Liu Lishun's content is to say: On the fourth day of the first month of April, the Qing soldiers returned from Shandong and were about to arrive in the capital. Zhou Yanru then asked for a supervisor. Chongzhen Enzhun, the Qing soldiers killed to Huairou, Zhao Guangluan and Tang Tong, Bai Guangen and other eight town soldiers, and the Qing soldiers fought in Luoshan and were defeated.

What Gao Junshan is worried about is not the Ming court's country, what he is worried about is that the people of China will suffer another ravage from Huang Taiji.

At this time, Xu Yixian came to the study with a letter to see Gao Junshan, and Gao Junshan showed him Ni Yuanlu's long current political remarks and asked him to explain it to himself.

Gao Junshan opened the letter sent by Xu Yixian, which was written by Sun Yuanhua, which said that the refractory bricks had been smelted, the coke had been burned, and the blast furnace for making refined steel had also been built.

The first thing that came to mind was to use steel in shipbuilding, and he needed to build a sea force to dominate the world. The second is to raise the artillery to a higher level, which can be completely achieved with stainless steel.

Gao Junshan accepted the letter and raised his eyes to look at Xu Yixian, at this time Xu Yixian had already finished reading the long current affairs remarks and was waiting for Gao Junshan.

"How? What does it say? Gao Junshan asked.

Xu Yixian disagreed: "King Qin, this is just a literati asking the emperor for military salaries in a roundabout way." ”

Gao Junshan was not satisfied with Xu Yixian's statement, he frowned and said: "Liu Lishun won't give me a meaningless piece of information, you can't read the useful information in it?" ”

"Maybe, maybe it is to tell us that there is a big problem with the Ming army's salary."

Gao Junshan was still not satisfied with this answer, he shook his head and waved his hand to let Xu Yixian step back first.

As soon as Xu Yixian left, Sun Kewang came to report that Zhou Shichen had occupied Yuezhou.

"I didn't expect Zhou Shichen and them to take Yuezhou so quickly." After Gao Junshan heard the news, he happily said to Sun Kewang, "If you break Yuezhou, you can point to Changsha." ”

Sun Kewang reminded: "The three armies have not moved the grain and grass first. I heard from the soldiers who came back from the front that Marshal Zhou and his men had been fighting for more than three months, and the grain and grass were already very tight. ”

Gao Junshan understands that fighting a war costs money, and there are huge assets in his silver treasury, so he doesn't have to worry about silver, the main thing is the food of the soldiers, after all, it is an expedition of more than 100,000 people, and they can't grab where they go like Li Zicheng, so the food problem is particularly important.

Gao Junshan said to Sun Kewang: "You go and invite Zhang Cong to come to my study!" ”

Zhang Cong was in the Chu Palace, and when he heard Gao Junshan's summons, he immediately rushed to the study.

Gao Junshan was taking a nap on the Taishi chair, and Zhang Cong came to his side lightly: "King Qin! King Qin! ”

"Oh! Zhang is here from you! Gao Junshan opened his eyes, "Please sit down!" You may be seated! ”

"King Qin, I'm disturbing your rest!"

"No, no, I'm looking for you! Sit down, sit down! ”

"If King Qin has anything, just order it directly!"

Gao Junshan waited for Zhang Cong to sit down before he said: "Zhou Shichen, they have already occupied Yuezhou, and the next step is to march to Changsha." However, the grain and grass cannot be provided at once, so I plan to send you to Zhou Shichen and use the neutrino rice-vegetable exchange instrument to exchange rice for them. When you go, you will bring a batch of grain with the grain officer first, and after that, I will let the logistics department transport some grain over one after another, so that the matter of changing rice will be unaware. ”

Zhang Congyu reported: "King Qin, if it is said that it is still okay to exchange for a small amount of rice, it will be difficult to supply more than 100,000 people. ”

"Why?"

"For some reason, in the past six months, the speed of changing rice has become slower and slower." Zhang Cong replied.

"I was negligent and forgot that this neutrino rice-vegetable exchanger is old, and it seems that we can't count on it!"

Zhang Cong asked in surprise: "It also ages?" ”

"Machines get old." Gao Junshan sighed.

Zhang Cong nodded as if he didn't understand: "Oh! ”

Gao Junshan suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said to Zhang Cong: "Zhang Cong, you can't go!" ”

Zhang never understood the meaning of Gao Junshan's words, he stood there like a log, and said, "King Qin, I didn't leave. ”

"I mean you don't want to go to Yuezhou, Zhou Shichen's side, I will urge the Logistics Department to step up transportation to ensure Zhou Shichen's combat effectiveness." Gao Junshan stood up from the Taishi's chair, "If you have something to do, go and get busy!" But you must remember that the neutrino rice-vegetable exchanger gives me good maintenance, don't let it work anymore, I have a big use. ”

Zhang Cong also stood up and said, "Obey!" Zhang Cong retired. ”

After Zhang Cong's withdrawal, Gao Junshan could no longer sit still, he paced back and forth, his mind had leaped to the Americas, his plan was to build an ocean-going ship, to occupy it before the British occupied the Americas, at least to share a piece of the pie with the British, not to the British alone.

To accomplish this plan, it is necessary to cross the Pacific Ocean, and it is not easy to cross the Pacific Ocean, and it is different if there is a nautical chart, which can reduce a lot of suffering and save a lot of sailing time.

Nautical charts?

To put it mildly, in the era when there were no sextants and nautical clocks, a route, a nautical chart was piled up over decades and thousands of lives.

Gao Junshan pondered: If I could find a way to send my needs to the headquarters, and they would make a nautical chart out of rice and send it over, wouldn't it help me to complete my plan to conquer the Americas?

The experts at the headquarters must be able to do it, and Gao Junshan was confident, because he had received a letter from his parents from the headquarters.

Now the question was how to transmit his ideas to headquarters, and of course, he could use the different colors of vegetables, so Gao Junshan decided to give it a try. So he asked Zhang Cong to take good care of the neutrino rice-vegetable exchanger so that nothing could fail, and in order to prevent the neutrino rice-vegetable exchanger from not working, let it sleep temporarily.

……

After receiving Gao Junshan's order to transfer grain and grass, the logistics department concentrated its efforts on transporting a large amount of grain and grass to Yuezhou in Chuyang.

The camp of Zhou Shichen in Yuezhou.

Liu Wenxiu is asking for battle in front of Zhou Shichen.

"Marshal, these days, the soldiers have been complaining!" Liu Wenxiu begged in front of the tent, "I, Liu Wenxiu, am willing to be a pioneer and march to Changsha, so you can give orders!" ”

Zhou Shichen had a gloomy face: "I think it's your stomach full of complaints, and your heart is itchy if you don't fight for a day." I have my own arrangements for when to send troops, and I ask General Liu to go back to the camp to rest first. ”

Although Liu Wenxiu was not happy in his heart, he did not dare to disobey Zhou Shichen's military order, so he retreated and returned to his military camp.

Because of the shortage of grain and grass, Zhou Shichen couldn't rush into the army, why wasn't he in a hurry?