Chongzhen's fourth year is coming.

Tang Xidong came to spend the second Spring Festival in this era.

In the third year of Chongzhen, Tang Xidong was still in Luoliang Mountain, and only one year later, Tang Xidong sat in Pingyang City and was busy with the Spring Festival affairs of the entire Pingyang Mansion.

The cold of the Xiaoice period hit again.

Fortunately, the house where Tang Xidong lived was renovated, and the chimney was spread under the floor, like the floor heating in later generations.

Tomorrow is the Spring Festival, and today Tang Xidong is still in the office, bending over the case and handling official business.

Liu Lianqing, accompanied by the maid Xiaolan, walked in with a bowl of sweet soup, her belly was slightly straight, and she looked pregnant.

"It's cold, so don't run back and forth."

"It's the New Year, and you don't stop and stop, and things are not in a hurry for this day."

Tang Xidong sighed: "Now is a critical period, and there is no delay." ”

Flipping through the official document in his hand, he frowned: "The official roads in the other three places have been unblocked, but this three stones are grinding, and there are still three points of the official roads in the entire west that are not unblocked, how can you not be in a hurry." ”

Liu Lianqing glanced at it reproachfully: "You urge three times a day, Zhang Sanshi is not in a hurry?" It's just that the mountains in the west are undulating and the roads are difficult to repair, so Zhang Sanshi has to be given time. ”

Tang Xidong sighed from this: "How can I not know? It's just that the west is a major defensive area, and the anti-army in the whole of Shaanxi is eyeing each other, and I can't tell which day they will tear their faces and hit Pingyang, how can I not be in a hurry. ”

"Fortunately, Hu Jingzhi, the magistrate of Jizhou, has extraordinary ability, and he has managed the surrounding area well, which can be regarded as the fastest progress on the four sides. It reassures me a lot, otherwise, I can't wait to sit in Jizhou in person. ”

Liu Lianqing also showed concern when she heard this, he didn't know about her husband's plan, but she was just temporarily dragging the Ming court.

Once spring begins, Pingyang Mansion has no action against the anti-army, and I am afraid that the first thing the Ming army will attack is Pingyang Mansion.

Tang Xidong's eyes showed a trace of worry: "Some time ago, the secret agent sent back information that the Ming court really developed a time-delay artillery shell, and there was an artillery battle with Houjin in Liaodong, and I heard that there were mines appearing, but I didn't expect that the Ming court still had such a foundation." ”

Liu Lianqing doesn't know much about firearms, only knows that everything he has now is relying on the firearms in his hands, and now that the Ming Dynasty has successfully developed them, wouldn't it be even more unfavorable to Pingyang Mansion.

"It's me who underestimated Daming's strength." Tang Xidong blamed himself.

"My husband is not an immortal, how can I know everything?" Liu Lianqing comforted.

Tang Xidong only knew that the Ming Dynasty was about to perish.

But I didn't know that in the early days of the Chongzhen Dynasty, it still had the strength to fight on two fronts: the Later Jin Dynasty and the rebels.

Liaodong is a thorn in the eye of the Ming Dynasty, once a more advanced artillery manufacturing process is obtained, how can it not be fully developed, in order to resist foreign enemies?

"After the New Year, let Li Shangquan go to Zezhou with the newly trained soldiers, and take turns to attack Wang Jiayin, the soldiers are not trained but fought, although there are 100,000 soldiers now, but seven or eight out of ten have not been on the battlefield, and now do not take this opportunity to kill the enemy and hone it, waiting for the big war to come, I am afraid it will be too late."

"Negotiated over there?" Liu Lianqing was worried.

Tang Xidong smiled happily: "The Shaanxi anti-army is not a rope, the infighting continues, those three people wish I could hurry up to fight Wang Jiayin, so that they can not only ensure that the rear is worry-free, but also find an opportunity to devour the troops in Wang Jiayin's hands, how can they not agree, in this way, Qinzhou will be handed over to the Ming army, and I will come to train the troops in Zezhou, which is reasonable to the imperial court, and also has a strong impact on Pingyang Mansion." ”

"I fought what I was asked to beat, and as for whether I could beat or not, that's another story."

