The snow was knee-high, the sky was so gray and cold. The cold wind blew across the hills from time to time, shaking off the snow. In the snowy white mountains behind the hills, more than 200 new troops lined up in three rows, standing quietly in the snow, with snowflakes piled on their shoulders and hats, but they still didn't move.

Li Xingzhou was wearing a bear fur coat. In this era, the cotton planting industry was not popular. There was no cotton coat to keep warm in winter. He was the prince and naturally could afford expensive silk and precious mountain marten and other animal furs. For ordinary people, it was good to wear thick linen.

But the ability of hemp and cotton to keep cold is not the same level as the same level. The new army sergeant was still trembling with a leather cloak.

Every winter, many people in Jingguo will die of cold, especially poor people who can only afford to wear linen clothes. In fact, it is not just Jingguo, but the whole world. The feeling of being frozen is even more uncomfortable than dying directly.

Cotton actually existed for a long time, but it has been only in Xinjiang in later generations. Now there are a small number of them planted in the southwest of Liao and other places. The history of many Chinese people wearing cotton coats is a long history. It was not until Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty that cotton coats began to rise and gradually entered the homes of ordinary people.

Cotton is really a good thing. Li Xingzhou thought in his mind that if there is a lot of cotton, not only can the living standards of the people in Jingguo reach the next level, but there will be fewer deaths in winter.

Then I thought of the areas suitable for growing cotton... He kept recalling in his mind that he remembered the general position. In the geography class of junior and senior high school, the teachers asked the country to be the country. What are the cotton fields in the country, the lower reaches of the river, the northern Henan plain...

As he thought about it, Li Xingzhou was suddenly stunned. He remembered that there seemed to be another place, which although not the largest, was also very suitable for growing cotton, walnuts, etc., and that was...

...........

"The first row obeys the order!" Li Xingzhou shouted in the snow.

"Come!" the first row of sergeants said in unison.

“Go ahead!”

Bang!

The first row of soldiers took a neat step.

"Rise the gun!"

Swish!

The bayonets were put down together. This was the result of countless times of practice. Everyone used the sight of the sight gate to aim in front, but in fact, the significance of aiming the smoothbore gun was not that great, because as long as the fire was fired, the bullets without rifle were floating around.

However, due to Zhao Si's various improvements, the Prince's Mansion's gun has now entered the stage of cone-headed bullets and integrated bullets. The airtightness and accuracy are not comparable to those of the guns in the early stage. To put it bluntly, it has developed to the peak of front-loaded guns.

We should go further, unless there is a steam engine, an integrated forged gun barrel is used to drive the boring tool to bore out the barrel, and a steam engine is used to pull out the rifle, which can improve airtightness and realize the rear-load of ammunition.

All this is stuck in the new power... If there is no new power, the gun technology of the Wangfu will be locked.

"Shoot!" With a command, more than 60 guns gathered into one sound, bullets whistled past, fifty steps away, bushes exploded, branches and leaves scattered, snow shaking, and the gunshots were recalled in the mountains.

"Second row, prepare for shooting, raise the gun!"

The second row and the third row stepped forward tacitly, and the second row raised its gun to aim at the front.

"shooting!"

Bang!

"The third row, prepare for shooting, raise the gun!"

“…”

......

The sound of gunfire rang across the hills for a whole afternoon, and the forests were filled with green smoke. The smell of gunpowder burning was filled with the woods. The birds and beasts in the forest were frightened and fled in all directions.

As the Black Mountain bandit crisis expanded, Li Xingzhou had to bring the new army's shooting training back to the table. Two hundred elite musketeers and six squad artillery soldiers were much slower because the weather was cold, and many people's fingers were not frozen smoothly and their loading movements were stiff.

It seems that this problem needs to be solved, but fortunately, he had the 20,000 taels of silver sent by the Du Branch to account. With the money, everything was easy to say.

That night, he entrusted Chan Yinfeng to help and found the best tailors in Jiangzhou City and handed them the drawn glove drawings to them. They made the fine fur and required it to be well-made, which mainly serves as a warmth. It basically does not affect the shooting when worn, or it can be taken off temporarily if it is afraid of affecting the shooting. If the soldier's hands are warm, taking off the gloves when opening the fire will not affect the movement in a short time.

As for gloves that do not affect movement at all and can keep warm, they cannot be used at present. They are not subject to the production process, but the material process.

It will take six or seven days for these tailors to make more than 200 pairs of skills. It is estimated that by then, the twelfth lunar month and the year is approaching. However, people in northern Jiangzhou are in panic, and the shadow of the black bandits covers everyone's hearts.

......

"Has Yu Chengan left Beijing?"

"Report to the emperor, he has been escorted out of the capital. Eighty-seven female relatives in the family have been converted into the sect. The male clan is sent to Guanbei. According to His Majesty's instructions, it will be done before the New Year." Fu'an whispered.

"Well, the Ministry of Justice has done a good job and is doing things well, and I feel relieved."

Fu'an bowed his head and did not dare to speak. Regarding the matter of Yu Cheng'an, the emperor specially explained to the four words "Censorate", Dali Temple, and the Ministry of Justice" - it was done before the New Year.

There are only four words "It's done before the New Year" but Fu'an's spine was chilling and he didn't dare to ask more questions.

The criminals were sent to the banana, with a linen and cloth, and had to wear a shackle weighing more than ten pounds. It was a fatal matter to hike for thousands of miles.

Now in the winter months, it’s cold outside, and it’s okay to go south. After leaving Kaiyuan, there will be no snow after walking for a few more days.

But to the north, it is like heavy snow covering the mountains, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow falling, and young and strong people will even freeze to death on the road, let alone an old man over 60 years old like Yu Cheng'an...

The emperor specifically ordered the Ministry of Justice to finish the work before the New Year. The meaning was actually very obvious. He just told the Ministry of Justice to send Yu Cheng'an out to freeze to death! This is the way for Yu Cheng'an and more than 60 men in his family.

Whenever Fu'an thought of this, his back felt cold. He did not dare to ask in depth about this, for fear of causing trouble to the emperor.

Zhang Rang, the Ministry of War judging the Ministry of War, and the Yan and Tie Tongzhi were all allowed to be imprisoned first, and the Censorate was sent to Beijing after the spring next year. After sending it to Jiaozhou, the barbarian land of Jiaozhou is even more dangerous than Guanbei, but if you leave in the spring, you will have no problem living.

The emperor held his hands behind his back, and Fu'an followed behind without saying a word.

He knew why the emperor hated Yu Cheng'an so much.

The roots are not in Yu Cheng'an, and the position is not in the human being, so he can only blame his hardship. He is the deputy prime minister of the government affairs. He had no official positions in the previous dynasty. After the King of Wu planned to rebel, the emperor was very suspicious and was not at ease with the powerful ministers, so he also set up a deputy for the Secretary of the Central Secretariat to divide the power of Pingzhang.

And this position of division of power in the throne is to serve as the deputy minister of the court.

The position was set by the emperor. At first, the ministers were suppressed by the emperor, but now such a thing happened...

Yu Cheng'an, the position of Pingzhang established by the emperor, colluded with foreign enemies, deceived the emperor and accepted bribes. This was simply a slap in the face! It was also particularly loud.
Chapter completed!