Chongzhen listened to Wen Tiren's advice, and issued 5 million taels of silver from the internal treasury and the treasury, and transferred 150,000 soldiers and horses across the country to carry out a six-month crackdown on the thieves, but this only required more than 270 taels, and the remaining 200 taels were used to strengthen the combat power of the 150,000 soldiers and horses.

At the same time, Zhang Fengyi's strategy was adopted to carry out the attack on the thieves one by one, first heavy troops to suppress Shanxi, and then wave the army to Qindi after Shanxi was pacified, annihilating the main forces of the thieves in one fell swoop.

With the silver Chongzhen, he can finally carry out a large-scale military operation against the thieves, and one after another holy oracles are issued from the celebrant eunuch, as if injecting a shot in the arm into this decaying dynasty.

Because Hong Chengchou, who made the military order, did not complete the June suppression period last year, Chongzhen issued a holy decree to scold Hong Chengchou and fined him for one year, but Chongzhen set a new June deadline for Hong Chengchou, the military governor of the five provinces, to let him help unify the army of thieves and completely exterminate the thieves within six months. Hong Chengchou heard that there was a 5 million salary allocated this time, and he immediately played it, saying that he would live up to the king's grace and that the thieves would be exterminated within six months.

At the same time, Chongzhen transferred Lu Xiangsheng to the governor of Xuanda military affairs, mainly to defend against the invasion of the Qing army, and secondly to cooperate with Shanxi to suppress thieves.

Zhao Yan, who was in Shandong, was always paying attention to the actions of the imperial court at the moment, and sure enough, as Mao Yuanyi expected, Chongzhen was already implementing a new round of encirclement and suppression.

It should be an encirclement, not an encirclement and suppression.

The rogue is the best at wandering and fighting, so he is called a rogue thief. This time, the imperial court spent five million taels, but it adopted a strategy of attack, and in Zhao Yan's opinion, it was a bit suspenseful to successfully exterminate the thieves.

In addition, Lu Xiangsheng was transferred out of Huguang and Henan and went to Xuanda, and Huguang and Henan were inevitably empty.

Judging from the surface of this tactic, it is almost impossible to exterminate the thieves, but Hong Chengchou can be regarded as having been dealing with the thieves for so many years, and there must be some countermeasures.

In this anti-thief operation, the success or failure only exists between five and five, and it is not possible to arbitrarily draw conclusions. Both sides have their own advantages and another flaw.

The defect of the thieves is that their combat effectiveness is not strong, and they can easily collapse under strong military pressure. The defect of the official army is that the military salary is seriously deducted, and how much of the five million taels of salary issued by the imperial court can be used in the real suppression?

However, the General Staff Department was not optimistic about this anti-thief operation, believing that the preparations were too hasty, the strategy and tactics were too crude, and the officers and troops of all walks of life were uneven, and they might be able to suppress the thieves, but they could not completely exterminate the thieves.

Hong Chengchou stepped in sideways, completely disrupting Zhao Yan's recruitment plan, making Zhao Yan hate it so much, but it was impossible to pull the officials and soldiers back.

Zhao Yan has already made up his mind to step up the recruitment of the people, as for the matter of suppressing the thieves, if Chongzhen does not issue the order, then he will watch from the wall.

If Chongzhen gave an order to send troops into Shaanxi to suppress the thieves, then he would send a team of soldiers and horses into Shaanxi to suppress the thieves, and by the way, take back the thieves.

But in fact, Zhao Yan did not wait for any opportunity, Chongzhen did not transfer troops from Shandong to attack Liao on the grounds that Shandong should go all out to attack Liao. Zhao Yan immediately made every effort to recruit the people, and began to inspect the construction of various tundi in Shandong, and the preparations for war had already been done, just waiting for Huangtaiji to cross the Yalu River.

The American Fleet departed at the end of October, taking with it a large amount of munitions, supplies, and 1,500 marines, as well as more than 1,000 shipwrights and other personnel.

This huge fleet of five warships, 12 merchant ships, and five 1,000-ton clippers sailed directly to Hawaii, with most of the personnel concentrated on high-speed clippers and supplies on merchant ships and warships.

After arriving at Jinshan, these five clippers will immediately load their cargo and return to Qingdao, and then continue to transport arms to Jinshan to meet the needs of the expansion of the American fleet.

The First Fleet had already set off for the south in mid-October, and the current First Fleet still had only six warships, in addition to two additional troop carriers, forming a small fleet of six warships, three troop transports, and three clippers. The First Fleet sailed south, preparing to find trouble with the Dutch and Zheng Zhilong.

For the expansion speed of the American Fleet, Su Buheng felt a lot of pressure, and he, the commander of the First Fleet, couldn't sit still, and if the First Fleet didn't take expansion actions, it would not be worthy of the title of No. 1.

The First Fleet also felt a lot of pressure about the expansion of its subordinate fleets, and the expansion of the American Fleet also boosted their morale.

At this moment, the morale of the First Fleet is high, but there is also a sense of urgency. As soon as he went out to sea, he immediately polished his eyes and searched everywhere for traces of his prey.

…… In November, Dongsanfu is in the midst of a busy moment, and you can see people everywhere fertilizing the land, and the waste materials they use are all piled up.

Compost is an organic fertilizer made of various plant residues (crop straw, weeds, leaves, peat, garbage and other wastes, etc.) as the main raw material, mixed with human and animal manure and urine, under high temperature and humidity conditions, after fermentation and decomposition, microbial decomposition, which contains rich nutrients, and the fertilizer effect is long and stable, and is conducive to promoting the formation of soil solid structure, and can increase the ability of soil water retention, heat preservation, ventilation and fertilizer retention.

