The sluice gates of the embankment opened, and the river rushed down the stone dam like a wild horse roaring, running through the diversion trough, and then the water flowed down the stone trough, driving the huge water wheel blades in the trough, and it turned "chirp and chirp". Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The water was roaring, strings of water splashed from time to time, and the wheel blades rotated with the axle, causing the five bronze gears on the shaft to rotate as well.

Then there are corresponding bronze gears opposite the five bronze gears, and next to each gear, there are bearings and crank connecting rods, all of which are made of bronze, which is a very wear-resistant excellent material, more wear-resistant than steel.

Between the gears and bites, the bearings rotate, and the upper crank connecting rod is connected to the hammer at the top, and it is knocked together.

Yang He silently calculated, without the use of a transmission, and the method of controlling the flow of water through the dam gate is indeed feasible, after repeated tests, the hydraulic forging hammer is now basically stable at a speed of 200 times a minute.

After a period of debugging, so that the craftsmen can get familiar with it, basically from June, you can officially start work.

Looking at the amount of water in the embankment, storing water overnight can almost drive five hydraulic hammers to work for a whole day.

Behind Yang He stood Bao Tianfu, Chen Qiuao, Zhang Chuxun and others, looking at this magical instrument, everyone was amazed, that is, Bao Tianfu's eyes were full of incredulity.

This is also the result of their tiring months, from March, to the end of May, Bao Tianfu and others cast various bronze parts, carefully polished, all kinds of adjustments, and now it is finally done.

Thinking about this miraculous instrument, most of which was completed in their hands, is enough to boast to the world of a lifetime of glory.

It's just that the cost is too great, I'm afraid that in the entire Ming Dynasty, only Yang Xianggong is willing to spend money like this.

Bao Tianfu knows that the price of better bronze on the market now costs sixteen or seven taels per 100 catties, how much is the bronze material used here?

Zhang Chuxun looked left and right, and then looked at the percussion of each hydraulic hammer at an even speed, as if he would never get tired, and the excitement in his eyes could not be concealed.

He sighed: "My Xin'anzhuang craftsman, if I directly use fine iron, one person can make two pipe blanks a day. One person can make two iron armor officers per month. But if this hydraulic hammer is used, I am afraid that a hammer will use seven or eight times more manpower. ”

Yang He smiled: "This is the most basic. ”

He looked at the hammers that were constantly being struck, and his eyes were also fascinated, the power of machinery is unimaginable to man, and the same is true of water power.

He Xin'anzhuang, now has a monthly production capacity, three or four hundred rods of Xin'an, and forty or fifty pairs of iron armor, but after using a hydraulic hammer, it can be increased by six or seven times, seven or eight times, and even ten times later.

Of course, because there are only five hydraulic forging hammers, which need to be reasonably arranged, he has decided that one hammer head is slightly smaller, mainly forging the pipe.

With the cooperation of the two people, if they directly use fine iron, it is estimated that they can make fifteen barrel blanks a day and four hundred and fifty a month.

It's enough at the moment, after all, it's too much, and he can't drill the machine.

He has five drilling machines, working nine hours a day, three drills per bed, and fifteen lathes for five lathes, which is just right.

He doesn't use a hydraulic drilling machine, drilling this thing has more to do with good steel and good cooling oil, no matter how much power is enough, the drill bit is not good or not.

There are now 30 blacksmiths in his firearms workshop, except for 12 who are responsible for drilling and making guns, and the rest can be used to make pipes and fine iron plates, various parts, hammer copper bolts, etc., and have a lot of reserves.

The four hydraulic forging hammers are larger, and they focus on making iron armor.

According to the efficiency of the hydraulic forging hammer, basically each hammer can make 15 pairs of whole body armor per month, and four hydraulic hammers can make 60 pairs in a month.

However, Yang He now mainly wants to launch the soldier armor, only the helmet and cuirass, and some people have neck guards, and it is estimated that the amount of iron used is one-third of the whole body armor.

The one-piece Western-style plate armor hydraulic forging hammer is also not easy to make, and it needs to be stamped, but the hammer is strong enough, and it can make large nails, many palms are large, even larger than palms, and can also save half of the effort faster than small armors.

Four hydraulic hammers can also make 300 pairs of non-commissioned armor in a month.

At present, it is enough, after all, although he wants to expand the army in the second half of the year, he only plans to increase the four generals, the whole army is about 3,000 people, 1,000 civil war soldiers, and 1,000 killer soldiers.

