"How's Andong Cheng doing now?"

In the carrier hall, when Zhu Di was in a hurry to chase and kill Harawu, Zhu Gaoxu had already relieved his mind and chatted with Fu Rang about the affairs of Andong City.

"Before the winter of last year and before the beginning of spring this year, a lot of cultivated land was opened, and now there are more than 13,000 acres of cooked land inside and outside the city, although it is not self-sufficient, but this year it should be able to produce at least 6,000 stone of grain, which is considered to save you a snack."

Fu Rang said with a slight smile the results he had achieved in Andong City, although the results were not too big, but at least they could make Zhu Gaoxu's pressure less.

Zhu Gaoxu also knew that it was not that Fu Rang didn't want to go further, but that Andong City and Jilin City were in the same situation at the beginning, and there was no one.

If there is no one, naturally there will not be much to do.

Originally, Fu Rang should have prepared to open up the wasteland while training his troops, but now that the war broke out in the spring, he hurriedly led his troops south to help before he had time to show his strength.

Zhu Gaoxu does not have much expectation for Andong City, as long as it is self-sufficient.

Its greater role is to become a transit station for Jilin City and the Sanjiang Plain in the future.

Zhu Gaoxu learned about the current Sanjiang Plain through the Jurchen tribes, and the Sanjiang Plain in this era was similar to its situation in the nineteenth century, still a vast wasteland, with thorns and thorns everywhere, and towers and swamps everywhere.

The idea of building it is the same as that of Jilin City and Zhaozhou City, that is, to build cement canals to end the situation of land silting.

This problem is not only unique to these places, but also a problem in the entire Northeast at present.

Water conservancy projects built of cement can greatly solve this problem.

In this era without mechanization, although the Sanjiang Plain was also very difficult to govern, compared with the Songnen Plain and the Liaohe Plain, the Sanjiang Plain was at least a place that could be governed by existing means and became fertile land.

Although the Liaohe Plain is closer to the Central Plains, if we want to cultivate it, we have to solve the problem of seawater inflow and Liaoze, and the water conservancy projects that need to be sorted out and constructed are by no means something that the millions of laborers in Liaodong and Beiping can solve.

The Liao River is not good, and the Songnen Plain, which used to be the ancient pine Liao Lake, is even more difficult to govern, and the distance is even more farther away from the swamps within a radius of more than 1,000 miles.

In contrast, although the Sanjiang Plain is a hilly plain area formed by the confluence of the three rivers, it does not have ancient lakes, and the rapid flow of the Heilongjiang River formed after the confluence of the three rivers can also carry larger tonnage ships.

As long as Jilin City can become a handicraft city outside the Guan, then it can support the Sanjiang Plain along the river, and then slowly develop the Sanjiang Plain.

Of course, at the end of the day, no matter how you develop it, you need enough labor.

This labor force can be human or animal.

In comparison, what Zhu Gaoxu can obtain is animal power, just like Jilin City now.

"Counting these cattle and sheep, as well as the population of the eighteen departments that have joined Jilin City, can 150,000 acres of cooked land be reclaimed this year?"

Sitting in his position, Zhu Gaoxu asked about Yisha, and Yishaha also said after a moment of silence:

"If you count the population of the eighteen departments, you can naturally reclaim 150,000 acres of cooked land, but if you absorb them, there will be some problems with the grain......

He looked at Zhu Gaoxu, and after a pause, he continued: "Counting Yang Shanren's grain, as well as your old man's salary, and the money and grain of Jilin City, the sum of these three is 50,000 yuan of money and 320,000 stones. ”

"The population of the eighteen departments, the slaves and maids are counted as 7,000 people, and these 7,000 people, plus the military households that have not yet arrived, are almost 20,000 people, plus the population in the original Jilin City, that is, close to 40,000 people."

"Clearing the wasteland is extremely food-intensive, if it is according to the rules you said before the beginning of winter last year, these 40,000 people will receive more than 24,000 stone of grain every month, and this does not include the soldiers' salaries."

"Even if you maintain 3,000 soldiers and horses, it is 5,000 stone per month, plus the increase in military horse beans, it will take at least 400,000 stone to maintain the ...... Jilin City in a year."

