"Is the prison back?" Xu Zi wiped his sweat first. When he saw Chen Daojian, his eyes lit up. He walked over and grabbed Chen Daojian's arm, looked at it, and said with a smile: "It's very good, it's a little thinner and a little darker, but people look very energetic and their eyes are bright. Well, I still have to go out for some experience."

"I've seen the Lord and Hou." Chen Daojian felt a sore in his eyes. He tried hard to restrain his emotions and said with a smile: "I haven't seen the Lord and Hou for almost two months, and I miss him very much."

"Well, you're very busy. It's a good time. We're very busy." Xu Zi sat down with a smile. A servant came over with a new robe. Xu Zi took off his wet robe and changed into a new robe. He had become energetic. He said to Chen Daojian: "In about fifteen days, the cotton fields will be harvested. The hydraulic textile factory is testing the machines. There will be minor problems and troubles every day, but overall, there is no big problem. When the lint is made, we will start to weave vigorously."

"Junhou thought how much is the yield per mu?"

Chen Daojian was quite interested in this issue. The speed of development of the Dongfan was beyond everyone's expectations. In particular, Xu Zixian used the military training method to go north and easily discovered two large coal mines and iron ore. Although it was not a high-quality mineral deposit, it was two different things. With coal mines and iron ore, Dongfan was able to smelve iron by itself and manufacture a large amount of iron trade. It was another very outstanding product, salt and iron, and cotton. In addition to the large-scale tea gardens under the plan, Chen Daojian felt more and more that after being driven out of Qizhou and divested from the internal system of Fujian Road, the Dongfan and Nan'an Hou Mansion would have a better development opportunity.

Everything is now off the track, but who can say that this is not better?

"The yield per mu is quite good." Xu Zixian was very excited. He, Fu Qian, Chen Jie and others set off at dawn in the morning. At that time, the grass on the roadside was carrying morning dewdrops, and the sea breeze was very strong, which felt very cool.

They began patrolling the 100th household until the 7900th household.

"There will always be an average of 200 kilograms." Xu Zixian said: "It didn't disappoint."

Chen Daojian showed an excitement in his eyes. The yield of this seed cotton was quite happy. In fact, it was almost the highest yield in this era.

Adding the planting area and output, the stock of cotton will exceed 20 million kilograms, but this is seed cotton. After removing the cotton seeds, the lint obtained is one-third, which is 7 million kilograms of lint.

According to the current market price, 20 kilograms of lint can be worth 2 jin of lint, and all these cottons are sold for more than 700,000 jin.

If all textiles are made into high-quality cotton cloth and spun with existing cotton cloth, it will be at least about 400,000 pieces.

If the quality is high, the price of a piece of cloth will be about three jin of money during the Chengzong period. By the Chongde period, the price of a piece of cloth will soar, and the price of a piece of cloth will rise to about five jin of money.

If sold in Japan, the price will increase by more than three cents.

The cloth from Nan'an Hou Mansion may not be able to be sold at such a high price, but considering that the cloth is in short supply and is hard currency like iron and salt. Even if the average price is 6 kWh, the final profit will be much stronger than purely selling cotton.

Although I didn't make much this year, the income of lint may be tens of millions of kilograms in a few years, which is enough to spin into millions of pieces of cloth to meet the cloth needs of the entire South and Japan and Luzon. This profit is too great.

What’s important now is to control costs and expand profits.

Of course, labor costs must be removed. The acquisition of cotton is based on cost price, and the construction costs of textile mills are changed to textiles in factories, which requires workers to pay a considerable salary.

An adult woman or man works in a textile factory for ten to twelve hours a day and earns at least four cents of salary per month, which should be a satisfactory result for both parties.

This income will deduct previous investment in the short term, but even if it is fully distributed in the future, as the cotton fields further expand, the profit will be quite promising, and it should be similar to the salt and iron business, or even better.

Judging from the situation I watched this morning, both the bean fields and the cotton fields are about to harvest, which is a really happy result.

Li Yi's face was always filled with a gratitude, Chen Daojian rubbed his hands excitedly, and the officials around him were also smiling. Everyone now regards Dongfan as their home, and Dongfan and Nan'an Hou Mansion are rising step by step, of course, it is also extremely important for them.

For good news.

An official sent a cup of sour soup drink. Xu Zi drank it all in one go, feeling better. He looked at Chen Daojian and said, "Is there something important to pass on to us this time in prison?"

