Since July, the Yang River has been busy again.

At the beginning of this month, he began to recruit displaced refugees, and set up Bayi Township and Daxu Township along Xin'anzhuang, on both sides of the border between Xuzhou and Pizhou, all the way to the Bulao River, with a total area of more than 400 square kilometers.

It also went west from Xin'anzhuang, crossed the inner Baima River, all the way to Lulianghong, and added the land of the outer Baima River, a total of more than 200 square kilometers of land, and established Baima Township.

In addition to these three townships, on the east and west banks of the Pizhou Canal, the township tunbao was set up, and the land was occupied first, and the number of households was slowly enriched.

In total, starting in July, he set up about four townships, and the new population was about 20,000 based on the calculation of 1,000 households per township.

The property stolen from the bandits and traitors gave him confidence.

According to the treatment given by Yanghe to the villagers, young and middle-aged people are provided with two catties of rice and flour every day, and women and children are more than one catty, with an average of one and a half catties, and each person consumes about two stones and eight buckets of grain per year. There are 20,000 people in the four townships, and the annual need for grain and rice is about 56,000 stones.

According to the market price at this time, one stone of grain is about two taels of silver for one hundred and eighty-eight catties, and fifty-six thousand stones is about 110,000 taels of silver.

The displaced refugees have nothing, and after being recruited into Tunpu, reclamation and training are all heavy work, how can they do without food?

However, compared with the old villagers in Xin'an Township, they have no wages in the first year, and they only give out a red envelope at the end of the year. In the future, Yang He does not plan to build a house for them, and each household will be given one acre of land for the foundation, but it will be exempt from deed tax.

However, they still need clothes and bedding, two winter clothes and two summer clothes for men, women and children, blankets and winter quilts, etc., with an average of about three taels per person, and 20,000 people is 60,000 taels of silver.

There are also four townships of water conservancy, to develop, to farm, water conservancy is indispensable, according to the example of Xin'anzhuang, the average township costs more than 10,000 taels of silver.

In this way, the new land of four townships in Yanghe will cost 200,000 taels of silver this year. Then, starting next year, these people will be paid 56,000 stone of food every year, and the wages will be about 120,000 taels.

And they produce, one village protects 100 households, and reclaims 5,000 or 6,000 mu of land, one township and 10 guarantees, and 560,000 mu of land, and four townships reclaim more than 200,000 mu of land. By next year's autumn sowing, these lands should be reclaimed, and the corresponding water conservancy should be built, and then there will be a harvest in the summer of the next year, that is, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

Therefore, the development is very slow at this time, and in the Yanghe plan, the yield of newly reclaimed land must also reach one stone. He believes that with good water conservancy and a large amount of fertilizer input, this yield can be achieved in the field.

This is far from sufficient, the yield per mu is one stone, and the income and expenditure of more than 200,000 mu of land in the four townships are barely flat, which cannot create profits for him, and it is necessary to increase productivity.

In the Yanghe plan, after a few years of cultivation, these fields need to yield more than 2 stone per mu for wheat and 3 stone per mu for rice, that is, 200 kilograms and 300 kilograms.

Yang He believes that this possibility is very great, after all, digging canals and embankments, planting and manure diligently, improving the farming environment, and making the land fertile, this harvest is possible.

And when the yield of wheat per mu reaches 2 stones, he will make a lot of money, just like the newly established land of Sixiang, with more than 200,000 mu of land, and the harvest output is more than 400,000 stones, deducting 56,000 stone of rations, and the salary is 120,000 taels, and his profit is still multiple.

And at that time, they will eat less, and they will not need as much rations, even if they increase some welfare benefits for the villagers, or simply based on wages.

To put it bluntly, Yang He implemented the Big Farm Plan, and these people were Yang He's farm workers.

In each farm, he implemented good welfare guarantees, similar to a system of lifelong employment, accompanied by a modern system of assessment, reward and punishment, and the establishment of a progressive wage system, so that the loyalty and motivation of the villagers were not in question.

In the future, he can cultivate good seeds and use a large number of machinery, so that the surplus population can develop animal husbandry, breeding, and processing of various agricultural products, so as to maximize productivity.

