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

Chapter 297
Chapter 296

If you want to make a fortune in Liaodong, what is the best shortcut?The answer may be various. You can get rich if you cultivate the land well, you can get rich if you do the work well, and you can get rich if you win the war.

In Liaodong, you can make a fortune by doing everything to the extreme. There is only one way for Ning Haijun to make a fortune, and that is to fight. The problem is that Liaodong has no wars to fight in the past few years.If it is other places in Ming Dynasty, even if the world is peaceful and there is no large-scale war, you can still fight bandits.

You know, the Ning Navy is a unit that started out by suppressing bandits. In Liaodong, in the area controlled by the Ning Navy, the bandits, let alone survived, started training from the recruiting stage, and the first battle was to suppress bandits.

Banditry in Liaodong is not a good job. In the assessment between troops, bandits are used for training, and in the evaluation between troops, bandits are also used for training. In Liaodong now, bandits have disappeared.

Therefore, it is more difficult for Ning Navy officers and men to make a fortune than to be struck by lightning.

After receiving the militia's discovery of the Jiannu cavalry, the Liaoyang Defense Division was dispatched, the Cavalry Dusi was dispatched, and the Liaoyang Dusi was also dispatched.

A Jian slave was divided into Shikuda Hasu and Shun Wang. Looking at the wide concrete road in Liaoyang, there are rows of buildings rising from the ground, factories, and more importantly, crops all over the ground.

At the end of June, a world of flowers and wheat waves in Liaodong, the long wheat ears of hundreds of thousands of mu wheat, the long wheat ears are covered with large and full fruits. Due to irrigation power, sufficient fertilizer, coupled with a lot of pesticides such as poisonous fish vine powder, pesticide powder, thick fruit rock bean powder, etc. Well, the average yield per mu is no longer a dream, and the endless turbulent wheat waves make people feel as if dreaming.

Although Cheng Shijie produced a lot of high-yield food crops, he planted a large number of potatoes and sweet potatoes when the problem of food and clothing could not be solved. However, as the problem of food and clothing was solved in Liaodong, especially the potatoes were abundant, but they could not be sold at a high price, and it was difficult to store them.

Given the choice, they still prefer wheat.The current wheat is in the jointing stage, and it is green, like green waves.

Dahasu Heshun looked at the town in the distance, drooling, he saw flocks of sheep, flocks of cows, and panic-stricken common people, he was too familiar with this scene.

Dahasu Heshun had never fought against Ning Haijun. As a slave-building veteran, his impression of the Ming army still remained before the Battle of Daling River.It was during the Battle of Daling River that this old man bravely rushed to Daling River City, and then was doused with golden juice by the defenders of Daling River City.

You must know that although the name of the golden juice sounds good, it is actually made of oil, feces, and arsenic. Dahasu Heshun was severely burned at that time.

After suffering for nearly a year, the strong man who weighed more than 180 catties turned into a skinny man who weighed over [-] catties, and finally healed from his injuries. During the recovery period, Jiannu suffered a rare defeat.Unfortunately, he did not participate in all these battles.

Dahasu Heshun looked at the fireworks in the distance and the panic-stricken people in Liaodong, and his first reaction was that they got rich.

Dahasu Heshun looked at the sentry cavalry beside him and shouted: "Hurry up and report to the master, let the master bring the main force and eat this fat sheep! You must act quickly, if you let the other flags know, they will definitely jump up and take a big portion!"

In less than four years, Liaoyang has changed a lot. This is the second time Dahasu Heshun came to Liaoyang. When Dahasu Heshun let his war horse run to the wheat field to eat wheat seedlings, a large group of people flocked from a distance.

These common people have more or less received a little training. Although they are in a hurry, they still line up consciously. It really looks like an army when they march into the room together.In a blink of an eye, all the main roads were filled with crowds. When they got closer, Dahasu Heshun was horrified to see that these farmers basically had a crossbow or a compound bow, a dog-leg scimitar on their waist, and some of them were holding spears and shields.

These farmers came out of the village, from the farmland, and even from the mountains, and gathered here in a stream of people, rushing forward with the momentum that they would trample you to death, which made Dahasu Heshun's heart skip a beat.

The black muzzles of the guns, and the extremely sharp triangular crossbow arrows were pointed at them densely, making them feel a chill all over their bodies, and they wanted to cry without tears!

Dahasu Heshun also had a bitter expression on his face: "Aren't we just a sentinel cavalry with about fifty men? Why are you putting on such an exaggerated crossbow array?"

