Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 439
And what follows is the more pleasant capture loop.

Li Jingwu was born as a cavalry soldier, and he valued war horses the most. Before the prisoners were counted, the war horses had already been collected.

"There are 630 good war horses, 850 wounded horses, and countless harnesses..."

Speaking of this, Li Jingwu was ambitious: "That's it, I can add five thousand cavalry for us."

"If the horse is injured, it should be healed properly. If it doesn't work, it can be treated as a nauseous horse. If it doesn't work, it should be given improved food."

The emperor frowned.

The growth of cavalry is still too difficult, and it takes too long to raise horses.

The biggest rumor on the Internet is that the Northern Song Dynasty was unable to cavalry or fight because there was no land for raising horses in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Mongols came directly to crack down on counterfeiting. They established a large-scale horse farm in the vast Huaihai Plain and even the Hebei Plain.

There is even a willingness to turn the whole of China into a horse farm.

Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition relied on the horse farms in the Huaihai area to establish cavalry, and the captured ones were exhausted.

The Yuan Dynasty could do it, why not the Northern Song Dynasty?
To put it bluntly, it is not cost-effective to use cultivated land to raise horses. Once the officials in the Northern Song Dynasty settled the accounts, they rented these lands to tenants for farming, and earned more money than raising horses.

Therefore, during the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, 200,000 horses could be raised, but by the time of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, there were only a few tens of thousands.

The middleman, the bureaucrat, earned the difference and turned the horse farm into arable land, in the name of not competing with the people for land.

Even the herdsmen on the grasslands are unwilling to raise more horses.

The loss of raising a horse is enough to raise twenty or thirty sheep, and the cost is really not worth it.

According to the current vacancy in the Huanghuai area, Zhu Yixi can even build a horse farm with a million horses, but time waits for no one.

No three to five years, ten years, it is difficult to see results.

Therefore, it is better to buy a war horse than to raise it!
"Yes!" Li Jingwu's face was full of distress.

Horse meat is too extravagant.

"There are countless other weapons, armor, tents, supplies, etc., and it will take two or three days to figure it out."

As he said that, Li Jingwu cheered up and said: "There are countless seizures, piled up like a mountain."

"That's good!"

Zhu Yixi nodded, and said to the excited generals:

"If we win this battle, we will turn passive into active, and we will never be satisfied with the Yellow Sea area."

As he spoke, he pointed to the map behind him and clicked on the location of Shandong:
"Shandong and Shanxi are the two wings of Beijing. If you cut them off, you can return to the northern capital."

Back then, Li Zicheng entered Beijing through Shanxi.

"Therefore, Shandong has the advantage of the canal, which is the most convenient place. This is the key place for us to compete with Jiannu. We will inevitably hoard a large number of soldiers and horses, and there will be a decisive battle."

The emperor looked serious.

The same is true for the generals. The Northern Expedition has a long way to go.

That much is enough for them to know.

Next fight, just the other way around.

The Ming army followed the Qing army step by step, from Shanyang all the way north along the canal, and directly hit Pizhou.

On the journey of hundreds of miles, as soon as the cavalry saw the musketeers, they would immediately face fear and linger without daring to move forward.

Obviously already frightened by it.

And this huge victory was named the Battle of the Great River Fort.

The emperor sits in Shanyang County, the prefecture of Huai'an, constantly deploying food, grass and supplies, and commanding the front army.

The battle was not over until Mount Tai near Yanzhou Prefecture, Shandong threatened Jining.

But the aftermath spread to the whole world.

Yangzhou.

The soldiers and horses led by Zheng Zhilong were stationed here and became part of the entire canal.

More than ten thousand sailors acted as helmsmen and trackers, constantly operating and helping the tank boats, transporting money, food and materials to the north.

At first, Zheng Zhilong was stunned by this, and then he smiled bitterly at Zheng Sen and said:
"At first, I thought we were here to watch the excitement. After all, how did the navy go ashore to fight? Who knows, I was negligent after all."

The soldiers and horses under his command became water workers, defusing the threat of Zheng Zhilong Group, and also became a helper, which left Zheng Zhilong and his son speechless.

When the news of the victory in the battle of Dahebao came, Zheng Zhilong was taken aback, his legs trembling, and he sat down on the grand master's chair.

In the house of a salt merchant in Yangzhou, Zheng Zhilong said something from the bottom of his heart:

"In this world, the Zhu family will live for another 300 years."

His son Zheng Sen also echoed: "With this victory, the Chinese people's fear of slavery like a tiger will no longer exist. The day of the Northern Expedition is not far away!"

"That's right!"

Zheng Zhilong kept nodding: "Our Zheng family can't stay in Fujian anymore, we have to follow the emperor in Nanjing, we can't delay."

"It seems that the Spring Festival in April can also be held as usual."

Zheng Sen said solemnly: "The child will live up to his father's high expectations."

Zheng Zhilong nodded, and muttered, "See if Tianyun is still in Zhu's house..."

This gust of wind quickly blew from Yangzhou to Nanjing.

The people all over the city sang and danced, celebrating this victory with great joy—a disaster of siege was avoided.

For ordinary people in Nanjing, although they despise Qian Qianyi and others for offering the city to surrender, they are still grateful to them in their hearts.

This city with a population of one million was saved from a military disaster.

This is why the emperor just ransacked their homes and moved instead of killing them all.

His thoughts are still different from those of ordinary people.

Only after congratulating the avoidance of the military disaster, ordinary people will rejoice in Ming Dynasty.

Shanxi merchants, Huizhou merchants, etc., set off fireworks and firecrackers in the blue sky and daylight, and the streets were full of noise.

Civil and military officials congratulated the queen in the palace.

This victory can be described as a matter of life and death for the Shaowu court, which was established less than a year ago.

On the most anxious Wangfu Street, more than a dozen princes and princes changed their previous stinginess and began to distribute copper coins on a large scale, and pedestrians passing by also asked for happy coins.

To ordinary people and officials, the change of dynasty is nothing more than a change of emperor, but to the clan, it is to copy the family and exterminate the clan.

As the official of the clan's mansion, King Rui sat opposite the old King Chu, the wrinkles on his face turned into flowers.

On both sides, the king of Qin sat in two rows, each of them rejoicing, unable to restrain their joy.

King Rui let out a long sigh and said, "I have escaped another catastrophe, so I am very happy."

At this moment, the joyful atmosphere suddenly dissipated a lot, and the smile gradually disappeared.

The old king of Chu, who was sitting beside him, had better ears at this time. Hearing this, he muttered, "What nonsense, we have survived."

"Compared to those dead clans, we are very lucky. We can still enjoy wealth and honor. We must know how to be grateful!"

King Rui woke up like a dream, and nodded quickly: "Yes, we must be grateful now, thank Your Majesty for your kindness, and thank our ancestors for their protection!"

"Come on, let's go to the palace together and congratulate the queen."

(End of this chapter)