Chapter 92 A chaotic day

Author: Pei Xuanhuang

Chapter 92 A chaotic day

The tenth day of March, the day before Tomb Sweeping Day, is the Cold Food Festival.

A chaotic day.

In the morning, Zhu Yuan was in the west of the city checking the preliminary selection of the site for Mingzhou Maritime School. Someone came to report that Wenzhou's grain loading fleet had also arrived.

Hurry to the dock.

Before Zhu Yuan had finished inspecting the grain ships, another mighty fleet arrived from the south, belonging to Zhang Cundao's command, who had lagged behind Wu Zhen for a long time.

So arrangements were made to accommodate him.

Zhang Cundao brought nearly 21,000 people, which was much more than the original 15,000 people. However, after seeing the people, Zhu Yuan wanted to jump.

Only three thousand of them were elite rural soldiers who had been led by Zhang Cundao for a long time.

The others were either dressed in rags or in a state of numbness and panic, inferior to the lowest-class civilian husbands from eastern Zhejiang that Wu Zhen originally brought back. These were the so-called surrendered old tribe of Chen Youding from Fujian Province, and there were obviously a large number of captured local civilian husbands among them.

With the energy and energy these people have, they won't be able to use it in a short period of time.

At this point, Zhang Cundao came to discuss with Hua Gao. He would stay and act as if he was generously serving the cause, but his three thousand native soldiers would still have to return home as agreed.

Zhu Yuan was also there at the time, and wanted to hit someone before he finished listening. Fortunately, Hua Gao couldn't hold back in advance and grabbed Zhang Cundao to look at the dejected criminals. Without discussion, he asked Zhang Cundao when he could train these people.

Only after using it can the three thousand people leave.

Zhang Cundao felt aggrieved when Hua Gao strangled his neck.

After a lot of pain, I realized that Chen Youding's old troops were not without those who could still fight, and even the elite ones with some fighting ability were divided up by Tang He and Liao Yongzhong and taken to the northern and southern battlefields. He was a fourth-grade soldier.

A small commander, even if he is transferred to the Navy Governor's Office as a counselor, is still a fourth-rank officer. How can he compete with a group of leading generals for people?

Of course, you get what you are given.

After such a glance, Zhu Yuan and Hua Gao also realized what they had expected. Not counting Zhang Cundao's three thousand direct descendants, he could bring another eighteen thousand people, which was already considered very capable.

Looking at Zhang Cundao, he also brought 346 ships, which were not much less than Wu Zhen. Although the quality was obviously not comparable, such as large ships with a weight of more than 2,000 pieces. Wu Zhen originally had 29 ships, but Zhang Cundao only brought 3 ships this time.

But, from a genuine fourth-grade product, can we expect more?

However, those three thousand elites still couldn't leave.

There are a lot of things going on here, but what is lacking are elites who can be used immediately.

Zhang Cundao was obviously not unprepared. After all, his father Zhang Yi had already been very unhappy with the Emperor in Jinling because of this incident. It was impossible for all the 15,000 elite rural soldiers to be released. Seeing Hua Gao, he refused to let go.

So I agreed.

Since everyone is here, we can only accept it.

Hua Gao went to arrange the camp in person, and Zhu Yuan quickly made a decision. The 18,000 Fujian prisoners would not have to do anything in the next three days, just eat!

Eat with your stomach open and recover your physical condition first.

Today is the Cold Food Festival. Logically speaking, you can't light a fire, so it's expedient to do it. You can't take so much care.

For this reason, there were inevitably objections, and Zhu Yuan rejected them all.

Moreover, even the daily limit of two liters is no longer enforced. As long as these people can eat it, there will be enough supply.

Speaking of which, both soldiers and civilians have a quota for food supply.

The highest-ranking soldiers were provided with two liters of rice per day. Ordinary civilians were provided with one liter per day. As for prisoners, according to the rules, only one liter per day was provided, and they not only had to do the hardest and most tiring work.

, just this one liter is often the worst coarse grain and old grain. To put it bluntly, it is actually used to death.

There are also women, and there are no clear regulations on this. After all, women who can be recruited to serve are usually not from normal backgrounds, and they just don't starve to death.

Zhu Yuan understood this at the beginning, and despite objections from all parties, he changed everything to two liters per day. In fact, there is no clear limit, you can eat as much as you can.

The effect is also obvious.

