After two days of planning, a notice was posted in various parts of Fengyang Prefecture, which attracted a large number of onlookers.

"To recruit sergeants, the age requirement is 16 to 35 years old, once enlisted, 50 acres of cultivated land can be divided on the same day, the government provides seeds, farm tools and cattle, and can be discharged after five years in the army........

As soon as the notice came out, the entire Fengyang Mansion was boiling, and many people felt incredible, the government was so good, giving away land?

"And such a good thing? Fifty acres of land will be sent to the army? We also give away cattle and farm tools! ”

"Really?"

"Is this still a government? I don't believe it! ”

"This notice was issued in the name of the crown prince, it should be true!"

"Where can I sign up for the army? I'm going to try it! ”

"Look, there's a new notice posted here, the government is recruiting craftsmen to build a waterwheel, and a waterwheel will settle a salary......"

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The day after the notice was posted, hundreds of Tuntian soldier recruitment points appeared in various parts of Fengyang Prefecture, and after the news broke, many people flocked to sign up.

Each registration point has a sentry sergeant of the Tianwu Army, who is carefully selected according to the physique and demeanor of the applicants.

"Hey! Master Jun, even the second stunned guy can enlist in the army, I can beat him three, why don't you accept me? A man with five big and three rough and a lot of anger shouted noisily.

One of the captains of the Tianwu Army glanced at him and said, "Your physique is in line, but your spirit is not good, you don't meet the requirements!" ”

The man sneered: "Your Tianwu Army recruits people like this, can the trained soldiers fight?" ”

The captain of the Tianwu Army said: "Boy, have two moves with me, if you can survive three moves in my hands, I will accept you, if you can't hold on, then get out of the way for Lao Tzu!" ”

The man grinned and said, "Come on!" You, a military master, are not afraid to flash your tongue when you breathe so much! ”

The recruitment point was already full of people watching the excitement, and some people who signed up also stopped signing up to watch.

A few sergeants of the Tianwu Army dispersed the applicants who were watching the excitement and vacated a large area.

The five-year-old man smiled: "Master Jun, let's start if it's okay, you only have three moves!" ”

The captain of the Tianwu Army sneered, attacked quickly, and kicked the left foot sharply to the man's left chest, but was avoided by the man, and then swept the side of the man's neck with his right foot, and the man dodged it again as soon as he lowered his body.

This man had obviously also practiced martial arts, and just when he was proud, the captain of the Tianwu Army quickly followed up after sweeping his leg on the side, and his right elbow hit the man's back heavily, and the man's huge body fell to the ground with a bang.

The captain of the Tianwu Army clapped his hands, didn't even look at him, and said, "Recruitment continues!" ”

The big man struggled for a long time to get up, his face turned red, and he looked at the people around him smiling and pointing at him, so he had to leave in a huff.

In fact, the captain of the Tianwu Army admires this person very much, but according to the requirements of the crown prince, such a person must not be accepted.

The requirements for recruiting soldiers in the Tianwu Army are very simple: developed limbs, simple mind, honest, law-abiding, muscular man with a stunned personality, which is also the recruitment requirement of the Qi Family Army at the beginning.

After three days of recruitment, the Tianwu Army recruited a total of 80,000 recruits, but these 80,000 people did not join the Tianwu Army all at once, they are currently only the fourth-class Tuntian soldiers of the Tianwu Army.

The sergeants of the Tianwu Army are now divided into four ranks, the upper class, the middle class, the lower class, and the tuntian soldiers.

The senior soldiers were paid five taels of silver per month, the middle soldiers were four taels, the inferior soldiers were three taels, and the tuntian soldiers were not paid silver.

Tuntian soldiers can be promoted to inferior soldiers for meritorious service, and then promoted to medium soldiers for meritorious service, and their promotion is based on their military merits.

After enlisting in the army, each of these tuntian soldiers was issued a military card, and 50 acres of land were divided, and each household was also given some farm tools and seeds and a ploughing ox, at least one ploughing ox for two households.

After getting so many ready-made things, the Tuntian soldiers were very excited, and started the work of Tuntian with their families, and the Tuntian households felt that there was hope for life, and with the fields, their roots were deeply rooted in this place.

Driven by Yang Tinglin, the thirteen counties of five prefectures in Fengyang Prefecture carried out the work of digging ditches and reclamation in full swing.

All the craftsmen in Fengyang Mansion were also busy, building waterwheels for the government, and the system of paying wages for a waterwheel soon attracted many craftsmen around.

Every morning, the sergeants of the Tianwu Army blew the horn nearby, urging the Tuntian soldiers to get up and gather for roll call, and then start their work after breakfast.

For those who were too lazy to lie in bed, the patrol sergeants went directly to their homes, pulled them out of their beds bare, and whipped them in front of all the households.

There are those who refuse to change their ways, directly take back the fields, leave only a pair of pants for him, and expel them from Fengyang Mansion, and those who drag their families are even worse, and their wives and children have to be stripped and driven out.

It can really be said that one person is lazy, and the whole family suffers!

After a period of rectification, the tun households knew that these 50 acres of land were not so easy to hold, at least the lazy people could not hold them.

When it came to the meal, the tun households put down their farm tools one after another, gathered together to eat, and saw the big buckets of rice and vegetable soup brought over, as well as large pots of vegetarian dishes, and even meat dishes, the tun households were all smiling.

