Compared with the concerns and concerns of his subordinates, the issue of the happiness of the lower body of the general governor and the children of the members of the back house, and the undercurrent that began to surge as a result.
The envoys from Huaixi Liu Hanhong, along with the gifts from ship to ship, continued to travel to and from Dantu City; their words and requests became more and more humble. Of course, what accompanied him was that his battle on the other side was unfavorable.
According to the reconnaissance team that continuously landed and landed secretly, although the Huainan army who fled back from Jiangdong suffered a lot, they worked together to fight against the mobs of Liu Hanhong who are good at holding people's heads, and they still have the upper hand.
It's just that Zhou Huaian, who was busy recuperating and restoring production, didn't bother to pay attention to it or wade into the muddy water. According to the deductions and judgments of the staff and the participating groups headed by Yang Shigu, the various forces in Huainan have not yet done their best, or have reached a certain critical point of confrontation.
Once the Taiping Army intervenes, it is likely to face chaos that is entangled by multiple parties, or even targeted attacks. There is no need to intervene rashly without sufficient preparation, as long as a certain amount of military pressure is under control.
Moreover, in fact, with the passage of time after the war, as well as the continuous arrival of supplies from the upper reaches and the open sea, the surface forces belonging to the Taiping Metropolitan Government were the first to recover, not the ground forces.
The reason is simple. Since acquiring the coastal states in the east of the Yangtze River, not only a large number of ready-made new and old ships have been seized, but also local craftsmen, places, and material reserves have been obtained, which can be called a large-scale accumulation of shipbuilding.
Not to mention that the same number of local boat merchants, boat owners, fishermen and other people on the water can be used as a natural source of troops to supplement the influx. In contrast, the Jing, Xiang, Yue, and E generations, who also have the tradition of navy forces, will inevitably lose slightly in the population base.
Therefore, after this battle, it can be said that in addition to the need for specialized manufacturing technology and limited production area of artillery, other supplements have been doubled, and even the organization has been greatly expanded.
For example, the Fifth Army, which is mainly organized on the surface power, doubled to more than 30,000 men and more than 1,000 boats and ships. Moreover, it does not include the supporting establishments such as the affiliated inland river boat divisions, water battle teams, local water villages and military ports stationed groups;
And with these large enough warships, coupled with a small number of firearms-equipped vehicles and ships as the backbone and backbone, it is enough to re-block the upstream and downstream and block the flow of the river, or to provide corresponding landing support for future operations across the river.
In contrast, the three major naval forces in Huainan who fought this time, although there were hundreds of warships, each claimed to have over 10,000 people. However, the water protection army was the first to be finished in the battle on the river; and the Chaohu water army was hit hard afterwards, and only a small part was able to retreat to the inland river north of the Yangtze River.
Although the Gaoyou naval forces were able to take advantage of the current battle at the latest, the morale collapsed on the spot under the back attack from the upstream reinforcements. Ships that were not sunk either ran aground or flagged to surrender. Up.
Therefore, for a long period of time in the future, Huainan will no longer have a decent force to compete with it, and offense and defense will once again be completely transposed. On the contrary, the special patrol boat group from Guangfu, with the support and supplement of the coastal ports of Jiangdong, can block and intercept the sea off Yangzhou in turn, even threatening to go down to Guangling City.
There are also some follow-up news from other places. For example, the three-season rice producing areas in Guangxi and Longshu prefectures outside Lingwai have successively experienced rice blast. However, through the development of surplus products from primary chemical industry, the Bordeaux solution (copper sulfate suspension) reserves have been spotted. Under control.
In addition, through the promotion and popularization of mountain wild grape planting and subsequent processing and deposition techniques, more tartaric acid and natural antimony oxide production capacity have been accumulated to ensure that the newly occupied Taihu Lake Basin is used for agricultural development and water conservancy construction to prevent schistosomiasis. means.
Large-scale floods broke out on the Red River Plain in Annan again, but the direct losses caused by the local water conservancy facilities were rebuilt and consolidated; it was just that the expected output for this season was greatly reduced.
