Yangzhou Mansion, Xujiazhuang.

In the past six months this year, most of Xujiazhuang's energy has been focused on the agricultural field.

The synthetic nitrogen fertilizer plant was successfully put into operation, which solved the independent production of most of the chemical fertilizers.

High-yield varieties have been popularized in a large area.

There are also pumping machines, pesticides, etc., which have been fully applied to the Nanzhili area, and have reached cooperation with countless farmers, and even given loans to help improve agricultural output.

After the grain is harvested, the surplus grain can be sold to Xujiazhuang at a suitable price.

Anyway, through various means.

This year, not only Xujiazhuang's own fields have achieved a bumper harvest, but also led the entire Nanzhili area to achieve a bumper harvest.

As a result, the total amount of grain controlled by Xujiazhuang this year has reached an astonishing more than 60 billion catties, which is enough to meet the food needs of 100 million people for a year.

In other words, in the field of agriculture, why did Xujiazhuang make such a big move and accumulate so much grain, in case it couldn't be eaten or sold, wouldn't it be smashed into his own hands?

Xu Yuan naturally has his deep meaning in doing this.

Because from next year, it will be the Chongzhen drought in history!

This is a drought of such a length and scope that it has been extremely rare for 500 years!

The main areas of drought and lack of rainfall are in Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Shandong, all of which have been dry for more than five consecutive years.

Henan, where the center of the arid area is located, has been in drought for seven consecutive years!

In the south, floods are frequent, and the rainfall in the north increases in the later period, turning into floods in the north and drought in the south, but during this period, plague epidemics, locust disasters are rampant, as well as earthquakes, snow disasters, etc., and various natural and man-made disasters are innumerable.

In short, from the seventh year of Chongzhen next year, until the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Daming doesn't want to live a good life one day!

Therefore, Xu Yuan must take precautions and prepare in advance, especially in terms of food, as much food as he can accumulate, he can save as much food as he can, and if he can't finish it, he can sell it, and if he can't sell it, he will use it to produce ethanol for the synthesis of biodiesel, and there will be no waste of food.

But there must be no shortage of food, otherwise there will be a lot of chaos and even internal instability, which must be avoided, although the probability of occurrence is extremely low.

"There is grain in your hands, don't panic in your heart, if you can concentrate most of the commercial grain in the Ming Dynasty in the hands of Xujiazhuang, and monopolize the plan of grain, maybe it will be realized ahead of schedule."

Xu Yuan said secretly.

It's just that Xujiazhuang's grain accumulation plan has just achieved gratifying results of more than 60 billion catties, and Jin Jiannu actually entered the customs again!

It was nearly a year ahead of the original historical timeline, which greatly surprised Xu Yuan's expectations.

The intelligence system that led to the development of Xujiazhuang did not respond in time, but waited until the Jin army entered the customs to quickly learn about the situation and immediately reported to the headquarters of Xujiazhuang.

Until September 5th.

The top level of Xujiazhuang basically figured out the intelligence information on the troops, logistics, main generals, and tactics of the Later Jin Army, including the internal situation of the eight major families of the Jin Dynasty, and all the investigations were clear.

That's for the entry of the Houjin Army this time.

What is Xu Yuan's attitude?

What will be Xujiazhuang's attitude?

Military-strategic meeting.

The senior generals and elite staff officers of the Xu Jiajun did not dare to express their views indiscriminately this time, lest they encounter an embarrassment similar to the last time they discussed how to deal with the Zheng family, but with the imperial court's defense and hostility towards Xujiazhuang, the most in line with the interests of Xujiazhuang is to watch from the wall, sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, there is no need to participate in the game, just sit on the sidelines and watch, it is best to fight and lose, this is the best result.

It's just that no one dares to say such a thing, and once it is said, it may be severely criticized by the owner because it does not meet the correct answer.

"Master, what do you think we should do?"

"Owner, 50,000 Xu family troops can be dispatched at any time, whether it is to destroy Houjin or Daming, or all of them, you can act how you say."

"Headmaster, Jiannu is a barbarian alien race, Daming is our Chinese clan, we should help Daming, but the Ming Dynasty is very wary and hostile to us, they may not appreciate it, and may even bite back, it is better not to help."

"Headmaster, do you want to intervene, whether you want to help or not, you say, we will do it."

Everyone kicked the ball to Xu Yuan's feet.

"You guys are so bold, you don't dare to speak freely, even if you say it wrong, I won't blame you, why have you become so timid?"

