Chapter 125 It is better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish Liaodong, which is the northeast, is very rich in coal, steel, and various mineral resources, but it is a pity that most of these places are actually controlled by Houjin.Quan Xu thought that Dongjiang Town was extremely short of food, so when he came, he bought a lot of food.But after coming to Phi Dao, I found that what they lacked was not only food, but also clothes and arrows, many soldiers' quivers were not full, and many soldiers, including generals like Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, did not even have shoes.The Dongjiang Army lacked weapons, steel, gunpowder, and medicine......
That is, they lack everything but people.Quan Xu was not well prepared, and the amount of steel he brought over was not much, but in fact, there were three or four thousand catties.At first, the eyes of the generals of the Dongjiang Army fell on the canned meat, but as the rebar was pulled onto the deck, the generals of the Dongjiang Army began to scramble."
This steel should be given to me!""
Give it to me, we are even more lacking, if we build a thousand Pu knives, it will be enough for Houjin Tartar to drink a pot!""
No, at least half of me!""
Presumptuous, what a system!"
Liu Xingzuo yelled: "Which of you can call the shots in this matter?
When Mao Shuai comes back, he will share it with whomever he wants!
”The dispute finally ended, and the generals excitedly returned to the General Military Mansion of Dongjiang Town with supplies.At this time, the place where Quan Xu's family soldiers were placed was also prepared, and it was cleaned quite cleanly, and even if it was damaged, it was repaired.Under Quan Xu's strong request, Liu Xingzuo reluctantly distributed 1,000 stone of grain to tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians on the entire Phi Island, but in fact, it was less than 10 catties per capita.With such food, these soldiers and civilians began to raise the fire and cook rice.Of course, the generals of Dongjiang Town got more benefits, two or three thousand canned food, large and small, all of which were canned meat, and under the hospitality of the generals of Dongjiang Town, Quan Xu drank a lot of wine, until he was finally too drunk to wake up.According to Liu Xingzuo's thoughts, he also arranged four concubines for Quan Xu, all of whom are said to be the adopted granddaughters of Mao Wenlong.However, Sanniang was unceremoniously and left the four concubines who looked quite thoughtful outside.Sanniang and Xu Biao helped Quan Xu into the bedroom, at this time, Quan Xu opened his eyes, his eyes were clear, and he still looked a little drunk.This is not Quan Xu's compound, so far, he is still in contact with the Dongjiang Army as Yuan Keli's special envoy, once the identity is revealed, then they will have a lot of fun.Xu Biao quietly closed the door, looked at Quan Xu and said, "Master Quan, why do you want to invest so much money in Dongjiang Town?"
Aren't you afraid that the dog bun will beat the dog and never come back?
”Quan Xu smiled disapprerovingly: "These materials are just a drop in the bucket for me, and if they don't go back, they won't go back, and they won't have much impact on me, but it means that they are so stupid that they can't be cured!"
”Xu Biao smiled bitterly: "Master, I still don't understand!"
”"Don't understand what?""
Why are you investing so much money in Dongjiang Town?"
Xu Biao said: "With your materials, our family can expand by a few hundred people, and our own people can still be relied on, you know, Dongjiang Town's record has not been very ......good" Quan Xu glanced at Xu Biao: "I asked you to take a group of hungry soldiers to fight all year round, can you give me a good record?"
”"How is it possible to let the horses run and not let the horses graze?""
So you know, you know it's impossible?"
Quan Xu pointed to the ground under his feet and said: "Since ancient times, our Central Plains Dynasty, whether it is a strong man or a prosperous Tang Dynasty, has never completely defeated a powerful nomad in a head-on battle, never!"
”"Aren't the Huns and the Turks exterminated in the same way?"
Quan Xu glanced at Xu Biao, secretly surprised.He never chatted with the people around him, because he knew that the group of victims he was facing had no knowledge, no literacy, and no vision or pattern.This Xu Biao seems to be different.Quan Xu said with a smile: "The Huns perished in internal strife, but once the wolf nation loses the strong wolf king, they will fall into division and infighting.Stronger than the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, mobilized 700,000 soldiers and civilians, and conquered Mobei twice, although the Xiongnu were severely damaged, but was it destroyed?
No, the Xiongnu were divided into two parts, the north and the south, during the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and then weakened!
As for the Turks, their demise was not actually the strength of the Tang Dynasty, but the strategy of the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty bewitched the unified Turkic Khanate, and the two sides fought for several years, until the nineteenth year of the emperor, Datou Khan and Dulan Khan won the victory in the Turkic civil war!
”"The result?"
Quan Xu looked at Sanniang and said: "In the nineteenth year of the emperor's reign, Emperor Wen of Sui ordered Yang Liang, the king of Han, to be the marshal (he did not actually come to the front line), and shot Gao Gong out of Shuozhou (Zhishanyang, now Shuo County, Shanxi) with Shangshu's left servant, Yang Su from Lingzhou (Zhihuile, now southwest of Lingwu, Ningxia), and Shangzhu Guoyan Rong out of Youzhou (Zhiji County, now southwest of Beijing), and attacked the Turks in three ways.Gao Gong ordered Zhao Zhongqing of Shangzhu State to lead 3,000 troops as the vanguard, and broke the Turks, and Dulan Khan was defeated and fled, and was later killed by his subordinates.Yang Sujun encountered the Datou Khan in the area north of Lingzhou, and also defeated the Turks, the Datou Khan fled with serious injuries, and his many casualties were innumerable, and the powerful Turks were divided into two divisions and the west, and the Eastern Turks were vassal to the Sui Dynasty!
