Dress to be a celebrity

Mr. Song is a vigorous and resolute person. At the beginning, he said that he would give up the exam and become an official, so he went to elect an official; now that he said that he wanted to resign from the official to run a school, he immediately resigned to his superiors, and wrote a letter of resignation to the Ministry of Officials.

Nowadays, officials in the imperial court are not supposed to retire until they are seventy years old. He still has a lot of years to go, and his health is not bad. He has done well in the performance evaluation during his term of office.

But thinking of him having promising children and grandchildren, that pity turned into envy——

Needless to say that his youngest son is Song Sanyuan, the eldest son can also be regarded as the confidant of King Wei, and he is afraid that he will be promoted soon.I am a lowly official and my son is not easy to be promoted, so it is better to retire early so as not to delay young people.

Master Yao easily approved his letter of appointment, and only persuaded him: "I know Song Xiandi is looking forward to returning home to be honored, but we are busy with affairs in the Secretary of the General Administration. Wait a few more days for the approval of the Ministry of Officials." Go back."

Master Song is not the kind of madman who leaves his official letter and goes home to retire.The general official position changes in the official department are selected every two months. He calculated that it was only about a month before he became an official, so he asked his son and family to show him the house and prepare to open a girls' school. The Secretary of General Administration has done a good job in the last few days.

When sorting out the memorials, I saw my daughter-in-law...ah no, I saw the memorials of the envoy Huan.He was on the border to appease the captive chieftains, and the memorial he entered must be more important than other people's greetings and complaints. Master Song quickly picked up the notebook and presented it to Master Yao: "This is the memorial from the envoy. Your Excellency, look at it." Can it be sent to the cabinet in advance to avoid delays?"

Master Yao looked at Huan Ling's name, and also felt that what was written inside must be something important, so he said: "There is no such thing as a trivial matter at the border, it should be sent to the cabinet immediately."

If you want someone or money, you can ask for a letter from the king of Zhou. This has reached the point of shocking the world, it must be a big deal, and there is no need to delay it.

He immediately asked someone to send this memorial to the cabinet together with the previously selected ones, and Huan Ling's must be placed on top.

However, what Huan Lingzuo did was really not a major military matter, and his recruiting was quite smooth.There is Liangcheng, an attached model city, and many Tatar princes expressed their willingness to join after inspection.As long as they are attached, they will also build a "community" and provide some rice noodles, cheese, and mutton. It is not necessary for Zheng Chao to allocate thousands of miles of grassland to them and supply them with gold, silk and iron.

As an envoy, Huan Ling had the right to make decisions on the fly, so he agreed to all those within the scope of the imperial court's permission, and scattered all the departments and placed them in the military town outside the border.

But there are also those noble-blooded tribes who still remember that the Taizu drove the Mongolian royal family out of the Central Plains, and they did not want to surrender to the court, so he had no choice but to do it.

But after all, they are recruiting missions, and they don't have enough troops and equipment, so they can't fight like a large army in an upright manner when they start, they need to rely on military tactics to catch them by surprise and attack them unprepared.

So he changed the elite sergeants into the camouflage uniforms made during the Song Dynasty when the Shaanxi branch guarded the road——

This kind of clothes has a unique color and can be integrated with the grassland.The elite former army hid in the grassland and sneaked near the enemy's camp, and it was extremely difficult for the enemy to find them. They could look for opportunities to stealthily assassinate the enemy chieftain, and then mobilize the army to calmly clean up the rout...

They used this method to recruit a certain unit smoothly, and then felt that the Western Expedition Army might also use this camouflage uniform.

But he knows that there are regulations on the color of uniforms in the army, and military uniforms cannot be customized outside, and the Ministry of War must be in charge.So he wrote a letter to send back the fabrics of the two camouflage uniforms, asking the Holy One to decide whether they can be used or not.

On the last few pages of the second time, the actual record of this battle was written, in order to describe the merits, and the last two pages were pasted with two pieces of cloth tightly glued with fish glue.The piece of cloth was one yellow and one green, and it was dyed with similar colors in deep and light spots, which made the three elderly scholars in the cabinet feel dazzled.

No wonder it is called camouflage, it really makes people confused and dazzled.

How did such a strange color come out?Can this colorful fabric really hide people on the grassland?If this kind of camouflage cloth can really blend with the color of grass, people can be asked to wrap a layer of cloth outside the gun barrel, and people can also put on this camouflage clothes, and approach the old camp of Dalu quietly...

Fire a few shots first, so they won't be afraid to run away!

The three elders read what he wrote in the memorial, and the letter should be useful, but they have to ask the craftsmen in the class in Jingli to try dyeing some fabrics, and ask Shenjiying to practice it once to try the effect.

Lu Shoufu personally approved the memorial, went to the imperial court, and asked someone to find Wang Shangshu of the Ministry of War to come to the corridor to discuss the performance together.

