With a creak, the door opened, and cold wind immediately blew in.

When Zhang Fei saw that his elder brother and the military advisor were back, Zhang Fei thought that Liu Bei had finished patrolling the camp and everyone could have a good meal.

But then, a group of soldiers came in holding cloths.

"Put it down anywhere you like." Liu Bei directed.

The soldiers brought in the pieces of cloth one by one and piled them into a big pile.

Zhang Fei fished out the meat and put it in a bowl. Zhang Fei held the bowl and opened his mouth, "Brother, eat meat!" Zhang Fei shouted.

Liu Bei didn't even raise his head, "Third brother, you eat first, I'm still busy."

Zhang Fei wanted to call Li Mengxi again, but saw that Li Mengxi was grinding ink with water, and he seemed to be busy.

Zhang Fei stood there holding the bowl, feeling very embarrassed.

Why are you busy again? Zhang Fei is depressed.

Many cloths piled in the room are used to prepare the vouchers needed for camping tomorrow.

These pieces of cloth need to be cut into small pieces the size of eggs, and three patterns of circles, triangles, squares, etc. are drawn with ink on each piece of cloth to distinguish the three campsite batches.

Liu Bei and Li Mengxi were busy cutting with scissors.

Zhang Fei also came to help.

Zhang Fei snorted and cut a long strip of linen. Seeing this, Li Mengxi stopped the scissors and said, "Third General, cut it smaller, it's such a waste of cloth."

"What did you do? You had to cut the cloth into thin pieces?" Zhang Fei asked with a puzzled look on his face.

Li Mengxi explained, "Tomorrow, we will leave the city and set up camp."

Zhang Fei's eyes widened, "It's snowing. Are you going to camp outside the city?"

Liu Bei looked over and said, "It's snowing, so we have to go outside the city."

Zhang Fei was at a loss. What were these two people singing and talking about? Why did they go outside the city because it was snowing?

Later, under Liu Bei and Li Mengxi's public explanation, Zhang Fei knew how to use less than one-third of the tent to keep ten people warm from the cold.

Zhang Fei understood very clearly that it was Jiang's turn and it was Jiang's. Wasn't it the rapid supply method that he told the military advisor at night?

Zhang Fei couldn't help but glance at Li Mengxi. The rapid supply team could, in turn, be used when setting up camp.

The rebels now number more than 100,000, so the required certificates for rotation and rest are hundreds of thousands.

After cutting the cloth for a while, Li Mengxi got bored and didn't want to cut anymore.

He lowered his head and looked at the basket at his feet. There were some fine rags scattered in the basket. He counted them and cut them for a long time, only to cut out less than forty.

This is just a piece of cloth, and I haven't had time to draw circles and squares. There are 150,000 of them. How long will it take to cut them out?

Li Mengxi's head hurt when he thought about the heavy workload.

The matter is urgent. The temperature has dropped sharply. If we can't arrange the rotation tomorrow, many people will freeze to death and suffer from frostbite.

After scratching his head and thinking for a while, Li Mengxi stood up and said to Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, "I'll carve some seals."

Li Mengxi thought of printing. It was very fast to print with a seal, but it was very tiring to draw pictures with a brush.

All that is needed for the seal is a few pieces of wood and a carving knife.

When Li Mengxi found the materials for carving the seal and came back with the wood and carving knife, Guan Yu also came back.

Guan Yu, who was covered with snow, patted the snow on his body and said to Li Mengxi, "Xi'er, I have found a builder, and the land can be measured tomorrow."

"Oh!" Li Mengxi came over and gave the wood to Guan Yu, "General Guan, please carve a seal for me."

Li Mengxi was not used to using the carving knife, but Guan Yu, who often used bamboo slips to carve characters, was familiar with carving things.

According to Li Mengxi's request, Guan Yu carved several seals out of broken wood. There were only three types of seal patterns: square, circle, and triangle, which happened to be the three batches of the one-day and one-night rotation.

After the seal was carved, everyone divided the work and cooperated. Li Mengxi and Guan Yu were responsible for printing the kakakaka words on the cloth, while Liu Bei and Zhang Fei were responsible for cutting the cloth piece by piece.

To prepare vouchers for more than 100,000 people, there were more than 100,000 small pieces of cloth with pictures on them. After half an hour of busy work, Li Mengxi's tired wrists were sore.

I went to see Liu Bei and Zhang Fei. They had cloth spread out on their knees, their hands stretched out, scissors in their hands, their heads lowered and they kept cutting bit by bit without raising their heads.

But there were still few pieces of cloth in the basket, and the bottom of the basket was not even covered.

I have a feeling that I may not be able to complete more than 100,000 pieces of work tonight if I am busy all night.

Zhou Yu made things difficult for Zhuge Kongming and asked him to make a hundred thousand arrows. If Kongming couldn't make them, he could borrow arrows from a straw boat.

Li Mengxi touched his chin and thought, how about borrowing arrows?

According to the previous law, during the previous march, the straw sandals in the hands of the peasants were purchased with grain. A thousand pairs of straw sandals were collected in a short time.

