My life skills in Daming Liver

"Brother Aze is back!"

Lin Liangjun rushed into Baihu Mansion, Lin Mojun was about to stand up, but she still sat upright and said to her younger brother:

"Come back, come back, what are you yelling!"

At this moment, Su Ze strode into Baihu Mansion, Lin Mojun glared at his stupid younger brother, and Lin Liangjun ran out smartly.

Lin Mojun looked at the book of war in her hand, and said coldly: "I didn't expect Mr. Su to come back so soon? Are you going to snub your lovely wife as a newlywed?"

Su Ze felt a murderous aura for no reason, but he still smiled and said, "This Changning Guard has lost all the hard work of hundreds of households. Didn't they come back after receiving your letter?"

Lin Mojun put down the military book in her hand and said:

"It seems that the charm of this bride is not as great as that of Da Yuan Dao?"

Su Ze coughed in embarrassment, and Lin Mojun said:

"I don't know what you are always thinking about Dayuan Island. There are only a few people on the island now, and I have also seen that the island is full of dense forests, and it is very difficult to develop it."

In fact, such a large island, if it is well developed, the Ming court will not ignore it. The reason why Dayuan Island has been abandoned since the discovery of the Three Kingdoms, with only sporadic development, is also because the island is really It is too difficult to develop, or before the advent of the industrial age, the development cost is too high.

Today, the entire Dayuan Island is covered with tropical dense forests, and the middle of the island is surrounded by continuous mountains. To transform these rainforests into fertile fields requires not only a large number of people and tools and equipment, but also the most terrifying thing of nature. enemy.

Just like when the West began to colonize the temperate regions of South America and North America after the Age of Discovery, the first to be discovered but Africa, which is the closest to Europe, was only a trading post?

Of course, the reason is not because of the kindness of the white masters, nor is it because of the barren land in Africa. The main reason is that there are a large number of jungles and tropical rainforests in Africa, and a large number of infectious diseases such as malaria discouraged European colonists.

After the emergence of quinine, a miracle drug against malaria, there was a frenzy in the West to carve up Africa.

Su Ze is very aware of this. In order to develop Dayuan Island, apart from a large immigrant population, two things are indispensable.

One is a large number of tools, such as saws and hoes, which are used to cut down a large area of ​​virgin jungle on Dayuan Island and open up land that can be planted.

If food cannot be self-sufficient, it will not be possible to develop a large-scale land, and it will not be possible to build a base for future development.

The other is an anti-malarial drug. Quinine is still in South America. Su Ze also asked Father Pierre. Obviously, he knew nothing about this drug that can treat malaria.

In the eyes of Westerners today, the only cure for malaria infection is to pray to God.

It is not easy to obtain quinine, but there is still a magic drug that can be used to treat malaria in the land of China, and that is artemisinin.

Artemisinin is extracted from Artemisia annua, a weed that is widely distributed in China and grows in southeastern China. Su Ze has also seen this herb in the mountains of Fujian.

Eunuch Hu’s workshop has already been able to extract many natural compounds, and Su Ze plans to let him try to extract artemisinin in the laboratory.

However, just extracting artemisinin is not enough, because there must be many substances in Artemisia annua, and Su Ze does not know what kind of process can extract artemisinin, so after the extraction is completed, repeated experiments are needed, and even at the Ultimately, it needs to be tested on patients.

Su Ze thought of Li Shizhen who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River, and he should have brought Li Shizhen back at that time.

But in the next year, Su Ze plans to take a sea ship to Shanghai. If this route is stabilized, it will only take more than ten days to travel from Shanghai to Fujian, and there is no need to travel across mountains and mountains like now.

Seeing that Su Ze was thinking, Lin Mojun didn't interrupt him, but just flipped through the military book quietly.

It's already getting cold in Fujian in November, and Changningwei is at the seaside again, and the waves beat against the cliffs, making waves of waves.

Lin Mojun, who grew up by the sea, quietly listened to the waves, looked at the military book in her hand, and then looked at Su Ze opposite, feeling a sense of tranquility for no reason.

After Su Ze finished thinking, he said:

"Don't go to Dayuan Island when it's spring. You may get malaria when the mosquitoes wake up."

Lin Mojun's heart warmed up, and Su Ze continued:

"The development of Dayuan Island cannot be completed in a day or two."

Lin Mojun nodded. There is really no rush to open up wasteland. After the rainforest is cut down, land needs to be cultivated, and water conservancy facilities for flood control must be built. Without a few years of hard work, there is no way to get it right.

