The fifth day of August in the second year of Guangde, Nanjing, Dakongfang, Qiaozhai
Dagongfang is located at the intersection of the Qinhuai River and the Yangtze River. It is where the most densely populated residents and the most prosperous businesses in Nanjing are.
This place is close to the Forbidden City, and the residences of Qi ministers are also concentrated in this area.
In the empty main hall, Qiao Yiqi was lying quietly on the hospital bed. Old Qiao's face was as white as frost and his breath was like a thread.
Liu Zhaosun half-knelt in front of the bed, lying in front of his best friend, sobbing softly. There was no one else in the room.
Half an hour ago, the Supreme Emperor was still in Chaotian Palace, dressed in robes, walking and fighting, chanting incantations, holding magical instruments, and praying for Qiao Yiqi.
Until Wu Xiao arrived in a hurry and whispered that Mr. Qiao was about to die.
Liu Zhaosun quickly put down his magic sword and chime. He didn't have time to change out of his Taoist robe, so he rode back to Dagongfang. He met the imperial physician Yu Chang. The imperial physician Yu shook his head gently, expressing that he was helpless, and withdrew with a face of shame.
Liu Zhaosun dismissed everyone and stood alone in front of the bed.
Looking at the haggard and unconscious Qiao Yiqi, many past events emerged before his eyes.
If Qiao Yiqi had not lent him any money during the Saarhu Battle, if Qiao Dazui had left Liaodong early after the Saarhu Battle, if...
What will be the fate of Mr. Qiao?
Thinking that the eight thousand taels of silver owed to Qiao Yiqi had not been paid back to him, he wondered how much the principal and interest would have to be repaid after more than twenty years.
In the past twenty years, Liu Zhaosun led Da Qi to do many things that the dynasty could only accomplish in fifty or one hundred years.
The core team around Liu Zhaosun had already exhausted their lives due to the heavy and arduous national affairs, and Qiao Yiqi was just one of them.
If they were not so anxious, if the wheels of the imperial chariot could slow down, would Qiao Yiqi and the others have lived for a few more years, to see Da Qi conquer the Japanese country in the east, to see all the nations coming to pay homage...
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty."
A faint call interrupted Lian Lian's thoughts.
"Qiao Jianjun, how do you feel?"
Liu Zhaosun didn't know what to say for a moment. He had bid farewell to many close ministers, and Qiao Yiqi was not the first one, but he was the one who grieved him the most.
Thinking of never being able to see Mr. Qiao talking freely again;
Thinking that the memory from the beginning of time travel is gradually collapsing;
Thinking about the day in the future, he would not be able to tell whether he was a time traveler or an indigenous person;
A huge feeling of sadness suddenly enveloped Liu Zhaosun's whole body.
The process of death is the process of the world gradually forgetting you.
Is the death of others not the process of one's own existence being forgotten?
Qiao Yiqi didn't speak, but raised his arm tremblingly. Liu Zhaosun quickly stepped forward and held the hand that was as thin as a branch.
"Then who, the king..."
Qiao Yiqi's voice was weak. Liu Zhaosun's eyes were red and swollen. He leaned closer and listened to him quietly.
"You want to attack the Japanese country."
Liu Zhaosun nodded vigorously.
"Yes, when the southwest is pacified, we will attack the Japanese country and avenge Yuan Chonghuan."
Qiao Yiqi forced a smile on her face and shook her fingers slightly.
"Who, there is something that I have been hiding from you..."
His voice was low and intermittent, like a taut string that might stop suddenly at any time.
"Back in Beijing, yes, it was me..." Qiao Yiqi coughed, and Liu Zhaosun quickly helped him wipe the sweat from his forehead.
He reached out his hand to Qiao Yiqi's forehead and found that it was already cold.
"Wang...Wang Chengen, it was me who told him about the guard change. It was me..."
Liu Zhaosun gently wiped the sweat beads and suddenly saw Qiao Yiqi's face turning rosy.
"When he got the trick, he bribed the palace maid to assassinate me. I'm sorry for Empress Zhang..."
Liu Zhaosun was slightly shocked, the handkerchief stopped in the air, and then comforted:
"Don't mention the past, don't mention it anymore."
The dying man suddenly reached out and grabbed his arm, his whole body trembled regularly, and his consciousness gradually faded.
"Marquis Pingliao, you must listen to Yuan Ducha and don't worry about it. Don't go to Hetuala. You are too impatient..."
The excited eyes suddenly stopped, and the last flash of light came to an end.
Liu Zhaosun gently closed his eyes.
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At the beginning of Shenshi on the fifth day of August in the second year of Guangde, Qiao Yiqi, the grand master of Daqi, the crown prince's grand master, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and the great scholar of Zhongji Palace, died of illness in his residence.