No matter how arrogant they are, they have to admit that with their small number of people, nine out of ten who charge forward will be shot into hedgehogs by those hundreds of thousands of crossbows, and the last one will be shot into sea urchins.But now they are very close to the Ming army, and there is no time to retreat, what should we do? .

"Kill Jianu..."

These Ming people held crossbows and aimed at them. At this time, the crowd was still increasing. As the slogan of killing Jiannu became louder and louder, more and more people rushed over.

"withdraw!"

Dahasu Heshun immediately realized that there must be a retreat. They couldn't afford to provoke these people, but before his words fell, someone in the crowd shouted: "Jiannu wants to run away, shoot them dead..."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

"Deng deng deng deng dang..."

These people were very nervous, they subconsciously pulled the trigger and started shooting.The metallic trembling sound shook everyone's heartstrings. Hundreds of one-foot-long crossbow arrows burst out. Hundreds of thousands of birdcracks, matchlocks, revolvers, and even bows and arrows shot at the forty or fifty cavalry slaves.

In just a few breaths, the forty or fifty Jiannu seemed to be tripped hard by a horse rope, and they rolled into a ball with their horses.After the two rounds of shooting, there was no one on the horse, and the third round of crossbow arrows shot into the air.

Dahasu Heshun was hit by an arrow in his left shoulder, and the crossbow arrow pierced through the shoulder blade and came out from behind, splashing blood, he fell off the horse's back and was almost trampled to death by the horse.

His mind was blank, and the crossbow arrows flashing with faint cold light came through the air. The armor of Jiannu warriors was like paper in front of the high-speed flying triangular arrowheads. Wherever they shot, whoever shot them would die. Those brothers who were born and died with him wailed in pain and unwillingness, and fell down together with their beloved horses...

Before they even had time to shoot an arrow, let alone display their extraordinary martial arts skills, they were shot into hedgehogs.

However, the over-stretched militia continued to shoot at these slaves. In fact, in the first round of shooting, all these slaves, including Dahasu Heshun, were shot over. In the second and third rounds, they shot all the air.

There are currently two to three thousand militiamen on the ground, and at least two-thirds of the two three thousand people, that is, more than 3000 people, are armed with long-range weapons such as crossbows, firecrackers, and revolvers.In a short period of half a stick of incense, these militiamen fired at least seven or eight thousand crossbow arrows, and more than 3000 rounds of guns or bullets.

This shooting intensity is three or four times higher than that of the thousands of regular troops of Ming Dynasty.You must know that many soldiers of the Ming army can't shoot a few crossbow bolts a year, and the firecrackers even seldom fire a few times a year. After all, crossbows and firecrackers are consumables, and firing once is worth one time.

Even if it is these, there are still some hundreds of households in the farmland who asked cautiously: "Have they all been shot down?"

"A few more rounds if not!"

"Didn't you say that Jiannu is very powerful?"

"Why are they easier to fight than bandits?"

Dahasu Heshun can understand Chinese. He almost cried when he heard this. When did the Ming army become so brutal?
Dahasu Heshun didn't know that what they met was not Ming's army, but the militia, even the Liaodong militia, which was much stronger than the guards in the two capitals and thirteen provinces. At least the militia trained twice a year, spring and autumn, and each training lasted half a month.

Dahasu Heshun struggled, his body was covered in blood, and there were a few crossbow bolts stuck in his body. It was almost a reflex, and the militiamen opened fire on Dahasu Heshun again.

After a shower of arrows, Dahasu Heshun almost had no place to shoot again and again, one crossbow bolt next to another, more densely inserted than the spines of a hedgehog.

When a chief of the Ning Naval Defense Department arrived at the scene, he yelled at the militiamen: "You are not mistaken, there are four or fifty people on the other side, and you actually fired six or seven rounds at them with more than 50 crossbows..."

Mr. Qian was very speechless when he saw that there were traces of grenade explosions at the scene. Ning Haijun counted military merit by the head, but the problem is that the head shot by the crossbow arrow can still be effective, but the problem is that the head shot by the firecracker cannot be counted as military merit. The forty or fifty Jiannu were only beheaded by the seventeenth rank.

"What about the rest?"