This may have been a serious problem in the past, but for the four roads (Lingnan, Jiangxi, Jiangdong, and Shandong) controlled by the Metropolitan Government, it is just a problem that needs to be adjusted locally.
After all, there are many benefits of having a primary industry. Even the most primitive and extensive version means the in-depth processing and full utilization of primary agricultural products and industrial and mining raw materials, and even higher output efficiency under the same input environment. And more by-products come from back-feeding agricultural production.
For example, phosphate fertilizer (superphosphate produced by phosphate rock) and potash fertilizer (potassium sulfate calcined with alum). The latter can be directly extracted with struvite. The latter is already a widely spread medicine in this era. The mountainous area in the middle of the year is very productive.
"Tang Materia Medica": There are five kinds of alum stone, green alum, alum, alum, black alum, and alum. However, alum is mostly used for medicinal purposes. Blue and black alums are used to treat malnutrition and various sores. Alum is also used to treat sores and raw meat, as well as dye skin. Its alum is originally green, and those who have not seen wind in the new cave are just like Ruri, Tao and Nowadays, it is called the stone gall, which is burnt red, hence the name Crimson Van.
But alum (copper sulfate pentahydrate) can also be used to replace and synthesize other compounds, or to further extract copper sulfate crystals.
A suspension of copper sulfate, calcium hydroxide and water, Bordeaux mixture, can effectively kill most crops’ pests and diseases; used to soak treated seedlings can also increase the germination rate and robustness to a considerable extent Rate; the impact on the increase in agricultural production throughout the age is obvious.
It can be said that, to a large extent, the competition between Chinese and foreign civilizations from ancient times to the present can be attributed to the competition on "farming ability."
Whether it is hunting and gathering from primitive soldiers, farming and animal husbandry from slave society to feudal society, or even collective agricultural production based on modern industrialization, most of them can be attributed to the broad category of farming ability;
In the cruel and changeable wild and natural environment, only ethnic groups who are good at "farming" can form the advantage and ability to resist risks and changes, and even stand out from the countless ignorant primitive tribes, and form the original nation and civilization. bud;
As for those who cannot or are not good at "farming" and need to rely on looting to maintain their own ethnic group, they have almost been eliminated naturally in the long history of civilization evolution and development. Therefore, the natural advantage of being a traverser in this aspect is not too big.
Thanks to some achievements in later generations, such as the many crop seeds stored in airtight containers on the pickup truck that had been secretly salvaged. They are all experimental breeds specially cultivated in China using the local water and soil environment in Africa.
Among them, the existing food crops are also cash crops, and there are also some species on the American continent that have not been discovered in this era; like cocoa and cashew nuts, the planting conditions are more demanding, but corn, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and cassava What, has gradually been promoted in the village from Liangling to Jinghu.
Other tobacco, pineapples, papaya, kidney beans, guava, chayote, zucchini, sunflower, etc., have also grown to a certain scale; especially the production of tobacco, except for a small amount of medical purposes in the army, is almost Guangfu One of the leading export products.
Although most of the cash crops will inevitably have some degradation and reduced production due to soil and water inadequacy, they are still of great value to this era; it also greatly enriches Zhou Huaian's quality of life as a foodie.
Another example is the domestic experts, who used to rely on pure handwork under the conditions of pure natural pollution-free green environmental protection for the lack of water and electricity. They have specially tailored some products for the purpose of significantly improving output and quality of life. Kind of transitional experimental programs, and some of them have achieved considerable results.
The simplest of these is that the silt excavated from river cleaning can be used to fatten up the fields, mixed with green manure after fermentation such as wheat card, straw, grass and human and animal manure, and can even be used directly for seedlings; while sand and pebbles can be used. Pave roads and repair walls.
More complicated is the reuse of the residue (waste molasses) after multiple extractions of malt, sugar beet and sugar cane, such as processing adult food or animal feed, which can also be used as raw materials for the fermentation industry.
