Everyone was very surprised that the little emperor talked about almost everything that had nothing to do with war in the afternoon, and it seemed to be closely related to war. The most common things were logistical matters, including not only the supply of materials, transportation, raising and production, but also the details of the soldiers' food, clothing, housing and transportation. He attached great importance to it, which made everyone have to take a twelve-point spirit to try to solve it.

In fact, Zhao Bing only heard two soldiers who were on duty complaining while patrolling the camp. They felt that this winter was surprisingly cold and extremely difficult, which made him suddenly wake up. As early as Qiongzhou, there were no four seasons, and almost all summer, so naturally they would not consider the issue of cold protection. After entering Jiangnan, the climate was divided into four seasons, and the issue of cold protection was put on the agenda. However, when he heard the complaints of the soldiers, he realized that although he had taken certain measures to prevent cold, the military uniform was divided into winter and summer, and the barracks in the northern region were equipped with heating measures, but it was not enough.

Everyone knows that China uses the Huai River as the warmth and the boundary of the cold zone. For a long time, there has been a deep misunderstanding between the north and the south - the south is not cold. Zhao Bing lived in the south for many years in his previous life, but he was deeply touched by this. When the temperature is suitable, people will not feel the troubles caused by humidity. However, in winter in the south, clothes are always damp due to the heavy water vapor in the air. Not only does it have no warmth effect, but also snatch all the little heat on our bodies. It is not "clothing warms people", but "people warm clothes". If there is a little breeze blowing, it will definitely make your heart cool and your heart fly.

However, Zhao Bing felt that wearing a thick dress could survive the short winter, but after he came to this world, he felt that it was colder than the winter in his previous life. In the past two years, he seemed to be even colder as the two soldiers said. He received reports from local officials that this year, due to the cold weather, the farming season was somewhat delayed. Not only did Hubei, which has always had little snow, but it also had heavy snow, and even light snow fell in Guangzhou.

In Zhao Bing's previous life, some people believed that the demise of the Yuan and Ming dynasties were related to changes in the earth's climate. It was precisely because of the arrival of the Little Ice Age that, both countries in Mongolian Khan, from Iceland and Britain at one end of the Eurasian continent to Japan at the other end, were suffering from plagues, famine, agricultural production reduction, population decline and social unrest. Almost no society could be immune to some of the disasters. China was also unable to escape, which led to the rise of social contradictions, which inspired peasant uprisings and the southward movement of nomadic peoples, leading to the change of dynasties.

It is still decades before the demise of the Yuan Dynasty in history, but the cold wave has invaded the always warm Jiangnan, which makes Zhao Bing a little confused. I don’t know if it was because he changed history, causing God’s revenge, deliberately making things difficult for him, or the prelude to the coming of the Little Ice Age. However, the abnormal fluctuations in the climate caused great trouble to him and may bring variables to his great cause of unification.

At present, the Song Dynasty only occupied the south of the Yangtze River. To achieve unification, it must attack from south to north. The soldiers must come from people who have lived in the south of the Yangtze River for generations. They have poor adaptability to the cold northern climate. Going to the north to approach the cold zone or even fight in the cold zone is a very challenging task. So the question arises, how to deal with the bitter cold and blizzard?

Historically, even for many Central Plains dynasties, fighting in winter has always been something they tried to avoid. The reason is that winter marching will naturally be hindered by the marching caused by blizzards. The accumulation of snow will not only affect the marching of soldiers, but also cause difficulties in logistics and transportation. Moreover, in many wars in the north, especially the wars of the Central Plains dynasty against ethnic minorities further north, cold itself is a great obstacle.

Zhao Bing knew that in history, Emperor Taizong of Tang personally conquered Goguryeo because of the arrival of late autumn. Emperor Taizong of Tang was worried that the winter was difficult to obtain logistics, so he retreated. In addition, in the Battle of Dachangyuan between Mongolia and the Jin Dynasty, the Red Turban Army's first conquering Goryeo. The Jin army and the Red Turban Army were eventually defeated because the army was not adapted to the cold winter. Even in modern times, Napoleon's failure to conquer Russia was a bloody lesson for combat in the cold season, which shows that the terrible impact of winter on wars can be seen.

