"It's all in accordance with the standard, it can't be dense or sparse, it's about our jobs, don't be careless!"

"Know ......"

When the time came to the beginning of March, although the snow had not completely melted, the 50 acres of seedling fields prepared by Zhu Gaoxu had already dried up in full swing.

On such an important day, Zhu Gaoxu naturally arrived at the scene, and mentioned many precautions with a workshop manager who manages this seedling field.

For example, how to manage the seedbed, how to control the temperature and light, how to control pests and diseases, and so on, he told the director without reservation.

"Your Highness, don't worry, I know that this is related to the jobs of everyone in the city, and I will never be sloppy."

In front of Zhu Gaoxu, the head of the workshop patted his chest and assured that although Zhu Gaochu was also worried, he couldn't stay in the seedling field all the time.

After a brief explanation, he could only give up his position and watch the hundreds of seedling breeders raise seedlings in the field.

Under his gaze, the skills of those seedling masters are skilled, and it can be said that they are even better than Zhu Gaoxu imagined.

"It's that I'm worried," Zhu Gaoxu laughed softly at himself, and when he thought about it carefully, it was also the same.

If you talk about greenhouse seedlings and air humidity, sunshine and so on, he can really say the truth.

It's just that these people understand these things when he says them, but they call them experiences, and they just summarize them.

Thinking like this, Zhu Gaoxu was also a lot more relieved.

It just so happened that Lin Su came on horseback at this time, stopped beside him, and handed out the letter in his hand: "Your Highness, Your Majesty in the South has given you an expeditious." ”

From the end of the first month to the beginning of March, Zhu Yuanzhang's military orders were hindered by the heavy snow outside the Guan, and it was delayed for more than a month before they were delivered to Zhu Gaoxu.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu frowned and took it, and slowly opened the urgent letter, ten lines at a glance.

Although Zhu Gaoxu was a little uncomfortable with Lao Zhu's quota of six thousand households, he had already been prepared.

Lao Zhu didn't let him raise soldiers, so he would secretly raise them, or raise them under a different name.

It's just that in the letters, Lao Zhu even knew that he had recruited two thousand Jurchen followers, which made Zhu Gaoxu a little undecided.

Fortunately, Lao Zhu's news is not accurate, otherwise Lao Zhu would not have classified them into the Bohai Sea Guard.

"Wuliangha patrols the border, grandpa asked us to prepare early, build Zhaozhou City as soon as possible after the beginning of spring, and let me garrison Zhaozhou in order to reconnoiter the enemy."

Zhu Gaoxu read out the second thing on the letter, for which he had been preparing for a long time.

After all, Zhaozhou is located at the mouth of the Sacha River, that is, the confluence of the Songhua River and the Nenjiang River.

Building a city here will immediately connect Jilin with Andong City, so Zhu Gaoxu has been preparing since last year.

Now that the whole winter has passed, and he has plenty of raw materials, it is not difficult to build a smaller stone fort to garrison troops first.

What made him care was the fact that Zhu Di controlled the soldiers and horses of the Sandu Division to patrol the border and Zhu Youlian, the son of Zhou Shizi, to patrol the border mentioned in the letter.

Zhu Gaoxu has been thinking about this matter since last year, but he didn't expect that Lao Zhu didn't let himself get involved, but ......

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the letter and quickly saw the clue.

Lao Zhu did not let him participate in the patrol of the Sandu Division, but he gave him the task of 'monitoring the movements of the Wuliangha tribes'.

The Wuliang Ha tribes are in the forest farm grassland close to the eastern part of the Harawen Mountains all the year round, and if they want to monitor them, if nothing else, they have to walk at least two or three hundred miles north along the Nenjiang River.

The distance of two or three hundred miles is almost into the hinterland of their grazing, and further north is the Qiqihar area of the later generations.

"Your Highness, should we wait for the river to melt and then set off to build Zhaozhou City?"

Lin Su didn't know what Zhu Gaoxu was thinking, he just asked according to the information he had obtained.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu bowed slightly: "At that time, you will first take 200 Jiaqi and 1,000 Jurchen men to escort 2,000 stone cement down the river, and choose a suitable place to reclaim the city at the address of Zhaozhou City that I originally set." ”

"With cement, it only takes three or four months to build a small city that is not big."

"Yes!" A smile appeared on Lin Su's face, he missed the crusade against Xiyangha last time, and now he finally caught up with an errand on the front line.

