I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 149 Leave Jian Nu as a Fertile Land
Chapter 148

Cheng Shijie's requirements for the arsenal are not too high. Even if he can't produce a bolt-action rifle, he must at least produce a breech-loading rifle.

The principles and templates have actually appeared in southern Liaoning.Now whether it is the Thunderbolt or the Franc machine artillery, they are all breech-loading smoothbore types. It is meaningless to deliberately pursue the range of this kind of artillery and firecrackers, because when the shells are fired, they do not pass through the barrel or the rifling of the barrel. The rotational force, shells and bullets are actually not accurate.

The elite shooting range of the Thunderbolt is only about 150 steps, beyond 150 steps to [-] steps, the hit rate of the first shot is only less than [-]%, and the accuracy is less than [-]% after [-] steps.Two hundred paces away, where you hit depends on where the bullet is willing to go.

Fortunately, what Thunderclap requires is not accuracy, but a rough range, forming a dense rain of bullets, and adopting covering shots against the enemy.

The same is true for the Frangler artillery, but the stability is far better than that of the Thunderbolt, but 450 steps is already the limit. Six or seven hundred steps have such a range, but luck is required.The artillery position of Kong Youde's rebel army was hit by three rapid-fire rounds in the first round. This is not a normal level, and it can be said that it is mostly luck.

Let Yuan Shiliang launch a second round of bombardment at the same distance. Yuan Shiliang probably cannot do it in all likelihood. In this case, a complete change of equipment is the most wasteful situation.

Therefore, the technical reason has not been resolved. The current Ning Naval Artillery Unit has less than 2000 people, and the total number of artillery equipped is less than 240. As for the firecrackers, the three capitals have only 1. There are a large number of pikemen, sword and shield soldiers and crossbowmen.

When it comes to designing firearms, it’s actually not that complicated. It’s just a matter of concept change. The current objective technical level is already very good. Cheng Shijie just introduced the development trend of future pistols and artillery to the R&D craftsmen of the Gun Bureau. Then the specific design is handed over to professionals. I believe that the craftsmen of the Gun Bureau can give Cheng Shijie a satisfactory answer.

"The new sample gun... actually already exists, but..."

"With a new gun, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Cheng Shijie got up immediately and said, "Go and have a look!"

"Now the new gun has not been finalized, it is just a prototype gun. There are too many problems, the failure rate is too high, and the gun bureau is still improving. The craftsman in charge of developing this gun originally wanted to report to the commander, but... the autumn harvest, the commander is too busy !"

Cheng Shijie smiled wryly and said, "What does the autumn harvest have to do with me? I didn't go to the field to harvest potatoes, nor did I store the autumn grain. Now during the autumn harvest, I'm the only one idle!"

"Actually, it's because there is not enough safety guarantee, otherwise they will definitely invite the commander-in-chief to participate in the new gun experiment!"

With the successful example of Su Huaicai, all craftsmen are actually working hard and preparing to work hard. Once successful, not to mention earning a living, they can even leave an iron rice bowl for future generations.

"How's the artillery going?"

"Slow progress!"

Zhou Yandong was embarrassed to say that Cheng Shijie had posed a big problem for the craftsmen, because the artillery he needed not only had to have a long range, but also had to be powerful enough and light enough to be able to do it.

These requirements stumped the craftsmen.

For a more powerful cannon, the barrel of the cannon must be thicker and longer. In this way, the barrel of the cannon will definitely be thicker. If the wall of the cannon is thinner, there will not be enough chamber pressure. The barrel is made thin.

Cheng Shijie knew the difficulty of howitzers or cannons of later generations, so he took the next step and prepared to develop and equip mortars. Compared with traditional artillery, mortars have many advantages. The main advantages are simple structure, convenient operation, and are very suitable for education. Not tall Ning navy soldiers.

In addition, for a long period of time, the enemy of the Ning Navy was only Jiannu, who moved quickly against Jiannu cavalry, and the terrain in Liaodong was also suitable for Jiannu cavalry to move in a large range. Traditional artillery, even the lightest Frang machine Artillery doesn't move as fast as mortars.

