523. Huaibei Zhongzhou

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At the end of November of the fifth year of Wucheng, the Hengyu Division of the Huaxia Gezhi Institute wrote a letter to determine the weights and measures of the world.

According to the construction of Gezhiyuan, the first measured measure is the unit of capacity "liter". Under the old system of "liter" according to the decimal system calculation are "together", "spoon", "pinch", "liter" above the same decimal system calculation as "bucket", "stone". The new Wucheng system follows the old system for the size of "pinch", "spoon", "he", "sheng" and "bucket", and clearly stipulates that the local government prohibits the use of the so-called "big and small buckets" when collecting land endowments and merchants buying and selling volumetric goods. In addition, ten "buckets" and one "stone" are changed to ten "buckets" and one "Hu", and the above "Hu" is calculated in the decimal system, then one hundred "Hu" is one "Wai", and one hundred "Wai" is one "Tun".

After the capacity unit is confirmed, the weight unit is confirmed. The Hengyu Division of Gezhiyuan takes one "liter" of water as one "catty", which is about equal to two "catties" in the past and one "kilogram" in another time and space. Under "jin", the original hexadecimal system was abolished, and the decimal system was changed to calculate, which was "two", "money", "cents", and "baht".

Compared with the old system, the new weight unit has less "centi" and "milli", and more "baht", because in practical use, the unit below "cent" is basically not used, and the unit "baht" may be used in "(alchemy) gold (alchemy) Danxue (note: chemistry)", but because the measurement tool has not yet reached the corresponding accuracy, it is only a conceptual distinction.

On top of the "jin", every hundred promotions, that is, one hundred "jin" is called "stone", and one hundred "stone" is called "ton", so "ton" is set up as the highest weight unit to adapt to the increasingly heavy transportation calculation.

The third thing that Gezhiin confirmed was the unit of length. Heng Yu Division takes the average width of the lake silk as the minimum length unit "silk", ten "silk" one "milli", ten "milli" one "centimeter", ten "centimeter" one "minute", ten "minute" one "inch", ten "inch" one "ruler", ten "foot" one "step", ten "step" one "zhang", ten "zhang" one "zhang", ten "zhang" one "li".

According to the calculation of another time and space, the width of a lake wire is about 6,000 nanometers, and a metric centimeter is 10 million nanometers, so the new "ruler" is 60 centimeters, which is about 1.82 times the current Ministry of Labor. In the same way, one "li" of the new system is equivalent to six "kilometers" in different time and space, and it is also equivalent to 11.1 times the "li" of the old system. According to this, the Chinese official finally unified the calculation of the original 6 "li" and the sea "li".

After the length unit was changed, the area unit was also revised accordingly. Heng Yu Division takes the five "steps" as one "mu", and the new "mu" is about 1.35 times that of the old system. Ten "acres" are one "A" and ten "A" are one hectare, so that a "mile" radius is 400 "hectares", 4,000 "A", and 40,000 "mu".

Because the change of weights and measures is related to the collection of taxes and all aspects of social life, it can be said that it affects the whole body, so Zheng Kezhang only dared to use this brain after Zheng's country was completely stable, in his own words, as long as the new weights and measures can be established, even if it is short-lived, he has not come in vain??????

After stamping the big seal on the edict promulgating new weights and measures, Zheng Kezhang left Wuchang to inspect Jianghuai again, which was the fourth time he inspected Jianghuai after he ascended the throne, and if he counted the last few years of the Ming season, he inspected nearly ten times in one Jianghuai province. Of course, what attracted Zheng Kezhang was not the thin horse of Yangzhou, but the defense of the Huaipan area.

However, due to the partition of Hongze Lake, the Xia army's Huaihe defense line was actually divided into two sections. In the eastern section, because the Qing army still had garrison outposts in Qingjiangpu and Huai'anfu, it simply widened part of the Sheyang River and planted wet-loving forests along the line of Sheyang Lake, Baima Lake and Gaoyou Lake, excavated artificial lakes and ponds for flood diversion and discharge, and destroyed roads to prevent the Qing army brigade from sweeping down and threatening the core areas of Jiangbei and Jiangnan.

If the Jiangbei project reflects the defensive situation, then the Xia army's construction in Huainan presents a situation of slow attack. From the fourth year of Wuding in the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Kezhang built extensive embankments along the Huai River west of Hongze Lake. Considering that the erosion of the south bank of the river lake caused by the rotation of the earth in the northern hemisphere is much stricter than that of the north bank, Zheng Kezhang immediately dug an artificial canal and irrigation network in Huainan, and diverted the Huai water into Chaohu Lake, which was then diverted from Chaohu Lake to the Yangtze River.

After six or seven years of hard work, the project was basically completed. After the completion of the Huainan Irrigation Canal, it can not only effectively divert Huainan water and suppress flooding, but also change the farming environment of Huainan, so that most of the low-yield dry land will be converted into high-yield irrigated land.

After completing the flood diversion and flood control project in the Huainan area, the Xia army took advantage of the trend to advance northward, controlling the middle and lower reaches of many Huaishui tributaries such as the Huaibei Qianhe, the Huaihe River, the Whirlpool River, the Ci River, the Tuo River, the Quanhe River, the Gu River, the Honghe River, and the Sui River, and then eradicated swamps, established forest areas and pastures, and built forts in the northern part of the Huainan Flood Area, and then pushed the outposts of the defensive circle to Xunan, Bozhou and other places, threatening the Qing army's garrisons in Xuzhou and Guide.

Of course, it is impossible for the Qing army to watch the Xia army encroach step by step, but the Qing army does not have the financial resources to repair the environment of the Huai Pan area and does not dare to go deep into the Huai Pan area to fight with the main force of the Xia army, so in the end it can only choose to fight with the Xia army with a small force at the northern end of the Huai Pan area, and at the same time follow the trend in Subei and other places to build forts, trying to delay the degree of the Xia army's northward advance and provide early warning for the main force.

