As soon as the zodiac changed long-distance transportation to short-distance transportation, everyone understood. In the case of inconvenient transportation, the loss of this long-distance transportation is mainly in the cost of food and drink of the transporter, after turning long-distance transportation into short-distance transportation, the man who transports things can bring some dry food to eat himself, anyway, he stays at home and does nothing to eat. The latest free chapters of the book can be found here. In order to increase the enthusiasm of these people, they can be exempted from forced labor after they have transported a certain amount of money, and then give them some silver money as a subsidy, and it is estimated that they will wake up laughing when they fall asleep one by one.

After discussing for a while, everyone finally decided to send someone to inform Huang Taiji first, saying that the imperial court was ready to conduct a serious and thorough negotiation with them to see what his attitude was. Then he sent someone to inform Lin Dan Khan of the Mongol Han Department to make a mutual explanation of the deployment of troops between the two sides along the Lianghe Estuary and the Daling River, so as not to cause further trouble or be provoked by others. First, muddy the waters so that neither the Jurchens nor the Mongols could understand the true intentions of the army, and in the process of their careful guessing and doubts, they achieved the goal of delaying time and making it impossible for them to attack.

Among the officers and troops who originally besieged the rebels, Qin Liangyu was occupied by Zhu Xieyuan in Chongqing, and Cai Fuyi in Guiyang held on to Yunnan, and the total number of the three of them was about 200,000. However, these more than 200,000 are weak brigades with weak combat effectiveness, and there are only 40,000 or 50,000 strong troops that can fight the enemy face to face without fear. The decision of these ** families is to stay put, and wait for the 40,000 auxiliaries of Zhao and Zhang Jing'an's 30,000 mountain infantry to arrive.

On the arrangement of Zhao Shujiao's 40,000 auxiliary soldiers and Zhang Jing'an's 30,000 main combat force, everyone's unanimous opinion was to agree with the arrangement of Hou Sui and Zhang Xiang'an, and these 70,000 people would only be teachers to teach people, and the people who really did things were selected from the hundreds of thousands of garrison troops already there. Those who want to fight learn mountain warfare with Zhang Jing'an's troops, and those who don't like to fight learn to build roads and build houses with Zhao Shujiao, and those who don't like both let him roll as ♀ far as he can, so that he can not only train a group of useful talents, but also preserve his strength to deal with the Jurchens and Mongols.

After the general arrangement was completed, Sun Chengzong was slightly tired, looking at Sun Chengzong, who was a little tired, Tianqi said: "Mr. has worked hard!" ”

After speaking, Tianqi said to everyone: "Mr. Sun has arranged it very thoroughly, I don't know if you have anything to add?" ”

Sun Chengzong also said: "I also made a summary of everyone's opinions, and it is normal to have unexpected places, so don't worry if you have anything to say." ”

Wang Yongguang said with a smile: "Lord Sun is resourceful and thoughtful, and the lower officials have always admired it tightly, and other people dare not say anything else, anyway, the lower officials only have to admire." After speaking, he also smiled and greeted Sun Chengzong.

Sun Chengzong nodded to Wang Yongguang, lowered his head and took a sip of tea and said, "Yuanlu seems to have something to say, so if you have anything, just say it and listen to it." ”

Ni Yuanlu coughed lightly and said, "The military arrangements have been done very thoroughly, and what the student wants to say is something else." ”

Apocalypse looked at him and said, "What else do you do?" Does it have anything to do with this counterinsurgency? ”

Ni Yuanlu nodded and said, "The minister thinks it's related, and it has a lot to do with it!" ”

Apocalypse said, "Then you come and hear it." ”

Ni Yuanlu said: "It has been six years since the rebellion of Xuan Chongming and An Bangyan, and the reason why they are so rampant is not because they are so capable of fighting, but because there are many people behind them who are supporting, and this support is both material and human support. In other words, the army of the imperial court was not fighting with tens of thousands of rebels, but with hundreds of thousands of Yi people who were deceived by the rebels. ♀ ”

Hong Chengchou said: "What does Lord Ni mean is that as long as we send some food and clothing to the Yi people, they will leave Xuan Chongming and An Bangyan and make them rootless duckweed?" Can the officers and soldiers win the war very easily? ”

Seeing that Hong Chengchou was finding fault with his words again, Ni Yuanlu said expressionlessly: "If you send food and clothing to the Yi people for free as Lord Hong said, then the process of counterinsurgency will be prolonged, because they will immediately use it to support the rebels after they get free food and clothing." ”

Hong Chengchou said unhappily: "Obviously, Lord Ni is saying that the official army has not won for six years because the Yi people are not well fed and clothed, why did it become what I said again?" It's better to make it clearer what Lord Ni means. ”

Ni Yuanlu said: "Xia Guan said that the reason why the people rebelled from thieves was that they did not have enough food and clothing to be an important reason, but they did not say that they would give food and clothes to people for free. As the saying goes, the dolls you pick up kick with your feet, and no one will cherish what you give away for free. But if they are allowed to obtain a certain harvest through hard work, it is not impossible to prevent the whole family from starvation and cold, and to abandon the thieves and the people for a while. ”

