Lu Si and Zhai Ying were a little flustered. They were both civil officials and knew nothing about war.
"Your Majesty, we have scheduled the 30th of August for the northern expedition. It's only the 8th of August!”
"There's no hurry. The one who entered Fuzhou Prefecture is Bo Luo. He's Slave Jian's prince and has very high combat skills!”
"Then how does Your Majesty plan to fight?"
Zhu Ciao looked at Pu Zhenguo, who was standing upright.
"General Pu, you will lead 1300 vanguard troops and 10,000 farmers to escort the rations and set off first! Ma Zhanshan, take five thousand heavy cavalrymen and set off immediately. Maintain a distance of ten miles from Pu Zhenguo!”
"Understood!"
Pu Zhenguo personally commanded 10,000 farmers to tie the workhorses in the second town center to the long iron carriage.
The pack horse was not a ferghana horse. It had greater endurance and was much slower, but it carried a much heavier load.
A horse farm in the center of a town could produce 5,000 pack horses a month.
One thousand carriages, each with two pack horses.
The remaining 3,000 horses were not idle either. They were prepared to use them on the three-horse long iron carriage that was currently being produced.
One thousand carriages were carrying sacks of rice, potatoes, and fodder.
On the 10th day of the 8th month, Pu Zhenguo led his army to escort 10,000 farmers and 1,000 carriages.
There was a continuous stream of carriages with piles of rations on them. Lu Si could not believe his eyes.
"It's too spectacular! In less than a month or two, we actually have the strength to go north!”
Zhu Ci Xin wasn't happy at all. He had to continue to attack. Slave Jian would definitely be scared out of his wits when he arrived.
Governor Lu Si and Zhai Ying were not idle either. They were assisting the town center in purchasing various resources.
Many people in Leizhou Prefecture heard that charcoal, saltpeter, sulfur, and stone could be sold for money. They searched everywhere for these things to mine and send them to the market to sell for money.
The money from the sale was used to buy rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and various fabrics produced in the town center.
Seeing that the city center was still so prosperous, Lu Si and Zhai Ying even felt that this city center was even more prosperous than the capital of the Ming Empire.
Especially when more and more brick houses were being built, Lu Si and Zhai Ying felt like they were dreaming.
After all, in the Ming Empire, most of the houses of the people were made of mud bricks or walls covered with mud.
Brick houses of this scale were usually found only on the main streets of the capital and the various provincial capitals.
"Your Majesty, with our current rate of development, the Leizhou Prefecture will probably surpass the capital's economy in less than a year!”
Zhu Cishi appeared unusually calm. The peasants in the city center were far more formidable than the commoners of the capital.
The farmers recruited by the town center would automatically search for various resources to mine according to the system's instructions.
And for the people of the capital, a hundred years of development would not be as effective as a year of development for the city center.
On the afternoon of the 10th day of the 8th month, Puzhen Kingdom's 1,300 soldiers and 10,000 farmers had arrived at Leizhou City.
Leizhou City was less than 50 kilometers away from the second city center.
The soldiers were all sitting in the carriage, and their speed was much faster than walking.
The 5,000 heavy-armored cavalrymen had yet to set off, and the soldiers were putting on heavy armor for their Ferghana Horses.
Before encountering the enemy, the soldiers and Ferghana Horses would put on heavy armor so that the horses and warriors could get used to fighting in heavy armor.
The task of equipping 5,000 warhorses with heavy armor was done by the farmers who were recruited, and it would take about a day.
To the north of Leizhou Prefecture, the nearest city was Zhan Jiang City.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhan Jiang City was only a relatively large county.
Zhan Jiang City was under the jurisdiction of Leizhou Prefecture. If they went further north, they would enter the jurisdiction of Zhaoqing Prefecture.
Zhaoqing Prefecture and Guangzhou Prefecture were very close to each other, and both belonged to King Gui's territory.
The Gui King had already been pushed to the throne by a group of ministers, and the year title had been changed to Yongli.
The capital city of King Gui was in Zhaoqing City of Zhaoqing Prefecture, while Guangzhou City of Guangzhou Prefecture was temporarily occupied by the younger brother of King Tang.
The King of Gui had yet to ally with Li Dingguo. Zhang Xianzhong was currently leading Li Dingguo and his four adopted sons to fight against Slave Jian in the Ba Shu region.
At present, Zhu Youlang, King of Gui, relied on Ding Kuichu, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Qu Si, Patrol Wang Huacheng and Lv Daqi.
Ding Kuichu was appointed as the head of the cabinet by the King of Gui. He was a greedy and cowardly person.
Qu Shi Si could be considered a loyal official, but he was captured and killed by Kong You De in the end. Wang Huacheng and Lu Daqi were also considered loyal and brave ministers.
The history of this plane had quietly changed.
During the reign of Emperor Longwu and Emperor Wudi, King Gui proclaimed himself emperor of Zhaoqing Prefecture.
Not long after Zhu Youlang proclaimed himself emperor, a group of Jinyiwei arrived at Zhaoqing Prefecture.
The Embroidered Uniform Guard with Zhu Ci's imperial edict handed it to Zhu Youlang.
Facing the Embroidered Uniform Guards that had suddenly rushed over from the south, Ding Kuichu did not immediately show any disgust.
He wanted to know what these Embroidered Uniform Guards were for.
"King Gui, accept the decree!"
Zhu Youlang was stunned. He had just ascended the throne and became emperor. It was a big joke that the Jinyiwei suddenly came and asked him to accept the imperial edict.
Qu Si signaled Zhu Youlang to accept the imperial edict.
Zhu Youlang took the imperial edict and looked at it carefully before handing it to Ding Kuichu and Qu Shisi.
"What is it? Crown Prince Zhu Ci had already proclaimed himself emperor, so the year should be called Xingming?”
Looking at the imperial seal on the imperial edict, Zhu Youlang's body went limp and he sat on the ground.
Ding Kuichu and Qu Shisi were also stunned.
"Who spread the rumor that the Crown Prince is dead?”
"King Gui, His Majesty wishes for you to abolish the title of emperor! To welcome the Ming Empire's army into Zhaoqing Prefecture!”
"Army? His Majesty has an army?" Ding Kuichu had originally intended to insist that the Gui King continue to be the Emperor, but when he heard that Zhu Ci Xin had an army, he had no choice but to reconsider.
The Embroidered Uniform Guard captain nodded.
"Yes, His Majesty has tens of thousands of troops! According to the information we received from the messenger pigeon, the vanguard of 1,300 infantrymen and 5,000 heavy cavalrymen have already set off!”
"Heavy cavalry? There are heavy cavalry in the south?" Ding Kuichu could not believe his ears. He kept feeling that these Embroidered Uniform Guards were scaring him.
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