Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 174 Preparation
With the help of fresh peaches, Shi Zhongkui quickly obtained a large amount of ordnance from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry.

The Governor of Wanping, Xue Jinping, and the Governor of Daxing, Yan Guixiang, led their officials to inspect the last batch of thousands of spears, two hundred one-stone war bows and ten thousand arrows.

Entering Shi Zhongkui's big tent with a happy face, he bowed his hands and said, "My lord, I have these three thousand spears, three thousand swords, four hundred strong bows and fifty thousand sharp arrows.

After the beginning of spring, even if the rangers on the prairie sneaked into the surrounding areas of Gyeonggi, Xiaguan and others are confident that they can hold in this valley for more than a year. "

Shi Zhongkui nodded noncommittally, but never thought of sticking to it in his heart.

Now that there is a famine on the grassland, no one would foolishly besiege a valley that has no oil and water and is waiting for help.

Moreover, in terms of credit for killing the enemy, a thousand soldiers are not as good as a commander of a thousand, or even a commander of a centurion.

However, no matter how good the tactics of guerrilla warfare are, they are inseparable from ordnance and war horses.

Spears and knives are okay, as long as they are related, it is not difficult to get them from the Ministry of War.

But it is not so easy to get four hundred strong bows with one stone and fifty thousand sharp arrows.

As for heavy helmets, Shi Zhongkui hadn't thought about it at all. The auxiliary arms such as Tuntian soldiers were not even eligible to apply.

In ancient times, regardless of the dynasty, in the management of ordnance and civilian weapons, the first ban was heavy armor, and the second was strong bows and crossbows.

On the contrary, the management of spears and swords is not as strict as imagined.

One couldn't resist, and the other peasant soldiers with swords and spears couldn't resist the charge of heavily armored cavalry or elite warriors.

Once the front row is praised, it will inevitably cause a large area of ​​panic.

At that time, it is only necessary to drive away the rebellious army, and the rebellious army will be defeated by itself.

And with these four hundred one-stone bows and arrows, it will be much easier for me to fight guerrillas in the future.

As for the horse, Shi Zhongkui was not in a hurry now.

The mixed-blood horses in the space ranch were growing steadily at this time, and even the longer the prairie rangers went south, the more the horses grew.

If the war situation does not appear until after the beginning of spring, the second batch of 38 war horses will also be able to catch up with the war.

As for the steeds that the nobles used to trade, there was no need to guess that they would not be the best of their own.

Moreover, judging from the current situation of the lack of horses in Dazhou, it is unrealistic to obtain a large number of war horses from Xungui.

Comparing it with the growing mixed-breed horse in the space ranch, there is no comparison at all.

However, Shi Zhongkui finally thought about it, and accepted the horses provided by more than a dozen nobles, in order to find a reasonable reason for himself to suddenly have dozens or even hundreds of war horses in the future.

Since he could accept the horses provided by the nobles in the capital, it seemed normal for him to trade horses with people outside the capital.

And if you control the number of war horses to less than a hundred, or even two or three hundred, you don't have to worry about someone taking the opportunity to impeach you.

Shi Zhongkui stayed in the Tuntian camp for three days, watching Xue Jinping and Yan Guixiang personally. From the 6 Tuntian soldiers, 400 people were selected to practice bows and arrows.

And put all the horses obtained in the camp, and let people teach these 400 people how to ride horses.

When necessary, I can select another 4 to [-] elites from the [-] people, follow me and [-] personal soldiers, and go out with two riders to fight guerrillas.

However, Shi Zhongkui was more worried about the source of intelligence at this time.

Wars are based on national power and intelligence, which is not a secret at all to a modern person.

If the battlefield is in Changping, you can still get information from the land and mountain gods.

But if the battlefield is chosen outside the Great Wall, the source of intelligence will be a problem.

And how to find the enemy and how to accurately cut into the enemy's weak point is even more difficult.

So Shi Zhongkui didn't think long, and decided to get a flying bird as a pet.

The best is a raptor like a golden eagle, but it's not so easy to get it in a short time.

Shi Zhongkui couldn't help but set his eyes on Hu Ren and Xungui again.

Back home in the capital, Shi Zhongkui quickly asked the housekeeper Yu Shun to bring fresh peaches to the Jia family, the Wang family and several families that had contributed to the ordnance business.

However, in order to stabilize the price of fresh peaches, they did not send too many.

While each family only weighed [-] catties, after thinking about it, they agreed to bring another [-] catties of fresh peaches over the next year.

Jia Zheng's problem was solved at once.

After all, Jia Zheng can deal with relatives and family friends calmly if he can determine the number of fresh peaches.

Even take out some fresh peaches from home and give them to those families who have birthday banquets at home, without worrying about not having enough things at home to distribute.

