Take a plane to the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 303 Raiding Mongolia
That night, Li Zicheng burned all the military supplies in the city, and drove [-] troops and civilians into Zhu Changyuan's barracks. He only took Liu Zongmin and a hundred cavalrymen across the Wei River and fled northward.

As for Zhu Changyuan, at first he thought it was the enemy's sneak attack on the camp, and specially dispatched troops to resist. It took him a long time to figure out that the other party had come to surrender.

Immediately laughed and accepted everyone, and then led the army to officially station in Chang'an, the super metropolis of the Ming Empire.

Although there are not many supplies in Chang'an City, the geographical location and the height of the city wall alone are enough for Zhu Changyuan to sleep until dawn with a smile on his face.

As for chasing Li Zicheng, there is no need.

Once all the refugees in the Shaanxi land become ordinary people with homes and food to eat, no matter how powerful Li Zicheng is, can he still pull up a team to rebel?

impossible.

Besides, what if Li Zicheng was captured and given credit to Emperor Chongzhen?

The next day, Kong He was transferred from Hanzhong to train the army in Shaanxi, and Polu was sent to Hanzhong to guard and collect local taxes and grain.

This year, the early rice harvest in Hanzhong was bumper. Thanks to Zhu Changyuan's chemical fertilizers and seeds, the yield per mu reached an unprecedented [-] kilograms.

Although Yuan Longping's hybrid rice production target of [-] kilograms per mu is one-third short, which embarrasses the old scientist, but don't forget that this is a parallel world, and it is his first trial planting. Production has been pretty good.

With 300 million mu of land, the early rice production in Hanzhong has reached an unprecedented 180 million tons. The tax and grain collected by Zhu Changyuan plus the land planted by his army, all the grains add up to almost 100 million tons.

Even if Zhu Changyuan took away 100 million tons, there would be 80 tons left for the people in Hanzhong.

What is the concept of 80 tons? If one person eats one catty of rice a day, it is enough to feed 30 people for 15 years.Therefore, Zhu Changyuan's gift to them can be said to be greater than the sky. Similarly, they are also generous when paying taxes and food.

It is too difficult to transport so much grain from Hanzhong to the Weishui Plain.

According to the practice of ordinary people, it is impossible to transport 80 tons of grain in a year by relying on manpower and animal power alone along the Meridian Valley Trail.

But who is Zhu Changyuan? He has super tricks by his side. Just put a huge ship in Hanzhong, and it only needs the soldiers in Hanzhong to hit the tax and grain on the ship.

This method is not only good, but also fast, but I didn't think of it before.

Moreover, there is an even bigger advantage: Zhu Changyuan's giant ship does not need to sail in the water. I just need to build a support on the dry land and forcefully put the large cargo ship on the ground. Nima can only hold [-] tons of cargo. It is not a problem for the ship to load [-] tons now.

Anyway, there is no need to worry about the lack of draft. As for whether the hull will be crushed if the load is too large, Zhu Changyuan has never considered it at all.

The food problem has been solved, and the next step is to solve the problem of farming and recruiting.

I don’t know how many big and small cities there are in the entire Weihe Plain. Chang’an has just been captured. It's cold.

Therefore, the remaining cities can only be taken over by appeasement, not by force.

Moreover, after the battle of Chang'an City, Zhu Changyuan believed that the soldiers and guards in the surrounding cities and towns would have been frightened for a long time, and they would definitely agree to surrender once they received the letter of surrender.

After all, they were all forced by life and had to resist to find a way out, and they didn't have any sworn hatred with the Ming Empire and the government.

Sure enough, as Zhu Changyuan expected, after his letter of surrender was issued, some people came to surrender soon.

One day later, Gaoling, Sanyuan, Weinan, and Xianyang surrendered!
Two days later, Tongchuan and Huaxian fell in the wind.

Ten days later, Fufeng, Fengxiang, and even Baoji and Tongguan sent down the table.

Half a month later, the entire Weihe Plain, regardless of the size of the city, was taken by Zhu Changyuan without bloodshed.

So far, most of the work of recruiting Shaanxi has been completed.

In the land of Shaanxi, there are only three relatively rich places in history. One is Qinchuan, which is [-] miles away, which can be called the fertile soil of Guanzhong; the second is the land of Hanzhong, which has the reputation of Xiaojiangnan; It is known as "the south of the Yangtze River".

Now that the largest two of these three rich lands have fallen into the hands of Zhu Changyuan, and there is enough food in his hands to feed the entire Shaanxi people for a year, he does not believe that after he distributes the food in his hands to the people, Li Zicheng and his like will return Can you recruit soldiers?

Therefore, most of the tasks of recruiting Shaanxi have been completed, but most of them are not all. Sustainable development is still needed, and locust plagues must be eliminated, and the drought weather must be confronted.