It is precisely because of the large number of uncertainties brought by the cold winter that the commanders of the army must handle every problem that may be encountered during combat with greater caution, but this cannot guarantee that everything will be foolproof. Although winter is indeed a big problem, for the army, it is not that they do not want to fight in winter without fighting in winter. Therefore, solving the negative impact of cold on war has always been a very important thing.

Regarding winter combat, Zhao Bing thought there were undoubtedly two important issues to correspond to: one is how to ensure stable late stages; the other is how to keep the soldiers warm. He believed that the former was much easier than the latter, and he could use the cooperation of the navy to advance both water and maintain a strong offensive; on the other hand, the navy could also be used to ensure the supply of the army. The most difficult thing is how to find a qualified and sufficiently produced warm fabric.

In modern times, even for the poorest families, the severe cold in the north in winter is not a worrying thing - one piece of cotton coat is solved; if one piece doesn't work, then two pieces. However, in the same cold and cotton fabrics are not yet popular, winter is indeed not so easy to get over, especially in the northern regions, because it is still far from the popularization of cotton planting.

What Zhao Bing learned is that from ancient times to the present, China's traditional textile industry has mainly been mainly silk and hemp. Before the emergence of "silk and hemp", people mostly used animal fur to make clothes to shield the body from the cold. With the progress of the times, in the pre-Qin period, hemp and kudzu fabrics began to appear. The most important of them were kudzu, hemp, ramie, and azure.

The ancients mainly used kudzu to make ropes and clothes, but because the kudzu is thick and thick, it absorbs moisture and dissipates heat, and has low warming effect, the ancients often used kudzu to make summer clothes. The plant fibers of hemp are also long and tough. In addition, hemp and kudzu are also easy to obtain materials, the linen has a uniform texture, a simple color, and a soft feel. It is still an important clothing material until now. In addition, the low price is characterized by popularization, so ordinary people can basically wear clothes made of kudzu.

However, Zhao Bing also knew that although the price of hemp and kudzu were affordable, their effect on keeping cold was still unsatisfactory. In winter, people still had to rely on animal fur to keep warm. Fur was a very expensive thing in any dynasty, and not everyone could afford to wear mink cloaks. So, how did those who could not afford fur coats survive the winter?

Since you rely solely on kudzu and hemp, just fill your clothes with silk floss to keep warm. Of course, no one can afford high-quality silk floss, so ordinary people can only use some aged and broken floss and mixed with some silk and some remaining bits and pieces as warm fillings - also known as "sweets". This kind of robe is obviously not a high-end product - the warmth effect is not satisfactory and easy to break.

Therefore, time travel is also a technical job. If you accidentally come from the era without cotton and are born in an ordinary family, you must be prepared to be frozen to death. Zengzi of the Warring States Period also raised his arm and his sleeves in the cold winter and exposed his elbows, leaving behind the allusion of "stretching to the elbows". If you want to spend the winter with peace of mind, you either wear a low-quality elbow or a cheaper dog-skinned fur. Then don't think about it if you are squid fur.

Zhao Bing came to this world and was glad that when he was born in the imperial family, he also discovered something surprising. Someone actually wanted to wear "paper clothes" for the winter. It was the winter when Jiangnan was just recovered. The Ministry of Revenue asked to allocate silver to help the poor, one of which was to make paper clothes. You can imagine how shocked he looked when he saw it. In modern society, no one could wear paper clothes except models and so-called avant-garde artists. If you use paper clothes to keep warm, you would never imagine that you could open a big hole in your head, but it appeared in the Song Dynasty, which claimed to be rich.

If you use the light and crisp paper nowadays to make a piece of clothing or a quilt, you will definitely seriously doubt its availability, let alone keep warm. The ability to make clothes with paper is also due to the difference in papermaking technology. The paper in the Song Dynasty was mostly made of velvet paper with bark, which was tough and strong, had strong tensile strength, and was resistant to folding and wear. As long as you control a certain thickness and beatenness, you can make a paper coat that is both cheap and can block rain, dew and wind and cold. The paper coat is covered with hemp and tampon, and it becomes a paper coat. If you make it bigger, it becomes a paper quilt.

