As the rear of the Ming army's westward expedition, Shazhou's five-year task was to build roads, farm, green, and increase population.

In addition to constantly immigrating to this area, the imperial court will also encourage the local population to have more children.

In ancient times, it was very simple to encourage childbirth, tax reduction, rewards, extra points for the imperial examination, and extra points for school, and it would not be long before the population of Shazhou would rise.

But the congenital conditions in Shazhou are not very good, and Zhu Gaoxu's next target is Shache.

Later, there were only more than 1 million people in Shazhou, including Jiuquan, and nearly 900,000 in Yache County.

Of course, at that time, there were other factors in the Jiuquan area, and there was no deliberate management, but now if Zhu Gaoxu makes great efforts to operate, it will be easy to develop.

In the first month of the eleventh year of Hongxi (1417), Qu Neng rode out of Jiayuguan with the second wave of 50,000 steps and went to Shache.

The second wave of 50,000 foot cavalry did not bring artillery or carriages, and the whole army rode horses.

The cavalry rode in pairs, and the infantry rode alone.

20,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry, with a total of 70,000 horses.

This time without a carriage, it was much faster, three days to Chijin City, after a day of rest, five days to Shazhou.

In Shazhou, Qu Neng changed more than 100 wounded horses in the city, rested for a day, and then headed west.

This time, the whole army walked for ten days, and in late January, they arrived at the Ruoqiang River.

On this side of the Ruoqiang River, there are thousands of acres of grain fields of the herdsmen of the former East Chagatai Khanate, as well as the water source of the entire Ruoqiang River, the geographical location is quite good, Sheng Yong also decided to build a city here, but the Ming army is now focusing on Shazhou City and Chijin City, so Sheng Yong only left some personnel and herdsmen, built a large supply in the local area, and kept the grain fields here to continue to cultivate.

Qu Neng rode here in 50,000 steps, like a locust, took away some of the prepared food supplies, and also killed 2,000 sheep raised by herdsmen in the local area.

Ten days later, he arrived in Khotan, still replenishing his supplies there.

When we finally arrived at Shache, it was only early February.

At the beginning, Sheng Yong came over, plundered while fighting, and kept people to operate to provide security for the back, and it was already June when he arrived in Shache.

Qu Neng's soldiers and horses were like sightseeing all the way, full of food and drink, and arrived at Shache in more than a month, the only loss was that hundreds of horses were injured on the road, but now there are not many horses outside the customs.

Sheng Yong did not know how many horses he stole from the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and other tribes.

At this time, Sheng Yong had about 42,000 troops in the Yache area, and the two armies combined with more than 90,000, and after a short rest, 12,000 were left to garrison.

Sheng Yong and Qu Neng led 80,000 cavalry, including 40,000 cavalry, 40,000 infantry, 5,000 carts, 300 artillery pieces, and 9,000 flintlock muskets, to attack Shaharu in the west.

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In the first month of the eleventh year of Hongxi, Jingshi.

Recently, the weather has been extremely cold, but Zhu Gaoxu still brought many people to the Invention Bureau of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Education and Science and Technology early.

Kochise, a member of the Invention Bureau, is reporting to the emperor and his party.

"The Northern Song Dynasty Liu Ji's "Diary" recorded: Shi Xin broke out of prison and took more than a dozen kinds of water spirits to enter, and he did not say anything at first, that is, those who knew the case and knew the secret, and used the water spirit to take care of it, and then saw it."

"This is the earliest recorded thing in history about enlarged eyesight, uh, that's what Your Majesty is talking about."

"Because Shi Xin couldn't read the words on the case clearly, he looked at it with crystal."

"When he arrived in the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Xihu clearly recorded in the "Dongtian Qinglu": The old man does not distinguish the detailed book, so as to hide his eyes, it is clear that the Yuan people are out of the Western Regions."

