The reform of the powder keg is nothing more than a mention to the apocalypse......

In the past, although the Ming army was also using a large number of gunpowder weapons, the number was still limited after all, but in recent years, the elite of the imperial court represented by the new army has completely entered the era of firearms.

And also multiple firearms.

In recent years, the twelve-pound Hongyi cannon in Liaodong has increased to more than a hundred, hundreds of light Hongyi cannons, and the fortress-level cities on the nine sides are also using Hongyi cannons to gradually replace those small jack furlong machines. And the original sharpshooter, three-eyed guns and the like are also being eliminated, even if they are pure infantry, the number of heavy arquebuses such as turtledoves is also increasing.

And these things represent a significant increase in the demand for gunpowder.

The capital is still the largest gunpowder base, and the amount of gunpowder produced by Wang Gong Factory has exceeded 5,000 catties per day.

Similarly, stockpiles of gunpowder are constantly increasing.

After all, this is all stored first, and then called by the military department.

The original gunpowder cellar itself was not enough, and it had increased a lot in the original history of Chongzhen, so Yang Xin was alarmist in front of the apocalypse, and His Majesty the Emperor, who was already quite knowledgeable in scientific knowledge, immediately realized that he was standing in a place where the rabbit mountain could be seen with the naked eye, in fact, a shocking explosion could break out at any time. Since this is of course, it is necessary to take precautions, it is nothing more than spending money, as the war situation in Liaodong has turned stable again, and the Huangji Palace has been completed, the remaining two halls have also entered the end, and the silver is still quite abundant in the nine thousand years old.

Then fix it.

Isn't it just some cement?

At the age of 9,000, he liked cement for people's homes, because the cement factory belonged to him, and the use of cement was also liked by the gentry in the Gyeonggi area of the eunuch party.

The cement factory is indeed 9,000 years old.

But the coal needed by the cement factory, the machinery it needed, and even the transportation were all those of the gentry, and needless to say, the wooden barrels filled with cement alone fed a bunch of nine-thousand-year-old gentry, because at this time there could be no woven bags, and they had to be moisture-proof, and in the end the only one that was strong and moisture-proof was the wooden barrel.

In fact, in the early days, cement was made in wooden barrels.

Of course, no sooner you don't need to wrap it.

But until the time of the Republic of China, most of the cement was still wooden barrels or even iron barrels.

Then there are multi-layer paper bags, but the kraft paper is also beyond Yang Xin's ability, so the most realistic choice is a wooden barrel.

Then everything from logging to barreling became a source of wealth for the northern eunuch gentry.

Not to mention coal.

Those small coal kilns in western Beijing are already in short supply.

In short, this project is really happy, and the nine thousand years old also proposed to the apocalypse that both sides of the royal road that need to be weeded every year in the Daming Gate are all pasted to death with cement, so that there is no need to remove the grass several times a year, and it makes people look like grass.

In that case......

In that case, let them be pleased.

Yang Dudu does not object to their labor and money, after all, the more cement is used, the more people are resettled, this year, with the continuous natural disasters in various places, more and more displaced people to the capital to make a living, at present they are mainly two resettlement areas, and the largest is the cement factory, where there are more than 70,000 men, women and children working, from mining to burning cement a full range of manual ......

Including cement grinding.

The burned cement blocks are crushed by strong laborers with sledgehammers.

The women and children continued to knock until they were more broken, the big grinders were grinding, the small grinders were fine, and the whole complex process was full of homeless people from all over the country who made a living, and the wages were pitiful, but there was one, sweet potato rice, sorghum rice wotou mixed with wild vegetables, and canned sea fish in clay pots.

If you are willing to do it, you can do it whenever you are willing to go.

Anyway, there is no shortage of displaced people, and there is no need for technology, it is pure coolie.

As for the accommodation......

Who cares about your residence, you build a shed like a canal slenderman, anyway, it burns cement, the cement factory is surrounded by broken grass sheds, and then there were several serious fires before the manager dug a trench to block it, in short, nine thousand years old will not be worse than other black-hearted factory owners, but it will not be much better. The only principle is to eat and be full, anyway, they are the cheapest sweet potatoes, sorghum, canned fish are also the worst, they have fled the famine, and they have nothing to pick.

Anyway, there is no other way to live wherever you go.

But as long as there is another livelihood, the family is gone, and it has been going and coming all these years.

There are even nearby prefectures and counties that are like migratory birds, and the limestone mines and cement factories are like a huge whirlpool, sucking all the unstable factors around the capital over, even if there have been many earthquakes this year, there has been no trouble in this area.

After all, there are places to eat.

And the other is that the Yang family hired to go to Tianjin to reclaim the famine, and it is not limited to the south of the Haihe River, they have begun to reclaim the land in the Lutai area on the north bank to divert water and plant rice, Yang Dudu is still clamoring, he wants to build a new Luan River from the south of Luan County to the mouth of silkworm Shakou like the horse factory to reduce the river, and then divert water and brush alkali to irrigate 300,000 acres of fertile land, and create a Gegu miracle......

"Can it really work?"

Mrs. Yang said.

