"Seriously~~" Zuo Anming's eyes lit up, "Song Gongzi is really kind-hearted, and he has a bright future in the future, and he is rich and noble~~~" Zuo Anming not only thanked himself for his kindness, but also asked the rest of the craftsmen to come together to thank him.

Song Youliang began to feel a little unbearable, he listened without saying a word, and casually picked up a file with thick dust and flipped through it, "Hmm~~??" Several names caught Song Youliang's eyes. Sun Heding, Sun Hedou, Sun Hejing, Shen Buqi, Pan Yunzhu, Shen Lusu~? Isn't this a group of Sun Yuanhua's relatives? ”

Sun Yuanhua's name is Chuyang, the number is Huodong, and he is a native of Gaoqiao Town, Chuansha County, Shanghai. He co-translated the ancient Greek mathematical work "Geometry Originals" with Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci, and assisted Xu Guangqi in the compilation of "Pythagorean Righteousness". He has independently written scientific works such as "Taixi Arithmetic", "Geometric Usage", "Geometric Body Theory", and "Miscellaneous Works on Western Studies". The two volumes of "The Divine Machine of Western Law" are the first military scientific and technological works in China to introduce Western cannon casting, gunpowder making, and fort building. The 10 volumes of the "Jingwu Quanshu" put forward many incisive ways of using troops. Sun Yuan became a generation of Confucian generals and had three sons: Sun Heding, Sun Hedou, and Sun Hejing. In addition to Sun Yuanhua's three sons, Sun Yuanhua's nephew Shen Buqi, Sun Heding's cousin-in-law Pan Yunzhu and Pan's brother-in-law Shen Lusu and a large number of clans were assigned together. Later, Sun Yuanhua was captured by Houjin because of Kong Youde's rebellion, and finally died in prison. Unexpectedly, all the family members were convicted and sentenced to military households, and they were confiscated as thousands of households in Haiyang. Although Song Qianjin, the father of Song Youliang, is a rough man, he has a lot of respect for scholars, and Sun Yuanhua is famous, so Song Qianjin arranged for the Sun family to live in the ordnance institute in Haiyang as a military craftsman, that is, a craftsman.

Song Youliang closed the file and said to Zuo Anming: "I want to meet Sun Heding, Sun Hedou, Sun Hejing, Shen Buqi, Pan Yunzhu, Shen Lusu~"

"Sun Heding, Sun Hedou, Sun Hejing, Shen Buqi, Pan Yunzhu, Shen Lusu~~" Zuo Anming shouted at the top of his voice, and after a while, a few middle-aged people came out of another thatched house. Although after several years of hard life, these six people still have a little more energy than those distracted craftsmen.

"This is Song Qianhu's only son, Song Youliang and Song Gongzi, and he still doesn't salute~" Zuo Anming shouted loudly

"Song Gongzi, in the next Sun Hedou~~" Sun Hedou said straight to the point: "Song Gongzi, since our Sun family is in trouble, we will not hold on to the shelf of the scholar, although we can't plow the land, but we can learn." Just ask Song Gongzi to make it convenient, my eldest brother wants to sort out some of my father's manuscripts, and his work will be divided between a few of us~" Sun Hejing, Shen Buqi, Pan Yunzhu, Shen Lusu and others also agreed with Sun Hedou's statement. Sun Hedou thought that Song Youliang was looking for trouble for the eldest brother Sun Heding not working

Who knew that Song Youliang smiled and said: "Several of you have learned from Governor Sun, it is too wasteful to ask you to farm and strike iron~" Song Youliang honored Sun Yuanhua as the governor, and Sun Hedou and the others felt a lot more comfortable. Song Youliang said: "I know that the princes are good at Western firearms and Western studies, so I hope that the princes can give advice to the ordnance of our fort." Although this is a small place, I also hope that the lord will contribute his knowledge and benefit the people of this place~"

Shen Lu said with a straight face: "Song Gongzi, is this good?" Will the other castle residents have any gossip~"

Song Youliang said with a smile: "Brother Shen, don't worry, there is already a craftsman in this military household, who is responsible for building weapons, repairing armor or something~ Your understanding of Western firearms is just what you have learned and put it into practice~" When it came to Western firearms, Shen Buqi, Pan Yunzhu, Shen Lusu and others gradually opened up the conversation, and Song Youliang took the opportunity to lead the topic to the improvement of arquebuses.

Shen Buqi said: "I once saw Ao Yi (Portuguese in Macau) in Macau has a kind of fire gun, which is not ignited with a fire rope, but excited with flint, which is much more convenient than a fire gun activated by a fire rope~"

Song Youliang was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Brother Shen, can you make this kind of thing?" ”

Shen Buqi smiled: "It turns out that it won't ~~" He said and found a few metal parts from his belt, "But I got a few from Aoyi~~ and have been secretly hiding~"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then laughed together

After that, Song Youliang arranged for the daughters of the Sun family to do some sewing and needlework, and they didn't have to work in the field. Sun Heding concentrated on sorting out Sun Yuanhua's notes and manuscripts, Sun Hedou was in charge of logistics when Sun Yuanhua was the governor, and now he is helping to take care of the warehouse of Haiyang, Sun Hejing and Shen Buqi are working in the ordnance institute, Pan Yunzhu used to be a military attache with troops, so he helped to train Ding Zhuang and Shen Lusu in his hometown in business, claiming to be the descendant of Shen Wansan, and he has a manor in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and he is good at management, and he has no special use for the time being, just following Song Youliang all day long. With such preferential treatment, there must be people gossiping in the Qianhu Institute, but this is arranged by Song Youliang, what can you do if there is gossip?