The fate of the other slaves was no better than that of Dahasu Heshun. They encountered the same number of Liaodong militiamen. When Cheng Shijie formulated the immigration regulations, he placed the immigrants who were bandits in the Central Plains and the prisoners of labor reform near the direction of slave building. If these prisoners of labor reform want to get a commutation of sentence, they can only kill the enemy.

Life in Liaodong is good, although the weather is cold, but the problem is that once winter, he will lie on the fire pit, even if the cold wind blows outside, the house is as warm as spring.Drinking small wine, eating small meat, life is not to mention moist.But this is only the treatment of the military households in Liaodong. The reform-through-labour prisoners are only guaranteed to have enough food, drink and eat meat, so don't think about it.

Therefore, these old thieves wanted to kill the enemy and make meritorious service, so as to get a reduced sentence.

Now Jiannu is crossing the river and going down the river, which makes them happier than the Chinese New Year.

……

The reason why the Hunhe River is called Hunhe River is because it is a seasonal river that often floods. Once a flood occurs, the river water will be turbid.

Since this river became the boundary river between the Ning Navy and Jiannu, the Ning Navy is also vigorously developing the south bank of the Hun River. Although the muddy water is not as majestic as the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, the problem is that this river is more than 1000 meters at its widest point and 400 meters at its narrowest point.

Ning Haijun never expected Jiannu to abide by the rules and stay on the north bank of the Hunhe River honestly. If he wanted to protect this line of defense, it would be impossible to rely solely on infantry and cavalry.

Therefore, General Ning built an inland river warship with a draft of less than three feet. This kind of warship became the equipment of the river police force.

The Fire Dragon Water is different from the Fire Dragon Water Type [-] sold to Catherine. Now they are using the Fire Dragon Water Type [-], which is a simple version of the three-stage rocket. After the first stage burns, the projectile body is separated from the second stage. After the second stage burns, the third stage starts to ignite, and then it is like a relay race.

Of course, the accuracy of this rocket is overwhelming. At a distance of 150 steps, the error is about [-] to [-] steps. If the error exceeds [-]% at [-] steps, the error will be more than [-] steps.However, the biggest advantage of this thing is that it is cheap. The main material is tinplate, which is the iron sheet for making cans. The technical threshold is extremely low. As long as there is enough explosives, it will be full.

In addition to the two-four-mounted and two-six-mounted Huolong Chushui, this one-thousand-material gunboat also has a 32mm caliber Thunderbolt.

Moreover, the method of firing the fuze was canceled and changed to the firing method of the primer. This shooting principle is infinitely close to the shooting method of the bolt-action rifle of later generations, except that the hand-cranked runner is used, and the wheel drives the hammer to fire the primer. This is more equivalent to the early model of the hand-cranked Gatling.

In all fairness, this kind of hand-cranked Thunderbolt has a fairly fast rate of fire. Theoretically, it can achieve 200 rounds per minute. In fact, it has an actual shooting capacity of more than [-] rounds.

One thousand guesses, it is No. 320. This kind of warship is definitely not worth mentioning on the sea, but it is definitely a huge monster in the inland river.

The river police patrol warship found that there was no pontoon bridge built by Jiannu on the Hunhe River, and there were only a dozen sheepskin rafts left here at Longgang Ferry. These sheepskin rafts could carry more than a dozen people, or three or four horses at a time.

Based on these sheepskin rafts alone, it can be judged that there are not many of them.

In the end, Ning Haijun captured several Jiannu captives, and the Bijiannu captives got information from their mouths. There were only more than 300 Jiannu they survived this time.

The attack of only more than 300 people can be handled by the Liaoyang Metropolitan Command and Envoy Division. After they reported the situation, they began to formulate a counterattack plan.

Cheng Shijie was in Zhenhai City at this time, and the Agricultural College in Zhenhai City had also produced results. Although the yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes was high, these two things did not conform to the eating habits of the people of Ming Dynasty.

But the problem is that after the problem of food and clothing was solved in Liaodong, the people were still used to eating traditional grains such as wheat, grain, and rice, especially millet. Although the yield was low, until after liberation, the planting area still reached 5000 million mu.

These yellow, small and plump millets have nourished generations of Chinese people.Millet can be regarded as the most drought-tolerant food crop, that is, it needs a little water when it sprouts, and after it grows up, it will not die even if it does not rain for a month. It is also resistant to barrenness, which is very worry-free.

The current problem in Ming Dynasty is drought. Chen Zilong, an agricultural expert, under the research of the agricultural experts of the Western French Party, unexpectedly cultivated a drought-resistant and severe cold-resistant grain, which is millet.

