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Since reading the conditions and requirements for sending troops written by the people, Zhu Youxiao's original idea of pursuing the ultimate skill of carpentry suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by suspicion of this group of people. This is no wonder Zhu Youxiao, because what these Chinese put forward inevitably made him feel too restless.

A port was set aside in Jiaozhou Bay for them to transfer materials and land the army, these people were not from Wuguo at all, and who knows if they really wanted to help Wuguo pacify the civil strife in Shanxi? Laizhou, where Jiaozhou Bay is located, is located extremely close to the Beijing Division, and after landing from Laizhou, it only needs to open Qingzhou and Jinan Prefecture to drive straight into the Beijing Division, this kind of thing was done by the group of barbarians who called themselves Houjin in Liaodong a few years ago, plundered near the Beijing Division and even went south to Shandong, and then returned to Liaodong, if this group of Chinese troops were allowed to land, who could guarantee that they would really pass through the prefecture and pass through Shandong, the Tokyo Division, Henan and other places and rush thousands of miles to Shanxi to disrupt the army instead of fighting themselves? It can be seen from the many things mentioned by the Chinese in the letter that they know the terrain of the Great Wu Dynasty very well, and the degree has surpassed that of ordinary Wu Dynasty officials, and from the cities mentioned in their advance march plan, they know very well the geography and topography of the northern part of the Wu Dynasty, and they also have a certain understanding of the road conditions, and Zhu Youxiao is even more worried at the moment that this Chinese action will become an example of the dynasty that has been destroyed by false paths.

However, at the same time, he also has a certain understanding of the military strength of the Chinese, and since the Chinese know the current war situation, know that the number of rebel troops is more than 100,000, and only send an army of less than 2,500 people to quell the chaos, then the military strength of the Chinese must be very strong. Moreover, judging from the confident demands of the Chinese to ensure the smooth flow and safety protection of road traffic along the way, the Chinese's ability to provide grain, grass and material support is definitely far above that of the Wu Dynasty.

Winter is cold, especially in the north now, Liaodong has long been covered by heavy snow at the moment, the people inside can't come out, the people outside can't go in, they can only rely on the food left before to ensure the needs of life. However, this kind of spirit of not panicking with food in his hands is not something that this dynasty, especially the current Liaodong, can have, so it is not uncommon for thousands of people to freeze to death in a city after a winter, as an emperor who is called the carpenter emperor, in fact, he still cares about the people's livelihood, Zhu Youxiao, he is still very saddened by the death of these people, and also fantasizes about what can be done to ensure the supply of supplies in winter.

Although the route requested by the Chinese is not Liaodong, it is also the north where the snow in winter is two or three feet dripping into ice, and even the Yellow River can be frozen at this time, and the temperature is so low that the rebel army borrowed the frozen river surface to cross the river into Shanxi. In winter, people are very easy to get lost when walking in the snowy wilderness, horses and cattle can not move freely in the deep snow, and their hooves will be trapped in the snow, which will cause severe frostbite to death of livestock, and the livestock will not be able to walk, let alone use the way of pulling carts to transport materials, which is simply impossible. Even in the current city of Beijing, the heavy snow has already made the huge Beijing city a lonely city, the people below can only rely on eating cabbage and other kinds of vegetables stored before the winter, the gentry and nobles living in the mansion have money and can eat some fresh meat, but the vegetables that can be eaten are no different from the common people, even Zhu Youxiao, who lives in the deep palace, can only eat cabbage in winter now, and he has no choice more than the common people in terms of vegetables. He also heard that someone once dug out a greenhouse in the ground and heated it with charcoal fire day and night, and cultivated some spring and autumn vegetables underground, and the price of the vegetables cultivated in that way was often extremely high, and a small cucumber could be bought for about thirty taels of silver.

In the final analysis, these phenomena are caused by the inability to ensure logistics and transportation in winter, although the winter in the south can not be as good as the summer vegetable harvest, but there is still a huge vegetable production, but these vegetables can only stay in the south to digest slowly. The road to the north was covered with half-human snow, and the canal was directly frozen, and all roads were cut off, so the vegetables would be frozen and inedible on the way, and it would be useless to transport them.