Moreover, this transaction can be regarded as mutually beneficial, and the future cooperation will definitely be smoother.

Once these troubles were taken care of, it was easier to say again that he wanted a golden eagle.

Jia Zheng even asked someone to come to the door and said that he would ask the farmers in the northern village of Ningrong and Rongfu to help find a pair of golden eagles.

When you have a golden eagle egg, it will be delivered directly to your door.

Don't look at Jia Zheng as an old master now, but when he was young, he was also a dandy who walked his dog and played with eagles.

When Jia's mother blamed him for beating Jia Baoyu, she also broke the news about how Jia Zheng was beaten by his own father when he was young.

Therefore, Jia Zheng knows very well that only when the little golden eagle hatches and opens its eyes, the first thing it sees is Shi Zhongkui, and the breath it smells is also Shi Zhongkui's, can it truly tame this bird of prey.

However, when Jia Zheng promised to help Shi Zhongkui find the golden eagle, he also wrote to persuade him not to focus on having fun.

Shi Zhongkui shook his head with a smile after reading the letter. Jia Zheng also knew that for a six-yuan leader, the rhetoric used to persuade his children to study hard was useless, and he was not qualified to preach about it.

The words of persuasion in the letter are extremely euphemistic, and there is no intention in the words between the lines that the elders teach the younger ones.

So much so that Shi Zhongkui had no choice but to reply a letter seriously, saying that the purpose of his wanting the golden eagle was to guard against the possibility of a large army going south on the grassland.

With this reply, I will rely on the golden eagle to avoid and find the rangers in the future, and I will have a root cause.

The only thing that made Shi Zhongkui funny was that he didn't need to bother looking for the golden eagle eggs at all.

Putting adult golden eagles into the space ranch can be easily tamed.

But it's hard to say that.

Fortunately, even the golden eagle cubs can still grow up in half a day, and then they can stay in the space ranch to absorb spiritual energy.

The more aura you absorb, the more powerful you will be in the future, and even evolve in the direction of a spiritual pet.

So Shi Zhongkui didn't get too entangled in this matter.

The days calmed down again. Shi Zhongkui rode his horse to the camp during the day, and his state of riding home in the evening was not much different from his daily work in the Imperial Academy.

You can also take advantage of the opportunity of running more than 100 kilometers of horses every day to train the riding and archery level of [-] soldiers.

Even if the time is short and it feels like cramming, it is better than no training at all.

To put it bluntly, riding and shooting is actually more important than firepower coverage.

There are not many people who can really ride on a running horse and shoot the enemy, even on the grasslands.

And those who hit every shot and every hit are even rarer.

Time passed slowly, and the New Year's Eve was getting closer, and information on the grasslands continued to come back.

Even the emperor asked him to go to the early court several times to listen to the opinions of his confidant who first discovered and warned.

Shi Zhongkui wanted to be like Huo Qubing, leading eight hundred cavalry into the depths of the grassland in search of Wang Ting, but unfortunately this is not realistic at all.

Because the biggest difference between the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Han Wu Dynasty was that the Great Zhou Dynasty at this time had already lost the ambition to attack the grassland.

If Shi Zhongkui dared to do that, it would be regarded as going deep alone in the true sense.

If there is no way to fight with Han Wu, and there are a large number of troops to restrain the main cavalry of the Huns, then the entire grassland is the enemy.

Just how to ask the chasing soldiers and the cavalry to encircle and suppress, this lone army can't do anything.

And they dare not fight, because every time a cavalryman dies, his own strength will be weakened by one point, but the grassland cavalry does not have to worry about the issue of troop strength at all.

Even the longer the disturbance, the more cavalry will be encircled and suppressed.

Therefore, every time he went to the court, Shi Zhongkui at most helped to come up with ideas to strengthen the border guards and the reserves of food, grass and ordnance.

As the situation became more and more tense, Shi Zhongkui spent more and more time at home with his two beautiful wives.

Wanting to gather an army in the winter is simply a fool's dream.

The biggest problem is not that Shanyu Wang Ting cannot assemble the army, but that after the army is assembled, there is not enough food and grass at all.

Once tens of thousands of people gathered together but couldn't get enough to eat, before reaching the front line of the Great Wall, the Mongolian Yuan army would become chaotic by itself.

Even fighting to survive is not out of the question.

Therefore, before the snow on the grassland melts, it is the most stable period.

But after the beginning of spring, a large number of herdsmen, cattle, sheep, and horses starved to death, and then the army assembled, the motivation to go south to find vitality is absolutely extremely strong and firm.

If the Great Week cannot be held, it is likely to be the beginning of a turn from prosperity to decline.
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Shi Zhongkui stayed at home every day, and of course Baochai and Yingchun were the happiest.