The Supreme Emperor ordered to stay out of court for three days.
The next day, Dongfang Zhu, the general manager of the palace, was sent to attend the funeral for Qiao Yiqi, and was rewarded with 8,000 taels for the funeral expenses.
Emperor Guangde and the empress dowagers of the two palaces also gave silver coins.
Regarding Qiao Yiqi's death, the empire gave the highest treatment.
Emperor Guangde gave Qiao Yiqi the posthumous title Wenzhong and the title of Shangzhu. His nephew Yin was named Shangbao Sicheng and sent officials to bury him.
The fourth-rank officials of the Ministry of Rites, the officials of the coir raincoat guard hall, the eunuchs of the department of rites, etc. were specially ordered to escort the funeral back to Song's former residence, Jiangfu.
On August 14, under the escort of the eunuch Chen Zheng and others, Qiao Yiqi's coffin, Qiao Yiqi's nephew, Qiao Yiqi's sister and his party took a carriage to Shenglongguan Pier and returned to Songjiang by boat.
According to historical records, on August 14th, Qiao Yiqi's coffin and its mourners boarded a total of more than 80 ships with more than 3,000 escorts and boatmen. The fleet stretched for 15 miles in front and back, making it a mighty sight. Heading to Songjiang Prefecture (today's Shanghai) on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
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After Qiao Yiqi was buried in his hometown, Liu Zhaosun had no intention of taking any chances.
The chariot of the Daqi Empire moved forward indomitably and continued to rumble forward.
In the autumn of the second year of Guangde, autumn crops in the northern and southern provinces of Daqi achieved an unprecedented bumper harvest.
Especially in the Taihu Lake Basin, the rice yield per mu reached an astonishing 900 kilograms (the average yield per mu in the Taihu Lake Basin in the Ming Dynasty was 666 kilograms).
Thanks to the popularization of Song Yingxing's "Tiangong Kaiwu", farmers' associations and workshops comprehensively encouraged farmers, and the soil fertility in Jiangnan further improved, and the output was naturally higher.
Take land fertilization as an example.
With the strong promotion of farmers' associations in various prefectures and counties, traditional fertilizers such as human and animal manure, green manure, impregnated waste, and river mud dust have been put to good use. At the same time, high-quality fertilizers made from distiller's grains, sugar residues, bean residues, oil residues, etc. have also begun to be used. Used by farmers in Jiangnan.
At the same time, the mines and arsenals located in the north continued to provide farmers in the south with a variety of low-cost inorganic fertilizers via shipping.
Sulfur, arsenic, black vitriol, brine, snail shell ash, clam ash...
Smooth sea transportation greatly reduces transportation costs.
The implementation of the New Deal eradicated the rentier class such as dental merchants and dental shops, and greatly reduced terminal prices.
Various factors have combined. In the past, the price of fertilizers that ordinary farmers could not afford to use has now dropped to 20% or even 10%. Every day, there is an endless stream of ships transporting fertilizers from ports such as Shandong and Lushun, and millions of kilograms of fertilizers continue to flow. Supply Jiangnan.
School students discovered a method of dipping ashes into seedling roots, which greatly improved the survival rate of seedlings.
Of course, the most famous one is Xu Guangqi and his disciples, who invented and created a high-efficiency "dung pill" (commonly known as Jinkeli) that is a mixture of inorganic and organic fertilizers. It is said that one bucketful of it is equivalent to twenty stones of excrement, and it is also suitable for use. In the Jianghuai saline-alkali land.
In the second year of Guangde reign, Xu Guangqi brought dung pill to promote its use in Fengyang saline-alkali land.
Originally, the average grain yield per mu in Fengyang was only 150 kilograms. After using it, the output soared to 350 kilograms.
On the eighth day of October, Zhao led the army to arrange the defense of Songjiang and then headed north along Chidao to return to Dengzhou, preparing to arrange this winter training for the soldiers of the Third Battalion stationed in Shandong.
Along with him, in addition to Li Wenbiao, the chief instructor of the Eighth Corps, there was also a magistrate named Yan who was transferred from Yangzhou to Liaodong.
Because they were on the way, Yan Dianli and Zhao Shu taught them to go together.
Since leaving Suzhou. The carriages began to become congested, and the roads along the way were densely packed with convoys transporting food.
From Suzhou to Fengyang, all the way north, at dozens of military stations along the way, the people from the Chamber of Commerce and Farmers' Association who were transporting grain in front of them were fed and drank cleanly.
Every time when Zhao Shujiao and others arrived from behind, there were only some scraps left in the military station, and sometimes they couldn't even feed them with food or wine.
Yan Dianli had been filled with anger for a long time.
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The sky is clear and the autumn wind is rustling. It is the late autumn season in Jianghuai.