He was still laughing, but Zhu Gaoxu's eyes were on the urgent letter sent by Lao Zhu.

I don't know if Lao Zhu suppressed himself and his conscience was not upset, he actually transferred 2,000 military households to himself, which was something that Zhu Gaoxu himself didn't dare to think about.

That's 2,000 military households, not 2,000 people, and if you count your family members, there can be at least 4,000 or even 10,000 people.

Thinking of this population number, Zhu Gaoxu was both happy and worried.

The joy is that so many Han people are stationed outside the Guan, which means that the strength of the Han people outside the Guanxi will increase, and the number of people who can use it in their hands will also increase.

The worry is that so many Han people are stationed outside the Guan, and they all need to consume food to eat horses and chew, which undoubtedly makes Zhu Gaoxu's self-sufficiency even farther away.

But...... Zhu Gaoxu looked at the seedling fields in front of him, as long as these seedling fields can cultivate seedlings and achieve the yield that Zhu Gaoxu expected, then these things are not a thing.

"Your Highness!"

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves and the sound of Yishaha came at the same time, Zhu Gaoxu and Lin Su looked at each other, and then saw Yishaha coming towards them with more than ten guards.

When they were still seven or eight paces away, Yishu halema stopped, then turned over and dismounted and ran to Zhu Gaoxu's side.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Gaoxu was curious about why he was so anxious, and he breathed a sigh of relief before saying:

"It's a matter of land reclamation, because there is too much silt in the swamp on the river beach, although there are no stone roots, but it is easy to accumulate silt, and the water can never be drained, so you have to wait until the river beach dries out in the summer to build a canal with cement and then clean up the fields."

"Therefore, before the summer, this reclamation still has to go to the west and east mountains."

He also talked about the problem of clearing land on the river beach, and Zhu Gaoxu did not find it strange after hearing it.

It is true that the black soil in Northeast China is very fertile, but the Nenjiang River, Songhua River, and Heilongjiang River make Northeast China not suitable for agriculture before the Industrial Revolution.

The long winter permafrost and the swamps that are very easy to form in spring and autumn cause the land to silt up and drain poorly.

The environment of Jilin Bay is quite good, but the really 'bad' is still the major plains in the northeast.

The major plains in Northeast China have experienced hundreds of thousands of years of flooded river water, and the evaporation of these flooded rivers makes mineral salt deposits alkaline, which is why the Songnen Plain and the Sanjiang Plain are rarely developed.

As for the worst principle of the Liaohe River leveling, it is because no water conservancy facilities have been built, so the seawater entering the estuary often backs into it, causing the Liaohe Plain to become a large saline-alkali land.

This series of problems made it difficult for agriculture to develop agriculture in the runoff area of the great rivers in the northeast in ancient times, and even the Bohai Kingdom, which was known as the prosperous country of Haidong, could only develop near the floodplains in the hills of the Changbai Mountains to grow rice in these places.

Now Zhu Gaoxu and his team want to reclaim the river beach in Jilin Bay, which is close to the Songhua River, and it is naturally not easy.

But as long as they get past it, it will be difficult for them to have any agricultural difficulties to stump them.

"The things that are being cleared are done according to your wishes, in short, the river beach must be developed."

"In the summer, when the canals and drainage facilities are built, it will be much easier to reclaim the river flats."

"These river flats are fertile, and I don't dare to think about how high a mu yield can be obtained by using them for farming."

Zhu Gaoxu's support as always, just as he supported Lin Su, Zhang Chun, and Fu Rang.

For Zhu Gaoxu's frequent support, although he has experienced it too many times, he will feel warm every time he loses it.

"Your Highness, don't worry, the slave will definitely solve this river beach!"

Yisha made a promise, and Zhu Gaoxu also smiled and trusted him very much.

After seeing the seedling field almost planted, Zhu Gaoxu and Lin Su went to the barracks, while Yizha returned to the river beach to continue preparing for the wasteland.

The Bohai Navy barracks were set up on the south side of Fortress Hill and Taoyuan Mountain, and the barracks were simply enclosed with a wooden fence with a circumference of six miles, which was enough to accommodate 10,000 people to train in the barracks.

When Zhu Gaoxu arrived at the barracks, since it was already early afternoon, all the soldiers were training in armor-piercing formations.

"Zaza Thorn!"

