However, Mengyue told him in a calm tone that these cotton-padded clothes would be used as a temporary emergency measure, and he could tell her if the quantity was insufficient.
What was his reaction at that time? He just nodded blankly.
However, he quickly calculated in his mind that there were 300,000 troops stationed on the northern border, so he only needed 300,000 cotton-padded clothes, and the remaining 470,000 would have to be sold to the people.
Due to the continuous wars on the northern border and the poor living conditions, there are not many people with the surname Qi in the north, about 500,000.
These cotton-padded clothes were sent to the northern border. If the cotton-padded clothes were not given to the soldiers, basically one could be made for each person.
But the soldiers are defending their country, and their daily training is already very hard. How could he bear to treat them unfairly?
Just as he was thinking about this problem, a voice in his mind told him that he just needed to ask Mengyue for another 300,000 cotton-padded clothes.
But Mengyue took out 500,000 cotton-padded clothes at once, which already touched him deeply. How could he go further and ask for more?
But Mengyue happened to see his dilemma and asked directly. He tried to evade the question, but Mengyue's eyes were extremely sharp, so he had no choice but to tell the truth.
As a result, Meng Yue produced another 10 million cotton-padded clothes with a wave of his hand, saying that they were donated to the troops stationed on the northern border for free. He asked him to send people to deliver the remaining 50 million pieces to the north and sell them to the Meng family at a very low price.
He immediately agreed and sent people to transport cotton clothes to the north.
Not to mention that Mengyue took out tens of thousands of cotton-padded clothes, even if she didn't take a single cotton-padded coat, he would agree to any request Mengyue made.
In this way, honeycomb coal and cotton clothes were available in the north, and the problem of keeping warm was temporarily solved.
But Mengyue was still not satisfied and suggested something called earthen kang. When he heard it at that time, he was confused and had no idea what kang was.
It seemed that ever since he had been with Mengyue, his self-esteem had suffered a severe blow. Even though he was well-read and had read countless books, he still had no idea what Mengyue said about some of the things she said.
When Mengyue asked someone to build her bedroom and put in a brick bed, after trying it out, he realized how useful the brick bed was.
It was of great benefit not only to the troops stationed in the north, but also to the people of the northern Zhou clan. In this way, every household had a kang in winter, and they had inexpensive honeycomb coal, which could be used to boil water and cook, as well as to keep warm.
When it’s cold in winter, the whole family can just stay on the kang without having to worry about freezing to death.
It would have been fine if he didn't know about kang before, but now that he knew there was such a wonderful thing as kang, he didn't hesitate and immediately asked someone to rush to send a kang-making craftsman and blueprints. He no longer had to worry about the cold weather in the north for the time being.
The construction of the water conservancy project in Qingshan Prefecture was nearing completion, so he had some more free time to spend with Mengyue.
But now Mengyue actually told him that the extremely cold winter would begin in half a month from the north of Qingshan Prefecture, which made him nervous again after finally relaxing.
North of Qingshan Prefecture is the entire northern part of Da Zhou. The area covered is so vast, this is no joke.
Even though he had people making honeycomb coal in large quantities and selling it at low prices more than a month ago, Mengyue was also busy. However, although the amount of honeycomb coal produced seemed large, it still could not meet the needs of so many people in the north.
"Ayue, can you speed up the production of honeycomb coal over there?"
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