Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 138 Corn and Potatoes

In Zhang Zongxian's plan, this city will be built as a model. He personally led his disciples to start planning and designing, thinking about integrating the advanced city construction experience of his previous life into it.

It is not to directly copy the design style of the previous life, but to integrate the design concept of the previous life into Daming's style.

After making the preliminary design plan, Zhang Zongxian immediately convened the four major workshops to show them the planning sand table,
They also informed them of the victory of the cavalry brigade. The four shopkeepers learned that Zhang Zongxian's disciple had beheaded [-] Tartars after conquering Shuofang City.

He was so surprised that he couldn't speak for a long time. Daming hadn't won such a victory for many years.At first they didn't believe it, but after Zhang Zongxian explained how to build Xinshuofang City, they gradually began to believe it.

At this time, their thoughts were no longer afraid that Zhang Zongxian's rebellion would hurt them, but they began to look forward to Zhang Zongxian's rebellion first, and they would be Conglong's heroes at that time.

But I just thought about it and didn't dare to say it.

In the end, Zhang Zongxian repeatedly emphasized that they should study new technologies well, use them boldly, cooperate with each other, and make preparations first. The construction of the new workshop in Shuofang City will start after the beginning of spring.

Zhang Zongxian also said that everyone can discuss how to manage the future Shuofang City without Yamen, that is to say, they can also participate in the management.

The four shopkeepers were once again shocked by Zhang Zongxian's generosity, and they didn't know what to say?Left in a daze.

Returning to their respective workshops, regardless of the opposition of other members of the family, they made every effort to prepare for the new workshop in Shuofang City.

At this time, Boren was annoyed by the seizure of too many livestock. It was winter and there was no way to move so many livestock.

There are also women and children from the Ordos tribe. Although they are already being transferred to Lianhuabao, after all, it will be spring before the transfer of more than 2 people is completed.

The soldiers in the cavalry brigade were relatively young and unmarried, and they were teased by these women every day. Several incidents had happened. Although the soldiers were severely punished, Boren was also very annoyed.

These two incidents completely involved Boren, making it impossible for him to continue sweeping up other tribes.

From Boren's point of view, the Tumote Department was vulnerable, so he wanted to destroy the Wushen Department, even though they already knew that the Ordos City Department was destroyed, and they were already prepared.

But Bo Ren believes that as long as they bring more rockets, these will not be a problem, unless they give up the tribe's cattle and sheep.

To the west of the Wushen Wanhu tribe is the Ningxia Guard of the Ming Dynasty. After eliminating the Wushen tribe, they only need to face the Dalat Wanhu tribe, and the defensive pressure of Shuofang City will be greatly improved.

Boren wrote his idea to the elder brother to discuss it, and Liang Chen also thought it was feasible, so the two jointly reported to Zhang Zongxian, hoping to fight again in the winter.

After Zhang Zongxian received the letter, he agreed with the views of the two, and also felt that Tumote was vulnerable, but Zhang Zongxian didn't want Boren to take any more risks, so he was lucky, and it snowed heavily outside for three consecutive days what to do?
He rejected the plan of the two to send troops, but asked Boren to improve the defense of Shuofang City as soon as possible, and then launch an attack on the Wushen Wanhu Department in the spring.During this period, the soldiers were trained intensively to lay a solid foundation for the next year's operations.

He also asked the two of them to send back soldiers who were brave in combat and excellent in military skills to participate in special training classes as soon as possible.Prepare for the large-scale military expansion after the spring.At least [-] officers must be trained within three months.

The training content is mainly about learning history and ideological education. Zhang Zongxian will personally teach the students in the special training class.

Although it was already the twelfth lunar month of winter, there was an endless stream of convoys leaving Huangpu Chuanbao, not only refugees going to the settlements, but also various daily necessities, building materials, and ironware made in Jiazhou were continuously transported to various settlements.

The disciples of the Legislative School participated in all aspects of this immigration. Under the command of these teenagers, settlements sprang up one after another. Luncheon meat is often also available.

The people who immigrated here are looking forward to the beginning of spring so that they can reclaim and distribute [-] acres of land to their families.

It wasn't until the middle of the twelfth lunar month that the number of refugees entering Jiazhou gradually decreased, and the refugee camp set up in Qingjian County was also reduced to one. Most of the mobilized young and strong were sent home after receiving bank notes of three taels of silver.

A total of 130 new settlements were built outside the side wall, and 45 households were resettled, costing [-] million taels of silver.Among them is the food consumed by the immigrants for the winter, which is worth [-] taels.

The remaining 85 taels included the purchase of blast-proof walls, hired carriages, building materials, briquettes for heating, Lumi guns, iron tools and so on.