In the barracks, there are no cumbersome steps for the soldiers' weapons training, and all the requirements are for everyone to form a formation with guns, and to advance or retreat step by step while forming a formation.

Sitting on the school platform, Zhu Gaoxu could see that there were only a few hundred people training in the huge barracks, which was very small compared to the scale of the barracks.

"Two hundred people went to the third field, five hundred people went to Andong City, one hundred people went with Yang Shanren to the south, and the horse team needed another fifty people, and there are only six hundred and fifty-six people left in the city at the moment."

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu looking at the training, Lin Su said the number of soldiers and horses in the current military camp, while Zhang Chun was training soldiers and horses below.

"Did the Jurchen Hu of each ministry send it?" Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to ask, and Lin Su also nodded:

"All the departments are very punctual, although it is not yet fully spring, but at present, the academy has received six hundred and seventy-five Jurchen subordinates, and there are also one hundred and sixty-two people from those tribes who have returned to us in winter who want to sign up to study and join the army, you see......"

He asked carefully, but Zhu Gaoxu didn't think twice: "If they want to join the army, let them join the army, and they will also study in the academy for three months, even if they can't communicate smoothly after three months, at least they will be able to listen to military orders." ”

Outside the pass, Zhu Gaoxu could not expect to pull out an army composed entirely of Han Chinese, not to mention him, even the current Ming army, which is also composed of multi-ethnic soldiers.

When Zhu Gaoxu was in the Wuying Palace, he saw some of the recitals of the guards, and if it is inferred from these recitals, then at least 500,000 of the two million Ming army households at the moment are Semu, Miao Yao, and Mongols.

In the future, the Bohai Navy will definitely be higher than this ratio, as far as the current situation is concerned, even if you count the 2,000 military households given to him by Lao Zhu, he only has 3,000 Han soldiers and 2,000 Jurchen soldiers in his hands.

In this way, it seems that Lao Zhu's guard quota for the Bohai Royal Mansion will soon run out......

"Your Highness, do you want to pay the military salaries of those Jurchen subordinates?"

Lin Su suddenly brought up the issue of the military salary of the Jurchen subordinates, and Zhu Gaoxu had already had a draft about it, so he replied:

"When I taught them, I told them that they came to Jilin City to join the army, and although they were sent by the tribe as servants, we all regarded them as part of the Bohai Navy."

"However, at the moment, they do not meet many conditions, so the military salary is only 12 stones, 2 catties of salt, and 1 horse of cloth."

"When they master the Chinese language and go to the battlefield for the Bohai Navy, then they can become the real Bohai Navy, their families can be sent to Jilin City to live, their children can read and write, and their military salary will be the same as the real Bohai Navy."

Zhu Gaoxu explained everything about Lin Su's treatment of these subordinates, and it was impossible for him to pay this group of people according to the military salary of the real Bohai Navy, because he couldn't take out so much money and food now.

Only by stabilizing them first, slowly cultivating a sense of belonging, and the three cities of Jilin, Andong, and Zhaozhou can be self-sufficient, then they can be included in the real Bohai Navy.

While Zhu Gaoxu was thinking like this, more than 100 cavalry also appeared in the barracks, all of them armed with longbows and arrowless arrows, and they rushed back and forth in front of the 300 pikemen, and the arrows kept falling into the crowd.

This is to train the pikemen to endure the environment where arrows rain down, and at the same time to train the horse's tolerance to spears.

It was precisely because of this training that during the Battle of Great Black Mountain, the pikemen of the Bohai Navy dared to raise their guns and collide with Shulha's cavalry.

In addition to these, the Bohai Navy also has a lot of pre-battle stress training, in order to make soldiers accustomed to war and not mess with themselves.

"Sigh the law ......"

Zhu Gaoxu was looking at the training, but the red horse under the school platform was not restless, and kept kicking the school platform with his hooves.

"This guy is in estrus in the spring...... Zhu Gaoxu smiled, and at the same time remembered the breeding matter, turned his head and asked:

"Of the twenty big horses that were bred with Chiyu last year, how many of them were successful?"

"Sixteen horses succeeded, and the foals were four months old, and two months younger, all of them in good health." When it came to breeding, Lin Su also said with a smile:

"Your Highness, can you give me one of these sixteen horses?"