Long-term application of this fertilizer, the fertility of the land has a significant improvement, there is no limit to the amount of fertilizer, after all, these fertilizers are not nitrogen fertilizer, it is impossible to burn crops to death, take some soil and mix it casually, and the more the better, you can also pile a pit to the ground.

In this era where chemical fertilizers do not yet exist, composting has undoubtedly become the best option. Even in the era of chemical fertilizers, compost can still complement chemical fertilizers, because crops need not only three kinds of fertilizer, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, but also a variety of minerals, and only chemical fertilizers will make the land's water retention, air permeability, heat preservation, fertilizer retention and other aspects continue to decline.

Fertilizer is like bones, and compost is flesh and blood. (There is a person who thinks that an acre of land can not apply thousands of catties of fertilizer to his own wall) the tun chief of each tun is directing the people to be busy in the field, the most fertilizing is undoubtedly the sweet potato plot, sweet potato is the magic weapon to ensure that there will be no famine in the future, in the limited planting scale, in order to get the maximum yield, you must have enough fertilizer.

The people don't have much time to rest throughout the year, and most of the time they are very, very busy, and there is always something to do.

Tundi can be said to be the most bitter place.

But for the common people, they are not afraid of hardship, they are afraid of no chance.

Although it is hard work in the tundi, it is a kind of labor without oppression, and the results are their own, and the more they work, the more they get, and the more they get richer, day by day.

For those lazy people, in order to improve their political performance, some of the tun chiefs forced those people to work, although things seem to be big or small, at best, this is a compulsory surname, and at worst, it is to increase the income of the people.

However, this kind of behavior was quickly banned by Zhao Yan, most of the production must conform to the laws of the market, and the policy of forcing surnames is not too clever.

Now for those people who are not very industrious, the tun chief can no longer make mandatory surnames for them, otherwise they will be reported.

Now those tun chiefs have changed to the way of doing ideological work, running to the homes of those lazy people at two ends in three days, so-and-so has become rich through hard work, has built a tiled house, so-and-so is diligent in his work, and has married a daughter-in-law...... The effect of this trick is obviously good, most of the people have persevered in high-intensity labor, and the remaining few are not too lazy even if they can't hold on, compared to the people who are not under the rule, they are still diligent.

Zhao Yan walked in the field and watched the scene of fertilization, and couldn't help but feel very distressed, it seems that he still has to urge the Academy of Science and Technology to let them get the fertilizer out as soon as possible.

At present, the Academy of Science and Technology is still verifying and supplementing the various theories given by Zhao Yan, what is nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, they are still experimenting, and chemistry is still corresponding to various elements.

However, urea has been extracted from urine, but the synthetic method obviously has to wait for a while, and only some improvisation can be extracted from urine at present, but the amount is obviously not large, and it is not very important.

In terms of phosphate fertilizer, we are looking for ore, and bone meal is usually used to apply phosphate fertilizer, but the quantity is less, and it is not a top matter, and it is only used in some experimental fields.

After experiments in the experimental field, the Academy of Science and Technology once again proved Zhao Yan's brilliant guidance, and nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium do have a decisive role in plant growth.

Zhao Yan inspected Qingzhou, and his mood couldn't help but become bad again, because the people in Qingzhou seemed to be much more sporadic than Dengzhou.

"Grandma's Hong Chengchou." Zhao Yan muttered again, and then went straight to the textile factory.

At this moment, the capital of the textile mill has accumulated to 12 million, and it is now the season of cotton harvest, and cotton from all over the country is constantly transported to Shandong like flowing water.

This year, unlike previous years, the textile mill has mobilized nearly 8 million taels of cotton to purchase cotton, and it is expected to swallow nearly 3 million quintals of cotton, and the annual cotton swallowing can reach more than 4.5 million quintals.

Cotton was not sold all at once, except for Zhao Yan's textile factory, which was willing to buy cotton with cottonseeds, other cloth merchants bought cotton with cottonseeds removed, so cotton was sold almost all year round.

The textile industry is a very fast turnover industry, after selling the cotton cloth, you can directly buy cotton to continue the weaving, and then sell it.

According to the speed of the textile mill this year, it is almost no problem to earn tens of millions of taels, and it has entered a state of explosion.

However, in order to recruit more people, Zhao Yan decided to change the previous moderate way, accelerate the impact on the economy, and increase investment in the textile industry is undoubtedly the best choice.

Once the economy of the Ming Dynasty is impacted, it will inevitably lead to a large number of unemployment, and it will be much easier for Zhao Yan to find enough population.

The population he needs is simply a bottomless pit, the military source needs a huge population to support, overseas colonization also needs a huge population to support, and industry needs a population.

Zhao Yan gave the textile mill a note and asked them to borrow 5 million from the bank, which would be used to improve the purchase and transportation of cotton.

Today, the mill has nearly 4 million spindles, equivalent to 4 million women. At the same time, it has 100,000 cotton tieing machines, equivalent to 1 million women, and 200,000 looms, which has increased its efficiency to seven times, equivalent to 1.4 million women.

Since then, there have been 210,000 women in the textile industry, and more than 100,000 elderly and disabled people have been engaged in cotton ties. It is these people who have supported most of the yarn and cotton cloth needs of the Ming Dynasty.

(To be continued)