The movement of mortars is also more convenient than traditional artillery. It is very difficult for traditional artillery to move in places without roads in Liaodong, so it is difficult to accompany troops in action. As long as the caliber is not too large, mortars can do it, and they can move quickly with infantry , suitable for a variety of complex terrains, it can be mounted and hit at any time, and it can run as soon as it is hit.

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The yamen of the Liaodong economic strategy appeasement envoy, the Ning Naval Commander's Mansion, the backyard, and Nuangeli.

Gao Qiqian is hugging Xiao Jiaxin who is already babbling.Xiao Jiaxin is chubby now, she reached out and pulled Gao Qiqian's fake beard with all her strength, and Jiaxin pulled the beard all over her face to pieces.

Gao Qiqian was not angry, but very happy.

From time to time, she lures Jiaxin with candies and calls her grandpa.

Xiao Jiaxin doesn't like this.

Ever since Cheng Shijie brought Yang Yuniang and Xiao Jiaxin back to Liuji Inn, and later Cheng's Mansion in Dengzhou City, including now, Xiao Jiaxin has been living with Cheng Shijie.

Now Yang Yuniang is also busy with banking and account affairs, and has little time to take care of Xiao Jiaxin. Xiao Jiaxin is not Yang Yunniang's biological daughter, she is just a prop used by Yang Yunniang.

In order to take care of Xiao Jiaxin's life, Cheng Shijie specially hired a nanny to take care of Xiao Jiaxin. Her identity became so confused. In the eyes of others, Xiao Jiaxin was Cheng Jiaxin, just like Cheng Anning and Cheng Anjing. Cheng Shijie's adopted daughter.

In less than a month, Gao Qi had made more than 60 taels of silver by selling sweet potatoes and potatoes with Cheng Shijie.

The money was earned cleanly, even if it was to sue the emperor for face, Gao Qiqian would be confident, this is the money he earned by his ability, so he can use it with peace of mind.

However, I don't know when, the story of "Jiannu's bones can be used to fertilize the land" spread in southern Liaoning.At the beginning, it was only spread in the streets and alleys, and soon spread to every corner of southern Liaoning, and then spread to the rear like a plague, and spread throughout the entire southern Liaoning in a blink of an eye.

The high dive is also curious and very worried.Because he sold Cheng Shijie's high-yielding crop seeds to almost all the Huangzhuang managers, especially those Huangzhuang managers, who saw the yield of these crops with their own eyes, and generously donated their money to buy the seeds of the crops.

Gao Qiqian earned more than 30 taels from selling sweet potatoes, and more than 20 taels from selling potatoes and corn. In less than a month, he made a net profit of more than [-] taels.

Now he is more worried about one thing. If these seeds are really like the rumors, they need Jianu's bone meal to grow well and have a high yield. This will cause a big problem.

The steward of Huangzhuang is not capable of obtaining the bones of Jiannu. If he sells crop seeds to the steward of Huangzhuang and officials, and if the production is reduced because there is no bone meal of Jiannu, Gao Qiqian will be outraged.

He is not afraid of offending a few insignificant managers of the Huangzhuang, nor is he afraid of offending a few officials. If the eunuchs of the inner court are against him, he will not be able to sit down as a part-time supervisor of the Ning Navy.

"Eunuch, why are you here?"

When Cheng Shijie came back, he was a little tired. He wanted to take a bath to relieve his fatigue, so he hid here, so he could only talk to him patiently.

Gao Qiqian handed Jiaxin in his hand to the nurse next to him, and the nurse picked up Jiaxin and was about to leave, but Xiao Jiaxin watched Cheng Shijie come in, stretched out his small hand, and shouted at Cheng Shijie: "Ah... ah!"

Seeing that Xiao Jiaxin wanted Cheng Shijie to hug him, Cheng Shijie smiled slightly: "Come on, give me a hug!"

Cheng Shijie reached out and hugged Xiao Jiaxin.

Xiao Jiaxin showed a sweet smile towards Cheng Shijie, she stretched out her small hand, showing Cheng Shijie the spoils in her hands.

The nanny knew that Cheng Shijie and Gao Qiqian were going to discuss important matters, and wanted to coax Xiao Jiaxin to leave the Nuan Pavilion.

