Rule the Roost in the Tang Dynasty: One hundred and sixty-nine cotton clothes
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The moonlight spread across the entire Yumen Pass, as if it was stained with a layer of hoarfrost, and the city was still brightly lit and full of voices.
The Yumen Pass at this time was not the Yumen Pass built during the Han Dynasty, but was abandoned in the Later Han Dynasty and never used again after it was cut off.
Today's Yumen Pass was built in the pre-Sui Dynasty, and it was offset by dozens of miles from the Han Dynasty Yumen Pass.
The terrain is dangerous and surrounded by mountains and rivers. Because of the prosperous and prosperous years of Datang, the entire Yumenguan Pass has been expanded repeatedly and is now a small town of scale.
The surrounding mountain tops, as well as the various crossings ahead, including the river course, are now built with beacon towers. Coupled with the dangerous terrain, it has formed a tendency of easy defense and difficult attack. The entire Yumen Pass is like the Western Regions and The gate of the Central Plains has also become the only import and export.
The majority of Yumen Pass is composed of business travelers from various countries. Together with the troops stationed here all the year round, it constitutes nearly two-thirds of the entire population of Yumen Pass.
The small town of tens of thousands of people has not attracted the attention of the businessmen who stayed here after the 20,000 people led by Li Hong. After all, as a military fortress, coupled with the fact that businessmen are walking outside all the year round, the army has seen more. So no one is embarrassed because of the 20,000 people.
Li Hong was wearing a white fur, he put his hand in front of his mouth and said, "I always thought that Yumen Gate was very small. I didn't expect it to be so big now."
The general of the Yumen Pass Guards, who accompanied him on the city wall, had already received orders from the Ministry of War. His Royal Highness will arrive at Yumen Pass in the near future, and any requirements must be met.
I originally thought that His Royal Highness would make any unreasonable requests after his arrival, but he did not expect that His Royal Highness was very easy-going. Except that dinner was eaten by his maid, he did not propose anything more. More requirements.
"How many people are stationed here now?" Li Hong asked, looking at the white moonlight, exuding the cold light.
"Report to the general guard, now there are ten thousand soldiers stationed here." General Wei replied respectfully.
"Where are the merchants going to and from the city every day? Although you are only guarding a gate now, your duties are no different from a guardian. At most, the place of jurisdiction is smaller, but no one guards the place better than you guard. Isn't it more important that the place is more important?" Li Hong paced slowly up the tower, looking outside the city for a while, and looking inside the city for a while.
"It’s winter now. According to past practices, this huge number of merchants should basically be reduced. Those who go back and forth will come back to their homes before Yuan Dynasty, and wait for another ten Within half a month, fewer people enter the customs, and more leave the customs.” Yuan Shuji watched his Royal Highness easy-going, and he relaxed.
"Beacon Tower is there for twelve hours?" In the dim night, the Beacon Tower may be looming.
"Yes, most of them are guarded. Every beacon tower is guarded by twenty people, and there will be fewer people during the day."
"Take me to see your camp." Li Hong tightened the fur on his body, no way, the weather here is really cold, even if I haven't walked out of Yumen Pass into the desert yet, this evening is enough. Frozen people.
"Yes, protect most." Yuan Shuji is about 30 years old. He is not very strong and not very tall, but what he overflows is a killing temperament that has been honed on the battlefield all the year round, which makes people uncomfortable. Don't look at him sideways.
Led by Yuan Shuji, Li Hong and his party followed to the side of the city gate on the side of Yumen Pass facing the Western Regions. Although there were also lights here, it did not appear to be full of people.
The fence door slowly opened after Yuan Shuji showed the token. The soldier held a wind lantern in his hand and a horizontal knife in one hand, looking at Li Hong and others with vigilant eyes.
"Yes, I can see that although you are not under the command of the Anxi Guardian, your vigilance has not been lost because they are stationed in the four towns of Anxi." Li Hong looked at the soldiers at the door and said lightly.
"Xie Daduhu praised him." Yuan Shuji seems to have not laughed yet.
Following Yuan Shuji to the rows of houses made of stones, the soldiers inside were boring at this time, and some officers had already gone crazy in the city.
Just find a soldier's room, this is a room that can accommodate fifty people. According to the military system of the Tang Dynasty: ten people one fire, fifty people one team, three hundred people one regiment.
So there are a total of forty or fifty houses like this here, plus the barracks in other places in Yumenguan, it seems that it can accommodate ten thousand people.
Looking at a soldier who came in because of Yuan Shuji, he immediately signaled the others to stand up with him, Yuan Shuji nodded to them, the team was walking up to Yuan Shuji, and said: "General, do you have something to do?"
"It's okay, just come around." Yuan Shuji finally smiled.
While waiting to introduce Li Hong to the team, he was stopped by Li Hong's hand.