"Yes," Chen Daojian nodded and agreed, saying, "It's just that I can't give in."

Xu Zixian understood, nodded, and said, "Let's go to my signing room to discuss, Fu Muzhi, Kong Xuanping and others are here too."

The Nan'an Hou's signing house is the top priority of the garrison of the entire Hou Mansion. Through the road wall is the modified archive room. All the official documents that need to be archived are registered here. The Nan'an Hou Mansion is more standardized in its official business process and also pays attention to the responsibility system. For example, a government order, from the highest-level signing decision-maker to the suggestor and executor, all must leave a name and seal and include it in the archives.

If decision-making mistakes and accountability are held at all levels, it is easy to have an adverse impact on the career.

This is the official document transfer system. In addition, the cardinal room will conduct regular performance evaluations, and the people-friendly officials are closely related to the trust of the people. In the army, the cardinal room and the military and judicial department jointly evaluate, and officers and soldiers are no exception.

Xu Zixian wove an orderly and efficient network in the entire Nan'an Marquis Mansion, and everyone is in the network, even Xu Zixian himself.

Efficiency, integrity, fairness, and justice. In some places, as long as efficiency, fairness and justice are the last things to be considered, or even ignored. Integrity is relatively the first thing Xu Zixian considers is of course efficiency, but if fairness and integrity cannot be taken into account, then efficiency is meaningless.

Everyone followed him into the signing room. The outer room was covered with armor and knives, and there were more than a dozen nearby attendants wearing iron armor or patrolling the knives.

Chen Daojian looked carefully for a while and compared with the Japanese warriors, the soldiers of the Great Wei Dynasty were undoubtedly much better.

Warriors are brave and fierce, and they often draw their swords to face each other. Some are fake models, but most warriors value confidence and commit suicide, and some ancient legacies from the pre-Qin period of China, which is also a fact.

They can die for the Daming and even have caesarean sections for small matters. For example, if a samurai who supervises the kitchen makes a mistake in one meal, Daming must be careful that the responsible samurai will have a caesarean section for this.

Of course, they are not afraid of death on the battlefield. The Japanese warriors are quite powerful, which is a fact.

But they are very casual and lack organization, and do not have serious battle formation training on the battlefield. Some daimyos can train the formation and even have ideas. However, judging from the current economic and material conditions of the island country, it is impossible to train a pure warrior army that has heavy armor and excellent weapons, and can set up battle formations.

The heavy armor in front of us can only be worn by nobles in Japan. Ordinary warriors can at most wear leather or bamboo armor. Those are the most important things, and the people are united in a army and have no equipment at all. They just send a spear for each person.

"June," Chen Daojian said to Xu Zixian: "I heard that after refining the refined iron in the central part, is he planning to build a forging armour bureau in Nan'an?"

"Yes." Xu Zixian took the lead in the house. The house was a north house, which was much cooler than the wing room. After people came in, the servants half opened the window, and the sea breeze blew into the house, and the sunlight could not be reflected, which made people feel more comfortable. After answering, Xu Zixian said again: "Our current cavalry camp has about 30% of the iron armor, and the rest are mail, leather armor, and cotton armor. If the soldiers want to get sufficient defense, they must not wear multiple armors, but after wearing multiple armors, it will affect their speed. If they do not wear arm guards, shin guards and other accessories, the iron armor will also weigh about 40 kilograms.

The slings weigh 70 kilograms, plus the weight of human body and weapon weight, even if the Tianfang horse is pretty good, the mixed horse is also very good, the burden is still too heavy. Therefore, our idea is to use water to press some breastplate, form one in one, and tie the front and back sides. This armor weighs 30 kilograms, and the front and back protection is an integrated fine iron, and the protection is quite excellent. If you wear an iron helmet, if necessary, add a neck to protect the keys of the neck. The heavy armor of the war horse is no more than 40 kilograms. For war horses, the load is much smaller, and the keys of the soldiers can be protected in place, which is quite cost-effective."

Xu Zi first showed a contemplative look, and then said: "In the future, light cavalry may only wear mail and iron helmets, and weigh no more than thirty kilograms. They will be strong and quick horse knights, responsible for sentry detectives, reconnaissance, and beam-building. They can also be large

They produce divine arm bows in quantity and assemble them to light cavalry. They even wear only leather armor, specifically used to harass the enemy's food channels, isolate enemy sentry detectives, and harass enemy's backs. This can be called hunting cavalry."