Waiting for the nanny to leave the Nuan Pavilion with Xiao Jiaxin in her arms,

"Cheng Jinglue? Did you really grind Jiannu's bones into powder and sprinkle them on the ground?"

It is said that the rumors are false, and Gao Qiqian has his own judgment. Not all the cultivated land in southern Liaoning is high-yield. Some lands produce sweet potatoes and potatoes, which are only [-] to [-] catties, although this product is not low. Yes, there is an obvious gap with the field where bone meal is used. This is only the difference in the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes, and there is also a gap in traditional food crops.

"true or false?"

Cheng Shijie looked at Gao Qiqian and said, "Does Eunuch Gao think this is true?"

"Our family also hopes it is true, but the rumors outside have their noses and eyes, and our family doesn't know who to believe!"

This is actually a blind spot of knowledge. Human bones contain a lot of phosphorus, calcium, and organic salts, which are the main elements of fertilizers. Ning Haijun’s military fields were indeed sprinkled with bone meal. Most of these bone meals are not human bones, but The bones of cattle and sheep purchased from Jiannu were originally garbage that Jiannu didn't need.

However, Ning Haijun bought it at a price of two to three renminbi or even five renminbi per catty. Since then, Jiannu felt that he could make money, so he took the initiative to collect the previously discarded bones and hand them over to Ning Haijun's merchants to exchange for salt and iron. pot.

A bag of two catties of salt can be equivalent to a hundred catties of bones. A herdsman can collect hundreds or thousands of catties at will. In this way, these bones are taken to southern Liaoning, where they are ground into powder by stone mills and used as fertilizer. Scatter it in every field.

"Elder-in-law, think about it. There are more than 500 million mu of land in southern Liaoning, of which more than 300 million mu have been sprinkled with bone meal. How much bone meal is needed?"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said, "Where did Cheng find so many Jiannu bones for bone meal?"

Gao Qiqian's voice became high-pitched: "More than 300 million acres, if you spread one or two catties per mu, it would only cost [-] to [-] to [-] catties, but our family heard that you made seven to eight thousand carts of bone meal!"

"Eunuch, whether you believe it or not, this is actually a coincidence!"

Cheng Shijie did buy 600 million jin of bone meal and 600 million jin of dried cow dung, because these bones are actually cheaper than cow dung.Cow dung was what Jiannu needed, and they also used cow dung to boil water for cooking, and even to burn meat.Later, I found out that bones were cheap, so I bought a lot of bones.

In addition, many cattle and sheep froze to death in Jiannu last winter. These froze-to-death cattle and sheep had to be slaughtered on the spot, their bones removed, and made into beef jerky or mutton jerky.

"The potatoes and sweet potatoes are grown in the pass, and the output..."

"The yield may not be so high, but it will definitely not be less than two thousand catties per mu. If it is a good land, it is not a big problem to harvest three or four thousand catties!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "The key is to use the right planting method and timely drainage. Don't worry, once these sweet potatoes and potatoes are planted, there will be a bumper harvest next year, and there will be countless living people. At that time, my father-in-law will become a Buddha! "

"Our family doesn't want Wanjia to become a Buddha, I'm afraid it's just... causing complaints!"

At first, Gao Qiqian looked down on Cheng Shijie, even if Cheng Shijie had the great victory in Haizhou, but with the harvest in southern Liaoning, Gao Qiqian knew that both the court and himself had lost control of Cheng Shijie. .

Even though Gao Qiqian has never really fought in a war, he can still tell whether he can fight an army. He has seen the Guanning Army's army, including the Tianxiong Army in Daming Mansion. He has also seen it.

These troops are not enough to look at in front of Cheng Shigening's navy.

With the harvest of grain in southern Liaoning, Cheng Shijie's status in the hearts of all soldiers and civilians in southern Liaoning has risen, especially this rumor, which directly sent Cheng Shijie to the altar.

Gao Qiqian did not continue to ask, but got up to leave.

"Godfather!"

When Gao Qiqian left Cheng's mansion, he boarded the four-wheeled carriage, and one of his godson Wang Muzhi said, "I'm afraid Cheng Jinglue didn't tell the truth to his godfather!"

