Chapter 78 Calculation (Part 1)

Practice politics internally, refine armor and weapons externally, base Confucianism, use all crafts and miscellaneous studies as their application, build high walls, accumulate grain, and slowly become kings. Hiding behind Zhu Chongjiu, waiting for the changes of the sky. When the civil strife in the Huaiyang clan broke out, take the opportunity to replace it.

This is the path Zhu Sheng pointed out to Zhu Chongba. Its importance is no less than that of Zhuge Liang's Longzhong match for the first lord of Shu back then. Zhu Chongba's courage and mind are indeed no less than that of Liu Bei, the first lord of Shu back then. After making a little weighing, he adopted Zhu Sheng's strategy and used all his strength to implement it.

He was bold and arrogant, "carriedly" the commander of the Hezhou Army and important officials, and "privately" sent a detailed worker to Yangzhou, Yang Bi, was sentenced to "extreme punishment".

Zhao Xiong, deputy chief of the Gongwei Department, was dismissed from his post and investigated. Five lieutenants and more than ten deputy lieutenants were kicked out of the army and sent to the mine for crimes and meritorious service.

Yang Bi's direct superior Hu Weiyong and Wang Guangyang were demoted to two levels and were not allowed to enter the Governor's Office to discuss matters within one year.

Zhu Chongba wrote a letter to the Huaiyang General Manager apologized to the Huaiyang General Manager, claiming to be a consul and subordinate, and once again stated the dependence between the Hezhou Army and the Huai'an Army, and vowed to wait for the dispatch of the Huaiyang General Manager Office at any time.

Together with the head of "Yang Bi", the letters of the messenger Zhang Shuo, there were ten ships of roughly refined pig iron. Zhu Chongba stated in the letter that this batch of pig iron is a plea for Hezhou. If the General Administration still feels that his sincerity is not enough, he is willing to give all of it.

In addition, in the future, whenever the iron ore produced in Hezhou and Anqing is sold to Yangzhou, you only need to pay 10% of the tax to the Governor's Office. For this one, no more leka will be charged along the way. Any goods sold from Yangzhou to Hezhou and Anqing will be paid only once in a tax to the Governor's Office, except for top red goods such as "Ice Jade", and no local government and Lika will have the right to collect the second time. If there are any violations, the vendors can report directly to the Governor's Office on Anqing Road.

There are a lot of these, with more than 20 items, each of which has made huge concessions to the Huaiyang General Administration. If placed between countries, it will be enough to cause an uproar.

However, after Zhu Chongba sent out a letter of "lost power and humiliation of the country", no one from the provincial army said anything dissatisfied. With the joint efforts of Zhu Sheng, Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong, Wang Guangyang and other advisers, everyone understood at the first time that their governor was forced by the warships of the Huai'an army. If they wanted to cleanse up their shame, everyone had to slept with firewood and tasted their galls.

Of course, these small actions were unaware of the Huai'an Army's enemy situation department. They almost followed the envoy Zhang Yue and some related information were sent back. However, the war in the north is not yet decided. There are also large areas of areas that were once ravaged by floods and Yuan army that were needed to be restored. In a short period of time, the Huaiyang General Administration did not have the extra energy to specifically suppress Hezhou, so they could only turn a blind eye to Zhu Chongba's small actions for the time being.

However, Su Mingzhe and Lu Lu Zeng were not easy to deal with. It was not convenient to take action against Zhu Chongba in military terms, but there were no such bonds in other aspects. Soon, a letter from the name of Huaiyang General Manager, electing Guo Zixing as an Affair and Luzhou General Manager was sent to Bianliang. At the same time, Sun Deya was also recommended as the governor of Luzhou, responsible for assisting Guo Zixing with Zhu Yuanzhang, the governor of Hezhou General Manager, and launched an attack on the uncle and nephew of Zhennan, who was entrenched in Lu'an as soon as possible from the north and south sides.

When the news came back to Anqing, Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he gritted his teeth. Then he adopted Li Shanchang's strategy and sent messengers to Monk Peng, Sun Deya, Mao Gui, Peng Da, Zhang Shicheng and Wang Kerou and others to repair it with gifts.

The letter was reached by the princes. After some people read it, they just laughed at it. Some people privately thought about it, especially a few people who were in the limelight recently. The territory under their rule was no less than Huaiyang. They asked them to continue to follow the orders of the General Administration and ask for it as they did, which was indeed a bit unkind.

Jiangnan, outside Pingjiang City, Wushan University Campground.

"With the beans, with the beans, with the beans, with the beans sounded endlessly.

The target, which was placed fifty steps in front of the military formation, was beaten to pieces, but the fired musket soldiers did not look at the target. Under the command of the centurion, they quickly raised the musket and quickly retreated.

The musket soldiers in the second row slowly advanced under the command of another centurion, interlaced with their retreating robes on their left shoulders, and placed the muskets in their hands on the giant shield of the sword and shield soldiers, and launched a second round of attacks at the target fifty steps away.

"Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang." More than ninety white and bright leads flew out, smashing the already overwhelmed target.

