Daming Crazy Emperor

To be precise, North Taiping City is an acropolis, where a garrison of a thousand households of the Oriental Metropolis is stationed, and there are more than [-] guards including their family members.

Their main task is to dig wells, stockpile the food delivered by the Minister of Political Envoys announced by Dongyang Cheng, and provide food and fresh water supplies for the Ming fleet.

In summer, they will also grow some vegetables and fruits, and sell them to the fleet to increase their income.

In winter, they basically stayed inside the acropolis, kept vigilant, and didn't dare to go out of the city at all.

Because the winter here is too cold, I don't know if it is minus [-] to [-] degrees or minus [-] to [-] degrees, and there is ice and snow everywhere, going out of the city is courting death.

Generally, there will be no fleet passing through here in winter, because the coastline here is full of ice floes, and Da Ming's fleet can only circle around the North Pacific Islands.

The vigilance in this winter is quite bitter, the biting cold wind on the city wall can directly blow people into popsicles.

However, they were not lazy.

They even figured out a way to build a wooden house against the arrow stacks on the city wall, and let the guards in charge of the guards sit around and enjoy the fire, leaving only a gap for the large telescope to stick out.

In this way, at least the person warming up to the fire will not be frozen, and the person in charge of the lookout will be blown to shiver.

Basically, ten hundreds of households took turns to come with their subordinates. Each hundred households was responsible for guarding for half a day, and about [-] people were arranged on each wall to look forward in turn.

This morning, a garrison guard was turning his telescope to scan the sea outside the port. Suddenly, a row of dense black spots appeared on the line between the sea and the sky, and the number was at least a thousand.

He hurriedly turned around and said, "Boss, there are many shadows of boats on the outskirts of the port, about forty or fifty miles away, and the number is at least a thousand."

impossible?

At this moment, the ice floes near the coastline are at least a hundred miles away. What kind of fleet can go through the ice floes to the periphery of the port for forty or fifty miles?

The hundred households in charge of the rotation quickly got up and leaned in front of the binoculars to take a serious look.

There is really a row of dense black spots on the sea, and these black spots seem to be constantly approaching the port pier!
Where did this fleet come from?

A few days ago, the telegram relay station in the city received a notice from the Ministry of War that the emperor led a fleet to go to the Arctic Ocean. This could not be the emperor's fleet!
Thinking of this, Baihu, who was in charge of the rotation, hurriedly said, "Hurry up, Lao Zhao, report to Sir Qianhu, the fleet led by the emperor seems to be coming."

At this moment, Taichang was also looking at the ice floes on the sea with his binoculars.

The Arrow Array that Yuan Keli came up with is quite good, and the speed of clearing the ice floes by five thousand Spike warships is quite fast.

The so-called array of arrows means five thousand Spike warships first lined up in ten rows, and then stepped forward in turn, slowly inserted into the middle of the ice floes, and then unfolded like arrows to push the ice floes away. Finished, go back to the queue behind, and continue to the next group.

In this way, all the sailors on the Spike Warship can take turns to rest and enjoy the fire, so that their hands and feet will not be numb from the cold.

And the advancing speed is quite fast. Basically, a group of a thousand Spike warships can clear a channel of about ten miles in about two quarters of an hour.

In other words, they will be able to reach the port of North Taiping City in about an hour or so.

Looking at the magnificent scene in front of him, Taichang couldn't help admiring: "Liqing, your method is really good.

If calculated at this speed, we will be able to advance to West Pacific City in about 20 days, and we will be able to advance to the Bering Strait before the Arctic Ocean thaws. "

The so-called West Taiping City is the northernmost place where the ice is mined, and he plans to build a city there as the last supply point before entering the Arctic Ocean.

Yuan Keli heard the words, but sighed slightly: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's not that simple.

It has not yet entered the Bering Sea, and the ice on the other side of the Bering Sea is thick.

Weichen once tested that the ice layer over there is at least half a foot thick, and in some places the ice layer is even as thick as one foot.

If we want to push away such thick ice floes, I'm afraid it will not be as easy as here. "

Hearing this, Taichang smiled slightly and said, "It's okay, we just need to arrive at West Taiping City before the Arctic Ocean thaws, so we can save at least a month of time."

At this time, thousands of households defending Beitaiping City were stunned.

Because when he received the news, the fleet on the sea surface had advanced another ten miles when he went up to the city wall, and he could faintly see the progress of the fleet.

My God, thousands of Spike warships pushed the ice floes away abruptly!

He really didn't expect this scene.

However, he could tell that it was very possible that the emperor really came.

Because the five-thousand-material Flying Dragon battleship was in the middle of the fleet, and the shiny silver armor could be seen dozens of miles away.

The last time the emperor returned to Beijing on this flying dragon battleship!
He froze for a moment, then shouted: "Hurry up, send an order, everyone copy the guys, and go to clean up the ice and snow from the city gate to the port pier."

The meaning of this copy guy is of course not copying swords, let alone guns and artillery, he ordered people to copy shovels, hoes, shovels and other guys.

Soon, the gate of the city was opened, and hundreds of guards and thousands of young men rushed up, quickly digging up the snow and ice on the road, and threw them to both sides.

Fortunately, the east gate of the Acropolis is only about a mile away from the port. Nearly 2000 people worked together, and the cleaning speed was still very fast.

The fleet on the sea was still more than ten miles away from the port, so they cleaned up all the ice and snow on all the docks.

Seeing the deft movements of Tunwei and Qingzhuang here, Taichang couldn't help nodding and said: "Well, yes, they can react so quickly, they must be on guard on the city wall all the time.

In such a cold day, they did not relax at all, which is really good.

Langer, do you think it should be rewarded? "

Uh, this.