"Now the main force of the official army in Huaibei is concentrated between Ying, the capital of the state, and Ru (the south of Zhilizhou)." Xi Daping, who was transferred from the Huainan General Army to the Huaibei General Army, reported that according to the exhibition, the Huaxia Imperial Court had already established Zhongzhou Province in early December of the fifth year of Wucheng, and the province currently has jurisdiction over Xinyang Zhili Prefecture, Runan Zhili Prefecture and Yingzhou Prefecture that Xi Daping just mentioned from Jianghuai Lu'an Prefecture, as well as Xuzhou Zhili Prefecture in Xuchang, and it is expected that it will also govern Guide Prefecture, Kaifeng Prefecture, Zhengzhou Zhili Prefecture and other places in the future. "Together with our army on the front line in Nanyang, the battle line was straightened."

In the fifth year of Wu Cheng, Xia Jun's system was fine-tuned again. At present, each regiment of the 6th Division of the Xia Army has five hundred-man foot posts and one hundred-person white guard post under the jurisdiction of the infantry army and the cavalry army, plus the regiment's baggage team and regimental command post, the whole regiment has 650 people. Counting the first brigade and three regiments, plus the baggage posts, middle base posts, artillery posts, ranger posts, and brigade command posts directly under the brigade, each brigade has a total of 2,400 men. Every three brigades form a division, the division has a baggage regiment, a base regiment, an artillery corps, a white regiment, a ranger post and a division command post, the whole division is 10,000 people, and it is equipped with 12 2-inch and a half guns and 18 two-inch guns (old system). Of course, one of the divisions will be transferred to the Praetorian Guard to defend the royal family, but this does not affect the combat effectiveness of each division.

As of September of the fifth year of Wucheng, the 6th Division of the Xia Army currently has 68 infantry divisions, 68 cavalry divisions and 7 cavalry divisions.

Among them, there are two garrison divisions in Jiangnan, Fujian, Gannan, Guangdong, Guangnan, Hunan, Yunnan, and other provinces with important locations, complex terrain, and vast areas, and one garrison division in western Zhejiang, eastern Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guizhou, Xuyong, Yidong, and other provinces with narrow areas, convenient transportation, careless and important locations, and limited economic aggregates, so in fact only 54 divisions can really be used for the Northern Expedition.

Seven of these 54 divisions were located in Xichuan, nailing the Qing army's Guanzhong cluster, five were stationed in Jiangbei, one was in Jingzhou to prepare to meet central Sichuan and northern Hunan, three were in the Liaodong Peninsula to contain the Qing army's Guanwai cluster, and the rest were all distributed in Nanyang Prefecture in Huguang, Yingru area in Zhongzhou, and the original Huainan.

Replaced by previous dynasties, there have long been voices of doubt about the situation of external importance and internal lightness, but the military system of the Huaxia Dynasty is different from the past, and it is closer to a more mature organizational system in another time and space.

"The days of the Northern Expedition seem to be getting closer and closer." Zheng Kezhang sighed, but before the senior military attachΓ©s on the side could get excited, he changed his words. "380,000 horse infantry troops, such a big number, how much grain does this person need to eat and chew horses, and there is a lack of rivers in the north, so he can't use ships to transport grain, how many people will be used to transport grain for these athletes, and how much will it cost to eat these people?" These few words made everyone's faces turn pale, yes, just expanding the army and afforestation and opening canals will squeeze out the treasury of Huaxia, let alone start a war, the money is like flowing water. "I'll leave it at that, the captive chief Kangxi maintains 350,000 new troops in the north, I don't know how he persevered."

Obedient and listening, Chen Le, the commander of the first division of the Shooting Army, rolled his eyes: "The saint means that once the Qing captives are unsustainable, they will inevitably go south?" But it's okay to do so, my division will be able to defeat the Qing captives in one fell swoop and clarify the rivers and mountains. ”

The military ministers on the side immediately echoed: "What Lord Chen said is very true, if our army's northern expedition is still difficult and uncertain, then if you wait for work to meet the Qing army, you will definitely be able to kill the Qing captives in the future. ”

Listening to the rhetoric on the side, Zheng Kezang, who didn't want to pour cold water, chuckled: "It's good that you have this confidence, but the shape may not be as Qing and others expected, Kangxi is also a generation of heroes, so he may not be desperate." ”

Speaking of this, Zheng Kezang's gaze fell on the face of the third division of the hussar army, who commanded Liu Shaoyang: "The north is wide, the key is the cavalry, I want to know, if the cavalry fights, whether our division is sure of victory." ”

Zheng Kezhang is not ready to give Kangxi a chance to resist stubbornly, but the key to disrupting the other party's rhythm is to do it himself, but to his disappointment, Liu Shaoyang couldn't give him this answer: "The minister doesn't dare to play this guarantee." ”

Liu Shaoyang explained: "Although our division said that there are 70,000 iron horsemen, but there are not enough horses, if we only use Mongolian horses to make up the number, we may not be able to defeat the Mongolians who grew up on horseback." ”

Huang Tao, the commander of the second division of the Yulin Army, retorted: "The Qing Prisoner is in a hurry, how can those Tartars who know the wind and the rudder the most be bent on following the Qing Prisoner to the dark?" ”

To this, Liu Shaoyang only replied: "Those who count in the temple are counted as many victories and few defeats." ”

Seeing that the people below were about to argue, Zheng Kezhang waved his hand: "Liuqing is reasonable, I am still in a hurry, so I will give Qingyu a few more years of good time??????