I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 231
All in all, Chongzhen was very satisfied with the appointment of Xuanda Governor, and praised Geng Ruqi for his responsibility and ability in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty more than once.

Emperor Chongzhen was a man of temperament, whoever he fell in love with, no matter what.

After eating Yuan Chonghuan's deflation, he didn't learn from the pain.

Therefore, Geng Ruqi's urgent need to repair the [-]-mile border wall in Xuanda was approved, and the household department allocated money and food.

Xuanda's side wall is already riddled with holes, and it is absolutely impossible to repair it. The imperial court can't spend so much money and food, but only approved the construction of a few important locations.

Geng Ruqi had already figured it out. After receiving the money and food from the imperial court to repair the side wall, half of it would be used on the Datong line, and half of it would be subsidized to Huang Yi to complete the construction of Dongshan Fort and Xinghe City.

With Huang Yi guarding these two cities outside the pass, the front line of the Zhangjiakou Great Wall is relatively safe.

Now the most worrying thing is the Datong line.

The last time he was bullied by civilian and military generals and almost lost his life. Once bitten by a snake, Geng Ruqi, who has been afraid of well ropes for ten years, is not at all worried about those loyal generals, lieutenants, and generals.

As a last resort, Geng Zhanghua, the general of the Supervising Biaoying Battalion, could only be transferred to Datong to guard against Lin Danhan's undecided sneak attack.

In fact, he had a pretty good idea. The safety of the Zhangjiakou front line was entrusted to his prospective son-in-law, and the Datong line had his own son. He, the governor of Xuanda, naturally sat firmly on the Diaoyutai.

Geng Zhanghua can't separate himself from the body. He agrees with Huang Yi's philosophy, and he also believes that a strong army can't be trained but fought.

In Datong, he did not stick to it honestly, but practiced in actual combat. He personally led the armored servants to go out of the side wall in a planned way to loot the tribes close to the side wall.

There are [-] armored servants with strong soldiers and horses available. How can the small and medium-sized Chahar or Tumed tribes with only a few dozen or a few hundred young adults have any room to resist?
Geng Zhanghua in turn attacked the Mongols' Caogu, and the army could eat beef and mutton every day, and they lived happily.

But he tried his best, and the men under his command never chased beyond the [-]-mile range of the side wall.

This is equivalent to a tacit agreement with Tumet or the Chahar tribes that you will be allowed to graze within [-] miles of the side wall, and you will be robbed if you approach it within [-] miles.

Even though all the Tartars are soldiers, they cannot gather [-] to [-] soldiers and horses to confront Xuan Da's army for many years. They still have to give birth!

Therefore, the tribes of Tumed or Chahar began to migrate west and north, giving up the buffer zone of [-] miles outside the side wall.

After Geng Zhanghua wrote to Huang Yi to explain the reason why he could not attend the appointment, he also suggested that some small tribes who had surrendered to the base area be arranged to graze outside the side wall of the Datong Line.

Promise that his men and horses can guarantee the safety of the herdsmen!And tell Huang Yi.

The construction speed of Dongshan Fort is too slow, so Huang Yi is suggested to intervene directly.

Huang Yi smiled after reading the letter. It's not that he is troubled by the lack of land, but the Bashang area is as big as the two Jiangsu provinces in later generations.

But because the strong enemy looked around and felt insecure, he had to take advantage of Jiannu's fight with Sun Chengzong in the Daling River and had no time to take care of the Mongolian prairie to completely kill the Karaqin tribes.

The base area is not short of land for the time being, what is lacking is the population. Huang Yi and Geng Zhanghua didn't need to be hypocritical and polite. When they replied, they directly rejected the suggestion to divide some small tribes in the base area to go to him.

Continue to ask Geng Zhanghua to send some family members to take in refugees from Shaanxi who fled famine and soldiers.

It was agreed to send people to take over the unfinished Dongshan Fort as soon as the spring began.