The burning white smoke from gunpowder quickly enveloped the entire army. The shrill sound of copper whistles pierced the smoke like a sharp blade and stabbed into people's ears. The second team of musket soldiers and 100 people, under the command of the whistle, also put away their weapons and slowly retreated. The third team of 100 people, wiped their right shoulders and quickly inserted them, launching a third round of attacks on the target area without hesitation.

"Put, put, put, put, put, put, put." "Boom." "Put, put, put, put, put, put."

There was a discordant sound that suddenly appeared at a position on the left side of the team from the center of the team. The musket made by the cycad exploded, lifting a large area of ​​the holder's face away. The injured man fell to the ground and screamed. Several nearby musketmen were scared to death. Instinctively picked up the weapons and dodged to both sides. The supervising soldiers following the team quickly discovered them, whipped several long whips, and whipped the person trying to escape to the ground, and howled the ghosts.

"Stop." Zhang Shicheng, who was inspecting the training results at the viewing stand not far away, frowned and threw the expensive monocular telescope on the table. "Don't hit them anymore. Since they are not suitable for being musketeers, just pull them down and be paddlers. Why do you have to beat them so hard in public and hurt your morale?"

"Yes." Zhang Shide, the new governor of Kunshan, agreed very simply, jumped off the viewing platform, strode towards the military formation, and sat behind Zhang Shicheng, but Li Bosheng, Lu Zhen and others couldn't help but frown slightly.

The children of the village households were rough and thick-skinned. They were beaten to get up in three days and continued to participate in training. However, when they were swept into the ranks of paddlers, they had no future. Although the paddlers did not have to fight against the enemy during the water battle, the paddlers were always fixed in the bottom cabin of the ship in their lifetime, and they used the greatest strength to eat the worst food and get the lowest military pay. Once they were injured or exhausted, they would be kicked out of the army and let them fend for themselves.

Zhang Shicheng himself had no time to consider the future of a few little soldiers. As the saying goes, kindness is not in charge of soldiers. He is obsessed with the taste of power. His eyes are always looking into the distance, where there are rivers and mountains as magnificent as a painting, attracting countless heroes to bow their backs.

There are so many beautiful countries, no wonder that a vulgar person like Zhu Butuhu can recite such good sentences after drinking. This has nothing to do with literary charm, but more depends on his temperament and knowledge. Zhu Butuhu has fought to decide Huai'an in one battle, so he completely leaped by the sea. Of course, he was full of passion. Now, Mr. Zhang's mood is exactly similar to that of Zhu Butuhu's first visit to Huai'an. He finally built a fertile land of his own, and he can finally spread his thoughts without being held in his elbow.

Similar to Huai'an, Pingjiang, also known as Gusu City, is also a place where skilled craftsmen gather. As early as thousands of years ago, Gan Jiang Moye and his wife once cast swords for King Helu of Wu. However, Pingjiang Road is not like Huai'an. It does not produce any other minerals except salt and Glauber's salt. There is no shortage of iron, copper, tin, and lead under the vast land of Gusu. There is even a large amount of gold and silver that can be dug up around some iron ore.

Because we are guarding the huge Taihu Lake, Pingjiang and Kunzhou, and at the same time, we are also a town of fish and rice. We don’t need to buy grain from the canal every year like Huai'an. We can’t eat up the rice on Pingjiang Road at all. During the normal season, we can use a large canal boat to transport it to the distant north.

If Zhang Shicheng had not yet developed some ambitions in his heart, he would have gone to the world in vain. So he almost copied everything in the Huaiyang General Administration, including the General Staff Department, the Hundred Workshop, the Grand Craftsman Academy and the Martial Arts Hall, all of which were uniquely copied, except for the military system.

However, the advisers and officials under his command obviously did not appreciate the essence of Huaiyang. They were exactly the same weapons and tactics as the Fifth Army, but they could not defeat the latter's spirit at Jiangwan City. They were also the general staff with talented people. They could not come up with any way to Zhu Liangzu, who was guarding Jiaxing. They also concentrated the workshop of skilled craftsmen, and used the world-famous cycads to imitate the muskets purchased from Yangzhou at a high price, but could not avoid frequent blowouts.

Thinking of his huge gap with the Huai'an army in terms of military preparation, Zhang Shicheng couldn't help but feel upset. He was also a gun barrel made of fine iron. Why did the fire guns on Huaiyang have guaranteed that forty shots will not explode? The imitations on his side were unexpectedly frequent. Can the craftsmen's skills be so great? The people of Gusu are famous for their cleverness. Gusu craftsmen have created various ornaments, regardless of their fineness and color, and they were far behind in Huai'an in their early years. Why did they draw tigers on cats and tigers, but still draw local dogs.

"Take the fired musket to the Master Rao of Baigongfang, and ask him to find the maker according to the number on the gun barrel and fine him four months' salary." Turning his back to his adviser, the Grand Governor of Gusu, Zhang Shicheng, ordered in a deep voice, "Also, if you offer a reward at the Baigongfang and Dajiangyuan at the same time, you can create forty shots in a row without blowing the gun barrel, you will be awarded the general, and your descendants will be reunited with the country."
Chapter completed!