Chapter 296

What is the best shortcut to make a fortune in Liaodong? The answer may be varied, you can make a fortune if you farm well, you can make a fortune if you do a good job, and you can also make a fortune if you fight a war.

In Liaodong, you can make a fortune if you do everything to the extreme, and there is only one way for the officers and men of the Ning Navy to make a fortune, and that is to fight, but the problem is that Liaodong has not had a war to fight in recent years. If it is another place in the Ming Dynasty, even if the world is peaceful and there is no large-scale war, you can still fight bandits.

You must know that the Ning Navy is a unit that started with the suppression of bandits, and in Liaodong, in the area controlled by the Ning Navy, bandits let alone survive, and a unit began training from the recruit period, and the first battle was to suppress bandits.

Bandits in Liaodong, this is not a good profession, the assessment between the troops, the bandits are used to practice, the evaluation between the troops, and the bandits are also used to practice, and now in Liaodong, the bandits have become extinct.

Therefore, if the officers and men of the Ning Navy want to get rich, it is even more difficult than being struck by lightning.

After receiving the militia to find out that the Jiannu cavalry appeared, the Liaoyang Garrison Division was dispatched, the cavalry division was dispatched, and the Liaoyang Metropolitan Division was also dispatched.

A Jiannu gets a share of the shkuda Hasu and looks out over the wide concrete roads of Liaoyang, with rows of buildings rising from the ground, factories and, most importantly, crops all over the ground.

At the end of June, Liaodong is a world of flowers and wheat waves, hundreds of thousands of acres of wheat fields of wheat that long ears of wheat are hung with round and full of Yingguo, due to effective irrigation, sufficient fertilizer, coupled with a large number of pesticides such as poisonous fish rattan powder, insecticidal inulin, thick fruit rock bean vine powder and other pesticides are widely used, pests are killed in large quantities, the growth of wheat is unprecedentedly good, the average yield per mu is more than three stones is no longer a dream, the boundless surging wheat waves, people feel as if in a dream.

Although Cheng Shijie engaged in a lot of high-yield grain crops, and planted a large number of potatoes and sweet potatoes when he could not solve the problem of food and clothing, but as Liaodong solved the problem of food and clothing, especially although there were many potatoes, they could not be sold at any price, and it was difficult to preserve, most of the immigrants from Liaodong were people from the north.

They still prefer to eat wheat when they have a choice. Now the wheat is in the jointing stage, and it is green, as if it is like a green wave.

Dahasu and Shun looked at the town in the distance, and his mouth watered, he saw herds of sheep, herds of cattle, and panicked people, this scene, he was all too familiar.

Dahasu and Shun did not fight against the Ning Navy, and as a Jiannu veteran, his impression of the Ming army was still before the Battle of the Daling River. It was in the Battle of Dalinghe that this old man bravely rushed to Dalinghe City, and then was poured gold juice by the defenders of Dalinghe City.

You must know that although the name of the golden juice is good, it is actually made of oil, feces, and arsenic, and Dahasu Heshun was severely burned at that time, and after being rescued, due to his strong physique, strong immunity, and the cold weather at that time, because the weather was cold, bacteria were not easy to breed.

After staying up for nearly a year, a strong man of more than 180 pounds turned into a thin man in his early 100 pounds, and finally recovered from his injuries. It's a pity that he didn't participate in all these battles.

Dahasu and Shun looked at the fireworks in the distance, as well as the panicked people of Liaodong, and their first reaction was that they had made a fortune.

Dahasu and Shun looked at the sentry beside him and shouted, "You hurry back and report to the master, let the master bring the main force over and eat this fat sheep!" The action must be fast, if the other flags know, they will definitely pounce on them and take a large share! ”

In less than four years, Liaoyang has changed a lot, this is the second time Dahasu and Shun have come to Liaoyang, just when Dahasu and Shun let their war horses run into the wheat field to eat wheat seedlings, a large group of people flocked in the distance.