Compared with the cost of a set of full-body armor of nearly thirty taels, the cost of this set of armor is only eight taels or nine taels, and it can equip soldiers in large quantities.

It's just that although the equipment is good, it costs money like running water.

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With this emotion, Yang He returned to the No. 1 house in Xin'anzhuang and came to his study.

This side is elegant, brightly lit, the furniture is all rosewood, a few tables and chairs, calligraphy and paintings on the wall, there are rows of bookcases, and a large map on another wall.

There is also a door to the back garden, where there are willows and plums, and rockery ponds, and Yang He will also go to the back garden for a walk when he is troubled, but mainly there is a playground for younger brothers and sisters.

After the defeat of Zhang Xianzhong and others on the sixth day of the first month of May, the news of the great victory spread again, and it caused a huge sensation, and soon Yang He returned to Xin'anzhuang, which was buried in various affairs these days.

But this busy day is coming to an end for the time being, because he has already received a notice from Pizhou Lian Zong, and he will soon go to Pizhou to take office.

At the same time, Shi Kefa, the governor of Caoyun, seemed to have a strong interest in him during this time in Suqian, and had sent someone to summon him to meet him in Suqian County, and Yang He planned to leave tomorrow to meet Shi Kefa in Suqian.

"Spending money is like water." At this time, Yang He sighed in his heart.

He couldn't help but sit down and take out a pen and paper to calculate.

Speaking of which, from the end of last year to the present, he has gained a lot, regardless of the reward, he has harvested a total of 500,000 taels of silver, 18,000 stones of grain beans, and recently sorghum harvested, about 7,000 stones, a total of 25,000 stones of rice, wheat and sorghum beans.

There were also 80 artillery pieces and more than 1,000 horses and mules captured.

At present, the population directly under his direct command is only 10,000, but the annual burden of grain and rice is 28,000 stones, and the salary of Zhuangmin soldiers is 60,000 taels.

He also spent 30,000 taels of clothes and bedding for the soldiers of Zhuangmin, and 30,000 taels for the construction of water conservancy in the 15 directly subordinate villages, because half of the people in the villages directly under Xin'an Township did not have a house to live in, and now they live in a reed house, and they will have to spend 50,000 taels to build a house in the future.

In addition, based on 3,000 soldiers, the cost of 2,000 new guns is 20,000 taels, 20,000 taels of non-commissioned soldiers, and 15,000 taels of generals.

Eight thousand taels have been spent on the construction of the road, which is a little longer than previously planned.

There are also big heads, more than 1,000 mules and horses, whether they are four cents of concentrate and six cents of hay in their leisure time, or six cents of concentrate and four cents of hay in wartime, the average horse eats three times the ration of a person, and seven or eight kilograms of hay a day is not less.

More than 1,000 horses and mules consume 8,500 stone of grain and 2.8 million kilograms of hay a year.

As for other bits and pieces of expenditure, such as 10,000 directly subordinate villagers, more than 1,000 taels of silver a year need for salt, they have been omitted.

Yang He sighed in his heart, not to mention that half of the silver was gone, just his current population of 10,000 directly under him, more than 1,000 horses and mules, and the annual food consumption of people and horses would be 36,000 stones.

This is also the reason why he Yanghe set up a grain store system, so that the affiliated villagers have a minimum guarantee in disaster years, and the rest will be left to fend for themselves.

The cost of all kinds of water conservancy is too great, and he can't afford it, especially all kinds of water conservancy, and the investment cost is even more astronomical.

It is also because he only set up farms and farms, and did not divide fields, the water conservancy foundation in various places is too poor, and the grain production of households will be increased in later generations, because there are various water conservancy projects in front of him to lay a solid foundation, otherwise they will have to drink the northwest wind.

In this era, the fields and land were all private, but they were so weak that if there was a flood or drought, the people would have no harvest.

Fortunately, these subordinate villagers are attached to the directly subordinate villagers, raising pigs and growing vegetables around supply and demand, establishing a tertiary industry, and having public security protection.

Yang He calculated and calculated, if it expands in the future, two townships will be set up for every 10,000 people, and no houses will be built for residential land, not counting weapons and armor, only the people of the village will eat and drink, and the wages of each village will also cost 28,000 stone of grain and 60,000 taels of silver every year.

