Chapter 140: Blockade

When the smallpox seedlings were used, the people in half the city were still waiting for the pox, and the production in Changsheng County had gradually begun to recover.

Although many people died, the Ming army's preachers were also very powerful, they went down to the localities to tell the people about the benefits of pox, and the soldiers also devoted themselves to caring for the sick people, so that the situation did not deteriorate further.

And most of the people who succeeded in getting pox were very grateful to the government, and the smallpox that had scared them for decades could no longer cause any harm to them.

In the course of the mourning in Changsheng County, an interesting thing happened outside the county government, and the immigrants soon found that there were many local people after establishing the village, but interestingly, there was not a single conflict.

Despite the difference in language, the clothes of the immigrants are like inscriptions, and a banner army with a few people standing at the gate of the indigenous tribe can stabilize the situation.

Pretty much by the way.

The locals have long known about the Ming Dynasty's feud with Spain, and the Ming Dynasty people have come from nowhere to defeat the huge, powerful, and invincible Spaniards in this land.

In the perception of the chiefs of the small tribes, which consisted of several families, the Ming dynasty was supposed to take over everything that belonged to Spain.

In the snowflakes of letters that came back to Changsheng County, some of the village immigrants and natives were dying each other, which was rare, and only a few small flag officials who were guarding them expressed concern about the situation.

There are also some village immigrants who set aside some land and rent it to the local people, just like the imperial court demanded of them, everyone is equal to each other and becomes part of the village, and there are many immigrants who do so.

Chen Mu would even think that if it weren't for the presence of the flag army, if it weren't for the fact that the government had already stipulated that this land belonged to them earlier, according to the civilization level of most people far higher than the world average, they would definitely know that they were guests and how to use them as guests.

This is a terrifying difference, and it is also an important problem that Chen Mu has been trying to convince himself to face in his heart - he can't be a colonist.

It's a strange assertion, but he really can't be a colonist.

He came to this land with the most powerful fleet in the human world and the well-equipped Beiyang Army, and in the face of the fact that there were no indigenous tribes in the country, he could not even give birth to the idea of 'bullying' them, whether it was the slaves of the Spaniards or the slaves of other tribes, he could no longer maintain the status of slaves in his hands.

Even if you ask the shop to set a high price, you have to force yourself to do it.

Whatever he does, he must face the condemnation of his conscience, and he will condemn himself, and his companions, those subordinate officials and generals, will also condemn this practice because it is unjust.

In terms of moral standards, his subordinates were much higher than him.

In addition to being provoked or passively entering a state of war, people actually feel disdain for his proximity to the villain.

But this is only because he behaves like a villain, what if it is a more excessive robber?

If you can distinguish whether you are a guest as a degree of civilization, all dynasties have more civilized people and fewer barbarians.

Europe is just the opposite.

What Chen Mu admires most is the practice of a few villages, who not only live in harmony with the local people, but also teach new technologies from the Ming Dynasty and teach Chinese language on the basis of planting and pottery making among the local people.

The emigrant lieutenants of those villages used to be insightful people in the country, including tribute students, merchants, heirs of squires, and even a small Mongol chieftain who was attached to them.

Although they only have an identical status in the long history, they are actually well-educated, and their living conditions and experience are far beyond ordinary people, and it is these qualities that make them make decisions worthy of Chen Mu's praise.

This is of great help to improve the "Daming Yazhou Decree" that Zhao Shizhen and Xu Wei are compiling.

An even more interesting incident occurred in the east, where the preacher of Xiaoqi, a border village to which he belonged, personally experienced the conversation between Xu Jin and Ding Hai, the deputy lieutenant of the hundred households, and then asked Ding Hai alone for his views on the border line, and sent a message to report to the military government before the team reached the border.

The letter recorded in detail what kind of structure should be in the eyes of an old dun soldier who spoke freely about the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, and this structure was also considered by Ding Hai to be applicable to the border of Mexico City in the west of the Ming Dynasty. ァ新ヤ~(8)~1~Chinese 網ωωω.χ~8.~1zщ.còм

In the middle of the village with 30 to 50 households, a pier with a well was set up for the people to take refuge temporarily, and six dun soldiers were selected to take turns to lookout, equipped with weapons such as birds and spears, and stockpiled wooden and stone to guard the pier, and equipped with an artillery cannon on the platform.

That's enough to be on guard.

The village was trained by the lieutenant to have a militia of fifty men, skilled in the firing of artillery and birds, each equipped with arquebus, at least three communication horses, five alert hounds, and five riding and patrolling horses.

On this basis, several barracks were built outside the pier for the militia to rest, and a wooden pile wall was built outside, and a double-layer trench was set up outside the wall to keep out horses, which was enough to control a radius of five miles.

The distance between the three villages on the border line was close to fifteen miles, and the herald soldiers changed horses twice in at most half an hour, and the imperial court officers and soldiers built two medium-sized camps in the middle of the eighty-one villages, each stationed with 500 elite soldiers, supplemented by twenty-seven villages with forts on the border, which could guard the border line within a radius of forty miles.

Chen Mu laughed when he saw this letter from the mouth of the veteran of the Nine Sides and recorded in the hands of the Xiaoqi Propaganda Officer.

These two are one who really dares to think, and the other who really dares to remember.

This method is a set of powerful blockade lines, if it is used on the nine sides, 5,000 miles of border, stationed 120,000 elites, 162,000 guards, each with high-quality ordnance and supplies, the old fort will be built and a new fort will be built.

It's okay for the elite troops to organize horse teams to cross the border to attack and harass, rob a caravan today and rob a tribe tomorrow, the leader of the tribe with a size of less than a thousand horsemen can't beat the fortress at all, and the involvement of troops in order to prevent an attack makes it impossible for the leader of the large army to gather troops, assemble to keep one place, and all other places will be attacked.

Thinking about it this way, it is easy to attack and defend the north and south of the Great Wall, to be honest, Chen Mu feels that if he really does this, the border line will be pushed to Lake Baikal in less than ten years.

However, in the current situation, there are many guards on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty who can play the role of militia, but there are very few troops who can serve as elite soldiers.

What's more, the biggest problem in restricting this set of steady and steady fighting methods is not the army, it is necessary to make up for it, Li Chengliang made up 5,000, Ma Fang made up 5,000, and Qi Jiguang's Jizhen is even more seriously exceeded, and the elite soldiers can be made up, and the equipment and manpower are not a problem, and the imperial court can make up its mind to smash out 2 million taels of military salaries, 2 million taels of armaments, and 2 million taels of grain and miscellaneous items a year.

But logistics are a big problem.

The farther north you go, the colder it gets, prepare 300,000 sets of winter clothes and winter quilts, send them to the border soldiers, and after layers of exploitation, only 150,000 sets remain, and 150,000 sets and 100,000 sets have to be stuffed with silver before you are given. New Bayi Chinese Network debuted

It makes no sense to drop a lot of silver and be beaten back after a few years.

However, this fantasy can be tried in Asia, where everything has just begun, and it is the time to be full of vitality.

"I can repair this blockade."