The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 31
"It is difficult for people to walk up. If you set up a stockade on a steep place, do you think it will be difficult to attack?"

Li Rujing followed the direction pointed by his godfather and saw a high ground.

"But there is no water there. If it is blocked by someone and there is no water for a long time, wouldn't it be thirsty to death?"

"Hahaha."

Tang Qing'an smiled happily.

"So, we still need to find a place with a water source, which is not easy to be controlled by the enemy."

Li Rujing understands what godfather said.

"However, if the enemy is powerful and besieged for many years, is there not enough food?"

"Then prepare more food."

Tang Qing'an heard Li Rujing's reply, followed his reply, and continued to ask questions according to his train of thought.

"This is also a way, but food is hard to come by. One person eats a ration of one liter of rice a day, ten people get one bucket of rice, and one hundred people get one stone of rice. It takes one stone of grain to get less than seven buckets of rice. Even for a month, the grain needed It's a valley of forty or fifty stones"

Tang Qing'an settled accounts with Li Rujing.

Li Rujing's head got dizzy when he heard it, his godfather was so good at mental arithmetic, he couldn't react at all.

"If there are 300 people, it will be nearly 150 shigu, 450 people will be [-] shi, if you keep it for two months, it will be [-] shi, and for three months, it will be [-] shi."

"Even if there are 300 people, they will be guarded for three months. Calculated on the basis of 450 shigu, they will be transported by civilian husbands. At least one hundred carts will be needed. A cart needs a mule, and civilian husbands will need 200 people, and officers and soldiers will be escorted..."

Li Rujing knew that he couldn't figure it out, so he listened carefully to his godfather's conclusion.

"Food is an important material, and it will only be stored in a safe place in the rear. Even recently, after a few months of travel, people will eat and chew off horses, and the grain, grass and rations will need about three hundred and forty shi."

"This only counts the rations of humans and animals, not the food."

Li Rujing was dumbfounded when he heard that, how much land tax would he have to collect for nearly [-] shi of grain.

"The land tax collected by the three Donghai Forts can supply the rations here for three months. If it is supplied for one year, it will not be enough for the entire former village.

This does not include the soldiers' monthly money, equipment expenses, and so on. "

"Jing'er, so even if there are three months of food reserves here, what will you do if the enemy besieges you for three months?"

"Godfather, I don't know." Li Rujing answered honestly.

"The isolated village is difficult to defend, so it is necessary to respond from left to right, that is, it can involve the enemy's offensive, and it can also look for opportunities to destroy the enemy's food road.

The former protected the stockade, while the latter made it impossible for the enemy to persist for three months. "

Tang Qing'an began to settle accounts with Li Rujing again.

"Surrounded by ten times, plus the dangerous place here, the enemy must have at least 3000 people to pose a threat. If the enemy goes deep here, the damage of transporting food will be doubled?

After three months of siege, nearly ten thousand stone of food and grass, his logistics pressure is far greater than that of the defender, right? "

Seeing that Li Rujing had no doubts, Tang Qing'an stopped talking in depth and began to assign homework.

"You think about what I said just now, these few days, and tell me what insights you have in the end, and we will discuss whether it is right or wrong."

Tang Qing'an gave a serious warning at the end.

"Jing'er, remember that water is impermanent, soldiers are impermanent, people are impermanent, and things are irregular. What you just said, you must not frame yourself and fall into a dead end."

"For example, feed on the enemy and use war to support the war. The enemy's logistics may be greatly reduced. Similarly, if there is not much food left in the countryside, how many soldiers do we need to disperse, and how far to plunder? Will it not be worth the loss in the end?"

"For another example, whether the soldiers guarding the village have military spirit or not is just like your second uncle's philosophy. He believes that the situation is good but not dangerous. The military spirit is far more important than the terrain."

"Your second uncle is quite right. If the soldiers guarding the village lose their morale and the enemy can break through immediately, then no amount of strategy will be of use."

"And what if the soldiers have no morale?"

Tang Qing'an couldn't help but talk too much. Seeing Li Rujing's eyes started to look blank, he restrained his desire and said with a smile.

"Don't be in a hurry, let alone think about everything thoroughly. Nothing can be done overnight. If you have any doubts, write them down first, and we, father and son, will analyze them later."

Li Rujing silently wrote down what his godfather said, thinking while driving the mule cart.

Teaching should be done step by step.

The most important thing is to arouse the child's interest. What Tang Qing'an just said and let Li Rujing realize that it is not the ultimate goal.

He was going to teach Li Rujing how to count.

Li Rujing is very smart, and he will not have any difficulty in learning arithmetic.

A mediocre teacher will follow the script.

Not myself.

I believe that with this story combined with reality, after waiting for Li Rujing to digest it for a few days, and then mentioning the importance of mathematics to him, the final result will be a matter of course.

All the fields at the foot of the mountain belong to Rongguo Mansion, including Xiaoheishan.

The deer, roe deer, bear's paws and other mountain treasures sent to the two prefectures every year are all obtained from the two mountains.Zhuangtou, who manages Rongguo Mansion, is uncle's clan brother.

Speaking of which, they are also relatives of their own family, but they have already been divided into rooms and have five clothes.

Xiaoheishan is between Zhenyuan Fort and Daheishan, so Tang Qing'an deliberately passed by here for the same purpose as going to Beizhen, to see if he could find any opportunities.

When they arrived at a Zhuangzi, when the people in the village saw outsiders, they took a good look at Tang Qing'an, but Tang Qing'an was secretly on guard.

There are knives in the mule cart, just under the cloth bag, which can be drawn out at any time.

This era is not the future.

Traveling is risky.

Just like Li Zicheng, who took a few soldiers to inspect the terrain and was killed by more than a dozen local militiamen. He was really useless and worthless.

"I'm a relative of the Wu family. My name is Tang Qing'an, and I'm from a hundred households in Guangning."

Tang Qing'an took the initiative to introduce. After hearing this sentence, the expressions of the villagers who surrounded him changed, and the atmosphere was no longer as dull as before.

Someone ran out, Tang Qing'an took the initiative to talk to them, and after waiting for a while, learned that Wu's family had relatives, more and more villagers came to watch curiously.

Some pointed at Tang Qing'an and the other two on the earthen platform not far away, and finally a group of people came, and the crowd made way.

"You are Tang Qing'an?"

Wu Jinxiao's nephew, thanks to the care of the master of Ningguo Mansion, established a hundred households in Guangning. When the two places worshiped the ancestral hall together during the Chinese New Year, Wu Jinxiao showed off at the dinner table.

"Exactly, what is your Excellency?"

After the man confirmed it, he showed a smiling face and said, "In terms of seniority, I am also your cousin. My name is Wu Quande."

Tang Qing'an knew that the housekeeper of Zhuangzi who managed the Rongguo Mansion was also from the Wu family. In the original text, Jia Zhen later complained that Zhuangzi's income was low.

Wu Jinxiao explained to Jia Zhen that his brother managed the eight villages in that mansion.

"It takes a day to go to your uncle's house, stay here and don't leave, we will have dinner at home overnight, and we will be on our way early tomorrow morning. My father is going to Zhenyuan, and he will come back before dark to meet the elders."

The front is getting more and more remote and there is no post station. Even if there is an inn in the wilderness, people who are not familiar with the place dare not rush to live there.

Seeing that the other party was very enthusiastic, Tang Qing'an originally wanted to know more about the situation here, so he didn't shirk and stayed.

(End of this chapter)