Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng and four other soldiers became the first batch of soldiers to aid the Korean army that had been preparing for more than half a year......

Luo Rucai became the captain.

This person must admit that he is still capable.

It's just that I don't want to make progress and like to enjoy it.,It's understandable.,As an old bachelor, he suddenly became the boss with thousands of troops.,If you don't get hundreds of beauties singing every night.,How can you be worthy of the first half of your lonely life.。

But the ability is there.

As for their military camp, it was borrowed from the previous New Army in Tongzhou.

After Sun Yuanhua took the new army to Liaodong, this military camp was idle, and Tianqi did not continue to engage in the second batch of new troops, saying that this one was very painful for nine thousand years old, and the 20,000 new army spent a total of 1.5 million taels from its formation to going to Liaodong, and it is still the highest maintenance cost among the armies in Liaodong. After all, they consume not only food and military salaries, but also a huge amount of money just to maintain normal training, and a salvo of various firearms can cost thousands of catties of gunpowder.

It's true.

The Hongyi cannon is indeed good.

But at present, the largest Hongyi cannon in Liaodong requires five catties of gunpowder for one shot.

Such a new army really can't afford to raise too much, and Cao Wenzhao's new musket cavalry can't afford to spend money on the new army, after all, the short gun only costs a few dollars of gunpowder for a shot.

"In the future, if there is delivery in northern Shaanxi, all names and places of origin must be registered."

Yang Xin said to Mrs. Yang.

"What's different about these people?"

Mrs. Yang asked curiously.

"The old man watched the sky at night, and one hundred and eight magic stars have recently descended into the world, and all of them are star-responders."

Yang Dudu touched his mustache and said.

"Then why don't you just kill it?"

Mrs. Yang said speechlessly.

"Demon star, it's still good to use it to harm others."

Yang Xin said.

Why kill?

Wouldn't it be better to keep the scourge of the Lords?

"How much oil have they sent over the years?"

He said, looking at the barrels of oil that were being unloaded on the side.

"So far this year, a total of 5,000 barrels have been sent, each barrel is 100 catties, and it is said that there are already people there who are digging wells to get oil, and they have hired people from Sichuan who can drill salt wells, and after drilling deep wells, they can go out by themselves, and the cost is extremely low, and it is at least five times more profitable to transport it here. In fact, we can't use it, at present, kerosene is sold to our farmers to light the lamp, but the kerosene refined has a smell, but fortunately it is brighter than other oils after all, and those who want to let their children read still like it.

But they are limited in their use.

Then there is the purchase of gasoline by the army, especially Sun Chuanting, who likes to use this thing to burn the wasteland for Jiannu.

And it is very good, it is said that it is better than pine resin, and even the stones are burned when a bucket is poured, and those towering trees are even more set on fire.

But we really don't make money.

But asphalt is really good, and now new ships use this brush to waterproof the outside. ”

Mrs. Yang said.

imagined the scene of the Liaodong Ming army setting fire to the mountains and forests with gasoline, Yang Xin couldn't help but smile.

In fact, this is the favorite of the Ming army in these years.

They did lack motivation to attack the wild boar skin, but they were still very enthusiastic about going out to light the fire in the mountains and forests, and the wild boar skin would also send rangers to patrol, and the two sides would have skirmishes from time to time, because the people who went out to set fire were elites, so the two sides won and lost each other, and those who came back with the head could receive the reward.

Over the years, Jiannu has been miserable.

After all, they really can't deal with it, this kind of mountain fire is very difficult to extinguish, and they are surrounded by mountains and forests, and there is nowhere to hide, and the common practice now is to clear enough isolation zones around the residential area, and once the fire burns over, watch it honestly, anyway, it can't be extinguished. Over the years, the Ming army has been burning every year, as long as the wind direction is right, find a place to point it, after recapturing the side wall, because the number of places that have not been burned in front has increased, this year it will burn more joyfully, these fires really can't burn a few people, but the beasts in the mountains are extinct.

He was driven away without being burned.

After all, they've been burning for almost six years.

Now the Jiannu has changed from hunting and farming to grazing and farming.

That is, to herd a sheep near the residential area, and drive the sheep into the isolation zone in case of fire, but because there are not many opportunities to draw the bow on weekdays, the time for carrying the hoe has increased, so the bow and arrow level of the new generation of Jiannu young people is generally lower than that of the older generation. After all, the latter's hard bow and heavy arrows have been grown up with since childhood, and their arrows are not accurate to shoot the possibility of starvation, and the younger generation wants to shoot nothing, as for the simple war, it is better to play with muskets than to train bows and arrows.

They were not without muskets.

"The oil still has to be collected, we don't lack that bit of silver, and kerosene will not go bad, and it will be stored after refining, this kind of thing can solve the smell, but the solution needs another thing, and we don't have the means to produce this kind of thing in large quantities."

Yang Xin said.

He needs sulfuric acid and caustic potassium.

The latter, of course, is easy to say, in fact, there is already now, potassium hydroxide, and the textile industry has been using shell calcination and plant ash reaction as a detergent since the Qin Dynasty.