These people have received a little training, although they are in a hurry, but they still consciously line up, and they really have a bit of an army flavor when they march together. In the blink of an eye, the roads were filled with a surging stream of people, and when they got closer, Dahasu and Shun were horrified to see that the peasants were basically armed with a strong crossbow or a compound bow, with a dog-legged scimitar at their waists, and some of them with spears and shields in their hands.

These farmers came out of the village, from the fields, and even from the mountains, and gathered in a stream of people to gather here, and a momentum that would trample you to death rushed in the mountains, making Dahasu and Shun tremble.

The muzzles of black holes and the sharp triangular crossbow arrows were pointed at them densely, making them feel a chill all over their bodies, and they wanted to cry without tears!

Dahasu and Shun were also full of bitterness: "Aren't we just a sentry of about 50 people, why do you put on such an exaggerated crossbow array?" ”

No matter how arrogant they are, they have to admit that as far as they are, nine out of ten will be shot into hedgehogs by those hundreds of powerful crossbows, and the last one will be shot into sea urchins. But now that they are very close to the Ming army, they have no time to retreat, what should they do? .

"Kill the ...... of Jiannu"

These Ming people held crossbows and aimed at them, at this time the crowd was still increasing, and as the slogan of killing Jiannu became louder and louder, more and more people rushed over.

"Withdraw!"

Dahasu and Shun reacted immediately, there must be a retreat, they can't afford to provoke these people, but before his words fell, someone in the crowd shouted: "Jiannu wants to run, shoot them......"

"Woo Woo Woo ......"

"Oo......oo

These people were very nervous, and they subconsciously buckled their gears and started shooting. The metal trills shook everyone's heartstrings, and hundreds of one-foot-long crossbow arrows burst out, and hundreds of birds, arquebuses, revolvers, and even bows and arrows shot at these forty or fifty cavalry slaves.

In just a few breaths, these forty or fifty Jiannu seemed to have tripped over a horse rope, and even the people and horses rolled into a ball, and the people behind them turned on their backs, and even several Houjin Sentinel riders were hit by several arrows, and were hit by the powerful impact force and floated backwards like a balloon. After these two rounds, there was no longer a single figure on the horse's back, and the third round of crossbow arrows shot into the air.

Dahasu and Shun were hit by an arrow in the left shoulder, and the crossbow arrow pierced through the shoulder blade, piercing from behind, blood splattered, and he fell off his horse, almost being trampled to death by the horse.

His mind went blank, the crossbow arrows flashed with a faint cold light burst through the air, the armor of the Jiannu warriors was like papier-mâché in front of the high-speed flying triangular arrowheads, and the brothers who were born and died with him let out a wail of pain and unwillingness, and fell down with their beloved horses......

They didn't even have time to shoot an arrow, let alone show their superior martial arts, and they were shot into hedgehogs.

However, the overly nervous militia continued to shoot at these Jiannu, in fact, in the first round of shooting, all of these Jiannu, including Dahasu and Shun, were shot over, and in the second round, the third round, they shot all the air.

At present, there are two or three thousand militia on the field, and of these two or three thousand, at least two-thirds, that is, more than two thousand, are armed with crossbow machines, firearms, revolvers, and other long-range weapons. In a short period of time, these militiamen fired at least seven or eight thousand crossbow arrows, and more than a thousand rounds of guns, or bullets.

This shooting intensity was three or four times more fierce than that of thousands of regular troops in the Ming Dynasty. You must know that many soldiers of the Ming army can't shoot a few crossbow arrows a year, and it is rare for a firebolt to even fire a few times a year, after all, crossbows or firebolts are consumables, and a fire is a money.

Even so, there were some Tuntian Baihu who cautiously asked, "Have they all shot down?" ”

"If you don't, a few more rounds!"

"Didn't you say that Jiannu is very powerful?"

"How can they fight better than bandits?"

