This is the 800-mile Qinchuan River, this is the Weinan Plain, this is the strategic purpose that he and his brothers under his leadership have been fighting for, this is the foundation for his survival in the chaotic times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and this is the foundation for his own travel to the Ming Dynasty and changing history.

On a high earthen platform, a white horse, Lu Shi in white clothes, a black horse beside him, a man like an iron tower, behind him, a tall fiery red banner, a black flag, in the strong autumn wind, hunting and flying, beside the two of them, surrounded by a group of enthusiastic fierce generals and ministers, under the tall earthen platform, the black armor elite soldiers who do not see the head and the tail, the spear like the forest, the sword and shield like the sun and the moon, and the longbow like the forest, rolling forward and galloping.

Every brother who strode across the Tutai worked hard to straighten his chest, and with his greatest enthusiasm, he worked hard to face the one on the stage, leading them to continue to move forward from hardships and hardships, and constantly strive for the powerful King Chuang.

Looking at the endless wilderness plain, the dense villages and fortresses on the plain, and the army like the tide and the sea, Lu Shi was full of pride.

However, Guo Tianxing, who was following closely by his side, was completely stunned with emotion.

"Oh my God, whose yard is this? It's too big. ”

In October of the second year of Chongzhen, the Manchurian army invaded on a large scale, broke the border wall from Zunhua and Jixian areas in Hebei, and captured Zunhua, Yutian, Sanhe, Xianghe, Shunyi and other counties, and the troops reached the city of Beijing. Wang Yuanya, the governor of Zunhua in the Ming Dynasty, committed suicide, and Zhao Shujiao, the general soldier of Shanhaiguan who came to the rescue, was killed. Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen was panicked, gullible the eunuch's words, fell into the anti-plot set up by Huang Taiji, and arrested Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, and imprisoned (soon executed) (History of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty). The chief soldier of Liaodong, Zu Dashou, was frightened, pulled up the team and ran back to Shanhaiguan. In order to save the crisis, the imperial court ordered all localities to supervise the king of fire and urgency.

Yang He, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, Liu Guangsheng, the governor of Shaanxi, Mei Zhihuan, the governor of Gansu, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of Yansui, should also send more than 17,000 elite soldiers from each town, led by Wu Zimian, You Shilu, Yang Qi, Wang Chengen, and Yang Jiamo, the commanders of the five major towns along the border, to join the defense of Beijing. Hong Chengchou faced foreign enemies entering the Kou, and had to let go of Weinan Lu Shi and enter Beijing.

Because the general soldier Wu Zimian withheld the rations, extorted the sergeants who were unwilling to join the guard to pay bribes and steal and sell military horses, the soldiers were strongly dissatisfied, and many deserted and left without saying goodbye.

The reassignment of the border soldiers and the mutiny had a major impact on the development of the fledgling peasant uprising in Shaanxi. The soldiers who were sent to the guard were the elite of the local garrison, and their promotion of the king of Qin naturally greatly weakened the power of the local authorities to suppress the revolt peasants. The mutiny of King Qin's soldiers not only disrupted the military deployment of the Ming court and involved the energy of local officials, but also the soldiers who participated in the mutiny often did not dare to return to the army, and many of them wandered and joined the peasant uprising in groups. In this way, a considerable number of forces originally used to suppress the peasant uprising were transformed into forces against the Ming Dynasty. They have received military training and have combat experience, which is of great significance for enhancing the combat effectiveness of the peasant army.

When Lu Shi got this report, which he had long been familiar with, he couldn't help laughing: "My good days are coming." ”

Good days have long befallen the seven counties of Weinan, especially the rich counties that were first assigned to the rule of the Chuang army, Huanglong, Yichuan, Luochuan, and Ganquan.

The current base industry is already the most advanced in the land of Daming.

The steel production has reached an unexpected five hundred tons per month, and on that day, after Lu Shi got the news, he saw the brothers around him in the middle, especially Guo Tianxing's disdain for the number five hundred, stood up, and began to settle accounts for him around Guo Tianxing.

"Five hundred tons, a lot, what is that concept? That is to say, 100,000 jin of steel per month, according to one gun and two jin of steel (1.6 jin), that is 50,000 guns, 600,000 sabers a year, 4 jin of sabers, that is 25,000, 300,000 in a Chinese New Year's Eve. Looking at Guo Tianxing, who had become a wooden man, Lu Shi asked with a smile: "So many sabers, Great Commander, do you still feel sorry for me to export a hundred more sabers?" ”

The wood carving clay sculpture has already praised Tianxing and those brothers, so Lu Shi continued: "If all of them are made into long bow arrows, of course, it is a kind of luxury to use stainless steel to make arrowheads, we have more cast iron to do, but even if it is extravagant to make stainless steel, other people's arrows are one or two, and ours is indeed too wasteful." When he said this, Lu Shi looked at Chen Ce, the dehumanized star of the sky, again, and clasped his hands at Zhao Blacksmith, who was smiling indifferently, and said with a smile: "Ours is three or two, that can be made of 10 million, 120,000 a year, the longbow and arrows we have, even if a million troops are against us, I begin to doubt, can they reach in front of us, Ming army?" Manchu Tartars? Are the Mongols still using wolf teeth for arrows? Fart. Lu Shi lightly folded his fingers to calculate this confused account for his brothers, but his expression was calm and full of confidence.

