Traveler Major League

Chapter 70 The period of great development

If the main purpose of expanding the countryside is to expand the grain-producing areas and the sources of soldiers, then the significance of occupying county towns and guards is to provide the troops with all necessary supplies such as craftsmen and materials that are scarce in the countryside.

So no, Liu Ze's first pot of gold came.

Although Yijun County is small, it has all kinds of internal organs. It is an important place for transportation, so there must be a lot of items traded.Liu Ze's goal is also very clear, all the basic materials such as grain, cloth, salt, iron, coal, etc. are all needed. The reserves of all the previous villages and towns can't compare with the fraction of this county, so Liu Ze decided to We must make good use of this opportunity to enter Yijun County to expand our military supplies for future preparations.

It is similar to the previous occupation of Chengcheng, but more radical. All the county towns and outsiders have always been treated equally, and the land and land are divided into floating wealth. Of course, these are just the most basic. .

At daybreak, the entire Yijun County had already been taken down by Liu Ze. By Si hour, that is, from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] noon, the follow-up troops also entered the city.

Liu Ze sits in the county government office at the foot of Guishan Mountain. His mouth, which has not closed since he entered the city, shows that he is in a good mood. The preliminary statistics have come out. There are nearly ten thousand stones.

Not to mention coal and various local products. Even in modern times, the west of Yijun County is one of China's top ten coal bases. The northern edge of the Weibei Coalfield has not been fully developed yet, but there are sporadic outputs.

There are also sporadic deposits of limonite and sandy limonite near Gaoloudong Township, which are distributed in nest-like veins. Although the reserves are not large due to the thick covering layer and low grade, this is also relative, at least 19.2 tons above total reserves.

There is another treasure place, that is the Weisuo City.

The Weisuo system in the Ming Dynasty is not just a word, but a whole system. The Weisuo is actually a small city. In addition to its military role, it also includes civil affairs and economic functions.

In the Weisuo City, there are military camps, residential areas, government offices, warehouses, school grounds, and even various temples, such as the Temple of Wealth, the Temple of Confucianism, the Temple of Fengshen, the Temple of the River, the Temple of the Dragon King, etc. The main residents of residential areas are military relatives, usually military households. Don’t think that all military households are a group of slaves oppressed by military officers. This is actually a kind of prejudice. The degeneration is gradual. They were all from military households, even the famous Zhang Juzheng was from military households.

It only got worse and worse in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, but there are still merits in it, at least for Liu Ze, because there is a weapon manufacturing organization in this guardhouse, Chengcheng does not have one, and whoever said that there is no deputy thousand stationed there? What about households?

As early as the early days of the Ming Dynasty, when the imperial court had not yet established a unified weapons manufacturing organization, the guards in various places were allowed to manufacture their own weapons.There was a period of supervision in the early stage, but after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, due to the increasingly serious border troubles and local rebellions, the imperial court allowed the guards in various places to make their own firearms such as copper cannons and hand guns in the 14th year of Zhengtong (AD 1449).

There is also a situation that goes against common sense, that is, due to problems such as corruption and supervision in the arms manufacturing affiliated to the Ministry of Industry in the capital city, its manufacturing is expensive and of poor quality has become the norm, while the workshops near the border are much better.

This also means that this harvest was far beyond expectations.

Two soldiers carried Yang Zeming who had been injured on a stretcher to the lobby. Liu Ze looked at Yang Zeming with concern and was about to say a few words of greeting when suddenly there was a sharp pain in his left hand, because Lu Wan'er beside Liu Ze was concentrating on it. Untied the bandage on Liu Ze's left hand, and debrided and disinfected the wound with alcohol again, so that the wound would heal better after re-bandaging and prevent infection.

Liu Ze was grinning in pain, wanting to smash the table under his hands, but he didn't want Yang Zeming, who was lying on the ground, to be in a good mood at this moment, and he covered his mouth and smiled with a knocked expression on his face.

Liu Ze only uttered a cold snort, and Yang Zeming immediately realized it, and suppressed a laugh. Luckily, Lu Wan'er was quickly bandaged and left. Liu Ze's hand didn't hurt so much at this time, so he grabbed it from the table. With a handful of walnuts, he sat up leisurely and looked at Yang Zeming.

"Ze Ming, how are your thighs?" Liu Ze said while eating walnuts.

Yang Zeming struggled to sit up, stretched out his hand and said, "Commander, our injuries are nothing, we can run and jump in these two days, give me some walnuts, I'm hungry."

Liu Ze saw that both of Yang Zeming's thighs were covered with bandages, blood oozing from the bandages from time to time, glowing red, it was terrifying, but he never said pain, cried out pain, his face was always He smiled and comforted others, Liu Ze admired him in his heart and admired him, he really deserves to be a good man who can be a company commander, Liu Ze couldn't help but secretly sighed in his heart, he really did not choose the wrong person.

Liu Ze signaled the guards around him to grab the walnuts and give them to him, and continued: "Try this Yijun County specialty. These Yijun County walnuts are big, thin-skinned, and fragrant! Pad your stomach first, and eat them later." well."

Looking at Liu Ze's eyes, Zhang Pu, Zhang Boyuan, the former master of Yijun County who was standing beside him, hurriedly stepped forward and said, "The ear muffs are made of buckwheat noodles and wheat noodles, poured with juice, it's refreshing, and Qin Han passed it on." The students who come down to eat often eat too.”

"No more?" Liu Ze put down the walnut in his hand, slightly dissatisfied.

Seeing this, the terrified master quickly followed up and said: "According to the command of the commander, the students also asked the back kitchen Xiaozao to make tomato steamed buns, and the baked steamed buns, which are burnt on the outside and tender on the inside, are eaten with tomatoes. It’s delicious, hot and sour.”

"What about the meat? Why are they all vegetarian? Look, we have a lot of injuries, and we have to eat meat." Liu Ze patted the table with his intact right hand and said.

The master hurriedly said: "Yes, there is also yellow rice made of hard millet noodles, sprinkled with sesame seeds, and sandwiched with meat, eggs, and vegetables. It smells delicious and tastes sweet."

"Gone?"

"These are the specialties of this county, the special snacks you ordered just now."

The master was so frightened that his face was covered with sweat, he kept wiping it and quickly explained: "There are also mutton, chicken, pork, duck, all of them."

"You can't learn from this county magistrate. How can you commit suicide when you see my rebel army coming here? We are all rebel soldiers who punish the people! Do you understand?" Liu Ze comforted the master who was still trembling, " From now on, you will be our army’s advisor and help me with military and political matters. It’s good if you don’t know now, but you will know when you are old! Hahaha.”

"Students understand, students understand."

The master heard that Liu Ze wanted him to be a marching consultant, and he finally put his heart into his stomach, and the sweat on his forehead stopped coming out. Looking at Liu Ze's stern face just now, he thought he wanted to be like someone else. , Propose yourself to kill, peel the skin and eat the meat.

Wang Shanbao's voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Commander, Commander, who do you think this is?"

(End of this chapter)