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Chapter 749

In late October, Hangzhou is already in early winter. The weather is getting colder. Today it is drizzling again, making people feel even more wet and cold. Zhao Bing stood under the eaves of the corridor and stared at the layer of yellow leaves falling in the yard. In his previous life, he was not afraid of the hot summer, nor did he hate the rainy plum rainy season. The most annoying thing is the cold winter. This cold in the south is different from the biting cold in the north, but the indescribable wet and cold, but there is no heating equipment, which makes people feel extremely uncomfortable. He just hopes that the winter will end quickly.

"Official family, don't freeze!" Su Lan put on a cloak on Zhao Bing and said.

"Is this piece sewn by my sister?" Zhao Bing turned around and asked Su Lan to tie the hole for him and said with a smile.

"Well, the official has changed the style, but it looks much better than before." Su Lan tied the buttons and smoothed her clothes and smiled.

"Is that so? I just don't know when the soldiers will put it on!" Zhao Bing stretched out his hand from the hole under his armpit and brushed a strand of hair hanging down from Su Lan's ears behind him and sighed.

As the weather became colder, the thick clothes made were gradually issued in the order of the navy and then the infantry. Zhao Bing found that there were a large amount of felt and woolen materials among the items collected in the official warehouse. And thanks to the Mongolians pacifying Jiangnan, the exchange of materials between the north and the south became smooth, and these wool products produced in the north and the west poured into Jiangnan in large quantities, and the prices were low.

Of course, the materials from this period are also called "brown". Zhao Bing had an idea and thought that fine squids can be used to make clothes, which not only keeps warm, but also protects from wind and rain. It is enough to keep warm in Jiangdong. The original meaning of brown refers to clothes made of coarse hemp or wool, and it also means poverty and humble, so the price is much cheaper than silk and silk cotton. Why not use these things too?

So Zhao Bing bought a large amount of felt and woolen materials, and made military uniforms according to the style of new military uniforms. He also designed a cloak. In ancient times, the cloak evolved from Taoist crane cloaks. Men wear it with large double-breasted sleeves, wide overall and tied, so they can only be worn in regular clothes, rather than modern cloaks that are shaped like cloaks and sleeveless cloaks.

Zhao Bing's "design" is naturally modern, and is different from modern military coats. It has a small square collar, sleeveless, cloak-button buckle, and a wide body. It only has a mouth open under the armpit, which can easily stretch out your hands. It is not only warm, but also looks very cool. After trial production, everyone said it was convenient and practical, especially a group of generals who wanted it and strongly asked for assembly.

Zhao Bing naturally followed the public's wishes, but this one can only be distributed to officers for the time being, of course, it must be divided into three or six. The senior officers above the commander and above are made of fine wool made of cashmere, while the middle officers above are made of fine wool, while the lower officers are made of cheaper camel velvet. The piece on his body is made of rabbit velvet, which makes him feel that his values ​​have been subverted.

Zhao Bing remembered that cashmere seemed to be the highest price in his previous life, and rabbit fur was not even as good as camel velvet. But at this time, the fine wool of rabbit velvet was a tribute, which other people could not enjoy. This is what is called rare and expensive. Fortunately, he didn't care about these things, and he couldn't care about them. As long as they were warm and practical, it would be fine. But in the end, the emperor could not wear big street goods made in workshops, but it still had to be customized by a dedicated person. Now all the people in the inner palace are in Qiongzhou, so he can only trouble Su Lan.

"Your Majesty is going to worry about everything. The matter of Hanyi has been left to the bottom of the house. Just ask me about it at that time!" Su Lan smiled when she saw the little emperor's face anxious.

"After that being said, most of our troops come from the southeast coast and live in Qiongzhou for a long time. They are resistant to heat and cold, and are not adapted to the climate here. Wouldn't it be bad if they are infected with wind and cold!" Zhao Bing shook his head and said.

"The official family, Jiangdong is not Qiongzhou, and there are as many as a hundred embroidery buildings in Shaoxing Fucheng. Women all know how to needle and thread. As long as they have styles, they can be completed without taking much time!" Su Lan chuckled.

"Yes, yes, I'm still thinking about things in Qiongzhou now, and I'm really confused!" Zhao Bing suddenly woke up and smiled bitterly after hearing this.

"The official family is not confused, but care is confusing. I just didn't expect it for a while!" Su Lan raised her head and said.

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"What's wrong with the official family..." Su Lan suddenly noticed that the little emperor's face was strange, looked at him calmly, and asked hurriedly.