History has proved that the small-scale peasant economy and the division of land and land have little effect on the improvement of productivity. Thousands of years ago, during the Han and Tang dynasties, the yield per mu of wheat was less than one stone, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the yield per mu of wheat was still less than one stone, and these thousands of years were wasted. In the early days of their founding, they all divided the fields and land, and they divided them thoroughly, and the fields were privately owned and passed down from generation to generation.

The only function of the division of land is to stabilize the society, and this period of stability is not long, and in the small peasant society, any disaster, flood, drought, locust plague, small landlords and yeoman farmers immediately become destitute, and then land annexation begins.

Of course, because of the role of buying people's hearts and stabilizing society, Yang He will also engage in the division of fields and land in the future, but not in the direct village, but in the affiliated village. Each household was divided into 30 to 50 acres of land, collected land taxes, and rented them rations, ploughing cattle, farm tools, and so on.

Yang He is also not optimistic about the development of the affiliated farms, compared with the large-scale organization of the farms, the ability of the farmers in the small peasant structure to resist disasters is too weak, and they go bankrupt one after another. Yang He can imagine that it will not be long before bankrupt peasants and land annexation in the affiliated villages will become a common phenomenon.

Their productivity is still extremely low, even if a family of five cultivates 30 acres of land, but the yield per mu is less than one stone, in addition to each person's rations, how much surplus grain can be sold? Not to mention in a disaster year, it's good to have a stutter. What's more, if he has no income, he has to post it upside down, which is purely negative equity.

Directly under the Zhuang farm, affiliated to the village to divide the field and land, the two systems are side by side, Yang He also let the people see, which system is superior, they will make a choice.

Of course, the peasants went bankrupt, there was a process of land annexation, and the division of land was meaningful in the early stage, and on this basis, Yang He could set up such as the Western Han Dynasty's "Du Zhi System" and the Tang Dynasty's government soldier system to expand the source of troops to the greatest extent.

But his greatest hope is still in his direct village, he has in fact established a workers' group, and his life and labor are disciplined and militarized, and on this basis, he can develop all kinds of large groups, such as the military group, the agricultural group, the military industrial group, the heavy industry group, and so on.

In the future, he will develop interest groups and establish political parties, and these direct Zhuang people will also be the staunchest supporters.

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Earlier this month, Yang also began to expand its army.

At present, he has six troops, including all units directly under the Chinese Army, totaling 2,500 people.

It was planned to recruit another 2,000 men, bringing the total strength to 4,500.

The number of civil war soldiers was expanded from six to twelve, with a strength of about 3,000 men.

Among the various teams of the Chinese army, the medical team was expanded to 100 people, the grenadier team was expanded to 100 people, the sentinel team was expanded to 100 people, the cavalry team was expanded to 300 people, and the sharp army team was expanded to 300 people. With the addition of the escort team, artillery team, baggage team, etc., the strength of the Chinese military department is about 1,500 people.

The recruitment of soldiers was carried out in Suining and Pizhou, where the power of the Xin'an Army had long been well-known, and the treatment of the army also made everyone's eyes warm, especially casualties, disabilities, pensions, and discharge.

Speaking of which, the monthly salary of the Xin'an Army is not high, and ordinary soldiers only have five dollars of silver per month, but the hidden benefits are high. Food and shelter are included, housing is provided, bereavement benefits are provided for casualties, and family members are resettled. If you are discharged from the army after three years, the army will also be given a house, a courtyard, and a homestead of one acre.

Although from this month, ordinary villagers do not build houses and only give homestead land, but soldiers will build houses. As far as Yang He is concerned, these veterans have been trained in the army for several years, all of them can write and calculate, have a full body of skills, and are loyal to him, and they are the best grassroots personnel, and their treatment is naturally better.

All kinds of attractive welfare benefits, even if the military salary is not high on the surface, Yang He's An Jiayin for each soldier has also dropped to ten taels, but the people have a scale in their hearts, and the crowd who hope to apply for recruitment is still overwhelming.

According to the standards of the Qi family's army, every soldier who is recruited is strictly selected and assessed, and those who are not from good families, strong and strong, and honest do not want to do their duty.

The affairs of the recruits will be handed over to the military affairs hall.

The six halls under the council hall, the official affairs, household affairs, military affairs, public works affairs, ritual affairs, and criminal affairs are slowly on the track, and there is no need for Yang He to do it himself. The civil affairs hall under the council hall is dedicated to training civil affairs officials, and it also enriches the cantonment officials of each tunbao.