When Cheng Shijie came to Zhenhai City, Chen Zilong and others were looking forward to it. The land Cheng Shijie came to had a total of five or six thousand mu of millet. He squatted down and gently fiddled with the ears of grain that had pressed the grain poles to a 45-degree angle, full of shock and surprise.

"My God, this corn ear is so thick and big!"

It’s not that Cheng Shijie has never seen a millet field. Although the planting area of ​​millet in later generations is very small, Hanhai City still has tens of thousands of acres of planting area. Although the yield of millet is not high, the problem is that the price of millet is high. The most common type of millet is six or seven yuan per catty.

In later generations, grain seeds are needed, fertilizers are abundant, and there is a yield of six to seven hundred catties per mu. The income from one mu of land is much more cost-effective than growing wheat, but harvesting is more troublesome.

However, these ears of grain were even larger than those of later generations.

Chen Zilong said with some pride: "It's thanks to the commander in chief. If the commander in chief hadn't proposed the hybrid breeding method, we would never have imagined that we could breed such excellent seeds!"

This is not a later generation, this is the Ming Dynasty, such fine ears of grain must be sent to the palace as auspicious omens.

In fact, Chen Zilong did the same thing. There are several eunuchs in the crowd, and there are also more than a dozen officials from the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Rites, and they are pointing at these millets.

Cheng Shijie looked at Chen Zilong and said, "This ear is worth three others, you did a good job!"

An old farmer with a simple and honest face said with a smile: "Master, you don't know something. This new grain is much larger than the ears of grain we usually plant. One ear can cover five of our ears! I have lived all my life, and I have never seen such a high-yielding millet. I have never seen it!"

Cheng Shijie asked: "My fellow, do you estimate how many catties of millet this mu can produce?"

"At least five to six hundred catties, one mu equals ten mu!"

Cheng Shijie was stunned: "One mu is worth ten mu? The yield of other varieties is so low?"

The old farmer said: "It's very low. If you can harvest one hundred catties per mu, it's not bad. Generally, it's eighty or ninety catties."

Eighty or ninety catties per mu, this is clearly a no-go for future generations, okay?

There is no way, the grain output of Daming is so miserable these years.The three major traditional staple foods in Daming are rice, wheat, and millet. Rice yields the highest. If it is a good paddy field, coupled with good weather and sufficient fertility, the yield per mu is close to [-] catties.

Wheat is next. If you go to the field, it can reach two to three hundred catties, and it is almost one or two hundred catties, and the worst is less than one hundred catties.

Millet is the worst. If there is more than one hundred catties per mu, you have to laugh.As for the corn... roll, this is not the staple food of the Ming people at all, such an output is simply inconceivable in future generations, if such a situation occurs in a certain city, the leader may be criticized or even thrown into black hats, but it was very common before liberation, why?
This is mainly because the seeds are poor and the fertility cannot keep up.Many people think that Chinese agriculture has not developed advanced breeding technology for thousands of years. This is actually nonsense. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the grain output was lower. The Ming Dynasty was the period when the grain yield per mu was the highest in the entire Chinese feudal dynasty.

It was only affected by the weather of the Little Ice River.

However, the high yield of millet in these experimental fields of Chen Zilong is not all because of good grain seeds, but because these experts from the Agricultural College are not all cultivating seeds, but the result of comprehensive progress in various aspects such as chemical fertilizers, irrigation, pests and diseases.

Without Cheng Shijie's help, the College of Agriculture introduced more than a dozen kinds of pesticides, including phosphate fertilizers, organic fertilizers, and inorganic fertilizers, such as phosphate fertilizers, nitrogen fertilizers, and potassium fertilizers.

It's just that the output of chemical fertilizers is extremely low now, not to mention promoting it all over the world, even Liaodong can't satisfy it.

The old farmer rubbed his callused hands and smiled happily: "I have never seen such a good seed! It is drought-resistant, not afraid of bugs, it grows fast, and the yield is very high! If the farmers in the entire Ming Dynasty can share such seeds, there will be no more famine in Ming Dynasty!"

Cheng Shijie sighed and shook his head: "No, this output is not good."

Both the old farmer and Chen Zilong stared wide-eyed: "Is this output not enough?"

In fact, Cheng Shijie was not bragging. Zhang Zagu has always been known for his high yield. The highest record in the experimental field was 915 kilograms per mu, which is close to one ton.