Dahasu and Shun can understand Chinese, and when he heard this, he almost cried, when did the Ming army become so murderous?

Dahasu and Shun didn't know that what they encountered was not the army of the Ming Dynasty, but the militia, even if it was the militia of Liaodong, it was much stronger than the guards of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, at least the militia was trained twice a year in spring and autumn, and each training time was half a month.

Dahasu and Shun struggled, he was covered in blood, and there were several crossbow arrows stuck in his body, almost reflexively, and the militia opened fire on Dahasu and Shun again.

After a rain of arrows, there was almost no place for Dahasu and Shun to shoot three arrows, one crossbow arrow next to another, more densely inserted than a hedgehog's thorn.

When a commander-in-chief of the Ning Navy Garrison Division arrived at the scene, he roared at the militiamen: "You are not mistaken, there are forty or fifty people on the other side, and you actually use more than 2,000 crossbows to fire six or seven rounds of ...... at people."

That Mr. Qian was looking at the scene and there were still traces of grenade explosions, he was already very speechless, Ning Haijun counted military merits based on the head, but the problem is that the head shot by the crossbow arrow can still be effective, but the problem is that the head shot by the fire bolt cannot be counted as a military merit, these forty or fifty Jiannu were only beheaded at the seventeenth level in the end.

"What about the others?"

When Cheng Shijie formulated the immigration regulations, he put the immigrants who were rogue in the Central Plains, as well as the prisoners of labor camp, who were close to the direction of Jiannu, and these prisoners of labor could only kill the enemy if they wanted to get their sentences reduced.

Living well in Liaodong, although the weather is cold, the problem is that once he is winter, he will lie on the fire pit, even if the cold wind is howling outside, the house is as warm as spring. Drinking wine, eating meat, and living a good life. But this is only the treatment of the military households in Liaodong, and the prisoners in the labor camp are only guaranteed to have enough to eat, drink wine and eat meat, so don't think about it.

As a result, these old thieves thought about killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions, so as to get their sentences commuted.

Now Jiannu is crossing the river to the south, which makes them happier than the New Year.

……

The Hunhe River is called the Hunhe River because it is a seasonal river that floods frequently, and once it floods, the river will become turbid.

Since this river became the boundary river between the Ning Navy and Jiannu, the Ning Navy is also vigorously developing the south bank of the Hunhe River, although the muddy water is not as majestic as the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, but the problem is that the widest part of the river is more than 1,000 meters, and the narrowest place is also 3 or 400 meters.

Ning Haijun never expected Jiannu to abide by the rules and stay honestly on the north bank of the Hunhe River, and if he wanted to protect this defense line, it was impossible to rely on infantry cavalry alone.

As a result, the Ning Navy built an inland river warship with a draft of less than three feet, and this kind of warship became the equipment of the river police force, the Hunhe River Police Force, the establishment is not large, and it is subordinate to the Liaodong Garrison Division, with a total of 20 1,000 gunboats, with one main, two auxiliary and three masts, not equipped with naval guns, but equipped with two quadruple and two six-mounted fire dragons out of the water.

The fire dragon water is different from the fire dragon water type 1 sold to Catherine, and now they use the fire dragon water type 3, which is a simple version of the three-stage rocket, after the first stage is burned, the missile body is separated from the second stage, and after the second stage is burned, the third stage begins to ignite, and then just like taking a relay race, this fire dragon water can have a range of more than 2,500 steps, and throw out nitrocellulose weighing 20 catties.

Of course, the accuracy of this rocket is overwhelming, at a distance of 1,800 meters, the error is about 50 to 150 steps, and if the error is more than 80% at 2,500 steps, the error will be more than 300 steps. However, the biggest advantage of this thing is that it is cheap, the main material is tinplate, that is, the iron sheet for making canned food, and the technical threshold is extremely low, as long as there is enough explosives, the amount is full.

