From this record, it can be seen that the introduction of cotton has two roads by sea and land. The cotton in Quanzhou was introduced from the sea and was soon promoted in the south, and the promotion of cotton in the country was a large-scale promotion at the end of the year and the beginning of the year.

So, as early as last spring, the leaf dust asked the spies of the Ministry of Security to help the farm waiter find cotton seeds, and nearly a year later, a detective of the Ministry of Security heard the cotton of leaf dust in the western region, and through this person, the farmer bought a large number of cotton seeds, and bought a dozen cotton slaves who had planted cotton from the slave trader.Under the will of Ye Dust, under the Ministry of Agriculture, the Hexi Corridor and even the official governments at all levels in Longxi Taozhou and Hegyue Qingzhou attach great importance to it and are ready to test the seeds in the spring of this year.

Guazhou, Army Corps of the Volunteer Army.

Huang Dongqiu pushed open the door of the room, the wind and snow of the knife were mixed with the sand and dust in the face, and the cold came to face, and the physique of Huang Dongqiu could not help but beat a trembling.

“Sergeant, can you add another dress?”A staff member of Huang Dongqiu asked.

"No."Huang Dongqiu, with the cold wind, said that it was not very clear, and the officer's gloves that had just been issued by the Military Central Department of Logistics were somewhat awkwardly worn in his hand.Huang Dongqiu for this five-finger separate gloves very much, both to drive the cold, but in most cases does not affect the grasp of things, which in the cold western region is simply too convenient to use, a distribution will be by the volunteer army all the soldiers like.

It is now February of the lunar calendar, but the land of melon and sand two states is still cold, the blizzard is continuous, and Xia Jing is still cold when it is cold.According to the will of Yedust before the year, Huang Dongqiu will recapture Shazhou from Xizhou back to the state before the spring.In order to this matter, all the bravery army is making all kinds of preparations this winter, from the bottom to the battle between the attacking Shazhou and the Xizhou Hui Xuan people, repeatedly promoting various methods of play, constantly improving the combat readiness plan under various circumstances, including the official system grain and grass reserve of the representative of Tanmu Zhongren, and the selection of officials after the capture of Shazhou.

In addition, the Ministry of Security in the western division of the Department of security, Cuo Minglu led the spies to explore all the intelligence information about the return of the western state to the country, and before the Spring Festival, Huang Dongqiu and Tanmu Zhongren based on the information they found about the West State to return to the country, developed a separation plan, to the West of the king's master the lion king's brother Lega Dongbu sent a lot of weapons and equipment, and then the security department sent assassins to kill the Lion King, and then sent the assassins to the assassins.After a civil war, Lega Dongbu led 10,000 people to flee to the south, occupying a prairie, and the Lion King was difficult to extermination of Lega Dongbu in a short period of time, making it impossible for the commander of Shazhou City, Durramati, to have no reinforcements in the short term.

Huang Dongqiu left the Corps with a blizzard and prepared to visit the brigades again.Behind them were three staff officers and two hundred pro-baby soldiers.

Whether in wartime or peacetime, he had to turn around every day to inspect the brigades and battalions, and was unimpeded by the storm, he had never been without a day since he became a regimental commander, and finally often went to the battalions and grass-roots officers and soldiers to eat lunch together.

In addition, the illness of soldiers in the brigades has always been the focus of his daily attention, and the daily injury camp is also a must go.Huang Dongqiu is an old army, and he is very clear that the cohesion and maintenance of military morale has a great relationship with whether the officers are close to the soldiers.At present, it is time to go to war with the Western State to return to the country, and in the cold winter, the number of soldiers who are sick has usually increased, and he has to do this.

Before the headquarters of the army, Huang Dongqiu first saluted the sentry who saluted him at the door, then looked up at the gloomy sky, stomped his feet, turned over the horses brought by the soldiers, accompanied by staff officers and close soldiers, Huang Dongqiu said lightly: "departure."

In the snow, a group of people are moving away.

In fact, several cities in the Hexi Corridor are inland cities, especially the large cities in the original Jiangnan are much smaller, and the same is true of Guazhou City, so it is not long before the Huang Dongqiu line has been out of the city.According to the relevant regulations issued by the military headquarters, in addition to the city's avionics brigade in Guazhou City and the pro-army battalion of Huang Dongqiu, the four brigade battalions of the Volunteer Army in Guazhou are located outside the city.

Routine inspection of four brigade battalions, saw whether the barracks collapsed under the thick snow, whether the soldiers had frostbite, and personally checked a company's food, in addition to more than a dozen soldiers in the mainland frostbite, there is no big problem, Huang Dongqiu was assured.