At that time, Zhuangmin had to spend 30,000 taels on clothes and bedding, and I am afraid that the water conservancy construction in Erxiang would also cost 30,000 or 40,000 taels, especially in some places where the water and soil were not good.

I couldn't help but shake my head, the burden was too heavy.

He got up and walked to the big map, this is his satellite map of later generations, the situation of water, soil, mountains and rivers at this time, a map he drawn, every time he wants to make a decision, look at the map, he knows in his heart.

He took a pencil and wrote on it, and groaned in his heart, this place on the north bank of Suining he set up as Xin'an Township, governing Xin'an Village, about 300 square kilometers, and now governing about 20,000 people, with 14 affiliated villages and 15 directly subordinate villages.

This place is saturated, and if he wants to recruit hungry people, he must put it elsewhere.

And from Xin'an Township to the north, is the border of Xuzhou and Pizhou, because of the bandits, the junction is sparsely populated. This side goes north to the edge of the Bulao River and Mountain, and the area from east to west, about 400 square kilometers can be operated.

Then go west from Xin'an Township, cross the Inner Baima River, go to Lulianghong and other places, and along both sides of the Outer Baima River, there are about 200 square kilometers of ground that can be operated.

Although it belongs to Xuzhou, it is close to the Yellow River, and there are many mountains in the territory, and there are not many people living now, that is, there are many bandits.

Then go north from the Bulao River, the north end to the side of the canal, the west end to the Weishan Lake, about 600 square kilometers of ground, is Xuzhou Copper Mountain.

There are treasures underground, with coal reserves of 2 billion tons, iron ore reserves of 100 million tons, clay reserves of 1.2 billion tons, limestone reserves of 2.5 billion tons, and dozens of minerals such as marble, refractory clay, dolomite, quartz sand, etc.

However, due to the less iron ore on the surface and the flooding of Weishan Lake, there was no mining and smelting industry here during the Wanli period.

At this time, the soldiers were in chaos, and it was even quieter and uninhabited, and the only Liguo post station was also destroyed when Li Qingshan rebelled.

At that time, Yang He did not encounter a single village in his crusade against the Tongshan bandits, and now all the mountains are bandits except bandits.

These three places are 1,200 square kilometers, and Yang He plans to occupy them, and six townships will be set up in the future.

The east bank of the Pizhou Canal again, north to the border of Shandong, south to the Luoma Lake, nearly 1,000 square kilometers, the same vast and sparsely populated, not many populated market towns.

At this time, Pizhou was not small, but the population was not large, and the original number of households was only 47 li, that is, 4,700 households, and most of them still lived in Pizhou City. There are not as many households as in Ganyu County, and there are still fifty-six miles of households there.

Although the population multiplied, the opening of the canal, Pizhou is much more prosperous than before, especially the foreign population, but it is mainly concentrated on the west bank of the canal, and the area from the river to the straight river.

Yang He plans to occupy that area in the future, and set up six more townships.

In this way, he planned to set up 12 townships in Pizhou, each with 1,000 households, and 12 townships as county-level units, that is, 12,000 households, with a population of about 60,000.

It is planned that the 12 townships have a total cultivated area of 600,000 mu, and Pizhou has a arable land area of 1.76 million mu in later generations.

If these fields are managed, they only need to produce one stone per mu, and after deducting the annual grain consumption of about 170,000 stone for 60,000 people, and various expenses, there is still a surplus.

If the production efficiency is improved, and the yield per mu is one stone and five buckets, he will gain a lot.

If he yields two stones per mu and reaches a harvest of three hundred and seventy catties, he will be rich.

These 60,000 people are still directly under the Zhuang population, but as an arm, 12,000 households are at least 12,000 young and strong, all of whom are township soldiers.

If you can control ten county-level units, that is, 100,000 township soldiers, even if it is impossible to draw all of them in the big war, but even if you draw one out of three, there are 30,000 people, and they can be used in key battles, so that the opponent can see what is called a crowd tactic.

What does it mean to shoot out one batch and then come to two batches.

Of course, the layout is intended to be like this, and there is a long way to go to achieve the goal.

Especially in his system, the initial investment is very large and the burden is heavy, so he will not build the houses of the villagers in the future, and each household will be exempted from deed tax even if he gives one acre of base residential land.

However, Yang He believes that even so, his farmland is still very attractive, after all, they can be fed and clothed, and according to their wages, they can basically build a house in five years, or a courtyard house.

If Zhuangzi is profitable, it doesn't even take five years.

