Jin Yiwei is running rampant in Lantian County...
Of course, as long as they do not break the law, there is indeed no problem when performing their official duties in Lantian County People block it.
In the past few days, Yuan Min has consulted almost all documents in Lantian County, whether it is money and food account books, household registers, or criminal names. He even visited the regiment in person and checked against the regiment's roster. No less than three thousand people.
The roster is true to the person. Every team coach who was inspected has training records, and the weapons distribution record is also consistent with the weapons held by the team coach himself.
There are fifty-two regiments within one mile, six crossbow handles, seven bows, two hundred and forty crossbow bolts, one hundred and four feather arrows, six long wooden shields, and eleven round shields. There are sixteen spears, forty-one school knives, and the commander and team leader each hold a blunderbuss. They must practice for five days every month!
As far as Yuan Min knows, apart from the border troops and several armies that fight all year round, few of the Ming army can surpass the Lantian County regiment training in terms of equipment. Of course, the huge number of guards Compared with the soldiers in Lantian County, they seem to be ordinary people farming.
Lantian County regiment training was established in the fifth year of Chongzhen. The basis for its establishment was the "Local regiment training guide" issued by the Ministry of War in February of the fifth year of Chongzhen.
The original intention of this strategy is to mobilize people to form groups and practice self-protection. It is a good policy. Lantian County has implemented this policy very well.
If the entire Ming Dynasty organized such a team training like Lantian County, Yuan Min would only feel relieved. However, when other places are in ruins, Lantian County doing this will make people very worried. .
Yuan Min didn’t know how to talk about it after picking up the pen several times... Every time he put down the pen in his hand, Yuan Min became more and more haggard.
Yunzhao was very satisfied with the physalis noodles provided by Gao’s host and left some rice as a gift.
At dawn the next day, the unique spring sandstorm in the north arrived as promised.
The sandstorms here are very strange. There are flying clouds in the sky, and the clouds appear and fly away suddenly. However, there are only some occasional winds on the ground, but the yellow sand slowly rises from the sky. When the weather settles down, standing outdoors, you soon become a native.
Yun Zhao knew that this was how the thousand-meter-thick loess layer on the Loess Plateau came from.
The wind from the north lifts the fine dust from the desert and Gobi, travels thousands of miles, and then throws it on the Loess Plateau.
Over time, the land in the north gradually turned into the Gobi Desert, and the loess on the Loess Plateau became thicker and thicker.
Such a scene is very similar to the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, except that what the Ming Dynasty obtained from the southeast was money, food, soldiers, and materials.
If the west and north cannot be self-sufficient, they will be abandoned by the southeast sooner or later if this continues for a long time. The chaotic current situation in the north has aggravated the lack of materials and the poverty in the northwest.
If we talk about a place like Lantian County,As long as there is real peace in two years, ordinary people's livelihood can be restored. If people in places like Gansu want to have enough food, it will take more time.
Water conservancy projects are equally effective in Gansu. Unfortunately, the effect of the same water conservancy projects on Gansu agriculture is less than 50% of that in the Guanzhong Plain.
So, it is not easy to survive in Gansu...
In recent days, Yun Zhao has inspected the land of nearby people. He found that the sandy and barren land here is used to grow wheat and millet. The yields of millet, buckwheat, highland barley and other crops are very low.
But it is the best place to grow potatoes, a crop that requires soil permeability.
Lantian County now has a lot of potatoes and sweet potatoes. It only takes two years to cultivate potato varieties suitable for this place.
However, if you want to grow crops well, you must first solve the security problem.
Just last night, he saw the gangsters She Taotian and Yang Liu, and repeatedly begged them not to disturb the people's livelihood on the ground. Only after the two giant bandits swore to God, Yun Yang's knife left their side neck.
Yun Zhao has experienced such scenes many times.
This time, it’s a little different.
After Yang Liu ran exhausted to the mountain stronghold of Shetantian, he no longer wanted to run around. The main reason was that Li Dingguo’s cavalry were patrolling outside the stronghold like a pack of wolves. He was very afraid that if he continued Run, there is the vast Gobi Desert ahead, and there will be no government for him to drive away. His use value will be gone, and he will be wiped out by Li Dingguo.
She Taotian thought that he had no grudge against the Yun family in Guanzhong, so he took the initiative to stand up and make peace with Yang Liu, and that was how the party last night happened.