If all the peasants are mobilized to make cloth tomorrow, and then the grain is exchanged for the cloth in the hands of the peasants, the cloth can be collected in one morning.

But the trouble is here, the piece of cloth is equivalent to the certificate for rotating rest. The certificate is left to the civilians themselves. There will be many fake certificates and there will be many people fishing in troubled waters.

Civil servants cannot be devolved.

Then we have to use soldiers.

Considering that the temperature had dropped sharply and the situation was imminent, not even a day could be delayed. Li Mengxi looked at Liu, Guan, and Zhang, who were all busy, and said, "Let's call in the soldiers. The four of us are working too slowly."

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That night, the military orders from the war camp arrived, and the soldiers who had fallen asleep hurriedly got up and lined up outside the tent.

After briefly describing the military orders, three thousand soldiers were mobilized, and each man in each tent was ordered to make a hundred pieces of cloth.

There are three thousand soldiers, one thousand are responsible for making circles, one thousand are responsible for making squares, and another thousand are responsible for making triangles.

Cloth, scissors, ink blocks, and inkstones were distributed to the soldiers.

Fortunately, since we left Zhuozhou to make traveling tools, we found that we were short of scissors and needlework. We sent many caravans along the way to buy various supplies and purchased a lot of scissors. Otherwise, we would not be able to use the scissors alone tonight.

Fortunately, due to previous preparations, the scissors were handed out, and each soldier could barely get enough scissors.

We have scissors, cloth, and ink, but we are missing a seal.

At this time, Li Mengxi regretted that he had transferred all the carpenters to the river.

If the carpenters were still there, if we needed seals now, there would be so many carpenters carving hundreds of seals every minute.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Li Mengxi realized that technical jobs such as carpenters should always be retained in the army to deal with technical problems encountered from time to time. Such as the city gate is broken, the car is broken

If there is no carpenter, emergencies cannot be handled.

Carpentry means that in the technical context of the late Han Dynasty, carpentry is equivalent to 99% of daily technology related.

With carpenters here, 99% of technical problems can be solved.

Li Mengxi said that he needed two hundred seals and asked Guan Yu to carve them quickly. He thoughtfully found a lot of wood and piled it in front of Guan Yu.

Guan Yu stopped and looked up at Li Mengxi for a long time. Guan Yu wanted to say, to put it lightly, two hundred, you will engrave it?

While Guan Yu was carving wood, Li Mengxi pulled a wooden seal that Guan Yu had carved and groped for the rough carvings on the wood. He was thinking about a question: Is it possible that the common people would make forgeries? Could the common people make fakes?

Tear off a piece of rag from your own clothes, draw a circle with ink, and then use it to get the opportunity to camp?

If in normal times, someone cheats, it's just one or two meals, and no one will die for the time being.

But the wind and snow have already fallen, and the Yellow Turban refugees are generally in ragged clothes, and are generally skinny and in extremely poor health. In addition, the temperature has dropped sharply. If someone is robbed of his bed and unable to sleep, he will freeze to death immediately.

A little negligence can lead to a loss of life.

After thinking about it carefully, Li Mengxi said to himself that it was fortunate that the key supplies could be controlled.

The key material is ink, and the piece of cloth is just an ordinary piece of linen. Every civilian can tear off a piece of cloth from his own body to make a fake. However, ink is extremely scarce in the army, and it is unlikely that ordinary civilians have ink hidden on their bodies.

Guan Yu was busy carving one seal after another. After he had carved twenty seals, Li Mengxi gathered the seals in a pile and headed out.

Liu Bei and the other three glanced at him, lowered their heads and continued working.

When they arrived at the war camp, Li Mengxi distributed the seals to each account.

When inspecting each tent, Li Mengxi saw that each tent only had one piece of cloth and one pair of scissors. Although it was said that each person could make a hundred pieces of cloth, in fact, there was only one pair of scissors, which meant that one pair of scissors had to be cut.

A thousand pieces of cloth still take a long time to work on.

Three thousand soldiers were mobilized, and each man had one hundred pieces of cloth, so he could get thirty thousand, which was far from enough. One hundred and fifty thousand would be enough.

Seeing that the soldiers were slow and troublesome when cutting cloth, and a good piece of cloth was cut into pieces. Li Mengxi felt sorry for the cloth, but also felt that the linen was heavy and the cutting speed was too slow. Li Mengxi suddenly felt that it would be better if there was paper.

Yes, it would be better to have printing.

As long as there is paper, boards, and a dozen people, together with printing and cutting, hundreds of thousands of small notes can be printed in one night, so there is no need to work with thousands of people.

Li Mengxi realized that paper and printing were too efficient and cost-effective when used in management.

Thinking of paper and printing, Li Mengxi couldn't wait any longer.

He clearly knows how important papermaking and printing are. Nowadays, the army is busy with everything, and manpower and material resources are fully prepared to collect grain.

For example, in papermaking, although large quantities of paper cannot be produced immediately, production can be started in small batches.

Presumably, among the hundreds of thousands of rebels now, there must be people who can make paper.

If the search for artificial paper started a month ago, the army would probably have hundreds of sheets of paper stockpiled in the army, not to mention 10,000.
To be continued...