In addition to the main two or four guns and two six-mounted fire dragons, this kind of 1,000-material gunboat also has a 32 mm caliber thunderbolt, and the current thunderbolt is no longer the same thing as the original thunderbolt, first of all, it has four right-handed rifling, and the range is almost the same as that of the fire dragon.

Moreover, the method of firing the fuze was canceled, and the primer firing type was changed, which was infinitely close to the firing method of the bolt-action rifle of later generations, but the hand-cranked runner was adopted, and the wheel drove the hammer to fire the primer, which was more equivalent to the early model of the hand-cranked Gatling.

In all fairness, the rate of fire of this hand-cranked thunderbolt is still quite fast, theoretically it can achieve 300 rounds per minute, in fact, it also has the actual shooting ability of more than 200 rounds, and the disc type of 30 rounds of drums can be shot empty in just a dozen seconds.

A thousand materials, that is, No. 325, this kind of warship is definitely not worth mentioning at sea, but when it is placed in the inland river, it is definitely a behemoth.

The river police patrol warship found that there were no pontoon bridges built by Jiannu in the Hunhe River, and some only left a dozen sheepskin rafts here at Longgang Ferry, which could carry a dozen people or three or four horses at a time.

With these sheepskin rafts alone, it can be judged that there are not many of them.

In the end, the Ning Navy captured a few Jiannu captives, and they got information from the Jiannu captives, and they only crossed more than 300 Jiannu this time.

The attack of only more than 300 people could be handled here by the Liaoyang Metropolitan Command Envoy, and after they reported the situation, they began to formulate a counterattack plan.

Cheng Shijie was in Zhenhai City at this time, and the Agricultural College of Zhenhai City also produced results, although the yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes is high, but these two things do not conform to the eating habits of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the problem is that after Liaodong solved the problem of food and clothing, the common people were still accustomed to eating wheat, grain, rice and other traditional grains, especially millet, although the yield was low, and then until after liberation, the planting area still reached 150 million mu.

These yellow, small and plump millets have nourished generations of Chinese. Millet is the most drought-tolerant food crop, that is, it needs a little water when it sprouts, and even if it doesn't rain for a month after it grows up, it won't die of drought, and it is barren and thin, worry-free, the only drawback is that the yield is too low, the yield per mu can reach 200 catties if the land is fertiliser, and the land is thin if it's sorry, dozens of catties look like it's too pitiful.

The current problem of the Ming Dynasty is drought, and Chen Zilong, an agricultural expert, under the research of agricultural experts from the West French Party, has actually cultivated a drought-tolerant and cold-tolerant grain seed, which is millet.

When Cheng Shijie came to Zhenhai City, Chen Zilong and others were looking forward to it, the land that Cheng Shijie came to was full of five or six thousand acres of grain, and he squatted down and gently played with his hand the ears of grain that pressed the grain poles to a 45-degree tilt, full of shock and surprise.

"Oh my God, this ear of grain is so thick and big!"

Cheng Shijie has not seen millet land, although the planting area of millet in later generations has been very small, but Hanhai City still has tens of thousands of acres of planting area, don't look at the yield of millet is not high, but the problem is that the price of millet is high, a pound of millet is the most common six or seven yuan, some brands of millet such as Lulong yellow rice can be sold for eight or nine yuan, and the black millet in Nanchang County can be sold for more than nine yuan.

In later generations, the grain planting was required, the chemical fertilizer was sufficient, and there was a yield of six or seven hundred catties per mu, and the income of one mu of land was much more cost-effective than planting wheat, but it was more troublesome to harvest.

However, these ears of grain were even larger than those of later generations.

Chen Zilong said a little proudly: "This is thanks to Dashuai, if it weren't for Dashuai's proposal for hybrid breeding, we wouldn't have thought that we could breed such excellent seeds!" ”

This is not the next generation, this is the Ming Dynasty, such a fine ear of grain, it will definitely be sent to the palace as auspicious.

