The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 468

Chongzhen eight years (1635) August 8th.

Ding Yi took the generals to see the newly built Beigou City early in the morning. At this time, it has been a whole year since the battle of Beigou.

It took him a year to mobilize [-] people to build Beigou City, and it cost a lot of money to build.

After the completion, with Beigou as the boundary, Ding Yi in the south of Beigou can basically defend as stable as Mount Tai. Even if the Jin Dynasty comes again, Beigou City cannot be defeated, and artillery cannot come in. Ding Yi is not afraid at all.

Because it is all prepared for war, the construction of Beigou City is also all for military use. There is a bunker-like fort every 50 meters on it, and there are simple shooting ports with sandbags every ten meters, which are anti-gun and anti-arrow.

In the city, there are fields, wells, cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens and other poultry, and there are fish in the Beigou River beside the city.

There is a large amount of land outside the city. After the hard work of the past year, Beigou City is now blocking the land between Jinfuzhou and Dongjiang Town. There will be nearly 18 mu of land in Dongjiang Town.

This year's summer sowing plus Pidao and Tieshan, all the grain fields in Lushun, Changsheng Island and other small islands have reached 39 mu.

At this time, everyone was standing on Beigou City, looking at the rice fields outside, many people were extremely excited.

"This year the Tartars will definitely not come in. If there is a good harvest, there will be at least 50 shi." Ruan Wenlong said excitedly.

"Last year, the wheat lost a lot, but this year we have to stabilize it." Ding Yi said with a heartache.

It turned out that last winter was extremely cold, and many wheat leaves were frostbitten, resulting in a large area of ​​harvest loss and failure.

The 30 mu of Dongjiang Town’s final wheat harvest was less than 40 shi, which can be described as a heavy loss. Fortunately, they have always had the habit of storing grain, and a small amount of grain came from Jeju Island, which did not leave [-] people hungry.

After that, Ding Yi stepped up publicity and searched, and soon the Liao people offered advice, saying that it is best not to germinate wheat in Liaodong before winter to prevent frost damage.

But the meaning of not letting seedlings emerge here is not to prevent them from growing, but to combine them with hoeing to surround the roots with congested soil and protect the roots from freezing.

It is best to use plant ash to lay a layer in advance.

In this way, we can try it this year, and if it is useful, the summer harvest can be guaranteed.

The most serious disasters in this era are natural disasters and man-made disasters, but on Ding Yi's side, there will be no human disasters. As long as he can resist natural disasters, he will have a steady stream of food.

"The Logistics Department still pays attention to two points." Ding Yi said to Chen Youfu, the director of the Logistics Department: "One is to pay attention to winter protection, and the other is to prevent water shortage."

After Zhong Zhennu went to Jeju Island, Chen Youfu, the financial secretary, was transferred to the logistics department, and Ding Yi asked him to remember the biggest food opponent of this era.

One is drought and the other is severe cold.

Drought was very common in Fujian, Henan and other places in the Ming Dynasty, but it was relatively rare in Liaodong.

Severe cold is more common here, and it is also the focus of their precautions.

Another locust disaster is fine at present. According to records in the history of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty basically happened once every five years, and most of them were in Shanxi, Shandong, Beijing, Henan and other places.

So for Dongjiang Town, as long as it is well protected against the severe cold and has fertile land, it will be able to grow food.

Just when everyone was looking around Beigou City, suddenly.

There was the sound of rumbling iron hooves ahead.

Then the whole earth seemed to vibrate, and many people at the top of the city could feel the city gate shaking.

In an instant, everyone's expressions were extremely excited, and everyone looked around.

In the distant horizon, starting from a few rides, to dozens, hundreds, and then thousands of rides.

A large group of cavalry galloped across the plain, calling.

"Ni Niang." Ding Yi looked at it and yelled: "Jezhou horses have just been delivered, and they rode on them? Can't let them raise them, take it easy." His face was heartbroken.

It turned out that in the past two months, Jeju sent three batches of war horses one after another.

After more than a year of shepherding, Tuzheer asked his younger brother Tuhulie to send [-] qualified war horses.

He said it was the first year, so it was a little less because many horses were not old enough.

Starting next year, there must be around [-].

Of course, there must be mortality.

Among the 7000 horses, there were originally more than 1000, but more than [-] died after being raised for a year.

There are also about [-] unqualified war horses.

Ding Yi sent the unqualified one thousand to North Korea, and asked for the other two thousand to be used as transport horses.

So when he saw Zhang Jing's cavalry and the infantry battalion had already started riding, his heart ached.

He asked all the ministries in Dongjiang to learn how to ride horses. In the future, like Houjin, everyone will bring horses when they go out to war.

Now those who were assigned to horses first began to practice.

If you don't practice, you don't know. Once you practice, the horse will be injured very quickly. It will lose dozens of horses every month, which makes Ding Yi even more heartbroken.

Suddenly he felt that there seemed to be too few horses in Jeju Island.

Jeju Island seems to be too small.

"Lord Ding, brothers can't wait." Zhang Jing laughed. Last year Huang Taiji lost a battle and sent a lot of horses, but they were all defective. His cavalry could not wait for the horses.

Chen Youfu suddenly said: "My lord, our war horses are so good, they are better than those of Mongolia and Jiannu. As for the unqualified ones, I think they can be sold for a lot of money in the Ming Dynasty."

"..." Many people at the scene looked at him speechlessly.

The corner of Ding Yi's mouth twitched. Although he has enough money now, who doesn't want to get more.

"What's the price of war horses in Dengzhou now?" Ding Yi asked quickly.

His unqualified horses are better than those of the Ming Dynasty.

"The market price is 20 taels, but the actual price will be around 40 taels." Someone said.

Ding Yi thought for a while, and decided to forget it: "Wait a little longer, wait for the horse to be more expensive."

"..." Everyone.

After seeing Beigou City, Zhu Wenwu followed Ding Yi to Changsheng Island.

After more than a year of construction, the Changsheng shipyard here was completed in March this year, and shipbuilding began in April. After four months, the first thousand-material warship has left the factory.

This is an imitation of the large lucky boat of the Ming Dynasty, except that one deck is omitted. The total length is 36.9 meters, the maximum width is 8.6 meters, and the draft is 2.9 meters.

The newly manufactured thousand-material warship was named Huanghe No. 1. It had 4 Francois machine guns, 12 12-pound guns, and 24 6-pound guns, making a total of 22 guns.

The whole ship has 70 gunners, 50 musketeers, 30 spear shields, 12 sailors, 162 people on board, and a maximum of 300 people.

At the beginning, the ship was mainly used for naval battles, but considering that Ding Yi often had to transport people and supplies, the other space inside was reduced and the carrying capacity was increased.

The original design was to carry a maximum load of 200 people, but suddenly it became 300 people.

This thousand-material warship is made of old wood that Ding Yi has dried for seven or eight years. The quality is very good and it can be used for many years.

But now Ding Yi's boats of [-] materials and below are basically made of new wood that has been dried in the shade for one or two years. The boat does not last long, and can be used for about three or four years.

Warships with more than a thousand materials will use old wood to increase the use time.

After conquering North Korea, he got [-] pieces of wood suitable for making large ships every year. Starting this year, Ding Yi asked North Korea to provide another [-] pieces of wood at the request of giving North Korea [-] more horses every year. Promise, five pieces of wood for a horse?Big money.But Ding Yi also has a request to let North Korea deliver the goods to Lushun itself.Li Jing thought about it, and agreed, and still felt that he was making money.

(End of this chapter)