Zhao led a group of carriages. After queuing for half an hour, they finally drove slowly into Haoliang Military Station (formerly Haoliang Station) just before Yan Yingyuan was about to faint from hunger.
This is the largest military station in Fengyang Prefecture, with 5 main halls, 5 back halls, 5 gift rooms, 3 warehouses, 3 kitchens, 14 gallery rooms, 20 stables, as well as three front drum towers and horse stables. There is a temple and a Zhaobi archway.
"It's quite big. We can almost catch up with the Jingan Fort Military Station. I hope there is still food for us to eat. We have been eating fried noodles every day for the past few days and it's amazing!"
Zhao led Jiao to get off the carriage first.
The training officer followed with the guards and loudly said to the chief officer: "Old Zhao, you need to drink two bowls later!"
Yan Yingyuan held the handle of the car, his chest pressed against his back with hunger. He was originally born and raised in the south of the Yangtze River, but suddenly came to Fengyang, which was full of wind and sand, and he was still a little acclimatized.
After a long journey, his strength was not as good as that of Zhao Shujiao, who was born in the army, and he was tortured a lot.
Still, he made it through.
Yan Yingyuan is a veteran torturer in Yangzhou Prefecture for more than ten years. On this trip to Shenyang, he still has to work in his old profession and continue to be responsible for torture.
Two soldiers walked out of the military station and stepped forward to check the three-man post talisman.
After learning the identity of Zhao Lijiao, the soldiers were full of respect and gave a standard military salute to the commander of the Eighth Corps. Then they immediately untied the horses and took them to the stable to feed them.
Zhao led the three guards and walked into the main hall. There were a few civil affairs officials in black uniforms sitting inside, speaking Henan dialect.
These Henan civil affairs officials all came to the south to transport food. The three of them had already encountered many of them on the way.
This year, all provinces in the north and south have had bumper harvests. Only Henan has still suffered from floods, so many provinces have recently shipped grain to the Central Plains.
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Zhao led the disciples to sit down and shouted: "Bring the wine! Bring the wine! There are so many mountains in Fengyang that the horses are exhausted."
When the food and wine were served, Yan Yingyuan was so furious that he finished the two meatloaf and three dishes.
Li Wenbiao was about to ask the military station to serve food again when he suddenly heard someone singing flower drums outside:
Left hand gong and right hand drum
Singing with gongs and drums in hand
I can’t sing other songs either
I can only sing Fengyang songs
Fengyang Geer oh oh oh
De'er's clang is fluttering
De'er's clang is fluttering
Zhao Shujiao was fascinated by what he heard and asked a soldier next to him: "What is this township party singing?"
The commander of the military station came over quickly and said, "Go back to General Zhao, this is a local singing Jin Ke La."
"Jin Kela?" The three of them looked at each other and put down Kuaizi at the same time.
Speaking of Fengyang, Dao Fengyang, Fengyang is a good place.
Since the release of Jin Ke La, there has not been a year of drought in ten years.
Fengyang's agriculture is underdeveloped, so it must be mixed with gold and garbage!
The fertilizer is mixed with golden waste and will not run off or evaporate!
The fertilizer is mixed with golden garbage and can absorb fertilizer two feet below!
The price of fertilizers has increased across the country. The fertilizers are mixed with golden waste, and one bag can be used to spread two bags! The yield per mu is 880!
Fengyang's agriculture is underdeveloped, we all need to support it!
De'er's clang is fluttering
De'er's clang is fluttering
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It was early September of the second year of Guangde.
The Supreme Emperor issued an edict to the Japanese state.
The edict was transferred from the Ryukyu Kingdom to the shogunate.
In the first year of Wuding, shortly after the Eighth Corps retreated from Kyushu, Ryukyu was occupied by the Satsuma Domain and gradually became the puppet regime of the Satsuma Domain.
In the third year of Taichu, Wu Aheng led the navy to defeat the Satsuma fleet and re-established Daqi's vassal sovereignty over Ryukyu.
Since the first year of Guangde, Ryukyu has become one of the base camps for the Eastern Expedition against Japan (along with Zhoushan, Dengzhou, and Busan).
Various coastal defense guns and ships are constantly arriving here. This small country, which used to have a weak sense of existence, is now armed to the teeth by the Qi army. There are more than a thousand troops stationed on the island, including the navy and the 2nd Battalion of the 8th Corps. Stay here all year round.
In Liu Zhaosun's imperial edict to Tokugawa Iemitsu, the Qi Emperor ordered the shogunate to immediately kill the Kyushu pirates harassing the coast of Daqi, and at the same time hand over the traitors Zheng Sen, Zuo Liangyu, Song Yingsheng, Wang Heng and others.
Otherwise, "The might of Heaven will be furious and send out a side force, and they will immediately rush to help the mulberry trees. No chickens or dogs will be left behind."