Yisha looked at Zhu Gaoxu, he felt that His Royal Highness should understand what a big burden Jilin City is now.

Although Jilin City can take out 320,000 stone of grain this year, 200,000 of them are made by business.

As for the more than 30,000 acres of cultivated land in Jilin City, this year's output of 25,000 stone of grain can be regarded as burning high incense.

If the grain problem is not solved, even if 320,000 stone is transported to Jilin City, after paying the bereavement grain, it will be enough for them to last until February next year.

February is still more than two months away from the beginning of spring, not to mention the entry of Uliangha this time, many tribes have interrupted their spring hunting operations because of evasion.

Whether there will be as much fur this year as last year is still unknown.

In Yishiha's view, in such a situation, it is better to open sources and reduce expenditure.

He has his opinions, but for Zhu Gaoxu, he doesn't have time to delay in this kind of thing.

"How many sheep and cattle do we have in our hands?"

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Yishiha, who probably guessed his thoughts, but still said honestly: "Counting these brought by Commander Fu, as well as the cattle, sheep and livestock in the hands of the eighteen departments, there are about 8,000 cattle, and there should be tens of thousands of sheep plus the captured batch." ”

Originally, there were not many cattle and sheep in Jilin City, but there were enough eighteen cattle, sheep and horses that came to seek refuge in Jilin City.

Counting only eighteen departments, there are no less than 3,000 cattle, as many as five or six thousand sheep, and more than 1,000 horses.

The six cities of Haixi were all representatives of the wealth outside the Guanwai before the Tumubao Change, and it is not surprising that the eighteen departments could come up with so many cattle, sheep and horses.

However, these cattle and sheep Zhu Gaoxu can't be used directly, so they have to be exchanged for cultivated land according to what was agreed with the head of the eighteen departments.

"Calculate the number of cattle, sheep, and horses in the eighteen departments, and exchange them for arable land, according to the price I negotiated with the head of the eighteen departments."

Zhu Gaoxu arranged the affairs of Jilin City, and at the same time continued: "The other six tribes who are unwilling to stay, there must be a great shortage of food in their tribe. ”

"Exchange grain with them for their cattle, sheep and horses, and if they do not want it, they will not demand it."

"After all the exchanges, when Yang Bin comes to Jilin City, you sell some sheep to Yang Bin, let him shepherd the sheep south to Jinzhou, use the seal letter of the palace to cross the sea by boat, and sell these livestock to Shandong."

Zhu Gaoxu was also very reluctant to sell sheep, but he knew that the current Jilin City really couldn't afford to raise too many livestock.

"Good!" Yisha readily agreed, and he also knew that Jilin City couldn't afford to raise too many livestock now.

"That's right......" Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu and Yishiha finished chatting, Fu Rang also opened his mouth and was about to say something, but before he could say anything, footsteps came from outside the carrier hall.

In front of the three of them, a soldier covered in blood came to the door of the temple and stopped, and bowed respectfully:

"Your Highness, His Royal Highness King Yan sent a sentry back, let us prepare 800 stone grain and 200 stone bean feed for him, and hand them over to the Ping Command Envoy to take to the north, and let you send someone to the north to receive cattle, sheep and prisoners."

This soldier brought good news, and as soon as Zhu Gaoxu heard that Zhu Di had let him accept cattle and sheep captives, he instantly thought about it.

"Pit people, pit who is not a pit, pit grandpa and pit dad are the same......"

Zhu Gaoxu had already figured out how to cheat his father, so he instructed Yisha: "You go and do it, bring the cattle and sheep back to Jilin City by the way, and the captives will be taken to Andong City." ”

"This ...... Shouldn't the captives be left to be disposed of by His Royal Highness King Yan? ”

Yizha hesitated, after all, the tradition of the Ming army was who captured and who disposed of.

But for his question, Zhu Gaoxu didn't care and said: "He is my father, and his handling is the same as mine." ”

"That's right." Fu Rang also echoed on the side, he would not let go of this opportunity to enrich the population of Andong City, not to mention that the Ming army in Jilin City had an enmity with this group of captives, and it was easy to provoke contradictions by bringing them to Jilin City.

