Liu Chengzong planned to rename Jinpen Bay to Lion Bay.
Shangtianhou took a few auxiliary soldiers who knew how to farm and wandered along the river for two days.
Oralized a report to Liu Chengzong on the reclamation of wasteland in the Yunyan River area.
In short, it’s just two sentences.
First, it’s amazing.
Second, they can raise horses.
Why is it said that horses can be raised? Because this place is particularly suitable for growing pasture and hunting, but it is not suitable for living people.
Hoping to rely on this land to be self-sufficient, the monkey in the sky said: "Twenty thousand people will spend five years."
Yunyan River originates from Jiulong Spring 20 miles southwest of Nanniwan. The river flows northeast to the low-lying area of Nanniwan and is divided into two streams. One stream flows northwest for 20 miles, and the other arcs from the northeast.
Turn southeast.
This kind of terrain, from its origin through Nanni Bay to Jinpen Bay, is particularly suitable for storing water.
If other places in northern Shaanxi are dry, they will be dry. If other places are not dry, they will be flooded.
After waterlogging, the groundwater level is high, and the salt content of the groundwater is brought to the surface. When the water evaporates, what is left is salt.
With good irrigation, you can plant more crops and reap less; if you build canals for irrigation, but the drainage is not good, the salt in the land cannot be washed away, and the land will not be left barren for a long time.
If it is deserted for a year or two, it will become a mudflat if it rains. After the waterlogging is over, it will be a large area of hardened saline-alkali land, and no one will come to open up the wasteland.
For farmers who know how to open up wasteland in northern Shaanxi, there is no shortage of land, only water.
However, the land that is not short of water requires too much manpower to open up wasteland, and it cannot be done by one or two households.
At least four to five hundred households must work together and have the ability to build canals to open up wasteland here.
But opening up wasteland is never a simple matter. For one family to open up wasteland, it means that the family must have enough grain for one year; for 500 households to open up wasteland, it means that 500 households must have enough food for one year.
After explaining the situation of the land to Liu Chengzong, Shangtianhou pouted and shook his head and said: "The people who live here say that when the spring comes, the ground will be full of anger and the ground will be white. Every time you step on it, you will leave a mark. General, I'm afraid this won't work." p>
Liu Chengzong nodded slowly.
When considering the environment here, he must admit that Lion Camp currently does not have the ability to cultivate this land.
And the most important thing is that his goal is too big. Even if this valley sandwiched between Huanglong Mountain and Laoshan Mountain is inaccessible, Du Wenhuan will follow the traces to find him as long as he goes south.
However, reclamation here will have to be done sooner or later.
Liu Chengzong thought to himself that the prospect here is indeed good, better than Xingzihe Wangzhuang.
Although Xingzihe has more than 10,000 acres of farmland, most of its income comes from renting. The wheat harvest there this year is basically self-sufficient.
Moreover, the entire area as big as the Xingzi River is dedicated to the people's residence. It is difficult to continue to develop agriculture. However, there is room for further development of minerals and stone.
But the same problem is that when there are too many people, the locally produced rations are not enough.
The good thing about this valley he planned to call Lion's Bay was that there was plenty of land that could be reclaimed and utilized. Once the war broke out, there would be no one in this place, and whatever was reclaimed would be theirs.
The prerequisite for reclamation is to prepare 20,000 shi of grain.
In fact, even if there is no cultivation, he still has to prepare tens of thousands of stones of food.
Summer has arrived and winter is not far away.
He found that the most feared thing for the Lion Battalion was not the conquest by the army. On the contrary, they were most afraid that the army would forget about them.
Even if they were starving, the generals who served the imperial court would do everything possible to give him the little food they had left, and would also bring him a fresh supply of meat.
Just relying on these living Bodhisattvas, a big-bellied man who originally had to eat two kilograms can feel full after eating some dried meat and one kilogram of grain.
Everyone is a living bodhisattva in the Lion Camp, only Du Wenhuan is the big bad guy.
Liu Chengzong was so angry that he wanted to write a bunch of big-character posters and report to Du Wenhuan, Marshal Du, if you wait any longer, I will grab ten thousand taels for you.
Write on the wall of Yulin City!
Liu Chengzong planned to think of a way to build the canal in the autumn and plow the land so that next spring when the ground temperature rises, he can scrape off the salt and nitrate hardened on the upper layer of the field.
After scraping and digging canals, the water was fertilized vigorously for seven or eight days to dilute the salt, allowing cotton to be grown.
The salt and nitrate scraped out were leached and refined by the firecracker maker in Liujiazhuang, and both small salt and nitrate were produced.
But Liu Chengzong actually already knew where the saltpeter was.
Mr. Guan's hometown is Jiezhou, Shanxi. There are salt ponds and saltpeter ponds there, but the saltpetre in the saltpeter ponds is Glauber's salt. The saltpeter used to make gunpowder has to be obtained from the salt and saltpeter mines in the mountains of Jiezhou.
Liu Chengzong rested in Lion Bay for two days, distributed more than 49,000 taels of silver to his subordinates, and left 10,000 taels to Ma Maoguan as promised.
