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Chapter 666 Chieftain Recruitment Order

Because the Kyushu Army has been invincible in recent years, officials and generals, down to the common people, are full of enthusiasm for expansion.Maybe the conquest of land was used to show national power or take care of the majesty of the emperor, but now expansion has become capital accumulation.But all occupied places must act in accordance with the regulations formulated by Kyushu, especially merchants can reduce the cost of trade, and their trade security can be guaranteed.You can also plunder a large amount of raw materials and return to the Central Plains for production.The most advanced factories and technologies are in the hands of the Kyushu Army.

Therefore, although Shen Youlong is the civil affairs officer of the Chief Secretary of Yunnan, he is coveting the border land like most officials.In his opinion, the military leader who is used to expansion will definitely not let go of the fat next to him, so if he prepares the memorial in advance, he may be able to get a good impression of admonishment.

"How is the establishment of the ordnance factory here?" Shen Youlong asked about a political matter.

"The first batch of 50 muskets has been produced, and the ordnance factory is registering the produced muskets. In addition, tests are needed to see whether the muskets produced are excellent. If the muskets are not excellent, special personnel must be arranged Supervise the destruction," the official said.

"Luxury, what a luxury..." Shen Youlong said with emotion, "When I was the governor of Fujian, I looked through the records of the supervision of muskets in the past, not to mention that they are not excellent muskets, which are easy to explode if they are produced with defects. The muskets in the chamber are still used properly, and they are deliberately short of weight, which is not as extravagant as it is now, but all muskets that are not excellent must be specially destroyed."

"The military lord said that the lives of soldiers are more precious than all firearms. We must use the best firearms for them so that our soldiers have no worries." The officer said.

"Well, now we are different from the past. The amount of iron ore mined every year is increasing, and the technology of smelting refined iron has improved, and the output of refined iron has doubled every day. It is not a problem to produce with such specifications. It is because our territory in China is too large All the armies are in urgent need of muskets, and there is no way to produce them. After the Independent Corps left, the Chief Secretary of Yunnan did not have enough new-style troops. Otherwise, the military leader would not have approved the establishment of an ordnance factory in the Chief Secretary of Yunnan.” Shen Shen Yulong talked about the reason.

"The ordnance factory is indeed something that the military department is worried about. Generally, the military department directly controls the ordnance factory, produces good firearms and then ships them to various places. It is rare to directly produce firearms on the spot, which is not conducive to the capital's control over here. But this is also There is no other way, but the direct airborne personnel from the military department can come over to supervise and register every firearm to control the local production of firearms.” An official from the Yunnan Chief Secretary said.

"We have to be good at ourselves. We regularly count the whereabouts of the muskets every month, and immediately notify the people in the military department if they are damaged, so that we can trust each other without guessing." Shen Youlong said.

"Yes." Officials from the Chief Secretary of Yunnan responded in unison.

Outside the government office, an official came in hastily, holding a letter from the post house in his hand.

"The big thing is bad, the Toungoo Dynasty has attacked Tongbi Pass!"

"What?!" The officials of the Chief Secretary of Yunnan, including Shen Youlong, all stood up.

"Letter to me."

Shen Youlong took the letter of plea for help handed over by the guard of Tongbi Gate, and knew what happened at a glance.

"Get the topographic map!"

Under the signal of Shen Youlong, an official frantically found the topographic map of the Chief Secretary of Yunnan on the bookshelf and unfolded it on the wooden case.

"This is Tongbi Pass, which is under the jurisdiction of Longchuan Division. To the east is Mengding Mansion. What is the strength of the troops?" Shen Youlong basically memorized the terrain of Yunnan Chief Secretary, and pointed out the location of Tongbi Pass at once.

"Each of the Eight Southwest Passes has hundreds of old-style troops. At the beginning, we fully supported the Independent Corps. We had no additional firearms to equip the local soldiers, so basically the original batch of Ming soldiers were maintaining law and order in various places. Longchuan Division An army of hundreds of people can be formed temporarily. Mengding Mansion is a big mansion, and it can temporarily pull up an army of thousands of people, but the equipment may be swords, spears and firecrackers." An official familiar with the side said.

"How many troops can our Yunnan government send out?" Shen Youlong asked one after another.

"Yunnan Prefecture has [-] defenders, which are dedicated to suppressing rebellions or bandits that may appear in various places." An official from Yunnan Prefecture said.

"That is to say, the standing troops are only [-] soldiers from Yunnan Prefecture. Other places are either old Ming soldiers who maintained law and order, or militiamen from the original Tusi tribe?" Shen Youlong frowned slightly.

"Yes, originally our chief secretary had an independent corps in charge, and we had not fought with Taungoo for 30 years, so we only set up a standing army of [-] and eight guards." The official said.

After Shen Youlong heard this, he closed his eyes and seemed to be thinking about countermeasures: "Immediately send officials from three routes, all the way to Chengdu to ask for help from the Ninth Corps, all the way to Xiangyang to ask for help from the Fifth Corps, and all the way to Guangzhou to ask for help from the Sixth Corps , and then notify the officials of the military department stationed in our Yunnan Province, and let the military department decide how to deal with it in the end."

"In addition to asking for help, let the chieftains near the Longchuan Division immediately gather soldiers to go to Tongbi Pass for reinforcements. After the war, our Yunnan Chief Division will reward them. The soldiers of Mengding Mansion are different for the time being, so as to prevent the soldiers of the Toungoo Dynasty from coming in two ways. The Menggen area invaded the Chief Secretary of Yunnan."

"In addition to the wartime system, all the chieftains of the Chief Secretary of Yunnan mobilized. All the retired chieftains counted the tribesmen in the tribe and gathered in the Tengyue area. Toungoo people from Biguan!"

Shen Youlong gave three orders in a row as if he was facing an enemy.All the officials of the Chief Secretary of Yunnan are also very cautious, and they all think that the Toungoo Dynasty wants to find an excuse to invade the Chief Secretary of Yunnan on a large scale.

The Yunnan government's recruitment order immediately spread the news to the retired chieftains of the Yunnan Chief Secretary.Although these chieftains lost their power after being converted to native land, they still echoed in their own tribes. Many people heard that the Toungoo Dynasty, which had invaded several times before, had made a comeback. Tengyue gathered near Tongbi Pass.

All of a sudden, there was a rush of people, and dozens of chieftains, big and small, came. At the beginning, there were thousands of young and strong people, and more and more chieftains from farther away led young and strong people, and the number quickly climbed to ten thousand. , [-]...

When Shen Youlong led the officials and school officials to Tengyue, he saw the crowds of people here, and was shocked by the enthusiasm of the chieftains for participating in the war.

(End of this chapter)