June 10.

The daytime in the capital is getting hotter and hotter, and the night is comfortable for the time being.

Taking advantage of the fact that it was not yet at its most scorching and rainstorms were frequent, Wang Hongyu ordered to set off.

From the capital to Yunyang.

Take the fastest official road, the route passes through Baoding Mansion, Shunde Mansion, Daimyo Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion, Nanyang Mansion, Xiangyang Mansion, and finally arrives at Yunyang Mansion.

Along the way, there are various prefectures, counties, towns and towns, as well as post stations where you can rest.

The main soldiers and horses generally camp and rest in the wilderness, but some people can usually go to the city to stay, live in post stations or go to villages and towns to rest and rest.

There were more than 3,000 people in a row, and it was impossible to squeeze together, but to arrange the order.

Wang Hongyu made a plan.

Led by yourself, casual clothes in front.

Qin Ling, Zhou Yijie, Li Tiezhu, and: a small number of scouts, guards and others followed him to open the way. All of them wore casual clothes, learned about the local customs, and accumulated some useful information to prepare for future contacts and business development.

Missionaries, craftsmen, and mobile libraries are in the center. Mobile libraries definitely have a role to play, and they need to be involved when it comes to preparing industries along the way.

The coffin of the eldest brother and the Hunhe army were postponed.

This is an important matter approved by the edict of the Apocalypse. While hurrying on the road, they publicized the heroic deeds of the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, and at the same time made a small amount of recruitment to make some preparations for the subsequent expansion of the new army.

The group was ready to set off immediately.

Because some time ago, the Donglin Party framed Wang Hongyu, the hero of the anti-Jiannu resistance, and the story of the Ming army led by the Southern Army resisting the Jiannu invasion of Liaodong can be seen everywhere, and some people even compiled these stories into scripts and appeared on the stage.

On the tenth day of the first month of June, Wang Hongyu was just about to travel with Qin Ling, Zhou Yijie, Li Tiezhu and a small number of scouts and guards, when someone came to report:

Tens of thousands of people spontaneously saw off Zhou Dunji within a few miles on both sides of the street and road leading to Baoding in Tongzhou, most of them with white flowers, and some people wore linen and filial piety, waiting for Zhou Dunji's coffin.

Emperor Tianqi and Wang Hongyu escorted Zhou Dunji's coffin back to his hometown in such a high-profile manner, so that the people would not forget the hatred of the country and family hatred, and arouse the people's patriotism and enthusiasm for supporting heroes.

I didn't expect the effect to be so good, it almost caught Wang Hongyu off guard, so he made preparations, otherwise the situation in front of him would be difficult to deal with.

After a while, the gate of the Hunhe military camp opened, and in front of it was a team of people holding a link, flags, and spears.

There are big white characters written on the blue couplet, and the left couplet: far-sighted, endure humiliation, bear the burden, strategize and win a thousand miles; Right Union: Indomitable and unswerving, go forward and fight bloodily; Horizontal link: the soul of the army lasts forever.

On the left and right are two teams of soul warriors wearing white helmets and white armor shoulders to resist the eight spears; Sixteen tall and strong sergeants dressed in white filial piety uniforms carried Zhou Dunji's big red coffin in the center, covered with a tent.

Until the escort team went away, the people still couldn't kneel for a long time, and the grief never appeared even if Emperor Wanli and Emperor Taichang died.

There were already people preparing tea and dry food in the ten-mile long pavilion, and large carts and small cars were parked on both sides of the official road. These were other waves of send-off processions waiting from afar, and they already knew that the streets of Tongzhou were already full of people seeing them off.

Brother-in-law Liu Ruoyu and Meng Biao and others came to see them off, bringing a lot of dried fruits, preserved meat and other food, as well as a light small chiming bell.

Meng Biao also sent more than a dozen trustworthy henchmen with good business ability to follow Wang Hongyu.

Ai Youzhi came to see him off, and asked the Venerable Master Zou Yuanbiao to mean that the academy would always be open for him. Guard the southwest and deal with the two Toasts of Lu'an. Zou Yuanbiao will give enough support to this matter in the imperial court, and he is also willing to cultivate hard-working officials to revitalize the Ming Dynasty together.

No longer lingering.

Wang Hongyu and others set off immediately, dozens of people in plain clothes rode in front, the mobile library was in the center, and the Hunhe army carried Zhou Dunji's coffin behind the hall.

Early the next morning, Wang Hongyu arrived in Baoding Mansion as scheduled.

The city of Baoding is full of plains, and it is the season when the wheat is about to be harvested.

At this time, due to temperature, water use and breeding reasons, rice has not been widely promoted to the north of the Yellow River.

Corn, sweet potatoes and other American crops were brought to Luzon by the Aceban duck people, and then introduced to Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi. Gradually select and adapt, and it will take a long time to get to Hebei.

In the central and southern part of the North Zhili, including Baoding, two crops are planted in one year, generally winter wheat is planted in early winter and harvested in summer. Millet is then planted and harvested in late autumn.

At this time, in the endless fields outside the city, many hard-working farmers harvested wheat and planted grain.

This scene is rare to see in the north of the capital.

Because of the cold during the Xiaoice River, the northern part of the North Zhili is too cold to grow winter wheat in winter, so you can only wait until spring to plant spring wheat and harvest it in autumn.

So it can only be ripened once a year.

This is also one of the important reasons why it is not suitable to choose the first base area outside the Guan.

The economic foundation is the key.

With only one crop a year in the local area, the yield per mu is 200 catties, and it is difficult to support a sufficient number of full-time soldiers.

There was no grain by sea, no land transportation by the imperial court, and the main force outside the customs could only be soldiers and horses who were half-ploughing and half-fighting.

However, the soldiers and horses that were not out of production could no longer adapt to the cruel challenges from the late Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Nurhachi robs once a year, and the tens of thousands of elite soldiers who are out of production to be raised, if they deal with soldiers who are not out of production in light armor, one can cut ten.

After the loss of Liaoshen, the grain output of the entire north of the capital was not enough to support more than three times the strength of the Eight Banners.

Therefore, the economic foundation is the key, especially to solve the problem of eating first.

Once it is an area where two crops can be achieved in one year, farming can often stand on its feet.

This is also the dividing line between agriculture and nomadism since ancient times.

Of course, the Ming also had its own herding and its own farming population in Northwest Africa.

That's why there are elite cavalry on three sides.

Wang Hongyu stopped to look at the fact that there was no suitable place for farming outside Baoding City that was deserted, and there was no disaster here this year, and the hard work of the farmers could get the result of not starving.

When I arrived at the city gate, I saw a steady stream of merchants and people coming in and out.

Although the people were dark and thin, there had not yet been a terrible drought or plague, nor had they levied the ever-increasing salaries, nor had the Manchus often broken through the gates to rob the north of the Yellow River.

There was no peasant uprising, no end times......

This is the real scene of the first year of the apocalypse, 1621.

If history remains the same, in a few years, there will be a Manchurian army breaking the wall, grabbing wherever they go, and the place they pass is a blank field.

If you don't hide in the city, you will be captured as a clothed slave.

Hiding in the city also loses all livestock and tools.

The ploughing season was delayed, and there were no seed tools.

In the second year, there will be an additional salary......

Before I had time to think about what to do, drought, locust plague, and plague all arrived, and the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes increased sharply.

Many people died in three years, and maybe those who survived would survive a little to catch their breath.

The Manchu Mongols broke the wall again and did it again......

At that time, the peasants would face such a tragic situation.