Zhu Youxiao took these pieces of paper, looked at the conditions written on them, and couldn't help laughing, "This group of mustaches has a big tone, saying that they are going to Shanxi to quell the chaos, how will the army act along the way?" How to ensure grain and grass? As he spoke, he stuffed these pieces of paper back into Wei Zhongxian's hand, "Let's just talk about it, I really want to expect them to quell the chaos, I'm afraid something big will happen." ”

The posterior place is not cool, and the enemy is lonely

Of course, Wei Zhongxian didn't dare to refute Zhu Youxiao, so he hurriedly put away the papers, and took out a few pieces of paper from another pocket and presented them. Zhu Youxiao was stunned, "What are you doing with you?" ”

"When the people sent the letter, they also sent these together in the letter," Wei Zhongxian hurriedly said, "Please take a look at the emperor." ”

The enemy is far away, and the ghost ship learns to make trouble

Zhu Youxiao took these pieces of paper with some hesitation, and it could be seen from the back of the paper that the material of these pieces of paper was exactly the same as the ones just now, but from the light passing through the opposite side, it could be seen that what was written on that side was not a word, but a pattern. He slowly opened the papers, and was stunned for a moment, and the one on top was suddenly the flying bird that Wei Zhongxian said before, this flying bird flew among the clouds, with two pairs of wings, which were set vertically in front of the bird's abdomen. At the tip of the bird is a disc that appears to be translucent, and there is a small cylindrical bump in the center of the disk, which is not known for what purpose. There is a raised window between the two pairs of wings of the bird, and in the window sit two people, the one sitting in the front seems to be looking at the sky with a cone in his hand, and the one sitting in the back is looking down with a strange long tube.

From this picture, it can be seen that the Chinese have reached a very skillful level in the manufacture and use of these flying birds, although he does not know what the cone held by the person sitting in front of him is for, but the long tube held by the person sitting in the back can guess the approximate purpose - it should be used to observe the clairvoyant mirror in the distance, which he has in the palace and was presented by the envoy of Medeno when he entered Beijing. The Chinese are obviously using this flying bird for long-distance reconnaissance missions, and seeing that the two pairs of wings of the flying bird seem to have two boxes-like things between them, although they do not know what they are used for, but they look very much like the firearms of the Wu Dynasty "swarm", presumably the use is similar, shooting at the enemy on the ground through rockets.

The bird looked like a bird, but it was completely different from the bird, with two pairs of wings, not to mention him, but at the tail there was a tail that stood upright upwards, and at the same time there were small tails facing left and right, and the bird had two pillars on its front chest downwards, and the top of the pillar was also equipped with a wheel, and the bottom of the tail was also equipped with a small pillar, and the top was also equipped with a wheel.

Zhu Youxiao has been coveting "Luban's Wooden Bird" for a long time, and has always hoped that he can create such a flying bird, but he can't find any information, but there are only a few words mentioned here and there in the ancient book, and there is no way to copy a flying bird according to these words. When he heard that the Chinese had successfully created a bird, he was very excited, thinking that he would be able to create it as long as he saw the drawing, but now that he had seen the drawing, his mind was far more chaotic than when he hadn't seen it before. Judging from the picture, the wings of this bird, whether it is above or below, are one, and it is not at all like a bird fluttering its wings as I imagined before, as if something is pushing or pulling this bird to soar in the air.

From this picture, it can be seen that the Chinese have reached a very skillful point in the manufacture and use of these flying birds, although he does not know what the cone held by the person sitting in front of him is for, but the long tube held by the person sitting in the back can guess the approximate purpose - it should be used to observe the clairvoyant mirror in the distance, which he has in the palace and was presented by the envoy of Maidno when he entered Beijing. The Chinese are obviously using this flying bird for long-distance reconnaissance missions, and seeing that the two pairs of wings of the flying bird seem to have two boxes-like things between them, although they do not know what they are used for, but they look very much like the firearms of the Wu Dynasty "swarm", presumably the use is similar, shooting at the enemy on the ground through rockets.

Zhu Youxiao suddenly had such a picture in his mind, hundreds of such birds soaring in the air of Liaodong, and the ground was the frightened Houjin cavalry fleeing, the birds swooped down, and launched a swarm of bees on their wings towards groups of Houjin cavalry, and a group of rockets swept the fleeing Houjin soldiers like a rain of fire, nailing them to death in a pile on the black soil of Liaodong.

Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but sigh slightly, he knew that the emperor was starting to fantasize again in his mind at this time, so he coughed lightly and pulled Zhu Youxiao back from his divergent fantasies, "Your Majesty, it doesn't hurt if you don't agree to the requirements of this group of people, anyway, now that many places in Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan have entered the freeze, the army can't fight at the moment, and can only wait until the spring of next year to fight." It's just this silver......"

