Chapter 335: Mao Ge Betel Nut

19_19934The situation on Temple Street is temporarily stabilized, and Cao Mufang is correct, which Cao Mufang never expected beforehand...... For more up-to-date chapters, visit wèn:щw. Of course, at the same time, the above also sent a deputy Zhang Haisan over, this Zhang Haisan has been with Mao Tetou for four years, Cao Mufang did not dare to underestimate it at all, Cao Mufang said in his heart, is this the legendary prison army!

After replenishing the materials, Cao Mufang learned the previous lesson, and did not rush to 'sweep' the bandit army of Hanuer's assassination, but took it step by step, first consolidating the territory and rebuilding the temple street castle. It will soon be a long winter of ice and snow, and in the cold winter, the "Workers' Army" can only adhere to a mantra and defend the territory within a radius of dozens of miles of Temple Street, which is good.

However, it is not without good news, although there is a Haru spur running away, there is no shortage of locals who are aware of current affairs everywhere, and a new leading party has appeared, and there is more than one! The leaders of two small tribes chose to resolutely bet on the side of the "Workers' Army". They had fought against the Jin court before, just to be less exploited, and now, the "Workers' Army" came, not only did not exploit it, but also gave a number of benefits, in addition to giving benefits, they also drew a big pie, in the face of interests, fools will choose who to follow.

The "Workers' Army" said that following the "Workers' Army" on Sakhalin Island, the future is not ordinarily good, and there is no need to worry about grain, cotton, coats, biscuits, candies, and so on.

The "Workers' Army" on the northern front stabilized the situation and let the Sakhalin crossing people put down a hanging heart.

In contrast to the repeated situation of the "industrial army" on the northern front, the "industrial army" on the southern front in Vladivostok can be called a smooth sail.

When Han Yanxuan led the fleet to Vladivostok, the castle of Vladivostok had begun to take shape, the design of the rhombic fort with logs and 'mixed' concrete, coupled with the powerful firepower configuration, in Han Yanxuan's opinion, even if tens of thousands of golden soldiers came, it would be difficult to gnaw this fortress. What's more, the cold winter here is also a great enemy for the Jin soldiers, so Han Yanxuan believes that the "Engineer Army" has planted this nail in Vladivostok this year, and it will develop into a large territory in the coming year.

After visiting the Golden Horn and listening to Liu Wenbin's explanation, Han Yanxuan couldn't help but sigh that this Golden Horn is indeed a good harbor made in heaven.

Why is it called the Golden Horn? Han Yanxuan glanced at the sand table and understood the reason. It is said that this Golden Horn is like a bull's horn 'inserted' into the land, forming a "horn-shaped bay" surrounded by land, the tip of the horn is deep into the depths of the land, and the big head of the horn is facing the sea. The Golden Horn extends from southwest to northeast into the land, and the "Horn" is about 7 kilometers long. The width of the bay at the entrance of the Golden Horn is about 2 kilometers and the water depth is 20~30 meters, and the width of the bay is less than 1 kilometer, and the water depth is 10~20 meters. The bay is surrounded by low mountains and hills, and the shape is dangerous. From the perspective of topography, it can be called a super natural harbor given by nature to mankind.

If it weren't for the congenital deficiencies of Vladivostok in terms of climate, the Golden Horn would be among the top three in the world as a good port. The winter freezing period is as long as 100~110 days (early December to mid-to-late March of the following year), the later generations of "Mao" have icebreakers, with the help of icebreakers "Mao" can still be navigable, the problem is that in this way, the cost of navigation is not generally high, the navy is originally a money-burning business, and the navy of "Mao" is more money-burning than the navies of other countries, so after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the national strength of "Mao" plummeted, the navy could only smash the pot and sell iron in order to barely maintain. Vladivostok climate also has a disadvantage that is not conducive to navigation, that is, Vladivostok is foggy in summer and autumn, of which there is an average fog day of one and a half months in June ~ August, fog will of course affect navigation, therefore, although Vladivostok has a prominent strategic position and the terrain is super 'good', it still cannot be called a real good port.

However, for the traverser, Vladivostok is no better, and it is better than any port on Sakhalin, whether it is Damari and Maka, compared to the Golden Horn, the Golden Horn is far more than N streets behind them.

After Han Yanzhou's fleet came, Liu Wenbin's shelling of Shuangchengzi was also ripe, and at the invitation of Han Yanzhou, several warships under Han Yanzhou participated in this shelling operation. After arriving at Shuangchengzi, dozens of 'doors' of cannons bombarded Shuangchengzi, and the Jin people in the city were extremely angry, and they also tried to rush out of the city 'gate' to counterattack, but they were intercepted by the artillery fire on the ships of the "Engineer Army", suffered heavy losses, and had to retreat back to the city. After showing off his strength, it is estimated that the twin cities were almost destroyed, and the fleet was able to evacuate in a timely manner.

Han Yanxuan was in a good mood, but unfortunately winter was coming soon, and the "Engineer Army" on Vladivostok's side had no intention of launching a new offensive, and then was just preparing to build a city in Vladivostok to spend the winter. Considering that the war of the Great Song Dynasty against Dali had begun, what the East China Sea Fleet had to do was to be ready to contain the Jin people at sea at any time, and the main battlefields of the warships he led in the future would be the East China Sea, the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. So, at the beginning of September, Han Yanxuan's fleet anchored in the cold wind of Vladivostok and headed south for the Great Song Dynasty.

