Even though he knew Meng Yue's ability, he was not only able to create things out of thin air, but also the quantity was terrifying.
Just like the food before, he took great pains to collect food, but only a few hundred thousand catties. However, when it came to Meng Yue, he just waved his hand casually and got a million catties of food.
That’s not all. There is also the magical coal mine detection equipment. No matter who you are, as long as you hold the equipment, you can know whether there are coal mines within a radius of dozens of miles. The detection results are very accurate.
But these things were not enough to shock him, and what shocked him even more was yet to come.
Soldiers stationed on the northern border still need to endure the cold in extremely cold weather. Honeycomb coal alone is not enough, they also need cotton clothes.
Don’t say that he didn’t have that much money to buy hundreds of thousands of cotton-padded clothes for the soldiers. Even if he did, he would have nowhere to buy them.
After all, cotton-padded clothes were considered relatively expensive items in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Even a cotton-padded coat of poor quality would cost two taels of silver.
The total income of ordinary people in a year is only five or six taels, which is not enough to barely fill the stomachs of the family, let alone buy cotton clothes.
If we assume a family of three, buying three cotton-padded clothes would cost six taels of silver. That means the whole family would have to work hard for a year without eating or drinking to save up a tael of silver just to be able to buy three cotton-padded clothes.
But if people want to live, they have to eat and drink water. If they don't eat or drink for a few days, they will die. Then no matter how much money they save, it will be meaningless.
It can be said that expensive cotton-padded clothes are not affordable for ordinary people.
In winter, people usually wear cotton-padded clothes made of willow catkins, or try to wear as many clothes as possible to rely on the positive energy in their bodies to resist the cold.
Of course, there is a way. Before winter comes, try to store as much firewood as possible. In this way, when the mountains are blocked by heavy snow and the roads are blocked, you can still rely on burning firewood to keep warm when you cannot go out.
Even if there is a lot of firewood on the mountain, there are still many people cutting it down, which results in a situation where there are too many people and too little firewood.
Moreover, some people, in order to supplement their family income, would not keep the firewood they chopped at home for burning, but would instead carry it to the town to sell for money. A load of firewood would fetch two cents, and better quality firewood three cents.
As a result, although every household in the rural area goes up the mountain to chop firewood, they do not have much firewood at home, which is only enough for daily cooking, and there is no room for heating.
Winter comes and the weather is cold, and the consequence is that countless people freeze to death every year.
The imperial court also tried to solve this problem by allowing the people to grow cotton in large quantities, but the cotton yield was too low.
Besides, when people cannot fill their stomachs, they will of course give priority to growing food, and cotton is the only choice they have to make under the pressure of the government.
Another point is that many people do grow cotton, but many of them do not sell it. Instead, they make cotton clothes for themselves.
As a result, the amount of cotton circulating on the market was greatly reduced.
This year, winter not only came early in the northern border area, but was also extremely cold. The soldiers' cotton-padded clothes were generally thin, and they had to train every day. Even the soldiers with poor physical fitness could not bear it, let alone the civilians.
He never thought that just when he was worried about this matter, Mengyue saw something and took out five million cotton coats without saying a word.
When he saw the warehouse full of cotton-padded clothes, his mood was as turbulent as the waves and he couldn't calm down for a long time.
He knew that Meng Yue was very capable, but he couldn't be too unreasonable. Five million cotton-padded clothes was not a small number.
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