Then let the sentry commanders lead their troops and go to the villages in Yanchuan to spend money.
He and Cao Yao led some of their cronies to divide the nearly 90,000 taels gained by the battalion from Huojiazhuang into four parts.
One was kept at the battalion headquarters, one was transported to Zhuan Tianmao’s father, and one was transported to brother Xingzihe.
For the last part, he and Cao Yao found a cave in Lion Bay and buried it.
This money will be reserved as re-starting funds for the Lions Camp.
If one day we are broken up and destroyed, with this money, no matter who is still alive, it will always be easier to start again.
When he was burying the money, Liu Chengzong also said to Cao Yao: "If I die in the future, you can come here to dig out the money, use it to recruit soldiers and horses, and then take revenge on me with the imperial court."
"Forget it, you'd better live a good life. If you're gone, I won't do it. I'll take the money and go back to Black Dragon Mountain to have a baby."
"Give birth to six or seven children." Cao Yao laughed and hummed: "Name him Uncle Cao Cheng, Uncle Cao Ji, Uncle Cao Bing, Uncle Cao Xi, Uncle Cao Yan, Uncle Cao Xu, etc. Then I will raise him with this money and let them do it. I won't do it."
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Liu Chengzong didn't know what to say to him for a moment, so he pointed at the box that was about to be buried: "With so much money, you can support seven?"
"Seven is enough!" Cao Yao said matter-of-factly: "You don't know anything about raising children. Ask the Fourth Master, and they are all here to raise you like the Fourth Master. When they grow up, send them to seven provinces. All in one go.
Let’s start by torturing Ming Dynasty for half his life.”
A very good plan.
Liu Chengzong shook his head and continued to bury the box and said: "You're right, I'd better live well. We can only rely on our generation for this."
If they lose, what the next generation will do is to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.
Suidezhou in the north.
When he received the message from Liu Chengzong's messenger, Wang Zuogao was busy asking his master to write a statement of defense, to redress his grievances to Yang He, the governor of the three sides, and to ask the governor to make the decision for him.
In fact, Wang Zuoguan was really unjust. The person who robbed Suide was not him, but his subordinate named Ke Tianhu who was not cared for along with him.
After he was comforted, Ke Tianhu followed the sweeper king Zhang Yichuan, making endless troubles in Suide and refusing to listen to his advice to go elsewhere.
Because it rains in Suide in spring.
This time last year, rain was still bad news for most leaders in northern Shaanxi.
But this year many people are no longer afraid. Anyway, even if northern Shaanxi is better, Shanxi will still be in drought. At worst, they will turn around and run to Shanxi.
In fact, the sweeping king Zhang Yichuan is in Suide, and the reason is very simple.
At the beginning of the year, hundreds of anti-kings gathered in Qingjian.
Others went to Qingjian to gather in order to join Shanxi Juyi and rob. Zhang Yichuan went to Qingjian to find someone to defect to.
He had only a few hundred people under his command at the time, and they were not even qualified to enter the house.
But he arrived before anyone else, and stared at the third empty chair.
He didn't know who would sit on the third chair, but he had already made up his mind and he would go to the person sitting on the third chair.
Before going there, Zhang Yichuan robbed a village, captured a teacher, and had him tell him the Water Margin.
Write down all those characters, mainly the ones at the top of the list.
The one who ranks first must be fierce, but if the officers and soldiers don't treat him well, he will definitely die early.
Zhang Yichuan feels that he cannot follow.
The second ranked one may be Song Jiang who wants to compete for the top spot, and maybe he wants to recruit An An, who has killed all his brothers, so he can't follow.
Third, third is best.
Lu Junyi's martial arts skills are so strong that he can fight to the end. Zhang Yichuan doesn't expect to mess around, he just wants to sweep away the dirty things in the world.
So if you want to invest, you have to defect to the third party.
Many leaders were arranging seats in the room, and he watched eagerly from the door, watching Liu Shizi and Gao Yingxiang reject each other.
So he asked God to choose a good big brother for him.
Just finished praying, bang!
Gao Yingxiang sat down on the third chair.
Therefore, the sweeper king Zhang Yichuan felt that King Gao Chuang was the big brother in his life, and God had arranged for him to follow.
After the meeting in Qingjian, he threw himself behind Gao Yingxiang.
Gao Yingxiang saw that he didn't have many people, so he asked him to choose whether to follow him into Shanxi or develop the township party in Shaanxi to protect his escape.
After Zhang Yichuan heard this, he thought that my elder brother regarded me as a hero, so I should just stay on the retreat.
After guarding the back road, the boss in the first position is not dead yet, and the second brother is fucking recruited.
The third child was also hit by hail and lost contact.
Zhang Yichuan suddenly didn't know where to go. He originally planned to grab two games and leave Suide, but he didn't know that Wang Zuoguan, the recruiter, was still out of breath and dared to order him.
In anger, Zhang Yichuan refused to leave.
If you say he will be crucified in Suide, let’s see what happens to this traitor who has been recruited!
What can Wang Zuoguan do? He can't do anything. Those who can't fight didn't follow him on the way to escape. Those who can fight were soon dispersed by the army after being surrendered.
