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Chapter 296

Yuzhu sent troops this time, and did not call in advance the Mongols in Qinghai to fight against the rebellion together.

The logic is actually very simple. When the army goes out to march, it always passes through the various banners and ministries along the way.

It's better to see it than to see it for a hundred times!
It has never been Yuzhu's habit to relieve itching through the boots.

Besides, when the eyes are smeared, if there is a spy who betrays the water at a critical moment, it will be called crying without tears.

Dorji Sebuteng warmly invited Yuzhu to stay for a few more days in order to treat him well.

Originally, it was just polite words, but beyond Dolji Sebuteng's expectation, Yu Zhu agreed without any hesitation.

Well, Yu Zhu came with a large army, and the tribe of Dorji Sebuteng only had [-] households in total, which was quite a fortune.

There is no way, the words have already been spoken, so you can't take them back, right?
It's just that Yuzhu has always been open-minded in doing things.

Although they stayed here, the camp of the army was still quite satisfactory.The basic camping principles that should be adhered to are thoroughly implemented.

Close to the source of water, with a hard fortress, a horse refusal frame must be placed at the gate of the camp.

After staying, Wendner took the interpreter guide of the Volunteer Camp to find Dolji Sebuteng on his own initiative, and proposed the good idea of ​​exchanging tea bricks for sheep or cattle.

Before leaving, Yuzhu used the silver in the official treasury to forcefully buy all the tea bricks from the tea merchants in Xining City at a par price.

The parity here refers to the reasonable wholesale price of tea bricks on the market before the army goes out to fight, not the loss-making price of the place of origin.

If the business is to be long-lasting, there is no trustworthiness!

The Mongolian ministries in Qinghai have salt, sheep, and cattle, but what they lack are tea bricks, silk, cotton cloth, and silver.

Yuzhu deliberately chose tea bricks.That's because, on the prairie, tea bricks are a necessity of life and an absolute hard currency, which is more useful than silver.

Wendner smiled and said to Dolji Sebuten: "Master Baylor, to tell you the truth, in the next year, it is impossible for tea bricks to be shipped in from Xining."

Dorji Sebuteng's face changed suddenly, he never dreamed that Yuzhu had monopolized the tea brick business in Xining.

Between the Qing Dynasty and Qinghai, there have always been two ancient tea-horse roads, one from Sichuan, and the other from Xining.

Xining is in Yu Zhu's grasp, he has the final say, no reason is needed!
Send tea bricks here from Sichuan.Due to the extremely long and difficult journey, the price is extremely high, at least three times more expensive than the tea bricks shipped from Xining.

Yuzhu is not the arrogant Nian Gengyao, his style has always been to do things in a high-key manner and behave in a low-key manner.

The tea bricks from Xining could not come in, and the Mongols north of the Qaidam River and west of the Yellow River had to follow Yuzhu's eyes.

Yuzhu came with a large army, and there were only [-] households in Nanzuomo Banner in total, so he would definitely miss if he played hard.

Then it can only be soft.

After some bargaining, Wendner exchanged 100 tea bricks for [-] horses, [-] sheep and [-] cows.

In the past, such an order of tea bricks could only be exchanged for fifty sheep at most.

If Dolji Sebuteng is proficient in Chinese, he will definitely poke Yuzhu's back and scold his mother fiercely: monopoly is fiercer than a tiger!
The cattle, sheep, leather goods and salt on the Qinghai prairie are all worthless, and each banner has a lot of stock.

The Mongols went to war, without exception, driving cattle and sheep on the road, fighting while eating.

Yuzhu followed suit, and also drove cattle and sheep on the road, marching while eating.

According to Lu Wu's calculations, as long as there is meat in every meal, the consumption of food will be reduced by at least one-third.

On the way of marching and fighting, beef and mutton were used together with grain brought from Xining.

Hehe, with this method, even if you are surrounded by the enemy for three months, you won't have to worry about food and drink.

What Dolji Sebuteng didn't expect was that after Yuzhu set up the camp, he stopped moving.

Moreover, not only did Yu Zhu not leave, but he also asked the soldiers of the Wuwei Battalion to line up and learn how to ride horses.

The time is too short, and it is impossible for infantry who can't ride a horse to gallop proficiently.

Yuzhu's requirements are not complicated, as long as the soldiers march on horseback without falling off, they are considered qualified.

The enemy observed for a few days, and seeing that Yuzhu refused to move, he couldn't help but look at each other.

Could it be that he really came for an outing?

Yuzhu didn't move, but Alice accompanied the sailors and officers from the West to conduct topographic surveys.

The military map of the Qing Dynasty was regarded as a treasure by myself, hidden in the general's mansion, and no one was allowed to peep at it.

However, in the eyes of these Western technicians, this kind of crude map is simply not worth mentioning.

Since the Age of Discovery, Europeans have gradually discovered various continents.

Up to now, the measurement and positioning methods using sextant and star catalog have been generally mastered by Western sailors and officers.

The specific positioning method is actually not complicated.

First use the sextant to measure the altitude angle of the sun at noon, and then check the declination angle of the day from the astronomical calendar.

