The Privy Council was ordered to organize the Hedong Former Camp Military Office. The large-scale war between the Great Zhou and the Northern Han was a foregone conclusion and inevitable.
Wang Pu was still the chief supervisor of the military office, which was a sign that the imperial commander personally led the army.
The military government mobilized officials to establish various departments as in the Battle of the Southern Tang Dynasty, sorted out military information, merits and demerits for the Central Army, and provided suggestions, and also had a complete system of issuing military orders. In addition, the number of officials who were preparing to send troops at all levels to collect and organize and assist military generals in issuing written military orders.
Li Gu was ordered to take charge of the preparation and mobilization of military supplies.
The main reason is that grain and grass are transferred from various places to Jinzhou, Liaozhou, Luzhou and other places to hoard.In addition, craftsmen were recruited to mine quarries near these prefectures and counties to make round stone bullets.
The whistling cannon is scheduled to be mobilized northward after the beginning of next spring... The imperial court chose to dispatch the army at the beginning of next year.
Because of the fact that the reinforcements of the Liao army were considered; the horses of the Liao army cavalry were the most powerful in autumn.
The grass on the grassland produces seeds in autumn and can gain weight. At this time, the grassland war horses are the most powerful and the nomadic army is the strongest. Therefore, there have been a saying of autumn defense throughout the ages.
The Great Zhou court took the initiative to attack and chose the opportunity to choose the time, of course not the autumn, because the war horses in the Central Plains mainly rely on food to gain weight and are almost seasonal.
There is also preparation for gunpowder. The power of the whistling cannon is far greater than the stone throwing carts used by Zhou army before, but the efficiency of using gunpowder is not high and requires a large amount of gunpowder to be consumed.
Charcoal is not a problem; Li Gu urged Zan Jurun to send people to supervise the sulfur mines in Hebei, Hedong, Shandong and other places. In addition, Guo Shao also sent someone to send letters to Chen Jiali, asking their merchants to buy sulfur from Dali and return to reserve... Most of the sulfur mined in the mainland is impure and of low quality, so they can only make do with it.
The best sulfur at this time is imported by maritime merchants from Japan in small quantities.
Only saltpeter ore is in short supply, and open-pit mines with high output are only available in Hanzhong. In addition, there are also in the Western Regions, but they are not within the control of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Li Gu first collected and mobilized saltpeter from Hanzhong and various places. The method used in reserve was to use manure to pile up nitrate.
He first set up a pile of nitro tanks in Guantian Manor on the outskirts of Tokyo, and some of the manure trucks from the city would be transported here.
Li Gu used the alchemy method to make a large clay tank first, cover it with straw, and then piled up the feces into the tank, mixing them with rotten animals and plants, slag, lime, and wood ash, and then covered with straw.
After that, every time you fill it with urine and water to ferment, some nitrate cream can be scraped out from the straw.
Then, using the purification method created by Guo Shao, melt the impurities of the nitrate frost, cook, dry, and screen it with a sieve to obtain the purer crystallization of saltpeter.
...All things are being prepared. Although Guo Shao did not handle them personally, he has been paying close attention to the progress of various matters.
Even the civil servants who were stationed in Liaozhou, who did something and how they got along with the generals were secretly reported to the civil servants who followed the military and provincial envoys.
Guo Shao put down the paper in his hand, got up and walked to the wall to look at the map.
This is the Hall of Zuen, a small courtyard to the west of the palace.
Guo Shao was not very satisfied with this place because he always felt that the surroundings were full of palace buildings and it was very closed and boring, but he still chose this place as a place to rest and sleep.
Because of the big palace like Wansui Hall, Guo Shao always feels like a public place.
In fact, the palace maids and eunuchs there really regarded the main halls as places where they were working. Their job was to manage the palace's property, clean the palace, and serve the emperor's daily life.
So Guo Shao chose the Hall of Zuxiang, which at least looks like a private space.After a day of busy work, Guo Shao wanted to return to a place where he could relax in his mental state.
At this time, Yulian walked over and cleaned up the messy table that Guo Shao had just flipped.
Guo Shao turned around and said: Those things are about business. You will hand them over to the eunuch who came to pick me up tomorrow morning and ask him to send them to the study in Jinxiang Palace to keep them secretly.
Yulian responded um.
