After Duduo withdrew his troops, Zhu Cihong ended his personal expedition and led his troops back to Nanjing.
A country cannot live without a king for a day, especially if there is no supervisor to oversee the country's handling of government affairs.
These important memorials in recent days were all drafted by the cabinet and sent to the front line in Shandong by special personnel on horseback.
Zhu Cihong read and approved them while on the road.
But this is not a long-term solution after all.
The emperor should still sit in the capital to make the people of the world feel at ease.
It is enough to have Gao Jie and Qin Gongming in Shandong.
After returning to the palace, Zhu Cixiang was not idle.
Instead, he summoned Lu Zhenfei, Gao Hongtu and others to analyze the Shandong War.
Although the Shandong War finally ended with the Qing army retreating, the whole process was not easy.
Although the Qing army was helpless against the bastions, they filled in the trenches and marched directly to the city.
This is caused by a combination of multiple factors.
First of all, those who were doing the actual work did not fully understand Zhu Cixiang's intentions, and only regarded the trenches as a tool to block and delay the Qing army's advance.
In fact, the real essence of trenches is that they can provide quick and effective support and use dynamic defense to block enemy attacks.
However, during the Battle of Shandong, the communication and support between various sections of the trenches was insufficient, which allowed the Qing army to find some key breakthroughs.
This is an area that needs to be improved in the future.
Secondly, there is also a problem with the location of trench excavation.
The location where the Ming army chose to dig the trenches was the connection line between the bastions.
This resulted in the Qing army's limited support from the bastions on both wings to the trenches when the Qing army filled the trenches and advanced.
And if the trenches are dug into an arch shape and dug at multiple levels, the bastion can cover a larger area and provide more support.
These are all lessons learned.
Zhu Cihong never believed that he could defeat the Manchus in one fell swoop.
Even this new defense method needs to be tested in actual combat.
Doesn't this expose a problem?
It is not terrible to expose problems, as long as you can learn lessons and improve on the basis, you will make progress.
Tactics are dead, people are alive.
Through continuous improvement, I believe that the Ming army will become more and more capable in fighting the Qing army.
Of course, there are still many places worthy of recognition.
For example, the use of six-pounders and twelve-pounders.
This new artillery has proven to be superior to the Hongyi cannon in many aspects.
For example, the rate of fire, the loading method, and the loading speed.
Even the most proud power of the Hongyi cannon is no more powerful than the twelve-pounder cannon.
As for the tens of thousands of enemies, the bombers were even more brilliant, killing and injuring countless Qing troops.
Zhu Cixiang was very pleased that the establishment of the Firearms Department had achieved results.
Of course, good things need to be rewarded.
Zhu Cihong ordered Gao Hongtu to continue his efforts and strive to equip the entire Ming army with new muskets and artillery.
After the two resigned, Zhu Cihong moved to the garden.
Of course he is not here to admire the flowers and plants, but to inspect an important work.
At this moment, all the flowerbeds in the Imperial Garden have been demolished and the land has been plowed.
It can be said that the entire Imperial Garden is now a piece of farmland.
There are two things grown in the farmland: potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Needless to say about potatoes, sweet potatoes have a more familiar name: sweet potatoes.
Both potatoes and sweet potatoes were introduced to the Ming Dynasty at the end of Wanli.
However, these two things were not officially promoted, and it was not until the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty that they were planted on a large scale.
As we all know, the late Ming Dynasty encountered the Little Ice Age, which had the most severe climate conditions.
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During this period, the weather was extremely cold, coupled with drought and severe grain shortages throughout the north, followed by famine, which led to the turbulent peasant uprising during the Chongzhen period.
In the end, Beijing was captured by Li Zicheng, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty took advantage of the conflict between Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng, taking the opportunity to enter the customs to steal the fruits of victory, and picked the peaches in vain.
From a meteorological analysis, the climate gradually became warmer after Shunzhi, and the Little Glacier completely ended during the Kangxi period.
The so-called "Kangxi and Qianlong Dynasties" were nothing more than God's favor because of the end of Xiaoglacier.
Of course, in addition to this, the large-scale promotion of potatoes, sweet potatoes and even corn is also important.
In the feudal era, keeping people fed was the most important thing.
Because land annexation cannot be solved by any dynasty, large-scale peasant uprisings will break out at a certain stage.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty relied on the large-scale promotion and cultivation of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn to solve the problem of food for the people.
This led to the so-called "Kangxi and Qianlong Dynasties".
There is not enough land, so we have to make up for it through production.
During the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, most of the land was also in the hands of landlords.
The population was able to grow from tens of millions in the late Ming Dynasty to hundreds of millions in the late Qing Dynasty.
Of course, there could be no other reason.
High-yield crops were the only reason.
Since the Manchus could promote potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn, Zhu Cixiang could naturally do the same.
However, as the first batch of experimental products, Zhu Cixiang plans to try the cultivation of potatoes and sweet potatoes first.
This is mainly because potatoes and sweet potatoes are grown close to each other.
Potatoes are usually planted in February or March and harvested in May or June.
Sweet potatoes are planted in mid-to-late April and harvested in September or October.
The potatoes have been planted for more than two months now, while the sweet potatoes have just been planted.
As for corn, it should be sown at least after mid-May.
In order to stagger the time, Zhu Cihong chose summer sowing, that is, sowing corn in June, so that the harvest should be over in October.
Among these three drought-tolerant and high-yielding crops, Zhu Cixiang is most optimistic about potatoes and corn.
The main reason is that the growth cycles of these two crops are short, and sweet potatoes require a relatively long time to grow.
Of course, Zhu Cixiang will do his best to promote these three crops.
It's just a difference in time.
Try to promote potatoes first, then sweet potatoes and corn.
As long as the food problem of the people is solved and the demographic dividend is obtained, then the Qing Dynasty can be crushed by the number of people alone.
Relatively speaking, the north is more suitable for growing these three high-yielding crops.
But this does not mean that it cannot be grown in the south.
Guizhou and Yunnan are very suitable for growing potatoes and sweet potatoes.
As for Sichuan, if it is taken over, sowing can be promoted on a large scale.
Huguang, Jiangxi and other places are still good for growing rice.
After all, a country cannot live on potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn alone.
Appropriate rice reserves are still necessary.
The potatoes will be harvested in a month or two, and by then Zhu Cixiang really wants to see how much yield the first batch of potatoes can produce.
Although he knew that the yield of potatoes per acre was higher than that of all crops in this era, he was really unsure about the actual yield.
But Zhu Cixiang has secretly made up his mind.
As long as the actual yield per unit of potatoes is reasonable, he will immediately issue an order to promote it on a large scale.
In any case, this is a good thing that benefits the country and the people, and there is no reason to delay it
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