Villager of Daming

Chapter 1242: The Overall Situation Is to Strengthen the Army

"How can they be so strong?" After hearing what his two subordinates said, Nahachu had difficulty breathing. He was under so much pressure!
He felt that the enemy's team was not only suitable for fighting, but also convenient for traveling and playing.

Every day, delicious food is prepared in different ways, and it’s not just the princes who enjoy it, other people also change their tastes.

All the guards in the Prince's Palace can cook, and the palace maids and eunuchs can also help make dumplings, buns, and wontons...

While the two sides were confronting each other, the other side was preparing to make pies and drink mushroom soup.

How can we fight? Our opponents don't take us seriously at all, they just rely on their weapons! Humph!

"Sir, everyone in their army can read and do arithmetic, including Xu Da's soldiers.

They call this individual soldier quality. Even the Jiang Wu family that they met in Taiyuan Prefecture, the children were studying hard, and Jiang Wu himself was a hunter.

His hunting skills were extraordinary. They were able to cure the rickets-stricken son of Tuyajie, the leader of the Ajiahan Alliance tribe.

The key is that there is no scheming or exclusion between them. The four princes are truly a family, and there are no conflicts among their respective palace maids, eunuchs, and government officials.

Our people are no match for them. I know even fewer characters than the ordinary soldiers under Xu Da.

Right now the two armies are facing each other... Actually... Alas..."

Qiha talked about the gap between the two sides in detail: the quality of the individual soldiers was different, the weapons were different, the skills they used were different, and there was nothing else.

He wanted to persuade the governor to surrender and stop fighting, because he would never win. But he couldn't say it, because it would be his responsibility if he did.

Bilier cut a piece of meat, dipped it in salt, put it in his mouth, chewed it, and swallowed it: "Their barbecue sauce is better than ours."

"Yes, there is chive sauce." Qiha agreed.

Bilier took another sip of wine and said, "They have beautiful atlases, and everyone memorizes them. When they see herbs on the road, they just pick them.

They prepare the ingredients as they walk, and then make them into medicine. Watching them collecting them, it feels like the ground is full of medicinal herbs.

They also use wild fruit trees to roast things. The roasted pheasants are delicious and the braised ones are also fragrant.

They remade some of the food in the baggage we threw away, and it’s better than what we had before, except for the fried noodles…”

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"This telescope is really useful. Why didn't we pay attention to the craftsman's skills before?"

Qiha and Bilir ate for a while and left. Gegehaji came out and looked around with a telescope.

She now understands the importance of craftsmen, and skilled craftsmen can help win battles.

In real life, the status of craftsmen is very low, not as high as that of farmers.

The Ming Dynasty at that time attached great importance to craftsmen. As Qiha and Bilir said, the craftsmen accompanying the team were either the best in skills or young and in good health.

Their elders work in the Yingtianfu Industrial Zone. They are craftsmen and have been exposed to their elders' work since birth.

Even so, they were better than the best craftsmen on their side, any one of them.

The craftsmen on his side only ensure that what they do is as error-free as possible, but never take the initiative to bring out new things for fear of making mistakes.

The craftsmen in the opposing team were encouraged to make more new things, and not to be afraid of making mistakes and just try again.

Moreover, the wages are high. The basic wage is one hundred coins a day, and then there is the bonus wage, which is the bulk of the wages and can be several times the basic wage.

The money earned by the craftsmen was only twelve or thirteen cents a day in the Ming Dynasty, which was a huge difference.

Nahachu continued to eat and drink, as if only this could make him feel less lonely and helpless.

"We all eat fish. Without fire, we can only eat it raw. How about sending Qiha and Bilir back?"

Nahachu drank another bowl of mare's milk, his face slightly red, but you couldn't tell because his skin was not good and he didn't have any good skin care products. "Let's wait and see, tomorrow."

Gegehaji shook her head slightly and cut the meat herself. She didn't want to send two more people over.

Sending them over means voluntarily surrendering, and one's own interests have not yet been fought for!
He had so many soldiers, even if he abandoned them and took a few of them back to escape, he could still organize more people.

The two sides need to have a talk. If something is obtained too easily by the Ming army, they will not cherish it.

"We've fought in the rain before, so why is it different this time?"

Nahachu understood what his sister meant. He wondered, it was normal to march in the rain! Why did it suddenly become abnormal?

"Because they couldn't win, the Ming army didn't fight hard at all and always reserved their strength. This is the most terrifying thing."

Gegehaji thought it through clearly. This was just like a cat catching a mouse. After catching it, it would eat it directly instead of fiddling with it with its claws.

The mouse was trembling with fear, and when the cat saw that the mouse didn't move, it pushed it with its claws to make it run away, and then caught it again until the mouse lay there resigned to its fate and gave up struggling.

"Let's wait! If it doesn't work, let's run." Nahachu gritted his teeth and continued drinking.

……

"Silly, are we teasing them?"

At the same time, the village head also went to talk to Hanhan.

"It's about contact, letting the other party understand us. Teasing is not like that. We tease with sincerity, for real..."

Zhu Wentian continued to hand over the skewers of meat, but suddenly paused. He remembered the biggest joke between countries. There were two originally hostile groups, but one side was fooled into disintegrating. Then the leader of the other side ran to the other side and knelt down, and the other side's leader laughed.

This person will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history and become an eternal sinner.

As for Nahachu, Zhu Wentian never took any ruthless action because the other party was too powerful and it would take a lot of time and energy if not handled properly.

The first priority is to resolve the issue of territorial rule, not to vent anger on the remaining forces of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. There are still many people in the Ming Dynasty who do not have enough food to eat!

"Wait for them to surrender?" The head of the village took the skewers and thought that letting the other party surrender first was the best option.

"We have no choice but to sacrifice the fish and shrimp. Whether it rains tomorrow or not, I actually hope it will continue to be a light rain.

We'll send a boat over to cut the rope, fry the fish, and then run downstream to pull the net.

Make food out of the fried fish and shrimp and give it to them to show your sincerity.

In this way, we can follow them to their lair. Without Nahachu, it will be very troublesome to gather forces from other places.

For us, time cost is the biggest cost.

As long as they choose to join the Ming Dynasty, it doesn't matter if we give them a little more benefits."

Zhu Wentian waved his hand and considered the strategic issues at the national level. Zhu Yuanzhang handled this very well, including when he conquered Sichuan and gave the people a title of nobility after the battle.

If all goes well for the team that goes out to get the seeds, they will be back soon, and then Daming will start planting.

It may not be a good idea to grow corn or something like that in some places, but the seeds can be adjusted and optimized.

There are also potatoes and sweet potatoes, which are high in starch and difficult to preserve, but can be made into vermicelli and starch.

Potatoes can be used as staple food, but sweet potatoes cannot. Eating too much will cause stomachache. For people in the north, roasted sweet potatoes are delicious in winter.

"It looks like it won't clear up, alas!" The village head firmly believed that if Hanhan said it would drizzle, it would definitely not stop.

(End of this chapter)