Xu Yuan shook his head, and everyone smiled awkwardly, in fact, it was not that they didn't want to speak freely, but that the Xu family army was too powerful, no matter what method was implemented, it was correct, if they answered wrongly, it didn't matter if they were criticized, if they lost the opportunity to lead the troops to fight and make meritorious contributions, the loss would be too huge! They simply can't accept such a risk.

It's better to be an obedient echo worm, and avoid being caught by colleagues for saying the wrong thing, in short, the opportunity to lead the troops to fight must be grabbed in every possible way!

"This time Xujiazhuang's response is very simple, that is, to fight! Help Da Ming's side and beat Jiannu to the ground looking for teeth! ”

As soon as Xu Yuan's words came out, the brigade commanders Zhao Yang, Shi Yong, Xu Huoqing and other generals, as well as all the young staff officers, all showed ecstatic expressions on their faces, and they all quickly became excited and fanatical.

That's great!

There is a battle to be fought, they have a war to fight!

The opportunity to make a fortune has come.

However, they didn't dare to be too restless, and patiently continued to listen to Xu Yuan say: "There are three reasons why we sent troops, one is that the Ming Dynasty is our own people, all of them are Huaxia people, but this point, we have to help if we don't help." ”

"Second, the north of the Ming Dynasty is an important sales market for Xujiazhuang commercial goods, more than thirty percent of our commercial goods are sold in the northern market, bringing tens of millions of taels of income every year, if the northern market is affected by the war, a large number of people are killed, it will undoubtedly affect our commercial interests, even if it is for our commercial interests, this time we must send troops to help the imperial court and defeat the Houjin army."

"The third is Liwei, the peace period enjoyed by the Xu Jiajun is too long, and it can't fight for a few days every year, and every time it quickly defeats the opponent, and the defeat is the weak, there is no sense of accomplishment at all, and it can't play a good deterrent role, but if our Xu Jiajun is dispatched, like a peerless sword out of the sheath, on the battlefield, we defeat the Houjin Army that has never been defeated so far, known as 'invincible', how will the world view Xu Jiajun? How will the imperial court view Xu Jiajun? What will the people of the world think of Xu Jiajun? ”

"Becoming an Immortal"

"Advertisement, Xu Jiajun needs to win a military victory, play a 'Xu Jiajun is the first in the world', ' Xu Jiajun is invincible in the world's advertisement, in order to achieve this goal, can only be strong to overcome the strong, can only find the elite of the Eight Banners as opponents, and then defeat them, with their corpses and heads to fight this advertisement, so that the world does not dare to underestimate the Xu Jiajun, so that the court and Emperor Chongzhen, dare not despise and snub the Xu Jiajun, and even since then, only dare to mention the friendship of Xu Jiazhuang, instead of issuing tough and hostile remarks, with the strong strength of the Xu Jiajun, deter all unfriendly people, let them consciously correct their inappropriate behavior! ”

Xu Yuan's words can be said to be so comfortable that everyone is in their bones, and they all nodded in agreement:

"That's right, the popularity of our Xu Jiajun is too low, and most of the people of the Ming Dynasty still don't know how strong we are."

"This ad must be hit, it must be hit! Xu Jiajun's power must be known by everyone. ”

"The Eight Banners Army will also be able to recklessly act on the head of the Ming Army, brush up on the achievements, if they run into us, hehe, we will teach them how to behave?"

"I think it is enough to dispatch only 10,000 elite troops, and with our advanced equipment, we can kill at least 100,000 Jiannu."

"Why only the Army? The combat effectiveness of our Marine Corps is not weaker than that of the Army in the slightest, so why not send 10,000 Marines there? Xu Huoqing said.

"Don't fight, the army and navy each have 5,000 people, how about this?" This man came out to play a round.

"No, there are more than 200,000 troops in the Jiannu army, and we only send 10,000 troops, which is not enough to capture prisoners, so let's send 30,000 troops, including 20,000 army and 10,000 navy, so it's decided." Shi Yong proposed his plan for sending troops.

"Obviously, the navy has more people than the army, why isn't it the navy that sends 20,000 troops and the army who sends 10,000 troops?" Another admiral dissatisfied.

"The navy only needs to fight at sea and on the islands, don't get too involved in inland wars, this is the work of our army."

"That's right, if the army doesn't rob the navy of its work, your navy won't come inland to join in the fun."

There was a fight.

The specific parties to send troops have not been determined.

The scene began to argue, the smell of gunpowder became stronger and stronger, and it was very clearly divided into two camps, you and I persuaded each other, quarreled and even scolded, and almost rolled up our sleeves to fight.

The external battle had not yet begun, and the internal contradictions between the arms had erupted fiercely.