"At that time, it should have been transmitted from the Western Regions to the Southern Song Dynasty." Kochi said, picking up a few pairs of glasses similar to later generations.

Then it was handed to some of the cabinets and generals at the emperor's side.

Everyone didn't know what to use, and when they saw the emperor signaling to put it on their glasses, some of the ministers who were short-sighted were surprised.

In fact, many of the ancients had myopia and presbyopia, which were read by ten years of cold windows and candle nights.

Huang Huai in the cabinet is a big myopia and presbyopia, and as soon as he put on his glasses, he was a little dizzy in an instant, because the degree was wrong, which scared him.

But with the explanation of Kochi Festival, everyone has more or less understanding.

This thing is called 'Arrest', it was brought from Malacca, and it was sent to the emperor two years ago, but it was not until today that the emperor called them to see it.

In the original history, Zhang Ning (1426-1496), the prefect of Tingzhou, mentioned the first pair of tools to assist vision in the Ming Dynasty in his "Fangzhou Miscellaneous Records", but at that time it was not called glasses, but "僾arrest", these two words probably came from foreign transliteration, and the same reading as in the Southern Song Dynasty:

"When Xiang was in Beijing, he tasted the apartment of the commanding Hu Xuan, and saw that his father Zong's uncle received the gift of the Xuanmiao, such as the two big money, and its shape was absolutely like mica stone, like the world's glass, and the quality was very thin. With the metallographic contour derived from it as the handle, the end of the system, the combination is one, and the difference is two, such as the market in the middle of the box. The old man is dizzy, does not distinguish fine words, opens this thing in his eyes, and the words are double the closer. ”

From Zhang Ning's description, it can be seen that this imported goods called "Yu Caught" are inlaid with gold edges, light and thin in texture, and are out-and-out high-end goods. Even more precious, it was a gift from Emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji (1399-1435) to his ministers.

The emperor's rewards, of course, are all treasures. The function of this treasure is: "The old man is dizzy, does not distinguish fine words, opens this thing in his eyes, and the words are double the closer."

The ministers and generals were playing with this thing called "arrest", and the emperor asked.

"You've always looked down on Wonder Tricks, overseas playthings, how about looking at this thing now?"

Qian Chang, the secretary of the ministry, immediately said: "It seems that you can magnify things? I don't know if it's a delusion on the part of the minister, but it's not very clear? ”

Huang Huai immediately said: "The minister is a little dizzy. ”

"The degree is wrong, of course I don't know, and I will get dizzy."

The crowd didn't understand what degrees were.

"Forget it." The emperor was impatient, and he had nothing to talk about with these uneducated, so he waved his hand directly: "Gao Qing, take out my treasure." ”

Everyone was surprised, what treasure does the emperor have here on Kochi Festival?

Kochi smiled and waved his hand, and immediately a wave of people walked up to the ministers with several large plates, which were covered with red cloths, which were very ceremonial, and when they arrived in front of everyone, they opened them, and there were long round metal cylinders on the plates.

But I heard the emperor say: "The strength of Shiyi can not only control the country, but also innovate, this is based on the lens, our own research telescope." ”

The telescopes were distributed to everyone, and the voice of the emperor was next to them: "Look into the distance, look into the distance." ”

"Ahh

"I'm dripping." Hu Guang's foolish hands shook, swished, and the telescope fell directly to the ground, and the people on the side bent down and looked down to catch it.

With a bang, the lenses shattered.

Xia Yuanji also shook his little hands, but he reacted quickly, his hands flew up and down on his chest, and he finally caught the telescope and didn't fall down.

Everyone looked at Hu Guang in amazement, and Hu Guang's expression seemed to cry: "The minister is guilty of capital crimes." "Get down on your knees.

"Mother's." The emperor scolded with a smile: "This telescope is quite expensive, Hu Qing, you have to pay for it." ”

Hearing the emperor's words, the surroundings burst into laughter, and Hu Guang also breathed a sigh of relief.