"Then the slave will do it......" Seeing the two of them say this, Yisha could only chuckle and take the errand.

He turned around and walked out of the hall and went to transfer food for Ping'an and Zhu Di.

Seeing him leave, Fu Rang said what he wanted to say just now:

"On the way I came, many cities in the land of the six cities were breached, and this time the land of the six cities can be described as heavy casualties, and the grain fields were eaten up by livestock, and it is estimated that after the war disaster has passed, the land of the six cities will be very short of food."

"It's not just ......them," Zhu Gaoxu also smiled bitterly: "We are also very short of grain now, and I hope that the Liaodong Prefecture in the south will send grain quickly, otherwise we will run out of food." ”

After Zhu Gaoxu finished speaking, the meal he had explained to Guo Yan also began to be served.

After the meal was served, the two chatted while eating, and soon it was dark, and the bodies on the side of Jixi Fort began to be transported back by cart one by one.

For a while, the entire Jilin City could hear the sound of crying, and the sound made people feel depressed.

Zhu Gaoxu and Fu Rang waited for the news of Yishiha, and it was not until Hai that Yishiha rushed back to Jilin City with people.

They were accompanied by tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.

Fu Rang was tired because he had traveled more than 50 miles during the day and led the team to fight with Hu Bing, so he went to rest first, but Zhu Gaoxu was very energetic because he had slept during the day.

The crying in Jilin City made him suffer a lot, and he admitted that he could still fight more beautifully in this battle and die fewer people, but time did not say that it would happen again, and those who had died could never be resurrected.

Leaving the heavy Jilin City, Zhu Gaoxu rode an ordinary horse back to Jixi Fort.

Here, he saw the soldiers who were constantly counting at the city gate, and the cattle and sheep that were constantly pouring into Jilin City.

"Why are there only cows and sheep?"

Zhu Gaoxu rolled down from the back of the horse and talked to Yisha, who was counting with a torch.

"The horses have all been taken away by His Royal Highness King Yan, and it is said that they have chased more than 100 miles to the north."

Finding that Zhu Gaoxu was coming, he also lost his hand and returned the salute with the people around him, while talking about the news they had just learned.

"How many heads?"

Zhu Gaoxu was not curious about the fact that Zhu Di could drive out and chase Haragu for more than 100 miles, he was more concerned about how much wool he could get to subsidize the soldiers who died in the city.

"Most of them are outside the city, and there are already more than 14,000 cattle and more than 53,000 sheep."

Yisha turned to the side and brought the torch closer, so that Zhu Gaoxu could see the number of cattle and sheep being counted.

Looking at the amount of cattle and sheep in so much, Zhu Gaoxu pulled Yishiha to the side and whispered, "Ping Bao'er's people also followed to the north, right?" ”

"It's going north." I don't know why, I answered honestly.

"That's it......" Hearing that Jilin City was all his own people, Zhu Gaoxu no longer hid it, and coughed:

"Take 4,000 oxen and 20,000 sheep into our own barn, and build a new barn for the rest."

"Huh?" Hearing this, Yi Shuha still didn't understand the meaning of Zhu Gaoxu's words.

He looked around, although they were all his own people, he began to say in a humble heart: "Your Highness, this is not good......

"What's so bad." Zhu Gaoxu subconsciously responded, and then made amends for himself: "We don't say it, how do they know?" ”

"What's more, on my wedding day, my father didn't send anything, and we killed the most armor soldiers in this battle, so what's wrong with us taking a third of the cattle and sheep?"

"That ......" Yishaha was also moved by what Zhu Gaoxu said, so he recruited an official and told Zhu Gaoxu about it in front of Zhu Gaoxu.

The official was not as worried as Yisha, and when he heard that this was the case, he immediately nodded with a smile.

With dozens of officials, they quickly made a move on the book, and the barn in Jilin City was also expanded several times in a few hours, and many cattle and sheep were driven in.

By dawn, all the captured cattle and sheep had been counted, and there were still more than 18,000 cattle and 79,000 sheep on the books, as well as more than 1,400 stone millet saluvaged from the corpses of Hu Bing.

