Yang Dingrui was basically the most knowledgeable civil servant in the Marshal's Mansion before the war.
His past official position was considered high in Yan'an Prefecture, and he was a Jinshi, so he met people from all over the capital.
So he knows very well why many heroes are separatist forces and it is difficult to unify the world - others cannot understand you.
The world has the same writing style and the same track, but no language has the same pronunciation. Although there is the so-called "Mandarin", due to historical development, Mandarin has also divided into several branches.
The original Mandarin was the Yayan of the Central Plains; after Yi Guan traveled south, it was the Jinling dialect; in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Mandarin of the Southern Dynasties became the Jiangdong Wu dialect; the Sui and Tang Dynasties unified and returned to the Luoyang dialect; in the Yuan Dynasty, the official Mandarin became Mongolian. In addition to the northern and southern Mandarin dialects of Jinling and Luoyang, there is also the Beiping pronunciation of the Yuan Dynasty.
By the Ming Dynasty, the Hongwu Zhengyun was formulated in Nanjing, but the Hongwu Zhengyun was not Nanjing pronunciation. It was just to correct the Nanjing pronunciation, because Zhu Yuanzhang hated the Wuyin of Jiangzuo the most. He felt that the Southern Dynasty who moved south to Jiangnan was not orthodox. In addition, the people around him A vote of military aristocrats from northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and southern Shandong. Of course, their words will prevail in the court.
Therefore, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Quan, the king of Ning in the Zhengtong period, wrote a preface to "Ya Yun", pointing out that the standard pronunciation Zhongzhou Yun respected by the Ming Dynasty could not exceed Pengcheng in the north, Dingyuan in the south, Jiangpu in the east, and Sui in the west. Yang, outside this realm it is all dialect.
The south here is only Dingyuan, which is Dingyuan of Fengyang Prefecture.
Just like '俺' and '恁', one means me and the other means you. They often appear in the imperial edicts of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di and others. However, this is not because they issued imperial edicts that were changed into spoken dialects. On the contrary, it is because of this. It was Yayanzhengyin at that time.
Shaanxi, especially the western part of Shaanxi where they are now, is completely different from the east.
The journey is long, and different language methods will naturally make people wary, but the words are the same. Therefore, when Yang Dingrui saw the comic strip compiled by Liu Chengzong, his eyes lit up and he was convinced that this was a good tool to spread the influence of the Marshal's Mansion. .
The Marshal's Mansion is making a big fuss in the northwest, and maybe the people in the Jianghuai area don't even know who he is.
Even if he knew it, he only knew that he was a rebel leader who did all kinds of evil. This situation would definitely be detrimental to the Marshal's Mansion. Comic books and storybooks could solve this problem.
The southeast has the best papermaking, printing and publishing industries in the world. This is also an era when people have admiration and fantasy for military force. Liu Xiangyu and Yang Dingrui can easily think of what this means if they use their brains a little.
Since the Jiajing Dynasty, in the military wars that have intensified in all directions, all walks of life can get promotion opportunities by understanding the military.
Juniper was no match for the banner troops of the Guards, so he hacked with a knife and fought for the title of Grand Master outside the fortress; Liu Xian was a poor man who survived by stealing temple tributes. In his first battle with the army, he entered the formation with two guillotines and hacked five people to death. More than ten people were promoted from the fifth rank to deputy of a thousand households.
Scholars can rely on their knowledge of military affairs to get out of town and become famous all over the world.
If the story books and embroidery paintings of the Marshal's Mansion can suit his liking, they will surely gain the favor of the people and attract talented people to defect to him - the key is that there are too many good stories about the Marshal's Mansion, such as Ding Qinghai, Entering Hami, Fighting the Chuoke Rabbit, The Allied Forces of Powala have expanded thousands of miles, which is not the dream of a hero?
Liu Xiangyu and Yang Dingrui moved very quickly. Before the first month of the year, the General Affairs Department of the Marshal's Mansion started fighting.
Since there was no prime minister in the Ming Dynasty, there was naturally no Zhongshu Province as the central official office. Therefore, the Zhongshu Province was dismantled and divided into the General Affairs Department and the Six Branches.
The main authority of the General Affairs Department is to distribute official documents. At the same time, sending official documents is also one of its duties. Official documents are divided into title books and memorials. Official documents usually sent in the name of the official office are called title books, and they are made in two copies. One is sent by the General Affairs Department. In front of the emperor, another copy was sent to Liuke Langfang for copying, and it was basically made public.
The memorial was sent directly to the officials in their personal capacity by the officials and would not be made public until the emperor read the memorial.
Every government, health, administration, inspection, salt transportation, governor's office, and Xuanfu department in various places have experienced departments, which are agencies that specialize in receiving and delivering official documents.
However, in the past, the marshal's office was too small, and official documents were delivered directly to the desk. Even now, they only have five prefectures: Xining, Kangning, Lintao, Gansu, and Monan. The delivery of official documents is not that complicated, and many of them Some departments do not have settings.