As early as when he was preparing to accept the imperial court's recruitment, Tang Xidong made a plan.

Win over the side of the king, the general, and the eight kings, and attack Wang Jiayin of Zezhou.

The fame of the kings, generals, and eight kings is like thunder in later generations.

How could Tang Xidong put soft persimmons to hit hard stones.

So after recruiting An, he has been secretly negotiating with the three to form a wartime alliance.

gave up the soldiers and horses of the three to the imperial court, and he went to attack Wang Jiayin.

It's so easy to say both openly and secretly.

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It's the New Year, Tang Xidong endured the pain and still had to give some benefits to his people, so that everyone could have a good year and have hope.

Grain, bacon, oil and salt, cloth.

Hundreds of thousands of horses in Binh Duong have to do their best to a greater or lesser extent.

After a large amount of fertile land is cultivated and planted, Tang Xidong can ensure that it is enough to supply all the people of Binh Duong Province.

Now only the silver taels are missing.

Caravans now traded back and forth with soap, perfume, porcelain, flint lighters, salt, briquettes, and a few other things.

The most popular cement, even Binh Duong's own construction is not enough, and it can be exported there.

So Tang Xidong could only think of a way to make something out.

As a descendant, the most advantageous thing is probably to be well-informed.

Bicycles and tricycles were difficult problems for the Ming Dynasty, but they were the easiest things for him.

No rubber? Wrap a loop of leather directly around the outside of the wheels and you're done.

The invention of the tricycle bicycle can not only solve its own communication problems, but also sell it to rich people as toys.

As early as two months ago, Tang Xidong built a large number of bicycles and tricycles and delivered them to the army and caravans.

Now that the weather is too cold, waiting for the beginning of spring, Tang Xidong can hand over these two things to the caravan and sell them to the south.

Strange things are a pleasant condiment for rich people, and silver for Tang Xidong.

At the beginning of the year, Tang Xidong held the first meeting of Chongzhen in five years.

Issued an order to fight against Wang Jiayin.

At the same time, we will continue to increase the governance of the territory.

The construction of public facilities and schools will be promoted in all cities.

At the same time, let the caravans that have rested for a while start the new year's trade.

Conquering the last kilometer of official roads and encouraging the people to breed and cultivate new crops in large quantities, Tang Xidong plans to promote potatoes and maize in large quantities in various places after the summer harvest and reward them.

At the same time, the development of industry and commerce is encouraged, and large workshops and large commercial groups are allowed to appear.

At the same time, commercial tariffs are strictly controlled, tax evasion and evasion are not allowed, and the sale of military-controlled materials is not allowed to be sold to foreign countries.

Because the number of troops has increased in a short period of time, in order to emphasize discipline, Tang Xidong also set up an army discipline inspection team at each company level to control it.

Just after Tang Xidong held the first meeting of Chongzhen in five years, two days later, the imperial history sent by the imperial court arrived in Pingyang City.

brought the will to attack the Shaanxi rebels.

Tang Xidong knew that it was time for the Ming court to force himself to make a statement.

Naturally, Lord Yushi wants to eat, drink, play and take for it, and the mobilization of the army is also in full swing.

In order to reflect his determination to fight abroad, and also to let the Ming court see his actions.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, Tang Xidong held a large-scale military parade in Pingyang City, making a big noise to cheer up the soldiers and reassure the Ming court.

Today there are more than a thousand flintlock muskets for each new regimental rank, and artillery guns ranging from twenty to fifty for each regimental level.

At the same time, after learning that the Ming Dynasty had developed mines, Tang Xidong, who felt that he was going to be surpassed, also developed two types of firearms: explosive packs and lead mines.

Tang Xidong didn't know that the momentum he had made was dissatisfied.

It's not just about doing, it's about fighting.

On the second day, Li Shangquan took 3,000 veteran members of the Pingyang Regiment and 20,000 new troops to drag a long procession, pulling the baggage that stretched for miles towards the direction of Zezhou.

The newly built four-person tricycle also came in handy.

This tricycle is much stronger than a mule-drawn carriage on the newly built official road in Binh Duong Province, but once it reaches outside Binh Duong Province, it loses its effect, and it still has to rely on mules and horses to pull supplies.