After three months of training in the military affairs hall, the recruits will gradually be added to the general staff, and the Yanghe "invisible division" system has already reserved six new general officer backbone candidates, and each general will be expanded in time to be divided into A, B, and second.

The first class is generally six or seven veterans, three or four recruits, and the equipment is also better, and they all have iron armor.

There are three veterans and seven recruits for each second class, only the veterans have iron armor, and the recruits use pure cotton armor.

Before the dry season, the military quartermaster could only make 2,000 pairs of iron armor, and even some captured rogue cotton armor was only more than 2,000 pairs of armor, but the soldiers needed equipment, so they used pure cotton armor for the time being.

Pure cotton armor is relatively simple, "every seven catties of cotton soaked in water mallet flat into a thin sun-dried, repeatedly dried three times into a layer, with three layers sewn into a jacket", and added a copper nail lined with a total weight of more than 20 catties.

At this time, cotton is six or seven cents of silver, more than 20 catties of cotton, and lined with copper nails, etc., a set of pure cotton armor is only more than two taels of silver, which can produce equipment on a large scale.

Pure cotton armor also has a certain protective power, fifty steps away can be anti-projectile, the enemy into fifty steps of direct fire will not be seriously injured, not to mention the second class of the general soldiers, for the time being, Zhuang people can use this.

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The expansion of the Yanghe army was vigorous, and everyone in the state city saw it but didn't see it.

The earlier killing frightened everyone, and it was clear that Governor Shi Kefa and others also supported Yang He, so why should they bother?

At this time, private soldiers were rampant, and the villagers were emerging in an endless stream, so how could the local government manage it?

Zhizhou Su Chengxing and others speculated that Yang He was going to follow the path of Shen Kun, the champion of the Yuangong, and train strong soldiers to protect the territory and the people, and there might be troubles, but he had already become a leader, what does it have to do with him in a few years? Let a sleeping dog lie.

As far as Su Chengxing is concerned, anyway, if he bites to death 700 "training" township soldiers, Fucheng may also bite to death to give Yang He 1,000 soldiers. There are 1,700 "training" township soldiers, and the extra ones are also raised by Yang He himself, and it has nothing to do with him.

The current situation, the state city is already peaceful, and Su Zhizhou is waiting for retirement.

In the middle of July, the state government gave Yang He 5,000 taels of silver, which was 700 taels of food and silver for half a year to train the township soldiers.

Yang He's prostitution is still there, and the silver given by the state government is a real amount, and he doesn't dare to deduct it.

The Fucheng side also allocated the money and food of the township soldiers in the second half of the year, the horses were three steps seven, the number of soldiers was 1,000, and the amount of food and silver was more than 8,000 taels, and the rice was more than 2,000 stones.

According to the earlier calculations, the food and equipment allocated by the Fucheng side amounted to about 11,400 taels of silver and 3,000 stone of rice in half a year, and they were deducted by almost 30%. This is still the Governor's Palace's instructions, and Yang He is becoming more and more prestigious.

There are also three great victories of beheading and rewarding silver, and it stands to reason that there will be a reward of 30,000 taels of silver at the 6,000 level, but from the military department, it was deducted layer by layer, and in the hands of Yang He, it was only 5,000 taels.

Yang He didn't say anything, but he secretly remembered that he dared to be greedy for his money, and he wanted these people to look good in the future!

The Governor's Mansion also allocated the armor and equipment of the 300 horse team, which was not bad, all of them were inlaid with iron cotton armor, bright red long body armor, copper nails were large and heavy, and there were arms and hands, as well as a more traditional iron helmet, which weighed about 30 catties.

With this batch of armor, the iron armor made at the end of the year, and the captured iron-inlaid cotton armor, there were about 2,500 pairs of heavy armor under Yang He's command. With a force of 4,500 men, the penetration rate of heavy armor has exceeded half, and he is more certain to fight the Qing army at the end of the year.

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July 18, Xin'anzhuang training ground, near Loushan.

It is the scorching heat, but all kinds of training are still in full swing, and now the Xin'anzhuang training base is even more vast, from Beishan to the north to Guoshan, and to the east to the three mountains, four mountains, five mountains and other places, the scale of about five or six square kilometers.

