1503, I dont know how bad things are happening inside Xiao Qiang
Song Yingsheng and other retainers of the Yang Mansion stood on the arrow tower in the new city, looking into the distance.
Chongzhen's army is meandering through Yang Fan's territory. Song Yingsheng has issued an order through the administrative office. All personnel have retreated into the castle. Do not disturb the Holy Commander.
Chongzhen passed by the new city and did not want to enter it. The army was on its way.
He looked at the fifteen-meter-high wall built by Yang Fan and couldn't help but laugh. Because it was a wall, not a city wall. It was no different from the high wall in the landlord's compound. However, the city gate and arrow tower were well done.
There are small archery towers every fifty meters on these high walls. They look pretty good for defense. He also knows Yang Fan’s mentality. He feels unsafe if he doesn’t build walls. Nowadays, among the gentry and powerful people in the Ming Dynasty, which one doesn’t build castles? Shanxi
The most.
Yang Fan was worried that he would be reported if he made it too formal. So, he made such a nondescript thing. However, Chongzhen looked at the wide bottom and only a round wall of less than one foot above. It was really hard to resist.
Can't stand either.
This is in line with Yang Fan's characteristic of being weak. If he braved the artillery fire from the archery tower and climbed up, he would end up with only a one-foot-wide circular shape on top. It would be too slippery to hold his hand, and he wouldn't be able to stand or grab him.
Falling down. Falling down from such a height, bones and tendons are not broken.
This city doesn't even have a moat, so the censor can't find any trouble if he wants to. This is just a super high-rise landlord's compound.
But as soon as you cross the Jiyun River, you arrive at the territory of the Yang family. This place is different from the places we have passed before.
As soon as we came out of the capital, we saw a lot of abandoned land and farmers in ragged clothes. But when we arrived at the Yang family's land, we couldn't see a single person, but the land was fully developed and there was no wasteland. Winter wheat in the fields
All have been planted.
Moreover, there is a complete highway system here. The thirty-meter-wide cement road is as flat as a stone. There is an express road in the middle. There are auxiliary roads outside. There are ditches and bridges. Chongzhen was astonished when he saw it. Dingyuan Hou, this is true
I'm not willing to spend money on my own land.
In order to walk comfortably, he was angry at spending such extravagant money. The court was short of money now. If you have this money, give it to him. Wouldn't it be good steel to use on the blade?
It wasn't until he left Dingyuanbo's land and arrived at Zunhua City that he asked Wang Chengen, "Why can the land of Dingyuanhou be cultivated? I haven't seen any land abandoned."
"The slave heard that Uncle Dingyuan dug water wells for every farmer, and turned these lands into good land with double crops of wheat and rice. There was also bird droppings shipped from overseas to be used as fertilizer. Therefore, no land was left uncultivated.
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Chongzhen was indifferent when he heard this. This cannot be replicated. Now no one is willing to invest too much in the land. They are just messing around. How can agricultural production be so good?
At this time, people in the team in the Beijing camp were in panic. They were all whispering to each other, trying to find some problems, think of some ways, and make trouble together. They didn't want to go to war.
Of the 40,000 people who returned from the Beijing camp, more than 20,000 left, and less than 20,000 were left. These people were promoted by Sun Chengzong to serve as small flag and general flag officers. These people were appeased and allowed to continue to lead the army.
, trained according to Yang Fan’s rules.
However, these people who came later were all well-connected, and they came because of the high salary in the Beijing camp. The expansion of the Beijing camp this time, because of the high salary, truly qualified soldiers may not be able to come in.
However, people with connections and backgrounds are rushing to get in, looking for salary and staff. Many of these people do not meet the physical fitness and age requirements. Some people even in their forties have come in through bribery.
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Nowadays, soldiers in the Beijing camp can get fifteen taels of silver a year. If they spend thirty taels on gifts, they will be an iron rice bowl for their children and grandchildren. It is really tempting.
They felt tired when they walked to Nanyuan. Fortunately, they camped at Nanyuan Military Camp. Many people had complained about the march in the past few days.
They wore 20 kilograms of straight-breasted cotton armor, eight-petal iron helmets, carried spears, bows and arrows on their backs, and knives. They also carried bags of dry food and tied with water hyacinths. They weighed a full 40 kilograms.
of weight.
The ones who spent money among them just wanted to provide for their retirement and have an iron job from father to son. They didn't come to suffer. They didn't want to go to war at all. The battlefield was so dangerous, at least the money they spent hadn't been earned back yet.
In this era, it was very cold near the Great Wall, even reaching minus 20 degrees Celsius. When sleeping in the wilderness in the winter, the cold wind howled, and the wind blew on my face, which was as painful as a knife. Because I didn’t have gloves, my fingers were so cold that I couldn’t make a fist. It was impossible.
He can't draw his bow, and he can't hold his sword or spear.
The food is also very poor. The pancakes in the dry food bags are made of bran and grains mixed with moldy grains in the warehouse. Mixed with a lot of aged soybean flour. Especially the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Works learned from Yang Fan’s logistics.
of processed food. They were surprised to find that processed food is more greedy and skimpy.
They washed the rotten bilge grain from the big warehouse in Tongzhou with water, fried it in a large pot, and then ground it into powder. They added Chinese medicine to mask the smell. The resulting "compressed biscuits" showed no signs of mildew at all.
. But can this thing be delicious? Not to mention that it tastes spicy, and it is easy to have diarrhea after eating it.
Especially the veterans who had not left the Beijing camp, they had eaten the military rations of Uncle Dingyuan. It was so delicious. In addition to sorghum rice noodles, there were also tea powder, brown sugar, and even milk powder in the grassland later.
Those are called compressed biscuits. One piece is enough to satisfy you for a whole day.
Is this stuff meant for people to eat? It's so hard that it can break your teeth. It also tastes bitter in your mouth.
Hot water is no longer provided in the military camp. I heard that the generals collectively sold the kitchen utensils and cooking trucks to major restaurants in the capital. These stainless steel kitchen utensils are very popular with cooks. They are very easy to clean. Gasoline stove spray
The fire is also strong and the cooking is very powerful.
They didn't dare to make trouble in Dingyuanhou's territory. They knew that Dingyuanhou's servants were very powerful. If the trouble got bigger and the emperor sent in the Xinghe Group to suppress them, they wouldn't be able to bear the consequences and just walk away.
Until they entered Zunhua City and were about to exit Da'an Pass, they all panicked.
Da'ankou is only twenty miles away from Zunhua City. We will set out tomorrow morning and leave the customs at noon. Once we get out of the customs, it will be too late. The door will be closed tightly by then, and no one can escape.
They don't want to fight to build slaves. They just want to find a place to retire and give their children and grandchildren a lifetime meal ticket.
Cheying did not enter the city, but was stationed at Santunying, the administrative center of Ji Town. The commander-in-chief of this 50,000-strong army was Zhou Yuji.
They have many vehicles, too many cannons, and too many livestock. There is no room for the school grounds in the city. There are still more than 10,000 veterans left behind, and 10,000 people are here. This can be said to be the most powerful part of the Beijing camp.
The emperor stationed at the Shuntian Governor's Office. Liu Ce, the governor of Jiliao in the Santun camp, and Wang Yuanya, the governor of Shuntian in Zunhua, both came to see the emperor. Because of the handover, the former governor of Jiliao, Yu Anxing, was also in Zunhua.
When the two of them were on the street, they saw soldiers from the Beijing camp in groups, all whispering and pointing furtively, not knowing what they were doing.
However, the malicious looks from these people made their backs tingle.