"Oh, it's okay, I just found that I'm taller than Sister Su!" Zhao Bing said with a blushing face. The two were standing very close now. When he smelled the unique fragrance of Su Lan, he suddenly felt a warm heart. Su Lan, who had been together every day, had changed from a young girl who had just entered the palace to a mature peach, with a unique charm on her body, and she couldn't help but be fooled by it.

"Of course, Your Majesty will be fifteen years old after the New Year, and you will have to wear a crown in another year. Then you will grow up and I will grow old!" Su Lan stroked her hanging hair and looked at His Majesty with a chuckling.

"Sister is in a great age, how could he get old?" Although Su Lan smiled, Zhao Bing also heard the loneliness in his words. He calculated that Su Lan was six years older than him and was in her early twenties. If she could still be among the girls in modern times, she had already been included in the circle of old girls at this time. For example, she had been a woman at a long time and now she could only stay in the palace, so he could only say embarrassedly.

"Time flies and beauties grow old, how can I escape!" Su Lan smiled bitterly, "The Queen Mother has long said that after the official's crown, she will be a grand election girl. After the wedding, she will let the official's family take charge of the power, and then I will be able to leave the palace."

"I will not let my sister go out of the palace!" Zhao Bing smiled. He knew very well that such older palace maids would end up miserably after leaving the palace. If they could marry a widower, they would have to go into the brothel and laugh. They would put their best years on themselves and they could not do anything unjust, let alone...

"Don't talk nonsense!" Su Lan blushed and said with a bitter smile. The Empress Dowager asked her to be in charge of Shangyi Bureau to let her enlighten the ignorant little emperor, so that she could have a family before the wedding, so that she would not have a chance to lose her. But the little emperor yelled that she would not have a big marriage for one day, and would not have a big wedding for one day, and she would not have thought about this at all. She grew old day by day, and this could only make her even more bitter.

"I am a golden word, how could I say it in vain!" Zhao Bing stretched out his hands and put them on Su Lan's shoulders and said with a smile.

"The official family... I heard that Li Sanniang was also coming with reinforcements, so how can you place you?" Su Lan was suddenly hugged by the little emperor, and her heart trembled suddenly, but she quickly calmed down and broke free and said.

"How do you know?" Zhao Bing was shocked. Li Sanniang was the concubine who had been married to the Li clan. I thought about it for several years. If it weren't for the regular rewards during the Chinese New Year every year, I would have almost forgotten it. Now I suddenly came here and I was making trouble.

"The official must have not read the battle report carefully. Among the reinforcements sent by Qiongzhou this time, there were mountain brigades, and among the generals in the commanding army, there were Li Sanniang!" Su Lan said with a sweet smile.

"What does she do with her?" Zhao Bing frowned when he heard this. In forming a new army, he considered that Li people lived in the mountains, were good at climbing mountains and ridges, and were brave and fighting, so he recruited Li soldiers to form a brigade. Of course, his mother-in-law strongly supported him, and there were two thousand people below Daning Village, accounting for most of them.

Finally, he organized three thousand li soldiers into mountain brigades. What made Zhao Bing a headache was that these li soldiers were unwilling to use firearms. They thought they were complicated and inconvenient to use them from the mountains, but only loved traditional long spears, short swords and crossbows. Considering the particularity of li soldiers, he did not forcefully change them, and the chief officer did not appoint Han generals. Instead, he took Li Yiren's cousin Wu Qin as the commander, and granted him the power to independently appoint subordinates and subordinate officers, and only sent instructors to teach military orders and military disciplines. He did not interfere too much. He thought that he was taking advantage of his indulgence to take advantage of loopholes.

"I heard that Sanniang was a strange woman in Qiongzhou. She was familiar with Confucian classics and was proficient in riding and shooting. She could lead troops on horseback and rule the people with horseback off horseback." Su Lan said.

"Haha, I guess that little thing is okay to deal with those Lidong in Qiongzhou. Now it is a battle of thousands of troops, so it may not work!" Zhao Bing sneered.

"The official family must not let Sanniang down on his painstaking efforts. They have traveled thousands of miles to support the emperor, and Daning Village has been guarding Lidong for many years. How can the official family be so indifferent?" Su Lan was not very satisfied with the young emperor's attitude and persuaded him.

"A grievance, I saved his life back then, but caused this trouble." Zhao Bing sighed and became bored and interested. He lay on the railing and watched the raindrops intently...