When Guo Shao lived here, he usually asked Yulian to take care of her daily life, even if she shouldn't be serving her bedtime.
Yulian doesn't know much about literacy, so she doesn't care what Guo Shao is doing, especially not very good at state affairs and government affairs... This makes Guo Shao very relaxed.
Moreover, Yulian is a person he trusts very much, and she also keeps some of her personal belongings.
Yulian would not interfere with him in his own business. After she packed up her things, she picked up the teacup and replaced him with the cold tea.
If there is someone swaying in front of Guo Shao, it will not affect him, it is Yulian... It is not that she is ignoring her, but that she is too familiar and close.
Guo Shao stood in front of a map on the wall of the study, looking at the territory above, and he could truly feel what he had.
At this time, his mood was mainly not greed, but wanted to keep and worry about losing.
He captured the Great Zhou Dynasty, but the country was far from stable and safe, and he was still worried about what he had in his hands.
For example, this land in Hedong.
Since ancient times, there has been no dynasty with stable national defense. There is a hostile force hanging above the capital... From Hedong to Hedong, he will reach the Yellow River. The Yellow River is the only fragile natural barrier, not to mention that the Northern Han Dynasty is supported by the Liao Kingdom.
Guo Shao understood that even if he wanted to enjoy peace, it was not the time, unless the foolish person had no sense of crisis.
He knocked his fingers at the Hedong position for two days, then put his hand down and carried it behind his back, paced back and forth in the room.
……
Until October, a group of scholars and people with Hedong accents came to Tokyo. They were put into the inner city and gathered on the streets to ask for an order, saying that they could not bear the plunder of the Liao army. They were even more dissatisfied with the Northern Han court colluding with the people of the Liao Kingdom and asked the emperor to send troops to recover the lost territory.
In ancient times, the people could not gather together casually, so there was generally no petition (afraid of gathering together to rebel), not to mention that these people actually entered the inner city... However, they scolded the Northern Han and called the Emperor of Great Zhou saints, so they were not driven away by force.
At that time, the Great Zhou and Northern Han were originally enemy countries and had tense relations, and there were even ranger harassment and small-scale battles on the border.
The Northern Han sent a large number of scouts to the Great Zhou Dynasty to inquire about the news. Although they were not spies, they could investigate some obvious things clearly. Although the governments in various places arrested some, they could not prevent such detailed works at all.
The Zhou army frequently mobilized a large number of food and grass, and each town wanted to mobilize the town troops to participate in the war, and the signs were very obvious; and some stone fields were mining and built with round stones, which were also like things used to attack the city.
In short, this kind of large-scale war preparation is completely impossible for neighboring countries to hide.The Jinyang court was shrouded in the dark clouds of war.
...There is a small thing in Jinyang. The story of Yang Ye using his mount to exchange for beauty was spread as an anecdote in the circle of military generals.Because Yang Ye is a famous person in the Northern Han Dynasty, he is prone to attracting attention.
It was just buying a concubine. The buying process was a bit more interesting, and Yang Ye didn't care.
But one day he met Zhao Kuangyin on the way to inspect the fortifications of Jinyang City, but Zhao Kuangyin mentioned the matter in person.
There was no gap between Zhao Kuangyin and Yang Ye. Although Yang Ye's brothers were military generals in Zhou State, Yang Ye didn't care which one was right or wrong in Zhou State. Naturally, he had no opinion on Zhao Kuangyin, and even because Zhao Kuangyin was also a famous general, he was more able to talk about it.
(Zhao Kuangyin made several contributions in the Battle of Gaoping and the Battle of Huainan, and his military use was a good story, especially the fact that he was accused of Chuzhou alone in Huainan.)
Zhao Kuangyin mentioned the anecdote first, and suddenly his tone changed, and he said seriously: There will be a word to persuade him, but women should not believe it easily.
Yang Ye felt that this was strange and asked casually: What does Brother Zhao mean?
Zhao Kuangyin wanted to speak but stopped, and pondered for a while and said: I only sighed like this, especially those women of unknown origin, so you have to pay attention.
His words were foggy.
Yang Ye tasted it, because at first the two were talking about buying a concubine, but later they suddenly mentioned that women of unknown origin should not be trusted easily. Yang Ye guessed that Zhao Kuangyin pointed out that the concubine he bought had a problem.
