The village has two main streets, east and west and north and south, one mile from north to south and two miles from east to west. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

A rectangle, the house of the Yang River is at the northernmost point.

Then it is estimated that there are fifteen alleys, the whole Zhuangzi is built along the mountain, low in the south and high in the north, full of quaint dwellings, many brick houses, very similar to the Ming and Qing dynasties seen in later generations.

Drainage is also quite well done, with drainage culverts on both main streets, paved with bluestone slabs, leaving gaps that are half a palm's width at intervals.

Yang He took a look, the ditch is up to one meter deep, and the water can be quickly drained away, and the design is very reasonable.

Looking at the past, the houses are lined up one after another, covering an area of spaciousness, and courtyard houses abound.

This is his new home.

Minister Yang behind him, Zhang Chugong, Qi Youxin and others were all fascinated and watched, such a good place will be owned by them in the future.

At this time, the streets came and went, and the team members were happily busy, constantly cleaning, and carrying a load of garbage to the outside of the village.

Yang He had earlier ordered all the garbage to be transported outside the village, and then dug a pit and buried it deeply.

In the future, the garbage should be treated centrally and collected regularly.

Yang He also saw that there is a bathhouse in the village, which is rare, at present, the Ming Dynasty is drought, it is difficult to use water in various places, and it is even more difficult to take a bath, the bathhouse is generally only available in big cities, but there is also one in the village.

However, there are no public toilets, so it is still necessary to build a few to prevent the team members from dumping the toilets, and a large number of high-quality fertilizers can also be collected.

He rode his horse and walked down the street, and along the way, there were constantly team members greeting with smiles on their faces: "Xianggong...... Yang Xianggong ......"

Yang He nodded, and finally came to the south gate, where he dismounted and ascended to the gatehouse.

The gatehouse is exquisite, imitating the style of the city gate, and there is a city tower on it, which has been burned down almost at this time.

There are also two ends of the east and west, except for the thick polder wall, which is more than a zhang wide, estimated to be four meters, and the battlements.

At the corner, there is also an arrow tower built of heavy logs, which forms a double protection with the polder wall battlement.

The outer trench is more than a zhang deep and more than a zhang wide, and it attracts river water, but in addition to the lack of bricks, the defense of Honjo is impeccable, why was it breached?

Yang He felt that it was not just because of the big bandits.

He stood at the gate of the village and looked at the vast land outside, except for the farmland and the cultivated land, which was all desolate and withered yellow.

He looked at it with his eyes, seven or eight miles away is the majestic Yellow River embankment, which seems to be parallel, and the embankment is higher than his village wall, which shows the height of the Yellow River embankment and the hanging river.

As far as the eye can see, you can see some rivers heading south, but they don't flow into the Yellow River.

Although there are open sluices and stone culverts where the river meets the embankment, these sluices and culverts are usually closed, and only open when the Yellow River is swollen and needs to be discharged.

The area on the north bank of the Yellow River is considered by the official to be "unforeseen between the mountains", and not only is the defense of the north embankment greatly weakened, but even when the flood comes, it is also a useless wilderness land, which is specially used for flood discharge.

In particular, when there is a danger of bursting the embankment on the south bank, the sluices and culverts on this side are all opened, and the rolling water just pours into this side.

So along the embankment, there are quite a lot of large and small lakes here, and patches of reeds are swinging.

Yang He looked at it for a while, and felt that he still had to go outside the village and look around.

He went down to the gatehouse again and rode his horse, after this fiery red war horse was captured from the horse thief, Yang He rode every day, and after several fierce battles, even if he was fed hay and bean feed every day, he looked a little thinner.

However, last night it spent the night in the special stable, and Minister Yang waited for it for most of the night, and today it will be more energetic.

Yang Jiu rode on the war horse, Minister Yang carried a waist knife, bow and arrow shield, Qi Youxin also had a waist knife shield, and then Zhang Chugong and others carried birds, wings, tigers, and leather shields, and everyone followed, along the suspension bridge out of the village gate.