The exemption from deed tax can also greatly reduce their burden.

At this time, the real estate is not expensive, the countryside or some state and county houses, the basic house is fifty taels of silver, and even during the Wanli period, the residents of a state and county in Fengyang Mansion bought a house, a few in and out of the big house, covering an area of five acres, there are three buildings, twenty-eight bungalows, all but spend 106 taels of silver.

But there is a lot of deed tax, go to the yamen to pay the deed tax, let the magistrate put a red stamp on the deed, all kinds of taxes and fees, all thirteen taels.

Therefore, if the deed tax of the directly subordinate villagers is exempted, their burden will be reduced a lot, and they can even make installment payments in the future.

Directly under the Zhuang people have a place to eat, generally a family average annual net income can have more than a dozen taels, Zhuangzi benefits well, higher income, will be a high-income group in the Ming Dynasty in the future, the economy is still guaranteed.

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Yang He looked at the map and groaned, in the second half of this year, he will make up the number of 3,000 soldiers, and next year he plans to expand the army to 5,000, how many townships to run first, and how many hungry people to recruit, he has to think carefully.

In addition, due to the lack of meat, the consumption of food has remained high, and it is necessary to open up meat sources.

He drew a pencil on the map, and finally dotted on Haizhou.

There is Haizhou Bay Fishing Ground here, which has always been a very rich place for fishery, Pizhou counts as a lot of fish, but at this time, a pound of fresh fish also costs two cents of silver, and a pound of dried fish is three cents and six cents, and this side is less than a cent of silver.

Even because of the hot weather, the fish caught by the fishermen, only a day or two later, the price plummeted, a few pennies per catty, and finally rotten, only one or two pennies were disposed of, or even thrown away.

It's not that the fishermen don't want to deal with it, but there is no way, the fish is perishable, and it stinks even after a day in the summer.

If salted, the salt at this time is not cheap, now fine salt is a pound of three points of silver, a pound of salt bricks also cost two cents of silver, even if there are many salt farms near Haizhou, salted fish is still expensive, the price is high, no one buys.

Just like Yang He bought a large number of dried fish for the Zhuang people to eat, a catty of three cents and six cents of silver, inside and outside the city of Pizhou, in fact, few people bought it.

Basically, Haizhou Bay is rich in fishery, and most of them are rotten, and the phosphate fertilizer of the Yang River is processed by purchasing a large number of these rotten fish.

There is also a large amount of kelp and seaweed here, which is also a very rich source of food, and there is even a port here to develop maritime trade.

A fertile place, but unfortunately far away, from Haizhou to Pizhou, the straight-line distance is three hundred and fifty miles, and there are many rivers running north-south along the way, and the traffic is very inconvenient.

At this time, the road traveled from Haizhou to Muyang, then to Suqian, and finally arrived outside Pizhou along the official road or the Yellow River.

However, Yang He's pencil still drew a circle on it, and in the future, he could consider fish processing, kelp processing, and seaweed processing here, so as to enrich the food and meat sources of the villagers.

Finally, it is the layout of the Qing army at the end of the year.

Yang He pondered in front of the map for a long time, and finally drew circles in three places. It is Xinyi City in later generations, and the inspection department of Suqian Liujiazhuang at this time. The Maling Mountain Scenic Area in later generations, Suqian Dongwu Mountain at this time. The county seat of the East China Sea in later generations, the East China Sea Inspection Division of Haizhou at this time.

Putting down the pencil and looking at the sun, Yang He planned to go to the training ground behind Beishan to have a look.

After returning from defeating the Liukou, his troops were training in some improved battle formations, as well as the battle formation training of the cavalry team, and teaching the equestrian skills of the infantry.

From March to the present, many foot soldiers have been carried out to the stage of wild riding, especially they will soon have a task, but also to step up equestrian training, the training ground behind the north mountain has mountains, rivers and wilderness, is a suitable place for training.

Yang He will soon go to Pizhou to take office, but there is always a thorn in his heart, that is, the remnants of the green mountains who have repeatedly invaded Pizhou, Haizhou and other places.

Fortunately, Qian Sanniang and the others have already found out where their lair is, and after taking office, they will choose a time, not only the cavalry team, but also 500 infantry can ride horses, and quickly exterminate these Qingshan thieves entrenched in Yimeng Mountain with the momentum of thunder.

In the second half of the year, he will give birth with peace of mind and will never allow anyone to destroy his good situation.