When everyone saw the down jacket, they had puzzled expressions on their faces.
That down jacket looks very ordinary. It is made of cotton on the outside, and large and small grids are sewn on the cotton cloth, which seems to be used to fix the warmth inside the cotton cloth. No matter how you look at it, this down jacket is no different from ordinary cotton clothes.
Li Zhi said: "This down jacket is made of goose or duck down, and it has excellent thermal insulation effect."
All the officials showed puzzled expressions. Obviously, few people present had raised ducks or geese, and they had no idea what duck and goose down were.
Li Zhi smiled and said: "The so-called goose down and duck down are the feathers that grow between the necks of geese and ducks to the chest and abdomen without feather stalks. Its ability to keep warm and resist cold is the best among all the hairs in the body. In addition, because the down in this part of the body is the best.
It has no feather stems, is very soft, has long fibers and high fluffiness, and has a small folded volume. It is an excellent material for making down jackets.”
Only then did everyone suddenly realize.
Li Zhi said: "The down jacket made of this goose down and duck down has excellent thermal insulation effect. At the same weight, the effect of this down jacket is even better than bearskin and deerskin."
All the officials looked at the ordinary down jacket in surprise and admired it.
If the prince is really as good as he said, then this down jacket is really a weapon to overcome the severe cold.
Zhong Feng rubbed his hands and said, "Your Majesty, can I try it on?"
Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "Put it on! You can wear it and see."
Zhong Feng stepped forward seriously and took the down jacket from the guard. Putting the down jacket on, Zhong Feng walked out of the main door of the Second Hall and stood in the snow outside the door without speaking for a long time.
He was feeling the temperature rising on his body.
The officials looked at each other for a while, then took out their own coats from the hangers and followed Zhong Feng out of the room to see the effect of the down jacket.
Many of the officials were wearing cotton-padded clothes, gritting their teeth in the cold wind outside. They looked at Zhong Feng eagerly, waiting for him to tell him how he felt about trying it on.
At this time, the outdoor temperature in Tianjin was about minus five or six degrees, and the down jacket produced by Li Zhi was a thickened type, which was very effective at keeping warm at such a temperature. After a while, Zhong Feng felt warm all over his body.
Zhong Feng shouted loudly: "It's warm, it's so warm, much warmer than a cotton-padded jacket, it's time to catch up with my mink coat!"
Zhong Feng walked a few steps in the snow, laughed loudly, and said, "It's so warm, I'm not even afraid of the cold wind! It's really magical!"
The officials' eyes lit up and they were very excited. They all looked eagerly at Zhong Feng's down jacket.
Li Zhi laughed and said: "This down jacket is not as difficult to obtain as animal fur. You only need to raise some ducks and geese to produce it in large quantities. It is an economical and efficient good thing."
"Down jackets are a great weapon to keep out the cold in winter. All the officials are important ministers of my town and nine provinces. I will give each of you a new down jacket."
Li Zhi waved his hand, and the guards ran into the palace's warehouse and took out more than a dozen down jackets.
Everyone immediately beamed with joy and put on their red down jackets happily. They walked back and forth in the snow and soon felt the warmth brought by duck and goose down.
"Warm! So warm!"
"It's not cold at all if you stay in the snow!"
"Your Majesty, Shengming! This is a sharp weapon! A rare weapon to keep out the cold!"
"Your Majesty is truly a saint!"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "There are now 20,000 down jackets in the warehouse. They are all given to the most elite strikers to keep out the cold, so that the strikers can go north to attack the White Russians who invaded the northeast."
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Li Zhi took Li Laosi to the arsenal in Fanjiazhuang.
The Mughal Empire's army pressed on the border, and Li Laosi was unable to repel the enemy with the 110,000 Yizi Battalion and the warrior army, so he had to go to Tianjin to ask for help from the prince.
Li Zhi's navy had steamships, and the transportation was very convenient. He could ride horses from Burma to Vietnam, and then take a ship from Vietnam to Tianjin. It only took more than ten days in total.
Li Zhi was also very happy about the arrival of Zhennan Bo Li Laosi. However, Li Zhi did not think it was a big problem at all that Li Laosi was worried about.
In order to help the Yiziying and the Samurai Army defeat Humayun's 200,000-strong army, Li Zhi asked the arsenal to start producing new weapons.
Today, Li Zhi took Li Laosi into the arsenal to see the real objects.
Nowadays, Fanjiazhuang's arsenal has undergone successive expansions and now has thousands of people. Craftsmen no longer make guns by hand, but generally use the latest machine tools. Boring machines, lathes, drilling machines, broaching machines, all kinds of
Machinery filled the arsenal's workshops.
Moreover, these machines are driven by the latest steam engines, which are powerful and have very high production efficiency.
Li Laosi had not walked into the arsenal for a long time. He stood in front of the latest horizontal boring machine and admired it.
The new boring machine has front and rear columns and a workbench, and its structure is very complex.
"Your Majesty, I could still understand those simple machine tools in the past. One was rotating and the other was moving forward and backward. Now these machine tools are getting more and more complex, with so many transmission devices, I just can't understand them at all. How do they work?"
Li Zhi smiled and said, "You don't need to worry about how to use it. You just need to ask for it."
Li Laosi licked his lips and said: "The 110,000-strong Yizi Camp and the Warrior Army are going to fight against more than 200,000 Indian soldiers and horses. I wonder if the prince has any clever ideas!"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "Humayun attacked your garrison in Burma with twice your strength."
Li Laosi nodded and said: "Your Majesty Mingjian."
Li Zhi said: "The area around Myanmar is full of mountains and dense forests. Even if the Yizi Battalion has 60,000 standard rifles, it cannot shoot the enemies behind the trees in the dense forests. In a fight in Myanmar, any weapon has only one shot."
Li Laosi nodded and said: "That's right!"
Li Zhi added: "Moreover, both the Yizi Camp and the Samurai Army are not good at shooting. Let alone the Samurai Army, they have never used firearms at all. Even if they are equipped with rifles, they probably won't be able to shoot accurately. And the Yizi Camp has become an army.
It’s very hasty. Until now, I have been on foreign expeditions and have never practiced shooting hard.”
"If a war breaks out, Myanmar's 110,000 second-line troops may have about the same combat effectiveness as the Indian army."
"And India's troops and horses are twice as many as ours."
Li Laosi raised his hand to Li Zhi and said, "Your Majesty, you have every insight. The current situation is exactly like this."
Li Zhi smiled and said: "Don't worry, I will produce a useful weapon for your 110,000 troops. I guarantee that the combat effectiveness of your soldiers and horses will be doubled."
Li Laosi was stunned for a moment and asked: "What kind of weapon is it? Please tell me clearly."
Li Zhi waved his hand and led Li Laosi out of this factory and walked to another huge musket factory.
Li Zhi found a new rifle with a large caliber among the finished products in the factory and said: "Li Laosi, I will equip you with a shotgun that is extremely powerful at close range and can hit the enemy with your eyes closed!"
