On the seventh day of December in the fifth year of Chongzhen, it is advisable to sacrifice and pray for blessings, and avoid opening the market and traveling far away.

A large mourning hall was temporarily erected outside Mengjiazhuang, and two hundred and seventeen coffins were neatly arranged.

From the expedition to the return, the Guan Emperor's army lost a total of 155 people, and the newly surrendered Mongols killed 62 people.

Including the Mongols who died in battle, all the bodies were brought back, and Qin Chuan personally put a copper coin in the mouth of each corpse, and then put it in the coffin.

Lao Huang, Bobcat, Zhao Wu, Liao Sangun and others all rushed back in time, and even the Guan Emperor Army stationed in Jingyou Town also returned.

Lao Huang held a soul flag in front to attract the soul, Qin Chuan and more than 800 Guan Emperor soldiers carried the coffin together, and the rest of the Guan Emperor Army and thousands of villagers were buried in the back.

The tomb of the big-headed fish has long been rebuilt, and it is the same as his big head, which is magnificent, and next to it are the graves of several old bandits from Jiuji Mountain who died in battle one after another, which are also magnificent.

Hundreds of graves were densely piled up on the hillside behind, and in front of each grave stood a small stone tablet engraved with Zhang San, Li Si, or strange flower names.

Some of the families of the fallen soldiers wept silently in front of the graves of their loved ones, and thousands of villagers and Emperor Guan's troops spread all over the hillside, burning a few pieces of paper money for each grave.

A group of old bandits from Jiujishan gathered in front of the graves of Da Yutou and several other brothers, muttering while burning paper money.

The lynx threw a wad of paper money into the fire, and said in an old-fashioned manner: "Big fish head, there are hundreds of brothers who will go down to accompany you, and after you get together enough of 18,000 brothers, it will be enough for you to kill Yama ......."

Lao Huang hurriedly covered the mouth of the bobcat, and smacked a few times: "Bah, what kind of did your baby say, if the big fish head comes to pull our brother down to make up the numbers, what should I do?" ”

Saying that, Lao Huang burned another handful of paper money, and said bitterly: "Big fish head, don't listen to the, this baby's speech is not blocked, don't think about killing Yama, hurry up and find a good person to reincarnate." ”

Liu Youzhu on the side said with a horizontal face: "Big fish head, if you kid dare to come up and find your brothers to make up the numbers, Lao Tzu will be the first to kill you!" ”

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The eighth day of December in the fifth year of Chongzhen, Laba Festival.

In the open space inside and outside the town, hundreds of cauldrons have been set up, boiling tumbling pieces of meat, as well as colorful laba porridge and laba noodles.

Thousands of villagers gathered around piles of bonfires, peeling garlic and soaking laba vinegar, while listening to the triumphant return of Emperor Guan's army boasting about how many Jiannu and how many Tartars they had killed on this trip.

Several green buildings have long been overcrowded, even the old bustard turtle woman can't bear the shouting, the wine shop went to Taiyuan and Fenzhou in advance to buy tens of thousands of catties of soju, especially Fenjiu, the entire Fenzhou Xinghua Village Fenjiu inventory was almost swept away.

Qin Chuan rode around the crowd on horseback, showed his face, accepted the call of the crowd, and then returned to Mengjiazhuang.

Because the funeral had just ended, he didn't go to the backyard to find Wen Suxin, but only asked Wang Jizong to take some white noodles, beef, mutton and horse meat, melons and fruits to eat, and a pure white mink coat that he specially asked Liu Wenzhong to buy, and gave it to Wen Suxin.

A group of female relatives of the Wang family were also cooking laba porridge and pickling laba vinegar, Wen Suxin and the Li family sisters were also there, and as soon as the mink coat arrived, the group of women came over one after another, chattering and envious.

This is a fine mink, plain white and clean, with a soft base and fine fluff.

In the chattering and envious gaze of a group of women, Wen Suxin blushed slightly, put on the mink, and then ran back to the room and stood in front of the bronze mirror to take pictures again and again.

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The weather is cold, and the gatehouse is no longer suitable as an office location, Qin Chuan simply uses a front yard as an office, handles official business in the living room in the middle, and the left wing room is for Wang Jizong and Song Zhiting, and the right is for Luo Daniu, Li Dingliang and Liu Youzhu and others.

Now, there is a large table of wine and meat in the living room, Luo Daniu, Li Dingliang, Liu Youzhu, Luo Ba, Lao Huang, Wang Jizong, Song Zhiting, Chen Zhan and others are here.

Zhao Wu was also there, and Qin Chuan specially called him over and asked him to participate in the discussion of future development.

Li Xuejing didn't come because the barrel was almost finished.

After Qin Chuan came back, he asked everyone to sit down and chat while eating, and the first thing to talk about was the issue of replenishing the source of troops and expanding the army.

Emperor Guan's army originally had 1,500 troops, and more than 240 people were killed or disabled on this trip, and these forces had to be replenished.

Qin Chuan does not plan to expand the army for the time being, and while it is not snowing now, the mud can still be plowed, and the labor force is put on water conservancy and land reclamation.

