Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 135 Wu Diha is cruel
"The sewage in the city is directly discharged into the Songhua River. According to what you said, the sewer is dug down one foot and five feet, and cement is laid, leaving eight feet high and six feet wide..."

Riding into Jilin City, Yi Shiha kept talking about what he was busy with at the moment.

It is already early June, so the water canals in the [-] acres of farmland outside the city have begun to be completed, and the next thing that should be busy is the road paving and sewer construction in the city.

The two communicated while riding, followed by twelve guards.

In the city, even the running children would greet Zhu Gaoxu and Yi Shiha in their own way when they saw them. Some bowed, some waved, and some shouted "Your Highness" and "Yi Sir" loudly.

Both of them smiled knowingly when they heard these words, and then Yi Shiha also pointed to some houses and said:
"There are 920 residential buildings in the city, and 270 are dilapidated. Among them, the leaky houses have been repaired by the soldiers in their spare time. They should all be repaired before winter, and the fireplaces you mentioned have also been added."

"In addition, four private squares that can accommodate 5000 people have been expanded in the city. It is expected that two of them will be completed around October. The cement walls of the remaining two squares can also be completed first."

"After the autumn harvest, everyone will cut down the forest in the west to make firewood. Not only will we have something for heating, but we will also be able to better cultivate the land next year."

"According to what you said, each household can stock up on five thousand kilograms of dry firewood before winter..."

Yi Shiha said, but he couldn't help but sigh: "That is to say, in places like Jilin City, you don't have to worry about firewood. If these firewood can be transported to the south of the Yangtze River and sold, even if it is sold for thirty cents per load, it will still be profitable. .”

They all knew that there was a shortage of firewood in the south of the Yangtze River. Not only in the south of the Yangtze River, even when they went north, they could hardly see the vast tracts of forest. From this, we could see how green the south of the Yangtze River and the Central Plains were.

Zhu Gaoxu also asked Fu Youde, and Fu Youde also said that since he could remember, he had only seen forests in Songpan, west of the Xiangjiang River, and Liaodong.

After all, Fu Youde was also a figure who traveled all over the Ming Dynasty. As he said this, Zhu Gaoxu admired future generations.

No matter which province you look at, the greening within the Pass will probably be the best it has been in a thousand years.

Thinking of the issues of greening and heating, Zhu Gaoxu also looked at the surrounding courtyards of houses made of stone and adobe with endless architectural techniques:
"There will be more cement production in the coming year. At that time, the houses and yards of the people in the city will be renovated, and fire walls and fire tunnels will be arranged."

"Your Highness is wise..." Upon hearing this, Yishiha bowed to Zhu Gaoxu with a smile, and the guards behind him also smiled happily.

It is already an extremely benevolent policy for the guards to provide money and effort to build houses, not to mention that His Highness is prepared to arrange fire walls and fire tunnels. Those things in the south are only enjoyed by the wealthy gentry.

With that said, Zhu Gaoxu also asked about the learning issues of the soldiers and children: "How are the soldiers and children in the academy studying now?"

"Not bad." Yishiha nodded and said, "They are already literate for hundreds of years, but the children's school is faster and has already started teaching arithmetic."

"Your Highness, I'm afraid Jilin City doesn't need that many scholars, right?"

"So many people have become scholars, what will happen to their jobs in the future?"

Yi Shiha's words made the guards behind him raise their hearts to their throats, but Zhu Gaoxu smiled and said:
"Who said that scholars can't work? What's more, the children in Jilin City can read, but it doesn't mean that the whole world can read."

"When the fields are almost cultivated and we can be self-sufficient, it will be time to ask Grandpa Shangshu to immigrate."

"The foundation of Jilin City today is still too weak..." Zhu Gaoxu said as he and Yi Shiha came to a special place.

He turned over and dismounted. In front of him was a two-acre cultivated land enclosed by cement. Rice was sown in these cultivated lands.

The rice fields in this cultivated land are surrounded by hollow cement walls two feet above the ground, and a five-foot-high shed is built on the top. This shed is made of hay and is relatively sparse, allowing sunlight to shine in.

These two acres of land are the experimental fields that Zhu Gaoxu worked hard on, and the hollow cement walls are the channels that will be used to discharge water and keep warm in the future.

Not surprisingly, in winter, Zhu Gaoxu would have people imitate the palace greenhouses of the Yuan Dynasty and spread warm horse manure on the fields to keep them warm.

