stubborn thief

Chapter 243 The Academy
In the late first month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the ice and snow in the Juerwan Valley first disappeared.

To put it bluntly, Taiji took the armor at Riyue Mountain, and with satisfaction, under the escort of Dai Daozi, set off back to Bajiao City in Xiaohetao.

It was a very happy year for him.

Liu Chengzong brought a lot of firecrackers, and he put enough to say, and he also gave five sets of purple flower cloth armor and fifty official-made goose feather waist knives.

This batch of three-handed waist saber armor is very valuable, and they are all good things. They were all made by Shanxi Pingyang Weijun Bureau in the 25th year of Wanli, and they are worth at least 26 taels of silver in Han.

In Qinghai, they are worth [-] sheep, roughly equivalent to the entire property of three middle-class herdsmen families.

And there is no market price.

The number of waist knives in Bai Yan Taiji's hands has increased by [-]%.

To put it bluntly, Taiji is not poor, on the contrary, he is very rich.

In the tribe of Baiyan, there are five big clans and more than 30 small clans. Each head has more than [-] livestock and can gather more than [-] cavalry soldiers.

But their main weapons are light bows, hooked sickle spears, bone buds and dog-beating sticks.

The dog-beating stick is not a stick, but a self-made device used by the people in the pastoral areas of Amdo to guard against wild animals. It is tied with a rope to an iron block, similar to a meteor dart, and it is called Guoer Kaoer.

Here, only the hook and sickle spear is Tumed's standard weapon, and it is also the chief culprit for the nine-sided Ming army's capture of the first rank.

Historically, the Mongols attacked the Han region. Before the war, the leader of the largest tribe recruited them. It was agreed to gather at a certain place on a certain day, and all the tribes would nomad there, discuss the direction of invasion, and complete the pre-war reorganization.

In a group of three riders, there will be a rider with a hook and sickle gun inside, who is responsible for charging and hooking away people or corpses who have fallen off the horse. Usually, hook a person and throw it on the spare horse before he can run away.

This is an artifact for entrepreneurship outside the Great Wall. According to their tradition, those who are hooked back must repay their kindness.

It was the corpse that was hooked back, and the corpse was handed over to the widow, and all the belongings and horses belonged to the corpse carrier.

If the rescued person is an ordinary person, then the family property and goods will be shared equally with the benefactor.

If it was Taiji who was rescued, then let it go. According to tradition, nobles will take out their armor, horses, and money and let their benefactors choose.

To put it bluntly, Taiji Zushang is also rich, and his grandfather is the brother of Altan Khan.

When his father was young, Altan Khan of Tumed completely bankrupted Ming's economic sanctions with the help of the White Lotus Cultists.

Han'er built Bansheng in Tumochuan to manufacture daily necessities, such as sharp armor, ladders and poles, and siege equipment, so that [-] households on the right wing had more than [-] armored cavalry.

Even when it comes to sharing accounts, his tribe has thousands of armors and more than 4000 sabers, but hooks and sickles are relatively few weapons.

At that time, the Tumed Department was the well-deserved overlord of the grassland, and the [-] horses on the right wing brought nightmares to everyone.

Huang Taiji, who was cut off from the Ordos tribe, under the order of Altan Khan, conquered Oala in the 41st year of Jiajing and conquered Turhut; conquered Uszang in the 45th year of Jiajing, and penetrated the Oirat pastureland in the first year of Wanli. Yecheng defeated Kazakh Khan Aksar and returned his wife.

He was so vicious, but the greatest achievement during the Wanli period was the compilation of a Buddhist classic, and his official position was promoted from commanding affairs to general dragon and tiger.

Because Zhao Quan, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, died, and was escorted to Beijing by Altan Khan, who established the Great Ming Dynasty, to kill him.

Since then, Tumed and even the entire Monan once again lost the ability to build their own armor.

Up to now, there are more or less soldiers and armors in various Mongolian ministries.

Generally speaking, those who occupy commercial roads and are farther away from Daming have more Bingjia, and those who are closer to Daming or are in remote places have fewer Bingjia.

Those who fought a big battle with Daming, and lost, had the fewest soldiers—this is almost called Qinghai's Huluochi Babu.

Their saber armor is almost lost.

Because of its entrepreneurial nature, the anti-barb sickle gun has become the weapon with the largest number of stocks in the tribe.

As for the decent saber, counting the one on Bai Yan's waist, he only has 130 seven handles.

More than half of these are Tibetan knives, all of which were robbed in Tibet earlier.

In many cases, people know that it is poison to feed them to their mouths, and they have to eat what they should eat.

To put it bluntly, Taiji is not stupid, and he is very clear about the purpose of Liu Chengzong's gift of armor and waist knife.

He only gave him things, but Razun didn't have anything, which was clearly provoking brotherhood.

But can he not want these things?cannot.

In the words of Liu Chengzong, this is where you are, and there will be countless things that you can buy in the future.

