I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 366 New Chapter : Snake Swallows Elephant

The Xinghe Army consists of a small-banner regular soldier and a general banner auxiliary soldier, with a total number of more than sixty people. Even if two to three hundred thieves come, they can still defeat them.

Moreover, where the large forces of the Xinghe Army must pass, all the bandits and bandits within a radius of fifty miles have been suppressed or escaped.

How could there be any bandits who would dare to attack the Xinghe Army?

It was also because the Xinghe Army walked back and forth that the people along the way felt that the public security was gradually getting better.

With a stable environment, the Han people were able to overcome all difficulties to produce and gradually accumulate wealth.

However, the history of the late Ming Dynasty really made the people despair. In the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign, slaves entered Xuanda, besieged the Xuanfu, plundered Datong, and captured the Victory Fort.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen's reign, slaves entered Xinzhou, Dingxiang, Wutai and other states under Taiyuan Prefecture and plundered them.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen's reign, the slaves entered the capital again. After capturing Changping, they successively captured Liangxiang, Shunyi, Baodi, Dingxing, Ansu, Dacheng, Xiongxian, and Anzhou...

The eleventh year of Chongzhen, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen...

Each time, the slaves plundered a large number of people, livestock, food, gold and silver treasures from the Ming Dynasty at a very small price, and each time they returned with a full load.

Therefore, Jiannu was not a warlike warrior who would perish, but the more he fought, the stronger he became, and finally completed the snake swallowing the elephant.

Huang Yi, who understood the history of the late Ming Dynasty, had the Xinghe Army at his disposal, and operated a base area of ​​more than 100,000 square kilometers outside the border wall of Xuanfu. Jiannu could not even think of entering the customs through Xuanda.

If the Jin army enters the Gyeonggi area again, Huang Yi will definitely use the geographical advantages of the Inner and Outer Great Walls to make arrangements to close the door and beat the dogs.

As long as the Jiannu who entered the pass could be killed in the pass, and it was enough once, the Jiannu in the future would never dare to detour thousands of miles for expeditions.

The next step is to burn the war to the territory actually controlled by Hou Jin, and Jiannu will become weaker and weaker.

The benefits of soil fertilizer "fertilizer powder" have been known to the vast majority of soldiers and civilians in the base areas.

Expansion is ongoing.

As long as there is no shortage of raw materials, "fertilized field flour" can be produced regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

The team responsible for collecting raw materials has long been no longer satisfied with just working in Zhangjiakou, Xuanfu, Baoan Prefecture...

Since last spring, hundreds of dung trucks have been plying the streets and alleys of the capital.

Because of the professional feces collection team, the sanitary conditions in the capital were directly improved.

Eighteen miles northwest of the outer city of the capital, a large soil fertilizer factory has started construction.

It is not necessary to bring all the people taken in along the way to the base area. Twenty to thirty thousand people can be left to work in manure and farm in the northwest of the capital.

These are the achievements of Geng Yueru and Geng Yueling.

The two of them not only purchased land to build a fertilizer factory, but also purchased and annexed hundreds of thousands of acres of wheat fields.

Food in the north is getting more and more expensive, while land prices are falling.

The bottom line is that the slaves who entered the customs not only robbed food, livestock, gold and silver treasures, but also robbed hundreds of thousands of people.

Including those who fled and were massacred, the population of the capital area dropped sharply by two to three million, so a large amount of land was abandoned.

The Geng Yueru sisters often buy large quantities of grain at high prices, and of course they hope to produce it themselves.

In addition, I saw with my own eyes the dirty and messy outer city of the capital and the ubiquitous dung heaps...

Therefore, we invested in the construction of a soil fertilizer factory in the northwest of Jingshi City, and adopted the base farm model to reclaim more than 100,000 acres of wheat fields.

Now that winter wheat has been planted, the first harvest of summer will begin.

These more than 100,000 acres of wheat fields have all used sufficient amounts of "fertilizer powder" and improved cold- and drought-resistant varieties. The yield of two stones per mu can be expected.