Because their population is too small to require the establishment of administrative agencies, and there are too many officials to replace administrative functions.
There are 200,000 people in one county in Beizhili, with at most ten officials. Gansu, including Liangzhou under Liu Shizi's rule, has less than 200,000 people, and nearly 2,000 civil and military officials, large and small.
But it is not the population that determines the number of officials, but the region. The wider the region, the more people are needed to work.
The general political envoy selected by Liu Xiangyu and Yang Dingrui was Lin Wei.
Lin Wei was also an old man who followed Liu Chengzong during the Lion Camp. He was originally a scholar of Ningxia Zhongwei. He was good-looking and was selected as the honorary guest of Prince Qing's Mansion. He was also sent to Prince Qing's Zhuangzi to be the head of the village because he scolded his father-in-law. When the steward encountered Liu Shizi being robbed and captured, he acted like a thief with a shy face.
In line with the principle of people doing their best, Liu Shishi entrusted him with the task of managing the farming when he arrived in Qinghai. Therefore, Lin Wei has not followed the army in the past few years. He has always cooperated with Liu Chengzu to reclaim wasteland in the west of the new city, and his work has been done well. The results were pretty good, adding more than 70,000 stone grain to the Marshal's Mansion every year.
Now, by establishing the General Administration Department, giving him a promotion is exactly in line with Liu Chengzong's wishes.
When Lin Wei first arrived in Lanzhou, before the staff of the General Affairs Department had been fully staffed, the work had already come: Liu Chengzu sent people from Oirat to report the battle situation and intelligence of the winter battle.
When Liu Chengzu passed by, he and Sunday Qiang set up twelve stations along the way from Hami to Urumqi, and from Hami to Lanzhou there were twenty-four stations affiliated with the Marshal's Mansion. The whole journey had thirty-six stations, and Lanzhou could be reached in nine days and nights at the fastest.
But now that it has snowed, it took the courier sixteen days to deliver it to Xining, and another day to get from Xining to Lanzhou. When Liu Chengzong saw this letter, it was already the eighteenth day after it was delivered from Urumqi.
Liu Chengzong calculated the time, and it happened to be the New Year when Liu Chengzu sent the letter.
However, this letter was written by Liu Chengzu on the battlefield years ago. The war in Oirat did not go as smoothly as Batur Hutaiji imagined.
Although Batur Hutaiji returned to the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and tried his best to prepare for war, trying to show that the four Oirat tribes did not suffer too much losses in the southern expedition, no bluff could conceal the reality that their vitality was seriously damaged. .
The total number of troops that Oirat could mobilize was only tens of thousands of veterans, but half of them were lost in the hands of Liu Chengzong. Even the former leader of the alliance, the National Advisor Khan, was detained. Therefore, in the autumn, it suffered a fatal blow from the Kazakhs. It happened that Batur Hutaiji He also planned to attack Tyumen, but was directly stolen by Kazakhs.
If Liu Chengzu's troops were not stationed in the Ili Valley, Oirat might have been wiped out in one wave.
After this battle, Batur Hutaiji realized that attacking Qiu Ming, three thousand miles away, was undoubtedly a dream, so he could only organize three thousand cavalry to attack the northern Salt Lake in winter.
Liu Chengzu and Zhou Zhouqiang carefully analyzed the current situation of the four groups in Oirat. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are all enemies. Therefore, they tried their best to dissuade Batur Hutaiji from starting a war before the guns and artillery arrived in the Ili Valley, but they could not be dissuaded.
Batur believes that at this time, the more important it is to start a war with others. Even if the price paid is greater than avoiding the war, one must fight whenever he sees someone. Even if he loses, as long as he makes the invading enemy feel the price, he can stop it. The pace of its invasion.
Otherwise, people's hearts will be scattered and their tribes will be scattered, which will be more uncomfortable than death.
At that time, the east will belong to Liu Chengzong, the west to Kazakhstan, the north to Russia, and the south to Yarkand, and there will be no such thing as Oirat in the world.
Liu Chengzu thought about it. After all, it was Oirat that could not even write or speak, and its own stability was very poor, so he did not persuade him much. He just asked Dai Daozi to lead 600 people to accompany the army and go north along the river to map the water network terrain. picture.
Oirat did pay the price later.
In this battle that took place at Lake Amesh at the end of the seventh year of Chongzhen, three thousand Dzungarian soldiers besieged the stronghold. After both sides suffered hundreds of casualties, the Dzungarian cavalry plundered the villages outside the stronghold and then evacuated the Salt Lake.
Both sides fought bravely, but when Liu Chengzong was in Lanzhou and looked through the battle report, his facial features were almost squeezed together and he couldn't even see it.
This is not a question of bravery or not. According to Liu Chengzu, the Rakshasa people have a wooden fortress by the lake. More than a hundred Rakshasa soldiers live in it all year round. At the beginning of the war, they were urgently recruited from nearby villages. Thousands of tribes of indigenous people.
