However......

Yang Xin's stimulation was a bit ruthless.

Only five days later, Wang Wanqing was under his pressure, and had to fight all night to paint a bunch of various steampunk paintings, and then together with a book written by Yang Xin on the steam engine and the steam-powered mechanical system, Huang Zhen brought it back to the capital by clipper and handed it over to Madame Yang to dedicate to His Majesty the Emperor.

Ten days later, Yang Dudu, who was inspecting the production of canned food in Zhoushan, received the emperor's decree.

"Back to Beijing?"

He was stunned.

"I heard that His Majesty is in a hurry to summon the Governor."

Li Shi said with a smiling face.

The holy decree was actually sent to Nanjing, and it was five hundred miles expedited, but Nanjing didn't know where Yang Dudu, who had been running around all this time, was at this time, so he was sent directly to Suzhou to weave, fortunately, Li Shi was able to find him, so he simply ran to Jinshanwei in person, and then asked the guards there to send him over with a centipede boat.

"Nothing else?"

Yang Xin said somewhat suspiciously.

"Nope!"

Li Shi said.

Yang Dudu immediately understood that the apocalypse was overstimulated, and he couldn't control the excitement in his heart all of a sudden.

His Majesty the Emperor urgently needed him to explain this steam power system in person, and I have to say that he was still a little too impulsive on this issue, completely underestimating His Majesty's enthusiasm for pursuing technology. In other words, Wang Wanqing's painting is still good, she not only drew the schematic diagram of the steam engine, but also a moving diagram, in fact, it is a simple animation......

Well, it's actually a little album.

As for how to make it move, it's very simple.

With the technical level of the apocalypse, the principle of this machine can be understood at a glance, and then all that remains is how to turn it into reality, and this is really the most difficult, after all, cylinders, seals, all kinds of parts, these messes need to be solved one by one. And the same steam engine-powered machinery, especially those full of steampunk style, like those of the late nineteenth-century science fiction writers, can be said to be the imagination of steam machinery, instantly opened the door to a new world for His Majesty the Emperor.

It's no less than when the two met back then.

Of course, Apocalypse wanted him to hurry back.

Go back, go back.

Anyway, at this time, the flood has basically passed, because of the relatively sufficient food supply, coupled with the price of eight coins of grain that he forcibly suppressed, there was no large-scale chaos in the disaster area in the south of the Yangtze River, and there were also very few people who died of hunger, and it was impossible to have nothing, but a large number of people died of starvation. Especially in Wujin and Jiangyin, the hardest-hit areas, because of the early receding water and the effective organization, the replanted crops were about to be harvested at this time, and the sweet potatoes planted by him in Wujiang and other places under his coercion and temptation have been supporting those poor people during this time.

The canned food donated by Yang Dudu and the sweet potato leaves have been an important food for the poor people in the countryside for more than a month.

As for industrial production in the cities, it has long been restored.

In fact, at this time, even those gentry admitted that Yang Dudu had saved countless victims.

As for Xuzhou, he has transferred a total of 50,000 victims from the hardest-hit areas by hire during this time, and these victims are currently mainly located in the iron ore mining area of Ma'anshan, and the number of canneries along the river has increased to more than a dozen, as well as the reclamation area in the Fengyang area.

However, the latter is not to reclaim the land, but to use the limestone everywhere in the area to burn cement, and then the reclaimed army uses the cement to build the reservoir......

Of course, the Fengyang area has to build a reservoir.

Large-scale reservoirs can't be repaired, but small reservoirs that irrigate tens of thousands of acres can still be repaired.

The vast majority of the modern reservoirs in that area were built in the fifties, and there is no high-end material such as reinforced concrete, that is, earth-rock dams, but some important locations still have to use cement, and it is indeed too dangerous to build dams above 50 meters, and it is still no problem to build dams of 20 or 30 meters.

It's just that this kind of engineering requires organizational skills.

And the militia in the Fengyang Reclamation District does not lack this organizational force.

Next, Yang Xin will continue to repair in that area, just like modern times, so that there are reservoirs all over the area.

At the end of the day, this can still be of some use.

And he didn't have to worry about the local gentry.

It is said that Fengyang was like a no-man's land before, relying on Zhu Yuanzhang's special care during the Hongwu period, the cultivated land area of Fengyang Mansion was once as high as 400,000 hectares, but at that time it was measured with a small bow, which was smaller than at this time, of course, some people said that this number is not right, it should be written 40,000 into 400,000, as for Zhu Yuanzhang and not using Arabic numerals, how can this kind of problem occur does not need to be investigated.

However......

Now there are still 60,000 hectares.

The cultivated area of Fengyang Prefecture is 60,000 hectares.

This total area is equivalent to half of modern Anhui Province, and 80 percent is the behemoth of the plains, the super giant mansion, with a total cultivated area of 6 million mu, equivalent to the area of a county.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty are always so amazing.