With the power of Governor Xuanda, it did not cost much to annex and purchase more than 100,000 acres of wheat fields.

Because a lot of it is ownerless land, the landowners either died or were taken captive to Liaodong by slaves.

It stands to reason that Geng Yueru and Geng Yueling’s investment can be repaid in three to five years. It's a pity that the historical Gyeonggi area has never been peaceful again since the Jisi Incident.

When Jiannu came to clear grass and valleys every now and then, everything owned by the Han people, including the Han people themselves, would be robbed.

Investing in a farm in this environment is doomed to lose everything.

But Huang Yi never measured investment by losses and profits. As long as he could reduce the mortality rate of the Han people, it would be considered a success.

After listening to Geng Yueru talk about his operations in the capital, he learned that he had acquired more than 100,000 acres of wheat fields in the suburbs of Beijing in the names of his father-in-law and uncle.

Huang Yi praised the little Loli very well.

Geng Ruqi was a scholar-bureaucrat, as was Geng Zhangguang, who was a Jinshi. They all had tax-free treatment.

The military attache Huang Yi, who had the hereditary command of the guards, had to pay taxes when farming, and the tax on military fields was only much higher than that on civilian fields.

Therefore, Geng Yueru and Geng Yueling farmed in the name of their father and brother.

Since you have invested, you must ensure investment returns as much as possible.

Huang Yi made some requests to Geng Yueru.

Putting people first is still the focus.

A strong farm fortress must be repaired. The area must not be small and must be able to accommodate all the villagers.

According to the original historical process, the Jian slaves would inevitably enter the Gyeonggi area again, burn, kill and loot.

Can't tell now.

The intelligence network in the base area has been established, and the news of large-scale invasion by Jiannu cannot be ignored.

Advance warning is easy to do.

As long as the villagers are given two hours, they can hide in the farm and fort to participate in the defense.

If the warning is given one day in advance, the villagers will have enough time to clean up the affairs of the guy outside the farm castle.

If the slaves still entered the customs after the autumn, they would not be able to grab the food and property of the villagers.

The actual situation is even better. In theory, Huang Yi should be able to know about the large-scale invasion of Jiannu at least half a month in advance.

After all, the Inner Great Wall and the Outer Great Wall have many passes and mountains, and Jizhen, Santunying, and Zunhua are all heavily garrisoned.

The Hou Jin army, which wanted to avoid attacking fortresses and causing too many casualties, had to go around and fight to the fort at Shibali Farm northwest of the capital for at least half a month.

Within half a month, the Xinghe Army cavalry had arrived long ago, and it was not yet certain who would snatch whom!

This is not because Huang Yi is arrogant, but because he has confidence in the Xinghe Army, which has entered the stage of firearms and has begun to cooperate with cavalry, infantry, and artillery.

In fact, there is already one in the Farm Village in the northwest of the capital.

That was when I participated in the fight against the bandits the year before last, and along the way, I wiped out Li Jin's gang who had conquered three counties during the rebellion.

Then he worked with Chen Mengji, the magistrate of Nao County, to acquire tens of thousands of acres of unclaimed land.

After nearly two years of development, not only the three squads of government officials in the three counties were auxiliary soldiers of the Xinghe Army, but each county also trained 500 township warriors.

Originally, there were not many regular soldiers left. Under the leadership of town governors and cultural teachers, they selected young adults to serve as village heroes, selected auxiliary soldiers from among the village braves, and then selected regular soldiers from the auxiliary soldiers.

The total number of regular soldiers now has reached 360, but the proportion of cavalry is not high, only 60.

If there are rogue bandits coming to cause trouble, the Xinghe Army can organize two thousand troops to take the initiative.

If there are too many rogue bandits and we have to choose to defend on the spot, we can organize 80,000 men.

Instead of all 80,000 people guarding the farm fort, they guarded three county towns plus the farm fort.

(End of this chapter)