After everything was ready, in the spring of the tenth year of Chongzhen, the reclamation of Haiyang Thousand Households officially began

Song Youliang is different from others, who first reclaim the land and then find a way to divert water for irrigation. Song Youliang first asked Fan Shunbao to survey the terrain, design the direction of the irrigation canal, and then reclaim the land along the direction. When Fan Shunbao surveyed the terrain, he found a number of irrigation canals that had long been abandoned, and after some inspection, he found that the direction of these channels was also reasonable, as long as he communicated with the current new canal, he could use them, which could save a lot of manpower and financial resources.

Due to the irrigation of canals and the high yield of wheat, although the Hai Duong Institute suffered a severe drought, the grain harvest of the Hai Duong Institute was still similar to that of previous years, with an average yield of one stone and five buckets per mu. After the wages of the hired workers were paid, the rest of the food was not very abundant. Everyone pinned their hopes on the newly cultivated fields, and the enthusiasm for work was very high, and unconsciously Haiyang openly reclaimed 130,000 acres of land, which exceeded the original plan, and the consumption of silver taels and grain was only two-thirds of the original.

Reclamation of wasteland requires a large number of farm tools, and the dozens of artisan households led by Zuo Anming were too busy to keep up, and Song Youliang hired fifty smart and clever people from among the newly accepted displaced people, so Zuo Zongqi could be considered to have enough manpower. Then, according to Song Youliang's request, a large number of agricultural tools, such as three-legged cocoon carts and heavy ploughshares with iron plough walls, were continuously transported out of the armory of Haiyang and delivered to the farmers in various tunhouses

In addition to traditional farming tools, the farmers of Hai Duong also have a secret weapon in their hands, that is, dung pills. This is thanks to Sun Heding, who was immersed in sorting out his father's Sun Yuanhua's notes and manuscripts all day long. Dung Dan is seen in the later generations of "Xu Guangqi's Notes", "Dung Dan" is a kind of artificial organic fertilizer and inorganic fertilizer combined with a comprehensive fertilizer, organic matter is mainly animal and plant body, inorganic matter is mainly arsenic, sulfur and alum, etc. Stir them together, about 3-5 stones, put them in the middle, and dry them on the twenty-first day of the summer month, they must be sealed and not go out of gas, and they should not leak down, and they should be used in a cylinder. If the winter and spring months are simmered with fire for seven days, each take out and put it into the seed. Each bucket of this "dung pill" can be used as ten stones of dung, which can be described as a high-quality and efficient fertilizer. Of course, Song Youliang couldn't let go of such a good thing, and immediately ordered someone to make it in large quantities

During this period, Sun Hejing and Shen Buqi, who worked in the ordnance office, also made the first flintlock pistol in Haiyang, which borrowed the technique of the Portuguese, clamping a flint on the jaws of the hammer, and having an anvil on the side of the fire hole, if it was necessary to shoot, the trigger was pulled, and under the action of the spring, the flint was hit heavily on the edge of the fire door, sparks appeared, igniting the ignition of gunpowder, and the range and accuracy were improved.

Song Youliang selected ten young Ding Zhuang from his family and trained musket shooting in the wilderness on the outskirts of Qianhusuo. In order to encourage the family to practice firearms, Song Youliang formulated a standard of rewards and punishments: 80 steps (about 120 meters) to stand a five-foot-high, two-foot wide wooden card, three shots and one hit, ten shots and seven hits. Reward and punishment, one of the three bullets of the bird, flat; In the middle of the two, the reward is one point of silver; The middle three will be rewarded with five points. If you miss once, you will be beaten with three sticks; If you miss the second time, you will be beaten with six sticks; Those who miss three times will be beaten with nine sticks; Those who miss five times will be beaten with forty sticks and dismissed. Those who do not want to fight will be fined five cents of silver once, one point for two times, and one and a half cents for three times.

Then Song Youliang began to promote the use of paper shells in the musket team, which only used a cartridge rolled into paper, which contained gunpowder, and used it to bite the tail of the bullet with his mouth. The housekeepers were inexperienced at first, and often someone bit into the wrong place, and as a result, their mouths were full of gunpowder. Later, Song Youliang thought of a way to paint a red line on the bite. No one bites the wrong place now, but there is a taste of red paint that has faded due to saliva, so after each exercise, everyone in the family is a big mouth.

As a result, after a month of training, the musket skills of the family members improved by leaps and bounds, and each person could fire an average of two shots per minute, and the hit rate was between five out of ten shots and six shots out of ten. Of course, this cost Song Youliang a lot of silver, and Song Youliang had to sigh that the elite soldiers were not trained, but piled up with silver