"Here you go!" Knowing that Chiyu had sixteen dolls at once, Zhu Gaoxu also nodded happily: "Not only you, Fu Rang and Yishaha, Zhang Chun, Meng Zhang, and Wang Yi are all one horse each, and the rest will be kept for breeding in three years." ”

Zhu Gaoxu happily arranged a place for the foal, and at the same time stretched out his hand to Zhang Chun and said, "Call Zhang Chun up and arrange an errand for him." ”

"Yes" Lin Su should go down, and let the guards on the side go to pass on Zhang Chun.

After a short time, Zhang Chun ran all the way to the school platform: "Your Highness......"

He saluted, and Zhu Gaoxu also opened his mouth to talk to him about the fact that the imperial court asked him to go to Zhaozhou to build a city to monitor Wuliangha.

In the end, he got down to business: "After Lin Su and I went to Zhaozhou City, this Jilin City will be decided by you and Yishuha." ”

"The wasteland and the three battles are in charge of Yisha, and you will give me good training."

"Don't be too prejudiced against the Jurchens who come to join the army, they have no grudge against us, and don't bring your hatred for Xiyang Habe to them."

Zhu Gaochu persuaded bitterly, although Zhang Chun had always pretended not to be interested in the Jurchens joining the army, Zhu Gaochu knew very well that Zhang Chun was very prejudiced against the Jurchens.

At present, Lin Su will soon go to Zhaozhou City, and he will also go to Zhaozhou City after the arrival of the two thousand military households in the south.

As a result, only the youngest Zhang Chun can stay in Jilin City.

Zhu Gaoxu did not doubt Zhang Chun's ability, he just couldn't rest assured that Zhang Chun's prejudice against the Jurchens was not assured.

"Your Highness, rest assured, the last general knows."

Seeing that his prejudice was seen, Zhang Chun did not refute it, but simply responded.

Zhang Chun's character Zhu Gaoxu knows that he can still distinguish between right and wrong, and if the Jurchens cause the backyard of the Bohai Navy to catch fire, it will be more than worth the loss.

Therefore, seeing that he agreed, Zhu Gaoxu also bowed his head and said: "In addition to letting you train soldiers and horses, I have one more thing to explain to you." ”

"Your Highness, but it doesn't hurt to say it." Zhang Chun was curious about what Zhu Gaochu would say to himself, but Zhu Gaochu also said calmly:

"The post road from Jilin City to Sanwanwei has taken a long detour, and I want to open up a new post road in the mountains to the west, this post road you can take soldiers and horses to build with the Jurchen laborers in the city in your spare time, the speed is not too fast, just take your time, don't delay the opening of the wasteland."

"The last general commands!" There are not too many problems, Zhang Chun knows the geographical conditions of Jilin City better than Zhu Gaoxu.

To build a post road from the mountains, the best way to go is nothing more than the one when Zhu Gaoxu and them came.

"Alright, let's go training." Seeing that Zhang Chun should give him all the military orders, Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand and signaled him to go back to training.

Leaving a sentence of "the last general will retire", Zhang Chun returned to the team that was training.

Compared with Fu Rang and Zhu Gaoxu, Zhang Chun's experience in leading troops is too shallow.

Even if it is Lin Su, he has three years of experience as a small flag officer, and after a year of training after arriving in Jilin City, not to mention that he can lead a thousand troops to break the enemy alone, but at least he can lead a thousand people to march in an orderly manner.

Zhang Chun can't do these things now, so he needs to learn.

It was precisely because he needed time to study that Zhu Gaoxu chose to let Lin Su lead the team to Zhaozhou City first.

What Lin Su needs now is to personally lead the troops against the enemy, and what Zhang Chun needs is training experience.

"Let's go, you also go to prepare the cement matter, and I will also go to the shipyard to see how the shipbuilding is going."

"Yes"

Seeing Zhang Chun leaving, Zhu Gaoxu also got up and prepared to leave, after all, he had a lot of things in his hands.

Walking to the stage and looking at the red donkey in estrus, Zhu Gaoxu could only shake his head and let people take the red donkey to the horse farm to breed, and he changed to a river meandering horse to go to Jilin Shipyard.

Compared with before the winter, the Jilin shipyard, which has been renovated for more than five months, is larger and more formalized.

As soon as he entered the shipyard, Zhu Gaoxu saw five docks that were much larger than before, as well as factories for processing timber and maintaining ships, such as a joinery factory, a bow factory, a baking factory, an iron factory, a canopy factory, and a rope factory.

