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Text Chapter 71 Traveling through Shu is difficult (2)

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    "This is Quanzi. From now on, Xiangfan's manors and fortresses, as well as Xiangyang's business, will be handed over to him. Officials can be sent wherever they are useful. If you need money, send someone to Yueyang to inform me.  "I have already bought a house in Yueyang, and I will make Yueyang my home in the future." Liu Tingmei said, "The officials are responsible for guarding Jinghu, and it is our duty to work together." "It won't be the case soon."  Zheng Yunming pointed to the outside of the hospital and said, "Look at how busy the Deputy Chief of Staff is inside and outside. I will rush to Sichuan to defend against the Mongols in the future. All matters concerning Jinghu will be left to Yang Tuan and Bai Yijie. But Liu Weng can rest assured.  I have told the two of them that both Liu Weng and Liu Weng's agent will take more care of them. In addition, I have also informed the Zhizhi Envoy, hoping to strengthen cooperation with the Jinghu area so that the top and bottom can be unified, the soldiers and the people are united, and Liu Weng does not have to  Worried. But there is something else that Liu Weng needs to do. " Liu Tingmei naturally wanted to handle the matter well, so she hurriedly asked what it was.  Zheng Yunming said: "You immediately write to Cao Wenqi, whose manor is near Ezhou, and ask him to immediately select a thousand young, strong and unmarried men from the villagers and wait in Ezhou. In the past, he always boasted that he did not join the army to serve the country.  Japan will give him this opportunity today. When my army arrives, we will set off for Sichuan together." Liu Tingmei immediately agreed and sighed again.  Zheng Yunming heard the reluctance in his tone, so he smiled and said, "Liu Weng thinks that I didn't give you a chance to serve in the army?" Liu Tingmei also smiled bitterly and said: "The experience of joining the army in Jinghu, I was the only one who  You are so powerful, I didn¡¯t expect that Zhang Bo has become the commander of the navy today, and Cao Cao is going to Sichuan to kill the enemy again, so I have become a useless old man.¡± Having said that, Zheng Yunming also had his own problems in conquering Cao Wenqi.  consideration.  Cao Wenqi has been doing business in Sichuan for many years and knows Sichuan's customs, mountains, rivers and geography very well. Taking him with him was not only a matter of bringing old people from Beijing and Hu, but also a reliable guide for planning. "Liu Weng sponsored the establishment of Tulongyi Army"  Army, I will keep this in mind. As for fighting on the battlefield, you are my senior. Let us young people do these things of serving the country." Zheng Yunming said very modestly, but he made up his mind.  , to resist the Mongolian offensive, it is impossible to integrate the top and bottom without establishing good relations with local powerful people.  But don't be too close to local powerful people. Otherwise, if you let these people control local military and government affairs, not only will the people be oppressed and have no place to live, but the court's control over the local area will also be severely weakened.  This is the reason why previous dynasties severely suppressed the signs of vassal towns.  Zhang Bo was the last resort because Zheng Yunming had no experience in water warfare and urgently needed Zhang Bo's boat handling experience and appeal among fishermen. Cao Wenqi was recruited because Cao Wenqi had many connections in Shu and could quickly connect with Shu.  Relations between the lower and middle class people.  But everything must be done more carefully. He is not naturally wary of the local tycoons who are rising in these places.  This is not to doubt their patriotism and service. In fact, these people who call the border areas their hometowns and the imperial court have highly consistent interests in resisting foreign invaders. Zheng Yunming has no doubts about their loyalty and patriotism. They are just human beings.  Sometimes they really can't help themselves. When their political and military power expands to a certain extent, all their loyalty and patriotism will be diluted by the enthusiasm to safeguard local interests.  Therefore, he cannot accept Liu Tingmei, a rich man who once served as the commander of the military. If he continues to be promoted, he will be the real boss.  Even if he has no rebellious intentions, the imperial court will be wary of Jinghu because of this. For Jinghu as a whole or Zheng Yunming personally, it may be a gain but a hundred harms.  Kind words comforted him, and Zheng Yunming's best choice was to continue to maintain a good cooperative relationship with the Jinghu local area.  Zheng Yunming also received Chen Jiao and his party who returned victoriously from the north.  Chen Jiao penetrated hundreds of miles into the enemy's territory, traveled back and forth, made many achievements, and suffered a lot of hardships, but their greatest achievement was that they disguised themselves as Mongolian cavalry and penetrated deep into Henan with hundreds of people.  They carried hundreds of flags, large and small, and mobilized the people of Henan to accompany them to build momentum, creating the illusion that the Song army was attacking Luoyang Prefecture and County on a large scale, and dealt a decisive blow to the Mongolian army's retreat.  "This is called guerrilla warfare!" Zheng Yunming said with a smile: "What is guerrilla warfare? Guerrilla warfare is when monkeys get into the belly of a ghost and cause chaos! Today's troops can only use a few hundred people, but the effect is greater than sending out 5,000 and 10,000 people."  Bigger. This kind of guerrilla warfare needs to be carried out more in the future. But this alone is not enough. Although you have no choice but to coerce the people to attack this time, you have to fall in line with the words "Lianheshuo" to really cause trouble behind the enemy.  Only by mobilizing the people under the Mongolian occupation can we pose a sufficient threat to the Mongolian rule. Of course, I will not force you to do this. You need to slowly understand how to connect Heshuo.  Such as?Not only can you move behind the enemy, but you can also take root in the enemy's controlled area.  " Having said that, it is not as easy to connect with Heshuo today as it was in Shaoxing. In Shaoxing, the people in the north still have some feelings for their hometown in the Song Dynasty, and their hearts are with Zhao Guan's family. Now the people in the north have experienced more than 20 years of  Zheng Yunming certainly knew this, but he believed that the Mongols were not yet accustomed to being the masters of the Central Plains.  The difficulty of connecting Heshuo has been reduced. To make the entire Heshuo become an ally of the Song Dynasty, it is certainly not enough to rely on Chen Jiao's few hundred people, which requires the policy support of the entire country. But this does not prevent this matter from now on.  To start with, Zheng Yunming is not worried that this matter will stagnate because of his departure, because the three giants currently in charge of Jinghu: Zhao Kui, the envoy of Xiangyang, Bie Zhijie, the deputy envoy of Jiangling, and Meng Gong of Huangzhou.  , are both enthusiastic about recruiting northerners. Zhao Kui and Meng Gong each have tens of thousands of northern troops. They may be more enthusiastic about planning the Northland than Zheng Yunming. Before setting off, Zheng Yunming may have ignored it.  Xu Shiqing and the leaders of the mines from various places in Jinghu were specially summoned. In order to build a stable anti-war base, the support of the blacksmith industry composed of miners and blacksmiths was indispensable. Jinghu was not originally a mineral-rich area, but it was not.  It¡¯s not like you can¡¯t find any minerals in Sanxiang. Let¡¯s not talk about the Hanyeping Iron and Steel Group, which is currently in full swing. There are gold mines along the Yangtze River. There are copper mines and silver mines in Ezhou, and lead and tin mines are produced in Yiling.  , these minerals are all the most needed support for the Jinghu Defense Zone, which is engaged in a long-term war. However, the Northern Song Dynasty, relying on the east wind of developing Jinghu Road, continued to put pressure on the mining industry of the two lakes, causing the mineral development of the two lakes to be in an abnormal state.  After three hundred years, many mines in Hubei have gradually dried up. After Bai Yijie took charge of the mining and metallurgy affairs of Hanyeping, the first thing he did was to extensively explore the new mineral veins in Pingxiang. Fortunately, it was quite fruitful.  The efficiency of the existing mines will only accelerate the depletion of the mineral veins. Now Zheng Yunming wants to extend this initiative to the entire Jinghu Lake and make a rough overview of all the mineral resources that can be developed. This requires a large number of miners who know how to explore mineral veins.  Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, it has been customary to use economic means rather than government coercion to promote local affairs. This tradition has also been inherited by Zheng Yunming. Since taking charge of the transfer affairs, he has twice announced an increase in the government's purchase of gold, silver, copper and iron.  Stimulated by the high profits at the purchase price of lead and other minerals, miners in Jinghu went out to explore for minerals. On the other hand, Zheng Yunming also advocated widespread promotion of the application of steel filling technology, which was pioneered by Qi's mother Huaiwen.  Since then, only a few people have used it. The main reason is that the cost is too high and there is not much actual market demand. Zheng Yunming and Zhao Kui discussed that even if the Xiangyang government is in financial difficulty, they will still allocate a sum of money for fixed purchases every year.  A certain amount of fine steel was produced through the steel-pouring method, and anyone could sell the fine steel with superior quality to the government, and the government would choose the best to buy it.  This led the blacksmiths in Jinghu to work hard to study and improve the shortcomings of steel filling technology.  Naturally, these are expensive projects. Since Zheng Yunming took office, he has promoted many projects that require large investments.  The cost was so horrifying that the Department of Transportation and local prefectural and county registrars secretly called Zheng Yunming a glutton, describing him as devouring money at a speed that even a glutton could not match.  In order to fill such a large financial and tax hole, Zheng Yunming must raise a few chickens that can lay golden eggs.  In the two counties of Zhijiang and Yichang, the government has a large number of military camps, and soldiers from Jiangling are responsible for farming. Now that the army has moved northward, many of the fields in the military camps have become deserted.  Zheng Yunming negotiated with Zhao Kui to recruit refugee households from the north to convert all these farmlands into cotton fields.  It is Zheng Yunming's established policy to vigorously expand cotton planting. As a trading commodity, cotton cloth is a real best-seller in this era, especially in trade with the north, cotton cloth is one of the big items.  The reason why cotton planting area has not been extensive is not that there is no market, but that it is limited to technological backwardness.  Unsolvable technical problems in a series of links from seed removal to spinning to weaving have made the cost of cotton cloth high and the market shrinking, preventing cotton fields from becoming a pillar industry in Hubei.  For this reason, Zheng Yunming had long ago asked merchants from Guangnan Road to go deep into Li villages in the south to learn local textile technology. After taking up an official position, he even sent people to Yazhou to recruit several highly skilled Li weavers to Hubei.  , allowing them to teach local weavers a complete set of spinning and weaving techniques.  The spread of technology will take some time, but with the support of the government and the temptation of profits, a complete industrial chain of cotton production is rapidly taking shape.  Before Zheng Yunming set off, Bai Yijie finally had time to deliver two pieces of completed cotton cloth to Zheng Yunming.  The quality of these two pieces of cotton cloth is relatively high.??Cotton cloth spun using ancient methods from the Central Plains is denser and smoother, and even the finest cloth produced using traditional techniques cannot compete with it.
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