The ability to complete a series of arrangements for transporting grain to the north in just one month is inseparable from the substantial increase in the labor enthusiasm of the soldiers and civilians after sufficient meals were provided.

As for the cost?

According to the calculations of the 60,000 soldiers and civilians who wiped out the rest around Dinghai after Zhang Cundao's troops arrived, each person had two liters of food per day, which cost 1,200 shi per day. At first glance, it did not seem much, but when converted into kilos, one shi in this era was about 150 jins.

That’s 180,000 kilograms of grain a day.

Calculate one month, that’s more.

This is also an issue that Zhu Yuan must pay attention to.

In the first month, the number of people gradually increased, and only 16,000 shi of food was consumed in one month. Next, it is expected that more than 70,000 people will gather here at most. In one month, 42,000 shi of food will be consumed, which is equivalent to 630

Thousands of kilograms.

If Zhu Yuan continues to supply sufficient quantities, even Lao Zhu in Jinling will not agree.

Fortunately, Zhu Yuan already had other solutions.

Let’s not mention it for now.

Besides, for this day, Zhang Cundao's command had not yet made complete arrangements. In the afternoon, among the three naval forces that went out to sea to pursue "Zhendongyang" Zhao Dingxi's command, Mingzhou Guard Commander Chang Duan and Tianxing Guard Commander Commander Xia Hai

The two navies returned one after another.

After bringing back the news, three groups of troops once surrounded Zhao Dingxi's troops near Shengshan Island. In a naval battle, Zhao Dingxi's troops were almost wiped out, 73 ships were destroyed or captured, and more than 900 enemies were killed.

This time there were no prisoners.

It is a little regrettable that Zhao Dingxi led a small number of remnants to escape the siege.

Vice-Commander of the Navy Wu Zhen sent two groups of troops to return first, while he still led his troops to patrol the outer seas to intimidate the surrounding areas.

The pirate Zhao Dingxi was basically destroyed, which is a good thing.

The question is, with so many people hanging on the masts of so many ships, do you plan to dry them and take them home as dry food?

It’s getting warmer!

If the corpse is not disposed of immediately and tens of thousands of people gather here, who will be responsible if an epidemic comes?

Zhu Yuan was standing at the dock, yelling at the two commanders. He had a really bad temper recently, had too many things going on, and was under too much pressure.

Then there was a bang and it exploded!

The sky is full of flying rocks.

Zhu Yuan is fine.

The moment they heard the noise, the sack girl next to him and Hua Gao rushed over together, followed by Zhao Xu and others. The two commanders who were being scolded and a group of soldiers around them also blocked the way.

Hua Gao confessed to everyone, so everyone understood that this was a small ancestor, and nothing would happen to Zhu Yuan even if they died.

Zhu Yuan was not hit, but he was almost crushed.

Things were figured out quickly.

In order to build a lighthouse on an island outside the sea, and to expand the military camp here, Zhu Yuan simply decided to bulldoze the entire Zhushan Mountain on the south bank of the Yongjiang River. The stones could be used to build dock camps and be transported to the island to build a lighthouse, all in one fell swoop.

get more.

Even if it is a small hill, it is still a big project relying solely on manpower, so Zhu Yuan thought of using gunpowder to blow it up.

Today is not the first time that an explosion has occurred. However, one of the explosive holes in the afternoon was dug shallow on the one hand, and on the other hand, there was too much explosive charge, which caused a small accident. Afterwards, according to statistics, only one unlucky guy was hit. He lost his head and passed out. The rest were just superficial injuries, nothing serious.

However, Hua Gao, who was furious, still went there in person and gave the team of soldiers responsible for the blasting a beating one by one. They also stopped doing their errands and sent them all to carry stones.

After a long day of work, Zhu Yuan returned to the inner house in the evening. He really had no energy and wanted to skip today's diary again.

In the end, I still let the freehand writing take place.

Zhu Yuan couldn't help but feel unhappy when he thought of those people Zhang Cundao had brought with him in the morning. However, after brewing for a long time, it only lasted a short period of time.

The reason why the Han and Tang Dynasties were strong and prosperous was that they destroyed the Xiongnu and drove out the Turks, leaving China without patients from the north for hundreds of years. It was just a three-character name, "Liang Jia Zi"; the reason why the Zhao and Song Dynasties were weak was that Jin, Liao and Xixia were all humiliated, and they were destroyed in The Mongols only have three words, saying 'thieves match the army'. I hope Your Majesty will think carefully about this!
Chapter completed!