Chapter 749: Hurry
In late October, Hangzhou is already the early winter season, the weather is getting cooler, and today it is drizzling, which makes people feel more wet and cold. Zhao Yu stood under the eaves of the porch and stared blankly at the yellow leaves falling in the courtyard, in his previous life, he was not afraid of the heat of summer, nor did he hate the rainy rainy season, the most annoying thing was the cold winter. The cold in the south is different from the biting cold in the north, but the indescribable clammy cold, but there is no heating equipment, which makes people extremely uncomfortable, and I just hope that the winter will end soon.
"Official, don't freeze!" Su Lan put a big coat on Zhao Hao.
"This one was hand-sewn by my sister, right?" Zhao Yu turned around and asked Su Lan to tie his mouth for him, and said with a smile.
"Well, the official family has changed its style, but it looks much better than before." Su Lan buttoned up, smoothed her clothes and smiled.
"Really? I just don't know when the soldiers will be able to wear it! Zhao Yu stretched out his hand from the opening under his armpit and brushed a strand of hair hanging from Su Lan's ear behind his ear and sighed softly.
As the weather became colder and colder, the thick clothes that were rushed were gradually distributed in the order of the first water army and the second infantry army. And Zhao Yu found that there were a large number of felt and woolen materials among the items confiscated in the official warehouse. And thanks to the Mongols pacifying Jiangnan, the material exchange between the north and the south has become smooth, and these woolen products produced in the northwest have poured into the south of the Yangtze River in large quantities, and the price is low.
Of course, the woolen material of this period is also called 'brown', Zhao Yu had an idea, and thought that fine tweed can be made into clothes, not only to keep warm, but also to shelter from the wind and rain, which is enough to keep out the cold in Jiangdong. The original meaning of brown refers to coarse linen or woolen clothing, and it also contains the meaning of poverty, so the price is much lower than that of silk and silk cotton, so why not make use of these things.
So Zhao Yu asked people to buy a large number of felt and woolen materials, and made military uniforms according to the style of the new military uniform, and he also designed a kind of big coat. In ancient times, the Dayu evolved from the Taoist crane. Worn by men, it is characterized by large placket sleeves, which are wide and laced overall, and can only be worn as regular clothes, rather than modern cloaks shaped like cloaks and sleeveless capes.
Zhao Yu's 'design' naturally has a modern style, and it is different from the modern military coat, but a small square neckline, sleeveless, buttoned placket, wide shape, only open under the armpits, can easily stretch out hands. Not only is it warm, but it also looks very stylish. After the trial production came out, everyone said that it was convenient and practical, especially a group of generals wanted it and strongly requested it.
Zhao Yu naturally followed the wishes of the people, but this can only be distributed to officers for the time being, of course, it must also be divided into three, six, nine and so on, the commander of the senior officers above the top of the fine wool made of cashmere, the command of the above middle officers is made of fine wool, and the lower officers are made of cheaper camel hair. The one on his body was rabbit down, which made him feel that his values had been subverted.
Zhao Yuji seemed to have the highest price of cashmere in his previous life, and rabbit hair was even inferior to camel hair, but at this time, the fineness of rabbit hair textile was a tribute, and other people couldn't enjoy it at all. Fortunately, he doesn't care about these, and he can't care about it, as long as it's warm and practical, but after all, the emperor can't wear big road goods made by the workshop, or they still have to be customized, and now all the people in the inner government are in Qiongzhou, so he can only trouble Su Lan.
"Your Majesty is going to worry about everything, isn't the matter of winter clothes already left to the next to do, just ask about it then!" Su Lan looked at the little emperor with an anxious look on his face, and said with a smile.
"Having said that, most of our army comes from the southeast coast, and they have lived in Qiongzhou for a long time, they are not heat-tolerant or cold-resistant, and they are not adapted to the climate here, so it is not a bad thing to be infected with wind and cold!" Zhao Yu shook his head and said.
"Official, Jiangdong is not Qiongzhou, there are hundreds of embroidery buildings and garment workshops in Shaoxing Fucheng, and women can needlework, as long as there is a style, it doesn't take much time to complete!" Su Lan chuckled.
"Yes, yes, I am now in Jiangdong, but I always think that I am in Qiongzhou, I am really confused!" Zhao Yu suddenly woke up and said with a wry smile.
"The official family is not confused, but they are concerned and chaotic, and they didn't think of it for a while!" Su Lan raised her head and said.
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"What's wrong with the official family......" Su Lan suddenly noticed that the little emperor's face was different, looked at him fixedly, and hurriedly asked.
"Oh, it's okay, I just found out that I'm taller than Sister Su!" Zhao Yu said with a red face. The two are standing very close now, he smelled the unique aroma of Su Lan's body, and suddenly felt a heat in his heart, and suddenly found that Su Lan, who had been with each other day and day, had changed from a young girl when she first entered the palace to a mature peach, and she had a unique charm on her body, and she couldn't help but look stupid.