This experimental field is the greenhouse field where Zhu Gaoxu plans to "cultivate seedlings first and then transplant rice seedlings" next year.

According to Zhu Gaoxu's experience in his previous life, one acre of machine-transplanted rice fields can be used to plant [-] to [-] acres of large fields, one acre of manually transplanted rice seedlings can be used to plant [-] acres of large fields, and one acre of mechanically transplanted rice seedlings can be used to plant [-] acres of large fields.

Therefore, there is no difference between the two acres of rice now and the rice outside the city. They are all experiments on how long Jiangnan rice can last after it is sown in Jilin.

Only in March next year will Zhu Gaoxu use these two acres of experimental fields to cultivate seedlings.

Once the seedlings are successfully raised, these two acres of experimental fields can be used to throw out at least [-] acres of rice fields.

Of course, Zhu Gaoxu didn't care about the hundred acres of rice fields. What he cared about was whether the seedlings could be successfully cultivated.

As long as it succeeds, hundreds of acres of nursery fields like this can be built in Jilin City.

Anyway, every household will have fire walls and fire channels after next year. It will not be particularly difficult to protect hundreds of acres of nursery fields from the water vapor flowing out of the heating of thousands of households.

As long as hundreds of acres of seedling fields are thrown away, tens of thousands of acres of rice fields can be thrown out.

Zhu Gaoxu asked about the current grain output in Jilin City, which is only over eighty pounds.

Including the increase in production brought about by the soil fertilizers in the retting pond and the construction of new canals this year, I am afraid it can reach [-] or [-] jins.

As long as it can reach 3000 kilograms, the original [-] acres of cultivated land can harvest [-] shi of grain, an increase of nearly [-]% compared to the original production, and can feed [-] more people.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu felt very happy. He always believed that among the knowledge he brought from later generations, the most valuable was not the matchlocks and flintlocks, but the corresponding agricultural knowledge.

In this agricultural society, if agricultural production can be increased by [-]%, the world can have more food to feed millions of people.

"How many acres of wasteland can be reclaimed before the autumn harvest?" Zhu Gaoxu squatted in the rice field and looked at the rice at close range, asking without raising his head.

Yishiha also had a smile on his face when he heard this and said: "With so much more animal power, according to the estimates of the people below, each household can cultivate at least seven acres of land before the autumn harvest."

It was not easy to reclaim wasteland in the agricultural era, but it would be much easier if you had enough livestock.

Based on each household reclaiming seven acres of wasteland, plus the original more than [-] acres of farmland, the number of cultivated land in Jilin City before this year’s autumn harvest may be close to [-] acres. If winter has not yet come after the autumn harvest, it will take more than half an effort. It may reach [-] acres per month.

"Twenty thousand acres..." Zhu Gaoxu murmured the number.

He asked the people in the city that because they had animal power, the quality of the wasteland they reclaimed this time was similar to that of the two years before.

In other words, after next year, this batch of cultivated land will basically reach the quality of the land that was opened for three years, and the output will be about [-] kilograms.

If Jilin City can provide enough farmyard manure, coupled with the canal's drought and flood guarantee, the output may reach [-] kilograms.

In other words, the next autumn harvest can produce at least 300 or even 500 shi of grain, which can support more than [-] people from [-] acres to [-] acres to feed more than [-] people.

The cultivated land has increased nearly seven times, and the number of people it can support has increased five times. In the year after next, it will reach the same level as the old fields, and can support the same seven times the number of people.

This series of calculated data made Zhu Gaoxu unable to stop the smile on his face, and he also raised his head and said to Yi Shiha:
"If the seedlings in these two acres of experimental fields can be successfully cultivated next year, we will be able to plant rice in Jilin."

"I looked through the history books and found that during the Tang Dynasty, the Bohai Kingdom planted rice in this area. The yield per acre was at least one stone, and in some cases it could reach one and a half stones."

"We don't need to be too greedy. Even if we can produce just one stone, we can feed three thousand people."

"Really?" Yishiha squatted down in surprise, not daring to imagine what that scene would be like.

"Of course." Seeing his appearance, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but throw cold water after answering: "But we can't place our hopes on rice. The main thing is to open up wasteland."

"Before winter this year, many tribes are not expected to be able to raise many livestock. If they want to sell cattle and draft horses, we will buy them all. In addition to buying another batch after the spring of next year, we should be able to support every household next year. There's a plow ox or draft horse."

