Chapter 159: Green Harvest Feed
The security forces quickly rushed into the city of Guihua, clearing street by street the Houjin soldiers who had not escaped.
It was also normal for the brave Jin people to surrender when the general trend was gone, and the battle in the city was soon over.
For the Houjin people who escaped from the city, the security army only symbolically chased them and drove them away. The combat effectiveness of the Houjin cavalry is still very strong, and it is not cost-effective to force them to bite back.
When the smoke cleared, Zhang Chu and the eldest princess led a large group of people into Naturalization City.
Princess Celestia had a feeling of unreality in her heart. When he fled from Guihua City in a hurry, he went to the battlefield to fight and break through, but if Zhang Chu hadn't arrived in time, he would have died by the enemy. In such a short period of time, this weak-looking man actually took back Naturalization City. Thinking of this, the eldest princess looked at Zhang Chu with a little more warmth in her eyes. happily said to Zhang Chu: "Great, I will immediately send someone to find the Great Khan, and I must bring the Great Khan back to Huacheng." ”
"What needs to be done now is to first stabilize the Mongol ministries and establish your authority among them. The whereabouts of the Great Khan are now unknown, the Mongols must have a backbone, and the Mongols will be led by you, the eldest princess, first, and it will take time to find the Great Khan. The golden signboard of the Golden Family is still very useful, and in order to reduce the number of Mongols who have taken refuge in Houjin, Zhang Chu had to push the eldest princess to the forefront.
"Can I do it?" Although the eldest princess has been involved in political affairs since she was a child, she is still a little uneasy when she really dominates the overall situation.
"No problem, don't forget, and I'm behind to support you, who made you my daughter-in-law." Zhang Chu joked.
"Then I'll try." Princess Celestia blushed, but she didn't refute.
The two came to Lin Dan Khan's former brother, and the eldest princess introduced the environment to Zhang Chu as she walked.
The Houjin people fled in a hurry, and they didn't have time to destroy it, and the entire building of the Fudi was still intact. The soldiers had cleared a few rooms, and Princess Zhang Chu entered the room to discuss the management of the Mongols.
Zhang Chu believes that the reason why Lin Dan Khan's repeated attempts to unify Mongolia failed was not only the external environment, but also the weak ability to control various tribes. The gradual strengthening of the Later Jin Dynasty was inseparable from the establishment of the Eight Banners system. The dispersal of the Mongols was an opportunity to reform the Mongols.
Zhang Chu was most proficient in using the armor protection system used in Yanchang and other places, so he was determined to make some improvements to the armor protection system and promote it among the Mongols.
The promotion of the system must be guaranteed by strength, and no system can be promoted without strength. In order to defend his interests in Mongolia, Zhang Chu decided to carry out a retro on the steppe and implement Zhu Yuanzhang's guard system, and the guard system established by Zhu Yuanzhang was good in terms of organizational design and actual effect, but with the wisdom of the Chinese, any system will be found to be loopholed, and the guard house is already rotten at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but its idea of farming and warfare is not wrong. In later generations, this thought was rejuvenated.
The eldest princess knew almost nothing about what Zhang Chu said, and looked at Zhang Chu with confused eyes. Zhang Chu smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will send someone to help you, and slowly you will be able to govern Mongolia well." ”
The Naturalization City set up the banner of Zhang Chu and the eldest princess, the tribes on the grassland got the news, the eldest princess Wuliangha regained the naturalization city with the help of the horse Zhang Chu, the eldest princess decided to lead the Mongolian tribes to resist the attack of the Houjin people, the tribes must be loyal to the eldest princess, and the tribes that took refuge in the Houjin will be ruthlessly attacked. The Mongols and the security army are one family, and the tribes loyal to the eldest princess will trade with the Guannai through the eldest princess in Fugu, and exchange cattle, sheep, and horses for food and other materials equally, and they can also live in the Guannai if they wish.
