"This year's precipitation in Beizhili has reached one foot three inches (416 mm), which is one and a half inches more than last year!"

"No wonder there is no major drought this year, and the precipitation data in Shanxi has also reached 1 foot 2 inches (384 millimeters), and I hope it will reach 1 foot 3 inches this year."

"Alas...... Shaanxi is still the same, southern Shaanxi and Guanzhong are one foot one inch and two inches (352-384 mm) respectively, and northern Shaanxi nine inches (256 mm). ”

"What the hell, Taining Mansion is so north, it is actually one foot and two inches, which is taller than northern Shaanxi, it seems that the precipitation map drawn by His Royal Highness is true."

"It's useful, but it's useless for Shaanxi and Shanxi, and Hexi has reached one foot two of the precipitation."

On the tenth day of February in the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, when the New Year's Day and Lantern Festival passed one after another, the snow in the north began to melt, and the provincial divisions of the Department of Agriculture made a summary of the territory of each province last year and handed it over to the General Department of Agriculture.

This is the first time that the Department of Agriculture has counted the annual precipitation of the whole country in the Ming Dynasty, but it is also this precipitation that has made many people see the dilemma of Shanxi and Shaanxi.

Under the circumstance that the provinces have been peaceful one after another, the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi, which have entered the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, are still in a state of severe drought.

The rainfall of the two provinces is far less than that of Hexi, and the single round of water resources, Hexi is also the second province.

After several years of severe drought, Shanxi's rivers have basically been cut off, and Shaanxi can only rely on the Wei River, the Jing River, and the Yellow River to survive.

It's just that it's already like this, and Shaanxi really can't move the people out, and if it moves again, the local population won't even be able to get together three million.

However, in Shanxi, after seeing the situation of severe drought since the beginning of spring, many people have started to think of moving outside the border.

It's a pity that under their minds, Zhu Youzhen's order to stop the relocation made all the Shanxi victims dumbfounded.

Notices from all over the country that you need to plow the court and sweep the cave before you can continue to immigrate.

This proclamation completely dispelled the idea of the people of Shanxi to relocate, and some people even scolded Zhu Youzhen privately because they could not relocate.

It's just that Zhu Youzhen doesn't care about these things at all, he is walking around in the storage room near the experimental field in Yongping County, the Department of Agriculture.

After the time entered February, Zhu Youxiao took his more than 70 concubines and six children to Yanshan to prepare for the summer.

Since the Beijing-Liao Railway from Beijing to Yanshan is still under inspection, even if it is laid, Zhu Youxiao and his team still have to take a horse-drawn carriage when they go.

However, it is estimated that when they return to the capital at the end of autumn, they will be able to take the operating train.

"These maize are a little bigger than when I first met them."

Zhu Youxiao was on the way to Yanshan, but Zhu Youzhen was inspecting the storage room of the Agricultural Department at this moment with Li Dingguo, who had returned to the Qi Palace's mansion from home.

In the ten-acre storeroom, there is corn harvested last year, which is no bigger than future generations, each one is the size of a baby's arm, and the corn kernels are hard and small.

Zhu Youzhen looked at this group of corn that was less than one-third of the thickness of later generations, and felt helpless.

Following him, Li Dingguo also looked at the corn in the various display cabinets, which were marked with some explanations, such as varieties, yield per mu and so on.

In fact, the cultivation methods of the Daming Agricultural Division are still the original means of seed selection, breeding, and simple hybridization, grafting, etc., but because they were summarized and compiled by Zhu Youzhen, a separate set of systems was formed.

The microscope has been developed by the Armaments Institute, and it has been used in medical schools and agricultural colleges.

On the side of the Department of Agriculture, Sun Yuan wears many hats, such as right now, he is introducing Zhu Youzhen to Zhu Youzhen:

"After six years of selection and breeding, plus fertilizer, this maize has barely reached the yield of two stones per mu in the experimental field, and it is estimated that it will be given to the people, and in the absence of chemical fertilizer, there can only be one stone per mu."

"In recent years, the temperature in the north has dropped, and the yield per mu of maize has been decreasing, so it can only be planted in the southwest to find the average."

