Li Dongxuedao: "We will arrange for the district directors to start preparing some counters to sell cloth. Of course, we should let the news first. The quality of our production and Yusheng has been very trusted in recent years. According to my opinion, we will set our own brand in advance, which is much better than those unpromising goods that pretend to be Songjiang cloth."

There are also cloth merchants in the whole north, but they are mainly produced in a scattered local cloth, and the quality is of course uneven. Unlike Suzhou and Songjiang, because there are also considerable foreign trade exports, the quality is also mainly used for the north and the entire southern market... In the environment of the small peasant economy, almost any village in the Ming Dynasty can be self-sufficient, including agricultural products and considerable daily necessities, such as cloth. A considerable number of families use their own textiles, including shoes, socks, etc. Only salt, iron, medicinal materials, will people spend money to buy these things.

If the merchant wants to sell the cloth, the quality must be better than that of the farmer's self-spun. It must not only be thick and warm, but also have very particular patterns.

The northern cloth is much worse than the southern Songjiang cloth. It is not like the large textile factory in Susong area with dozens to hundreds or even thousands of people. The cloth collected by thousands of households cannot be compared with large workshops with quality monitoring. Cloth merchants use northern cloth to fake Songjiang cloth... At least so far, the origin and brand of northern cloth has not been used, and Songjiang cloth is a well-known hard sign.

"Just call it a cloth." Zhang Han said: "It's simple and easy to remember. Each cloth is embroidered with patterns. We need to have brand awareness and fake ones. Ask the Military Information Department to find a way to solve the problem. The brand will be started in the early stage."

Everyone nodded. Although they might not understand what Zhang Han meant by brand awareness, new words that everyone didn't understand were often revealed in this adult's mouth, but it did not prevent everyone from understanding the meaning of Zhang Han's words.

"We will do a big job next year." After coming out of the house, Sun Jingting said to Kong Min with a blushing face: "The goal next year is one million pieces of cloth. Can Brother Zhizhi's cotton fields meet the needs?"

"This is easy to calculate." Kong Minxing smiled and said: "This year, the average per mu production capacity has stabilized to about 50 kilograms. If the planting area is expanded, it will be calculated in three million mu, 15 million seed cotton, 5 million kilograms of lint, and less than 500,000 pieces of spun fabric, which is exactly twice the difference from your requirements."

Sun Jingting frowned and said, "The arable land area will only be increased to three million acres next year?"

"This is already very fast!" Kong Minxing said: "Now 50,000 or 60,000 people are constantly reclaiming wasteland. The year before last year was only 500,000 mu, and last year it reached 1.6 million mu. It is not necessarily possible to reach 3 million mu. The reason is that a large number of baggage soldiers have been gradually transferred away, and fewer people have to keep some of the land to grow various grains. By the end of the year, the time for the captured Beiliu to work has come, and some people may stay. A considerable number of people will go back to grazing, and the manpower will be further insufficient..."

Two political officials with extremely high identities turned their heads to look at Zhang Han together, and Sun Jingting glared and said, "Why do you need to transfer a large number of baggage troops?"

Kong Minxing said: "This year we can't fight again!"

Zhang Han spread his hands and said, "The trade route in the north uses tens of thousands of baggage soldiers, and there are also quite a few baggage soldiers to support the logistics support to the east. There are also many reconstruction and defense projects in Qingcheng and other places, and some are transferred to Lizhuang and other places. To be honest, the training plan for baggage soldiers has almost stopped this year. This is still insufficient staff, so you don't know."

Sun Jingting pondered: "The key to the problem is that the military expansion was too powerful last year!"

Kong Minxing immediately said: "Then you can't reduce your troops, you must not."

Sun Jingting glanced at him and said, "Who is so stupid that he wants to reduce troops, but he can't continue to recruit soldiers. At most, he should train more qualified officers. After two years, he will get some money together. If there are officers, there will be strong soldiers."

Everyone had no words for a moment... It is true. With He Yusheng's financial resources, it is easy to raise more than 100,000 soldiers according to the standards of the Ming officers and soldiers, but the combat effectiveness of such soldiers will decline sharply. The combat effectiveness of the Shang regiment army was trained with high-intensity training and combat. These 40,000 soldiers are now the top of Zhang Han. Everyone also understands that everything is supported by the army now, so no matter how difficult it is, they think that they cannot continue to expand the army, and no one wants to lay off.

"Can't fight any more."

When Zhang Han went out, Sun Jingting was still chasing and shouting behind his back.

"I understand." Zhang Han didn't look back, but just answered.

The sun was shining outside the yard. As soon as the darkness came out, my eyes suddenly couldn't adapt. Zhang Han stopped and the people who followed him stopped.

A team of new soldiers ran over from the distant avenue with a yelling horns. They were cold hats, decent gray military robes, tight cowhide leather belts, short summer military boots. The number of soldiers was not large, probably a squadron, and the team was not running very neatly. It can be seen that this was a team of new recruits who had not been practicing for a long time.