Zhang Chu left 5,000 soldiers to garrison the naturalization city, in order to ensure safety, he spent a lot of strength to transform the naturalization city wall, added many forts, and the artillery brought by Zhang Chu was installed on the fort of the city wall. Whoever wants to capture the city of Guihua will wait to eat cannonballs.
The officials drawn from Fugu arrived in Guihua City a few days later, and Zhang Chu arranged for them to assist the eldest princess. The administration of the city of Naturalization became operational, and the first conscription of the security army in the city of Naturalization began. Conscription to obtain a source of troops is a secondary purpose, and the main requirement is that the tribe loyal to the eldest princess has a practical action. Following the Houjin Eight Banners lottery system, young and strong people were recruited to Fugu to receive training from the security army, and then returned to naturalize and protect the eldest princess in batches. When the allegiance of the tribes is threatened by the enemy, the army of the city of Naturalization will provide them with protection.
Everything was arranged, Zhang Chu hurriedly returned to Fugu, and a larger scale of conscription was still being carried out in Fugu, Zhang Chu gave this newly established unit a nice name: Production and Construction Corps. To put it bluntly, it is actually the guard established by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Hungry people in Fugu and the surrounding areas came to sign up.
There were long queues at the conscription office, that is, the Han people in the area and the Mongols in the steppe.
The security forces carried out a vigorous propaganda campaign on the conscription, and the main attraction of this conscription was to take money and grain to cultivate the land and graze. Now is the season of green and yellow, many families have eaten up the surplus grain, this time as long as they participate in the production and construction corps, they can immediately get food, and not only recruit young and strong, but also women and the elderly can participate, and they can also bring their families together, there is nothing better in the world. People who have food to eat and live are the happiest people see hope and wait in long lines day and night to ask to join.
The Corps implements militarized management, and the Security Forces appoint cadres with high consciousness in the troops as the backbone to lead the new recruits. The Corps was stationed in the Hetao area, where crops were planted and livestock were grazing.
All personnel in the Corps will be credited with their work according to the number of work they have worked, and then they will receive monthly money and food according to their work. The managers of the Corps enjoy the treatment of officers, and the products produced by the Corps are purchased and sold by the Security Forces.
The young men and women in the corps regularly undergo military training and go to the security forces in batches to participate in rotational battles. In peacetime, the hostile forces on the steppe were suppressed and the safety of the construction corps was protected.
The development of the Fugu Woolen Textile Mill has greatly increased the demand for wool, and Zhang Chu decided that the production and construction corps will focus on sheep raising in the near future. It not only adapts to the environment of the grassland, but also has a market.
At this time, a good news came from Zhongyang, which strengthened Zhang Chu's determination to engage in breeding.
Agricultural researchers in Zhongyang solved the problem of winter storage of livestock feed, and the green fodder experiment was successful. Cattle and sheep and other livestock can graze on the grassland in summer and autumn, and in winter they mainly eat hay, and the nutritional value of the feed decreases a lot after drying. The limited number of livestock to support prevents large-scale livestock farming by starving to death due to lack of feed in winter.
In later generations, Zhang Chu saw farmers digging a pit in the ground, spreading plastic film, and putting grass and other fodder directly into the pit without drying it, and burying the soil, so that the livestock could eat until the next spring, not only with less nutrient loss, but also many crop straws could be used as fodder.
In order to develop agriculture, Zhang Chu has long organized people to conduct research, and without plastic film, they can also play a role in waterproofing and insulating the air by coating bitumen on cloth and cardboard. After two winters of trials, the feed was well preserved. Zhang Chu decided to promote it on a large scale.
At the same time, he advocated the use of coal as fuel and kept crop straw as winter fodder for livestock, and Zhang Chu's large-scale farming plan can now be launched.
The construction corps was set up one by one and drove into the Hetao Plain with supplies.
Zhang Chu gave food and goods. All of a sudden, he became poor again, his pockets were empty, he missed Wang Jiayin a little, and now Wang Jiayin should be very rich. (To be continued.) )