The apocalypse said, "You mean to divide the fields among them?" That's kind of interesting. ”

Ni Yuanlu said: "Your Majesty, dividing the land is only one aspect, so that the Yi people can solve the problem of eating and dressing." But what the minister wanted to say was that in addition to dividing the land, the new varieties of grain crops in the doctoral college should also be brought to Sichuan, Guizhou and other places to promote and apply. ”

Apocalypse thought for a moment and his eyes lit up, and said, "How did you come up with this?" Let's hear about it. ”

Ni Yuanlu said: "When the minister was discussing the new type of cannon with people in the doctoral college, he happened to hear people say that new varieties of grain crops such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes are actually the most suitable for planting in the south, and now the imperial court is not able to produce great results in planting in the north. ”

Tianqi asked: "The south is rich in water resources and suitable for planting rice and wheat, and the north is short of water to plant new drought-tolerant varieties such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. ”

Ni Yuanlu said: "I heard that drought-tolerant crops also need water, but they need less, and if it doesn't rain in the north, corn and potatoes won't be able to live." The fog in the south of the Ming Dynasty contains water, and there is no need to deliberately water, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Huguang and other mountains are most suitable for planting corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes, and its yield far exceeds that of planting in the north. ”

Sun Chengzong asked at this time: "Do you mean that after the Yi people have distributed the fields, they will be allowed to plant new varieties such as corn and potatoes, so that they will not only be able to eat and clothe more, but also have food and clothing, and the hearts of the rich will be settled, and the rebel leaders such as Yu Chongming and An Bangyan will slowly rebel and leave?" ”

Ni Yuanlu said: "This is exactly what students mean, no matter how high their prestige and ruthless means, they can't compete with the word profit." Besides, as long as the people of the Yi nationality are no longer poor and white, and have some net worth, there will be many fewer outlaws who are determined to go their own way and stubborn to the end, and I am afraid that they will not use much strength in the imperial court at that time, they will naturally fall apart, I don't know what the teacher thinks? ”

Sun Chengzong smiled and nodded: "Yuanlu has grown up, this idea is good!" If this is the case, it will not lose to the ancients who defeated the enemy country in the imperial court, and this idea can be discussed! ”

Wang Yongguang said to Sun Chengzong: "Master Sun is really a famous teacher and a high apprentice!" Xia Guan admires! ”

Apocalypse suddenly asked, "There is no problem with growing corn and potatoes on the soily slopes, but I heard that many mountains are bare, and only stones grow and no grass grows, what about such a place?" ”

Ni Yuanlu said: "This is the second thing that the minister wants to say, while the minister is discussing with those Taixi people about making cannons, he is also learning their words, because the minister knows that they have thousands of books, and there must be a lot of new knowledge in them." By chance, I heard them talk about what soil can be used as a substitute for volcanic ash, and that lime in general can be another very useful thing, and this kind of earth and lime-burning stones are everywhere in the southern mountains. ”

Apocalypse was thrilled and asked, "Did you hear them say that this kind of thing is useful?" ”

Ni Yuanlu shook his head and said: "This minister doesn't know, they only talked a few words and then didn't talk about it, but the minister can see from their expressions that this thing is very useful, and the emperor also has this expression, do you know anything?" ”

When Tianqi heard this, he hurriedly calmed down, and let out a long breath and said: "I have heard that lime plus clay and volcanic ash can be prepared into a special kind of ash, which can be referred to as ocean ash ♀, but it is a good thing, usually it looks like a pile of ash, and when it is added with water, it will immediately become as hard as stone, and it will be what you want to make it look like before it hardens, and it is useless to build roads, bridges, and fortifications. ”

Ni Yuanlu said: "I see, the minister only knew that it was very useful, but he didn't expect it to be so useful." ”

Tianqi thought for a while and said to Sun Chengzong: "Sir, at first, we originally wanted Ni Yuanlu to lead people with grenades to defend Lianghekou City immediately, but now it seems that we have to wait and let him lead people to develop this formula for foreign ash first." With the recipe, we can blow up mountains and take stones in the south to build roads and bridges, and the roads built with ash are extremely strong, and the transportation of materials and people will be very fast, and any rebellious army of the court can quickly arrive in the future. ”

Sun Chengzong said with some disbelief: "Since the emperor thinks that the ash is good, let Yuanlu wait before going to Lianghekou, anyway, the negotiations with the Jurchens have not yet begun, and the matter of defending the city is not in a hurry." We are here to make preparations first, Zhao Shujiao and Zhang Jing'an's men and horses are now on standby in the area of Nanzhili, first immediately send out, according to Huang Daozhou's suggestion, starting from Baojing and Jingzhou in Huguang Province all the way to the east to build supply depots, all according to the rules of small cities that can resist short-term attacks, and finally go straight to Guiyang and then go north to Yongning. ”

Tianqi nodded and said, "Yes, the Military Affairs Yuan will send a document to Qin Liangyu in Sichuan, Zhu Xieyuan in Guizhou, and Cai Fuyi in Yunnan at the same time, so that they can hold their troops still." ”