However, because Yinger, Xiangling, Huber, and Pearl have not been brought into the house yet, there is no need to abide by the rule of sleeping in the concubine's room four out of every ten days.

One-day Baochai and two-day Yingchun, the two were really happy at first, and even secretly planned to take the opportunity to conceive a child.

But after a long time, the two sisters began to be unable to bear Shi Zhongkui's physical strength that seemed to never weaken.

Every time it was my turn to serve Shi Zhongkui, I couldn't get enough sleep if I didn't sleep until noon the next day.

But even so, let Baochai and Yingchun really send the four house fillings to Shi Zhongkui's mouth, but they don't want to.

At least before they gave birth to the eldest son and second son of the Shi family, Baochai and Yingchun's attitude was quite firm.

However, Shi Zhongkui didn't appear to be a little bit tired from playing songs every night. On the contrary, because of the balance of yin and yang, the cultivation of Changchun Kung Fu became more mellow and comfortable.

As a result, Shi Zhongkui became more interested in dealing with the matter of the boudoir.

Baochai is fine, after all her physical condition has been much better than Yingchun since she was a girl.

In addition, the raw pearls are round and jade-like, and the body is plump, and the endurance is at least one level stronger than Yingchun.

If Shi Zhongkui hadn't worried that Baochai's age would be dangerous if she gave birth to a child, Baochai might have been pregnant at this time.

But even though Baochai is much stronger than Yingchun, she couldn't bear it before the New Year's Eve. After Yingchun said that she wanted to go back to her mother's house for a few days, her heart moved.

But when he thought about Shi Zhongkui's singing every night, he worried again, "Second sister, isn't she worried that the husband will steal it?"

Yingchun was also very conflicted in her heart, even when she thought of Hu Po and Pearl throwing herself into her arms and being eaten by Shi Zhongkui, a kind of unknown fire rose in her heart.

But last night, she ascended to heaven three times in a row, and even felt a little dizzy again. Yingchun knew that she couldn't bear her husband's love alone.

In this case, either go home and hide for a few days to recover your strength, or join forces with Baochai.

But if Yingchun and Baochai were to accompany Shi Zhongkui together, Yingchun would not be able to pass the level of shyness in her heart. Instead, she might as well accompany Shi Zhongkui with Amber and Pearl.

After all, Amber and Pearl were meant to fill up houses, and their mission was to help the mistress deal with Shi Zhongkui.

Even when necessary, it is normal to do some pushing things behind Shi Zhongkui's back.

When Shi Zhongkui went to the Hanlin Academy to ride around and ride home, he suddenly learned from the housekeeper Yu Shun that the two wives brought their maidservants back to their natal homes to visit relatives, and immediately realized that he had completely scared the two daughters-in-law.

The corner of his mouth turned up and he smiled, and after thinking about it, he went directly to Xue's house with the guards.

Aunt Xue, Xue Pan, and Xue Biao were very happy about Shi Zhongkui's arrival, but Baochai was too red to look up at her.

But Baochai's move made Aunt Xue even more satisfied.

As someone who has experienced it, Aunt Xue knows too well how sad it is for a woman after 30 to stay alone in her boudoir.

During the dinner, not only did they keep adding food to Shi Zhongkui, but also called Shi Zhongkui "my son, my son".

While making Shi Zhongkui's heart twisted, he really felt the kindness and love of his mother-in-law.

Also met Xue Baoqin for the first time.

The little girl was indeed very beautiful, not only was she not inferior to Baochai in the slightest, she even vaguely seemed to surpass her.

What's even more rare is that there is some innocence in Baoqin's beauty, and this combination of contradictions makes people feel pity.

Although Shi Zhongkui didn't stare at Baoqin in a daze, his eyes and the surprised expression on his face could not escape the eyes of Aunt Xue, Xue Biao and Baochai.

And what is surprising is that, not to mention Aunt Xue and Xue Biao, even Baochai didn't mean to be too angry.

Thinking about it carefully, it is actually very easy to understand. Baochai has already married the second daughter of Yingchun, and it is normal for the Xue family to marry another lady.

Not to mention Xue Biao's elder brother, that's 10,000 approvals.

In fact, Xue Baoqin, like Baochai, hopes that her brother will be successful.

Even because she is the second wife and her parents have passed away, Baoqin's thoughts will be stronger in her heart.

But for Shi Zhongkui, the little girl is only 12 years old, which is too young, and because she has not grown up, she is as tall as a child, so she can't even think about it.

But this did not stop him from thinking about waiting a few more years.

After taking Baochai home and giving his daughter-in-law a lesson on the bed, Baochai put her head on Shi Zhongkui's chest and said leisurely, "Master, why don't you marry her after two years when Baoqin is 15."

(End of this chapter)