golden scales

Wang Chonghou waited outside the gate of the cavalry division, pacing back and forth impatiently, trying to force his way through the gate several times, but was finally scared by the black muzzle and retreated back to the carriage.

Because of His Royal Highness the crown prince's open-border mutual market policy, Zhangjiakou not only did not decline, but became more and more prosperous.As the magistrate of Wanquan County, Wang Chonghou understood the significance of Zhangjiakou better than others.Most of his test scores will fall on this pearl outside the Great Wall, especially the two items of business tax and population.

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In August of the 21st year of Chongzhen, the Mongolian Horqin tribe hijacked Karaqin and invaded Wanquan County, aiming at Zhangjiakou, the pearl beyond the Great Wall.

Horqin, a descendant of Genghis Khan's sword guard, still upholds the purest Mongolian cavalry tactics.Slightly different from the famous cavalry and archery victory, the Mongolian cavalry will also carry out group charge and hand-to-hand combat, and the corresponding tactical system developed from it is very mature.

This time, Prince Tuxietu, Badali, who led the invasion this time, also gathered his elite troops to take advantage of the season when grass is high and horses are fat, to make up for the losses caused by the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and to have a good year.However, before Harqin's friendly troops could follow up, Horqin's striker was blocked by a 200-man cavalry.

This cavalry was not placed there by Zhou Yuji to snipe the invading enemy like a god, but simply because this troop was training outside and accidentally discovered the camp of the Horqin people.Major Dou Guang knew from the composition of this team that they were the invading Mongolian Tartars, not the Mongolian herdsmen who had come to defect.

Because there are only mature men in the camp, no old and weak women; only sturdy horses, no cattle and sheep representing the wealth of the Mongolians... After screening, Dou Guang led the cavalry to launch a surprise attack that night as an example of "meeting the enemy".

This battle directly defeated Horqin's forward and sounded the death knell for Horqin's rear army.

The next day, Zhou Yuji, who got the news, had already led a cavalry division around the Horqin flank, ready to attack.Badali, who became angry from embarrassment, led a large team to chase Dou Guang south in order to avenge last night.Zhou Yuji's flank attack turned into a flank attack.

Today's cavalry division is already an elite division with [-] horses, which is ten times larger than before.Among them, Mongolian youths were even absorbed, and these Mongolian youths did not disappoint their meals, and their horsemanship and discipline were satisfactory.

It has the advantages of the right time, place and people.Zhou Yuji easily defeated the scattered Horqin cavalry with Phalanx cavalry tactics.Badali had to change clothes with the guards and escaped alone, which brought an end to the invasion and sounded the horn for Horqin's madness and its destruction.

It's just that in a battle of this scale, Zhou Yuji was too embarrassed to announce the victory with great fanfare. The reason why he sent out the red box emergency report was for the prisoners of war.

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"General Zhou!" Empress Wang Chong finally saw Zhou Yuji coming out, and shouted, "General Zhou! I am Empress Wang Chong of Wanquanzhi County!"

In fact, Zhou Yuji had seen Wang Chonghou early in the morning, and exchanged glances with Huang Chengming who was beside him, feeling that the military and the locals had to work together after all.It shouldn't be too stiff, so he walked slowly towards the gate.

"It turned out to be Wang Daling." Zhou Yuji stepped forward and cupped his fists, "I don't know if you are coming to Yuanmen, what advice do you have?"

"First of all, I want to congratulate the general for defeating the enemy in one battle." Empress Wang Chong bowed deeply: "The wine and meat of the laborers in the county are still on the way. They will be sent to the general's camp later."

"Guarding the soil is the general's duty." Zhou Yuji said coldly.

Empress Wang Chong chuckled twice, and said, "General, it's just the [-] captives..."

"It's already been cut." Zhou Yuji said.

Wang Chong took a step back: "Cut it! General! How did you say this, this, this? Didn't you say it? How to deal with these prisoners needs to be discussed..."

"Yes," Zhou Yuji said, "I have already discussed with Director Huang Xun. After all, I decided to behead him and pass it to the side to deter the Tartars who have ulterior motives outside the Great Wall."

Wang Chonghou's heart felt like ten thousand cats were scratching, the pain was itchy.Itchy and painful, I wish I could pounce on Zhou Yuji and bite him!

Wanquan County is the original Wanquan left and right guards. After the crown prince abolished the guards and changed the prefectures and counties, Wanquan County was established in the original Weicheng Deshengkou Baocheng.Zhu Cihong also came here, but it was in a previous life——Wanquan County is at the foot of the Badaling Great Wall.

Even in later generations, this place is not famous for minerals, but a fertile agricultural county.Not to mention today's exploration technology.Except for a coal mine, there is no iron ore worth digging.In today's climate, the only way to settle the people to farm the land is not to starve to death. If you want to get promoted under the Kaocheng system, the best way is to open mines.

As long as there are mines, there is income, and miners are obviously better than students.

There were no mines in Wanquan County.An accidental opportunity led Wanquan County to discover the black gold stone under his feet.

This kind of stone has high hardness and high brittleness, and can be dug a few feet underground.

However, because of its high brittleness, it is difficult to obtain large materials.This is why the local people don't pay attention to it, and only call it common names such as "black stone" and "pumice stone".However, Wang Chonghou unexpectedly discovered that the road with this kind of black stone as the base material has significantly better load-bearing performance than other roads.He also used this black stone as aggregate, and found that the cement board was lighter in weight and harder in texture.