Hearing what Su Ze said, Lin Mojun's tense heart relaxed a little. Ever since she received the news of Su Ze's marriage, she was often busy at sea. Now that she saw Su Ze, her heart finally settled down. .

"Yu Shibo wrote me a letter again."

Lin Mojun handed a letter to Su Ze and said:

"Here's his summary of the battle of Chapu."

Su Ze quickly took the envelope. This is the post-war summary of the world's top generals, and it is very important first-hand war information.

[Read the summary of Yu Dayou's battle results, Art of War experience +50, Lv8, 200/4000]

Sure enough, in the letter, Yu Dayou summed up the surprise of the Battle of Zhapu. In the letter, Yu Dayou first thanked Lin Mojun for the mandarin duck formation.

As early as Su Ze agreed, Lin Mojun wrote Yu Dayou the formation and practice methods of the mandarin duck formation in detail.

In fact, the mandarin duck formation, a small team battle formation, did not appear out of thin air. The three talents formation inherited from the Song Dynasty is a team combat formation with both offense and defense.

For Yu Dayou, the most important thing in the mandarin duck formation is the training method.

In Yu Dayou's letter, Su Ze also knew how far the Ming army's grassroots military literacy had reached.

In fact, from the side of Changning Guard, Su Ze had already felt the lax coastal defense of the Coastal Guard, but he did not expect that the basic military quality of the entire Daming Guard had already stretched his hips to this point.

Many hereditary households have already broken the inheritance of the general family, and they can't even do basic training well.

What shocked Yu Dayou the most was that the soldiers in some guards in Zhejiang couldn't even tell the left from the right!

You can't tell the difference between the left and the right, let alone the difficult operations of marching and camping.

Yu Dayou was already desperate for the quality of Zhejiang guard soldiers. He was able to achieve good results in the Battle of Zhapu because of the Zhejiang soldiers recruited from Zhejiang.

After Hu Zongxian took power, he repatriated the guest soldiers transferred to Zhejiang by his predecessor Zhang Jing, and instead the generals recruited local soldiers in Zhejiang.

Hu Zongxian listened to the advice of Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang, and recruited soldiers from mine robbers and fanatics.

But it was clear that Yu Dayou was not very satisfied with these newly recruited soldiers.

In his letter to Lin Mojun, he complained that the people of Yiwu were greedy for money, and that as long as there was a slight shortage of military pay or rewards, they would join forces to make trouble.

However, Qi Jiguang, who fought against the Japanese with Yu Dayou, praised the people in Yiwu as "especially bloody, and they can still fight hard after the first battle, but if they don't listen to orders, they will go forward and ignore the victory."

In the end, under Hu Zongxian's decision, Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou waited in Jinhua and Yiwu to recruit 3,000 "Zhejiang soldiers", which was also the capital for the victory in Zhapu.

In Yu Dayou's letter, he was full of confidence in the future anti-Japanese situation in Zhejiang. His boss Hu Zongxian obeyed him. He practiced with the soldiers through thick and thin, and had a like-minded friend like Qi Jiguang. The Southeast Japanese Insurrection can be pacified in three years!

After Su Ze read the letter, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Lin Mojun was very familiar with Su Ze's smile, she immediately asked:

"It seems that Mr. Su disagrees with Yu Shibo's prediction?"

Su Ze didn't expect Lin Mojun to know him so well. He nodded and said, "Yes, Mr. Yu is too optimistic about the anti-Japanese situation."

Lin Mojun showed an expression of all ears.

Su Ze said: "The difficulty of fighting against the Japanese has never been the Japanese pirates, but the imperial court."

"What was the identity of Zhu Wan and Zhu Butang back then? He won the trust of the emperor to preside over the anti-Japanese war, and also broke through Shuangyu Island. The southeast Japanese pirates disappeared for a while. What was the final result?"

"Not to mention anything else, after King Lu's death, has the Japanese riot in Fujian subsided?"

Lin Mojun shook her head. Ever since she stopped flying the flag of King Lu, the coastal areas of Fujian have fallen into strange turmoil again.

There are always Japanese pirates who don’t know where they came from and appear in battle reports everywhere. These “Japanese pirates” who don’t know where they came from and disappeared without knowing how, are smuggled and plundered. Even the merchant ships of the Ryukyu Mission They were almost robbed.