"It will be easier to open up land by then. If we can open up 5000 or [-] acres of land next year, then even if the rice seedlings fail, we can still feed [-] to [-] people."

"After a year or two, Jilin City will be able to be self-sufficient and ask Grandpa Huang for some immigrants."

Zhu Gaoxu said this, and Yi Shiha and the guards behind them couldn't help but look forward to it.

Without many words, Zhu Gaoxu inspected the rice fields. His several months of study in Jilin City had made him a qualified farmer.

After confirming that there was nothing wrong with Rice Rice, he took Yishiha and the others to the armory in the city.

The Ordnance Factory is located in the northeast corner of Jilin City, less than 36 steps away from the Bohai Palace. The entire factory is surrounded by a two-foot-high, five-foot-thick rammed earth wall, a hundred steps from east to west, north to south, and covers an area of ​​[-] acres.

The soldiers stationed here adopt a shift system, with each class carrying a general flag and three shifts a day. They take turns going to the academy to study in the morning, noon and afternoon.

The Ordnance Shop has only one door, so you can see the entire shop when you walk inside.

Due to the shortage of various types of craftsmen, less than ten acres of the 36 acres of the Ordnance Factory have buildings.

When Zhu Gaoxu and the others arrived, Lin Su was communicating with an official in the craftsman's workshop.

"what's the topic?"

"Your Highness..."

Zhu Gaoxu appeared in front of the two of them with Yi Shiha. After the two bowed, Lin Su also said:

"Su Limu and I were talking about Ming Jia and Dark Jia."

"Counting the Mingjia in the city and the [-] sets of Mingjia this time, we will probably be able to collect [-] sets of Mingjia next month. By then, the Mingjia for the brothers will be enough."

"Winter is coming soon, so Su Limu and I discussed starting to build dark armor in August. Currently, there is a shortage of 590 and four sets. By the end, we will prepare to build [-] sets, leaving more than [-] sets in reserve."

Since he started reading, Lin Su has become more formal when speaking, and Zhu Gaoxu is already used to this.

After listening to Lin Su's words, he led everyone to the yard where the armor was made. Here, there were fifty strong women skillfully connecting armor pieces with tripod armor tape.

"With this speed, how many sets of armor can be produced in series every day?" Zhu Gaoxu looked at Su Limu and asked, and he answered truthfully:

"As long as there are enough armor pieces, five people can assemble one set in a day. Ten sets of armor can be worn here every day, which is actually about the same speed as making armor pieces."

Hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said nothing more, but walked out of here and headed to the place where the weapons were made.Since weapons are easily damaged, the yard where weapons are made is particularly large. Twenty blacksmiths hammered out spear heads and daggers and hammers here. After seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also said to Su Limu:

"The spears in the city are too light. Ask the blacksmith to make me an iron gun weighing [-] kilograms.

"This..." Su Li looked at Lin Su next to him in shock, but Lin Su smiled and said: "Fight, your highness is very strong, you can even use me as a weapon with your bare hands."

Zhu Gaoxu's natural supernatural power is not a secret among the old brothers of Xu Zibaihu. After all, when they were guarding him, they could watch him practicing martial arts every day while holding a 150-pound stone table.

This was last year. Now a year later, Zhu Gaoxu has become taller and taller, and his strength is even more difficult to predict.

Only those who have seen it with their own eyes will believe that Zhu Gaoxu can use weapons weighing fifteen kilograms.

Even Zhu Gaoxu himself couldn't help but sigh that his body was a blessing from God. Especially after he arrived, the strength of this body was probably even more terrifying than the strength of his predecessor in history.

The predecessor, Zhu Gaoxu, was 46 years old and could still lift a three-hundred-jin vat with his hands tied. Today, Zhu Gaoxu still dares not lift a large vat, but the martial arts stones used for martial arts training already weigh two hundred kilograms.

A fifteen-pound long-handled weapon is just right for him, as is a ten-pound one-handed short-hand weapon.

Although it doesn't look as scary as the tens of kilograms in the storybook, on a real battlefield, even the elite infantrymen wearing heavy armor will tremble when they see the ten kilograms.

Su Limu followed Zhu Gaoxu's words to greet him, but the blacksmiths who didn't want to be greeted also looked suspicious. They didn't let go of their thoughts until they knew that the weapon was used by King Bohai.

