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Even though he knew Li Mengyue's abilities, not only could she create things out of thin air, but the quantity was also terrifying.

It was like this with the food before. The food he collected with great effort was only a few hundred thousand kilograms, but when it came to Li Mengyue, he just waved his hand casually and got a million kilograms of food.

That’s not all. There is also magical coal mine detection equipment. No matter who you are, as long as you hold the equipment, you can know whether there are coal mines within a radius of dozens of miles. The detection results are very accurate.

But these were enough to surprise him, and what shocked him even more was yet to come.

Soldiers stationed on the northern border still need to endure the cold in extremely cold weather. Honeycomb coal alone is not enough, they also need cotton clothes.

Don’t say that he didn’t have that much money to buy hundreds of thousands of cotton-padded clothes for the soldiers, but even if he did, he would have nowhere to buy them.

After all, cotton-padded clothes are considered relatively expensive items in the Great Zhou Dynasty. A cotton-padded coat of poor quality will cost two taels of silver.

The total income of ordinary people in a year is only five or six taels, which is not enough to barely fill the stomachs of the family, let alone buy cotton clothes.

If we assume a family of three, buying three cotton-padded clothes would cost six taels of silver, which means that the whole family would have to save up money for a year without eating or drinking, and working hard, just to be able to buy three cotton-padded clothes.

But if people want to live, they have to eat and drink water. If they don’t eat or drink for a few days, they will die. So no matter how much money they save, it will be meaningless.

It can be said that expensive cotton-padded clothes are not affordable for ordinary people.

In winter, people basically wear cotton-padded clothes made of willow catkins, or wear as many clothes as possible to rely on the body's positive energy to resist the cold.

Of course, there is a way. Before winter comes, try to store as much firewood as possible. In this way, when the mountains are blocked by heavy snow and the roads are blocked and you cannot go out, you can still rely on burning firewood to keep warm.

However, even if there is a lot of firewood on the mountain, there are also many people cutting it down, resulting in a situation where there are too many people and too little firewood.

What's more, some people, in order to supplement their family income, would not keep the firewood they chopped at home for burning, but would instead carry it to the town to sell for money. A load of firewood would cost two cents, and better quality firewood would cost three cents.

As a result, although every household in the rural area goes up the mountain to chop firewood, they do not have much firewood at home, only enough for daily cooking, and there is no room for heating.

When winter comes and the weather gets cold, countless people freeze to death every year.

The imperial court also tried to solve this problem by allowing the people to grow large amounts of cotton, but the cotton yield was too low.

Besides, when people cannot fill their stomachs, they will of course give priority to growing food, and cotton is a last resort under the pressure of the government.

Another point is that many people do grow cotton, but many of them do not sell it. Instead, they make cotton clothes for themselves.

In this way, the amount of cotton circulating in the market was reduced a lot.

This year, winter on the northern border not only came early, but was also extremely cold. The soldiers' cotton-padded clothes were generally thin. Even the soldiers with excellent physical fitness could not bear the daily training, let alone the civilians.

He never thought that just when he was worried about this matter, Li Mengyue saw something and took out five million cotton coats without saying a word.

When he saw the warehouse piled high with cotton-padded clothes, his emotions surged like waves and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

He knew that Li Mengyue was very capable, but he couldn't go too far. Five million cotton coats was not a small number.

However, when he saw Li Mengyue tell him in a calm tone that this amount of cotton-padded clothes should be given to him as an emergency measure, he could tell her later if the quantity was insufficient.

What was his reaction at that time? He just nodded blankly.

However, he was quickly calculating 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 4.7 million would be sold to the people.

Due to years of war on the northern border and the poor living conditions, there are not many people in the north, about five million.

These cotton-padded jackets were sent to the northern border. If the soldiers didn't have any more cotton-padded jackets, basically everyone would have one.

But the soldiers are defending their country, and 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 Li Mengyue for another 300,000 cotton-padded clothes.

But he was already very moved by the fact that Li Mengyue took out five million cotton-padded clothes at once, so how could he go further and ask for more?

But Li Mengyue happened to see his dilemma and asked him directly. He wanted to evade the question, but Li Mengyue's eyes were extremely sharp, so he had no choice but to tell the truth.

As a result, Li Mengyue produced another one million cotton coats with a wave of his hand, saying that they were donated free of charge to the troops stationed on the northern border. He asked him to send people to the north to deliver the remaining five million pieces and sell them to the people at a very low price.

He agreed immediately and immediately sent people to transport cotton clothes to the north.

Not to mention that Li Mengyue took out six million cotton coats, even if she didn't take a single cotton coat, he would agree to any request made by Li Mengyue.

In this way, honeycomb coal and cotton clothes were available in the north, and the problem of keeping warm was temporarily solved.

But Li Mengyue was still not satisfied and suggested something called earthen kang. When he heard it, he was confused and had no idea what kang was.

It seemed that since he had been with Li Mengyue, his self-esteem had suffered a serious blow. There were some things Li Mengyue said that made him, even though he was well-read and had read countless rare books, still not know what a kang was.

When Li Mengyue had someone build a brick bed in her bedroom and tested it, he realized how useful the brick bed was.

It is of great benefit not only to the troops stationed in the north, but also to the ordinary people in the north. In this way, every household has a kang in winter, and there is inexpensive honeycomb coal, which can 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 such a great thing as kang, he didn't hesitate and immediately sent someone to rush eight hundred miles to send a kang-making craftsman and drawings. For the time being, he didn't have to worry about the cold in the north.

The construction of the water conservancy project in Qingshan Prefecture was nearing completion, so he had some more free time to accompany Li Mengyue.

But now Li Mengyue actually told him that the area north of Qingshan Prefecture would enter an extremely cold winter in half a month, which made him nervous again after finally relaxing.

Isn’t the area north of Qingshan Prefecture the entire northern part of the Great Zhou? The area it covers is so vast, it’s no joke.

Even though he had people making a large amount of honeycomb coal and selling it at a low price more than a month ago, Li Mengyue was not idle either. 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?"