This discovery made Wang Chonghou very excited, and sent the specimen to the Department of Geography of Jingshi University, and named this stone Black Gold Stone, hoping that it would bring him a lot of money like gold.

In fact, this is the stone called "basalt" in later generations. It has a reserve of [-] million tons in Wanquan County. Its hardness and toughness rank first in the country and second in the world.

If it weren't for Zhu Cihong's infrastructure construction, this kind of mineral would continue to be ignored by people.

Black gold stone has many uses and requires a high amount. It is much simpler and safer than coal mining.However, in the face of such a large reserve, Wang Chonghou's biggest worry is the lack of labor.

It is obviously wasteful to use farmers to dig stones, especially now that Liaodong is being developed, and every county is mobilizing landless farmers to settle in Liaodong-many places even describe Liaodong as a place like spring all the year round and like a paradise. deceive people.

Wanquan County is so close to the outside of the customs, it is hopeless to try to deceive people with this, but the locals still regard reclamation of wasteland in Liaodong as their first choice, after all, there can be a reliable piece of land there.Only those families who have land and can’t eat enough will let their children dig stones in their spare time, which can be regarded as subsidizing the family.

If the scale of the labor force cannot be expanded, the mining scale of black gold stone cannot be expanded, and it cannot be applied to infrastructure on a large scale.Infrastructure construction is also an important examination standard for county magistrates. Building a high-quality road will not only be commended during the term of office, but may even be carried into the Temple of Famous Eunuchs in the future. What an honor it is.

Empress Wang Chong therefore looked for people to quarry stones everywhere.This time, when he heard that the Tartars were coming, his first reaction was to run!

Run to Zhangjiakou!

Finally, I got the notification of the number of prisoners of war at the first time, filled in the documents, and sent them to Xuanhua Mansion to apply for requisition.

This is more than three thousand and six hundred strong laborers!

How many stones have to be mined!

But now, Zhou Yuji lightly "cut it off", making Empress Wang Chong's life really worse than death!

Empress Wang Chong didn't dare to pounce on Zhou Yuji, she was afraid that before she pounced on anyone, she would be knocked to the ground by a group of tiger and ben elite.He curled up his whole body and jumped twice, stirring up a cloud of dust.

Zhou Yuji and Huang Chengming took a step back, looking at this young man from Shanxi with a slight distaste.

"General, I have told you that these people are of great use." Wang Chonghou finally recovered, and could not suppress her anger and complained: "Look at the way you go in and out, is it a good way? It all depends on people to do the work. You cut down so many people, who will work for us? It doesn’t matter my test result, it’s not convenient for you, right?”

Zhou Yuji smiled and said: "This matter has to be looked at from a long-term perspective. You also know that the number of soldiers stationed in the Xuanfu used to range from 3 to [-]. Now there are only seven to eight thousand cavalry, which is much less. If we don't use some deterrent measures , Horqin today, Karaqin tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow... If you are a tartar, come to fight the autumn wind, wouldn't it be more difficult to guard this place with the order?"

Wang Chonghou panicked and opened his mouth to speak, but Huang Chengming had already stepped in and said with a smile: "Da Ling, you also know that those Tartars are like wolves. If you are tough, he will be afraid of you; if you are a little soft Some of them, and they will bite you to death. These Tartars are the wayfinders this time. If we let go, there will be more than these people next time."

"Then you can kill a few high school officials? Is it necessary to kill them all?" Empress Wang Chong asked anxiously.

"I don't think this is enough for me." Zhou Yuji was impatient, and after speaking, he shook his cloak, turned and left.

Empress Wang Chong really couldn't hold back her temper this time, she retreated to the side of the carriage, and shouted loudly: "Zhou Yuji! You are outrageous! I'm going to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to sue you!"

The smile on Huang Chengming's face also froze, and he said: "Empress Wang Chong, you are an official in the same dynasty, you are being unreasonable. It was not easy to think about you, and you said to go to Bansheng to recruit some labor for you. Now It seems to save effort."

When Wang Chonghou heard it, he immediately regretted that he was too reckless, and immediately froze on the spot, watching Huang Chengming turn and leave, the scarlet cloaks of the two gradually became two small spots.

Huang Chengming chased after Zhou Yuji, couldn't help laughing and said, "We bullied a kid in his early twenties, it would be ugly to sue him."

"This kid is not sensible." Zhou Yuji waved his hand and said, "If you don't keep those tartars under control, even Zhangjiakou will not be able to survive in the future."

Zhou Yuji had personally experienced the "kindness" of Mongolian Tartars before.

If you give him an inch, he can give you an inch.

Why was the imperial court unwilling to open the horse market?It is precisely because the Tartars did not keep their promises after the market opened, buying and selling by force, and even murdered and extorted goods.The Han people are not allowed to be bullied, so naturally they don't want to, and it is the crime of the guards if they quarrel.That's why the guard, who is afraid of trouble, puts up a question book, closes the market, and fights the next time we meet, so as to save trouble.

However, the Mongols really needed cloth, tea, pig iron and other things from the Central Plains, so they sent troops into the bandits, asking for canonization and opening of the market, as if the imperial court refused to open it.Therefore, for a more harmonious ethnic relationship, the crown prince ordered: beat them up and teach them the rules.

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