But Zhao Kuangyin's situation at this time was like living under someone else's roof. The woman was also a person in Yang Ye's room. Zhao Kuangyin might also understand that it is difficult to say too badly, so he didn't continue.
Yang Ye didn't ask much.
Yang Ye inspected the city defense for a long time, and went home in the afternoon, and used to going to Hongying's room.
He already had three concubines at this time, and Hongying was one of them... This woman was obviously much more beautiful than the other two concubines and was also very good at serving people. Yang Ye liked to come here more.
Looking at Hongying's attentive and gentle appearance, Yang Ye remembered Zhao Kuangyin's words again.
So he calmly asked the merchant who sold her in detail what details and where he was.
Hongying answered like a stream of questions, her smile on her face was very clean, and she didn't look scheming at all.
She just said a little aggrievedly: I know I have a bad background and I am disabled, but do you think I am like a bad person?
Yang Ye shook his head when he remembered his time with him for several months.
There are not many women who can read in this world. They can do everything in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. It is possible to be in the dust. If it is a bad person... what bad things can a young woman do?
Hongying said softly: My husband has spent his money, so don’t dislike me.I don’t count anything in Yang’s house, but it’s all because of my husband’s disposal. And it’s difficult for me to walk. What else can I do?
Yang Ye felt relieved when he heard this, but in fact she was right.
The only women who can influence him are their wives, concubines or slaves, just like one thing, and there is nothing to bother with.
He would be more cautious when marrying a wife.
However, because of Zhao Kuangyin's words, Yang Ye still found an old slave who had been for many years and asked him to inquire about Hong Ying's words according to his origin.
The slave went out in a carriage and came back in the evening.
He went to inquire that the merchant family who sold Hongying did exist, and admitted that he had sold a disabled young lady who had obtained from the debtor's family.
Moreover, that shop has been in Jinyang for many years. Most of the guys are from Jinyang, and the people around him say the same thing, nothing is strange.
Yang Ye no longer doubted when he received a report.
Because he really couldn't think of what Hongying could get from him as a concubine. After spending so many months together, he felt that Hongying had good character and had never asked for additional rewards. She was also very humble in giving her things.
Over time, Yang Ye also developed some affection for Hongying.As he said by chance, even if a stone is held in his arms for a long time, it can still be warm.
Wang Pu was still the chief supervisor of the military office, which was a sign that the imperial commander personally led the army.
The military government mobilized officials to establish various departments as in the Battle of the Southern Tang Dynasty, sorted out military information, merits and demerits for the Central Army, and provided suggestions, and also had a complete system of issuing military orders. In addition, the number of officials who were preparing to send troops at all levels to collect and organize and assist military generals in issuing written military orders.
Li Gu was ordered to take charge of the preparation and mobilization of military supplies.
The main reason is that grain and grass are transferred from various places to Jinzhou, Liaozhou, Luzhou and other places to hoard.In addition, craftsmen were recruited to mine quarries near these prefectures and counties to make round stone bullets.
The whistling cannon is scheduled to be mobilized northward after the beginning of next spring... The imperial court chose to dispatch the army at the beginning of next year.
Because of the fact that the reinforcements of the Liao army were considered; the horses of the Liao army cavalry were the most powerful in autumn.
The grass on the grassland produces seeds in autumn and can gain weight. At this time, the grassland war horses are the most powerful and the nomadic army is the strongest. Therefore, there have been a saying of autumn defense throughout the ages.
The Great Zhou court took the initiative to attack and chose the opportunity to choose the time, of course not the autumn, because the war horses in the Central Plains mainly rely on food to gain weight and are almost seasonal.
There is also preparation for gunpowder. The power of the whistling cannon is far greater than the stone throwing carts used by Zhou army before, but the efficiency of using gunpowder is not high and requires a large amount of gunpowder to be consumed.
Charcoal is not a problem; Li Gu urged Zan Jurun to send people to supervise the sulfur mines in Hebei, Hedong, Shandong and other places. In addition, Guo Shao also sent someone to send letters to Chen Jiali, asking their merchants to buy sulfur from Dali and return to reserve... Most of the sulfur mined in the mainland is impure and of low quality, so they can only make do with it.
The best sulfur at this time is imported by maritime merchants from Japan in small quantities.