Loushan is in this training base, a small mountain bag, there is a river nearby, and some large and small iron furnaces under the mountain are the sites selected by Yang He for crucible steelmaking.

By now, the crucible steelmaking of Yanghe has entered the substance, and the refractory bricks are fired from clay to build an iron-making furnace.

Black lead, that is, graphite was fired into a crucible, and Bao Tianfu and others experimented many times, they first small and then large, and have successfully smelted several five-kilogram crucible steel. Today's challenge is a fifty-pound crucible steel.

Under the scorching sun, an iron-making furnace stood majestically in front of it, about two meters high and almost two meters in diameter, the whole shape was fat and fat, and there was a heavy and thick furnace lid on the top, which covered the furnace tightly like a pot lid.

The essence of crucible steelmaking is like a pressure cooker, smelting molten iron at high temperature, and the inside of the closed blast furnace must withstand extremely high temperatures, so the refractory bricks of this furnace are fired from high-alumina clay.

It is also built very thick, the walls of the furnace are more than half a meter thick, and the outside is covered with thick salt mud, wrapped in thick vines, and supported by hardwood. The same is true of the lid, made of thick refractory bricks, wrapped in cast iron and hardwood.

Then there are some small iron furnaces nearby, more than one meter high, but they are crucible steel furnaces with a five-pound weight experimented by Xin'anzhuang craftsmen.

At this time, Yang He was standing not far from the big iron furnace, beside him were the town guard Xin'anzhuang, Han Daxia, the head of the military affairs hall, Zhang Chuxun, the director of the munitions station, and Bao Tianfu, the former craftsman of the smelter.

These craftsmen are all fully armed, all wearing asbestos clothing, clothes, shoes, gloves, hats, masks, asbestos has a high degree of fire resistance and thermal insulation, as early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there is a fire cloth, Marco Polo also said that asbestos was used by the Tatars to make fireproof clothing.

The workers under Yang He are all precious, and with this condition, the equipment that should be available must be available.

He looked at it, and this experiment smelted fifty catties of crucible steel, hoping to succeed, and he said, "Let's start." ”

Bao Tianfu shouted loudly, there were ten workers under him, and they took action one after another when they gave an order.

Not far from the iron-making furnace there are sheds, in which there are graphite crucibles, large and small, and a large amount of coke accumulation, as well as pig iron, wrought iron, lime fluorite and other raw materials.

There are workers to carry the crucible, the shape is like a "U" shape, the whole color is black, this is the formula drawn up by Yang He, and finally fired into a graphite crucible, roughly graphite accounts for five, refractory clay accounts for forty, and some aggregates account for five.

These crucibles are not cheap, at this time the price of graphite, that is, black lead per 100 catties of silver three cents, and not durable, there is a danger of bursting after a few uses.

Bao Tianfu and others have experimented, each crucible can only be used three times, don't look at the crucibles in the shed, but they are all consumables, and each use for a day or two will be discarded.

Bao Tianfu instructed to fill the crucible with wrought iron, the amount of which was about 50 catties, and mix a certain proportion of limestone, fluorite, river sand, etc., which was to make slag and remove impurities such as phosphorus and sulfur in the molten iron.

There are several ways to make crucible steel, you can use wrought iron, pig iron plus scrap, or pig iron plus wrought iron.

But at this time, there was no scrap steel in Daming, and each piece of steel was carefully and repeatedly used. The ratio of pig iron to wrought iron also needs to be carefully experimented, and it is difficult to say what kind of steel is mixed with raw and cooked, and sometimes even mild steel.

Wrought iron is used for the time being, and the carbon elements in the graphite crucible are absorbed at high temperatures, and high-carbon steel can generally be obtained smoothly, which has been proved by several experiments.

The workers were busy, taking the crucible and loading it with iron, and there were workers pulling up the lid of the furnace with an iron hook and filling it with coke.

There is a semi-circular earthen platform next to the iron furnace, which is flush with the top of the furnace, and they can stand on it to work, and they are also filled with fine coke, which reaches five cents per catty.

You must know that ordinary coke is only two or three pounds per catty, and the best white charcoal used in the palace at this time is only one pound of silver, and the usual black charcoal is only three or four dollars a catty.