In fact, Chen Zilong did the same, and now there are several eunuchs in the crowd, as well as more than a dozen officials from the household department and the Ministry of Rites, who are pointing at these grains.

Cheng Shijie looked at Chen Zilong and said: "This spike tops the three spikes of others, you did a good job!" ”

An old farmer with a simple face smiled and said: "Dashuai, your old man doesn't know that this new grain is much more than the ears of grain we usually plant, and one ear can top our five ears!" I've lived all my life, and I've never seen such a high yield of millet, I've never seen it! ”

Cheng Shijie asked: "Fellow, do you estimate how many catties of millet can be produced by this mu?" ”

"If you don't say anything, you have to be five or six hundred catties, and one acre is ten acres!"

Cheng Shijie was stunned: "One acre top ten acres? Other varieties have such low yields? ”

The old farmer said: "It's very low, it's good to have a hundred catties of harvest per mu, and it is generally eighty or ninety catties." ”

Eighty or ninety pounds per acre, this will be a clear harvest in the future!

There is no way, the grain output of Daming is so sad this year. The three traditional staple grains of Daming are rice, wheat and millet, the rice yield is the highest, if it is a good paddy field, coupled with the wind and rain, the fertility is sufficient, the mu production capacity is close to 400 catties.

Wheat is the second, and if you go to the field, it can reach two or three hundred catties, and the worse one is more than one or two hundred catties, and the worst is less than 100 catties.

The millet is the worst, and if you can have more than 100 catties per mu, you have to snicker. As for the corn...... Roll rough, this is not the staple food of the Ming people at all, such an output is simply incredible in later generations, if such a situation occurs in a certain city, the number one is afraid that he will be criticized or even lose the black yarn hat, but before the liberation it was very common, why?

This is mainly due to poor seeds and fertility that cannot keep up. Many people think that China's agriculture has not developed advanced breeding technology for thousands of years, which is actually nonsense, the grain output was lower during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the Ming Dynasty was the period when the grain yield per mu was the highest in the entire Chinese feudal dynasty.

It's just affected by the weather of the Xiaoice River.

However, the high yield of millet in Chen Zilong's experimental fields is not all because of good grain planting, but because these experts from the College of Agriculture are not all cultivating seeds, but the result of comprehensive progress in many aspects such as chemical fertilizer, irrigation, and pests and diseases.

Without Cheng Shijie's help, the College of Agriculture introduced more than a dozen pesticides, in addition to phosphate fertilizers, organic fertilizers, inorganic fertilizers, such as phosphate fertilizers, nitrogen fertilizers, and potassium fertilizers.

It's just that the output of chemical fertilizer is extremely low now, not to mention the promotion of the whole world, even Liaodong can't be satisfied.

The old farmer rubbed his big hands full of calluses and smiled happily: "I have never seen such a good seed!" Drought-tolerant, not afraid of bugs, grows fast, and the yield is very high! If the entire peasants of Daming could get such seeds, there would never be any famine in Daming! ”

Cheng Shijie sighed and shook his head: "No, this output is not good." ”

The old farmer and Chen Zilong's eyes widened: "This yield is not good?" ”

In fact, Cheng Shijie did not brag, Zhang Zagu has always been known for its high yield, and the highest record set in the experimental field is 915 kilograms per mu, close to one ton.

However, this is the yield obtained under the service of agricultural experts, and ordinary farmers cannot do it, and if ordinary farmers take it and plant it, it will be very good to have a yield of five or six hundred kilograms per mu. Ethiopia introduced Zhangzagu, although there is no experience, the planting technology is really not good, but it has also achieved a yield of more than 300 kilograms per mu, which shows that this thing is really strong, and the yield is frighteningly high!

Unfortunately, in modern times, millet has fallen out of the ranks of the staple food of the Chinese, and it is okay to drink a bowl of millet porridge once in a while, but no one will use it as a staple food anymore. All these varieties have high yields, but not many people grow them, and the national millet planting area is only 20 million mu, which is really pitiful.

