Chapter 45: Frost

"What's going on?" Zhang Xuan asked softly.

Cao Zongyu knew that Zhang Xuan didn't know much about these things, and explained: "The frost in this season is particularly harmful to the crops. ”

"How big." Zhang Xuan's heart moved, and he immediately raised his vigilance. Zhang Xuan has a deep experience of the fragility of agricultural production in this era.

Therefore, anything about grain production is highly concerned by Zhang Xuan.

"I don't know." Cao Zongyu didn't know about this, and said: "It can only be said that it depends on the situation." ”

Cao Zongyu's family, even if it is not Zhong Mingding's family, it can be regarded as a wealthy family, and Cao Zongyu does not pay much attention to the things in the field, and has his own housekeeper to worry about, but the agricultural status of this era is too important, even if Cao Zongyu does not worry much about the things in the field, he still knows these common sense.

"My lord, this is not good." Zhang Zhi said worriedly: "Now, it is the spring of March, and the winter wheat joints are growing violently. If the temperature drops suddenly, I am afraid that I will freeze to death and frostbite a lot of wheat seedlings. ”

When Zhang Xuan heard this, he was even more irritable in his heart, and said, "Give me a clear word, what will happen to this year's harvest?" Production will be reduced. ”

Zhang Zhen said: "The reduction in production is already a certainty. It may even be lost. ”

"Can't help it?" Zhang Xuan's face instantly darkened.

The food in Zhang Xuan's hands has never been sufficient. The winter wheat harvest in May, Zhang Xuan has been looking forward to it for a long time.

Even Zhang Xuan arranged it.

Telling him at this moment that the harvest in May would be much reduced, and that even the harvest could be lost, it was simply disrupted. Among them, there is a shortage of food, and Zhang Xuan doesn't know what to do at all.

Don't say, what support is returned to Germany.

In the case of insufficient food, all actions must be put on hold, and an army without food is like a car without gasoline. However, it is worse than a car without gas, a car without oil will not rebel at least, and an army without food will eat people.

Don't let him eat people, he will eat you.

"Is there any way to do it?" Zhang Xuan said loudly: "Is there any way?" ”

Zhang Zhen sighed and said, "What can be done?" That's what God means. What can be done? ”

It was as if he had lost his soul, and his whole person had lost his center of gravity, as if a gust of wind had been blown away.

Zhang Xuan took a deep breath, squatted down, and rubbed the frost on the ground with his fingers, the frost was not thick, but it had already been explained that the ground temperature had dropped below zero.

Zhang Xuan tried to calm himself down and asked, "Is there really nothing that can be done?" ”

"It seems like a fire on the ground, maybe." Zhang Yuanhai said.

"Nope." Zhang Zhen shook his head and said, "Although there are not too many winter wheat plantings in Runing Mansion, there are quite a few

。 We have the power there, and then all the land is on fire. And there is so much wood there. ”

"You just say, does this method work?" Zhang Xuan said sharply.

"It works." Zhang Zhi said lonely.

"It's good to be useful." Zhang Xuan gritted his teeth and said, "Zhang Yuanhai." ”

"Yes." Zhang Yuanhai said.

"Give an order to the barracks, and order all the barracks to go out at once, and make a fire for me on all the fields where winter wheat is planted." Zhang Xuan said.

"General, I'm afraid it's not much use to do this." Zhang said: "It's too late now. ”

"You can use as much as you want." Zhang Xuan said: "You can do as much as you can." ”

Zhang Xuan also saw a shortcoming of Zhang Qian, Zhang Zhen did not have a tenacious will. There is no such tenacity to grit your teeth and stay the course.

At this moment, Zhang Xuan didn't want to say anything to Zhang Zhen anymore, and reprimanded Zhang Yuanhai and said, "Don't go quickly." ”

"Yes." Zhang Yuanhai said loudly.

With Zhang Xuan's order, the entire Runing City was boiling.

The first to move was the barracks outside the city.

The action of the Linying camp is the fastest, in the Linying camp barracks. The drums beat violently.

On the barracks grounds, bonfires were lit all around, and the soldiers around them came out of the tents and stood on the school grounds.