"Of course, Your Majesty will be fifteen years old after the New Year, and you will wear a crown in another year, and then you will grow up, and the slave and maid will be old!" Su Lan stroked her drooping hair, looked at His Majesty and chuckled.
"My sister is in her prime, how can she be old!" Although Su Lan smiled, Zhao Yu also heard the loneliness in his words, he calculated that Su Lan was six years older than himself, and he was already in his early twenties. If it can still be classified as a girl in modern times, but at this time, it has been classified into the circle of old girls, like she has been a wife for a long time, and now she can only be trapped in the palace, and he can only talk about it.
"Time is fleeting, red faces are easy to grow old, how can slaves and maids escape!" Su Lan smiled bitterly and said, "The Queen Mother has long said that after the official family wears the crown, she will draft a draft girl, and after the wedding, she will let the official family take charge of the government, and then the slave and maid will be able to leave the palace." ”
"I won't let my sister out of the palace!" Zhao Hao smiled and said, he knew very well that this kind of old palace maid would end up miserable after leaving the palace, and if she was good, she could marry a widower, and if she was not good, she could only go into the hook column to laugh, and people put the best years on themselves, so they couldn't do unrighteous things, not to mention ......
"Don't talk nonsense!" Su Lan blushed and lowered her head and smiled bitterly. The Queen Mother let herself be in charge of the Shangyi Bureau and asked her to open her mind to the ignorant little emperor, so that she could spread out before the wedding, so as not to lose the heir. But the little emperor shouted that if he couldn't return to the country one day, he wouldn't get married one day, and he didn't think about it at all, but he was getting old day by day, which could only make her doubly bitter.
"I am a golden mouth, how can I say it!" Zhao Yu stretched out his hands on Su Lan's shoulders and said with a smile.
"Official...... The slave maid heard that Li Sanniang also came with reinforcements, how do you settle it? Su Lan was suddenly hugged by the little emperor, and her heart trembled violently, but she quickly calmed down and gently broke free.
"How do you know?" Zhao Yu was taken aback, Li Sanniang was the concubine who was married to the Slang Clan, thinking about it, she hadn't seen her for a few years, if it wasn't for the regular reward for the New Year every year, she would have forgotten it, and now she suddenly wants to come What kind of trouble.
"The official family must not have read the battle report carefully, there is a mountain brigade among the reinforcements sent by Qiongzhou this time, and Li Sanniang is among the leading generals!" Su Lan smiled and said.
"What is she doing with a woman?" Zhao Yu frowned when he heard this. In the formation of the new army, he considered that the slang people lived in the mountains, were good at climbing mountains and mountains, and were brave and aggressive, so he recruited slang soldiers to form a brigade. Of course, his mother-in-law tried her best to support the scene, and there were 2,000 people below her Daning Village alone, accounting for most of them.
In the end, 3,000 slang soldiers were organized into a mountain brigade, and what made Zhao Hao a headache was that these slang soldiers were unwilling to use firearms, thinking that their use was complicated and inconvenient to use from the mountains, but they only loved traditional spears, short knives and crossbows. Considering the particularity of the slang soldiers, he did not forcibly change, and the chief officer did not appoint Han generals, but took Li Yiren's cousin Wu Qin as the commander, and gave him the power to appoint subordinate officers and subordinate officers independently, and only sent instructors to teach military orders and military discipline, and did not interfere too much, thinking that he was using his own indulgence to exploit loopholes.
"The official family, the slave maid heard in Qiongzhou that Sanniang is a strange woman, familiar with Confucian classics, and proficient in riding and archery. Su Lan said.
"Hehe, it is estimated that its little thing is okay to deal with those slang tongs in Qiongzhou, but now it is a big war with thousands of troops, I'm afraid it will not be bright!" Zhao Hao sneered twice.
"The official family must not live up to Sanniang's hard work, people have come all the way to lead troops to escort them, and Daning Village has been guarding the slang for many years, how can the official family be so indifferent?" Su Lan was not very satisfied with the little emperor's attitude, and persuaded him.
"Wronged, I saved his life back then, but I got into this trouble." Zhao Hao sighed and said, he was no longer bored, and leaned on the railing and watched the rain in a daze......
Three days later, Zhang Zizhen led the Third Fleet to Shaoxing, and with them came not only the baggage army, the second and third marine brigades, but also the third artillery brigade, the second cavalry brigade, the mountain brigade, and the first regiment of the pro-army brigade. In addition, the officials of the six departments of Zhongshu and Shangshu Province and most of the Privy Council, as well as hundreds of students who had not yet been assigned, Zhou Xiang also led more than 1,000 craftsmen and equipment from the Prison and the Capital Academy to arrive at the same time.