The declination angle, that is, the latitude of the point where the sun directly falls.

Based on these two data, you can calculate your latitude.

If the measurement is the North Star, it will be more convenient.The altitude angle of Polaris can be directly regarded as the local latitude, and there is no need to check the astronomical calendar.

If you want to obtain accurate longitude, you must first use the average solar day to calculate the longitude difference between your own position and the reference position.Then, by consulting the astronomical calendar, the error generated by the difference between the mean solar day and the true solar day is corrected.

A true solar day is the time interval between the sun passing through the mid-heaven twice in a row, that is, the true length of a day.

The mean solar day is the annual average of the true solar day.

Before the advent of nautical clocks, the common navigation tools for captains and sailors were sextants and star tables.

Objectively speaking, in terms of navigation, positioning, and the technology of making military maps, the entire Qing Dynasty has completely fallen behind the times.

Back then, the British used a common reconnaissance tactic to disguise military spies as knights in an expedition team, and draw accurate military maps along the way while traveling with the team.

Now, Yuzhu is also using this trick.The more time there is, the more accurate the military maps drawn by the technicians after detailed surveying and mapping will be.

In the afternoon, outside Yuzhu's barracks, more than a dozen Mongolian girls gathered, singing grassland folk songs one after another.

When Yu Zhu went to the Northeast, he already had a similar experience.

Unmarried women of the Mongolian nationality have a more unrestrained personality, and they dare to take the initiative to pull the man into the carnival if they fall in love with someone.

At first, Yuzhu didn't quite understand this approach.Later, he realized that this custom is actually quite similar to the Japanese country.

In Japan, what everyone values ​​is the inheritance of family names and surnames, and they don't care whether the heirs are their own seeds.

To put it bluntly, as long as the adopted son follows his surname, he will not only be treated as his own son, but also be allowed to inherit the family business.

In Mongolian tribes, population is the most important strategic resource, and a large number of people is the king of the grassland.

Not to mention others, Genghis Khan's wife was also snatched away.After snatching it back, not only did he not dislike his wife's dirty body, but he also treated the bastard born by his wife as his own son.

Qinghai is not Heilongjiang.

Heilongjiang, that is a proper march inside, surrounded by friendly troops.

In the Qinghai area, friends and foes are not distinguished, so Yuzhu naturally dare not be careless.

As a result, the Mongolian girls wore beautiful dresses, sang and danced all afternoon, and no one in the Qing army camp dared to go out to meet them.

In the evening, in the large tent of the Qing army, Alice played the role of Guanyin, lying lazily on Yuzhu's chest.

Yuzhu hugged Alice's snake waist, and asked her with a smile: "Is it comfortable to work?"

Alice grabbed Yu Zhu's lips, kissed her hard, and said softly, "It's nice to have a job. Darling, I really hope this will last forever."

Yuzhu smiled slightly. Oriental women have received the three obediences and four virtues, the three cardinal principles and the five constant rules since childhood, and even the bondage education of binding their feet.

Alice's family is, after all, aristocrats with British background. She has received modern education for women, and she regards participation in work as a natural thing.

Under normal circumstances, people like Alice would work as tutors or sociologists.

However, Yuzhu knows better than anyone else.In London in the early eighteenth century, at least one fifth of adult women were engaged in similar occupations as island entertainers.

The famous "Harris' Covent Garden Women's Directory" has an average annual sales volume of [-] copies, each priced at two shillings and sixpence.

In the directory updated once a year, more than 100 famous London girls are compared and ranked, and the market for pleasure-seeking near Covent Garden in the West End of London is listed in detail.

It is said that the sales volume of this pamphlet series even surpassed that of the Bible at that time.

"Well, your survey team, as long as the work continues to be effective, you can continue to do it." Yuzhu is at the intersection of Chinese and Western cultures, so he can naturally understand Alice's desire to work actively instead of being a canary.

Ever since Alice gave birth to Yuzhu's eldest daughter, the wild qualities of the top-notch big ocean horses have been fully released.

"Zhu, ruthlessly..." Alice got excited again, her winking eyes were like a blood-sucking blond goblin.

Yuzhu secretly smiled wryly, it has already happened twice.Alas, I lack physical strength, so I can only make up for it with skill.

After camping and resting for three days, Yu Zhu led his army on the road again, heading for Bayan Nuoer in the south.

Bayan Nuoer, a small market town belonging to Huitnan Banner, happened to be stuck on the necessary place from Yuzhu to Khalkhanan Right Banner.

Along the way, Yuzhu still seemed to be on an outing. Walking for one day and resting for two days is better than strolling in the courtyard.

The enemies had never seen such a freak as Yu Zhu, and they were all impatient to wait.

The longer the time dragged on, the greater the problem of their food and grass supply, and it seemed that there would be internal strife.

Due to the combat characteristics of the Mongols, the leader called everyone over, and everyone temporarily ate their own food and grass.After defeating the enemy and grabbing things, the loot will be distributed according to the agreed ratio.

The enemies of Yuzhu belonged to this situation.

However, there is not much surplus food in the leader's house!

(End of this chapter)