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.
Expecting to be self-sufficient from this land, the monkey in the sky said: "Twenty thousand people will take 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.
Such terrain, from its origin through Nanni Bay to Jinpen Bay, is particularly suitable for water storage.
If other places in northern Shaanxi are dry, they will be dry. If other places are no longer dry, they will be flooded.
After waterlogging, the groundwater level is high, bringing the salt content of the groundwater to the surface. When the water evaporates, what is left is salt.
With good irrigation, it is possible to plant extensively and achieve low harvests; if irrigation canals and drainage are not done well, the salt present 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 turn into mudflats if it rains. After the waterlogging is over, it will become 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, but water.
However, the land that is not short of water requires too much manpower to open up wasteland, and it cannot be done by just 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, there must be enough food for one year for 500 households.
After explaining the situation of the land to Liu Chengzong, Shangtianhou pouted and shook his head and said: "The people living here said that when the spring comes, the ground is full of anger and the ground is white. Every time you step on it, you will leave a mark. General, I'm afraid this won't work."
Liu Chengzong nodded slowly.
When he considered the environment here, he had to admit that Lion Camp currently did 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 prospects here are 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 materials.
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 it had a lot 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 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 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 would be 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 and plow the land in the autumn, so that when the ground temperature rises next spring, he can scrape off the salt and nitrate hardened on the upper layer of the field.
After scraping and digging canals, the fields were irrigated vigorously for seven or eight days to dilute the salt, allowing cotton to be grown.
The scraped salt and saltpetre were leached and refined by the firecracker maker in Liujiazhuang, and both small salt and saltpetre could be produced.
But Liu Chengzong actually already knew where the saltpeter was.
Mr. Guan Er's hometown is Jiezhou, Shanxi. There are salt ponds and saltpeter ponds there, but the saltpetre ponds contain 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 each sentry unit lead the 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 including Huojiazhuang into four parts.
One was left with the battalion headquarters, one was shipped to Zhuan Tianmao's father, and the other was shipped to Xingzihe's eldest brother.
For the last part, he and Cao Yao found a cave in Lion Bay and buried it.
This money will be reserved as a re-starting fund 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 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 the money to recruit troops, and then fight with the court to avenge me."
"But forget it, you should live a good life. If you are gone, I will stop working and take the money to 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 the money and let them do it. I won't do it." ”
Liu Chengzong didn't know what to say to him for a moment. 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 in a matter-of-fact manner: "Ask the fourth master who doesn't know anything about child-rearing. He just wants to raise you. When they grow up, he will send them to seven provinces. Come on, let’s make Daming lose half of his life first.”
Pretty 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 oral 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. It was not him who robbed Suide, but his subordinate named Ke Tianhu who was not cared for along with him.
After he was cared for, 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 Shanxi Province to rob, but Zhang Yichuan went to Qingjian to find someone to defect to.
He only had 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 went to the person who sat on the third chair.
Before going there, Zhang Yichuan robbed a village, captured a teacher, and asked him to 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 felt that he could not follow.
The second ranked one might be Song Jiang who wants to compete for the top spot, and might want to recruit him, which has killed all his brothers, so he can't follow.
Third, third is better.
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 vote, you have to vote for the third one.
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 him.
After the meeting in Qingjian, he threw himself behind Gao Yingxiang.
Gao Yingxiang saw that he did not have many troops, 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 his elder brother regarded me as a hero, so he should stay on the retreat.
Once the retreat was secured, the boss in the first position was not dead yet, so the second-in-command was 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 Zuogao, the recruiter, was still out of breath and dared to order him.
In anger, Zhang Yichuan refused to leave.
He said he would be crucified in Suide and let's see what this traitor could do!
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 quickly 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.
"Liu Shizi is right, 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 to 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 would result in death. No one who raised troops in northern Shaanxi was afraid of death.
But Hong Chengchou asked him to follow the rebels, but Wang Zuoguan felt that it was not okay.
Morality is on the one hand, but on the other hand, even if he died fighting against the Donglu, he could still be a hero. He was just the leader of the peasant army, but if he died after being recruited and killed, then who is he?
What's more, with his few troops, who can he defeat?
Wang Jiayin? It's absolutely impossible to defeat him. Even the officers and soldiers are tough enough to defeat him, let alone him.
Gao Yingxiang? That's tough enough to beat. I heard that Gao Yingxiang was very fat in Shanxi.
Liu Chengzong? But 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 now, but Hong Chengchou didn't listen.
The officers and soldiers were going south, and he would have the power to appeal while he was alive here. If they could raise troops to defeat Tianhu and Zhang Yichuan, they could join forces with him.
The officers and soldiers definitely didn't want to see thousands of troops attacking Yulin Town while they were away.
If he must die, then why are he still waiting here?
Wang Zuoguan was ready to take action, but his action was not to escape, but to ask the government troops 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."
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 thieves. Give you an official position."
Wang Zuo worried that Hong Chengchou was very cruel.
Official positions were awarded based on the effectiveness of killing thieves, which meant that the more people were killed to suppress the peasant army, the higher the official position would be.
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 sarcastically: "Where can I get so much food?"
As he spoke, Li Mingfu seemed to have thought of something, and asked: "Do you know Li Laojiao who responded to Wang Jiayin? Where are his people?"
Li Laojiao?
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? I don’t know what Liu Shizi is capable of?
"It's quite powerful."
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 General He of Ningxia is going to send troops to Yan'an. You should be prepared. The two generals are looking at your abilities."
Wang Zuogao bowed and agreed, his heart felt as cold as a stone, and his heart twitched 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 general soldiers.
This time, it was self-defeating.