In addition to these, there are nearly 200 sets of Ming armor and more than 5,000 sets of leather armor.

These are basically Zhu Di's captures yesterday, counting the seizure of Jilin City, this time the three Wuliangha divisions almost killed and injured nearly 13,000 people.

"Your Highness, if we do this, we won't be seen by His Royal Highness King Yan, right?"

accompanied Zhu Gaochu to make fake accounts all night, and he was a little weak-hearted, but Zhu Gaochu patted him on the shoulder:

"We don't eat it ourselves, but we will distribute it to the people in the city in the future, you have to open it up, don't think that we are doing bad things, what we are doing today is a good thing."

Yishaha was persuaded by Zhu Gaoxu, and after a busy night, he finally checked the last counted book, and then went back to Jilin City to rest anxiously.

After he left, Zhu Gaoxu took the opportunity to go to Hadaling.

It has to be said that Zhang Chun and Wang Yi suffered heavy casualties in this battle, and the Hada Ridge was full of burned trees and scarlet soil everywhere, as well as destroyed forests.

Many trees have marks of knives and axes, and minced meat covered in dirt can be seen everywhere.

There were many Jurchens who were cleaning up the battlefield in the forest, and when they saw Zhu Gaoxu, they returned the salute from afar, and many people were apprehensive.

Although they fled into Jilin City, these few days in Jilin City were much happier than when they were in the original walled fort.

At the moment, they didn't know that their leader was going to take them to Jilin City, so they were still worried about their future.

But when they know that they can stay in Jilin City, they will probably dance with joy.

Watching them carry the corpses, Zhu Gaoxu picked a clean wooden platform and sat here to rest for a while.

It was two hours later, as the mountain forest was cleared, that he took one last look at the line of defense that almost cost him his life out of the city.

"If there is no war, maybe in only two or three years, there will be no place to see what it looks like now."

With a sigh, Zhu Gaoxu turned around and went down the mountain, and many Jurchens under the mountain had already learned the news of their whereabouts.

The leaders of the few departments who are unwilling to stay have begun to line up at the gate of Jixi Fort with their own subordinates to leave, and many ordinary Jurchens in the crowd have shown reluctance to look at Jixi Fort, even the seven or eight-year-old dolls also know that Jilin City is having a good life and is reluctant to leave.

Compared to them, the Jurchens who were included in Jilin City with the head people were a different scene.

Their faces were full of smiles, and although they didn't understand the language, from their words and deeds, Zhu Gaoxu could tell that they seemed to be talking about staying in Jilin City to have enough to eat.

Shaking his head with a chuckle, Zhu Gaoxu rode back to Jilin City.

When he returned to the palace, it was already six o'clock in the afternoon.

Because he was tired and was still resting, Fu Rang got up, but he didn't come to the palace, but went with Lin Su to get the compensation for the fallen soldiers.

Zhu Gaoxu was not idle, and after hastily eating lunch, he went to the hospital to see the soldiers who were lightly and seriously injured.

For the disabled, he promised that the city would support them and that all bereavement policies would be in place.

For those who were lightly injured, Zhu Gaoxu could easily encourage them to recuperate from their injuries and wait for them to return to the army for training.

He stayed in the hospital for a long time, and did not get up and leave until the sun set.

Before leaving, he did not forget to explain to the little flag officer at the gate of the hospital on duty: "The wounded who have entered the hospital should be asked to slaughter sheep and chickens to nourish their bodies, as long as they are not wasted, they can be slaughtered as much as they want." ”

"Yes!!" Hearing Zhu Gaoxu's words, the soldiers at the gate of the hospital straightened their waists, only feeling warm in their hearts.

"Take it easy." patted them, Zhu Gaoxu did not ride a horse, but walked back to the palace on foot with the entourage of two guards.

Along the way, he saw many people, who were wrapped in white coarse cloth around their foreheads, and their expressions were sad.

In his ears, the sound of crying kept echoing, and almost half of the people in Jilin City were wearing linen and filial piety.

As Zhu Gaoxu said, he really shouldn't be stingy with the soldiers.