Think about it, what kind of terrifying amount is that? 120,000,000, when Lu Shi told Tianxing about this result lightly, he found that there was no one on the chair, and he could only see the struggling commander on the ground.

"Don't be complacent about that, it's nothing." When he said this, his eyes turned to Chen Ce and Zhao Xing, who were already full of blood, "Don't worry about not getting muddy to the enemy, let our core secrets be leaked, and don't worry that the enemy will learn what we show to the outside world." ”

Chen Ce Zhao Xing heard this, and raised his head again, since ancient times, for a housekeeper weapon, all dynasties are strictly guarded against it, where is there a king Lu Shi like this, indifferent to the manufacturing technology of longbows and windmills, but constantly encourage the people to imitate, others, in several meetings repeatedly proposed to restore the craftsman system, the craftsman household is strictly controlled, and absolutely no technology is allowed to be leaked, if it is not for Erlang is Lu Shi's own nephew, it can't be said, Erlang, who controls the most advanced military technology in the base area, He was killed by Zhao Xing a long time ago to prevent future troubles.

But every time the issue of secrecy was mentioned, Lu Shi took this proposal to Tiannan and Haibei in accordance with the practice of digressing from the topic of the base meeting, and in the end everyone could completely forget about this proposal.

"I oppose the promulgation of the Chen Ce and Zhao Xing secrecy law because I think it is completely unnecessary." This time he digressed and ran back to the topic, which made Chen Ce and Zhao Xing quite interested, and the reason was full of reasons waiting for Lu Shi to finish speaking, and he wanted to refute his incompleteness.

"A group, to a country, in fact, it is not an absolute secret to see the national strength, the so-called secret, it is all a joke, and you can't keep it secret if you want to." Waving his hand, stopping the two people who opened their mouths to refute, Lu Shi then said lightly, "If you want to stand on the commanding heights forever, there are only two aspects, the first is the hundreds of millions of people who are committed to the government, and the second is the production of steel.

In the face of the enemy, the weapon made of steel, if 100,000 catties is not good, then a million catties, if a million catties are not good, then 10,000 catties, if 10 million catties are not good, then 10,000 catties, 100,000 catties. Looking at Guo Tianxing, Chen Ce, and the brothers around him, who had been bluffed by his own theory, Lu Shi said indifferently: "Iron blood, remember, iron blood is the real undefeated king in this world." ”

Commercially, with dried potato distilleries, vermicelli factories, garment yards, and a steady stream of arms exports, not only did the gold and silver in the base area completely achieve a balance and have huge reserves, no longer relying on the attack on the fortress for emergencies. In this way, the relationship between the government of the base area and those landlords and the powerful has eased again, and this has once again made the base area safe and prosperous, with huge gold and silver reserves, and the renminbi guaranteed by the decoupled wheat has been officially circulated in the seven counties, so that a huge amount of gold and silver foreign trade has been released for the government of the base area, and the businessmen have begun to complain, whether they can adopt the old rules of bartering when trading with the base area, or they really can't come up with the money, of course, this kind of complaint is a kind of kind complaint, and Lu Shi is happy to see it.

"Our commercial tax is the lowest in Daming, but we are just in Yichuan Ferry, in the past six months, counting the storage income and removing the expenses, it has reached 500,000 taels." The third uncle said proudly.

"What is the concept of 500,000 taels?" After learning Lu Shi's scary style, the third uncle said slowly: "320,000 catties, that is to say, according to the normal cart car, one cart is 2,000 catties, that is, one hundred and sixty carts." From here-" The third uncle nodded exaggeratedly in the cave, and then pointed to the Huluyu village gate in the distance: "It is completely possible to line up the cart full of silver." ”

chin, Lu Shi can no longer see everyone's chin.

Chen Ce picked up his chin and said embarrassedly that the income from bank interest is not much, and it is about 100,000 taels according to the RMB exchange. "But, at once, we found a justified excuse for ourselves: 'In this way, we have almost completely squeezed out the exploitation of the people by usury, and thus we have gained the hearts and minds of the people, and the hearts of the people know?'" And that's not even counting the millions of silver accumulated in the trade surplus. ”

In fact, Lu Shi hasn't said it yet, these are all piled up in the library, and what is really operating outside is only the RMB.

Under the influence of the perfect water conservancy network and the huge countless windmills, after the bumper harvest of potatoes in the spring, the autumn grain harvest was once again reaped.

Due to the stability and prosperity of the base areas, it once again attracted a large influx of displaced people from all over northern Shaanxi, and the population of the seven counties reached an unprecedented number of one million. This number has surpassed the peak of the Ming Dynasty.

With huge wealth, a population of one million, and a growing army, Guo Tianxing stood up and reported to everyone: "Now, we have fully armed, 40,000 full-time elite soldiers, including 20,000 soldiers, 20,000 garrisons, and 5,000 cavalry. ”

All the people had to rejoice, in these last days, these nearly 60,000 elite soldiers are the guarantee of everything.

Suppressing the boiling brothers, Lu Shi said solemnly: "Down, almost all the elites of the Ming Dynasty are going to the east, and they are down." Taking a deep breath, everyone looked at Lu Shi together, welcoming the upcoming task, which was also the long-awaited task for everyone.

"Go south to Weinan, occupy Weinan, and achieve what we have not been able to achieve." The high-spirited Lu Shi carried his hands behind his back and summed up proudly.

This time, I really stood at the door of the Weinan Plain, how could I not make all the brothers excited?