However, Cheng Shijie did not discourage Chen Zilong's enthusiasm: "Don't be complacent, this is definitely not the upper limit, there is still room for improvement!" ”

Chen Zilong seemed to understand what Cheng Shijie meant: "I will continue to experiment!" ”

"That's good!"

Millet grows about 130 days, and at the end of February, when the snow melts, it is planted and harvested earlier than potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Chen Zilong asked people to start harvesting, of course, because it was an experimental field, it could not be harvested like ordinary crops, and was responsible for the Tuntian military households of Xinghai City Agricultural College, each with a small pair of scissors, and an ear of grain was cut down and bundled into bundles. Only one ear can be cut, and the particles can be returned to the warehouse as much as possible.

Weigh once per acre of harvesting, and then record, the data obtained is naturally very scary, at the beginning of the announcement, the entire experimental field area is thunderous, and then there is not so much movement, everyone is numb, just speed up, and then speed up!

In the busy crowd, Cheng Shijie also saw the figures of Queen Zhou and Queen Zhang. The two of them were also skillfully harvesting ears of grain in the field with a small pair of scissors, sweating like rain and smiling like children.

Cheng Shijie pointed to Queen Zhou's figure and said, "Why are these two here too?" ”

Chen Zilong smiled bitterly: "I don't want them to come, can I stop them?" ”

"Can't!"

Chen Zilong said: "Dashuai, the weather in Liaodong is too cold, we are going to cultivate hybrid rice......

Without waiting for Chen Zilong to finish speaking, Cheng Shijie became vigilant: "What? Do you want to go? ”

"How could I possibly want to go!"

Chen Zilong said: "I heard that Jeju Island is also the territory of Dashuai, can you carve out a piece of land on Jeju Island for us to experiment?" ”

"No problem at all!"

While she was talking, Empress Zhou was carrying a basket filled with huge ears of grain, which she was going to take to Bauhinia City to show Emperor Chongzhen.

"General Cheng is also here!"

"Come and have a look!"

Cheng Shijie smiled: "Queen Mother, are you still satisfied with this output?" ”

"Satisfied, couldn't have been more satisfied! If more than one billion acres of land in the Ming Dynasty are planted with such millet and have such a yield, no, even if it is only half, the people of the world will no longer have to starve! ”

"Don't worry, the output will definitely be more than 400 catties."

Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang walked in the room, they were not the material for work, and the ordinary people were still in awe that they were queens, but the agricultural experts of the Agricultural College, whether they were queens or not, wasting a grain of grain would waste their hard work.

was scolded by a group of experts, and Queen Zhou didn't join in the fun with those professional farmers.

As the sun gradually sets, the evening breeze blows, rolling up layers of golden waves in the harvest fields, and then reflecting the sunset on the horizon, this scenery is intoxicating.

Empress Zhang stretched out her arms, as if to embrace this fertile field into her arms, the evening breeze ruffled her hair, and the glow of the sky reflected her fair face pink, which was an enviable beauty.

Cheng Shijie looked at Empress Zhang's appearance and muttered in his heart: "It's only been less than half a year, when I first came, Empress Zhang was as beautiful, but at that time, Empress Zhang seemed to be a deep resentful woman, however, it has only been half a year, and now it has become a disaster!" ”

Chen Zilong looked at Cheng Shijie, and Cheng Shijie was staring at Queen Zhang.

A thought involuntarily rose in Chen Zilong's head: "Cheng Shijie has Cao Cao's fetish?" ”

Once this thought is generated, it is as if it has grown into a towering tree.

"Quite possibly!"

Cheng Shijie and Zhu Weiyuan have been married for a long time, but Zhu Weiyuan's stomach has not moved, and Cheng Shijie has a lot of concubines, but there is no movement, does Cheng Shijie really dislike girls, only like wives?

(End of chapter)