lied to Kangxi

Chapter 302 Returning to Beijing to Debrief
Like the capital city, Xiningwei's winter is terribly cold.

The main reason is that the cold wind on the Loess Plateau keeps blowing, and the cold is penetrating to the bones.

Cold weather isn't all bad.

Anyway, there was nowhere to go, so the Western craftsmen invited by Yuzhu happened to stay in the house, researching imitation fine hair guns and field artillery.

In this era, the main weapon of the modern army, in addition to the front-loading smoothbore gun, is the front-loading smoothbore gun.

According to Dutch gunsmiths, British artillery, including naval guns, is mainly made of gray cast iron.

Gray cast iron has low hardness, low brittleness, low melting point, good fluidity of molten iron, good casting performance, and easy processing.

However, although this kind of cast iron is good, none of the technicians in Xining know how to smelt it.

Because Kangxi's control over artillery is extremely strict, Yuzhu's strength is still very weak.He didn't want to irritate Kangxi for the time being, so he simply let the Western technicians focus on researching the material of the gun barrel.

Yuzhu was originally engaged in metallurgy, so he naturally knew very well that the reason why the West, including Japan, took the lead in materials was the result of really concentrating on experiments and accumulating for a long time.

Basic experiments are very, very expensive.But it will definitely not work if we don’t do it. If we don’t do it, we will always fall behind.

No way, limited by the backwardness of metallurgical technology, many basic things need to be poached from Europe.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as you persevere and accumulate for more than ten years, Yu Zhu believes that every effort will be reaped, and the technology tree will blossom and bear fruit sooner or later.

After the beginning of spring, Yuzhu sent people to send invitations to the banner owners of the Mongolian tribes in Qinghai, asking them to meet in Xining.

Yuzhu, the local emperor of Xining, sent an invitation card, and those who dared to come could barely be regarded as friends.Those who dare not come must be the enemy.

Sometimes, the choice of standing in line is not complicated, just try it out.

Yuzhu invited the princes on the grassland to Xining, it was fake to be a guest, the main reason was to think of a suitable excuse.

Because, he wanted to take advantage of the summer to find out the terrain and landforms along the way from Golmud, Qinghai to the snowy plateau, and draw an accurate military map.

Now that he has come to Xining, Yuzhu must leave a deep impression in Kangxi's mind: Yuzhu is the person who knows the snow region best.

At that time, Yu Zhu will always be involved in the two snowy battles, so he will get a big share of the pie, right?

With Kangxi's shrewdness, it is difficult for Yuzhu to seize greater military power under normal conditions.

In addition, don't look at Yuzhu as the king of Xining in name.In fact, he only has the military command of the Eight Banners Firearms Battalion.

The green battalion is also subordinate to the admiral of Gansu, and Yuzhu also only has temporary command power, but no personnel power for promotion and appointment.

As for the garrison of the Eight Banners in Xining, they are already decayed, and Yuzhu can't count on them at all.

It has to be said that Kangxi's brilliance can be seen here.

Yuzhu holds the highest military command of the Xining garrison, but he has no power to appoint and remove personnel. Everyone is restraining each other, and it is impossible for Yuzhu to do whatever he wants.

To put it bluntly, Yuzhu also saw through Kangxi's mind, he didn't plan to cultivate too many confidantes in Xining.

When the time is not ripe, acting rashly will only arouse Kangxi's suspicion, without any strategic significance.

For example, even if Yu Zhu had captured the control of hundreds of green battalion soldiers, so what?
Throughout the Qing Dynasty, the green battalion soldiers from all over the country had a total strength of six to 10,000+.

These hundreds of green battalion soldiers are simply not enough to watch.

Besides, the Wuwei Battalion controlled by Yuzhu is just a small army of more than 500 people.

Relying on such a small number of people, wanting to control the court situation is simply a dream.

Of course, with Yuzhu leading the army outside, there is still room for him to do his best.

For example, Ma Qingfang's Volunteer Battalion is not the imperial court's economical army.This gave Yuzhu a great deal of room for manipulation, and it was not easy to provoke Kangxi's suspicion.

Throughout the winter, Ma Qingfang's township volunteer battalion trained with the Wuwei Army.

From October to April, six months have passed, and the [-] township soldiers in the Volunteer Battalion can already be regarded as a qualified reserve team.

There are five hundred main soldiers and three hundred reserve soldiers. The total number does not exceed a thousand, which must be within Kangxi's tolerance.

It's just that the equipment of the three hundred reserve soldiers is varied.

There are not only more than 100 matchlock guns seized from Xiao Cering, but also dozens of old flintlock guns that were dismantled from the Wuwei Camp, and more are swords and spears.

There are policies and measures to counter.

Using these more than 100 guns, Yuzhu quietly practiced Ma Qingfang's volunteer battalion completely.

Not to mention anything else, when Yuzhu left Beijing, the Wuwei Battalion only had more than 500 people. Now there are [-] more fully mastered reserve soldiers, and the basic strength has made a qualitative leap.

You know, during the first Opium War, the total force sent by the British army included about 5000 British Army, 7000 Indian servants and 7000 Royal Navy, totaling about 19000 people.

What Yuzhu is doing now is just a little bit of ants moving.

Under Kangxi's nose, how could it be done in one step?

Yuzhu can only adopt the tactic of knocking out the brown sugar, with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, slowly accumulating his own family fortune.

After the invitations were sent out, quite a few Mongolian princes came to Xining to attend the conference.