Su Ze said:

"Besides, now that Hu Zongxian presides over the anti-Japanese war, Hu Zongxian is a disciple of Mr. Yan Ge, and the other faction in the court will definitely not sit back and watch Mr. Yan Ge get the great credit for defeating the Japanese. They just talk about recruiting Wang Zhi, and they will wait for the court to start What about the storm?"

Su Ze said: "Military affairs have always been a continuation of politics. A military general like Yu Shibo always thinks that all problems can be solved by relying on military skills, so he is too optimistic."

"In ancient times, Wu had Sun Wu, and Qi had Sun Bin. Did they help Wu and Qi to unify the world? No, Qin, which swept the world in the end, relied on the reformed Lord Shang."

Lin Mojun was also silent. She thought of her father who fought bravely against the Japanese and died tragically outside Fuzhou city, but the defenders inside Fuzhou city were unwilling to rescue him.

Indeed, as Su Ze said, after several battles with Japanese pirates, Lin Mojun did not have any fear of Japanese pirates.

Both real Japanese and fake Japanese are ordinary people. They will die if they eat the bullets from the blunderbuss, and the warship will sink if they are bombarded by cannons. They are not invincible monsters.

But even if Lin Mojun killed so many Japanese pirates in Fujian, there are still more and more "Japanese pirates" everywhere.

Lin Mojun looked at Su Ze and said, "So, you want to reform?"

Seeing that Su Ze didn't comment, Lin Mojun was a little puzzled.

Isn't it an immutable law, Su Ze is going to rebel?

Just kidding, don't talk about this dynasty, even if you went to the Song Dynasty, there was no one who solved Yuangong's rebellion, right?

Lin Mojun suppressed the doubts in her heart. It should be a reform, so Su Ze is so busy, right?

Lin Mojun said: "The last time Yu Shibo wrote in his letter that he wanted to write a book of war with General Qi, and asked if I could write the mandarin duck formation in the book of war and promote it in Zhejiang to fight against the Japanese."

Su Ze said indifferently: "If they can make some contributions to the anti-Japanese war, they can write military books if they want. In fact, it's not a secret."

In fact, such things as military theory have never been a secret.

Take the "New Book of Ji Xiao" written by Qi Jiguang in the future as an example. Later, Lee's North Korea also took this book to train soldiers, and the soldiers trained in the end were also extremely effective in combat.

If it is said that everyone can become a peerless famous general just by having the book of war, then there will not be so few famous generals in history.

Su Ze said to Lin Mojun: "Both Yu Shibo and General Qi are handsome talents for a while. Even without us, they can also sum up the method of fighting against the Japanese. I hope it can save Zhejiang from bleeding."

Lin Mojun also nodded.

Then Lin Mojun said: "By the way, I have already found the seeds of the plants you mentioned in your last letter in the commercial port of Ryukyu."

Lin Mojun brought out a box from the room, opened it and said:

"This is the seed of chili pepper, which was found on a Chinese merchant ship from Manila. It is said that this seed is like pepper, and it is numb when eaten. The natives on the other side of the ocean like to eat this."

"This is the tomato seed. It is said that the fruit tastes sour, but the local natives like to eat it very much."

"Corn seeds have been planted in Fujian. It is said that the yield is good, but they are not resistant to hunger."

"There is also this seed, which has been planted by many people in Nanyang, and it is also sold in Macau. The locals call it pumpkin. It is said that it tastes good when steamed."

Lin Mojun took out another potato and sweet potato and said:

"This is also grown on the Manila merchant ship. It tastes similar to the one we grow in Changningwei, but the yield is much lower than what you promote."

Su Ze picked up the potatoes, only to see that the original potatoes that had not been selected for breeding were very small, far less big than the potatoes brought by Su Ze.

However, the seeds of this original variety are also very valuable, but it's a pity that Su Ze's farming skills are only Lv5, and there is no way to conduct breeding research.

Lin Mojun said with some regret: "However, the tobacco and the rubber you mentioned are still not found. I heard from the Chinese ship merchants in Manila that some Xiyi will sell tobacco leaves in Manila, but I haven't seen any that sell seeds."

Su Ze felt a little regretful that no tobacco leaves and rubber were found.

It is not easy for Lin Mojun to collect so many seeds of South American crops.

On the one hand, Su Ze planned to promote the planting of these new crops in the mountains near Changningwei, and on the other hand, he also planned to promote them when he was a pioneer.

Lin Mojun stood up, stood in the hundred households and watched the waves rushing to the shore through the window, then suddenly turned her head to look at Su Ze and said:

"Would you like to go to sea with me?"

Su Ze smiled slightly and said, "Okay."