But sulfuric acid is really not that easy to solve.

A small amount can be obtained, but to be truly cheap, you have to go to the lead chamber method

In short, it doesn't matter if kerosene is not used, it is a big deal to store barrels and barrels, gasoline can be given to the army, and this thing is not only burned wasteland, but also can be made into Molotov cocktails, asphalt can be used in shipbuilding, in short, in the end, the Yang family will not lose money because of this, then this is enough. He didn't do it for oil, his real purpose was to build up a large enough convoy to transport food when needed.

Because they wanted to send a large amount of lucrative oil to the capital, those gentry organized a large number of camel caravans.

And just like Zhang Xianzhong's family, more and more local people raise donkeys to join, from Yan'an to the capital distance of more than 2,000 miles, basically can go back and forth twice a year, they are a donkey two barrels of two hundred catties, and then bring some additional beans as feed and dry food to eat on the road. At present, the Yang family is purchased according to twice the price of local rapeseed oil in the capital, one catty and six cents of silver, even the barrel is calculated, two hundred catties and twelve taels, usually they will get half of the freight, that is, six taels of silver, generally two donkeys, so it is twelve taels.

They eat very little on their own.

These people are extremely thrifty, it takes three months to go back and forth, and even people and donkeys eat only two taels, and they either eat rice noodles or some sorghum nests, even if they need to buy outside, they also buy cheap ones, in fact, they are all buying sweet potato pancakes and pickles in the capital.

In total, it will not exceed two taels of silver for three months.

Don't talk about staying in a hotel.

These people won't stay in hotels unless it's raining or snowing, and even if they add these, it's only three or two.

That is to say, a trip can earn nine taels, usually two back and forth a year, are after planting or harvesting to go out, and finally can earn eighteen taels a year, of course, there will be some other expenses along the way, but at least fifteen taels of silver a year, at this time, the recruitment of soldiers is also twenty taels of military salaries a year.

Although it is necessary to raise donkeys, the cost of raising such things as donkeys is extremely low, and they can still sell meat and skins when they die.

For these poor people in northern Shaanxi who can't support themselves at all, fifteen taels a year is definitely worth it, not to mention not only, because they will also buy rice in the capital and transport it back, usually two stones, after all, this is not oil, the latter is liquid, even if the liquidity is low, it is liquid.

That's not good luck.

But if it is grain, a donkey can carry more than 250 catties for long-distance walking, and they are Suimi donkeys, which are used by packs themselves.

The price of rice in northern Shaanxi is almost twice that of the capital.

Even they will make a detour to Xuanda, the distance is about the same, but it is not as safe as the south road, but the problem is that the price of rice in Xuanda is three times that of the capital, and they transport the grain in the capital and sell it at three times the price, and then they can ride a donkey home.

So when there is a famine in northern Shaanxi, these donkey convoys can be directly hired, and then a small donkey carries five cans, and at present these people transport 5,000 barrels of oil a year, at that time, they don't need to transport oil, and they don't have to take care of farming, they have to transport back at least 30,000 cans a year, and a can with a mess of wild vegetables can hang the life of a hungry person for two months. In addition to the stored dried sweet potatoes and the like, there can still be some sweet potatoes produced locally, after all, there is almost no extinction of this thing, as long as it can be planted, it can produce something more or less, so as to maintain the survival of the victims to the greatest extent.

Then organize them to migrate to these places in Sichuan, Guizhou.

"We have to increase the amount of purchases, starting from this batch, to increase to one penny of silver per catty."

Yang Xin said.

So that's a bucket of ten taels of silver.

Such a price will make those camel caravans crazy, even if they have to share with the gentry, their profits can skyrocket by at least thirty percent, and then more people will join the ranks of donkey breeding, and a donkey can join the donkey transportation in two years at most, in fact, a year and a half is about the same, just before the famine comes, the donkeys raised in this wave of donkey breeding will grow.

No more, as long as the donkey transport volume to northern Shaanxi can be increased to 100,000 cans during this period, then Yang Xin will have the ability to stabilize the first year.

After all, the rise of hungry people in northern Shaanxi is a gradual accumulation process, the first year is only Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang, Wang Ziyong, Li Zicheng is the second year, or because of layoffs, that is to say, a low-level post man like him can still barely survive in the first year. The whole of northern Shaanxi has not yet reached the point of no return, as long as there is sufficient relief from the outside to ensure that it can survive, during this period the most severely affected hungry people can be transferred outward, while relieving and transferring until northern Shaanxi is emptied.

Really, that place can only be emptied.

At most, the gentry who occupied the best fields were left.

"Don't worry that our family will lose money, lose money now, and when the time comes, all the sweet potatoes will be earned, now the sweet potatoes are not worthless, after three years, I can guarantee that the dried sweet potatoes are more expensive than the current meat, now we spend more silver to collect oil, and after three years, these camel teams will be able to recover the silver for our family in the past few years."

He then said in Mrs. Yang's pained gaze.

What is the most valuable thing in the age of famine?

Food.

During the period when Kaifeng was surrounded by Li Zicheng, a bowl of live fly larvae was hundreds of Wenwen.