But there is no way, the opportunity to make a fortune, who is willing to give it up, at this time the person who does not fight or grab is a fool.

"Enough! Stop fighting! ”

Xu Yuan frowned, his eyes swept away, and they immediately quieted down and regained a harmonious appearance, for fear of causing the owner to be unhappy.

"This war of aiding Ming, this war of advertising, is not what you imagine, using breech guns, grenades, mortars and other advanced weapons to crush the Houjin army on the battlefield, this is not called war, but slaughter, it can't have a good advertising effect, it can only prove that the weapon is strong, but not that the Xu army itself is strong."

"So this time, you can't bring any advanced weapons such as breech guns and mortars, so use the alloy chopping knife prepared for you and use this cold weapon to fight!"

"In terms of numbers, 8,000 people with the tallest body, the strongest muscles, the strongest hand-to-hand combat ability, and the strongest lasting combat effectiveness were screened out from the Xu Jiajun, and the elite of the Eight Banners were frontally hard steel, and they collided face-to-face with cold weapons, and with stronger physique, greater strength, and more durable endurance, they defeated and crushed the Houjin Tartars head-on, and beat them in the most advantageous and confident aspects, until they were desperate and fearful, and had no confidence, and they only had fear and retreat from the Xu Jiajun in the future."

"That's the only way to get the best results! Only then can we prove that civilization can defeat barbarism head-on, can we prove that civilized people have stronger muscles, and prove that even without those advanced weapons, we can be invincible in the world. ”

"So in the next Xu family's army, 50,000 soldiers, anyone can sign up and apply, and then screen, or engage in a ring competition, the strong will be promoted, and the weak will be eliminated! In the end, 8,000 strong men with the strongest muscle strength were selected to form a muscular army, and then went north to follow the Jin Tartar to play the prestige of our Xu family army! ”

Xu Yuan said his plan for sending troops.

That is, everyone has the opportunity to be selected, but they can only fight with their muscles and physique, mainly using an alloy chopping knife.

Of course, Xu Yuan is not stupid X is going to send 8,000 people to the north to die, in terms of defense, he will definitely give the muscle legion a full point, each person with a plate armor covering the whole body, which looks like a can, but the weight is only thirty catties, and the flexibility is enough.

In addition, he wears a set of stab-proof clothing produced by modern society, which weighs less than ten catties, but can resist small bullets and sharp objects.

In the face of such double protection, the elites of the Eight Banners are slashed with knives and tired, and they can't break the defense, and the safety factor is high enough.

and listened to Xu Yuan's dispatch of troops.

For the so-called 8,000-man muscular legion, the generals did not feel ridiculous or stupid, but became more fanatical one by one.

"Okay, okay, rely on muscle power to face hard steel, right? This is exactly what I want, exactly what I want! ”

"It's really too bullying to kill the enemy with breech guns and mortars, it's not martial, it's not enjoyable, fight with cold weapons, crack the skull, splash blood, collapse, despair, and run away, yes, this scene is good, I'm starting to get excited." The man licked his lips and gave him a bloodthirsty look.

"I must enter this muscle legion, no one will stop me!"

"If you have muscles, I don't? Let's compete to see whose muscles are stronger! ”

"Compare to compare! Before we fight the Tartars, let's divide the winners and losers! ”

……

Soon, the barracks west of Harbour City.

One after another, the competition rings were set up, and the officers and soldiers of the Xu Jiajun all wore canned full-body plate armor, held alloy chopping knives, and slashed in the ring, which can be described as sparks splashing and being very lively.

Because of the more than 50,000 Xu Jiajun, all of whom signed up, this internal elimination competition was held for three days, which attracted the attention and heated discussions of countless people.

In the process of watching the jousting from the stands.

A high-level said in Xu Yuan's ear: "Isn't this too child's play, you can crush the opponent, why give up your strengths, and instead return to cold weapons to fight, what if there are a large number of casualties?" ”

"Casualties are inevitable."

Xu Yuan said: "But the victory must belong to them, if these muscular men who eat an average of two or three catties of meat a day, train at high intensity for four or five hours a day, learn and sharpen their killing skills every day, and have defensive advantages, can't even defeat the barbarians, it can only prove that Xujiazhuang's development model is a failure, or this is not a normal world." ”

On September 9, the muscle corps of Xujiazhuang was successfully formed.

On the 10th, this 8,000-strong muscular army (and another 2,000 Xujiazhuang caravans served them), mounted bicycles and several motorcycles, carried a lot of supplies, and marched 150 miles a day to Beizhili.