In the 50th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Bomu welcomed his first winter in southern Yunnan.
As December approached, it snowed heavily in southern Yunnan, which was known as spring all year round. This kind of weather would definitely make headlines in the future, but in this world, it was a common scene.
Because of the Second Little Ice Age, not to mention Diannan Prefecture, even the Jiaozhi River area further south was snowing.
The second Little Ice Age was the 100-year period from 1620 to 1720. The period from 1650 to 1680 was the coldest.
Zhu Bomu was clearly living at the tail end of the Little Ice Age, but the only river in Kaihua Prefecture, the Panlong River, which was more than ten meters wide, was still frozen to a two-meter-thick layer of ice.
"Hu ~" Zhu Bomu, who was standing on the archer tower outside the town, also put on his fox fur coat. He grabbed a handful of snow and took a breath.
"My lord, it's cold outside. Why don't we go back first?”Mu Yong, who was standing behind Zhu Bomu, was worried about Zhu Bomu's health, so he tried his best to persuade him.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Bomu shook his head and said,"This heavy snow came suddenly, but it's good. I think the Qing army in Peace Hall and Lijiang Prefecture in the north must be very busy.”
"Hehe, my lord is right. We have already killed more than 30 of the messenger scouts from Peace Hall. Now that more than three months have passed, even without our help, Yang Mubo and the others can clean up Peace Hall themselves.”
Mu Yong chuckled while Zhu Bomu turned his head and asked,""How's the situation on Yang Mubo's side?”
" He's developing very quickly. After pacifying Wang Nongli, he's pacified the other villages one by one. Now, he's following what Yang Tian and I told him to attack Guangxi Province in the north. As for the thirty thousand Miao people and servants in Guangnan Prefecture, they've all been subdued by him.”
"Five days ago, I went to his camp to take a look. There were at least 20,000 soldiers. When I came back this time, he asked me to ask you if you could borrow some food.”
"20,000 soldiers?" Hearing Mu Yong's words, Zhu Bomu could not help but laugh,""I didn't expect that the three prefectures could produce 20,000 soldiers.”
"But he wants to borrow food? "That's not impossible. You can just return me twice the amount of food next year. You can lend him all the food in the town, except for what we eat ourselves.”
"Yes, I will bring the food over in a few days. I believe he will agree.”" Even if he doesn't agree, I don't think he can do it. After all, the lifeline of his army is in our hands." Mu Yong smiled.”
The lifeline that Mu Yong was talking about was naturally arrows, armor, weapons, and other important resources.
Although Yang Mubo had 20,000 soldiers, there were less than 5,000 elites among them. Other than those 5,000 soldiers, the others were not even equipped with leather armor. The weapons in their hands were rusty iron knives and hunting bows with short range.
If not for Zhu Bomu's continuous supply of weapons and armor, Yang Mubo's 20,000 men would not even be able to defeat the 10,000 men of the Qing army.
After all, the Qing army had two more things than Yang Mubo, guns and cannons!
Thinking of these two things, Zhu Bomu's face couldn't help but turn gloomy because he didn't have these two things in his hands at the moment.
Firearms and cannons would probably only appear when he upgraded his town to a county. However, compared to Yang Mubo's rapid development, his development was somewhat slow...
Thinking about it, Zhu Bomu opened the system interface:
[Faction: Great Ming]
Ruler: Emperor Zhu Bomu of Ming Dynasty
[Hostile Forces: Qing Dynasty, Separatist Forces]
Ally: Yang Mubo
[Territory: Liuzhao Mountain]
[Commoners: 3000/3000]
[Soldiers: 600/600]
Territory Buildings: Arrow Towers, residential buildings (maximum of 100), ploughing fields (maximum of 1000 Mu), town center, ironwood city walls, soldier barracks (can recruit southwest spear soldiers, southwest sword shield soldiers), cavalry barracks (can recruit southwest scout horses, light cavalry), archer barracks (can recruit hunting archers, longbowmen), pool stone road, warehouses, livestock houses, shogunate, lecture hall.
[Buildings that can be built: County Office (Requires 10000 Gold, 10000 Food, 10000 Wood, 10000 Stone)]
[Faction Resources: Gold 8211, Food 17214, Wood 52807, Stone 21,962]
All in all, his other resources had exceeded the resources needed by the county government, but he was still far from reaching the standard in terms of money.
There was nothing he could do about it. It was simply impossible to produce silver and copper coins worth 10,000 taels of gold in the land of three prefectures.
After all, southern Yunnan was not like the north or Jiangnan. Even the poorest province only had a population of 1.3 million. This population would probably exceed that of two large prefectures in Jiangnan.
Not to mention the distance, Guizhou alone had a population of three million at this time, which was more than twice that of southern Yunnan.
Zhu Bomu had never thought that he would have to worry about population one day. Thinking about it, he couldn't help but sigh,""It seems that I have to speed up the plan to conquer Jiaozhi…"
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