Although Zhu Cihong was wearing a thick padded jacket and a thick mink fur coat, he still had a runny nose from the cold.

There is no way, although the inside of the cabin is warm as spring, the front armor is opened, and the biting cold wind blows in, it is really too cold.

He hastily wiped his snot with a towel, then nodded and said: "It's a reward."

Taichang smiled again and asked, "Then how much reward is appropriate?"

how could I know?

Zhu Cilang was immediately dumbfounded when he heard the words.

Seeing this, Taichang seriously taught: "Rewards should be rewarded, but they should not be rewarded too much. If there are too many rewards, other soldiers will feel unbalanced.

How about this, give each of the guards here a reward of 100 taels of silver, Cheng En, and order someone to make 1000 taels of red envelopes.

Lang'er, send it to them later. "

I'll send it!
Hearing this, Zhu Cihong was really a little nervous, after all, he was only in his teens.

Taichang also wanted him to exercise on purpose. An emperor should not be nervous when he sees people.

At this time, a team of Spike warships had already pushed away the last piece of ice floe, and the huge Flying Dragon warships had slowly approached the pier.

Taichang waved his hand directly, ordered people to put down the hanging ladder, and then took Zhu Cihong's little hand, and led Yuan Keli, Zhang Yuanfang and others to walk down slowly.

Seeing this, the thousands of households guarding here quickly brought hundreds of guards and thousands of young men to the ground and shouted in unison: "Welcome to the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Taichang nodded slightly, then raised his hand and said, "Excuse me, let me be flat."

Shouyu Qianhu heard the words, and hurriedly led his subordinates to say "Thank you, Your Majesty", and then got up from the ground.

Taichang immediately said loudly: "Everyone has worked hard to guard this bitter cold place.

It is even more rare that you can keep vigilant at all times in this severe cold weather.

I am very satisfied with your performance, a special reward of 100 taels per person. "

After finishing speaking, he let go of his hand directly, motioning for Zhu Cihong to step forward.

Zhu Cihong could only bring Wang Chengen and a team of eunuchs holding trays to Qianhu here, picked up a red envelope and handed it over, and then said crisply: "Thanks for your hard work."

Uh, what's the situation?
The guardian Qianhu here took the red envelope respectfully with both hands, and then froze.

Because he doesn't know who it is.

Seeing this, Wang Chengen quickly introduced: "This is His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun."

It turned out to be His Royal Highness the Empress Dowager!

Fortunately, he didn't speak indiscriminately, it would be embarrassing if he wanted to call him His Highness King Liang.

The guardian Qianhu here hurriedly cupped his hands and bowed: "Thank you, Your Highness, Grandson."

Zhu Cihong sent them one by one, and it took a full half an hour to finish.

Question, there are four or five hundred red envelopes left, what should I do now?
He could only look at Taichang begging for help.

Seeing this, Taichang directly asked, "Where are the rest?"

The guard Qianhu here hastily bowed his hands and said: "Your Majesty, there are still two hundred people left, a hundred people are guarding the city wall, and a hundred people were on duty last night. rest."

Taichang nodded slightly, then waved his hand and said, "Let's go up to the city wall to have a look."

The walls of this Acropolis are not high, but it is really cold above, and the cold wind blows over, it is so cold that people shiver.

At this moment, the ice and snow are starting to melt, and it is still so cold, you can imagine how cold it is in the twelfth lunar month.

It is estimated that if a person stands on the city wall for half an hour, he will freeze into a popsicle, no matter how many clothes he wears, it will be useless.

Taichang looked at the wooden house built on the city wall, went in and felt the temperature inside, nodded slightly and said: "Well, this is a good idea, did you come up with it?"

The defending Qianhu here was quite flattered and said: "Your Majesty, the last general also negotiated with others for several days before he negotiated it."

That's what's negotiated.

Taichang said without hesitation: "Reward."

Does Reward mean another one?

Zhu Cihong quickly grabbed a red envelope and handed it to Qianhu.

The guardian Qianhu here is really excited.

He had just sneaked a look at it, and there was a 100 tael silver ticket in the red envelope!
You know, his monthly salary is only about ten taels, which is directly equivalent to his income for nearly a year!
As for corruption, no one dares to be corrupt at the moment, if it is found out, it will be murder!
This has increased his income for nearly two years, so he is naturally overwhelmed with excitement.

He cupped his hands again and again and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, and thank you Your Highness, Grandson."

Taichang nodded slightly, and then raised his hand to signal Zhu Cihong to distribute red envelopes to the rest of the guards, while he, Yuan Keli and others stood on the city wall and looked around with binoculars.

This place will become an important supply point leading to the Arctic Ocean. Just an acropolis is definitely not enough. Not to mention anything else, the fresh water needed for counting 10 horses is quite amazing.

Taichang looked at it for a while before asking: "Are there no rivers or lakes here?"

Yuan Keli quickly explained: "Less than five miles to the northeast is a large lake, and less than five miles to the west is a large river. It's just that it's covered in ice and snow right now, so you can't see it."

It turned out to be the case.

In fact, Taichang faintly saw a large flat snow in the northeast direction, but he thought it was a plain, but he didn't expect it to be a lake.

He thought about it carefully, and then said decisively: "If not, we will build two more acropolises in the northeast and west.

We dug a canal directly in the northeast, and then dug a deep enough pool in the city to store fresh water.

In the west, we will build more warehouses to store food. What do you think? "

It is obviously unrealistic to build a big city here. Even if it is built, not many people will come and live here. It is a very good idea to expand the two acropolis.

Anyway, the main function here is to supply fresh water and food, as long as it can store enough fresh water and food.

Yuan Keli hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "The emperor is wise."