Soon they filled enough coke, about sixty catties, and the heat of these good cokes, sixty catties of fuel was enough.

Yang He had already set a manual for each process, and the workers had conducted many experiments and were already familiar with it, and they acted in an orderly manner and quickly prepared it.

Seeing that everything was in order, Bao Tianfu ordered the fire to be lit and poked the fire strip through the slag hole.

The bottom of this crucible furnace is empty, there are two holes of blowing air hole and slag hole, and there is a furnace bridge, which is made of refractory bricks and has a network structure, which is similar to the stove for cooking rice. The coke is piled on top of the furnace bridge, and the bottom is dried wood for fire.

It is generally simple, not much different from the iron-making furnace at this time, there is no hot blast, and there is no regenerative chamber. The characteristics of graphite crucible make it easy to make the internal temperature of the crucible exceed 1,600 degrees, and there is no need for regenerator heating.

Soon the wood was ignited, and several craftsmen vigorously pushed and pulled the manpower bellows, blowing air into it, and gradually burning the coke.

There is not much smoke, and the coke used in Yanghe is basically anthracite, with less smoke and high heat.

Everyone waited, the graphite crucible was not in a hurry to put it in, and after about two quarters of an hour, seeing that all the coke was burning inside, two craftsmen used special crucible pliers to put the graphite crucible in, and closed the lid of the furnace, and locked it with an iron bolt.

Bao Tianfu made the bellows blow harder, and he climbed the earth platform to observe the situation. There is an observation hole on the furnace lid to see the molten iron inside, and at the same time, you can use a long iron drill to probe in it and stir the molten iron in the crucible.

Bao Tianfu observed the situation of the molten iron in the crucible, and according to the manual, he kept reporting the temperature and flame color inside.

"The flame is orange, and the temperature is a thousand degrees." Bao Tianfu said loudly, "Continue to blow the wind." ”

Yang He took a closer look, under the scorching sun, the temperature near the iron furnace was surprisingly high, and everyone around him followed, looking at that side with the same expectation.

Soon Bao Tianfu reported again: "The flame is blue, and the temperature is 1,200 degrees." ”

Yang He saw that he was focused, wearing an asbestos suit and a mask, sweat dripping out from time to time, and couldn't help nodding slightly.

At this time, there was no thermometer, but there were also methods for observing "fire", such as the "visual method" that was prevalent in the Shang and Zhou dynasties at the earliest, and there was an idiom called "pure fire", which was one of the standards for the ancients to observe the fire.

What kind of flame and what kind of temperature, is the secret of the craftsmen, many people rely on this to eat, and even many glaze kiln masters see a fire, it costs twenty taels to fifty taels of silver. There are also various methods to control temperature changes, such as fire illumination and spitting.

As the owner of the smelter, Bao Tianfu also has the ability to observe the heat, but he cannot form a logic and system, and he is not as clear and understandable as the manual.

He looked carefully through the observation hole, and saw that the temperature inside the crucible was getting higher, and slowly the wrought iron inside melted and boiled, and a blue flame came out, and he shouted: "The temperature is fifteen hundred degrees, open the lid of the furnace." ”

There was excitement in his voice, although some kiln temperatures can reach 1,300 degrees, but seeing this melting point at high temperatures, Bao Tianfu couldn't help but sigh at Yang Xianggong's ability.

I always thought that the surname Bao was outstanding, but when I arrived in Xin'anzhuang, I knew that there were people outside the world, and there was a sky outside the sky.

In fact, the melting point of iron is 1,500 degrees, and it stands to reason that liquid pig iron cannot be obtained by ironmaking at this time, but at this time, iron contains a large amount of impurities such as sulfur, phosphorus, silicon, manganese, etc., so that the melting point is reduced to about 1,100 degrees. If there are suitable utensils and processes, liquid molten iron can also be obtained, but of course it cannot be compared with the melting of genuine iron.

With his drinking order, several craftsmen stepped forward, one pulled the iron bolt, the other pulled it with an iron hook, and soon the heavy furnace lid was opened, and immediately the boiling heat wave surged, and on this side, Yang He felt the scorching heat.

Yang He watched and saw a person wearing a thick asbestos suit and holding a long spoon to fish out some things in the graphite crucible.

