The end of natural disasters: the daily life of child brides in ancient times

Thinking of the series of humiliating agreements that were signed in the future and ceded power to the country.

And the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression forged with flesh and blood, King Huai felt only anger rising.

Damn it, I can’t just accept defeat like this.

We have to find a way to change the current situation.

He could not allow the 35 million compatriots of the future generations to die in the war of resistance again.

These 35 million people can fully contribute their own efforts to the development of the motherland.

King Huai forced himself to calm down and analyze the current situation in his mind.

The change now is that King Chuang succeeded two years ahead of schedule.

In other words, the development plan he originally made is no longer applicable.

Historically, it only took three or four months from the time King Chuang proclaimed himself emperor to the time he captured the capital.

It took only a year and a half from the establishment of the Dashun regime to the barbarians' suppression of King Chuang.

In other words, the time left for him to develop is only about one year at most.

He has to formulate a new development plan.

There is only one point to this plan, be quick!

Recruit soldiers quickly, stockpile food quickly, and forge more hot weapons quickly.

Improve your strength as quickly as possible.

However, there was one benefit for him from King Chuang's enthronement.

The court no longer had the energy to care about him, so he could do things freely.

At this moment, as long as he does not declare himself emperor and rebel, the imperial court will temporarily ignore him.

Thinking of this, he asked General Feng to call Wang Shimin, Tian Wenxing, Yang Shancai, Lu Yuanze (Wang Gui), and several trusted advisers.

In this new development plan, money, people, weapons, and accurate analysis of the current situation are all indispensable.

Soon, everyone in the room was gathered.

King Huai asked Liu Jiaqi to tell the story again.

He then expressed his concerns and proposed changing the development plan.

Manager Feng only listened to the beginning, then carefully retreated to the door and quickly cleared out the people waiting outside.

Your Highness has great ambitions, and as an old man, he will do his best to do something for Your Highness.

Inside the room, everyone discussed for more than two hours and finally decided on a new development plan.

First, recruit a large number of soldiers.

In fact, recruiting soldiers has been done before.

However, due to restrictions imposed by the imperial court, they have been operating in secret.

There is no need to hide this situation anymore.

Starting tomorrow, recruitment notices will be posted in all counties and cities.

Promote the glory of being a soldier and various military welfare policies.

Relax restrictions on military service, regardless of whether one is a civilian, slave, refugee or criminal.

As long as you are in good health, anyone can sign up to join the army.

At the same time, a generous recruitment policy is provided.

Those who join the army and successfully stay in the army for three months will be given a resettlement allowance of five taels of silver each.

The subsidies and military merit rewards after joining the army were increased by several levels.

This action is undoubtedly quite expensive.

Therefore, King Huai asked Yang Shancai to give him a clear figure of the money he had available.

At the beginning of the discussion, everyone had already divided all the money according to importance.

King Huai had already decided to invest all the money he had saved over the years.

Just one chance, if you don’t succeed you will die!

The second is weapons.

If you want to fight against the barbarians' cavalry, the most effective weapon is firearms.

Especially, against the barbarians' cavalry.

Specially made heavy artillery has a much longer range and greater power than ordinary artillery.

Last year, the Ordnance Bureau had already produced artillery with a range of five kilometers.

In April this year, newly developed artillery.

Not only is the accuracy greatly improved, but the range can also reach eight kilometers.

But, according to the original development plan.

It will take about two years to mass-produce this artillery to equip four firearms battalions.

At this point, we can only change the plan.

Increase investment and build two more military factories to specialize in producing artillery.

In addition to artillery, more improved muskets should be stockpiled.

The muskets equipped by the Fire Gun Battalion today are not as powerful as the pistols used by Lu Qingqing.

But it is not like traditional muskets, which require loading ammunition on the spot.

Most of the muskets in the musket battalion have achieved semi-automatic firing.

The only thing is that the quantity is too small.

If he were given some more time, he could have updated all the musket battalions with the latest models of muskets.

Once they are actually on the battlefield, the role these muskets can play is far beyond what cold weapons can achieve.

In addition to artillery and muskets, there is also a traditional spear-barricade formation to deal with the barbarians' cavalry.

Compared with cannons and muskets, which are more difficult to make, the difficulty and cost of making spear chevaux de frise are much lower.

This kind of cold weapon can also play a significant role in war.

Therefore, the reserves of spears and chevaux de frise should also be increased.

In addition to these, weapons such as swords and arrows for regular troops should also be stockpiled.

It is not yet certain how many soldiers can be recruited, but at least equipment for 70,000 soldiers must be prepared.

The third is food reserves.

When it comes to the food problem, King Huai thought of sending fleets to Siam and other countries to purchase food.

If all goes well, the fleet should be back in about two months.

But there is no rush for this matter, we can only wait.

King Huai then asked Liu Jiaqi about the current food reserves in the entire fiefdom.

Due to successive disasters in recent years, this year's food reserves have actually decreased.

If a war really breaks out a year from now, we will have to increase our food reserves.

During this little ice age, the only thing to worry about is too little food reserves, not too much!

Article 4 is the comprehensive control over all counties and cities within the fiefdom.

In recent years, the imperial court has been constantly inserting obstacles in order to strengthen its control over the territories of the vassal kings.

Although they all knew who was the eyes and spies of the imperial court, they could only endure it due to the situation.

Now that we are going to do something big, these guys can't be kept anymore.

King Huai immediately issued an order, ordering Wang Shimin to quickly arrest the court's spies and ensure that the power of each county government was fully under his control.

In this way, later government orders can be implemented more smoothly and reliably.

The last one is to expand towards the surrounding areas.

King Huai took a red pen and quickly drew an area on the map.

Everyone looked over and found that this area was painted very cleverly.

If you follow this map, the entire area.

Except for the eastern coast, almost all of the routes are blocked by rugged terrain.

Everyone looked at the map and quickly understood.

King Huai wants to overthrow the positions of other vassal kings in the surrounding areas!

In this way, the entire fiefdom became easy to defend and difficult to attack.

By then, if the barbarian army really attacks.

Relying on the terrain and heavy artillery, they are not without the ability to fight!

However, if you want to fight a war, you need to prepare a lot of things.

In addition to the basic food, soldiers, and weapons, based on the current situation of rampant plague outside.

A lot of medicine kits for treating epidemics must also be prepared.

In addition, questions such as how to fight this war, where to attack first, where to attack later, where to seek surrender, etc., need to be studied carefully.

However, these are issues that the generals need to consider.

After all the plans were fully agreed upon, they were arranged bit by bit.

After everyone left, King Huai sat there and pondered for a while.

Only after making sure that nothing was left behind did he breathe a sigh of relief.

Although he had decided a few years ago that he wanted to compete for that position.

But the fact that things happened suddenly earlier still made him feel uncomfortable as if there was a stone stuck in his heart.

Even though he changed his plan and took countermeasures, he was still uneasy.

After thinking about it, he decided to write a letter to Lu Qingqing.

Only Qingqing, his fellow villager, could understand this change in the course of history.

As for the others, he really couldn't say anything.

For the sake of confidentiality, he deliberately used simplified Chinese.

Yes, phonetic symbols are now taught in primary schools.

The only thing in the world that he and Lu Qingqing could understand was the modern simplified Chinese characters.