Liu Wenbin immediately led the "Workers' Army" warships to leave, and within a day, he returned to Sakhalin.

Winter in Sakhalin Island has come, the snow 'flowers' are fluttering, and a picture of the northern country is in front of him.

"Well done! Your southern front lived up to expectations and didn't worry us. Good job! Great work! ”

Facing Mao Geng's praise, Liu Wenbin said with a smile:

"It's not worth mentioning, isn't it just to occupy some uninhabited territory! Vladivostok is good, but in the era when there were no giant ships, any river port or sheltered bay could be used as a port, so the importance of Vladivostok was not as important as we imagined in this era, and the Jin people and the natives did not take this Golden Horn seriously at all. Hehe! Of course, they only have some small rows and other small boats in their hands, and in their eyes, the Golden Horn is not as valuable as any river on the bank of the Suifen River! ”

This is also a fact, the Golden Horn and the mouth of the Suifen River are still separated by a long distance, for the Jin people who are accustomed to fishing and hunting in this area, fishing in the Suifen River is a more reliable thing, as for fishing in the sea, the level of productivity of the Jinren fishery, of course, it is difficult to 'touch' the 'door'.

"The Golden Horn of Vladivostok is of course of little value in the hands of those natives, but in our hands, it is different! In short, occupying Vladivostok and taking root there is a great achievement. Mao Geng sighed, and then said: "Our northern front operation, compared to the southern line, is not as smooth as the southern line, and the losses are also great!" In the blink of an eye, the money of more than 200,000 yuan is gone! It was burned by a fire. Alas! War is simply a money-swallowing machine! ”

In fact, Mao Geng's words are also a bit exaggerated, the material of Temple Street is a lot of losses, but it is not without gain, this account depends on how to calculate, the loss of more than 100,000 guan is there, as for the loss of more than 200,000 guan, that is Mao Geng's algorithm. Mao Geng has been doing profitable trading with input and output all these years, and he is really not very used to doing this kind of money-losing business for the first time. Liu Wenbin was thinking in his heart at the moment, my big man, are you really like a 'traitor' businessman in the foreign world, do you have to count the cost of capital, opportunity cost and so on! Boss, this is a bit excessive!

So Liu Wenbin immediately calculated an account for the traversers present:

"Isn't the war in the southwest begins! I heard that the regular soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty had to chew two pieces of betel nut a day, and 50,000 soldiers had to chew off 100,000 pieces of betel nut a day, and there were more than 50,000 migrant workers with the army, and the ration was one piece for two days, and 30,000 pieces had to be chewed off in a day. 130,000 pieces a day, three yuan a piece, we can earn two yuan, just the betel nut consumption of the Great Song Dynasty Bingfa Dali, can make us a day of 260,000 yuan, well, it is 260 yuan, in a month it is 7,800 yuan, and it should not be a problem to get 90,000 yuan a year. Liu Wenbin paused, seeing that Mao Geng was not annoyed, so he continued: "Of course, this is just the beginning, I believe that Long Jiu's judgment will not be wrong, this time the army will distribute betel nut on a large scale to prevent miasma, if the effect is good, the impact will be far-reaching, and eventually it will be like a cigarette, becoming an addictive food popular in the Great Song Dynasty and even the world, hehe, it is not so much food as an anesthetic, haha, I think, by next year, Mao Ge betel nut will bring us a profit of 500,000 yuan a year, it should not be a problem." , Maybe in the year after tomorrow, the betel nut will make a profit of more than one million, so, Leader Mao, you don't have to worry about our finances, the income from the betel nut alone is enough for us to fight a dozen wars of attrition with Jin Bing. ”

Attacking Dali, you can't fight an unprepared battle, this point can no longer be understood by the Song Dynasty, and one of them has to face, that is, the problem of the prevalence of miasma in Dali. For this reason, Lao Peng solemnly proposed to the Song Dynasty that the soldiers and soldiers accompanying the army and civilian workers on the expedition to Dali chew "Maoge betel nut" can effectively resist the poison of miasma.

It is said that betel nut has the effect of detoxifying and preventing malaria, and Lao Peng added sugar, wine and other 'medicine' materials to soak according to the preparation method of betel nut in later generations, and the 'medicine' power is improved at the same time, it is also easier to become addicted. This thing is the first thing that Long Jiu proposed to produce, Long Jiu is suffering from the fact that he can't transplant tobacco leaves from the Americas, and his own cigarettes can't come out of the cage, but there are no cigarettes, it doesn't mean that there are no other substitutes, betel nut This thing is actually similar to cigarettes, after giving gimmicks such as "toxic anti-poison, non-toxic and strong body", he slowly began to be equipped with medical 'medicine' to prevent miasma in the army. Previously, when I was on an expedition to Luzon, I tried to let the soldiers chew "Mao Ge betel nut" to prevent miasma, and found that the effect was good, of course, it was only used as a 'medicine', and it had not yet developed into a snack Cheng dΓΉ.

But this time it was different, the army fighting, even if the non-combat mortality rate is not high, it is unacceptable, therefore, Lao Peng's construction yΓ¬ was happily adopted by the Great Song Dynasty court, which cherished the lives of soldiers, and now, the Great Song soldiers who went to Dali can chew two pieces of betel nut every day, so far, the soldiers have reacted quite positively to the "Mao Ge betel nut", so Liu Wenbin's statement may be good, by next year, maybe the whole Song Dynasty will chew "Mao Ge betel nut" - 32133 + dsuaahh+29284890β€”β€”>。