Although Batur Hutaiji's cavalry went out in all directions and intercepted and surrendered more than 300 people in the wild, more than 600 people were still stationed in the wooden castle, making the Rakshasa people's defense force in the Salt Lake wooden castle very sufficient.
The wooden forts of the Rakshasa people are very special. Liu Chengzu can't say whether it was intentional or poorly repaired. Anyway, there are many gaps in the wooden walls, and muskets can be inserted through the gaps. Therefore, during a fight, there are fire points everywhere, which will lead to the attack. It's going to be very difficult.
Batur Hutaiji commanded the soldiers to attack four times, but were repulsed all four times... How could any serious person storm the fortress? The gap in the fort was really big, and the Rakshasa soldiers could fit in the old large-caliber muskets. Go, but it would be difficult to expect Junggar soldiers to shoot arrows into the gaps in the ice and snow.
Strictly speaking, the equipment used by the Russian soldiers in the bunker was very poor.
Their large-caliber muskets are basically eliminated from European wars, which are imitations of the Spanish heavy muskets that dominated the battlefield a hundred years ago in Poland and other places.
This musket is very powerful, but it is already outdated, because there was no granular gunpowder in that era, and powdered gunpowder was used. The caliber was stupidly large and the musket was stupidly heavy.
In this century, the most important technological progress was the granulation of gunpowder, which reduced the caliber of muskets. Therefore, a large number of large-caliber heavy muskets were eliminated. Most of these muskets were either eliminated to the colonies or sold to Russia. Waiting for countries with poor production technology.
At this time, the main muskets used by European countries such as Spain were light muskets with a caliber of about 20 mm.
The Ming Dynasty did not go through this process, because the technology of gunpowder granulation had been available for a long time, and Qi Jiguang promoted it, so the power was only determined by the caliber. He first came into contact with small-caliber muskets, and then came into contact with Spanish large-caliber muskets, and after imitating them, Granular gunpowder is used.
But even an outdated matchlock gun is still a matchlock gun, and it will not be a problem no matter how heavy it sinks in the fortress.
Forests, ice fields, muskets, and fortresses, these four things together equal almost invincibility.
After several confrontations, Liu Chengzu estimated that the losses they caused to the enemies in the wooden fortress were only more than 30 people at most, while they suffered more than 60 casualties outside, and in the end they had no choice but to withdraw.
The reason for the withdrawal was because there were too many casualties. It was not the more than 60 people who were killed and wounded, but because it was freezing outside. Hundreds of soldiers had been frozen to death and suffered frostbite. If the delay continued, they might be killed or injured due to the weather. Almost exhausted.
When Liu Chengzu came back from writing this letter, on the one hand, he sent over the topographic map of the water network that Dai Daozi had explored along the way. On the other hand, he hoped that Liu Chengzong would make some firearms for him and send them there when spring begins. He would lead his troops to conquer the fort with ease. Attack the ground, pretend to be a big one in front of Batur, and use this to occupy Oirat's salt lifeline.
As for why he dared to boast such a Haikou, it was because of the firearm he asked Liu Chengzong to make: the flying cannon.
A flying cannon with curved trajectory, secondary ignition, lightness and speed, explosive damage, and a misfire rate of up to 1/2.
Liu Shishi thought, brother, why are you bothering so much? When we attack the city in Ming Dynasty, we have to worry about the lives and property of the people in the city, so we don't have to worry about it outside.
The small wooden fort, which is a hundred steps square, has not yet been built, and has a smaller spread range than Liu Guo's flying. One rocket may not be able to hit accurately, but ten rockets will definitely cause damage to the defenders. A hundred rockets will jump over, It was unlikely that anyone would survive, but Liu Shizi didn't believe they could organize troops to defend the fort after the bombing.
The most important thing is that this thing is simple and cheap to make. The flying cannon has to be beaten. As long as there is gunpowder, my arsenal can make hundreds of them in ten and a half months. The paper shell ones are all easy to use. .
Of course, paper and gunpowder are not cheap outside the Central Plains.
Liu Shishi couldn't be stingy when his brother came back from such a far away place and asked for equipment. He sent a letter to the arsenal that day, asking how much rocket stock the arsenal still had. At the same time, he assigned the task of one hundred flying cannons and asked him directly. Load three hundred rockets into a truck and let Cao Yao pick up two hundred banner troops from Gansu and send them to Urumqi.
Three hundred rockets were shipped from Xincheng on the same day. After all, the quantity was too small. Each of these rockets only weighed ten kilograms. The shipping department was not even willing to move the ox cart, so they found more than 70 rockets from Qinghai Lake. The mule took him away.
Liu Chengzong could have any bad intentions. He just wanted to send him there before spring, and while the Rakshasa soldiers in the wooden castle by the lake were relaxed in killing the enemy, he could let his eldest brother return with his carbine and occupy the magpie's nest.
Not to mention anything else, after they are bombed, the fort will be repaired with a cover!
good afternoon!
(End of chapter)