"If the temperature can be restored to the first year of the Apocalypse, the yield per mu of maize can still reach two stones, and the use of chemical fertilizers can reach two and a half stones."

Sun Yuanhua also read the book "Xiaoice River Period" written by Zhu Youjian, and as a disciple of Xu Guangqi, he also has a deep involvement in the "Book of Agriculture".

According to some of the low temperature periods in the book "Xiaoice Period", he went to search some ancient books for the grain records of the historical stages of various dynasties, and got the same answer as Zhu Youjian wrote: Every time the temperature drops by one degree, the grain yield will be reduced by one percent.

The thermometer is a gadget for the Armaments Institute, and the Westerners came up with it decades ago, and the Armaments Institute used Zhu Youjian's method to make a column thermometer.

The engraved strip of the thermometer is basically set according to the temperature of the human body.

The temperature of the human body was set at 37 degrees, and the scale was adjusted up and down according to this temperature, and finally Daming's own Chinese-style thermometer was obtained.

With a thermometer, everyone can see the natural temperature more intuitively.

For example, there is a large thermometer hanging high in the storage room, and the temperature on it shows that the temperature in the storage room is five degrees.

There is also a thermometer in Zhu Youjian's Qi Palace, and the temperature in the capital on the tenth day of February is minus 7 degrees to minus 12 degrees.

This is the lunar calendar, and according to the Western AD calendar, it should be the middle of March.

The fact that such temperatures can still occur in mid-March shows the strength of the Xiaoice period.

However, when it came to the calendar, Zhu Youzhen also remembered the purpose of his trip, he stopped and turned to Sun Yuanhua and said:

"The "Great Unification Calendar" used by the National Dynasty was originally a translation of the "Calendar of Granting Time" of the previous dynasty, and the "Calendar of Granting Time" has been almost 350 years ago, I would like to ask Xu Shaobao and you to go to Qintianjian to revise the new calendar."

"The lower official will write to the teacher later, asking the teacher to go out of the mountain to revise the calendar!" When he heard that he was going to revise the calendar, Sun Yuanhua was very excited.

The revision of the calendar is of great benefit to agriculture, but the main thing is that the name of the person who wrote it can be passed down with the calendar for hundreds of years.

"Regarding the revision of the calendar, I have asked the household department to transfer 100,000 taels of silver to Qin Tianjian, and the number of Qin Tianjian is three times that of before."

"You know the changes in Qin Tianjian, although the cultivation of the calendar must be rigorous, but the imperial court needs him to cultivate quickly and well, so that it can be used by the people of the world in the shortest possible time."

Zhu Youzhen said, and Sun Yuanhua nodded.

He naturally knew about the changes in Qin Tianjian, not to mention that those telescopes and the number of people who had tripled were enough to speed up the revision of the calendar.

As soon as he thought that he could practice the calendar with his teacher and spread it through the ages, Sun Yuanhua couldn't stop being excited.

Looking at his excited appearance, Zhu Youzhen still explained:

"Although the calendar is important, you wear many hats, and the affairs of the Agricultural Department and the Armaments Institute should not be left behind."

"Please rest assured, Your Highness." Sun Yuan turned into a return gift, and Zhu Youzhen was also a lot relieved after seeing it, and immediately said:

"I'm mainly here to tell you this, after two days, when the snow outside the pass is finished, I will take the cavalry guards and artillery north to Taining Mansion, and the dynasty will launch the third northern expedition in June."

"I guess, it is difficult for me to return to Beijing this year, if you and Bi Ziyan, Wang Zheng, and Song Yingxing have any difficulties, they will go to Chengen and Huachun."

Zhu Youzhen was not very worried about the affairs of the Armaments Institute, so he repeatedly explained.

Sun Yuanhua could also understand him, so he listened attentively throughout the process.

It wasn't until Zhu Youzhen finished speaking that he sent Zhu Youzhen to congratulate.

Zhu Youzhen took another look at the various crop changes in the storage room, and finally turned around and walked out of the storage room.

Li Dingguo hurriedly followed, and when they walked out of the storage room, they were greeted by some tenants who were planting crops on the experimental field.

The land of Yanyun in February was indeed a little chilly, and Zhu Youzhen and the others got into the four-wheeled carriage surrounded by Xiao Cavalry Guards.