Three days later, Zhang Zizhen led the third fleet to Shaoxing. Not only were the baggage army, the second land brigade, the third brigade, the third artillery brigade, the second cavalry brigade, the mountain brigade and the first personal military brigade. Jiang Qi also led the officers and soldiers of the new army training camp and more than 10,000 recruits to meet. In addition, the Secretariat, the Sixth Ministry of the Secretariat and the Most of the Privy Council officials and hundreds of students who had not yet been assigned, Zhou Xiang also led more than a thousand craftsmen and equipment to serve as supervisors and the Ministry of the Ministry of Justice.

Zhao Bing was very moved when he heard this. Old man Ying was almost all the family members of Xingchao, but Qiongzhou was empty, with only one division, infantry and civilian army defending, and only two regiments of the guards were left in the city. However, this also shows that the old man firmly believed that he could occupy Jiangdong, so he would send troops regardless of Qiongzhou's Kongmen. The Empress Dowager also came to write a letter to express his gratitude for the successive victory of the army, and told Zhao Bing to take care of his health and not to go to the front line in person. After he recovered Lin'an City, he came to meet. He was worried that there was no one around him, so he sent all the eunuchs from the Eastern Palace.

Almost all the time moved to Jiangdong, Lu Xiufu and others were also very happy. They did not expect the situation to develop so quickly. They recovered the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions in less than two months. Now they have to send officials to rebuild governments at all levels, but no one is available around them, and even the clerks around them are still unable to equip them with all the personnel. At the moment, the entire team has arrived, and they can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, when we moved to Qiong, the young emperor did not cut down officials a lot, but instead left them in the court with an over-programmed method. He also started a vocational examination and trained many reserve officials. After so many years of maintenance, it was finally handy, so that he could now calmly send officials to various places to work without being blind. While everyone admired the young emperor's foresight, he was also extremely excited. He had finally made it through for many years in Qiongzhou.

The situation is urgent now, and Zhao Bing has no time to cooperate with them. He first ordered Zhou Xiang to select a site to build gunpowder, gun and shell workshops in Shaoxing, and put them into production as soon as possible to support the needs of the war. At the same time, the shipyard and craftsmen in Pingjiang should be taken to repair the damaged warships as soon as possible and transform the captured warships. In addition, it is necessary to prepare to accept the Lin'an craft workshop. Once the city is recovered, the equipment will be installed as soon as possible and put into production.

In addition, Jiang Chaozong, the Ministry of Works, and Zhang Xu, the deputy director of the Ministry of Works, investigated the terrain along the river and formulated a plan to restore urban defenses in important cities along the river, such as Pingjiang, Jiangyin and Jiankang. He ordered the Ministry of Works to purchase materials, recruit craftsmen and stern men, and start construction immediately once it is completed; the Ministry of Personnel selects officials to take office as soon as possible to establish and consolidate the regime and soothe the people; the Ministry of Revenue cooperates with local prefectures to investigate the land and population, and does a good job in basic work for collecting taxes and dispatching husbands.

The Ministry of War has the heaviest task. Zhao Bing ordered half of the newly trained recruits brought by Qiongzhou to supplement the brigades of the imperial guards, and the other half used the 1st and 2nd Brigades as the base to expand the 3rd to four artillery brigades to consolidate the defense of the river. At the same time, 100,000 new recruits were recruited, and soldiers from the new military brigades were recruited as the backbone, and ten new military divisions were formed and trained as soon as possible. In addition, we must start rectifying, expanding local armed forces, establishing garrisons in the garrison, clearing out residual enemies, and supporting the imperial guards. In addition, we also check the military merits of each department and dealing with violations of discipline.

The Ministry of Justice should also start to investigate and arrest traitors and traitors during the Yuan army's invasion of Jiangnan, and punish them quickly and severely; at the same time, clean up accumulated cases and unjust cases, and release the resisters arrested for anti-Yuan; the Ministry of Rites seems the easiest, but they must prepare to recover a series of matters after the resumption of the etiquette system to the restoration of the academy, from the restoration of the etiquette system to the relevant palaces and the restoration of the academy. The Censorate should also devote himself to work as soon as possible to investigate and deal with officials who killed innocent people in the war, falsely report military achievements, and embezzle property, and supervise whether there are any illegal and discipline violations in the restoration of the regime.

With the arrival of reinforcements, the troops attacking Lin'an were already very sufficient, so Zhao Bing planned to end the battle as soon as possible, and then he could put his troops into other battlefields, then switch to comprehensive defense operations, consolidate the lost ground, and prepare to fight the counterattack of the Yuan army with all his might. In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the battle, he ordered Zhang Zizhen's troops to set up a water camp with three land combat brigades centered on Jiankang, take on the defense tasks of the Yangtze River, and eliminate all enemy troops trying to cross the river.
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