I saw Li Hong take two steps forward slowly, walked to the front of the team, first looked up and down, and then said: "Isn't going to unload?"
The team is rolling their eyes and looking at him frowning.
Although I don’t know the person in front of me, I can see whether the person in front of me is rich or noble by looking at the big white fur on his body. I think he is only fifteen or six years old, but he should be an official. Heir.
But even so, the team seemed to have not heard Li Hong's words, just watching Li Hong go around the room.
"A room with fifty people is good, at least it can add some warmth in winter." Li Hong didn't care if the team didn't respond to him. After a round, the team walked right in front of him again. Said: "Take off your armor."
"Why? Before going to bed, the barracks ordered no one to take off the armor." The team quickly spoke out before Yuan Shuji stopped him.
"Most guards, these soldiers have always been rude, even the general is also rude, so please don't blame it." Although Yuan Shuji explained apologetically.
Li Hong didn't care, he just continued to look at the team, then turned and walked two steps, knelt down and touched the couch with one hand, and said lightly: "Then you let him remove his armor first."
After finishing talking, Li Hong didn’t look back. He touched the mattress on the bed and pinched the thickness, then opened the mattress and touched the straw underneath, until he picked up the quilt and felt the thickness. I turned around with satisfaction.
The team is also under the order of Yuan Shuji to take off the armor. Seeing Li Hong's eyes at this moment, there is more or less awe, but even his general calls for the protection of others, and he is annoying. Great.
Li Hong's face has always been calm. He walked to the front of the team and stretched out his hand to touch the front shoulder of the team. Under a touch, the clothes on the front of the team were only made of about two or three layers of cotton cloth. The clothes that I got up were not provided by the Ministry of Households to the Ministry of War for free, and were shipped to the Western Regions, along with the cotton clothes distributed to soldiers on Liaodong Road in Yunzhong. "Order everyone to remove their armor." Li Hong stretched out his hand again and touched his pants, the same, they were still two or three layers of cotton trousers.
Before cotton appeared in the Tang Dynasty, this was the clothing used by ordinary people to keep out the cold. Only the wealthy and wealthy could use furs and other animal fur to keep warm during the winter.
Yuan Shuji glanced at Li Hong incomprehensibly, but he still obeyed his orders and asked everyone to remove their armor.
"Hua Meng, Mang, go and take a look." Li Hong scanned everyone in the room under the dim oil lamp.
In a short while, Hua Meng and Mangzhong shook their heads at him, and said in unison: "They are all cotton clothes."
Li Hong sighed after listening, and the staring team asked: "Have you ever had cotton clothes? The cotton clothes that the court sent you for free, do you know about this?"
Yuan Shuji suddenly realized that at the beginning, he hadn't figured out what his Royal Highness did, touching someone's bed, and letting people take off their armor, he knew it now. His Royal Highness wanted to see if the cotton clothes were distributed.
The team is looking at Li Hong's somewhat cold eyes. The young man who was still easy-going just now has a momentum of no anger and power, and his sharp eyes seem to see through his whole person.
Suddenly I felt a little guilty and embarrassed, and did not dare to look at Li Hong's eyes again. Nono said: "If you return to the general, the general and others have received the cotton clothes."
"How many sets?" Li Hong stared straight at the team with cold eyes. He wanted to see if the team would look at Yuan Shuji when answering his words. If there was a sneak peek, then there must be something tricky in it. .
"Two sets." The team dared not look anywhere, just stared at their feet and replied in a low voice.
"Then why don't you wear it? Why do you only wear such thin clothes?" Li Hong continued to ask.
The team was blinking. After taking a look at Li Hong, he lowered his head again, and said embarrassedly in a low voice: "The last... Finally the cotton-padded clothes will be sent home."
"Why?" Li Hong chased after him.
"Because...because...the family members of the end will not wear such good clothes for the winter, so...so...the end will be..."
"How many years have you been in the mansion? But have you been stationed at Yumen Pass?"
"Yes, the final will be in the army for five years."
"Then you should have at least ten sets of cotton clothes, all for your family?" Li Hong asked in surprise.
"It's ~IndoMTL.com~ Team Zheng's head is almost unable to lift up because of Li Hong's questioning.
"Are they all the same as you?" Li Hong asked again, scanning the soldiers who hadn't put their armor on.
"Yes, they are all the same as the last general." The team replied honestly.
It has been ten years since cotton entered Datang, isn't it popular yet? Or is there something hidden?
Li Hong waved his hand and motioned them to put on the armor. Then accompanied by Yuan Shuji, he watched several barracks. Basically all the soldiers sent the cotton uniforms given by the court back home, none of them People are willing to wear it.
Walking on the busiest street in Yumen Pass, this street runs east-west, facing the two gates of Yumen Pass, the east gate facing Guanzhong and the west gate facing the west.
Although the entire street is not as bustling as the ordinary streets of Chang'an City, it is also said to be brightly lit and full of people.
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