Xu Zixian was indeed imagining that Li Yi and Chen Daojian were sitting quietly, and no one disturbed him.

Hunting cavalry, light cavalry, wall cavalry, classical heavy cavalry, these can all be found in the future.

Light cavalry has an advantage in reconnaissance and provocations, and can also roam in front of the formation to prevent enemy light cavalry from raiding. Hunting cavalry will do a great job of harassing the enemy's back and cutting off reconnaissance and food channels.

Wall cavalry has unparalleled attack power, but it cannot be too thick and bulky, which will affect its mobility.

Classical heavy cavalry should not be organized too much, but if there are some particularly difficult and difficult battles and wall-type cavalry cannot break through the heavy enemy formation, classical heavy cavalry can play the role of a hammer of sound.

The war horses wear face curtains, neck protection, vests on both sides, and parasitics and vests behind them. When they move, they are like heavy tanks.

At least this is true in this era.

The knight also has heavy armor, horns, necks, iron masks, arm guards, heart guards, layers of iron armor leaves all the way to the knees, and then shin guards and iron boots. The knights also wear iron gloves.

The full set of armor and vests weigh more than 100 kilograms. The strongest war horse cannot carry such a long-distance marching. It can only arrive at the battlefield while preserving its physical strength and then wear it, and then quickly charge with the cavalry formation.

Such heavy cavalry charges are not something that ordinary military formations can resist.

Of course, it is just a conceivable that even the cavalry battalion has only about 30% of its iron armor, which is not very suitable. The infantry battalion has more than 70% of its armor and less than 30% of its infantry, on one side, there are team officials and sentry officials, who are at the top of the top wearing cotton armor or leather armor, and most of the soldiers are still in a state of no armor.

This is related to the large-scale military expansion a few months ago. Due to the rapid expansion of the military, the scarcity of armor has become more serious.

It is also related to the recent situation in Jianzhou. The mines are closed, miners are lost, iron prices soar. Moreover, Jianzhou restricts the sale of Dongfan, so he can only continue to purchase iron tools from Tingzhou and even Jiangnan.

Fortunately, Dongfan has an iron farm mine, and once he has the ability to smelify iron, he can produce high-quality fine iron.

This undoubtedly gives everyone greater confidence, not only the confidence in trade income, but also the construction and strength of the Nan'an Hou Mansion Army.

More divine arm bows, more crossbow arrows, better long scepters, horizontal scepters, obstacle swords, and of course more and better armor.

If infantry can generally equip iron armor, the effect will of course be completely different.

"Infantry Battalion," Xu Zixian continued: "In the future, we plan to mainly wear armor. The armor leaves are large, easy to wear and maintain."

Chen Daojian's eyes lit up when he heard this, and thought for a while, saying, "If so, the cavalry camp uses breastplate, the archers use mail, and the infantry uses prick armor, cotton armor, and leather armor, for light cavalry or hunting cavalry?"

"It's almost the same." Xu Zixian smiled and said, "It's also very likely that leather armor will be eliminated. The protection is too poor. If the cotton armor is not inlaid with a large number of iron leaves, the protection will be poor. If the wire drawing technology passes, I really want to assemble mail for both the light cavalry and the hunting cavalry. The mail is not bad in terms of knife-cutting and arrows."

Li Yi interrupted: "So what about the officers and soldiers of the Water Camp?"

"The armor of the officers and soldiers of the water camp is the same as that of the iron cavalry. The armor should not be too heavy, and it is too difficult to jump to the gang, which will affect their physical strength and body shape. It should not be too light. Sometimes they have to jump to the enemy ship to fight..." Xu Zixian pondered for a moment and said, "It should be mainly used for armor, but it should be equipped with mesh boots, shin protection, and necklines. Some should be equipped with a full set, while others only use armor protection."

This actually means that the officers and soldiers of the water camp, such as crossbowmen, are just equipped with light armor, and the Jump Gang can be divided into the first-row selection and the main team of the central army. The selection and heavy armor are used, and the remaining infantry protective gear is reduced, which makes it easier to quickly keep up and expand the results of the battle.

Jumping gang war is a battle to seize the ship, and you will die. Once you jump to the enemy ship, you can only end in death. Either the enemy dies or I die.
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