With his physical strength, it is not surprising that Zhu Gaoxu, a tall and burly man, would use such a weapon.

The blacksmiths followed Su Limu's instructions to forge weapons, and Zhu Gaoxu then led Yishiha and Lin Su out of the armory and onto the street.

On the streets of Jilin City, hundreds of healthy women can be seen digging soil every afternoon to build sewers according to Zhu Gaoxu's standards according to the requirements of masons.

Although the output of cement was not high, the demand for cement was reduced to a minimum due to the stone masonry technology possessed by the masons of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gaoxu had only seen this stone masonry technique in Bai villages in Dali, Lijiang and other places in later generations, but he did not expect that this technique was a popular technology in the Ming Dynasty.

Come to think of it, maybe it was brought to Yunnan by craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, and then developed in Dali, Lijiang and other places.

"This year eight miles of sewers and cement roads will be laid. Next year we will continue to lay out other open spaces in the city, and build houses along the way. There is enough room for six to seven thousand households in the city, and they all have to be used. When immigrants move north, there will also be houses available directly. Checked in."

Zhu Gaoxu explained to Yi Shiha, and Yi Shiha also wrote down what he said.

After explaining these things, Zhu Gaoxu took them out of the city and up to Fortress Mountain behind Jilin City.

Fortress Mountain, Taoyuan Mountain and Jilin City are at the angles of each other. The military forts and artillery on the top of the mountain can greatly contain the enemy troops coming to attack.

Since the mountain is basically composed of gray brown soil and granite, it is impossible to dig a tunnel into the military fort.

This mountain is more than [-] feet higher than Jilin City and less than two miles away from Jilin City. The main way up the mountain is the south slope, and the north side is steep and difficult to climb. Therefore, if you want to attack the military fortress on the top of the mountain, you have to go around a circle to attack it. .

However, it is not completely without shortcomings. Due to structural problems, Fortress Hill Military Fort cannot dig wells, so it can only store fresh water on a monthly basis.

When Zhu Gaoxu and Yishiha arrived at the military fort, there was only a team of small flags stationed here. Like the soldiers in the ordnance workshop, they had to change shifts to study, study and be on duty.

The area of ​​the military fort is not large, with twenty steps to the east, west, and south, covering an area of ​​one acre and a quarter.

The fort is two feet high and one foot eight feet wide. It has 36 crenellations, four arrow towers, and four Hongwu iron cannons.

In addition, there is a warehouse and a reservoir, which can store [-] shi of grain and [-] kilograms of water respectively.

If we really fight, the food here is okay, but the water can only sustain 100 people for a month.

But Zhu Gaoxu didn't care. He didn't think anyone in this northeastern land could attack Jilin City.

As long as Xiyang Ha in the north was not blind and deaf, he would have known about the news that his [-] soldiers had entered Jilin City.

Xiyang Ha dared not invade, so there would be no rivals in Jilin City, and naturally there would be no need for the two military forts at Fortress Mountain and Taoyuan Mountain.

However, Xiyang Ha Bu came to invade, but Zhu Gaoxu had to find a way to regain his position.

Walking to an arrow tower, Zhu Gaoxu looked at Lin Su and Yi Shiha who were following him. While looking at Jilin City and Songhua River in the north, he asked, "Did you find any good news on the way north?"

As soon as he said these words, Lin Su looked at Yi Shiha, and Yi Shiha bowed as expected:

"Going all the way north from Jilin City, Commander Fu personally led the team to find a trail that led 720 three miles north to Buyan Mountain where Xiyang Ha is located."

"Commander Fu made people pretend to have been to Xiyang Ha's headquarters, which was a stone fort in the pre-Jin Dynasty. Xiyang Ha himself, the generals and their relatives all lived in the fort, and the rest of the tribe built two He lives in the wooden fence city next to the stone castle."

"The wooden fence is two feet high and five feet thick. Unless you bring a Hongwu iron cannon, it will be difficult to break through."

"The Xiyang Ha tribe has more members than we expected. I'm afraid it's close to 2 people, including no less than [-] men..."

Even before Yi Shiha had finished explaining the situation of the Xiyang Ha tribe, Zhu Gaoxu's face was already serious.

"Fortunately, our troops only have [-] sets of leather armor and [-] sets of iron armor obtained from Wu Liangha."