For example, it is used as a substrate or base material for fermented products such as yeast, monosodium glutamate, organic acid, etc. The most common technique is used to brew shochu, which is also the main source of rum for later generations; and even becomes the culture medium for some edible fungi. Or the same nourishment for laboratory bacteria culture as agar.
At least this generation of Tang people is not more aware of raising productivity and improving their own situation than those of later generations who have been wandering between gathering and hunting to limited farming and animal husbandry for a long time. There is basically no concept of storage and processing of food, and they are not moved. Most African black uncles who suffer from famine with the seasons are even worse and worse.
Another example is the explosion of steel production capacity in Liangling and Hunan provinces, or a series of follow-up problems brought about by the explosion in the production of military products.
The reason is also very simple. After these years of continuous investment in manpower and material resources, continuous accumulation attempts in process technology, as the foundation and accumulation of the first-level steel and coal chemical industry, it has reached a new critical point here.
However, the long-term supply of internally digested tools and utensils, as well as the market scale and demand for iron products sold externally, have reached a relative saturation point and a bottleneck; therefore, under the rule of one rising stop, a relatively large The excess weight.
As a result, the production and deployment departments at the rear, including the Cantonese Department, transferred the steel production capacity of these multiple locations to the military production field according to one of the advance plans and plans;
Therefore, after several months of combat preparation, mobilization, and combat, a considerable amount of equipment has already been accumulated. Of course, most of them are standard equipment such as traditional swords and armor.
As for firearms, because of the high-end and special materials with higher strength for guns, the output is still limited and the production technology and processing methods have not changed much. Just because there are more sources of materials, the cost of parts other than the body tube has also been significantly reduced.
Then Zhou Huaian began to face a new choice. Because after the Jiangdong was captured, a large number of artifacts and equipment from the Jiangdong, Zhejiang and even the Huainan Army were also seized; when the local remnants were cleaned up, more chaotic swords and weapons were seized.
Adding up the two directions, not to mention supplementing the loss of the Taiping Army’s armor and equipment, even if another one hundred thousand army is armed, or one or two large-scale battles are carried out, there is no problem;
However, Zhou Huai'an's next plan is to further streamline the Jiangdong recruitment and recruitment of troops after pacifying the three southern Zhejiang provinces, and then relocate and relocate those people who have been eliminated, so that the locality can have more room for recuperation.
Therefore, the output of these military industries is about to burst suddenly; according to these numbers, even if they are used to arm the second and third line garrison groups and patrol teams, the founding army, the armed reclamation group, everyone is armed with swords, spears, bows and arrows. In addition, there is still a lot of surplus.
So, it’s time for the traditional massive aid/dumping of friendly forces and allied forces again. Although a large amount of these things were provided to the rebel forces in the north, it was very likely that because of their differences in good and bad, they changed hands and "transported" these equipment to the officials, vassal, and even other forces of the imperial court.
However, the Taiping Army is also working hard and steadily on the right sergeant development process and road with firearms as the core; therefore, even if it is the enemy camp in the north, it has been developed to the extreme cold weapons and equipment. The bonus cannot change the historical trend of being hanged.
In the midst of such considerations and considerations, Zhou Huaian once again wished to usher in the messengers from the north.
—I am the dividing line of no discipline —
In the already-restored Hezhou (Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province), under the prefecture of Liyang City, the soldiers of the Xiaoxiong Army under Yu Gongchu were also happily cleaning the battlefield and clearing the harvest.
At least compared to the strongholds of Taiping thieves in Jiangdong, the Huaixi thieves here are much weaker and messy; although the raging grass house looks fierce when hungry, but once a battle is formed, it is difficult to last. Just collapsed.
Therefore, after the Xiaoxiong Army fought a few victories with it, not only did they seize a lot of food and clothing to supplement their supplies, but the morale and morale that had been weakened and the military spirit slowly recovered.
At this time, the stern trumpet sounded again, and there was a man and horse coming out in the distance. The general flag on the top of the head was a big fighting "Zhang"; after seeing these flags and colors, Yu Gongchu was the leader. The general of Huainan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. (End of this chapter)