Chapter 279: Coordinates
"Guan Yunchang flooded the Seventh Army."
When the little hundred households under Hulan said this, Chen Mu, who was on the other side, had just received a report from Wu Zhongxing, the magistrate of Jincheng, relaying the news that Hulan had learned from the rice department four months ago.
The situation is not as single as Hulan in Chen Mu's eyes, he has more channels to obtain information, although this is also full of war fog because he wants to focus on the overall situation, but things are always much clearer than others.
It's just that his news is very timely.
On the vast map of the Great Orient, Chen Mu took the terracotta figurines and moved back and forth on the ground, starting from Jincheng for a walk, and the soldiers of the Iroquois alliance in the central steppe and the eastern Iroquois were lacquered in the form of terracotta figurines in the form of intuitive statements by the generals of the Oriental Army.
On the vast grassland measured and mapped by the banner army with Hulan's footsteps, there are twenty-seven hundred terracotta figurines, and the location of the hundred terracotta figurines may not be the location of the hundred-household department at this moment, but it must be the position where they were before, and the error is not more than fifty miles.
Because every 230 miles of each hundred households running due east or west, they set up a monument, and sent riders to report the location of Jincheng and the aboriginal tribes found within the range.
This degree is not accurate, and even when the first degree monument was planted, it had nothing to do with the latitude and longitude, and the entire Oriental Military Government knew that it was wrong, but in Chen Mu's words, this was their coordinate system, at least according to this method, they could use this coordinate system in the vast Asian continent.
This huge project is not only Ma Gui sent his patchwork of guards, but also countless tribes on the plateau and grassland behind the mountains to help them do this, because this is also the Jincheng County to communicate trade routes.
The trade routes of Jincheng, the trade routes of the Blackfoot people, and the trade routes of the Cheyenne tribe, the carpet map covering the floor of the entire side hall in front of Chen Mu is also based on this set of coordinate systems, and square leather surfaces of equal size are stacked in one place, each of which can be pulled apart to reveal a topographic map that is four times magnified on the reverse side.
However, at present, the map is less than 30% complete, the area from the middle of the steppe to the east is not completed, and the Great Lakes region and the coast involved in this war are even more blank.
But even this is still very useful, at least it can make Chen Mu and the others very intuitive how many troops they have deployed in the vast land.
To the west of the Great Lakes, they had twenty-seven hundred households under the command of Ma Gui, which were arranged all the way from west to east, and in the unknown area east of the Great Lakes, fourteen hundred households, including Hulan, were gathered there.
To the south of the east coast, one thousand and fourteen hundred miles north of the western border of Florida, the eleven hundred households of the Black Cloud Dragon were marching north along the coast.
Farther away in the Great Eastern Ocean, near the coastal areas of Portugal in Europe, a pottery ship carrying twelve hundred households was active in that direction, and that was Chen Jiujing's fleet.
The ship symbolizing Li Dan is docked off the coast of Spain with small terracotta figurines.
"This diagram is too complicated, and the one in the winning room is easier to use." Chen Mu shook his head and watched as the attendants put several pottery houses symbolizing the wooden longhouses of the aboriginal tribes in a few places on the map, and dyed the surrounding map red with a brush against the image sent by Jincheng, and turned his head to the few people sitting at the door and asked, "What does His Royal Highness think?" ”
He never expected that the emperor sent Zhu Zaiyu, the son of Zheng Fan and the great scientist, in the third phase of Beiyang, and mixed it in the banner barracks, so that he could find out after a few days that this middle-aged man wearing a Sifang Pingding scarf in and out of the barracks was acting strangely.
He was dressed like a Shaoxing master, at first Chen Mu thought that this was Bai Yuanjie's follower, but later Juniper told Chen Mu that Bai Shuai's master moved with the Beiyang Phase III camp, and every time he asked someone to carry him with a big abacus in a carriage, and he accompanied hundreds of minions, mixed with Bai Yuanjie's personal soldiers, and did not look like a master.
Later, I asked Bai Yuanjie, Bai Yuanjie also smiled and said nothing, and it was not until half a month later that the little eunuch Zhang Whale took the emperor's second letter and chatted with Chen Mu again, only then did he know that it was the prince of Zheng Fan, and he was also the supervisor who led the sect's eastward crossing.
Those who accompanied him were not minions, they were all children of the Ming Sect.
One auxiliary general, four Fengguo generals, sixteen Zhenguo lieutenants, sixty-four auxiliary lieutenants, and five hundred and twelve Fengguo lieutenants.
What does it mean for these clans to come?
It means that this year, Chang Sheng saved 131,200 stone rice for the imperial court.
The number of lieutenants in Fengguo is a bit disproportionate, and Chen Mu couldn't understand it at first, but after learning about the decree of the imperial court's clan knighthood, he understood that as a male title in the clan, Fengguo lieutenants and above are all the eldest sons of their fathers who are demoted by one level, and the remaining sons are demoted by two levels; Only when he reached the auxiliary lieutenant, all the sons born were lieutenants of Fengguo.
This made the Ming Dynasty a very large number of lieutenants in Fengguo.
And the Lumi of Lieutenant Fengguo was reduced to 200 stone in the 28th year of Hongwu, which was only 100 stone away from the higher Auxiliary Lieutenant, and this was a permanent system, which meant that even Zhang Juzheng and Wanli could not change it.
They can only change the clan people, the people, that is, the guilty dismissal, Yingzong period gave a lot of rice grain, Jiajing Dynasty Yuezhi rice reduced to six stones, to the Wanli Dynasty only two stones.
Just like the most fertile Zhou Fan, there are more than 5,000 sect members, and there are more than 4,000 Fengguo lieutenants here, and Guanglu rice kills 800,000 stones a year.
Chang Sheng suddenly reduced the imperial court by one-eighth of the Zhou domain this year.
Chen Mu doesn't care about raising these people, and the resettlement method is also simple and rude, there is too much unexplored land in the south of Changsheng County - give them a piece of land.
Like ordinary people, when ordinary immigrants came, it was a village of 10,000 acres of land, and these people were nobles, and each household was divided into 500 acres.
Seeds, farm tools, donkeys, knives, bows and arrows, and even 2 million Tongbao merchant books were given to the auxiliary generals, and more than 500 Fengguo lieutenants shared one each for farming, banner army, and merchants, and nothing else.
Zou Yuanbiao asked: "Aren't you afraid that they will sue if you do this?" ”
Jing Haibo's dead pig is not afraid of boiling water: "I didn't let them farm, what's the complaint?" ”
Even if the hoe was delivered to him, Chen Mu had never personally or assigned anyone to tell those clans to do their work, no.
He never encouraged clan labor, trade, or soldiering.
Even if Shang Ben'er sent it to his hand, the hoe was thrown in the field, and the donkey was led to his house, he would never admit that he encouraged the clan to work.
Never.
Even if these clans picked up hoes and went to the ground, he would send people to the field to warn them.
The fingers of my clan in the Ming Dynasty are all made of gold, and they must not work lowly.
Unless you're too hungry to do it.
Not to mention, the children of the clan are actually more industrious than Chen Mu imagined, although they are stupid and can't work hard with a hoe and shovel, but they are willing to learn, and they are extremely hardworking.
In his spare time, he also knew that he found Zhu Zaiyu and begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother that he wanted to learn some so-called 'science', and he wanted to leave this wild land as soon as possible.
In Chen Mu's opinion, this is an excellent start.