Yi Shiha talked about the armor, and this news also made Lin Su, who had been holding his breath next to him, breathe a sigh of relief.

Although [-] men and [-] leather armors and [-] iron armors were a huge force in the Northeast, they were not enough to fight against the Ming army, which had [-] sets of iron armors.

"Intensify your training." Zhu Gaoxu looked at Lin Su, who nodded in reply:

"Don't worry, Your Highness, although the brothers below are studying and writing, their training has not fallen behind... Haha."

As he spoke, Lin Su laughed, not only him, but also Yi Shiha.

Regarding the training of the army, the two of them did not need to explain too much, because their Royal Highnesses spent their daily lives in the military camp.

For example, teach new recruits step by step how to assassinate with a gun, how to train them to walk in unison and assassinate with hands together...

These things were all trained under Zhu Gaoxu's close watch, and the reason why he worked so hard was to cultivate an army with a sense of honor and belief.

From equally dividing the land to their families, to giving them high military pay, and teaching them to read and write, Zhu Gaoxu even personally participated in military training.

He also actively participated in some gun-holding games in the army. It is not an exaggeration to say that there were 520 soldiers in the army. Except for the 320 brothers who went south with Zhang Chun, the other [-]-[-] people were basically played by Zhu Gaoxu in the gun-holding games. I failed no less than ten times.

Zhu Gaoxu himself paid so much attention to soldiers, so why did they need to explain.

Looking at the two people smiling, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but laugh.

He was about to speak, but he didn't expect an official to come to the stairs of the archery tower. When he met Zhu Gaoxu's eyes, he bowed quickly:
"Your Highness, there are two small-headed people from the East China Sea Jurchen tribe in the east who want to trade furs with us. Look..."

"Eastern side?" Zhu Gaoxu looked at Yishiha in confusion: "Didn't Shan Chubao be fully responsible for the east side?"

"My slave doesn't know either..." Yi Shiha's smile faded, a bit embarrassed on his face.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't mean to blame him for this. After all, the East China Sea Jurchens lived in the mountains, and information was not as easy to obtain as the Haixi Jurchens.

"Where are those two people?" Zhu Gaoxu looked at the official, who said without hesitation: "Just outside the castle."

"Let's go out and meet them." Zhu Gaoxu didn't plan to meet guests in the castle, so he greeted Yi Shiha and them to follow him.

Such behavior of his would definitely be disrespectful to the prince in Guan, but no one could control him in Jilin City.

Yishiha and Lin Su have long been accustomed to it, which is why they dare to get close to Zhu Gaoxu and chat about home affairs like friends.

The four of them got off the archery tower and walked out of the Fortress Mountain Fort. Then they saw two Jurchens wearing linen clothes and animal skins, with braided hair hanging down their shoulders, and less than five feet in length.

Next to them stood a Ming soldier wearing armor, but this soldier was brought by Yi Shiha.

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu coming, he bowed quickly and at the same time called the two heads next to him to salute in Jurchen dialect.

The two leaders looked at Zhu Gaoxu with a surprised look on their faces and bowed hurriedly.

Perhaps they had never seen a man as tall as Zhu Gaoxu, and the soldiers at the gate of the military fort also brought Ma Zha for Zhu Gaoxu to sit down.

After Zhu Gaoxu walked to them and sat down, he was still as tall as the two Jurchens.

Before the Qing Dynasty, the height of the Han people was among the highest in the world. Although the Jurchens were not short, they were still a little worse than the Han people on average.

The Jurchens of the East China Sea live in the mountains. Although there is meat to eat, grains are scarce and can only be obtained by selling furs or looting.

"Your Highness, they are the Udiha people from the Suanzhen tribe in the east. Because they robbed Shan Chu Fort, the leader of Shan Chu Fort is really unwilling to buy their furs, so he can only find us."

The soldiers introduced Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaoxu also looked at Yi Shiha after hearing this.

Yishiha lowered his head and whispered in his ear to introduce the savage Wudiha. At this time, the two leaders also reported their names to each other.

"Your Highness, they are Fu Daha and Ge Duojie, the leaders of the Suan Zhen Department. They come to trade with you on behalf of the Suan Zhen Department."

Yi Shiha relayed the words of the two people, but Zhu Gaoxu was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the two people with strange eyes.

"Aren't these two guys the ruthless people who killed Nurhaci's sixth ancestor and fifth uncle..."

(End of this chapter)