To be honest, even if Xuanda didn't give money and food, Huang Yi was willing to build Dongshan Fort into a stone city with a concrete foundation.

It is only ten miles away from Zhangjiakou, and when the population increases in the future, the north city wall of Dongshan Fort can be expanded to surround the factory area and collective farm with a circumference of forty to fifty miles.

According to the calculations of later generations, a radius of fifteen miles can be fifty or sixty square kilometers.

Even if only a small half of the land can be cultivated, [-] to [-] mu of fertile land can be produced.

Enough to allocate housing for military families at Fort East Hill.

The place is large, guarded by Dongshan Fort in the front, and supported by the Great Wall in the back. It is safe to build cement factories, lime kilns, flour mills, fertilizer factories and other enterprises here.

Of course, the fertilizer factory is not the fertilizer factory of later generations. With the current level of technology, three acids and two alkalis cannot be handled properly, and chemical fertilizers cannot be produced.

However, Huang Yi's mobile phone has saved the formula of using livestock manure or human manure to make soil fertilizer "fertilizer powder".

This kind of "fertile field powder" is rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, and has a high nitrogen content. If the fields of the Ming Dynasty can use this kind of soil fertilizer, the yield will definitely be doubled.

Every flower in the crops depends entirely on fertilizers. After liberation, the yield per mu has doubled or tripled compared with that before liberation. The main reason is that chemical fertilizers are widely used. It is useless to have only good varieties without chemical fertilizers.

Chemical fertilizers, even soil fertilizers made from human and animal manure, are very expensive.

It's very simple, cooking requires fire!It takes a lot of manpower!

However, the base area has unique conditions. The coal produced here can be burned to make "fertilizer powder", and the cinder can also improve the soil.

Of course, building a soil chemical fertilizer plant to mass-produce "fertilizer powder" that can make the output of one mu of land catch up with or even exceed two mu of land,
This had to be when Huang Yi was mixed enough to control Zhangjiakou's strength, and by the way, he had to be the legitimate general of Zhangjiakou.

Later generations developed "fertility powder", but there were very few places where it was produced and used, and it was basically not popularized.

Huang Yi knew that this thing was the formula and detailed introduction that he found while discussing the big killer on the Internet.

Then he purposely googled the soil chemical fertilizer "Feitian Powder" and learned about its advantages.

But this thing was born at an untimely time, because the serious fertilizer industry chain of later generations has matured, with lower cost, convenient use, and more efficient.

There is another biggest reason. Farmers of later generations can't stand the smell of boiling manure. Who wants to do this kind of dirty work?
How much wages can be hired to hire workers who boil manure?
Coupled with high labor costs, the cost of "fertilizer powder" is much higher than that of chemical fertilizers that have entered mechanized mass production.

The peasants in the late Ming Dynasty were completely different. It was just a smell, how big a deal?To be able to increase the output of one mu of land to more than two mu is a fart!

What's more, Huang Yi can also use criminals sentenced to labor reform and Tazi nobles to produce "fertile field powder".

By the way, there will soon be convicts who have been sentenced to exile by the imperial court to be dispatched outside the mouth. Of course, they must be allowed to do this kind of work!
This is all something to say later, and the most urgent task is to completely eliminate the remaining Harqin tribes who are acting as minions.

It stands to reason that if Geng Zhanghua can't come, Huang Yi's agreed spring offensive should be in vain.

However, Huang Yi, who had trained the artillery team with the regiment artillery, wanted to train in actual combat without waiting or relying on it.

Because he knows that a strong army cannot be trained, it must fight frequently, and if he can fight a big battle without fear of fighting a bad one, he will not be far from a strong army.

Last year, the Karaqin Tartars and Jiannu suffered a great loss, so it is impossible to just let it go.

The reason why they didn't come to retaliate immediately was probably because the snow was too heavy and the road was difficult to travel, because the road was too far to gather people and horses and it was difficult.

(End of this chapter)