This is called the day, you only need to work on time every day, you can eat, the only tired is your own man, not only to practice, but also to help the family work and farm.

The Tuntian soldiers also know that as long as they are diligent, there is no problem for the family to be well-fed, as long as they work hard, strictly abide by discipline, and then fight with the army and make military achievements, they can also become a member of the Tianwu Army and become the descendant of the crown prince.

The soldiers of Tuntian had already inquired clearly, and the soldiers of the Tianwu Army not only had a fixed monthly salary, but even if they were injured or killed in battle, the pension was also very rich, and they blessed their descendants.

Looking at those well-dressed and well-disciplined Tianwu Army sergeants, the eyes of many Tuntian soldiers radiated a fiery light.

The spring ploughing period has come, and the Fengyang Mansion has begun to dig ditches, dredge and clean up the siltation of the canals, and Zhu Cihong also led a group of officials from the Fengyang Mansion to go out of the city to inspect the farmland.

Due to the severe drought, the water level of rivers and lakes is low, and the canals are high, so it is necessary to divert water to irrigate the fields.

In all parts of the Ming Dynasty, water is generally used to divert water, and there are many kinds of water wheels, the most common is the keel water wheel.

Because the keel waterwheel is shaped like a keel, it is named "keel waterwheel", which has a long history and is popular in most parts of the country.

The keel waterwheel is fixed on the wooden frame of the embankment, and the structure is made of wooden planks as a groove, and the wheel axle rotates by stepping on it, driving the leaves in the trough to scrape the water upward, and it is irrigated in the fields on higher ground, so it is also called "overturning" and "treadmill".

In addition to rotating with footsteps, there are also hand-cranking, oxen pulling, and even using the power of flowing water to generate kinetic energy, and the irrigation area can reach twenty or thirty acres of land.

Zhu Cihong didn't dare to compliment the irrigation ability of the keel waterwheel, thinking about what higher-end irrigation tools to use, he looked like Yang Tinglin and said: "Yang Qing, are there any waterwheel tools with stronger irrigation capabilities?" ”

Yang Tinglin said: "Back to His Royal Highness, the minister once saw a kind of big waterwheel called "Lanzhou waterwheel" in a miscellaneous book, its irrigation capacity is very strong, a large waterwheel can water six or seven hundred acres of farmland, and does not need manpower to operate, can operate day and night, but the cost is expensive, a one costs more than 100 taels of silver, nearly ten times more expensive than the keel waterwheel. “

Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "It sounds very good, the cost is ten times higher than the keel waterwheel, but the irrigation capacity has been increased dozens of times, isn't it a good deal?" You can rest assured to build, you need to build as much as you want, money is not a problem! ”

Yang Tinglin smiled, since His Royal Highness entered Fengyang Mansion to confiscate corrupt officials and gentry, there is indeed no shortage of money now.

Zhu Cihong also saw a kind of waterwheel called the dragon tail car in the book "Taixi Water Law" translated by Xu Guangqi, compared with the keel car, the dragon tail car is not only labor-saving and efficient, one person can be worth ten people, one car can be worth five cars of irrigation, and one person can irrigate thirty or forty acres of land a day.

The dragon tail car is a kind of water lifting machinery in the West, the mechanical principle is the principle of Archimedes spiral motion, the internal structure is tight, and it requires a certain amount of geometric knowledge to figure it out.

Zhu Cihong is just thinking about it, now that time is pressing, such a thing can only be explored in the future, and he is also planning how to popularize physics and geometry to the public.

After a few days of hard work, great progress had been made in digging canals for irrigation in Fengyang Prefecture, and when Zhu Cihong inspected the banks of the Huai River again, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

I saw that on the originally barren large land on both sides of the Huai River, the ravines were vertical and horizontal, and countless huge waterwheels up to ten meters high were located on the side of the Huai River, which was very spectacular.

According to Yang Tinglin's introduction, these tall waterwheels are Lanzhou waterwheels, which were invented by a Jinshi in Jiajing 35 years, and are used in many places in the Ming Dynasty, but they are not so big, most of them are two or three meters high.

Zhu Cihong sighed, this Lanzhou waterwheel is very similar to the Ferris wheel of later generations, it is very dreamy.

The huge waterwheel is on the side of the Huai River, the water flow of the Huai River is used to push the scraper on the waterwheel, the waterwheel is driven to rotate slowly, the bucket on the waterwheel is scooped up with river water in turn, slowly rises, when it rises to the middle of the wheel, the bucket mouth turns over the countryside, the river water in the bucket is poured into the trough, the river water is introduced into the field through the trough, and then introduced into the field by the aqueduct.

Looking at the rattling water in the fields, the faces of the tun households were also full of smiles, with this thing, they were no longer afraid of drought.

"Good!" Zhu Cihong was very happy, and asked, "What about the craftsmen who built the waterwheel?" Have they been paid? ”

Yang Tinglin smiled and said: "Please rest assured, Your Highness has a lot of money, and the minister personally supervised the distribution!" ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, very satisfied: "That's good, the fields are almost reclaimed, let's prepare for spring plowing as soon as possible, because these things have been delayed for more than half a month recently, and we can't delay it any longer!" ”

Yang Tinglin bowed and said, "Yes!" The minister immediately went to do it. ”

Looking at the endless fields and the thousands of towering waterwheels, Zhu Cihong's heart was full of pride.