Only saltpeter ore is in short supply, and open-pit mines with high output are only available in Hanzhong. In addition, there are also in the Western Regions, but they are not within the control of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Li Gu first collected and mobilized saltpeter from Hanzhong and various places. The method used in reserve was to use manure to pile up nitrate.
He first set up a pile of nitro tanks in Guantian Manor on the outskirts of Tokyo, and some of the manure trucks from the city would be transported here.
Li Gu used the alchemy method to make a large clay tank first, cover it with straw, and then piled up the feces into the tank, mixing them with rotten animals and plants, slag, lime, and wood ash, and then covered with straw.
After that, every time you fill it with urine and water to ferment, some nitrate cream can be scraped out from the straw.
Then, using the purification method created by Guo Shao, melt the impurities of the nitrate frost, cook, dry, and screen it with a sieve to obtain the purer crystallization of saltpeter.
...All things are being prepared. Although Guo Shao did not handle them personally, he has been paying close attention to the progress of various matters.
Even the civil servants who were stationed in Liaozhou, who did something and how they got along with the generals were secretly reported to the civil servants who followed the military and provincial envoys.
Guo Shao put down the paper in his hand, got up and walked to the wall to look at the map.
This is the Hall of Zuen, a small courtyard to the west of the palace.
Guo Shao was not very satisfied with this place because he always felt that the surroundings were full of palace buildings and it was very closed and boring, but he still chose this place as a place to rest and sleep.
Because of the big palace like Wansui Hall, Guo Shao always feels like a public place.
In fact, the palace maids and eunuchs there really regarded the main halls as places where they were working. Their job was to manage the palace's property, clean the palace, and serve the emperor's daily life.
So Guo Shao chose the Hall of Zuxiang, which at least looks like a private space.After a day of busy work, Guo Shao wanted to return to a place where he could relax in his mental state.
At this time, Yulian walked over and cleaned up the messy table that Guo Shao had just flipped.
Guo Shao turned around and said: Those things are about business. You will hand them over to the eunuch who came to pick me up tomorrow morning and ask him to send them to the study in Jinxiang Palace to keep them secretly.
Yulian responded um.
When Guo Shao lived here, he usually asked Yulian to take care of her daily life, even if she shouldn't be serving her bedtime.
Yulian doesn't know much about literacy, so she doesn't care what Guo Shao is doing, especially not very good at state affairs and government affairs... This makes Guo Shao very relaxed.
Moreover, Yulian is a person he trusts very much, and she also keeps some of her personal belongings.
Yulian would not interfere with him in his own business. After she packed up her things, she picked up the teacup and replaced him with the cold tea.
If there is someone swaying in front of Guo Shao, it will not affect him, it is Yulian... It is not that she is ignoring her, but that she is too familiar and close.
Guo Shao stood in front of a map on the wall of the study, looking at the territory above, and he could truly feel what he had.
At this time, his mood was mainly not greed, but wanted to keep and worry about losing.
He captured the Great Zhou Dynasty, but the country was far from stable and safe, and he was still worried about what he had in his hands.
For example, this land in Hedong.
Since ancient times, there has been no dynasty with stable national defense. There is a hostile force hanging above the capital... From Hedong to Hedong, he will reach the Yellow River. The Yellow River is the only fragile natural barrier, not to mention that the Northern Han Dynasty is supported by the Liao Kingdom.
Guo Shao understood that even if he wanted to enjoy peace, it was not the time, unless the foolish person had no sense of crisis.
He knocked his fingers at the Hedong position for two days, then put his hand down and carried it behind his back, paced back and forth in the room.
……
Until October, a group of scholars and people with Hedong accents came to Tokyo. They were put into the inner city and gathered on the streets to ask for an order, saying that they could not bear the plunder of the Liao army. They were even more dissatisfied with the Northern Han court colluding with the people of the Liao Kingdom and asked the emperor to send troops to recover the lost territory.
In ancient times, the people could not gather together casually, so there was generally no petition (afraid of gathering together to rebel), not to mention that these people actually entered the inner city... However, they scolded the Northern Han and called the Emperor of Great Zhou saints, so they were not driven away by force.
At that time, the Great Zhou and Northern Han were originally enemy countries and had tense relations, and there were even ranger harassment and small-scale battles on the border.
The Northern Han sent a large number of scouts to the Great Zhou Dynasty to inquire about the news. Although they were not spies, they could investigate some obvious things clearly. Although the governments in various places arrested some, they could not prevent such detailed works at all.