There are indeed countless things.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the weather near Xining is still freezing at night, but the daytime is getting warmer.

The Lion Army also got busy. Taking advantage of the daytime, they pushed the clay from the nests dug last autumn to the river, built several brick kilns, and started firing them when the weather warmed up.

On the other side, Liu Chengzong took Lin Wei to run around the valley and started to measure the abandoned land suitable for cultivation.

The geographical location of Juer Bay is similar to a T-shaped intersection. From west to east is the Huangshui River Basin, and from north to south is the Yaoshui River. It is very conducive to the construction of canals for irrigation, but there is not much flat cultivated land.

Because he didn't understand the agricultural situation here, Liu Chengzong specially sent someone to call Gongbu Dorji from Riyue Mountain.

After some inquiries, the situation is relatively optimistic based on his current manpower situation.

The land here is divided into three types: Sichuan water land, shallow mountain land, and Nao mountain land. Sichuan water land is naturally the best, with low altitude, high temperature, sufficient irrigation, and naturally large yields.

Naoshandi is just the opposite.

After measurement, the surrounding fields suitable for canal irrigation can be divided into three triangular areas, two in the northwest and one in the south, all of which are flat lands between rivers. Three large canals and twelve branch canals need to be built to irrigate [-] surrounding fields. More than seven thousand acres.

In the mountains, there are more than [-] mu of shallow mountain land and more than [-] mu of nao mountain land. The grain yield per mu in these places is not as good as that in northern Shaanxi.

According to Lin Wei's calculations, refugees from the mountains were recruited to cultivate the land, leaving enough for the people's daily needs, and the food handed in in the first year was probably enough for the army to solve one-fifth of the grain and grass.

The follow-up depends on the development of the trading market town. If all the fields can be reclaimed and utilized, probably one-twentieth to one-tenth of the problem can be solved.

In other words, at most, they can receive less than [-] stone grains here.

At this moment, Liu Chengzong suddenly realized.

Why Lazun's Timba is one-tenth, because there are many mountain fields, after leaving the necessary rations for the people, what can be collected is a little more than one-tenth.

And it's already heavily taxed.

However, Liu Shizi is very optimistic about the future development of Juerwan, and it is impossible to expect a Juerwan to support nearly [-] troops.

Xining can't help much, although there is a large enough market there, with [-] shi of grain available for sale every year, and there is still a surplus of agricultural power.

This year, the people in the Hehuang Valley have grown a variety of grains, and the last grains that appear on the market can almost supply the 3000 people of Da Ge.

His soldiers need [-] catties of grain a year, and this place can feed [-] people.

But there are more than 1000 craftsmen alone, and only the craftsmen are left here, and they will be robbed sooner or later, so at least [-] troops must be stationed in Juerwan.

So he planned a defense system of one city, three forts and twelve piers, made plate-building utensils, and prepared to ram the earth to build the fort.

Although there is a city in the plan, the need for the city is not urgent, mainly the fortress to the south of the Yaoshui River.

The illegal building that Liu Chengzong had prepared for a long time finally came in handy.

He planned to ask Lin Wei to first build a fort in the ravine choking the Yaoshui River fifteen li to the south.

As long as a fort is built there, all people who come from the small river will be within the range of guns and artillery when they pass through the valley.

A few lion cannons, 300 guns, and [-] people stationed can guard the south gate of Juerwan.

As for Juerwan, it is mainly planned as a logistics base, with three areas: market, factory and camp. The camp is located in the city, and the factory and market are located outside the city.

This is a huge project that cannot be completed in two years.

The camps are not a problem now, and the camps of the Chinese military camps are almost the same. Even if there is a need in the future, they can be expanded.

The need for the city wall is not urgent, and now only a rough plan is enough.

In Liu Chengzong's plan, Juerwan will be the center of Qinghai in the next few years or even more than ten years, and the road facilities in the west cannot keep up, and it is far away from the Han area, which is not conducive to the eastward expedition.

His capital can only be here.

So in the future, when the city wall is really built, it may occupy farmland and further expand it. It can be handed over to Lin Wei to slowly repair it. He is only responsible for building a school in the city as his highest school.

"This school will occupy [-] mu of land, and will have three colleges: primary, secondary, and junior colleges, and nine departments of economics, arithmetic, law, literature, agriculture, engineering, commerce, medicine, and military. I want my husband to be the head of the mountain."

Yang Dingrui sighed when he heard Liu Chengzong's request.

Being the head of the academy is a very comfortable thing, but now that the academy doesn't even have a brick, Liu Shizi can only ask for it. This is not a head of the mountain, but a foreman.

I have never heard of any mountain chief who first built a school by himself.

But Liu Shizi had already opened his mouth. What can Yang Dingrui do? He asked, "Are you planning to go west?"

Liu Chengzong nodded: "In terms of food, we must be self-sufficient as soon as possible. Xining and Juerwan can support [-] troops, and the remaining [-] will go to Qinghai Lake."

