North of Xinzheng County, Xuanyuan Lake, Longwen Yayuan.

This is a new courtyard built by the Gao family in six rooms the year before last, and it can be seen from the word "Longwen" that it was built in the name of Gao Pragmatic, but in fact, Gao Pragmatic has not returned to his hometown at all in recent years, and this courtyard was actually built by Gao Pragmatic's mother Zhang.

King Xiang once said that wealth does not return to the hometown, such as brocade clothes at night. But Gao Pragmatic is different from King Xiang, he doesn't have any feelings about returning to his hometown with wealth, but he can't resist his mother, thinking that it's just a separate courtyard anyway, and if it is built, it will be built, and he can't make his mother unhappy about this matter.

However, accidents always come very suddenly, originally Gao pragmatic thought that Xinzheng District was a county seat, and this courtyard was outside the county, although it was a suburb, it should not cost a few dollars. Who knows that although the land price in Xinzheng is cheap, the cost of this villa is very expensive, and it took 170,000 taels of silver to complete the construction, which stunned Gao Shishi, who received the report.

Is there a mistake in history when Zhang Juzheng ruled the world in his hometown to repair the house, it is said that the repair is more magnificent than the palace, but it only cost two or three hundred thousand taels, I fucking spent 170,000 yuan to repair a single courtyard, I am repairing a single courtyard, or renovating Xinzheng County, is it cheap, my mother was pitted?

He is the eldest son, and the Zhang family will eat and wear with him in the future, and he will definitely not be greedy for his money, but the Zhang family is from a huge rich family, in case he can't figure out the market and is deceived, this may still exist, so Gao Pragmatic has been remembering this matter in his heart, and plans to take a good look after he comes back, how did he spend 170,000 taels to repair individual hospitals.

However, when he saw this courtyard with his own eyes, he was convinced that this garden only cost 170,000 yuan

This Longwen Yayuan covers a huge area, with more than 3,300 acres, which is equivalent to a little more than two square kilometers in later generations, and it is a lot more to include all the Xuanyuan Lake Wetland Park in Xinzheng City in later generations.

To put it simply, this "other courtyard" is not much smaller than the Summer Palace that Cixi repaired later, of course, the Summer Palace is a Beijing teacher, the land is expensive, the labor is expensive, and it has to feed a large group of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and all kinds of materials are not the best but the most expensive, which is not comparable.

However, it is not a joke that this Longwen Yayuan, which nominally belongs to Gao Pragmatic, is not comparable to the atmospheric rich nature and the Summer Palace, but there are two points, Gao Pragmatic can see at a glance that it is stronger than the Summer Palace.

This Longwen Yayuan is called Annex, and the name is very elegant, but it is actually more like a fort, which is surrounded by water on three sides, and only the north is 6 places. According to the introduction of his mother, Zhang, the three sides of the water were built with thick cement walls, which were built according to the standard of repairing the fortress during the Jinghua Infrastructure Border Army Project under the name of Gao Pragmatic, and the horizontal and vertical inside were all steel bars, and the thickness of the entire wall was 16 feet, that is, more than five meters wide in later generations

6 The main wall on the ground is even more exaggerated, reaching a thickness of twenty feet, rounded to almost seven meters wide, and the walls can run horses

The height of the wall is not ambiguous at all, unified into four zhang, almost more than 13 meters in later generations, and the city wall of the current Jingshi is about the same height. It's not against the rules, but is it necessary?

In fact, the city wall of the Ming Dynasty Jingshi is not the highest, the thickest, and the overall city defense is not the strongest, not to mention other places, just the Datong City that Gao Pragmatic has been to, its city defense is stronger than Beijing. At the beginning, when the army was pressing, the people in Datong City were not worried about Datong's loss at all, and there was also this reason in it.

Gao pragmatic looked at his own Longwen Yayuan, and was really a little confused, shouldn't this courtyard be a place for the elderly, what is the point of building it to be able to compare the defense with the border town Xiongguan, does my mother think that I want to rebel, and give me a closer hometown in advance

Facing his son's doubts, Zhang smiled and said, "Don't look at your mother like this, your mother is a decision made based on your words." ”

"My words" Gao pragmatic confused "What did I say"

Zhang's eyebrows raised, "Didn't you say that in the next few years, there will be more and more natural disasters in the northern provinces, which may eventually lead to a large number of displaced people, and may even cause chaos, so I hurriedly built this courtyard into a fort, in case it is really one day in the future, Xinzheng Gao's family will always avoid a lot of losses." ”

"This" Gao pragmatic was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile, "My mother is really taking precautions." ”

"That's nature." Zhang said a little proudly: "How do you think that the mother would give up Gao Laozhuang's ancestral business and come here, I asked Gao Jue, those guys who were trained under Qi Shaobao, they all think that if they build a fort dock in Xinzheng, it is the best place in this area, surrounded by water on three sides, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is no sailor here, if there is a police, as long as the north is guarded, it will be foolproof."

Zhang said with a smile: "Your method of protecting the mine team and the factory team is really good, our family is light in several factories and mines in Xinzheng and Yuzhou, if the mine protection team and the factory protection team are all gathered, there will be more than 2,000 people, and it is more than enough to guard this dock fort." ”

That is, I have more than 2,000 Ding, and if I put it in a border town, I can almost use it as the core backbone of an army of 20,000 or 30,000 to defend a dock fort, isn't it impregnable?

But mother, what's the use of you just guarding the top of the dock fort, what about the industries in Xinzheng and Yuzhou

That is the coal and iron joint venture industrial group, although it is a handicraft level, but can not stand the scale, if you lose it, people can produce 3,000 catties of stainless steel a month, more than 40,000 catties of good wrought iron, in the current era, only my own Kaiping three major factories can stabilize it, you are a serious enemy

Fortunately, several factories and mines in Henan are not responsible for the production of firearms, and the products related to the military industry are mainly wrought iron sheets, which are generally used to make armor, so there is no offense. In case the three major factories in Kaiping are lost, then the fun is the real Dalongqing two-type musket and the propylene one-type tiger squat cannon, the two fist products are produced there.

Different from the naming method of muskets, the artillery series launched under the name of Gao Shishi is named after the year of the sexagenary branch, such as the "Bingzi Tiger Squat Cannon" was finalized and produced in the fourth year of Wanli. The fourth year of Wanli is the year of Bingzi, and this cannon has not been remodeled, so it is called Bingzi one, if it is changed in the future, it may be Bingzi two type, Bingzi three type and so on.

This tiger squat cannon is designed and manufactured according to the requirements of Qi Jiguang, the chief soldier of Jizhen, combined with Qi Jiguang's test data in Jizhen, and then after some improvements, and added a new gun carriage with high pragmatism and creative manufacturing.

The tiger squat cannon is a kind of small and medium-sized artillery, which is generally used in field battles with the army, and it is a kind of cannon that Qi Jiguang likes very much.

The power of this artillery is not obvious, but because the iron-smelting technology of the three major factories in Kaiping is relatively reliable, the weight has decreased somewhat, and the stability and durability have been significantly improved.

However, these things may not be of much significance to the Zhang family, especially when several of his brothers are staying in Xinzheng's hometown, in case there is really a turmoil among the displaced people, the Zhang family will definitely choose to protect the family first, and it will not be too late to recover the factory and mine.

However, Gao pragmatic thought about it and felt that Zhang's concern was still reasonable, and he had better make arrangements for these possible accidents first, otherwise the loss of money in the factory and mine and the loss of skilled workers would not be able to afford to hurt him.