After coming to Zhangjiacun for a while, Li Yunzi knew that this master was the identity of a soil emperor here, of course, this soil emperor just thought about it in his heart, and he didn't say anything to outsiders. But the lord is here to say a lot, and he defeated the officers and soldiers last time, this is not what the emperor of the soil is.

Li Yunzi heard that there were less than 400 people in the village here, less than half a year after the master came, I heard that the number of people here exceeded 100,000, this kind of ability is really admirable, the key is that the people settled down and worked after they came, although they came here and were arrested, but I didn't hear that the person wanted to leave.

Li Yunzi has seen the old man's wealth, not to mention anything else, as far as food is concerned, he is half a hundred years old, and he has been to many places, but he has never seen the food in that place can be compared with here, every day is big fish and meat, and he has not had this kind of blessing at home before.

The more he has been in Zhangjia Village for a long time, the more Li Yunzi feels that this place is not simple, the road leading to the iron mine, when he saw it for the first time, he almost came out of his eyes, what kind of means is this to repair the tools so well, the best road in the imperial court is just to pave the road with bluestone slabs, this kind of stone road is expensive, and the imperial court does not dare to repair it indiscriminately, but Zhangjiacun is a small place, but there is a smooth and hard road, and there is a feeling of three views being reversed.

As the housekeeper of the eldest lady's mother's family, Chen Zijian gave the family a dowry with an object, what is it called a solar lamp, and Li Yunzi doesn't know much else, but he knows that the solar lamp can emit light as bright as day at night, and he almost didn't bite his tongue at that time. Li Yunzi felt that the surprise of living a lifetime was not as good as coming to Zhangjia Village for more than a month.

"Sir!"

Chen Zijian: "Well, Uncle Li, please take a seat." ”

Li Yunzi "Don't dare, don't dare." ”

Li Yunzi bowed and waved his hand, in his eyes, Chen Zijian is the master, he is a subordinate, how can he be presumptuous in front of the master, Chen Zijian does not have much class concept, but in the eyes of others, the class concept is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Chen Zijian is too lazy to be polite, his current status does not need to be polite to others, the fact is the opposite, when others see Chen Zijian, they have to politely call him the chief.

Give Li Yunzi the design drawings of the Collapse River Bridge, "This is the construction process of a bridge, and I have already written the specific construction process, and you are usually responsible for supervising and managing the construction of the bridge." ”

Li Yunzi had no experience in bridge repair before, and a layman suddenly took over the bridge repair work, looking confused when he took the drawings.

Chen Zijian: "You can do things according to the process, this time the bridge needs to be repaired by 10,000 people, these people will arrange it for you, and you will be rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver after it is done." ”

Build a good bridge across the river, this is a business card of Zhangjia Village, a way to show off the strength of the volunteers, in the era when there is no machinery, to build a bridge across more than 50 meters, can be said to be a miracle of the new era, Chen Zijian does not spare money, just a few legions are constantly catching people back, building the bridge can digest manpower.

What Chen Zijian did was to keep arresting people back, and then use various large projects to consume manpower, in the process Zhangjiacun got all kinds of foundations, and the people were paid with silver, and there was also fish and meat production in Dianbai County, Chen Zijian dared to play like this, otherwise he would not need the imperial court to encircle and suppress himself. You must know that with the little grain produced in Zhangjia Village, in the face of 100,000 people, they would have starved to death long ago.

Li Yunzi looked at it for a while, although he wanted to put a cultural person in front of the master, but unfortunately the white paper was simplified, and it was not impossible for him to understand the simplified Chinese characters in the traditional Chinese characters he had learned, but it would take a while to even guess and be blind.

Chen Zijian: "Bring it, let me explain to you, this is a river in the middle of the Zhangdian Highway, the length is more than 50 meters, and now we have to build a bridge across the river, by the way, the depth of this river is about five meters." To build a bridge, first dig two diversion rivers, you look at the inside and here, after digging the diversion river. ”

After Chen Zijian finished explaining, Li Yunzi's throat thumped, his eyes almost bulged out, and he was shocked and incoherent, in Chen Zijian's opinion, a bridge spanning fifty meters was nothing, and it could be done with the current ability of Zhangjiacun, but from Li Yunzi's point of view, this was an unimaginable event.

Let Li Yunzi be responsible for such an important matter, this is a matter that will be remembered in history!

Li Yunzi trembled and left, taking over the construction of the bridge, the first thing to do is to prepare for the transfer of personnel, mobilize tens of thousands of people, if you don't get Chen Zijian's permission, whoever does it will die.

Soon, a task appeared in the information query, to purchase 100,000 sacks in the name of Huaxia Jianqiao, and the price of each sack was 50 wen. This is for those who solve the sackcloth by themselves, and you can also go to the Huaxia Jianqiao Office to get the sackcloth and help process the sack, and a sack processing fee is ten yuan. When the news came out, the women of Zhangjia Village were shaken, this is pie in the sky, uh, no, this is a good thing for everyone from the chief.

The sackcloth is now basically controlled by the volunteers, and no one can earn that money for the fifty cents in the front, but it is easy to help process the sacks in the back.

Li Yunzi got the order, and more than 1,000 people were requisitioned and set off in the past three days, and it didn't take too many people to excavate the diversion river in the early stage, and the manpower will be increased one after another, although Chen Zijian said that 10,000 people would be mobilized, and if necessary, 20,000 people could also do it, what he wanted was the bridge to be built, and he didn't mind how much manpower was used in the process, and Chen Zijian didn't care about the increase in the amount of money spent.