"Do truths and lies matter?"

Gao Qiqian sighed.

"Is it important?"

Wang Muzhi was stunned, not knowing how to answer Gao Qiqian's words.

"We're going to bleed a lot this time!"

Gao Qiqian took advantage of the good harvest in southern Liaoning and earned more than 60 taels of silver. The money was given to him by Cheng Shijie in disguise, and it was also the most serious large-scale bribery by Cheng Shijie these few times.

Gao Qiqian originally thought he could eat so much money by himself, but now he can't, he can only distribute part of the money, the palm seal of the twelve supervisors, the eunuchs guarding Nanjing and the eunuchs in various places need to give some benefits.

It would be nice to keep half of it for myself, but half is not a lot.

……

Gao Qiqian was quick to react. In fact, the rumor that Jiannu's bones could be fertilized spread more and more widely, and had already spread to Ning Haijun's army.

"Is this true or false?"

The current No. [-] wealthy family in southern Liaoning is not Shen Mingyu of Ning Haijun, nor Zhang Yu, but Zhou Yandong and his son. Although their father and son are not as good as Xie Jingze and his son, they belong to the Liaodong Management Committee, but the problem is, Zhou Ning has been promoted to the deputy commander of the Ning Navy Guards.

Although this level is lower than Shen Mingyu's and Changyu's, the problem is that his elder brother, because of his meritorious service in blackmailing Zu Dashou, has changed from guarding Ganquan Town to becoming the deputy commander of the garrison capital.

This is even more rare. The three fathers and sons have all entered the core positions of the Ning Navy.

"You mean to say that Jiannu's bones can really fertilize the land?"

"Is it true, don't you know how to judge?"

While eating, Zhou An said to his father-in-law Kang Shitou: "Yue Weng, you have planted land all your life, have you ever seen someone's land with such a high yield?"

"It's true. There is no bone meal in our town. Although we have sprinkled mud and plant ash on the ground, the yield is only two thousand eight or nine hundred catties, and the wheat is only a little over three stones!"

"It's true. I've been farming for half my life, and I've never heard of such a high yield!"

"Jiannu's bones can fertilize the land, no wonder it is so!"

Kang Shitou smacked his lips and said, "I've never seen it, nor heard of it!"

Kang Shitou, Zhou An's father-in-law, arrived in southern Liaoning at the end of the fourth year of Chongzhen. As a member of the military, he established a separate household.Although it is said that the military family has welfare benefits, the problem is that the military family will not divide the land. The land planted by Kang Shitou is actually the land allocated by Zhou An, the deputy commander, and Zhou An is planted by Zhou Yandong.

But the problem is that although the yield of the 350 mu of land planted in Kangshitou is slightly higher than that of the land in Shandong, it is only a little over two shi, which is more than a shi less than the wheat of the Tuntian Army, and the yield is nearly two hundred catties.

Although the output of sweet potatoes and potatoes is not low, the problem is that they are only a little over two thousand catties, which is much lower than the output of Ning Haijun's fields.

"Could it be that Jiannu's bones are really fat?"

There are many fields that have not been sprinkled with bone meal, and the yield gap is obvious.

Kang Shitou said hesitantly, "You are an officer, can you..."

"what?"

"If there is a chance, bring some Jiannu corpses to the family!"

"Yue Weng, you are not afraid of corpses..."

"What's so scary about corpses, I'm more afraid of starvation!"

Kang Shitou said: "If we get hundreds of corpses in our family, grind these bones into powder, and sprinkle them on the field, our fields can collect hundreds of stones more!"

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In the field near the salt field post station in the southwest of Jinzhou Acropolis, more than [-] former bandit reform-through-labour prisoners are working hard to harvest corn.

After nearly a year of labor reform, the effect of the reform is not bad. The loose nature of these bandits has been worn down. They are the former best friends across a field ridge. The buddies kept talking to them, but they didn't answer much. They just focused on doing their own work, and at most they showed a friendly smile to each other when they straightened up to take a rest.

"Rest, come and eat!"

Due to the most stressful time of the autumn harvest, these labor reform prisoners also will not go back to eat. All the autumn harvest workers are in the fields, temporarily building stoves to solve the problem of eating.