However, this is the yield obtained under the service of agricultural experts, which cannot be achieved by ordinary farmers. If ordinary farmers use it to grow it, it will be very good to have a yield of five or six hundred kilograms per mu.Ethiopia introduced Zhang Zagu. Although it has no experience and the planting technology is really not good enough, it has also achieved a yield of more than 300 kilograms per mu. It can be seen that this thing is really powerful and the yield is frighteningly high!

It is a pity that in modern times, millet has fallen out of the ranks of the staple food of the Chinese people. It is okay to drink a bowl of millet porridge once in a while, but no one will use it as a staple food anymore.All these varieties have high yields, but not many people grow them. The country's millet planting area is only 2000 million mu, which is really pitifully small.

However, Cheng Shijie did not discourage Chen Zilong's enthusiasm: "Don't be complacent, this is definitely not the upper limit, there is still room for improvement!"

Chen Zilong seemed to understand Cheng Shijie's meaning: "I will continue to experiment!"

"That's good!"

It takes about 130 days for millet to grow. Planting begins when the ice and snow melt at the end of February. It is normal to harvest earlier than potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Chen Zilong asked people to start harvesting. Of course, because it was an experimental field, it could not be harvested like ordinary crops. He was in charge of the military households in Xinghai City Agricultural College, who each had a pair of small scissors, and cut off the ears of grain and tied them into bundles.Only one ear can be cut, and the grains should be returned to the warehouse as much as possible.

We weighed every acre harvested and recorded it. The data obtained were of course very scary. When it was announced at the beginning, the whole experimental field was full of cheers. Later, there was no such big movement. Everyone was numb. Just speed up, speed up again!

Among the busy crowd, Cheng Shijie also saw Queen Zhou and Queen Zhang.These two were also skillfully harvesting grain ears in the field with a pair of small scissors, sweating profusely, and smiling like children.

Cheng Shijie pointed to the figure of Queen Zhou and said, "Why are these two here?"

Chen Zilong smiled bitterly: "I don't want them to come, can you stop them?"

"cannot!"

Chen Zilong said: "Commander, the weather in Liaodong is too cold, we are going to breed hybrid rice..."

Before Chen Zilong finished speaking, Cheng Shijie became vigilant: "What? You want to leave?"

"How could I want to leave!"

Chen Zilong said: "I heard that Jeju Island is also the commander's territory, can you set aside a piece of land on Jeju Island for us to experiment?"

"No problem at all!"

While talking, Empress Zhou was carrying a basket full of huge ears of grain, which she was going to bring to the Bauhinia City for Emperor Chongzhen to see.

"General Cheng is here!"

"come and see!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said, "Empress, are you satisfied with the output?"

"Satisfied, I can't be more satisfied! If more than one billion mu of land in Daming is planted with this kind of millet, and there is such a yield, no, even if it is only half, the people in the world will never have to go hungry again!"

"Don't worry, the output will definitely be more than [-] catties after promotion."

Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang were walking in the field. They were not suitable for work. Ordinary people still respected them as queens, but the agricultural experts of the Agricultural College, no matter whether they were queens or not, wasted a grain of food and wasted their efforts.

After a few words from a group of experts, Queen Zhou stopped joining in the fun with those professional farmers.

As the sun gradually sets and the evening wind blows, layers of golden waves are rolled up in the harvested fields, and then reflected against the sunset glow in the sky, the scenery is so beautiful that people will be enchanted.

Empress Zhang stretched out her arms, as if she wanted to hug this fertile field into her arms. The evening wind lifted her hair, and the rays of light from the sky turned her fair face pink, which was an enviable beauty.

Cheng Shijie looked at Empress Zhang and muttered in his heart: "It's only been less than half a year. When I first came here, Empress Zhang was just as beautiful, but at that time, Empress Zhang seemed to be a boudoir and dissatisfied woman. However, it has only been half a year, and now she has become a troublesome woman!"

Chen Zilong looked at Cheng Shijie, who was staring at Queen Zhang.

A thought involuntarily popped up in Chen Zilong's head: "Cheng Shijie has Cao Cao's habit?"

Once this idea arises, it seems to grow into a towering tree.

"Probably!"

Cheng Shijie and Zhu Weiti have been married for a long time, but Zhu Weiti's stomach has not moved, and Cheng Shijie has many concubines, and there is no movement. Could it be that Cheng Shijie really doesn't like girls, but only wives?

(End of this chapter)