Therefore, in this vast land with a degree of barrenness comparable to the Gobi Desert in the northwest, Yang Xin can freely choose the reclamation area he likes, and then build a small reservoir to cope with the next drought, not only drought, there is almost no year in this area that is not a disaster, but this year is a rare good year with good wind and rain. In short, most of him from Huaibei actually belonged to the disaster area of Fengyang Province, and a total of 50,000 men, women, and children migrated out, and the latter had no attachment to leaving his homeland.

After all, this is following Yang Dudu.

Anyway, what is the day of those Yang family households in Fengyang Tunken District, they have already seen it, and now that Yang Dudu has hired him, he will definitely live such a life, since this is the case, of course hurry up.

The southward migration of these 50,000 victims has also greatly eased the government's relief pressure.

In short, so far, both Jiangnan and Huaibei have survived this year's catastrophe.

As for next year......

Let's talk about next year, next year it will be the turn of the north, next year will be the great drought in Hebei plus the locust plague in Shandong, and the entire Ming Dynasty is steadily entering the mode of natural disasters.

Since the apocalypse is urgently summoned, there is no need for Yang Xin to delay any longer.

As for the canneries here......

This is special only because the production of cans of iron cans here, just some time ago, both Sugang and Jiantie production workshops skyrocketed, but then the two sides truce, arms orders fell sharply, those iron-smelting workshops want to cry without tears, Yang Dudu began to purchase a large number of iron sheets. No matter how strict his requirements are, these iron-smelting workshops can make it, especially those Suzhou steel workshops in Wuhu, they are currently raw and cooked together, and the molten iron from blast furnace pig iron is directly fed into the wrought iron furnace, and then smelted into high-quality wrought iron.

They were able to provide Yang Xin with a steady stream of wrought iron sheets.

It's just that the cost is high.

Yang Xin then did the tin plating himself, and the rest was made by artisans, but the latter was completely handmade, so in the end an iron can was far more expensive than the cans inside.

However, if you want to use it as a strategic reserve, you can only use this kind of thing.

Costs aside.

After all, no matter how expensive it is, it is nothing more than less than a penny of silver, and a pound of iron is only a little more than a penny, and a skilled craftsman can make dozens of such iron cans a day, and the sea fish here are even cheaper, as the main fishing ground in China, the trawler is completely like a fish mountain. The rest of the cost is fuel, which burns coal, and as for spices, it is not worth mentioning for Yang Dudu, who runs the Nanyang route by himself.

Yang Xin set off from Zhoushan the next day, but he was on a sailor's fast boat and turned to North Korea on the way.

The boar skin did not attack Naju.

He only sent a forward to test it, but then ran into Yang Xin's marines, and was killed by the latter's spear array and musket ten rounds of fire, and then Sun Chuanting attacked Hetuala, and the wild boar skin hurriedly returned to Seoul to prepare to go back to the rescue. And he stayed with Amin to guard Jeonju, but because of the fierce resistance of the Koreans in this area due to the shaving of his hair and easy clothes, Amin did not continue to go south, but Azig, as Amin's general, led 5,008 banners of Manchuria, 10,000 banners of Korea, and 10,000 green flag troops to the east to Pusan.

He then forced the North Koreans in the Pusan area to shave their hair and change their clothes, and although there was some resistance, the repression of Jiannu was also effective.

Eventually, the boar skin de facto took control of North Korea.

Even Li Hui was controlled in Seoul and completely turned into his puppet.

It is also easy to shave.

Therefore, the current king of Daejin has a rat's tail on his head, and it is said that he has washed his face with tears in his palace.

At present, Li Liang only has a small piece of territory roughly in modern Jeollanam-do, but because a large number of North Koreans who are unwilling to shave their hair and change their clothes have flocked here, his will to resist in this territory is very tenacious, and with the Qi Jinbu and the Marine Corps, at least this year there is no danger. As for the fact that Yang Dudu couldn't bring troops over for the time being because of some things, Li Liang was helpless, but in order to show his loyalty, he also shrunk and took out a box of jewelry to give to His Majesty the Emperor for disaster relief.

Yang Dudu expressed satisfaction with this.

However, Li Liang also begged Yang Dudu to help get some food, after all, he is such a big place, even if it is a traditional agricultural area, he can't feed so many people.

This is easy to do, just give him a loan from Shoucheng Money.

Yang Dudu waved his pen, and the king of Joseon used the salt tax as collateral to borrow 200,000 taels, of course, to calculate the interest, and it was profitable, but it could be paid off within 20 years.

Li Liang was immediately grateful.

Immediately afterwards, he sent four little beauties to Yang Dudu.

However, Yang Dudu said that he was very interested in Jeju Island, and he had bought two islands for his two concubines, but there were two other concubines who did not have islands......

Given.

Li Liang did not hesitate.

So Xiao Meow, who has been clamoring for an island, also has his own island, but not the whole island, after all, there are many people on the island, Li Liang just allows the Yang family to build a house on the island casually and enclose the land, even if their family is his family, Li Liang does not think that this barren island, there will be anything worthy of people like Yang Dudu, and it is also suitable for raising horses.

In this way, Yang Dudu made a trip to Korea, and then set off from Mokpo Port to continue his journey back to the capital.

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