As soon as the excitement of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month passed, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty began to be busy with the Northern Expedition.
Zhu Yuanzhang called Xu Da, Feng Sheng, Li Wenzhong and other generals to explain how to fight.
"Tiande, the array of flintlocks cannot be messed up. Timur is good at wave warfare. The Ming Dynasty firearms have obvious advantages. Don't rush to order the front army to fight. The army horses have been well raised in the past two years. I will give you more horses and increase gunpowder and supplies. Waiting for the baggage..."
Zhu Yuanzhang told Xu Da first that he did not know whether Xu Da was defeated or not in history, but the letter from Xiaqiu Village made a request.
Historically, Xu Da said that 100,000 soldiers would be enough, but he gave 150,000. As a result, he lost a battle, won a battle, and after winning a battle, he got lost and did not come back, so he starved to death.
In the defeated battle, Wang Baobao feigned defeat and lured the enemy deeper. Xu Da fell into the trap and was beaten by Wang Baobao and He Zongzhe, so he had to retreat.
There was nothing to say about the victory. They advanced steadily and captured a city.
An army that wins first and is destroyed later abandons its baggage and pursues the enemy lightly. As a result, it has no baggage, cannot find its way back, and starves to death.
Today, Zhu Yuanzhang sent an army of 200,000, and the baggage was increased. The proportion of firearms in the army increased from 10% to 30%.
Ten percent of them are upgraded versions of the original firecrackers, and the other 21% are flintlock guns.
The marching route of the three armies remained unchanged, and there were more camellia noodles in the baggage. It was cold in the north and the camellia noodles were easy to preserve, plus bags of Jubiqi pickles packed in oilcloth.
As well as alcohol, gauze, suture needle and thread, absorbent cotton, bandages, triangle towels, leggings, soap.
The soldiers in the army have long begun to practice these battlefield first aid applications, and they are also very skilled in wearing leggings. Even cavalry must be able to wear leggings.
The quantity of some medicines brought from previous battles has doubled, plus the fish floss made by the Ming Dynasty Navy after fishing in the sea.
After the generals received the order and left, Zhu Yuanzhang was full of confidence.
"This is the benefit of having money. We can afford to send another hundred thousand troops. Those things are all money." Zhu Yuanzhang thought about the provided luggage and shook his head with emotion.
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"Bachelor Wei, you must not be too tired." In the library, people from the Imperial Hospital delivered medicine to Wei Su. Seeing Wei Su writing at his desk, they quickly reminded him.
"Who do I want to get involved first? Dictionaries are not a trivial matter. His Highness the King of Qin is willing to pay, so he will find more people to repair the dictionary as soon as possible, so that the people of Ming Dynasty can learn faster."
Wei Su put down his pen, went to wash his hands, took the medicine bowl, and took a sip of the medicine. Looking at his expression, he felt that what he was drinking was not medicine, but delicious wine.
"Bachelor Wei drinks medicine better than others and doesn't frown." Imperial doctors like such patients and are most afraid of women and babies in the palace getting sick and drinking medicine.
"Why should I frown when I can live? In a few days, when everyone is here, we can practice the scriptures." Wei Su said calmly.
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"Hanhan, we have to go back and take a look. We can't always let others do things for us in the village." In the lunch box, the head of the village discussed with Hanhan about returning to the village.
"We have to leave someone there to cook for the princess. Let's take the other villagers back and come back in a few days. Most of the villagers stay in the village. Let the imperial hospital send the imperial doctor."
"Why are you coming back in a hurry?" The resident wanted to stay for a while longer.
"When you are in the Jianghu, you can't help yourself. If you don't come back, where will the King of Qin go? Who can I ask if there is something in the palace? We are tied up in Nanjing.
After we finish building our houses on the land allocated to us outside Chaoyang Gate here, the village will be moved here, and people from the original village will be sent to manage it in rotation.
When working, we hired people, and the Tremella and Bamboo fungus planting base was transferred to Nanjing. It was not suitable to bring livestock and poultry, so we sent some horses here to practice riding, riding and driving.
Some of the bees are there, and some of them move here. The average temperature in Nanjing is higher than that in Xiaqiu Village, and the place is larger. "
Zhu Wentian was planning the future. He knew that Zhu Yuanzhang would not leave an expert there without asking about things.
He was also worried about the villagers getting sick, so it was safe to protect the villagers himself.
"Alas~~" Li sighed: "I regret teaching my husband to seek the title of Marquis!"
Zhu Wentian: "..."
"Chief, let's not act like a resentful woman and make me abandon the village."
"Hehehehe! No, I just remembered this! What will happen to the village in the future?" the village leader smiled.
"Livestock breeding, poultry raising, seed base, mountain temple opened a branch temple. I am used to living there, but I haven't lived here for a long time and I feel uncomfortable all over."
"If the new greenhouse is built outside Chaoyang Gate, we will need other fields. Usually the older people grow vegetables and raise chickens and ducks. It would be nice to have something to do."
"We need to speed up. Let's just say it's uncomfortable to live in a tent and wait until the house is built before we come back."
"Can I stay longer?"
"No, but we can ask the court to send more manpower to repair our two houses quickly." Zhu Wentian shook his head.
"That's true. In the past, building a house was a big deal. I couldn't even dream of it. But one day it will be very easy to build a house.
When I was out walking around, I saw that there was a small river flowing into the Qinhuai River just east of Chaoyang Gate. It felt almost like a village. "
Li Chang lamented his life experience. When he was poor, he wanted to become rich, but when he became rich, he wanted to pursue the freedom he had when he was wealthy.
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On the 20th of the first lunar month, people in Xiaqiu Village began to evacuate. The village chief gave the reason according to Hanhan's statement. It was uncomfortable to live in the tents, and he would wait until the houses outside and inside the city were repaired before returning.
Then ten people were left to cook for the princess in the tent. The things were not taken away, but there were some in the village.
"How can this be done? They are gone. We need to contact each other later and send letters. It is inconvenient to go back and forth. Remove the people who repair the palace and repair their house. How many days will it take for the house behind the library?"
Zhu Yuanzhang and other people from Xiaqiu Village took a boat back to the village, but he always felt uneasy.
He found that people in Xiaqiu Village were there, so he didn't need to contact him. It seemed like he had nothing to ask. But when they were gone, he was actually afraid. If he asked questions in a hurry, it would be too late.
Xiaqiu Village is a reassurance. Isn't it just a house? It's built. Once it's built, it's up to them to see if they can come back?
The eunuch ran to make arrangements. A quarter of an hour later, the person who went to the library to inquire came back and told Zhu Yuanzhang that it would be over in two days.
"Separate manpower to direct the palace builders to repair the houses in Xiaqiu Village, Wang Yiqian? He knows what Xiaqiu Village looks like."
Zhu Yuanzhang adjusted the craftsmen and planned to use 10,000 craftsmen to build more than 200 two-story buildings in five days.
Then I asked Xiaqiu Village to move, otherwise I would be in a bad mood thinking about it all day long.
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"Are we going to start packing and moving now? The glass kiln will be abandoned as soon as it stops, and the converter will be thrown away. The things in your laboratory, plus the planting of Tremella and Bamboo fungus, will take some time to move."
The captain sat in the middle of the boat, talking quietly to Hanhan.
Zhu Wentian could only nod slightly. He had already made arrangements in his mind on how to send people to the original village in rotation to manage.
A pregnant woman in the village has nothing to do with her husband. In addition, every month there is a special period for women, so the man happens to come to the village.
At other times, we have to work hard for human reproduction, and if it fails, we will prescribe medicine.
(End of chapter)