Not long after, an attendant came out from the palace, specially sent the dismantled cloth back to the cabinet, saying: "There is an order from the Holy Spirit, to order the Ministry of War to make this kind of cloth immediately, and ask the three major battalions to go outside the city for a trial performance. "

The three Ge elders agreed with Li Shangshu, and immediately sought out craftsmen in Beijing to try waxing, twisting, clamping and other methods, and spared no expense to dye the camouflage fabric.

A piece of the most common white cloth requires several processes, and it is more expensive than silk to be dyed.

Even Mr. Li Ge, who doesn't like to listen to romantic stories the most, couldn't help sighing: "This fabric is so difficult to make. The fault is deep in love. How could it take so much effort to make this 'camouflage' fabric."

Not only camouflage, but also fascination.

They already have the appearance of the cloth, and it took a lot of time for people to dye and dye it. How did the Song Dynasty think about it day and night, and hold each other's souls and dreams, so as to come up with this kind of floral cloth pattern that coincides with the colors on the grassland!

He sighed, and felt that at his age and status, it would be easy to make people laugh, so he quietly glanced at Shoufu and Cifu.

The two of them nodded slightly, as if they agreed!

This reaction really surprised Mr. Li Ge, he couldn't help but sneak a glance at Wang Benbing again, only to see that Wang Shangshu also took it for granted, nothing unusual.

Li Sanfu's gaze was quietly withdrawn, his whole expression calmed down like his colleagues, and he ordered the attendants: "Ask Shenjiying to take some military uniforms made of this cloth, a set of cloth covers to cover firearms and carts Come!"

After the cloth was cut and the equipment was ready, the three elders asked for an order to try it outside the city with Wang Benbing, Wei Guogong and Yu Guogong who were in charge of the [-] Battalion, the [-]th Army Battalion, and the Shenji Battalion.

As expected, the effect was the same as what was said in Huan Ling Memorial.

Everyone went to the book to reply, and reported the results of this exercise to the palace, and soon got the approval of the emperor: the household department called craftsmen to dye this kind of cloth, make tents and clothes, and send them to the outside of Yanmen for the use of the Western Expeditionary Army .Because the recruiting mission was recruiting the captives on the grassland occupied by the Tumote tribe, which is close to Shaanxi, and they were the first to dye the cloth and sent it to Huanling in the Song Dynasty, they must still have the material in their hands, so they asked them to go to the local area. For the mission.

When Huan Ling's memorial was delivered to Beijing, it was only handed over to the post station according to the route of ordinary military memorials. When Jingli gave the decree to Song Shi, it was regarded as an urgent military matter, and it was sent to Shaanxi by express delivery shop eight hundred miles.At that time, Song Shi was studying oil technology in Yulin. When the imperial edict was delivered, he wrote to Fugu, Shenmu and other prefectural and county officials who dyed cloth for him without stopping.

Just at that time, I promised to ask for credit for them from the imperial court. Now it is even more natural to ask them to dye camouflage fabrics for the court missions, make combat uniforms and cover cloth for carts, and then ask His Royal Highness Zhou Wang for credit.

In addition to the camouflage that was dyed, Yulin saw that there was asphalt left over from oil refining, and they didn't take all of it away for road construction. First, some of it was withheld to make asphalt felt for the mission to cover weapons and gunpowder.

When he further refined the asphalt here, he also produced some paraffin wax. After absorbing it with Guanyin soil from Fugu, Bai Shengsheng looked good.Now they were about to deliver camouflage cloth to the mission, and the wax was not in vain, so I first made some candles and brought them to the grassland for later use, and soaked some wax paper and wax cloth, so that Huan Ling and the others could pack things on the road.

He squandered the hard-won paraffin wax to his heart's content, and suddenly remembered that waxing fruit can last for a long time, so he asked someone to buy a few baskets of seasonal fruits such as plums, peaches, apricots, and melons from the south, and planned to sell them for a while. layer of protective wax.However, after washing the fruit, when it was time to wax, he was worried that some chemical substances in the paraffin would not be removed, which would be bad for people's health, so he finally put the paraffin back and replaced it with beeswax.

After everything was arranged and loaded onto the cart, he looked at it himself and felt a little emotional:

Others sent to the border customs to send some kind of raw land, angelica, red beans and so on to send lovesickness and hope for an early return; he is also a three-yuan grade after all, so why just send some waxed fruits?

Forget it, the fruit of this fruit also has the meaning of great victory. "Zuo Zhuan Xuangong Two Years" has the words "killing the enemy is the fruit, and the fruit is perseverance", so he wrote a post and clipped it, telling others that his cart of fruit is to wish them kill the enemy and bring fruit, and make meritorious service as soon as possible. Returning to court means earning meritorious service.

It doesn't matter whether Brother Huan Xiao believes it or not, his family doesn't talk about nonsense, the fruits are quite fresh, he works hard outside, so the most important thing is that he can eat something good.