Xie Ruiyuan was not very surprised to hear Li Mengyue say this, because he knew the situation on the northern border very well.
He also knew that if Li Mengyue had not provided the coal mine detection equipment and honeycomb coal making tools, he believed that the entire northern border garrison would have frozen to death in the wind and snow, and the people would have been unable to bear the burden.
He sent Qingxi to the north, equipped with coal mine detection equipment, and successfully found the coal mine. His deputy generals also knew Qingxi and carried out his orders, allowing the soldiers to make a large amount of honeycomb coal without delaying training, thus solving the heating problem.
Of course, honeycomb coal alone is not enough. The soldiers' cotton-padded clothes are also relatively thin. In the past, winters were not so cold, and they had to rely on their righteousness to endure it. Many soldiers developed frostbite on their hands and feet, and they would itch terribly when they encountered a little heat, which was terribly painful.
However, the weather this year is much colder than before, and thin cotton clothes alone are no longer enough to keep out the cold.
In fact, he also wanted to provide his soldiers with thicker and warmer cotton clothes, but the cotton produced by the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty had a very low yield and was very expensive.
Most of the cotton harvested each year is bought by wealthy families, and even if a small amount of cotton is circulated on the market, the price is very high.
However, the military funds allocated by the imperial court each year were very small, and could not even pay the soldiers' salaries, let alone purchase expensive cotton-padded clothes.
Even if he wanted to provide subsidies, hundreds of thousands of soldiers would need to buy hundreds of thousands of cotton-padded clothes. Just the burden of providing food and fodder for hundreds of thousands of troops was already too much for him to bear. He really had no ability to provide cotton-padded clothes.
Unexpectedly, this matter that gave him such a headache could not be easier to solve when it came to Li Mengyue.
He still remembered that a month ago, the water conservancy project had just started and many problems had occurred. Li Mengyue came to the villa more frequently, basically once every two days. Later, he was worried that Li Mengyue was too tired from running around, so he suggested that Li Mengyue live in the villa.
Li Mengyue did not agree immediately, saying that her father was still at home and how could she stay out all night every day.
Although he got pregnant before marriage, her father accepted it and the villagers didn't say anything gossipy about it in private, but she couldn't take the lead in doing so knowing that it would have a bad influence.
You should know that now in the eight villages of Qingshan Town, whether they are little girls, married young women, or grandparents, they all take her as an example and learn from her.
She is not only Li An's daughter, but also the spiritual pillar of the entire Qingshan Town village. As a communist figure, she must set a good example for everyone and cannot do something knowing that it is wrong.
When he heard Li Mengyue say this, he remembered what he had overlooked, that is, his and Li Mengyue's child was about to be born, but he had not given Li Mengyue a status and had not married Li Mengyue home.
Although he had already regarded Li Mengyue as his own woman in his heart, no matter whether it was the servants in the Palace of King of Hell or the Palace of Prince Chen, they all recognized Li Mengyue as the princess and their future mistress, but others did not know.
They all believed that Li Mengyue had eloped with a beggar and was pregnant with the beggar's child. He believed that if Li Mengyue had not brought benefits to the villagers of the eight villages, the eight villages would have been able to have enough food and clothing under Li Mengyue's leadership, and could have saved a small amount of money, and they would no longer have to worry about their sons not being able to find wives and their daughters not being able to get married.
Even if Li Mengyue was not driven out of the village, there would still be gossip.
He and Li Mengyue proposed to her family to propose marriage, but Li Mengyue refused without even a pause. The reason she gave was very simple. She said that she had not had enough of the single life and they would talk about it after some time.
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