In the warm welcome of the children, Song Yingxing and the others dizzily walked through the crowd, and were carried through the town by Huang Zhen, and their eyes were full of murder......

Fortress.

And there are also cannons.

On the peninsula formed by the curve of the Hai River in front of them, a small but rather strangely shaped fortress stood.

There are no towers.

There are no stretches of battlements.

In fact, they couldn't even see the gates.

All they could see were three things that resembled the corner towers of the city wall, one behind the first two, the two sharp corners in the back pointed to the sides, and the sharp corners in the middle were facing them, but because there was an artificial slope in front of them, it seemed to be very low.

This slope encircles the entire fortress, and there is also a circle of moats around the perimeter, but because of these sharp corners, the whole moat also forms sharp corners, and the frozen water reflects a ray of sunlight.

"This, this ......"

Song Yingxing stood in front of the trench and frowned.

Suddenly, he stepped directly on the ice, ran all the way to the bottom of the slope, and lay on the ground very unimpressively, looking forward with his face on the ground, Huang Daozhou followed suspiciously, and also looked at the opposite side like him, but found that he happened to see a row of cannon muzzles on the opposite side facing him.

"It's calculated."

Song Yingxing stood up and said with admiration.

"Install a cannon here, you can't hit the city wall at all, we just see the top of the city wall like this, but the cannon has to be half a person high, as flat as this slope, the cannonball will fly from the top of the city wall, the muzzle pressure is hitting the top of this slope, or it can't hit the opposite city wall, unless it is pushed to the top with great effort, but the height of the opposite city wall is just right for the cannonballs to sweep along the slope from top to bottom."

He went on to say.

Zodiac Zhou was not as sensitive to this issue as he was.

Then the two walked down the slope to the top of the slope......

"This guy really knows how to play!"

Zodiac Zhou exclaimed.

He stood here to see the fortress for what it really was.

The outer ditch was not a moat, the moat was at their feet, and below the top of the slope was a straight cliff, and it was divided into two levels, the first was less than a man high, and below it was a brick platform, which must have been standing on it, and on the other side of this platform was a cliff almost straight down, and below the cliff was a wide water, and on the other side of the water was the real city wall......

The fortress is indeed quite small.

The sharp corner directly in front of them was isolated.

Behind this triangular fort is the horizontal wall.

But it happened to be blocked by this fort, and it was only a dozen zhang long, and then there were two forts similar to the corner tower city platform, and in front of them was a wooden bridge leading to the triangular fort, and there was a bridge on the other side of the triangular fort leading to the city wall, and the city gate was on the city wall, but because it was passed through from the triangular fort, it was opened in the middle of the city wall, and the city gate was very small......

"Two, welcome to the Humble House!"

Yang Xin stood in the middle of the small city gate, shouting like a wild man at the mouth of a cave.

"It seems that this is the kind of fortress that Kaiyuan built."

Song Yingxing ignored him, just looked at the triangular forts in front of him and the cannons on the sharp forts on both sides and said.

Of course, Yang Xin also wants to build one.

It's not that exaggerated, he used it for less than a year in total.

It is indeed a big project to build such a large fortress city, but a small fortress with a diagonal of only about 170 meters is not worth mentioning at all, and this quadrangular fortress is only about 140 meters away from the distance between the two sharp corners, and all the twists and turns are unfolded, and it is not the perimeter of a county town at this time. In addition, there are four triangular forts, which are even less worth mentioning, that is, the slope outside the pile, and the amount of work to dig the surrounding trenches is slightly larger, but in any case, the amount of work is not as large as a county town at this time.

The circumference of the county seat is at least two kilometers.

This is the base of the Gegu Water Division, so as in the original history, it is also called Xincheng.

Here control the Haihe River, back all the way to Gegu are Yang Xin's industrial zone, Gegu is a commercial area, from here along the newly dug river to the south and then to the southwest, along the line are agricultural areas that have begun to wash the salt with fresh water, and are stable irrigation paddy fields, the small station rice will come out next year, is it the same as the original history of the small station rice is not easy to say, but the mu yield of Sishi Valley should be no pressure, basically a season of mu yield can feed most of the adults.

Two acres of land to ensure full food.

And these lands are all his, those Dangkou troops have reclaimed a total of more than 200,000 mu in the past two years, and there are still 300,000 mu of saline-alkali land that can be transformed in this area in the future.

It's all Yang Xin's.

And these slutters don't have to pay him any rent.

As for the tax ......

At present, it is still harvested according to the reed land.

That is, one acre is about a little more than a handful.

However, Yang Dudu has a high wind and bright festival and never takes advantage of the country, so in the future, the tenants of the Yang family here will still have to pay the land according to the Shangtian of the people's land, and the poll tax will also be paid, but other clever names such as fire consumption, the local officials love to set as much as they want, and Yang Dudu will pay two percent. And it's not these tenants who pay it, these lands are his, of course he pays them, which local official dares to charge him three yuan for fire consumption, it is estimated that he can go to the edict prison the next day to discuss life with Yang Lian.