After they got on the car, the commander of the Xiao cavalry guard deliberately rode to the window and asked, "Your Highness, are you going directly to Taining County?" ”

"Well, let's go to Taining County with artillery." Zhu Youzhen, who was seated, bowed slightly.

"The last general commands." The generals of the cavalry guards responded, and Zhu Youzhen's carriage also began to move.

The four-wheeled carriage is wide and high, and the interior of the carriage is wide, and it is responsible for pulling it by four Mongolian horses, but even if the four horses pull together, the speed of the carriage is not fast.

"The strength of the Mongolian horse is still not big enough, and in the coming year, we can find some grown shire horses from the Imperial Horse Supervisor to pull them."

Zhu Youzhen felt the speed of the carriage, which was only a little faster than walking, and shook his head.

At this moment, looking down from the sky, 5,600 cavalry guards, each riding a horse, led by a meandering military horse.

The other three of their horses have already been driven to Taining County, so they can only use horses to travel, and there is only one military horse by their side to deal with emergencies.

Behind them, a man wearing a mandarin duck jacket and a hat-shaped helmet with a simple spear in his hand was escorting artillery.

Due to the problem of winter snow and the problem of government roads, only two-thirds of the artillery of the remaining 15 guards of Shangzhi was transported north last year, and now one-third needs to be transported north by Zhu Youzhen after the winter snow melts.

Shangzhi 16 guards, a total of 300 Yanshan 10-jin cannons, and a total of 2,000 Yanshan 5-jin cannons, with abundant firepower, were prepared by Zhu Youzhen in order to deal with the construction of the city and thicken the stone fort.

In addition to Shangzhi, the 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion also had nearly 2,000 Yanshan five-pound cannons, with a total of 189,600 men and 4,300 artillery pieces in the two armies.

Using such a battle to attack Jianyu shows Zhu Youzhen's determination.

This is not the more than 300,000 soldiers and horses whose combat power was mixed with water in the Battle of Fuliao, but nearly 190,000 elites who have been really honed.

can make Shangzhi come out together, even if Huang Taiji and Nurhachi die, they will be able to blow a wave against Huo Luochi's group after they go down.

It's just that it is actually quite difficult to use nearly 190,000 people to resist and fight a war of annihilation in this vast area of more than 6,000 miles and more than 700,000 square kilometers in circumference.

On the surface, it seems that 190,000 people fought 100,000 people, but Zhu Youzhen's request was to encircle and annihilate, so it was necessary to divide troops to garrison various mountain passes to prevent Jianjiao from escaping.

At present, the northern region of Jianyu has been completely blocked by Guo Sangdai, and the east is the sea, and it is impossible to go to the south, and the west is going to collide with Shangzhi, so the only target for them to escape can only be the northwest area.

It is very likely that they will try to flee to Central Siberia along the north bank of the Heilongjiang River to the northwest after the joint battle is unfavorable, and then turn back to the south.

This route was also the escape route of a few Jurchens when the Mongols encircled and suppressed the Jurchens.

Otherwise, with the Jin State's policy of reducing the number of Mongols back then, the Mongols would have slaughtered the Jurchens a long time ago, and they would not have allowed the Jurchens to have four major tribes in the future, surviving and multiplying so many people.

What Zhu Youzhen has to do now is to make the tactical arrangements of the Mongols more abundant, in order to achieve the purpose of plowing the court and sweeping the caves.

"Your Highness......"

In the carriage, when Zhu Youzhen was pondering, Li Dingguo hesitated to speak, and Zhu Youzhen also opened his eyes and looked at him: "What?" ”

"I'm going home this time, ......" Li Dingguo hesitated and told some of the things about his homecoming this time, from inspecting the imperial history to supervising the imperial history to the village officials, and then to the people's demands.

When he said this, Zhu Youzhen listened quietly and did not interrupt him, but only bowed his head slightly after he finished speaking: "Got it." ”

"Uh...... Your Highness, aren't you worried? Li Dingguo was stunned by Zhu Youzhen's response.

