Wanli 1592

Chapter 1344 Preparations for the Northern Expedition
After Xu Guangqi entered the cabinet, Xiao Ruxun entrusted all the natural disaster issues to Chen Longzheng.

Ordering him to take charge of these newly established important administrative departments and entrusting them with major tasks relieved the pressure on the cabinet to a certain extent, and the political team that Xiao Ruxun built for the Northern Expedition became more stable.

At the same time, two candidates for cabinet ministers were trained, one was Chen Longzheng, and the other was Fang Congzhe who was in charge of exterminating snails.

Fang Congzhe's mollusc control and treatment work went well. With the cooperation of the Central Medical Department, he forcibly brought schistosomiasis under control in the three southeastern provinces after costing the lives of a large number of Japanese people.

In terms of treatment, he also gathered the strength of a large number of doctors. According to the guiding ideology of rural doctors given by the central government, he trained a large number of rural doctors who learned to treat schistosomiasis, and let these people go to the countryside with the doctors. Diagnose and treat patients from village to village.

Not to mention how many people were saved, but after several years of generous treatment, the schistosomiasis in the three southeastern provinces was controlled, and Daqin's pocketbook was saved.

Not only that, but Fang Congzhe presided over and dispatched a large number of Japanese people to kill snails in large numbers in the insect-infested areas along the Yangtze River. While consuming Japanese people, they wiped out snails at the same time, which greatly reduced the probability of people continuing to be infected with schistosomiasis.

From these perspectives, Xiao Ruxun felt that Fang Congzhe was a very good follower, capable of doing things, well-behaved and obedient, without a strong character, and treated the emperor with great respect and obedience. How could such a character and ability not be loved by the emperor?

Xiao Ruxun repeatedly issued decrees to praise Fang Congzhe, promote him to official positions and honors, establish a certain prestige for him, and prepare for him to enter the cabinet.

At the same time, the Ministry of Medicine and the Ministry of Agriculture cooperated to establish the first batch of Daqin official medicinal planting bases.

Among the important things, many medicinal materials need to be planted for a certain period of time to be effective and have sufficient medicinal properties. However, there are also many medicinal materials that do not require a lot of time to grow. These things are left to the doctors of the medical department to coordinate.

Xiao Ruxun asked the medical department to make the medicinal materials ready for use, not to mention that they are completely enough, at least not to encounter the previous dilemma of people without medicine.

It is very important to master the skills in large-scale planting, reduce costs, and gradually let ordinary people afford to see diseases and eat medicines.

Moreover, these medicinal material bases can also provide a great boost to the army. Every battle in the army will produce a large number of wounded and sick, and consume a large amount of medicinal materials. Xiao Ruxun used to pay great attention to the medical treatment of soldiers, so he has never Never relaxed.

During this process, Xiao Ruxun transported and hoarded a large amount of food materials to Guanzhong, Gansu and Liaodong to provide sufficient logistical support for the army.

In this battle, Xiao Ruxun is expected to dispatch [-] cavalry and [-] infantry. The main forces are the Northwest Corps and the Guanzhong Corps. All the worries of the frontier are gone.

Now is not the most serious period of the Little Ice River, the most serious period will be more than 50 years later, and it will not be until the early eighteenth century that the entire climate will gradually warm up.

Qianlong was really a lucky emperor. He was born in the warm period between the two ice ages. His father Yongzheng left him a rich family background. The relatively stable social environment contributed to his perfect martial arts and a large population growth. It has also become one of his achievements.

Therefore, being an emperor depends on luck. Some people are lucky, there is no crisis, and the right time, place and people are all there, so they achieve great achievements, but some people are unlucky, and they can't save the situation even if they work hard. They can only end up dead. off.

Now, when the preparations for the Great Qin have been completed and the objective conditions are met, the Northern Expedition will be launched. The scale and preparations for this Northern Expedition are unprecedented.

The 20 main army and 30 civilian militia are ready to provide logistical support for the army. The large amount of supplies hoarded in Guanzhong, Gansu, and Liaodong can last at least three months for the army to consume.

A large number of mules and horses have begun to be gathered in advance and sent to these three places. Once the war starts, the Qin army can launch a thunderous strike against the northern captives who covet the wealth of the Great Qin, instantly wipe them out, and wipe out the northern frontier.

The leveling of the frontier is only the first stage of the war. After the first stage is over, the second stage of in-depth strikes will immediately enter.

With the efforts of a large number of scouts dispatched successively over the past few years, as well as black water spies known as caravans but actually spies, Xiao Ruxun has basically figured out the geography and hydrology of the entire grassland in northern Great Qin.

The farthest place to go north has reached the Beihai area where Su Wu herding sheep is recorded in the history books of the Han Dynasty. The scouts came back and reported that they saw a very large lake. There are also pictures of the appearance and show it to Xiao Ruxun, so that Xiao Ruxun can confirm that it is Lake Baikal.

Therefore, the northern goal of this Northern Expedition is Lake Baikal. The location of Lake Baikal is even further north than the area reached by Fenglang Juxu and Le Shiyanran. It is a place that the army of the Central Plains Dynasty has never arrived.

And Xiao Ruxun wants to hold this prairie pearl in his hands.

The goal of the Liaodong Corps is very simple, which is to restore the former Nuer Gandusi, but this time it is not a symbolic rule, but a real rule.

The main military guards of Nuergandusi were distributed along Heilongjiang. Along Heilongjiang, the Ming government set up a large number of guards here in the early Ming Dynasty, reaching the eastern seaboard and even Sakhalin Island. was gradually abandoned.

Xiao Ruxun's purpose is to rebuild and connect them with Chidao, so as to ensure that this line of maintaining rule will not be cut off, so as to firmly hold the entire Northeast land in his hands.

The western strategy is also quite clear, clean up Tumed who occupies the Qinghai area, regain the Hetao, and use this as a basis to eliminate the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Yarkand Khanate, expand their influence to the Xinjiang region, and conquer the Pamirs. Remove completely.

The other part is responsible for consolidating the captured areas, making preparations for entering the Uzang area, and telling these guys that Ming is gone, but Da Qin is following behind and is still their master.

The specific content of the Northern Raiders is divided into three parts. Xiao Ruxun intends to spend ten years reshaping the empire's territory, grasping everything he can grasp in his lifetime, and then digesting it slowly. As for how far future generations can expand , Xiao Ruxun didn't know either.

With the development of Daqin's science and technology, the possibility of losing land will become smaller and smaller, especially after the surrounding powerful enemies are almost eliminated, the biggest enemy will no longer be the enemy on the surrounding land, but the enemy at sea, so Regarding the development of the navy, Xiao Ruxun has never stopped.

The benefits he can obtain at sea will be an important factor for him to support the expansion of the Qin army. Without the benefits earned at sea, the expansion and construction of the Qin army on the road will come to a halt, and the country will inevitably be lost.

All in all, whether it is war or construction, it is money.

Therefore, in the next ten to 20 years, Daqin's national policy will be to make money from the sea to subsidize the western inland.

until the end of the Western Expansion.

(End of this chapter)