Zhangjiacun was able to develop safely because there were six legions to keep the war out.

On the coast of eastern Guangdong Province, two fleets staged a big drama of arrest and killing.

A fleet of ships along the coast to Nanyang returned from Nanyang, loaded with silver and various other spices, which were united by several families in Nanjing, bringing porcelain, silk, and medicinal herbs to Nanyang, buying the goods to the Europeans, and then returning with silver and locally purchased spices. And in the process of returning, I encountered Zhang Wu's warship patrolling the sea.

Zhang Wu received an order in addition to clearing out pirates and maintaining the safety of the vicinity of Dianbai County, if he encountered such a passing merchant ship, he didn't have to say a word, rob.

The people who can do maritime trade are not ordinary people, because the common people are not qualified to go to sea at all, and there is no need to worry about what damage will be done to the ordinary people if they rob this ship, and the damage is the big merchants and gentry. Grabbing the interests of these strata, Chen Zijian has no pressure.

There are a total of nine warships that went to sea with Zhang Wu, five of which were the soft sailing boats that Chen Zijian used to rob the Europeans, but the various dense ropes on the soft sailing ships were too cumbersome, and now the soft sails of the five soft sailing ships have been dismantled and replaced with the hard sails familiar to the Chinese people. A pair of paddle wheels were added.

The nine warships led by Zhang Wu can be said to be the fastest warships to pursue the enemy in this era. One fleet can only be powered by sails, and the other fleet can escape in addition to sail power, plus paddle wheel power. The installation of the paddle wheel is considered to be the opening of the volunteers.

Seeing that the distance between the two sides is less than a hundred meters, the crew with good eyesight can see the frightened look of the enemy in front of them with the naked eye, the corners of Zhang Wu's mouth are raised, and it is a fat sheep sent to the door, then you are welcome, the more loot you grab, the more face you have in front of the chief, Zhang Wu envies Li Hu and several army commanders, they took thousands of people to sweep thousands of troops on land, although they are not so majestic, but they are not bad.

During this period of time, he went to sea and encountered five waves of pirates, Zhang Wu's dispatch was very simple, after approaching 100 meters, he bombarded the pirate ship with Hongyi cannons, and after approaching 50 meters, he shot the enemy with the Minnie gun on the ship. To have such a merit, it can only be said that the volunteers bullied the enemy with weapons, and the pirates mainly used cold weapons, what? The pirates also had artillery. What are you kidding, the pirate artillery is here, you don't have that kind of talent and technology to build your own artillery, the artillery is mainly in the hands of the government, if you want to grab the artillery from the government, then don't think about it.

The Volunteers are very scoundrels, if the artillery plus the Minnie gun does not surrender after shooting, then open the distance and continue to bombard with the Hongyi cannon, the Volunteers have such a fast hanging as the bright wheel, the pirates want to catch up with the Volunteers and start a melee battle are not capable, can only passively accept the Volunteers' artillery bombardment, so after a few rounds, the pirates choose the answer in the choice of death and surrender.

The fleet in front of them is inferior in force, not to mention that they have no force, they are worse than the pirates, the pirates are all killed by the volunteers, and they can still fly into the sky.

"Boom, boom, boom."

The first three warships approached the merchant ships that wanted to escape, and first fired a warning shot, and the caravan ships saw the imposing approaching fleet, they knew that something was wrong, and wanted to speed up and escape, but unfortunately they could see the ships with their eyes at sea, and the distance would not be too far, the speed could only rely on the wind, and it was too late to escape, and the volunteers also opened the hanging, and the merchant fleet could only watch the volunteers approach, and then open fire.

The volunteers opened fire on this side, and the caravan began to be chaotic, encountering pirates with artillery, they could not escape, and the fire was pressed and beaten, as long as the volunteers chased after and bombarded with artillery, what would be the final result, I shuddered to think about it.

Zhang Wu: "Those people surrendered, sent people on the ship, and tied them up first. ”

One ship broke away from the fleet and approached the merchant ship, and the remaining eight ships stood guard behind, this was to warn the merchant ship not to have any thoughts after surrendering, if it dared to resist the volunteers who had tied people in the past, the warship behind would definitely retaliate and sink the ship.

"Bang."

The dull crash of ships rang out, and one of the Volunteers' warships crashed into the caravan ships.

Han Tian rushed over with his brother with a short knife, "Don't move, otherwise Lao Tzu will cut you with a knife." ”

If there is only one ship, and the volunteers come up like this, the people on the merchant ships may resist, saying that they can't let the silver be robbed, but unfortunately there are eight ships guarding behind, and the merchant ships dare to resist. The end of the resistance is to be sunk and feed the fish, it is better to die than to live, plus the front was bombarded by the artillery of the volunteers, although it was not hit, but it had sunk the will of resistance of the people on the merchant ship. That's what artillery does, if it can't hit you, it scares you to death.

What do those people want to say, Han Tian cares about them, he is an authentic electric white man, he used to live fishing, and the people on the merchant ship spoke the language of Nanjing, Han Tian was not interested in being verbose, so he took people over and tied them up.

Those people didn't understand what they were doing, but of course they probably understood the meaning of begging for mercy.

A battle ended in which the Volunteers had the advantage in weapons and devoured eight ships of the merchant fleet, none of which could escape.

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