The officers and soldiers dispersed his elite troops in front, and the sweeper Zhang Yichuan was recruiting behind.
Now Zhang Yichuan and Ke Tianhu have four to five thousand men and horses.
It was a good thing that Liu Chengzong did not send a letter to Suide. Once the letter was delivered, Wang Zuoguang felt so wronged that he wanted to cry.
"What Liu Shizi said is reasonable, but it's not me who is making trouble in Suide. What's the use of the officers and soldiers killing me!"
After all, Wang Zuogao felt that he really had to find a way to escape.
If it weren't for Liu Chengzong's letter, Wang Zuoguan felt that he was in a dilemma whether he should run or not, and he really didn't want to continue making trouble.
It doesn't matter what official position the court gives him, it doesn't matter even if he is sent to Liaodong to fight against the Eastern captives. Anyway, whoever he fights is not a fight.
At best, fighting against the Eastern captives will result in death. No one who raises troops in northern Shaanxi is afraid of death.
But Hong Chengchou asked him to follow the rebels, but Wang Zuoguan felt that it was not possible.
Morality is on the one hand, but on the other hand, if he died fighting against the Donglu, he could still be a hero. He was the leader of the peasant army, but if the leader of the peasant army died after being recruited and killed, then who is he?
What's more, with just a few men like him, who can he beat?
Wang Jiayin? You absolutely can’t beat him. Even the officers and soldiers are tough enough to beat him, let alone him.
Gao Yingxiang? That’s tough enough to beat. I heard that Gao Yingxiang was very fat in Shanxi.
Liu Chengzong? Forget it, among the leaders who started their careers south of Suide, no one is better than Liu Shizi.
It's really strange to say that he, who started his army from Yan'an Fucheng, had so many border troops under his command.
Hong Chengchou didn't say anything.
Wang Zuoguan didn't think about it carefully, but after listening to Liu Chengzong's analysis relayed by the messenger, he realized that he was a person who had to die in the army.
He finally understood why he explained to the officers and soldiers that he was not the one causing trouble, but Hong Chengchou didn't listen.
The officers and soldiers are going south, and he will have appeal while he is alive here. If they raise troops to defeat Tianhu and Zhang Yichuan, they can join forces with him.
The officers and soldiers definitely don’t want to see thousands of troops attacking Yulin Town while they are away.
If you have to die, then why are you still waiting here?
Wang Zuoguan was ready to take action, but his action was not to escape, but to ask the army to send a message to Hong Chengchou who was in Yulin, saying that he had figured it out and would follow Governor Hong to suppress the peasant army.
Seek promotion and fortune.
There was no conversation in Yulin for two days, until on the third day, guerrilla Li Mingfu, who had moved to Suide with Du Wenhuan, came and asked him: "Have you thought about it?"
"Think about it."
"Who made you think so?" Li Mingfu asked: "Who came from Qingjian a few days ago?"
Wang Zuogao was stunned and almost wanted to draw his sword. He suppressed his worry and said: "My hometown in Qingjian said that I surrendered to the imperial court. The villagers are very happy and don't blame me."
The guerrilla general Li Mingfu responded with a smile, then looked at Wang Zuogao and said: "That's it, you will be under my camp for the time being, reduce the number of troops, and send out troops in a few days. The governor will see your effectiveness in killing the thieves.
Give you an official position."
Wang Zuo was worried that Hong Chengchou was so ruthless.
Official positions are awarded based on the effectiveness of killing thieves, which means that the more people are killed to suppress the peasant army, the higher the official position will be given.
He asked: "Who are you sending troops to attack? Maybe I know him and can help the court persuade him to surrender... Doesn't the court also want to recruit him?"
Li Mingfu was about to leave, but when he heard what he said, he stopped and laughed mockingly: "Where can there be so much food to support you?"
As he spoke, Li Mingfu seemed to have something in mind and asked: "Do you know Li Laojiao who responded to Wang Jiayin? Where are his people?"
Li Lao Jackal?
Wang Zuogao shook his head: "Not familiar."
"You must know Liu Chengzong, I heard someone said that you met him in Qingjian."
"I've seen it."
This time Wang Zuoguan nodded sharply: "I've met him once, he's quite a young boy."
The expression on Li Mingfu's face turned cold: "This little kid you mentioned was the one who killed more than 4,000 soldiers."
Isn’t it nonsense that Wang Zuo worried about saying that I still don’t know what Liu Shizi is capable of?
"It's pretty awesome."
He echoed, shut up suddenly and looked at Li Mingfu, and then asked carefully: "General, aren't we going to fight Liu Chengzong?"
"Don't have any evil thoughts. There are many people watching you, and Ningxia's General He is going to send troops to Yan'an. You should be prepared. The two Generals are looking at your ability."
Wang Zuoguan bowed and agreed, his heart felt as cold as a stone, and his heart was twitching in his chest.
He originally wanted to take this opportunity to let the officers and soldiers relax their vigilance so that he could run away, but he didn't know that the officers and soldiers were about to send troops.
He couldn't defeat Liu Chengzong, let alone the two generals.