However, it is regrettable that the Mongolian princes west of the Golmud River basically did not come in person, but sent elders under their banners.

Yuzhu waited for this excuse.

So, on the eighth day of April in the 49th year of Kangxi, Yuzhu took the Wuwei battalion, the volunteer battalion and the green battalion, a total of 300 people, out of Xining again, under the banner of routine inspections of the Qinghai prairie, and headed towards the peace in the Golmud area. West Right Middle Banner marched.

This will talk about the entire terrain of Qinghai.

In the border area between Qinghai and Gansu, from north to south, there are several large mountain ranges from west to east, including Qilian Mountain, Yema Mountain-Shule Mountain-Datong Mountain System, Zongwulong Mountain-Qinghai Nanshan Mountain.

However, starting from Xining, as long as you cross Datong Mountain, you can follow Henan Zuomo Banner (Haiyan County), Beiyou Banner (Gangcha County), Beiqian Banner (Tianjun County), and Beizuo Banner. The gentle hilly area of ​​Mo Banner (Delingha City) smoothly enters the Qaidam Basin.

In history, when the old fourteenth was the general king, he took this route and invaded the snowy area.

The reason is actually very simple. As long as you cross the gap between Zongwulong Nanshan and Qinghai Nanshan, and go to Xiyouzhong Banner (Golmud), you will be in a flat state, which is very convenient for the army to transport supplies.

In war, what is fought is logistics.The army can't even eat enough to eat, so why fight?

To put it bluntly, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway will take the Golmud line, cross the Kunlun Mountain Pass and Tanggula Mountain Pass in turn, and then enter the snowy area, which also relies on the favorable terrain of the Qaidam Basin.

Yuzhu led the Qing army, which had grown in strength, and arranged for people to survey and map the map while marching.

As a result, Yuzhu and his party spent nearly two months in Datong Mountain before arriving at Beizuomo Banner (Delingha City).

From the North Zuomo Banner to the south, bypassing Erlesu Lake (Tuosu Lake) and West Dabsunnur, Yuzhu can be regarded as entering the territory of Hexi Youzhong Banner.

This route, perfectly avoided, almost traverses the Qaidam River in the area east of the Qaidam Basin.

Continuing to go south, the mountains become steeper and steeper, and the temperature drops rapidly.

I saw that the vast Kunlun is majestic, with four seasons of cold winter, covered with snow, mountains and mountains, and the sky.

At the foot of Kunlun Snow Mountain, it was impossible for Yuzhu to go any further, so he could only walk back regretfully.

At the beginning of October again, Yuzhu returned to Xining smoothly.

After spending a month correcting the various parameters of the map, Yu Zhu sent the brand new military map edited into a book to the imperial palace in the capital through an expedited six hundred miles.

During Yuzhu's second Spring Festival in Xining, the entire General's Mansion was extremely lively.

Early in the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yuzhu sat on the kang with his two-year-old son in his arms, chatting with Cao Chun.

Cao Chun's son was the eldest son of the eighth house of Tong's family, who was nicknamed Iron Hammer by Yu Zhu.

Yuzhu is a metallurgist major, and his son was named Iron Hammer, which has an obvious implication. He hopes that materials such as gun barrels and gun barrels can achieve great success.

Yuzhu arrived in Xining in July of the previous year, and Cao Chun was conceived in April of that year, and gave birth in February of the next year, just a few days away from ten months.

The child, Tie Hammer, was born at full term, weighs eight catties, and is very healthy.

However, with such a heavy hammer, Cao Chun suffered a lot when he gave birth to him.

After Kangxi got the news, he enthusiastically bestowed his name, Chang Sheng.

Yuzhu's eldest son was named Xuanyu, the character Xuan was given by Kangxi, and the character Yu was added on purpose by Yuzhu after thinking about Kangxi's thoughts, and didn't bother to care about taboos.

As a result, Kangxi really treated Cao's family preferentially, Cao Chun's son, and he gave him two words.

Hey, it can be said that Kangxi's small thoughts of suppressing Fu Cha's family are clearly revealed.

The first-class Duke title of Old Tong's family will definitely be taken by Xuan Yu in the future.

The title of third-class Yongyizi earned by Yuzhu himself, because of Kangxi's special grace and hereditary replacement, will also belong to the iron hammer in the future.

From the book point of view, the Hammer must have suffered.After all, Xuanyu and Tie Hammer are both Yuzhu's biological sons, and both are the eldest sons.

However, the difference in the treatment between the first-class public and the third-class sons is too great, and it is completely different.

However, Cao Chun was quite satisfied.She once told Yuzhu that she had a premonition that the title that Iron Hammer would inherit in the future would definitely be more than a third-class son.

As soon as Yuzhu heard it, he knew that Cao Chun was talking about his son in the open, but he was holding him up in secret.

The reason is simple, the higher the title that Iron Hammer inherits, it means that Ama Yuzhu has the ability to get a higher title.

With the hammer, Cao Chun's position is naturally extremely stable.

However, the fly in the ointment is that Xingrui has followed Yuzhu to Xining for a year and a half, and there is no movement in her stomach.

Instead, Hongmei, who seldom sleeps with her, is pregnant.

In a few months, Yu Zhu's knees will have another baby.

Just after the new year, a decree came from Beijing to call Yuzhu back to Beijing to see the report.

After Yuzhu received the order, he knew that he was about to leave Xining.

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