I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 215
There were many young and middle-aged knights who escaped from the attack when the tribe was attacked, scattered and reunited, and followed the mighty team all the time.

They all know that the bigger the team, the harder it is to lead, and they feel that they may seize the opportunity to snatch their family members.

Who ever thought that Geng Zhanghua dispatched too many patrols to grasp the law.

The stalkers are constantly being discovered, followed by more patrols chasing and intercepting them.

Fortunately, Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, Peng, Liu Chuanzong, etc. all publicized loudly in Mongolian at the first time.

Informed the stragglers of Karaqin who were trapped in the encirclement, their families were not slaughtered.

If they choose to surrender, they will be sent back to the family immediately.

If they were beheaded because of their stubborn resistance, their family members would be implicated and become slaves from then on.

The vast majority of young and middle-aged people who escaped realized that they could not survive the winter. In fact, they had long since lost their fighting spirit.

When they were surrounded to persuade them to surrender, no one was found who was willing to sacrifice their lives.

Of course, Tartars don’t read the Four Books and Five Classics, and they don’t understand that “when the time is poor, we will see them, and we will see them one by one.”

When they slaughtered the weak, they were extremely vicious, and when they faced the strong, they kneeled without any psychological burden.

Therefore, dozens or even hundreds of Karaqin cavalry surrendered every day, and more and more troops returned to the west.

Looking at the heavy snowfall, Geng Zhanghua let out a long breath, as long as he stepped up the patrol for a few more hours, those who were hiding nearby to spy and those who followed secretly would have nowhere to hide!

After a day or two, the wind and snow on the prairie will erase all traces.

Even if the Jiannu and Karaqin people once again organize a coalition of tens of thousands, it will not be easy to find out the whereabouts of this brave man in time.

When Huang Yi led his men and horses to the winter camp of Hedan Bateer's department with the seized goods, the heavy snow had just begun to fall!

He was so happy at the time, he actually shouted loudly: "Auspicious snow heralds a good year!"

The end of the Ming Dynasty was the Little Ice Age, with more extreme weather, either drought or flood, or locusts blocking out the sun.

Coupled with the fact that the imperial court Wen Tian and Wu Xi, the government collapsed, and a large number of people fled and became refugees, the government was completely powerless and unable to build water conservancy projects.

Therefore, a little more rain will cause floods, and a little less will cause drought. After the drought, if there is less rain in the second year, locusts may cause disasters.

Huang Yi knew very well that the demise of Ming Dynasty was actually three parts of natural disaster and seven parts of man-made disaster, and the destructive power of man-made disaster was far greater than that of natural disaster.

A united heart can fight against natural disasters.

The territory and sphere of influence of the base area should be the territories of Zhangbei County, Shangdu County, Kangbao County, Chicheng County, and Xinghe County in later generations, and there is a wide space for development.

With the growth of strength, it is absolutely possible to take over the entire Bashang area. The total area here is as large as the two Jiangsu provinces of later generations.

The topography of the dam is hills and plains, high in the southeast and low in the northwest, densely covered with river networks and abundant in water.

There are water systems in the inner flow area of ​​the Inner Mongolia Plateau, Yongding River, Chahannaoer, Angulinao, Chaobai River and Baihe River Basin. There are many rivers and more than [-] small and medium-sized lakes.

There are also salt lakes that are two or three times saltier than sea water.

Chicheng County in later generations has the reputation of "Pearl Beyond the Great Wall" and "Water City in North Beijing".

The key issue is that the rivers and lakes here are all naturally formed and flow indiscriminately, most of which are seasonal rivers.

Although the total amount of water here is not lacking, in the natural state, it will cause the crops to dry up when it is dry and drown when it is flooded.

The focus of the work in the base area is to build water conservancy facilities according to local conditions for small watershed management, and more than [-] reservoirs of various sizes have been completed.

Huang Yi has never reclaimed fields blindly. From the beginning, he chose a basin with relatively flat terrain, thick soil and lush vegetation.

The plots close to the river are preferred. There are not many acres of fields that meet the requirements of natural conditions, and most of the fields are dependent on human labor.

This requires reasonable planning of the location of the reservoir and calculation of the number of irrigation wells.

The Han population has increased, and next year some ordinary people who are good at farming will have to settle down on the edge of the reclaimed basin.

Residential houses cannot be scattered, and the method of building forts to live together is adopted.

You can refer to the Hakka Tulou model that is conducive to defense. One village has one fort, and hundreds of people live together.

All the people are soldiers is the only way. The people in the base area know and have experienced the cruelty of the Tartars and the slaves, so they don't resist the militia drills at all.

Hundreds of people work together to guard the village castle, and more than [-]% of them can take up arms and fight.

The farthest village fort or village in the plan cannot be more than two hundred miles away from the base city. As long as you stick to it for a day or two, the base cavalry will come to rescue.

According to the arable land within a radius of [-] miles of the ground city, all the arable land has been reclaimed. Next, look for basins within a radius of [-] to [-] miles.

With such a long distance, even if there is a carriage to pick them up, it is unrealistic for farmers to live in the city and go out of the city to farm every day.

It is necessary to build some simple shacks that can accommodate 100 people to live and work in the frost-free period every two or three miles, and build a small castle that can accommodate hundreds of people for winter with a distance of more than ten miles.

Reclaiming wasteland next year will have to go hand in hand with building castles, simple shacks, reservoirs, irrigation canals, and irrigation wells.

Even in some plots, canals were built first, irrigation wells were drilled, and then reclaimed.

The purpose of doing all this is to fight against the sky, and use water conservancy facilities to fight floods and drain waterlogging, and strive to ensure income from droughts and floods.

As long as the fields are not cracked due to drought, the chances of encountering locust plagues in the following year are much smaller.

Moreover, Huang Yi will also encourage the people in the base areas to develop the breeding industry.

In fact, there is no need to encourage them, just buy eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs in large quantities at a price that the common people find profitable.

At that time, in order to save feed, ordinary people would naturally drive chickens, ducks and geese to the fields to eat insects and grass.

Huang Yi also has an idea, that is to make down jackets. At that time, duck feathers and goose feathers must be purchased in large quantities, which can increase farmers' income.

All in all, water is really important to the base!
With this heavy snowfall, the water source flowing from the Yanshan Mountains in the coming spring is enough for the reservoirs in the base area to store enough water for irrigation.

There is no shortage of irrigation water, the harvest can be guaranteed, and there is no need to worry about the basic rations in the base area.

The reclaimed fields have to be planted in rotation, such as wheat, millet, highland barley, sorghum, sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, etc. bred by Xu Guangqi's Tianjin experimental field.

Of course, there are also some corn and wheat seeds from later generations.

These are all cold-resistant crops, and they should be the varieties that farmers in Heilongjiang Province planted on their own plots.

Mrs. Zhang, He Shouye, etc. thought that what Huang Yi handed over to them was a good breed from Franji, so they served them carefully.

The rice failed to germinate, which made them extremely depressed. Fortunately, the yield of corn and wheat made their eyes shine.

(End of this chapter)