This is a miscellaneous residue, which is formed by the reaction of limestone, fluorite, river sand, etc. with sulfur and phosphorus and other elements in the molten iron, and the quality of the molten iron will be good if these impurities are removed.

After the miscellaneous residue was fished out, another person used a long iron drill to probe in, stirred the molten iron in the crucible, and accelerated the combustion and removal of impurities such as sulfur and phosphorus.

Soon the slag was fished out, the lid of the furnace was closed again, leaving a craftsman to stir the molten iron from time to time, and Bao Tianfu continued to observe the fire. Seeing that the flames in the crucible turned white and the temperature reached 1,600 degrees as stated in the manual, his expression became even more excited.

He'd seen this flame a few times during his experiments, and each time it was so wonderful.

Time passed, and slowly the tongue of fire in the crucible changed from long to short, the carbon flowers also became sparse, and the wrought iron inside had become steel.

The lid of the furnace was opened, and two craftsmen stepped forward and carefully clamped out the graphite crucible with crucible pliers, which had been burned red and hot molten steel splashed.

Not far from the iron furnace, there is a brick-built runner, and at the end of the runner is a mold groove, which can be poured into the ingot mold you need. Two craftsmen clamped and poured the molten steel into the mold groove, and then a craftsman poured lime and charcoal on top of the molten steel according to the manual to prevent the molten steel from oxidizing.

The weather was too hot, Yang He had already sat back in the shack, at this time he stood up, looked at the hourglass beside him, from the ignition of the fire to the cessation of the wind, about two and a half hours.

He nodded secretly, as long as there are raw materials, it is easy to have two furnaces of steel a day, and the crucible furnace can generally work for ten days in a row, and then rest for a period of time. This is just an experiment, and in the future, several more crucible furnaces can be built in this area to make steel.

Soon the ingots cooled, and everyone excitedly checked the steel.

Zhang Chuxun is a veteran, he picked up a steel ingot, knocked it gently, and his delicate face was full of fascination and admiration: "Good steel, so fine and symmetrical, this steel quality is even better than Sugang!" How much energy does it take for them to be tempered by thousands of tempers? We smelt directly in the furnace, and we will not worry about the lack of good steel in the future. ”

The craftsman next to him was excitedly discussing, Bao Tianfu was holding a steel ingot in his hand, and he was also trembling and touching, this pot of about fifty catties of steel is so exquisite, there is no instant noodles, no tendon belts, no seams, homogeneous as one, it is perfect!

After receiving Yang Xianggong's order, he and the craftsmen built several small crucible furnaces, each pot of five catties of experiments. But in the past, a few pots were baked, some of them were about the same as Sugang, and some were worse than Sugang.

Bao Tianfu looked at the steel ingots, his expression was intoxicated, in his eyes, these stainless steels were simply more beautiful than the most beautiful women in the world.

Han Daxia also said happily: "With these good steels, no matter how many soldiers there are, there is no need for arquebuses." ”

Yang He looked at a piece of steel in his hand with satisfaction, and the steel in his hand was already a very good high-carbon steel, much better than Suzhou steel, and the texture was particularly consistent, which was also the advantage of crucible steel.

At this time, Suzhou Iron and Steel is six or seven taels of silver, and he does not worry about selling this steel for ten taels per catty, and the cost is low, even wrought iron, graphite crucible consumption, coke cost, labor, etc., the cost of a furnace is less than ten taels. But according to the market price, his pot of crucible steel is worth at least five hundred taels.

Of course, he will not sell this steel, not to mention that high-quality steel should be monopolized in his hands, that is, he will only use more steel in the future.

Excitedly putting down the steel ingot, Yang He ordered Bao Tianfu and the others to be rewarded, so that they could continue to experiment and build a higher and larger crucible furnace. Fifty catties of steel in a furnace is too little, so how can you put a few more pots, at least to two hundred catties, right?

The crucible furnace can also be used for a variety of experiments, not only with wrought iron, but also with pig iron and wrought iron, or wrought iron mixed with various carbon compounds, and slowly refine the carbon steel you want, all kinds of tool steel, special steel, alloy die steel, etc.

In addition, they need to continue to follow the manual when smelting, and train a large number of skilled workers, rather than a secret book monopolized by a few.