Recently, the number of new soldiers in Lizhuang is far from comparable to the previous two years. Zhang Han clearly remembers that when he was in Lizhuang the previous year, he often saw thousands of new army teams running and training everywhere under the leadership of officers. From the mountains of Lingqiu, to Datong, including Xinpingbao and other border areas, you can often see soldiers from the brigade of merchant army training and training.

It can be said that Zhang Han's great power was established bit by bit by bit, but in fact, it was still a group of new soldiers who ran out during training.

"It's still a lack of cavalry and a further logistics supply capacity..."

Zhang Han thought that with his current military strength and financial resources, he might not be able to use the territory of the left-wing Mongolia to completely recover Yizhou Wei and Guangning and other places, gather Liao people to farm and farm farming, and then advance from Guangning in two ways to Liaodong and Liaozhong. With the ability of more than 40,000 war soldiers and 100,000 baggage soldiers, the eight Jurchen banners, about 20,000 foreign vassal Mongolian and Mongolia left and right wings, plus about 30,000 to 40,000 Han troops, the Jurchens had only about 110,000 troops, and the Jurchens had only about 110,000 troops, and the old and young were still counted. The total number of combat-capable soldiers was only more than 40,000, which was similar to the number of war soldiers in He Yusheng.

But Zhang Han still felt that his strength was weaker. The Shang regiment army was mainly infantry and there were quite a few new recruits who had not experienced hard fighting. In addition, the Shang regiment army's way of fighting had a great demand for logistics. He went to attack the Donglu for thousands of miles, and the logistics pressure directly dragged the Shang regiment army.

The important thing now is to strengthen the cavalry, at least 20,000 people, and slowly expand the logistics supply capacity to the territory of the left-wing Mongolia, so that it is sufficient to consider a battle with the Donglu.

Before this, Lin Danhan took the initiative to move westward, which means he had to fight. Otherwise, before the financial and manpower were able to control the left wing and have the ability to fight against the Eastern Lu, it would be better to maintain his current state...

"Li Gui, come here."

Li Gui was chatting with Jiang Yi, Wu Qi and others. When he heard Zhang Han call him, he rushed over.

"The order was sent to the Eastern Front regiments and Liang Xing. From now on, except for the need to maintain the caravan, no force other than self-defense shall be used without authorization. The actual control line shall be divided between the Kalaqin tribe and the left wing. This order shall be given."

"Yes, sir, can you tell me the reason?"

Li Gui was a little surprised. As a military officer, he knew that the military officer had spent a lot of effort on the eastern front recently. If he retreated at this time, it would be useless. As a military officer, his duty was to make Zhang Han and the military understand the whole country. Even if Zhang Han had a clear order, he still wanted to ask the reason.

Zhang Han glanced at the attendant and military officer... In terms of personal ability, compared to Zhang Shixiong, who was brave and as cold as a rock, or Xia Xiping, who was scheming and wise, Li Gui was one level worse than these comrades, but after experiencing some things, he became cautious and cautious, and did things peacefully and not afraid of triviality.

"There is only one explanation..." Zhang Han smiled and said, "Tell them clearly that the military department has no money and no money to fight a bird fight. Return it to maintain daily training."

"Ah?" Li Gui could stuff an egg into his mouth. After a while, he smiled bitterly: "I know, I will go to the Military Command now, and then try to send a Tangma within an hour."

"Yes." Zhang Han nodded. He Yusheng's style was to do something immediately if he had something to do, and he could not delay it. Especially the people around Zhang Han were used to this decisive style. After receiving the order, Li Gui had almost no time to hesitate and went directly to the direction of the military commander.

At this time, Zhang Han realized that Tian Jitang was still following him, and his black face felt like he wanted to speak but stopped.

Zhang Han scratched his head and said, "Didn't Tian Hei-face say that he won't go to war this year. With the excess revenue of copper mines and the profits of cloth, the two places have an income of 800,000 more than the budget. This is a deficit of only about one million, which is similar to last year. Why are you still so frowning?"

Tian Jitang looked a little amused and said, "Why did the adults learn from those people? They said that the nickname is under the jurisdiction..."

"Is this a good thing?" Zhang Han smiled and said, "Zhangcai's tight hand is responsible to the boss. In the past, people in Shanxi like to find tight hand to manage accounts. Your black face nickname is right for Lao Tian and your identity."

Tian Jitang pursed his lips and couldn't help but feel moved.

No matter what, if he could listen to Zhang Han's words, he could really accept this inelegant alias.

However, Tian Jitang came here today not to say this. He gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, it's not for financial matters. Since he doesn't move troops, he can hold it down with his current income and overdraft of some money. In two months, the income of cloth will be earned again, so he won't be so nervous. What he wants to say is something else..."
Chapter completed!