One and a half miles away from the village, there is a large area of farmland, mainly concentrated in the east and southeast, and there are some in the southwest.

However, how many acres there are and what crops there are, we still need to carefully count.

A trail leads directly from the Inspection Division to the village, and the sides of the path are overgrown with weeds, and if you don't look closely, the path will drown in the swaying grass.

Yang He looked far away, the cold wind howled, the four fields were quiet, and there was no one outside.

However, it seems that there are some villages under some mountains in the east and west, and there are some faint fireworks and smoke curling.

Seeing that these villages are not very large, the scale is far from being comparable to Xin'anzhuang.

However, Xin'an Yuanzhuang was destroyed, and these villages still exist, what is the reason for this?

He rode his horse to the southwest side of the village, and saw that there was a river near the village wall, and then there were mountains on the west side of the river.

These mountains are not high, the altitude is 1,200 meters, and the later generations of Yanghe have learned about the information, and know that these mountains contain marble, gypsum, limestone, phosphate rock, industrial caustic soda, dolomite ore, kaolin, quartzite, clay and other minerals.

It can provide sufficient raw materials for the construction of large-scale lime plants, cement plants, etc.

In particular, the marble here is excellent, and the inner density and luster are comparable to Yunnan marble, which is a unique resource.

The soil here is also quite suitable for growing tobacco leaves.

The only regret is that there are no coal mines and iron mines here.

In later generations, there were still various forest farms and breeding farms, raising more than 100,000 pigs and goats every year, thousands of tons of fruits, a large amount of timber savings, and various processing plants.

Of course, the suitability of the land at the moment needs to be carefully verified.

He came to the west side of the village, along the river, there was a mill, Yang River carefully observed, it was still a water mill.

The water mill is in the form of a vertical wooden wheel, the wheel is equipped with a number of plate blades, and a paddle is installed on both sides of the rotating shaft, and the paddle is used to pluck the rod.

At this time, the pole is stationary, but Yang He can imagine that if the flowing water hits the water wheel and causes it to rotate, it will move the pole, and then drive the head of the mill to rise and fall, and grab the rice noodles in the stone mortar.

In addition, there is a water mill next to it, the principle is similar, it can be used to grind flour, the grain flows into the grinding chamber through the grinding eye, and after grinding into powder, it flows from the crack to the grinding disc, and the flour can be obtained by sifting and removing the bran.

"Water Mill ......"

Yang He had a smile on his face, and he thought of the water turning to the machine mill, which was recorded in detail in the "Wang Zhen Agricultural Book", and used a lot of shafts, gears and various mechanical knowledge.

This stuff can be very useful.

……

Not long after Yang He returned to Xin'anzhuang, Han Daxia and others also returned.

They brought back information, smashed out dozens of taels of white silver, and sure enough, they got the news they wanted to know.

Of course, this is also the result of Yang He and others settling in Xin'anzhuang, and the news of their defeat on the south bank spread, and the villagers were in awe of them.

The six of them inquired about the villagers near each village, and finally gathered the news that Xin'anzhuang was indeed attacked by a large group of bandits.

It seems that there are four bandits in the leader, and the villagers call them Jiaoshan bandits, who only came to Jiaoshan Mountain, 30 miles away, on the shore of Baima Lake more than a month ago.

Originally, although there were bandits in the mountains around here, most of them were small groups of dozens of people, more than a dozen people, and more than 100 people, but this group of bandits exceeded 1,000 people.

There are many opinions about how many of them are, and there are different opinions, some say 2,000, some say 3,000, some say 200, some say 300, some say 400, and there is a horse team of twenty or thirty people.

This group of people suddenly appeared, and listening to their accents, many of them were from Shandong, so the villagers guessed that these people might be the party members of the thief Li Qingshan.

In particular, they acted quite differently from the local bandits, not to rob homes and houses, kidnap tickets for extortion, but to openly extort and collect fees.