Deng He stood on the platform, his eyes swept away, and in the entire Linying, except for the soldiers on duty everywhere, all the soldiers, nearly 2,700 people, were here.

"Let's go." Deng He said.

With Deng He's order, all the people were led by their respective officers and led this neat team out of the camp.

In the camp of the Craftsman Battalion.

Because of the shortage of weapons, the building of weapons here is non-stop, but at this moment, it has stopped.

"Bring all the charcoal out, and shut down all the iron furnaces." Wang Cannon said.

"My lord, there is still a rush for something, stop here----" A few craftsmen came over and said.

"Don't talk about that now." Wang Cannon said: "I will do whatever I ask you to do?" ”

Under the strict order of Wang Cannon, all the charcoal was transported out of the craftsman's camp, and at the door of the craftsman's camp, there were soldiers waiting for the camp.

Baskets of charcoal were taken away by the soldiers who were in Linying.

It didn't take long for the Craftsman's Camp to run out of fuel.

Zhang Xuan stood on top of the city tower at the moment, watching countless dotted flames spread out from under the city, as if they were about to spread to the end of heaven and earth.

"General, there's not much charcoal." Zhang Yuanhai said. "The charcoal in the craftsman's camp is enough for the camp. Now that the Baoding battalion has also come, what should I do? ”

Zhang Xuan paced back and forth

, said: "Send me all the charcoal and firewood of the Jiedu embassy and the government." ”

"General, even then there aren't many." Zhang Yuanhai said.

Of course Zhang Xuan knew, these charcoal firewood were used for cooking. It's not much use at all, these things are not a rare thing these days, there are charcoal burning firewood outside the city, for ordinary people, they can go out of the city every day to get some. There's no need to hoard at home.

Unless it's winter.

"I have ordered all the charcoal sellers in the city to be called up, and their charcoal has been embraced." Zhang Zhen said. Zhang Zhen didn't know when he came over.

Zhang Xuan turned his head to look at Zhang Qian, Zhang Zhen continued: "There are a lot of sassal wood on the city, which is also wood, which can be used for emergency use, and there are many houses in the city, which have been dilapidated, and they can also be demolished for emergency use, and you can also order the sergeants of the army to take materials on the spot, and use some charcoal to start a fire, it doesn't take so much." I have seen the amount distributed by the artisan camp, and I have ordered it to be halved. More fires can be lit. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Big brother, you're here." ”

Zhang Zhen said: "These miscellaneous matters, or I will deal with them, I have ordered the people below to go door-to-door to recruit people, tonight is probably not possible, but tomorrow morning, all the men in the city can be dispatched." ”

Zhang Xuan was suddenly a little depressed, in fact, Zhang Xuan didn't have much confidence in his current actions, and said: "Big brother, if you toss so much, it will be in vain in the end." Will you blame me? ”

Zhang Zhen laughed loudly and said: "I was wrong before, but do good deeds, don't ask about the future, is it useful to make a fire in the field to the harm of frost?" Yes. In this case, this thing should be done, and what does it matter if you succeed a lot. ”

Zhang Xuan looked back, but saw that in the quiet Runing City, the noise gradually rose, and little by little the lights were lit up.

The entire city of Runing was awakened in advance. Just after the household arrangement, all the people of Runing City know everything about it. This brings a strong organizational ability, for example, now, although things happen in the middle of the night, but tomorrow morning, almost all men in Runing City can be dispatched.

This kind of organizational ability completely exploded the Ming court.

"In that case, I'll leave this place to you, eldest brother." Zhang Xuan said: "I'm going down to have a look." ”

"Leave it to me." Zhang Zhen said.

Zhang Xuan came down from the city, and the pieces of wood under the city had been dragged down, and someone would try to break the woods. There are soldiers from the Baoding battalion here who take the wood away.

After Zhang Xuan left the city, he stationed his horse on the official road.

But I saw a series of bonfires, spreading in all directions along the road, and countless soldiers lined up in a queue, all holding torches, and walked past Zhang Xuan's side.

For a while, the jumping bonfires on the ground and the torches in the hands of countless soldiers reflected each other.

Even if the sky is cloudy and there are no stars, the stars on the ground seem to be the stars left in the world.

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