Without the soldiers defending the city with their lives, I'm afraid that he, the king of Bohai, would have been captured by Hara Wusheng and exchanged things with Lao Zhu.

Even though they were also defending their families, what they kept was more of Zhu Gaoxu's property.

Not long after, Zhu Gaoxu returned to the palace, although his face was very calm, but Yishiha and the others who were waiting in the palace early could see that he was uncomfortable.

"Your Highness, the number of livestock in the city has increased, and the beans are insufficient......

It seems that in order to cheer up Zhu Gaoxu, Yisha took the initiative to bring up the topic.

"Did you send a letter to the Liaodong Metropolitan Division?" Hearing Yishaha's words, Zhu Gaoxu mentioned the matter of sending a letter to the Liaodong Metropolitan Division.

"Yes, but I'm afraid it will take half a month to receive the food."

Yisha Ha's face was embarrassed, after all, at present, Zhu Di led his troops north to chase Harawu, and no one knew when he would come back, and the food in Jilin City was only enough to last for half a month.

"News from the north?"

Zhu Gaoxu and Yishaha were worried about the same thing, they were worried that Zhu Di would be too happy and increase the logistical burden for Jilin City.

"No ......"

Lin Su, who was in charge of military intelligence, shook his head, and Fu Rang on the side also took the opportunity to say:

"When I went south, I saw that Hu Bing running towards Azhemi, I should be preparing to escape into the mountains, take a small path to the area of Zhenhe in the northeast of the desert, and flee back to the north of the Haravin Mountains."

"The road is rugged and easy to ambush, it is estimated that after His Royal Highness King Yan arrives there with his troops, he will stop the pursuit and return to Jilin City."

"This came and went, about five or six days."

Fu Rang's words made Zhu Gaoxu frown, and Yi Weiha also said: "The grain can wait until the next batch of grain is delivered, but the beans can't." ”

"Let's take it one step at a time, there's no other way now." Zhu Gaoxu was also very helpless, after all, outside this pass, even if he was willing to pay, he couldn't buy extra beans.

Of course, he was more worried about what would happen after him than what happened now.

They obtained so many horses from Hu Bing in this battle, many of which could be cultivated as military horses as long as they were willing to spend the capital, to make up for the number of military horses lost in this battle, and to allow the Bohai Navy to have more cavalry.

It's just that if they really want to breed these horses into military horses, the cost is a big problem.

"This year's bean fields are all planted, right?"

Taking a deep breath, Zhu Gaoxu asked about the bean field, after all, raising military horses requires sufficient bean material, and the Bohai Navy killed so many military horses in this war, and the cost of cultivating a new batch of military horses is not small.

"After planting, the slave maid went to see it in the morning, and 10,000 acres of fields were planted with beans, and by the time of the harvest in early July, almost more than 3,000 stone beans could be received."

"Three thousand ......" Listening to this pitiful output, Zhu Gaoxu had a headache.

He only knew part of the knowledge of agriculture, and this was all he had learned from chatting with the unit next door in his spare time.

The construction of water conservancy can increase the yield of crops, which is the only way he knows and can achieve it, and it is not much different from what the ancients knew.

As for the other potash fertilizers, phosphate fertilizers...... He has heard of these things, and he has also used them to grow flowers and plants, but just because he has heard and used them does not mean that he can make them.

The artificial fertilizer of the people of Jilin City is collected and used, which is the only fertilizer he can master at present.

The output is not enough, so we can only use land to make up.

"Captured horses, you should carefully select and cultivate, and calculate how much shortage of our beans is still missing."

"This time, I was blocked at the door of my house by Hu Bing, and so many brothers were killed and injured, and when I cleaned up the hidden danger of Atai Wailan, the next step is to find Hu Bing for revenge!"

Zhu Gaoxu spoke calmly, and the three people who heard the words did not dare to slack off, and raised their hands one after another.

Looking at them, Zhu Gaoxu's eyes were calm, but he couldn't let go.

In this battle, he fought too aggrieved.

He didn't want to say anything about the excuse that there were not enough soldiers and horses, not enough food and grass, he only knew one thing.

In the coming year, he must get this one back, in the same way......

(End of chapter)