Yun Zhao is a very talkative person and has never thought of forcing people to a dead end. Seeing that Yang Liu, shooting down the sky and being trapped in the Gobi was not an option, he kindly gave them some advice. Way to survive.
Going along the Yellow River from Tiaocheng, you will reach Ningxia within three hundred miles.
Since the last commander-in-chief of Ningxia, He Huchen, died on the battlefield in the sixth year of Chongzhen's reign, he fought against Lin Dan Khan, who was driven out by Dorgon. Commander-in-Chief Ma Shilong.
Ma Shilong was as tough as He Huchen, but he seemed to be more strategic. After killing more than 3,000 Lin Dan Khan's troops in Yuquanying and other places, Lin Dan Khan saw that his plan to seize Ningxia failed, so he had no choice but to He went to Qinghai and finally died of illness in Dacaotan, Qinghai.
After Dorgon successfully robbed and killed Lin Danhan's army, he was in a hurry and did not invade the Ningxia border. He only plundered a large number of slaves and property along the river and then hurriedly returned to Shengjing.
Since then, Ningxia has enjoyed a rare period of peace.
However, after Ma Shilong died of illness in the seventh year of Chongzhen, Ningxia also seemed in a mess, which gave Yun Zhao a great headache.
So, before Li Dingguo was about to enter the grassland from northern Shaanxi and sweep from west to east, Yun Zhao advised him to walk a little longer, train more soldiers, and drive the bandits from Qingyang Mansion first.Go to Ningxia.
It would also help the people there no longer suffer from the Mongolians' frequent raids on grass and grain.
The source of this military operation actually came from the suggestion of the Prince of Qin's Palace, and the request was made by the Prince Qing's Palace of the Ming Dynasty clan who lived in Qingyang Prefecture, and Prince Su who was based in Lanzhou.
The two princes, who were in a remote place and suffered from bandits, both believed that King Qin's current situation was enviable, and were willing to further deepen their relationship with the Yun family so that they could become rich themselves.
Yun Zhao didn’t understand why the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be the easiest group of people to change their stance. After asking Xu Yuanshou, he looked at Xu Yuanshou’s list of vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, which was filled with four sheets of paper, and felt that King Qing, The requests made by the two of them were very reasonable.
So, there was an incident in which Li Dingguo's soldiers left the pass, entered Qingyang Mansion, and then drove Yang Liu away like sheep to sweep across Gansu.
The government was gone, but the two vassal kings still firmly guarded their fiefdoms. Therefore, at this time, the ones with the greatest say in Gansu were King Qing and King Su.
This is a complicated political exchange. After the military operation, there is no way to implement the various governance concepts of Lantian County in Gansu within a year or two.
Yun Zhao is not in a hurry, he still has at least seven years of preparation time.
There are many mountains in Ningxia, including border troops, bandits, Mongolian Tatars, and Uzbeans on the high mountains.
In such a chaotic situation, if the Yun family entered rashly, it would be a bitter battle without much meaning.
Now, Yun Zhao is ready to hand over the task of fighting hard to She Taotian and Yang Liu. He hopes that these two giants can make the chaotic military forces in Ningxia simpler, and by the way, they can make the chaotic military forces in Ningxia simpler. Integrate the various ethnic groups there.
When the situation is clear, Yun's power near the Silver Factory will also become stronger. At that time, the boundary monument of the Silver Factory will slowly radiate to Ningxia.
She Taotian and Yang Liu were naturally unwilling to go to Ningxia where the folk customs were more rugged and the officers and soldiers were more powerful.
Under Yun Zhao's persuasion, Yun Yang's persuasion, and Li Dingguo's encouragement, She Taotian and Yang Liu were willing to take a trip to Ningxia.
At the same time, they also asked Yunshi to give them some help.
On this point, Yun Zhao is enlightened. He promised to support She Taotian and Yang Liu with a sum of money and food when they entered Ningxia in May this year. At the same time, he also supported two hundred people. hand.
He also promised them that half of the people sent over would be warriors and half would be scribes.
Yun Zhao and Li Dingguo braved the loess and walked by the Yellow River. Looking at the sobbing Yellow River, neither of them had much interest in talking.
When both of their eyelashes were stained with loess, Li Dingguo said to Yun Zhao: "Are you sure that the country you built is better than the previous one?"
Yun Zhao spit out Shachen in his mouth whispered: "I don't know. It should be fine if I'm alive. But if I die, I won't know.
You should hurry up and find a way to send me to that position. While I am still young and not yet unconscious, the sooner I can sit in that position, the more I can do. ”