Zhao Yu was very impressed when he heard this, and the old man sent almost all of the family members of the Xingchao Dynasty, but Qiongzhou was empty, with only one division of infantry and civilian troops to defend, and only two regiments of the pro-guard brigade were left in Fucheng. However, this also shows that the old man firmly believes that he will be able to occupy Jiangdong, so he will send troops regardless of the empty gate of Qiongzhou. The Queen Mother also came to the book to be very pleased with the successive victories of the army, and told Zhao Yu to pay attention to his body, not to go to the front line in person, and to come to the rendezvous after recovering Lin'an City, worried that there was no one around him, and also sent all the attendants of the East Palace.
Almost all of the current Xing Dynasty moved to Jiangdong, and Lu Xiufu and others were also very happy. None of them expected the situation to develop so quickly, it took less than two months to recover the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and now they want to send officials to rebuild all levels of government, but there is no one around them, and even the scribes around them have been sent out, but they still can't match the personnel. Now that the whole team has arrived, they can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Fortunately for everyone, when he moved to Qiong, the little emperor did not drastically reduce officials, but used the method of supernumerary to keep them in the imperial court, and opened a department to train many reserve officials, which finally came in handy after so many years, so that he can now calmly send officials to serve in various places, so as not to be blind. While everyone admired the little emperor's foresight, they were also extremely excited, and they had finally come out of their lives in Qiongzhou for many years.
Now that the situation was urgent, Zhao Hao did not have time to cooperate with their excitement, so he first ordered Zhou Xiang to build a gunpowder and gunpowder and shell workshop in Shaoxing, and put it into production as soon as possible in order to support the needs of the war. At the same time, it received the shipyards and craftsmen of Pingjiang to repair the damaged warships as soon as possible and transform the captured warships. The other is to prepare to take over the Lin'an craftsman's workshop, and once the city is recovered, the equipment will be installed and put into production as soon as possible.
In addition, he instructed Jiang Chaozong, the staff of the Privy Council, together with Zhang Xu, a young supervisor of the Ministry of Works, to survey the terrain along the river and formulate a plan for repairing the city defenses of Pingjiang, Jiangyin, Jiankang, and other important towns along the river. ordered the Ministry of Engineering to buy materials, recruit craftsmen and Ding Zhuang, and start building as soon as it is completed; The Ministry of Officials selected officials to take up their posts as soon as possible to establish and consolidate political power and appease the people; The household department cooperated with the local prefectures and counties to check the acres of land and population, and did a good job of basic work for the collection of taxes and the dispatch of husband and wife.
The task of the military department was the heaviest, and Zhao Yu ordered half of the training recruits brought by Qiongzhou to be added to the brigades of the Imperial Front Protector Army, and the other half was to expand three to four artillery brigades with the first and second artillery brigades as the backbone to consolidate the river defense; At the same time, 100,000 new recruits will be recruited, and 10 new army divisions will be formed and trained as soon as possible, with the soldiers who have graduated from the new army brigade as the backbone; In addition, it is necessary to begin to rectify, expand the local armed forces, set up a garrison area for the suppression and pacification division, clear out the remnants of the enemy, and support the forbidden army in the war. In addition, there is also the verification of the military exploits of various ministries and the handling of disciplinary violations.
The Criminal Department should also begin to investigate and arrest the traitors and traitors during the Yuan army's invasion of Jiangnan as soon as possible, and punish them quickly and severely; At the same time, the backlog of cases and unjust cases was cleared, and the resistance elements arrested for anti-Yuan were released; The Ministry of Rites seems to be the most relaxed, but they need to prepare for a series of matters after the recovery of Lin'an, from the restoration of the ritual system to the restoration of temples and academies. The Imperial Historical Observatory should also put into work as soon as possible to investigate and prosecute officials who indiscriminately killed innocent people, falsely reported their exploits, and embezzled property during the war, and supervised whether there were any violations of law and discipline in the restoration of political power.
With the arrival of reinforcements, the forces to attack Lin'an are already very sufficient, so Zhao Yu plans to end this campaign as soon as possible, and then he can put his troops into other battlefields, and then turn to a full-scale defensive operation, consolidate the lost territory recovered, and prepare to fight the counterattack of the Yuan army with all his might. In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the campaign, he ordered Zhang Zizhen's troops and three marine brigades to set up a water village with Jiankang as the center, undertake the defense of the Yangtze River, and destroy all enemy troops who tried to cross the river.
The Escort Cavalry Brigade and the Second Cavalry Brigade were deployed outside the north gate of Lin'an City to pursue and annihilate the fleeing enemy; As the main attack, the 1st Brigade of the Protector Army was tasked with breaking through the southern city and seizing the walls of Luocheng. After breaking through the city, the 2nd Brigade and the 5th Division of the Protector Army took Yujie as the boundary, and advanced forward by two routes, east and west, to drive the enemy out of the city. Two regiments of the 3rd Brigade served as reserves, the Guards Brigade and the Mountain Brigade protected the Chinese Army. After breaking the city, the defending navy exploded the east and west water gates and entered the river in the city to divide the enemy army......