At first, wearing paper clothes was just a helpless act of the poor man who had no cloth to wear. He was to glue a few pieces of paper to block the cold. It was precisely because paper clothes were cheap and easy to make, distributing paper clothes to beggars living in the streets in the severe winter became an official poverty alleviation measure in the Song Dynasty. Some institutions directly distributed paper quilts to save money. Lu You had a deep understanding of the warmth brought by paper quilts on heavy snow. He once wrote a poem to thank his friends who gave them paper quilts and exclaimed, "The paper quilt is surrounded by snowy days, and it is as soft as a fox armpit."

The whiteness, lightness and softness of the paper material is also quite in line with the aesthetic taste of the literati and quilts of the Song Dynasty. Wearing paper clothes and covering paper quilts even became a trend in the literary circle at that time. If the paper quilt becomes dirty and old and squeaks, the great lifeer Su Dongpo teaches you how to deal with it. "If the paper is old and hairy, it will be broken. Use five or seven hollyhock stems to beat it, soak it in water, and brush it with saliva. It will be like new, or use hibiscus leaves to pound it in water and brush it, which is also wonderful."

However, since paper clothes and paper quilts are helpless emergency measures, they will inevitably be imperfect. The biggest problem is that they are not breathable and are not good for the body for a long time. Therefore, they have to change the clothes and paper clothes to wear when preventing cold in winter. Of course, the shortcomings cannot be used to equip the army. Although there have been "paper armor" once, the manufacturing process is more cumbersome and the price is not cheap. It is definitely not the kind of lou-go goods that are rumored in later generations that are filled with insufficient military expenditure.

As a means of keeping cold, most of the army will use quilts and cold-proof clothing made of animal skins or linens wrapped in silk floss. However, the low yield of these two is a problem that has been difficult to solve for a long time. Therefore, in the physical tax collected from farmers, silk has always been an important part to ensure the supply of government and army. However, even so, it is still difficult to maintain military existence in areas with higher latitudes in the north for a long time. Therefore, the actual control area of ​​the Central Plains dynasty rarely exceeds that of the Liaodong region to the north...

The current situation made Zhao Bing realize that if you want to solve the problem of "keep warmth", you can only place it on cotton. However, to solve it, you must not only put it in front of you, but also consider it from a strategic perspective. Otherwise, the unification of the country can only stop at the front line of the Great Wall.

In fact, cotton was first introduced to China as ornamental flowers. At the latest in the Han Dynasty, cotton had appeared on the East Asian continent. However, from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, cotton planting was always limited to South China and the south, and related industries were also very slow to develop. Zhao Bing was not unfamiliar with cotton of this era. It was planted in Qiongzhou, and it had formed mature textile technology and became an important export product in Qiongzhou. However, the price was astonishingly high, and it could only be used as a luxury product and was difficult to popularize.

As a later generation, Zhao Bing knew that the glory of the cotton era was precisely because of a woman who once lived in Qiongzhou, Huang Daopo. She learned the technology of the Li people in Qiongzhou and combined it with the textile technology of the Central Plains. After returning to Jiangnan, Huang Daopo continued to improve cotton textile technology, upgrade and develop new spinning wheels. As a result, China's cotton textile technology began to make rapid progress, and greatly promoted the promotion of cotton planting.

Cotton cloth is softer and warmer than linen cloth, and it is less difficult to weave, which also saves the hard work of planting mulberry trees and silkworms. As soon as it appeared, it gained widespread popularity from the people. In the Yuan Dynasty, when cotton was just industrialized, many cotton fabrics had already appeared. At that time, the imperial court even used cotton as raw materials to produce a variety of military supplies.

On the other hand, as cotton fabrics have become an indispensable commodity for all families, the cotton textile industry began to expand rapidly. Zhao Bing also knew that it was the rise of the cotton textile industry that had a profound impact on the social economy. As a necessity for daily life, cotton is very suitable for independent production of individual families. This led to the fact that my country's self-sufficiency natural economic system became more introverted and stable since the Ming Dynasty, while the West completed the germination of capitalism with the help of the industrialized production of cotton.
Chapter completed!