The cry of "Wow Wow" came from inside the house!

Zhu Yongxing was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot at the door, and he didn't know how many times he had walked, and only after hearing the crying did he breathe a sigh of relief. Then he took a big stride and hurried towards the door of the house.

Giving birth to a child in this era is a very dangerous thing, and it is not too much to say that it is going around in the ghost gate. Although I have long found a stable woman with the best technology and the highest delivery rate, there are also several good doctors. When it came to the end, Zhu Yongxing was still so nervous that he was sweating and worried.

As soon as the door opened, the stable woman inside was about to scream, but when she saw that it was Zhu Yongxing, she paused for half a sentence, "Lord, you, you-"

Zhu Yongxing waved his hand, looked in, and asked anxiously, "How is the princess?" ”

"Your Highness, the concubine is gone, it's fine." Mengzhu's weak and hoarse voice came out.

She was in better health, no better than those weak women, but she was also in pain and her mind was blurred, and her voice was hoarse. After the pain was extreme, I only felt that my lower body was discharged, and the whole person was a lot more relaxed. In a daze, I only heard Zhu Yongxing's voice, full of concern and a little anxious, I couldn't bear him to worry, so I reluctantly responded.

Zhu Yongxing walked quickly behind the curtain, took the sweat towel in the maid's hand, and gently wiped the sweat drops on his wife's face.

"Your Highness, it's okay, the concubine is just tired!" After screaming, her voice was so hoarse that she almost lost her voice, and Mengzhu smiled weakly and comforted softly.

"Get some sleep!" Zhu Yongxing sat at the head of the bed, held his wife's hand, gently brushed away his wet hair, and caressed his wife's forehead and face lovingly.

Well, Mengzhu replied softly, a relaxed smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, and slowly closed her eyes. Only immediately she opened her eyes again. Cheer up and ask, "Boy or girl?" ”

"Congratulations to Your Highness, congratulations to the princess, she is a little princess." A middle-aged woman from the Mengshan Gram tribe smiled and hugged the wrapped child.

His eyes were closed, his skin was red and wrinkled—Zhu Yongxing smiled happily, stretched out his hand and touched it lightly before retracting it. My own daughter. The gap of hundreds of years, really, this feeling is a little indescribable.

Mengzhu sighed faintly, but her eyes did not leave her flesh and bones, and a smile appeared on her face.

Zhu Yongxing knew what was on his wife's mind, leaned close to her ear, smiled and whispered: "Take care of your body, let's continue to work hard and give birth to seven or eight of him." Always make you satisfied. Good no good? ”

Mengzhu replied inaudibly, her face flushed, and she closed her eyes in satisfaction. After a while, she fell asleep, exhausted.

Zhu Yongxing watched his wife fall asleep quietly, glanced at the baby in the little wrap from time to time, and stayed for an unknown amount of time before quietly getting up and leaving.

"Congratulations to the prince, the joy of a daughter." Get out of the inner courtyard. The news has spread, and everyone is congratulating and congratulating. made Zhu Yongxing so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut.

Back in the study, there were already some texts on the table. Zhu Yongxing flipped through it, and there was no update on the South China Sea Fleet. Although the battle plan has been sent a few days ago, and the operation has already begun. Zhu Yongxing has no different opinions on this, and even appreciates it. But operations at sea are the most difficult to grasp, not only to fight the enemy. It is difficult to be relieved to have to conquer unpredictable factors such as wind, waves, and weather.

Calculating the time, the naval battle should have already begun, and the outcome may even be decided. I hope it's double happiness, Zhu Yongxing thought of the small, wrinkled baby again. I couldn't help but smile happily again.

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Short, bald ears, two glowing green wolf eyes, glancing suspiciously into the bushes. Then the beast crawled forward stealthily, its head tucked into its raised shoulder blades.

Suddenly, the wolf leaped swiftly and slipped over a rotten log on the ground, as if to tilt his body over.

The bowstring sounds, and the arrow is shot. The wolf howl rang out, and the beast turned its head in the air, towards its hips, as if to bite its attacker. However, it fell, dragging its wounded body, moving sharply with its front paws, and letting out a puppy-like whimper.

Changguo Gong Gao Wengui stood up from behind the tree with a smile, and the soldiers behind him had already flown over and killed the evil wolf with their spears. Tied with a rope, picked on a spear, and ran back with a grin.

"Back, back." Gao Wengui threw the bow and arrow to his own soldiers, although the musket was good, but he was used to using a strong bow, and he still felt that it was more convenient to use it for hunting, "There is a wolf here, presumably the tiger is not here, it is useless to wait." ”

Tiger? That's right, this rare animal in later generations is very abundant in the current Sichuan, and it has become a scourge. This is all caused by years of war, "the fields are barren, the residents are scattered, the hungry tigers are flocked, and the village markets are left to haunt them." Especially after the Qing soldiers entered Sichuan, the famine was even heavier, and the Qing soldiers had no food, and they were also slightly preserved.

At that time, most people in Chengdu fled to Yazhou to pick wild vegetables for food, and most of them flowed into Tusi. When the Qing army withdrew from Chengdu, the general Liang Yixun drove the remnants of the people to the north, and killed them all in Mianzhou, and there was not one in Sichuan.

Under these conditions, even if the Ming army defeated Li Guoying and forced the Qing army to retreat to Chongqing, it could only defend the Yazhou (now Ya'an) and Jiading (now Leshan) areas. Without enough money and food support, it is simply difficult to further expand the territory.

