Ye County is getting more and more serious. Ying Yi said: "It may not be a short period of time, I can't take care of the mountains." Everything here is up to you. ”

Sun Xiucai solemnly responded.

In the Crescent Valley, Ying Yi did not stay long. After seeing Xiucai, he returned to Bibo Valley overnight, quietly took the woman surnamed Yuan away, and returned to Xiaowangzhuang.

Now this woman has no need to hide it. used to be cautious, in order to hide it from Zheng Yunzhi. Now that Zheng Yunzhi has been placed under house arrest by him, naturally there is no need to hide it anymore.

"This woman is Yuan Chonghuan's descendant. ”

Yingyi called Zhou Li and Zhu Bingkun: "The news of the military salary was leaked to the thieves by her." ”

As soon as the two heard it, Zhou Li was nothing, and Zhu Bingkun scolded: "Sure enough, the son of a mouse can make holes, what kind of goods is Yuan Chonghuan, and what kind of goods is this slut." Yuan Chonghuan died with a thousand knives, and the whole world was in an uproar, and the people of Jingshi even ate his flesh at that time.

It can be seen that he is hated.

As the governor of Liaodong, he commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, and let the Tartars fight under the city of Beijing.

Caught off guard, if the Beijing division is breached, you can imagine what will happen to the people. How can you not hate him?!

Zhou Li may not know very well, but Zhu Bingkun knows it, and he couldn't help but get angry for a while and scolded the slut.

"Alright. Ying Yi waved her hand: "This woman is already crazy, what is there to worry about with a madman." She is still useful, and it is good to be temporarily detained. ”

handed over the woman surnamed Yuan to Zhou Li to be guarded, and Ying Yi said: "The army of thieves is going south, I don't worry about Zhang Shi's side, I plan to go and see it immediately." Be careful, and remember what I told you earlier. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Li hurriedly said: "The adults are tired from running all night, why don't you go down?"

Zhu Bingkun also said the same.

Ying Yi said in an unquestioning tone: "I'll go, you guys guard here." ”

...

South of Yexian County, by the woods.

An army is encamped here.

The torches on the fire are dotted with stars, and they reflect each other.

At five o'clock in the morning, except for the occasional neighing of horses and faint patrols, there was complete silence.

On a grassy slope about two or three miles away, several figures were crawling. Zhang Shi hugged his arms, curled up in a ball, and stared at the thief camp tightly, while his teeth chattered: "Mother, it's so cold." Wang Er and Li San, you sleep for a while, I'll keep an eye on it. Continue the rotation later. ”

"Sleep a fart. One said: "The cold Ki'er is sharp and painful, and he can't sleep." ”

Zhang Shi grinned, and exhaled a breath of white air in the dark: "Eat some dry food if it's cold." ”

Another person suddenly said: "Boss, you said that this thief suddenly went south, what will we do with Lord Ying? I heard that Lord Ying is unparalleled in his bravery, killing people like killing chickens, and the thieves who died in his hands are not one thousand, but eight hundred." Will you fight the thieves?"

Zhang Shi smiled and said, "What's the matter, I'm afraid?"

"I'm afraid of a fart. The man said disdainfully: "The thieves are all animals, and I, Li San, will be afraid of animals?!"

Wang Er patted Li San on the shoulder and said, "Boss, you don't know, Li San's hometown was slaughtered by thieves..."

In this era, there is probably no pain except for the places that have not been ravaged by thieves, and how many people in the world do not hate thieves? Burning and slaughtering cities, plundering with sharp silver, what kind of things that have lost their conscience, and the thieves can't do it?!

Although the Ming government's government is rotten to the roots, it still maintains stability after all. For the vast majority of the people, stability is greater than heaven. As long as you can survive through labor, no matter how difficult it is, you will not break the stability.

The slogan of the thief is loud and loud, what is not food and bullshit, but his behavior is worse than that of livestock. Maybe at first, people still believed in them, but after seeing the faces of animals, how could they hate them?