After breaking through Zunhua, the Houjin slave owners and the poor Mongolian cavalry continued to march towards the Beijing division with 120,000 enthusiasm.

The second line of defense organized by Yuan Chonghuan is said to have also been broken through, and the face of the Ming Dynasty was torn off like a rag, and the Jingshi were trembling under the distant gaze of these barbarian robbers.

In the same month, Mao Jue was so busy that he almost hit the back of his head. It's just that it was because of hunger before, but this time, because there is too much food.

Sweet potatoes and potatoes and corn are native to the Andes, the biggest advantage is that they do not pick the land, and they are cold-tolerant, when they were cultivated, they were really hungry, and they were planted on a little land, in fact, the area of cultivation has exceeded 80,000 acres in the north, and they can almost reach 90,000 to 100,000 acres.

One acre of land can harvest more than 800 catties of bud rice, 1,200 to 1,500 catties of sweet potatoes, Mao Jue levied more than 42,000 stones of grain, hill-like bud rice sticks, and his five fortresses almost swing without a place to stay.

And the supply for him is less than 2,000 soldiers and horses, even if you count the war horses, mules and other livestock, there are 20,000 stones, which is enough for people to eat horses and chew until next autumn's harvest.

Not only is it levied by the military tun, but the people's harvest can't digest so much grain, and the extra tun will all rot after a long time, which is a waste!

There are also many uses for these things, just like corn can make wine, the famous Northeast Xiaoyao in later generations is brewed with this thing, potatoes can be taken out and ground into starch, and sweet potatoes have more effects, sugar refining, milling, winemaking, and Adriana eats dried sweet potatoes with relish, although these are not as profitable as mirrors, but the largest and most sustainable business is actually the most profitable, such as Yangzhou salt merchants, once the dried sweet potatoes are sold to the specifications, it is also a dividend.

But when Mao Jue really wanted to do it, he suddenly realized that he was actually black-eyed!

Bud rice brewing needs to be crushed by a grinding plate, and a mill is needed to grind potatoes into flour, but there is no mill in Tieshan, and the people grind it with their own small hands on weekdays.

And if you want to sell it, you need merchants, you need shops, but the social model of the whole Tieshan Town is still in the most primitive stage of bartering, every spring, there will be Nanshang here to collect mountain goods, with some cheap coarse cloth, salt and other daily necessities that are not available in Liaodong, so they will exchange all the ginseng, mink, deerskin, walnuts and so on, and the rest of the time, Tieshan Town is completely stuck in the self-sufficiency of the small peasant economy, there is no commodity economy at all, even if the grain is processed, he has no place to sell.

And pulling and pulling the abacus, Mao Jue's cheeks hurt, such a trade model, which is equivalent to taking away the most valuable industries under their rule at a very small price every year, and the fat they earn one by one is red and purple, and Tieshan Town is still poor, and they can't collect taxes to lose both sides and hurt others.

In the past, the generals were short-sighted, and they were satisfied by collecting some bribes and selling some mountain goods, earning a thousand taels of silver, but when they came to Mao Jue, it would not work.

There are a few more gray hairs in my head, and a huge plan is brewing in my head, but everything has to be done step by step in a down-to-earth manner, and the infrastructure must be built first.

On November 18, Mao Jue, who gritted his teeth, issued another order to join the generals, and requisitioned the strong men of the tunhu under his command to work!

The terrain of Tieshan Town is rugged, with many mountains and rivers, which also forms a unique resource, water energy!

There are three big rivers shuttling through the Tieshan into the sea, and the cat winter of the people of Tieshan Town was completely interrupted by Mao Jue, and the strong men under his command were requisitioned again in the complaint, this time it was next to the Bahe River near Jialao Peak to start building a dam and a waterwheel.

On a cold day, in the cold winter, more than 2,000 strong men worked for Mao Jue in the icy water. It is estimated that Mao Jue should become the target of the environmental protection activists in the future, a large group of woodcutters cut down the whole log from the distant Jingshan, transported it to the river, and then nailed it into the river, at that end, the concrete workshop under the mountain is still producing a steady stream of cement, put it in a wooden trough to dry, row into blocks, and then it is also transported over, piece by piece into the front of the log, when the concrete blocks most of the water flow, and then directly filled with concrete, a stone dam is built.

The dam ensured that the river did not freeze in winter, and the impact of the water was increased a lot, and next to the dam, five more waterwheels stood tall by the river, and the wheels drove a huge force, from the cast iron gears to the mill on the bank, and hundreds of pounds of stone mills began to turn in circles without tire, singing crunching songs.

I really have to thank this feudal era, Mao Jue gave an order, and thousands of people have to work for you, but although it is bitter, those strong people are happy. But this time, Mao Jue sent good things, and after the construction was completed, one person and one piece of high-quality precision cotton cloth from the south of the Yangtze River, with patterns! In this way, the cloth was brought by Qian to Mao Jue from Yingtian, and the cost price was one or two silver horses.

It's almost the New Year, who doesn't want to make one or two new clothes, after hearing about this treatment, the strong men who were recruited after hearing about this treatment Yuegu, Garao, and the three guards of the ancient military camp were excited to glow, and they rushed into the cold water with heavy loads on their backs like going down to the bathhouse.