In fact, Zhu Yongxing sent the Ming army into Sichuan, adopting a strategy similar to that of Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu. First according to a place with a little more food, that is, Yazhou, and then slowly operate, after the grain is sufficient and the army gathers, or the north harvests Chengdu, Shunqing (now Nanchong area), or the east to Chongqing and the thirteen families of Kuidong, so as to open up the situation in the southwest.

After Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu, returned to Yunnan with an edict, he left his subordinate general Wei Ningbo Gao Chengen to continue to guard and manage the Yazhou region, and the results were obvious. The history books contain: it was when Gao Chengen was stationed in Ya, soldiers and horses gathered, and there was almost no government. The field grain is specialized in grain, rice, beans and grass, and there is no need for folk money and grain, although the husband is burdened, and the well is full of warmth, and the people forget their hard work.

Later, the Qing army entered Sichuan, the Ming generals in Sichuan fought among themselves, attacked each other, Gao Chengen was killed, and his subordinate Hao Chengyi led the army to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and still guarded Yazhou. During this period, the damage to Yazhou was not very great, and a considerable number of Chengdu people took refuge here, and the situation of barren land was not very serious. Therefore, the grain in Sichuan is eaten in Yazhou, Tusi and Yuejunwei of the Dadu River.

It is precisely because of this that the Ming army chose Yazhou as the base of central Sichuan, on the one hand, it can raise some on the spot, and on the other hand, it can be transported from Jianchang (now Xichang City, Sichuan) and Lizhou (in the north of present-day Hanyuan County, Sichuan) to Yazhou. In this way, logistical stress can be minimized.

In addition, Yazhou is adjacent to Chengdu in the east, Ganzi in the west, Liangshan in the south, and Aba in the north, and is known as the "throat of western Sichuan" and "the gateway to Tibet", and its geographical location is very important. Moreover, Yazhou has a long history of Tibetan tea, since the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, the imperial court has successively carried out the "tea and horse market", "tea system", "shore system" and other policies to "rule the border with tea", Yazhou was once the land of tea and horses. In time, Zhu Yongxing hoped to carry out the tea and horse trade in Yazhou and train a capable cavalry in the Chengdu Plain.

Of course, this is all a long-term plan, without two or three years of operation, without the filling and reconstruction of a large number of people, without the support of financial and material resources, everything is empty talk.

The first step in the operation is Juntun, "one hand of swords and guns, one hand of hoes", "self-reliance, abundant food and clothing", "production is battle" and other slogans, naturally Zhu Yongxing plagiarized the practice of later generations. There is no way, it is necessary to feed the army and immigrate to reclaim, and the money and food required are too much. If the army is still completely out of production, the money and grain in Yazhou may barely be enough, but it will take at least half a year for the immigrants to reclaim the wasteland and harvest a season of grain, so that they can no longer be subsidized by the government.

This is the difference between the capture of Guangxi and the development of Sichuan: the capture of Guangxi is simple, and the word "fight"; The development of Sichuan focuses on planning and management, but the military is not the main thing for the time being. The capture of Guangxi mainly relied on the operational command of the generals and the heroic use of the soldiers; The development of Sichuan will test the government's planning, the raising and transportation of money and grain, the orderly movement of migrants, the level of governance of local officials, and the supply of cattle, seeds, and farm tools.

Gao Wengui, the Duke of Changguo, led his troops to enter Sichuan first, gained a firm foothold in Yazhou, and began to march to the tun; A few months later, Liu Zhen, the king of Qingyang, led his troops to Jiading, and sent troops to garrison along the road, ensuring the smooth passage of Yunnan-Sichuan, and surrendered some of the old departments of the king of Shu who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and joined forces with Gao Wengui's troops; A few months later, Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, entered Shu from Jianchang, completely stabilized the situation in southern Sichuan, and escorted the first batch of more than 3,000 immigrants.

Entering Sichuan in batches, several months apart, is a helpless move under the condition of calculating and measuring the government's finances. Although it was slow, it ensured the minimum supply and transportation of money and grain, and it was a strategy of rolling development.

After the king of Jin entered Sichuan, he stationed in the Tiansheng City of Hongya, and Gao Wengui, the Duke of Changguo, and Liu Zhen, the king of Qingyang, had the backing, so they slowly developed to the north and east respectively. The immigrants from Sichuan Province maintained a continuous influx of 1,000 people per month, including Annan people, Nanzhang people, Zhenla people, Guangxi people, Dian people, and even retired Ming soldiers. With the immigrants entering Sichuan, the government's money, food, and materials also continued to be transported, stabilizing people's hearts and rebuilding the place.

Gao Wengui, the Duke of Changguo, failed to fight the tiger, so he returned to Chengdu with his own soldiers. That's right, a month ago, he led 2,000 Ming troops and escorted more than 1,000 immigrants to the capital of Sichuan.

At that time, Chengdu was full of thorns, the tall and magnificent city walls were overgrown with weeds, and there were less than 100 households in the city. Who would have thought that the big city of Chengdu once accommodated hundreds of thousands of people, Wanli, during the Apocalypse, Chengdu only weavers have tens of thousands, a large number of weaving factories do not even rest at night, producing the world-famous Shu brocade, sold to all parts of the country; It was also the commercial center of the West Sichuan Plain, where merchants from other places came to buy tea and other local products from Qingcheng, Emei and other places, and the prosperous business also gave rise to a wide variety of industries. (To be continued......)