Meat is eaten in the mainland, especially in the original and Gangnam, the army eats pork the most, and the most rare beef and mutton is very scarce.But for the volunteer army stationed in the Hexi Corridor, the most important thing is beef and mutton, as well as horse meat and camel meat.In addition to the large number of cattle and mutton in the real estate, there is another reason that last year first attacked the Hexi Corridor, then the horse thieves, and then the West State back to the squirrels, continued to fight, the horses, cattle and sheep and camels have captured a lot, and there are many wounded and even war-dead horses later made into marinated meat, bacon, dried meat and so on.Therefore, if the only food bravery army may be the best of the nine great armies of Xiangfang.

However, there is also a headache for Huang Dongqiu and Tanmu Zhongren - because the vegetation in the western region is scarce, the trees are far from the mainland, and dry wood has become a scarce thing, and the coal that is now gradually popularized in Xiangfang Guo has not been found in the Hexi Corridor, and the cost of transporting it from the mainland is too great.Even if the end of the wood acquired a large number of straw before the winter, it is still far from meeting the needs.

"The commander of the army has found the carbon mine."Just returned to the headquarters of the city's legion, a staff officer came to Huang Dongqiu under the leadership of the corps logistics department, and as soon as the entrance had the level of brigade, Yang Boxun, the logistics department of the military honors of the Grand Duke, saluted and said with joy.

“Where?”How far is it from Guatemala?Is it open or buried under the mountain?” Huang Dongqiu heard the words, not help but rejoice, stood up and asked three questions in one breath.

Yang Bokun pointed to the young officer next to him, who was only the rank of lieutenant, and said, "Chu Ningrui, report the specific situation to the commander of the army."

The young lieutenant named Qu Ningrui was a student in the geography department of Xiangfang College, because he completed the college's courses in advance and graduated early with extremely good grades, becoming the first student to graduate since the establishment of Xiangfang College.After he graduated, the Ministry of Industry and Agriculture under the Ministry of Industry and Agriculture of Xiangfuguo Dynasty Court Book Province wanted him, and as long as he entered any of these two departments, he could easily get an official position from eight products, and stay in the central office of Xia Jing Book Province, which can be described as a promising future.

However, Qu Ningrui's final choice was beyond everyone's expectations - he chose to join the army, according to the instructions of the leaf dust, the latest military center just has a provision, if the graduates of Xiangfang College participate in the army, after three months of intensive training at Xiangfang Military Academy, they can directly be awarded to the lieutenants and soldiers, and become officers from the nine products.This is calculated from eight products lower than two levels, and in accordance with the provisions of the military center, it must start from the top platoon leader.In addition, what makes Xiang Feng** more appreciative of him is that he took the initiative to call for the most difficult conditions of the Volunteer Army.

However, after Qu Ningrui was divided here, the senior level of the Volunteer Army still attached more importance to it, when the platoon leader for two months, he was transferred to the Corps staff as a staff officer, and let him assist a reconnaissance company personnel to be responsible for finding coal mines, obviously this Qu Ningrui is a real talent, and is a person who can do practical things, and after more than a month, he was expected to find the coal mine.

Qu Ningrui's face was dark, from the roughness of the skin can be seen as a civilian origin, apparently the first time so close to see the army commander, some nervous and excited, red face, deep breath, said: "the commander of the Qiqi army, his subordinates led the reconnaissance camp reconnaissance took a month and 13 days, found in the windy mountain stone carbon mine, and is open-pit stone carbon ore, as long as the collection of manpower, can be immediately mined."

Huang Dongqiu smiled cheerfully and said, “Kinningrui is it!”Very well, you solved the great problem under my army of volunteers, made great contributions, came to pass my orders, and remembered the second class of Khun Ningrui once."

Qu Ningrui was excited, his heart was ecstatic, and he saluted a beautiful military salute and shouted, "Thank you, the commander of the army for cultivation."

Huang Dongqiu nodded to him and said, "Tell Master Endu Mu, the news and the location of the coal mine, and tell the elder, if there is a problem with organizing the coal mine in a short period of time, I can send the engineering barracks to give us the army to mine some."

The two staff officers came in respectfully, holding a pencil to record the two orders of Huang Dongqiu in detail, and then saluted and left, but when he left, he looked at Qu Ningrui's eyes full of envy and even jealousy.For ordinary soldiers, if you want to make a second class, if you do not know how many times you have to go through the ghost gate to get it in the battlefield.But this boy, who had just been divided for less than two months, just took someone to run outside for more than a month and easily set up this great feat - they did not know that knowledge was the truth of strength.

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After Yang Bokun and Qu Ningrui left, Xiangfang Guogui, who had just been given the vencourage of the Veteran Veteran's Second Brigade, the commander of the Second Brigade of the Volunteer Army Cavalry, came from outside the city with a team of cavalry, came directly to the Corps headquarters, and after dismounted, with a man of more than 30 years old, dressed up and Tang, came directly to the hall where Huang Dongqiu usually used to handle military affairs.

It was nearly two o'clock in the middle of the night, two more, asking for the scene, asking for a monthly pass, asking for a red ticket--