"Silver?" Zhu Youxiao keenly captured the word, "Where is the silver?" Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but sigh again, "There is also a price for the people to ask for Jiaozhou Bay, do you remember the Morningstar City leased by the Maidno people in Guangdong Province?" ”

"Of course I remember, with a rent of one thousand taels a year, they can build houses and farm in Morningstar, but Morningstar is still the land of my Dawu Dynasty." Zhu Youxiao stared at Wei Zhongxian as he spoke, "Could it be that this group of people want to rent Jiaozhou Bay according to the example of the Maidno people?" ”

"No," Wei Zhongxian denied it just now, but remembered that Chinese also seemed to have mentioned that he would have to pay for the port lease, and there was already a precedent, so he hurriedly said, "Yes......

"Is it or isn't?" Wei Zhongxian denied this, and then confirmed that Zhu Youxiao was confused, and asked directly.

"That's right," Wei Zhongxian said quickly, "the Chinese rented a piece of land near Xiangdao opposite the morning star at the mouth of the Pearl River, and the monthly rent was 1,400 taels. ”

"One thousand four hundred taels, not much more than one thousand taels from Medeno," Zhu Youxiao shook his head helplessly, "It's a drop in the bucket for the silver that my Wu Dynasty needs......

"It's not 1,400 taels...... Wei Zhongxian was a little speechless at the moment, "It's 1,400 taels a month, 16,800 taels a year, and Morning Star is only 1,000 taels a year." ”

Zhu Youxiao was stunned, and it took a while before he spoke, "These people are really rich!" 16,800 taels a year, it's easy to say, will it be given out for real money? ”

Although this money is still a drop in the bucket for the financial vacancy of the Wu Dynasty, this cup is still a little bigger after all, and it seems that there is a lot more water, if it can be sent to the imperial court steadily, the finances of the Wu Dynasty will at least be a little more relaxed than now, and he will be able to have enough reasons to exempt the Liao salary that he has been resolutely opposed. It's just that neither he nor Wei Zhongxian knew that the amount of silver in the recital sent by Mingzhou was withheld by the local government, and the actual rent was 2,400 taels a month, or 28,800 taels a year.

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly said, "Yesterday, the slave maid just checked, Xin'an County handed over half a year's silver to the treasury of Mingzhou Mansion at one time, and the silver for the second half of the year is still being counted." ”

"Will it take a few months to count?" Zhu Youxiao muttered a little dissatisfied, "Wei Companion accompanies you to help me check this silver, I think these people must have reached out below, your people are not good to check, let Jinyiwei check, this silver is very useful, you can't let those people get involved." ”

"The slave knows!" Wei Zhongxian hurriedly agreed, in fact, he had already ordered his subordinates to check the whereabouts of this land lease fee early this morning, and when it came to the financial shortcomings of the Wu Dynasty, he was more anxious than the emperor.

"What are the men renting that place for?" Zhu Youxiao asked again, and Wei Zhongxian hurriedly replied, "The slave maid doesn't know, the slave maid just saw the news by chance yesterday, and someone has already sent someone to investigate, so there should be news within a few days." ”

"Spending such a large sum of money to rent such a place, I think it is unreasonable, I must find out, if it is a rebellion, we must investigate it thoroughly." Zhu Youxiao said, "For the Dongfang Port on the border of Annan Province, it is also necessary to thoroughly investigate, what is it like now, if it is possible to send an army of several thousand people now, then the local area should have exceeded the scale of tens of thousands of people, such a big matter, it has not been reported, and it must be thoroughly investigated, and he is a dereliction of duty, who is the local Jinyi Wei Qianhu?" ”

"It's Cen Min," Wei Zhongxian chuckled in his heart, this Cen Min is his scheduled love general, as long as he can devote himself to the arms of his "eunuch party", he really wants to transfer Cen Min back, now if he is found to be derelict in his duties, although he can still find a way to whitewash Cen Min in the future, but after all, it is a stain, he hurriedly said, "This Cen Min has only been in Annan Province for a year, I am afraid that he has not led all his subordinates, but the slave maid must immediately send someone to Dongfang Port to investigate, How exactly there should be a response in a few days. ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded, picked up the drawings in his hand and looked at them carefully, and said, "Wei Banban, I will go back to the palace first, you go down, I want to take a good look at these pictures." ”

"Congratulations to the emperor......" Wei Zhongxian hurriedly said, but when he saw Zhu Youxiao's back, he suddenly remembered something and hurriedly shouted, "Your Majesty, please stay!" ”

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