Two Gate Three Marquises and Four Earls

"Master! Your Highness has replied! You can fight!"

On April 28, after half a month of sending the memorials, when Mu Yi "breaks" into Longchuan's temporary courthouse with the memorials of red, Hong Chengchou was actually mobilizing food and fodder.

It's right.

Since some areas of Yunnan and Jiaozhi are ripe three times a year, and many gold and silver mines have been discovered in the mountains, Hong Chengchou has accumulated a lot of money and grain.

However, all these money and grains will be used in the southwest as his visit to the Pavilion.

"Dong..." Put down the brush in his hand, Hong Chengchou dried his copybook, then wiped the ink marks on his hand before walking out from behind the desk, and took the imperial edict and memorial handed over by Mu Yi.

He opened it and saw that there were a lot of things written on it, but in fact there was only one word... But.

"You can do it. How much food and fodder in Kunming has not been transported to Longchuan, and how long will it take?"

Hong Chengchou put away his memorial and imperial edict, and asked with his back to Mu Yi.

"There are still six hundred thousand meters and one hundred seventy thousand taels of silver, and more than three hundred thousand kilograms of gunpowder."

"If we start to mobilize troops now, the 20th battalion of troops in Yunnan Province will be able to reach Longchuan, Sichuan and Guizhou at most in early May. There are 22nd battalion of troops in Jiaozhi, but about 10 battalions can be transferred to participate in the war.

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"About this, at most, by the beginning of July, the 30th battalion of troops would gather in Longchuan."

Mu Yi was excited about the strength of the southwest. The 30th battalion had more than 90,000 soldiers, three thousand cannons, more than 50,000 breathing guns, and more than 10,000 cavalry guns.

This power can be even balanced with Siam, not to mention flattening Myanmar.

"Don't rush to mobilize, take your time and let the ministries arrive in Longchuan before September."

Hong Chengchou turned his body and gave a simple order, and Mu Yi quickly responded.

"The day when the army sends troops is temporarily scheduled to be mid-October, and the whole battle should be completed by the end of the first lunar month."

Hong Chengchou stayed in Longchuan for several months, probably because he understood what the climate of San Xuan and Liu Wei was separated by a mountain.

In general, Myanmar maintains high temperatures of around 20 to 30 degrees all year round, especially in February, March and April.

Hong Chengchou asked the Jinyiwei to test it with an outdoor thermometer produced by the Military Academy. The highest temperature in the past three months was 38 degrees and the lowest temperature was 21 degrees.

In the past few months, according to the temperature survey of the Jinyiwei throughout the year, for the Ming army, only the three and a half months can be fought from mid-October to the end of the first lunar month.

Once these three and a half months have exceeded, the Ming army will be in a large number of unacceptable conditions, because the Jinyiwei, who is responsible for the investigation, is only relatively healthy in these three and a half months.

Hong Chengchou has read the explanation of miasma in "Yanshan Medicine". Generally speaking, miasma is generally compared to factors in real environments such as heat waves, exposure, miasma, long-term rain, noise, air pollution, and dust aversion.

These things can cause dizziness, palpitations, nausea, headache, loss of appetite, inferiority, physical weakness, etc. According to the explanation of "Yanshan Medicine", it means that the local environment is not suitable for the local environment.

To try to alleviate the inability to adapt to the local climate, we can only reconcile the local military and military forces to fight the climate. Therefore, the military forces from Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Jiaotong Provinces came in handy.

But really, it is actually only the soldiers and horses in southern Yunnan and Jiaozhi can adapt to the local area, and once other soldiers exceed the three and a half months of combat period, they will be unacceptable.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou's preparation was very simple, which was to recover San Xuan and Liu Hui in three and a half months, and then transfer the troops who were not suitable for the land and the local conditions back to the garrison, or exchange them with the troops of the Gongwei Camp in Yunnan to allow them to station in central Yunnan.

By then, only the troops in the Gongweiying Camp in southern Yunnan and less than ten battalions of the two provinces will be left.

It is very difficult to use 30,000 people to rule the eight million people, but Hong Chengchou is not worried at all.

He wanted to enter the pavilion, but before Zhu Youjian left the Ming Dynasty, he still needed to constantly please Zhu Youjian, so he had to collect enough seizures to Zhu Youjian.

It is very simple to give gifts. In the name of the Southwest generals, when the prince of Qi was born, people would not gossip about giving gifts.

As for how many gifts you want to give? It depends on how rich the local toast is.

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou asked: "The Burmese thief's first-level silver reward or the first-level ten taels?"

"Yes!" Mu Yi answered without hesitation. After all, the first-level silver reward is the most direct way for generals of the Governor's Office to earn money, so he naturally paid attention to this point.

"The labor reform workers in Jiaozhi are not enough, and there are also many labor reform workers in building Myanmar. This time, let's leave it to Mu Qiyuan and Wu Bikui. You and Ma Xianglin take the lead, Long Zaitian and Qin Gongming, Qin Yiming

Several generals and I were in the central army."

"Thank you, Jinglei!" When he heard that he was playing the striker, Mu Yi bowed excitedly, even though he was with Ma Xianglin.

However, when he bowed and bowed, Hong Chengchou reminded him:

"I thought about it for a while. If nothing unexpected happens, Your Highness should have reformed Duogan in the past two years, and then resurrected Sun Chuanting to lead the troops to regain Uszang."

"It is best to count the business of your Mu family in Chamdo early. If your Highness asks you to check it out, don't be fooled and hand over the real account book."

"Think about your Mu family's identity, it will be beneficial for you to do this."

Hong Chengchou reminded Mu Yi, and Mu Yi's heart immediately skipped a beat when he heard this.

The Ming Dynasty wanted to investigate Duogan, but it could only be a check on minerals. The Mu family began to operate the minerals in Chamdo during the Hongwu period.