But he wanted to form a militia, which can also be said to be a reserve army, to practice marching and fighting in his spare time, and then to be incorporated into the Guan Emperor's army when necessary.

When Qin Chuan was discussing with everyone, Wang Jizong kept holding a pen and taking notes beside him.

After discussing the military issues, it was time to move on to the civil affairs side, and Qin Chuan wanted to take in a group of hungry people before the heavy snowfall.

Some time ago, Lou was annoyed and fought at both ends for three days, and the hungry people didn't dare to come.

Therefore, he wanted to send part of the Guan Emperor's army to pick up people with grain, to Taiyuan, Jingle County, and even outside Ningwu Pass, as well as Fenzhou and Yongning Prefecture in the south, Fangshan and Yongning Prefecture in the west, and so on.

If two or three thousand more people come back to raise them for another winter, there will be sufficient labor force at the beginning of next spring.

Food is not a problem at all, this trip went out and got 4,000 stone of grain back, it won't be long before the Fan family will bring 3,000 stone of grain to forgive Fan Sanpai, and Du Yingtang will also bring 4,000 stone to exchange for Ah Shan and Tulush, as well as all the remaining Jiannu and Tartar heads.

In addition to the toll and the grain and grass eaten along the way, this trip earned 10,000 stone of grain.

Coupled with the original Mengjiazhuang and those who were tied to the ticket, his current food is enough for 8,000 people to eat for almost a year.

If you count the silver, you can eat it for a year and a half.

Qin Chuan didn't plan to use the silver to buy grain for the time being, because there were many places where silver was needed, such as cotton.

Lou Fu not only has clothes for everyone to wear, but also makes a large number of cotton armor, or composite cotton armor with cotton strips and iron sheets.

It is also necessary to buy strategic materials such as saltpeter, bronze brass, leather, and beef tendon, as well as various livelihood materials such as agriculture and animal husbandry.

After Luo Wentian came back, Qin Chuan planned to let him go to Yongning Prefecture first to buy a large amount of cotton, although the price of cotton is now at the highest point, but Qin Chuan is rich and wealthy, and he doesn't care about this at all, the important thing is to buy cotton back as soon as possible and increase the armor rate for the army as soon as possible.

The battle with Jiannu a few days ago proved that cotton armor is a very cost-effective and practical armor.

Wearing cotton armor and being shot by an eighty-step light arrow is not a big deal at all, and it is difficult to cause fatal injuries if fifty steps are shot flat with a light arrow, but if you shoot with an armor-piercing arrow at twenty steps, it will not be able to stop.

If you wear composite cotton armor or double armor, you are not afraid of the opponent's heavy arrows at twenty paces, and you are still alive when you are shot into a hedgehog like Houjin's Bayara.

The reason why Qin Chuan didn't make the army's tactics clear was because he was still waiting, waiting for the flintlock pistol, if there was no problem with making flintlock pistols in batches, he could simply and rudely use the method of lining up to shoot the enemy.

The Jiannu Battle Festival will release arrows while advancing, and when it reaches a certain distance, the dead soldiers of the armored people will charge, and Bayala will follow behind to break the formation.

In this case, let the musketeers wear composite armor or even double armor, stand up to the opponent's bow and arrows, line up with flintlock pistols to shoot the opponent's assault troops, and then use javelin horses to kill from both sides, all the way through.

There are two key elements, one is armor and the other is a flintlock pistol, and these two things must be made in batches.

There is also a javelin, Qin Chuan uses a javelin of about three feet and five inches, although the power of this short bid is not as good as that of a long bid, but it is better than a long javelin, it is easy to carry, and the power is not much worse than a long javelin, at a distance of twenty or thirty steps, it can penetrate any iron armor, and it is much sharper than a bow and arrow.

Moreover, the slinger is very easy to train, and it takes a month to train a slinger with a good head and strength, which is completely different from the archer training for three or five years.

Qin Chuan's intention was to continue to use the javelin method of warfare, and to train an elite javelin cavalry on the current basis for comprehensive purposes such as assault, cover, containment, and pursuit, and to cooperate with the infantry equipped with flintlock pistols and artillery.

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In terms of civil affairs, he also talked about water conservancy, reclamation, and farming, all of which were all the responsibility of Wang Jizong alone.

Finally, there is one more thing that Wang Jizong needs to do: running a school.

The first is the school, which annoys more than 5,000 people, and there are hundreds of dolls under the age of 14, and these little dolls are to read and learn to read and learn arithmetic.

The second is night school, among the adults who are annoying, there are many self-motivated but lively people, so these people can go to night school, literate and know how to count, and it won't take long to become the middle management of Lou Fu.

The third is to talk about martial arts, which has to be done by Qin Chuan himself.

Running a school requires a lot of literate people, and people who know how to calculate the scriptures are needed to be teachers, and Wang Jizong has to find talents.

While chatting, Li Xuejing suddenly held an iron pipe and rushed in with excitement on his face.

"The big steward, it's done, the gun is done."

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