kvmb Chapter 473 Steady Development
Chapter 473 Steady Development
This beautiful surprise attack temporarily shocked Goryeo, winning stability for the Yangwei Army in the rear and also obtaining a supply base for food and medicinal materials.
Afterwards, Lu Cheng did not stay for too long and led his troops directly back to southern Liaoning.
For a period of time afterwards, the Yangwei Army was not in a hurry to expand, but instead focused on development.
Since the beginning of this spring, Lu Cheng has ordered the reclamation of wasteland in the entire southern Liaoning region and the extensive planting of high-yield crops such as corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes based on land conditions.
Just as Lu Cheng led his troops into Goryeo, corn in southern Liaoning also began to be harvested. The fine seeds from later times bore rich fruits in the black soil of the northeast.
With large amounts of grain entering warehouses in various places, the entire southern Liaoning has achieved self-sufficiency, and some grain can also be stored as war supplies.
Food is the material basis for all development. Without food, it is impossible to attract and retain manpower, and it is impossible to ensure the progress of various construction projects.
If you want to support a professional army that is fully staffed, you must also ensure that there is enough food surplus. If the food harvested by ordinary people is only enough for their own consumption and cannot support the army, they will have to spend a lot of money to transport food from other places, which is too costly.
After all the crops such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes were harvested, the Anshan Iron Mine in Liaoyang also began to intensify its mining.
The land of Northeast China is rich in various mineral resources, which also provides more sufficient guarantees for the development of Yangwei Army.
With sufficient steel, we can make excellent weapons, including powerful weapons such as cannons.
Under Lu Cheng's guidance, Hong Tianlei Ling Zhen has begun to use the most appropriate proportions to make black powder, and used the latest white sugar and egg white produced in the workshop to make granular black powder, which greatly improved the combustion efficiency and explosive power of the black powder, and also made some homemade firearms more powerful.
With these powerful firearms to defend the city, the Jin army would only suffer heavy losses and return empty-handed if they attacked the city again.
Of course, while developing the economy, military, and people's livelihood, Lu Cheng did not forget another very important issue, which is education.
In this era when Confucianism is flourishing and Cheng's Neo-Confucianism is becoming popular, if you want to have a group of useful talents, you still have to cultivate them yourself.
As for those scholars who have been influenced by Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism, there are not many talents who can apply their knowledge to the world. Most of them are empty talkers who are "full of knowledge" and good at talking.
In fact, as early as when Lu Cheng just traveled to this world and started to run Lujia Village, he deliberately adopted many orphans and opened a special private school in the village. While teaching students to read and write, he also taught them some basic knowledge.
After six or seven years of development, we have now trained a group of students with certain scientific knowledge, laying the foundation for further education and technological development.
Although the starting point is basically the same as the world of "The Blade of the Assassin", both started to operate the first piece of territory in southern Liaoning, but the situation of the Yangwei Army is not the same as that of the original Liaodong Army.
The Liaodong Army at that time had the Liaodong Governor above them and the Ming Dynasty behind them. They had to be secretive in many things they did. Even on their own territory, they had to prevent infiltration by the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
Today, Yang Weijun is an independent entrepreneur. He has no immediate superior and is not subject to any constraints. He can do whatever he wants in his own territory and has greater freedom.
Therefore, Lu Cheng directly established a new school in southern Liaoning, abandoned the useless Four Books and Five Classics, and only taught children Chinese, mathematics, geography, natural sciences, etc.
Anyway, most of the people in southern Liaoning had been ruled by the Liao Kingdom for such a long time, and had been living a life like cattle and horses. They had no chance to study at all, and they were all blank slates, making them relatively easier to guide.
Of course, while teaching various cultural knowledge, ideological education must also be implemented in place.
However, this thought is not entirely the current Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues, loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, nor is it entirely the emancipated thought and seeking truth from facts of later generations. Instead, it is a set of ideological education developed by Lu Cheng based on his own future needs and based on Chinese culture.
Having rebelled once to become emperor and then to become captain, Lu Cheng is adept at everything he does and can avoid detours based on his past experience.
While Lu Cheng was managing southern Liaoning, the Liangshan people were also actively active. A major event occurred, which completely put Liangshan on the opposite side of the court.
Speaking of which, this matter is also related to Mr. Chai Jin.
Back then, Emperor Shizong of Later Zhou, Chai Rong, was a man of great military power and strategy, and was almost the emperor who was most likely to unify the country during the Five Dynasties. However, he died young after only six years, and all his hard work was eventually ruined by the Zhao Song Dynasty because of the "Chenqiao Mutiny".
Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin gained the world by bullying orphans and widows. In order to win back a little reputation, he did not kill all the Chai family members, but gave them a red book and iron scroll.
Chai Jin, the famous little whirlwind in the world, is a descendant of the Chai royal family of the Later Zhou Dynasty.
Not long ago, a relative of General Gao Qiu took advantage of his power to bully others and tried to occupy the mansion of Chai Jin's uncle Chai Huangcheng, which angered Chai Huangcheng to death.
Chai Jin went to the house to seek justice for his uncle, but he didn't expect that Li Kui, who was following him, directly chopped Yin Tianxi, the brother-in-law of Gao Lian, the prefect of Gaotang Prefecture.
When Gao Lian learned about the situation, he immediately ordered people to arrest Chai Jin.
Li Kui returned to Liangshan to report the news. Many of the Liangshan people had received favors from Chai Jin, so they naturally would not sit idly by and ignore Chai Jin.
So, Liangshan's troops came out in full force to attack Gaotang Prefecture and rescue Chai Jin.
Gao Lian set up the Bagua Formation passed down by Zhuge Liang outside Gaotang Prefecture to block the Liangshan troops. Liangshan's military advisor Wu Yong was only good at cheating and scheming, so he naturally could not break the formation.
So, Song Jiang urgently sent someone to invite back Ruyunlong Gongsun Sheng who had left Liangshan. With the help of Gongsun Sheng, the Liangshan army broke through Gaotang Prefecture.
If Liangshan's three previous attacks on Zhujiazhuang could only be regarded as banditry, this time they directly captured an entire state, which meant they had completely turned against the government.
The imperial court naturally could not continue to tolerate the growth of Liangshan, so it urgently sent troops to conquer Liangshanpo, and the entire Shandong area began to become lively.
When Lu Cheng finished his work in southern Liaoning and returned to Lujiazhuang, he just happened to hear the news that Shuangbian Hu Yanzhuo had used iron chains to link horses and defeated the Liangshan bandits.
Perhaps, at this time, Shi Qian, the flea on the drum, was stealing the heirloom armor of the golden spearman Xu Ning in the city of Bianjing, and then lured Xu Ning to Liangshan again, and with the help of Xu Ning's hook and sickle spear skills, he broke Hu Yanzhuo's iron chain linked horses.
Of course, if Lu Cheng encountered the chained horses, he wouldn't have to go through so much trouble. He could just throw a few explosive packs over and kill some of the chained horses. The others would be dragged down by the chains. Even if they were wearing armor and were not afraid of arrows, they would still be a bunch of stuffy people. He could just sprinkle some kerosene on them and set them on fire, and the problem would be solved. Or, there are many other ways...