Over the past two hundred years, they have earned millions of taels from Chamdo, so they can pull out 20,000 troops to support the She Chongming rebellion in the first year of the Tianqi period, and also keep 20,000 troops to defend in Chamdo and Lijiang.

The Espan (Tibetan) in the Uszang and Chamdo area.

When Zhu Youjian was working on the mining department, Mu Yi asked Hong Chengchou that when Hong Chengchou said that he would continue to do it and leave it alone.

This has been more than three years ago. Judging from this situation, I guess Mu has to pay the tax this time.

"Xie Jingluo reminded me." Mu Yi was about to ask someone to go back and discuss with his father Mu Zeng, and Hong Chengchou also waved his hand to signal him to retreat.

Mu Yi had something to do, so naturally he didn't talk about what might happen to Sun Chuanting resurrected, but after he stepped down, Hong Chengchou still remembered Sun Chuanting.

He didn't understand why he was an official in the same dynasty, and he was obviously doing well, several times better than Sun Chuanting, but His Highness of the King of Qi always favored Sun Chuanting.

"Can I make no mistakes, so your highness doesn't need help?"

Hong Chengchou was a little confused for a moment, and even thought about whether he would make a mistake. However, a person like him who was self-protection, even the last time he "starved to death" was a false news, which made him really dangerous.

, He would never have done it.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Hong Chengchou could only attribute the favor Sun Chuanting was favored by Zhu Youjian's subordinates like Sun Chuanting.

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou felt that his position was a little unstable, so he couldn't help but squint his eyes:

"Sun Boya..."

"Look, I'm right, this will make you look better."

When Hong Chengchou was thinking about how to overwhelm Sun Chuanting, Zhu Youxiao's proud and complacent voice sounded in the Dading Palace in the Yanshan Mountains.

At this moment, in the summer palace, a huge sand table that is one zhang long and three zhang wide appeared on the main hall.

To the west of this sand table is an endless sea, and to the east are towering mountains. Only this narrow and narrow land in the middle can be used for people to live.

However, on this narrow and narrow land, fist-sized cities were placed at this moment, as well as cement-paved thumb-wide roads, and wooden-carved rails.

In general, if anyone sees this sand table and ignores its Chinese architectural style, those who don’t know will think it is the West Coast of the 19th century.

This is the West Coast sand table created by Zhu Youjian's paintings, Zhu Youjian's construction, and craftsmen working overtime.

It has been placed along the coast from Alaska to Los Angeles in the north, and has placed ninety counties the size of lenses, and ten fists the size of a Fuzhi County.

Later generations had only one prefecture and ten counties north of Vancouver, while south of Vancouver were nine prefecture and ninety counties. The entire Jingzhao province was divided into Jingzhao Prefecture, Jinshan Prefecture, Anling Prefecture, Pingling Prefecture, Gaomi Prefecture, and Lushan Prefecture.

Chengshan... wait for ten prefectures and one hundred counties.

All prefectures and counties are the names of all cities and towns of Qi during the Warring States Period, which also conforms to the etiquette system of the vassal kings and also eliminates the problem of naming.

In general, Jingzhao Province basically covers most of the territory west of the Red River in later generations, and can be cultivated and grazed. Although it is not as good as the east coast, this place is enough for Qi State in the next decade.

In addition to this sand tray, there are two large sand trays that are equally three meters away, namely the sand tray in Wangjing, Jingzhao Prefecture, and the sand tray in Melica, the entire north and south Asia.

From the inside to the outside, the capital of Qi is composed of four walls of palace, royal city, inner city and outer city. It is built between the beautiful west coast mountains and rivers. The city wall winds for 99 miles and covers an area of ​​about 340,000 mu.

It is divided into 135 markets, enough to accommodate two million people to live in it.

Of course, such a large city is naturally impossible to build in one breath, so its construction period is divided into forty years and four phases.

When Huanglong and the others went, the first phase of construction began. The palace city covers an area of ​​2,600 acres and is expected to be built in five years.

After the construction is completed, the second phase will begin. The second phase will be five years. The royal city covers an area of ​​12,000 acres, and it is also expected to be built in five years.

As for the third phase of the inner city after construction, this time will be ten years, because the inner city covers an area of ​​more than 90,000 acres, which is enough to accommodate 600,000 people to live.

The last outer city has a construction period of 20 years, covering an area of ​​more than 220,000 mu, which is enough for one and a half million people to live.

In general, in terms of current prices, the cost of Qi Wangjing is more than 12 million taels. On average, the annual expenditure is 300,000 taels. If you say more, you don’t have much or less, you can recover the cost.

It takes decades.

The entire city is paved with cement pavement, and is made of cement and brick and stone walls. The houses are also cement brick and stone and wooden structures. All houses are built uniformly by the Ministry of Industry of Qi.

For such a city, it is estimated that when Zhu Youjian crossed the ocean, he could only see the royal city or the inner city. When he was old, he could only see the completion of the entire capital.

Zhu Youjian’s original intention was to build a Wang Jing that accommodates millions of people, but this original intention was rejected by Zhu Youxiao.

According to Zhu Youxiao's words, "The national treasury cannot be moved, but the treasury can be moved. For my brother's lifetime, he will allocate 300,000 taels of silver from the treasury to build the King of Qi every year."

Three hundred thousand taels of silver, which is also a considerable expense for the treasury whose income is gradually limited to about three million taels. With Zhu Youxiao's current physical condition, it is probably not a problem to live to 60.

In other words, basically nearly 90% of the buildings in the King of Qi were built by the treasury.

Zhu Youxiao is very generous in this regard, but he is much more stingy in the immigration of Qi.

"If such a big city is to fill it, then two million people will also need ten million taels of silver..."
To be continued...