"You can't make me brag!"

Yang Dudu said.

Madame Yang gave him a speechless look.

"It's not just bragging, it's still okay to irrigate 70,000 mu, but it's impossible to expect the same as Gegu, where water is diverted from the canal, the water source is sufficient and stable, and more importantly, there is no sand in the canal water.

There is nothing wrong with digging this Xinluan River.

The amount of work is definitely more than the reduction of the river, but it is nothing more than spending more time.

And there is definitely no problem with water diversion and alkali brushing, the rest is the construction and reclamation of the channel, but the problem is that the terrain there is not so suitable here, and there will be no good thing about how to reclaim it, and more importantly, the Luanhe River is seasonal, not like the canal, the Ming Dynasty maintains stability with the strength of the country. In the summer, when the flood water rises sharply, you have to deal with the flood water flowing down the channel, and the flood water carries a lot of sediment in it, which accumulates quickly at the inlet and the water does not enter during the dry season.

In the event of a drought, there is also nothing that can be done.

There are no such problems in the reduction of the river, even if there is a drought in this section of Tianjin, there will be no shortage of water, and the entire river water of Beizhili will rush to this section, it will never be short of water, but the drought of the Luanhe River is a real drought. ”

Yang Xin said.

The Tianjin Reclamation Area is an almost irreproducible exception.

The key is to divert water from the canal, and the Ming Dynasty will not run out of drought with all its might, and it will not flood during floods. And Tianjin belongs to the lower end of the nine rivers, starting from the north bank of the Yellow River, the water of the entire Taihang Mountains and half of the Yanshan Mountains eventually converges on this land, and the whole of the big rivers of Beizhili except for the Luan River and the Ji Canal, all the others share this one estuary, if there is a shortage of water here, then I am afraid that there are not many living people in the whole Beizhili.

Otherwise, he will be hated.

It can be said that the benefits of the entire Beizhili are all occupied by him with that reclamation area.

But no one else can say anything, after all, this land can be called eternal barrenness, you all know why you didn't come over to reclaim the land earlier, Yang Xin was also reclaimed by acre of land, and the river was also dug by people.

In the end, I can only silently envy, envy and hate.

However, the Luanhe side could not replicate such a brilliance, and at most it would make the Japanese create 67,000 acres of wasteland there.

And then there's the Lutai side.

Together, the two can obtain another 100,000 acres.

"That's worth it."

Mrs. Yang said.

She is now very landlord's wife.

100,000 mu is indeed not as good as Gegu's, but there is guano as an artifact-level fertilizer, as long as the real paddy field is reclaimed, then 100,000 mu is not less than 400,000 stone valleys a year, even if the yield is reduced by floods and droughts, no matter how low it is, it will not be less than 300,000 stones.

That's a lot.

The annual quota of Cao Yun in the capital is only 4 million stones.

Besides, the key to the land there is salinization, as long as the water can be diverted and the alkali can be brushed, not to mention rice, even if you plant sweet potatoes, you can also have a bumper harvest, so now Mrs. Yang likes to increase the field production for her family, in fact, the Yang family is not in the south at present, and the land production controlled in the north alone has exceeded 600,000 mu.

The Yang family doesn't just grow rice.

Even Hejian, Jidong, and Baoding have his family's reclamation group, but rice is planted here, and corn and sweet potatoes are planted in those places, although it is inconspicuous, but nine thousand years old there are all eating grain from these places, after all, the cement factory needs a large amount of food supply every day, otherwise how to say that it is the largest food supplier in Beijing, and now Mrs. Yang is also Cargill in Daming, the same existence as Bunge.

"Whatever you want."

Yang Xin said casually.

At this time, he and his wife were standing by their warehouse.

This warehouse is in the outer city, is the Yang family's newly built general warehouse, for which last year just funded the repair of the original Empress Dowager Xiao River, and the river embankment was widened into a four-wheeled carriage road, the Yang family transported grain is in Zhangjiawan to change into a boat or four-wheeled carriage, along this parallel passage of land and water into Beijing. The goods that also need to be transported to Gegu also take this route, but the quantity is not much, and the most at present is cement, and there is oil from northern Shaanxi.

In front of them was a camel team carrying oil, hundreds of little donkeys carrying wooden barrels, led by a group of dusty northwest men, the first one was about twenty years old, looking around with a new face, and was instantly dumbfounded when he saw Mrs. Yang......

"This dog thing, so bold!"

A family member next to him scolded angrily.

As he spoke, he reached out and grabbed him.

This man's skill is very agile, he dodges it in an instant, and instinctively punches back, and the caught off guard is punched in the chest by him, and then takes a few steps back, the man stepped forward and swung his fist again, but the next moment he saw a flash in front of him, and then a hand grabbed his fist, and he hurriedly withdrew his fist but found it completely futile.

He looked at Yang Xin, who was close at hand, in amazement.

Immediately after that, he yelled and closed his fist, but the fist still didn't move, no matter how hard he tried, Yang Xin's hand didn't move like iron.

"What's your name and where are you from?"

Yang Xin asked in northern Shaanxi.