As he said that, Liu Chengzong smiled and said, "Dai Qing has been waiting for me for 500 people. After waiting for such a long time, I should see him."

"You used to scare Dai Qing to death."

Yang Dingrui laughed, the news that Chen Qindai was in Daiqing had already spread.

They all knew that Dai Qing came from Mobei, and he had [-] soldiers. The equipment in Mobei might be better than that of Huluochibu, which was severely weakened by Ming, but how good could it be?

In front of the lion army raised by several generals, generals, and guerrillas in the Ming Dynasty, there were no well-equipped troops in the northwest.

Which army in this land can have weapons, armor, horses, and mules for everyone?
Sitting on the kang, Yang Dingrui smiled and said, "Go ahead, leave the establishment of the school to me. It's better to start the school early, and take in some students to make up for the war losses in the future."

"However, I don't think it's necessary to put all of them into one government school, can't we build another military school?"

Liu Chengzong shook his head and said: "I don't know, and I have never tried such a division of subjects. Let's try it all. The director of the small courtyard is responsible for the economics and recruitment of children."

"The middle court is in charge of law, literature, agriculture, industry, commerce, medicine, and the military. It recruits young people. Like the small court, it is for universal education; the large court is responsible for bringing together the most knowledgeable people in various sciences for intensive research."

Liu Chengzong drew a beautiful picture scroll to Yang Dingrui, he opened his hands and said: "In the future, our territory will be wider, and we will establish small social schools in every place. Those who are willing to continue learning can go to the middle school in Juerwan Come."

"Those who study law can enter the government as low-level assistant officials, those who study literature can teach in small courtyards or enter the army as teachers, those who study engineering can enter our third bureau of engineering, and those who study business can go to Juerwan or go to government-run trade in Qinghai , Those who study medicine can join the army in the local area.”

Liu Chengzong said with a smile on his face: "Not to mention those who are studying in the army. These people can accumulate more strength for our Eastern Expedition in the future."

"Eastern Expedition..."

Yang Dingrui sighed: "Lion, have you thought about the Eastern Expedition carefully?"

"Sir, how can I care about it? We can't support ourselves in food, and we are almost surrounded by Mongolians. We are short of people and food, so we can only take it step by step."

Yang Dingrui smiled happily, raised his hand and said, "I know you haven't thought about it carefully, so I thought about it... The key lies in Lanzhou and Anduo."

Liu Chengzong of Lanzhou knew, but he was not familiar with Anduo. This is an approximate geographical location, between Wusizang and Xining, a large area from northwest to southeast.

He asked, "Andor?"

"What do you think of the Eastern Expedition, and fight back the same way?"

Yang Dingrui smiled and said: "Our problem is not fighting, but food. If we want to go east, we must first eliminate our worries. Our worries are in the arms of Zhang Guo. To solve the problem of the Hexi Corridor, we must let Lanzhou have problems. "

Lanzhou is the big grain hoarding camp in Gansu Town. Taking Lanzhou can cut off the supply and connection of grain and grass in Gansu Town.

In the past, Huoluochibu also thought so, so the Ming court launched the Songshan Battle which lasted seven months, built a new border of Songshan, and beat it to a utter defeat.

Liu Chengzong nodded and asked, "What about Ando?"

"There are mountains and seas in the east, and Songpan in the west. From Songpanwei to Sichuan, Songpan was the commander-in-chief during the Wanli period. Later, Yang Yinglong in Bozhou rebelled, and the Sichuan commander-in-chief moved to Chongqing. Songpan only had a deputy commander-in-chief, which could not stop us. "

"After getting rid of the worries of Gansu, holding Qinghai-Tibet in hand, taking Longxi to capture Hanzhong, sending partial troops into Sichuan, and attacking from both inside and outside, we can take the door of Sichuan."

Liu Chengzong rubbed his jaw and thought to himself, the road over there was quite dangerous in his memory.

However, if you can really hold Qinghai-Tibet in your hands, it may not be impossible to rely on local help.

It is a good way to attack Sichuan from inside and outside, but this road is too difficult.

But if it succeeds, we can directly hit Huguang from Sichuan... Liu Chengzong shook his head: "Sir, this is far beyond our current strength, and we don't have the ability to think about such things right now."

He couldn't even think of anyone around him who could serve as the leader of the Sichuan division.

Yang Dingrui nodded to express his understanding, and said: "It's okay, I will continue to think in this direction, anyway, you left me in Juerwan, I can send people to the east to inquire about the news, but you want me to build a government school and become a university student. You must write something handsome, right?"

"What to write?"

"Write a couplet, and when the academy is repaired, let the craftsmen engrave it on the courtyard gate."

"You say this, it's easy!"

Liu Chengzong suddenly realized, got up and found a pen and paper in Yang Dingrui's den, and wrote twenty words with his hands.

"Enroll in the hospital to study, read the thousand-year-old classics; go out to join the army, and travel thousands of miles."

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)