Because of the autumn harvest, even if they are reform-through-labor prisoners, the food is much better. Stewed porridge with sweet potatoes and pumpkins, and braised pork with potatoes. Although there are more potatoes and less meat, the problem is that they can now eat big fat meat every now and then. Mouth full of oil.

Mao Shiwan, the former head of the family, has no one to take care of him anymore. If he hangs around with him and starves four times in three days, he is still an ass. , Only need to hand over [-]%, [-]% goes to their hundred households, and the hundred households will also settle the grain according to how much each person works.

Well now, as reform-through-labour prisoners, they only have the right to eat, but not the right to distribute and enjoy the fruits of labor. These former bandits hate Mao Shiwan who coerced them into being bandits.

If it weren't for the fact that the management was too strict and people were not allowed to kill at will, even if Mao Shiwan had a hundred lives, it would not be enough to kill him.

"Guo Tou, I heard that Jiannu's bones can increase food production?"

"Yeah, I've heard about that too!"

"I don't know, do the previous regulations still count?"

"What rules?"

"Chop off the head of a slave, and reduce your sentence by five years!"

"Forget it, it's clearly written in black and white, and Marshal Cheng spit on a nail, who dares to say it doesn't count?"

"Guo Tou, are you guys doing okay these days?"

"Yes, last night, the working committee also said that we are a hundred households!"

"Guo Tou, can we discuss it?"

"what?"

"Respond to the above, let us brothers go to the north!"

"To the north?"

"Yup!"

"You are not afraid of encountering Jiannu!"

"Hey...I wish I could meet Jiannu!"

A scarred face said with a smirk: "My old Zhang still has eight years in prison. If I can feed the whole family by myself, I can work here for ten years. In 20 years, my old Zhang will definitely have no bullshit. It's just my child." Mother, brought my son-in-law and my old lady to southern Liaoning, looking forward to my return home every day."

Speaking of this, there was a trace of tenderness in the eyes of the scar face, and he continued: "I have made up my mind, I, Lao Zhang, can only fight for it all my life, if I am lucky, I can cut off two Jiannu's heads, and I will become prosperous." Now, you can regain your freedom immediately, and as Marshal Cheng’s farmer, Marshal Cheng has a kind heart and only charges us [-]% of the rent, but our production is high here, even if the income is [-]%, the whole family can eat and drink without worrying about it.”

"That's right, I also have 11 years in prison, it's the most cost-effective way to chop off three slave heads!"

"You are not afraid of death..."

"Dead, dead is the ball!"

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The soldiers of the Ning Navy now know that the bones of Jiannu can increase food production, and their family members also send letters to them, or send letters directly, telling them that when fighting, find a way to get a few corpses back. Home.

Because the corpses of Jiannu can increase food production.

Located outside Fuzhou Fort, a group of Ning Navy soldiers trained for twenty miles of armed cross-country, and the disbanded soldiers were resting on the side of the road.

These Ning Haijun soldiers were talking to their general manager: "General Manager Zheng, what do you say?"

"What can I say above, train with peace of mind, and the above will issue combat missions!"

"Why can't you make it clear at the top, even if our bureau can be a death squad, there are more than 700 people in our bureau, and there is not a single coward. When Jiannu comes, our brothers will join the first wave!"

Since Jin Yiwei's Qin Buhui entered Fuzhou, he found that his three views have become a bit fragmented.

Because whether it is Ning Navy soldiers or garrison soldiers, they are all thinking about the same thing, how to kill Jiannu, and how to keep Jiannu as a fertile land.

Some proposed to set up traps, and some proposed to form a death squad. Almost every barracks had young people who came to sign up to join the army to kill Jian slaves.

Qin Buhui felt that his resources were not enough.

Almost all the troops of the Ming Dynasty saw that Jiannu was timid before fighting, but Ning Haijun was like a bunch of lunatics who wanted to let Jiannu stay on the fertile land.

Is Jiannu so easy to kill?

Even if the most elite troops of Ming Dynasty can fight Jiannu three to one, there are not many Jiannu left.

Even if it was a match of ten to one, Jian Nu couldn't afford it.

(End of this chapter)