Liaodong, Ningyuan

Looking at Zu Dashou's blank eyes, Yuan Chonghuan smiled happily.

"General Zu, looking at Liaodong, in addition to Shanhaiguan, is there a stronger city defense than my Ningyuan?" Yuan Chonghuan said proudly.

Even if Zu Dashou no longer likes Yuan Chonghuan, Zu Dashou really has no objection to what Yuan Chonghuan said.

Because under Sun Chengzong's strict orders and Yuan Chonghuan's close attention, Ningyuan's city defense was rebuilt extremely solidly without cutting corners.

The current Ningyuan City, the height of the city is 3 zhang 2 feet, the height of the pheasant is 6 feet, the thickness of the bottom of the city wall is 3 zhang, and the thickness of the city head has also reached 2 zhang 4 feet. The city wall alone is 5% taller and thicker than the original.

In order to give full play to the power of the red-coated cannon, Yuan Chonghuan also built forts at the four corners of the city wall.

These four forts completely adopt the original design concept of horse faces, and the whole fort protrudes outside the city wall, forming a great angle with the city wall.

If the enemy attacks the wall in front of them, they will be hit from three sides. Under this structure, there are no traditional defensive dead spots under the city walls.

This kind of defensive formation without dead ends, even without the red-coated cannon, will greatly increase the defensive power of the city.

What's more, there are also a full 11 redcoat cannons placed on these batteries.

The red-clothed cannon, this is the most powerful war weapon that Zu Dashou has ever seen in his life.

Red-coated cannon: The cannon is 1 zhang long, the muzzle is 3 inches thick, and the cannon weighs more than 4,000 catties. It can fire 16 or 7 pounds of solid projectiles.

After the Ningyuan City Fort was repaired, Zu Dashou had personally seen the test cannon of the red-coated cannon.

From the fort at the head of the city, the shells of the red-coated cannons can hit 3 or 4 miles of land at the farthest with one cannon. If the cannon is operated by those red-haired gunners, within 1,000 steps, although the red-coated cannon cannot be said to be a hundred shots, the landing point of the cannonball is also eight or nine.

16 or 7 pounds of projectiles, even if they are only thrown from the city, they will either be killed or injured when they touch people, let alone from the red-clothed cannon.

As long as he was hit by a cannonball, Zu Dashou believed that no matter who he was, he would only die. Zu Dashou had the impression that nothing could stop the shells of the red-coated cannon.

With such a divine weapon, Zu Dashou still has 8 or 9 percent confidence in holding Ning Yuan.

It was precisely because Zu Dashou was very aware of Ning Yuancheng's defense capability that he couldn't answer Yuan Chonghuan's question.

Zu Dashou is really contradictory.

On the one hand, Zu Dashou clearly knew in his heart that it was very likely that he would move troops after the golden autumn; But on the other hand, Zu Dashou was unwilling to give up all the Zhuangzi outside the city. There's no way, it's hard to give up good money!

In Zu Dashou's heart, there is still a faint luck of one in 10,000.

What if the money doesn't come?

Seeing Zu Dashou's entanglement, Yuan Chonghuan was not very concerned about himself.

"General Zu, let's do it. This way does not force you to give up the fortified walls outside the city now. How about you get the soldiers in the city to move first? It's always okay to practice at the rhythm of wartime, right? Yuan Chonghuan still said with a smile.

Zu Dashou could see that Yuan Chonghuan's smile was already a little cold.

"Ben will obey the orders of the Daotaijun." Zu Dashou had to make an affirmative statement. If Yuan Chonghuan really went crazy, he wouldn't feel good.

Let's practice first, it's fine. Be prepared, aren't you? Zu Dashou comforted himself in his heart.

In a blink of an eye, Zu Dashou thought again: "Maybe we should withdraw the clansmen outside the city first, wouldn't it be safer?" Well, fortunately, there is still some time before the autumn harvest, and there is still plenty of time to plan carefully. ”

Dong'an County

It's dawn.

Zhu Youzhen walked out of the door and jogged in the courtyard. When he goes out, he doesn't sleep deeply, and instead of lying in bed half-asleep, it is better to get up early and exercise.

When he clearly saw the backward medical conditions of this era last night, Zhu Youzhen's mind to exercise became stronger.

What is better than a good body!

After jogging for a few laps, Zhu Youzhen stopped his steps, and handed over a piece of Jinpa as always.

After taking Jinpa and wiping his face, Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth and ordered: "Wang Mian, you arrange a profitable manpower, go to the county government today, and put the Zhou family's fields under the name of the palace." ”

"The old slave understands." Hearing Zhu Youzhen's arrangement, Wang Chengen was full of joy. Your Highness finally knows about the purchase of property.

Arrange the Zhou family in this way, Zhu Youzhen thought about it yesterday. If you want Zhou Xiucai to get rid of the shackles of the grain chief, this is the best way.

The Zhou family's fields are counted as the property of the palace, and Zhou Xiucai is counted as a person from the palace. In this way, even if they lent a few more guts to the county officials, they would not dare to ask Zhou Xiucai to collect taxes. This is the most popular casting effect of Daming.

As for whose family the county government will pay the Zhou family's tax, Zhu Youzhen doesn't care.

If you want to come to the Zhou family's tax burden, there is a chance that the county government will add it to his unconscionable villagers.

What the? Those folks won't be able to afford such a heavy tax.

They can't bear it, what does that have to do with Zhu Youzhen.

Say whatever you say in any position, this is what Zhu Youzhen has always thought.

If those villagers really can't stand it, can they also serve Thaksin's royal palace? Then he can stand up for them.

If you don't give anything, why do you want to get what you get?

Let's deal with the affairs of the Zhou family like this for the time being.

In view of Zhou Xiucai's leg injury and inconvenience, Zhu Youzhen specially left two people to take care of him, and waited until Zhou Xiucai's leg injury was healed before taking his family back to the capital palace.

For Zhou Xiucai, Zhu Youzhen has already figured out how to use him. Zhou Xiu will be of great use.

Before the brigade left, Zhu Youzhen specially went to visit Zhou Xiucai again.

Zhu Youzhen's method seems to be effective, and Zhou Xiucai's whole person is in good condition, at least so far there has been no high fever. This relieved Zhu Youzhen a lot.

After leaving Dong'an County, Zhu Youzhen found that he came and went in a hurry and didn't even look at the street here.

Alas, this is too detrimental to the four words of micro-service private interview.

In the bottom of his heart, Zhu Youzhen let out a soft sigh.

Tianjin City

Looking at the blue brick city wall in the distance, the tall gatehouse, and the endless crowd of people entering and leaving the city, Zhu Youzhen became excited.

That's right, this is the kind of ancient city in memory.

Is Dong'an also called a city? Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but complain to Dong'an again.

From the city gate, you can feel the obvious difference between Tianjin City and Dong'an.

The official road in and out of Tianjin City is artificially separated at the entrance of the tall city gate. Cars walk in the middle of the road, and people walk left and right.

7 or 8 fairly strong soldiers and more than 10 strong men in Tsing Yi were busy at the doorway. Presumably collecting taxes from the gates of the city.

Although the city gate is relatively wide, the efficiency of entering and exiting the Tianjin city gate seems to be much slower than that of Dong'an. The crowd that Zhu Youzhen saw from a distance obviously gathered because of the limited speed of entry and exit.

Zhu Youzhen's motorcade slowly came to the edge of Tianjin's city gate with the flow of people.