"What's the use of worrying? There are so many things in the world, you have to come one by one, and you haven't learned the lesson last time? ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at Li Dingguo with a trace of doubt, Li Dingguo was stunned for a moment, but quickly thought that it was the matter of the village official.

"Your Highness, you know......" He was a little embarrassed, but Zhu Youzhen took a deep breath and said:

"Sometimes a new group of people will not do better than this group of people."

"The petty officials below take money and grain, corrupt the treasury, as long as they have a heart, anyone can know about these things."

"It's one thing to just know, it's another thing to do it, there is a priority in things, and now this matter is light, and killing is the most important."

"Not to mention the ability of officials, the village official was corrupt before, but he was able to do things well, what about the corrupt officials now? If they are greedy, they can't do things well, while some people are not greedy and can't do things well. ”

"The kind of person who is not greedy and can do things is also unique among the hundred officials."

Speaking of which, Zhu Youzhen began to grind the cinnabar by himself, preparing to review the recital, but he still taught Li Dingguo:

"I train you, let you read military books, and go to the battlefield, but I don't want you to be just a general, if you want to do it, you have to be a general."

"Yes...... Can I do it? Li Dingguo was a little unconfident, and he also said his mother's words by the way:

"My mother kisses them, they don't seem to want me to go to war, they want me to be a civil official."

"I hope that my son will become a dragon, and I am right to hope that my heirs will be safe." Zhu Youzhen opened a notebook, dipped his pen in Zhu ink, and taught while flipping through it:

"Your mother is right not to want you to go to war, as a parent, if you let your children go to war for the sake of future interests, most of them are also corrupt people, for their own selfish interests and private names, regardless of the life and death of their children."

"They don't have the opportunity to be corrupt, and if they do, they will be more corrupt than the corrupt officials are now."

"Your parents don't have this bad intention, they just want you to be a civil official and spend this life peacefully, which is also a manifestation of caring for you and caring for you."

"There is no conflict between hoping for peace and peace between Jackie Chan, the conflict is that while hoping for Jackie Chan, I hope that the heirs will satisfy their own selfish desires and make themselves happy."

Zhu Youzhen finished correcting a book, put it away, and continued:

"Another thing is that what your father wants you to do is what your father thinks, and whether you want to do it or not is your own idea."

Zhu Youzhen's words belong to great unfilial piety in the current era, and of course, he also despises those who are foolish and filial.

"But I'm like this, I'm afraid my father and mother will be unhappy." Li Dingguo can't get rid of the etiquette of the times.

"Are you happy then?" Zhu Youzhen shook his head: "The kindness of nurturing is naturally repaid, but I don't treat myself as a dog in the family, never leaving an inch, and every word is in my ears." ”

"You must know that even the dog in the family will have its own moments of opinion."

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhen raised his head and looked directly at Li Dingguo:

"You are also eleven years old, when I was as old as you, I had already begun to train the Imperial Horse Supervisor, there are some ways you have to think for yourself, do what you are happy and happy about, than blindly foolish and filial, and get better results."

"If you don't like to fight and don't want to go into battle, then I'll have someone send you back to the capital."

"After you go back, you study hard, and if you can go to the pavilion in the future, it will also be gratifying."

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, he kept looking at Li Dingguo, but Li Dingguo was thinking, and his face showed confusion.

In fact, everyone understands this kind of thing, but no one can escape the constraints of the world's etiquette.

Not to mention Li Dingguo, even if it is Zhu Youzhen, can he escape the etiquette of his wedding?

It's just that some rituals can be observed, and some can't.

Zhu Youzhen remembered very clearly in his previous life when he was helping poverty in the mountains, some parents didn't care about their children's thoughts at all, and when they saw each other reach a certain age, they let each other drop out of school and go home.

At first, Zhu Youzhen thought it was an economic problem, but later he found out that it was an ideological problem.

In fact, those families can afford to send their children to school, but they just think that learning so much is enough to work more at home.

For such ignorant and selfish parents, most children still dare not resist, because this is the "etiquette constraint" that has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the local people.

As long as you disobey one of your parents' thoughts, you are a big unfilial piety, and you are a wolf-hearted dog.

Because of this, Zhu Youzhen doesn't like foolish and pedantic people very much.