In less than six days, a dam, and more than a dozen cement brick mills appeared on the bank of the Bahe River with huge waterwheels, and on November 25, the Bahe Mill was officially put into operation and became the first government-run enterprise under Mao Jue.

"Don't rush! The general's words are counted, one by one! ”

At the door, Su Changmei's fat face was as painful as if a knife had cut his flesh, and he was crying and distributing cloth to the strong men, although it was not his, but in Su Changmei's eyes, this was still a waste, and in the mill, Mao Jue himself didn't pay attention to these at all, and he was preoccupied with the newly ground bud rice.

The corn kernels pulled out from the bud rice cob were poured into the mill mouth one by one, and under the rapid rotation of the millstone, the cornmeal that was not too fine continued to fall from the cracks of the mill, and immediately the big head soldiers under Mao Jue went up to sweep it up and put it into a bag, when it was full of two bags, Mao Jue had nodded with satisfaction.

"Put it in the car, Ben is going to take it away, and for the rest, you continue to grind the noodles!"

There are more than 10,000 stones of bud rice levied, even if these mills are full of firepower, it is estimated that they will not be able to grind it in a winter, with these two bags of new flour, Mao Jue is unable to bear the excitement of rushing to the mountain city of Garao.

At this time, the building in the castle was more perfect, in addition to the two-story small building barracks in the east, the west and the south also built such a concrete two-story building, once the war started, it could be used as a refuge for the tunhu under the mountain, but it was empty at this time, and it happened to be used as a factory by Mao Jue.

The whole fortress is like a fairyland, shrouded in white mist, which is by no means blowing! More than a hundred steamers were sprayed with steam every moment under the heating of coal stoves, and the hot and cold gases converged, making the fort of Garau cloudy.

In the cauldron, all the steamed sweet potatoes are there!

The soldier washed the soil with water and threw the collected sweet potatoes into the cage drawer, and the man in a white coat took down the steamed cage drawer, peeled the sweet potatoes, cut them into pieces, and immediately put them on the dustpan and carried them up to the second floor.

The windows of all the rooms on the second floor were opened, and the northwest wind was blowing, and these ripe sweet potatoes were placed on the ground, and after a few days, the dried sweet potatoes that were chirping yellow and whirring were dried.

Mao Jue just returned to the fortress, just saw a red shadow slipped in from the back door, and he couldn't help jumping up and down, and then jumped off the horse, and in less than a moment, he was holding a small bundle of dried sweet potatoes in his arms, and Adrena, who was crying with a small face, was carried out by him.

"Young master, you're too stingy! The little woman built a waterwheel for you, planted crops for you, ate some dried sweet potatoes for you, and picked up the glutinous rice like this, you are a big husband! How can you meet a lady like me! ”

It's really completely different from the women of the Ming Dynasty, just the pixel clothes are typical Ming Dynasty ladies, obedient, gentle as water, how can she be like this foreign girl, she still dares to talk to Mao Jue unconvinced.

Listening to the quibbles of the foreign girl, the green tendons on Mao Jue's head couldn't help but jump again, and the corners of his mouth twitched coldly.

"Even so, a snack is a snack, and it can't be eaten as a meal! This morning, Su Yi told Lao Tzu that you threw the prepared breakfast aside again and ate the dried plums of the morning! In any case, you have to put this bit of dried sweet potato back for Lao Tzu! ”

It's really a completely different girl, Adriana immediately shook her little mind like a rattle, and at the same time firmly protected the sweet potato on her chest with a pitiful look, and her big blue watery eyes flickered and looked at Mao Jue.

This eye kills, even Mao Jue is a little unbearable, this girl, if you want to find a character in your memory to match, the first thing that pops up in Mao Jue's mind is the villain female number one in "Three Musketeers", Miledi!

This French woman is extremely smart, but she is as beautiful as a flower, relying on these two weapons, she plays with all the big people in the palm of her hand, becoming the most famous courtesan in Paris, and the confidant of the archbishop, this girl is definitely comparable to Miledi, when she is stable, she is simply an aristocratic lady like an iceberg, and she sells cuteness but is a Lori fan who is not deeply involved in the world, which makes people angry.

Finally looking like he was defeated by you, Mao Jue took care of his head weakly, and finally threw out a big move.

"Put down the dried sweet potato, and I'll take you to see some novelties and things that can make you rich in a while, young master! Take your pick! ”

"Something that can make you rich?"

Following Mao Jue, even she, a well-informed lady, has seen a lot of novelties, and as soon as these words came out, she immediately made the beautiful blue eyes of the real girl as bright as a Persian cat.

…………

"This is it!"

Liu Chong was carrying two bags of bud rice noodles, snorting and panting, Mao Jue was covering his head with a sad face, and behind him, Adriana was chewing dried sweet potatoes while curiously raising her little brain melon, in front of her, in the southeast corner of the fortress, I don't know when there will be an extra Taoist temple.

As Mao Jue knocked on the door of the Taoist temple, another little Taoist boy curiously opened half a crack, and immediately shouted happily.

"Master! Master! Mao Gongzi is here! ”