The Zhou army frequently mobilized a large number of food and grass, and each town wanted to mobilize the town troops to participate in the war, and the signs were very obvious; and some stone fields were mining and built with round stones, which were also like things used to attack the city.
In short, this kind of large-scale war preparation is completely impossible for neighboring countries to hide.The Jinyang court was shrouded in the dark clouds of war.
...There is a small thing in Jinyang. The story of Yang Ye using his mount to exchange for beauty was spread as an anecdote in the circle of military generals.Because Yang Ye is a famous person in the Northern Han Dynasty, he is prone to attracting attention.
It was just buying a concubine. The buying process was a bit more interesting, and Yang Ye didn't care.
But one day he met Zhao Kuangyin on the way to inspect the fortifications of Jinyang City, but Zhao Kuangyin mentioned the matter in person.
There was no gap between Zhao Kuangyin and Yang Ye. Although Yang Ye's brothers were military generals in Zhou State, Yang Ye didn't care which one was right or wrong in Zhou State. Naturally, he had no opinion on Zhao Kuangyin, and even because Zhao Kuangyin was also a famous general, he was more able to talk about it.
(Zhao Kuangyin made several contributions in the Battle of Gaoping and the Battle of Huainan, and his military use was a good story, especially the fact that he was accused of Chuzhou alone in Huainan.)
Zhao Kuangyin mentioned the anecdote first, and suddenly his tone changed, and he said seriously: There will be a word to persuade him, but women should not believe it easily.
Yang Ye felt that this was strange and asked casually: What does Brother Zhao mean?
Zhao Kuangyin wanted to speak but stopped, and pondered for a while and said: I only sighed like this, especially those women of unknown origin, so you have to pay attention.
His words were foggy.
Yang Ye tasted it, because at first the two were talking about buying a concubine, but later they suddenly mentioned that women of unknown origin should not be trusted easily. Yang Ye guessed that Zhao Kuangyin pointed out that the concubine he bought had a problem.
But Zhao Kuangyin's situation at this time was like living under someone else's roof. The woman was also a person in Yang Ye's room. Zhao Kuangyin might also understand that it is difficult to say too badly, so he didn't continue.
Yang Ye didn't ask much.
Yang Ye inspected the city defense for a long time, and went home in the afternoon, and used to going to Hongying's room.
He already had three concubines at this time, and Hongying was one of them... This woman was obviously much more beautiful than the other two concubines and was also very good at serving people. Yang Ye liked to come here more.
Looking at Hongying's attentive and gentle appearance, Yang Ye remembered Zhao Kuangyin's words again.
So he calmly asked the merchant who sold her in detail what details and where he was.
Hongying answered like a stream of questions, her smile on her face was very clean, and she didn't look scheming at all.
She just said a little aggrievedly: I know I have a bad background and I am disabled, but do you think I am like a bad person?
Yang Ye shook his head when he remembered his time with him for several months.
There are not many women who can read in this world. They can do everything in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. It is possible to be in the dust. If it is a bad person... what bad things can a young woman do?
Hongying said softly: My husband has spent his money, so don’t dislike me.I don’t count anything in Yang’s house, but it’s all because of my husband’s disposal. And it’s difficult for me to walk. What else can I do?
Yang Ye felt relieved when he heard this, but in fact she was right.
The only women who can influence him are their wives, concubines or slaves, just like one thing, and there is nothing to bother with.
He would be more cautious when marrying a wife.
However, because of Zhao Kuangyin's words, Yang Ye still found an old slave who had been for many years and asked him to inquire about Hong Ying's words according to his origin.
The slave went out in a carriage and came back in the evening.
He went to inquire that the merchant family who sold Hongying did exist, and admitted that he had sold a disabled young lady who had obtained from the debtor's family.
Moreover, that shop has been in Jinyang for many years. Most of the guys are from Jinyang, and the people around him say the same thing, nothing is strange.
Yang Ye no longer doubted when he received a report.
Because he really couldn't think of what Hongying could get from him as a concubine. After spending so many months together, he felt that Hongying had good character and had never asked for additional rewards. She was also very humble in giving her things.
Over time, Yang Ye also developed some affection for Hongying.As he said by chance, even if a stone is held in his arms for a long time, it can still be warm.
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