But there is one thing to say, this set of rules is used to manage people, and it does work, otherwise many emperors would not advocate filial piety and loyalty to the monarch and patriotism.

"Your Highness, I still want to go to the battlefield to have a look."

Li Dingguo pondered for a long time, and finally felt that His Royal Highness was right.

Of course, he is not a fool, he also knows that his Royal Highness is above 10,000 people, and if he follows His Royal Highness's words, his future achievements will not be too low.

Last year, when he said that he let the heads of several village officials fall to the ground, he had an idea in his heart.

When he went home this time, he heard what his father Li Dashou said, and after the Imperial Horse Supervisor found out about the corruption of the village officials, he was even more determined in his thoughts.

He listens to his parents, and His Royal Highness may also help him, but his future achievements will definitely not be as high as the road arranged by His Highness.

If he is disobedient, even if he becomes a high-ranking official in the future, there are still fourth, third, second, and higher people above his head.

If he wants to do it, he must be a person like Zhu Youzhen, under one person, above ten thousand!

He doesn't bully good people, but he doesn't let bad people bully him, and he also wants to arrest bad people and corrupt officials...... That's his most unpretentious idea.

"The battlefield is safe, you can follow me around, although this battle will be a little difficult, but you and I can sit in the Chinese army and look at the battlefield from afar."

Things on the battlefield are unpredictable, and since the Second Northern Expedition, Zhu Youzhen has the idea of sitting in the middle army, because the front army and the rear army, the left and right sides have been familiar to him.

Generals are also divided into abilities and ranks, and generals who can sit in the Chinese army and command hundreds of thousands of horses are the pursuit of all generals.

The Feng Wolf Juxu and Le Shi Yanran mentioned in later generations are just representatives of merit in the eyes of later generations.

In the eyes of the ancient military generals, commanding hundreds of thousands of troops and supporting the founding of the country is their pursuit, and it is also the reason why Huanglong is keen to let Zhu Youzhen sit on the throne.

It's just a pity that last time Zhu Youzhen wanted to sit in the Chinese army, he met Lin Dan Khan, a big clever, to carry out a surprise attack.

Although Lin Dan Khan was repulsed, Zhu Youzhen was speechless for a while.

The first time he sat in the Chinese army, he was raided by someone with troops, which doesn't seem like a good thing no matter how you look at it.

Fortunately, there are more and more generals who can fight at the moment, and the number of generals who can command 10,000 people, tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of people has also begun to increase, and Zhu Youzhen himself does not have to work so hard.

When Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Wu Aheng, Yang Wenyue, and Lu Xiangsheng entered the cabinet one after another, Zhu Youzhen could almost rest assured that he would go to Qi State.

However, he still has a lot to do, such as putting capable people like Kim Hyun and Sung-deok into the position of the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Leaving such a situation and talent team, Zhu Youzhen does not seek continuous prosperity, but only seeks peace for decades.

For the people, peace is more important than anything else, better than anything else.

"This war destroyed Jianyu, and the dynasty can be peaceful for a while."

Zhu Youzhen sighed slightly, and the reason why he said this was because as long as Jianyu was destroyed, then the territory of the 400 mm precipitation line would be in the hands of Daming.

Guard this precipitation line, and then seek Mobei, the Western Regions, Wusizang, and the Hezhong region of Central Asia, if you succeed, you can stabilize the blood transfusion, and it doesn't matter if you fail.

As long as the basic disk is still there, and the industry is constantly consuming this basic disk, then the Ming Dynasty can fail countless times, and the nomads in these places can only fail once.

Although compared with these places, the development of Southeast Asia and the old port is more important, but the situation faced by Zhu Youzhen is that as long as the Jianyu is destroyed, there will be no country or nation in North Asia that can compete with the Ming Dynasty.

As for the Mughals in South Asia, they are almost in the countdown to extinction......

"Your Highness, you said that we are making such a big move, what will the old slave and Huang Taiji do?"

"Huh?" Li Dingguo asked curiously, but Zhu Youzhen looked at him, thought about his question, and then a chuckle appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He turned his head to look at the Yanyun land outside the window, and said with a smile:

"At this moment, I'm afraid they are arguing in a hurry......"