When he got closer, he could see that there were also piles of timber seven or eight feet long in the few open spaces in the shipyard.

The timber is being stripped and transported into the roastery, and the sound of banging and banging throughout the shipyard continues.

Zhu Gaoxu chose a dock to enter, and what he saw was a big ship that was about to be built.

"Your Highness!"

The voice of the king boatman sounded, and he trotted all the way to Zhu Gaoxu, and only after he was panting pointed to the big ship and said:

"Your Highness, this ship is a warship built according to your requirements, eight hundred and twenty-five materials, thirty-two sailors, and eighteen artillery pieces, which is the largest warship that can be passed on the Songhua River."

"Not bad......" Looking at this warship that was about to be built, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but sigh at the ingenious craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty shipwrights.

Being able to build such a warship in such a short time is enough to show how great the shipbuilding potential of Daming is.

"Could there be any problems with this ship being built so quickly?" Zhu Gaoxu raised his own questions, but Wang Shipwright smiled and said:

"Your Highness, don't worry, the timber used for these ships has been processed, and it is not a problem for the ships to be built for only ten years."

"That's good......" Zhu Gaoxu breathed a sigh of relief, and asked again: "Did you only build this ship for experiments?" ”

"Experiments?" The shipwright was stunned, but quickly realized the meaning of the word, and replied with a smile:

"Not only that, there are two warships of 800 materials, and there are three horse ships of 1,200 materials."

"The warship still needs to be launched to know the situation, but the 1,200-material horse boat will basically not have a problem, as long as it is launched, it can be used."

With the addition of Liu Shipwright and others from Longjiang Shipyard, the shipbuilding technology of Jilin Shipyard has risen several degrees, and now it is extremely confident in the 1,200 material horse boats.

Seeing him say this, Zhu Gaoxu also nodded: "When the river thaws, you need to use three horse boats and a warship, is it too late?" ”

"The horse ship should be in time, it is this warship...... "Wang Chuangong was a little uncertain:

"You still have to go into the water to know, after all, this is the first time we have built it."

"Okay" got the answer, Zhu Gaoxu did not urge, but said: "It's okay, if the warship can't go, the warship with the previous 200 materials is enough." ”

After saying this, Zhu Gaoxu asked Shipwright Wang to take him to visit the current shipyard, during which he also met Shipwright Liu and discussed some things about the warship with them.

"If you make ship materials at Jilin Shipyard and then ship them to Jinzhou to build warships, I wonder if it is feasible?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked Shipbuilder Liu, but Shipbuilder Liu didn't think much about it, after all, Jilin is indeed suitable for shipbuilding, but replied:

"Yes, but if you want to transport the timber used for shipbuilding to the south, you will probably need a lot of mules and horses."

"That's it......" Zhu Gaoxu's calm eyes seemed to flash a fine light, but he didn't continue the discussion, but found an excuse and walked out of the shipyard and returned to the palace.

On horseback, he recalled the words of Boatman Liu, and he also had a plan in his heart.

One of his plans was to cross the sea from Liaodong to attack Dengzhou, and after taking Dengzhou, he went down the coast and used the supply of horses and boats to quickly go south and behead Nanjing.

If it can be achieved, during which Zhu Di can contain most of the southern army, so that Zhu Yunwen has no troops to defend, then the losses caused by the Battle of Jingyan to the Ming Dynasty will be greatly controlled.

However, he can't hope for this line, Zhu Di in history hit all the other corps except Song Sheng and Mu Sheng, so that Zhu Yunwen had no troops to defend.

In addition, the sudden surrender of Chen Xuan, who commanded the naval division and was responsible for guarding the defense of the Nanjing River, was also an important point for the Yan army to be able to encircle Nanjing before Zhu Yunwen reacted.

"Sailor ......"

Zhu Gaoxu muttered the word water master, but he remembered Yang Zhan and Wang Xuan in the south.

After the two took office, they would write letters to Zhu Gaoxu from time to time, but their promotion was not smooth, and they are still turning around in the official positions they were originally given, and they don't know when they will be promoted and reused.

Although these two dark moves have not yet shown results, Zhu Gaoxu is confident that he will successfully cross the river in the future.

Thinking of his arrangement, Zhu Gaoxu's confidence in ending the Battle of Jingyan early also strengthened a little.

(End of chapter)