”In fact, the destruction of the Eastern Turks by the Tang Dynasty took the light of the Sui Dynasty.If the Turks were still in the period of Shimen Khan, controlling millions of strings, even if the Tang Dynasty had famous generals such as Li Jing and Li Shiji, it would not be easy to win.When Li Jing destroyed the Eastern Turks, there were actually only 1.12 million people left in the Eastern Turks, and less than 200,000 soldiers, which was only one-fifth of the period when it was strong.Quan Xu continued: "If you want to completely defeat the Jiannu, you must first isolate them, the nomads are all this urine, isolation is weak, weak is civil strife, civil strife is the world's siege, Xiongnu, Turkic, Tubo, Jurchen......
This is how these once-prosperous steppe empires died.Now what I want to do is to strengthen Donggang Town, turn it into a spike between Jiannu and North Korea, and even take back North Korea from Jiannu and block Jiannu south of the Yalu River!
”Xu Biao seemed to understand a little: "In this way, Jiannu will have no way to obtain manpower, money and food from North Korea, and even the entire southern Liaoning will be disturbed by Dongjiang Town, and it is inevitable to allocate a large part of the troops to prevent Dongjiang Town." ”Quan Xu nodded: "Yes!"
”…… Twin islands, Makuyama.Although the Dongjiang Army does not have the title of Mao Jiajun, in fact, except for one Liu Xingzuo, most of them are Mao Wenlong's adopted sons and grandsons, and Chen Jisheng, the deputy commander-in-chief, is Mao Wenlong's son-in-law and Mao Wenlong's henchmen.After receiving Geng Zhongming's secret letter, Mao Wenlong couldn't sit still, and his benefactor Yuan Keli sent someone to send him 5,000 stone of grain, as well as 3,000 catties of iron, and other materials.In such a situation, it speaks for itself.Yuan Keli wants to recover, if a big Sima like him wants to recover, he must have military merits, so Yuan Keli's old departments, except for Mao Wenlong, have now taken refuge in Yuan Chonghuan.In this case, he must not be with Yuan Chonghuan and the pseudo-snake, once this scene falls in Yuan Keli's eyes, then he is afraid that he will never be able to recover hopelessly, or die of grief.Mao Wenlong didn't even have the mind to deal with Yuan Chonghuan, he pretended to break his leg, visited his condition on Yuan Chonghuan's front foot, he withdrew his leg on the back foot, and took advantage of the clipper boat to leave Shuangdao and go directly to Phi Dao.Yuan Chonghuan didn't give it for nothing, Mao Wenlong just walked on the front foot, and he heard the real news on the back foot, and he was so angry that he fell a lot of things.However, in this case, he did not dare to act rashly, after all, once the Dongjiang Army rebelled with more than 100,000 troops, his charge of lax punishment was not small.The most critical problem is that the Guanning army is only strong in the field defense of the city, and Yuan Chonghuan may not be able to annihilate the Dongjiang army cleanly.Quan Xu stayed in Phi Dao for a few days and found that Phi Dao was not only poor, but also poor.History is really a little girl who can be dressed up, among the twelve major sins of Mao Wenlong concocted by Yuan Chonghuan, some people think that these are real crimes, and they also support Yuan Chonghuan to kill Mao Wenlong.However, being poor is not what it should be.Because the Dongjiang Army is close to the sea, can't it eat the sea?
Quan Xu looked at Liu Xingzuo with some puzzlement and said, "Why doesn't the Dongjiang Army boil sea salt by the sea?"
”Geng Zhongming, who is in charge of the finances, said with a wry smile: "Mr.
Quan, why don't you know, the island lacks firewood, and the winter is extremely cold, how can we have firewood to cook salt?"
”"Uh......"
Quan Xu suddenly realized that the price of firewood in the Ming Dynasty was extremely expensive, burning firewood was equivalent to burning grain, and the territory occupied by the Dongjiang Army was too small, so it could only barely farm."
If you can't boil salt, it's better to dry salt!""
Salt?"
Quan Xu asked for an arrow from a soldier, and he took the arrow and drew a picture on the ground: "Actually, it is very simple, you can build a dam along the beach, leave one or two sluices, open the sluice gate at high tide, pour seawater into the salt pan, expose it to the sun and steam in the field, concentrate it to about 15 degrees, and then open the sluice gate of the salt pan, flow into the brine pool from the ditch, and the brine after sediment and clarification in the pool is pumped into the crystallization pool with a manpower pumping truck, and continue to steam in a saturated state, and soon produce sea salt with white flowers!"
”The Dongjiang Army was short of food, and although it was not short of salt, it was not able to sell salt on a large scale.Because boiling sea salt itself requires an expensive cost, it has no cost advantage over salt mines.This is the limitation of science and technology of the times, the salt content of seawater in later generations is about three percent, in the late Ming Dynasty, this number is actually lower, they burned a hundred catties of seawater, barely can get more than one catty of salt.Dongjiang Town is the most important thing is people, under the guidance of Quan Xu, a salt pan covering an area of about 160 acres began to be built rapidly, after Quan Xu's calculations, the actual area of this salt field is almost 100,000 square meters, according to the evaporation in summer May, this 160 acres of salt field, the amount of sea water evaporated every day is at least about 300 to 500 tons, even if it is one percent of the salt content, you can also get three or five tons of crude sea salt.