At present, there are few craftsmen in Xin'anzhuang, especially few skilled workers, and when a large number of skilled workers are trained in the future, he can build a blast furnace and use the stirring iron smelting method to smelt mature iron directly from pig iron, so that he does not have to worry about using steel.

Of course, in order to prevent the loss of technology, these workers could not leave Xin'anzhuang, and his iron-making furnace was also built in the training ground, which was well protected.

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He returned to Xin'anzhuang happily and supervised the studies of his younger brothers and sisters, and the next day, he returned to Pizhou City.

This issue of the Di Bao has arrived, but with Wang Feng sending the newspaper, Yang He was in a bad mood after reading it, he threw down the Di Bao and said hatefully: "Zuo Liangyu, this brute! ”

The newspaper published the incident of Zhuxian Town, and as with the historical development, the officers and soldiers were defeated, and Li Zicheng regained the siege of Kaifeng.

In fact, in this battle, if it weren't for Zuo Liangyu's escape, it is unknown who killed the deer.

In May, Li Zicheng encircled and opened the seal for the third time, and Emperor Chongzhen ordered all kinds of reinforcements to rush to the aid in the starry night, and the reinforcements were headed by the governor Ding Qirui, and Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, and Zuo Liangyu, Hu Dawei, Yang Dezheng, Fang Anguo, Jiang Mingwu and other 200,000 soldiers, 400,000 people, and rescued in a mighty way.

The two sides confronted each other in Zhuxian Town, and Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai joined forces with a million people, occupying a higher southwest position, and digging trenches along the Weishui, which were deep and wide, and surrounded a hundred miles. The officers and troops were in the northeast, and the two sides fought for more than a month, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

By the first day of the first month of this month, the officers and men were in poor condition, suffered heavy casualties, and lacked food and water, but Li Zichengfang, like him, suffered heavy casualties and could hardly continue to support him, so he had already begun to plan the withdrawal of troops. "The arrows and stones are exhausted, everyone is afraid, and the old and young in the camp are frightened for days, although they are killed, they cannot be determined."

As long as you persevere, it is unknown who will win and who will lose, and who will die.

However, when the superintendent Ding Qirui advocated a decisive battle the next day, Zuo Liangyu led his troops to flee with noise that night, and at the same time stormed the friendly camp, robbed them of mules and horses, causing confusion among the armies, and finally collapsed on the whole front.

Then Zuo Liangyu escaped and did not gain any benefits, Li Zicheng focused on Zuo Liangyu's department in this battle, and saw his mentality, it was expected that he would run away and dig a trench where he must pass.

Sure enough, Zuo Liangyu fled, and there was chaos in front of the trench, Li Zicheng chased after him, and Zuo Liangyu's elite troops lost most of them, and countless losses of mules, horses, and equipment, and finally fled to Xiangyang.

Zuo Liangyu's escape caused a great defeat of the officers and soldiers, and the 200,000 troops were lost, and Li Zicheng was even defeated by tens of thousands of soldiers, 10,000 horses and mules, and countless ordnance and firearms.

After the defeat of Zhu Xianzhen, Li Zicheng was already in the initiative strategically, and the situation deteriorated more and more, and the impact on Yang He was actually very great.

For example, Huguang is not very peaceful soon, in addition to coal and iron, Yanghe still has many materials to import, such as copper, black lead, white lead, lead and so on, many of which are produced in the southwest, with Hankou as an important transit terminal.

According to the bad development of history, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Zuo Liangyu and others have successively caused trouble in Huguang, as well as surrounding provinces, and many of their own import channels will be lost.

If you go to other places, the cost will be high, and in the future, the world will become more and more unpeaceful.

After the anger, Yang He sighed, he is very weak at present, and he can't influence the general trend of the world, so he can only continue to grow himself. But he believes that in the exhibition hall he established in the future, Zuo Liangyu will be among them.

Also, at present, the situation in both Xin'anzhuang and Pizhou is stable, and all developments are in an orderly manner, and his personal affairs should be considered.

His subordinates kept mentioning the issue of his heirs, just like when they returned to Xin'anzhuang yesterday, Qi Youxin and others mentioned this point explicitly or implicitly.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, he only likes two women, Qian Guse and Wang Qiong'e.

It just so happens that these two women are in Pizhou, and it is up to them to decide which one to choose as their wives.

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