Most importantly, let millions of people in Shaanxi have homes to return to and fields to grow.

Then here comes the present task.

First things first: count the number of people!
In the entire Weinan Plain, there were a total of 120 million refugees, and Li Zicheng left behind 30 soldiers.A total of 150 million people.

Moreover, the number of refugees on the entire Weinan Plain is still increasing, and they are all ordinary people who came from all over Shanxi to eat.

According to Zhu Changyuan's estimation, the number of refugees is likely to exceed 300 million or even 400 million in the end.But he is not worried. With a million tons of grain in hand, even if 500 million people come, it can last for a year or even more.

In the following time, the second season of crops in Hanzhong began to be sown. The second season was corn. Zhu Changyuan did his best to transport a large amount of corn seeds and fertilizer from modern society. As long as there is no such extreme bad weather, He believes that this autumn will definitely be a big harvest.

As for the Weishui Plain where Chang'an City is located, even if there is a plague of locusts, they will be white if planted. Zhu Changyuan doesn't need that effort.

Of course, even if they don't plant the land, these more than 100 million people can't be left idle. The autumn crops don't need to be planted, but now we must make full preparations to ensure that the winter wheat can be planted in the fields smoothly.

First of all, the winter wheat planted by Li Zicheng must be harvested. Although there is not much, mosquito legs are also meat, aren't they?

Then, start preparing for the next locust extermination work.

Evacuate all the people west of Chang'an and move them to the plains east of Chang'an.

As we all know, the Weihe Plain is known as the eight hundred Li Qinchuan. It will be too bad.

The reason why Zhu Changyuan moved all the residents west of Chang'an to the east is because with his current strength, it is really impossible to develop the entire Guanzhong, and it is already very good to develop half of it.

People must be self-aware, and Zhu Changyuan still knows this, otherwise, if blindly develop and swallow up the entire Weishui Plain, it will not be able to digest it, and even may suffer the consequences in the end.

Well, not much to say, after all the refugees arrive in the east, first of all, stop the flow!
Of course, it is to intercept the Wei River, but it is not all interception in the traditional sense. Instead, a dam is built every other section of the Wei River. The height of the dam is about the same as the water height of the river in normal years.

As a result, the Weishui River, which has a very small flow in the arid Shaanxi, was cut off.

But it is not completely cut off. Once the intercepted water flow accumulates to a certain height, it will overflow to the next interception section. After such accumulation, the water volume in the entire Weihe River can be restored to the normal year, and There will be no floods.

What can you do with water?
It can do many things, such as irrigation, domestic water, and local improvement of the harsh environment.But these are not all, water also has a huge effect, it can exterminate locusts!
Yes, you read that right, water can indeed kill locusts.

Locust eggs can hatch in large numbers in dry soil, which is the most fundamental reason why locust plagues and droughts accompany each other. However, what will happen if the entire Weihe Plain is wetted during the hatching stage of locust eggs?

Then you don't need to think about it, the hatching level of locust eggs will return to normal years, and there will be no large-scale locust plagues.However, these are all things for next year. This year, the eggs of the locusts have hatched, and now, the migratory locusts are all over the sky.

Just fly, I don't plan to plant autumn grain anyway.

However, it is still necessary to organize locust extermination.

Insects are phototaxis, and lighting bonfires along the entire Weishui River at night can also kill many insects.

In addition to these things, there is the most important thing: transporting supplies.

Although there will be no planting in autumn, the seeds and fertilizers needed for winter wheat must be obtained.

After a rough calculation, the entire eastern part of Chang'an has about 500 million mu of land. Excluding those that cannot be planted, at least 1000 million mu can be planted.

How much fertilizer is needed for 1000 million mu of land, calculated on the basis of 50 kilograms per mu of land, and [-] tons in the initial stage.

I'm not afraid of transportation, it's only a dozen or so boats at most, but where to find such a large amount of fertilizer, even in modern society, people's production is limited, and they need to be booked in advance or even paid for.

Therefore, during the period, Zhu Changyuan returned to the modern society again, specifically explaining Liu Guang's purchase of seeds and fertilizers.

After all the preparations were completed, Zhu Changyuan did another thing that attracted the attention of the whole world: leading an army of 30, went north to Guyuan and plundered Ningxia, frightened Li Zicheng and ran to distant Gansu or even further west. Shaanxi Dading.

But this is not the ending. The ending is that Zhu Changyuan's 30 troops crossed the Yellow River and suddenly appeared on the Mongolian grasslands, plundering three thousand miles of Mongolia and destroying nine tribes in a row.

Then, drive countless cattle and horses back to Weishui!
This is his ultimate goal. In fact, in this expedition, Li Zicheng's magical horses are not important. The most important thing is the cattle and horses that have been taken captive. Nima is about to farm. How can we do without these big animals? The whole of Shaanxi is engaged in tractor farming, right?
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