But it's not that simple.

It is true that Yang Xin does not collect rent from these tenants, but the surplus grain of the latter must be sold to him.

This grain cannot be sold by himself, and he must sell all the surplus grain to him, and there is no limit to the quantity, but he dares to sell it privately and immediately take back the land.

It is equivalent to a special strategic grain reserve base in the capital.

Song Yingxing and Huang Daozhou walked across the bridge and walked up to the triangular fort, and then looked at a giant cannon on this fort.

"Don't look at it, this is the Shenwei Invincible General Cannon, Your Majesty gave the name, and all the heavy artillery in Liaodong City Defense in the future will be this, although the price is a little expensive, but it is indeed worth the money."

Yang Xin said on the other side.

That's actually a twenty-four-pound cannon by the weight of the shells.

However, this is used for shore defense, in fact, there are only eight of his forts, one of a fort, but what is really used in Liaodong is small, according to the weight of the cannonballs is twelve pounds, at present there are sixteen in this fort, and there is also a special field artillery, according to the weight of the shells is three pounds, at present there are twenty-four in this fort, a total of forty-eight cannons in this big and small fort.

Not to mention the Japanese invaders, the British and French forces came and had the strength to fight.

It's true.

The third-class ships of the Anglo-French army could not drive into the Haihe River, they were nothing more than a few small gunboats, which could not bombard twenty-four pounderballs, and the rest was the landing of infantry, but their light artillery and flintlock guns were designated to not be able to bombard a bunch of cannons here, even if the defenders could beat them with arquebuses......

Not if you run away, of course.

However, these cannons are all bronze.

So the cost is still quite high.

Fortunately, Yang Dudu never considered the cost.

Next, his cannon foundry will continue to cast this new type of cannon for the Ministry of War, and the quotation is the same as the Macao cannon purchased by Xu Guangqi, after all, it can't seem like Lao Xu and the Songjiang gentry behind him, and those big and small officials in Guangzhou are all eating kickbacks, but the quality of his cannons is better than that, compared to these two cannons, the ones cast by the Ministry of Industry itself with craftsmen who came back from Luzon are scum.

In addition to copper cannons, Yang Xin also cast a large number of iron cannons.

This is for the battleships, and his new warships have to use this.

Anyway, it's the apocalypse to spend money.

After all, he is not his own private army, it is a genuine Geguhai waterproof master.

"Yang Dudu, you don't do your business every day, how did you accomplish these things?"

Song Yingxing said sarcastically.

"Brother Chang Gung, you are wrong, these don't need me at all, we have really talented craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, but the system of our Ministry of Industry makes them have no motivation to do a good job at all, but follow me differently, the craftsmen who cast these cannons for me have the highest monthly salary of one hundred taels, even if they are ordinary sand turning workers, the monthly salary is three taels, and the monthly salary of purely hard-working porters is two taels.

However, there is a strict reward and punishment system, and every process has strict inspection.

Whoever goes wrong will be punished, but if you do a good job, you will be rewarded, and the highest reward for a year alone will reach five hundred taels.

So what else is left for me to do?

Two hundred years ago, our craftsmen were able to cast the Yongle Bell.

Now you tell me that they can't forge a bronze cannon? That's underestimating them. ”

Yang Xin said.

He really didn't care about the casting of these cannons, he just told the craftsmen about the patterns and technical attention.

The rest of the people will solve it themselves.

As for the fortress in essence, there is no difference from the Chinese city wall, it is just rammed earth and bricks, but its shape and defense concept are different, and the wall is thicker, there is really nothing left, and the construction is the same.

Even the tape measure Daming has it.

Of course, it's not leather, it's actually Cheng Dawei's measuring scooter, and the processed bamboo strips are connected with copper wires piece by piece, and the body size is relatively large, but the principle is no different from the tape measure, and the bamboo strips are not elastic, and his kind of city wall construction is completely sufficient. He already has a large number of craftsmen and craftsmen recruited by himself, and the excavation of the river itself is indispensable for such people, and even has to repair ancillary facilities such as sluice gates, and these craftsmen have been living better and better with his high salary in the past two years.

It's just a deformed wall for him.

What a big deal.

Song Yingxing didn't say anything more, and walked past him silently.

Zodiac Zhou also walked over.

"What the hell is this!"

Song Yingxing inside then exclaimed.

Huang Daozhou hurriedly picked up his speed and went directly into the city along a ramp, and then a dazzling sunlight flooded his vision, he also exclaimed, and then quickly blocked it with his hand, and quickly adjusted his position, only then did he avoid the reflected sunlight, and at the same time a countless grids made of wood, all of which were inlaid with glass, and the whole house that looked like a crystal palace appeared in his field of vision.

"It's just glass-burning, daily operation, don't make a fuss, Yan Shen's Sun family has been built for hundreds of years, don't tell me you haven't even seen this thing."

Yang Xin said disdainfully.