They told every village in the vicinity that they were to collect two-thirds of their wealth every year.

Yes, two-thirds.

Xin'an Yuanzhuang was defeated because of refusal.

Then the whole village was slaughtered and used to kill chickens and monkeys!

Yang He pondered, Li Qingshan?

It's possible.

In history, although Li Qingshan was exterminated by Liu Zeqing in the first month of next year, now is the time for arrogance.

He now has tens of thousands of troops, based on Liangshanbo, constantly gathering by hunger, repeatedly attacking Yanzhou.

In particular, Li Qingshan's characteristic is that there are many ministries and parties, and he prefers to be officials, and there are a large number of marshals under his subordinates, such as Li Mingfang, the pseudo-marshal of the Black Tiger Temple, Yu Chengyin, the pseudo-marshal of Linchaoji, Chen Weixin, the pseudo-marshal of Daijiamiao, Xu Shangde, the pseudo-marshal of Orangutan Tun, and Li Xiangnan, the pseudo-marshal of Liangjiawan.

There are also Landian pseudo-marshal Jia Wangshan, Xiao Pikou pseudo-marshal Wu Yingzhao, two pseudo-marshals of Youhuanshan Wang Shanyin, Wang Dongchu and so on.

There are more than a dozen marshals under him, and in addition, he has a lot of marquis, as well as military advisors or something.

Now he has even let his party divide the eight gates such as Hanzhuang and cut off the road.

Yang He pondered, although the news brought back by Han Daxia and the others was very fragmentary, after all, the villagers didn't know much.

However, after collecting and analyzing all kinds of intelligence, Yang He judged that this group of Jiaoshan bandits was about 2,000 people, the old thieves were estimated to be more than 300, the archers might exceed 150, and the rest were elite soldiers such as sword and shield hands, palladium hands, and firearms hands.

There was also a convoy of twenty or thirty men.

So this group of bandits is coming, how can Xin'an Yuanzhuang stop it?

They have a maximum of twenty archers, and at most some firearms, birds, etc., are already very strong.

It's no problem to deal with the bandits in the neighborhood, but obviously it can't be an opponent for this bandit.

Moreover, the villagers also sighed, saying that when the thieves attacked the village, they used tricks.

It is to let some women, young and young pretend to be refugees, and arrive outside the village one day earlier, looking pitiful, begging the owner to take them in.

The owner of the village relented for a while, so he took them in, and then the thieves attacked the village, and when all the men, women, and children of the village went into battle, they struck from behind, and the manor fell.

Speaking of this, they all had tears in their eyes and sighed one by one: "The world is chaotic, and good people can't do it." ”

Yang He gritted his teeth, in this era, both the Manchu and Qing Liukou were very good at using spy work.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty did not talk about it, and most of them should attack the city within the city, and the same is true for the Liukou.

Li Zicheng has the internal response of the hungry people, and Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Ge Zuo, etc. are also good at using this set.

Shi Zai: "Hui and Geshan buy local people as spies, and Xingbu market dealers are mostly used." Or carry the medicine sac Yarrow Cai as a doctor, or talk about the family dialect of the blue bird Gu Buxing, or the yellow crown of the stream, or the beggar tricks, all lurking in the city. The thieves landed in the city, held the flag in all directions, and fought for it in the alleys. ”

Now Li Qingshan, a junior rogue, has also learned this set.

This also reminded him that in the future, not only must the village implement a strict armor protection system, but also the waist card travel system, that is, the new refugees and displaced people cannot be put into the village at once.

It is necessary to find another outer village, which proves the loyalty and innocence of these newcomers, before they can move into the inner village.

Otherwise, the tragedy of Xin'an Yuanzhuang may be repeated.

……

However, the villagers said that this group of Jiaoshan bandits seemed to have gone north in large numbers a few days ago, and they did not know where to go to loot and when they would return.

This made Yang He's heart feel relieved, although he didn't know when they would come back, but for the time being, Xin'anzhuang should be fine, leaving himself some time.