And at least to provide food to the immigrants until after the autumn harvest, in this case, it will cost another 75 taels later.Although no less than 50 cattle and sheep were seized, there are as many as one million taels of silver.

The sheep were to be killed for their wool and meat, and the cattle were to be loaned to the people in the settlements.This can also save some food consumption.Coupled with the purchase of mushrooms, the food supply is barely guaranteed.

If refugees continue to pour in after the beginning of spring, the existing food reserves will be completely unable to cope.We can only hope that there will be no large numbers of refugees after the beginning of spring.

In order to increase food reserves, people were sent to buy food in Shanxi and Shaanxi. On the one hand, they encouraged the development of mushroom farming and provided farmers with low-cost honeycomb briquettes, so that the temperature in the cultivation room was not lower than 25 degrees, and mushrooms could grow in winter.

Then, the reward was increased, as long as any kind of potato, corn, or sweet potato was found, the reward would be 5000 taels of silver.For a while, this matter caused a stir in Jiazhou.

At this time, Zhang Zongxian still thought that these two crops had not been introduced to Ming Dynasty, and he also emphasized on the list that these two crops came from overseas and would go to Fujian and Guangdong to find them.

It wasn't until Zhang Zongxian's elder brother, Li Gonggong, who heard about the reward and happily took the list to ask Zhang Zongxian for a reward, that Zhang Zongxian knew that potatoes had been introduced to Ming Dynasty long ago, but only in Huangzhuang for the royal family. It was not passed on to the people.

And corn was introduced as early as the Jiajing period, and it was planted locally in Shaanxi, but because the government collected taxes only wheat and not corn, the common people did not grow much.

Zhang Zongxian has always emphasized in the list that this product comes from overseas, making people who know corn misunderstand that it is not a crop, until Zhang Zongxian raised the reward for silver, and there was a lot of trouble before someone took the corn to reveal the list, thinking of taking a gamble Zhang Zongxian Want the same thing.

Although it cost 1 taels of silver in vain and made a joke, at least I found it.

Zhang Zongxian immediately arranged for people to go to Pingliang Mansion in Shaanxi to buy corn seeds and the capital to buy potato seeds. He vowed to buy enough seeds and planned to let the immigrants in the settlement interplant these two crops after the spring.

Through this incident, people also knew that Zhang Zongxian really kept his word, and soon in less than a month, someone found sweet potatoes, peppers, and tomatoes to offer to Zhang Zongxian.

Immediately Zhang Zongxian spared no expense to build a glass greenhouse for the people of the Agricultural College to grow these crops, and also allowed Zhang Zongxian to personally command the kitchen on New Year's Eve, making a table of past life delicacies for his family.

After the Chinese New Year, news came from the capital that Wanli's health was getting weaker and weaker. On the Liaodong side, there was wild boar skin. Seeing that the Ming army's defenses were tight, they failed to capture Kaiyuan Tieling after several attacks. In order to make up for the loss, they began to turn around and threaten North Korea. The country attacked him.

After Zhang Zongxian learned that the wild boar skin was going to use troops against North Korea, he knew that the North Koreans would definitely not be able to resist the wild boar skin, and that the wild boar skin would definitely grab everything they wanted from North Korea.

Originally, after the death of the wild boar skin in the previous life, Huang Taiji would only attack North Korea when he ascended the throne. Now the wild boar skin is thinking of attacking North Korea.

I am afraid that after the wild boar skin has tasted the sweetness from North Korea, it wants to occupy North Korea for a long time. In that case, the imperial court can only send troops to rescue North Korea.

The consistent style of the Ming court must be to command the Ming army to rescue North Korea forcibly, and then be ambushed by wild boar skins to annihilate the entire army.

Zhang Zongxian's efforts were in vain, but once the wild boar skin took over North Korea, it meant that the wild boar skin had sufficient supplies, and its strength would inevitably become stronger.Moreover, the North Korean firearms manufacturing capabilities are not weak.

In order not to make his efforts in vain, Zhang Zongxian wrote to Master Ma on the one hand, asking him to find a way to prevent the imperial court from sending troops to rescue North Korea.

On the other hand, he decided to speed up his pace, take Guihua City as soon as possible, and then eliminate Lin Danhan before the wild boar skin, so that he can directly support the Ming army on the front line of Kaiyuan Tieling.

To win Guihua City as soon as possible, the military expansion must be accelerated, and the only option is to take the risk of recruiting more military households.

In February of the 49th year of Wanli, [-] military officers who had completed the special training ahead of schedule, plus [-] disciples from the inner sect, returned to Lotus Fort together.
During this period, a group of clever soldiers were specially selected from the cavalry and infantry, and arranged for them to go home to recruit people in the name of the Peace.These soldiers originally came from military households in Yanshou Town.

