Ming Zuo

Chapter 499 Cloth
The arsenal in the Jiaodong Industrial Zone is expected to have the same types of products as the Dongping arsenal in the future.

The main reason is that with the increasing scale of the new army, the demand for weapons and equipment can no longer be met by an arsenal.

It is believed that with the expansion of the site, there will be more and more arsenals in the future.

"Now the development of Jiaozhou Bay has begun to take shape, the population is at its peak, and the market is prosperous, so the administrative plan needs to be formulated."

Zuo Menggeng was about to leave Jiaozhou Bay, and before that, there was one last problem to be solved.

In the Jiaozhou Bay area, Lingshanwei, several thousand households, and a salt field originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty.

It is sparsely populated and desolate everywhere.

But now the settled population in this area has exceeded [-], and it is still a naval station, and it is expected to become more and more prosperous in the future.

As for the ownership of the administration here, it must be determined.

Regarding this point, the most nervous people are Fu Yusun and other Jiaozhou Bay administrative officials.

After all, this is related to their political status.

As one of the bigwigs in Jiaodong, Cao Wenheng has a great say.

"Jiaozhou Bay covers a vast area, has a large population, and has an important location. It can be directly established as a city."

Several other people have similar views, and feel that a city-level administrative organization can be established here.

Zuo Menggeng actually thought so too.

"My opinion is that when Qingdao City is established here, Fu Yusun will be the mayor, and the rest of you will be promoted in turn. But for specific opinions, you have to write to the administrative committee to seek approval and support."

Zuo Menggeng paid more attention to posture and rarely interfered in administrative affairs.

For such a matter, after he made a decision, he had to seek the opinion of the administrative committee and hand it over to the administrative committee for implementation.

But everyone is very clear that there is no problem with the approval of the administrative committee.

This is determined by the development of Jiaozhou Bay.

After confirming this matter, Zuo Menggeng left Jiaozhou Bay and headed north to Yidu.

After receiving his order, the first division has already launched an offensive against Qingzhou Mansion.

He wasn't worried about how the first division was doing. He was going to see how much he could receive this time.

Now the big guy has gotten used to Zuo Menggeng's style of doing things, and no one sent him off with great fanfare when he left.

Everyone is still busy in their own positions, even battered.

"Gong, let me tell you, if you can't get it out, I'll kill you."

In the sail factory, Wang Xiuqin put her hands on her hips and roared like thunder, making everyone around tremble with fear.

Gong Salu was extremely wronged.

"Beautiful lady, my surname is not Gong..."

Wang Xiuqin interrupted roughly.

"You are beautiful! Don't talk about it with me. I have sent you all the raw materials. I want to see the finished product in a month at the latest. If I can't see it, I will hang your head on the mast."

Gong Salu trembled with fear, and finally woke up.

"The loom will arrive tomorrow. I promise, it won't take a month at all. You can get the cloth you need in just half a month."

Wang Xiuqin wanted to teach her a lesson, so her deputy ran over and whispered something in her ear.

Wang Xiuqin was angry.

"Since it's a criminal, send it to the place where it should be sent, and you can't talk to me."

The deputy quickly lowered his voice.

"This criminal is quite special, the commander personally confessed, let you watch and deal with it."

Wang Xiuqin was not stupid, and immediately asked, "What's the story behind it?"

The deputy muttered for a long time, and Wang Xiuqin's eyes lit up.He didn't even care about teaching Gong Salu a lesson, so he turned around and was about to leave.

About to turn out the gate, just when Gong Salu was about to let out a sigh of relief, she turned around again, pointing at Gong Salu with majestic eyes, her tone full of chill.

"Half a month."

Gong Salu nodded like a pounding garlic, and finally sent the tigress away, and spread it on the ground.

"Oh, my God. Didn't they say that women in the East are as gentle as water? What is this one I met? God, who will save me?"

The people next to him didn't have the slightest sympathy.

"Old Gong, I don't think your God can save you if you can't get the canvas out."

What's the matter?
It was Wang Xiuqin who received the task of making new military uniforms with Song Dynasty backs produced in Songjiang Prefecture.

But after getting the fabric and starting construction, the big guys realized that this kind of fabric is still not interesting.

The fabric is too stiff, don't fold it, it won't be so neat if you wear it on your body.

However, if the weaving thread on the back is reduced, the fabric becomes loose again, and it does not meet the standards of military uniforms.

At this moment, Wang Xiuqin happened to see a small piece of soft sail canvas produced by the sail factory.

This kind of cloth is of course extremely strong, and very flexible, far better than back cloth.

Wang Xiuqin immediately fell in love and planned to use this kind of fabric to combine with the back to try the effect of making military uniforms.

But her request was initially rejected by the director of the sail factory, the priest Christine Sallo.

In the words of Gong Salu, the production of new warships must be overtime, there is no time to delay, and there is no spare capacity to do anything else.

But when Wang Xiuqin pointed the muzzle of a musket to his head, Gong Salu suddenly realized that it might not be time for him to be called by God, so he happily chose Congxin.

Soft sails in Europe are actually the ancestors of canvas fabrics for later generations.

In this era, clothing made of canvas has appeared occasionally, but it is not yet mainstream.

After all, making sails is very expensive, and no one dares to make clothes with it.

When did canvas start appearing as clothing fabric on a large scale?
It was the time of the gold rush in the American West.

The costumes of the western cowboys in the movie are basically canvas.

But it was not the westward movement that made canvas the fabric of clothing, but the steamship.

As steam engines became the main source of power for ships, sails gradually began to withdraw from the stage of history.

In order to find a way out, those factories that made a living by making sails began to turn their attention to the field of clothing production.

This change just happened to catch up with the westward movement. The demand for canvas in the west with harsh natural conditions was huge, which finally gave canvas a place in the field of clothing.

The denim clothing that became popular all over the world in later generations began to appear bit by bit.

Wang Xiuqin thought of using canvas to neutralize the hardness of the back fabric and make a new military uniform, which can be said to be in line with the future trend by coincidence.

But Wang Xiuqin can't care about the fabric for the time being.

At the bustling Jiaozhou Bay wharf, after a ship docked, heavily armed soldiers drove a group of people in shackles ashore.

Anyone who read it knows that these people are criminals.

There is only one reason for being sent here, and that is to participate in the glorious development labor.

As for whether it is really glorious in the end, it depends on luck.

But there is one special one among this group of criminals.

a woman.

a young woman.

Although he is a criminal, he does not wear shackles.

No one thought that a female criminal could run away under the supervision of soldiers if she didn't wear shackles.

When they landed, the other criminals were driven far away.

Only this female criminal stayed alone on the shore, her eyes were lost.

"You are Tian Xiao'e?"

(End of this chapter)