However, there was another news reported later, which aroused Yang He's great attention.

I once learned from a villager that in addition to the bandits of Jiaoshan, there seems to be a large group of bandits who are hundreds of miles away from Tongshan, which is not very far from Liguoyi and Hanzhuang Gate, and their men and horses may be more and bigger than the bandits of Jiaoshan.

This made Yang He secretly frightened, that place was related to his survival and great cause, and he was determined to win.

His series of plans are inseparable from that place.

And this place is Xuzhou Tongshan, which is 100 miles away from his Xin'anzhuang.

Tongshan, known as "real estate solid gold" since ancient times, is very rich in mineral resources.

This place is full of treasures, there are coal, iron, copper, limestone, dolomite, quartz sandstone, marble, refractory clay and other minerals dozens of kinds of minerals.

In particular, there are 2 billion tons of coal, 100 million tons of iron ore, 1.2 billion tons of clay and 2.5 billion tons of limestone.

And these minerals are very high-quality, coal is more natural coke, and iron is more iron.

At that time, Hu Enxie invited the British miner Barr to explore the ore seedlings, and the results of Barr's exploration were as follows: "The coal seedlings in Xuzhou Tongshan are extremely prosperous, and the iron ore produced by Li Guoyi is particularly abundant and good. ”

He reported that when he picked up four pieces of iron and stone, melted them and examined them, he found that there were two pieces of iron and stone, containing 78.5% of net iron, 70.085% of iron and 70.085% of iron and stone, and that No. 3 iron and stone were made of iron and a little pen and lead, all of which were iron-rich ores, and they could be profitable if they were refined.

As a result, the Liguo Iron and Mining Bureau was established, and the merchants of various provinces subscribed for more than 8,000 shares, and the Liguo Coal Mine and Iron Plant was officially opened.

But this is all during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty.

At this time, Tongshan has become a wilderness for a long time, except for a post station, which has been uninhabited for a long time.

The smelting industry was developed in the early days of the country, and there were villages in the Han Dynasty, with iron officials and Qiuqiu Ye in the Tang Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, the scale of mining and ironmaking here was large, and he was promoted to the position of Li Guojian.

When Su Shi was the governor of Xuzhou, he developed Xuzhou's coal to smelt Liguo iron ore, and the scale of Liguo iron ore was very large. It was very popular.

It's just that after the Yuan and Ming dynasties, there was less and less iron ore on the surface of Tongshan, and the mining pit mouth and smelting furnace were also flooded by Weishan Lake.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, especially at the end of Wanli, the mining and smelting industry here basically stopped, except for a Liguo post station, no one paid attention here.

After that, it was silent here for hundreds of years, and it was not until the sixth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty in history that a number of villagers dug earth wells to get coal in the area of Jiawang Sunjialin.

Then in the eighth year of Guangxu, the Liguo Coal Mine Iron Plant was opened.

If Yang River hadn't come, this land would have continued to sleep for hundreds of years, and no one would know about this sleeping treasure.

Now Yang River is here.

It's just that due to the limitations of technology, manpower and financial resources, it is as difficult for him to mine the underground coal and iron ore, not to mention that this place is still occupied by bandits.

Correct......

Yang He has no choice, even if he fights hard in the future, he must recapture Tongshan.

After all, how can he industrialize without coal and iron?

Without coal and iron, how could he equip his army of ironclad and smash all enemies to death with massive amounts of steel?

Also, he now understands the reason why Inspector Deng rushed to set up friendships and make good connections, which is to use himself as a gunman.

Although there are still some reasons that I don't understand, such as knowing that the thieves are powerful, Deng Patrol still wants to fight with the thieves himself, what is the reason for this?

However, no matter what, this surnamed Deng used himself as a gunman, and if he didn't knock him hard, how could he be willing?

Yang He looked lightly at the inspection department a few miles away, it was time to go to the banquet. (To be continued.) )