When these soldiers returned to the military fort wearing brand new sweaters and carrying gifts in large and small bags, they immediately envied all their peers.

After learning that going to Taiping not only receives two taels of silver every month, but also eats meat every day, I can't wait to follow along to make money.

In this way, all the school-age teenagers in Yansui Town will be directly recruited, regardless of their age.

Afterwards, there will be an assessment, and those who are smart and clever will be recruited into the school to study.Those who are younger than twelve will enter the juvenile battalion, and those who are older than twelve will directly join the cavalry or infantry.

With the addition of these teenagers and those recruited from among the refugees, twelve recruit regiments were quickly formed.

It's just that these newly formed troops have to be trained, and their weapons and equipment are still being manufactured, so they cannot go directly to the battlefield.

On February [-]th, Boren finally waited until Zhang Zongxian agreed to his order to attack Wushen Wanhu.

At the same time, the newly formed three new regiments were also transferred to Shuofang City to replace the cavalry brigade to guard Shuofang City, so that Boren could free his hands and feet to attack.

However, at this time, the Wushen Wanhu Department had already taken precautions, and a night attack like last time would definitely not work.But at this time, the green grass on the grassland in February has not yet grown.

The horses had not been bred well, and the tribes on the grasslands least liked to fight at this time, but the horses of the cavalry brigade of the Legislative Army were different. They still had food to eat in winter, and they were not afraid of losing weight at all.

Boren, who let go of his hands and feet, first mopped up the surrounding tribes and slaughtered sixteen small tribes in a row.In order to escape from the cavalry brigade, the remaining tribes entered the pastures of the Wushen Wanhu tribe.

Boren also pursued and entered the pasture of the Wushen Wanhu tribe, and began to slaughter the affiliated tribes of the Wushen Wanhu tribe.

Constantly forcing the Wushen Wanhu tribe to fight decisive battles, if the Wushen Wanhu tribe does not rescue these small tribes, then when these small tribes are wiped out, they will not be able to escape their extinction.

At this time, there were also fierce quarrels within the Wushen Wanhu Department. Some people advocated temporarily avoiding the limelight and leaving Hetao, while others advocated gathering all tribes' forces to fight a decisive battle with the cavalry brigade.There are also people who advocate reporting to the Ming court and letting the Ming court deal with the sudden appearance of the Taiping.

Finally, Wushen Wanhubu Taiji, who couldn't stand the quarrel, stood up;
"Is the blood of the Golden Family still flowing in your body? A Han Chinese business name scares you like this? Now, you, all of you, go to gather the tribes on the grassland, and we want to avenge the Ordos Wanhu tribe. Kill them all These Chinese dogs."

The nobles in the main battle immediately shouted long live, and ran out of the big tent to gather people from other tribes.

At this time, the leader of a small tribe suggested:

"Taiji must not underestimate the Han people, or ask for help from the Dalat Wanhu Department."

Taiji of the Wushen Wanhu Department gave the leader of the small tribe who proposed to ask for help, and the leader of the small tribe shut his mouth in fright.

Ask for help from the Dharatwan Household Department?Wouldn't the recaptured pasture be shared equally with them?

After summoning the cavalry of all the tribes, the cavalry of Wushen Wanhu's tribe reached more than 2, and they rushed to Shuofang City in a mighty manner.

Boren, always paying attention to the enemy's movements, quickly pulled all the cavalry back to Shuofang City, ready to use defense instead of attack.

At this time, Shuofang City has built a fortress with a blast-proof wall, and has also strengthened an artillery regiment.In the entire Shuofang City, there are now 36 five-jin bronze cannons and twelve ten-jin bronze cannons.This is not counting the rockets carried.

After returning to Sufang City, Boren personally defended the city, left a cavalry regiment in the city to confuse the enemy, and let the remaining cavalry regiment quickly cross the Dawulan Mulun River, hiding and waiting for his signal.

When the cavalry of Wushen Wanhu tribe arrived at Shuofang City, facing the fortress built with blast-proof walls, Taiji of Wushen Wanhu tribe couldn't stop laughing.

Pointing to the explosion-proof wall more than two meters high, he said:

"My three-year-old son can jump over such a short and thin wall on a horse."

The Tartars around him all laughed after hearing this, thinking that these Han people used chariot formations like the Ming army, but they didn't expect that they built such a thin wall.

Originally, he was ready to face the densely packed firearms on the Ming army's chariot formation.

Now it seems that even if there is a trench dug outside the wall, as long as the warriors carry the soil around, they can fill it up quickly, and even use the soil to dig a slope for the warriors to ride directly into it on horseback.

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